SURVEILLANCE FEED
MAR-A-LAGO RESIDENCE
2:23 AM
HAT: Are you awake?
HAIR: I am now.
HAT: I can’t sleep.
HAIR: Have you tried?
HAT: Yes.
HAIR: I am not getting you a warm glass of milk.
HAT: Why not?
HAIR: You’re lactose intolerant, you know that. You shit yourself for half-a-day the last time you had a glass of milk.
[five minutes of silence]
HAT: Are you awake?
HAIR: What is it?
HAT: I can’t sleep. Tell me a story.
HAIR: No, I’ve told you all my stories.
HAT: Tell me a story you haven’t told me.
HAIR: I doubt Donald would want that. There are some things…
HAT: Yeah?
HAIR: There are things I remember that Donald has spent a long time forgetting.
HAT: Now you have to tell me.
HAIR: OK, fine, if it will get you to go asleep…
HAT: Oh, this is going to be good.
HAIR: Donald slept with HER once.
HAT: Her?
HAIR: No, HER. Listen to the capital letters I’m putting the words in.
HAT: Oh, God, no.
HAIR: Key party in 1979. Bill had just taken office in Arkansas and they came up to New York on some Democratic governors junket.
HAT: [vomiting noises]
HAIR: She didn’t look so terrible back then. But she was pissed even being there. And there was nothing but guy’s keys in the bowl, so you know she wasn’t going to be happy anyway.
HAT: Maybe I don’t want to hear anymore of this.
HAIR: I was still attached to his head back then, so I couldn’t get away. Imagine getting that close to Hillary’s face when Donald tried to kiss her. That fucking overbite coming right at you.
HAT: EWW!
HAIR: She just sort of flopped her hand around in his lap while Donald worked her breasts over, kneading them like fatty dough.
HAT: You have to stop.
HAIR: No, you wanted to hear, remember? I had to dredge this up from follicular memory so you are going to hear it.
HAT: [keening moan]
HAIR: Donald’s penis was pretty normal looking back then, so she didn’t scream when he pulled it out of his tuxedo pants. But I could tell she wasn’t much into it even back then. A couple of half-hearted licks and she was done. But then she spread ‘em wide in back of the limo and expected Donald to go downtown.
HAT: Don’t.
HAIR: Blood. It smelled mostly of blood. Old iron and rot.
HAT: [vomiting noises]
HAIR: He tried anyway. Up close, it was even worse.
HAT: Stop.
HAIR: Massive 70s bush. Huge. Like the size of a bicycle seat. And he got me real close to it. I swear it reached for me, like the tentacles of a sea anemone.
HAT: [weeping]
HAIR: I never really understood the phrase “squamous and rugose” until that night.
HAT: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani!
HAIR: Do you want to know what it tasted like? Have you ever microwaved…
DONALD: SHUT UP IN THERE! I’M TRYING TO SLEEP!
HAIR: [laughing]
HAT: [sobbing]
*Reads while in office at work*
*projectile vomits into desk drawer*
*sobs uncontrollably*
follicular memory
Fucking brilliant.
[weeping]
Laughing to tears.
Oh no…
ROFL
I finally have some slow time at work, and this is what I get?
Holy shit, that was funny.
The poor hat might never sleep again.
I might never sleep again.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
Oh, well done.
She didn’t look so terrible back then.
I knew people (men, even) in the ’90s who thought she was hot. Yeesh.
The inner beast hadn’t worn out the outer shell.
My FIL did. I never got it.
I think it was a notion of a First Lady under age 80.
Oh my…
He did it again. Lulled us into a false sense of security for a few weeks, then we get this. Thankfully nobody is around to hear me laugh.
From the dead threa, @UCS and KK
“Also, if this happens I hope the program includes replacing batteries in smoke detectors. For the lulz.”
the is a theory that certain heavily melanated individuals have a difficult time replacing the batteries in smoke detectors. Primarily based on video/call-in evidence from podcasts, etc. Many of the callers didn’t even realize the alarm was beeping, despite (because?) it going off every minute or so.
“UnCivilServant on July 19, 2023 at 7:29 am
I don’t believe that kids don’t want to learn. Every kids I’ve interacted with has absorbed information like a sponge. The school system just isn’t designed to actually allow them to learn. In fact, it seems designed to impair that ability.”
Based on my personal experience humans are born with a need to learn, but through repeatedly being ignored by adults can be taught to suppress that desire for knowledge.
Maybe this is why Dems think certain demographics are incapable of obtaining government ID.
I was working a single day and the fucking reminder beeps from the expired AEDs at another office drove me up a wall. Not a skin pigment either. Fuckers apparently just tuned it out.
Yup, I think people can get used to anything.
My dogs absolutely hate that shit, and of course, middle of the night or very early morning is when the batteries always go dead.
It’s planned that way. That is why I have a trashcan full of dead smoke alarms.
Networking the fucking things was the dumbest idea ever. Low battery chirps all of them.
I just replace all of them now.
Yup. I’ve replaced dozens of those batteries, and I can count on one hand the number of times I did it during the day.
My dogs (well, the Big Dumb One, anyway) freaking hate that noise. To the point where he will leave the room whenever I have the stepstool I use to change them.
Doesn’t sound TOO dumb.
Pro tip from our local fire department- change them out when daylight savings time comes. Easy to remember.
What bugs me is that those damn beeps are so loud, that it makes it hard to tell which one needs replacing. Drives me nuts.
This right here. I have to triangulate beep-to-beep to figure out which way to go. And them beeps carry so much you get it wrong half the time.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/nyc-bias-suit-black-hispanic-teachers-and-ex-teachers-rich
It chirps every 30 seconds.
More “disparate impact” bullshit.
*thousand yard stare*
Tundra, I saw your reply last night about you playing hockey with your son. Sounds awesome. My brother has been playing draft leagues for 30+ years. I keep asking him to come out to one of my practices. We’ve never skated together. But he’s always busy, or it’s too late, or too far (he lives closer to Chicago than I do), blah blah.
It’s really fun. He got his first goal of the season last night after a nifty rush and a sweet drop pass from the old man. I screened the shit out of the goalie and he beat the guy high. Pretty sweet!
I think we’re going to play winter league together, too.
Your brother needs to sack up. I didn’t get home until after 1am. A bleary next day is worth it!
I agree, it’s worth the lack of sleep once or twice a week. Right now we have a great time slot, Sundays from 6:15pm-8:15pm. My family must be part Amish or something. None of them like to travel far from home for anything other than a vacation. The rink where he plays is 5 minutes down the road from him.
Wow, what a perfect time slot! Do you still get that when the regular season starts and the kids are back?
I think we’re working on that, but normal season we have Sundays and Wednesdays so who knows? I’m spoiled right now, only driving up once a week and getting home by 10.
Obligatory
“like the tentacles of a sea anemone.”
That will stick with me, very good stuff.
World’s “most well funded e-bike brand” VanMoof goes bankrupt
The company has outposts in 20 cities around the globe – across Germany, France, England, Japan and the US – but only its Dutch operations are involved in the insolvency proceedings.
Why not go Dutch treat on the bankruptcy as well. Makes sense.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/19/vanmoof-bankrupcy-netherlands-news/#
I’d like to see that, wooden shoe?
VanPoof!
This pun Netherlands as well as you hope it will.
If you can’t even rent bikes to the Dutch, you might be in trouble.
Given that in a normal year, 10% of the bikes in the Netherlands are stolen, there’s a not-too-shabby chance that your rent-a-bike is someone else’s lost treasure.
Just throw it out and buy a new one. Sheesh.
NPR demonology
Those who have closely tracked the active club scene in the U.S. largely attribute its establishment and growth to a single individual: Robert Rundo. Rundo, a self-professed fascist and white nationalist who frequently traffics in anti-Semitic tropes, has spent much of the last five years on the run from law enforcement. In the spring, he was arrested in Romania, and a court recently ordered that he be extradited to face charges in California for rioting and conspiring to riot at political rallies.
“What Rundo did was take a model of European far-right extremism: decentralized, [and] quite honestly, borrowing — if not stealing from — far-right football hooligan subcultures, right down to aesthetics and plopping that down into an American context as something new and innovative,” said Michael Colborne, a researcher, investigator and journalist at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat. Colborne’s investigations helped to uncover Rundo’s whereabouts in Serbia in 2020 and 2021, and then in Bulgaria in 2022.
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At anti-LGBTQ gatherings during the last two months, active clubs in the U.S. have allied with other white nationalist organizations. Among those are Patriot Front, which saw 31 members arrested and charged with conspiring to riot at a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last summer. Also, White Lives Matter groups have reportedly attended “fight nights” hosted by active clubs in San Diego and in Washington state.
But not all far-right groups have welcomed the increased public activity of these crews. A viral video taken near the Oregon City Pride event last month showed Proud Boys, a violent neo-fascist group, beating members of an active club on a sidewalk. In the video, Proud Boys are heard calling the active club members “racists” and Nazis. The fight, which has been attributed to an interpersonal conflict between the groups, has opened up hostilities between the two extremist factions, mostly online.
Extremism experts caution that there is little comfort to take from seeing two far-right groups in conflict with each other. In this case, both had shown up in furtherance of the same cause: to intimidate members of the LGBTQ community at a Pride event. And the fact that both were there may signal a common perception that this moment in America, when anti-LGBTQ hostility is heightened, maybe be an opportunity to spread their extreme ideologies.
I’m dragging this over from the dying embers of the AM post, mostly so I can use the term “NPR demonology”.
It’s funny how NPR sees nothing noteworthy about liberal “hate scholars” using people who use tribalistic sentiments to bond with each other in order to strengthen tribalist bonds with their own side. People need enemies.
“White nationalist”, “anti-Semitic”, “anti-LGBTQ”, “far-right”, “violent neo-fascist”, “extreme ideologies”.
That’s quite a list. But this isn’t propaganda, not at all.
A viral video taken near the Oregon City Pride event last month showed Proud Boys, a violent neo-fascist group, beating members of an active club on a sidewalk. In the video, Proud Boys are heard calling the active club members “racists” and Nazis.
I’m pretty sure that was the one where they were calling out the Feds who were pretending to be neonazis.
Never change, NPR.
When an article sites, approvingly, the Young Communist League protesting Moms for Liberty (as did the one the other day), I know that there is a certain insanity in play.
Odette Yousef
Domestic Extremism Correspondent
Odette Yousef is a National Security correspondent focusing on extremism.
In her reporting, Yousef aims to explore how extremist ideas break into the mainstream, how individuals are radicalized and efforts to counter that.
Before joining NPR in August of 2021, Yousef spent twelve years reporting for member station WBEZ in Chicago, where she was most recently part of the Race, Class and Identity team. While there, she was reporter and host for Season 3 of WBEZ’s investigative podcast, Motive. The podcast, which won a 2021 national Edward R. Murrow award, explores the emergence and spread of the neo-Nazi skinhead movement in the U.S. and its connections to the far right extremism of today. Yousef was also part of a team that won a 2016 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Continuing Coverage, and she received a 2018 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Prior to joining WBEZ, Yousef reported at WABE in Atlanta.
Born and raised in the Boston area, Yousef received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and East Asian studies from Harvard University. She is based in Chicago
In other words, an overschooled idiot.
To get an idea of how far gone she is…
https://twitter.com/oyousef/status/1592898565877428224
These people live and breathe for the persecution of their political enemies.
Based on my personal experience humans are born with a need to learn, but through repeatedly being ignored by adults can be taught to suppress that desire for knowledge.
“You’re disrupting my lesson plan. Stop asking questions.”
I think it starts earlier than that. Somewhat understandably many parents can’t deal with the volume of questions headed their way.
Why?
Why?
Are we there yet?
Why ask why?
I hated learning until I was out of school.
I loved to read, but none of the mandatory books were interesting.
One way to get me to zone out in any training session/class is to sit there and read to me from a book/presentation/etc. I can read faster than you can talk, understand it better, and refer back to things quickly. I understand some people do better with having someone else read to them, but why the fuck does it seem like that’s the predominant method of teaching in classrooms/training?
Because it’s easy?
Well yeah. But I would think it’s easier to just provide the materials to people and let them go through it. Hell, do it like a book club.
How would that justify my travel receipts, and several days’ ‘work’ if that’s all I did?
“Facilitated discussion of workshop materials”
Because most people are irresponsible and stupid. They can’t just read something and retain the information they need. Everything must be spoonfed to them.
The presentation still doesn’t work as most people are still too stupid to understand even when its told to them and/or have the attention span of gnats.
My wife is neither irresponsible or stupid, but she doesn’t do well reading. Show her how to do something, let her do it, correct anything that needs correction, and she’s good to go.
TBF, some things do need explanation. I have a problem knowing what questions to ask. For my medical coding course, I’d like to have a teacher I can just say, “Okay, so this here thing, I don’t understand what it has to do with that there thing. Little help?”
I don’t get a whole lot from reading a dense textbook with formulae and graphs and stuff. I do need help from an actual instructor.
This is why there are so few Firsters in the world. Few can truly read and grasp the meaning of a First so how could they possibly formulate their own?
I’m not arguing against having someone to ping questions off of, but the presentation model doesn’t do well for hands on learners or those who retain info by just reading the shit on their own. It is a lazy method.
Oh, if you want me to learn something, give me a lab environment (few things frighten me more than “learning” in a production environment), a manual, and a set of tasks you want me to do. I wouldn’t mind having someone to ping questions off of in that situation either.
My complaint isn’t towards the classes/trainings where there’s a mix of presentation, discussion, and hands-on work. Different people learn in different ways. I’ve just been to too many lazy training sessions that are just the “instructor” reading a PDF/PowerPoint (or even worse, asking the class to read parts of it out loud like we’re still in grade school), minimal discussion, and no hands on work.
Of course, I also still have a preference for physical manuals. I’ve softened my stance on digital for reference materials though (just please not a damned web page where each “section” is a new page) where you’re looking for very specific things and need to search. In a physical manual, my brain will map things to “well… it was about a third of the way through the book, in the second column, about three quarters of the way down. A couple of pages before it was that dumb diagram.” and I can flip through the book quickly to find that.
“I wouldn’t mind having someone to ping questions off of in that situation either.”
What the fuck is this shit?
Is everybody here retarded?
Questions like that?
” I can read faster than you can talk….”
Same reason I dislike most podcast and youtubers. They have to be really informative and entertaining before I bother with them. Worst are the ones with a couple of guys swapping bro-talk.
Oh, god, this. I hate listening to a couple jackass’s yuk it up while they missunderstand basic things.
I hated learning until I was out of school.
I was similar, ‘cept that the love of learning kicked in after high school. Most of my college and Uni courses were awesome.
It can be trying, but it does give you some great opportunities.
😂
I’ve gotten all the way to how gravity works and then I couldn’t really explain it beyond how you calculate the forces. I don’t know if anyone really knows how gravity arises. Why does mass bend space-time?
The universe sucks
And blows.
So does H
Why would a bend in space time cause an object to move? Rolling down the incline is an effect of gravity, so the description of the force relies on the force inside itself? (I’m envisioning those diagrams of sheets with indents from heavy objects like planets, rather than the results of relativity experiments)
This one works:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/07/19
“Old iron and rot.”
*gags*
[goes back to eating tomato soup for lunch]
Oh god…
Meh.
I never really understood the phrase “squamous and rugose” until that night.
** prolonged laughter **
** deep breath **
** laughter continues **
Yeah, I’m not going to google that one. I’ve been burned too many times.
Scales and ridges.
“Squamous and rugose” is lifted from Lovecraft.
I’m pretty sure that was the one where they were calling out the Feds who were pretending to be neonazis.
Never change, NPR.
The article featured a big photo of that deal in Coeur d’Alene where the cops “detained” the “Nazis” without unmasking them.
“Just following procedures.”
As long as we’re dragging items over from the dead morning thread…
Are crossovers SUVs or station wagons? Toyota may call the Highlander an SUV, but for practical purposes it’s a station wagon. It may have a higher cabin profile than what most people think of as a station wagon, but it’s unibody construction, sitting on a Camry platform. In olden times, SUVs were body-on-frame like pick-up trucks, and most of the ones that are (occasionally) used as SUVs still are (4Runners, etc.). I would not take a Highlander up a rough 4WD road.
I don’t like that they call these crossovers “SUVs.” They’re not. A Bronco was an SUV. An Explorer was an SUV. An Expedition was an SUV. A freakin’ SUBURBAN is the King of all SUVs.
A station wagon and a minivan had an illicit one-night stand and made a crossover, the worst of them both.
It has been posited by many that SUVs became a craze because they (1) dodged CAFE mileage standards by being trucks; and (2) due to youth worship and other modern fetishes, met the needs of a minivan without being one. Don’t want to be fuddy-duddy Mr. Mom, driving the kids around to practice in a minivan? Get a rugged-looking Expedition and put a ski rack on top. Presto! You’re living the adventurous life!
I think you’ve nailed it down, more or less.
I think there is also a certain subset of people who think they might get into a crash and thus prefer a larger vehicle.
Ah, but I did read some quip that middle-aged men drive their midlife crisis sports cars like they’re little overly cautious grannies, and middle-aged women drive their trucks like Sherman tanks.
My dream car is a ginormous Dodge Ram diesel (non-dually) with a stick shift. I would so drive that fucker like a Sherman tank.
Exactly right. 😀
I drive a 17-year-old Hyundai Sonata, so I’m not one to really pass judgment.
I WAS driving a 1995 Oldsmobile Ciera, which I loved, till I sold it. I still miss that car.
I had a ’98 Cutlass Ciera with a V6.
It had 280,00 miles when I sold it to my niece for $400.
The headliner was saggy and she didn’t look that pretty, but she ran great.
Only real work I did was a water pump and new injectors.
I’ve linked this many times, but don’t know if you saw it.
Hadn’t seen that, but I can appreciate it.
88 or 98? Wiki doesn’t go that high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass_Ciera
I was looking to see if you were talking about GM’s 3800 V6. People love that motor. It’s got a few weak spots, but it’s generally durable and easy to work on.
’96 I guess, I could have sworn it was ’98, but that was 15 years ago.
It really comes down to the market. I had several Volvo wagons, but my absolute favorite was the 240. I could put the seats down and haul drywall or plywood. The engine and drivetrain was bulletproof, it had decent clearance and narrow tires so winter driving was easy.
But it was ugly and had no amenities. Layer in CAFE and all the other bullshit and the formerly “boxy but good” got more streamlined but didn’t haul as much and broke more often.
I still watch BaT for a 245.
Laws of aerodynamics making everything look alike.
It’s inevitable. They need to eke out another .5 mpg. Same reason manuals aren’t widely available anymore.
Which is stupid because I get better mileage with a manual than the advertised mpg on the automatic.
I was always afraid of wearing out my clutch (although I did have to change the clutch cable on my motorcycle once), because my cousin (in her teen years) had gone through 3 clutches. Never had to, though.
my cousin (in her teen years) had gone through 3 clutches
There’s a reason the military moved to automatics. Of the 6 base vehicles I was licensed on, only the Deuce was manual.
I’ve had more manuals than I can count. Never replaced a clutch.
Which is stupid because I get better mileage with a manual than the advertised mpg on the automatic.
I read once how they test the mpg stuff and it’s absolute bullshit – like pretty much every bit of government fuckery with the cars.
Both of my vehicles (2005 Saab and 2001 Ram) are manuals.
When the Saab dies, it will be hard to find a manual to replace it with.
When the Saab dies, it will be hard to find a manual to replace it with.
Yes it will.
My son has a 2022 Tacoma with a manual, but I heard they will be ditching it next year.
As I understand it, most manufacturers run a simulated EPA test and that’s what they run with unless a vehicle line is audited and undergoes an actual EPA test. The actual EPA test is absolutely archaic and the equipment used cannot be done using real world acceleration conditions due to the lack of robustness of the testing equipment not being able to handle modern torque loads. Which results in fantasy land numbers that we get today, and those numbers were tweaked to make them more realistic beginning in model year 2006 or 2007. If you drove like you had an egg under the gas pedal and turned your AC off, you could possibly repeat EPA numbers.
It’s a good question. I tend to agree with your assessment – most are just modern station wagons (without most of the benefits). I’ve had my truck on some 4wd roads that beat the shit out of me – I sure as hell wouldn’t have done it with most xovers.
I think Subarus might be the exception – better clearance, etc.
This deserves a GlibCar post.
My dream vehicle is a Subaru that can pull a fully-loaded Aliner trailer.
The Subaru Ascent offers the most towing capacity of any Subaru vehicle ever. 5000 lbs.
Depending on your camper…
Yeah, my wife has a Subaru Outback, I wouldn’t call that 4wd. I might spin all four tires, but there is zero torque. It is closer to an Audi in that it is really awd. In other words, you aren’t gonna stick it in granny low and rock crawl.
Unibody or truck frame?
My wife’s little SUV is really a hatchback.
That’s my position.
Especially when sedans and wagon variants for non-US markets are made on the same US “SUV” platform.
I have a hatchback. My SUV is not the same.
There is no “rock” setting in the GTI.
I would not take a Highlander up a rough 4WD road.
I don’t know about the Highlander, but I have a Pilot that’s fairly similar in design accept for having 4wd and an integrated tow package.
Several years ago, a neighbor got stuck on my hill in his F-350 while towing a trailer with ~300 square bales of hay. I still get a chuckle out of chaining my Pilot to his truck and helping that F-350 and hay trailer get up the hill. It handled that no problem.
I doubt a station wagon could do that. I’m less certain on a minivan, but I recall my parents’ Ford Winstar having the transmission blow after trying to tow a small boat. Perhaps they’re made differently now.
*except. damn.
My son has Ridgeline.
If you don’t need to tow or carry heavy loads day in and day out it’s wonderful. You don’t get beat up on road and mostly empty where you spend a good chunk of the time using it.
Unibody gives you a ton of room and independent rear suspension rides so much better.
I’m considering a Ridgeline at some point in the next year.
Are crossovers SUVs or station wagons?
More of a transwagon.
My Roadmaster wagon is body on frame. It is undeniably a wagon complete with puke inducing rear facing 3rd row.
I want off road friends.
Are crossovers SUVs or station wagons?
As far as I’m concerned, minivans are station wagons, and a Suburban class SUV is just a really big station wagon.
And American’s are the bloated goldfish given a bigger bowl to grow into.
They should just change the name to NaziBurger
The In-N-Out burger chain will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media.
In the memo announcing new guidelines for Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah workers, the fast food chain pointed to “the importance of customer service and the ability to show our Associates’ smiles and other facial features while considering the health and well-being of all individuals.”
The policy, which goes into effect August 14, applies to all In-N-Out employees in those states, except for those who need to wear masks or other protective gear for job duties that require it, like painting. Employees could face disciplinary action, including being fired, if they do not comply, the the memo says.
California and Oregon both have laws in place preventing employers from banning masks.
It is not the first time that the chain, based in California, has clashed with health experts over safety measures that were first put into place as deaths from COVID-19 skyrocketed during the pandemic. In October 2021, several In-N-Out locations in California faced fines or were temporarily closed because the burger chain refused to enforce COVID-19 vaccination rules.
Muh public health!
“several In-N-Out locations in California faced fines or were temporarily closed because the burger chain refused to enforce COVID-19 vaccination rules.”
Real life heroes, we need more people resisting.
Muh public health!
OBEY!
I miss In-N-Out
Seems to be a few here in Texas. Time to move?
Not possible at the moment.
Well, it is possible if I just drop all of my obligations…
So what’s the downside?
Aint the best burger in the world and their fries are of course a matter of taste. I do love them but you gotta eat them in 5 minutes or less. However, what their company does and the standards they set for their employees should be a model for all fast food. Always clean, all employees are clean, even after a large rush, dining area is clean. Decent starting wage without government telling they need to have a high minimum. It was the place to work in the 90s for Cali kids if you wanted to make some good cash.
Sounds close to the way Chick-Fil-A runs things.
I miss the days when they didn’t have giant lines at nearly all times of the day.
Post-surfing staple food
Just like rolled tacos and carne asada burritos.
Or late night hockey practice…one of the few places that wasn’t Del Taco Bell or Jack N Box that was open until 1am. After burning all those calories an animal-style double-double with cheese and grilled onions was perfect.
The corporate policies are good, as you point out, but I refuse to wait in that line for food. No food is that good.
My first and only experience at an In-and-Out (Dallas): The cute young lady taking my order asked if I’d like to go “all the way”. I looked like an idiot for not answering right away because my mind went down a completely non-food related path…
Never heard them say that…so you might have been on the right path. Now “animal style?” is usually asked.
All the way, animal style… oh my.
Obligatory
Was expecting…
Decides to have lunch in the Forest Preserve today. Reads SF. Forswears all technology, rips off clothes and runs into the forest laughing maniacally never to be seen again.
My God! It’s full of stars!
Those aren’t stars. Those are eyes, looking out at you.
The new guidelines are facing pushback from public health officials like infectious disease specialist Dr. Judy Stone.
“Requiring a doctor’s note is also a burden in terms of time and money. Many people don’t have a primary care physician or one who is readily available,” Stone wrote in a column for Forbes this week. “And requiring proof of a disability might be considered a violation of the Americans with Disability Act, depending on how one interprets masking as a request for accommodation.”
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In-N-Out workers in California and Oregon also have new mask guidelines set to go into effect August 14, according to a separate leaked company memo. But in contrast to the other states, California and Oregon employees will still be able to choose to wear a mask in stores.
Those masks must be a company-provided N-95 mask, the memo says — adding that employees who wish to wear different masks must provide “a valid medical note.”
“I can’t wear a mask as a social signal fashion statement? Not fair!”
“And requiring proof of a disability might be considered a violation of the Americans with Disability Act, depending on how one interprets masking as a request for accommodation.”
Now do vaccine mandates.
“requiring proof of a disability might be considered a violation of the Americans with Disability Act”
This is a correct statement of the law. It has always driven me absolutely nuts that businesses aren’t allowed to ask for proof of a disability before being required to spend thousands (or more) accommodating it.
And wearing a mask is offensive to customers with hearing and other issues that rely on reading lips and facial expressions to interact with people. Why do leftists hate deaf people?
In the AM discussion thread there was talk about the “trans” thing that got shot with a pellet gun. I was shot once in a drive by shooting. Still not sure if it was airsoft or a BB, but it hurt like a bitch. It was a couple teenage kids that were up to no good, making trouble in the neighborhood. I was walking along a busy road going to the grocery store. I ran after the car, hoping it would get stopped at the traffic light and I could wave my old man fist at them. But the light stayed green long enough for them to get through.
My older brothers were lucky we lived in a cops-aren’t-shot-happy city growing up. They would drive around in a dark van with their muzzles hanging out the window popping street lights and such. Teens do stupid shit, news at 11
The problem with teens doing stupid shit is that our shit mostly didn’t follow us on the internet forever. Now everything’s video’d/photographed and posted, and it stays there forever. It’s why I like “right to be forgotten” concepts.
Agreed and a modern day teen’s risk/reward matrix is inflated with the prospect of internet monies.
I think early GenX, the ones where the internet grew up with us (as opposed to growing up with the internet), were the last cadre to understand how to protect your privacy on the internet and not to do stupid stuff there and the concept of “the internet is forever.” I TRIED to inculcate this into my kids and they just flat don’t care. They also don’t know how to get into the guts of windows and fix stuff and tweak shit.
Trump Indicted For Murder Of Tupac
🖖🏾
My dream car is a ginormous Dodge Ram diesel (non-dually) with a stick shift. I would so drive that fucker like a Sherman tank.
I first became aware of this phenomenon when I was at the University of Idaho in the late ’80s: lots of hot sorority chicks hotrodding around in jacked up Toyota four wheel drive pickups.
They let women drive actual tanks now in the Army and I can’t even.
I had a roomie, who was a model, who wanted to get me into modeling, but I wasn’t thrilled about it, had a 1972 Toyota Land Cruiser she took duning. Her boyfriend owned a garage that repaired Jaguars and Porches. You can imagine, he made bank, but he also drove a Porsche (don’t remember what).
Also, about that roomie. She was one of the nicest, most awesome people I have ever met. When someone says, “Christlike,” Gigi’s face pops in my head. Also, she was Lorraine Day’s daughter, which annoyed me because she would call at 6 a.m. 4 times a week and nobody would get up to answer the phone but me.
Meta Threads. I believe they got exactly what they wanted. A nice solid list of people they can rely on to carry their water for them in the future election cycle.
Left wing Twatters is lame. Without the racism and bigotry of the right to rail against, they have nothing to talk about on their own. A few commies arguing about where there was true communism if ever true communism isn’t exactly the stuff that will build an entirely new social media platform.
It’s a disturbing pattern.
I should add that it is different for the right because right wingers have a dominate culture they are responding to at all times. The left is the mainstream culture and they live in bubbles with little exposure to counterviews. They have some hobogblin in their head they argue with all day with little relation to actual Trump voters or anyone else on the right. It’s one reason their meme game sucks so much.
Even on censored media platforms like old Twitter, there was still enough crossover with the actual right that it could fuel conversation and engagement.
I lost two friends to this. One lefty and one righty. They each assumed what I believed, wouldn’t let me explain, got mad at me for believing what they assumed what I believed, and then decided I was evil. I cut them off. It may have been mutual, but I don’t care. My dad used to assume my motives for certain things and the assumptions always revolved around my evil plot to piss him off. One day I just said, “I am doing what I am doing because it’s in my best interest. I have zero interest in pissing you off because I don’t care enough to try to piss you off.” He was shocked, but also never asked what I thought my best interest was because it didn’t occur to him to ask.
The right isn’t trying to piss the left off. They’re just looking out for their own interests, which are different, which the left has zero desire to understand.
No, see, I have been reliably told that the right is just trying to “own the libs.” They have no agency, only a desire to make the left look like retards.
See Libs of TikTok for examples.
It’s pretty hilarious considering how many user believed they were literally fighting Elon.
I’M IMPORTANT!
/looks for Nerfherder in the phone book
Sleepy Joe Basement campaign 2.0.
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will make the headquarters of his 2024 campaign at his longtime private residence of Wilmington, Delaware, because it is steeped in his “family values.”
“My family’s values, my eternal optimism and my unwavering belief in the American middle class as our nation’s backbone comes from my home — from Delaware,” Biden said in a statement, Politico reports.
“That’s why there is no better place for our reelection campaign to have its headquarters,” Biden further boasted as he unselfconsciously claimed to be so proud of his family and all they represent.
This will be the best place to provide his adrenochrome and support Hunter’s habit(s). Also, the Bidens are definitely who I think of when I think “family values.” …
And it’s got better hiding spots for coke!
I’m sure he has new hiding spots for secret documents that he’s collecting for after he leaves office.
Well when your are going senile, every spot is a new hiding spot.
*you’re
corruption, racism, opportunism, drugs, hypocrisy, ignoring innocent children/grand children… that about cover it?
Graft, banging in-laws, showering with daughters, perving on nieces, doing blow, losing computers with droves of questionable porn and evidence of multiple felonies on them…those are family values of a sort.
They are disgusting. Layer in the blood soaked monsters in the MIC and the pedos in the ranks of the elite and I wouldn’t blame God one little bit if He decided a little cleansing fire was in order.
It’d make Caligula blush.
An Aristocratic family?
Even that might be too mild for them
OMG, can you imagine a comic going through the whole routine, getting to the punchline and instead of “the aristocrats” deadpans “the Bidens”?
Huzzah! The Outlaw Johnny Black is finally coming out on Sep 15!
(From the makers of Black Dynamite)
Just in time for *checks for movies* a Wonka backstory film?
Tim Burton’s version explained it. His dad (Count Sauron) was a dentist. Duh.
That movie was so awful I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
That movie is going to suckdiddlyuck.
The free spirit fighting the forces of oppression? How can you say that?!?
*looks*
Good grief, why?
Maybe a slight adjustment in the Hollywood machine to ‘update’ for ‘modern audiences’?
Because the kid starring in that movie is a twink and Hollywood can’t get enough of him and there are so many leading man roles you can give him? A Willy Wonka vehicle and apparently he can play the lead in Dune. Not much else he’s suited for.
Well, it’s diverse. And the lead ain’t exactly Gene Wilder. I already hate it.
Awesome – It looks like a Trinity western meets a Dolemite movie.
Ya that is on the list of being watched
Outlaw Johnny Black: This will be a fine thing.
Wonka: Completely unnecessary film based on three paragraphs in the book. Also to CPRM’s point, Burton summarized it in seconds. If there was going to be another film I would prefer Burton do the second Wonka book where he takes the elevator into outer space.
But that’s not a prequel. Prequels are cool and stuff.
I never watched Willy Wonka as a kid and wondered where Willy Wonka came from. But apparently Hollywood thinks there’s a market for it as they have now shoehorned this into two big budget films.
Did this get posted yet?
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
Nasty shit. Really interesting article.
We might be fucked.
I would say “DHS has no authority over States conducting their elections” but it wouldn’t matter.
Nearly all of this shit is blatantly unconstitutional. And we’ve see severe real-world repercussions from it with the covid hysteria and, in my opinion, the fortification of elections.
We have one court ruling on this matter, and it blocked the government from colluding with social media to silence Americans. But it’s toothless, and being appealed.
What really gets me is that even if there were these foreign actors looking to influence our elections merely through speech, there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about that. Troll farms in Russia spreading weird disconnected memes are not only not an existential threat, but something our government really has no business fighting in the first place. The charges Mueller levied against mostly nameless faces in Russia should never stand up to actual scrutiny. They were obviously not serious attempts to bring anyone to justice for the great crimes of influencing Americans to vote for Trump.
The collusion blocking injunction was injuncted.
Inception injunction…what’s your function
It was toothless anyway. It allowed them to continue doing essentially everything they already were as long as they sprinkled the right magic words around it.
I’ve been harping on this one for years. The people claiming to be defending democracy from grave threats are really saying that people are too stupid to make decisions if exposed to the wrong information. It is an obvious attack on democracy guised as an effort to save it. There is also an implied threat there – if people won’t make the right decisions, then we can’t let them make them at all. And I believe we’ve already seen them act on that threat in our elections and we’ve seen them escalate to trying to prevent Trump from even running in 2024.
Welcome to the products of the modern university system.
All hubris, all the time.
And while the contradiction is never noted much publicly, they are aware of it privately. They know they’re full of shit:
They are merely the latest round of tyrants using some proposed crisis to strip away freedoms. This form of mass media is just so different from other forms of mass media (which is the same thing tyrants argued in the twentieth century and 18th and so on) that we must destroy free speech in order to preserve a hollowed out form of democracy where people are limited in what choices they can actually make. I’m being generous here in even calling it a hollowed out form of democracy. I’d rather have free speech and a dictatorship than democracy, personally.
Democracy is merely a form of picking your poison. It is not an end in itself worth striving for.
Free speech is a basic, fundamental human right we are all born with.
The notion that I should sacrifice the latter for the former is absurd to begin with, especially when I believe in the silly notion that government’s exist to protect rights in the first place. The method of picking the government is hardly worth sacrificing the thing it is there to protect.
But if you think government is there to make a utopia and give out free shit, you aren’t bothered by such thoughs.
HERETIC!
*sticks thumb in purple ink as a demonstration of faith*
I’ll shit one more thought onto the page here. We don’t even have anyone considered a serious person expressing these thoughts in politics rights now. The few people who may actually reverse this are only going to do so because it actively harms them. We have to count on a Trump or Desantis to put a stop to it not out of principle, but because it harms their status.
The best hope we have in the private sector is a guy like Elon buying a platform and actually acting on principle. Which I have little faith in to begin with. Elon seems more interested in playing a part and really working to monetize his investment than actively supporting real free speech.
Too long right now – which one is it?
Mine would be the klimate krisis hoax. But there are so many to choose from.
All of this bullshit, and it is all bullshit, is simply a facade to cover up the fact that the central banks, particularly in Europe, are fucking broke. The old colonial powers are finally at the end of their rope.
They need something to blame it on. They need hobgoblins to keep the populace occupied while they restructure society, preferably in a manner to suit themselves. They intend to rape the middle class in order to replenish their own coffers.
Everything is downstream of the financial markets, especially since we’ve financialized everyfuckingthing.
There are a bunch of examples, but oddly climate isn’t in there.
Maybe they ran out of time.
In a sense, they’re all related anyway.
“Lawmakers Slip Censorship Provisions Into Pentagon Spending Bill”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lawmakers-slip-censorship-provisions-pentagon-spending-bill-fang
Huh, first I’ve heard of this. It must be so nice to be a patrician.
Because we all need a laugh once in a while.
https://i.redd.it/zfbjko0goscb1.jpg
LOL. Excellent.
OMG 😂🤣 it’s twue
You thought they were attacking RFK Jr before? Watch how they respond to this.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-vows-back-us-dollar-bitcoin-or-gold-if-elected-president
This will not be tolerated.
Their response could end up being an enormous headache for him, no doubt.
Mind-blowing, even.
skull-shattering experience
gold, silver, platinum or Bitcoin
♫♪ One of these is not like the other…
Make book burnings great again.
An amputee lesbian’s love is not like a square’s.
I knew the last couple weeks have been a setup. This scares me the setup isn’t done.
HAT: You have to stop.
ME: I have to stop.
Shit I kept reading.
I did not try and improve my vocabulary.