I thought I was going to have the afternoon off however…
SITE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULED THIS EVENING
Please do not contact us in the event you get an error trying to access the site. This is part of a scheduled upgrade to the website that is intended to address some of the issues we are experiencing as well as implement suggestions we have fielded in the past few weeks.
In the meantime please enjoy this selection of the finest ¡enlaces! Mexico has to offer:
“Here’s the deal, fat is a bold strategycottontotrade free shit to me whatIauthorizedalready.”
Remember, Mexico isn’t one of the US biggest trading partners whose economy is intrinsically linked via direct remittances and petroleum sales which mean a recession here would never be apparent there. Nope.
You’ll like Calderón. In case you have an hour to spare.
Too bad we’re no longer selling!
Good news for those looking to retire abroad.
LOL. I failed you all. In my coverage of the Milei show, I completely forgot to check on Jacobin.
Its this kind of day. I need the motivation. But remember…
Will we get a count of how many people ignore this? I’m not saying name and shame, just how many.
I’m very tempted to with a “You’re not my supervisor!” line attached just because we’re inherently a herd of cats. 😉
I will forget and weep bitter tears for a few minutes late tonight.
So, no outage expected, right?
Correct, the site will not work for anyone, except for you.
That’s going to work just as well as a bridge sign stating 11’8″ clearance. You’ve seen this crowd. Myself included.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw
Damnit
It’ll buff out.
The only means Jacobin would have any respect for of course.
Pity the poor Davos crowd, no one loves them but themselves, and that self-love is more than enough.
No, there are enough suck-ups to keep them… warm.
You have to wonder if the people who write for Jacobin are at all familiar with the historical reference of the name.
I’ve never heard of a Jacobin opposing violent methods to achieve their ends. Are we dubbing the September Massacres “fiery, bit peaceful” now?
I’ve wondered the same thing. I concluded they don’t.
Oh no, they know the history – IT’S ONLY RIGHT WHEN WE DO IT. /what they really believe
AMLO has denounced the US as a “banana republic”, has joined Chile and South Africa in alleging that Israel has committed genocide, and refused to join in on sanctioning Russia. If this were the 60s or 70s, especially since he is not part of the PRI establishment, all those actions would be grounds for assassination. Yet, he only apologizes for offending the alphabet people. What?
I do hope that Bukele is able to complete the essential transition – relinquishing power, and not just become another classic caudillo.
One man’s caudillo is another man’s savior
It will be a refreshing change if he does.
Never change Jacobin.
First time reading from Jacobin. Big authoritarian yawn*
*
Needs moar cat butt.
“Today, President Lopez Obrador offered an apology for misgendering me,” the lawmaker later wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“This statement is very important, because it makes visible a fight that has taken us decades. I am a woman… and that is not up for discussion,” Luévano added.
No, you’re not. Fuck off.
¡Ya te oí!
How does this insanity transmit to Mexico et al. already??
Oh, and the only reason the Pres is “offering an apology” is because the politics of his idiotic political party require it of him.
I’m sure part of it is transgender politicians have actually been killed in Mexico.
So have non-transgender politicians.
Shush you.
Well, they don’t anymore.
I wouldn’t know that but there’s an ocean of distance between “don’t murder them” and “deny all reality in their presence so as not to hurt any feelings”.
Contained in an omnibus bill currently under debate in Congress, the battery of measures is a bold statement of intent backed by the credible threat of state violence.
Stalin said “Pretty please” before he packed dissenters off to the gulag.
Jacobin
How can anyone take the pronouncements of an online magazine purposefully named for one of the most murderous and mendacious factions of the French Revolution seriously on any topic? The only praise I’d give is at least they’re up front about it.
They’re so over the top I’m not quite certain it isn’t parody.
If it is, they have stayed in character for decades.
“Aujourd’hui, le 11e Pluviôse…”
They love the idea of being priest killers.
You didn’t fail. That is awesome about Jacobin. Hopefully another outlet will freak out about him next week and we can view that too.
I have news that may make the Glibertariat laugh through the site outage:
https://www.newsweek.com/kathy-griffin-my-life-ptsd-list-comedy-tour-tickets-video-1864204
She can’t give away tickets with a handy!
Um, no thanks on either account.
What?? America’s heartland is not flocking to see a kindred spirit? 🙄
It does tie in with the Jacobin article in a way. She was hoisting that bloody Trump head around a few years back.
I’m glad I now know she’s in Iowa so I can purposefully not go.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who has described himself as the “World’s Coolest Dictator,” has in less than five years transformed El Salvador from a country infamous for its record on murder and gangs to a nation with one of the lowest homicide rates in the Americas.
I could be way off here, but it seems like if you’re not a murderous thug who self-identifies as such by getting tatted from scalp to soles, you don’t really have to worry about the police kicking in your door at night. For the average Salvadoran, that seems like a pretty good deal.
Once barred from going to neighborhoods controlled by rival gangs, residents can now freely move around. They can open businesses without paying crushing extortion fees. They can play with their children or sit with friends outside past sunset.
They may be torn over the erosion of civil liberties, but many say they will still support Bukele.
It does seem reasonable to want to go outside without getting killed.
Yeah, it was pretty safe around the Gestapo headquarters back in the day.
You know who else enjoyed a sunset with friends…
Eric Rohmer?
I wonder if the next generation of gangs will learn their lesson and not get tattoos to better hide among the people while committing their crimes.
Other way around. Everyone gets tattoos.
Ah, like every middle aged American white chick.
Yeah it’s jarring that most of the nurses at the local hospital are tatted up now.
Don’t they have a race card to play in order to put those people in their place?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E20/168701
Welp, looks like without some sort of divine intervention, our gym business isn’t going to make it. We just don’t have enough members to break even. With a perfect storm of unexpected delays, sub-letters backing out, and the double whammy of high interest rates and high inflation, we’ve burned through our cash reserves. The place is beautiful and well-equipped, and we’ve built a pretty nice community so far, but it’s just not enough. 🙁
😢
I am sorry to hear that.
☹️
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry to hear that.
I blame the body positivity movement.
I’m sorry to hear this.
😞
Sorry to hear that, TOK.
Sorry it’s struggling.
Is it equipped for members who need special accommodations? If so, maybe you could link up with a local Wounded Warriors or other veterans group for more exposure and potentially larger membership? And of course possibly charitable funding.
Good idea. I work out there in my wheelchair, and I can say it’s extremely accessible.
I am sorry to hear this TOK.
That really sucks, TOK.
^ what he said
Sorry.
🙁
Damn.
Oh, I’m so sorry.
So sorry TOK 🙁
A reporter shared some college athletic $$ details — namely, how much Ole Miss made or lost on their “Big 4” sports. ‘Tis was as follows:
Football – $12.3M
Baseball – $166K
Men’s BB – minus$3.6M
Women’s BB – minus $8.3M
Naturally, the women’s hoops coach (who gets paid over a million a year to coach a slow, ungainly version of basketball in front of hundreds of fans) is OUTRAEGED and goes on a four-minute rant after her team’s recent game against Florida.
Her biggest complaint? Her girls try really really hard, and they don’t get the crowds and community support they deserve. Be better, Ole Miss fans.
Maybe they should mandate Economics 101 for the team.
Guy 1. “All the women at Ole Miss are either sluts or basketball players.”. Guy 2. “Hey, my daughter goes to Ole Miss! “. Guy 1. “What position does she play?”
That’s net. What’s the gross revenue and costs? Bonus for the cross subsidies and imputed allocations that make college athletics less than transparent.
We’re having a scandal here in Tucson. The University of Arizona suddenly discovered it had a $244M hole in its finances. Fingers were pointed, kind of, and the CFO stepped down (to take a position as some kind of adviser at the same rate of pay). The President shows no signs of contrition or responsibility. The board of trustees appears to be an unappetizing alloy of inert, apathetic, and incompetent.
But wait! Late breaking news! The interim CFO (an insider, of course) announced that it wasn’t $244MM, it’s only $175MM or so! The local good old boy network is closing ranks around the President. The faculty is demanding a seat at the table (because when I think “financial acumen”, tenured faculty is my go-to).
What nobody wants to talk about (well, it’s a long list) is how the athletics program has contributed to this financial catastrophe. High dollar coaches come and go in the middle of their contracts. The program is jumping conferences (leaving some kind of money behind, I gather. And I’m sure it’s not free to join another athletic conference).
That’s outrageous. Title Something, I suppose, requires it?
I am kinda amazed men’s basket ball in in the red.
The men’s team going 12-21 (4-14 in league play) and subsequently only averaging 6500 fans per game probably had something to do with it.
What surprised me was that the baseball team, coming off an NCAA title, barely broke even.
Just goes to show that football pays the freight in the SEC.
Bidding to salvage a border deal in Congress that also would unlock money for Ukraine
We’re still playing the Ukraine game? I thought Israel was the latest hotness?
“Bomb bomb, bomb Iran” next hotness.
Given the deals the D’s offered on the border I am fairly certain they dont want a deal.
Embrace the power of “and”.
/Establishment politician
Is the site going down tonight or is that just a rumor?
Just a rumor. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
The harder the man pushes his line, the bigger the lie. Check in at 1:00 AM. All the elite Glibs will be there, talking about world conquest. Tinfoil hats mandatory!
Ghah!
That’s news to me.
Totally unexpected.
Why do I think about Max the butler writing fan letters to Norma Desmond in “Sunset Blvd?”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nikki-haleys-inbox-flooded-with-support-post-new-hampshire-primary-a-normal-political-leader
Don’t look too closely at the headers?
They don’t even read the body of the e-mails, you think they’ll dig for header information?
“the finest ¡enalces! Mexico has to offer”
Here I thought my Spanish was improving, and Mexi throws me a curveball.
Damnit. Fixed.
I’m in the urgent care clinic waiting my turn. Slipped on wet uneven pavement on Friday. Knew at once I’d sprained my foot but figured home care was enough.
Now it’s blue and hot and swollen. Might be more than a sprain.
This clinic is usually really quick, but they announced a “code blue” over the loudspeaker a while ago so that is the primary focus of course.
Dang. Somebody died? I thought that’s what ERs were for.
I guess things escalated quickly? Maybe they stabilized the person and got him out to a hospital. Place seems really calm.
Plot twist. The code blue was for HE.
😱🪦💀💔
Did someone say, Code Blue?
Woof. Be careful out there.
Ugh, sorry to hear. Hoping for a good outcome for you.
Blue hot and swollen sounds like Avatar porn.
I know what’s going in your stocking next Christmas.
“People’s minds, bodies and consciences are exclusively their own property. They are not chattel.”
I will give them this, that is a radical view.
“…he made it clear that any opposition to his free-market utopia would be crushed by authoritarian means.”
Somehow I missed that part.
Never change Jacobin. Never change.
Wasn’t he elected? Wouldn’t opposition be anti-democratic? I thought we were supposed to crush anti-democratic opposition by authoritarian means.
See: “We will. not allow you to vote for Trump! He will destroy democracy!”
Not new, but I just heard about it: Looks like the “impossible” EmDrive is actually being tested in space, with the first test satellite launched in November last year. It’s attached to a cubesat, and should have been activated by now or will be soon. If the satellite increases in speed instead of falling out of orbit, it would indicate a successful test of the drive. There are also other future tests planned by different groups, using different designs.
The likelihood that it will work seems low, but it’s pretty cool that access to space and satellite technology have become affordable enough to try experiments like this in the first place.
trolling or stupid, you decide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C40tWBZJifk
I’m going with stupid. It’s the safest bet.
On the up side, if you make more than a Walmart cashier she could be yours.
Well shit, I lost my chance this morning then when Wal-Mart rejected me for a loading dock job. I guess I could try Little Caesar’s next. Pizza places will hire anybody.
Leave out the credentials, maybe?
I plan on telling them I’m an ex-con.
Well, at least not a dishonorable.
“The bum’s rush in melody*, dear.”
* ‘ceptin’ the lack o’ tunes
MY EVENING OR YOURS?
South Carolina ‘Bonnie and Clyde Wannabees’ Busted in Car With 4 Chickens
The damndest thing — the unlucky couple are dead ringers for Warren Beatty and young Faye Dunaway! Especially her… absolutely Q-worthy.
Just another day in the Upstate.
four chickens, a dog, and a cat in their car when they were arrested
That’s the real miracle.
To row across the river?
I am guessing there are intoxicating substances of some sort involved.
I concur.
She’s scabbed up. Looks like her face was on fire and someone put it out with a bag of nickels.
I agree with Vox for once:
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The suit was once the uniform of the powerful and a requirement for every man. Now, people mostly wear suits when they’re in trouble.
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Sorry, GILMORE, if you’re lurking.
So true. I have a lovely fitted suit (2X breast) and I only seem to wear it for court appearances or funerals.
Thankfully, not my own funeral. Yet.
We will attest to your sartorial splendor in your send-off to the afterlife.
And if they do wear suits – like the newsreaders on tv – the look is the “three sizes too small jacket” with the top button buttoned and six inches of tie hanging out below.
Yeah, the last time the wife and I watched the Oscars, all the young dudes wore suits too small with pants too long. They all looked like idiots, and the wife, when responding to my WTF? said that was the style now.
Yep, dress up to look like an ass.
Paging Mr. Herman…
Which sucks, as suits are super comfy. But the last one I bought was black, and for a funeral.
Suits that fit are comfortable. Spend the frickin’ money to get it properly fitted, ya bums.
I’m glad that I will never have to wear a suit again as long as I live.
Perhaps she didn’t feel empowered to speak up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13023335/american-airlines-pilots-delta-flight-near-crash-jfk-airport.html
Women drivers- amirite ?
DEI.
Coming soon to a flight near you.
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Ukrainian forces are dealing with severe ammunition shortages and are being outgunned by Russia’s military. This situation is a dramatic reversal from the one over the summer, when Kyiv was using artillery to pound Russian positions, and can be explained by increased production in Russia and the acquisition of North Korean weaponry.
By some estimates, the Ukrainians are now firing just 2,000 artillery rounds a day, while Russia is nearing daily totals of around 10,000 shells. The experts said Moscow’s rate of fire will be sustainable next year “in excess of that number.”
***
Barbed wire, landmines, and trenches are cheaper and work better in the long run than fancy weapons, at least for defensive warfare, which is the only kind Ukraine could ever win against Russia. One Javelin costs the same as hundreds of anti-tank mines, plus they have an area denial effect.
Nothing about global warming? That’s disappointing.
A squadron of gift F-16s will turn the tide! For about as long (a couple of days?) as it takes the Russian Air Force to destroy every one of them.
I think the plan was to roll them down a hill, and see if the bombs go off.
The candy man just stopped by!! 🤪
Sammy Davis Jr ?
If Sammy Davis Jr had looked exactly like Larry The Cable Guy, then yes.
JFC, thanks for the earworm.
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Really?
https://nypost.com/2024/01/30/news/harvards-chief-diversity-officer-sherri-ann-charleston-accused-of-plagiarism-report/
I wonder how many Ivy League Admins are shitting their pants and praying now. My guess is a significant percentage.
There seems to be a significant number of libertarians who claim Intellectual Property should not be protected. I think they are wrong. But apparently , in their view, these “plagiarism” incidents are fine and dandy.
That’s not me, but I don’t see properly citing academic research which is part of the research process and stealing IP is the same thing.
Plagiarism and copyright are orthogonal.
Plagiarism is about representing someone else’s creative work as your own.
Copyright is about duplicating and distributing someone else’s creative work without permission.
Also note that copyright allows fair use where you duplicate and distribute someone’s else IP within your own IP for scholarly purposes with proper attribution.
How can they tell the difference? It’s not like there’s anything unique to add to that field of study.
Move to Twitter or Zoom for the night.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Whycome? Something about the site going offline, I guess. Any truth to that rumor?
No, it’ll be fine.
I will be there to share in the nightmarish horror. Can’t promise how talkative I’ll be on account of I don’t drink on weeknights and the aforementioned candy man’s products.
Me worky.
Well, shit
I’ll pull my tits out if you wont.
LOL at this puzzle on Classic Concentration Buzzr ran today.
Oh fuck I hated that show… bossweight horseathbulbs?
boss ton mare ath on
I stand by my opinion.
That is terrible.
Yeah. I couldn’t believe what they used for BOSS.
They also liked to use a donkey for AS, and a toilet for JOHN.
I am glad somebody solved it before the internet as we know it ends.
Titty Tuesday knows that all this talk of site maintenance is just a conspiracy theory based on disinformation.
https://archive.is/a3Iyc
Came to see the hole in the Internet. Am disappoint
Or the hole in my life.
It’s probably still coming. Not even eight o’clock yet.
As they say in AA- “once you stop drinking you have to fix that hole in your soul”
suh’ fam
Sorry, but I’ve abandoned you to spend Winter in Florida. You and GT need to take care of the Miami Valley while I’m gone.
Isn’t this site suppose to be down? you people can’t even disappoint correctly. Do better TPTB.
To be fair to them as a Browns fan I have very high standards for disappointment.
Dear Derpetologist,
It would be interesting if we communicated in some way. Our lives intersect/overlap in fascinating, possibly gainful ways. I worked at Kroger for a few shifts before a broken femur stopped me bein’ on my feet. I’m now after-schooling at an elem. school. Before I was Managing Editor of the Peru Tribune for a year (before I totally lost my mind). Before that my 12 years teaching ESL in Asia.
Interesting overlaps in many fields, explorations/work, and the difficulties of feeling alone. Who is there to talk to? Who can possibly ‘get’ what I’ve experienced and analyzed? Not searching for (another) therapist. (I doubt you are.) But two interestingly intersecting folk talkin’ shop. In odd ways, I think we’d be able to share stories and laugh at the world, curveballs thrown and our journeys through ’em all.
Whatcha think? I’ve tried joining zooms but the timing always seems off. I can rectify that, methinks.
Sounds good. My email: harty.thomas@gmail.com
Once we’re in touch, I can give you my cell number.
Email sent! I added a soon-to-be submission. I wrote it after ‘escaping’ detox. It doesn’t have an ending at all, but I enjoy the immediacy it was written (and edited) in.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Received and replied. I marked my release from the psych ward by quoting a song.
“In words of the great philosopher Supertramp, goodbye stranger, it’s been nice, hope you find your paradise.”
Still up, I see.
News of the pending postopalyse motivated to submit something. You won’t be disappointed – it’s the usual tedious Dean twaddle. OK, you will be disappointed, but it will at least be expected.
Looks like folks are still active here. I have an update about my business situation. I called an old acquaintance of ours who’s a serial entrepreneur. He’s going to meet us at the gym tomorrow to talk things over. He has access to alternative financing and knows a ton about marketing, so hopefully he’ll help us move forward and inject some life into it. He asked a ton of questions and already had ideas. I like his energy. So we’ll see.
you’re a programmer, so it’s IT services?
No it’s a gym. But yes I am a programmer, thanks for remembering.
Good luck. We all wish you well.
Good luck!
My bro is in programming and has started many businesses. He sold out of his last and is documenting the business journey of creating a start up to $1 million revenue.
He’s good at what he does. He talks a bit about family here, but nothing crazy. May be interesting to y’all. *Shrug*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSEjxAYIsc&ab_channel=ColinMakesSoftware
I really hope he can help. I am not local to you so I cannot sign up and attend.
It is a Glibs-worthy gym. Lots of bars and plates, you can drop weights and be loud, and use chalk. We have a “Don’t tread on me” flag (the pirate kind, not the yellow one). Lots of toxic masculinity, even the women.
*fans self*
even the women
Wait, what? why are women in the gym?
We need more gyms like that.
The gym I use when I’m in the Philly area is kinda like that.
🤞
Good luck, TOK!
Excellent! I hope this works out for you.
You’re not even supposed to be here today!
Bethannica said she might pop in before the site goes down.
I told her she could be like the last person going into the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
+ Hotblack Desiato
Here is a guy that buys star systems
And RS is still defending the mattress girl article.
“Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift”
“That hasn’t stopped members of MAGAland’s upper crust from plotting to declare — as one source close to Donald Trump calls it — a “holy war”
Thats about all I needed to read.
Im pretty sure that the NFL knows what they’re doing bringing the spotlight to their shows.
Updates done?
Why yes, they are. Seamless, wasn’t it?
*Waits for explosion*
I see no difference.
probably not.
Maybe the updates were done in a different time zone, and you’ll notice them at 9pm your local time.
I don’t believe they gave an actual time. Just this evening.
They didn’t, I was just trying to get in the last joke before th
the last joke before th
excellent
Is this thing ever going to go down?
That’s what she said.
I was assuming late night hours. Probably midnight eastern or central.