“What more do you want?”
The CFP playoff teams were released. And while Bama is probably better than FSU, I still think the was a royal screw job. The NFL officiating could be worse, I suppose. But not by much. Liverpool beat Fulham in a crazy game that made me happy. And then they turned around and drew Arsenal in the FA Cup third round. Tiger Woods returned to competitive golf and had a rough week, but I think that was to be expected. And that’s it for sports.
Oh, CNN. Bless your heart. I’d have thought at some point they’d cut this crap out. I guess that day is not today. Although them reporting this was a bit of a surprise. Especially since the guy is right, in my opinion. They usually ignore this kind of thing until they report on the person being removed from their position for heresy.
Cuts.
Reality continues to set in on the tech industry. And I expect it to continue for a while.
This will be an interesting case. Let’s see if the government eviscerates protections for individuals who invest in corporations or if that goes out the window.
This should surprise nobody who’s been paying attention. The leaders on the left should also not be surprised that the Nazis are coming from inside the house, so to speak. And I don’t think they are surprised. I also don’t think they give a shit.
Of course it’s illegal. That’s not really even debatable. The question is whether the government wants to enforce segregation laws anymore or whether they’ll lean into the practice to appease their base.
A fucking idiot
LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! Oh wait, that’s only for shitposters whose memes weren’t meant to be taken seriously. Carry on then.
Why would this garner any scrutiny? This is nowhere even close to a monopoly situation so it’s none of the government’s business.
Well, he’s right. And there’s nothing ironic about his real vs preferred name. Because he’s not telling people they will be punished if they call him Rafael. So the comparison is absurd.
Here’s a great little song. It’s too short, but it rocks. Here’s another one. A bit longer at least. Here’s a third since they’re all so short. Enjoy them all.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends!
“Oh, CNN. Bless your heart. I’d have thought at some point they’d cut this crap out.”
Why would they give up on such a lucrative racket? They have stolen hundreds of billions and have abused laws to an extent no sane person would have allowed with this racket. Giving it up would be tantamount to the US government giving up on taxing people cause they have admitted they piss most of that money away.
Give up a grifting racket? Women and girls would be hardest hit….
Morning, Sloopy. Morning, all…
Which women? Cause these days I am told some of them have penises and not just some poor dude’s balls in their purse…
Penises that vibrate,
Can they denounce that guy, or would that be Islamophobia?
What a tangled web we weave…
“Reality continues to set in on the tech industry. And I expect it to continue for a while.”
I would love to see how much of the cuts are to HR and other DEI/CRT projects vs. their actual tech functions. I surmise that in some cases they are cutting back real services because of losses causes by the woke idiocy, but I would hope they are finally backing of this idiocy.
Your mouth to God’s ears. But HR is a) Who processes the layoffs (so can justify at least partially being around) and b) Full of sycophants who look good in the C-suite gatherings, so I expect they’ll stick around.
I’m hoping ESG investment continues to crater so there’ll be less drive to chase those metrics at least. Every little bit helps.
It looks like Disney, at least, and even as the company’s value craters and the cabal of idiots in charge realize their stock holders are at some point going to start filing lawsuits against them for causing the stock holders to incur needless and stupid damage and losses, wants to double down on the stupid. Based on their financial reporting and forecasting, they claim that they know the woke shit hurts the investors, but they don’t give a fuck because “woke mission!”.
I hope that gang of groomers gets railroaded so hard they beg for mercy, but in a world where the connected keep fucking us all over and never being held accountable, one is left wondering.
Disney Shareholders are already starting to revolt, but are doing a proxy fight over board seats rather than taking it to court.
I used to think the money would run out someday. Lately I feel that it never will. Grifters will always find someone to rob to push their wretched agendas.
If my company’s recent layoff (in the face of record setting financials, I might add) is an indicator, it’s broad based cuts.
That said, why is Spotify a 10k employee company? That seems 10x too big for what they offer. They could have a 50% layoff and still be bloated.
Given how few outages Twitter suffered after a 90% cut, I wouldn’t be surprised if most tech companies could weather a similar trim, if not come out of it better.
In the larger companies, you could probably get to 25 or 30% just by end of lifing redundant products and forcing customers onto the remaining products.
You don’t even need to trim product offerings to drop useless payroll.
You just have to target people who’ve been traditionally immune from these sorts of purges.
I didn’t know the number but that was my suspicion. Bloated beyond belief.
I would guess that Spotify is that big because of the simple fact that when you are growing, and receiving venture capital qualifies, than you solve problems by throwing manpower at them. Why not, as that is the easiest solution. When you start leveling out in your financials, then you slow on hiring to a replacement strategy, and when you start losing money, that is when the layoffs start.
I’m trying to figure out where all those people would be needed. As far as I know, they have one app across a handful of devices, and a backend solution to serve the audio. Being conservative, 250 engineers should be able to do that. Add in 150 managers and other staff to guide strategy. Given the licensing issues and all, maybe they need an outsized legal department of 150 attorneys and staff. They need a decent marketing team of 350, let’s say. They’d need a sales team to work with the advertising partners, so maybe another 250. Then HR at 150. Ops at 300. Am I missing anything?
For a single product company like this, I’d think “right size” would be roughly 1500. What are the other 8000 people doing?
What the fuck are 150 HR people even going to be doing?
Making the other 1,350 miserable. Same as any other company.
Tech was never my field, but in logistics you would see it in things such as routing and workorders. Create a ton of routes that overlap, drivers have little to do and lots of time to do it in, extra warehouse workers, that sort of thing. Management explain it is “just in time” services, but it is really just sloppy. I’ll admit that I have done it myself, mostly with specialized service’s. But as soon as you have a ball buster manager that makes you explain everything, as opposed to an up jumped salesman, you either get your walking papers or learn to bear down.
“LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! Oh wait, that’s only for shitposters whose memes weren’t meant to be taken seriously. Carry on then.”
She holds the correct political views and belongs to the right party? That is why when she does it (and a slew of other team blue people have also done this sort of shit, including Google itself) there is no consequence.
It is plainly war against anyone that dares to stand against the machine.
“This should surprise nobody who’s been paying attention. The leaders on the left should also not be surprised that the Nazis are coming from inside the house, so to speak. And I don’t think they are surprised. I also don’t think they give a shit.”
So we are getting confirmation that the Nazi-punchers actually only have problems with people they falsely accuse of being Nazis for not agreeing with their marxist stupidity, but not real Nazis?
The Marxist stupidity easily leading to Nazi-like behavior doesn’t surprise me (after all, it really is just national socialism versus international socialism).
The conversions to Islam by people who Islam clearly disapproves of… that’s a level of idiocy not seen in quite some time.
Beg to differ. Christianity says hi, points to rainbow flags outside of churches.
FSU – Not the first Florida team to get screwed. Just do what UCF did – win your bowl game and declare yourselves undefeated national champions.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ucf-knights-national-champions-2018-1
Short… but rocks? So sad….
“Of course it’s illegal. That’s not really even debatable. The question is whether the government wants to enforce segregation laws anymore or whether they’ll lean into the practice to appease their base.”
When your priorities are not to create good educated students, you are eventually going to find yourself having to fuck around with any systems that measures outcomes to hide the fact you are pissing away peoples money, time, and futures.
That global climate crisis is kicking the crap out of Europe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/europe-deep-freeze-kerry-warns-rampant-global-warming
Cold or heat, they want more marxism and to take away your rights and your money.
Eat bugs, not meat, you fucking serfs!
/The AGW cabal
Shellenberger has a good one on this.
Him and Taibbi whenever they testify in a congressional committee have the faces of “WTF is going on…its right here! Look!” knowing that no one really is going to look.
Can you imagine being a progressive most of your life, thinking you are fighting the good fight and the man, then seeing the mask come off and these hyenas attacking you for exposing evil and criminality just because you are hurting their agenda? It has to be a jarring experience.
Taibbi is honest – he still can’t believe he has to thank Jim Jordan regarding the IRS. He thanks him nonetheless.
Hard to prove when everyone keeps fudging the data.
There is no proof for this claim whatsoever.
Knock yourself out. I’m not having it.
Yeah, he had two points there I have my doubts about – “caused mainly”, and “well-intentioned”.
He does expose the nuclear fallacy though. As soon as people go anti-nuke but are alarmist about climate – they’ve given up the game.
Strangely these has been the nicest fall in my memory. Looking 10 days into the forecast, no snow, temps above average. I’m loving it, burning less wood and fossil fuel. What’s not to like?
You can’t make this shit up…
NPR ran a story about being SHOCKED! and PANICKED! that the Saudis are sullying… MMA fights by creating a competing org to the UFC.
They got the scare quotes in the wrong place.
That happens when you are so alarmed.
The tech industry’s problem is that they only expect their code monkeys to work no more than 16 hours a day. Fortunately, they are working to expand their productive hours:
https://archive.is/bocV6
Holy hell that would be dystopian. Salary doesn’t equal slavery, asswipes. You don’t get to be in my head.
Those nights when I was chewing in particularly complex software issues were some of the worst nights of sleep I’ve ever had.
on*
I had a couple of times I woke up with a solution, and it wasn’t just a dream. It actually worked.
I think I mostly woke up with a problem to deal with, but that is what happens when you spend too much time in bars.
“work life balance” fuck that touchy feely HR bullshit
It’s one of those phrases that layers corporate speak over a nugget of truth to allow them to import a bunch of random bullshit.
Yes, as a corporate salaried employee, I should be able to shut my computer at or around 5pm most days and go enjoy my family without stressing about missing an email. No, i don’t need 40 different benefit programs to pay for different life scenarios that don’t apply to me, cutting into my compensation package because it’s cheap for the company to provide and can be justified under “work life balance”
OFFS horseshit.
“Sackler” rings a bell. Are those the folks who used their mind-control rays to cause the opioid “crisis”?
Without purchasing the requisite indulgences.
The rapid and very profitable expansion of opioid use rested on a great many payoffs and some really bad “science”.
Why should anyone expect them to be any different than any other pharma company?
I’ll have to look into the case if I have time today. Corporations shield shareholders from liability, but not if they are actively involved in whatever happened to cause the liability. In that case, they are just as liable as if they didn’t own any shares – owning stock doesn’t create a magical liability force field.
Nobody is liable for opioid abuse other than the people abusing opioids.
*cough, cough* sub-prime mortgages *cough*
So, Clinton is responsible for this also?
No, only evil white men and their institutions have agency – everyone else is just a slave to what they are offered.
I feel dumber for having read the first couple paragraphs. How can people be so fucking stupid?
“How can people be so fucking stupid?”
Based on 60 years of life experience, I am hoping this is just a rhetorical question…
The three most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen (H), Helium (He), and Stupidity (Woke).
Einstein’s quip about the difference between genius and stupidity comes to mind. Genius has, after all, limits.
Always the progjection, even in an otherwise cogent article.
Anyone seen Pie lately?
71-Year-Old Romanian Yoga Guru Arrested in France for Allegedly Running International Sex Cult
I ain’t that old and can barely get laid. I don’t know whats wrong with me these cults things working for years and years show wimminz be gullible. The again people make a lot of money scamming suckers. I can;t do that either.
Someone teaching tantric yoga that is also banging their clients. Do people not know what tantric yoga is?
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t like these new-fangled sex cults. I miss the rape gangs of my youth.
Blasely-Ford is that you?
I don’t know, the article didn’t say anything about wine guzzling.
My apologies if drugs, ass, etc, but the Daily Wire’s new streaming comedy is hilarious.
Here’s the trailer for Ladyballers, about men competing in women’s sports. They brag it’s “the Most Triggering Comedy in Years.” Some amusing cameos too.
https://youtu.be/Py2MzGtmaJ0?si=VcPqxNQmSIW1bEm3
This movie looks hilarious, which is why I expect the regular machine to come after it with gusto.
The trailers looked too mean-spirited for my taste.
Relatedly, Netflix’s Obliterated is a terrible cringey comedy that a lot of you will probably enjoy. Think Renegade crossed with Porky’sbut with more nudity.
I am feeling the same way. You can’t parody cringey with more mean-spirited cringey.
I really dislike cringe. It isn’t fun to laugh at.
Same.
At best it’s awkward.
I guess that makes me weird. I didn’t find it awkward or cringey.
I really want the Ladyballers T-shirt with the cherries.
How does Ladyballers differ from Juwanna Mann?
More college ball news: THE Ohio State’s QB goes into transfer portal: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39040106/ohio-state-starting-qb-kyle-mccord-enters-transfer-portal
FBS college football is coasting on the college affiliations at this point. That’s the only draw left.
It’s not the players… you only get to rent them a year at a time. It’s not the conferences… they’ve been obliterated. It’s not the non-conference games… they’re mostly playing FCS teams and lower tier FBS teams to stay playoff eligible. It’s not the post-season… that has been a farce for 20 years. It’s not the game… the rules have made it a much inferior game compared to 10 years ago.
Actually, I take that back. It’s also being propped up by the gambling.
If the college affiliations were gone and this was AAA minor league football, the viewership would be 1/10 what it currently is.
Part of the draw before too was seeing a raw freshman blossom into a star player his senior year. Now if that happens and he has any NFL aspirations, he transfers after his sophomore or junior year to a blue blood because he thinkgs that improves his chances at the NFL.
Proving that the lottery isn’t the only game for the innumerate. There’s what, a little over a twelve-hundred NFL roster slots, and how many college players exhausting their eligibility each year?
Lot of teams also generate revenue from the traditional rivalries.
From a place that OMWC prefers to Atlanta:
https://wsbt.com/news/nation-world/baltimore-city-worker-creates-fake-job-offer-trying-to-get-a-raise-per-new-investigation-office-inspector-general-department-public-works-human-resources-wordday-richard-luna-isabel-cumming
“That other company will pay me mo money to do less of the shit I do here!”
This article is hilarious:
“Human Resources at DPW told the inspector general’s office that they mark all workers as “eligible for rehire” because they were unaware of situations that would make someone intelligible to be rehired.”
I can’t even, it’s too funny.
… Are you kidding me? Even My Agency has a “Do Not Rehire” list. And yes, the people on it were nightmare employees everyone is glad to be rid of.
… But are they intelligible?
I don’t know…
FSU looked better vs Louisville with their 3rd string QB than Alabama looked vs Auburn with their 1st string QB, so I am not even sure that Alabama is better. But agreed on FSU getting screwed.
Also, with their win this weekend, Everton is up to 12th (or 18th, depending how you do math).
Proof that FSU was intentionally screwed, and it wasn’t about some sort of justifiable rating: Any standard that puts Texas and Alabama above FSU, puts Georgia in 5th above FSU also. But FSU fell to 5 and uga fell to 6.
Well if being undefeated is the be-all and end-all, why isn’t Liberty in the discussion? Oh that’s right, because not all wins are equal. I remember the days of undefeated BYU – and how much respect they got.
$10 says FSU gets ripped apart by Georgia.
Oh, I agree, and fortunately next year andundefeated Liberty would get their shot.
I would prefer an expansion to 16 and all 9/10 conference champions get in, with rest as at large. But 12 with a G5 rep is closer. But FSU didn’t play Liberty’s schedule either. They beat two SEC teams along the way (and unlike Florida, LSU was decent). No one claims they don’t get in if their QB stays healthy, so it wasn’t about who they beat. Apparently their schedule was good enough. Its bullshit to try to predict outcomes instead of rewarding performance.
And that is what they are doing. But I don’t even think it is that. I think it is not the eye test, but the eyeball test. Texas and Bama drive my viewers than FSU. Period, end of story. The injury gave them an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway. And leaving out Alabama drives away random SEC homer eyeballs too. I think if uga had won, they would have put FSU in at 4, because the SEC was represented. But since they couldn’t justify Bama above Texas, due to Texas having the win over Bama in Tuscaloosa, they had to put both in and FSU gave them an excuse.
It’s too bad Auburn didn’t hang on for the win, because then Alabama could’ve been denied as a 2-loss conference champion. That was the real kicker. Or if Georgia had won, FSU would’ve been in.
The main guy at SEC Shorts is a Bama fan. Their new video for the week is ripping the committee for putting in Alabama over FSU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZm3pc5HbsY
Ack. Meant to finish the thought. Of the Power 5, there is almost always an upset in the conference championship game, and thus a plausible reason to deny that conference a play-off slot. Except when that is the SEC.
This. That was a bad Auburn team that gifted Alabama a win.
The motivation was transparent. The SEC has been the favored child. This was evident since 2011 when they had the national title game between 2 SEC teams. Then there was that year 2017 where Bama didn’t even win their division and didn’t play in the SEC championship game, but made the playoff. Same thing happened to tOSU this year and they were out of the conversation.
The flagrancy of leaving out an undefeated ACC team to add in a 1 loss SEC team is notable. It sends a message, and I hope the ACC hears it. In the eyes of the playoff committee there is a king conference (SEC) , a pair of second tier conferences (Pac-12, B1G), and then the rest.
FSU knew it – that’s why they grumbled about leaving the ACC. It’s academic now with next year having the expanded field. But all of this is because of the retarded bowl system.
The bowl system was great for what it was… Loosely affiliated regional football conferences getting together at the end of the year to send their best teams to play some “strange” from the other side of the country.
It just doesn’t fit the current system.
IMO, they need to stop splitting the baby. Either go back to regional conferences and bowls (not gonna happen) or restructure FBS in a way that feeds the best 4 teams from each conference into a tournament.
Were I college football king for the day, we’d have 8 conferences of 12 teams each, a 10 game regular season (8 conference, 2 non-con), a 4-team conference tourney, and a reseeding after the conference tourneys into a 32 team national tourney. Oh, and playing an FCS team would automatically disqualify you from the tourney.
Schools and moneymaking sports need to be separated.
As part of the academic reform, severing the two would make it simpler to fix the rot in academia.
If you’ve never seen Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, it is a silent that has scene-setting slides – one of which describes a university as a large football stadium with a school attached.
All the more reason to sever the two.
Tosu got in last year in the same circumstances.
Screwed up on the “easy” Monday. Ah well.
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Eleven climbers killed as Indonesia volcano erupts, search on hold
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eleven-climbers-killed-indonesia-volcano-erupts-survivors-found-official-2023-12-04/
Do not climb volcanoes is what I take from this.
How are you supposed to sacrifice climate activists to the volcano gods if you don’t climb it?
The bigger question is if the volcano god was appeared or if we need to send more idiots, erm I mean good climate people, to feed it…
appeared = appeased
Auto correct sucks.
We can’t be sure, better send more Climate Activist offerings.
Like most problems with leftists, the solution involves helicopters.
Alcohol death rates in Europe. Apparently very low in cultures where drunkenness is frowned upon and where alcohol is only consumed in company of others and served alongside meals. Spain and Italy for example
https://twitter.com/Locati0ns/status/1731328609514909979
I doubt the low number for Romania
Yikes. Consider how much of Russia has tee-totaling Muslims and the skew must be astronomical. Worse than Belarus.
I would like to know if this thing considered it an alcohol death if you get piss drunk, then fuck with the wrong people and they terminate your dumb ass….
Relieving a little steam between coding sessions.
Oh, how do I think the aircraft was such a dumb and fragile design.
Remains of Crew From U.S. Military Aircraft Found in Japanese Waters
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/remains-of-crew-from-u-s-military-aircraft-found-in-japanese-waters-554a469e?st=pdxpd40mdrs8hmq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Do any of our Glibs know what kind of telemetry (i.e. flight data recorders) is available with this aircraft?
“Eyewitnesses said that before the latest crash, the aircraft flipped over and appeared to be on fire. “
There is doubtlessly a black box in the fuselage.
As far as telemetry, I know our flight test aircraft can send real time telemetry for anything that can be measured with a sensor. Although the data acquisition/telemetry unit takes up 2 seats.
What’s all this about Venezuela getting ready to invade Guyana?
https://rumble.com/v3ze99y-guyana-venezuela-crisis-intensifies.html
Update: Venezuela: Venezuela Defense Minister VP Lopez says his country is against Guyana’s imperialism and the military is ready to intervene. Clearly, we are getting closer to a conflict in Latin America.
https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1730632826234585411
the commies learned one word imperialism and by Jove they are running with it
It’s about all that oil in Guyana that the Venezuelan cabal of criminals running the government want to take. Like in the whole underpants gnome thing they think if they take that oil, something will happen and they will make profits….
Brazil has already stated it will defend Guyana and has started moving troops. We got us a multi-country conflict if Venezuela tries anything.
My only question is, who will Biden side with? I say Venezuela because Biden is a stinking rotten communist who accepted all their criminals and other refugees over the past few years.
Except the right person is running Brazil now.
How could they invade? All of their men of military age are living in hotels and tents a few blocks from my house.
NYC’s Luxury Micro Studios Are $4,000 A Month
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tpxJjkb1rTo
I dunno man at 4k a month micro is not the word I would want to hear
$4k a month had better be a fully staffed manse where I don’t have to do any of the domestic tasks.
Re: the Sacklers and the opioid “epidemic”, Mrs. Prole and her family have, with much outrage, said that this was fueled by the Sacklers decommitting fraud and misrepresentation about how easy it is to get addicted to Oxy.
Since this appears to be political, my instinctual response is to think she is wrong. But, not having looked into it in detail, I’m open minded about the possibility the Sacklers deliberately and knowingly lied to pump up sales, in which case they deserve to get hammered. And to the possibility that its Teh Evul KKKorporations bullshit narrative, and that users are responsible for their own addiction.
So … meh.
Committing, not decommiting. FN autocorrect.
From what little I’ve seen about it, it was mainly using the apathy of the FDA as a way to get questionable marketing materials in front of doctors. Then trying to cover up some information when it came out that they were (contrary to the marketing campaigns) amazingly easy to abuse.
I seem to remember about 25 or 30 years ago there was great concern in the FDA and medical community that pain wasn’t being treated aggressively enough. Now, if that all was the work of the Sacklers, okay. If not, there seems to be more blame to go around.
I remember way back when Oxy first hit, how there were claims of it being a non-addictive alternative to traditional opioids and thinking bullshit. Being “non-addictive” was a big part of their early marketing strategy. They absolutely pushed a falsehood. The fact they weren’t called on it earlier tells me they were smart enough to pay off the right people from the get go. That said, it makes one wonder when the gov’t is going after Pfizer for all their falsehoods being pedalled about Convid vaccines being safe and effective.
Our article “Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults” is just published
https://twitter.com/profjmb/status/1730684198766129601
John Moses Browning was a professor?
Eastender London neighborhood declares menorahs haram
https://humanevents.com/2023/11/30/london-cancels-chanukah-celebration-after-days-of-anti-israel-protests
lol keep telling yourself that
The bit about the Muslim community sounds a lot like police and stop resisting.
It is the same bullshit they tell themselves about Trumps Muslim Ban. EG that is was about Teh Racism, and not about countries on the terror watch list thingy.
They so want that diversity bs that they will try anything.
To get to know the new Conservative association in the area I’m candidate for at the next election (following boundary changes) I’ve been looking through some old minutes of the committee meetings. They are glorious. Here’s one
https://twitter.com/danny__kruger/status/1731338857109418235
‘A vote was held on the motion of whether political issues should be discussed during committee meetings, and the majority agreed that this would be inappropriate.’
seems sensible
A. Proof that there is no such thing as peak stupid. Take two absurd, phoney-baloney scams and mix them all up together. There is an infinite number of combinations possible.
B. Ok. Reality always wins in the end.
C. You have to ask? Fox guarding the hen house….
D. Claim the moral high ground while engaging in depravity. SOP for the left. Always has been. How long before a full blown krystallnacht?
E. No shit? The crowd that fought for slavery, instituted Jim Crow laws, fought the civil rights laws tooth and nail…those guy? They want segregation back? Well, knock me down with a feather.
F. What’s to say? She is scum of the earth in so many ways there just isn’t time to bother going into it.
G. Shit, govt has its nose in so many places it doesnt belong…we really need to start cutting the noses off of some pols….to encourage the others.
H. Rantings of the insane. We dont need to ban anything. Simply shitcan laws mandating language. They are wildly unconstitutional after all.
In Potsdam there’s a special tram service called ‘The Glühwein Express”. The tram was built in Prague in the ‘70s. It rolls around Potsdam playing Christmas music, they serve Glühwein in the back, and a journey costs €2.
https://twitter.com/WhitlamsBerlin/status/1731332823859052657
mulled wine sucks. it is known.
“mulled wine sucks. it is known.”
I have had ass that tasted better than that shit.
My sister in law loves it, makes it every year in my kitchen. I stock up on bourbon and stay outside.
My sister in law loves it, makes it every year in my kitchen. I stock up on bourbon and stay outside.
Local news:
Small, private liberal arts college goes out of business, several days of media pants-shitting ensues.
Union hack declares that the workers at Remington’s plant in Ilion NY are the most talented and best work-ethic workers in the world. I don’t know specifically which products came out of that factory, but considering the reputation or Remington products the past decade or so, I’m thinking he might not be trustworthy. (That factor is closing after more than 200 years in business).
wait are those two things related?
Also did the college girls not start onlyfans to help the college?
There were not enough people who got off on being chastized for their objectification of women by disagreeable landwhales.
Nope, and I borked the HTML.
These are Albany college girls. The onlyfans audience for that sort of thing is kind of limited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Saint_Rose
Note that they’re claiming Jimmy Fallon as an alumnus, even though he never graduated. That is how mediocre this place is, and it provides a disproportionate amount of NY public school teachers.
Hell, we don’t even hire student interns from there, and they’re literally down the street from my old office. Not worth the trouble.
I thought they’d closed the Ilion site years ago.
By attacking Stalin and “Stalinism”, what Khrushchev was really doing was attacking socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Khrushchev needed an excuse to dismantle the DotP and force his own anti-Leninist policies, hence attacking Stalin’s legacy and moving forward
https://twitter.com/DoomerPoster/status/1731343931810660854
Some people love them a high body count, and Stalin delivered. Not as much as Mao, and definitely not on the scale Pol Pot did to his people, but he did good murdering so many of his people in the name of the most evil ideology to fuck humanity over.
You need to fix that algorithm – no one can stand that much exposure to that much stupid.
Peak derp may not exist, but it definitely has a lethal dosage.
BlackTape Project Fashion Show Finale Slow Motion | Miami Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jES1AfPit28
“Al Jaber held a surprise news conference Monday where he fiercely defended his commitment to [the church of] climate science, after an increasing number of [clergy and supporters] expressed alarm at the comments and concern for the direction of the talks.”
In his response, Al Jaber told Robinson, “there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5.” He said he had expected to come to the She Changes Climate meeting to have a “sober and mature conversation” and was not “signing up to any discussion that is alarmist.”
He continued that the 1.5-degree goal was his “north star,” and a phase-down and phase-out of fossil fuel was “inevitable” but “we need to be real, serious and pragmatic about it.”
In an increasingly fractious series of responses to Robinson pushing him on the point, Al Jaber asked her “please, help me, show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
Did the mob then stone him for heresy?
“…unless you want to take the world back into caves.” Well….not US, just everyone else.
Fossil fuels are the main driver of the climate crisis and as the world continues to burn oil, coal and gas, global temperatures are soaring to unprecedented levels. This year has seen record global heat, which has driven deadly extreme weather events.
According to the catechism of the Church of Climatology.
Iconic artwork from Europe.
I kept waiting for the “ironic” meme to show up.
I have been ruined by modern media.
To explore the complex links between gender and climate change, CNN worked with seven women photojournalists who spent time with women and girls in seven countries across the Global South to document the challenges they face.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Did CNN define women and girls? Huh…guess they can do that.
“We document a large and expanding gender gap in meaningful work, wherein women experience their jobs as more meaningful than men do.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf
Women, who tend to be more relational and social, are more satisfied with corporate work, which is highly social? Men, who tend to be more tactile and productivity oriented, are less satisfied by jabbering on the phone and pushing papers?
It’s almost like there’s a difference between men and women causing this thing.
Yeah. This new work model, where you take corporate training courses on DEI and spent an excessive amount of time on the phone instead of solving problems is not my cup of tea. Don’t know how much longer I can do this. I may have to start mowing lawns for cash or something. Corporate life is completely unrewarding for me.
You just need to be an over-the-hill engineer that no one wants to talk to.
That hasn’t stopped the voices from over the cube wall or down the row that disrupts my thought processes.
And I’ve become convinced that my job description will always be “one of the few people who bothers to think”, and people still pester me for answers.
I guess I’m not over the hill enough.
Where is this hill, and are we allowed to die upon it?
Asking for a friend.
One day, one day.
Coffee and Covid on recently leaked New Zealand vaccine data
The story broke wide open three days ago when several things happened all on the same day. First, the New Zealand Herald ran an intriguing story headlined, “Te Whatu Ora launches probe, minister briefed after health worker spreads Covid misinformation.” The mental imagery evoked by the headline’s phrase “launches probe” was unfortunate. Where did the probe go, and how fast? It sounded particularly uncomfortable.
Anyway. Misinformation! The twenty-first century crime! The Herald’s article, and virtually every other article about the leak, stressed that the unnamed employee “had no clinical background or expert vaccine knowledge.” He’s no expert!
Well, as far as I know, Young has never claimed to be a clinician or have expert vaccine knowledge. But don’t let that fact stand in the way of the official narrative.
Around the same time the “probe” story broke, Steve Kirsch published a Substack and a fusillade of tweets, in which he claimed to have insider whistleblower data from New Zealand that conclusively established causation for the mRNA shots:
“E. No shit? The crowd that fought for slavery, instituted Jim Crow laws, fought the civil rights laws tooth and nail…those guy? ”
Suthen’s argument should work but doesn’t. I used it once a while ago in “arguing” with a Democrat friend. “Oh, but those Democrats are long dead; today’s Democrats shouldn’t be blamed for the sins of those racists.” So I retorted, “Then you agree that people today who had nothing to do with sins of the past should not be held responsible or accountable?” “Of course they shouldn’t, that wouldn’t be fair.” So, sez I, “Then you agree that reparations for slavery, abolished in 1865, should not be the responsibility of any living person today?” “Oh no, that’s different because……blah, blah, blah.” I think I walked away after observing that reparations, if given, should only be imposed on everyone today who is a registered Democrat.
Once 1+1=3, very few of them come back. It’s an illness which should have a diagnosis code and treatment.
Nah, the standard hand-waving dodge I’ve heard is “the parties switched”.
So whatever you say to criticize the Democrats of the past, you’re really criticizing the Republicans of today.
See? Easy-peasy. No thought required.
Well, what with all the Jew hate running around on the left, if the parties switched, they have moved right back to where they started.
Dems are reverting to the mean.
“The Southern Strategy!!!” Said without looking at who they voted for Congress over the years.
Those democrats are dead and gone, but as y ou showed the ones today are still making arguments for the same policies.
Having had the same argument many times I can tell you with certainty that if you kept pushing it he would have said “I dont want to talk about it anymore.”
Old timey mudslinging
Republican presidential candidates will debate Wednesday within walking distance of where George Wallace staged his “stand in the schoolhouse door” to oppose the enrollment of Black students at the University of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.
The state that propelled Wallace, a Democrat and four-term governor, into national politics is now dominated by Republicans loyal to Donald Trump, another figure who leans heavily on grievance and white identity politics. The former president will not be on stage in Tuscaloosa but remains the prohibitive favorite to win Republicans’ nomination again.
Assertion and innuendo are alive and well in political journalisming.
I guess the entire state of Alabama is now a socially toxic no-fly zone. I hope the writer doesn’t vacation in Germany.
What’s Boston, chopped Jew?
OFFS so tedious
Maybe Spotify could afford to keep those employees if they hadn’t paid Markle eleventy billion dollars to do literally nothing
For those following the Torchinsky saga over at Autopian, Jason is now awake and starting recovery.
https://www.theautopian.com/jason-torchinsky-thanks-you-all-from-the-bottom-of-his-recently-patched-up-heart-has-thoughts-on-his-walkers-amber-reflectors/
Thanks!
Another one rounded up
Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor, RedState contributor, and activist from LA, was detained Friday night by the FBI after returning home from a Daily Wire movie premiere for charges related to January 6th, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
Siaka starred in the viral Californians Moving To Texas video series produced by The Babylon Bee last year.
I feel safer already.
They were so close to gaveling themselves into power.
I hope they aren’t re-routed over Podunkville,
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cry+of+the+wild+goose+frankie+laine&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL48vcvo2mik
Oh good, I was really on edge with that guy walking around.
“…and he’s been under investigation ever since for “associating with members of a social media group.””
*gulp*
This might get more publicity than a lot of the other Jan6 persecutions.
Picking on the Bee is (imho) what pushed Musk over the line and drove the Twitter takeover.
He’s surely seen the “Californians Moving to Texas” series, and this fellow is one of the main characters.
Man, they hate a black man who thinks for themself.
Racists.
I am assuming these asshats had something to do with these…
For a supposed white hat for justice group of warriors they sure wanna remain private.
https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?itc=dlp_domain_whois&domain=seditionhunters.org
Well gone done messed up that first link. Second link gives you the idea
Not kosher!
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/12/nj-company-recalls-manischewitz-dark-chocolate-coins-due-to-mix-up-ahead-of-hannukah.html
Just me thinking here, but I would just spot check for dark vs. milk chocolate.
You can still be kosher with dairy. The issue is food allergies.
So I was mostly kidding.
Dense, I am today.