Beyond a stupid pun, there’s no theme this morning, just my stream of unconsciousness.
Birthdays today include John Money’s spirit animal; a guy with a great bottom; a guy who passed the test; the emptiest suit to ever inhabit Foggy Bottom; an absolute saint among men; a woman responsible for keeping a war going for fun and profit; the First Lady of country; the most corrupt SC justice ever, which must be true because all the newspapers said so; and a woman who has been in a disturbing percentage of my favorite movies.
And now we Link.
WebDom and I know where not to go.
Louis Tomlinson? Jesus, punishment enough.
Some kinks I’ll never understand.
No way this was silenced to push Hunter Biden out of the headlines. You’d have to be a horrible cynic to believe that. Horrible.
The photo alone explained sooooo much. Them is one ugly dude.
Most Transparent Administration Ever.
Old Guy Music today is a brief venture into the world of disco. Those who know, know, those who don’t shortly will.
Stay. The. Fuck. Out. – In the end I blame the… well you know
Zoroastrians?
Cathars?
Mennonites ?
Global warming?
Hilter.
Baal. If that little shit hadn’t pussed out of the whole competition of the middle eastern gods, we’d have at least more balance.
Had to click on that to see where — because there are so, so goddamn many places in the world that we should apply that philosophy to (and of course, don’t).
The Trumps, of course.
Huddites?
“New weapons, tactics further entangle U.S. in Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
Building up to an excuse to go to war with iran?
Our current provocations seem to be focused on Syria. We just sent F22s to Syria to play chicken with Russians.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-f-22-raptor-syria-russian-aircraft/
The Brandon admin is determined on a course of war…and apparently compromising our premier air superiority fighter.
WebDom and I know where not to go. – to be fair if I was the chef I would do the same
Alternate (decidedly carnivorous) take on that story. I can’t blame the guy for throwing his hands up and saying “Fuck all you whiners!” at some point.
I’d certainly have full vegetarian dishes on the menu (sometimes folks just want it — and grilled vegetable dishes can be great), and it sounds like he’s more than willing and able to cook them… but capital-V Vegans like those who go to Harvard or other self-important fanatics who won’t shut up would be something I’d look to avoid too.
Vegetables taste like sad
One of the books on cooking I have on my shelves has a whole section telling people to stop claiming allergies to foods they don’t like. Explicitly calling out people who claim an onion allergy (and then ask for ketchup and the like).
I can imagine it only getting more difficult with vegans (is honey OK? It depends on the vegan.).
“And how’d you get that honey? How’d you get that — eh?
By exploiting the worker bees! By ‘anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our biosphere! If there’s every going to be any progress…”
“DENNIS! There’s some lovely filth down ‘ere in Portland!”
*imagines Fourscore with a kings crown*
Well, yeah!
It’s the constant need to have everyone acknowledge their preferences that’s off-putting. You don’t like the menu? Don’t go there.
Leave a nasty review for the restaurants that serve you undercooked chicken or if it just tastes lousy. Whining because they didn’t have exactly what you wanted just shows that you’re an asshole.
I actually caused a restaurant to change their menu. I posted on a local restaurant forum that I had chosen not to go to a restuarant because when I looked up their menu, they had a special wine menu and a special spirits menu, but no beer menu. I didnt know if they would have any beer I would want, but I knew from the lack of a menu, that their attitude wasn’t one I was interested in.
A different restaurant owner changed her menu to list their on tap beers because of that post. It wasn’t necessary, I had been there, I knew what she had, and she didn’t have a pretentious wine/spirits menus.
My wife and I ate at one of the most famous restaurants in the bay area, the name sounds like cheeze penis, and they had a whole three beers on the menu.
Also, the worst service I have had pretty much ever. Oh, of course it is a no tip restaurant, so no surprise there.
Ate there twice. Terribly disappointing, not bad food but nothing special or that Spud and I couldn’t do better, and they basically rushed us out to turn the table.
“and they basically rushed us out to turn the table”
That there is when you really have to get vindictive.
I gotta say, I find it really annoying when there’s a line of people waiting for a table, and a group that has finished eating is just lollygagging at their table.
I think one eats there to be with the Good People, not necessarily for the food.
As I mentioned early this week, I ate at Bacon Social House last Saturday. They might has well hang a NO JEWS OR MUSLIMS sign up.
Note that the issue was because the chef “forgot” to tell the staff about the vegans attending.
true, that was a mistake. though should have told them there are no vegan options in the first place to avoid potential issues such as this.
That there were no vegan menu choices was communicated. The chef however then promised they would figure out some contingency, but he didn’t notify the guy running the place so there was nothing when the vegans showed up. They got pissed at that. He apologized for this weird confluence of events. The vegans felt it was not enough. Then a slew of vegans that never went to the restaurant all started leaving reviews that were 1 star. Chef got pissed.
Me, I feel zero empathy for people that think others must accommodate them. I will never go to a vegan or vegetarian restaurant because I am not gonna demand they serve me meat and feel I have the right to do so. I really don’t get people that want to go to a place they know doesn’t cater to their demand just to make a fucking fuss.
Sometimes there’s no choice. Especially things like company events- when I worked for a midwest-based megacorp, every event was held at a steakhouse. Ditto my ex-wife who demanded that any dinner for a holiday or her birthday happen at Sizzler or Red Lobster.
I had no expectations of them accommodating me, but if in advance they said they would and they didn’t, I would find that highly annoying.
You are indeed allowed to be annoyed if you are promised something and then they dick you over, OMWC. Where I got of that train was when the slighted individual, whom I had sympathy for and suspected had just been gaslit, chose to recruit a slew of other vegans/people to double down after the whole thing went south. At that point it became vindictive.
She had told her story and could have left it at that. She would have clearly been the one in the right then. But it was not the end of the story.
The review should have been an annoyed “they said they would have X and did not”. Not “get with the times” or “your restaurant will fail”.
As I’m sure Swiss bewails whenever y’all get together for drinks — we’re ALL about the stupid puns around here, OMWC! 😉
*glares balefully*
Balefully
That is very Christian of you.
In RE the Vegan ban – While the act is an overreaction with regards to the precipitating incident (which was also an overreaction to its precipitating incident), I’m still in favor of the right to not associate and the end of any and all public accommodation requirements.
I wouldn’t want to eat someplace that made it clear I wasn’t welcome.
Did you miss the part where the some vegan douchebags started harassing the owner and leaving fake negative reviews claiming that the place was bad because they felt he didn’t have enough vegan options in a BBQ joint?
Fuck that.
The articles I saw covering it did not mention the dogpiling by non-customers.
The one I linked above mentioned it. Part of why I entirely understand his “Fuck it already” reaction.
In fairness, I’ve complained (but never written a review) about a vegan place that claimed to have pork rinds and brisket on the menu (both were substitutes).
You should always have some brisket on you just in case
From the volume of criticism and bullshit, it sounds like the reviews were written mostly by people that never went there in the first place. That’s not hard to believe considering that’s how the left operates, and too many vegans are vegan because they are leftists pricks. Why can’t we all just get along?
I have moral objections to trying to make a simulacra of a food you’re avoiding rather than simply letting your ingredients be themselves.
Don’t fake meats.
Flogging the meat still allowed?
So anyplace with more then 3 spices in the spice rack?
Some kinks I’ll never understand. – there’s a lotta sick people in this world
What happened to just banging the latina maid cause she is spicey?
Schwarzenegger took the glamour off banging the maid.
The lawsuits and child support.
Wait. Are we now talking about Hunter Biden?
“Husband accused of drugging wife, filming at least 51 men raping her over 10-year period”
So, either he likes to self cuck, or he really hated her ass and felt this was a way to get even? Both?
How about just a fucking psychopath?
I think a Pirate Parrot would sum it up nicely: “RAWWWK! Sick fuck! RAWWK!”
Maybe he wasn’t even drugging her, a game of pretend on both participants
SHE PUTS ON THE LOTION OR SHE GETS THE HOSE!
If her period lasts for 10 years, she needs medical attention.
“Most Transparent Administration Ever.”
We truly have a third Obama term in terms of the scandalous criminality of the administration and the media’s attempt to hide the scandals. The difference is that they are not working as hard because Biden is the idiot being blamed, and that still doesn’t hurt the Obama legacy.
MUH, DEMOCRACY!
Only Halestorm I’d want around at a rock show.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Since last night was my final “day” before NewJob™ kicks in, Im unemployed for 2 days
TALL CANS!
We call that a ‘Weekend’.
Maybe now Ill remember what Saturday and Sunday are.
I fly out Sunday, so even that is already truncated.
Woot!
“AI Says Conservative Women Are More Attractive Than Liberal Women“. Well, not if you are into women that avoid showers, have hairy legs and armpits, resent the fact some women work on keeping their looks, and feel compelled to emasculate your ass for pointing out they are only a model of beauty if the beauty part meant you weighed as much as 3 people.
So… Germans?
Scheiße, du hast es genannt…
Ai is unaware of movie stars, musicians, entertainers, college coeds are generally more attractive than the chubby girl from bible study.
Considering how much CGI is out there, I am sure the AI accounted for that. After all, there are millions of idiots that think they have what it takes to work in Hollywood (and I don’t mean they will do a good job on the casting couch) that realize some decades into their waitressing and bartending careers they never are gonna make it. Besides, meeting some of these Hollyweirdos in real life should dissuade you from the fact they are the beautiful people…
Young and female equals more likely to be attractive. It also means less likely to have conservative political views.
Especially if they went to college and got one of those overpriced art or studies degrees.
Saint among men? You aren’t that far from Cleveland – a punitive raid could be at your doorstep by this afternoon.
You made me hover to see who the Old Man had selected there.
The most hated man in Cleveland.
I knew the answer before I even looked.
If I were you people, Id still be pissed, too.
The younger generation doesn’t grasp the hatred. I had to explain to someone just a month or two ago why I immediately hated some rando at a restaurant for wearing Ravens gear.
Nevermore.
Bud Adams did the same thing with the Oilers and I think Houston thanked him for it.
Nah, they’ll let you down one last time.
Is it possible to build an entire city with wood? A Sweden company seems to think so.
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world’s largest wooden city in Stockholm. The construction will begin in 2025 and the first buildings are expected to be installed in 2027.
It’s an ambitious project and the company aims to redefine urban living through “sustainability, innovation and aesthetic excellence,” said the company in a press release.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/sweden-will-have-an-entire-city-made-of-wood-in-2027
Back to the middle ages!
Hell, next they can go back to dung bricks with “biorecycled mass mixed with agricultural surplus”. I mean… let’s just do Gilgamesh and fucking get it over with.
Look, dung was used in wattle and daub. Bricks were just plain mud and straw.
+1 Mrs O’Leary’s cow
/Remembers Chicago
Construction by the Andra Grisen Co.?
not even google helps with that
Try Google translate from Swedish.
fuck that too much work
They’re just going to pick up the town in boxes at Ikea.
What?
You know, cause when we firebombed the fuck out of Japan in WWII, those wooden cities just refused to burn.
That has to be written by an LLM. I can’t believe a real human is that stupid.
I very easily can.
I’m so old, I can remember when not cutting down forests was the “environmentally responsible” way to go.
to be fair that shit grows back. the trick is to plant cut plant etc, just not cut the old growth stuff
Oh, but monoculture tree farms are a sin against Gaia.
Can’t cut old growth. Can’t plant/harvest tree farms. Just where is all this wood going to come from?
The hardware store, duh.
pr0nhub ?
China.
I’m old enough to remember “split wood, not atoms” bumper stickers.
I guess it’d just be “freeze in the dark” now.
The split atoms are more efficient sources of energy in terms of mass.
How is it sustainable if they chop down thousands of trees? Mother Nature has a sad.
DUH!
You can plant more trees… and if you kill 7 3/4 billion of the current 8 billion parasites people, and presto!
Ah. Now I understand. What if we just use psychotic marxists to make the foundation of cement buildings? Two birds, one stone?
No, no, as they rot they’ll leave voids in the concrete. It’ll seriously undermine the stability of the structure.
You use the bones of marxists to make your foundation, and the biomass to grow your wheat.
I think the tech in mass timber construction is interesting and worthwhile. The sustainability, climate angle put me off from it. I took a screener interview with a company looking to expand in the space. It’s still not clear to me whether this is hype or real.
“… a company looking to expand in the space” A Wooden Rocket?
Ask the Japanese.
they claim superior seismic performance. fire endurance is controversial but good enough for regulators.
I wonder if this would take off at all without the climate graft.
The market…uh, uh…finds a way.
You’re wrong.
So I guess that “reviewer” would agree I should be able to go to vegetarian restaurant and order up a nice steak?
HOW DARE YOU!
/Greta dumbass voice
Bake the cake, bigot.
Restaurants excel when they specialize.
One of the big red flags about food quality is a menu that looks like a book. It means the kitchen staff rarely makes most of the dishes in it, and you will not be getting the freshest ingredients if you pick something other than the top movers.
Accommodate everyone and you fail everyone.
How dare this burger fast food joint not have rare Mongolian BBQ on the menu?
Just one of the reasons I don’t care for The Cheesecake Factory. But obviously it’s been very successful for them, so what do I know.
Ha. I had that exact menu in mind.
Piss off.
The variety of choices is what makes eating out pleasurable. I don’t go to my favorite Armenian restaurant to get eggs and grits.
What do you have against grits?
Remember every place does them a bit different. You need to try these new grit branches.
But remember to always go back and grit commit to your main love.
The corn carbs.
I just use Grithub when I don’t feel like going out.
They sent me a bucket of sand.
I’m not sure what went wrong.
Maybe they’ll claim that veganism is a disability under the ADA.
No way this was silenced to push Hunter Biden out of the headlines. You’d have to be a horrible cynic to believe that. Horrible.
It was obvious the Navy had to know what had happened, and I guess distracting from the Hunter Biden whistleblowers is one explanation for the search and rescue theater when they knew the sub had imploded within hours of it happening.
I’d question them blowing the money and time on a pointless circus for anything other than PR or distractions favorable to the administration… but let’s be honest, they don’t give one flying frak about blowing money or time at the Pentagon these days.
“Going through the motions is a good drill and makes us look good!” is just as plausible. Who knows.
I’d lean more to there’s no established communication protocol for the sonar net operators calling anyone about fools(minus the poor kid who got dragged into it) getting crushed by reality.
The sonor net operators are listening for Soviet Boomers. I mean, we can’t let our guard down now, they’ll take advantage of our complacency in their nonexistance!
I thought they were crushed by the water.
Morning OM,
Good that the implosion could be made retroactive and Hunter’s 15 minutes could be erased. I’ve already forgotten both events.
This weekend I’m with the youngest kid at college orientation. I had to kick the older 2 out of the house. This one I’d rather keep a while.
Being a parent isn’t always easy. Even as the kiddos are ready for SS I still have to worry about them.
One of my worst moments came on a campus tour.
As I was walking around thinking that if my dumb kid wasn’t with me, I would sure be invited to a kegger or someting, I had an epiphany…
I was the old loser fart wandering around campus! These kids didn’t think I was some cool dude from out of town
Sigh. I hate it when reality bumps into and smashes my own internal view of myself. I quit aging the minute I turned 19 (legal drinking age). Even today I still think I’m that super cool 19 year old (and I wasn’t even super cool when I was actually 19).
That’s okay, Jimbo, we still tolerate you.
You have to. You don’t have any more social choices than I do. Beggars can’t be choosers.
I noticed that when Im with my friends, or at work, I tend to behave like my 16 year-old son.
When Im with my son, I behave like my 84 year old Dad.
I suspect everyone code-switches personality elements based upon what group they are with.
Because I am about 10 years younger than most of my sons friends parents, we quickly came to realize just how sad the Cool Dad was. Some middle aged jackass in skinny jeans riding a fixie around trying to talk about the latest bands, which they have no idea about really as they aren’t being played on any streaming service or radio (this is when cassets started making a comeback.)
Yeah, nothing so foolish as a man not being a dad, but trying to be a friend.
Sorry, no conservative hotties for you.
17yo XY doesn’t live here at the moment and we’ve grown accustomed to it, so his moving back in (probably late September, early October) is not going to be easy, but he’s been spending his time researching scholarships and in-state colleges (albeit he’s applying to start next summer term) (he has some business to finish up before he goes back to school that will take all his time and money). He’s leaning toward one clear across the state. I would be happy with that. He’s doing something productive a half day’s drive away.
19yo (almost 20) XX still lives at home, but we try to respect her adulthood and treat her like a roommate, although if she’s out too late, we go into Parent Mode and worry. Still try not to grill her or anything. She respects our spaces, and we respect hers. I’ve said before that she really didn’t blossom until she graduated from high school. Well, maybe it was when she was 16 and got a job at Walmart, she started. She hated school and didn’t have the bandwidth for the bullshit (trans or furries or otherwise), but as we go along, I forget that she wasn’t actually born an adult because now it seems like she’s always been one, trapped by the calendar. She just needed some training in life experience, which I was careful to give her. She only doesn’t move out because she still hasn’t gotten full-time hours at FedEx, and she doesn’t want to leave her workplace situation because she likes the work, her bosses, and her coworkers.
Nice trolling, man.
Socialist Appeal
@socialist_app
🚩 Issue 390 of Socialist Appeal, the Marxist newspaper, is out now!
– Kicking capitalism out of the NHS
– Fighting for communism in schools and colleges
– The English commonwealth under Cromwell
– Canada wildfires, the debt crisis, and much more!
See below for more info
https://twitter.com/socialist_app/status/1671899012499222530
Pie — if you want to torture us, you could just go the “drug and get strange men to rape us” route. It’d be nicer of you.
What? You don’t get a chubby from listening to/reading commentary from life losers angry at the success of others complaining and demanding those others be dragged down to their level?
No.
I want to cure by loserdom by becoming rich and hiring domestic servants to maintain my household.
Now you just sound all evil capitalist and crazy!
/life loser marxist
Johnny: “Hey, will you sing a song with me?”
June: “I’d be very pleased to sing a song with you!”
Johnny: ”You sure look nice!”
June: “Thank you, I’m – glad to be back in Folsom!”
Johnny: “Oh, I like – (laughs) I like to watch you talk.”
June: “I’m talkin’ with my mouth! (Laughs) It’s way up here!”
Johnny: Alright, let’s do a song!
https://youtu.be/QqmOlqy13y8
Happy birthday June
Merrick Garland and Chris Wray not available for comment: wrong type of domestic terrorists.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Banjo player? Not clicking on that!
I saw Deliverance and know how banjo music encounters end…
More to your musical taste, Alex?
DA FUQ?
Don’t worry, I bet you could get them to let you join as the skin flutist. You could do Jethro Tull covers.
Et tu, your holiness?
Love that. And damn nice view from his porch.
Thanks, Holiness!
What did the fox say?
re: Daily Ray of Sunshine
Music hath charms
Entrepreneurial passion? Like five dollar blowjobs behind circle K?
That’s really loving your job, right there…
Blowjobs? All I’ve ever gotten behind a Circle K is a jerk off.
Well yeah, you were at the self-service bay.
The muffins they put out in the waiting room there sure do taste funny.
Robodog with a flamethrower was presented by the company Throwflame. The project was called Thermonator. The robot can emit fire at a distance of up to 10 meters for 45 minutes!
Throwflame is taking orders now, with deliveries starting in the third quarter of 2023.
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1672163267479781383
What’s the fuel source?
Keep those damn things away from Sweden.
Uffda. The story about the asshole who killed 5 women keeps getting worse.
The asshole hit a women in Cali several years earlier fleeing from police. Surely he felt bad about that, right?
The reaction from the usual moronic masses will not be to put people like this through woodchippers to end the chance they fuck someone over again, but to stop police from chasing them to put them away. I am no fan of police, but letting people like this scumbag roam freely has not worked well for anyone but the Soros agenda disrupters.
The article said that when he went to Cali and hit he lady he was violating his probation back in Minnesoda by leaving the state.
Not sure why Minnesoda didn’t slap him back in jail once Cali let him out for that violation. Or why we reinstated his license so he could rent that car that he smashed into those women.
“Not sure why Minnesoda didn’t slap him back in jail once Cali let him out for that violation.”
I thought your state’s policy was to only put law abiding citizens in jail for thought or self-defense crimes?
Not sure?
I’m sure. The authorities wanted to avoid disparate impact.
Minnesota treated him with kid gloves because his father is a political mover and shaker.
Scumbags like him are why I’m not opposed to the death penalty.
I read Surber article, and while he nails it, I think he misses the point that everything negative he described happening was precisely the end goal the people that encouraged and supported the devolution had in mind.
Celebrity chef ‘BANS’ vegans from restaurant
Because they are insufferable.
You’d have to be a horrible cynic
I am.
“I want to take this opportunity to thank V for their many contributions over the years,” Chew told employees in the memo, noting Pappas’s impact in the role. “Throughout their time at TikTok, they have been instrumental in growing the business, advocating for the company, elevating our product offerings and marketing campaigns, and fostering a positive community of creators and users.”
“They have had a significant and lasting impact and we are truly grateful for their tireless efforts,” he added. “I know V is looking forward to this next phase in their career, and we wish them all the best in their new capacity and future endeavors.”
Them was some good talkperson.
We’ll be back to grunts and moans in no time.
Vasaro Swimwear Fashion Show – Miami Swim Week 2023 – Planet Fashion TV – Full Show 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFYEOBeAzIw
It’s just those dammed MAGAt voters.
“What is true is that partly because of where people are getting their information these days, the silo wing of information, if you’re watching Fox News, or following some right-wing radio host, or getting Facebook feeds within the bubble, the reality is different than if you read the New York times or watch your program. And such fundamentally different facts, or what they think to be facts and the worldviews are so skewed, one direction or another it’s very hard for democracy to work, and the foundation, and other work, and this kind of misinformation, not the kind that we see him engaging in, and not just during election time, but the constant demonization of the other side and making people fearful of each other.”
They always accuse others of what they are actually doing, in order to blunt the effect of being called out for it themselves.
I’m constantly told he’s some great thinker and orator. What the hell is that mashup of nonsense?
This is straight up racist bullshit! You don’t see white continents being broken up do you?
Somebody should tell these people that the sun will go nova in 5 billion years, and then everyone is fucked…
It’ll go red giant before it goes nova. Red giant stage is estimated to take it past our orbit. At that point, the fact that warming is being caused by the sun will be undeniable. The good news in all this – it means that Mars will probably be comfortably habitable at some point for a few thousand years anyways.
Without a strong magnetosphere, Mars will never be able to retain an atmosphere.
But I saw that movie where all you had to do was build an Unobtanium drill and go to the center of the planet to set off a few nukes to start the convection flow of a planet’s liquid core to solve that.
Acktually…. It will never ‘go nova’. Novae are a particular class of binary star. Sun will go through a red giant phase, slough off those outer, puffed up layers, leaving a planetary nebula (so named because at low resolution, they can look like the disk of a planet) and a white dwarf behind. The white dwarf will slowly cool and fade. Into the blackness of space. Into nothingness.
Are you allowing for our sun ending in a binary system and sucking up another star when Andromeda comes crashing into our galaxy in a billion or two years?
Probably closer to 4+ billion years. And given the density of stars, very unlikely for collisions or captures, especially into the tight orbits necessary to get a nova system. Galaxy ‘collisions’ are largely tidal events. In fact….
Ah fuck it: No, I in fact did not consider that. Good point!
Damn, that was some real good snark there bro.
I concede!
Are you saying our sun is nonbinary?
Will it start wearing dresses and stealing luggage from airports?
Next you will tell me our sun is a Minnesoda native?
A glance at their map shows there would most likely just be a river through that land and an ‘island’ to the east not a whole new continent.
Juicey Smolliet 2.0.
*Cries quietly in the corner*
Ownbestenemy on June 22, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Didn’t know that San Diego had their own Jussie Smollett.
Claims he was set on fire for being gay, turns out it was retaliation by the pregnant woman he was whomping on earlier. CCTV caught that part…whoopsie!
Because these things are the same.
Former US president Barack Obama has slammed the hypocrisy of Western media concerning refugees and particularly in reference to the recent sinking of a refugee boat off southwestern Greece in which at least 82 people died and hundreds more are feared to have drowned.
The fact that more attention is being paid to a submersible carrying five people that vanished off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada while on a tour of the Titanic’s wreckage than the refugee boat sinking off Greece with up to 700 people on board is “rotten,” he said on Thursday during an appearance in the Greek capital Athens.
Well, first off, the illegal aliens are not refugees.
Secondly, they die all the time, billionaire hoist by their own petards are less frequent entertainments than mass drownings.
Thirdly, I’m to the point where I’m saying “Sink these ships ferrying invaders into places they have no right to be”
I’m to the point where I’m saying “Sink these ships ferrying invaders into places they have no right to be”
Word.
I bet that’s what most Greeks think as they get lectured by that asshole.
Soros’ Open Society globalists want a word with you for wanting to torpedo their agenda….
We can hold the meeting on the deck on the NGO migrant ferry.
Oh, I may be a little late.
Yet perfectly ok for him to jet around the world for paid speeches, grandstanding and whining while never having done anything of substance or worth in his life. Fuck off, dipshit. Your 15 minutes are over.
The fake concern is so touching.
CNN had the same hot-take yesterday. I told them to go fuck themselves too.
Yeah. He lifted his wisdom from that Jill Filipovic opinion column that was posted here yesterday.
More attention is being paid to the billionairs dying BECAUSE YOU HAVE DEMONIZED PEOPLE WITH WEALTH, you jackass POS.
Some trends I’m happy to skip.
Personally, I don’t want to stink.
It doesn’t matter if I’m all alone, I want to be clean.
I think most of us that like to feel clean would be surprised how many people out there feel hygiene is overrated….
I regard showers as “the reset button of life.”
If I’ve been ill and pretty much just lying in bed and existing, I’ll force myself to go have a shower and put on nice clean jammies.
I swear it aids in physical recovery. Mental and physical health are strongly related.
Isn’t giving up on hygiene one of the signs of clinical depression?
“I swear it aids in physical recovery. Mental and physical health are strongly related.”
Absolutely concur here. Every time I have been sick and bed bound, a good shower and clean clothes (bed linen) marked the turning point in that debacle.
I won “Longest Showers” as an award (of sorts) in my freshman dorm corridor. I guess I must have been holding up the line or something.
If I was to trust movies and TV, it also allows one to wash off shame, embarrassment, failure, drunkenness, and bad relationships.
Come to think of it it does help. Especially if it is cold as hell. It’s kind of like a slap to the heart and brain.
Yeah, I think this is a good indication that “Tim” has touch of mental illness. Whether it was there before the ‘vid… who knows.
Of course Tim is a limey. Most likely of French extraction.
I don’t think that French tourist extracted from Tim’s mom.
Fucking hippies
I don’t know about no-wash, but you definitely can get four days out of a pair of underwear. Front and back, inside out.
A crushing reality..
The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the debris found of the Titanic tourist submersible Titan “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.” All five passengers on the Titan are presumed to have died.
A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system may have heard the Titan tourist sub’s implosion hours after the vessel began its descent to the Titanic wreck on Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It was nice of the navy to tell everyone so we didn’t waste time, money and resources on a pointless search/rescue operation.
According to CNN, they did let someone know.
“Timing: The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday and relayed that information to the commanders leading the search effort, a senior official told CNN. But the sound was determined to be “not definitive,” the official said. Mauger, for his part, said rescuers had sonar buoys in the water for at least the last 72 hours and had “not detected any catastrophic events.” Listening devices set up during the search also did not record any sign of an implosion, Mauger added.”
This. And even if all the guys involved were pretty sure it actually WAS definitive, it’s not like they’re going to say “hey, we’re not even going to try”. Pretty much had to roll the way they did, or else get criticized even more.
Or they could just announce that the Navy heard it implode, so sorry for all involved, and not do the dog and pony show.
We didn’t detect anything long after the damn thing was gone, but because someone else might have – at the right time – we’ll just ignore that.
I thought vegans didn’t eat at real restaurants. Something about the possibility of dead animal flesh contaminating their gruel.
Based on this evidence, how many head injuries has Hunter Biden had?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22771864/boyfriend-untrustworthy-sex-pest-head-injury/
“TikTok chief operating officer to step down”
Is it trying to be Bowie ?
Prank calling Shifty Schiff.
“Shifty” is anti-semitic, or so I’ve heard.
Symmetry is the Friday Funbags word of the day.
https://archive.is/Gw2oH
I don’t understand vegans. I don’t go to restaurants that I don’t like the menu choices. I certainly wouldn’t go to a vegan restaurant and request to be accommodated with a steak or burger. When I go to a restaurant, I order what they’ve got. I’ve noticed over the years that women tend to almost never order something and be happy with it as it comes, and always have to tweak something. For years my wife was ordering “can I just get chicken with some vegetables in a brown sauce” at our local Asian place. I finally told her to just order the Kung Pao Chicken. Try reading the menu and if it’s not to your liking, politely excuse your self, leave a couple bucks on the table for the trouble and leave.
100%. I rarely go to restaurants anymore, but with this little thing called the internet, I know what the menu looks like before I set foot in the place. My wife has some pretty severe allergies so she sometimes must ask ingredient questions, but she’s always nice about it and never asks for anything special. Not that fucking difficult.
One of the girlfriend’s friends claims an MSG allergy. She’ll contact the places ahead of time and find out if they can accommodate her. If they can’t she may still show up for a drink after eating at home. But I don’t see her railing at the places that flat out told her “Nope, we can’t accommodate that. If you’re allergic to MSG, don’t eat here.”
The most I’ll usually do is ask for sauce on the side.
The last time I ordered something customized, it was Eggs Benedict with hard fried eggs. The waitress quipped that the cook was probably happy because he wouldn’t have to poach any eggs.
that is just fucking sad.
Indeed. The poor bastard burnt the english muffins.
As OMWC noted above – sometimes you don’t have a choice if you go with a group of people. They issue is that you want something there to eat and will suck it up to go with the group.
As others noted above in this specific case the person said they could be accommodated, but the restaurant fucked up. After that you go onto the shitshow on both sides.
It is rather interesting that nobody expects a vegan restaurant won’t serve me up a burger. And for example, even though I speak Japanese and like Japanese food, I detest sushi. I most certainly can’t go into a top sushi restaurant and get much in the way of cooked fish, albeit there are a few cooked items. But I’m not going to either place. by choice.
“Do you have anything besides Mexican food?”
“Could I get a beef vindaloo?”
“Indian = Mexican + garam masala.”
When I see things like this, I am left feeling the agenda here is to make the legal case minors have the ability to make decisions and give consent (but not when it is about owning a firearm, doing drugs, or drinking) in preparations for a shit to say they can also consent to sex with anyone else (including kiddie diddlers).
That’s part of it, no doubt, but they have all sorts of other nefarious hidden agendas as well including the dissolution of families and family loyalty.
Familial love is a threat to State authority so destroying it is always a priority for Commies.
DSL?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/woman-worlds-biggest-lips-hunt-30275495
“You got a purty….
Never mind.”
I wouldn’t marry her, but I’d definitely hire her as a secretary. Who wouldn’t love having a kiss ass like that working for them?
Those “eyebrows” are a choice, too.
The world’s 10 most livable cities have been named—and none in the U.S. make the cut
https://fortune.com/2023/06/22/world-10-most-livable-cities-eiu-global-liveability-index-2023-none-us/
Stop.
Ignoring the fact that cities are inherently bad for you, What criteria was abused to define “Livable”?
How many of those criteria are political preferences rather than actual liviability standards?
“What criteria was abused to define “Livable”?”
Exactly. These surveys are always bullshit because the standards used are so nebulous. Yes, clearly Copenhagen is more “livable” than Kabul; mostly due to lack of safety and any semblance of individual freedom from the Afghan government. But beyond things like that, it all comes down to personal preference.
Not sure but I would say unaffordable real estate has to be one of them if Toronto and Vancouver and Sydney and Copenhagen are there.
And Vienna.
New developments in the sub debacle.
Looks like the CEO was using some hard sell tactics and blowing off safety concerns.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12225963/Tycoon-gave-seats-doomed-Titanic-sub-Pakistani-businessman-teenage-son.html
The safety concerns in those texts were “what if a whale or a squid attacks the sub”. I’d blow those off too. His biggest selling point on safety was probably something along the lines of, “I’ll be in the sub too. If I thought it was too dangerous, I wouldn’t go.” As for dropping the price, it’s better to get something for the space than to fly with empty seats. It’s like flying on standby.
Nice to see AI is getting into the album cover design business too.
Well they’re doing “television” credits for a major studio now…
Personally, I think they work for the show as showing something off kilter and not quite right about everything.
White people immigrate, too, or something
When the focus is narrowed to white people who aren’t Hispanic and identify only with a single race, there was a decline of more than 668,000 people in the white population since the number of immigrants couldn’t overcome the steep drop in natural decrease that came from deaths outnumbering births last year.
Population growth is propelled in two ways: through immigration and natural increase, when births outpace deaths. The data released Thursday speak to the complexity of the nation’s ever-shifting population patterns and reinforce a level of nuance not always reflected amid the political debate over immigration.
“Immigrant and refugee communities bring talent, culture and a set of skills that are needed in our community,” said Arrey Obenson, president and CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis, which helps newcomers adapt to life in the U.S.
Since the start of the pandemic in April 2020, the white population has grown by 391,000 people, all of it driven by immigration.
I’m much too lazy to decipher this article. I think they want us to approve of immigration (I do) by saying not everybody who comes to America is a colored. Because skin color is the only thing anybody cares about.
Spoiler alert: not every individual brings much needed talent, culture and skills; some do, some don’t, not even the the whiteys.
“We don’t want the Irish!”
Good morning, Old Man!
Those who know, know, those who don’t shortly will.
And will never forget. Not cool, man.
Not cool.
So they knew, but took the opportunity to run some live training, while distracting the people from some really breathtaking Biden corruption and terrible news from Ukraine?
That’s actually pretty smart!
I find it funny that the SOSUS system somehow needs to be treated today like it is some sort of real secret, considering everyone knew it existed to warn off the USSR, back when.
Yeah, exactly how many Russian nuke subs are going to surge south past Iceland at any given time these days?
Meh. I don’t think that there was anything nefarious about the Navy not making the announcement public until they had confirmed the crash.
Take the contra side. If you had said “Hey, don’t run, we heard it implode” and then found the sub intact later with a bunch of blue corpses how much outrage would there be? I think you have to keep going until you are 100% sure.
When they announced that they had confirmed that the sub was lost, I saw that billionaire’s kid and thought “I wonder if that lumpy looking son bought that trip for his dad as a Father’s Day gift?”.
Then I started wondering about building a business around “adventure gifts” that the heirs of the uber rich could buy for their parents. Why wait around for the dumb bastard to die?
Peanut Butter and Bear Walkabout.
Tampax Shark Adventure
Croc Ride Down the Nile
Seder for Seniors – West Bank Style!
I think when you go to the bank they will turn down you application for a loan to stand this up based on a flawed business model that results in no repeat customers.
My overhead will be super low though. Not like I have to pay for a bus to pick up the customers from downstream on the Crock ride.
Now you talking. You should label THAT as your daily ray of sunshine!
What was that Michael Douglas movie called…
The Game
Here’s a thought experiment.
Let’s say within 100 years we’ve got technology that allows any redneck with a decent scrap pile to build a viable space-going vessel.
They then decide to go to the moon and start vandalizing it.
Have we thought about this yet?
https://twitter.com/sisterinferior/status/1671987497650274316
deep thoughts
To achieve that, we’d first have to kill all the commies.
Some scuffed up moon dust would be worth it.
“Let’s say within 100 years we’ve got technology that allows any redneck with a decent scrap pile to build a viable space-going vessel.
They then decide to go to the moon and start vandalizing it.
Why would you go vandalize the moon (all that priceless stuff up there!) when you can go to Venus and chase three tiddied women (or Mars for the hung dudes if that is your thing)?
Asteroid. Mining.
Once you’ve extracted the asteroids from their matrix, what do you use them for?
the bureaucracy to get a permit for that will be hell
Be careful with that. Alex will offer to take you to the asteroid belt in his rocket, but it is a trap. Once you are aboard he’ll head straight for Uranus.
Hey stop trying to torpedo my new business venture just cause I pointed out the problem with yours!
Jack Vance thought about something similar 40 years ago.
Don’t forget Andy Griffith’s important work in this area…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
Looks like the CEO was using some hard sell tactics and blowing off safety concerns.
[insert exclamation of astonishment]
He was on the thing wasn’t he? At least he was willing to take the consequences himself.
I’ve noticed that pretty much everyone that lists their pronouns, whether in an e-mail signature or on a name badge uses the conventional ones.
I see it so rarely that I can’t claim to have a representative sample. But of those that cropped up for me to (quietly) mock, they were all bog standard.
Oh, I have come across a few freaks with weird shit. And I was sked by my company HR not list mine, because they felt – even though I told them I was dead serious – that identifying as Battleship/Battlestar or Megaton WMD/Gigaton WMD was problematic for the people that take that shit seriously.
Supreme leader, sovereign and protector of the realm? Maybe that’s just me.
Even listing normal pronouns is conceding to the nutters. I never once gave my pronouns, either in writing or in person.
This.
There was a guy with they/them pronouns on a Zoom call. He had his nails painted.
deep thoughts
The obvious answer, since I cannot bestir myself to read that tweet, is to declare the moon a United Nations heritage site and issue a proclamation prohibiting vandalization.
That dude that let 51 people rape his wife? I think he might not be playing with a full deck.
Now don’t be a joker.
You Joker! 😄
I suspect most of us with pick up on what you did there, you card.
“Subsequent medical tests revealed the wife was suffering from four different sexually transmitted diseases.”
OK, Im no expert. But I would think that, as a woman, you may start to wonder whats going on.
Oh I’d say the deck is very full… batting next and swinging left-handed…
Income windfalls and overweight
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/income-windfalls-and-overweight
Although higher-income individuals are less likely to be overweight, research suggests that windfalls in income, such a lottery win, do not exert immediate effects on individuals’ overweight. This column examines the effects of lottery wins in the UK on overweight. While the authors find no evidence of any contemporaneous effect on the likelihood of being overweight, they do find significant evidence of lagged effects 12 months after winning the lottery. On average a £10,000 win leads to a 5% decline in the probability of overweight, with a particularly strong effect among low-educated individuals.
I don’t care about that sub any more than I would care about some youtube moron stuffing his hopped up thousand horsepower Mclaren into a bridge abutment.
You wanted a special thrill, didn’t you?
I care more about the Mclaren — waste of a beautiful piece of engineering.
Which you can’t say for the SubsRUs group.
Thrill ride
Isle of Man onboard. He’s on the power so hard the whole time you can hear the rear tire break traction on nearly every bump and surface imperfection.
Awesome, bookmarked for later. I had a good Irish friend who died way too young who was absolutely mad for the TT races at the Isle. He’d go over every couple years and a few years before he died he had his late 70’s Kawasaki 1000 shipped back to Ireland so he could have it there for the Mad Sunday rides.
Good lord. Id get on that sub before I did that.
LOL
Then you’re going to love Rally Group B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI
That moment he swiped the wall on the driver side…his navigator sounded like he may have poo’d a bit
It’s all part of the experience.
I care more about the Mclaren — waste of a beautiful piece of engineering.
A Mclaren F1 would be a tragedy. The new ones… whatever.
Once you’ve extracted the asteroids from their matrix, what do you use them for?
Shoot them at Washington DC. silly.
Pass.
Seems like they are still insulting what should otherwise be their core market.
Well ya cause they think their core market is *checks ad* flyover country bumkins that can’t walk with sandals, walks through screen doors and do stupid shit while listening to….disco?
Don’t forget that they can’t get into a hammock,
And the Cardinals suck too.
The Reds, on the other hand, are on fire!
The rebuilding job was actually done right, for a change.
Wait until you see one with a velociraptor attachment.
Senator Schumer on the Biden Pistol Ban: “If you have ever seen a gunman fire what looks like a machinegun with just one hand, that’s what pistol braces allow you to do.”
“So, Senator, can you tell me exactly where YOU have seen that?”
It makes you look like Rambo with an M60s in each hand.
Whilst jumping through the air?
Even cooler — roll onto your back and fire your (braced) pistol in the air while yelling “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHRRG!!!”
Petty partisan politics
After failing to wrangle the votes last week, House Republicans mustered the majority needed to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Wednesday. That move is among the latest Republican attacks against prominent Democrats — including members of the Biden administration and Congress — and it’s one that’s aimed at energizing the GOP base ahead of the 2024 election.
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Though the censure was framed as being about holding Schiff accountable, it’s ultimately part of a broader Republican political strategy. Many conservative voters and lawmakers want retribution after House Democrats launched two impeachment efforts against Trump, censured Rep. Paul Gosar and removed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees. Censuring Schiff allowed House Republican leadership to give that faction of the caucus a win, while also showing the party’s most devoted voters that the GOP is using its power to scrutinize Democrats and Biden.
Demeaning attacks on a true American patriot. Republicans have no shame.
I suppose Heart of Glass would have been too obvious, but Professor of Rock recently did a video on it
https://youtu.be/tx4AiBjuHdo
I will never forget her appearance in Videodrome.
OSHA: You are required to have MSDS (yeah I know, SDS now) library.
ME: Cool, have a resource?
OSHA: We just make the rules man
I have found a few, but anyone have a free resource where I can get these?
The manufacturers of the products are required to make them available. Most have them accessible on their websites.
Ah ya well…didn’t think of that.
*fishes around in bookcase, locates three ring binder, blows off dust*
You mean, like this?
“Republicans are responding rationally to electoral incentives,” Cook Political House expert Dave Wasserman told Vox. “Most of them represent overwhelmingly red districts where their party’s base are demanding that they take maximum action against the Biden administration. … This is the reddest red meat that House Republicans could be throwing to the base.”
Democrats would never exploit a situation in an effort to pander to their base. That would be beneath them.
SLD of “eat whatever the fuck you want as it’s not my body”, although there does seem to be a worrying trend of WEF types pushing plant based diets onto populations that just want their frigging beef, and chicken and pork and lamb and tasty creatures of the sea. There are reasons why there are no existing or former vegan cultures among humans. Even the frigging Jains eat yogurt and milk and cheese and eggs. It’s not really something I understand the rationale for, but go ahead if it floats your boat. I’ll take the tuna sashimi appetizer and a ribeye with an egg on top and the veggies on the side.
I’m hungry now.
Heheh. I also can’t really understand the low fat thing. Why would you eat low-fat yogurt? That is just so sad. Same for milk and cheese and keffir. It pisses me off when I go to a grocery store and there is no full fat yogurt or keffir. Why would you take the good stuff out? To what purpose is that? Just wrong. By the way, the Fage full fat yogurt is something to behold. It is so damn thick that you need two spoons to properly get it in a bowl. With some worker bee slave honey on top it is fantastic as a breakfast palate cleanser after your huevos.
Because of years and years of bad science related to cholesterol and HD. Low fat is one of the dumbest things you can do to yourself – twice as bad for your kids.
Our food system is so thoroughly fucked up. It’s pretty simple though: meat, fish, eggs, fruit, veggies will pretty much take care of everything you need.
You just hate science.
I hate nutrition science. That’s true.
I had a lady sneer at me when I was buying regular vitamin D milk for the boys when they were younger. “You should really do 2% or less”
Oh, the shopping cart police.
Yeah my wife and I do that quietly!
What Tundra said. The same assholes who were giving terrible human nutrition advice for decades were the same shitbags that told everyone to wear a mask and take your experimental shots. That terrible nutrition advice is now received wisdom and even though there is a ton of science debunking it, it lives on forever in the public’s imagination. It also nicely dovetails with corporate interests by some weird coincidence.
Because of years and years of bad science related to cholesterol and HD.
This, plus all the years of “eating fat makes you fat”.
low fat == high sugar
Calling it worker bee slave honey makes it that much tastier.
She Cruel World Festival I want to last month in Pasadena printed their food vendor before the show. They touted all of the vegetarian and Vegan options. What they were unclear and never mentioned was that all vendors were selling only Vegan and Vegetarian food.
I assumed that a hotdog in a stick, corn dog, and burger stand might actually sell meat. I guess I’m the Ass. This was due to Morrisey playing the year before and insisting that he would not play if there were and meat being served.
The women in the parking lot selling death dogs tried to warn me and I didn’t listen.
“It’s simply a matter of trying to placate the Trumpist base through the politics of retribution,” says American University government professor David Barker. “Now that they have the majority, they are wielding that power to try to ‘give the Dems a taste of their own medicine.’”
The Democrat-led impeachments and punishments weren’t the same as those currently moving through the House, however. Gosar and Greene were penalized for supporting threats of violence against their fellow lawmakers, while Trump was first impeached for abuse of power and obstructing Congress, then for his role in the January 6 insurrection.
Totally different. Democrats are the good guys, striving to preserve good governance.
British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment
It’s the perfect tempest in a teapot. Translator is pissed off she is both uncredited and unpaid. British Museum should have both apologized and paid. Instead they half assed apologized and removed the unpaid translations. Now neither crediting and paying will satisfy the translator. Basically any sympathy for the translator evaporated when she threw a public shit fit.
Huh, was offered a play test for a game with an NDA and all attached. Anyone interested in participating I can send the closed beta invite. PC game. Hit me up on the forums if you are interested.
Daily Quordle 515
7️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 23
Letters: A G I N S T W
My score: 286 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌷 🌹 🏵 💮 🌸 🌼 🌺 🌻 💐
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 515
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 515
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 515
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 23
Letters: A G I N S T W
My score: 377 points
My longest word: 13 letters
💐 💮 🏵 🌼 🌺 🌷 🌻 🌸 🌹 💐 💮 🏵 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
You’re not gonna believe this
Burning off hazardous materials from the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, which sent a toxic cocktail spewing over the town, may not have been necessary, witnesses said Thursday at a federal hearing into the accident.
Experts gathered on the scene were faced with a snap decision that had to be made quickly based on incomplete information that led them to believe igniting the vinyl chloride contained in the car was necessary to avoid a chemical reaction that could’ve caused a catastrophic explosion.
But witnesses and data presented at a fact-finding hearing held Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent federal agency that investigates accidents, suggest the feared chemical reaction wasn’t in fact happening inside the cars, which derailed on Feb 3.
William Carroll, a chemistry professor at Indiana University, said that chemical reaction can’t happen in the presence of heat alone — it also needs an organic chemical, which wasn’t present, to be activated by the heat. NTSB investigators also showed a temperature graph that showed that, based on the available data, tank car temperatures were fluctuating but not warming enough to indicate the chemical reaction was happening.
You don’t say.
But absolutely no one involved in that decision should be held accountable, because they were trying and it was the best they could do.
Just like the Uvalde cops.
O’Keefe retweeted this and most of the replies are “OMG he looks so scared!!!!”
Humor is dead. Retardation is the order of the day.
https://twitter.com/damonimani/status/1672000622030200832
heh heh heh heh!
O’Keefe literally said “this is satire” and STILL the retards are saying “it doesn’t look like satire – it looks like a hostage video!!!!!”
I can’t facepalm/headdesk any harder.
“The Shadow Knows” Is the best comment. Shadow of a pointer, or gun he keeps looking at.
Trailer park dad who ‘hammered’ Busch beer, was ‘gluttonous’ eater of fried foods remembered in viral obit
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/kentucky-dad-james-loveless-remembered-in-funny-viral-obit/
At least the expectations of appearance fit the stereotype. Live, we all are going out one way or another.
Maybe all of you are but not me…I’ve decided I’m not interested in dying so I’m just not going to do it.
I did that when I turned 50. Now everything hurts, so I decided I didn’t want to carry a bad back into immortality.
TikTok’s chief operating officer V Pappas will step down from their role with the company after five years, the video-sharing company confirmed.
“Their”? “Their”? WTF? That looks like a man. He/his/him.
New Tucker.
Starbucks – not queer enough!
Starbucks workers at 150 stores plan strike over Pride decor
“Starbucks is scared of the power that their queer partners hold, and they should be,”
Perceived power is still power I guess.
America desperately needs a Shame Month. Not about the gaze, but in general. There’s a reason Pride is one of the deadly sins. Bring back the shame!
FruitSushi hardest hit.
Just looked it up. Starbucks has 31,256 stores. That such a low percentage of stores affected.
Wonderful.
The automatic braking system on my Tesla sucks ass. I’m really looking forward to the semi in front of me slamming on the brakes as it approaches an overpass.
Biden administration expands automatic braking system proposal for trucks
Non paywall link
From the article:
Stability control systems are crucial for automatic braking systems to properly function, said Ann Carlson, chief counsel for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. She said both systems, if installed on all vehicles, could prevent an estimated 19,118 crashes and prevent 8,814 nonfatal injuries annually.
Encouraging drivers to be inattentive, shitty drivers prevents crashes? Huh. SCIENCE!!!1!!!!!1
“7 taken to hospital, dozens more hurt as hail pummels Red Rocks concertgoers”
Local news is now having a field day with this. It seems that the venue gave very little notice that crazy hail was coming. Red Rocks also posted a tweet to the tune of, “We’ll consult better with Mother Nature,” which has been viewed as crass and uncaring. In the spirit of safetyism, I’m sure this will result in concerts being shut down whenever a stray cloud passes by.
Like not doing PT when there is lightning within 15.
“Starbucks is scared of the power that their queer partners hold, and they should be,” Moe Mills, a shift supervisor from Richmond Heights, Mo., said in a statement.
The power of the purse?
IT’S A SATCHEL!
In the spirit of safetyism, I’m sure this will result in concerts being shut down whenever a stray cloud passes by.
Do they shut down when there is lightning within fifty miles? That seems to be getting pretty common.
The war mongers new red line.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-senators-introduce-resolution-nato-article-5-invokes-if-tactical-nuke-or-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-emits-radiation
The Ukes have been trying for months to damage the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant. These guys want WWIII if they succeed.
Graham and Blumenthal, how apropos. Two of the most vile characters ever to walk through DC.
Apparently, I have not one but two relatives working at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. They’ve got Russian passports now. But, yeah, Russia is going to damage its power plant…
“The Ukes have been trying for months to damage the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant.”
Yes, let us destroy a major power supply we want back, and poison a big area of the country!
You are reading too many Russian Telegram channels, boss.
Maj bugs me some time, but he must be over the target.
Good work, Philly. Going after guys like Maj will fix things right up.
The problem was that he wasn’t robbing a CVS.
Maj Toure was arrested in Philly this week. He was doing a Tom Woods talk while walking around North Philly when the cops approached him.
Don’t know anything else.
Several mass shootings yesterday between the yoots of Philly. Cops can’t stop those so they go after low hanging fruit or just make up charges.
What’s the charge for not acknowledging your name’s Toby?
Never saw that coming
President Joe Biden is banking on reproductive rights to be a galvanizing issue for voters in the 2024 election as he collects three top-level endorsements, hosts a rally and issues an executive order seeking to bolster access to contraception as the nation marks a year since the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday are being endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Emily’s List. The groups are throwing their early support behind the reelection effort in part to highlight the importance of the issue for Democrats heading into the election year, the groups’ leaders told The Associated Press.
“I think that President Biden has been an incredibly valuable partner, along with Vice President Harris, in fighting back against the onslaught of attacks that we have seen,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “We are heading into an election where opposition is very clear — they are pushing for a national ban. And we have an administration that has taken actual steps to protect patients and providers during this health care crisis. The choice is really clear.”
Reproductive rights. Women’s health care. They can only be protected by Democrats.
AWFLs everywhere rejoice.
Not sure that will wrangle up many votes of the…uh, non-affluent. You know, people looking at their bills and going “Oh, fook.”
It worked pretty well last year.
Indeed. It will be an effective strategy.
But of course…
https://zerohedge.com/crypto/ftx-sues-claw-back-700-million-ex-clinton-aide-other-investors
The automatic braking system on my Tesla sucks ass.
I was knifing my way through traffic on the interstate one day, and I cleared the back of a semi by a good ten feet, when my girlfriend in the passenger seat said, “You should probably never get one of those cars that slams on the brakes when you get too close.”
I’m not a fan of any car that overrides the driver’s choices. To put it mildly.
My friend had a Volvo that had that “feature.” He vowed never again.
You can turn it the hell off.
For now…
That’ll change soon enough.
As others have mentioned these imperfect systems allow people to feel safe while driving inattentively.
And DC wants to double down on this false sense of security.
TBH, I wouldn’t mind feeling safer while others drive inattentively. Because they already do, constantly.
“I’m not tailgating, I’m drafting!”/NASCAR fan
Hmm…. these are the same folks who are fond of “Rubbin’ is racin'” — so I’m not overly fond of applying their principles to Interstate traffic. I like my paint intact.
Yesterday on the way home two 18-wheelers were barreling down the highway as if they were race cars, weaving in and out of lanes. I had to do 90 to overtake them.
Twice now, our employees have been rear ended while at a stop light and not moving. Once in a company vehicle, and once in a personal vehicle.
My dad’s Jaguar didn’t have automatic brakes, but it had some sort of proximity detector. The thing started beeping wildly while I was sitting at a red light in traffic. I immediately checked the oil pressure gauge, but it wasn’t at zero so I kept going. I had no idea what was going on. I asked about it when I got back to the house and he said, “Yeah it does that sometimes. It drives me crazy but I can’t figure out how to turn it off.”
Other than that, it was a pretty damn good car.
It indicates when other British vehicles were in the proximity so you could wave.
My daily ray of sunshine…
It’s times like these that I’m happy that Smell-O-Vision never took off.
When I watched the music link, this was the next in the Youtube queue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGiEoczryg
RJ-
I skimmed through some of last night’s movie thread and saw your potential picks for next week.
“If he Devil doesn’t like it he can go fuck himself, go fuck himself…”