So the other day I was loading my dog and a friend’s dog into my car by myself when my friend’s dog broke free and ran across the street. My dog pulled so hard her leash escaped my hand and she dashed across the street and caught up to the friend pup who was greeting two women wearing their Sunday best.
The women were rather understanding and calm about it. Not happy but not obviously upset either. The dogs just wanted to say hi, after all.
But then they saw me coming, and quicker than a flash they took off down the street with their leashes flapping behind them, much, much faster than I could ever dream to run. Fearing it was futile, I chased them anyway in a dress and sandals, screaming their names as cars were coming down the road.
The cars slow down almost to a halt and the dogs jumped up to greet the drivers and say hello. One car lingered long enough that I almost caught up to the dogs!
But then they saw me coming and took off again!
They ran. And ran. And ran.
All the way down the road to the cemetery where they crashed a funeral.
A rather nice (and quick thinking) couple grabbed the dogs and waited for me to catch up. Everybody was rather nice about it, though you could tell some people were obviously annoyed. I was positively fuming. My heart (which shouldn’t be exerted like that due to medical reasons) was out of control. My face beet red, and somewhere along the way I lost a shoe.
But I grabbed the dogs and, winded, started dragging their asses back to the car a quarter mile down the road. My pup practically choked herself on the leash trying to break free again.
The last the poor funeral attendees saw of me I was telling the dogs, “You are in so much fucking trouble!”
I have no idea who the decedent was, but I hope dogs crashing their funeral wasn’t out of line with how they lived their life.
And now, onto some links.
DeSantis is contradicting the booster narrative
The used car salesman running for the nomination wants to lay off thousands of federal workers
The Royal Family has been kicked off a Scottish estate
Just leave Bigfoot alone already
And I thought my dog was a jumper
John Lithgow will paint your dog. For a price.
food thief speedrun (world record) pic.twitter.com/btF3BSf9Ia
— animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) September 12, 2023
BOOOOOO!!!!!! 😉
Morning, WebDom. Thanks for the links.
Thanks for the answer re: liquid cooling. I had thought that they were sealed units, but the builder was selling bottles of coolant so I thought I might have inadvertently signed up for unwelcome maintenance.
every so often, you do need to replace the coolant.
*grumbles*
Some of the options were very interesting. I could have doubled the price just by “upgrading” all the fans.
I have no idea who is a good builder these days. Back in the beforetimes, before Alienware was acquired by Dell, CyberpowerPC was delivering the quality of Falcon Northwest without the luxury options. Which is a shame if you want to have you case painted to match your M5, but not really necessary.
Yeah… for work I do employee discount because even though I’m WFH and Shadow IT (i.e. I buy my own shit and run Linux on it and try to stay under IT’s radar since they don’t like that all that much… pre-merger the storage company I signed on for was more relaxed about it, and the product I work on is BSD based and my work is all supporting it in various virtual machines / Cloud, so a stock CorpTop running Windows does jack over shit for me). But for personal use? Stock builders cut too many corners for my liking… I just build them myself.
It helps that I don’t care all that much about aesthetics, really (Lord save me from the current RGB mania). The box is under my desk, it isn’t artwork — as long as it works and I have decent airflow, I don’t care.
Ditto – I don’t think I’ve bought pre-built machine in 20+ years. I do builds for work and always just buy components and assemble. You can get 2x the machine for 2/3 the cost usually and you know exactly what’s in it (and, though less of a problem these days, know that all the hardware will just work with Linux!). I keep hoping the RGB kick will go away – give me quiet and well designed for neat cable runs and don’t bother me with RGB headers.
RGB is here to stay. I just ignore it.
However, neat cabling and airflow is one of the things I will do.
I try to do proper neat cabling. I will not claim to succeed. If it isn’t a rat’s nest, I’m at least a little happy with myself for the effort.
Really like Fractal Design cases for cabling; they were doing it right a long time ago. Maybe someone is doing it better now and I’m just not aware because I’ve gotten into a habit of defaulting to Fractal Design.
I’m a fan of the Antec cases designed for the power supply in the bottom, paired with the Antec modular power supplies. Enough room behind the MB panel to run cables well, as well as good places for fan mounts and the like.
I started out with a plan to build my own box and couldn’t put together something for as cheap as the rig I got a deal on thru Amazon from Cyber-Power.
And it had a warranty. But this was when the Ryzen 9 had just came out, and that (along with the new form MB) was more than 75% of the cost of a whole rig.
I built a new box back in June – my previous rig was over a decade old and I was experiencing intermittent lock-ups/freezing. I prefer to build my own and part of the fun is selecting each component. This was a total new build (case, mobo, CPU, RAM, power supply, Win11, etc) and total cost was about $1350. This is what I would call a mid tier build – I7 Alder CPU and most of the components were a step down from the latest and greatest top of the line offerings. Saved a lot of $ by using a year old high end video card my brother donated after he upgraded his. The Gigabyte mobo I selected has 4 RGB headers so I thought why not? I bought 3 RGB fans, RAM with RGB(Corsair) and a couple of cheap LED light strips. I have a roomy Lian Li cube shaped display case and it looks cool lit up. It was kind of fun playing around with RGB settings, I went with a purple lighting theme. Currently air cooled and relatively quiet. I may add an AIO water cooling kit down the road. Biggest surprise was how cheap SSD’s and RAM are now. Favorite upgrade – the modular power supply.
I used to be a builder, but at the moment I’m really not in the mood to do anythign resembling work.
That reminds me, I need to adjust my keyboard lighting to better reflect my mood today.
I just have mine alternate between Rage Red and Blue Despair.
If it is an All-in-One, I’d replace the unit before the coolant. They aren’t that much and typically you aren’t supposed to be popping them open.
Sigh… now I’m going to have to go look at the damned thing… hang on.
Ok, manufacturer page here. Definitely an AiO — and look at the weird-ass screws on the pump housing/cooling plate… you damned well should never be opening that unless you seriously have to. Amazon has them for $75-$80, so not a huge outlay… no gorram way I’d mess with trying to refill it.
Last time I looked into the option, I saw a bunch of modular options that definately were not self-contained units.
There’s still all the stuff if you’re building your own loop, yeah — but AiOs for cpu cooling have been pretty prominent for a couple of years now for those who aren’t in the mood to do the plumbing.
For PC or something else?
PC liquid coolers are both lifetime sealed and refillable. “Lifetime” means 5 years or so depending on use they will slowly lose coolant.
Do these cooled units use heat pipes to rout to a liquid cooled radiator or are the directly piped to each heat source? Thermacore heat pipes are amazing and can be bent and routed all around the PC. It allows one to run all of the cooling to one liquid radiator.
I don’t build PCs, but used a similar set up with power modules in the past.
https://www.boydcorp.com/thermal/two-phase-cooling.html
liquid cooling ::perks up::
I’m looking at liquid cooling my GPU (AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT). I have an ancient Zalman Reserator (combination reservoir/radiator, really just an extruded aluminum cylinder with vertical fins around the circumference) that I’m trying to repair. The aquarium pump in the bottom died, so I’ve been working on replacing that, I keep hitting snags.
I should probably purchase the water block for the GPU first. If I can’t adapt the fittings on the water block to the Reserator tubing, or if the pump in the Reserator doesn’t move enough water (~80GPM) then rebuilding the Reserator is wasted effort.
Seems like not many sources for Radeon water blocks, either EKWB (British) or Alphacool (German).
Uh, 80 GPH, not GPM.
I was wondering how you were moving that much liquid through a GPU cooling unit.
Heh… I’m pretty sure I have that Zalman or its cousin out in the garage. At some point, I just got tired of screwing with it.
Good luck on the block and loop. I just can’t be bothered at this point since I’m not an overclocker and as long as performance is decent and the noise is tolerable, I’m fine with things.
It’s not even that I’m overclocking. The GPU came with a air cooling setup that is fairly quiet, but running high end games, the GPU temp is 90C+, that seems like a lot. The GPU was a little spendy, I’d like to not burn it up (I did get a combo deal, buy the GPU, the CPU was mostly free).
You know, Falcons tend to fly Solo, too. They spend all of their time Wookie at the ground instead of trying to get Leia’d.
😑
I have to assume the decedant was a dog fanatic, to have invited two random pups to the funeral
That food stealing cat is adorable.
Animals rapidly learn to weaponize cuteness in their pursuit of food.
I’m firmly convinced that our youngest cat (just over a year old now) is well aware of her weaponized cuteness and knows a mark when she sees one.
She entered into our family seeing me in a parking lot, immediately circling my feet then plopping down in front of me and purring. Lifetime of food, shelter and pettings for a minimum of effort, the little minion of chaos….
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-whPKXmOHuZE/T95QDac6h2I/AAAAAAAABck/jEFwO_kRDjY/s1600/feedthekitty+(6).jpg
Heh… yup, that’s definitely the vibe she was giving off.
I have two cats that were rescues. Definitely they were trash eaters. Took some time to break the habit of stealing food off plates and out of the trash.
And to answer your question from dedthred, I’m at work. I am so glad I had this week’s horoscope mostly done.
I’m pretty sure that a vassal can’t ban their liege from the lands they’ve been granted title to.
While that might be the theory, in practice, it depended upon how much power the vassal had. Leiges often had no ability to enforce their authority on an overmighty subject.
I’m pretty sure HRM could buy all of Scotland. Isn’t their GDP less than Mozambiques?
Don’t know about that, buy I am sure they have less teeth than Mozambique.
Many towns in Scotland fly the Palestinian flag alongside their own flags over their city halls. That tells me all I need to know about the country.
Why buy the “cow” when you can get the “milk” for free?
I was surprised to read that Balmoral doesn’t belong to the Royals.
I think Balmoral does, but the estate next to it that was used for hunting and fishing belonged to the Gordons.
“By Courage Not Craft.”
-one of the dumber clan Mottoes.
Gordon does have a nifty tartan tho.
“We’re dumb but brave”
Yeah, that’s how I read the article as well since I was surprised at first that they’d let go of Balmoral. It is just adjacent land that they leased hunting rights on, not the castle itself.
5:01 and Done: No One Wants to Schmooze After Work
Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/work-happy-hours-office-culture-4c901cfb?st=htlk104o0r47qdt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No way… Between commute and getting home late from NYC to the burbs the last thing I want is “drinks after work”. Even the normal bubbly extroverts don’t seem to be particularly interested in the minefield that is current PC work politics in after work functions.
Every time one of these invites hits my calendar I groan and do the calculus of if I have to attend. I’ve still got to go to at least one third or so. The last thing I want is “mandatory fun”.
My brother is a sales trader and is obligated to do client entertainment, but feels like you do.
He said it would be ideal if everyone was in their twenties but now they’re all sick of “fancy steak house/box seats to the game/drinks and cigars at the posh bar” and would rather see their families.
He’s got a few guys who are happy to do a spin class before work at one of the fancy gyms – they’re all pretty happy to just do that instead of going out after work.
That is a hazard of the trade for sales traders. I know a few that turned the usual steakhouse dinner into spin class, driving range or other active activities.
The vast majority of them are extroverts and fortunately when I was an analyst did a good job at making us introverts feel welcome and included.
Aaargh, even worse.
Back in the BC, I only stayed for after work events if they were on Friday. There were some coworker organized events on Fridays. Corporate always scheduled events for mid-week because they didn’t want to interfere with weekend plans.
I recall on government contracts the customer often scheduled their events during the workday giving feds up to two hours of paid time to attend. Contractors didn’t get the free time (same with 59-minute rule, closures, …). The feds always lamented at how few contractors attended their events.
Oh, that brings back some painful memories. Friday events back when I had to commute into an office were the worst.
Everyone in the Bay Area must go to Vegas or something on Friday afternoon — because if I didn’t get out of the office by 2pm (I came in before 6 before you people start ragging on me!), it was stop and go for 3 hours just to get down to Gilroy (which is about halfway home). If there was a “mandatory social event” keeping me until 5 or later? I wasn’t home until 9 or 10 (or worse). Just fucking evil.
I feel your pain. I-95 is evil. On the rare day I drove in I could get to the office in about 45 minutes but it was normally 1-3 hours going home depending on when I left. I was only able to tolerate the commute by taking a train.
Gilroy (which is about halfway home)
Man I’m old, I remember when Gilroy was the ass-end of nowhere.
garlic ice cream
If I was stuck that late in San Jose, I would just go to a movie. I know I am going to get home at the same time either way, might as well do something interesting.
That was me when I had to work in El Segundo instead of downtown – just have an early dinner there instead of sitting in traffic for a couple of hours.
Inflation. Woke bullshit. And honestly, most co-workers are clods, and who wants to hang out with that? None of that was mentioned.
Falls under woke bullshit but #metoo needs it’s own mention here. Why go to a firing event for yourself where you mix alcohol, social freetime and female coworkers that may be looking for an easy way to remove you.
Good point.
I don’t go to work events, but I have been attending occasional dinners at the gun club and happy hours put on by my BJJ academy. At least those places, I’ll likely be able to have an interesting conversation…
My first couple of jobs after college I had lots of friends in the office and we would go to lunch together and often go out after work.
Now I feel like I have nothing in common with most of the people in the office and get out of here as soon as work is over.
That some people don’t want to hang out with their coworkers isn’t the point. The news part of it is the recent drop in participation. Tundra and I were commenting just the other day how there’s been a noticeable drop in wanting to hang out with coworkers after hours. Anecdotally for me, it seems like Gens Y and Z aren’t as in to it as Gen X and prior. As the article alludes to, I’m sure there are lots of reasons.
^this
I suspect that this is mostly it. We have a large cohort of people who live almost entirely in the internet. They don’t really do much beyond online video games and social media. In-person social interaction is a distraction from their more heavily curated online interactions.
I kind of think that’s why ghosting has become popular. Back in ye olden days, you most likely only met people you could potentially run into in meatspace, so attempting a unilateral total disconnect wasn’t really possible and you likely would take a reputation hit if you tried.
Bringing outside life into the workplace probably hasn’t helped, nor has after hours accessibility.
I think the after hours part is one of the reasons.
If you are expected to be accessible outside of 9 to 5 more claim on personal time is even less appealing.
I have this theory that most people have their own personal amount of hours they will work, and may exceed it for one offs, but over the long run won’t do above it. Forcing people to stick around or work late, and they find ways to get their time back. Taking longer lunches, coming in late, taking off during the day, or just checking out at their desk (or laptop).
And then they all bitch and moan about how they have no mentors in the company.
30 years ago my coworkers and I could joke around, have fun, drink, etc… and nobody ever got offended. Talking politics didn’t occur to us.
Now that road is littered with landmines. I’m better off hanging out with neighbors and making friends with people from church.
I would also include the zero tolerance OVI/DUI laws as a strike against hanging out after work as well.
I don’t know how many times I was way over the limit coming home from a work dinner. Clients love to drink on someone else’s dime, and as an account manager, first job is to keep the client happy.
You never learned the trick to tell the barkeep to leave the booze out of your mixed drink?
Soda and cranberry juice. With a lime.
Shitty bars aren’t as much fun if you’re not a drunkard.
My first job out of college, the company was still small enough that maybe once a quarter, the CTO would bring a couple cases of beer and bags of chips into the office on a Friday afternoon. They must have hired a lawyer then, because that shit stopped pretty quick.
My company does a happy hour at 4 PM on Thursdays (during the summer). So it is on work premises during work hours. People attend, I think. I don’t, as I am 1143 miles away.
I was hiking with the family years ago. A dog came running along the trail toward us. It was friendly and stayed with us. It had no leash but did have a collar. I grabbed the collar and noticed a tag with a phone number. I left a message that I was taking the dog to the ranger shack. About 5 minutes later a woman comes running down the trail. She said the dog escaped while she was putting on the leash.
My mom has a neighbor beagle marauding through backyards like The Swimmer. I like to give him a good cuddle before bringing him back.
That thought is a ray of sunshine in the morning. Never had one (I don’t think I could train it properly) but I have a soft spot for beagles.
Already nose to ground.
I always wondered what owning a basset hound is like. Or a corgi.
Our neighbor’s elderly black mutt will come wandering over every once in a while. If he hears me puttering around outside, he’ll usually come over to say hello; he wags his tail and expects to have his ears scratched, then if I point and say “Go on home now,” he goes home.
Morning kick in the *****.
The Census Exposes Bidenomics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/census-data-income-inflation-joe-biden-economy-social-welfare-spending-3897dbed?st=qzwk7shm3teuu7g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that Americans are poorer under Bidenomics, and the President quickly changed the subject to blame Republicans for rising child poverty on his watch. As usual, too many in the press corps bought the spin.
They aren’t “buying the spin”, they’re actively cheering it on and oftentimes creating it.
Bought the spin, or as they like to call it, fact checking.
Vivek only wants to get rid of thousands of FedGov jobs?
I think he says whatever he thinks is most advantageous at the moment, and will forget about it as soon as the moment has passed.
This could be true.
This guy ain’t buying his game. But he’s a biased AF Trumpalo so there’s that.
He makes some good points, though – esp. re: Vivek running mostly to boost the Vivek brand.
he doesn’t seem to view Putin as any kind of serious threat to Europe or to the rest of the world for that matter.
He’s not.
He also doesn’t seem to care if China controls all of Taiwan, so long as we no longer have to rely on them to produce semiconductors;
I don’t either
and he seems to view Israel as just another country in the Middle East,
It is.
Most of the foreign policy points were from a RINO perspective. Good for them. Not for me. I think that he is in it to boost his personal brand. I agree on that point. He will drop out long before we get to primaries. And despite being #3 or 4 in the race, he has no chance of being the nominee.
Vivek may be a phoney, but the author is worse (based what is important to him).
Eh, it’s American Greatness. They are completely in the Trump camp.
DeSantis is contradicting the booster narrative
*yawn*
Who? Oh, that guy that should not be running for president right now. Too little too late.
It’s nothing new. He has been against the shots for a while. Seems a pointless article.
It should be relevant to kicking Trump in the balls. This was his great vaccine effort – so great for the pharma companies! But apparently the Trump-addled aren’t bothered by this.
Trumpsters ignore a lot of good reasons for them to not be Trumpsters. His age alone should be enough to tell him to get lost.
Step aside for the chief booster of vaccines.
You missed the best of the ebay union claptrap –
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If I am going to commission artwork, it will be from an artist whose work I know to be quality.
Most likely it’ll be the guy who does my book covers.
It certainly won’t be from someone who despises me.
You could hire her to paint a giant mural of Trump and Jesus. Imagine the fun you’d have in the news. Turnabout is fair play.
A background check for the winner may be required…lol
and he thinks the Supreme Court will back him up
The executive branch employees “serve” at the pleasure of the president.
The used car salesman running for the nomination wants to lay off thousands of federal workers
“Vivacious Vivek, he reminds me of my primary care physician, folks. I’ll make him the head of IT in the next Trump Whitehouse.”
The executive branch employees “serve” at the pleasure of the president.
Marbury v. Madison anyone? The Civil Service Act? The unionization of public employees?
No law created by congress trumps the constitution. It might be a bit of a bugbear, but this is a basic function of the executive.
Hell, unionization wasn’t even an act of Congress, it was a fucking JFK EO. The point is we long, long ago crossed those bridges and burned the hell out of them. The only way the federal govt is downsized is a revolution. Reform is no longer an option.
In theory, it is an impeachable offense for the President to enforce unconstitutional laws passed by the current or previous legislatures. Not that the people who passed illegal laws would impeach a president for going along with that.
In practice, firing all employees of an unconstitutional department of the executive branch would likely lead to impeachment proceedings, and possibly even removal from office.
1,000-year-old fossils of ‘alien’ corpses displayed in Mexico’s Congress as UFO expert testifies
Not buying this paper mache bullshit.
Please tell me people aren’t taking that seriously because if they are I’ll consider a second career as a confidence man. Hell, it’d almost be a crime to NOT steal their money.
Surprised that the Mexicans have joined in the psy-op
Among the Republican also rams Vivek is certainly the smartest but is he still pushing the war with the Mexican cartels nonsense? That’s be a damn disaster.
That typo was baaaad.
Hope it didn’t make you feel too sheepish.
He was just trying to horn in that comment quickly. Didn’t check for errors that could knock his work down.
Ewe aren’t kidding. These kind of buck-ups will really get your goat.
Maybe someone needs to let that border collie loose at the next debate?
So not worse than last time we did a punitive expedition to Mexico. Of course Villa wasn’t exporting products that a lot of Americans want.
Haven’t really followed the “invade Mexico” stuff. Are they talking about 200,000 troops marching across the border to destroy the cartels or are they advocating “Seal Team/Special Forces” teams dropping down, like on Bin Laden, at the cartel bosses’
compounds and taking out the command structure?
When I lie through my teeth I’m going to have to remember I was “not fully transparent” when I’m called on it.
Further allegations surfaced, however, and Looney resigned effective immediately, BP said Tuesday. It said he acknowledged that he was “not fully transparent” about his relationships.
With CEO Out, BP Faces Choice of Whether to Abandon Push to Go Green
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/with-ceo-out-bp-faces-choice-of-whether-to-abandon-push-to-go-green-b2dc7af?st=67bloxe4fi6m20w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh, you know a commie greenie will take the role. I wonder how long it took to find dirt on him?
I know someone who’s worked with and for BP executive management. I’ll have to pick his brain on what’s going on over there.
It has to be getting sweaty in those exec meetings as BP lost its Russian sources and is facing pressure on all sides now.
Many things seperate British & German culture, but the crucial difference is which animals we depict as food.
While Britain is an overpriced cuddly caterpillar cake, Germany is a meat hedgehog (Mettigel) with peppercorns for eyes.
Tells you everything you need to know really…
https://twitter.com/40PercentGerman/status/1702208054471655889
…a meat hedgehog (Mettigel) with peppercorns for eyes.
Why?
What? You’ve never had a pork-upine?
Paging Swiss!
It worked!
*narrows gaze*
The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/13/the-case-against-pets-is-it-time-to-give-up-our-cats-and-dogs
Sod off swampy.
No. And fuck off.
Is there anything these douchebags can’t ruin? Does everything need to be an emotional guilt trip?
Fuck. Off.
Yeah, that only works with feeble minded cowards. Let’s get rid of the commies instead. I will keep my dogs.
I think within two generations the commies will all die out. They are not reproducing.
It took 70 years for the commies in Russia. Sigh……
I will keep my fingers crossed that your optimism is not misplaced.
They appear to be importing rather than breeding.
The party that is in favor of killing their unborn must convert the children of their opponents if they want to stay in power.
The siren call of socialism keeps fooling generation after generation of kids not directly exposed to the horrors it creates.
Well, it’s looking like in 20-30 years, we may finally be able to get them exposed.
More likely, we’ll be saying in 20-30 years from now, that we’ll expose socialism in 20-30 years. It seems to be an ideology surprisingly impervious to consequences overall, the Whack-A-Mole of ideologies.
The Shame-Based Economy
The title is clickbait. It’s actually a reasoned critique of modern pet ownership. I only skimmed, but the point seemed to be “there’s a lot of bad pet owners out there. Don’t be one of them.”
I actually agree with that. My cousin is an exec for the Humane Society and she said after the lockdown adoption binge, there followed a ton of people trying to return them. Assholes.
I’m a bit of a snob, for sure, because I detest it when people get inappropriate dogs for their situation and fail to take into account the breed characteristics. And then don’t train them. There are always GSDs, Border Collies and Aussies available for adoption because the flip side to the intelligence of herding dogs is energy and boredom. If you leave them alone all day and only take them for short walks you deserve what you get.
/rant off
This is why I like Shelties. All the good aspects of intelligent herding dogs, but mellow enough to be good house dogs (assuming a big yard to run around in).
(assuming a big yard to run around in).
That’s my point. They need exercise and mental stimulation. If you can’t provide that get a cat or something.
I bought my daughter a leash system to attach to her bike. She used the bike to run her blue heeler miles every day. Or she runs with the dog. Or she takes the dog when she goes kayaking. A big yard isn’t enough.
But she knew this going in and planned for it.
So, I guess we are generally in agreement.
Or buy the dog a cat so they have something to chase and play with.
You could go thru a lot of cats like that.
Fuck. Off.
Because constant hunger relieved only by a quick, violent death in the wild is so much better.
Dumbasses.
From the police dog story. The “I think” and “probably” made me chuckle:
Was that wrong? Should I not have said that?
Taiwan Rebukes Elon Musk for Describing Island Democracy as China’s Hawaii
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/taiwan-rebukes-elon-musk-for-describing-island-democracy-is-chinas-hawaii-ee2749b8?st=gkvjolluk5lgxf8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii,” he said while addressing an audience at the All-In Summit, describing the island’s de facto independence from China as an arbitrary state of affairs that continues “mostly because the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force.”
I don’t see anything he said that was objectively wrong.
Some things are better left unsaid though, especially in a public forum.
Yeah, why stick your dick into Taiwan unless you need to stay in the ChiComs’ good graces?
Oh . . . .
Yellow fever?
I thought even Taiwan viewed it that way. Just with the center of government being in Hawaii.
Pretty much on point.
Just your average Dodge Charger
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16hujfy/just_your_average_dodge_charger_oc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Looked to me like it belonged in the Two Idiots in Cars thred.
The guy with cam decided that since he got cut off he now gets to drive like an idiot as well.
Yeah, I’ve been going down the Idiots in Cars rabbit hole on youtube. This has led me to decide that I’m no longer even going to lean on the horn if someone cuts me off (or similar). Because (a) too many angry people out there and (b) in most cases they know what they did was obnoxious/dumb/unsafe and nothing I do will lead them to change.
I find driving to be an excellent venue for practicing my stoicism.
I’m trying to get Mrs. Dean to chill out behind the wheel. As you noted, you aren’t going to get through to the other driver, and you never know what kind of drunken/armed/ragehead is in the other car. All downside, no upside.
As someone said in the comments, its Idiots in Cars, not Idiot in Cars.
What a jerkoff.
A member of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who has previously participated in Drag Queen Story Hour was arrested after witnesses alleged he masturbated in public for an hour.
Clinton Monroe Ellis-Gilmore, 53, is a member of the group, which created a stir after it was disinvited – and then re-invited – to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Pride Night over protests from conservatives and Catholics.
Ellis-Gilmore was arrested at Table Bluff County Park in Loleta, California, on August 12 after police had received reports of a man ‘exposing himself in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle.’
‘According to numerous witnesses, Ellis-Gilmore had been at that location for approximately one hour, sitting in his truck with the door open, masturbating,’ around 6:40 p.m., a report from the Humboldt County sheriff’s office said.
So the cops took an hour to respond or the witnesses timed it before finally calling the cops?
‘Advocacy group.’ Right. Got it.
I’m starting to wonder if any of my hobbies can be spun as ‘advocacy,’ or if that title is limited to the disgusting and perverted ones.
“he masturbated in public for an hour”
Somewhat impressive?
Sounds painful.
You don’t keep a little bottle of Finish Line tucked under the saddle?
Sounds like he’s not very good at it.
If it takes an hour, yer doin’ it wrong.
Surprised this hasn’t been posted yet:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4201590-read-biden-administration-memos-media-impeachment/
DemoCorp has gone from quietly telling social media what to report to openly telling broadcast media what to.
Is that really new? I thought administrations from both parties have put that kind of stuff out.
I don’t remember actual scolding of news orgs before. I could be wrong.
“What border crisis?”
Video from source shows a large group of migrants crossing illegally into Lukeville, AZ last night. Per CBP sources, yesterday, Border Patrol in this Tucson, AZ sector alone apprehended over 2,000 illegal immigrants from all over globe, including 148 from Senegal. Others from Mauritania, Ghana, & Sudan.
Seems to me the federal government is literally facilitating an invasion of the states.
Seems like actual treason.
Only if you adhere to what it says in article three, section three. But that was written by slaveowners a couple hundred years ago. So it’s just like a racism and a piece of paper, man.
Seems to you? Of course that is what they are doing. They have been actively doing it for years. Remember all of those ‘caravans’ under Obumbles? I never understood why no R’s would investigate who was organizing that and name names. Oh, wait, I do understand why.
The R’s should replace their party’s elephant with this:
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/snake-in-the-grass-john-irons.jpg
Something something conspiracy against rights.
“I want to put it this way: I think that our mayors and our governors have the hardest job in the world right now when it comes to gun violence. Keep in mind, for example, in the District of Columbia, a few years back, D.C. said, we just want to basically ban carrying guns, and good for D.C. They said it was going to bring down gun violence, and they were right. And then, an extremist United States Supreme Court said, nope, we’re not going to let you do it, and then Congress wouldn’t act to try to give them some of the tools to help fight gun violence. And yet, it’s those same governors and those same mayors who are then held responsible for the rise in violence. So, I say this, is they’re caught in the switches, and they’re doing everything they possibly can to reduce gun violence and to try to save the lives of our children, our neighbors, everyone.”
“Extremist” as in somewhat following the constitution.
Well gee whiz Lizzie, I’m just sorry as hell that you still have to obey the law, even as an elected representative.
Also, I hope that you accidentally set yourself on fire.
“They said it was going to bring down gun violence, and they were right.”
What year? Citation?
I don’t keep up on gun stuff but this statement strikes me as a bald-faced lie.
It’s lizzie warren. Of course it is all lies.
Gun-grabbers lie. It is what they do. Every word out of their mouths is calculated to deceive in some way or other.
She is a real-life Ayn Rand villain.
“New York Times and Washington Post BOTH run op-eds branding Biden, 80, too old for office with NYT raising specter of him dying before retiring like Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516247/Biden-age-NYT-Washington-Post-op-eds.html
“Nancy Pelosi concedes Biden may DROP OUT of 2024 race – then laughs and REFUSES to say if Kamala Harris is the best running mate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516501/Nancy-Pelosi-smirks-laughs-dodges-question-asked-thinks-Kamala-run-conceded-Biden-drop-out.html
So is Joe out?
Joe will do what Joe is told. Or so they hope. He could tantrum, and demand to run. Then the deep state has no way to get rid of him easily.
Like JFK was a real toughie to get out?
Joe is out.
Romney calling it a day was the sign.
Heaven help us.
I’m shocked by both the threats and the creation of the stand alone unit…
Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe
The FBI has created a stand-alone unit to investigate threats from members of the public who think agents and prosecutors haven’t been tough enough on the president’s son.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/prosecutors-fbi-agents-hunter-biden-investigation-threatened-rcna104932
Of course.
“threats”
*cough* bullshit *cough*
Who’s buying this shit? Well, except for the entire MSM and left half of the country.
Threats like “you need to do your damn job, and I am calling my congressman!”
Interesting. I would think the real threats are from other deep state animals who want to probe shut down. Whining about not being tough enough is not really a threat.
This. When there is violence or threats of violence it is nearly always lefties perpetrating it.
Like in DC, in November of 2020. No one was boarding up the city because of Trump supporters.
Like DC, in January 2019. Those weren’t Trumpists rioting and setting shit on fire. Funny how that went straight down the memory hole. Good luck even finding much in the way of pictures of it.
I mean, January 2017.
How is this even remotely “controversial”?
Parents and staff are claiming a California school district is targeting LGBTQ Pride flags after the board voted to forbid the display of banners other than the American or California state flags.
Trustees representing the Sunol Glen School Unified School District in the East Bay, which serves 270 K-8 students, engaged in a tense exchange with attendees at a Tuesday meeting.
“The symbol of the flag solidifies that message,” Sunol Glen Superintendent and Principal Molleen Barnes said during Tuesday’s meeting. “Tonight, with this resolution, our board members have been clear where they stand.”
Barnes also noted that the school has previously displayed Pride flags to remind LGBTQ students and families they “are a place of equity and inclusivity.”
Perhaps government buildings should only display government flags. Also, perhaps groomer flags/symbols do not belong in grade school.
Its just as likely (or more likely) this was done to prevent Gadsden Flags.
Yes. My next comment, if the pride flags are kept, is “can we get a MAGA flag, a cross, and Gadsden flag?” There would be no end to the flags.
And they would find a way to twist the language such that only goodthoughtful flags were allowed because Fuck you, that’s why.
‘Groomer flag’
Herbert the Pervert flags?
Lester the Molester
“Zyahna Bryant is hired by Dove to promote ‘FAT liberation’ despite ruining white student’s life over ‘misheard’ remark at BLM protest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516377/zyahna-bryant-dove-morgan-bettinger-charlottesville.html
No idea how that could sell soap?
Fat Liberation, die young, same thing.
It is just more of the ‘I am going to tell you what you like’ demoralization.
Ignore them and stop buying Dove.
No idea how that could sell soap?
When you got a big body, you use more soap? Keep that flabby skin soft and supple? [Tres probably approves]
It puts the Dove on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.
Gotta get that squeezed into an article about a woke whale selling soap…because.
A lot of sentences there with lies and mischaracterizations.
Got to hand it to them, that Fine People lie just won’t go away and they still have a lot of people believing it without question.
Big Soap working hand in hand with Big Fat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPXTA-oXw0
Lingo straight out of Social Justicing 101 class.
Translation – fat people should yell more in public.
‘misheard’ = “lied”
Good morning, WebDom!
Sorry about your misadventure with the wild pups.
And I thought my dog was a jumper
A friend of mine was a K9 cop and their dogs had to get over a 10 foot barrier to pass their good doggy test. Unbelievable athletes.
I had a very big 130-pound GSD (that’s him in my avatar) who I watched one days as from a SITTING POSITION he just casually hopped over a 5-foot fence. You have no idea just how powerful and athletic they are until they decide they are just gonna do what they want to.
You misspelled “Good riddance to that globalist, carpetbagging cunte.”
I disagreed w/@MittRomney on some issues but respect him greatly for his courage, decency, long and distiguished service and palpable commitment to our country. He will be greatly missed but his parting message today about passing the torch offers a powerful example.
You also misspelled “distinguished.”
He liked Mitt because he was a pussy who rolled over to every liberal demand. He no doubt hates all the icky new repubs that have no interest in being commies.
The carpetbagger is only doing one term? Was he going to get primaried next spring?
Probably. But he cited his age. And now maybe Joe. Time for Trumpsters to take a step back and look at how old their man is, too.
He could have the decency to pull a Cass Elliot.
I like how Trump posted about it in all caps, like STEVE SMITH:
FANTASTIC NEWS FOR AMERICA,THE GREAT STATE OF UTAH, & FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. MITT ROMNEY, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS PIERRE DELECTO, WILL NOT BE SEEKING A SECOND TERM IN THE U.S. SENATE, WHERE HE DID NOT SERVE WITH DISTINCTION. A BIG PRIMARY FIGHT AGAINST HIM WAS IN THE OFFING, BUT NOW THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. CONGRATS TO ALL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
LOL you have to admit Trump is funny.
Most definitely.
Coasts vs Flyover part 1,001.
Study Uncovers Huge Chasm Between Consumer Values And Marketing Priorities.
https://www.insideradio.com/free/study-uncovers-huge-chasm-between-consumer-values-and-marketing-priorities/article_bb7ae802-52ce-11ee-8e1d-534e047c61d6.html
The study also looked at “cool” versus “cringe” among the two groups. The Top 2 activities that scored the highest as “cool” for consumers were traveling around the U.S. and BBQs, while travel to Europe and going to the gym were ranked Top 2 for “cool” for marketers. And among the top choices for “cringe” for consumers were NFTS and being vegan or vegetarian, while the top choices for “cringe” for marketers were making a recipe using cottage cheese and watching NCIS, both of which consumers put in the “cool” category.
“…consumers are motivated by friends and family, while marketers are motivated by fortune, fame and fear”
That’s no way to go through life. And certainly no way to run a business.
“…traveling around the U.S. and BBQs…”
Those are my top two activities as well.
– While 40% of consumers report that they’ve never heard of NFTs, that number drops to 0% for marketers.
– For lifestyle items the gap widens, as 50% of all consumers responded that they’ve never heard of an Aperol Spritz, and only 3% of marketers reported unfamiliarity.
– 33% of consumers have never heard of “charcuterie,’” while all marketers are familiar with it.
– 62% of consumers have never heard of “Succession,” while less than 5% of marketers have never heard of the TV show.
– Almost one third of consumers have never heard of pickleball, while all marketers have heard of pickleball.
I’m not a cocktail person in the slightest so I had no idea WTH a Aperol Spritz was. It’s age and geography. Mind you this works backwards as well.
For example Cracker Barrel is going to enter a death spiral. I can pretty much guarantee it.
The announcement in July that longtime Chief Executive Officer Sandra Cochran would be succeeded by Taco Bell executive Julie Felss Masino is a sign of urgency to remake the formula and to appeal to a younger clientele.
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/cracker-barrel-is-stuck-in-a-generation-gap-f2a3e01?st=nprymxbqnpi7nzr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There are none local to me, but I’ve never ever felt compelled to visit one when I’ve travelled and one existed.
Do you like salt licks?
If you do, you’ll love Cracker Barrel.
Boy yeah. I ate at one about a year ago, when a freezing ice storm blew up on the highway and I had to stop. Salt city. Way too fake “homestyle” food, big gift shop. There are much better options.
Last night: baked salmon seasoned with Lime-salt. Steamed veggie mix for a side. I whipped up a nice mornay made with bellavitano cheese. Light sprinkle of black pepper over the mornay.
Night before last: I bought a frozen white cheese/spinach pizza and added a little ham, gruyere cheese and fresh home grown sweet basil. Yum.
Night before that: Alfredo sauce with added gruyere (gotta eat that up and not let it go bad) and tossed in a double handful of medium sized shrimps scampi over fettuccini noodles.
There is definitely the diet of a backwoods redneck.
I have never found a restaurant that prepares better food than we can cook here at home.
You are correct in your ‘fake homestyle food’ assessment.
Also, the coastal so-called elites can kiss me on the whitest part of my ass.
*Husband of one of Mrs. Suthenboy’s friends is a so-called coastal elite. He once cooked a monstrosity for us….some kind of noodly soup with huge chunks of avocado, cilantro and some shrimp in it. I picked out the shrimp and then chased the rest around with my spoon until no one was looking, at which point I excused myself and quietly slipped that swill into the trash.
Fried food is something we don’t do much at home. Mostly because the clean up is too much work.
Occasionally I deep-fry chicken livers or fish. If I go too long between chicken liver dinners wife starts complaining.
You cant get good chicken livers from a restaurant
The Aperol Spritz was the big new summer cocktail last year or the year before. Dozens of news stories clogging my feed about it.
There are Cracker Barrels all around me, and if you want to go on a Sunday, expect a very long wait.
I stayed over night at one just outside of CLE. They are a godsend for campers and RVs, as they allow you to park in the lot overnight. They know you will be looking for some eggs and bacon the next morning. Never really frequent them otherwise.
Sounds like a cocktail for people who can’t stand the taste of booze.
Spritzes in general are low ABV drinks, and made for light summer drinking. Considering the strongest thing in an Aperol Spritz is Aperol, there’s not a lot of alcohol in it at all.
It’s a little like a less boozy Negroni.
Delicious. Did not know they were “trendy”.
You mean an Americano (Campari, sweet Vermouth, sparkling water)? My very favorite drink for when I’m not drinking…
Aperol Spritz, Pimms #1 Cup, Mojito, Moscow Mule, Appletini…
All of the ones in state closed after only a few years.
Golden Slopbucket amazes me that they continue to exist, but there’s obviously a market for perceived price/quantity.
Cracker Barrel is one of my most hated of restaurant food.
I was willing to put that aside for Tday so nobody had to cook or clean up, but it was a bad choice, as we all agreed later.
Cottage cheese?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6954696444de492a9ea1bdfca011b0fe/tumblr_mr83u9K3AG1r5j9hco1_640.jpg
The incessant gym/workout commercials where everyone is wearing a shit-eating grin always seemed not reflective of reality to me.
If you’re smiling at the gym, yer doin’ it wrong.
Turns out it was a British cruise missile used against Sevastapol.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. The Brits want WW3.
No step on snek.
You had better not step on my snake…
Dem woman politically homeless over the trans bullshit. Interesting thread.
This is where things like my idea for congress being elected state-wide with single transferrable vote would come in handy. These women could vote “liberal but not insane” and get a representative. The two party system where ideas get bundled, causes crazy to get bundled with normal. And even when I disagree with normal, at least it isn’t crazy.
The same happens on the right too. Being able to separate out fiscal conservatives from insane warboner neocons.
And, of course, I would vote libertarian and would actually manage to have a representative (in some states). I think in CO a libertarian could get 12.5% of the vote in an open system like that.
All that really does is reduce the number of places needed for successful fraud operations to flip more seats.
It assumes six sigma voting.
And, yes, I realize I have argued other times that the electoral college following the ME/NE plan reduces the affect of fraud, as fraud in one place can flip at most 3 EC votes.
But fraudsters arguing over what order to put a STV ballot in would be hilarious too. It would be easy to fraud in one person, but an entire slate would look very suspect.
Almost as suspect as disappearing votes, secret reconvention at 4am, blocking the windows from public view, rescanning ballots on camera…
I still like the idea that only people who don’t want to be there can be punted into office. Like jury duty.
Ha ha. Bullshit. It would be gamed and you’d have even less representation than now.
Yikes!
Pretty funny, though.
I bet that guy is under a lot of pressure.
But seriously that is way higher than the standard 35 psi.
Not good, not good
Whoa!
I have never tried but I wonder how much pressure before an average tire bursts. People get killed like that.
I was just thinking I would hate to be the attendant who had to let that pressure out. I guess use a really long stick?
“‘Every’ Democrat agrees Biden is ‘too old to run’ for re-election: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/joe-scarborough-say-every-democrat-says-biden-is-too-old-to-run/
Maybe they’ll run Dylan Mulvaney.
Amazing how quickly the narrative switches and how easily the propagandists just switch over.
Lizard people are like that. No a single independent thought in their tiny brains.
Eh. He’ll get the nomination and win the election.
He’s exactly what they want.
I still remember all the breathless right winters talking about the various ways Harris would be replacing Biden in 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, etc.
Nope.
Well, I’ve awoken on Day 7. Things are going well on this end. I have a Wheel Man errand to assist Dad with, and then…I technically don’t have anything until a pretty booked outpatient sched next week.
I’m healing in typical swift fashion. Made an appearance at Kroger to have a twenty second chat with the guy who hired me, who happened to be running about. Told him I’ll have the work release when ready and just reminding folk that I haven’t disappeared. He seemed to appreciate that. Those two combined will be my full-time gig for a while.
I have writing projects I will be pursuing. They’ll be good for content here, though putting it to page will show me if it requires any chapter-ing. Feeling remarkably brisk, actually, where I didn’t before. I thank bits of condo solace, a bowl and a wank featuring a high school hottie that I knew but was likely (in some ways) wise to stay away from. (She was a) taken, b) had a deserved rep for being a bit of a hottie-dumbie, and c) her husband is arguably more handsome and almost assuredly more successful than I at this moment. FB provides info that she is still suh-huh—huuuuh—–smoooooookin’.
Ev wish he wasn’t as dumb with youthful escapades as I could have been if I had known any better.
Daily Quordle 598
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Fuck the lower right.
Four words and only two vowels.
But seriously that is way higher than the standard 35 psi.
If you get the pressures high enough, that thing will handle like a Lotus Elan.
Well maybe not an Elan, but at least an Eletre.
https://www.lotuscars.com/en-US/eletre
https://imgur.com/gallery/ej0qJjq
Morning glibs
Now THAT’s a busbar
Yes, yes it is.
You chained that anchor to your foot, now you’ll have to gnaw your leg off
In a piece urging Biden not to run again, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested as a backup plan that Biden could replace Harris with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Ignatius says voters are sensibly focusing on Harris because of Biden’s age, while noting that Harris is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight.
“Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Ignatius writes.
Biden himself has committed to Harris as his running mate for 2024. He said last year, “She’s going to be my running mate, No. 1. And No. 2, I did put her in charge. I think she’s doing a good job.”
In a New York Magazine Intelligencer column, Eric Levitz floats several options to replace Harris including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).
“To be sure, replacing Harris with another running mate is not a great option,” Levitz writes. “It’s just that Democrats have no good ones. It is risky to switch out the first Black and female vice-president for someone else. But it is also risky to saddle an 81-year-old nominee with an exceptionally unpopular running mate who — if all goes well — will be all but guaranteed the party’s nomination in 2028.”
You fucking morons have dedicated yourselves to the eradication of merit. Live with it.
However, dumping Harris could come with significant backlash among Black voters — a category of voters Biden needs in 2024 that served him a major victory in 2020. Harris’ role as vice president marked an important achievement being the first woman to ever hold her office and the first person of Black or South Asian descent to do so.
But as journalist Josh Barro writes in his newsletter “Very Serious,” “Harris’s role as a draw for black voters is more theoretical than demonstrated” since she has never had a core political base among Black voters “because she has never been elected in a jurisdiction with a large black population.”
In Harris’ place, Barro suggests Whitmer as Biden’s running mate.
“[Biden] has the opportunity to pick a running mate who’s more appealing to voters than Kamala Harris, more credible as a next-generation leader of the Democratic Party than Kamala Harris, and more comforting to voters who consider the possibility that his running mate might succeed to the presidency than Kamala Harris,” Barro writes.
Right. People LUV Whitmer.
When will these people finally get so far up their own assholes they completely disappear?
I have yet to meet a person of any color that likes Harris.