I can’t think of any sports worth reporting on today. But the Stanley Cup final starts soon, so that will change. Now on to the links.
Fuck. Off.
I’ve never seen this before. And I already hate these people.
These guys are kind of making this easy. “Hey, who do you think we should lay off?” “Uh, the people who refuse to come back to the office would be a good start.” “Right, fire up the pink slip machine.”
“This is fine.” environmentalists
This is terrible. Now do electric car companies.
Nothing left to cut. Fuck all of these people. Fuck them right in the ear.
This doesn’t make him look any better. But she lost her job, so it still wasn’t worth it.
It shouldn’t be released at all. Because nothing beyond population numbers should be collected in the first place.
At some point you’ve got to actually produce something of value. Tough break, but the gravy train has left the station. And y’all missed it.
Now give me my $25.
I assume this will be a shitshow. The first three were. And I’m sure some enterprising gun owners will fuck the next one up as well.
Here you go, 80’s kids. What a great song. And here’s another fantastic track. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Fresno tech darling Bitwise Industries furloughs entire 900-worker staff
CHSR would have saved them. Get it done!
officials will again be turning away ghost guns at the upcoming event
They are so dangerous even the government doesn’t want them.
Maybe they could offer to take them as Ukrainian donations?
Combining annoying tourists / obnoxious youth “finding themselves” with panhandling? What’s not to loathe….
And I hate the writer of the article too… “passport privilege” Oy vey. (Oh noes! Cultural appropriation here too!)
Side rant — Realtek has got to be the crappiest crap ever crapped onto the market, and I wish motherboard manufacturers would go back to giving actual expansion slots instead of throwing all this cheap worthless crap onto the board, making it a pain to try to get decent basic functionality. When I seriously start to consider a $18 USB audio adapter from Creative on a way-too-expensive-but-not-going-to-look-like-a-braggart X670 motherboard, GET A BETTER F’ING VENDOR YOU ASUS HACKS!
I tapped out at “(This shaming) does raise the point of, ‘is international travel only for a certain class of people or people over a certain amount of income?’” because my brain was starting to hurt.
At the same time, they’re speaking out of the other side of their mouths about how bad international travel is for the environment.
Preach it brother. After trying every damn thing to get the onboard Realtek Ethernet to work right, I put in a surplus Intel e1000 which has worked fine. Asrock X670 mobo.
Could be worse, you could have bought Gigabyte.
The Realtek drivers have always been garbage, and I’m usually happy if I get audio out and input working, after that I tap out.
Oh JHTFC… that sounds awfully like the “Asus Armory Crate” crap… which is in the UEFI BIOS of all things as well… but at least you can turn it off. More “let’s make it simple and make sure we can data mine our users” mindset at work.
And given Asus had to VSOC issues recently (fortunately, I’m not a X3D chip, so it wasn’t a problem on my cpu+mb combo), no one is exactly covering themselves in glory from what I can tell. Someone is going to wise up, deliver a quality product without all the crap and eat these folks’ lunch (like Gigabyte did back in the day by getting solid capacitors and marketing board stability… that’s what made their mark).
The fun with Realtek is after you get it working later it will stop working for no reason.
Exactly why I’m ranty at it this morning. Just wanted to listen to a podcast off of my phone via Line In — had it working for several months, hadn’t done it in at least a couple weeks… and mysteriously I now get audio, but it is so quiet it is unusable. And nothing I did could fix it. Bloody useless idiots.
Damn, I just built a new rig with a Gigabyte mobo. I uninstalled the Gigabyte App center and disabled the Gigabyte update service. Hoping that Gigabyte plugs the holes.
It’s a variation on hippies in India, with Ukuleles. Two bad tastes that taste bad together.
Regarding passport privilege, it’s a real thing. When I lived in Europe we used to say “Have blue (US passport), can do.” We’d rarely get hassled. For example, before my wife became a US citizen we were on a train from St Petersburg to Estonia. The Russian border guards took one look at my passport and moved on. They nearly arrested my wife because she didn’t fill out some paperwork properly. I told her to stay put, because she was with me and they wouldn’t do anything because I had the US passport.
whaddup doh’
See above rant after I had one of those “this was working last week… now I get almost no volume on line in for no discernible reason” moments.
Other than that, mostly talking to myself apparently. Have a good one, Tres.
Same here. Nice name SDF-7 btw.
Chump change compared to the Ukraine slush fund, though.. Now there’s a trough with lots of our grandchildren’s money sloshing around for them to cavort in. Feeling that ole black pill kicking in….
I’d like to think that most of this crap is the public cover for military/IC special projects. I mean, I’d still hate that it’s happening, but at least that would indicate some rational thought behind the process…
Preaching. Choir.
The whole “we must have this data to micromanage the population because we’re the Anointed Experts” needless to say annoys the crap out of me.
In 2000 I literally slammed the door in a census takers face for trying to collect extra info on me.
I got the “long form” and filled out the minimal information.
Yeah — I got to tell one to go away repeatedly while trying to fix a sprinkler in 2010.
Sounds like they were hoping to ride the non-profit gravy train of “providing coding skills to underserved communities”. Kind of surprised that didn’t work… maybe BLM grifting sucked all the oxygen out of that room or something.
Maybe related? I don’t know, didn’t RTA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo&pp=ygUoU2lsaWNvbiB2YWxsZXkgc2hvdyB5b3UgY2FudCBtYWtlIHByb2ZpdA%3D%3D
While I am kinda sad to see a bad break for Fresno, as I always liked that town, having a piss poor business model is no way to go through life.
In case anyone had any doubt that it was really “Democratic / Proggie Wishlist Bill” there….
I’d expect this kind of stuff from Austin — is Houston getting that nutty too? (Too many CA ex-pats maybe?) If I ever move anywhere near TX, need to know where to avoid, after all. Not that I’m a city person, so probably safe enough….
Yes. It has been getting nutty for a while.
Houston has the Katrina refugees from New Orleans.
Houston is run by retarded progressives and has been for several years now.
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It’s a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West — which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
Hunter S. Thompson
In other words, it’s always sucked. I do feel like it’s getting worse, though. Pretty much only venture within the loop if I’m going to see the Astros or need to go to Microcenter. The crime and traffic and idiots on the highway keep me away.
Everything run by prog is getting worse. San Francisco has always been Bagdad by the Bay. Now, it is the second level of hell: a Human Centipede of doom spiral .
City if Houston has been like this since 1995 when I lived there. Harris County (county in which Houston resides), on the other hand, used to be fairly conservative.
Houston has the Forth Ward. That is always going to bleed proggies; it is were the graft is.
Huh… I guess Texas will decipher all of Kevin’s Lore first then….
I’m assuming you’re leaving Girls on Film for Q to link later…
I think I linked it in the last few months, which is the only reason I left out one of the greatest songs of a generation.
I made a complaining type post about my job, micromanagement, etc a few weeks ago. The response was bail, get a new job. Truth be told I have been passively looking for a month or more. What I didn’t know is that I’m far from alone. This one manager is single handedly cleaning out my entire department. 4 people, 3 of whom have been here 10 years or more announced their departures. 2 more besides me are on the cusp. It’s amazing the damage one bad personality in management can do.
Anyway, I have an interview today. It might be the easiest time in my life to get a job as a mid-career civil-structural generalist with decent verbal skills. I need to find a place to actually get ‘real’ skill in something but not be pigeon-holed to a single task type situation. We’ll see.
Good luck!
Good luck — and hope it works out for you. I’m one of those “really hard to move once I’m settled” types… so it takes a lot to even get me to passively look.
But yeah — I despise micromanaging (and firmly believe Agile almost always turns into it, regardless of the many, many claims that it doesn’t… gee, I wonder where mandatory daily (at least) meetings, mandatory breaking work into small chunks each of which has to have tracking and metrics, etc. might lead then? It is just a cosmic mystery that all those metrics would lead to managing those metrics at the micro level or anything….).
I probably start looking to bail too easily. Really trying to not be like that but the job market is just too good for my niche not to. I will be critical as I interview. There’s a lot of the ‘grass is greener’ and ‘the devil you know’ stuff going on.
Best of luck waffles. I’m still dealing with culture shock from starting with a new company back in April. I was just assigned a customer to support last week, still haven’t gotten any tickets assigned to me, and have spent most of the time in poorly managed and run training.
/looks at calendar for next week
Oh… another training is scheduled.
Good luck 🙂
Been through that. I got caught up in a senior management changeover, ended up being one of the rats who left a sinking ship as my manager got hosed after I left due to the micro management in hiring to replace me. I jumped over to account management for another multinational, a step up, but that was just as the economy crashed in ’09. Sent my world into a spin.
But, good luck!
I have reached the point of burnout where I realize I could be looking – passively or actively – but I just don’t care.
It would be same shit, different bosses. My bosses are super low drama so I don’t want to leave that. They trust me and back me up if they hear a complaint about me.
I could go somewhere else and maybe make some more money, but then I’d have more pressure to pump out the cases. And I don’t want that.
I could go solo again but then I have to deal with marketing, advertising, and trying to afford health care (which is a huge hassle). So I stay put.
At least they checked the price on a new Hi-Point.
Are there still any $89 AR lowers available?
Slumbrew mis-typing “Enola Gay” as “Ebola Gay” enacted my inner Weird Al. I did the first set of lyrics:
Ebola Gay
I am pooping my guts away
Ah-ha, words can’t describe
The feeling and the way I died…
Catchy.
Now I want to hear the chorus.
Hey, I typed it correctly, it’s my tablet that sucks.
I stand corrected. It is still my favorite thing about today.
Ebola Gay
It’s called Mmmmpox now.
Shock the MMMpox!
Nothing left to cut
Are you suggesting that we don’t allow members of Congress to insert these kinds of nonsense items into the budget in return for bribes / campaign contributions? Crazy talk.
I’ve always assumed it was just a jobs program for their retarded children.
Now I want Pop-Tarts. And a gun.
Looks like we are going to have a Ukraine peace summit – everyone is invited, except Russia.
So… either a circle jerk of doing nothing or (more likely) an excuse for the Ukraine weasels to put out that they must have more money and slush grant.
Just saw this. It’s going to be even dumber than I expected. They’ll demand a “demilitarized zone” with NATO “peacekeepers” on Russian soil.
Wow… that ranks up there with “Austria-Hungary ultimatum in 1914” in “no sane country would ever agree to that, much less one that is much more likely to win than your sorry ass, Ukraine”.
I feel bad for the Ukrainian people still… but I wouldn’t shed a tear if the Russians wiped out their entire government / power structure at this point.
Forgot to quote why beyond the obvious:
This is like Mexico demanding we turn over control of our ICBMs if we went in after cartels and getting bogged down.
Not.
Going.
To.
Fucking.
Happen.
.
.
.
Dumbass.
That’s insane/unserious.
I feel bad for the Ukrainian people still… but I wouldn’t shed a tear if the Russians wiped out their entire government / power structure at this point.
That may be starting now. Sometime in the past few days, Russia took out an Ukrainian intelligence building in Kiev during a daylight missile attack. Russia has been threatening for a year to do so, but it’s the first time in the war they’ve targeted a Kiev power structure.
Much of the focus in the war has been on the ground combat, which makes sense given the artillery warfare. Over the past half year though, Russia has been removing AA defenses from the cities with increasing effect. They hit one of the two Patriot systems guarding Kiev with a Kinzhal last week. The propaganda from every direction is in full swing though so we’ll see what happens.
And Russia will give away control of its nukes.
Yes, these are all things that will happen.
“We are organising a summit – we want to involve as many countries as possible, that’s why we did not set the date yet,” Zelenskiy told reporters on arrival at a gathering of more than 40 European leaders in Moldova.
The only two relevant countries are Ukraine and Russia.
Zelenskiy last year proposed a 10-point peace plan, which calls on Russia to withdraw all its troops from Ukraine.
Recognizing the parts that Russia no longer considers part of Ukraine of course. Otherwise this would be a nonstarter. And you know it.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/22/daylight-the-lgbtq-neobank-calls-it-quits/
all of these were a low-interest rate phenomena.
This. I’m conflicted between feeling bad for friends that can’t get into the housing market now, but also feeling a bit of schadenfreude for seeing bullshit like this go away.
Don’t worry, they will blame the wrong people for their financial troubles.
Home prices go down as interest goes up. Once it become apparent we aren’t going back to zero rates, they will fall.
Because normal banks and credit cards care who you like to bang?
Find me a bank in San Jose that wouldn’t give a loan to two Silicon Valley employed gay guys with no kids for a $2.5M hovel.
When did we go from 2-3% of the population is gay to 10%, anyway?
Your words are violence against the LGBTQWERTY+++ community.
When half of HS girls started claiming to be T.
junior HS girls
Activists have been pushing 10% for decades – back in the 90’s there was a radio show called “One In Ten” on Sunday nights on my favorite station (which always bummed me out when I just wanted to hear some music).
I don’t think that was uncritically accepted to this point.
Maybe it’s not that there’s more gays, maybe it’s they are adding more letters. Maybe they’ll kick the gays out soon though. Also, the US population hasn’t been 300 million since the 80s or 90s.
I remember when G was before L.
/polishes belt onion
Yup. The GLA became the LGBA when I was at college.
About the same time the LGP community got a whole month of celebration and started up the story hours.
Nearly 2,000 Amazon workers plan to walk out on Wednesday as the company weathers layoffs and a mandate that corporate employees return to the office.
“Employees need a say in decisions that affect our lives,” said a petition from worker groups Amazon Employees for Climate Justice and Amazon’s Remote Advocacy.
Don’t like your terms of employment don’t work for Amazon.
Amazon is telling you that you are not valuable enough to them to let you work from home. So show up, and force them to give you severance.
They need to be careful. Amazon pays very well, and lots of people could be replaced very quickly.
$1.3 BILLION in YOUR taxpayer dollars spent on putting cats on treadmills in Russia and a ‘gender equality’ cartoon exhibition in China: The ‘pointless projects’ around the world funded by Americans unveiled by top Republican
So we are giving money to our geopolitical adversaries. Seems legit.
But the idea that all of these supposed adversaries are really just chummy with each other and trying to get a World Order going is a paranoid conspiracy theory, donchaknow?
The 17-year-old boy and his family recently told NewsOne he was riding the new e-bike all day and planned to use it again after he docked it at a Kips Bay station when Comrie momentarily rented out the two-wheeler for her ride home after her shift.
SO rent another one. You docked yours.
Close the e-bike loopholes!
True. He doesn’t own it. He wasn’t paying for it. It was up for rent by another person. I still hate everyone involved in that.
Yeah it’s not super clear here that the 45 minute dock discount mentioned in the article is only good for that same bike or not. If it is, then that seems like a problem for Citi bike to handle. Otherwise, this looks like a clear case of theft to me. She rented the bike, and he overpowered her and the bike back into the dock with the intention of renting it out for himself, depriving her of the use she paid for.
A system where the 45 minute discount is only available for one bike, but can be renewed repeatedly by redocking that exact bike, would be so bonecrushingly stupid that I can see NYC adopting it.
I get that he has receipts, which I guess have been verified for that bike etc. I still don’t understand what five (5) people are doing traversing NYC with one (1) bike.
And it was docked for five minutes? How long does it take for the timer to reset so you can keep the lower rental rate? Something else that doesn’t add up.
In my youth, I knew a guy who sold drugs and he kept them stashed in the seat post of his bicycle. Good hiding spot and easily accessible. But wouldn’t work the minute someone else takes your bike. Just a thought.
That’s why the prison wallet is (usually) preferred
It sounds like he was squatting on the bike waiting for the timer to reset so he could get the free rental for another 45 minutes. It also sounds like it might have been the only available e-bike, and all the others were regular bikes, which is why they both wanted that specific bike.
I thought I saw something about it being a newer model e-bike. Don’t know if it was the only e-bike, but that made it sound like it wasn’t.
Best case scenario – he was camping on that bike so he could a subsidy, and a full paying customer came along and claimed it. Tough shit, kid. You want to use an e-bike without any hassles, get a job and pay full freight.
“Employees need a say in decisions that affect our lives,” said a petition from worker groups Amazon Employees for Climate Justice and Amazon’s Remote Advocacy.
Say goodbye.
Daily Quordle 493
6️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Meh.
Blossom Puzzle, June 1
Letters: C I L A P T Y
My score: 307 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌼 🌷 🌻 🌹 💮 💐 🏵 🌺 🌸 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Decent enough today — mainly because I took a chance on LR and it paid off. LL of course was a “could be either of two words, differing only by one letter and no, we won’t give you any idea with the other words!”… and lost that coin toss.
Daily Duotrigordle #456
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 03:24.44
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 493
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Meh.
Daily Quordle 493
3️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Good guesses today, except bottom right gave me fits trying to find a word that worked with what I had left
Daily Quordle 493
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Daily Quordle 493
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
After three seed words, I had the last four letters of the lower left giving one of those multiple guess problems. Solving the other three words first didn’t make things any better.
Tough one today. 50/50 on TR to avoid Chumptown.
Daily Quordle 493
4️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
This was better.
Blossom Puzzle, June 1
Letters: C I L A P T Y
My score: 349 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌷 🌸 🌺 💐 🌼 🌹 💮 🏵 🌻 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
[whistles and walks away]
Two more Spurs players win a trophy…away from the club.
That was a college golf reference actually, there was an opening for sloopy to get back at me for my OSU comments.
But…the best comment I have seen wrt Everton staying up…Goodison will never see the Championship. No matter what happens next year, the old lady will be in the Premier League for her last game.
Now the fancy new stadium may open in a lower league. Not sure there is the money to actually improve anything. But at least Lampard won’t be involved.
You might find this interesting too: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37765667/premier-league-var-tottenham-replace-liverpool-europa-league-villa-slump-10th-forest-relegated
Houston and Harris County officials want to buy up your guns again. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County officials announced Tuesday that another city gun buyback event will be held this month. This is the fourth gun buyback hosted by city and county officials in the past several months.
It’s not a buyback.
Apparently people have set up shop on the outside of the other events to offer people more money than the gov’t for their guns. Nuance Bro went to one.
Brit-trash of the day:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/psycho-seagulls-getting-high-zombie-30030819
That article was almost certainly just an excuse for someone in their graphic arts department to have some fun with the pictures.
Yeah, I laffed at the pic.
Trump’s exposing our plans for war with Iran! He must be destroyed!!!
Channeling your inner John Bolton there, JI?
No, the AP is.
Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from after he left office in which he talks about holding onto a classified Pentagon document related to a potential attack on Iran, according to media reports.
And?
Malicious legislation is malicious.
The bill consists of elements of legislation proposed by Gov. Ned Lamont as well as recommendations from a coalition of mayors from Connecticut’s largest cities.
Among its policies is a provision to ban the open-carry of guns. Stafstrom said the language was tailored to apply to only overt displays of firearms. “A so-called fleeting glance or just catching a bulge of a firearm is not enough.”
The legislation broadens the assault weapons ban passed after the Newtown shooting to include more weapons with banned features as well as previously exempted weapons manufactured before September of 1994. Residents who already own these guns will have until next May to register them with the state.
The bill restricts the sale of body armor to residents who have been issued a pistol permit and requires all guns to be sold with trigger locks. Possessing a large capacity magazine would become a class A misdemeanor for most residents and a class D felony if possessed by people otherwise prohibited from owning guns.
So now we get to spend years in court only to find out, again, that all of this shit is obviously unconstitutional.
Stop checking out my bulge.
fleeting glances are legal
The Suburbs – Cig Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBOuU8r_uw
Rescue party
There were plenty of well-founded complaints on either side — on the left, worries about increased work requirements that could hurt people in poverty, nervousness about the environmental impact of sped-up energy permits; on the right, continued head-shaking about what they see as out-of-control spending and debt, now topping $30 trillion.
But in the end, two-thirds of House Republicans and more than three-quarters of Democrats voted for the bill for a total tally of 314-117.
The Senate still has to pass the measure, but if it does, as is expected, it will be those who eschewed the wings of their parties — which have some of the most vocal, attention-getting members — who averted a potentially calamitous, first-ever U.S. debt default.
Call them perhaps the Silent Middle Majority.
Noble patriots, willing to bravely continue to shovel money into the boiler of the runaway train which is U S government spending.
Republicans Win Emmy For Acting Like Government Spending Makes Them Sad
There are two parties – spend fast and spend faster – no one else is in office.
Crisis? To almost everyone outside DC it would be barely an inconvenience.
If there truly was a crisis impending, wouldn’t the stock market have been down 1500 points?
or 15000?
The hotly negative feelings toward him on the right have ballooned in the last two years, as conservatives inaccurately painted him as a doddering marionette of the progressive left.
What a completely ridiculous notion. And besides, his asshole tastes just like strawberry ice cream.
Question brought up by a comment in last night’s post:
If Donald is convicted of something and goes to prison and still runs for President, would you vote for him just to increase his totals for the lulz?
He deserves prison for his destruction of the USFL.
Okay, not really, but he still aint getting my vote. He hasn’t even apologized.
That is maybe the only scenario that would induce me to vote in 2024.
I won’t be renewing my ESPN+ account.
ESPN will kick start its Pride Month celebration on Thursday by raising the rainbow flag on campus. …
It’s quite telling for a sports network to aggressively embrace transgenderism, given the grave consequences the movement has levied across sports.
ESPN+, LGBTQIA+
tomato, tomato
No good deed goes unpunished.
The 32-year-old was armed with a sharp object and attempted to rob a 65-year-old of money and cigarettes, authorities said.
The 65-year-old, identified as Charles Foehner, pulled a sliver handgun and shot him as many as five times.
In surveillance video viewed by Eyewitness News, the assailant confronts Foehner from 40 feet. Foehner waves him off, raising his left hand, but the assailant continues to approach aggressively. With that, Foehner draws his gun from 20 feet. When the assailant waves an object and lunges, Foehner fires from 8 feet.
He then called 911, stating he was in a shooting and the gun was in his jacket pocket. He voluntarily surrendered to responding officers.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene and a pen was discovered in his right hand.
In a free state, that sounds like a good shoot.
a sliver handgun
Sliver eh?
The Man with the Silver Gun only had one-and-a-half nipples.
Gauss pistol, sweet.
Which models come in silver?
I’m guessing a S&W 642.
“The 32-year-old had many prior arrests for robbery, burglary, drug possession, and other related charges.”
Sounds like he did the community a service.
https://babylonbee.com/news/top-10-greatest-christian-metal-bands-of-all-time
I loled.
My first thought was, “there are 10?”
Hahaha. Fantastic.
That photo of Louie Weaver makes him look like Rachel Levine.
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-highway-hell-theologically-accurate-96-modern-worship-songs
Related.
My Freshman year roommate (who looked the part and was a great guy) listened to Petra pretty much exclusively.
I think I am going to send that to our worship leader.
Hillsong (whatever you think of them as a church) theologically vetts the songs their worship bands produce. And they still got criticized for a song referencing evolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2U7ffUM5Ec
About 2:23 in.
Huh. It actually was a “sponsored article.”
Petra is going on a 50th anniversary tour.
I have a problem with Geezer rock. Ignore the fact that I went to see Yes in 1998. Steve Howe looked like the Cryptkeeper then. And he is still alive.
Does The Four Horsemen and Creeping Death count as Christian songs?
The 65-year-old, identified as Charles Foehner, pulled a sliver handgun and shot him as many as five times.
Vigilante!
“silver handgun”
Vampire hunter?
In happy news, my second boy was born a couple days ago. With all the awful shit going on right now, having children that will inherit the world we leave behind is the best motivation to remain optimistic.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
WooT!
Congrats 🙂
Mazel Tov!
I think we’re all a bit too pessimistic – your kids will do better than we fear.
Worst case…we need someone around to rebuild.
An economic* argument I like to make is “what is best for my great grandchildren?” I am 53 and my daughter is 7, so these are not only hypothetical, I will never meet them, or if I do, I will be far too old for it to matter. But it is how I like to think.
*not just economic, but that seems to be where it comes up the most.
Congrats!
Huzzah on the newborn, but how did you figure out how they identify so quickly?
Congratulations. The future belongs to those who show up.
Awesome!
Thanks Brawndo, ya done good. Any girls in the mix? Keep on keeping on.
Nope. Two boys. Bring on the scissors, I’m done.
Oppression and injustice
Democrats’ irritation with the “status quo,” as Durbin calls it, is indicative of a larger political trend — the declining trust and confidence in U.S. institutions writ large coupled with Democrats’ exasperation on a host of perceived political injustices.
Chafing under minority rule
Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. But two of the elections in which they won the popular vote were awarded to Republicans because of the Electoral College.
And it’s had profound consequences.
The Iraq War likely would have never happened with a Democratic President Al Gore, and there would have certainly have been more action on climate change.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes in 2016, but won the Electoral College. He wound up being impeached twice and lies he told about the 2020 election he lost led to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump was also able to nominate three Supreme Court justices. That reshaped the court, making it the most conservative in almost a century and led to a host of changes now roiling society, like the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 50-year-old ruling that had guaranteed the right to an abortion in this country.
For Democrats smarting at the 2000 and 2016 elections, it’s painful to think of how differently U.S. politics and society would look had they won. After all, Presidents George W. Bush and Trump appointed five Supreme Court justices between them
Petulant weeping about declining faith and trust in government. All because Republicans were allowed to win elections. At least I think that’s what it’s supposed to be about. Mostly conservative bashing and alternate history sore-loser-ism. The kind of quality journalism you can’t get just anywhere.
Democrats never start wars.
“The Iraq War likely would have never happened with a Democratic President Al Gore”
Yeah, sure.
How many wars would President Hillary have started?
All of them. Every country would be at war.
Not those that made ginormous contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Only the ones that failed to pay dues to the Clinton Foundation.
Why would the devil keep his word?
Probably just one, but of sufficient size to do the trick.
It’s amusing that during the 2000 campaign Democrats tried to tar Bush as isolationist.
All they need to do is implement strict censorship, use the FBI and DOJ to crack down on non-Democrats, fortify some more elections, and pack the supreme court, and people will trust in government again.
the declining trust and confidence in U.S. institutions writ large
I take it you cuntes want to do things that will actually further erode confidence in institutions, like further fuck with the electoral process.
two of the elections in which they won the popular vote were awarded to Republicans because of the Electoral College.
Popular vote is irrelevant. The states, being separate/sovereign political entities, elect the president of the common government of the states.
The Iraq War likely would have never happened with a Democratic President Al Gore
Lmao…oh wait, you’re serious.
lost the popular vote by 3 million votes in 2016, but won the Electoral College. He wound up being impeached twice
Two bs impeachments, yes.
it’s painful to think of how differently U.S. politics and society would look had they won.
It’s clear that CA and NY should control the whole of the US.
Maybe, just maybe, stop consolidating power in DC and let states address those injustices if they see fit.
Or as DC homicide cops would call it, a PSK… public service killing.
“Wife Bijou Phillips breaks down in court as Danny Masterson is found GUILTY of drugging and raping two women – who were too afraid to speak out after being ‘harassed’ by Church of Scientology
Masterson – who played smart-mouthed Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show – was accused of raping the three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100459/Danny-Masterson-GUILTY-rape.html
So twenty years ago? How can anyone prove anything one way or the other?
No physical evidence of any kind, in a criminal trial? WTF?
They reported the rapes at the time when physical evidence would have been available. If only the LAPD had actually done an investigation.
From what I know about that organization, I’m inclined to believe them.
The are fiercely protective of their celebrity members. Hell, they have a magazine called Celebrity.
If this had been a civil action, okay – but I don’t believe it met the criminal standard and it obviously only proceeded because of the law on statute of limitations changing.
South Park, for all I know, is the only ones within Hollywood that was willing to skewer the ‘church’. Might be a few other instances, but I am with you, they are beyond fierce in protecting their racket.
A higher loyalty.
Co-host Poppy Harlow said, “Historically, previously until the last few years it has been those on the left who have been critical of the FBI. You were a Republican for most of your life until you say the party left you. Why do you think so many Republicans have turned on the FBI?”
Comey said, “I think it’s largely because Donald Trump and those around him have seen the FBI as a threat, and so they have take an blowtorch to try to tear down that threat. It’s really unfortunate. The notion that the FBI is some sort of leftist cabal out to get the Republicans is so crazy. It shows you how crazy our times are.”
It is not necessarily leftist but it is the tyrannical deep state that prefers to go after dissidents to the uniparty regime.
The FBI hasn’t changed. The left (correctly) hated the FBI for things like black mailing MLK jr, and now the right (correctly) hates the FBI for going after Trump.
“Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s a school board meeting tonight and we need to get some of our guys in place to take license plate numbers.”
Hey Poppy, here’s a follow up question: “why do you think the left is – by and large – no longer critical of the FBI?”
Oh, oh, Mr. Kotter, Mr. Kotter, I know!
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state!
It’s all mixed together to make for a toxic brew of mistrust and antipathy that shows in the potentially dangerous decline in the lack of trust in institutions.
Sixty-two percent said they have not very much or no confidence in the Supreme Court, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That’s the lowest recorded in the five years Marist has been asking the question. The lack of confidence was driven by Democrats and most independents.
Asking for five years, you say? Ever since the cartoon villain stole Hillary’s Presidency and started appointing right wing puppets who vowed to obey his every whim.
“Thieves in black ski masks are caught on camera robbing Chicago family at gunpoint on their doorstep in broad daylight – as cops warn locals that same crooks have carried out nearly 50 armed robberies in five weeks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12147017/Cops-warn-Chicago-residents-criminals-carried-nearly-50-armed-robberies-five-weeks.html
OFFS!!
Eventually they will be shot by a homeowner. And that homeowner will go to jail.
They’re just collecting reparations money. People should chill out.
But peaceable citizens can’t have guns to defend themselves.
What’s the point of having elections if there is a risk the other party might win?
Meh on the music selections
lol
No physical evidence of any kind, in a criminal trial? WTF?
They spoke their truth. What more could a jury require?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYifPVaR6lE
A good summary.
Lefty sociologist (but I repeat myself) happens to like guns, fails to recognize himself in the mass media caricatures. Also notices that people in his field who hype the evilhood democracy-insurrecting effects of gun ownership make many more phat stacks than do people who disagree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X38m4nVAIc0
“But that’s not the weird part”
The village of Manlius in upstate New York is mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the town’s pond over the weekend along with her four cygnets. The cygnets, or baby swans, were recovered, but officials say the mama swan was eaten.
“The mother swan was consumed,” Manlius Mayor Paul Whorrall said Wednesday. “Sad to say, but that’s what they did.”
Three teenagers were arrested Tuesday on charges including grand larceny and criminal mischief in connection with the swan-napping, Manlius police Sgt. Ken Hatter said.
Did it lay golden eggs?
Wait, teenagers that can butcher and cook waterfowl?
New Twitter didn’t last long.
Never watched it, but only 2 instances of misgendering for that documentary seems *really* low
LOL the second Elon sort of stepped down.
How long ago was the premiere?
It’s a year old now I believe.
Too local pride shit.
Retards all the way down.
On the other hand, addressing gym teachers is probably on target. At least the female ones.
Something nice.
Cool guy.
great video
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I’ll call that a daily ray of sunshine, even. Just great.
Class…missing in this world
Humpty Dumpty School of Journalism
Prepare yourself for a Pride Month imbued with callous intolerance.
Fueled by right-wing media personalities and institutions like Fox News, conservatives are waging a ferocious war on companies that express support for the LGBTQ community, with hostilities against the celebration of gay rights swelling to levels not seen in many years. In effect, the supposedly anti-cancel culture crowd is leading the summer’s biggest cancel culture campaign.
In recent weeks, right-wing media has smeared and incited boycotts against Bud Light and Target, two jumbo American brands that have been thrust into the center of the toxic culture wars. Both companies have been relentlessly attacked over their show of public support for the LGBTQ community. In recent days, The North Face, Kohl’s, and Chick-fil-A have also come under assault in the expanding war. And Disney, of course, has been an endless punching bag since it spoke out against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida last year.
In the right-wing media universe, in which millions of Americans firmly reside, these companies have been portrayed as “woke” and evil corporations seeking to groom children with radical — even Satantic — gender ideology that will corrupt their brains and ultimately lead to the destruction of society.
The attacks have put companies in the uncomfortable position of standing up for the values of their own employees and the public writ large against a relentless volley of threats of mass boycotts, lost revenue, and ultimately, long-term brand harm. With each offensive — and claimed victories — the activists wielding the pitchforks have become more emboldened and the business atmosphere more chilled.
More minoritarian dictatorship by unhinged right wing zealots determined to eradicate anyone they don’t like.
Words mean whatever we decide.
They could opt to stay out of cultural warfare.
You’re a funny man, RoaT.
There is no war over our culture. You are either on the right side of history (with us angels) or you are a bigoted demon from hell who deserves to die for being so full of hate.
Prepare yourself for a Pride Month imbued with callous intolerance.
Coming from the pride activists, right?
The Satanist designer of trans-wear for toddlers is totally not grooming children with radical — even Satantic — gender ideology.
What, don’t you support the BDS movement?
Retards, thinking these tricks only works for them.
That’s different! That’s for the right reasons, unlike the people complaining about tuck friendly bathing suits.
The biggest incident of intolerance I ever saw at a Pride event was, you guessed it, the Pride crowd doing their level best to shout down a Christian group that was (bravely, I gotta say) proselytizing at the parade in downtown Houston. The group was polite, not in anyone’s face, and while they weren’t supportive of the gay/lesbian/etc. crowd, they were absolutely *not* being disruptive. The crowd that gathered though…man, those folks were *rude*.
Gay, wiccan DPD cop I used to work with would find an excuse to arrest protestors at the Dallas Pride parade. He was upfront and proud about it.
A cop? Using his position to harass people he doesn’t like? *Looks for shocked face*
Oh, Edit Fairy….
First-Ever Pride Month Ruined By 40 Days Of Rain
We just had the driest May on record, so this sounds like a good deal.
Our* reservoirs are full to overflowing. I don’t know if from all the recent rain or from snowmelt. But its a good thing.
*Mostly Greeley’s water, for some historical reasons that need to go away.
My neighbor couldn’t get on Cherry Creek last weekend because the boat ramp was underwater.
I think we got a month’s worth of rain in three days. I was out west last weekend and there is still plenty of snow, so I think it’s mostly the rain.
There is still snow on Longs Peak (I can see it from my bedroom), but less than a few weeks ago.
“Fun” fact: Longs Peak is the deadliest 14er in Colorado. It isn’t that difficult to climb, but its the only peak over 14k feet in the northern part of the state, so people try to hike to the top who aren’t ready for it.
We are just losing the last of our snow here in Vegas on Charleston. Was a good snow year.
The Human Rights Campaign released a statement Wednesday, signed by more than 100 advocacy organizations and allies, condemning the right’s use of the “extremist playbook of attacks.”
“Their goal is clear: to prevent LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation, silence our allies and make our community invisible,” the coalition said. “These attacks fuel hate against LGBTQ+ people, just as we’ve seen this year with more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that restrict basic freedoms and aim to erase LGBTQ+ people.”
No more constructive or credible than claiming every “LGBTQ+” person wants to sodomize your three year old. But don’t let that stop you.
THAT’S OUR PLAYBOOK! YOU CAN’T STEAL FROM IT!!!
Needs more struggle session.
Instead of standing up for his beliefs that are based on his Christian values, Bass caved and issued an apology before the start of the Blue Jay’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday, saying:
“I’ll make this quick—I recognize yesterday that I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine, and I am truly sorry for that.” …
According to MSN – Bass’ apology was a “first step” to learning how his actions are accountable to others, according to Blue Jays manager John Schneider.
“It’s not going to be a 15 or 30-second apology and say, ‘OK, I did my part,’ ” the manager told reporters Tuesday. “There’s going to be continued work with the resources we do have to try to show that he’s understanding that he made a mistake.”
“We’re going to continue to make the Rogers Center a very welcoming place for everyone to come to,” he added. “It doesn’t reflect our views as an organization.”
Never. Apologize. It can never help you and you shouldn’t for simply expressing and opinion, especially a completely non-controversial opinion that is literally shared by millions of people. And this manager is an asshole.
“We’re going to continue to make the Rogers Center a very welcoming place for everyone to come to
All this because he doesn’t want to drink Bud Light?
I thought this was over the mockery of the Catholic faith and the nuns in drag being given a community award by the Dodgers?
AFAIK, Bass is in trouble just because he shared a post supportive of the Bud Light and Target boycotts.
Ah..well then multiple things going on then. What a clusterfuck
“New: Hunter Biden’s lawyers have told DOJ that if he’s charged with owning a gun as a drug user (which is illegal), they will argue the ban is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment”
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1664267194308472832
I’m gonna need some popcorn.
I kinda like it.
Not the Bee.
Your terms are acceptable.
That was my thought. It is a win-win.
So that is why ATF came out clarifying their marijuana stance and gun ownership.
Bullies
North Face has so far refused to pander to the bigots and has stood beside the LGBTQ+ community. “We recognize the opportunity our brand has to shape the future of the outdoors and we want that future to be a more accepting and loving place,” the company wrote in a comment on its Pride post.
I hope North Face stays steadfast, and that other companies follow its lead. Certainly brands need to have a plan in place for what happens when the rightwing mob comes for them. Because the mob will come for them: what’s happening right now isn’t just a bunch of bigots getting angry; it’s a coordinated intimidation campaign. I don’t think this can be stressed enough. The same people who go on about free speech are actively trying to shut others up. The people obsessed with cancel culture are trying to cancel anyone who isn’t like them.
Now do left wing “shareholder activists” attacking oil companies and firearms manufacturers and anybody else they disapprove of.
We know it can’t be spontaneous because everything we do is carefully coordinated in secret!
Sounds like they have the transsexual groomer outdoorsman market cornered. Now, can they manage with 0.1 percent of the population even considering them before they buy?
I actually think that North Face does know its customer base. Lots of pretend outdoorsy people who think the “outdoors” is what you go through from the coffee shop to their car.
The woke pretenders are the ones who buy their overpriced crap. So go for it.
All the real outdoors people I know shop at Fleet Farm. They wear the same stuff the farmers and the construction guys.
Maybe, but I have a NF parka that’s 25 years old and has been bomb proof.
I just hope Kuhl doesn’t go woke.
Old NF gear was gear, then it became a fashion brand.
Yeah, if your NF thing is 25 years old, you’re not their customer base. They’re only thinking about who might be buying multiple products fairly frequently.
No argument on the bomb-proofness of gear, though.
when the rightwing mob comes for them. Because the mob will come for them: what’s happening right now isn’t just a bunch of bigots getting angry; it’s a coordinated intimidation campaign
Boycotts are terrorism.
Oh how droll.
I guess “Pride community” is the latest transmutation of language in the service of obfuscation.
Maybe it has been out there for a long time, but I had not picked up on it.
Well. Three editions left. Deadline for the first is tomorrow. Should be fairly sorted for it.
I have 10 days of employment left at the newspaper. Resigning was a tremendously good idea/I am also not great at managing myself.
Yesterday was a GP visit. I made a fun video of the tremors I was going through in the office. My reaction is remarkable, either in my bravery/composure or complete lack of giving a shit/’I’m just used to it’ acceptance.
At the risk of an Aleppo moment – What is a GP?
General Practitioner. Often the least useful of the medical professionals.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Not state religion:
To make a point, someone should burn the American flag in the same manner and see if it illicit the same response.
Er, thought this was them jumping on the ‘hate crime of the century’ with the tiny pride flag set on fire.
Just don’t be “proud” of the wrong things.
My authentic self loves guns and porn. This is not going to be a problem, is it?
They really left the door open with that statement “free to be their authentic self” to really tie now the FedGov to promoting dudes who dress up as chicks to get kids to sit in their laps while reading books about sucking dick.
Lol.
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1663945960546861065
The only thing that would be better was if the driver had been tiktok’ing herself singing that song, at that moment.
Well now there is a challenge for some clever meme makers
Who said we dont have flying cars?
From the FAA: Email #4 on the day on Pride Month
“This year’s theme for 2023 Pride Month will focus on inclusion, visibility, and allyship.” All will be hammered into the workforce via FAA Pride Events 2023.
Memorial Day message? “Rollin’ With Captain Nolen: Here Comes Summer”.
At least its all out in the open now.
Yesterday, I watched a MSNBC Business Channel “explainer” about Porsche’s involvement in synfuel development. Big surprise, Porsche have a vested interest in the continued existence of fuels suitable for use in internal combustion engines. Of course, they (the producers of the video) made certain to emphasize the counterproductive and ultimately pointless nature of resistance to the inevitable march of (electrified) progress. Synfuels are a bad deal, because making them is energy intensive. I’m no chemist, but let’s say burning gasoline involves breaking up a complex molecule, and the process of breaking it up releases energy. If you then want to reassemble those complex molecules, you are going to have to put that energy back, plus some. Of course, the carbon fetishists demand the use of “carbon free” energy, which strangely enough costs more than conventional power plants. You have to use hundreds of square miles of solar panels, or vast forests of windmills. Nuclear power was nowhere to be seen.
Anyway, it was interesting, both for the info about Porsche and their admission of the inescapable need for liquid fuel (airplanes, cough cough), and the dogged efforts of the carbon fetishists to pretend they can successfully supply enough reliable electricity to make their fantasies work.
There was a NPR story about a company that is turning cellulose/ag byproducts into “bio-oil” and then injecting the bio-oil into disused oil wells.
Got to keep the tectonic plates lubed!
Like that scene in Band of Brothers where the mortar lands in their fox hole and didn’t detonate….
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1664279818689720321
Id need new pants and probably just abandon the vehicle altogether
If that was a missile it seemed kinda slow.