Never again
The playoffs are here! Should be some interesting matchups, especially the Dolphins-Chiefs and Browns-Texans. Â FA Cup Fourth Round draw has taken place, but it feels like half the third round has gotta be replayed. Â Tiger Woods and Nike are parting ways. And that’s pretty much it for sports (as far as I’m concerned). Â Now on to…the links!
It’s a good start. It would be even better if they just abolished public schools and let parents keep more of their own money.
Cool looking at least
Why does NASA get all the credit? Lockheed-Martin did all the heavy lifting here. Â Still, it’s pretty cool. Pretty soon, man might have the ability to send somebody to the moon and have supersonic commercial airplanes. Hey, maybe somebody can create a brand new car called the Chevy Nova while we’re at it.
I wonder if taxpayers will be on the hook for her criminal defense. I can’t believe she hadn’t been fired already. Maybe she had to be on standby if Lloyd Austin’s second on command decided to go visit the North Pole or something.
Jeez, this looks pretty egregious. I can’t imagine this case will be able to proceed until this gets addressed. And if it’s true, it should have a serious impact on several other cases. At least it would in a reasonable jurisdiction.
Is this the plot to the next Mel Brooks movie? It’s certainly cartoonish and bizarre enough.
Safe for now.
The National Park Service pulled their head out of their own asses long enough to not so something retarded. I guess they’ll have to try again when fewer people are paying attention.
I’ve got some questions. Namely, if its a disability covered by the ADA, is it considered a physical or mental illness? And second, how can it need to be accommodated n some cases but it’s not disqualifying for military service?
Oh well. Back to reality. Sorry, but if the moon isn’t on your reservation, you have no right to tell anybody what they can out there.
Here’s a great song. At least to me. This one makes sense this week. Enjoy all that. It’s at least warm enough here to avoid it.
Right, that’s it. Go have great day, dear friends.
That sounds philosophical or like the start of an Abbot and Costello skit… “Who’s your girlfriend? “I have None!” “Did she find out about you banging cocktail waitresses?” “None’s the wiser!”
Morning, Sloopy. Morning, all.
Rumor is she was cheating with Hu.
Watt?
So he got to third base?
Stupid laptop autocorrect is worse than the desktop I’ve filled with corrections for the last year. No way did I fat-finger Nike that badly.
I don’t follow sports — so I honestly didn’t know if he was dating some stupid influencer who goes by “None”. Don’t sweat it.
This makes me think this was just the trial balloon to see how much pushback there was going to be. I expect some minor protests there throughout the next couple of years (like the three people who protested the Indians games) before they make another attempt.
Well, everyone who floated it should be fired and barred from future employment at any rate above $5.15/hr
Barring stupidity like that California charter mentioned yesterday by His Holiness, yeah. But caveat emptor like all businesses for those cases, I know.
That typo is all on me.
I’m exhausted today and can’t think 100% straight. Lack of sleep after somebody brought up Keiko O’Brien on Twitter and I just laid in bed remembering how bad a wife and mother she was.
Possibly the worst character on any tv show ever. The spoonheads should have whacked her when they took Miles prisoner.
Seriously? Was that one of the Star Wars characters?
Okay — now I’m questioning your sanity. She’s by no means worse than Neelix or Doctor “I’ll just let these aliens die because I don’t like them” Phlox, and that’s just within Star Trek.
She made Miles miserable. She fucked off all over the quadrant to do “botany” at the expense of her relationship with her husband and/or his relationship with his children. She made fun of his food, his culture, his friendships, his career…all the while simply doing whatever she wanted to do for herself with nary a concern for others.
She was an asshole. Armus cared about others as much as she did.
So she was a feminist?
Yes. Therefore her selfish and irresponsible and inconsiderate narcissism is to be celebrated.
Was there someone in the 24th Century Federation in Starfleet who wasn’t?
I always wonder what happened to the settlements Kirk used to visit that were clearly people who didn’t want to live the placid life on Earth and were pushing out to get away from it. The modern equivalent is that of course the East Coast / Urban structures swallowed up the West in the end — but they could conceptually keep going or keep a lower profile. Space is really, really big after all.
Back to Keiko — I suppose I’ll have to rewatch DS9, I didn’t remember her being that bad — just that the writers obviously didn’t know what to do with her or Molly really (so they aged up Molly in a hack episode). Yeah, she zipped around the quadrant pursuing her career — but didn’t every scientist we saw in that era do that sort of thing, regardless of home duties? It was all “I need to borrow a starship / runabout / whatnot to validate this ancient culture / wormhole theory / whatever might drive the plot”… so by the standards of Federation culture at the time, she didn’t stand out to me.
Parents of the year still go to the Hansens, by the way.
She didn’t even work for Starfleet! At least those people had legit careers with responsibilities. She was a hobbyist who placed her hobby above her husband.
Was there ever an episode where he put his job above hers, and then she had a freakout?
I thought she wasn’t thrilled about moving to Terok Nor in the first place from the Enterprise-D, but it has been a while.
Since the number of regular deathtraps hasn’t gone down, that move was going from a flying hotel to a shithole. Not being happy would be understandable.
Not that I can recall, although she had a meltdown after returning to the ship after a six month or so expedition and finding that Miles had built a workshop in their quarters where he could do his hobbies. She accused him of trying to live the life of a bachelor…just before she took off for another extended trip somewhere else.
Sounds like this Miles guy didn’t have a strong pimp hand…
And Miles was a puss. He had to suffer through the major’s pregnancy like a father without the fun part.
The most important person in Starfleet history: Miles O’Brien.
And Neelix and Phlox were both part of terrible shows.
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You sure that’s the right link? I’m not quite sure about watching a 13+ minute video on ideological subversion.
Sorry, my phone’s clipboard defaults to offering that link ahead of the one I just copied into the clipboard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDuzvKYpjk4
It was because they used a Chinese actor to play a role that has a Japanese name right? Get your Asian casting right Hollywood!!
The Pope is here to lace -bait.
Keiko OâBrien
No idea who this is or why I should care
WHAT? I know it is a dumb school run by stupid people, but calling them a California school? That, sir, was a Minnesoda school! Located right in the middle of The Brainpower State
You seem to have forgotten a word in that “The Brainpower State” thing…
The word is “Low” and it goes between the words “The” and “Brainpower”….
Not an insult…
Just pointing out your leadership and the education of your kids..
Merde. Sorry — I must have read something about an Oakland school yesterday as well and conflated them in my mind. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Rudy Perpich was the governor who came up with “Brain Power” as a state motto. They called him Governor Goofy, but Walz makes him look like another Einstein.
Poorly run schools are supposed to close though.
Launch went well for the Peregrine moon lander…the rest of the flight? Looks like no private moon landing will happen
https://www.space.com/astrobotic-peregrine-moon-lander-propulsion-failure
“Why does NASA get all the credit?”
Budget increases from the government…
I thought a lot of the GM exports to Mexico didn’t go…
More seriously — my first reaction was “Yeah, like they’d let that become commercially viable when they’re trying to shut down fossil fuels”. Then I realized that of course it would only be for those still allowed air travel after they get the rest of us into buses, trains and “15 minute cities”, after all…. so they’ll probably allow it. Horse face will appreciate the faster trip to Davos, after all.
buses, trains and â15 minute citiesâ
For most, their first train ride will be the last?
As to your main point, I agree that the elites will still be allowed to fly on these new supersonic planes. The rules never were intended to apply to them.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I had my own ray of sunshine on Sunday. For the past two years my team has participated in a fundraiser for a high school kid who had a spinal cord injury playing hockey. Sunday he came to our practice with his dad and his brother, and he got into a sled for the first time. He needed a pusher, and we had to tape the sticks to his hands, but he stayed the whole practice and you should have seen the smile on his face. Especially after we let him score a goal in our scrimmage.
You’re really screwing up the heartless libertarian vibe you know.
After he scored, did you then tape 2 40oz bottles of Old English 800 to his hands?
Great story. You and your team are fantastic guys.
Sometimes I forget how good of a group this is. We have had people from other teams play with us, and they all say we are very welcoming and fun. Some say their own team is boring and nobody talks to each other in their locker room. I can’t imagine that.
“I wonder if taxpayers will be on the hook for her criminal defense. I canât believe she hadnât been fired already. Maybe she had to be on standby if Lloyd Austinâs second on command decided to go visit the North Pole or something.”
When your whole freak show is an Obama admin leftover diversity circus, being thrown under the bus can be problematic. Seeing Obama has taken a page out of the Clinton book – see his drowned chef from his Martha’s Vineyard home – I can see people deciding to just shut up, but diversity hires love nothing as much as to whine and blame others of some ism for their failures.
It seems like there was some other sporting event that was happening last night. I’m sure it will come to me out of the Blue later on.
And guess who turns 53 years old today.
Someone who was previously 52?
Happy Birthday?
You’re Angie Martinez?
Shhhhhh
I’m not interested in rehashing the Wigan-ManUre FA Cup third round fixture.
And happy birthday! Hope it’s a great one.
Thanks
Many more to come, Gunslinger, and it seems they come faster than before.
Happy Birthday to your mule? May no one laugh near him today….
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! Pew pew!
Ooh, beating me by two weeks.
Happy B-day.
Sure does seem like the hiring pool in 2021 was overloaded with psychopaths and sociopaths even more than usual. Must have smelled the blood of easy prey flailing in the water of the Biden Admin, I guess.
The problem is our election system being so prone to big money resulting in wins for evil fuckers (especially with a media that protects the crime syndicate democrats). This asshat is another one of the Soros money winners, and as usual, a disaster for anything not evil as shit. Not sure how to fix that, but we should expect that when criminals get elected they will commit crimes believing they will remain immune.
âNot sure how to fix that,â
I have some ideas . . . .
Elucidate, please!
I’m guessing “rope, tree, assembly required”.
That’s why I asked!
I was going to see how many got eliminated if we said “bloodless”.
No blood is shed in a proper hanging. Or burning at the stake. Or a helicopter ride over the ocean.
“Jeez, this looks pretty egregious. I canât imagine this case will be able to proceed until this gets addressed. And if itâs true, it should have a serious impact on several other cases. At least it would in a reasonable jurisdiction.”
REPUBLICANS POUNCE!
Corruption and unethical behavior? In Fulton County? Why… I do declare, sirrah! You astound me!
Seriously — Metro Atlanta politics have been a cesspool as long as I’ve been aware of Atlanta. Dekalb would give Fulton a run for its money — but they’re both corrupt as hell in all the public positions typically. Only varies in how stupid they get before it comes crashing down and the next group of thieves comes in. (And yes, I know that’s likely true of INSERT_CITY_NAME_HERE — just speaking to what I remember growing up). Gwinnett used to be better… but it has probably spread by now.
So it may be true, it may not be — but I sure won’t be surprised if it is… and yeah, one would think that might bring that whole rotten house of cards down. One can hope.
This. One thousand percent this. They appear to be zealots, and zealots don’t give up.
“Iâve got some questions. Namely, if its a disability covered by the ADA, is it considered a physical or mental illness? And second, how can it need to be accommodated n some cases but itâs not disqualifying for military service?”
They will demand you treat it as a disability, but don’t you DARE call it a mental disorder….
It bothers me that it pretty clearly is a mental issue and the treatment is to further destabilize the mind by introducing hormone treatments that would disrupt anyone’s emotional state — we all know hormonal flux causes mood swings and all. Introducing further emotional extremes (especially in FtM where they aren’t going to be used to the higher levels of testosterone and what that brings on in teens like aggression, etc.) to someone who is already unhappy and sees their body as wrong is just a recipe for disaster. Yes, I have no medical knowledge — but I certainly don’t see that the hormone levels are being carefully monitored and consultations are happening.
But of course, say this outside of places like this and I’ll be on even more lists (or a worse list) or whatnot. Bumped to right after Latin Mass attendees and people on the Capitol Lawn, most like.
I think I see where your confusion comes from. You think what they are doing to these people is actually treatment, and then because they care. Me, I think it is not treatment at all, but doing what benefits those that want more power over people and their choices, and the body count be damned. Pure fucking evil.
âI canât believe she hadnât been fired already.â
I would have been shocked if she had been fired. Well, at least sheâs on an extended paid vacation, so sheâs being âheld accountableâ.
I am going out on a limb and pointing out they are throwing her under the bus to hide much higher level incompetence from senior people…
Once again, the headline âShe was fucking the prosecutorâ is the least of the problems. Those two sure helped themselves to a pile of government money. Thatâs the real problem, in my mind.
HAH! As if this would ever be a problem for the members of the criminal political, bureaucratic, and media classes! That money is theirs to do with as they see fit you fucking plebe!
Does this current turn of events make anyone else here get a chubby? Cause I am loving the fact these morons are finally getting it and getting it good and hard.
Seems they fucked with the wrong guy, and now they’re gonna find out.
If I was Ackman, Iâd just post bounties – for every tenured professor or administrator who gets caught, the autist responsible getâs, I dunno, $5K. For everyone who gets fired, an additional $5K. Once you get the bounties right, the feeding frenzy will go off the charts. Heck, make it a contest – whoever nails the most in a quarter or a year gets an additional payout.
Why not? The leftist freaks did that with J6 attendees. It is stooping to their wretched, Chairman Mao-ish level but also, strangely satisfying.
That is a good way to burn through a billion dollars right quick.
(there is a reason for the replication crisis we are in the midst off)
I can think of worse uses for a billion dollars than taking a flamethrower to higher education and journalism.
I like that Sloopy is paring back on the sportz coverage. I had hoped that maybe he’d expand coverage of the arts instead. Maybe a film review. I would love to see a review of the two versions of Red Dawn.
My first installment can be
Keiko O’Brien: space’s biggest asshole
Oh come now!
Right in the ole Sarlacc Pit!
Heretic! There is only one.
Or a nature documentary on everyone’s favorite member of the Mustelidae family? Maybe a reboot of everyone’s favorite Hugh Jackman character?
I really doubt you guys want me to do a “Sloopy’s thoughts on _______ ” segment every morning I do links.
Depends…
I’d trust 4×20’s thoughts on Depends before Sloopy, sorry.
What, you don’t want to be the equivalent of Andy Rooney sitting at a cluttered desk bitching about ATM fees?
“Why does Ass to Mouth cost so much these days?”
Recurring topic tat would take years to discuss and define?
Replaces sports for the opening for his morning links.
Regardless of “desecration” wasting lift capacity on material that will just be turned into space junk is stupid.
A heaping helping of pleasingly distributed adipose tissue on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/7L2EW
If you are not aware of this and have not watched the interview, you should.
Like the whole Russia Collusion fiasco, the people that told the lies to promote that fairy tale, counted on their ability to block the real facts from coming out and ruining their criminal operation to lie to the American people. Even today, after it is indisputable this thing was all lies – the courts have confirmed this while thing was fake, started by a dnc & Clinton campaign funded racket, and taken up with approval from Obama by the various Fedgov 3 letter criminal enterprises to first spy on the Clinton campaign’s political opponent, and then to run an op to prevent that guy from fulfilling the duty of his offices and to run a coup – the usual morons that vote team blue believe there was some truth and tat they need to keep believing the people that promoted the lies knowingly.
I suspect the whole J6 thing will be more of the same unless they can fortify the next election and round up and lock up their political enemies.
Like I said yesterday — touting evidence a committee chair gets to see and the rest of us don’t reeks of Schiff to me.
Do I want to believe it is true? Does it speak to my interpretation and biases? Yes, and yes — which is why I’m extra wary since he didn’t bring any real evidence to the table. So we’ll see. I’m still in favor of dissolving the IC in general, at which point releasing their files (with no bleating about “Sources and methods! Sources and methods!”) would be more doable.
Speaking of [SCotUS] using national security to cover up bullshit.
“ touting evidence a committee chair gets to see and the rest of us donât reeks of Schiff to me.”
The only problem I have with that is that Schiff’s motivation was to keep the lie going. In this case it is about stopping the lie (like Nunez/Patel did).
It will be dismissed as “Tucker Carlson LOL conspiracy theories”.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: all government officials should be put under oath every time they show up for work or act in a professional capacity. And perjury should be aggressively prosecuted.
Which we all do in a way, its just the majority of FedGov knows no one will do anything about it if you are favored.
round up and lock up their political enemies.
They are doing that already.
Amusing to watch this dance.
The reality here is that Fauci and the 3 letter intel agencies, in order to hide their complicity and the fact the US was financing a bioweapons program in a nation we would likely eventually face a war with, colluded to lie to Trump about what was happening and he went along with it thinking these people were not to be tursted.
The fact that he now knows you can’t trust anyone in the bureaucracy and should stomp on all of their fucking asses is one of the reasons I like the guy for the next 4 years.
“were not to be tursted” should be “were to be trusted”
I assumed it made it easy that OMB is clearly a germaphobe.
The reality is Trump was supposed to be in charge of all of that. This is something he exposed that he didn’t mean to.
Referring to Trump as “in charge” is a funny way to describe trying to run a huge, complicated bureaucracy full of un-fireable people who hated him and thwarted anything he tried to get done.
Trump was under no obligation to make Fauci his administration front man on COVID. It was his choice to do so. It was also the failure of his administration that allowed Fauci to greenlight the money to Wuhan. We can debate the why of that, but not that it happened.
This shows how feckless and/or bought the “conservatives” have been all the way back to Eisenhower. This shit was going on every day of every year between Eisenhower’s “military industrial complex” speech and today, and we only hear about it from Trump?
The last real Republican president was Coolidge. Change my mind.
Yeah, even if I decide to vote this year, I have a really hard time voting for Trump based on his utter failure during the plague. I wonât vote for Biden or Harris or anyone fronting for the radical left. That leaves a protest third party vote, when what I really want to protest is our broken elections and rule-by-agency, and voting for anyone just legitimizes that.
So Iâll probably sit this one out. Maybe celebrate Election Day by going to the range.
Trump’s great talent was revealing the span and depth of corruption in our government. He had no clue how to fix it. Bill Barr was at least as bad as Fauci – ignoring the BLM riots and their financial backers while covering up the Epstein operation. Even at the end, Trump hilariously thought Barr was going to do something about the election.
There was nothing to do about the election and Trump was just playing out the game he set up in ’16 – when he expected to lose.
^^ my thoughts too
I live in NJ where the electoral votes are guaranteed for Team Blue, so I don’t bother with the futility of voting.
He makes a damn good point. If you’re the chairman of the board and you let a certain group of underlings bankrupt your company without firing every one of them and righting the ship, should you expect the shareholders to reelect you?
Every company board I’ve ever seen would seem to say “Yes, yes we would…. Oh, and we rigged the elections so it is almost impossible to get rid of us. Nyah, nyah!”
Something about daisy chains and circle jerks?
Kinky.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/glam-teacher-had-sex-student-31837880
“The teenage boy’s father has also been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after it was claimed he was aware of the relationship between his son and the educator.”
Dad looking out for Junior.
What the fuck is a Glam teacher?
Not entirely sure — but I’m assuming they’re absolutely fabulous!
No wonder she is banging 16 year old boys…
She is some Appalachia honey.
Glam teacher sounds better than predator.
Ready about all the stupid people in charge doing stupid things I think of this great article from a few months ago about the western purging of competence.
Our education system, government and private sectors are selecting for incompetence while filtering out people who are dangerously rational.
Pointing out every institution out there is a failure these days and that the obvious reason is all the diversity shit forcing competence to be ignored, will not get you far with the grievance groups.
I think his thesis is the other way around. Ideological institutions want to filter out the competent – diversity is one of many tools they use to do so.
Chicken or the egg….
Jesus… when the guy who gave the defense codes to a Toaster Pop Tart gets it before most people, you know you’re in trouble.
Like you would’ve denied her anything?
âThe Russian economy wasnât a house of cards as predicted, Russian weapons werenât inferior as predicted, Russian soldiers and commanders werenât incompetent as predicted, and Russian technology wasnât inferior as predicted.â
Hers right about the economy, but Russian weapons and technology have underperformed, Russian soldiers are undertrained and their commanders seem prone to wasting men and material. No amount of discounting Ukrainian propaganda can cover up the fact that Russia finds itself in a stalemate in a bordering country a fraction of its size. The Russians are showing their typical willingness to take losses indefinitely to win a war of attrition, so theyâll eventually win (for some values of winning), but that doesnât validate their weapons, technology or military.
The stuff the Russians are using that work the best are all stolen tech. That Tsirkon missile? They got that tech from the Skolkovo project (thanks Hillary Clinton and your reset button!). Same for most of their naval tech.
I wish they had stolen their hypersonic missile tech from us. At least we’d have some that work in that case.
They did steal it from us. DARPA chose to abandon the work because they wanted something that had even higher performance characteristics (we seem to always want something way more futuristics so we do not build contemporary weapons with an advantage). They finished it and bingo, Tsircon..
I was more concerned about what it means for us than the Russians. The people who have done real research and report that Ukrainian casualties are 2 to 3 times higher than the Russians seem believable. Most of the stories in the mainstream are propaganda and their current silence indicates how things are going.
More importantly, the incompetence seems to be catching up at every level – planes falling apart in the sky, foreign policy disasters while the Russians and Chinese are succeeding, the legal system becoming a farce, and a million little things in the economy making it worse for most people.
I see were he is going with this, and I think that, while he might have some details off or at least a different point of view on them than is shared here, as far as the US falling into a hole of incompetence, he is dead to rights accurate.
I would say that Russia is at a different place on the “arc of history”, and will get to where we are eventually. Just as we have followed Great Britain in this. I would also say that Russia has been through this once before, under communism, and needed their own catastrophic event (fall of said economic system) to move on.
Says great things about where we are going.
Color me skeptical that Russia is doing so great, even in comparison.
As someone that killed commies for his mommy, I can tell you they never impressed me much. They were ruthless and brutal, but they sucked.
Sigh. Forget the Russians. I wish he had written the article without mentioning them. It’s about how our ideological institutions work (sort of).
Which would have made it more powerful, but it degrades the point when it raises up Russia.
Well, Russia is winning in Ukraine, no? Despite all of the west throwing tech and money at the problem.
I heard Nick Freitas bring up a good point on this. It’s much easier to successfully throw tech at a defensive campaign than an offensive campaign. You can teach a few schlubs how to aim and shoot javelins in an afternoon. You can’t hand them an Abrams and teach them how to execute a coordinated offensive operation in that time.
Russia gradually grinding out a costly war of attrition in Ukraine is hardly a ringing endorsement of their tech, their weapons or their military. Consider: their prized Black Sea Fleet has been beaten up and basically pushed out of the theater. Their Air Force operates very gingerly around the front lines and canât even deliver much ordnance to an isolated salient on the wrong side of a river. They throw hundreds of tanks and thousands of men at another salient in their lines and manage to grind out a few miles of progress over several months.
Against a country a fraction their size in every way. Sure, theyâll win eventually, but âPyhrric Victoryâ isnât a compliment, you know. To my mind, Ukraine is demonstrating in spades that Russia can easily be contained by Europe without the US, if Europe cares to do so.
I will also say this: the drone war in Ukraine is showing that the US doctrine of a few very expensive, (arguably) very capable jets/tanks/whatever is badly flawed. I seriously doubt the Pentagon is fully absorbing that lesson.
The question comes down to, in my mind at least, how much damage do they want to do?
Setting aside all the shitty reporting, how do we really know what tactics the R’s are using? Human wave? That could achieve an objective while still leaving infrastructure viable. My point is that we really don’t know. No one here (ggrizz?) has ever been in the Russian army, let along worked with its tacticians and logisticians. Everything is a guess, with those guesses being informed by utterly shitty reporting and a deep cultural difference.
They are winning, and we have no idea how or why. Maybe poorly, maybe well,
I said early on that neither Ukraine nor Russia could win, but Russia would lose slower.
The age of consent in Brazil is 14?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-flushed-husbands-chopped-penis-31750439
Talk about burying the lede.
How do you say Lorena Bobet wannabe in Brazilian (I know they speak Portuguese, but it is funnier this way)?
Thanks to Breakfast at Tiffany’s (movie, not book) I can say “I believe you are in league with the butcher”, though I don’t know how to spell it.
As a Games Workshop shareholder, I had always assumed the retail storefronts were loss leaders to get community engagement, but according to the investor relations disclosure, the retail operations actually pulled in more profit than the online marketplace. I wonder if that includes third-party resellers who foot the overhead costs.
So this is a good read. And he mentions a paper on income inequality but didn’t link to it. So I dug it up.
How that slipped out last Sept and still hasn’t been picked up even in conservative media, I don’t know.
Nietzsche talked of this fairly long ago – of gaining knowledge while losing meaning. I guess we just haven’t bottomed out yet – but I honestly don’t care to see when we do.
It is baffling to me how people seem to not understand income is a function of many complex variables, including education, skills, choices, and performance. For some reason the idiots always bring up shit that at best is marginal or never true like race, gender, or other unimportant factors. if you understand statistics and, for example, look that ludicrous claim women only make 77% of what mend do, you can quickly figure out that when you properly control for such factors as career choices and life events that impact income, women make far more. Same with those that complain about the poor vs. the rich. To me it is obvious that people that deliver a product or service everyone wants and will pay for will make bank if they do it right. The reason however some real idiots with nothing to offer make bank is all government corruption and intervention (green energy – see Gore, Al a.k.a ManBearPig).
It is baffling to me how people seem to not understand income is a function of many complex variables, including education, skills, choices, and performance.
Three groups. This who are too oblivious. Those who are too craven. Those who are too swayed by emotional arguments.
Venn diagram?
Plenty of overlap, but I think the oblivious and the craven would be fairly distinct. You have to be aware to be craven.
All well and good but the left could not give two shits about “morality”.
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Somehow I don’t believe you.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/its-hard-having-one-worlds-31786055
Humblebragging..
“Hmm . . I haven’t been getting laid much lately. I’ll just bitch about my giant dick and see if that drums up any business”
Cha Ching!
I think his real problem is sexual orientation. Lots of things would have been so much easier with his penis had he been gay.
McManamanâs warrant reportedly was posted by the St. Lucie County (Florida) Sheriffâs Office. The warrant claimed claimed McManaman and alleged accomplice Delroy Chambers Sr. exploited a relative suffering from dementia by falsifying documents in he relativeâs name.
The Brandon regime is not sending their best. Or maybe it is.
it should have a serious impact on several other cases.
Every case is political persecution anyway.
At least it would in a reasonable jurisdiction.
Let me know when you find one of those.
Wild riot breaks out in NYC synagogue over secret TUNNEL: Orthodox Jews are dragged away in cuffs after trying to block construction crew from filling in their illicit passageway
So we found where (((they))) hide the gold…
That’s not the only illicit tunnel getting filled in downtown.
NPS withdraws plan to remove statue of William Penn from site of his Philadelphia home
They will renege on this reneging because the cultural revolution must continue.
how can it need to be accommodated n some cases but itâs not disqualifying for military service?
FYTW.
We don’t need a military that is capable of defending the country, we just need one that is more diverse!
NotAdahn would have seen this coming in the planets.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/25258196/trust-girlfriend-shocking-betrayal/
So he dreamt about being cucked and then discovered he was being cucked?
If she’s too tired for sex with you, but has the energy to go out with friends, she’s banging someone else.
It isn’t just IJ doing God’s work.
American Indian tribe futilely objects to lunar mission, calling moon burials a ‘profound desecration’
Of what exactly?
As always with these tribal claims, itâs extortion. They just a want a payoff so somebody can do something on land the tribe has no claim to. This was perfected, of course, with pipelines, but you can see it even with interstate highways. The stretch between Tucson and Phoenix that goes through a reservation is the worst maintained and narrowest stretch of the entire run. You can literally tell where it enters and leaves the reservation, for the most part.
There is/was all sorts of fun with the portion of I 90 going through the Seneca reservation…
“Kasper, who lasted less than five months in the position, is the fourth member of NAR leadership to resign or retire in months. Her predecessor departed after sexual-harassment allegations and the chief executive resigned late last year. ”
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/realtor-associations-turmoil-continues-as-new-president-quits-a12dc566?st=0lhe5kj0px5iebt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when the NAR loses it’s lock on real estate commission price floors.
You mean like this? I imagine the turmoil of late has a lot to do with that.
That’s exactly what I was referencing!
“The lawsuit covered home sales that took place between April 2015 to June 2022.”
I bought 2 homes in that timeframe, will I get anything out of it?
Also, the damages sound too low, if anything.
Bad orange man is too extreme to debate.
As Democrats look toward an expected rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden later this year, some are warning that agreeing to debates are a bad idea.
“I would think twice about it,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-highest ranking Democratic senator, recently told The Hill. “It’s just an opportunity for him to display his extremism.”
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a close ally of Biden, told the outlet that Trump’s conduct at the 2020 debates and the former president’s refusal to debate his GOP primary opponents “would make a pretty strong case for not dignifying him as a candidate by sharing a debate stage.”
One would think Dems would want said “extremism” on display for the world to see. After all, Dem’s ideas are clearly defendable and superior to Drumpfler and MAGA. Their recent track record shows this.
Oh, wait. No it doesn’t. And there is literally nothing “extreme*” about the mild populist reform movement that is MAGA.
*this being a relative term…
Only extremists oppose the uni-party in all of it’s glorious unity!!!
There needs to be a more derogatory name for the uni-party. 12 year old R.J. speaking here.
If this extremism escapes onto the airwaves, someone might find it appealing.
Isn’t Orange Man himself hiding from his party’s debates?
It’s not like Trump would win anyway. The geriatric idiot in the opposing party defeated him handily the last time he “debated” before defeating him in the election itself.
I believe the combined iq on stage that night was about 150.
Please do skip debates, you two, and spare America.
Hanky panky
One of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case alleged in a court filing Monday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade had engaged in a âromantic relationship.â
In a 39-page filing seeking a dismissal of charges, an attorney for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman made accusations that Willis and Wade have traveled together to destinations including Napa Valley and that they’ve been seen together around Atlanta in a personal capacity.
The filing does not provide any direct evidence to support the claims â citing only âsources with knowledgeâ and raising questions about the process by which Willis hired Wade, who has represented the DAâs office in court proceedings for the case.
âThe district attorney chose to appoint her romantic partner, who at all times relevant to this prosecution has been a married man,â attorney Ashleigh Merchant wrote.
Sources with knowledge seems to be the evidentiary standard, these days.
Not as good as sources familiar with their thinking.
At least he didn’t meander through the capitol building taking selfies.
A US Navy serviceman who admitted to accepting bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for sensitive US military information has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.
US District Judge R. Gary Klausner on Monday handed down the 27-month prison sentence to Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, of Monterey Park, Calif.
The Justice Department had sought a sentence of 37 months, arguing that Zhao had obstructed the governmentâs investigation.
In October, Zhao pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring with a Chinese intelligence officer and one count of receiving a bribe, both felonies.
Elon’s internet is performing way better in the heavy rain than it used to. I guess that means I have to work today.
Yep, not even a hiccup for me in the “blizzard” here (we’re getting 1-3″ in my area)
Still wearing flip flops here in DFW. It won’t get cold for another five days or so.
My wife is jealous. I don’t mind the snow, but her Texan tendencies show when it starts snowing.
I much prefer snow to the weather we had yesterday afternoon. 34, rainy, with 25mph wind and 40mph gusts. I had to go get a tree off the driveway so the UPS truck could get through, and it was miserable.
The daughter and I love snow. Texas doesn’t really get snow. We get ice, wind and hail. All of those suck.
Live in a place where it snows a lot and you soon realize it’s only neat for the first few days.
Texas weather all the way, unless you live in California.
âLive in a place where it snows a lot and you soon realize itâs only neat for the first few days.â
That was my take when we lived in Wisconsin. It wears your ass out before long.
I like this middle ground where it snows a bit, melts, and then snows again a few weeks later. I don’t think I’d enjoy places where it piles up all winter long and doesn’t fully melt until April or May.
Snow = poor man’s fertilizer. GREAT for breaking down leaves to enrich the soil.
Are you saying you want to shoot at and/or imprison any and all political opposition?
President Joe Biden drew comparisons during a Monday speech between protesters at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to Confederate soldiers who couldnât accept that they had lost the Civil War.
Biden gave a speech Monday at Mother Emanuel AME Church, one of the oldest black churches in the south, only days after Vice President Kamala Harris made a similar trip to speak to the Seventh Episcopal District AME Church Womenâs Missionary Society. The president said during his speech that Confederate soldiers embraced a âlost causeâ after not coming to terms with the result of the Civil War, then moving on to talk about the Capitol riot, adding that Americans are now living in an era of a âsecond lost cause.â
âAfter the Civil War, the defeated confederates couldnât accept the verdict of the war, they had lost,â Biden said. âSo they say, they embraced what is known as âthe lost cause,â a self-serving lie that the Civil War was not about slavery but about statesâ rights. They called that the noble cause. That was a lie.â
Everything you say is a lie. And the second iteration of your red speech on the J6 riots was full of the most gaslighting and propaganda I have ever heard. It was really next level.
Really leaning heavy into the Civil War comparisons, from MSM to talking heads to now government officials. This will all end so peachy.
They seem hellbent on setting off a civil war, and quite complacent about how it will go.
Boy who cried wolf syndrome. They’re the one who least expects it when the wolf actually shows up.
To be fair, I’ve seen the same kind of mentality from other proponents of civil war – it will all be so grand when we sweep to victory!!!
“They will surrender after the first major battle.”
That’s a bunch of Bull! Run, they will! (And maybe come back for Seconds).
Am I supposed to think about the Civil War or the Roman Empire?? I’m so confused!! đ
Clusterfuck 101
College hopefuls are already waiting longer than usual for their financial aid offers this year, due to the delayed release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). But what applicants may not realize is that this year’s FAFSA also comes with a big mistake â one that will lower the amount of federal financial aid many receive unless it’s remedied soon.
The U.S. Department of Education is wrestling with whether to fix this mistake in time for this year’s financial aid applicants. A last-minute FAFSA change of this magnitude could further delay college aid offers, but it would also mean many students would qualify for more help.
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Without adjusting families’ incomes for inflation, McKibben warns, hundreds of thousands of students could either get less Pell Grant aid than they otherwise would have â or not qualify for Pell at all. The lack of an inflation adjustment will also impact a student’s ability to qualify for other federal aid, including work-study as well as financial aid offered by states and schools.
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. We’ll make the price of higher education completely opaque. That way, nobody will be able to determine whether it’s worth anything at all.
Pell Grant wasn’t worth crap when I went. It maybe paid for a few books, or a class.
No adjustment for inflation? Whatâs the big deal? Everybody has been telling me inflation is just in my imagination, after all.
You’re right, inflation has been going down. It’s the lowest it’s been in years!
It’s pouring buckets of rain and the winds are expected to be ~30mph for the next 24 hours or so. It’s days like this I wish I had brick & mortar
Boy that was last night here. Blew my trash cans into the street. I found a shingle from (hopefully) my neighbor’s roof on the curb. Heck of a storm.
Tryna find a hotel that is pet friendly that also has a bathtub instead of a shower stall is impossible
Something different
Living on the precipice
Former first lady Michelle Obama said sheâs âterrifiedâ about the potential outcome of the 2024 election, listing Novemberâs presidential contest as among the fears that keep her awake at night, in a podcast interview released Monday.
âWhatâs going to happen in this next election? Iâm terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,â Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast âOn Purpose.â
âThe fact that people think that government â âeh, does it really even do anything?â â and Iâm like âOh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.â And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,â she said.
Maybe that’s the root of the problem.
To be honest, I’m terrified too. I’m assuming that if Biden “wins” again, the DOJ is going to start working down that list we’re all on.
It seems whenever I read a story about the DOJ/FBI these days, Solzhenitsynâs âOh, how we burned in the campsâ passage comes to mind.
Everything? And “for us”, not “to us”?
Give your nuts a tug, Michelle.
Her comments come as President Joe Biden begins to ramp up his reelection campaign, narrowing in on a message that democracy is on the ballot this year.
Still, many Democrats have expressed concern that his message isnât resonating, pointing to polls showing him in a close contest with former President Donald Trump.
In the interview, the former first lady listed a number of other items that worry her, including: âAre people going to vote, and why arenât people voting?â
Maybe people aren’t as dumb as you think.
Friday, somebody tried to book a plane ticket on an airline out of El Salvador on my card. The bank blocked it as fraud, but they didn’t actually notify me of this. So all of a sudden, all my automatic payments are declined and I don’t know why. I called the number on the card and got a long automated health insurance spiel I couldn’t bypass, so I hung up. I called the business line, but they said “leave a message” but didn’t give a voicemail beep to leave the message, then they hung up. I called my branch. They said they weren’t answering phones so leave a message. I finally called a different branch and a human answered and helped me out. It took me an hour to get that straightened out, and I won’t get my new card until Wednesday, if even then because it’s snowing like a son of a bitch and nobody’s moving.
Anyway, last night someone tried to get into my LinkedIn account (WTF LinkedIn of all things), so today I’m spending my day changing my default password to something more my normal naming convention. (I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, but still.) Then I have to spend time figuring out who’s got my fraud card and change all THOSE things too.
THEN my smoke detector keeps going off for no reason whatsoever and we finally had to just take it down. Mind you, it requires an extension ladder to get to this fucker. If XY weren’t here, I don’t know what we would have done.
But, you know, it’s Tuesday, so stupid shit is to be expected.
My overzealous bank does this as a matter of course. If I travel anywhere, I have to tell them or I’m “stuck” because the bank thinks it’s fraud.
I used to tell my bank when I was travelling in order to avoid such problems, but they don’t give me that option any more. Maybe they’ve found more effective ways to detect fraud like information sharing with airlines.
Same here, with USAA. They used to have a way to notify them of travel, but it disappeared a year or two(?) ago.
Yeah I don’t know if they still do because now the system is pretty automated. I get a text message and I can say it was “good”.
The old system kinda screwed me because I don’t really use a CC. Just my bank card and it was getting locked and I was getting hosed.
That makes sense until you travel international. I won’t be getting any texts. So I hope they don’t fuck my trip up. *Grumbles*
They don’t give that service anymore because too often even when you notified them, they would fuck up and flag it as fraud because of ineptitude. It made them look bad. So now they just fuck you over without you having recourse.
The last time I tried to call a credit card company to tell them I was traveling, they said, “Oh, don’t worry about it. We’re not going to block the charge.”
Um… I would rather you didn’t do that.
I’ve had to call Paypal a couple of times to unblock me because I was traveling. Once in New York, and once in Utah.
Low battery on the detector? Sometimes they go off instead of just chirp in my experience.
Sorry to hear about the card — one thing the Bank of
EvilAmerica does okay is let me unlock the card in the phone app pretty quickly these days (used to take a call or two). Of course, it is also supposed to note when I’m traveling and not lock in the first place — but such is life. Haven’t had an actual malicious charge since grad school (1998? 1999?) when some Russians were trying to buy stuff from NewEgg with my card, fortunately.One time my wife yelled to me from another room in the house, “Where’s Karachi?” Me: “It’s in Pakistan.” Her: “Someone in Karachi bought $17K worth of fertilizer with my card.” Me: “Good luck ever getting on an airplane again.”
DO NOT use pode$ta or 1234
Anyway, last night someone tried to get into my LinkedIn account (WTF LinkedIn of all things), so today Iâm spending my day changing my default password to something more my normal naming convention.
I keep trying to convince my wife to do this. We have a high quality password manager that requires only a couple extra clicks to generate a unique and highly secure password for each account, but she sticks to using the same 2 low complexity passwords for everything.
Granted, she won’t be the one saddled with work when somebody breaches her accounts. That’ll land on the family “tech support” (me).
I have KeePass and a new naming convention, but I just hadn’t gotten around to changing the password I’ve used for everything for 10 years (it’s pretty secure, but I shouldn’t have used it for everything). I honestly didn’t realize it had been that long.
You can have security or you can have convenience. You canât really have both.
Now, not being easily available to your customers, thereâs no excuse for that.
I don’t mind that they blocked the charge. I mind that they didn’t notify me that anything was wrong before my shit started bouncing. Also, that rigamarole to get to a human had me in tears. Granted, I had already had my day go sideways, so anything would set me off.
Uh, is the smoked detector battery operated?
Sorry about the rest. I remember fighting with my credit card company years ago when somebody made $10,000s on it.
Hey Mojeaux,
First off sorry to hear about this happening. So, my advice having dealt with this stuff is that you need to find out if some provider you were using was not hacked recently and your personal information ended up sold on the black market. If this is the case (and even if not), I highly recommend you get some fraud protection monitoring services to make sure you do not get hosed by these people. Do not procrastinate on this. It will give you legal defense as well if you really end up with something bad (like someone getting a personal loan or mortgage in your name and the lender blaming you).
Also, when you get the protection service, get the basics. They tend to oversell you on lots of crap you will not likely need (like dark web monitoring or online scraping services).
Thanks, Alex.
I think I know how they got my debit card number. Shopify was spoofed on a site that didn’t actually charge my card for the thing I purchased, but the site is blocked by my malware thingie. They never actually charged my card, but I’m going to assume the site was harvesting my card.
Now, why anybody would try to get into my LinkedIn, I couldn’t fathom.
Even if the social media account doesn’t have interesting information, it could be leveraged to send phishing messages.
My website is constantly under brute force attacks. I have no idea why my little nanspec of the innert00bs would be of interest.
A website with currently unimpeachable identity on the web is an excellent site for hosting malware and bot controllers. Small businesses and individuals are the most vulnerable to being taken over for this purpose.
The value in an online asset isn’t always the current owner/user
The Navajo have some serious cajones to claim the moon as especially theirs.
That claim of theirs- I have some [removes sunglasses]….reservations
They won’t get fooled again, that’s for sure.
I once made a comment at work that I since I had made a reservation to visit a native American reservation for vacation and the workload was going to cause me to have to postpone, that I was having a reservation reservation reservation….
Some idiot turned me into HR and complained I was being raciss.
Attack on higher education
The presidents of Harvard and Penn resigned under pressure. Leading the attacks is billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who is waging a broader campaign against higher education and the media.
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Ackman and others believe that reflected a double standard at colleges and universities of what speech is permissible and protected. He and others say administrators have tolerated antisemitism. Well, in recent weeks, we’ve seen other deep-pocketed donors weaponize their philanthropy in response. They have cut their giving, and some have cut ties with colleges and universities altogether.
Weaponized philanthropy; it’s completely unreasonable to look at what institutions are doing with the money you have given them and decide to give no more.Not wanting things done badly is the same as not wanting them done at all.
The question I want to ask Ackman is, “What took you so long? Why weren’t you paying attention before now?”
I have the same question on many issues – the pandemic, J6, wokism in the institutions, etc. I think the root of the problem is way too many people still trust what theyâre told by the regime and its propagandists, no matter how many times they are blatantly lied to. Nobody asks the Two Questions: Who wants me to believe this? Why do they want me to believe this?
My assumption is that billionaire philanthropists work on a different level. The news they read comes from different sources, and the problems they wish to address are not our problems. As such, it takes something really big like embarrassing Harvard in front of Congress to capture the attention of that class.
And with his wife now in the spotlight, Ackman is doubling down even more. He has promised to use the power of artificial intelligence to scour each and every Business Insider article for plagiarism. That seems to be his new crusade. And he said he’s willing to invest in an AI company to identify plagiarists in media and in higher education. AI’s ability to do that, he says, makes it like a tactical nuke. And Ari, this is a weapon he seems to have no compunction using in what’s become really a no-holds-barred campaign.
Never mind media plagiarism, Bill. Get in there and do the sort of fact checking which you are rightly respected for in the business world.
If Ackman had applied his analytical template to the plaguesters’ panicmongering, we might have been saved a lot of trouble.
Well, he made billions shorting the market during the plague, so I donât know that he would have been interested in dialing down the panic.