I spent the morning in a hole in the wall auto shop after a check engine light that’s been turning on and off the past few weeks actually started to materialize into a noticeable drivetrain issue. Damn thing decided it no longer wanted to shift without making a fuss about it. Sort of like the union toads that built it.
This being a Chrysler product means it either needs a transmission fluid change, or its time to file a police report to declare it stolen and take it out to the desert set it on fire.
Enalces!
Mexico’s economy not as strong as they thought. Which totally tracks since their economy is a proxy for ours, and they keep saying the US economy is straight up fire.
CNN ponders whether the new St. Ronnie has the power to invade Mexico just like Pershing.
“Experts” have opinions on “misinformation” in light of the “2024 Mexican presidential election.” Thus far this lady named…Sheinbaum is the frontrunner.
I realize his fanbase is probably assumed to be in their 60’s, but his fanbase is a lot bigger across age groups in Mexico where the pronoun game hasn’t taken as big a hold.
He’s not wrong, the Pope is evil.
Its not everyday a hurricane is named after your aunt.
Pay no attention to this BRICS thing. Besides, even Brazil will break up into competing states!
It feels like a Santana day, why not?
“This being a Chrysler product means it either needs a transmission fluid change, or its time to file a police report to declare it stolen and take it out to the desert set it on fire.”
I’d try the first one first.
Being a Chrysler, the best move is always to set it on fire.
(Note: I drive a beat to shit Hyundai, but come one, you gotta do it for the joke)
Old Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth were great though.
Leaving it in a field on fire is the most manly way to fulfill “MOPAR or no car.”
The Slant Six.
They would run like shit for 300K.
Yes, 150K, do the valves, another 150K.
We have 3 Hyundais (4 if you count my mom’s) and they’re lovely and wonderful.
Agreed, we have 2 and they’re great, rarely have an issue.
I had a very early one…
I am on Hyundai 3, and am extremely happy with them.
For the Hyundai owners: https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/comments/h98i9x/i_wish_i_understood_what_hyundai_elantra/
It appears the latter will be more cost effective.
I’m probably weird — but I can’t imagine actually trying to ignore a Check Engine light for very long. The moment I get one, I’m going to pull over asap and get the ODBII reader out of the glove box, hoping it is an easy fix (like “fuel cap not tight” or O2 sensor) — if it isn’t, trip to the dealership (yeah, they’re pricier… but they haven’t fucked me over when it comes to actually doing the job) if it isn’t something I can get to easily.
While you shouldn’t ignore it very long, it is an amber warning light, which means continue on your way, but get this looked at sooner than later. If it’s a red warning lamp, (oil, temperature, brake) that means stop as immediately as you can and deal with it. The number of my customers (and immediate family) that treat a temp warning as trivial astounds me. I see more engines/transmissions lost to overheats than any single issue. The sad thing is, most could have been remedied much cheaper had they just stopped and addressed it in the moment.
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https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1696611584804786628
Why, dude? Why?
Because demons exist.
Nope. They don’t. Just bad people/insane people. They’re not inhabited by supernatural entities. That implies their behavior is outside their control. It’s not. They’re just evil.
It wasn’t a religious statement. It was simply descriptive.
Well, daemons exist.
There’s even a process for signalling them.
Just reload if they start bothering you.
It’s just sad when lefties try to be edgy.
Also fuck Elon Musk for the API changes that broke Nitter.
I’m not sure what he can do about data mining, but putting Twitter on lockdown undermines the “free speech” he supposedly supports. Who knows? Doesn’t he have seven kids?
I mean even rate limiting would have been an option. What he’s ostensibly trying to prevent is scraping the entire database to train AI sets and things like that. I can’t imagine every Nitter instance on the planet cumulatively using enough traffic to even be noticeable.
It’s not just AI training, it was the entire IC crawling up Twitter’s ass with a microscope.
I’m not sure there’s much that can be done about that anymore. The Panopticon is real and it isn’t easily avoided.
Hi trashy! LTNS
Have they found your new trash can yet? The Panopticon is not all seeing.
Hello KK!
Funnily enough, I had a hell of a time finding my own trash can for a while. Republic Services (may they die in a horrible Chapter 7 bankruptcy) took my money, delivered a trash can 3 weeks late, picked it back up the next week leaving the trash behind, and finally took some of the trash after I yelled at them, but not before telling me that they stopped serving my area “effective yesterday”.
I called a local trash company and they were so overwhelmed by new customers that it took a week to get back to me and they told me to go buy my own cans because they ran out.
they took your can!
Wait, does this mean you’re homeless?
Not homeless. Uncanny.
“Can I substitute veal?”
“THAT’S NOT VEGAN!”
The power or the authority?
Where does it say that in the Constitution that the President can’t do that?
Isn’t the AUMF still in effect? Anyway, even if unconstitutional it will take time to work through the courts. Then the president can slightly change the campaign and the process starts again.
I’m sure some lawyer on the Hill can spin the original Mexican War declaration into a “continuing mop-up operations” piece of shit justification at this point.
Black (lacist!) letter law no longer seems to matter a whit.
Wasn’t the Pope badmouthing American Catholics the other day? Did that get swept under the rug?
*Something about bitterly clinging to outdated dogma, I think it was.
We got yer new improved dogma right here!
This years model comes with fine Corinthian leather and reclining seats!
Corinthian leather is o.k. and all but I prefer Ephesian leather
Why no denim seat option?
Too many Gremlins
Galatian leather or GTFO
Yes, he sure was.
Yeah… that’s a good look… Pope blasts US Conservative Catholics for believing the Church Meant What It Said… I suppose we should be glad he didn’t call the FBI on them and all.
Alternate headline: Pope butthurt that conservative Catholics think he is full of it.
Alternate alternate headline: SDF-7 blows chunks at pseudo-HTML tagging. News at 11. At least the link is buried in there and works this time.
Ack! Pbbbbttt!
Yeah.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-doesnt-get-america-ex-priest-says-after-francis-blasts-us-catholics/ar-AA1fU5JB
The idea that doctrine needs to evolve in a correct direction…
The ole Coolidge line leaps to mind with that…. “progress” isn’t always actually good, CommiePope.
Something something serve two masters something something love one and despise the other.
Yes.
Local (to me) take on it
social justice issues such as the environment and the poor
Fuck right off. They’re critical because he’s woke, not because he cares about environmental stewardship and serving the poor.
There it is
Carlos Santana is 76 years old. Although I’m sure he’s heard of Vaniity, probably hadn’t given it much thought.
Yeah, he probably hasn’t thought about Vanity in years… back in the day though… he may have been in his bunk.
That poor girl was a mess.
“It’s not every day a hurricane is named after your aunt.”
I expected Flo.
That would wash in a red tide.
The BRICS article: That writer is one stupid son of a bitch.
BRICS has several purposes. A big one is keeping their funds out of Western banks where they can be frozen or stolen whenever the U.S. or EU is displeased. The Biden Administration is so carried away with sanctions, they are destroying the petro-dollar because nobody trusts them.
At this point, I assume the destruction is intentional.
They saw what happened to Russia and noped right out. It’s actually pretty rational.
““The risk of disinformation in contexts of low democratic institutional strength, as is the case in Mexico and many other Latin American countries, is the impossibility of reaching an agreement between the different political groups,” said Guerrero. “There is simply too much noise.””
So it’s harder to manufacture consent.
I’m a fan, but my taste isn’t really representative of people in my age cohort.
Also, it’s funny seeing the trans shit causing this generational schism on the left. Get Santana going about wypipo and he sounds like a bog standard campus radical, but they’ll still string him up by his entrails for stubbornly refusing to call a guy with fake tits a woman.
Oh yeah, he’s a dyed in the wool Marxist and if they manage to take him down he will never understand why.
“Why is my concert in front of this ditch?”
or its time to file a police report to declare it stolen and take it out to the desert set it on fire.
Be sure to paint some gang graffiti on it.
“It was two red Chevy trucks! They had MAGA license plates!”
Article IV, Section 4:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion…”
Failing to repel the invasion that’s been active for a long time now is a plain dereliction of duty on the part of the USG. To the extent “protect” might require cross-border actions against foreign states or actors/actions allowed or facilitated by those states, then it’s not just allowed – it’s required.
Ronnie Spectrum still knows he can’t invade Mexico. If the usual suspects went after Trump over “kids in cages” (with pictures from when Obama was President) just think of the political cost of collateral damage.
Oh I know all the normal, modern political sides of it. I’m just sorta waving the flag for “there are very few things the Federal government is actually supposed to do, but this right here is explicitly one of them.” Since they’re NOT doing it, then the least somebody like Greg Abbott could do would be to play the game the modern way. Like find the right judge – bring suit against Biden/Harris/Austin/etc. – get the insistence that it’s an invasion – get some kind of ruling good or bad – but at least try to build some momentum.
Hey, is that Montana judge available? They seem to be sticklers for what’s written in constitutions, after all…. (the youth environmental case if folks don’t recall).
Or we’ll find out they’re a massive hypocrite, of course.
A Montana judge would only work against Canadians, though. So, unless you got a lot of maple trees, it’s a NOGO.
Governor Greg can’t even put up barriers without being sued. If by some miracle he wins that case, maybe he can do more.
According to the NHC, no major hurricane has tracked into Apalachee Bay in north-western Florida since 1851.
Left unstated: Hurricane Michael wallowed ashore in Mexico Beach, a few dozen miles west, all the way back in 2018.
Not since 1851? Well that’s a sure sign of climate change.
You see, up until now CNN has been staunch supporters of the president not sending troops into other countries unless congress declares war, like it says in the Constitution.
Oh yeah, he’s a dyed in the wool Marxist and if they manage to take him down he will never understand why.
“This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
“We need to to play black magic woman.”
*clicks off safety*
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Then why was this necessary? In 2002? In the homeland security bill?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-man-behind-the-vaccine-mystery/
This is why.
The idea that people like Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and Alex Jones seem more reasonable to me by the day is starting to hurt what’s left of my brain.
You see, thimerosal was completely safe. Which is why they removed it from all childhood vaccines almost overnight after a review of all the available data on outcomes.
And it was so safe that they gave its manufacturer complete legal immunity.
And they replaced it almost overnight with another adjuvant which is also a known neurotoxin BUT IT’S ALSO COMPLETELY SAFE.
Oh, and that adjuvant also has legal immunity, which is totally necessary BECAUSE IT’S SAFE.
I’m now fully onboard with the idea that the media and these NGOs intentionally position certain types of people into being the “brand” associated with ideas they want discredited. There are dozens if not hundreds of scientific papers out there about association between autism and vaccines. More than enough evidence to at least say, hold up, we’re seeing something that is worth digging into a little deeper.
Instead, the association is made that only crazy people think that way to intentionally chill the thought process and prevent reasoned investigation. Because it’s totally reasonable and sane to force a vaccine on every 6 hour old newborn that is only transmissible via sexual intercourse and intravenous drug use. I don’t see what the harm in waiting a couple years is, but the hospital almost called CPS on me over it with our firstborn. I learned with the remaining kids to tell those assholes our family doctor would administer it.
It’s essentially the same playbook as Covid Denier and Follow the Science (TM).
Was that ever even controversial? We’ve got declassified documents going back to the ’60s that suggest it, if not outright admit it.
There’s a bit of an issue with my paint rack…
I mixed up and used the external diameter of the paint bottle as the external diameter of the bracket… The pain doesn’t rest properly in its spot.
Oops. 😕 Can you reuse that stuff for another print?
Not that I’m aware of.
I can rescale the computer file and print again.
A classic blunder.
That zany UCS. He must not have had his measuring gloves on.
Is he even Sicilian?
Based on his food preferences, I’m going to assume not.
Luckily this isn’t life or death.
Oppression and misery
An attack on drag is yet another attack on Black and Brown communities and gender queerness.
In the 2023 legislative session, the Texas Legislature introduced over 140 bills targeting the LGBTQIA+ community. One of those bills, Senate Bill 12, seeks to ban drag shows by censoring any performance that could be perceived as “sexual” anywhere that anyone under the age of 18 may be present. The law proposes fines and criminal penalties, including up to a year in jail, against artists and the organizations that support them. S.B. 12 is so vaguely written that it threatens a wide range of free expression, from drag performances and touring Broadway musicals to karaoke nights and professional cheerleading routines.
The ACLU of Texas is suing Texas to block the drag ban because it violates the First Amendment. Beyond the law’s clear unconstitutionality, it will also cruelly and disproportionately harm trans and nonbinary people of color, who helped birth drag in the first place
Now do self defense.
An attack on drag is yet another attack on Black and Brown communities and gender queerness
Fuck off, you can’t have my kids.
Yes, it’s obvious that so many of the freaks are black and brown and not fucked-up white dudes who would be filming cuck videos of their wives if they were actually married.
So blacks and browns are all queer? That’s a strong assertion.
Does it apply to burlesque? If so, then fuck right off with your special pleading.
ACLU of Texas: That’s like hot sauce made in New York City.
New York City?
/Pace commercial
“harm trans and nonbinary people of color, who helped birth drag in the first place”
No, they didn’t. Non-binary wasn’t even a thing when drag started.
“WE WUZ KWEENS!”
Sorry… I know I’m going to Hell for that one.
No, that’s funny. Purgatory only.
Well, have them keep a bourbon ready for me when I get there, because I audibly guffawed.
So these people can’t fully express themselves unless it’s in front of children. That doesn’t sound at all bad. And go to hell, ACLU.
*cough* bullshit *cough*
Historical gay people who didn’t have the opportunity to express their transness can be retroactively transed. Just like Mormon baptism.
They tried to do the same thing with Stonewall.
Well, they already got Joan of Arc.
How many states allow changing sex on a death certificate?
He’s not wrong, the Pope is evil.
It’s interesting to me that the Pope never actually talks about Jesus.
Sorry about the Jeep. I hope it’s not anything too fucked up.
Its not worth the repair, but a new vehicle is not in the cards right now…and so.
Sorry. Rebuild?
No, not that bad, just slipping between 1 and 2. They figured out the what but not the why.
Roger that.
Canada has instituted a travel advisory for LGBTQ+ people
….
Who are visiting the USA.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1696619559141380201
Goddamn… 2 minutes in and I’m screaming “GET TO THE FUCKING POINT!!!” blah blah blah… professionals… blah blah blah work on all levels…
and no fucking answer — “We’re concerned for the safety of all Canadians”. Well no shit, that’s your job dumbass… no what exactly is different with the US that merits the advisory? (The unspoken message I got with all the blather about ‘all levels of government’ is “Some of the US states are doing stuff we don’t like… waaaaaahhh!” I suppose at least she didn’t trot out the “Don’t say gay” lie).
The reporter should have just said (politely, being Canadian) — “That’s all good to hear, but does absolutely nothing to answer my question. Can you please stick to the point and list precisely your department’s concerns with the United States and how that warrants this advisory? Given you’re insulting our largest trading partner and those responsible for our defense and all…”
Annoying weasel Timbit nibbling Tory jackass.
Freeland is a WEF toady. She may be worse than Castreau.
This is pure identitarian politics.
Their “leadership” no kidding hates the U.S. more than they hate countries like Iran where A..Z are actually unsafe.
This myth needs to die already. It’s so not true.
Well technically the Quebecois don’t consider themselves Canadian, and the rest of them are pretty nice.
The good news is that we won’t be getting a visit from Trudeau anytime soon as a result.
LOL
+1
A gold star for you Jaime.
This seems relevant.
I’m not even mad, I kind of don’t want them here, just because that label has gotten so political.
Same here. Having something that I never cared about rubbed in my face as if the imaginary problem is all my fault gets damned tiresome.
I’m probably weird — but I can’t imagine actually trying to ignore a Check Engine light for very long.
The Change Engine light is all/mostly pollution control crap. If you still have oil pressure and it’s not overheating, carry on.
The emissions stuff getting out of whack can screw the mileage though — the computer adjusts the airflow for O2 after all. Hence I find it worth following up on.
It can also overheat if it runs lean.
Driving to OH, I got behind a very inefficiently-burning heavy truck at a stoplight. Strong hydrocarbon smell.
EVERY SINGLE WARNING indicator went off on my dashboard. The cruise control and hill assist indicators were blinking. It eventually went away the next day.
Maybe a flying saucer went by. Don’t always blame the dirty truck.
Hadn’t considered the modern emissions systems would light up because of contaminated intake air, but it makes sense.
What pisses me off is that you can’t determine the issue without a $150 dealer fee for reading the codes.
Unless you have a code reader, which I do.
Local auto parts store here will come out and read the codes for you. They actually will just give you the little machine that you plug into the obd2 port, but I look so clueless that they come out to help.
Last two times, the guy running it has given me a decent tip on how to fix it myself.
Yup, those places are great.
I drive north on the I-17 and damn light goes off just because the elevation changes 4 times.
We send SF into countries all the time and this is what has them questioning?
*stupid idea of course, international treaties, etc should be utilized or you know…end the war on drugs*
Holy shit — we inflict SugarFree on other countries!?!? That’s got to violate the Geneva Conventions somehow. 😉
The other countries rely on SugarFree for their intelligence briefings.
“The number of people who identify as “nonbinary” in the energy workforce has skyrocketed by more than 88% since last year, according to data from the Department of Energy.
The agency’s annual employment report (USEER), showed that last year, there were 22,723 individuals in the energy workforce who don’t identify as male or female (nonbinary). As of June 2023, that number had increased to 42,810—an 88.4% surge.
The increase was leaps and bounds greater than the increase in male and female workers during the same time span, which increased by 2.2% and 7.8%, respectively.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/energy-sector-sees-88-increase-nonbinary-workers-last-year
That seems like an awfully odd statistic.
YOU CAN’T FIRE ME, I’M OPPRESSED.
“… but don’t you just love my new luggage? You’ll never guess where I got it!”
Nice. Was it on clearance?
You could say that. And it came with free gifts.
Nope, Arrivals.
Those were awesome stolen dresses. Guess some* people are so mirror-blind as not to recognize how bad they look.
*also anorexics and the pro-obese
88%? That’s obviously a neo-Nazi dog whistle.
Sounds like someone just made this shit up. From the underlying report
Depending on the employer’s source of data, the demographic data reported by employers could vary from [what] individuals would report for themselves.
And
Gender nonbinary workers made up <1% of the energy workforce, but there are insufficient data to compare this to the U.S. workforce overall.
Utter bullshit, in other words.
“Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”
You know what 88 is code for?
Patrick Kane?
Love and kisses
Gotta be something dirty.
Another song that sounds like it could be dirty but is just about a car.
In other Latino news,
“Narcos’ revenge: Fugitive drug lord ‘Taliban’ who stole cartel’s 450lb shipment of cocaine is found in Dominican Republic and tossed ALIVE into ocean with anchor tied to his waist”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12457087/Venezuelan-narco-body-dumped-Caribbean-Sea.html
That’s one way to anchor the negotiation.
Hawser do you think that makes Swiss feel?
Like a great weight has been attached to his leg?
Probably lower than whale shit.
At least he won’t be making waves anymore.
just slipping between 1 and 2. They figured out the what but not the why.
Snake oil rebuild?
You warranty expired five miles ago, that’s why.
“Shocking emails reveal Hunter Biden helped coordinate a plan with Democrat strategists to ‘close down any cases’ against the owner of allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma and ‘gain intelligence’ on the country’s top prosecutor’s office.
The emails bolster claims by ex-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin that the First Son and his then-Vice President dad conspired to kill Shokin’s criminal investigation of Burisma.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12453245/Emails-Hunter-Biden-tried-help-shut-Burisma-probe.html
Mykola Zlochevsky looks like a comic book villain.
He has a perfectly round head. Amazing.
It’s… Kind of beautiful.
Zlo is evil in Ukrainian.
How do you say Kingpin in Ukrainian?
Kingpinskiyy
1. I was under the impression that a very substantial portion of the Mexican economy involved remittances from Mexican citizens here int he US.
2. No, he cant do that. It would be an act of war and congress would have to declare war first. (Stop that. Now go get some paper towels and clean up. your afternoon coffee.)
3. I got nuthin’.
4. As rarely as it is, it is nice to see someone with balls.
5. No shit. Well, they had a NAZI pope, why not a commie one?
6. Unprecedented. A hurricane in Florida is unprecedented.
I think someone needs to buy a dictionary. Journalists should not use the words they do not understand.
7. “…O’Neill just picked out four “developing” countries of continental scale with fast-growing economies — China, India, Russia and Brazil — and said they were a good place to put your money…” Or you could take. your money to the casino.
Are you saying that they keep using that word… and you do not think it means what they think it means?
Inconceivable!
Visited English Harbor / Nelson’s Dockyard while on vacation once. Nelson would stash his Caribbean fleet there hiring hurricane season because it was very sheltered. Nice place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Dockyard
Correct, but as I posted recently in Mexican links, inflation here is hurting them as well.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/remittances-mexico-hit-record-strong-peso-softens-impact-2023-07-03/
Absolutely best fucking thing I’ve read all week.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1696534247790752003
Love that. Also, a bunch of other countries have pledged military support.
Spicy.
@GT, not that you asked, but it occurs to me that there must be YT videos for southpaw calligraphy. And I find markers easier than nibs, at least for practice. These Itoya and Staedtler double-ended markers have lasted since Bush Jr. was in office.
Great, am now a WP alien.
How did you swim past the razor wire sawblade bouys?
Tried to change avatar. Oh well.
Fancy pants writing is a major reason I taught myself how to write right-handed.
The letters and the left-to-right direction of writing are built for right-handers.
I would probably take up Leonardo’s mirror-writing if I were. Easy enough to flop these days.
I’m fairly ambidextrous, and writing is one of the few things I consistently do left-handed. I could possibly learn to do the calligraphy right-handed if necessary, but I’ll stick to lefty at first and see how I do. I figure if I use the orange ink cartridges for practice, the smudges on the side of my left hand won’t show as much.
I’m mono dexterous, I’d starve to death if I had a sliver in my left hand, except I batted right hand as a kid.
Write and shoot right, bat left. My dad claims he taught me to bat left because he knew that extra half step toward first would be important!
I never understood that, my teacher in 3rd grade, Miss Lindemeyer said, “1/2 Score, just slant your paper the other way”. Today my handwriting is not so good but until the last few years it was impossible to know that I was totally dominant left handed. My brother, 7 years older, was obviously left handed in writing. Miss Lindemeyer knew her stuff.
When my Kindergarten teacher saw me coloring left-handed, she said, “Tell your mother to get you the scissors with the green handles.” Trouble is, I use scissors righty, so I could never get those damn things to work.
An inappropriately young woman superswiped me on bumble. Pics are not hot/fake enough to be a dude, and they haven’t indicated they’re a sex worker. We’re meeting for Indian food tomorrow night.
Hopefully I don’t get robbed and murdered. I’ve made sure my will is up to date just in case.
Do I get your parking spot?
Don’t worry, you’ll still have one kidney.
This isn’t his first rodeo, he’s only showing up with one kidney.
Do you have any more to sell? Customers have been inquiring.
He left everything to Lily.
Just make sure she stays at the minimum range for a pistol the whole night and you’ll be fine.
The defeats the purpose of going on a date.
Are derringers legal in NY?
AFAIK, as long as they don’t have a detachable magazine and another assault weapon feature, or are greater than .50 caliber.
I imagine that there are black powder derringers that violate that second prong.
I heard Chris Hansen was trying to start that show up again…..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12457315/Carmen-Electra-flaunts-famous-curves-90s-inspired-photoshoot.html
She has weird taste in shoes.
I’ve seen much, much worse.
Hmmmm. I see my photo with Mrs. Suthenboy from nearly 40 years ago. I look in the mirror now and think “What the hell happened.”
Then I start noticing the head to toe scars. Then I remember throwing out nearly 100 empty vodka bottles I was saving to put wine in. Then I….fuck it, you get the idea.
She looks great for 51, but I’m sure she’s had a ton of work done.
I like my scars and grey hairs. I earned them all honestly.
Dude if you are noticing the shoes….
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
The ’90s bimbo aesthetic ages well since they all looked like uncanny valley blow up dolls in the first place.
“A Tennessee woman fatally shot a “scared” 4-year-old girl — then claimed to cops she was only trying to give the child a “gun safety lesson,” authorities say.
The suspect had allegedly hit the tot with a sandal right before for failing to wake the woman up and eating food without permission.
Breanna Runions, 25, was charged with murder and aggravated child abuse after allegedly pushing the loaded gun into little Evangaline Gunter’s chest and pulling the trigger at a home in Rockwood on Sunday”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/woman-allegedly-shoots-dead-4-year-old-girl-claims-it-was-firearm-safety-lesson/
WTF??
That’s some mighty fine foster parenting there Lou.
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. That the kid was removed from her home because her parents did something innocuous like let her go to the park alone or something.
Jesus. Fry her ass.
Back in the late 80’s the Rapides Parish DA declared that there are no more gun ‘accidents’ in Rapides Parish. Any such accidents from then on would be prosecuted as murder or manslaughter.
*Ding* Magically they disappeared. The other parishes soon followed suit. Since then I can only remember one accident…. a 10 y.o. boy shot his own father while walking through the woods to their hunting spot. The kid was walking in front of the father and had his gun on his shoulder with the barrel pointing behind him.
There might have been others that I dont remember.
Driving to OH, I got behind a very inefficiently-burning heavy truck at a stoplight. Strong hydrocarbon smell.
EVERY SINGLE WARNING indicator went off on my dashboard. The cruise control and hill assist indicators were blinking. It eventually went away the next day.
I was behind somebody in a diesel pickup in Bozeman one day, and it was running so badly the thing was pretty much dumping raw fuel out the tailpipe. By the time I had been behind her (pretty sure it was a her, not that it matters) for a half mile or so I had a raging brain ache and had to pull off.
He’s not wrong, the Pope is evil.
Qué?
You have to stop listening to those gals at the Honey Harvest.
Son, fat, drunk, and evil is no way to go through life.
It’s worked ok for me.
Seems easier than the alternatives. Do you know how hard it is to go through life skinny, sober and nice?
Ah were one o’ those once, but then again ah didn’t know any better.
Shoot me now. My boss rejected an expense report where the hotel didn’t apply a breakfast credit and charged for it. If there wasn’t a credit, it would be a personal expense so either way I’m paying personally for it. Nope. Back to trying to get a refund which I’ve already been trying for a month with an uncooperative property.
Crazy eyes
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1696630716166217949
Maybe I should start vabbing…
I made it half way through….and yeah, always with the crazy eyes.
I’ll give the cultural Marxists credit. They’ve managed to create an intellectual framework that emotionally rewards the most insane and committed among them while maintaining an illusion of caring.
Training night shift tonight! Isn’t being exempt great!
But salaried sounds so much better than hourly.
Junior engineers everywhere laugh maniacally and then cry a little.
I know you’re not alone.
BREAKING: Democrats are still for school segregation.
“An elementary school in California’s San Francisco Bay Area sparked outrage after it arranged a Playdate Social for students that is exclusively for those who are “black,” “brown,” or “API,” standing for Asian and Pacific Islander. White students were excluded from the mixer.
The event was hosted by the Equity & Inclusion Committee at Chabot Elementary School in Oakland, California.
“If your family identifies as Black, Brown, or API or are a parent/caregiver of a Black, Brown, or API student. Come hang out while we get a chance to know each other and build our community as we kick off this schoolyear,” the event invite states.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-school-holds-segregated-playdate-to-exclude-white-students
I read that as “Chatbot Elementary School”
It’s ok. The white families can have their own separate but equal playdate social.
Whaddaya mean, you don’t owe me a job?
Unfortunately for Amazon’s executives, summoning staff back to the office has been particularly controversial.
And after being hit with everything from criticism to staff petitions, it seems the Amazon boss has reached the end of his tether.
In a “fishbowl” meeting earlier this month—a company name for a fireside chat—Jassy reportedly threw down the gauntlet, implying that if staff refused to come back to their desks they would not have a spot on the payroll.
“It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” Jassy said in a recording obtained by Insider. “And if you can’t disagree and commit, I also understand that, but it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week, and it’s not right for all of our teammates to be in three days a week and for people to refuse to do so.”
Go out in your garage and start your own mail order operation.
“After coming into the office for zero days per week for over 3 years, everything is going to come to a halt if people don’t show up 3 days a week.”
My gut says that there are 2 types of managers who are pushing this. The old school managers who just believe that if they can’t see their people working, then they aren’t working. The second type are the weak managers who can’t call out employees who aren’t performing while remote. They are hoping that either the slackers quit or that if they are in the office they will somehow start performing.
From what I’ve seen in Manufacturing it’s overwhelmingly the former.
My first 100% remote job was in the mid ’00s. It was better than now.
Back then people would have to write you an email about whatever issue was going on. Most of the time when they were trying to explain the issue they’d realize how they could fix it themselves, or why it made no sense. So interruptions were at a minimum.
Now? Fuck all the chat apps that allow people to instantly bug me. And video meetings are even worse. Those are for the slugs who feel that chat apps are too exhausting. It is as bad as working back in the cube farms. Probably worse because they don’t even have to waddle their fat asses over to my cube.
All that said, I think being in the office is invaluable to people just starting their careers.
You learn a lot by being around older people who have been doing the job for years and years. Not just technical things, but basics like how to act professionally.
My current job is 100% remote (everyone on the team is remote and spread across the country). I feel bad for the juniors because they are not getting the constant attention they probably need.
Two or three days in the office sounds like a decent compromise.
Agreed. I do one day in office, but I work directly with literally nobody at my location and I’ve worked for the company for 10 years.
We are going back to the office . . . not because the old timers are being less productive . . . but because the new hires are failing without the old timers to bug constantly during the day.
I expect my productivity to drop. Group productivity will go or up or go down or not change at all. Who fucking knows.
Preach, brother!
“Jury awards $3.75 MILLION to man shot with foam projectiles by LAPD during George Floyd riot”
https://thepostmillennial.com/jury-awards-3-75-million-to-rioter-shot-with-foam-projectiles-by-lapd-in-2020
Shit, for $3.75M you can shoot me with foam bullets.
He is a lucky shit looking to win the lottery. He wouldn’t have been shot with foam bullets were he in the Watts riots in ’65.
Uffda. You lose an eye in Minnesoda and you only get $2.4M.
Of course, the jury might have lowballed him because he’s such a whiner.
You can drive with one eye?
“It took me a long time to get a job even though I was well qualified because it’s pretty hard to look at a computer screen with one eye after having two,” Stevenson said. “Merging left onto the freeway is an extremely dangerous task that I do frequently.”
As someone who’s had shitty eyesight forever and for many years basically looked at the world through one eye but still managed to hold down a job in which I drove all over New England and upstate New York I’d love to tell him to fuck off and adjust his mirrors.
The eye of Hurricane Idalia is projected to pass about 20 miles northwest of my apartment tomorrow morning. No sign of bad weather yet. It rained hard just when I was bringing in my supplies: water, beans, and beer.
I am lying on a king size mattress on the floor and am propped up against the wall with pillows to make a bachelor’s sofa. A nice cold can of Monte Carlo lager is keeping me company.
I hear birds chirping, so I am not worried. Animals flee hurricanes before people do. Some buildings in town are boarded up, but most people are staying put.
My book is up to 77,000 words. I’ll hit 80,000 today and thus hit my target word count for the rough draft. If you would like a copy, reply with an email address. I hope to make some money from it as I am not interested in getting another job.
I’ll let you guys know how the hurricane was.
Say “hi” to Jim Cantore!
Jim just uses a green screen, some fans, and a garden hose. The NASA guys let him borrow the moon landing set.
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Pfft, you believe in the moon? It’s fake. Why do you think it slowly falls apart every month? The gubmint has bunch spare moons sitting in warehouse.
It ran a surplus in the 90s, and had to dispose of them in the form of pogs. That’s what the pog craze was all about.
We’re through the looking glass here, people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3I6gFmlls
I didn’t know we had any Big Bend Glibs. Are you in Steinhatchee or Perry, or thereabouts?
No, Chiefland.
Take care. All quiet here, despite a few short showers earlier.
My gut says that there are 2 types of managers who are pushing this. The old school managers who just believe that if they can’t see their people working, then they aren’t working. The second type are the weak managers who can’t call out employees who aren’t performing while remote. They are hoping that either the slackers quit or that if they are in the office they will somehow start performing.
That sounds reasonable to me. The work needs to be structured so that there are clear and obvious tasks and goals, so everybody knows where they are.
Otherwise, bad news.
My book is up to 77,000 words. I’ll hit 80,000 today and thus hit my target word count for the rough draft.
And then you’ll whittle it down to 20,000, right?
Eh, I wrote a shorter form of my autobiography last year. The forthcoming book will be the definitive guide to me. Assuming I can get it published, I will not argue hard about any changes the editor suggests. Whatever helps it sell better, I’ll agree to.
See, I wrote the book out of love, my love for money…
Hurricane theme song: It’s the end of the world as we know it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OyBtMPqpNY
And I feel fine…
Meh. I have lived through the end of the world so many times now I have lost count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsY_kocbWaM
Knew it! You got it in ahead of Ted’S. 😄
During an interview in argentine TV the presidential candidate Javier Milei expressed his opinion on Pope Francis saying “He is the representative of the Devil in the Earth, occupying the throne of God”.
I know more than a few Catholics that think Francis is an Antipope.
Me too. One of them lives in my own house.
Dr. Jill’s husband announced he would arm twist drug companies into lowering the cost of certain expensive drugs. Cuts to go into effect on 2026. At least one of them, Xarelto, goes off patent in 2024. Its price will go down as generics compete but you can bet who will be taking credit.
Want something to disappear? That is easy…price controls.
What happened to Canada’s ‘mass graves’?
There’s a great Peanuts comic where Lucy points at something on the ground and says it’s a butterfly from Brazil. Then she wonders how it got to their town from Brazil. Linus looks at it more closely and says that it’s a potato chip, not a butterfly. Lucy’s response is to wonder how a potato chip got to their town all the way from Brazil.
Confirmation bias: it’s what’s for dinner.
On the “working from home” front, there are clearly 2 different cultural visions at play.
One sees workers as cogs in a machine. Do your job. Do what you are told. Do your work well.
This cogs-in-a-machine vision is perfectly compatible with work from home. Everyone has a discrete job to do. They work with minimal supervision and they do what is required. It doesn’t really matter where that happens.
The other vision sees workers as members of a team. There is an objective to be reached. The team works together to reach that objective.
This vision is not compatible with widescale work-from-home, because it is severely limiting on the interactions that maximize team contributions.
I was the latter type of executive. I did have one vital member of my core team who pretty much exclusively worked from home once she made babies. She was the exception in that she rarely contributed in the brainstorming sessions with the business units, but she always worked faster and more efficiently than humanly possible, so she would often implement ideas that we came up with while we were discussing them. Normal humans don’t do that.
I had a large budget for taking people out to lunch and sometimes dinner. Not just my own team, and not just senior managers. I would grab a team of staff accountants, a project manager and a few senior developers and take them to lunch several times – the point being to build relationships. Then people can talk with each other and we could learn what their challenges are, what they spend their time on, what their annoying tasks are, etc. Very frequently we would discover things that we could do that would save hundreds of hours per year. Or maybe eliminate misunderstandings between departments that resulted from lack of transparency. Tons of things. Things that made a difference in how the company runs.
Businesses are not just processes and tasks. They are people.
I ran my team with the idea that we all do what the company as a whole does. I told everyone “that’s not my job” isn’t something we say around here. There might be a better person for the job, or a better use for your time… but nothing is beneath anyone (I personally fixed toilets with the CEO on more than one occasion) and nobody is too lowly to tackle important issues and tasks.
So my help desk new hire shows some ambition and intellect beyond her A+ certification and her trailer park upbringing? I give her an old server and the install CDs for Exchange to play with and figure out. She got it up and configured on the test network – and I put her to work as a network engineer. That never would have happened if I didn’t work in the same building and see what she was doing on a regular basis. She became my director of technology in just a few years. (turns out, trailer park girl had a 160 IQ)
Teams that are across from each other can see what is happening. They can jump in and offer ideas. Teams that work near other departments can hear what they are complaining about to each other. There are massive efficiencies that you get from having properly motivated and oriented people working together in the same location. Once relationships are built, much of that efficiency can carry over to remote work…. but the casual “Nancy from accounting says this spreadsheet takes her 4 hours every month” conversation can’t happen. Nancy or her manager has to think to make a request. In my experience, Nancy doesn’t know what she does and does not know. So she doesn’t know enough to ask for the right thing.
So there are very different use cases. If you had a team of staff accountants processing accounts payable on computer in a mature system, you could probably be more efficient with quality people working from home. Cogs in an already optimized machine.
But that is not the only scenario.
Shame this got lost. Thanks for the considered reply.
It really does depend on the business and how you want to nurture coworkers.
The thing is we introverts have to force ourselves to do all the happy hours and dinners. I recognize their value, but wish that management understood that I view them as work. So you putting a dinner on my calendar is the same as saying I’ll be working a 16 hour day with my commute. It’s not something I’m going to look forward to doing.