Yes, it is that season again in the Sloopy household.
The Sloopster and Banjos are once again hawking their wares, so your intrepid Spud is stepping in today, and will actually get the job done this time.
Shall we link?
To say that Lahaina just got ass raped would be a massive understatement. I hope you got a chance to visit at some point, because it’s pretty much gone.
I’m sure there will be no expectation of fealty in return.
Okay folks, it’s Friday. Make sure you pace yourself today. You don’t want to be too tired to enjoy the weekend.
I ask myself that often.
What? Why do we have to wear pants around other people?
Pants are a symbol of the oppressions. I refuse to wear them today.
Q: What did the boy potato say to the girl potato?
A: I only have eyes for you.
A: “Why do they call you Potato Head?”
whaddup doh’
Well, I’m apparently extra ranty. Most of the folks up at this hour apparently already said “Good morning” to each other in the ded thread… and Animal got to tout “Civil Forfeiture is Theft!” over at RedState… but since I don’t pay for VIP, I can’t read it. I find that amusingly ironic on some level (and now is when folks tell me I’m abusing irony as much as Ms. Morissette and all.)
But morning, Tres… hope you’re having a good one. I’d raise a tall can at you — but not a drinker (critical or otherwise) — so I’ll toast you with my next mug of coffee and prep for my lovely day of getting through a backlog of corporate mandated training vids. Yay. (No DIE at least… this is all “security” crap that has nothing to do with me historically — because it so far has all been web interfaces / SQL backends / whatnot… which I don’t do, and you wouldn’t want me to do if your life depended on it [Want to see the Internet as I would write it… Fire up lynx – you’d be close!]).
“but not a drinker”
Then what are you doing here? At least Mojo is on pills like that hot chick who played chess.
Not to mention my rx’d stimulants.
Adderall?
Better. Vyvanse. However, because of the Adderall shortage, that’s spilled over into a Vyvanse shortage.
Also, if I take too much of my Wellbutrin, it causes me to go manic. That’s an experience I never want to repeat.
Too much wellbutrin is very bad not only because of mania, not being able eat, sleep, etc. but because it can also get stuck — the effects continuing after you stop taking it. Although, it pales in comparison to klonopin as far as “why are you people in blue shirts taking me to the hospital?”
My Wellbutrin is in a very low dose and is only to keep me from killing myself in the winter time.
Long story short: My drug dealer preemptively doubled my dose when she wasn’t listening to my valid anger and essentially decided I needed to calm down. I wrote a 1400-page manuscript in 2 months, lost 40 pounds, didn’t sleep, barely managed to feed my children, and nearly bankrupted us. It took my boss demanding a come-to-Jesus meeting and listening to me and then saying, “You’re overmedicated,” for it to stop. I went to my drug dealer and told her what had happened. She had a deer-in-the-headlights look and then put me back on my original dose. She knew she fucked up.
When someone is telling you, licensed practitioner, about their life, you should probably know when to say, “You’re not depressed. Your life just sucks.”
Good on your boss!
Sorry, that happened.
My boss had had to take her own kid to a neuropsychiatrist to get her properly medicated, so she knew the signs.
I try to not be bitter about it because Wellbutrin DID solve a decades-long plot problem overnight and did write my first book, so… But I also tell people Wellbutrin wrote that book.
I thought snark and bubbling rage were enough to lurk around here even without the alcoholism.
Well, Good Morning, Mister 7.
Mrs. 7
Yeah, sorry, but ol’ Animal has to look after the bank balance.
I think we know the gist of the article anyway.
That much is certain.
I’m mainly curious how you spun that into a full article when the headline frankly suffices in toto. 😉 And don’t mind my freeloading, Animal… you get what you deserve out in the marketplace.
I do it through the wonders of extraneous expounding!
Some people don’t know what the legal fiction is. So it doesn’t hurt to open their eyes.
Well, tonight I get to take the nephews to their first pro football game. Ok… it’s both pre-season, and the Browns, but it still counts.
/preps himself for the teenagers to start complaining part way through the first quarter
Browns? Gonna start letting them early?
They’re Clevelanders, they need to start learning some of the tough lessons in life.
I’d post a correction, but everyone knows what word is missing from that sentence.
pro just means they get payed, doesn’t mean they’re good at it.
The sky?
The season of annoying-as-hell comics because Geoff Johns can’t stop rebooting DC to get his Silver Age heroes back and fuck all the character development since crossed with the editors wanting to be “edgy” (granted, nowhere near the current levels of cringe… but I still think Flashpoint and the shit storm it spawned was terrible… almost as bad as the narcissistic wanking that was Morrison’s Infinite Crisis (God what a pile of rank steaming garbage that was…).
Excuse me while I go look for today’s fresh onion to tie to my belt, I know.
And with the most recent Flash movie, that’s what… the sixth version of Flashpoint done in television/movies since it was published?
It was a novel idea, once.
Because Elgin in August is lethally hot during the daytime? A better question is: what are the insurance compainies gaining by offering crop insurance for corn in TX?
Look, He Who Walks Between The Rows must be getting a little low on sacrifices these days, hmm?
Looks like sorghum as opposed to corn. You’re right though, corn is tougher to grow in those high heat low moisture conditions.
Somebody told me that if corn ever got to some temperature (easily reached by a TX summer) that it would not develop any further. And I would always, every year, pass fields of dead corn when I lived in Bryan.
Welcome to our fascism.
If you do it right, the government will pay you to not grow corn.
Looking at some of the gun youtubes, night hog hunting is fairly common.
Well, Dayhogs are dry and tough. Nighthogs cook up moist and tender.
If you’re actually eradicating, using a thermal site at night is probably the most effective way there is.
“What they were doing there at midnight in the middle of a cornfield, I don’t know,” the neighbor said.
Uh huh. It is called hog hunting. I take it this neighbor has never gone hog hunting.
We’ve all had a bit too much to drink and gone hog hunting at some point in our lives.
A blast from the past, originally shared by one Warty.
I used to go quite a bit. I fell off of of a horse one night and Mrs. Suthenboy put a stop to that. It seems I really am too old for that nonsense.
I don’t think you need a horse for the kind of hog-hunting Nerfie has in mind.
An effective strategy is known as “Go Ugly, Early.”
You could bait your site with some jelly doughnuts.
Sounds like a made up quote. A rural person would know they’re pretty much nocturnal.
Might be city folk who bought a country house or hobby farm and is still ignorant.
That was my thought. Also, that would be someone eager to talk to the press.
Crop insurance comes from the Feds, no?
A link-relevant Loverboy song
Elon is right. They should put the cocaine back in Coca Cola.
He just wants to get more salaried overtime out of his workforce. 😉
That would be nice, I’d have at least one every morning.
This reply to that article is Glib-worthy snark:
“King of the Hill star Johnny Hardwick’s death remains a mystery following his sudden passing aged 59.
The talented voice actor – who played Hank Hill’s conspiracy theorist next door neighbor Dale Gribble on the iconic animated series in 258 episodes from 1997-2010 – was found dead at his home in Texas on Tuesday after police were called for a welfare check and found his body.
It was reported that Johnny was pronounced dead at the scene with no foul play suspected – with the cause of death at the time unknown, reported TMZ.
And three days following his passing, the cause of his death remains undisclosed, however, police are said to have confirmed the death is ‘not being investigated as homicide’, reports Metro.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12397113/Johnny-Hardwick-death-remains-mystery-voice-actor-passed-away-Texas.html
Ironic?
It was the Clintons!
Dale Gribble didn’t kill himself!
It was Rusty Shackleford!
I read it on alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters
A friend and spiritual advisor John Redcorn indicated that he was suicidal after leaving his wife of 15 years.
RIP
“Was Lil Tay ‘death’ all a prank? Rapper, 14, sees her Instagram followers grow by 300,000 since fake announcement as ex manager suggests hoax was a stunt to ‘rekindle’ her fame”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12396655/Was-Lil-Tay-death-prank-Rapper-14-sees-Instagram-followers-grow-300-000-fake-announcement-ex-manager-suggests-hoax-stunt-rekindle-fame.html
Yes.
That kid is so screwed.
Someone needs to put that little shit over their knee.
You think the parents and her management were not part of this bullshit?
Now that you mention it, they are probably the ones who cooked this up. They are the adults thus deserve a more proper ass-whoopin’.
I knew I liked the way you think for a reason, Suthen….
You like getting spanked?
If she is hawt and I get to reciprocate…
I’m up to 54 followers on Twitter/X now, do you think I could get to 100 if I pretended I was killed by Lil Tay?
Make it glaringly obviously fake.
“Woodchipper stalled, now they’re just burying the whole machine with me still stuck in the feed. The bullets were bad enough, but this is getting absurd.”
So the judicial branch comes out and admits that the team blue weaponized Obama administration in term three is basically a criminal enterprise?
Yes, the democrat party is a crime syndicate. And the republican party, before the people decided to force it to change with Trump, was just dutifully playing the role of the Washington Generals to the crime syndicate’s Globe Trotters.
They weaponized the links, too.
Link….
I had my honeymoon in Lahaina.
Related:
https://archive.is/nl1LU
Titty Tuesday.
We stayed down in Wailea for ours but took an awesome sail/snorkel trip out of Lahaina.
Just awful.
Good morning all!
Thought I’d pop in, since I haven’t been around lately. What’s new?
Myself, I’ve reached the next milestone in my jiu-Jitsu journey – my first MCL tear. It sucks. Take care of your knees, kids…
That sucks.is it a full tear that requires surgery or just partial that can heal?
Either way take care of yourself, I hate being immobile.
It’s an intermediate-to-high grade partial thickness tear. According to my PT guy it should heal on its own, but I have a call into my orthopedics clinic just in case. They’re doing crazy shit with low-invasive ligament repair these days…
Sheldon! Glad to see you, sorry about the tear.
Echo that!
How’d it happen? Between Judo and BJJ I’m about 11 years into grappling and haven’t had anything like that happen. Worst for me was a few broken fingers/toes and a torn abdominal. Hope your recovery is smooth
Spazzy noob tried to counter my knee slice pass by cranking on my lead knee. Hurt like a motherfucker.
Weird. I’m having trouble picturing the position there that gives him enough leverage to hurt your knee. That sucks though.
Idk how deep into the sport you are but I can tell you that even as a big guy with experience I treat every noob like a walking hospital bill. If I’m on top it’s only the smashiest passes (tozi, Sao Paulo, etc) if I’m on bottom its lasso guard and back takes until they spaz out their last drop of cardio. Don’t give them an inch.
Sorry. I hope you recover quickly.
“Nearly 10,000 People Offer To Legally Change Name To ‘Subway’ In Bid For Free Sandwiches For Life”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nearly-10000-people-offer-legally-change-name-subway-bid-free-sandwiches-life
Sweet, free subs for life. The only caveat being that they have to come from Subway. Yuck…
I read in a newspaper that a sub was a type of sandwich.
I haven’t been in a Subway for years. The one we would go to was in Kansas City on road trips because of how awful the service was. It was literally entertaining how awful their counter help was. They were rude, surely and had no problem unloading on you, all without the pretense of Dicks Last Stand. The year they got good help took away the last reason I had to ever set foot in one.
The FDA keeps fighting for authority while admitting their opposition to Ivermectin thing was all bs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-drops-ivermectin-bombshell
They got the clotshots on the childhood schedule. Therefore there is no reason to continue to object to a therapeutic, particularly an inexpensive, off-patent one.
The FDA could not be any more transparently corrupt.
Notice there was no apology, no sort of recompense to doctors who lost their jobs and/or reputations, and no plan on keeping something like this from happening in the future. So not much of a victory.
How about those people who attempted to get ivermectin or HCQ to their loved ones in the hospital and were denied access while the hospitals ventilated them and administered remdesivir, damaging their kidneys?
To say I have contempt for the medical industrial/regulatory complex is a wild understatement.
something something the chocolate ration has been raised
Well that kills a narrative.
Or adds another indictment on Trump.
Some 57 percent of respondents said they agreed with the statement: ‘The lawlessness of the persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.’
And the US gov’t’s Reichstag Fire was not nearly as convincing as the nazis’.
For that comment the FBI might pay you a visit…
But Nazis were anti-communist and the Democrats are pro-communist so they can’t be comparable!
Had a discussion yesterday at work with a woke kid where I repeatedly proved how he lacked the basics of logical reasoning which was why he was having problems trouble shooting the spaghetti code he was writing, and man, it was eye opening. He was offended when I pointed out to him that he had poor reasoning skills. After all, he went to college! From his skillset, or lack of critical thinking functions, it was obvious to me college no longer thought people how to reason logically. Simple logical leaps were not in his weelhouse.
I told him that contrary to his assertion that going to college means you are smart – another example of his illogic – in my experience practically all people that attended college in the last few decades definitely overpaid and didn’t take advantage of the opportunity. He couldn’t out figure out what that meant, but it sounded like something good to him. He was even more agitated when I pointed out that he again failed basic logic.
I get confused responses from job candidates when I probe for understanding how code works or why you would use a particular structure.
The long silences I get when asking my basic troubleshooting questions tell me more than candidate answers.
I literally just ask their thought processes and how they approach looking for information to find the cause.
“Uhhhh…..”
That is truly sad.
Hopefully this is the last week of interviews, and I can move on to onboarding somebody.
So many “Tech” people can’t think through a problem. If it goes off script, they get lost.
I used to do interviews for my company. I quit. Like you, my first questions was about how people would go about solving problems. I was far less interested in people that could regurgitate the usual software and software language tropes and in finding people that were self-starters and able to handle the unknown. Especially knowing when to stop looking for the answers/solutions on their own and ask for help. I do not miss doing the interviewing when HR was staffed by idiots impressed by pedigree (what the college was rather than what the applicant’s ability to learn & do were) and not willing to listen to those of us that would have to work with these people they hired.
Now I deal with them after they get hired and crash & burn.
Look, stackoverflow didn’t tell them that part!
Meh, I don’t think college has ever taught the skills needed to survive in the workforce. He sounds like a beginner – cut him some slack.
I would have cut em plenty of slack if he didn’t constantly tell us how much smarter he was for attending Harvard than the rest of us that actually run circles around them. At his age I already had figured out that you wait to humble brag when you really have accomplished and can accomplish things of worth. He on the other hand thinks the problems he is experiencing is that we are not as smart as him. even though he can’t do the basics.
Ah… he’s an asshole. Okay, tear him a new one then.
I am someone that always assumes the best from people, wanting to build friendships, until they show me they are assholes. It doesn’t get more assholish than being a inexperienced young kid that acts as if his pedigree makes him better than people with decades of experience and knowledge. and I am not just speaking about me. I don’t care much if people slight me. Water off my back. But I have many coworkers that deserve respect for their skills and more importantly, determination to learn.
I seem to run 50/50 with young coworkers.
Some seem very interested in learning and building relationships and other simply want to explain how smart they are and why we are all so dumb.
The problem is my company’s HR department. They predominantly hire for pedigree rather than skills. That’s why my experiences, I sadly also have to admit that not just at work, are so skewed and I see so much more of this entitled ideocratic attitude from the young. Have you ever had some Yale grad with 6 months of real world experience tell you that you are doing it all wrong because there is not enough woke shit in your agile development process?
We don’t pay enough to attract Ivy droppings. And I work in the unglamorous end of the infrastructure. They’re too important for this shit, but sure do hate when it ain’t working.
No. Mine did two years of entry level Fortune 100 work. After that they got an MBA, worked for McKinsey and now think they know everything.
I was forced to show up for Jury duty early this week. Waiting to get checked in I saw the lack of basic computer-fu that was keeping the lady checking us in from starting up her program to register us. Showed her what she was doing wrong, and she on the spot, after realizing I did IT, asked me to go to their website to apply for a job. She was pissed when I told her they couldn’t pay me what I am worth, and I prefer to work in corporates America over government because at least they have some incentive to accomplish something or face the wrath of their shareholders. She was pissed.
They made me wait till the end of the day to dismiss me, and she did it with some smug look on her face (everyone else was let go). She really got pissed when I pointed out to her that the obvious petty vindictiveness was also one of the reasons I avoid government work.
College never tought you to think.
I disagree. As an EE and AE, all my related classes were about making sure I could be logical and think. I even had professors that told me that BS degree was just an entry point and that the real learning was just about to begin. Granted, the electives I was also made to take tended to not encourage must logical and reasoned thinking at all. and I am pretty sure these days those sorts of classes are even less interested in promoting that based on my practical experience with people.
I’m sure the administration has corrected that error by now.
By adding even more woke shit and brainwashing?
“Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. No matter how much authentic information. you give them they can not draw a sensible conclusion. If they cannot correctly identify a problem then they can not solve a problem. If they can not solve problems they can not defend themselves, their families or their country.”
– Yuri Bezmenov on the symptoms and purpose of demoralization / brainwashing.
I dont get hand-waved away anymore when I say that the left is attempting to recreate the USSR here in the US. That is exactly what they are trying to do and it could not be more obvious.
“I’m sure there will be no expectation of fealty in return.”
paywalled
Classy.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin played into a little 2017 nostalgia this week when she shared a photoshopped image of prosecutor Jack Smith holding a severed head of former President Donald Trump.
Attention whore gonna attention whore.
I wonder if the FBI is gonna come shoot her…..
Wait didn’t we just see stories about how depressed and wrecked she was because of the backlash from that first photo with Trump’s head?
A home run!
What a dishonest cunte.
“Well, you definitely have made a case that the people who are around President Biden in terms of the lobbyists and his son Hunter have trafficked on that connection to the then vice president, now president. But I haven’t yet seen any evidence that the president did anything wrong.”
There is literally no reason for Hunter to be on the Burisma board or for any foreign entity to gift a Biden money other than for what the Biden that was/is in the gov’t could provide, you lying sack of shit.
Now maybe if the Trump campaign had paid a foreign agent to come up with a salacious story about Joe Biden, Ukrainian hookers, and golden showers, that would be concrete evidence.
I won’t believe even if Biden confesses.
Uh…. he did confess. Dude bragged about getting some random prosecutor fired in Ukraine. That is way more of a confession than you are ever going to get in any bribery scheme.
Also… “I have never discussed my son’s business dealings with him” (followed by multiple instances of 3rd parties saying he met son’s business associates, dozens of meetings with business clients of Hunter, etc.)
Also…. “I had no knowledge that he was working in Ukraine” (followed by photos of him playing golf with Son and executives of Burisma)
This is clear demonstration of what is called a “guilty mind”. If you don’t think there was anything wrong with meeting with Burisma executives, you don’t lie about it. The same goes for the rest of it.
The same goes for the press who have known for years – probably long before the revelations about Burisma came out. White House reporters get the guest list as a matter of course. They also get the itinerary for the main players. It would take a bit of effort to avoid noticing the connections to junior and the guest list.
The thing that sticks out to me is that there are never any alternate explanations. The multiple companies and bank accounts, payments to relatives that didn’t participate in the business, millions to Hunter who doesn’t have any expertise, and the items you list above… They’re not even trying to come up with a perfectly good (legal) reason for any of those things. Because there is none.
The explanation from the usual excuse making suspects is always the same. They read the minds of people like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and so on, and despite mountains of criminal evidence (especially criminal evidence of destroying evidence of crimes), they conclude there was both not enough evidence to proceed, or if there is evidence to the point it can’t be dismissed, no ill intent. And, according to front men for this shit, like Comey, when there is no ill intent no “reasonable prosecutor” would do anything, right?
But they read the mind of Trump and his supporters and it is all Hitler, racism, homophobia, misogynism, and just evil all around, so it is OK to make shit up to get them.
Repost from last night for those who weren’t around:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rodriguez-searching-for-sugar-man-rocker-dead-obit-1234803231/
Aaron Siri does an excellent job laying out the fraud in the vaccine industry. Not just COVID, but the entirety of the program.
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/what-the-casual-cruelty-of-dr-paul
This aligns with something I have been arguing for years…. that we should have independent lab testing.
I first started crystallizing these vague ideas while reading Balko’s writing about forensics labs. Since they work for the state, and they have access to information like “we think it was this guy” and incentives like “we want a conviction”, they tend to come up with less than ideal results. The answer, of course, is independent laboratories that are properly blinded and with independent control audits for accuracy.
This crossed over to pharmaceutical testing for the reasons pointed out above. If we had an “underwriter’s laboratory” of pharmaceuticals, a private entity that is paid to perform clinical trials, the trials would all be properly designed and controlled, and the data would be suitably public. They would publish “Breveldia from Paxalon Industries proved 83% effective in preventing heart attacks. This compares favorably to the current leading drug, Heartwise, which is 71% effective. Side effects were similar in both drugs, including impotence in 23% of male patients”…
See… then you would actually know what you are dealing with.
But we don’t do that. The drug companies design and implement the trials under FDA supervision. And with trillions of dollars in play, regulatory capture is definitely a major risk.
I would love to see a rule requiring testing to be outsourced, and a world in which there are 2 or 3 testing companies operating worldwide, certifying the safety and efficacy of drugs. They could even provide some manner of insurance underwriting related to their results. Consumers could decide which certifications they trust, and which they do not trust. So could insurance companies.
If the federal government needs to spend money on “SCIENCE” and the like, I would limit them to just being able to do replication studies.
The problem would be bribery by the drug companies, which would be difficult but not impossible to prevent. You’d have to have some sort of guard rails, or somehow put a premium on the company’s reputation.
The simplest thing to do in the near term is to drop the liability shields.
IF THE PRODUCT IS SO SAFE, WHY DOES IT NEED A LIABILITY SHIELD?
Now I sound like Kirk in Star Trek V.
Yeah, that was for vaccines specifically because of “vast numbers”. If everyone is required to take a vaccine for measles, then pretty much anything can be shown as “a pattern” and win massive lawsuits in front of gullible courts and juries.
See “Dow-Corning breast implants” for a perfect example. Millions of women get implants, a few crazies also get non-specific symptoms and attribute them to the implants, publicize it and magically you get thousands of complaints about all manner of effects. It put them out of business.
And it is now acknowledged that it all was bullshit.
So if you do that with breast implants… well, who cares. They are optional.
But vaccines? They save millions of lives every year. And Dow-Corning style liability would 100% put them out of business. The Autism crowd definitely would have found a sympathetic jury, and every person diagnosed as autistic or on the spectrum would have been a part of a class action. That would have been the end of those vaccines.
So we have a liability pool that just pays people who claim to have side-effects, regardless of the actual cause. Basically, state sponsored hush money funds.
I’m sure there could be improvements to the system, but I see the need, given the wide net and the prevalence of things like fibromyalgia and morgellon’s.
You realize of course that your argument is just a watered down version of what Sam Harris is currently pushing.
I can offer personal and direct causation of vaccines leading to an autism spectrum disorder, not correlation, causation. I used to subscribe to your point of view and I learned the hard way, or rather my son did.
He carries the MTHFR C677T homozygous mutation. It’s not a particularly uncommon thing to have, however it has specific biochemical traits. The first and foremost of these is a compromised ability to remove toxins from the body because of a reduction in the production of glutathione.
He was fully vaccinated per the schedule.
It wasn’t until he reached age ten and his symptoms were completely out of control that we found a doctor who knew how diagnose his condition(s). At that age he had stopped growing, he was suicidal, he was constantly ill, and I would put forth that he was functionally insane despite having an IQ in the 150s.
Upon testing, we found his aluminum levels were well into toxic levels, almost off the chart. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin and causes neurological inflammation. There is simply no way for his aluminum levels to be as high as they were from environmental exposure unless he were working in a foundry. That aluminum came from the vaccines. He was injected with it, over and over.
It took years to bring those levels down. In addition to other treatments for associated symptoms and conditions also caused by aluminum poisoning (compromised immune system being a primary one), he is a functional adult now.
The story is longer and there’s far more detail, but the general outline is there. It’s direct causation from the treatment to the symptoms. It’s not the only vector of damage from vaccines, but it is the one that he suffered.
In the years since, we’ve met many such people with similar stories. All were labeled as autistic and shuffled off by the medical establishment.
Scroll to the bottom for a list of vaccines that were not tested against an actual placebo.
The point about using another untested vaccine as the control, rather than placebo sounded like a silly one at first…. until he pointed out that it was the basis for the claim that adverse events were normal – using the other vaccine as the only baseline. If this is true – that they had no control group, not even an unvaccinated control group – and if it is also true (which it certainly does sound true) that 7% adverse events was accepted as normal when it is in no way normal….. well, that is damning.
Comparing to other drugs (or vaccines) for effectiveness has been one of my complaints about the data we get from new drugs. They put out a new antacid and spend millions marketing it as the newest, best thing. But we don’t get a trial comparing it to the currently available generic drug… so who knows if it is more effective, and even if it is, by how much. So how can I tell if it is worth an extra $30 per month? Or even if it is worth choosing at all.
But this bit about never looking at negative side effects against “not taking anything”? That sounds bad enough that my first reaction is “That just can’t be right”.
This is exactly the purpose of it. They’re hiding the safety signal of the experimental group by subtracting out the safety signal of the control group which is being deliberately elevated, either with another vaccine or an adjuvant.
It’s straight up fraud. Pharma knows it. The FDA knows it. They all know it.
But they’re all in it up to their eyeballs, so the big money is going to preserve the narrative above all else,. Because if the narrative fails then the grift ends and there’s potentially prison or worse for those involved.
This is why RFK Jr. is called “anti vax”. He says these vaccines have never been tested against a placebo. Nothing more. And he’s right. But that’s enough to get him labeled a crazy conspiracy theorist.
You hear that asshat Sam Harris recently set u some massive strawman about how RFK is a bad guy because in Harris’ strawman RFK would insanely object to vaccines?
Basically Harris created this illusory pandemic – Ebola – with 70 or 80 percent mortality, killing the young predominantly all over, with a super long incubation period during which you were contagious without symptoms, where someone somehow came up with a super safe and effective vaccine, and then made the idiotic case RFK would object to this.
If this guy is as intellectual and savvy as I am told he is, he strikes me as one heck of a dunce. His head is so far up the ass of his ideology that he literally has stopped trying to be logical. or maybe it just is that the people in his camp are so stupid they would not see through the illogic or strawman.
The biggest problem they have is that Jenny McCarthey went there first. And her reasons were not…. reasonable. So even though she was duped by a charlatan, her crazy became the brand.
Trump Media & Technology Group started Truth Social in late 2021, months after the former president was banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021.
Twitter, now known as X, made the decision because it feared Trump might incite further violence on the heels of the Capitol riot by a mob of his supporters two days earlier.
It was nice of them to include that illuminating context.
I was totally bumped by that too.
Plus, despite the stated reasons, we know that it is not nearly enough of the story to count as “true”. Nobody actually feared that Trump would incite further violence, because nobody actually thought that was what happened in the first place. The FBI and the Democrats had already been calling for him to be banned for months.
And they wonder why people wind up on Trump’s side, despite not actually being much of a fan.
I’d search myself, but work blocks out alcohol associated sites.
Has anyone started selling a “GinX”?
There is a GINX sports tv, but no drink so far. You look in the clear to copyright.
Billy Idol?
If Hunter Biden is now openly claiming to have made millions trading on false expectations of access and influence, why hasn’t he been charged with fraud?
Interesting how these gullible companies kept paying him up until his dad was no longer VP, and never realized they weren’t getting anything in return.
Also interesting is how uniform the knowledge is in the media that despite all appearances, Biden was never on the take. I mean, 100% compliance.
And it isn’t like this is some beloved figure. Biden has been around a long time, and there were plenty of folks who liked him well enough, but he has also always been known to be a flaming asshole at times and to have royally pissed plenty of reporters off.
Yet?
100% compliance.
As I used to say before the Twitter files – “I wonder what the mechanism for that is?”
“Teachers fight back against school vape crisis: Classrooms across the country installing vapor detectors as e-cigarette use among students reaches epidemic levels
An estimated 2.6 million high schoolers vape and teachers say that in the past few years, students have taken to sneaking devices in their sleeves to vape discreetly in class, creating a distraction and second-hand effects on children nearby.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12394295/Teachers-fight-against-school-vape-crisis-Classrooms-country-installing-vapor-detectors-e-cigarette-use-students-reaches-epidemic-levels.html
Second hand effects?
It depends on the product.
One of the few times I attended a convention there was a guy vaping on the floor of the painting contest hall whose device released a plume of vapor so awful it was worse than if he was puffing away on turkish cigarettes. Others will release a fruity plume that is less immediately offensive to the senses. Some actually manage to contain their odors.
In the world of carcinogenic tars in cigarette smoke, second hand effects is a turn of phrase that has a specific connotation.
“it stinks” doesn’t count. And it isn’t an accident that they use this phrase. Nor is it an accident that they pretend vaping is super-dangerous when it is in fact relatively immensely safe (compared to cigarettes) and its absolute safety is unknown, but probably reasonably safe as a drug delivery system. (the absolute wisdom of using such systems is another matter).
Treating it as an “epidemic” is clearly the result of the former anti-tobacco lobby looking for ways to extend the grift as tobacco goes away.
Juul and the like that kids are likely using have almost no odor. I vaped it in my living room for five years and it was only after I quit that I could even detect it and only just barely.
Also I’ve heard repeatedly that kid vaping is already declining.
This is what you get when activist loons are writing your news stories for you.
“Also I’ve heard repeatedly that kid vaping is already declining.”
It’s half as much as 2019.
Pull my finger. I’ll test your vapor detector.
Epidemic? Someone needs a dictionary.
It’s strange, seeing the Sev 1 outage notices for my old team… and not having everyone and their director breathing down my neck to fix it.
“EXCLUSIVE: Migrants kept in CAGES in 113 degrees in Arizona as border crossings surge again”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12367443/Border-Patrol-migrants-cages-Arizona-Biden-surge-Tucson-heat.html
KIDS IN CAGES!!!
Kids in cages is a band from Cleveland.
https://soundcloud.com/kidsincagesband-1
Not news. Can’t blame it on enemies of the corruptocracy.
Weekend music
“The Biden administration asked Congress on Thursday for an additional $21 billion in funding for Ukraine, teeing off a bitter showdown with the GOP-controlled House.
The total $40 billion request includes $13 billion in emergency defense aid and wildfire pay and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support of Ukraine, as well as $12 billion for disaster relief after a season of heat and storms, as well as $4 billion for the border and to combat fentanyl to attract Republicans to the deal.
The breakdown of the $13 billion defense request includes $9.5 billion for equipment and replenishment of Pentagon stocks and $3.6 billion for continued military, intelligence and other defense support.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12395153/Biden-asks-Congress-40-BILLION-extra-funds-including-extra-13-BILLION-Ukraine-teeing-potential-showdown-Congress.html
Zelenskyy can finally afford that suit he’s always wanted.
But none for negotiations to end the fighting.
Not that it would yield much at this point. They pissed on any opportunity for that last year.
Adidas tracksuit?
The gold chains are what make the suit in that case.
JCPS bus routes generated by software with flawed track record in another district
You should always be careful about anything that comes out of Massachusetts. (This includes my wife and in-laws.)
MIT grads are clearly more adept at designing BattleBots than bus routes. ::starts imagining BattleBot buses::
It’s been done.
I used to play that.
I have a long story about the school buses and what the school did with my daughter this past week. I’ll hold it for the Stoic post.
So that is why the local school bus routes look like they were designed by the Three Stooges.
I get that they trusted some software that didn’t work so well in another district….. but didn’t anyone bother to look at the output of the system? I mean, it seems like the routes that end at 10pm instead of 4pm should have kind of stood out.
The driver looked at the output. And said “Cool, 6 hours of double-time OT!”
AS someone who rode JCPS buses for 10 years (not since 1986 though), I know a bit about how they do things. In the past, the buses drove the routes the week before school started to get familiar and testing and etc. And changes would be made, although sometimes after school started. But even then, there was never school cancelled because of it.
Also, this hits home here. We just got the bus schedule for our youngest. She is not following in her older sibling’s footsteps to middle school. Her sister is at an outstanding magnet school close by… but the youngest is all about the arts, and they don’t have art.
So she is going to go to a special experimental school at Nova. They are associated with the university and have an excellent reputation. But they are on the other side of the county.
And now we learn – the bus is going to be over an hour each way. Oooof.
I don’t know what we are going to do with that. I really don’t want her sitting on the bus for 2 hours a day. Plus, it isn’t just for their school…. Our county requires transportation for all students who are reassigned to other schools. So they have a lot of students bussing to out-of-area schools. So the busses pick up and drop off students for multiple schools.
I think we are going to let it play out for a bit, and then maybe transfer her back to the local magnet if things don’t work out. Maybe.
I dunno. This one is really tough.
The other option is the megachurch christian school. All of our friends are there. But… their kids are great, but they are also behind our kids who are in the public magnet schools.
Adjacent: A not-very-brief rundown of Kansas City’s desegregation bussing experiment that bankrupted a state.
They needed DEI administrators.
Baffling
The stabbing death of O’Shae Sibley, who was voguing outside a gas station in Brooklyn when he was attacked last month, has sparked a renewed concern over the rise of hate-motivated incidents against the LGBTQ community.
“Sibley’s death really marks a dramatic spike in anti-LGBTQ hate and harassment across the country,” Tony Morrison, senior director of communications at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), told Yahoo News.
According to authorities, a group yelled homophobic slurs at Sibley and told him to stop dancing before he was attacked on July 29. “They hated us cause we are gay!” Otis Pena, Sibley’s friend, posted to Facebook after Sibley’s death.
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“We’re getting into a place now where we’re moving from mean tweets and posts to violent crimes and real-world harm on the community in real-world ways,” Morrison said.
During Pride Month in June, GLAAD and the Anti-Defamation League tracked more than 145 anti-LGBTQ extremist incidents.
In addition, the two organizations released an annual report detailing how the severity of the extremism against members of the LGBTQ community continues to escalate. According to the report, 356 anti-LGBTQ incidents occurred in the U.S between June 2022 and April 2023.
What the fuck is “vogueing”? Could it possibly be a subset of being an obnoxious asshole? Obviously not a capitol crime, but another example of people pushing their stupid shit in other people’s faces without considering the potential consequences?
And, of course, GLAAD hops gleefully onto the corpse.
I haven’t closely followed this. It’s public dancing. As long as there is room and you aren’t getting in other people’s way I don’t give a shit. However, that isn’t always the case by a long shot.
OTH, my bet is he also had music cranked to 11. That’s obnoxious asshole territory for me.
Vogueing was an old dance move, kinda associated with the early 80s punk scene. One dancer strikes a modeling pose, while the other one pretends to photograph them. I hadn’t heard the term in about 30 years.
Come on… Vogue? Let your body move to the music?
Beauty’s where you find it.
Yeah, Madonna had a gigantic hit all about it.
But… ugh, stories like this piss me off.
It’s feeding a false narrative. It’s covid hysteria for queers, basically.
In the only article I’ve seen that actually describes the events leading up to the stabbing, O’Shae left his group to “confront” the teens, but the stabbing itself was off camera. So we’re unable to determine if the confrontation was a physical attack by or on O’Shae or just further provocation by either party. I will say, a 28 year old man coming up to a 17 year old could have put the teen in a defensive mode and while I think there’s no good guy in this case, I doubt it was an out and out hate crime.
Yeah, i have definitely noticed a trend of “victim is (insert minority)” equals hate crime.
This could entirely be a case of 2 assholes coming into conflict and finding out just how much of an asshole they are each willing to be and to tolerate.
AlphaRoute is out of Massachusetts and helps with planning routes and assigning bus stop locations. The program — developed by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — uses artificial intelligence to generate the routes with the intent of reducing the number of routes. Last year, JCPS had 730 routes last year, and that was cut to 600 beginning this year.
This reminds me of the UPS guy at one of the race shops I worked at. One day he told us about this new computer-generated route they had given him. It would be more efficient, they said. Except it involved turning left across a busy street about a hundred times, and then pulling back onto the street to the left. Lots of waiting for gaps in traffic. He said fuck that, and went all the way to the end doing drops to the right, and then turned around and did all the drops on the other side of the road.
That’s common issue with mapping software here in congested northern NJ. I commonly scratch my head with some of the routes suggested. Occasionally my wife and I try them just for the hell of it. The mapping software occasionally scores a shortcut only about 20% of the time or so.
One place I worked at did in house logistics for their routing. There’s quite a bit of deep math and the like figuring out the most effective route (especially when you start needing to put in restrictions like time of day, mandatory breaks, and max hours). Related to what P Brooks is saying, at least one of the software packages they were looking at when they went to a modified off the shelf package (instead of a home grown one based on an out of license street mapping software) would avoid (or heavily weight against) any left turns. From memory, it was the UPS software.
Yeah, the left turn innovation was definitely a UPS thing. I remember when they did that. It was not just for time, but also fuel efficiency. It turned out that making 3 right turns was more fuel efficient than idling for one left turn…. which seems weird to me. But that’s what they said. So they designed routes that ran to the right all the time, and in some weird circumstances where it couldn’t be avoided, they would actually go around the block to the right to get to a left. The said it saved millions, so it must work.
The real deep problem is when you have multiple vehicles, multiple destinations and multiple “cargo” that can each be picked up at various locations. The variables all multiply, so it very quickly becomes something that cannot be solved by brute force. The AI folks have had this as a target problem for decades.
Up until 5 years ago I worked on routing software. Testing and debugging that stuff is a bitch, especially when you also take into account loading/unloading vehicles, appointment times, and the fact that every client wants it configurable to the max.
One time a customer had the genius idea for us to add 6 Boolean flags to the configuration. I asked the analyst “Who’s going to test all those possibilities?” She said, “I will, it’s only 6.” I said, “No, it’s 64 possibilities.” Two days later she gave me a massive document outlining the 24 possibilities. I just laughed at her and said “You’re missing 40 possibilities in this document.” Her reply, “The customer only cares about these 24.” The customer didn’t like my time estimate. Eventually one of our VP’s with a math degree backed me up and the QE department thought my estimate was too low.
The customer only cares about these 24.
We don’t validate input because our users won’t do bad things.
Heh…..
So we had a problem with important customers disappearing from the database. Angry executives came to rant at me.
After some deep diving based on information they provided (hard copies of customer files), I found that the customer data was not lost due to some database malfunction… but that somehow the names were being deleted.
What could this possibly be? Did we have some rogue screen that was overwriting the data? We couldn’t figure it out. So I put a trigger on the database to record information about changes to those fields.
And a couple of days later, we trekked over to sales to ask a sales guy what he saw when it happened to one of his files.
“Oh, yeah. That’s what we do with old files.”
What?
“Yeah, they get in the way, so we just take the name out and they drop off the reports…”
You see…. we ain’t stupid. So we took away the ability to delete records after a certain point in the process. So if they had a deal that was done that had no prospect of a follow-up deal, they didn’t want to see it in their leads. So they came up with the idea of deleting the name.
But the rest of the company certainly still needed it – for years. So we locked that down in data validation. No blank names, no names with just spaces.. Problem solved!
Problem solved?
Uh… No.
Being the smart variety of stupid people, they figured out if they change the name to “ZZZZZ – whatever” it would move it to the end of their leads and reports, where it could be ignored.
So we had to completely lock down changing the names of people for the entire sales group. From then on, if someone had a typo, or if someone got married or divorced, they had to send the change request over to the legal department. Stupid, but that is what you get.
So…. Problem solved?
No.
Now it just so happened that from time to time, a customer would die. The legal team needed to know this so they could process things differently. We didn’t have anything in the system to track this at that point.
So, being smart, they just changed the last name from “Smith” to “Smith (Deceased)”.
Problem solved?????
Oh, hell no!
Because we send marketing materials out based on that customer database. Every month.
And now??
Well, now we are sending mail to “Joe Smith(deceased)”.
Oh, good lord!!
At some point, data validation isn’t the problem.
Humans are humans.
The solution would seem to be some kind of field that denotes if the account is active or similar. However changing the DB and/or or the reporting to accomplish this would take months if not years to accomplish in my world. Multiple owners, multiple users, cuts across functional areas.
This is what happens to big organizations. I’m not defending the person inputting the invalid data, but I’m not surprised.
Yeah, we eventually got it fixed.
The biggest problem was that people are smart and they want *their* problem solved right now.
Soo… fixing the problem by changing a name was
A. something they knew how to do
B. Something that solved their problem
C. Something they could do right now without asking.
Done.
We ran into this same issue many times – smart people solving small problems in their own world without talking to anyone else and thereby creating big problems elsewhere, completely unbeknownst to them.
We mostly solved the problem by fostering trust that problems would be addressed quickly. Many times (like the date of death issue), the real solution solved problems other people were facing too.
Still, IT is replete with these issues. People sticking notes in a little used field, etc. If your system does not fit their needs, people will always come up with a work-around. Those I can live with – it is the issues created by people who are trying to game the system that actually drive me nuts.
LOL That is so familiar.
In fact, we have a name for the phenomenon. “Hot, warm, cold”
In doing CRM software, every single sales manager in history at some point comes up with the brilliant idea for a way to categorize leads. A manual flag to mark a lead as “hot, warm or cold”. Or “High, medium, low”. Or “1, 2, 3”.
They will then use this to drive reports, predictive dialers, call schedules, you name it.
Every single time, I tell them “You will use this for 2 weeks, then the data will become hopelessly useless as it is ill-maintained, and then we will throw it away a year or two later, after you waste time at meetings every week talking about the meaningless reports that we maintain and update and reformulate to use this flag”.
And every single time, they say “No, we are going to make sure it is maintained and used! It is key to our success!!”
And every single time management backs them. And every single time we are proven right.
Yours is a superset of that mentality, of course. But the lack of knowledge of combinatorics is familiar. I had one manager who wanted something similar used for assigning work…. like 12 different variables, each with multiple values. And they wanted a report that put everything in categories based on that. Just like you – “you know, that ends up being thousands of categories. We only have 58 employees in this group”. They kept insisting that most of them wouldn’t happen – and as a computer guy I wasted my time trying to explain that it doesn’t matter, you still have to account for it….
(our counter – the one that works – is to track the important information and to have management set the rules very carefully. Only track information that is useful to the people inputting it. And everyone relies on that same information only. Then you apply the rules to come up with your categories. After a round or two of the first kind, they try our way and end up staying with it. Sales managers don’t inherently like objective measures – it doesn’t let them fudge the numbers – but eventually they figure out that they can’t actually be effective if they don’t learn to use objective measures.)
In the call center world, those are Wrap Up Codes or Call Dispositions. Every new group always says they’re going to want all of their agents to use them and they’ll put accurate information in!
Agents being agents, they’ll select whatever is the first or the easiest one to put in to get the call done. Especially if they’re being graded on Average Handle Time (total time the contact was with the agent, generally including after call work).
When I was on the helpdesk, our wrap-up codes were numeric, so there was no ‘first’, just whatever we keyed in. I had the common ones memorized. I think they were either three or four digits.
Yeah, if the information is not useful to the person who is creating it…. it will not be accurate or useful to anyone else either.
Interesting article on the cause of the wildfires in Hawaii. Spoiler alert: Not global warming. Instead, there are now a lot of abandoned farms that have been overtaken by non-native grasses that have spread due to a wet winter, and that’s fueling the fires. Sounds reasonable.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/08/11/hawaii-fires-fueled-by-invasive-alien-grasses-on-abandoned-farmland/
So it was aliens.
Poor dude even moved over a lane to let oncoming traffic enter the highway.
But my blinker was on!?!
Love how the driver leaves the right turn signal on through the whole merge and switches it directly over to the left turn signal.
That was clearly an example of “I want to go fast, so I need to be in the fast lane!!”
we have a lot of those down here in south florida
Loverboy! My first album was Get Lucky.
I hate to admit this, but I don’t recognize some of y’all’s Twitter monikers. Plz give me a rundown here or on Twitter so I can make note.
Was thinking of finally signing up, but only if I can use the handle Douchenozzle…..
I think Bro signed up to troll people. That was his plan earlier this week, then he vanished from here. Must be going well.
Mine’s @theotherkevin3. But you probably weren’t talking about me. 🙂
LOLno.
I’m still not signing up. Y’all are my twitter feed and filter.
What happens when you try to recreate Initial D in real life. (From a brief glimpse of a sign this is Japan, no idea if it is Gunma that Initial D made famous.)
Where do you think the lead car went wrong here?
Hope the jackass got what he deserves.
Where do you think the lead car went wrong here?
Somewhere around birth.
Given car prices in Japan and lower population of licensed drivers.
Higher than average probability of rich kid.
Begins about 1:00 in.
“where the lead car went wrong”?
I’d say he was looking in his rear view mirror instead of focusing on corner entry.
Blood for the Blood God!
Ukraine backers on Capitol Hill are itching for President Joe Biden to step up his case for why the US should send more money to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, as warning bells sound about the American public’s support for Kyiv.
White House officials are confident the $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine the president requested Thursday will ultimately get the congressional backing it needs to make it to his desk, and administration officials say they have no plans to change their message about the urgency of fighting Russian aggression against its neighbor.
But a major concern among Ukraine supporters in Congress this summer is what precarious position they might be in down the road – especially if public support falters heading into a bigger showdown over funding that could play out before year’s end.
They are carrion eaters who feed on death and destruction.
Can we hide this funding in some must-pass legislation?
I wonder why they are bothering. Nobody reads the legislation anymore. Not even the press.
While there are still enough votes between Republicans and Democrats to pass additional funding, it will be up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to decide whether to put the bill on the floor. Doing so could cost him politically with his right flank. Any supplemental requests might have to pair with strong protections against waste, fraud or abuse.
“Americans want to know that their money is being well and effectively spent and want to be reminded why containing Russia doesn’t just benefit Ukraine, but us,” said a GOP aide familiar with the discussions.
Haha, good one. The waste fraud and abuse are the whole point of the exercise.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
Bingo.
Bill Taylor, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, thinks the solution is for Biden to keep talking about Ukraine in public over and over again and not just as a “throw-away line at a campaign rally.”
Biden should also broaden the argument beyond the need to maintain the rules-based international order, Taylor went on. For example, he said, “Ukrainians are defending the US against Russia, and it is costing us less than 6% of our defense budget for the Ukrainian army to decimate the Russian army with no US soldiers on the ground.”
When you put it that way…
You don’t need or want it but it is on sale.
Ukrainians are defending the US against Russia
We have never been at war with Russia.
for the Ukrainian army to decimate the Russian army
That’s not happening. And why is this a goal of the US/NATO regime?
Typical NYP headline. Australian story, naturally.
Supermarket shut down due to spider that can cause long, painful erections
Spiderman! Spiderman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk
I’m having a hard time with that headline. Long length or duration?
J6 really was the regime’s Reichstag…..
And the 2020 riots were their Kristallnacht.
It wasn’t really subtle either.
Really well written article here Fox.
So was the allegedly autistic girl drunk and returned back to her home when all this went down? I can actually see a cop who tried to bring home somebody that was drunk and getting crap actually lose patience with everything and arrest her.
Autistic girl screams and cries as police arrest her after comment about officer looking like a lesbian
Of course it’s the UK so you can be arrested for perceived slurs on protected classes.
But… she does, in point of fact… look like a lesbian.
Agreed. She looks like a small Conan O’Brien.
If that’s not chilling, I don’t know what is.
Also, she definitely looks like a lesbian.
Also…..
Isn’t deciding that looking like a lesbian is denigrating or derogatory in fact the act of homophobia here? So shouldn’t the officer arrest herself for thinking that looking like a lesbian is a bad thing?
Conspiracy
A federal indictment alleges that the pro-life defendants “engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic from providing” and patients from receiving abortion services and violated the FACE Act by “using physical obstruction to intimidate and interfere with the clinic’s employees and a patient”…Attorneys for the defendants argued in a motion to dismiss that post Dobbs v. Jackson-the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade- there is no federally protected right to abortion. Judge Kollar-Kotelly denied the motion…
Handy and the other defendants have insisted that their intention was not to deny rights but to prevent federal crimes from taking place, most notably instances of infanticide and partial birth abortion which are prohibited under the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
How dare you engage in political protest.
I look at the Anchorage Daily News, our local rag, sometimes when there’s a copy at the bar on weekdays and, man, every single day there’s a hysterical WaPo anti-Trump article plastered over the front page. I can’t imagine why newspapers are dying off.
Now for even more fun, our hot water heater is out.
What fun!
Is it electric, gas or fuel oil?
Electric. Should be a guy coming up from Palmer, hopefully today.
Good luck. I’m on gas at home so I’m still paying $45/mo in the summer for my hot water, most of which is base charges instead of gas. FFS, I live alone and my boiler was off on May 15. The boiler and hot water heater aren’t even linked.
My gas company subsidized a tankless gas water heater.
I doubt it saved me any money, but damn if I don’t love having infinite hot water.
Same. I had that put in when the house was built. Best decision ever. Screw the savings, I get infinite hot water.
Ours doesn’t and I’ll keep my regular one until it dies. It doesn’t pencil out to preemptively replace the current tank for a single user household. A daily shower for a guy, some handwashing of dishes and a load of laundry a week isn’t a huge use of hot water.
I have never depleted the hot water in my tank either. Sounds like we have a similar use profile.
Also, also…. my sister has a huge house. Massive. like, 15,000 square feet finished, plus another house worth unfinished in the basement.
So waiting for the water to get hot was an issue in the upstairs bedroom….. so, being the sort who has the money to spend on these things, they put electric tankless heaters in each section of the house. Hot water in just a few seconds.
Nice.
Who would have thought that a 7,000 lbs vehicle with over 800 HP would chew through tires if you drive it like you stole it?
Rivians’ Tires Are Wearing Out in as Little as 6,000 Miles. Here’s Why
The good thing is we are saving the planet!
And here I am annoyed that my tired only last 60,000 miles.
I got about 50k out of my last pair of Michellians or w/e it’s spelled with ~7k on sharp gravel or bedrock roads.
Yes. I had good quality tires put on my Durango, and the Mega Jeep. Both looked fairly new at 20,000 and will go for 50K.
The stock Yokohamas that came on my Forester were trash and useless by 25k. I put on a set of light A/T Falkens on last spring and have seen good things, even to the point of driving through 18 inches of snow this winter.
The A/T Trail or the A/T3W?
A/T Trail. Love them in any weather and taking them on unpaved roads there’s minimal worry about punctures.
I go large. I put Michelin Defenders on. Long lasting is what matters to me, tires cost a ton of money. More than cost savings on fuel, or anything else, tires that go 50K or better save a heap of cash. Too bad so sad for giant electric truck owners. They spent a ton of money on the truck, and won;t see one bit of savings in maintenance and fuel. It just went from Fuel>Maintenance to Maintenance>Fuel. Another nail in the coffin for universal EV adoption.
Folks get crap mileage on my Model 3 tires too.
However, if you don’t drive them like every red light is a chance at the dragstrip you can get decent mileage out of a set of tires. I’m willing to bet this is at least partially self inflicted.
With that much horsepower, It’s going to take off unless you have a feather foot. I agree the temptation to launch into space with that would be huge. The Mega Jeep wouldn’t launch unless you shot it out of a trebuchet. So no hot rod tire wear for me!
Really. I’ve been buying Yokohamas exclusively for about the last 15 years.
Of course, I only buy two models. Summer performance tires for the 350Z and A/T tires for the Forrester, Rogue, Xterra, and Titan.
I love the tires.
They were the shitty OEM models that came with the car, so I wouldn’t say that it was exactly the top of the line model. They got panned on the subbie forums pretty much universally, but people who bought regular aftermarket tires didn’t have any issues.
Interesting.
We had a Nissan Quest that absolutely destroyed the front tires. Too much weight and torque on the front wheel drive. They would last about 15k on the front… so 30k overall, despite buying low wear, high mile guarantee tires.
Nissan disclaimed any known issues, but I just don’t see how that is possible. 80k tires fared no better.
I also gave up on FWD. That eats tires like breakfast cereal. I had a Honda Element that taught me that lesson well. Never again.
We have no choice but to save vacation homes of the wealthy in NYC.
Paywall
It Took $1.7 Billion to Fix Fire Island’s Beaches. One Storm Wrecked Them.
Just think of how much of that could have been grifted for Ukraine!
That is so good…
also, the ACoE is probably the biggest and most expensive money pit of any federal agency. I cannot begin to start to say how much I hate them after having to replace some existing pilings and how long it took to get approval.
We deal with them here at the NJ shore as well and have similar issues.
I’m also salty about having a scheduled, in person meeting with one of them about 10 years ago and I waited an hour because the employee wanted to ride her bike to the meeting since it was nice out that day. No call, no email saying she would be late. Thanks, asshole.
My dad was ADE for the St. Louis district (that was his only “ACoE” gig, rest were troop, staff, schools, garrison, etc. gigs) in the 80’s. You can’t necessarily blame the permitting timeframe on this, but pretty much all the rest of the bad things that happen are a result of political interference.
Yeah, we totally had a marine mammal observer and definitely followed the other 60+ pages of stipulations to replace pilings in an active harbor.
What a whale watching tour boat?
Some asshole you have to pay to look for walruses or seals and then if they see one, you have to shut down for the day and continue to pay your work crew to sit on their butts for the remainder of the 12 hour shift. Not to mentions there’s goddamn boats going in and out of the harbor at the same time but that’s okay apparently.
Sounds like you needed out harbor patrols that shot any seals or walruses before they came in sight of the harbor.
I should add that the observers are hired through through third-party regulatory capture firms so you’re paying $~150+ an hour for the service and some bright-eyed and bushy tail biology grad fresh out of school gets $30 an hour and the firm the gets the rest and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Unless you simply ignore the requirement.
Tell the court to fuck off.
Judge Chutkan says Trump has free speech rights, but his campaign will have to “yield to the orderly administration of justice.”
“If that means that he can’t say exactly what he wants to say about people who may be witnesses in this case, that’s how it’s going to have to be.”
So this supposed judge Chutkan admits this is about the corruptocracy using the broken and corrupt legal system to handicap a political enemy?
The word “but” negates everything prior to it.
Also… note that the prosecutor sees no such limits on their own speech or actual, credible threats.
Tenacious
Black elected officials, religious leaders, educators and community members railed against Florida’s controversial new standards for teaching African American history Thursday evening at a town hall in Miami that was supposed to feature the DeSantis administration’s top education official.
Instead, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. chose not to attend the event after initially agreeing to appear, an absence that became a focal point for critics of Florida’s standards that drew national attention over requiring educators to instruct students that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
The panel, including state Sens. Shevrin “Shev” Jones (D-Miami Gardens) and Rosalind Osgood (D-Tamarac), spent more than two hours addressing Florida’s Black history standards and other education issues among 200 or so people, with particularly harsh words for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education department.
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“Ron DeSantis knew that this was going on, Manny Diaz knew that this was going on,” Fedrick Ingram, secretary-treasurer with the American Federation of Teachers and a former state union leader, said at the event, going as far to call Diaz a “coward” for avoiding the meeting.
“They know how important this is to the Black community, they know that they have thrown an academic bomb in our community — and they knew that they should have been here to face you.”
Florida’s Black history standards, approved by the state Board of Education last month, drew wide condemnation and fed into the county’s politically polarized fight over how and what to teach children.
They’ll never let go of that.
There would be no “politically polarized fight over how and what to teach children” if those stupid MAGA radicals would just shut up and let the teachers’ unions promote their agenda.
I don’t get why they think skill development is bad. I have developed skills that I use for my benefit. And as applied to slaves (in America and elsewhere), many developed skills that helped them gain freedom*.
*In a number of cases in America they also became slave owners themselves.
That reeks of meritocracy and hard work.
The race-commie grifters can’t have that.
A Lahaina update. The death count keeps going up. I know three families who own property there and all lost their homes and multiple pets. The harbor had a fuel dock with above ground fuel storage. The tank ruptured and filled the harbor with a mix of diesel and marine gas which then erupted “like a bomb” according to a witness. Every boat burned and sunk. Two women were trying to save their boat when the harbor blew and were trapped. They threw an inflatable into the water on the outside of the seawall and got in. Somehow they stayed right side up in near hurricane force winds and were rescued.
The old charm of the town doomed it. Old wood houses and lots of mature trees. Front Street was old wood buildings with shared walls and narrow streets. All electrical lines were above ground with trees all around. One spark with the wind was all it took.
Damn. Amazing story about staying upright in the dinghy.
Having gone through hurricanes, death, damage and the like I can’t imagine what it is like when you add a fire on top of everything else.
Sounds like a movie pitch rejected for being to unrealistic:
Hmmm …. what is worse than being on the ocean with 100mph winds and the waves that go with it? I know! Let’s set the ocean on fire!
Horrible.
Damn.
Never even considered the above ground gas storage. Basically a thermobaric bomb in those conditions.
Shades of the Witch Harris fire and the Santa Ana winds.
If you had a cedar shake roof the fire department wouldn’t even talk to you. The eucalyptus trees were upright cinder dispersion devices as they exploded from the boiling sap.
There are lots of videos from this fire that show this phenomenon – roof after roof with multiple embers starting spot fires.
Absolutely horrific.
Channeling all a Rivian’s power through its front wheels may not be the only reason Conserve doesn’t conserve the tires, too. An evaluation of Rivian’s height-adjustable air suspension posted to Reddit indicates R1s develop slight toe-in and significant negative camber in their lowered setting. Camber can cause uneven wear, but doesn’t necessarily accelerate it. Toe, meanwhile, is an infamous tire-killer.
Fucking geniuses.
“In fall 2021, in four Massachusetts school districts with 18,000 children, researchers found 44 potential cases of in-school transmission.
You read that right.
18,000 students. 34 schools. Four months. And 44 Covid infections – including no infections of teachers or other staff members.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, as parents pressed with increasing urgency to reopen classrooms, teachers unions and Democratic politicians warned in-school Covid transmission would lead to waves of death. “Teachers are so worried about returning to school that they’re preparing wills,” CNN infamously wrote on July 16, 2020.
In reality, schools were among the safest possible places for students and teachers during Covid, this study suggests.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/kids-almost-never-transmitted-covid-schools-major-new-study-finds
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/kids-almost-never-transmitted-covid
Huh, it’s almost like kids and working-age adults were basically immune or had minimal side effects from a flu like virus.
Too bad we didn’t know this within months of the outbreak.
All vehicles’ suspensions are designed to adjust alignment with suspension travel
Oh, are they now? Bump steer is bad, children. Mmmmkay?
many developed skills that helped them gain freedom*.
“Lemme show you how to get them chains off.”
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Oh, the original thing I meant to comment on!
The misandry of the article about Facebook black market sperm donors.
“Women desperate to have children are being lured into unprotected sex ”
“For women who refuse sex, the alternative can be just as humiliating and unsafe, with some meeting in parking lots, hotels or even Starbucks bathrooms to exchange samples.”
“‘He basically put his donation in a cup and handed it to us… it was very weird’.”
So – women asking men to help them have a baby for free are being exploited by men who agree to their request to help them have a baby for free? The underlying assumptions here are kinda generically horrible. But more than that, the entire thing reads like a shill article for “big semen” and an ad for public funding of artificial insemination through fertility clinics at a cost of thousands of dollars instead of for free the old fashioned way.