Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Californians experience real weather
Meanwhile, for the love of God, bring us some of that rain back to Texas!
Hunter Biden’s lawyers threatened to put president on the stand
Jimmy Carter and wife are in ‘final chapter’ of lives, grandson says
‘Choke Point 2.0’: Bank regulators cut off porn industry from banks, states pass age limits to porn
Mortgage rates at two-decade high could rise further and stay there for months
Will the Bankruptcy of China’s Evergrande Group Set off a Chain Reaction to Financial Armageddon?
Chicago gangs asked not to shoot guns during daytime
These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
‘Unmarked graves’ discovery at Manitoba residential school turns out to be hoax — no bodies found, only rocks
Well, then. Maybe Canuck Antifa will un-burn some of those churches now that it all turned out to be a big mistake.
They will claim it was “The Thing” that was buried there instead, so those rocks were people…
I expect their answer would be roughly akin to “Romeny didn’t win, did he?”
Once the lie is out there and it fits the preferred narrative, it won’t go away. Just like those good people in Charlottesville and all.
Evidence doesn’t matter, indigenous people have alternate ways of knowing.
When their bank accounts get low, they know it’s time for more grift.
Morning, Banjos.
Meanwhile, for the love of God, bring us some of that rain back to Texas!
Invest 91L has you covered (well, part of you — Texas is a damn big state)
That should help Houston. Dallas will continue to bake.
Cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third-biggest state.
Nonsense, cut Texas in fifths.
Ya’ll are wrong. Let Texas secede.
So when it’s hotter we raise the temps on our thermostats? I’ve been doing that all wrong.
Needs more windmills, even if the wind doesn’t blow
Seconded
If only we had some means by which an administration might work with other members of their party or even some of the other party to make these sort of rules or guidance permanent. Might even call it legislation. So that we wouldn’t be flip-flopping constantly.
If only.
(Yes, yes… PPP’s administration likely would ignore an actual law anyway… they’re ignoring enough as it is. And yes, free association on the part of businesses… except that through regulatory capture, I seriously doubt anyone can do a fiscal startup these days, especially if you’re “not of the Body”… you’d be regulated into oblivion so fast it would make your head spin… Purveyors of Bundles O Sticks do love their cartels where they can control the market…)
Morning, Banjos. Morning, rest of ya reprobates.
Hey! I resemble that remark…
And yes, free association on the part of businesses
Bake the cake, buddy.
Did you just call them faggot sellers?
Mornin’
“At the end of the day, five-year-olds are being killed by gun violence, 14-year-olds are being killed by gun violence, 78-year-olds are being killed by gun violence, pregnant women are being killed by gun violence, young boys with bright futures are being killed by gun violence, fathers are being killed by gun violence, and this shouldn’t be happening,” Atkins said.
Round them all up and send them en masse to President Dudebro. He knows how to handle this sort of thing.
Funny how the specifics of the violence is never mentioned, huh?
Gun violence. How much more specific do you need it?
I don’t know. Maybe who is wielding said guns in the commission of what crime? Cause I have never seen guns just start shooting people all on their own..
Except on the “Rust” set.
I thought that under pressure that gun finally cracked and admitted Alec cocked the hammer and then pulled the trigger?
You don’t understand, mate. Them’s the killer guns of
CaerbannogIndiana! The most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered guns you ever set eyes on! Look, those guns got a vicious streak a mile wide. They’re killers!They know it is street gangs, and that’s why they are asking them to kindly stop doing that, buddy.
What? ‘Gun violence’ isn’t specific enough for you? It’s right there in the name.
Damn, *that* close.
So, I gather somebody has been killed by a gun somewhere? Could you maybe repeat it one more fucking time?
Reads better and more accurately by adding “from paramilitarized police forces” after gun violence in each instance.
Don’t stick it in crazy…
Nice of her to make it clear on first dates, though… the guys can politely stay for a little while… then run as fast as possible away from her.
Stay for a little while? I would just leave the second she made that idiotic comment/demand. And depending on how much of an asshole she is, I would decide to pay the bill or leave her half to her if there was something to pay for.
Many people won’t date outside their religion.
I used to think that was silly. I get it now.
inorite?!
She looks like ZuZu Petals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7vwjhkAHkA
Or Tom Petty.
I would not rock her like a hurricane.
Entertaining article. I laughed when she mentioned her boyfriend tried to give her a CBD gummy to chill out. And she admits she may not be right, but is not going to try to care less.
‘These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030’
Do bugs count as meat?
How do they identify?
I really doubt Austin is banning meat and/or dairy anytime soon.
You’re assuming Austinians are going to have any say in the matter.
I see business opportunities. Now do drugs…
Well yeah — more and more FBI and other Swamp shenanigans keep coming to light… oh… not that crime rate….
“Mortgage rates at two-decade high could rise further and stay there for months”
The quickest way to make sure nobody can grow wealth – won anything – is to deny them the ability to own a home….
I am sure these people will all be happy as our elite class tells us….
Or deny them access to banking services. Or access to food. Or transportation.
The cancelations will continue until you publicly and vociferously scream about happy you are?
Alternate headline: Mortgage rates return to normal.
Remy
‘Unmarked graves’ discovery at Manitoba residential school turns out to be hoax — no bodies found, only rocks
pet rock cemetery?
Could be the remains of a glacial moraine or any other normal geologic formation. GPR just tells you there stuff under the ground, not what kind of stuff.
Ray of Sunshine?
Mitt Romney’s Political Journey Reaches a Crossroads
But Mittens was the Republican nominee just a few years ago!!!
You mean Mittens was one of the piss poor “choices” the cabal allowed us to think was a viable candidate, especially since they counted on Mittens crashing & burning so Obama could keep weaponizing the cabal’s ability to fuck over America and Americans they didn’t like?
Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,”…
Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.
I could see a few of these city populations agreeing to eat sprouts and bugs, but New Orleans? Mind you, they eat underwater bugs by the truckload (suck the head – pinch the tail!), but I don’t think that’s what our wannabe utopian overlords have in mind.
New Orleans is there to protect their grift of having a city built in a swamp that floods easily. Now flooding can be blamed on – wait for it – climate change!
They should just import cubic miles of infill material and raise the city above sea level.
New Orleans is at the end of a giant, powerful river. The mighty Mississippi would just wash your infill material out into the gulf.
The Corps of Engineers has spent untold money and effort trying to keep the delta in the same place.
It just has to be a massive contiguos mass of non-soluble materials. Perhaps ingeous matter transferred in a liquid state that can solidify in place.
Imagine the jobs created by building a lava pipeline!
I’d still put my money on the Mississippi.
The Mississippi can easily be diverted by opening the gates on the Atchafalaya River where it wants to flow anyway. The whole delta is overdue to move.
Free the river and not sure New Orleans is still on the river in a few years. I think it was drifting further west.
What UCS said.
Atchafalaya.
(Yes, its the New Yorker, but it is John McPhee, so better than anything else you will read on it.)
Absolutely the delta of all major rivers would shift if you left them alone. It is how rivers work.
Had a prof at Memphis State who made the Mississippi and its mechanics the core of his geology course. Hated the Corps of Engineers with a passion. He would always lecture us on dumb it was to keep building cement channels and levees to keep the delta at New Orleans.
His position was that the major port terminals should be built offshore in the gulf and then service them with smaller boats that could get them to the shore-based facilities – that would move based on the river.
Of course, all the people that owned lucrative real estate in New Orleans are completely opposed to that.
Moving the shore facilities and maintaining some seaward platform is far more difficult and costly than just doing more concrete channelization and building up the levees again.
That’s leaving off the rebuilding of everything wiped out as the river moves.
Why do academics hate practicality?
Phoenix? It has to be the Cali imports. Phx can’t grow much, if at all, because it is ringed in my other cities. Let them be the bad idea example.
The article is a bit misleading, they use “target” as if it is a plan each city is already supporting. Instead it is more of a goal that explains what the group wants to achieve in the next several years. It doesn’t make it any less frightening that this type of personal liberty restriction is a aspirational goal of the organization.
Cities like SF and NYC are already working toward this type of model in some cases with limiting gas appliances, building code restrictions, etc.
The distinction between “a plan each city is already supporting” and “what the group wants to achieve in the next several years” is gossamer-thin when you realize those city governments have already signed on to support what the group wants to achieve.
I know, it’s all virtue signaling. But I think we’ve seen by now that virtue signaling can be quite damaging, haven’t we?
There is no doubt that this is a template for those who want to transform the world. It’s not a funded and budgeted plan for each city.
What is clear about all of this is the pure religious acceptance that “carbon reduction” is the goal. All of these transformational concepts all move the world one way, towards having less, being more reliant on the government, and being easier to control. If global warming and carbon dioxide were not able to be used as a tool for this there would have been some other boogie man created.
I’m sure in their mind it is much more humane to simply force the peons to stay home and have less than it is to “really” solve the problem by sending them to camps to be exterminated.
whaddup doh’
Hey from the ATL.
I’ll be in Augusta all week, outside. Pray for me.
Damn! Just saw the weather forecast – stay hydrated!
You saying he is gonna be cracking the wank too hard and dehydrate?
Yesterday was the most humid day since I have been in CO…57%.
Big difference from Charleston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIp9TwSEgFg
Are they going to let you in the clubhouse?
No, but the local minor league baseball team (called the Greenjackets, natch) is playing at home all week. So he could get a t-shirt or something.
I love MiLB when traveling.
Don’t forget to rehydrate with some tall cans.
Say hello to my buddies at Fort Gordon!
I enjoyed Augusta 60 years ago, not too big, lots of pawn shops
As a DJ kept saying at that time, “Cool as a mule in a pool” Onescore thought that was really clever.
Well I’d tell you to make sure to get lunch at Sunshine Bakery, but it closed…
The line between high-priced mercenary and Mamluk / slave soldier is a thin one.
https://www.sotwe.com/tweet/1693224021712584913
That site is heavily infected and triggered my malware detection software to no end.
One of these days I’ll just bite the bullet and sign up for “X” rather than trying to grab a link without an account…
https://imgur.com/7851f
See what happens when you have basically one person work on script and decide not to be politically correct.
The makers of “Strays” seem to have set out to make the filthiest, raunchiest talking-animal movie in Hollywood history, and it would be difficult to argue that they failed. “Strays” is wildly inappropriate. It’s also wildly funny.
It stars Will Ferrell. How funny could it be? The dude peaked with “Janet Reno’s Dance Party cancels out Waco!”
Talladega Nights was perfect.
I will admit to having not seen that. I have been to Talladega though.
You misspelled Elf.
He had some good stuff. But not lately. I was concerned when I saw his name. He is an actor though – not the writer or producer. It was written by a guy named Dan Perrault, who did the Screen Junkies show and a bunch of other stuff I have not heard of. Does not bode well that I recognize none of his work.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4285995/
Double negative. Damn.
Why the fuck is Texas of all places in this position? I know this is the New Normal that gets greenies wet but why is the average Texan putting up with this shit.
I don’t see any issues on ERCOT’s site. We are all good for power generation, have been all summer.
https://www.ercot.com/
I saw a lot of windmills and windmill parts on a single drive-through of Texas when I was last there.
Why they’re doing it, I don’t know. You can’t get more energy out of the windmills than you put in their construction and maintenance.
This is true. I do hate the windmills. And they generate far less than natural gas powerplants. All day on the drive to Amarillo from DFW you see trucks carrying new blades, and piles of blades nobody can dispose of. Eventually the people leasing the land for windmills will get tired of it. You can only stand having your property wrecked for so long.
Federal subsidies.
You get multiple tax breaks.
I used to work with some guys who were making “wealth” levels of money. Some were investing in Texas wind. I don’t remember all of it, but basically the scheme involves buying the right land with the right proximity to future growth such that the subsidies pay for the land and earn back your investment, you make a few bucks on the electricity over time, and in the end you tear down the wind farm and develop subdivisions and malls and stuff. 30 year plan to becoming a billionaire, basically.
We need to tax these green energy boondoggles at a rate greater than any subsity or tax breaks provided. To cover their blight factor.
All those big Indiana and Illinois wind farms should be nearing their end of life soon. I wonder if they are planned to be rebuiilt, replaced-in-place, torn down or abandoned?
Leave them in place to rot and be creepy cenotaphs to the foolishness.
Californians experience real weather
Mexico is getting it way worse.
But it’s less fun to pick on Mexicans than Californians.
I don’t have anything against Mexicans.
I say this as somebody who owns seashore property. You get one federally insured flood bail out on a piece of property. So you can sell it to some rich dude while it is still insurable or take the insurance benefit yourself and after that the property is on longer eligible for Federal Flood Insurance. I can not count how many times the US government has subsidized the rebuilding of vacation homes on the NJ coast.
Climate Change Is Coming for a Chesapeake Bay Island. Is It Worth Saving?
I knew it was Tangier before clicking.
Climate change doesn’t have much to do with the fact that it’s sinking, or that it could be wiped out by a hurricane any given year. That place is barely above sea level.
Great place to fly into for an expensive seafood lunch though. And the local accent is unique.
Back in to 70’s when the Chesapeake Bay froze over, local GA pilots volunteered to fly supplies to the island because it was completely inaccessible by boat.
Back around 1980 there was a hurricane that hit the outer banks of North Carolina. A family friend had a huge house at the end of Emerald Isle. After the hurricane their lot was about 200 yards off shore.
Building on giant, moving sandbars probably isn’t the greatest idea in history.
Not to mention $100 million taxpayer funds to maintain resort boardwalks for the local businesses and to entice more tourists to burn gasoline to show up beach side.
A good chunk of that is state funds. Sometimes with matching federal funds.
It all has to stop.
Fargo/Moorhead is built on a floodplain and it floods almost every spring. Those bastards all get Federal Flood Insurance all the time. Actually the ones who pay for the Federal Flood Insurance are the suckers. A lot of them don’t and assume that if the flood is bad enough for their house to get wrecked it will be declared a Federal Disaster Area and they will get $$$ anyhow, so why insure?
do you sell sea shells?
Is It Worth Saving? – I say a free market without government interference would answer the question quite clearly…
You favor one payment more than me.
Either you can afford private insurance or you build cheap and replaceable.
In an ideal world sure. But you will bankrupt truly working class people who live in flood areas if you do that. This gives them a way out.
They won’t take it, but in theory this gives them an out.
FEMA maxes coverage at 250k. So lots of people would be bankrupted anyway, just not as many.
But yeah, phasing that coverage out over 25 years or something would be my approach…coverage decreases 10k per year. If you want more, you buy it privately.
When I was in SC, we had the $250k FEMA coverage plus private coverage for the rest. We were one block away from a tidal river, the houses on the river were on stilts, ours wasnt. About two feet of surge and we would have been facing flooding.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Hunter Biden’s lawyers warned prosecutors last year the defense would put the president on the stand to testify in his son’s defense if criminal charges were ever brought against him, according to a report.
So he could lie under oath with no repercussions?
True enough, but can you imagine the testimony?
The question is if both the DOJ and the defense would be able to get all the scripted questions over to his attorneys. That would be a lot memorization for a demented old man.
Just think of how many hilarious “Joemala” episodes would result!
Why the prosecution didn’t just say “Well, your witnesses are yours to call. See you in court.”, I couldn’t begin to guess.
I predict Reason will have a shitfit over this while continuing to think people who have problems with the vaccine schedule are cranks.
Well reason should definitely be against these measures as a libertarian magazine …
Not if the only reason they oppose it is “because sex workers”. They have been extremely spotty in their support for basic free speech rights over the last 8-10 years.
“Bank regulators cut off porn industry from banks, states pass age limits to porn”
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
…H. L. Mencken
I don’t recognize any of these folks as Honey Harvesters. Which is amazing because the open house to discuss manganese mining in Emily seems to have attracted most of the residents.
Fourscore – with his vast supply of mine ready orphans – is going to cash in big time!
I am all for in-sourcing the entire production of “clean energy” to the U.S. so people can see for themselves what a load of shit that phrase is.
I have little interest in the on goings in Emily, other than to laugh at the NIMBYers, mostly old/retired living the high life and spending winters in the South.
One of the most vocal, a class mate (living in FL with the big A now) whose father was a mining manager back in our HS days, always wore nice clothes, car, etc.
If a mining company is looking for property and doesn’t mind a bee hive, give ’em my number.
Jimbo, the woman holding the glass of water is where Zep (my bee partner) has his hives. She will be at HH, she was there last year. Zep owned some property next to hers, got out when the gettin’ out was good.
Geez, I can’t be expected to remember all the gals I flirt with at the HH!
Tundra wouldn’t have forgot but he’s into quality as opposed to quantity.
As I recall Sue brought German Potato Salad, no, maybe that was Bonnie. I forgot who brought the salad but not the salad.
Tundra would only have remembered her if she was driving some fancy old car.
But you sure remember getting slapped by them!
The only threats of physical violence come from the other male HH’ers who for some crazy reason think I should help do some of the work. They seem to think that we are at the HH to like harvest honey or something.
You’re there to be cheap labor.
Someone posted last night on a different forum “What is the status of hurricane”. I responded that they are in fact on the internet and there are 100s of weather sites to get information. Their response “I can’t be bothered with the internet, I am too busy”. Now…maybe they were trolling but I lost my shit and ranted about the laziness of people.
So in the end I fed them a bunch of misinformation for their laziness
“It has washed Baja California off the map, there’s no dangly bits there anymore.”
One of the few actual valuable services provided by FedGov is the National Hurricane Center.
Folks not in hurricane areas probably don’t know much about it. But it is where almost all of the forecast come from. Weather nerds will take its data and make their own predictions, but no mainstream weather site is going to really do much other than parrot its forecasts. The nice thing about it is the probability cones. It cuts right through the “panic, panic, panic” local weather forecasts.
Naturally, FedGov felt compelled to locate it in Miami which makes sense only to to FedGov. Put the thing in a disaster prone area so that it needs all kinds of long term redundancy and self sufficiency in case it gets hit by a hurricane.
Here in Florida we have that in our home page group.
A “no shit” moment from the WSJ.
Why Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Run for Years
With F16 pilots needing a whole year yeah no shit. They should have given them F18s and sent Randy Quaid
Zelensky says it will amount to 42 planes. Hope the families of 42 pilots have made pre-arranged funeral plans and tried to find a life insurance plan that will accept said loved ones.
42? OK, now he’s just trolling…. so long, and thanks for all the fish!
I thought Randy Quaid said no more F-18 fighting since he was tired of being probed?
Lighten up. What are you some fact checker or something? Why so anal about the specifics of what Randy Quaid is gonna do?
Well, your holiness, my complaint was not about what Randy was gonna do, but what the aliens kept doing to him…
Depends on what the goals are. I don’t see how the US or Russia can lose this conflict.
The United States wins by grinding through conscripted Ukrainian civilians to extract wealth from US taxpayers.
Russia wins by not having NATO nukes on their border. Regardless of how how the traditional warfare goes, Russia can always terminate the conflict anytime with a few missiles. Russia may also have its own reasons for extending the conflict, including bogging down the West as other countries begin to seek an exit from Western control (most recently Nigeria, Mali, and Burkina Faso).
So both the US and Russia have non-exclusionary winning objectives. I don’t see Kiev as having any path to victory. Ultimately, Kiev will either continue to be a vassal state of the US, convert to a vassal state of Russia, or be turned into a smoking ruin.
Niger, please. Nigeria is still ECOWAS.
Yeah and thanks, I realized the slip as soon as I posted.
Lasting years is the whole point of the war.
When the goal is to loot the taxpayer you need a long lasting con game.
Chicago gangs asked not to shoot guns during daytime – It worked for El Salvador
“More than half a dozen Republican-majority states are changing — some say strangling — the multi-billion-dollar porn industry by passing legislation supported by Democrats that forces people to submit a government-issued ID to prove they are 18 or older before accessing adult video content online. ”
Can people under 18 have credit cards?
“Hundreds of current and former adult film actors in 2014 said Chase Bank closed down their accounts or denied them services due to their profession. Many of the stars at the time blamed the Obama Justice Department and Operation Choke Point for pushing the banks to close down their accounts.
More recently, in August 2022, multiple current and former adult entertainers said Wells Fargo Bank terminated their accounts, citing efforts to “manage risks in its banking operations,” according to Rolling Stone.”
What would Democrats have against porn?
Wells Fargo terminated their accounts? All of them? Even the ones that Wells Fargo opened in their name in secret?
The secret accounts were so one group could hit their targets and get their bonuses. The group shutting down the accounts isn’t bound to that metric.
Maybe with a co-signer? Even 18-21/18-25 adults got fucked over by Chief Nags-a-lot.
no need for a credit card to access porn
That’s how most sites do age verification.
I’ve never understood all the choking in porn.
Clara Fernandez is a great pole vaulter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06dpTjWZJ8o
Ideas floated for a climate lockdown have ranged from shuttering people in their homes and restricting air travel to providing a Universal Basic Income and introducing a maximum income level.
Sure. We can all wear (mostly) identical grey suits, too, as a symbol of our universal equality.. Some people’s suits might be tailored a bit better, or made of softer material, but hey- some people are just a little more equal than others.
Eliminating the fold down collar will collectively save millions of yards of fabric.
It is amazing. They are telling us to our faces that they are going impose a communist utopia and people fail to see it coming.
You are only allowed but four uses of the patumias pleasure spool.
Why am I unsurprised that we have both litigation and regulatory capture neatly summed up in one court case?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t done exactly that. OTH, it ain’t illegal just arguably immoral
Gilead Sciences Is the Target of a Bizarre Legal Theory
The Technocracy of Failure
The greatest trick technocracy ever pulled was convincing the world that it is associated with competence. Technocracy presents itself as government by people who know what they are doing – the ‘adults in the room’, the ‘wise minority in the saddle’ guiding the herd, and so on. In truth, the exact opposite is true: technocracy is always and everywhere doomed to disaster, and our current technocracy is no different. It is a technocracy of failure.
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/the-technocracy-of-failure
There are two reasons why technocracies fail. The first is epistemological; the second is philosophical.
Epistemology first. Here, there is little that can be added to the first few lines of Friedrich Hayek’s 1945 essay, ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’, which are worth reproducing in full:
This segues us nicely into the philosophical reason why technocracies fail. Real-world social problems are not solvable through logic because real-world social problems are not solvable at all – they are at best made manageable through political processes. As Leo Strauss put it, problems that we encounter in philosophy, and for that matter in the economy, society, and so on, are ‘permanent’ ones: they are features of the human condition, which will always be with us. Should the government try to reduce immigration? That depends on the stances we take regarding the rule of law, economic growth, nationalism, fairness, compassion, and so on and the trade-offs between them, and hence on the underlying values which they represent – values which inherently conflict and which will always vary in importance from person to person
Technocracies fail, then, not just because they inherently and unavoidably make bad decisions based on incomplete information, but because their decisions derive from a set of category errors: that logic or technique are the appropriate methods for solving social or economic problems, and that there are such things in the first place as social or economic problems that can be solved at all. Technocratic decisions are founded on the fantasy that there is no need for politics – that politics can be circumvented or ignored in the name of the application of reason – when the truth of course is precisely the opposite: politics is all we have.
Technocracy is nothing more than socialism rebranded. Technocracy fails for all the same reasons that socialism fails.
Technocracy, like socialism, fails due to the knowledge problem, and decends into tyranny in that failure. It’s only method is blunt force, as it cannot be democratic by definition; democracy is individual people voicing their opinions and acting on those opinions, which will, inevitably run counter to the technocracy.
Beat me to it.
Great article on the knowledge problem, btw
https://fee.org/articles/hayek-the-knowledge-problem/
Excellent piece. Thanks, Pie!
“Even under the best circumstances, the planners would only be planning the past.”
We are always fighting the last (previous) war and we never seem to understand
Oh, STEVE SMITH. I am so sorry for you. Mississippi? Really?
Sounds like that flooding might solve issues like this.
Of course, it being Cali, the homeowner would probably be in big trouble if flooding hurt the bum living in their crawlspace or wrecked any of their treasured possessions.
Not if nobody hears about it. Schrodinger’s Cat situation.
“‘Ghostbusters’ director Paul Feig has revealed the California store owner who was shot and killed over a Pride flag at her store was his ‘wonderful friend’.
In an Instagram tribute, the notable Hollywood producer said Magpi boutique owner Laura Ann Carleton was a ‘true ally’ of the LGBTQ+ community.
Carleton, a mom-of-nine, was shot Friday evening outside her Lake Arrowhead store after an unidentified suspect allegedly tore down her hanging Pride flag”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12427119/Ghostbusters-director-Paul-Feig-reveals-California-store-owner-gunned-hanging-LGBT-Pride-flag-store-friend.html
Doubt.
Homeless maniac?
mom-of-nine
I question her commitment to gay sex.
It’s probably the only thing in her search history.
Another day of lawlessness in NYC.
Driver plows into at least 7 pedestrians at NYC crosswalk in bloody hit-and-run
Quite the body count. It would appear the person managed to make it from Manhattan to Queens as well.
False flag to justify calls for common sense car control!
Billionaire-funded think tanks are under threat. The Guardian is very worried.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1693030424551813176
Introducing Transgender Marxism
https://newsocialist.org.uk/introducing-transgender-marxism/
Transgender Marxism focuses wilfully on that which others might dismiss as vulgar, inappropriate, besides-the-political. It aims to provide a materialist account of the distinctive conditions of lack in which we find ourselves, and to help us wriggle free through unlikely means.
Following the mole’s tracks, Transgender Marxism unearths the base needs of trans proles and brings them above ground, into clearer view.
Much work remains to be done expanding the earthy, intestinal visions of Marx and his successors outwards, moving from the bowels towards the glands and receptors that make up our endocrine system. Transition, too, must come to be understood by revolutionaries as a response to its own form of hunger. The longings that drive so many to reforge lives for ourselves that leave us thoroughly proletarianised, or cast out, rendered surplus. Those cravings and cavings-in that clinicians have long attempted to desiccate under the catch-all term ‘dysphoria’. In truth, our moments of euphoric coping are enmeshed with the moments in which we are struck dumb by gut-churning dread. These are the moments that define our everyday lives. The restless energies that produce for us new needs; needs that can be difficult even to describe. Transphobic strands of ‘revolutionary’ thought would rather these yearnings be set aside, left unspoken; to be repressed (at least in the political arena), or perhaps to be exterminated altogether.
I can;t even read that.
I can’t even read that.
At least you tried twice.
‘A’ for effort.
It’s always marxism with these fucking evil “progressive” twits…
Attention fly-over Glibs. I hope you can appreciate the beauty if the $20 salad.
Sweetgreen Hires Former Chipotle Executives, Readies Mid-America Push
When they over expand, and that’s guaranteed, I hope you understand why Wall St will claim that you are just uncultured and ungrateful.
salad is good for you.
Not so much. A lot of raw vegetables carry biological contaminants are are more frequent causes of food poisoning than meat being undercooked.
That’s both bugs and bacteria.
Run the salad through the microwave for 45 seconds, problem solved.
“of the” $20 salad.
“Sweetgreen built a reputation for trendy $10+ salad bowls using fresh ingredients, becoming a favorite of coastal professionals who eat lunch at their desks. Sweetgreen has 215 restaurants and is run by three founders who met at an entrepreneurship class. They pitched Sweetgreen to investors as a technology company that sells salads and other nutritious meals. ”
I hate everyone involved.
You can never reach peak virtue signaling.
When your cult membership depends on virtue signaling, you are stuck having to really kick that in to climb or maintain status…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souplantation_and_Sweet_Tomatoes
The salad restaurant concept already boomed and busted.
Lede over at Salon (no link, find it if you want it) — One MAGA juror can ruin it all.
Presumed guilty. Only juror malfeasance can change the outcome.
You can not parody these fucking nutjobs..
Late-night clashes erupted at the Red Army monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, when 30 to 40 masked right-wing hooligans attacked the Soviet statue with hammers. Activists defended the statue from the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The activists have been guarding the monument day and night after public threats of destruction.
The right-wing hooligans smashed the plaque reading “To the Soviet army of liberation. From the grateful Bulgarian people”. Because of the violent clashes, Bulgarian police arrested four right-wing hooligans. Video footage showed evidence of arson attacks on the tents of the pro-Soviet activists.
https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1693307937689645524
So tearing down statues is once again verboten?
No fat shaming for you! Now get on your bike and ride!
Queen’s ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ Missing From New ‘Greatest Hits’ Release
I kinda like that song
Covered yesterday.
Key bit:
“on kids’ audio platform Yoto”
So not a general memory holing. Yet.
That is a great song and a great poster. Try to erase my youth at your own peril! I own the vinyl, bee-atch!
But they make the rockin’ world go ’round!
You beat me to it!
They pitched Sweetgreen to investors as a technology company that sells salads and other nutritious meals.
A technocratic re-education session in every bowl.
Better, cheaper haircuts are coming to a barber shop near you.
Fighting technological progress is a losing strategy, so you are better off embracing it.
https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1693376066197299655
pass
I’d rather just pay my barber for the cut I get every time. It works just fine, and doesn’t involve some buggy robot.
For most, cutting hair is not that big of a deal. Less than $30 for a Wahl clipper set, some good scissors and a mirror and you are good to go. Plus, no waiting in line.
Cutting my own hair was a hassle where I found it hard to not miss patches. Paying the barber is less of a hassle.
And what line? You actually try for a walk-in spot?
I did 30 years ago when I quit going to the barber. I had shoulder length hair because I was to busy in grad school to carve out time to run to the barber, so I went at it with scissors. Turned out to be the best haircut I had gotten in years, so that was the end of it for the pros.
(until the wife insisted that I go to the expensive place that all the lawyers she worked with used. Worst haircut of my life, and cost a fortune. After 2 weeks I redid it myself and haven’t been back since)
I do the kids hair too…. well, as much as the wife will let me. She finally quit trying to pressure my son into using a professional after the 3rd time a professional hairdresser commented on how great his hair looked. The girls only need dead ends trimmed, but she insists on taking them to the beauty parlor to do it, now that they are in middle school.
Hard pass.
Looks like the torture in an updated version of 1984.
Yes it does.
The “Stuff Made Here” channel is great. This was one of his better videos – an evolution of a chainsaw wielding, statue-carving robot project.
Looks like a “See you Friday” haircut
Hard pass.
I, too, want to die at the hands of the robots.
How about a nice close shave? 😳
Pulleeeeeeeeeeeaze! Has everyone forgotten the Flowbee from the ’80s
In other news, I fear this laptop may be shambling toward the exit. It locked up a couple of times this morning, including on a re-start. The number one backup isWin10.
NOOOOOO!
The world of used industrial computers beckons.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115886865647
Every piece has a door or tray that allows replacement.
I think this is a more likely technology path and I’m not a fan.
There are times I think it might be good, then I realize how brutal I am on my phones and come to my senses.
I moved backwards. Older PCs with parts I can replace, and use Linux. Not a fan of Windows in my pocket. I am going to take a risk and spend some cash on de-googled phones soon, will probably write an article about it. My “Linux on an old PC” has been stable for close to a year now. Very nice. I will probably upgrade to that V110 myself (with an i7) sometime after December. My GeTac s400 is only mildly portable, since it weights almost 7 pounds.
I’ve been using CalyxOS for about 3 months now and have liked it. Only problem is that you have to buy a Google Pixel phone that has been factory unlocked.
That one is interesting. I have seen old Nexus phones with the new Ubuntu Touch which interest me, as they are only $50-$75.
I moved backwards. Older PCs with parts I can replace, and use Linux. Not a fan of Windows in my pocket. I am going to take a risk and spend some cash on de-googled phones soon, will probably write an article about it. My “Linux on an old PC” has been stable for close to a year now. Very nice. I will probably upgrade to that V110 myself (with an i7) sometime after December. My GeTac s400 is only mildly portable, since it weights almost 7 pounds.
R.J.’s kernel needs to be patched it seems.
People have been saying that for years.
We are seeking a postdoc (and research assistant) passionate about animal-algal symbiosis. If you have experience in marine invertebrates and sequencing technologies, we’d love to hear from you
https://twitter.com/YJ_Luo/status/1693539743014039927
animal-algal symbiosis – what a strange fetish to have
Better, cheaper haircuts are coming to a barber shop near you.
If it’s a robot which actually listens to what you tell it, I’d give it a shot.
I just had my hair mowed off the other day. I told him several times what I wanted, but that’s not what I got. On the bright side, if my hair really is an inch and a half long, that means I have a 17 inch penis.
Great comment. I laughed.
The world of used industrial computers beckons.
Nothing Personal, but fuck ebay.
Will not.
Speaking of- what were those little boxes a couple of people linked to not long ago?
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Seems appropriate for a Banjos day:
It should be noted that raccoons are not a native species in Germany. They were, in fact, introduced to the country during Nazi rule.
Squeak Heil!
lol
Do Germans have gaping holes in their homes?? I know those trash pandas are too clever for our own good, but it’s not as if they can get in through closed doors or windows!
dog doors, cat flaps, an open window because Europe outlaws AC and electricity.
Hilarious. And killing raccoons is not “sanctioned.”
We have some similar jackassery here in Florida.
Invasive species are a big problem. They cover it on the national news because we have some really cool exotics as invasive species, like pythons, tegu, iguanas, snakeheads, etc.
But…..
There are all sorts of rules about how you are allowed to kill iguanas. Those things are reptilian rats, basically. They poop everywhere, eat all your garden plants and dig up the ground where you don’t want it dug up. But at least you are allowed to kill them.
You have to have a special license to kill the pythons. So the worst invasive species we have, and you can’t even hack at one with a hoe.
“…the raccoons may have increased the suffering of the German people”
Hahaha! Such suffering. Much misery.
One MAGA juror can ruin it all.
Oh, HORROR.
All that effort to rig the game and use the legal system to destroy your political enemies and a juror can just ruin it for you? FUQ DAT!
Wait until they tell you no more jury trials cause they do not want the risk they can’t intimidate some MAGA juror to make the right choices….
Obviously, the first step is to draw your jury pool from the voter rolls, but only those who registered for the correct, non-bigoted party of SCIENCE!
Escaping into the neighbors pool.
The JOY he is having splashing
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1693461521374806312
My lab mix wouldn’t have found a nice clean pool to swim in. Nope, he would have found a swamp or ditch with super stinky water to roll around in.
Then when we got home and you tried to hose him off, he’d act like a vampire being dunked into holy water.
“Nooooooooo! I stink so pretty now. How could you try to wash it off?”
Misery industrial complex
Counselors here describe these early days of disaster mental health treatment as a kind of triage, psychological first aid for anguish that runs the spectrum of symptoms from deep sadness and sleeplessness to exhaustion, even breakdowns.
“They’ve lost family, they’ve lost their pets. They’ve lost everything,” says south Maui clinical social worker Debbie Scott. She says for some who had to flee the flames, the initial shock is now giving way to wrenching anxiety, nightmares, anxiety, depression and sometimes anger, as the depth of the trauma settles in.
Survivors are still dealing with physical challenges like where they’ll be living in the coming weeks and months. But size of the emotional and psychological toll here is coming into sharper focus as the need for mental health support is growing. Mental health administrator Oliver calls it “the worst mental health disaster in our state’s modern history.”
Crank up the grant machine. There’s good money to be made from this.
Must be siblings
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1693057221230580148
I remember, as a Dad, having to deal with that. Funny
I would have said it looks more like me trying to convince Mrs. Holiness the best way to start the day is with a little loving.
Animal is on the radio.
Fantastic. Go Animal!
he seems taller in writing than in sound
This 1934 footage titled “Facts on friction” shows how Chevrolet brakes and in general how drum brakes work
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1693498162101780854
That’s part of an entire series about cars avaiable on youtube, they’re quite fascinating.
Flow Hive is a beehive designed to allow honey to be extracted simply by turning a lever: the hive does not have to be opened and the bees are not disturbed as in normal extraction
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1693202283159285764
Faaaaaaake.
Oh, bother.
The TMC Dumont is a hubless motorbike powered by a 224kW Rolls-Royce aircraft engine and is the work of Brazilian ex-Formula One driver turned motorcycle custom builder Tarso Marques.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1693320141675602181
Apparently that bike is incapable of turning.
Those weird front forks must be the steering rack… not sure how that can possibly be all that stable. Probably only turns a few degrees.
Wow! that thing is beautiful. Entirely impractical, but stunning nonetheless.
When I saw “aircraft engine” I thought it was a turbine powered bike, and I was reminded of Jay Leno telling the story of his bike powered by a Bell Helicopter turbine. He said the thing was amazing, but it gave “turbo lag” a whole new meaning. After rolling off the throttle it took several seconds for the power to roll off. So you would go full throttle and feel the power slowly build until the acceleration was mindblowing… Then you roll off the throttle at 70mph, but it just keeps on pulling for another few seconds. Yikes!
Relevant.
“Beats dealing with the airlines”
Just to make it explicit, this Operation Chokepoint 2.0 isn’t about porn, or gun stores, or check cashing. This is a camel’s nose under the tent in an attempt to normalize and strengthen the mechanisms to “unbank” anyone disfavored by the establishment party.
This is the same thing they have been doing with online censorship. First it was shadow bans aimed at deplorables like Alex jones. Then it was overtly banning him.
But the ultimate objective is to have a throttle on all forms of dissent. This is by no means exlusively an american phenomenon. Canada showed us what this looks like with their targeting of the Trucker Protest, freezing bank accounts, etc. Great Britain is doing the same thing, unbanking undesirables there. Australia is even further ahead on the curve, making moves to make cash transactions impossible, which would allow them to completely lock anyone out of all of modern life.
The dystopian novels we read in school were nothing compared to what is underway here. Not only are they locking down speech, they are headed towards a world in which they can lock you out of a job, a business, and even the ability to buy food. Their power over the people will soon be absolute, if we do not stop them now.
“First they came for the porn actors….”
Huh. I would have thought the porn actors came first.
Their power over the people will soon be absolute, if we do not stop them now.
We may have already missed our chance. The last three years do not fill me with hope.
Look, all we have to do is say it and therefore it is true.
Lets just go this route. You don’t need to be actually convicted, just accused. Fuck it, we need to get this game on.
You know, there are actually clips of them doing the exact things they accuse the Orange Man of. Like, herself included.
Dershowitz penned an article explaining that as a part of the Gore 2000 team, he easily could have been prosecuted under these exact same theories.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12413181/ALAN-DERSHOWITZ-Al-Gore-2000-Donald-Trump-indictment.html
I’m sure Dershowitz’s enemies are looking into how that admission can be used to selectively prosecute him.
He had another article after the impeachment where he talked about how he is personna non grata on Martha’s Vinyard.
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Oh…so again, just say it and it be true. I am sure they will gladly claim the same if say Republicans say that Biden has given aid and comfort to the enemy and therefore, self executing Section 3!
Dude literally bragged about his role in a bribery scheme. I’d say that is way more damning that attempting to use the electoral college process to contest an election, corrupt or not.
Lay on, MacDuff
Spanking or striking children in school, or corporal punishment, should be “abolished in all states by law,” according to an updated policy statement by the Council on School Health and released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The use of corporal punishment has dropped over the years, but it is “either expressly allowed or not expressly prohibited in 23 states,” US Education Secretary Miguel A. Cardona said in March before Colorado banned the practice. “Furthermore, researchers have determined that the use of corporal punishment in schools is likely underreported.”
Although 96% of public schools say they no longer strike students, nearly 70,000 students a year are struck “at least once by school personnel,” and corporal punishment is most widely used in the US South, the AAP statement said.
Black and disabled children are most likely to bear the brunt of corporal punishment, the AAP said. Black girls in the United States are three times as likely to be struck at school than White girls, while Black boys are twice as likely as White boys to receive physical punishment, the statement noted.
Children with disabilities were struck at higher rates than students without disabilities in more than half of the schools practicing corporal punishment between 2013 and 2014, raising “troubling concerns about the disparate treatment of students with disabilities, who are too often punished for behaviors arising from their disability,” according to a 2019 report by the Civil Rights Project.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
I like how they use “disabilities” to imply cruel abuse of little crippled Tiny Tims. I suspect it runs more to no impulse control retard strength kids who are being “mainstreamed” instead of taught to push brooms.
I remember almost all of us boys getting a thump or a good shaking in elementary school. I can’t remember any girls ever getting physically punished.
I’m sure no correlation with increasing reports of teachers getting beat up by their students.
Put undisciplined children on meds instead. So much better.
Those weird front forks must be the steering rack… not sure how that can possibly be all that stable. Probably only turns a few degrees.
The gyroscopic effect of those wheels is probably almost impossible to overcome.
I found another video that commented on the lack of steering – it said that he actually rides it into all of the bike shows he attends. It said he won best in show at Daytona back in 2017 with this bike.
The stance against spanking extends beyond school grounds. Parents also should “not use spanking, hitting, slapping, threatening, insulting, humiliating, or shaming” when discipling their children, the AAP noted.
Instead, age-appropriate, nonviolent behavioral strategies should be used, said coauthor Dr. Nathaniel Beers, executive vice president of community and population health for Children’s National in Washington, DC.
“Some healthy forms of discipline as alternatives to corporal punishment may include the use of positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviors, setting limits, redirecting, and setting future expectations,” Beers said in a statement.
All you need is love. Rousseau concurs.
Clark said that trying the president’s son, pitting the president against his own Justice Department, would create constitutional chaos.
Translation: “We can’t give Kremlinologists red meat”.
Chief Derek Nepinak of the Minegoziibe Anishinabe said the excavation of a Catholic church on the site of a former Manitoba school found “no conclusive evidence of human remains.” The lands the church is found on have been referred to as “mass graves” by outlets in the mainstream media.
Surprise, surprise. I’m certain the usual suspects will walk back everything they said about those schools. Heh.
early 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.
All good places not to live or do business in.