Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another fantabulous day and the links!
Hunter Biden agrees to testify before House Oversight Committee
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Upend Administrative Courts’ Power
Heritage Identifies Documents That Could Speed Up Investigation Into Biden’s Alias Email Accounts
DOJ Releases Heavily Redacted Search Warrant For Donald Trump’s Twitter Account
Iowa Democrats Opt for Mail-In Caucus After Bungling 2020
China Inches Back Toward Lockdowns As Mysterious Viral Outbreak Surges
Court papers say ex-Virginia election official on trial ‘altered election results’ in 2020 election
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames ‘Right-Wing Extremists’ for City’s Problems
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
Morning, Banjos — like the babuskats.
Mornin’
Bubushkats are cute…. I have seen some babushkas and they scared me..
I sat next to two babushkas on a flight from NYC to Amsterdam. They bickered the whole way. When I turned my headphone up to drown out their constant jibber-jabber, they complained about it to the stewardess.
Which is more sonorous?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c
I just heard this song for the first time ever yesterday.
WooHoo!
No agency should be judge, jury, and executioner.
After seeing the abuses of government these past years, I feel no government agency should have any fucking power at all.
I will second that.
Riiight… helmed by ole Penaltax himself? I’ll believe it when I see it, you cock teasing press.
If he’s in the minority he’ll switch his vote so he can write an opinion that none of the rest of the majority want.
True dat
Isn’t a “mail in caucus” an oxymoron? Or at least a badly-misnamed RCV?
They will debate the candidates through chain letters.
“Margaret Wasserstein sent this vote to five Bernie Bros and won a lifetime supply of organic guacamole. Becky Miller broke the chain and her Tesla’s battery caught fire.”
LOL, oh that’s a blast from the past.
Genuine LOL from the toilet. Wife wants to know what’s so funny.
Bullshit. Phillips knew and knows damn well it isn’t blackface or as his idiotic way of writing it Black face. He thought he had a nice soft target to destroy and went for it. Fuck him.
How DARE you try and delegitimize and decenter Black Experience and Black Rage!
He’s trying to publicly shame a little kid for getting dressed up for a football game. I can’t imagine having the time and inclination to do such a thing.
He thinks he’s making some larger cultural point and if it’s this kid he needs to step over to do it, so be it. In his mind, the kid is just a racist little cracker anyway. A product of a country that produces racist. He got his clicks, negative or positive and made Deadspin money and as R C Dean states below, that money will most likely go to this kid’s college fund.
This process will only produce more racism. Maybe that’s the goal.
Of course it is. How can a race grifter get by without a lot of racism?
ding ding ding
And it’s only grown since Obama made it respectable.
That was Douglas’ chief complaint about DuBois and his ilk.
They learned to stop worrying and love racism.
Cleveland stadium has banned Indian face paint, head dresses, and costumes for years now (at least since the year we hosted the all star game).
“Bullshit. Phillips knew and knows damn well it isn’t blackface or as his idiotic way of writing it Black face. ”
^^^THIS^^^
People like this Karen are assholes. There is an election coming, and they are all desperate to recreate the summer of love and scare the minority community into voting team blue.
They are scared to death of the poll numbers for Trump in the minority community.
People like this Karen
Carron*
The Chicago mayor blows my mind. He can’t be serious. Nobody is that stupid.
A: He is
B: He is
He can’t be completely stupid, he survived taking down a Cthulhu cultist without losing any limbs.
+ 100 ****FORWARD THIS TO AT LEAST 100 CONSTITUENTS OR YOU WILL GET CANCER****
Meh, screwed that up. That is supposed to be debate by chain letters response. *sigh*
You broke the chain and must suffer the consequences.
BY CONSEQUENCES MEAN…
Superstition is one 20C relic I don’t miss.
Toxteth:
I wish it was gone.
/looks over at all the crystal healing, copper wrapped, CBD cures all, cupping, acupuncture, holistic medicine using, and totemic worship people.
We just have bigger superstitions now. Like the relatively miniscule amount of manmade CO2 is going end the world.
Good point, Neph.
You left out masks and totemic yard signs.
Re: Superstition
Have y’all watched TV lately? Take note of the ads.
Make your dick bigger. Smart pills. Shrink your prostate. Make yourself younger. Sleep like a baby. Lose weight while you sleep. Call a psychic, Call a therapist. The list goes on and on.
As long as we have problems that we have little or no power over, problems that take effort and personal responsibility to solve, we will believe in magical cures and solutions.
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+1 Innsmouth taint
He’s (probably) not but thinks his voters are. And he’s (probably) right.
I beg to differ with you R.J. – everyone that voted for him is that stupid or moreso.
My question was rhetorical and sprouted many comments. I am pleased. He is clearly a lying, disingenuous cunt who is appealing to his cud-chewing base.
I would go more with “ignorant” than “stupid”.
Ignorant can be cured.
Thus they are stupid – they keep voting for the same shit over and over despite the obvious results.
Wanna bet?
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.” – Einstein
It is MAGA country.
[Orson Welles slow clap]
Stupid like a fox. In Chicago he can ride a tide of hateful evil into office over and over again as long as he wants.
Johnson saw what happened to Adams in NYC when Adams stuck one toe off the reservation and doesn’t want the same treatment.
Because that way, they’ll have their result ready and any bungling will be swept under the rug where it belongs!
Funny how the “Our Democracy is at risk!” always (right, Bernie?) seems to revert to the Smoke Filled Rooms model whenever there’s a threat to the result they want. Or at least it would be if they hadn’t made their hypocrisy clear over the years….. (No, the Country Club wing of the Uniparty isn’t any better…. don’t start.)
We dont have a democracy, we are supposed to have a republic. If we had a democracy I would definitely want it to be at risk. As things are our republic is either dead already or severely at risk from the democracy crowd.
You would be surprised how every lefty I have pointed this out to gets really mad at you when you remind them that we have a republic precisely because our forefathers knew democracy was 100 wolves and 99 sheep deciding what was for dinner. They are desperate to relabel us a democracy, be it because they think they can majority vote cheat themselves into permanent power or because they feel it will be easier to recreate Soviet Russia or Mao’s China here as they want to.
And for those that can’t grasp that the elite are for marxism, I point out ta the elite driving this new cultural revolution are not scared of marxism because they believe they will be able to control their violent revolution, and then, be the ones on top. You now the only ones living in luxury and sending others to gulags.
The last of the first to die?
I knew an Oxbridge graduate with “We” syndrome. We must, we cannot allow. Wasn’t even a civil servant.
I thought they were trained from early age to not emulate the royals?
🤷♀️
I have seen bush cats many times but babushka cats?
I mean, they’re not even Russian Blues!
Wow. I dropped the ball on that one. I am way hopped up on coffee. My fingers are much faster than my brain.
(dont say it)
Babushkats.
I really shouldn’t wish economic collapse and the ensuing misery on the Chinese people… but since I don’t know what else might break the CCP’s hold on them, I have to confess I’m rooting for it on some level. This was interesting yesterday on a related note.
I know, I know… I’m just an Extreme Nationalist Right Winger or something for wanting China to free itself and our country to be self sufficient and to flip off the globalists…. Bad llama…
*Gives llama a carrot
“I really shouldn’t wish economic collapse and the ensuing misery on the Chinese people”
It’s inevitable in a corrupt, top-down economy. The longer it gets pushed off, the worse it will be.
You mean like the reckoning we keep putting off here?
Yup. That, too.
We’ve gone from a normal economic cycle of relatively mild boom/bust recessions to one where we are seriously courting a currency collapse and all that entails, from trying to avoid a recession. The more we put it off, the deeper we dig the hole.
North Korea and Cuba show that if the leaders are willing to be sufficiently ruthless, collapse can be staved off a looong time.
I think you mean “recovery”. It’s hard to collapse an economy that is already scraping the bottom.
Plus, ain’t no sugar daddy regimes out there to prop us up, unlike Cuba and North Korea.
By collapse, I mean desperate people overthrowing the regime. NK has endured multiple mass deaths by starvation, and yet the Kim dynasty survived.
Cause they have one heck of cult and some seriously horrific revolution by the people preventive systems in place.
The Chinese people do not want to be free or break the CCP’s hold on them. Their government is an outgrowth of their culture. It has always been that way with them. They have been wearing the same chains for at least 5000 years. Why would they want freedom now?
Debate on the Johnny Carson show some time back in the ’70s:
Chinese guest: “Freedom means you are free to starve. Freedom means poverty.”
American guest: “But you are starving and we are not. We are prosperous.”
Chinese guest: “Argle bargle bleep bloop blap” *falls over with smoke coming out of ears*
Fuck ’em.
As long as I can convince myself my neighbor is suffering more than I am, I am fine with a boot on my face. But if for whatever reason my neighbor is free to do better than me, then fuck him and everyone else!
/idiot marxist progs
/idiot marxist progs
In other words just very ordinary people.
I have an open draft of an article that goes into the misconception that China has been around that long.
I went through the provable dates, and it’s younger than its reputation suggests.
I’ve been debating whether to submit it or not, since there’s not a lot of cleverness in the recitation of facts.
Who did those colonizers steal that land from?
I disagree, the Chinese were undergoing intermittent famines into the 1970s. They have a tacit agreement with their government-the government provides conditions that lead to, or at least don’t fuck up, economic prosperity and they remain docile for the most part in return. When that agreement is widely broken there’ll be trouble. As for the good old US of A, most of the people here don’t really care about freedom other than their own either.
As for the good old US of A, most of the people here don’t really care about freedom other than their own either.
Too many don’t even care about their own freedom. Look how easily the vast majority rolled over in the face of unconstitutional Covid diktats.
Thus my puzzlement. Every famine in modern memory was deliberately caused by governments, the Chinese ones being no exception.
Yet, they are still there.
I know, our govt has broken our deal over and over and keeps straying further and further out of their lane. It is past time for them to be reined in in a serious way or just go.
“They have a tacit agreement with their government-the government provides conditions that lead to, or at least don’t fuck up, economic prosperity and they remain docile for the most part in return.”
That system used to be called The Mandate of Heaven.
You should submit, it sounds interesting, and we have more than a few history buffs here.
Submit Uncivil! . I mean….submit the article.
A discussion of what constitutes a culture, a cohesive society, a country, etc. will be very interesting.
Americans think of other countries as being like our own. They are not, not even close. Most of the world is very tribal. Those lines you see on maps? They mean Jack-shit to most of the people inside them.
Americans think of other countries as being like our own.
If anything screams out just how ignorant we as a society are.
That’s not exclusive to Americans.
No but there is a certain American exceptionalism in play here. The Brits always only had to look across the Channel to see different cultures, and they only superimposed so much on their colonial territories.
The French of course don’t think anyone measures up to them.
What I wrote doesn’t go into what makes a culture, it’s more focused on the timeline of provable civilization.
But I’ll put it in anyway.
Timeline of provable civilization? And when, may I ask will this ‘civilization’ you speak of occur? I am anxious to see it.
*seriously, that is a hell of a string to pull on. First you have to define civilization, no easy task.*
Ancient Chinese Proverb: Do It!
I’m reading an interesting book of China and how it operates (and how close we are to following suit). If you’re interested, UCS, I’ll send it to you when I’m finished.
Thank you, but I’m more into ancient history for my reading, and then mostly in audio form due to my schedule.
Does the Daily Mail always post the face and names of minors it’s writing about? I thought there was some sort of taboo against that.
I assume they have good lawyers in every Anglophone country.
They often blur them out.
He’s in disguise.
In the pre-links hours of the morning, Suthen delivered a fine rant, that included
Kill them and walk away. They will get the message and put their house in order.
Now, we’ve meddled in and muddled up (being extra polite there) a number of places around the world. If that was done to us, do you think we would get the message?
Iran has done us less harm than Saudi Arabia has. It was the Saudi’s Wahhabi Sunni madness that drove the 9/11 attackers. I have no interest in taking sides between Sunni extremists and Shia extremists. I’d be perfectly happy for them to slaughter each other, as long as they can do that without inflicting a lot of collateral damage.
Eh. It was Iran’s successful hostage-taking that let OBL think that he could get the US out of MENA by inflicting enough televised pain.
OBL was a symptom, not the disease.
You are exactly correct. The disease is our pols here. They have deliberately thwarted energy independence for decades to muddy waters and lead us off into the weeds. They deliberately created the problems that got us tangled up with the politics of the ME in order to create conditions for graft, theft, war on the American People and power grabs. This shit would be cut off at the knees in the blink of an eye with energy independence which could be easily achieved. All of the symptoms we see today are by design.
Another big batch of obvious problems with an easy, obvious solution that no one is willing to implement. Oh, except that monster Donnie Twoscoops.
That’s why OMB had to go, he interfered with the graft.
Probably sadly that simple.
Of course it is that simple. Ask them for a reason and you get blabbering nonsense with no information at all. It is because they cant say the real reason out loud.
The server had issues with me responding to the fine rant.
I had something like in regards to the ME, it would have to be total war. Unless they all have a coming to Allah/Jaweh/Jesus moment and suddenly in an instant elevated their way of thinking, it just wont change. Its like us thinking if people just had a taste of the freedoms libertarians go on about, the country would embrace it.
It doesnt have to be total war. Reagan sent a hellfire missile through Gadaffi’s bedroom window without warning. It missed the man himself but killed his wife and children? I dont remember who, but some family members.
All of a sudden Gadaffi was muuuuuuch easier to deal with.
Until the harpies decided it was time for him to die.
Hillary is very proud of the cannibalism, rampant slaughter, tribal warfare and open air slave markets in Libya. No shit, she brags about it.
What a thoroughly evil person she is.
Ya see, she’s the kind of person that could be viewed from the outside much as you view the mullahs of Iran, no?
Yes, and justifiably so. Now we are stuck with the argument that her supporters are legit targets of violence.
We need to get our own house in order.
I don’t want us to get involved in that shitpile over there in any way. I agree with you that we shouldn’t officially have a govt policy to kill them all and walk away.
But if some nation over there decides that they have to clean house, the non-meddling does mean that we should just shut up and let the chips fall.
Privately, I think it is OK to decide who to support. And if locals here decide they want to go somewhere and join the fight, I don’t think we should stop them (we might want to think about letting them back in our country).
Love the multiple times it is avowed that “She couldn’t have affected the election”. Ok… but as many folks have been saying over the years — you had many people like this in charge in many counties all with the idea that OMB was Satan incarnate (okay, that isn’t fair… most of them would welcome Satan in this world as they have in their hearts… but you get the idea). One individual’s acts? Wouldn’t “swing the election”… if 400 of these weasels are out there and have never been investigated? That’s much more the pebbles voting to start the avalanche, isn’t it?
And I will never, ever think Georgia was on the up and up after the “mysterious water leak that wasn’t and now isn’t in the reporting” closure and the attempts to keep the Republican observers out. That isn’t the kind of thing done when things are operating cleanly. The Establishment blew their chance to restore any faith in elections by blowing all this off, refusing to actually look into anything (because “standing”!) and continuing aggressive ballot harvesting / mail in voting…
I see a phat defamation claim by that Chiefs fan. No way the reporter didn’t see that he did the half-red, half-black face paint which I gather isn’t unusual for Chiefs fans. Carefully selecting a photo that shows just one side of his face shows actual malice (not necessary to win because he wasn’t a public figure, but it goes to damages). Try the case in KC, and you’ll get some pissed off Chiefs fans in the jury and boom – ridiculously large payout.
Deadspin’s gotta be an empty bag. The kid will end up owning it, like Hulk Hogan and Gawker.
This is also true.
I’m surprised to even hear from Deadspin. All of the old Deadspin assholes are at…whatever that new site is.
Agreed. Gawker needs another chunk of their wretched empire removed.
Now do Timothy McVeigh.
Gaza Protests at Colleges Open a Generational Divide
99% of those people have no clue what they are talking about. Academia has been filling their heads with dog shit for at least 2 generations now.
It’s all just performative leftism. Their professors have a lot to answer for.
99% of those ignorant morons don’t give two shits about “Palestine”.
Students for the Preservation of Chinatown??
Yeah… all those right wing extremists in the Chicago government. And in the gangs of Chicago.
I know, I know… they’re bringing all those Indiana guns and secretly plotting against
Comrade Napoleonyou….What a delusional nitwit.
He’s not delusional if he doesn’t believe it.
What? That people have no right to secede from/overthrow their government? That result?
I love how he premises his absurdity with ‘it is known’. That is as bad as ‘We can agree on…’
No, it is not known. You made that up. It is a lie. And no, we cant agree on X….
Now, fuck off.
NPR had a particularly odd story this morning about the Koch Bros (plural?) endorsing Niki Haley. Not only was it strangely celebratory, they put a spokesweasel on there to rave about Charlie’s “grassroots network.” Without even using the word “astroturf” once.
Hey, she’s so in touch with the common man – she just texted me yesterday and asked if I had time to chat!
Rowr.
Don’t be jelly
As long as she’d chat with me too. 😉
Did she use some form of authentication so you knew that text was really from her? After all she thinks everyone should have to be authenticated by some govt agency to use the internet.
How did she request you authenticate yourself (so she was sure it was really you that she was texting)? I’m guessing a dick pic?
Stop reading my texts! It was cold!
She has texted me three times since Monday.
My Samsung phone sends her texts directly into the spam folder but I still notice them.
A. Yeah, whatever. Kabuki theater while the snow storm in the Whitehouse continues unabated. Has anyone looked into the Biden crime syndicates crimes, as in, is their business still ongoing despite the investigations of past indiscretions? Betcha it is. It would be foolish to think such a crook would quit raking in the money.
B. I dont give out my personal info. That includes my email.
C. Again, whatever. Court intrigue. TERM LIMITS would put an end to a hell of lot of this kind of nonsense. Less incentive and less opportunity for circus acts.
D. Are we still pretending our ruling class are not thugs and criminal scum?
E. See: D
F. Vote by paper ballot in person. Anything else is just facilitating fraud.
G. It is mysterious, is it? A mysterious outbreak. A complete puzzle.
H. No shit?
I. His name is actually Brandon? Well, lets go!
J. Tiresome racist bullshit is tiresome.
It’s a floor wax!
It’s a dessert topping!
GM Plans $10 Billion Stock Buyback in Bid to Assuage Investors
sought to recast GM as a tech company
Seriously? 🙄
The (possibly valid) investment thesis on Tesla is that it is a tech company that happens to make automobiles. It’s the reason the automobile part while novel has only been mid tier quality at best. I’d argue that Tesla’s quality really is much better. Not as good as the Germans, but certainly no worse than current Ford.
GM wanted in on this same thesis.
My joke when Boeing moved it’s HQ to Virginia was that it was lobbying company that happened to make aerospace and defense products.
The entire thinking is that Tesla is making money on subscriptions and they want to do the same. But the percentage of Tesla customers buying feature subscriptions is dropping as their volume increases. Which GM ought to have understood with the OnStar product. Naturally, Mary Braindead wants to try the same thing and expects different results.
It’s “messy” when you suck at it.
I have a friend who is a direct report to her. She says GM went all in on SV tech bros. The old mgt is being kicked to the curb. Management in Detroit is expected to be available until closing time on the West Coast.
I remember when they moved Cadillac to NYC.
And of course that worked really well…
That idiot had 3 ideas the whole time he was there, 2 bad, 1 good –
1. Move Cadillac to NYC (because he currently already resided their, and who wants to move from NY to Detroit?
2. Rename everything but the Escalade from 3 letters to 2 letters and a number naming convention, i.e. CTS is now CT5.
3. Give Cadillac it’s own exclusive powertrain. Which they did. For 6 months. After millions of $ in production and emissions development and certification, all to produce a little over 1,000 CT6 2019/2020 sedans with the Cadillac Blackwing 4.2 twin turbo V8, then completely scrapped the program to focus on electrification.
What luxury car buyer doesn’t want a turbocharged 4 cylinder originally designed for truck applications?
The EV debacle is the dumbest fucking idea since the square wheel. Anyone with two brain cells could see this disaster coming a mile away.
It is a frontal attack on individual autonomy and freedom of movement, plain and simple.
Does anyone believe that this revelation will dissuade the vote buying pervert crooks plundering the US treasury for their own benefit and dooming all the rest of us to hell, from their agenda to keep power at any and all costs?
Your posts would be a lot more readable if you inserted more periods and other punctuation. At a minimum, if you can’t read it out loud without pausing to take a breath, it needs a period.
I am a dual major EE/AE. Not an liberal arts major. I have better things to do than worry about periods, man.
I feel you, man. My sentences are typically most people’s paragraphs.
I figure if I haven’t hit the German language ability to stretch a sentence across 3 pages (with the verb at the end), I’m doing well.
If you can’t be arsed to make your comments readable, who is gonna be arsed to read them?
It doesn’t take that long to read out loud before posting. Every time you find yourself pausing the pace, go all Hemingway and drop in a period. Here’s a starter supply: ………………………………………………………………………….
I’ll send more if you run out.
SLD – I ain’t your boss. If you wanna post unreadable run on sentences, have at it.
Some passion there, one feels.
(Am with you, sir.)
Hey, there’s a comma.
Valid point, but the Brits need your advice more.
It looks to me like Alex knows how to rant properly. Maybe he can work on the spittle flecking a bit.
“Vote buying pervert crooks”?
Let’s do an over/under on how many times Alex overuses *this* term.
Did I mischaracterize the political class somehow?
How much do you get for your vote?
I don’t vote…
Well you’re missing out on the gravy.
Too busy working for a living and chasing skirt to spend that money on..
So you are turning into tiger butter.
I am glad those days are behind me.
I think I was seeing 8 at the same time for about a year.
“Goddamned, I am expected to do that again? That is three times today and is barely after noon.”
*Heavy sigh, collapses*
Who says screwin’ never gets old?
Chasing and catching are 2 different things…
I was busy with both, in my mind. I was lucky to fool a couple.
I’m sure this is just a fluke, a coincidence, a nothing-burger. [insert Kermit drinking tea meme]
Some hostages are more equal than others.
I would be genuinely surprised if actual cash ransom wasn’t paid in that case.
BTW, the Israelis are going to lose this war, and it won’t be anybody’s fault but their own.
Yup. Their willingness to “pause” and swap terrorists for hostages doesn’t speak well to their level of resolve to do what’s necessary to win.
I remember some dude in the Knesset (sp?) who was against the cease fire getting screamed at by the others who had relatives that were hostages. They were way more worried about their relatives safety than the future of Israel.
They were much tougher back in the day.
Hamas knew what they were doing. They played Israel like a fuckin’ fiddle.
“Intelligence” heads should roll but I doubt even that will happen.
What do you mean by “lose the war”? Their opponents’ victory condition is “kill every Jew and have no Israel.” The Israeli’s victory condition is “avoid the ‘from the river to the sea’ outcome.”
Currently reading Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears”. While his Pollyannish peace in the middle East thing is laughably naive and ignorant, he seems to do a good job of showing the ‘no limits to avoid defeat, including nukes’ mindset of people for whom the Holocaust is very personal.
I thought Israel’s victory condition was the destruction of Hamas. That is what Netanyahu stated multiple times.
The cease-fires and hostage swaps are designed to empower Hamas. So yes, Israel will lose by this definition.
Israel is caught between two halves of its population. If they hadn’t done a prisoner swap, they would have lost on the home front.
Pope Jimbo is right they aren’t as tough any more. No one in the west is as tough anymore.
When you are inept, can’t explain your agenda (especially when it is an evil thing you can’t spin), and feel the people should not really have a say in what is going on because they might stand in the way of what you want, you do evil shit like this. The reason there is such a concerted effort from our credentialed globalist elites is because they are simply inept, evil as fuck, and prefer to waste time brainwashing the serfs rather than doing the things that would keep the serfs from rebelling.
Why are they showing a pic of the one asshole wearing his Rona mask? Fucking find a pic of his full face so if anyone ever sees him they can spit on him.
Don’t let that fucker hide.
That might be his new face, he might always wear one of those stupid masks.
Decadence is not solely a trait of the left:
https://langdontactical.com/beretta-tomcat-by-ltt/
I am of the opinion that pistols whose slides are not noticably longer than the grip look weird.
Just FYI, there may be a new gun club forming. However, the range it’s being established at is dedicated to steel shooting and is currently restricted to centerfire pistols. So get your freaking license already. We’re doing a shoot Sunday.
Have you seen the current process?
I couldn’t get the supporting documentation for the unconstitutional old process, let alone the unconstitutional new process.
Is it that bad though? I know parts of it have been enjoined, and that the processing just goes on without those.
https://www.ci.cohoes.ny.us/201/Pistol-Permit-Requirements
I don’t know 4 reputable people I’d even tell I was applying, let alone ask to vouch for me.
Oh, and they still stick to this bullshit, to let you know their attitude towards plebs:
That is the exact opposite of what the court ruled.
First of all, that 2017 application contains categories that no longer exist.
Second of all, the four references do NOT have any residency requirements. So glibs count.
Since when are Glibs reputable?
Nobody’s going to comment on a $1000 customized, performance-enhanced mouse gun in an obsolete caliber?
32 ACP isn’t obsolete, afaik. It just that there is no good way to make thirty work well in a handgun.
“Is there anyone we have forgotten to shame lately? Oh, I know, beekeepers!”
https://www.sciencealert.com/honeybees-suffer-unnecessarily-in-human-made-hives-study-finds
BEE COLONIZERS!
Exploiters of the hive! Stealing the product of the worker[-bees]!!!
We are lucky to have Fourscore as one of the members of our congregation. He really ups our scum and villainy quotient with his bee oppression.
Bee Oppression is going to be at Riotfest this summer!
I hope they play their old stuff like “Comb on Honey” and “None of Your Beeswax”
Of course, their front man is Sting.
What is Queen? Chopped liver?
Theme song.
Meh, that is an old trope.It is dumber than hell. Bees are very happy in hives and being cared for. That is why they thrive.
Dont get me started, I will drone on all day long about it.
I’m getting all worked up over this, bee that as it may
Why would she need a supply of batteries?
Housing Costs Are So High That Divorced Couples Are Still Living Together
She should just get a gas powered vibrator and stop doing that EV shit.
+1 Steely Dan
WTF is all this:
The couple, who get along and remain amicable, continued living together in the house for two months, until it became too awkward for them and confusing to their daughters.
If this is true, then just I don’t know, work on your marriage?
Too bougie to do that. They are each obviously standing in the way of the other becoming all they want to be.
Because the now ex-wife couldn’t become her whole self argle bargle
(playing the odds that she initiated, since that’s usually the case)
He probably cheated on her.
It just seems odd to want to split with your spouse, for whatever the reason, but the reason is still not bad enough to live separately.
Possibly.
Interestingly, infidelity only came in at #3:
https://psychcentral.com/relationships/top-reasons-for-divorce#leading-cause-of-divorce
From where do you calculate that probability?
The “Google” suggests the absolute rate for men his higher than women, but the “good” news is that women are catching up here too!
But why even assume that is the reason for the split? It could be any number of things, why automatically go to “man bad!”?
You are assuming the man is the most likely cheater. Not true. The man is the most likely to get caught.
^^THIS^^
Considering how many married women have told me they would be down for the count (and I never take them on cause I draw a line at fucking with people’s marriages), I am left wondering how many guys have no clue about their wives infidelity.
If y’all can make sweeping assumptions, so can I. And your reactions did not disappoint.
To be fair, you taste in Nu Who is terrible
Says you. Matt Smith was just the worst. And also, Donna was just the best!
Companion-who-must-lust-for-the-hero-to-show-that-he’s-the-hero #3 you mean? I would have thought you’d disapprove of such a lazy trope. Admittedly, the writers never could abandon that with Matt Smith.
“Oi! Why isn’t Amy banging the Doctor?”
“Dunno, it just sez here in the bible she’s not.”
“But he’s the hero innit?”
“Yer roight! We gotta figure something out then.”
“What if… she’s ‘is daughter?”
“That might work, the Doctor, ‘ees not all that posh izy now?
I honestly don’t know what you’re saying. I loved Donna the best because she wasn’t lusting after the Doctor. Also, I love Tennant and Tate together because they’re hilarious.
I do not like Amy Pond. Never did. I hated the way she treated Rory. Rose (for me) was just kind of there, but I thought she did better with Eccleston than Tennant.
I liked Clara a lot.
Or else my remembery is broken, but that wouldn’t be new.
Donna literally ditched her fiancee because Doc waved at her.
While OG Who had companions that were not shipping bait, Nu Who had (has? Dunno haven’t watched in a few Docs) an absolute ban on companions having any romantic interests outside his timelordiness.
I don’t know if it’s a Britishism in the same way that wired clothes are used to signal alien.
I said it might be my remembery. I totally forgot about her ditching her fiancé.
Any marriage where you can get divorced and still live under the same roof has me wondering what kind of fucked up marriage it was in the first place.
Absent religious motivation, people should just shack up. It’s much less paperwork when you get sick of them or want to trade them in for a newer model, and it’s much more honest about the true level of commitment.
I used to tell people they should start with a 3-year contract with an option to renew.
enjoy another fantabulous day
Meh. It’s too sunny.
cold and light snow here.
That’s more like it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Tennis? TENNIS?
All I have is bad memories about tennis… I thought it sucked and everyone kept hounding me to play cause I was could go pro.. Bah!
You didn’t want in on that racket?
I was never gonna net any cash doing that crap!
Hunter Biden agrees to testify before House Oversight Committee
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Upend Administrative Courts’ Power
Republicans to Unleash 150 Subpoenas if Democrats Target Friends of Conservative Supreme Court Justices
Heritage Identifies Documents That Could Speed Up Investigation Into Biden’s Alias Email Accounts
*yawn*
Pretty straightforward (though I’m annoyed that ‘nock’ and ‘nocked’ are bonus words as is ‘necker’… but ‘nocker’… nope, can’t allow that one! grumble)
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames ‘Right-Wing Extremists’ for City’s Problems
silly think to say but goddamn the comments on that website are something else…
Done my blood work and my LDL rose a lot for some reason 🙁 . But I do not want to take goddamn statins so for now I will need to look at different ways to get it down. Also I need to cut down on the whisky 🙁 probably
Stay away from statins bro. Once you start them you are stuck on them. And I have heard from too many people that they also give you whiskey dick. Fuck that. What is the purpose of life when you can’t get it up?
I hope that I used enough periods. Trying hard.
Oh, hell yes/no.
I hear if one goes vegan for a week(end?) before a blood draw, the numbers can come down enough to be acceptable to the docs. Hadn’t heard about the erectile aspect though.
I was on statins, and have gotten off of them (my cholesterol was only borderline high to begin with). Low dose, and no ill effects I noticed.
Wrecked a parent who already had mobility problems, but reversed after discontinuation.
Oh, I’ve heard horror stories about side effects from statins.
my triglycerides are low, my HDL ok, just the stupid LDL.
What’s the ratio? If that’s OK the LDL goes out the window to some degree.
about one to one HDL trig (58 hdl 60 trig )
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cholesterol-ratio-calculator#how-to-calculate
1:1 seems very good actually
from that list only hdl to total is bad, hdl to ldl and hdl to trig are ok
Whoah. Let’s not get crazy here.
China Inches Back Toward Lockdowns As Mysterious Viral Outbreak Surges
It’s almost time for lockdown season.
You mean there is a big US election where the globalist and the CCP would prefer a team blue douche and defeatist anti-American agenda than anything the American people might want?
How else to justify widespread fraud-by-mail?
Just in time for the election too. Oh happy day!
Only in academia is this "news".
‘The Accidental Equalizer’ Review: The Luck of the Job
Well, no shit, Sherlock.
How dare employers want competent self starting people that actually do work that adds value to an employer’s bottom, line instead of letting these kids show their value as social media influencers and wilting flowers?
One of the best things about software development is that more and more people are getting their start by attending some coding academy. No more requirements for some STEM degree from a college.
At one point I had a rule to never hire a CompSci major. I was tired of them spending weeks coming up with an “elegant” solution instead of knocking together a working solution in a day. Especially when I was up at 3 am trying to figure out all the undocumented assumptions that went into their elegant solution so I could make it work.
Even now, I’d rather hire a youngster over a seasoned developer because they will listen to how your workplace functions and won’t always be clamoring for some new process because that is how you did it at the last place.
I’ve been on the other side of that, trying to support someone’s working solution months later after it had turned into an unwieldy mess.
There are some things that I wish the current company did differently (like using an actual ticketing system instead of a mess of MS Teams and Salesforce), but that’s not because the old company did them that way. It’s because they work better for the tasks we need to do.
I also take issue with people who have been at a company trying to force everyone into their workflow “because that’s how we do things here”. If you’re asking me to pin over two dozen Teams channels, the pinned channels mean nothing (especially since less than 1% of the posts in the channel have any meaning to me).
“No more requirements for some STEM degree from a college.”
Most of the college majors in CS come with some of the dumbest ideas on coding that you can imagine. Doing Ai work, I was asked by HR idiots what to look for from college grads. I told them to look for people that got Udemy certifications and did immersive AI classes there. I was told why not college. They didn’t like my answer that they would be hiring some dumb kid with a high probability to becoming an HR nightmare instead of actual potential talent.
Why on Earth would you think that an employer would think that mattered?
Duh! If they do free/cheap stuff for leisure you can pay them less!!!
Things I Love About Living in Romania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUoVlZPmmc
Oh, this is gonna be good…
Court papers say ex-Virginia election official on trial ‘altered election results’ in 2020 election
But elections are totally legit and questioning them is tantamount to treason. That is, if you are not a Democrat.
Some of us remember the 2000 presidential election.
I think you mean the 2000 presidential Selection!
“I’ll take ‘algore is a traitor’ for 2000, Alex.”
And the Osprey kills again.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/u-s-military-aircraft-crashes-in-japanese-waters-with-eight-aboard-759234e4?st=w4v907xyf57io71&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If only Japan was developed and wealthy enough to defend herself.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames ‘Right-Wing Extremists’ for City’s Problems
///MAGA-Country
Are the Crips right wing?
No. They’re team blue. The bloods are team red.
Roscoe’s Chicken Wing.
This guy is quite the smuggler, or maybe he’s just a mule because he doesn’t seem to be very aware of the assumptions he smuggles into his argument. Sample:
It’s just refugees going to the next safe country. Or so I am told.
Live from Lukeville, AZ. The Tucson sector is getting hit hard with mass crossings right now. Migrants here are from Ecuador, Guinea, Senegal, and more.
Follow along with me today.
All of those are just across the border, obviously.
They’re all fleeing climate change.
Crazy.
Context is important.
Education chief mercilessly mocked for misstating Reagan’s famous government ‘here to help’ line
Cardona was only 5 years old at that time, you can’t expect him to remember it correctly.
You would figure he would know how much the left hated/hates Reagan precisely because of his animosity towards big government..
You’ve forgotten, Reagan is now the good kind of Republican… since he’s dead.
Besides “Tear down this wall”, that was probably Reagan’s most famous quote. No surprise the head of the Department of Education seems to not be educated.
Irony density approaching black-hole level.
LOL!
Whichever 22 year old Ivy grad wrote that for him is totally gonna have to go pick up lunch for the next week.
MUST WATCH !! BEST OF SEXY BIKINI SWIMWEAR !! 2023 New York 7 Runway Fashion Week SONY MUSIC HALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plY86tuizk8
I prefer the (much) less polished Italian one you posted last week that was full of what appeared to be Ukrainian women but I have a weakness for Slavic women.
yes the italian ones look less fake, but more creepy 🙂
Another thing from RealClearScience – can you believe you just can’t believe pharma marketing hype?
Good thing the FDA isn’t a wholly-owned subsidiary of big pharma!
that sounds like far right conspiracy sarcasm, I am on to you
Karen Phillips: “he’s the Native American face of white supremacy!!!11!!1!1”
“That’s a man, baby!”
Yeah, his name is literally “Karen”
The Guardian and Sony Pictures have inked a deal which will see Sony gain “exclusive first rights” to adapt Guardian journalism into film and television dramas and documentaries. The agreement covers both “current and developing news stories” and The Guardian’s 200 year archive.
https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/1729798727785677128
I did have a feeling lately there is something missing in the world
If that feeling was brought about by a dearth of good television dramas and documentaries I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you.
I wonder how much OMWC got
Significant winter weather hit communities across the interior Northeast on Wednesday morning, causing at least one fatal road accident and potentially bringing chaos to the morning commute.
As expected, more than 40 inches of snow fell over the past two days over parts of the Great Lakes and interior Northeast in the first significant lake-effect snow event of the season.
The heaviest snowfall was recorded at Constableville, New York, where 42.7 inches landed.
Snow will soon be a thing of the past. The planet will be a vast sizzling desert.
To Be Faaaair… no one needs 40 inches
How about 10 inches four times?
Here in the CLE, it was 2 – 13 inches depending on where you were.
that’s what she said?
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction…
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1729630529199432095
I know there is a lot of pointless signaling and drivel but why the fuck are city councils involved in things that are foreign policy related? Just shut the fuck up already.
This cultural revolution mentality of colonizers and colonized, and that colonized asshats can’t ever do evil, just like racists are only those with power, sure as fuck has broken a lot of idiots.
Oakland should stick to local issues and for them there are plenty.
What, you mean actually get results? What do you think this is – the private sector?
this reminds me of Jordan Peterson telling young activists to clean up their room and they said basically how can we focus on getting a job and doing things in our control when protesting against Climate Change is so much more important.
After watching that I’m going to have to remind myself that those types are not representative of anything substantial. They are professional larper activists who have nothing better to do but narcissism, shock, and pervert.
Anytime you see a city council taking “action” on things they have no business getting involved in, such as this racism, you know that they have zero interest in the population of their city.
In reality, the term “terrorism” is a neo-colonial social construct which aims to serve the Western powers and their allies.
https://twitter.com/mohammed_hijab/status/1727272665918894587
are commuity notes also a neo-colonial social construct ?
They othered that asshat!
between that tweet and the name, I’m voting troll.
Is this the grandest pub front door in England? The Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds, now a Wetherspoon’s.
https://twitter.com/BeardyHowse/status/1729680000310284484
Tom
@TomBFlanagan
Drinking in Wetherspoons is our version of early-medieval shepherds roaming through the ruins of the Colosseum
Undoubtedly built by slave labor.
Well blow me down
The National Christmas tree was no match for Washington’s gusty weather Tuesday afternoon, toppling over at one point because of high winds.
CNN spotted the tree on its side around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, with at least one worker climbing atop the structure. It was later righted, and the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony remains scheduled to take place Thursday.
CNN has reached out to the National Park Service for comment.
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The holidays are in full swing in the nation’s capital, with first lady Jill Biden unveiling the White House holiday decorations this week. The decor, revealed Monday, features 98 Christmas trees, 72 wreaths, 2.8 miles of ribbon and more to fit this year’s theme: “Magic, Wonder and Joy” of the holiday season.
They should have hired some Mexicans to put it up.
Was the tree just doing a Biden?
“98 Christmas trees, 72 wreaths, 2.8 miles of ribbon ”
Nothing excessive from Dr. Jill, unlike what that declasse previous First Lady from some backward country would have done.
Fuck. These idiots cant even put up a Christmas tree and we are letting them run foreign policy?
Goddamn J6er insurrectionists insurrectioning the Christmas tree!
Shit like this, is why I think mankind should be culled. I never hear douchebags complain about electricity, modern medicine, or all the other civilizational advances them honkeys gave us.
because those were all stolen innovations from the POC who invented them silly. Whitey never invented nothin
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
Book review: “Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution” by Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson (Part 2)
https://iea.org.uk/42272-2/
I initially thought Berg’s and Hudson’s argument was going to be that even though the costs of propping up slavery were considerable, they were dwarfed by the gains. But that is not quite what they are arguing. What they do, instead, is to treat the cost of propping up the slavery economy as an economic stimulus package:
This is the kind of über-Keynesianism that would have made Keynes blush. The revenue from slavery is treated as a benefit, while the cost is… also treated as a benefit.
If we accept this logic, of course slavery must, by definition, have been profitable. If an activity has only benefits, but no real costs, this could not be otherwise
A lot hinges on this, because if the net gains from slavery were small or even negative, they cannot have financed the Industrial Revolution. Berg and Hudson dispute this point by arguing:
“Were the returns from the Caribbean colonies worth the high costs of their defence and administration? Adam Smith thought not, as did a number of economic historians of the 1960s and 1970s. But this misses the point because as long as high net private returns were made, the potential was there for the proceeds to flow into the industrializing economy” (p. 44).
It does not “miss the point” at all. If those high net private returns were offset by high net losses elsewhere in the economy, then yes, the former may well have flown into the industrialising economy – but at the same time, the latter must have flown out of the industrialising economy.
To a lesser extent, the authors even apply this über-Keynesianism to the slave ownership compensation programme of the 1830s. When slavery was made illegal across the British Empire, the former slave owners were entitled to sizeable compensation payments. It should be obvious that this cannot have made Britain any richer: it was a pure zero-sum redistribution from non-slaveowners to slaveowners. The authors themselves, at one stage, describe it as a “subsidy from British wage earners and consumers of basic commodities to […] ex-slave owners” (p. 195) But they then go on to claim that the compensation money “aided the mid-Victorian investment boom in British and overseas railways and public utilities. Some was invested in industry” (p. 197).
Just look at how the economies of Africa have soared since the slavers and colonizers have moved on.
No shit. I remember looking around in Georgetown, Guiyana , once a heaven on earth, to discover they had upgraded the water treatment plant to open ditch sewers in the streets.
No justice, no algebra
Students at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, about 15 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, filed out of classrooms and onto the school’s football field at around noon, according to aerial footage from NBC Miami. Some held signs in favor of trans rights, while others chanted “trans lives matter.”The protest came a day after the high school’s principal, James Cecil, and four other staffers were reassigned to non-school sites. It also came amid an ongoing investigation by Broward County officials as to whether the school let a transgender student compete on its girls’ volleyball team, NBC Miami reported, which would violate state law.
There are millions of them now. Why don’t all those trans students start their own sports leagues?
I do not know about current day Florida students but Pie youth days Romanian students would take any chance to skip class. If we could protest to skip class we would protest everything.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that young men often go to protests only because there are a bunch of young women there.
I would not think any young man would do something dishonest or potentially trick a young lady
Why don’t all those trans students start their own sports leagues?
What the fun in “sports while transing” if you can’t force a bunch of 14 year old girls to watch you tuck your junk back in your booty shorts after every point?
Big Jet TV is at Boeing field, Hayek!
The Bolsheviks were literally a century ahead of us on memes.
https://twitter.com/RedRaxus/status/1729558910464405772
I’m sorry, I don’t read foreign.
memes should not require reading
Then their nonsense failed.
All I’m seeing is a self-sabotaging commie cunte ruining his own livelihood out of spite.
Anna Fusco, president of the Broward Teachers Union, suggested that the staffers being reassigned might not have known they were breaking the law by allowing the trans student to compete on the team.
“It’s getting harder and harder for our educators to really understand everything that’s happening,” she said. “Our teachers don’t always understand new laws that come out, old laws that have been out.”
She added, “They just want to show up and be the teacher, the coach, the counselor to help a student thrive.”
Our best. Our brightest.
“They weren’t maliciously ignoring the rules, they’re just stupid.”
That’s quite the argument.
Isn’t this the SOP argument from every leftist entity these days? Sure they fucked up hard, but it was because of stupid, not evil!
You need a law to tell you that ruining girls’ sports is wrong? JFC.
Isn’t this specific thing what unions are for? To make sure that teachers are adequately prepared?
Lol, upthread I said: I’m surprised to even hear from Deadspin. All of the old Deadspin assholes are at…whatever that new site is. That new site being Defector.
This is hilarious:
Link: https://defector.com/what-is-the-hardest-sport-to-cheat-at
Can you imagine
What’s the line about liberals being conservative about those things they know best? Funny, that.
Unity is closing VFX company Weta Digital, which it purchased from Peter Jackon for $1.6 billion just 2 years ago.
265 people will be laid off, with Weta FX hoping to re-hire as many people as possible. Unity will keep Weta’s tools it acquired:
https://twitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1729813850445296062
I can play devil’s advocate and suggest this is economic and likely contemplated with the purchase.
The main thing you are buying here is tech and people. The operating structure is immaterial.
On the people side this lets them fire who the want and put out offers to those they want to keep in the new company.
how to calm an angry woman
https://twitter.com/morewingspls/status/1729711235262742954
Who posted a photo of the young woman/tranny yesterday or day before? Weird beard, tits cut off and pregnant?
I have seen a lot of very sad things, many of them as sad as that but none sadder. That young woman was mentally/emotionally fragile and in great need of help.
instead, the people who were supposed to help her destroyed her mind and mutilated her body. That is absolutely undiluted evil. Every one involved in that should be put up against a wall. I would gladly pull the trigger myself without blinking and never lose a minutes sleep over it.
This tranny bullshit has to come to an end and it will sooner or later. If one of those victims commits an axe murder against the people that victimized them and I am on the jury,, they walk.
I posted that. Somehow I have gotten myself wrapped up in TERF Twitter, where I am happy to stay.
I maintain, though, that women-turning-into-men has wildly different motivations than men-turning-into-women, and as long as a dude can’t pass for a woman, I’m going to assume he’s got a fetish he wants to impose on the rest of the world as part of the turn-on.
Trannies who pass and lie low, I don’t care about.
My mom came off the ventilator yesterday. She can barely talk, but it was nice to hear her voice again. It looks like she will be in the hospital for another week at least and will require some sort of long-term care.
On a side note, her best friend has been visiting the hospital with me, and we have had some interesting conversations. I said that for a long time, there was a traditional Catholic prayer on Friday for the conversion of faithless Jews.
Oremus et pro perfidis Judaeis ut Deus et Dominus noster auferat velamen de cordibus eorum
Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that Almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts
Her: Well, what’s wrong with praying for the conversion of Jews?
Me: Ask a Jew. Their response will likely contain the phrase “Spanish Inquisition”.
Many moons ago, we were in the same karate class. She decided to enroll because after watching the effect it had on her sons.
not much to say but hoping for the best…
Thanks. I’m glad that she was able to have her dream European vacation before she got sick. It doesn’t look like she’ll be traveling long distances any time soon.
When I was very young, an older couple next door spent years looking forward to a long cross-country trip in an RV. That trip got cancelled after the husband had a stroke.
For that reason and others, I was determined to travel a lot and see the world when I was younger.
On a related note, America’s decadent, corrupt, capitalist healthcare system does a remarkable job of treating critically ill people.
yes, but it could do the same or better for less cost
Probably. The limiting factors on the quality of US healthcare are political. Healthcare is very overregulated here, and medical malpractice lawsuits make it worse.
Most countries have some form of government-run or subsidized healthcare and prioritize younger people. Some of the reasons for that are: younger people have more life ahead of them, there are more likely to recover from serious injury or illness, and it costs less to treat them.
Like many other older Americans, my mom has high blood pressure and diabetes. She’s managed them well with medicine for a long time, but it’s better to avoid those ailments with healthy habits. Those conditions and others make people more susceptible to infection, which is how she ended up in the hospital. Of course, people can become gravely ill at any age.
It’s good that she was so happy to see me. My other siblings were unable to visit.
(((They))) may be insulted or something, but at least they won’t chop your head off.
So glad to hear your mom’s making progress!
Wishing the best for your mom.
Speculation from the PM links confirmed: Joe and Jill grudgingly now accept little Navy Joan – but sneakily chop all stockings from the White House mantle
You’ll stand by your crackhead son and pal around with random kids* but still refuse to acknowledge one of your grandkids? Probably not the biggest reason to hate the Biden family, but for me it is.
*I know, probably good overall that the girl doesn’t have to interact with Grandpa
It definitely is indicative of just how scummy they are.
“Joe Biden told 813,000 more Americans that he has wiped their student loan debt on Tuesday, meaning the president has forgiven a total of $127 billion for 3.5 million borrowers.
The former students will soon receive an email from Biden notifying them that their debt has been forgiven – despite the fact that his plan to cancel $400 billion in debt was rejected by the Supreme Court in June.
The email – making clear that the help has come from Biden – read: ‘Congratulations — your student loan has been forgiven because of actions my administration took to make sure you receive the relief you earned and deserve.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12802519/Biden-WIPED-student-loan-debt.html
CWAA
the president has forgiven a total of $127 billion for 3.5 million borrowers – how generous of them, good thing he had the money.
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
A guy who sacrificed and scrimped to pay his loans off
Let’s go, Brandon.
the relief you earned and deserve.
I’ve been a net taxpayer and productive member of society since graduation. Where is the relief I deserve?
*hands rebel a tube of KY and a towel to bite down on*
Chumps don’t get relief, they just get to pay for it.
Grounds for impeachment, part eleventyfourteen.
“Woke books bought for huge advances by ‘inexperienced’ editors hired post-George Floyd have FLOPPED – including $500,000 ‘queer feminist’ novel that’s sold 3,500 copies and Elliot Page’s $3 million transgender memoir that’s sold 68,000 copies”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12801837/Woke-books-flop-inexperienced-editors-Eliot-page.html
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-fight-for-the-future-of-publishing
I wonder how many of those 68K were actually “sold”.
Lirbrary purchasing officers tend lefty, I’d not be surprised at all to find that 68k ended up in library catalogs.
Libraries, man.
They’ll just put those on the required reading list for elementary schools. Problem solved.
I wonder how many of those 68K were actually “sold”.
I think it would be harmful to my mental health to know how many were actually bought by credulous Oprah book club types.
I have a lifetime PLEX subscription that I stopped using years ago. I don’t regret it.
“On what planet would I ever want this information to be shared with friends on family on an OPT OUT basis?”
https://www.pcgamer.com/self-hosted-media-app-starts-narcing-on-its-own-users-anime-and-x-rated-habits-with-an-opt-out-service-and-its-going-terribly/
Not that I particularly care about my wife and kids’ watch habits leaking, but I’ll tune up my pi-hole filters nonetheless.
Plex is just asking for me to stop pulling updates. If only their DVR functionality was less buggy, I’d stop pulling them altogether.
My favorite bit of stupidity with using corporate assets for personal use or vice versa and Plex
https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/lastpass-hack-engineers-failure-to.html
That was one of the final straws in me just getting a KVM switch and a dedicated personal machine at home; I’m WFH and it was too easy to slide into doing personal stuff on the work machine.
I’m not at the point of travelling with two laptops but I try to stick to my tablet for personal stuff in that case.
Wow…
When I was looking for a shareable password vault, I considered LastPass and then thought, “I’m not putting my passwords in someone else’s service.” I mean, I DID eventually, but I got KeyPass, which the file is encrypted, created an encrypted folder on DropBox (I don’t remember how I did that, but there was a way), and run the file from there so my husband can access it and do his thing with it.
It seems every 6 months, there’s something new going wrong with LastPass.
I got off of LastPass a while back. I did Blur/Ironvest for a while (at SP’s recommendation), but recently cleaned up the final tendrils and deleted that account, too. I run a local instance of Bitwarden that isn’t accessible from the internet. I can use my passwords anywhere, but can only update them while on the local network.
Yeah, I had to have mine shareable with my husband. Accounts have to be accessible in case of Bad Things Happening.
Bitwarden is actually super sharable. It’s a locally-hosted version of a commercial grade cloud pw manager. My wife has very little interest in messing with it, so I haven’t shared any passwords with her. I keep telling her to use the pw manager instead of the same login that has been compromised 10x over, but I haven’t been successful.
That said, it was a pain in the ass to set up due to it needing certificates but not being exposed to the internet. Definitely not plug and play like KeePass.
I have a password system. Two random actual words (might be in a different language), a special character somewhere in there, and a series of numbers that have a rhyme/reason behind them. My system meets all the most stringent criteria for password generation.
slides over to make room on the Chump bench
*sigh* meant for the loan “forgiveness” thread.
I saw that enabled last week… Nope’d right out of that..
11am and still waiting for my water to unfreeze. The spigot is still in the shade, for fuck’s sake.
Phrasing?
Ban volcanoes. Save the climate.
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022 in the South Pacific, it produced a shock wave felt around the world and triggered tsunamis in Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Peru and the United States.
It also changed the chemistry and dynamics of the stratosphere in the year following the eruption, leading to unprecedented losses in the ozone layer of up to 7% over large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the University of Maryland.
This was a good write-up
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/talkin-about-hunga-tonga
“ The authors project this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck up there for over half a decade.”
Next enviro-crisis: Anthropogenic Plate Tectonics.
If we all use one less straw this week, we can offset this volcanic tragedy.
Elon Musk is trying to make amends, or at least do damage control, after endorsing an antisemitic post on his platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk, however, isn’t actually adequately apologizing or doing much of anything to address his own repeated vile actions or the bigotry that has overtaken X since he took the helm.
This week, he paid a visit to Israel, a nation in the midst of a bloody war, to prove, as he put it, that “actions speak louder than words.”
Unfortunately for Musk, both his actions and his words are odious.
‘Mom of young Kansas City Chiefs fan hits back at Deadspin reporter’s claim he was wearing blackface and says her son is ‘native American’’
Instead of the best of all worlds, we’re living in the dumbest of all worlds.
Which is irrelevant anyway.
That piece of shit also deliberately picked a photo not showing the other side of his face.
345 comments? Don’t any of you work? 😀
Not today. Not until the 11th – heading to London this evening.
Stupid fingers…
Vile and odious
Elon Musk is trying to make amends, or at least do damage control, after endorsing an antisemitic post on his platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk, however, isn’t actually adequately apologizing or doing much of anything to address his own repeated vile actions or the bigotry that has overtaken X since he took the helm.
This week, he paid a visit to Israel, a nation in the midst of a bloody war, to prove, as he put it, that “actions speak louder than words.”
Unfortunately for Musk, both his actions and his words are odious.
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What a joke.
Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
Meeting with a billionaire on a reputation-saving mission should certainly be pretty low on the list of priorities for Israeli leaders, who, at this particular moment, are still negotiating the return of dozens of Israelis are being held hostage by Hamas, and overseeing a devastating war in Gaza that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and displaced countless more. A chat with Musk and a personal tour of Hamas’ devastation seems like it could have waited.
A tour of Israel in the middle of a war doesn’t even come close to solving the root problem of antisemitism — and it shouldn’t absolve Musk of responsibility for his own words and actions.
Under Musk’s leadership, X has turned into a swamp of prejudice and bigotry. Known neo-Nazi and white supremacists have had their accounts reinstated. Members of the Islamic State returned to the platform and some QAnon conspiracy theorists have been allowed to pay for verification badges on the site.
Blah blah blah. Jill Fillipovic, arbiter of truth and righteousness.
These people just say any damn thing which pops into their heads. It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to make the trained seals clap and toot their horns.
I guessed Vox, but it was CNN.
Leftist mouthpiece writes the 475th hit piece on Musk this month. Its all too predictable. Is anybody having their mind changed by this, or is it just red meat for the NPC class?
Spaceship Man Bad!
Musk has compromised his “free speech absolutism,” not to make significant efforts to ban White supremacists and neo-Nazis, but to prevent terms widely adopted by the pro-Palestinian movement, including “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea,” from being used on X.
He’s an antisemitic Islamophobe!
Douchbags parading down the sidewalk with a megaphone and Palestinian flag.
Who you trying to convince here in progtown?
Aaaaand they’re gone.
They managed to scare up just about 20 people. That’s something, at least.