It’s Thursday morning, and apparently the important work in our nation’s capital includes celebrating gooey sweet things, so lets counter that with some bitter links.
Well, after the GM bankruptcy, do the rules really matter any more?
Maybe it’s me, but I think a saw needs to be moving. Otherwise, wouldn’t that be more of a spike, caltrop, or blade?
There’s no gouda way to die, but this one seems particularly bad.
This may just be me, but I think two is usually sufficient (although there are times that one is better than two, and I’m sure there’s a rare case where zero would be better).
For those who have already fallen to the siren song of BG3 (Baldur’s Gate 3), you may want to look for this setting.
In some late breaking news, Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio assassinated at campaign event
In local news, I don’t think I have to worry about only having ten seconds to comply with this one.
In further local news, climate change uber alles: Cleveland enjoying delightful summer but has not escaped effects of climate change
I suppose there should be music, so let’s go back to my 20’s with this one and this one.
On the cocktail front, I have picked up a new challenge and I’m working on it. I will make a good Malort cocktail. The initial thought is to base it on the Last Word and use Malort instead of the (increasingly hard to find) Chartreuse:
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- 1 part gin
- 1 part Malort
- 1 part maraschino liqueur
- 1 part lime juice
- 1/2 part simple syrup
I will however, need someone to suggest a good name for this that will embrace both Chicago and play on the Last Word.
Sorry man, but there’s still not an inkling of interest in Baldur’s Gate here.
I haven’t played it since earlier in the week — they’ve pushed two hot fixes since then, so God only knows what’s changed.
Yeah, I remember seeing that when I started up / did character creation (I tend to go through all the settings / gameplay options up front). Don’t remember right now what I set it to… whatever it was allowed my 3 critical failures in a row, so yay me. ;P
I’ll save my money.
I’m not your supervisor… so you do you, good sir. (Hey buddy… keep doing that?)
Reminds me of XCOM.
“Surely I won’t miss 3 95% shots in a row.”
There’s a simple way to avoid the “cruel” barriers: Don’t try to sneak across the border illegally.
That’s crazy talk.
Need to make it more lethal to feed the border gators.
And to show our appreciation for Mexican history, we should set up skull racks along the border barrier.
We could puts Smores on the circular saws.
But then we’d be leaving them there on their own. Its a cruel, cruel summer.
(Texas is becoming a real bananarama republic under Abbott, I guess…)
Well played, sir. Well. Played.
This is akin to barbed or razor wire. Is controlling access to US borders less important than a used car lot, a soup factory, or city impound yard?
Well, the left is all on board with removing any barriers to criminal conduct by their favored groups, so all of those things are equally bad in their eyes.
But Mexicans have a sovereign right to settle in the US:
Or better yet, a sovereign right to hustle their southern visitors over to us.
I’m assuming the the Mexican politicians are on the dole from NGOs trying to facilitate this mass migration. Same with Dem politicians in the US. And that they have some sort of boots on the ground in these Central/South American countries to organize from that end.
Dont worry, the R’s are feverishly tracking them down.
Enforcing borders is hard. Much easier to shepherd them through to the US.
“Enforcing borders is hard. “
Mexico’s southern border is actually quite short. If they cared to, they could close it. That might require some bare knuckle enforcement, but I’m sure they could manage. If they wanted to.
If the buoys were on the Mexican side of the river, they’d have a point. Or if there was a treaty specifically prohibiting barriers to navigation on this stretch. You’d think someone in the TX govt would have researched those beforehand.
If the buoys don’t run afoul of either of those, someone in the Mexican govt needs to look up the meaning of “sovereignty”.
Lost in translation
+ Mexican Radio
+Barbecued Iguana
After the Portland Ngo trial results yesterday — I fully expect a sizeable chunk of the left is perking up their ears with a “Hey…. there’s a thought” from this.
Honestly, in a sheer partisan sense the best thing for the GOP/Worst thing for the Dems would be OMB getting assassinated.
If you don’t hear from me, check to see if the Feebs have shot any domestic terrorists in my area. And avenge Lily.
Pretty sure they’ll try this with Trump if it looks like he might be a threat to actually win the presidency again, in spite of “fortification”.
He has a non-zero chance of succeeding – it’s not a lock for whichever awful D candidate emerges from their primary.
But, talk about mobilizing the GOP base … that’d do it.
Course, that means DeSantis’ hatchet people have an incentive there …
DeSantis is flailing around so bad, he would probably make a “well, Trump was wearing a short skirt” comment.
Countdown until it is knocked over, broken open and stripped by methheads for scrap / copper…. ?
I give it a day.
An hour.
No methheads readily around that area. It’s an upscale outdoor shopping area. A Lego store that opened there is doing their grand opening this weekend, so I have an excuse to go there. It’s also the closest surviving Hot Chicken Takeover, who are still doing their Unholy challenge (a single drumstick). Considering I did the Unholy as a whole breast, I’m pretty sure I can handle it.
Okay, ninety minutes.
How is the “Ma’s Slaw”? I see it is the superior vinegar based and not mayo. We have a very good hot chicken place here, but they do a kale slaw, and it’s terrible.
“I see it is the superior vinegar based and not mayo”
I see you are also a man of good taste.
“kale slaw”
Jesus Christ, why?
I like the kale slaw that Chik-Fil-A offers as an alternative to the fries.
The little packet of crushed almonds is a nice add-in.
Slaw is the only thing mayo is useful for, and you (along with my wife) would take that away.
I get it every time I go there. I dislike mayo based slaw. The vinegar based slaw there is apple cider vinegar, so it has just a hint of sweetness to go with the acidity. I find it works quite well to cut through the heat.
You can laugh now, but it’s a short hop to “EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”
Need more K-9
And that’s why we need to ban toilet plungers.
Now you’re just bragging about Hot in Cleveland..
I have not watched a single episode of that show. I have however watched all of Third Rock from the Sun and all the Drew Carey Show that I can find (WHY AREN’T YOU STREAMING DREW CAREY?).
The lack of Drew Carey Show rewatch options annoys me to no end… I can find Season 1 — but that’s it. Twas a funny show, dangnabbit.
Rewind channel, antenna.
The aphrodisiac in the beer episode ranks right up there with the WKRP turkey episode as one of the funniest moments in sitcom history.
Well, after the GM bankruptcy, do the rules really matter any more?
“Thornton: Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff.
Professor: Oh, really? Like what, for instance?
Thornton: First of all, you have to grease the local politicians… for the sudden zoning problems that always come up. Then there’s the kickbacks to the carpenters. And if you plan on using any cement in this building… I’m sure the teamsters would like to have… a little chat with you, and that’ll cost you. Don’t forget a little something for the building inspectors. There’s the long-term costs, such as waste disposal. I don’t know if you’re familiar with who runs that business… but I assure you it’s not the boy scouts.”
“So what you’re saying is that I have to kill a shitton of people to clear the road.”
Pie is now an honorary GenX American. He has quickly and correctly referenced a blurb of pop culture to relate to a failing of the US institution. Bonus points for using Rodney.
Did you see that link from Rick Steeves?
I were Romanian, I’d be insulted.
I did not.
https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/radio
PBS Travel Show host. Segment on Romania, with a guide who may or not be local. Leans heavily into the “quaintness” of the country. Makes Moldavia sound like the coolest part.
I do kind of want to go to the castle mentioned and the “hotel” that is a collection of old houses.
Makes Moldavia sound like the coolest part. – this is obviously nonsense. I would read but I aint listening to no Audio.
Perfect quote from a fantastic movie.
In some late breaking news, Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio assassinated at campaign event
“Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso vowed the killing would not go unpunished, saying that “organized crime has come a long way, but the full weight of the law will fall on them.” Lasso announced a state of emergency for 60 days, an immediate mobilization of the armed forces across the country”
coincidentally this is what he wanted to do anyway
Lasso announced a state of emergency for 60 days, an immediate mobilization of the armed forces across the country”
Well, isn’t that convenient. A preview of USA 2024?
There’s a Rent-A-Cop union?
If there were I don’t think Karens would be so ascendant.
Sam Kinison kinda covered it.
Does it sing this song, and quote Dr, Suess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99gciq7K4P4
Neph, the guys from Methiskapheles are real nice folks. Met them a few times over the last two years.
Good deal. I know our motley crew here made it to one of their liner art collages. We were in our late teens/early twenties, and one of the younger guys had acquired a Snuggle bear puppet (the mascot for the dryer sheets), which started being brought to shows. The puppet got piercings from the crowd, ink put on it it, and looked more and more punk as the shows went on. At one Mephaskapheles show, Snuggle was crowd surfing. The picture of that was used for one of their collages.
I read that as “the 20s” instead of “my 20s” at first and was disappointed to not have something besides The Charleston from that era to rattle around my noggin.
“I will however, need someone to suggest a good name for this that will embrace both Chicago and play on the Last Word.”
The “L” Word
Not if you’re an overeducated tenure-track who doesn’t really have much interest in her kids.
We used to call alloparenting having grandparents.
From a historical / human nature perspective — I’d be surprised if he’s wrong. Alienating a large group of young men (socially and sexually) seems to be historically equivalent to “Pass me a match… I think my gas tank is empty!”
Eventually there will be a backlash, it’s just a matter of how soon and how severe.
This
I don’t know how neutered femboys are supposed to do hard/dangerous jobs. See, the thing this statement is missing is that the XX leftist society doesn’t know hard/dangerous jobs exist, much less that men are the ones doing them.
See also: Incels. But let’s not pretend the easy availability of easy and demandless and ever-ratcheting pr0n (with hawt girls!) has nothing to do with that.
Possibly also video games. Where are these angry young men putting their angry young energy? Camping? Hunting? Fishing? Rappeling? Parkouring? Paintball? Car tinkering? Building things?
Schlichter’s got many good points and I do think young males have the short end of the stick, but they’re not blameless for their unwillingness to do manly things in society. I watch the dudes who mow the neighborhood’s lawn. They’re not young. I see the stats on people going into the trades and they’re not good. The GenXers doing this shit are going to start aging out in the next 10 years. Where are the younguns?
I guess we can’t know that, but my guess is half of them are on their asses playing video games listening to Andrew Tate and getting angry about not being able to do things they haven’t tried yet.
Maybe they’re just hiding themselves away for the time being until it’s convenient.
That’s why we have Mexicans.
I’m being tongue-in-cheek, but generally speaking this is the attitude of your typical school board member or teacher. Trying to sell them on preparing for vocational work is near impossible.
There was that push, back in the eighties, that every kid has to be college ready to graduate, at least in California. And all the auto shop, wood shop, machine shop, ROP, etc. classes were killed off, while they added Latin, German, and a bunch of other fairly useless classes. And now it is coming home to roost, in that we have no people outside of immigrants to do a lot of the work.
“Maybe they’re just hiding themselves away for the time being until it’s convenient.”
It’s this. And they are going crazier and crazier on video games and porn. I’ve seen it happen. A lot of them will commit suicide from feelings of hopelessness. I had a friend who’s son already tried that Now the ones that make it, they will be a living Hell on leftist society. No fucks to give. You’ll start seeing them in a few years. The ones that go crazy will be incels on steroids.
My son has made comments about the young male fascination with Andrew Tate. He sees it as a reactionary movement that bodes ill for the future.
I read the r/JordanPeterson subreddit. Some of these guys are pretty bitter, but they’re also staying away from Andrew Tate. I think JBP is a treasure. I often quote him to my son (in context).
I pushed JBP to my son as an alternative to the Tate movement. Fortunately, I think it’s stuck.
My boys like Jordan Peterson and make fun of Tate. In fact, one told me recently that listening to JP inspired him to stop messing around and finish college. He’s been getting straight A’s, and has one semester left.
The angry young men I see on the news are knocking over Walgreens and smashing plate glass windows.
Those aren’t the ones yet. These are still growing up. Now the ghetto boys will always be there, pushing boundaries and stealing things.
Jeebus, thirty six dead in maui fire. More deaths expected today.
So you think that a guy might want to be careful going to one of those cut rate luaus? That pig might be a bit long?
Careful, your Holiness. You are starting to canabalize jokes.
I had to post it. Otherwise it would have gnawed at me all day.
Swiss is going to have a bone to pick with you.
Speaking of cocktails, we are in Charleston this weekend. Any recommendations for local breweries or distilleries?
This place looks interesting.
It all rubbish I would not go there
I feel kind of obligated since my son lives there and my nephew is starting college there.
CoC or The Citadel?
Citadel – he wants to be a fighter pilot.
It’s probably been since 2008/9 since I’ve been to Charleston. Never tried any Jimmy Red but have seen them online, looks interesting.
I wife interviewed with them. I think she would have got the job but covid intervened.
My wife, no idea what “I wife” is.
Asimov’s follow-up novel to “I, Robot” which inspired “The Stepford Wives”
I thought it was the distaff counterpart to the bachelor bot sold by Apple.
I thought it was Jane Porter’s autobiography.
Sounds like an Apple product.
You get to replace it with a younger smaller model with better features… as long as you can afford it?
I think I know what Apple based their business model off of.
A place near me sells Jimmy Red. I may just have to try a bottle.
Red corn now! I was really enjoying blue corn whiskey lately. I must find some red corn whiskey as well.
Balcones? I’ve been wanting to try some but they are proud of their work. $$
City Market.
The Boathouse restaurant on Isle of Palms. Been years, but ate there a few times. Ex Mrs Tres had a friend that, at the time, was a sous chef.
Kinda spendy.
So the opposite of the Boat House in Myrtle Beach – one of my favorite places.
We will be on the Isle of Palms – eating at Long Island Cafe.
Revelry, Edmond’s Oast, Frothy Beard, Fatty’s Beer Works… Those are my favorites but really I haven’t been to any that suck.
Oooey that “Every kid needs 3 parents” article starts out strong.
“It was probably my fault for marrying a Bulgarian in the first place, but my ex-husband permanently returned to his native country when we divorced in 2005.”
Lmao
Yeah I almost bailed right there my eyes were rolling so hard.
I dunno, that kind of brazen honesty about your own racism is entertaining to me.
Scuzzy of him no matter his nationality.
Nothing wrong with wanting to realise your dreams, of course, but this bloke is very openly not a refugee.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1689571502411100160
A country taking in actual refugees so they aren’t genocided.
https://ussanews.com/2023/08/08/russia-to-build-african-village/
Oh lord that is A-level trolling.
The left is going to go apeshit.
Fantastic.
Daily Mail prurient link!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12388207/I-banned-boarding-flight-turned-bikini-ver-annoying-people-saying-Im-wrong.html
I mean, if she’s going to attention whore that hard, we should probably reward it.
Ink and mental issues. Pass
You would be correct, sir.
“Kine-Chan, a 21-year-old model, influencer and OnlyFans content creator…”
dem’ laigz doh…..she thicc
She’s fabulous.
She either has mental problems or is trying to get publicity with that stunt. Hoping it’s the latter.
Embrace the power of AND.
The union argued that U.S. bankruptcy law should be reformed to protect collecting bargaining agreements and worker retirement plans, which can be terminated by a bankrupt company or by a new buyer who acquires a company out of bankruptcy.
The union cited legislation last introduced in 2020 by two Congressional Democrats, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and Representative Jerry Nadler of New York, as an example of the kind of legislation it would support.
That legislation, the Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act, would have prioritized payment for certain employee wage and retirement claims and it would have made it more difficult for bankrupt employers to terminate pension plans and collective bargaining agreements.
I do not doubt for one moment that the people who ran Yellow into the ground are a bunch of greedy incompetent idiots. Just likr the union.
Also known as the “Squeezing Blood From a Stone” Act.
What part of “the money’s gone” do they not understand?
“They’s too rich to be poor”
That part.
When someone else is paying people fall into a mentality of ‘money comes out a magical bottomless well. Nowhere is that more on display than government, unions and the mafia., i.e. people that loot and never create.
There was a story about the Midwest Teamsters pension fund being woefully underfunded and how they were trying to “fix” it. The root cause is there are less Teamsters contributing to the fund now than before. So the current union members can’t pay for the retirees at current levels.
They’d interview all the money people and they’d point out that if the retirees took a haircut on their pension benefits, the fund could survive. Then they’d talk to the union leaders and the retirees and they’d all say “Nope! I’m entitled to that money”.
The end of the story was that the pension was probably going to crater soon. The union seems to be banking on the Feds stepping in and funding their pension fund. The retirees seem to think that money would just magically appear.
Of course the Feds will step in to buy votes with taxpayer money.
“Too late, it’s either less or none.”
Why am I not surprised that union pensions are funded exactly like Social Security ie a giant ponzi scheme reliant on current workers paying for retirees.
Hmm. Union demands can bankrupt a company and then the union demands get priority in bankruptcy. That is quite a bargaining chip.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The same feeling I had when my youngest grand daughter sent me a picture of the moose that she’d shot with a rifle I’d given her. My GD, the moose and rifle were all in the picture.
Thanks for reminding me, Jimbo.
Did they mention how it tasted?
Tick-y.
Definitely not like chocolate.
So, Vanilla Mousse?
Milli Vanilli
They were the fall guys for the industry and did nothing wrong.
Salmon.
Rushdie?
The one thing that got me when my sister and I were sorting things out after Dad died was that he left a note saying he wanted my sister to have his Remington .270 rifle.
My sister and my mother both shot a moose with that rifle. So I get it. On the other hand, I went on a ton of trips with Dad where he used that rifle and have a lot of good memories too.
The silver lining is that she doesn’t have any kids, so I’m betting that rifle will come back to me or one of my kids.
A møøse once bit your granddaughter?
China Abandons Paris Agreement, Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless
https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/china-abandons-paris-agreement-making-us-efforts-painful-and-pointless
And yet, we will persist…
Didn’t India and China largely get a pass in the agreement anyway?
They were always painful and pointless. We are the only ones actually expected to pay. See: govrnment, unions and the mafia above.
Damn MAGA white supremacist Chinese.
No way! I am shocked.
They will, however, continue laughing as the west destroys itself.
See, the Chinese use a different calender, and so are not stuck with a mileniary doomsday cult right now.
I was a little surprised at this, because usually China’s play is that “we all agree to cut back”, the US and the West do, and then they don’t. But it sounds like now they’re emphasizing how irrelevant the US is becoming.
Throwing BRICs at glass houses.
My area recently banned plastic bags because we’re doing something.
For those of you visiting Nisswa for the Honey Harvest, you can rest easy, you will be able to get properly hoitey-toitey food at the Grand View. They just hired a new chef.
It might be fun to go to that restaurant to see the jack pine savages try to pronounce all those ingredients. I’m sure Fourscore is a regular.
The Hot Brown is the sandwich of Louisville.
I would be wary of a Hot Brown made outside of the city, much less in another state.
Fried eggs? NO. JUST FUCKING NO.
The bread matters too. Texas Toast is traditional, but I like rye.
The headline “MN Man That Left Phone In Strip Club Gets 30 Months In Prison is misleading.
So the guy was actually arrested and found guilty of having real pipe bombs. I wonder if the FBI is mad that their pawn is behind bars?
Yes.
“You were not supposed to spend that money on strippers!”
Good thing we wasn’t wearing a suit with a red tie and a possibly camouflaged hat, I hear that attire is smhoot on sight.
Thats the thing a guy would wear to his funer……hey!
The end of the story was that the pension was probably going to crater soon. The union seems to be banking on the Feds stepping in and funding their pension fund. The retirees seem to think that money would just magically appear.
The government should gives those guys guns and send them to Ukraine.
Could clean up the pension problem, since COVID failed.
Looking at the pictures of those floating buoys of death, the “circular saws” are what look like two half circles of metal with jagged teeth cut into the edges joined with bolts in between each of the buoys. I don’t know how many journalists have ever actually used a circular saw, but a 2 piece blade like that would be deadly to the user. The circles may resemble circular saw blades, but they aren’t.
These are the same geniuses that equated “reins” to “whips”, remember.
I am about 60% sure that’s a way to rotate them with a motorized jig. They are not sharp, or otherwise intentionally designed to inflict injuries.
I didn’t look closely enough, but its seems to me their placement is to deter disassembly of the flotilla, as it were.
I don’t really see edges, either. Hard to tell, though. I wonder what purpose they are supposed to serve?
I assume to make it difficult to slide over between the buoys.
Make it harder to climb through the gaps between the floating things?
I like the idea of the government forcing a business to continue to operate. I see nothing but good coming from that. No more bankruptcy as a means to cheat the employees out of what is rightfully theirs.
How does a lush green jungle burn? It makes no sense.
Everything burns if you get it hot enough.
This is what the Jewish Space Lazer is for.
Minnesoda’s Trucker Union Leader to drivers fired by Yellow: Learn to live on the road”
They should try UPS. Brown shorts is probably paying better than long-haul trucking right now.
So, a whole new batch of potential coders ?
If I was a union guy who just got canned and my leadership told me I’d have to suck it up, I’d ask them if their jobs were going to be changing too.
I wouldn’t be happy with that response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHerVxCsbyc
Bully
China sharply rebuked President Joe Biden’s long-awaited executive order that limits U.S. investment in technology — but stopped short of issuing immediate counter measures.
The Chinese Commerce and Foreign Affairs ministries issued strong responses on Thursday, just hours after Biden signed off on the measure targeting “countries of concern” on the basis of national security.
“China is strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed to the U.S.’s insistence on introducing restrictions on investment in China,” the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement, according to a CNBC translation. “This is blatant economic coercion and technological bullying.”
The Chinese Embassy in Washington called the move by the Biden administration another attempt to “politicize and weaponize trade” between the world’s two largest economies.
Politicize and weaponize; it’s what they do.
The State Department will start shipping weapons to North Korea pretty soon.
They thought they could count on Biden staying bought.
“Now we have to develop our own technology instead of stealing it from you guys. That’s not fair.”
We can still invest in gain of function research in China as long as we have a cutout man right?
Biden wasn’t so crazy that he stopped that too?
Thank God that the adults are back in charge.
1,080-carat white diamond discovered in Botswana
https://english.news.cn/africa/20230810/3a693f469d4a4f95a63ead36334eb414/c.html
Just a diamond?
That carbon is so common that it’s price is kept aloft by market shenanigans and cartel pricing.
Racism is why white carbon is more valuable than black carbon.
A few years ago, they tried to sell that shit as “chocolate diamonds.” I haven’t seen an ad for those in eons. I guess everybody was on to the scam.
Jet? Anthracite?
No. They’re brown diamonds and they’re as common as water and worth much, much less.
Brown diamonds which are normally sold for industrial uses.
My understanding is that they’re not much good for that, either.
Abrasive grit with high hardness, so unless they’re substantially weaker, they’re industrial diamonds.
Industrial diamonds are generally 40 mils in diameter or smaller. Larger than that, it’s still cheaper to use natural.
I think we’re using different definitions. It sounds like you’re referencing artificially made diamonds, while I’m talking about any diamond used for industrial purposes.
aka “poop diamonds”.
LOL
https://www.kay.com/chocolate-diamonds
Rare. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Diamonds in general are not particularly rare. It’s just a matter of cartel control of the supply.
Kev : It’s a trend in diamonds. Champagne. It’s a nice stone.
Willie Conway : Yeah, no, I heard about this. It’s a new trend in the diamond trade, they’re trying to create a new market.
Tommy : Oh, right, right. yeah. They were callin’ ’em “piss”, but they weren’t moving any units. What’s with you, man?
Paul Kirkwood : What?
Tommy : Well, how much you pay for this brown rock?
Paul Kirkwood : What difference does it make?
Tommy : Diamonds are supposed to be colorless! You go out and buy a colored diamond for a girl you’re not even seeing, man, you must be eating retard sandwiches again.
That one is going to be difficult ass-smuggle out of the country.
Not especially. It’s about 3 1/4” by 1 1/2” by 1 1/14”.
“The message is quite clear,” Eswar Prasad, a professor in international trade at Cornell University, told CNBC Thursday.
“Washington wants to use the national security imperative as a way of trying to limit the transfers of technology and investments related to technology to China, because there’s not just a national security angle, but also quite frankly, a commercial angle,” he added.
No way, Shirley.
Which cities had the most potential growth and which actually met it?
https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/housing-supply-costs-and-urban-value-d28
Baltimore, leading in low expectations.
They actually met their tiny demand though.
We love democracy, except when we don’t.
https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1689306275048210433
Clown melee
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would not sign a loyalty pledge required by the Republican National Committee for participation in the first GOP debate this month.
During a Newsmax interview, Trump said that he took issue with a particular clause of the pledge that says the candidate will support the eventual GOP nominee.
“I wouldn’t sign the pledge,” Trump told host Eric Bolling. “They want you to sign a pledge, but I can name three or four people that I wouldn’t support for president. So right there there’s a problem.”
Give them all giant foam mallets to hit each other with.
Trump is so far in the lead it wouldn’t make any sense for him to debate the rest of the field.
It would be like Tom Brady going up against the local PeeWee team.
NBC News reported in June that Trump was exploring potential counterprogramming during the first debate, according to people familiar with his deliberations.
“I’d like to do it. I’ve actually gotten very good marks on debating talents,” Trump said on Wednesday. “They want a smart president. They want somebody that’s going to be smart.”
He should do another CNN town hall.
That or a rally in bf somewhere in which he will still have a massive crowd.
Home price correction incoming.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1689288006606204928
What numbers are they actually comparing? Is it price per square foot? Does it include all maintenance? Or is it just a mean to mean mortgage to rent comparison?
All the detail I’ve got.
https://reventureconsulting.com/report/buying-v-renting-dashboard/
My thought now is “Who pays that much for housing?” Mortgage+Taxes+Insurance (The rate from that site) ~= $325/mo for me.
Okay, I paid off my Mortgage, but the require rate before that would still only bump me up to $975/mo, and they’ve got twice that for renters?
Unless my husband wins big in the lottery, I refuse to own a home again. YMMV.
Glad I bought in 2017. The price of my definably lower-middle class house nearly doubled. I wouldn’t be able to buy it today.
Luckily I won’t be underwater with the inevitable market correction.
Same here. We will hold onto our Nevada house when we move. Prices here seem steady with relatively decent inventory. Plus the city is looking to bring in basketball and baseball. A high-end casino is supposed to be going in near our house but not close enough to wreck value.
Now as long as teens don’t trash the place and turn it into a Chinese opium den…
A hight end casino in Henderson? Why?
In the bustling “West Henderson”…not old Henderson
We bought our house in 2013. Tucson was still mired in the Big Dump of ‘08, housing-wise. We couldn’t afford to have built it then (or now) (well, we could have gotten a big enough loan, but I’m not counting that). The people we bought it from probably lost nearly 50% (it was finished just as the market was dumping in ‘08).
How can I have s’more if I haven’t had anything?
The wrecking ball-sized buoys that make up the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed in July in the Rio Grande have circular saws between them, according to a video posted by Rep. Sylvia Garcia.
And?
“Appalled by the ongoing cruel and inhumane tactics employed by @GovAbbott at the Texas border,” Garcia, a Democrat, wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, alongside the clip. “The situation’s reality is unsettling as these buoys’ true danger and brutality come to light. We must stop this NOW!”
You wouldn’t like the deterrent that I would employ at this point.
Poop covered bamboo pungee sticks are much safer for Gaia. Shame on the Governor for using such a non-biodegradeable barrier.
Motion activated flamethrowers? Point them at the river, so no fire danger?
There’s no gouda way to die, but this one seems particularly bad.
This pun is particularly cheesy.
Sam, the security robot, aims to keep shoppers at Crocker Park safe with 24-hour monitoring and access to help with the press of a button.
This is how it starts.
Shall jot be infringed
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a decades-old law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from owning firearms was unconstitutional as applied to the case of a marijuana user, the latest fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights.
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the federal law violated a Mississippi man’s right to “keep and bear arms” under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.
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U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, an appointee of former Republican President Ronald Reagan, said that decision meant the statute was invalid as applied to Daniels.
“In short, our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage,” he wrote.
U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson, an appointee of former Democratic President Barack Obama, in a concurring opinion agreed while noting that many other gun safety laws had likewise been struck down since the Supreme Court’s ruling.
He urged the court to provide more guidance in a case it agreed to hear in its next term, saying last year’s ruling could otherwise result in the “dismantling of the laws that have served to protect our country for generations.”
Looks like Hunter is in the clear.
last year’s ruling could otherwise result in the “dismantling of the laws that have served to protect our country for generations.”
Fingers crossed.
You just don’t understand what a special case NJ is…
Except for the pics of him waving his handgun around while smoking crack, of course.
Much of the globe has been roasting this year, but not Cleveland. Ever-stronger hurricanes and extended drought are constant threats to parts of the world, but not the Great Lakes.
What a dishonest cunte. We have had another lackluster hurricane season so far and the complaint for much of the northeast US has been too much rain.
Ever-stronger hurricanes? Nope. Average strength is down a bit. Ever-more? Nope, numbers are down also.
Extended drought? I remember the late seventies and the late nineties.
They are counting on us having the memory of goldfish. Liars. They are as bad as the gun-grabbers.
Bring back the Land O’ Lakes chick too.
Native American Guardian’s Association Founder & President Eunice Davidson Sent a Demand Letter Today to Washington “Commanders” Ownership & Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it’s Relationship With The American Indian Community & Rightfully Change Their Name Back to “The Redskins”
/again sheds a single tear looking over at Jacobs Field
Exactly – with “Guardian” in their name, why aren’t they exerting similar pressure on Cleveland?
Still pissed they didnt return to the Spiders.
Its a great name AND it predates Indians.
Hell, any name that had a tie back to Cleveland baseball history would have been accepted (levels of acceptance would vary), and been better than the Guardians. I went to my first Guardians game this year (friend of mine wanted to go, and I don’t mind watching baseball, and he wanted to even up the score for some football games) and they were trying to change the gods damned revile audience participation from :Charge !” to “Guards!”.
Thankfully, the fandom didn’t seem to be taking to that, and there were more Wahoos than Guardians.
The required
trainingpropaganda is getting irritating.Every month they send out reminders on how to report “protected class dinscrimination”, and now they’re making everyone attend live-person “trainings” on it. It’s like they’re so deperately seeking cases of it happening, but there’s none going on.
Sorry, but the kind of people who go into IT (even government IT) care more about whether you can do the job. It’s not like we actually have to deal with anyone in person.
That old man in Utah is looking like a one man Ruby Ridge/Waco incident.
Dude, he an AR lapel pin.
And a multi colored hat (possible camouflage) with “TRUMP” written on it. I cannot believe that is actually in the court documents.
I’ve been dabbling in Baulders Gate 3. It’s not bad but the amount of effort they are putting in making sure you can have a penis or vagina in character creation is showing up in other areas of the game where quality is lacking.
wat? How much have the models been upgraded from the original, exactly?
Do I want to know where Minsk stores Boo?
I don’t think the EA had penis and vagina…sorry…vulva models. So now you can have a helmet head, ant eater, bulbous, 70s porn and shaved.
“Facebook’s black market sperm industry exposed: Wannabe moms too poor to afford $30,000 IVF are being lured into having unprotected sex or forced to meet men they met online in parking lots to swap semen samples”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12370461/Facebooks-black-market-sperm-donation-industry-exposed-Wannabe-moms-poor-afford-30-000-IVF-lured-having-unprotected-sex-forced-meet-men-met-online-parking-lots-swap-semen-samples.html
How many filters are on that first picture?
Sure. I believe this is widespread. Not.
Son, your dad was some random dude I paid from Facebook Marketplace. I’m sure everything he told me about his family history and accomplishments is true.
I think there’s already a name for paying someone to provide a semen sample.
Gay-for-pay?
Clinton?
black market sperm industry
Band name?
“Are dangerous chemicals lurking in YOUR medicine cabinet? Generic drugs imported from China and India increasingly contaminated with carcinogens… and FDA is failing to detect them
‘Given that approximately 32 percent of generic drugs and 45 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients are from these two countries, we are worried that the United States is overly reliant on sourcing from foreign manufacturers with a demonstrated pattern of repeatedly violating FDA safety regulations’, a letter to the FDA from the House Energy and Commerce Committee said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12389297/dangerous-chemicals-medicine-drugs-carcinogens-china-india.html
Your tax dollars at work.
Dude, the FDA is too busy shilling for high profit margin death shots.
There were about 5 minutes during COVID lockdowns in China when people in the US were noticing it might be a bad idea that so much of our critical manufacturing is done in a country that can shut things down at will.
Then everyone forgot another 5 minutes later.
He has no reason to.
Former President Trump said Wednesday he won’t sign an RNC loyalty pledge to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee.
Why it matters: The Republican National Committee requires all candidates to sign the pledge in order to take part in the first primary debate, which Fox News will broadcast on Aug. 23.
Right now he’s holding all the cards.
The poor child
Another teacher told police that the children had returned from recess when she heard a gunshot as she walked by. Children fled from the classroom followed by an injured Zwerner. The teacher went in and saw the 6-year-old standing by his desk, and she held him until police arrived, according to the documents.
At the time, the teacher told police, the boy was making statements, including, “I shot that b—- dead,” the documents said.
In response to the release of the documents this week, Ellenson reiterated that the child has “severe emotional issues.”
“He is in therapy and improving daily. We wish to thank the dedicated professionals working with him,” he said in an email.
A local prosecutor said in March that the 6-year-old would not face charges given that a child that young wouldn’t have the competency to understand the legal system or adequately assist an attorney.
Lawyers for Zwerner have said that claims made by the family that the gun was safely secured at home “defied common sense.”
The best thing to do is to get the child back in the classroom as soon as possible.
I have three cans of this but I will not be using any of it today.
It is a present for future DIL.
“It Sprays. It Tops. It Toasts” and reference to future DIL sounds like a Pr0nhub category
But is it a floor wax?
It’s gluten and dairy free. I am disappointed that it doesn’t toast as it sprays.
It comes with a mini-torch!
Should be great for making marshmallow and p-butter sammiches.
In April, Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit alleging school administrators shrugged off multiple warnings from staff and students who believed the boy had a gun and posed an imminent threat on the day of the shooting, and did so knowing the child “had a history of random violence.”
The Newport News School Board has argued that the suit should be dismissed, and that the case should go before the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission because Zwerner’s injuries occurred on the job.
Workplace violence. What are you gonna do?
That’s no surprising as that’s the way work comp works.
But if you have some egregious safety issue that’s been reported multiple times to the employer you can essentially do an end run on the limited liability protection that work comp provides.
But it is zero surprise this is going to be what they try first in the our Kabuki legal system.
Settle out of court. Taxpayers pay and no one loses their job.
Winner!
https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/mark-zuckerberg-wife-priscilla-chan-lay-off-50-nonprofit-workers/
You would think a billionaire could do better.
I guess buying the 2020 election is catching up to his bank account.
He even has his own plane!
The disclosure of a subpoena of Twitter by Special Counsel Jack Smith was surprising in a number of respects, including the hefty $350,000 fine imposed by U.S. District Court Beryl Howell (left) for a three-day delay as the company sought to address the demand. However, the two most surprising, and concerning, elements were that the subpoena was secret and Howell justified it, in part, on Trump being a flight risk. Neither seems warranted in this case even assuming that the subpoena was in other respects warranted.
He’s going to flee the country and run for president simultaneously.
That would be awesome.
Imagine him running from Russia.
We are witnessing the full power of the government on this.
Fuck. Off.
The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts.
But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high enough to go back to safety measures that many have abandoned.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert, said transmission is increasing and “we haven’t seen the crest yet” of the wave.
Most people have stopped wearing masks and aren’t likely to follow suggestions to return to that practice all the time again.
But swearing off masks for good — even when sitting on a plane next to someone who is coughing or sneezing — would unnecessarily put people at higher risk for illness.
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. Masks dont work. The vaccine made little to no difference in transmission rates. The lockdowns were completely useless.
These fuckers, no matter how many times they get caught lying they just keep lying shamelessly. And this coming from a chinaman of all people.
I would say some of us owe others of us money on this, but I think everyone here called this months ago.
I’d like some of that lockdown and forced masking reparations money please.
The comments on that article are heartening.
Better wear goggles too.
But they do nothing!
I’m still waiting for some good studies that show that wearing cloth or surgical masks does anything at all to prevent virus transmission. You would think that by now they could have gotten some evidence for their cargo cult position that goes against decades of prior scientific knowledge.
Let’s not let N95 off the hook. Every study I’ve seen on N95s in real-world settings shows no statistical difference with respect to surgical masks. Not terribly surprising as N95 is, by definition and assuming meticulous manufacturing (prog-psychodelic band name?), designed to stop 95 percent of particles larger than 0.3um. So it’s passing a non-zero number of larger particles as well as having a very steep size distribution dependence; it will stop nearly nothing below 0.3um. Given viral particle sizes, it’s just not going to do a very good job. Concentration in the air, air movement – essentially time exposed to a given concentration of virus – are going to be the operative factors in what viral load you will get; an N95 might mean you have 10 minutes instead of 9 before you have a viral load big enough to cause infection, but it will be such a narrow range of environmental parameters so as to be not statistically significant and swamped by things like wearers health, mucousal immunity and all those other factors.
Sorry for the longish rant – I just see that lots of people have have figured out that cloth and surgical masks do not prevent viral transmission, but will just retreat to “that’s why you have to wear an N95 now!!!”
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Heheh. Solid rant there. I don’t think n95’s do much if anything in a real world setting.
Mead has a long history and a future as a sustainable beer alternative
A long article about carbon footprints. Fuck the Post.
Pull my finger. I’ll show you a carbon footprint.
But what happens after climate change kills the bees?
Kill the corn subsidies and allow more barley production.
A legislator in the National Assembly, Villavicencio had been outspoken about corruption and the violence caused by drug trafficking in the country, telling CNN En Español Conclusiones in May that Ecuador had become a “narco state” as he proposed to lead a fight against what he called the “political mafia.”
I was thinking Marxists striking because Villavicencio criticized Correa. A hit from the narcos makes more sense.
There’s a long, proud tradition of Marxists going into the drug trade. So, Por que no los dos?
Deflection
Retailers who blame organized theft for lower profits could be overstating crime’s impact to cover up internal flaws or self-inflicted problems, CNBC has learned.
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But behind closed doors, retailers are facing other issues they can better control, including theft by their own employees, that are contributing to losses, according to two sources who advise major retailers. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about clients.
Many retailers have invested in technology to better understand what leads to shrink, or the gap between the inventory a company has and what it sells. Some companies have since identified theft from employees as a major contributor to losses, even as they blame external theft in public, said one of the sources.
Losses from self-checkout theft have also become a major issue, the people said.
While some retailers may be seeing higher rates of shrink because of poor hiring practices and self-checkout machines, others such as Target
and Foot Locker could be using retail crime as a crutch to obscure internal challenges, experts told CNBC.
“Shrink has been going up but sometimes it’s very difficult to unpack how much is down to theft and how much is down to internal retailer issues and stumbles,” Neil Saunders, a retail analyst and the managing director of GlobalData, told CNBC.
Where is the inventory going? Is it falling off trucks?
OMG, so treat your employees like criminals instead of treating the criminals like criminals. That’ll make people want to work for you.
I was reading up on the Andy Ngo trial yesterday and found this comical:
Who were those security concerns over? Must have been those fascists at Patriot Prayer, I bet.
David Johnston, the vice president of asset protection and retail operations at the National Retail Federation, said employee theft has long been the largest contributor to shrink and staff have at times been involved in organized theft rings. However, he thinks internal theft is now “second place” to external theft.
Retailers have another self-made problem that can lead to more stolen goods. Self-checkout machines also increase the risk of theft, and they have become a major source of losses, the two company advisors told CNBC.
The machines come with increased costs. In some stores with high rates of theft, losses are outweighing the investments companies made in them, the people said.
“You create a problem where there wasn’t one,” one of the people said.
You don’t say.
Alls the companies saw was dollar signs for all that sweet sweet payroll they could cut. Of course, most people are too stupid to operate a self-checkout at some of these places and it requires an employee to do the entire thing for them, anyway.
The whole retail thing where they claim internal theft was the biggest culprit has always been bullshit.
“Another explanation proposed by the study and talked about by the LA Times was that black workers did not need to worry about “code-switching,” or adjusting their behavior depending on what environment they are in.
A “career expert with LinkedIn” said that when people do not have to “code-switch” because they will feel more comfortable not doing so.
“Professionals that have the opportunity to be in these remote environments and not experience microaggressions at work or not do as much code-switching or all of those things have now said, ‘Oh, that was great for my mental health’ or, ‘It helped me be a little more authentic at work,'” said Andrew McCaskill, a career expert with LinkedIn. “And a lot of employees and workers just don’t want to give that up.”
With remote job options shrinking post-pandemic, the outlet said that eliminating such options could hurt companies’ ability to “recruit a diverse workforce.”
“Companies have to recognize that if they really want to meet their commitments to diversity and inclusion, one of the best levers they can pull for that is remote work,” said McCaskill.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/la-times-claims-making-people-go-to-work-is-racist-as-companies-ask-workers-to-go-back-to-the-office
Showing up for work is racist.
Because NOBODY ELSE has to code-switch. Only black people.
Another example of how they just aren’t capable from presented by their white saviors.
I’ll trade with the black people. They can talk in ebonics if I can liberally throw around the word cunt at my co-workers.
I found out I had to dumb down my vocabulary working in a subs/pizza joint after college. I once used the word “ridicule” instead of saying “make fun of,” and I was…made fun of.
That’s ridiculous.
Janine Stichter, a retail analyst and managing director at BTIG, has been covering the retail industry since 2008. She didn’t really hear companies talk about shrink in their earnings calls until about a year and a half ago — right around the time the economy started to soften, she said.
Was anything else happening then?
The Bee weeps.
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