Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another fantastic day and the links!
FBI harbored Biden allegations since 2017, through impeachment, election, lawmaker says
NYC’s first ‘safe drug vending machine’
Commercial real estate crash still looming over US economy
Nationwide lifeguard shortage may cause hundreds of pools and beaches to close this summer
Lockdowns Prevented Few COVID-19 Deaths Compared to Typical Flu Season Study Reveals
Mass brawl erupts during protest outside LA school board vote on recognizing June as Pride month
Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Parental Rights Groups to ‘Hate Map’
Chris Christie enters 2024 Republican primary
Merck Sues Biden Administration Over ‘Sham’ Drug Price Negotiation Program
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Lockdowns Prevented Few COVID-19 Deaths Compared to Typical Flu Season Study Reveals”
Might not have prevented any.
I’d like to see a study (if possible) on the harm of the weakened immune system due to isolation and over avoidance of germs from the lockdowns.
I strongly suspect it would be pretty much impossible to tease out because the same folks who likely went overboard with it (or did it to their kids) also did the vax, which has its own screwing with the immune system effect — but I still strongly suspect there’s a factor there.
No one is willing to pay for the autopsy.
I didn’t realize that the Covid shots also screwed up fertility / conception as well. Which sucks.
Yup, my wife is pivoting to providing fertility services at her clinic, huge market opportunity. (Sadly)
And given Gates and company — at this point, I lean towards “feature, not bug” to explain that. If most of the elites “vax shots” don’t turn out to be saline, I’m going to be very surprised. The sheer hatred of the rest of humanity they’ve displayed and the ripping of the mask on how they’ll force the rest of us into open air prisons *cough* 15 minute cities makes you have to seriously consider that these things are fully intentional.
“Mass brawl erupts during protest outside LA school board vote on recognizing June as Pride month”
I expect recognizing November as Gluttony would be mostly peaceful.
You read this yesterday too, huh? I thought it was pretty on point.
I haven’t but I’ll go look now.
I’m looking forward to Lust Month.
When I saw that, I had a vision of huge grins on the shadowy elites pushing this crap. This kind of chaos is straight out of the playbook.
Yep. They took the bait.
it’s fascinating, I hope we see more of this. I expect them to arrest these terrorists.
Huh… Banjos covering baseball this morning… didn’t see that coming!
Morning, Banjos and the rest of ya reprobates.
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Yup, NPR did a story about this awful new hate group.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180581882/a-group-claiming-to-protect-parents-rights-in-public-schools-is-labeled-as-extre
They must be getting traction because they’re getting the right enemies.
If we didn’t have a clear two-tier justice system, a mass of libel suits seems appropriate here. SPLC is given undue credence, there’s actual consequences to their naming folks a hate group and they should be held to account if they can’t prove it.
LOL
It is amazing that two people can see the same thing and describe it in completely opposite terms.
I wish it was amazing. From what I’ve seen, it’s commonplace.
“Far-Left Group Puts Moms for Liberty on Map With KKK Chapters”
Typical, just typical.
So a hate group adds to the list of groups it hates.
“Everyone I disagree with is Hitler” is the watchword of the decade.
He’s going to displace a lot of attention from the other candidates.
He has got a head start on reaching critical mass with his campaign, I expect.
The gravity of the situation demands it.
I expect he will merit weighty consideration.
I donut think he has a chance.
He’s a heavy hitter! He’ll gobble up his opponents like donuts in the break room.
He is really going to shake up the stage and tip the scales
*mass narrowed gaze*
You’re punning your own narrow gaze?
This guy puns.
In a sane world, when the sitting VP comments that he got a prosecutor looking into a company his son was mysteriously on the board of fired on video, the Feds would have started looking into it. 2017, nothing… they’ve been sitting on stuff much, much longer.
The FBI is the DNC what the Gestapo was to the National Socialist Party or the NKVD to the Bolsheviks – their enforcement arm.
1) Trade association complains there’s not enough of its members. (Shock)
2) Alternately, maybe just put up signs that you’re responsible for yourself or your kids and just let people deal?
Alternate thought 3 — maybe with the obesity epidemic (and yes, I need to get back to a walking regimen — glass house, stones), no one wants the job where they might have to wrestle a 300+ pound person through the surf / out of the deep end. Can’t blame them.
Can 300 pound people even sink?
I thought enough to drown at least. Maybe not all the way to the bottom. Not something I’ve studied (where’s Tres? If anyone would know about heft in swimwear….)
How about teenagers who’d rather stay at home playing video games than get a job?
Eh, a lot of it is municipalities not wanting to pay the going rates for teenage labor ($15+/hr)
Tucker: I’m saying it was aliens.
Yeah, he kind of lost me there. We’ve had more than a fair share of “whistleblowers” who were just nut jobs over the years — plus there’s always the “circuses” part of panem et circenses (this sort of distraction is a good misdirection after all), I’d want to see some documents / hard evidence before I gave it enough credence to report on it if I were a journalist, not just some guy’s word.
Poisoning the well
Angleton wept.
I thought it was an interesting point. Either we do have evidence or we don’t. The fact that no media person mentioned it does suggest that media is controlled. He burned enough people i once respected that i chuckled more than once.
You start with one whistleblower and dig from there. Sometimes you strike oil, sometimes you don’t. But you don’t know if you don’t start.
Regarding the Tucker thing — I really think the clip of Senator Graham and “best money we ever spent” for killing lots of Russians was the part I wish most folks were talking about. Disgusting warhawk weasel…
#metoo
These people are sick.
blood-soaked monsters
Haven’t seen it, but I heard that he said it was obvious (or somesuch) that the Ukes blew up the dam, which is in Russian occupied territory. My question if it was the Ukes is “How?”
The Russians have their own reasons for blowing up the dam, namely, to make the downstream part of the river harder to cross. Was it the Ukes or the Russians? I have no clue. But I certainly don’t believe either of them when they point the finger at the other.
I thought Russia was blaming terrorists and not Ukraine specifically.
Russians – we have been fortifying and expecting attack across this river. Of course we wouldn’t blow up a dam to make it harder to cross!
Ukes – We want to retake our territory, so of course we blew up the dam that will flood our people out and make it harder for us to counterattack.
Sometime shared some lake level information indicating water levels rose to the highest in years just before the dam was blown, and allegedly the Russians ‘control’ the water levels. Dunno if true or if other factors might have contributed to higher than normal water levels. Off sometime did want to do some damage, either side night have waited for the water levels to go up before acting. So not the smoking gun some might think.
The difference between gross negligence and intentional act.
The Russians control the dam, so, yes, they control the water level. There’s no “allegedly” to it. They can run the spillways to raise or lower the water level. Supposedly, they actually let the water overtop the dam at one point, which I gather is a very, very bad idea.
Now, if the likely counteroffensive routes are upstream, they would want to raise the water level behind the dam. If they are downstream, they would want to raise the water level there.
The Ukes, vice versa.
The article kind of brushes it over as “headwinds” that are contributing but not the main factor… but I can’t help but think that hybrid/remote work is a bigger part of this than they want to admit. If you’ve proven you can do the job remote, why would you want to suffer the commute again? (I know I don’t). And that cascades to hollowing out the city centers if all those banking / tech / whatnot jobs that are easily remote stay away.
Add in the crime policies of most urban areas and the push to online retailing over the last couple of decades (made worse by “everyone hide in your rabbit holes” of the pandemic) and I’m actually surprised there’s a commercial district left in most places.
The other portion of the CRE crash is that it will gut city budgets (at least here in OH), as remote workers no longer pay city income tax to the city the office is in if they’re fully remote. It’s been a big complaint here from CLE about how this is “gutting” their budget.
Because cutting unneeded services (as if they were actually spending tax revenue on services that benefit those paying, hah!) isn’t an option, I’m sure. Got to keep those sweet, sweet tax cattle in their pens!
Have the tried the NYC tactic of claiming taxes based on where your corporate office is located?
They tried that, and they got smacked down by the state courts. There have been several test cases about that, the only reason they were able to continue to grab the money for 2020 and part of 2021 was that the state legislature passed a bill allowing the localities to continue to collect the taxes due to the shutdowns. There are still cases about the legality of that wending through the court systems.
The CBD depends on captive clients.
Lots of that remote work is in Manila, New Delhi…
If you are able to do your job remote, than someone in India, China, where ever, can too. And cheaper. If you are a remote employee, you are essentially a temp.
I would be fighting to go back to an office if I wasn’t retired.
Not really, those people can get better jobs than mine.
If you are able to do your job remote, than someone in India, China, where ever, can too.
All they need is three plus decades of experience in my niche work space.
On days other than today the requirements for my job are high level english language fluency, an understanding of the business processes, the ability to supervise, the ability to troubleshoot via inductive and deductive reasoning, and an in-depth technical understanding of the products we support. Oh, and US Citizenship or permanant residency, with a requirement to reside in New York State.
I think it’s that last part that makes doing the job from Mumbai difficult.
Or a rewrite of the job requirements.
that would be a different job then wouldn’t it
Not quite true. While people in those countries can do my job (and I do have teammates both at this job and my last that are all over the world), there’s cultural issues, as well as language barriers that cause them to not do as well when supporting US based companies. There’s also quite a few companies that demand and require support from the same country they’re based in.
That’s leaving aside government contracts (both state, federal, and foreign).
Seems appropriate for a Banjos post:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1665270002067427329
Heh… I thought it was roadkill posed for humor at first.
Sorry for an early OT.
So Musk got (likely from the same Stanford researcher) all kinds of press about several inappropriate images of minors on Twitter. Wonder how much traction this will get as Meta plays ball with FedGov.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/instagram-vast-pedophile-network-4ab7189?st=olxbukqf5nry7oi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wouldn’t put it past the Feds to facilitate the child porn network and then use it to assert control over the platform.
The platform… the internet as a whole (there was that whole Digital Patriot Act they tried to sneak in early this year? last year?).. yeah, it would not surprise me at all given the obvious desired result is “more control over speech”.
The internet, where men are boys, the women are boys, and the boys are FBI agents!
GIRL = Guy In Real Life was learned early in the 90s
Yeah, “total control” is the only way you’re going to stop any of this.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/06/the-aoc-parody-account-is-back-from-the-dead-n2624142
and
are gold that should sting. Funny how these socialist champions of the people accumulate wealth and all being “public servants”….
NYC’s first ‘safe drug vending machine’ – I mean drug vending machines are libertarianism at its purest
Except the machine doesn’t give out drugs, just drug accessories.
Subsidized by taxpayers, not very libertarian.
the concept is sound though
“‘Virgin birth’ is recorded in a crocodile for the first time after a female gives birth in Costa Rica – despite living ALONE for 16 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12169003/Virgin-birth-Female-crocodile-gives-birth-Costa-Rica-despite-living-16-years.html
Dinosaur Jesus
If I recall old dusty bio lessons at some level through my schooling (or just reading crap as I am wont to do) — there’s more than one species that can sequester sperm for much longer than you’d expect for later fertilization. I wasn’t aware of crocodiles being one of them… but this would imply either there’s something like that… or they just don’t know about the Crocodile Ninja Boyfriend she has. He’s just that damned good.
Of course — someone with appropriate powers should link in a “Life…. finds a way” Jeff Goldblum meme pic here. It is crying out for it.
Reptiles are prone to parthenogenesis if there is no alternative.
Should be easy to prove with a genetic test.
I for one, welcome Crocodile Jesus into my heart.
I don’t think I want to attend Crocodile Jesus Mass, though… I’d strongly expect more of a “This is your body, this is your blood” eucharistic prayer.
Klingon Catholicism.
Apparently MacBeth is better in the original Klingon.
Obligatory
‘Orning ‘Ordles… the “at least I didn’t suck as much as yesterday edition” (didn’t get around to posting it… but double chump, bleah.)
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At least this didn’t suck
Nationwide lifeguard shortage may cause hundreds of pools and beaches to close this summer – I went to beaches without lifeguards many a times, you can use it just as well as one with lifeguards and if you die it’s your own damn fault
As it should be.
My son spent the last two summers lifeguarding and has lots of stories. Rescuing little kids, then having to go look for the parents was a common theme. They could typically be found at the hotel bar or behind a sand dune smoking pot.
Tucker said what I was thinking about the sabotaged dam. Seems odd the Russians would blow up a dam they control, that drives a hydro plant they get electricity from, and a reservoir that supplies Crimea with fresh water.
Peter Zeihan said it was to delay the ukrainian offensive and to starve agriculture of irrigation water. but he’s been so reliably wrong and pro-ukraine it’s hard to take him seriously.
To zeihan it’s obvious that the russians did it because the dam is in russian-controlled territory. but I don’t know.
Except it flooded the east side of the river – where the Russians were situated and drained the river upstream, making it easier to cross if a Ukrainian offensive ever really happens.
people playing the propaganda game conveniently omit any information that detracts from their conclusion.
It’s not like Kiev has threatened to blow up the dam or anything like that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221229064018/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/
There’s a big difference between punching holes in a floodgate and dropping a big chunk of a dam. It takes a lot of explosives to do the latter.
Whodunnit? No clue. Both sides could have reasons. It would be a lot easier for the Russians. The Ukes might have more to gain, depending on whether they want to cross upstream or downstream of the dam
The media is talking about this instead of the Ukrainian losses on their offensive so far. So success in this PR driven war.
In a few months Seymour Hersh will write the real story and the Administration will call it disinformation.
Just saying that to my knowledge only one side has threatened to destroy the dam.
Kind of like Biden promising to rid himself of that pesky NordStream pipeline using whatever it takes, but it was definitely the Russians whodunit.
I was a little puzzled at the claim that “we know” it was Ukraine who destroyed Nordstream.
We do?
ukrainians trained and supplied by the us navy
But really the U.S. Navy.
They identify as Ukrainian.
“We are all Ukrainians now.”
I think I read that on Twitter.
I have no connection to the Kievian Rus.
I’m having a hard time seeing why either side would do it at this time. Maybe it was unintentional. It wouldn’t shock me if the Russians were wiring it up with explosives in case it was needed later, and there was an accident.
Still some explosions going on well after the dam ruptured which has some people speculating that it was anti-submarine mines floated down the river.
Do the Ukes have access upstream within a reasonable range?
Sounds like another possible accidental cause. If they weren’t anchored properly, more could have been knocked lose from the effects of the breach.
Douglas Macgregor thinks it could have just been an internal turbine failure from earlier artillery damage and bad maintenance.
https://www.youtube.com/live/MkZXBMKaHAo?feature=share
From the dailymail sidebar
Heather Graham, 53, shows off her incredible bikini body in a white two-piece as she frolics on the beach in Jamaica in new Instagram snaps
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12167805/Heather-Graham-53-shows-incredible-bikini-body-white-two-piece.html
liz hurley looked better at 53
Heather Graham
Why do I picture this?
https://youtu.be/TEvsNDK6uW4?t=98
Clip has absolutely everything.
Useless women PCs who couldn’t overpower a 10-year old.
Black women screaming STAAHP!
Bespectacled mystery meat male copper who’d never have passed the height/weight/would-I-chance-you-at-0100-in-a-back-alley requirements of the Bad Old Days.
https://twitter.com/St1Station/status/1664275205970366464
The Thin Blue Line reboot without Rowan Atkinson isn’t all that funny.
Hiring based on diversity can create a competency crisis?
Unfortunately a good number of the cishet white males have become pussified
Please, people. Take camera videos in landscape, not portrait, format. You know, like every movie or TV show you’ve ever watched.
Why not ask them to use real cameras instead of phones? The natural grip on a phone ends up in portrait.
I’m with Homple. And I think the natural grip is landscape.
? No, that grip makes no sense and renders it more difficult to either interact with the phone or hold it to your ear.
Why are you holding a phone to your ear while taking video?
It’s just (a little) easier for me to hold a phone with my finger and thumb horizontal (landscape) than vertical (portrait). YMMV.
The phone to ear part of ergonomics and natural way of holding the phone was part of the overall use case. Not the aberrant misuse of videoing. And I’m still not figuring out how you’re holding the darn thing with your description. It sounds like it would just fall out of your hand.
Something like this:
https://www.dreamstime.com/photo-male-hand-holding-smartphone-surrounding-landscape-screen-photo-male-hand-holding-smartphone-image116749843
Have you really never held a phone so you can watch a landscape video?
I don’t watch videos on phones. Not enough screen real estate, no precise controls, and not as many ad-blocking options.
And that looks like you’re going to drop the thing in 5… 4… 3…
Why are you videoing your ear?
That is the question.
I can only assume it has something to do with Onlyfans.
There are a ton of cops there and they can’t seem to control what is essentially a few people, the comment mentions the glasses guy, which fair enough, he seems totally useless, but the female chips don’t seem to be doing much better. They all need to lift more.
I am all for police reform, but at that point, get your damn flashlight out and start smaking people who are trying to wade in. And WTF is up with that squirt walking around doing nothing? Get in there and help, you little shit.
“NYC Mayor Eric Adams considers housing migrants at Gracie Mansion”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/mayor-eric-adams-wants-to-house-migrants-in-gracie-mansion/
LOL
I don’t find it all that amusing given that they’ll end up drestroying the building. It’s a nice building, and doesn’t deserve the abuse.
If they haven’t filed for asylum at the closest US Embassy / Consulate before crossing the border, all they should get is an immediate trip right back to their country of origin. No, I don’t believe most (almost all) of them are legitimate asylum seekers (and I don’t frankly care… if they go through several countries first, they sure as hell aren’t fleeing persecution). No, it isn’t optimal since we still pay for the travel back.. but I suspect it is better in the long run.
Immigration reform should strictly be about making it easier / cheaper to be properly vetted and to follow the legal process (and/or work visas for migratory labor that isn’t really seeking citizenship that we want in… though I really don’t like the exploitation of foreign labor that’s been done with that — making it so they can walk off the jobs like citizens might help, though). High walls, wide gate, yadda yadda.
Sorry for the stock rant… but it just screams out to me that NYC should just be shipping them the hell out, not looking to house them by forcing businesses to take them into their property. Maddening.
I am most disgusted at the fact that I am paying for their room and board, no questions asked, for however many years it takes to maybe have a judge deny their bogus “asylum” cases.
I’ve reached the opinion that a person gets one forgiveness. That is, if they enter illegally once, they get shipped back home and are barred from immigrating or applying for asylum. If they reenter illegally, they should be shot as an invading alien.
That way, the incentive is really stilted towards following the legitimate processes.
in 2021 I caught a twitter suspension for saying this.
In unrelated news, NYC Mayor Eric Adams has announced that he is departing for a vacation in Jamaica for an undetermined length of time.
Eh…since I think there is always a nefarious undertone to politicians, he recently floated the idea that private citizens should house them. This is his ‘I walk the walk’ moment before he demands the people of New York City to open their homes up.
I would love to watch him try that.
There isn’t enough popcorn in the world.
There is space for 13 families in this mansion, Comrade Adams.
A New CEO Says Employees Can’t Work Remotely After All, and They Revolt
After insurer Farmers Group told staff last year they would be remote, some sold cars or moved to new cities
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-ceo-says-employees-cant-work-remotely-after-all-and-they-revolt-81135399?st=o3sx7f7teba9njw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m rather curious how this is going to shake out. First, it’s my industry, but second I really do wonder how much control the workers will be able exert. It’s perfectly within the employer’s rights to do, but given the prior assurances of the company it’s breach of trust.
My industry too. My company already has plenty of remote workers. I am counting on the fact that I can do so as well.
OT-
Ali’s blood alcohol content was .158 two hours after the crash, nearly two times the legal limit.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/nyc-driver-mahbub-ali-was-drinking-all-day-had-bac-twice-legal-limit-in-fatal-crash-prosecutors/
Saw that. Was unsurprised.
I did not live anywhere near an office so I would have been exempted from the policy, but about a year ago ‘return to office’ for people who live near an office was talked about for my department in a large, national company with office locations in a couple dozen cities.
That talk lasted all of about 24 hours before they dropped it, reversed course and said the department would remain as is, but you are welcome to go to offices if you like.
Our department was by its nature already widely spread across the country with managers and employees frequently living hundreds/thousands of miles apart.
Same for my company and work. It’s silly for execs to get a hair up about remote work when it’s already remote workgroups.
Yeah — that was the reaction in my engineering group as a whole. We’re very distributed, almost no one works with anyone else in the same state (and/or country) to make it worth going into an office. Boss-of-my-boss said flat out that almost none of us were affected by the letter of the edict, and anyone who was, he wasn’t going to push it.
Interesting note (for our company at least), the only sites they were putting their foot down about it were ones the company owns instead of leases. The immediate conjecture is that there’s a “we’ll rollback your tax breaks” type coercion from the municipalities driving it.
Interesting.
That seems to be the case at my company, too. Fortunately I live several states away from that office.
We’re both vacating leased and (trying to) sell owned space
‘for people who live near an office’
Time to find a new residence.
In my case we had already moved years before ‘work from home’ was a thing. After 8 years there is no “come into the office or else” for me.
I never even applied to non-remote positions when my first position in this company was eliminated.
When the company finds out in a matter of weeks how much more they have to spend to have an in-the-office-all-the-time staff, they will quietly change the policy.
And the next guy will look at lost productivity, and bring everyone back.
Or can them for people in Malaysia.
Since this isn’t panning out for her, maybe she’ll look into that $10k offer from OMWC?
How dare you?!
Maybe she will perform a self-extinction.
Naaah she’ll just Millerite it.
I’ve said this here before, but the quote was (paraphrasing) that we would all die if we didn’t do something in five years, not that we would all die in five years.
On the bright side, once the five years has passed we are beyond the tipping point, so we can do anything we want.
Rowan Atkinson on free speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
“A “queer, Yiddish, anarchist, vegan” coffee shop in Glasgow, Scotland has announced it will be closing due to financial difficulty.
The cafe allowed customers to pay whatever they wanted down to $0.”
https://twitter.com/ThePublicaNow/status/1666192281227911182
I prefer my coffee from a transgender crossfitter.
Down to zero dollars eh? However did they go out of business?
The question remains “Who lent money to this asshat and his retarded business?”
His mum.
Ur mum.
I facebooked your mum!
(I saw that on a bumper sticker.)
Deluded parents or other anarchists
Transgender Crossfitter? I’m pretty sure I was served by that dude Monday morning.
Aside – if you ran a coffee shop in a high-traffic business area, why in the world would you open for business at 8:00am or even later? No wonder Dunkin Donuts is kicking your ass…
Yeah, Starbucks opens at 5:30, which is the time that commutes start. If you need it earlier, Love’s truckstop opens earlier.
“9-5 salaryman wage slaves are not our customers!”
“But the best risotto in the world is not Italian at all, but Swiss, according to analysis from food encyclopaedia Taste Atlas.
Readers of the online food guide voted the Swiss saffron risotto as the best in the world.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12165627/The-best-risotto-world-NOT-Italy-according-food-experts.html
That’s cuckoo.
Who cares what the readers of a publication I’ve never heard of think regarding the various merits of long-cooked rice?
what do they think is the best pizza or the beast barbecue?
Well, If you’re not barbecueing beasts, you’re doing something wrong.
We briefly had a legit fine dining restaurant in town. Their uni risotto was amazeballs.
Eh, when I was in Italy the risotto we had did not impress, so I could believe it. Anyway some Swiss are basically Italian, so no biggie.
Dan Jackson
@northumbriana
I love this: Bill Millin recalling how he played the pipes on #DDay, and because his CO Lord Lovat was “a bit of a critic” that helped him to focus on his piping …
https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/1269218221393133568
Typical MSFT behavior.
Microsoft has no shame: Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search with a fake AI answer
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23736289/microsoft-bing-chrome-search-fake-ai-chatbot
Ah, rage hating against M$. It feels like old times.
I don’t see any such thing when I perform that such but ok then.
or, “search”
I tried it, it shows an ad at the top for Edge, but the first response is to the google chrome download page, and everything else is pointed at google/chrome. Sounds like BS to me.
From the article – MSFT runs “experiments” so it is possible only a limited number of searches returned this.
Also Verge contacted them – so it’s MSFT they may have ended this “experiment” before publication.
I really despise how everything is moving to just being a thin skin above a Chromium based browser — because even if it is supposedly “Open Source” I trust something developed by the folks who rely on ad revenue, harvesting your private information and tracking your every move on the internet about as much as I can throw it.
I probably should go back to lynx, I know. But certainly Chrome itself and Edge/Bing can go die in a fire. Firefox worries me given their trends… not much else out there.
I really hate the growing trend to do everything as a web app. The benefit is that it’s easier to develop, and will run anywhere. The downside is that you add at least two levels of potential compatibility issues, make it harder to support, and make it harder to release fixes (as it’s server based, so any changes effect all users).
I disagree with the “will run anywhere” assertion.
Having has to support applications with web front ends, we all too often end up with stiuations where “It will run only in Edge set to IE mode with these specific security settings enabled” or “It doesn’t render in Chrome, please use a different browser” or “The supported SSL ciphers no longer match those the browser accepts, upgrade already! Sigh, if you insist on persisting, you’ll need another reverse proxy in front of the reverse proxy.”
Oh it will “run anywhere”, if they have the proper browser and network configuration, those would be two levels of compatibility issues that I mentioned.
Company I work at now is nearly full web based. One of the applications says it will only run in Chrome or Edge (and provides supported version numbers for a minimum). The issue is that some customers took them at their word and were trying to use Android/iOS/ChromeOS low end systems to try to run it, and ran into issues. They’ve since added some memory/processor requirements as well.
Wait, they’re doing the processing in the browser app?
That’s just stupid. At least the stuff I had to support offloaded that to an appserver or the DB, where we could
thow a lot of resources at it.do proper perfromance tuningEncrypted audio streams need to be decoded at the endpoint.
Like I said, stupid to do it in a browser app.
If you want something secure, a browser is the last place you should put it.
I don’t get the trend at all — but I’m also the type that thinks IMAP is stupid in most cases (multiple devices accessing when you want consistent mailboxes, I’ll grant) and keeps his mail-stand-alone-client using POP3 (and HTML off, thank you very much). Be a lot harder to spread viruses and phish attempts if folks did that.
Now can I interest you in a good deal on an onion for your belt while I’m yelling at the clouds?
You’ve been suckered in by that newfangled onion fad.
*shakes head*
commies can’t meme part 45633677
https://twitter.com/Zarfey_/status/1666389931223142400
“your last saved meme is your moral philosophy”
All hail Lord Cat Meme, philosopher extraordinaire.
I have no saved memes. They are all mere ephemeral amusements. Jokes in a comedy set.
I can haz cheeseburger?
Worse than usual.
Too wordy.
Always. Leftists have to justify their beliefs to themselves with a wall of text.
New favorite twitter reply just dropped
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1653747916467499008
Good old Nathan J Robinson, commie retard for the new generation.
From further down:
https://twitter.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1653737853334048769
Nationwide lifeguard shortage may cause hundreds of pools and beaches to close this summer
Kids these days don’t want to work.
Commercial real estate crash still looming over US economy
Just like the impending and requisite “correction” in residential real estate.
Cold and highway speeds absolutely wreck havoc with our EV utopia. It’s not going to stop the politics and the long term politically mandated demise of ICE, however.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-ford-f-150-lightning-xlt-yearlong-review-arrival-range-anxiety/
Driving an EV at 80mph is an effective way to destroy any range prediction.
My Tesla Model 3 is initially wildly optimistic, but usually fairly close to accurately predicting destination charge level.
But getting a fully charged car and having something a bit over 300 miles of range is absolute BS under any kind of normal usage and driving.
But if I punch in my parent’s house in the map and follow the route 120 miles a way it will be almost spot on arrival state of charge. Note I did not say “miles remaining” at destination.
235 miles (310 rated at the time) is my farthest no-charge trip of all – had more juice available just got where I was going.
Getting 300 miles of range on the highway is BS even in ideal weather.
To some degree it is a ‘Everything not Tesla is 5 years behind’
We made multiple winter trips in our less efficient EV over the winter between 300 to 650 miles in a day. Temps ranging from 10F to 35F
Hit the same charging stops as we always do.
Trips took all of about 15m longer overall vs summer.
Driving 10 over the 75-mph limit on US-10 for the 15 miles back to grandma’s consumed 49 miles of indicated range.
That’s not a winter problem, that’s a drag problem.
Not surprising that someone would lose so much indicated range when its rated at (roughly) 60MPH at 70F with no climate control.
He’s going 85 in presumably 25F weather.
It would use at least 70% more energy in such conditions before you add the heater (which would add another 1-4% usage)
Even without weather it would use at least 55% more energy
Do you have the heat pump or the PTC heater?
Cold, rain (more friction) and cabin heat drop my PTC heater equipped Model 3 like a rock. It’s not an issue for my use case, however.
Both
AWD 3 with PTC
Performance Y with heat pump
Compared to the PTC the heat pump is amazing in 20-40F weather. Its negligible impact.
Below 14F they are effectively the same consumption but I’ve not had the chance yet to do a road trip below 14F.
We were going to travel when it was 0F (400 miles) but blowing snow kept us home.
On our longest, coldest trip we did take (630 miles) we began the day at 15F and was running about 450 wh/mi at 70%
The crosswinds, preconditioning, and performance wheels are what really kill range – but since we always stop in the same chargers, whether we get 350wh/mil or 450wh/mi is kinda immaterial.
I should have taken the trade-in offer from Carmax on the 3. Bought the Y at the very end of the used Tesla bull market
how many turtles did they save though?
And did they oop?
Too many EV fans sound like hobbyists. “All you have to do is…”
EV’s will sell themselves once the typical full-charge range is 1,500 miles. Because if your range degrades to half that you still have a very practical appliance. Until then EV’s are a niche product.
The other large problem with EV’s is people like Musk are putting far far far too much data collection into the damn things. That’s a lot of overhead the end user pays for that provide almost no discernible benefit to the end user (and is probably of exaggerated benefit to the OEM).
You are doing a 1000 mile drive
How long in a gas car to do that drive.
How long in the real world where people with gas cars don’t simply fill up and drive 400 mile straight non-stop?
How long do you think it would take a person to do the same trip in a long range (300 miles advertised) EV with a good quality charge network (Tesla’s network as it is now has 98% of lower 48 well covered)
How much of that time do you think is spent charging?
The key to a road trip is not range in the battery, but quality of the charging network.
When’s the last time you hit the road? If I’ve got to get to point B, there are only pauses for fuel and restroom.
And the how long for the 1k depends on the roads and traffic along the route.
The last time I hit the road for over 200 miles was the past weekend – Saturday (300 miles there) and Sunday (340 miles back – we started the return trip from a different spot)
This Friday I’m doing 400 miles there, the 400 miles back will be about a week later.
It is my understanding that regardless of what people say, they stop more often and for longer duration than they actually think they do.
Your understanding is wrong.
Its pretty well established that people are very bad at estimating things
Especially things they’ve given very little consideration to
So I’d wager you’re overestimating the amount of stoppages people take.
All I know is that I can put 20 gallons of gas in my truck in under 5 minutes.
Charging an EV from “empty” to “full” cannot be done in the equivalent time.
What @kinnath said. I love to roadtrip. I did Kansas City to Twin Falls, ID in one 26-hour shot. If I had to charge every 250 miles it would have driven me batshit crazy and I’d probably never roadtrip agai— Oh, wait.
Yep. I do long road trips, like 500 miles a day for a week, and I want to go, not hang around a truck stop for 2 hours. Plus, on back roads, how often do you see a Tesla charger at your mom and pop Gas and Smokes?
Researchers have concluded that lockdowns should be “rejected out of hand” to control future pandemics as they failed to significantly reduce deaths.
Experts from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University claim that measures taken to curb COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing severe economic and social costs.
So the next time the WHO releases a virus we are going to remember this, right?
Mr. Bean disses EVs
“As an environmentalist once said to me, if you really need a car, buy an old one and use it as little as possible.”
But, then I would look poor!
-1 Cash for Clunkers
I believe “Sod off, swampy” is the classical response.
Far-Left Group Puts Moms for Liberty on Map With KKK Chapters
If only these moms demanded action.
Apparently they are not the right kinda of MAD
Bow-chicka-bow-bow
Pornhub “hardest” hit.
Chris Christie enters 2024 Republican primary
Unserious is as unserious does.
A remarkable concept for a devotional sculpture: the Child Jesus in a ruff, as if a king of Spain tired with the weight of the world like the orb in his hand. 16th-century, from the Monastery of St John of Jerusalem, Zamora, now in the diocesan museum.
https://twitter.com/BeardyHowse/status/1666202825511034882
Former Fox News host and Daily Caller Co-Founder Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter broadcast reached nine million views in its first two hours, demolishing his old employer’s ratings in the same time slot the previous day.
FNC is committing suicide.
Young Murdoch’s a lib or at best a country club conservative and old Murdoch’s apparently lost his mind. They were always controlled opposition anyway.
Sort of. If their main advertisers like Pfizer were refusing to pay money for the primetime slot before, then Carlson wasn’t pulling in the ad dollars.
Now that he’s gone, if Pfizer et al are willing to subsidize their narrative laundering operation, Fox may actually be more profitable.
The best thing that can happen is companies like BlackRock to go bankrupt so that they cannot continue to underwrite the insanity.
My theory on why pharma spends vast sums of money on TV ads directed to people who can’t even buy their product because their product is a prescription drug:
They are buying leverage and narrative control. So, yeah, I can easily see pharma saying “Get him off the air or we wreck your revenue model”.
it’s certainly cheaper than just buying a media company outright.
In the bin
Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps, will depart the company.
“I met with Chris and he will be leaving CNN,” David Zaslav, the chief executive of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, told CNN employees at the start of the network’s daily editorial call Wednesday.
Licht’s departure, which came days after a devastating 15,000-word profile in The Atlantic, capped a tumultuous year for CNN, marked by layoffs, historically low ratings, and rock-bottom employee morale.
In the wake of The Atlantic article, Licht apologized to staffers Monday, telling the global news organization in a somber tone that he did not recognize himself when reading portions of the story and that he was sorry for having distracted from the newsroom’s work.
I haven’t been following this very closely, and I definitely did not read the Atlantic article, but apparently it wasn’t a good fit.
From following the links, one might think he got in trouble for having Trump on.
Not so much for having him on, it would’ve been viewed as just fine if he’d performed poorly, but for not making him look like a fool. It likely was one of the factors that was considered.
“At the forefront of this mobilization is Moms for Liberty, a Florida-based group with vast connections to the GOP that this year the SPLC designated as an extremist group,” the report notes. “They can be spotted at school board meetings across the country wearing shirts and carrying signs that declare, ‘We do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT.’”
SPLC makes them sound good.
‘vast connections to the GOP’ sorta like the ‘vast right wing conspiracy in the media’
It is amazing to me that parents asserting their role in raising their children is now “controversial” and “MAGA supreme”.
Shouldn’t be. This was predicted years ago and the retorts were “You’re just paranoid. That would never happen.”
By the same token, it should be readily apparent by now that these same groups will happily send wrongthinkers to the camps. They hate you and want you dead.
It’s only a matter of time before they get the courage up.
The vaccine issue really allowed us to see exactly how our fellow Americans feel. Large swaths were okay with answering “send them to a special camp if they don’t comply” in surveys.
Don’t those sceince-denying gamma-minuses know that it takes a village to raise a child?
Had I just purchased this $85,779 truck, I’d be asking for my money back.
Haha, sucker.
Next time, do it with a snowmobile trailer.
trailers and snowmobiles are toxic masculinity and should be banned
No.
Doctor…
Public Health, Climate Justice, and Science Communication
In other words, a well-schooled idiot.
The replies….ya know, nothing is stopping you from standing up a charity and separating people from their money for your cause.
But how are you going to masturbate to the thought if it’s voluntary?
You also need a recycling program so they don;t end up polluting. And also some sort of community police to make sure people do not waste resources.
I searched for chrome one time, but the EPA has shut down all the plating shops.
Just say “alphabet people”.
QUILTBAG is so much easier.
I’mma “well akshially” this.
QUILTBAG was originally specifically created to distinguish between the good minority sexual orientations/gender states (Queer, Uncertain, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bi, Ace, Gay) and the bad ones which were PANZIES (Pedos, Necros, Zoos, Ephebees, and I forget the rest).
“Alphabet People” is about shifting the PANZIES into the QUILTBAG via the MOGAI.
Ooooh, google really doesn’t want people to know something:
“Queers” can fuck right off.
It doesn’t mean anything other than “lefty activist” anymore and it pisses me off that the MSM are trying desperately to “normalize” it.
I thought it was from Dan Savage.
I think the PANZIES (or something similar) may have been from him.
There’s also “pronoun people”, which captures a different set of aggressive nutters.
From the Twitters
How do these people function at all without a constant daddy figure threating to spank them.
Is this person thinking the AC units emit something other than heat and condensation? Or are they nannying about the indoor air of people who never asked their opinion?
They could fall on your head! People could die!
A: Someone that doesn’t understand what AC actually is/does
B: Someone that cannot function in society unless there is some sort of authority figure that has allowed them to do so
C: An idiot.
AC is good again?
I would have a miserable miserable life with no AC so fuck anyone who wants my AC
that is one headline right there
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1666272349610721280
and then there’s this
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1665839417037312000
Now that one I like.
These people are totally sane. Believe their reality.
Wow… This is just diabolical. Who knew that you don’t get something for nothing?
How I found out.
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/06/predatory-real-estate-company-victimized-1250-new-jerseyans-ag-says.html
What it is.
https://homeownerbenefit.com/?src=9
give free cash please.
I don’t know what to think about the UFO thing. As Tucker said, why wouldn’t this be the story of the century? But we keep hearing more and more about it.
I still think “Some evidence, please”.
Just something to corroborate.
His point wasn’t that it’s definitely happening, it’s that the media doesn’t give a care one way or another which serves to obscure the truth relative to the story whatever that may be and that that applies to other potentially critical information as well. That’s what I got from that part of his monologue anyway.
It’s been trotted out periodically for as long as I can remember.
It’s either a psy-op or a cult. Maybe both. But I’m with UCS: evidence or stfu.
Scantily clad ‘witches’ caught munching on deer carcass in bizarre security cam footage
Social media users speculated ‘carcass-eating ritual’ was either prank or satanic
https://www.foxnews.com/world/scantily-clad-witches-caught-munching-deer-carcass-bizarre-security-cam-footage
I assume this was covered?
Hawt
More than they were, yes.
Hear me out here: It was all choreographed and she’s (the filmer) in on it.
Hope they have some magical parasite repellent.
“Mask mandates, which most countries avoided in Spring 2020, reduced mortality by 18.7 per cent, particularly mandates in workplaces;”
Really?
“I’ll take ‘Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics’ for $1,000, Alex.”
Bud Light Dethroned as Top-Selling Beer Brand in U.S. After Boycott
Modelo Especial is now “the number one” beer in America, its U.S. distributor has said, after sales data showed it outsold longtime industry leader Bud Light in recent weeks.
I’m so happy I could cry.
Owned by InBev as well ironically enough but at least it isn’t complete pisswater.
No, they aren’t. IB had to divest Modelo for anti-trust reasons.
(A guy on my hockey team works for Bud)
Well good, I’ll buy some then. I like that stuff.
“Number 1” is hard to believe.
Either I don’t see it anywhere or it has escaped my attention. Never had it either way.
Budweiser and Grupo Modelo are owned by the same company.
Blackrock needs to push all brands to go woke so that the consumers have no choice
Modelo is owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev everywhere except the U.S., where it’s owned by the New York-based, world-dominating conglomerate Constellation Brands.
“Woman ‘first noticed coffee made by doctor tasted salty and spat it out before growing suspicious gloopy substance at the bottom of the cup was his semen’, court hears”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12169149/Woman-spat-coffee-doctor-growing-suspicious-semen-cup-court-hears.html
Our best and brightest.
Psychopaths are attracted to the medical field, just sayin’
And the doctor shot her with an AR-57 (complete with tiki torch attachment) and shrieked “this is MAGA country!”
GP, 55, accused of giving woman cups of coffee containing his own semen ‘suffers from medical condition which causes him to ejaculate while using the toilet’, court hears
I’m not seeing the connection as to why there is semen in the coffee.
‘suffers from medical condition which causes him to ejaculate while using the toilet’
As do all men who beat off on the toilet.
He’ll need to go with the Costanza defense.
Maybe he was trying to claim he just pissed in it?
New DirectX 12-to-Metal translation could bring a world of Windows games to macOS
CrossOver announces early, case-by-case support for Windows’ current gaming API.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/new-directx-12-to-metal-translation-could-bring-a-world-of-windows-games-to-macos/
Based on my brief and frustrating experience with Wine.
:”Could” = It won’t.
Coming soon, a progressives’ paradise
“This race was about a big vision of what’s possible for Denver — about a big dream for Denver,” Johnston told his supporters at his campaign watch party at Union Station downtown. “We can build a city that is big enough to keep all of us safe, to house all of us, to support all of us. That is our dream of Denver.”
——-
Voters ultimately chose Johnston, who was backed by millions of dollars from wealthy, out-of-state donors to shepherd Denver through its next chapter.
“Tonight, we write a new chapter,” Johnston said in his victory speech. “Tonight we start a chapter about a city that’s going to be big enough to care for all of us, to support all of us, to house all of us.”
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Most recently, Johnston was serving as CEO of Gary Community Ventures, a philanthropic organization focused on policies aimed at improving the lives of children and families across Colorado. Previously, Johnston worked as an education adviser for President Barack Obama and worked as a teacher and school principal.
Eminently qualified.
Prequel to that “escape from the bubble” series we had?
A straight white dude? That should be interesting.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the tune. Bowie is always the right way to start the day!
A CRE crash would be really bad for my business, but knock on wood there still seem to be plenty of projects ongoing. I think big cities are fucked (near term), but there seem to be a lot of companies moving ops into the burbs and rural areas.
I was a lifeguard/swimming instructor when I was a yute. If there’s a better summer job, I don’t know what it is.
Student loan deadbeats pocketed it and ran up even more debt
https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1666085492985856004
Ron Burgundy?
https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/disgraced-ex-news-anchor-frank-somerville-arrested-twice-in-one-night-in-california/
Scantily clad ‘witches’ caught munching on deer carcass in bizarre security cam footage
Social media users speculated ‘carcass-eating ritual’ was either prank or satanic
Sorority initiation?
Maybe they were just hungry.
It would explain the loincloths.
A CRE crash would be really bad for my business, but knock on wood there still seem to be plenty of projects ongoing. I think big cities are fucked (near term), but there seem to be a lot of companies moving ops into the burbs and rural areas.
I think they 50 to 100k cities are going to attract a lot of people
Just keep them city-slickers out of my county.
Truly
Just keep them city-slickers out of my county.
Exactly. This part of Idaho (Pocatello/Blackfoot/Idaho Falls is) a prime target area. Fortunately, I think a lot of people are afraid of Mormons, of which there are plenty. You don’t hear much about the transgender curriculum around here.
Modelo Especial is now “the number one” beer in America
Seriously? I don’t get around much anymore, but I can hardly remember seeing anybody drinking Modelo outside of a Mexcan restaurant.
Silly conspiracy theorists.
There is no Deep State
Working link
Andrew Miller, a 32-year-old Denver voter who cast his ballot Tuesday at the Harvard Gulch Recreation Center in south Denver, said he wasn’t a fan of either Johnston or Brough. He was hoping that a woman of color would be Denver’s next mayor.
Parody is dead.
A scandal-ridden government overseeing economic troubles and yet still maintaining substantial support? Why, this is totally unheard of in the West. Who could imagine such a thing?
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1666444383938330625
The Deep State disappeared your link, Tundra.
DEG swooped in for the assist.
Legendary 🔥
https://twitter.com/YALiberty/status/1666120262750810119
Down thread from that:
Elliot Page
The Atlantic article took him out.
CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html
new political compass meme
https://twitter.com/pjsempe/status/1666395780297510913
I’m lost. What are these no-class twits rambling on about?
Why does low class and high class not follow an axis?
And how do you fuck up AWFL?
DEG swooped in for the assist.
Junior needs to stay away from hotel kitchens.
I’m lost. What are these no-class twits rambling on about?
Who gives a shit?