Yeah, I saw what y’all wrote the past few days.
Here at the Editorial Offices of Glibertarians.com, things have settled down a bit. Tonio still has author flogging duty, Riven still makes sure the Stoic gets posted, when I invariably forget, etc.
So today I am able to just give my normal links and leave the music and comments to you.
- If he has a cabin, he ain’t “un-housed” or homeless or whatever.
- The EU seems determined to run itself back into the 10th Century BC. “Surplus food makes civilization possible?! Merde!”
- What they aren’t telling you is that this is really Hannibal Lecter.
- Swiss companies discover that waving the Gaia flag can be difficult.
As mentioned, music and comments are yours.
It doesn’t seem back to normal anywhere.
I really had no idea how well we had it back in the ’90s before things went completely to shit. (Thanks to the neocons having the Patriot Act good and ready in hindsight… yeah, yeah… I’m sure more than one of y’all were screaming it at the time. I was relatively young then and didn’t see it coming [nor was I hanging out with this crowd, barring parts of /.]).
Just seems like there is no normal since.
This is the new normal. Until something changes, then that will be the new, new normal.
Worse, no one learned anything. They are still doing gain of function research.
Well, they didn’t manage to kill off 90% of humanity just yet — so they’ll keep trying.
That’s a weird cat.
Well, it wasn’t a legal home.
Better that sort of squatter than the San Fransisco treat.
And why do I feel like that cow butt is aimed my way….. ?
It’s like one of those 3D pictures where the eye follows you.
Why be normul?
Everybody should have hobbies.
At the very least he should get a History Channel series.
“unhoused man”
Interesting word choice. I prefer bum or hobo for the traveling type-you can tell the difference by the stick and bindle.
Would you accept “experiencing homelessness”?
Unhousable.
House curious.
Outdoorsman.
He’s a miner that’s working from home.
Trans-sheltered
I watched The Good the Bad and the Ugly and Fist Full of Dollars this weekend. I had a strange urge to not think of puns.
Why’d you skip For a Few Dollars More if you don’t mind me asking? (I’m actually rather fond of that one… I think it is a tighter story than the meandering of the third).
I ran out of weekend. That’s next on the list.
I recommend watching Yojimbo. Not to be confused with his holiness.
Toshiro Mifune is pretty bad-ass.
Yo to you too!
Plus the bad guy smokes his cigarettes backwards, that’s how you can tell he’s evil…well, that and the rape.
Steven Irwin, 41, claimed he had permission to build the structure in Dr. Jose Rizal Park, despite the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department recently paying $15,000 to repair the damage Irwin had done when he illegally dug up the land in October 2023
I don’t think we’re getting the hole story here…
Damn… he’d better stay away from the aquarium and the ray tank, assuming Seattle has one.
Seattle doesn’t really prosecute crime anymore, so I’m sure he’ll skate.
I think he’ll champion urban camping. It is just his sort of cause — and he’s just the manta do it.
I thought I could mako good pun with stingray, but it floundered.
When questioned about the cabin, he responded “Ain’t she a beauty?”
As usual, you get straight to the heart of the matter.
Crikey!
The investigation goes pretty deep. They’ve got a lot of dirt on him.
Not too hard to dig up.
I thought they were racing for the 10th Century AD or so. The Conquista and all….
I don’t think the EU is picky. As long as they make things more difficult for their populace, it’s mission accomplished.
“Ruffin is then accused of pepper spraying the female deputy, and then stealing her cruiser. The deputy then fired off three rounds of her service revolver at the fleeing vehicle, Lopinto said, but added that it was unclear if the suspect had been hit.”
Second time in a week a cop shot up their own car.
Cops still carry revolvers?
Yes, and I’ve seen armed security with revolvers as well.
They tend to be a little more idiot proof.
And accurate.
Shooter, not the gun.
What are you doing commenting here Suthen?
I thought you’d be out on a local road pass shooting at police cruisers in the hope that it was the fugitive.
*Ponders….*
“No idea where he got the pepper spray.”
Ten bucks says some cop left in the cruiser, since the deppity still had hers.
I bear sprayed some javelinas vandalizing my yard a month or so a go. I caught just the slightest backwash. Ho. Lee. Fuck.
Yep. Believe it or not that sensation is triggered by the oil but isn’t real. You are not being burned or damaged in any way. If you can manage it you can fight through it and still kinda function.
You don’t think the deputy had a backup can of pepper spray?
Guess they’ll have to search every boat house, outhouse, hen house and dog house in a 50 mile radius. (Yes, I know that’s a different movie… but that’s how the article reads to me…)
I doubt very many vanlifers or tinyhomers would consider themselves to be “unhoused.”
Some of those vans cost almost as much as a house.
You ain’t kidding!
My mom has a friend who’s down on her luck and has a van (I’d call a down-on-your-luck person having to live in a van homeless). My mom’s given her money to fix it up into a home, but $1,000 doesn’t go very far. I found a video on how to do it on the cheap and sent it to her to pass along to her friend.
Not having a legit bathroom in one’s living space is a pretty good indicator (coffee cans don’t count).
I’ve thought of buying one to take to my cycling events instead of getting a hotel, but then I see the price tag. I also notice that none of them seems to have a screen door, which makes me think of mosquitos.
I’ve seen screen doors for E350 vans. Most campers have windows with screens.
On a van, maybe not, but a bigger Class B, Class C, Class A, and any trailer will have them.
If he has a cabin, he ain’t “un-housed” or homeless or whatever.
judging strictly from cursor-ing over the link (my computer no likee NYPost website) he’s more of a
squatterhomesteader. Maybe he needs a mule.And forty dollars.
Just don’t start laughing around TOK’s mule. He gets this crazy idea people are laughing at him.
He’s a squatter.
It’s like saying I’m not homeless because I live in a pothole that I dug in Times Square.
I’m a little tired of piecemeal work, but I also need to be available for my family during the day. Regardless, I put in an application for a position as a copy editor that looks like it’s right up my alley. We shall see.
🤞🏼
Well, that’s unreadably small. It’s a fingers crossed emoji.
I used to have a CSS trick to make emojis readably big but a WordPress change broke it years ago.
Oh, and 🤘 Moj.
Good luck!
Best of luck, Mojo.
🤞
You would be a great asset to them.
More than four out of five board members (82%) recognise the growing importance of sustainability, according to a survey published on Monday by the Swiss Association of Boards of Directors in collaboration with Deloitte Switzerland and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Execs everywhere know to pay lip service to the platitudes these days.
However, only half of the companies have set sustainability targets that they measure against.
Stated preferences vs. revealed.
My response to this “sustainability” nonsense:
If it ain’t profitable, it ain’t sustainable.
Well, not without some judiciously applied “convincing”.
I was out having a life last weekend. So, I missed three days of posting here.
I assume you all managed to earn the cow butt some how or other.
I suppose we milked some jokes for all they were worth once or twice.
No bull.
It was udder chaos.
That’s the way to bring the cheese!
You’re just trying to steer us into a pun thread.
No one wants beef with Swissy.
These puns have me on the horns of dilemma. I want to contribute, but I fear the narrow gaze.
I’m fearful Swiss could put us all out to pasture.
Who, us?
I don’t filet like we’ve gone to that extreme.
More than four out of five board members (82%) recognise the growing importance of sustainability, according to a survey published on Monday by the Swiss Association of Boards of Directors in collaboration with Deloitte Switzerland and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. However, only half of the companies have set sustainability targets that they measure against.
Stated preferences v. revealed preferences.
I think you owe Shpip a Coca-Cola or something now.
doh’t
I was on hold with the corporate IT helpdesk this morning, and some wag thought it would be funny to have the hold music be Chopin’s “Minute Waltz”.
Could have been worse.
Related. Not quite a Daily Ray of Sunshine… but certainly better than the gloom and doom my black pilled posterior seems to focus on these days. So here y’all go! (I could see Sloopy storyboarding this video, honestly…)
Worser
For maximum sapping of one’s will to live they should use Wagner’s Ring Cycle as hold music.
Most appropriate hold music ever?
The only surprise here is that they waited so long
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it is suing to block the merger of Kroger and Albertsons, saying the combination of the two major grocers would result in higher prices for shoppers and lower wages for workers.
In a release, the FTC said it issued an administrative complaint and authorized a lawsuit in federal court to stop Kroger’s $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons, which would create one of the largest grocers in the country. A bipartisan group of nine attorneys general has joined the court complaint: from Arizona, California, Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Wyoming.
“Kroger’s acquisition of Albertsons would lead to additional grocery price hikes for everyday goods, further exacerbating the financial strain consumers across the country face today,” said Henry Liu, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. “Essential grocery store workers would also suffer under this deal, facing the threat of their wages dwindling, benefits diminishing, and their working conditions deteriorating.”
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Kroger and Albertsons’ agreement has been stuck in a holding pattern for more than a year while federal and state regulators scrutinize the merger. The companies announced the proposed deal in October 2022, and said by teaming up, the grocers would be able to better compete with larger retailers.
The FTC argued the supermarket merger would harm shoppers and workers at a time when the price of food and many everyday items has risen. The Biden administration has been skeptical of a range of mergers, and the White House has made consumer protection a key issue as President Joe Biden campaigns for reelection this fall.
I have to admire the brazen cite of inflation. Those damned grocers and their greedflation!
Meanwhile, they’re still pumping money into the system as fast as they can.
Darn those grocery chains with their 3% margins!
“the combination of the two major grocers would result in higher prices for shoppers and lower wages for workers.”
Do they give a reason for this, or are they just making shit up?
You already know the answer to this.
More market power could allow them to raise prices. On the other hand, more market power could allow them to squeeze suppliers (including labor) and push down their costs which they could pass on to consumers if there’s enough competition. To quote Russ Roberts, it’s hard to know.
And are those reasons to stop a merger, legally.
Oh, I do like to make myself laugh.
I am surprised CO isn’t part of the lawsuit. Near me we have two major grocery chains, King Sooper (Kroger) and Safeway (Albertson’s). So if they merge, it will be interesting. The only other options are Walmart, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s.
I think the workers are unionized. With so many other chains in competition price hikes seem unlikely.
In this scenario the two biggest enemies of consumers is the FTC and the union. Fuck them both.
Fine. I’ll give a music link.
Cops still carry revolvers?
You’re making a lot of allowances for modern journalisming. Just because it’s in the paper…
Security guards are allowed to carry one bullet, in the shirt pocket for emergencies. Security officers are allowed to hold it up and say “You better run along!” When things are not going well with standard verbal commands.
“You get one bullet Barney.” – Andy
Bacon-magic gets it.
Yet the deal has faced stiff resistance and new complications after a period of historic inflation. Two unions that represent Kroger and Albertsons employees, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the Teamsters union, opposed the deal.
Increased efficiency? Fuck that.
How hard can it be to meet sustainability targets when sustainability has no meaning?
The watermelons goal is to make productivity economically infeasible. Any company that signs on to that shit is run by morons.
Back to normal?
Ugh. Isn’t there any good news?
“Jerry Seinfeld smiles and waves off anti-Israel protesters screaming ‘Nazi scum’ at him in NYC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13127809/Jerry-Seinfeld-screamed-anti-Israel-protesters-NYC.html
I guess he wouldn’t wear the ribbon.
I can’t wait to see what kind of jokes he gets out of being called a nazi.
I’ll bet he doesn’t use his signature comment “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
He’s probably still recovering from how clever they are.
I figured since it would nominate them for a ‘peak stupid’ award they would just label all jews as nazis.
Because it is well-known that the German National Socialist Party would have welcomed Jerry Seinfeld with open arms.
“The View’s Ana Navarro, 52, opens up about struggle to maintain her SEX LIFE while going through menopause – hinting that she and husband Al Cárdenas have turned to ‘all sorts of medication’ to keep their passion alive”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13127755/the-view-ana-navarro-al-cardenas-sex-life-menopause.html
There aren’t enough drugs in the world…
They should put this in a book along with the story of Joe Biden’s sex life from last week. And then burn the book, drop the ashes down a deep hole, and fill the hole with concrete.
Damn you for even posting that. I’m going to have nightmares now.
I would guess the only medication that might work on her when she’s in the grips of a hot flash is Thorazine. A hefty dose, at that.
So the cow theme is alive and strong here.
Never stick it in crazy?
She’s got quite the FUPA, who’s going to hose down Tres?
Can I order a body shell with no drivetrain?
The Renault 5 was a funky hatchback that sold for more than two decades, spawning several variants, including the iconic Renault 5 Turbo. Though it hasn’t been around for quite a while, it’s getting a futuristic glow-up, returning as an electric hatchback with retro-inspired design elements. The automaker plans to put the new car on sale soon with a super-reasonable €25,000 price ($27,134 at today’s exchange rate).
The Renault 5 E-Tech spent just three years in development, compared to the typical four-year cycle. It’s also strikingly similar to the concept car, which rarely happens in the auto industry, though Renault is well-known for some of the most exciting designs ever to hit the streets.
That would be totally bitchin as a mid engine rear wheel drive R5 reincarnation.
The Le Car certainly had exciting design.
Slap a Hayabusa motor in it, chain drive to a rear solid axle.
Not a bad afternoon
https://ibb.co/Nr9vhVP
It’s 68 and sunny here. Mrs. TOK has cabin fever so she’s outside doing yard work.
Yep, we cleaned out the remains of last year’s garden today, though I had to remind her we’re more than two months from starting this year’s effort.
The Renault 5 E-Tech is the first vehicle to ride on the new AmpR Small platform, which brings a long wheelbase and weight reduction features. It also enables AC bidirectional charging with vehicle-to-load and vehicle-to-grid functionalities. Renault said it envisions the car playing a role in the overall power grid, returning electricity when needed. It claims a range of 400km, or around 249 miles, and the automaker will offer three output levels: 110 kW (148 hp), 90 kW (121 hp), and 70 kW (94 hp).
It puts a new spin on “rolling brown-outs”.
This whole “use your car to feed the grid” thing just baffles me. You’re going to pay retail rates to charge it up, get reimbursed at wholesale rates, and Allah only knows how much range you’ll have after the grid latches onto your car like a remora.
^^^^
And converting power from to battery and then back is no where near 100% efficient, so this is a net loss.
Plus (minus?) another round of transmission losses.
It cant be said enough: EVs- Dumbest idea since the square wheel.
Meanwhile, in China
BYD is a Chinese carmaker that recently unseated Tesla as the world’s leading seller of electric vehicles. Its new all-electric Yangwang U9 has nearly 1,300 horsepower and is designed to compete directly with Lamborghini and Ferrari.
The company says the Yangwang U9 has four electric motors and, with all-wheel-drive, can reach more than 60 miles an hour in just 2.3 seconds. It’s priced at 1.68 million Chinese yuan, or about $230,000 US dollars. That price is similar to relatively entry level supercars, such as a base model Lamborghini Huracán with its 631 horsepower gasoline-powered V10.
As an electric supercar, the Yangwang U9 combines power and performance similar to a 1,800-horsepower, $2 million Rimac Nevera, but in a package costing less than gasoline-powered cars from the famous Italian automakers.
Saving the earth, one fabulous hypercar at a time.
If you name your car Yangwang, expect some fun to be made at your expense.
It’s a supercar. Drive you long, long time.
0-60 of 2.3 seconds is slower than the Tesla Model S Plaid, which is like half that much and seats 4.
Are we sure we can call this a supercar?
I’ll have the soup.
It only has to be recharged every 15 minutes!
“the world’s leading seller of electric vehicles”
If you take the numbers from a ChiCom company at face value, that is.
Also…. the article seems to be a rewrite of a press release. I think a reporter should at least see a vehicle like this in person before hyping it.
I think that’s probably the Wong way to go about this.
BYD?
FIrst thing that comes to mind is Burns better than Tesla
Do they give a reason for this, or are they just making shit up?
The FTC is run by Top Men. They ignore more business theory than you could ever know.
Top Men indeed.
In case we needed any confirmation, the Koch foundation just pulled funding from Nikki Haley after her loss in South Carolina. The consortium that funded her to the tune of tens of millions also included several democrat groups and notably Bill Kristol’s group.
Meanwhile, Trump spent a few hundred grand.
The Koch kids may not even be libertarian adjacent.
Koch Jr, Soros Jr, pale imitations of their progenitors all.
I’ve heard that Soros Jr. is even worse than Dad. Time will tell, I guess.
Here’s the rub: Children of the rich and powerful generally are not capable of staying rich and powerful. They squander their fortunes and leave their parents’ work in ruins. Something to look forward to in this case.
Maybe in belief but probably a lot less capable although his appearence may be setting an undeserved impression. The guy looks like a human creampuff.
LOL. I’d hit it.
👍👍
Soros jr was recently photographed for V Day with Huma A in case you didn’t already realize he’s evil
In other words, he is also a thrall to the great sky cloaca.
The NY Times put out this bizarre article about the CIA that seems to conflict with much of the official narrative.
https://news.yahoo.com/spy-war-cia-secretly-helps-172754832.html
Secret CIA bases along the Russian border, working with the Ukrainians to launch attacks into Russia – all long before the war started. The Times plays up the great success of our unfettered war-mongering from 2014 to 2022. Great job guys.
And to think, if you’d brought this shit up in polite company the day before freaking yesterday they would have called you a conspiracy theorist and a Putin puppet.
Well the NYT does have a long tradition of running Russian propaganda.
*Nods in Walter Duranty*
<a href="http://Well the NYT does have a long tradition of running Russian propaganda.
Not to mention Nazi and Castro ect…ect…ect
It’s not happening and it’s a good thing it is.
Their reporting in this braggadocio style of deep state actions has been pretty reliable at the nyt.
They reported on White House officials disseminating classified information around the government to be released after Trump’s inauguration in order to initiate an independent counsel investigation (march 3, 2017).
They reported on the “election fortification” after 2016.
They seem to be plugged in to the deep state. So you might be able to trust this one.
I’m sure in the next article, they’ll talk about Russia’s unprovoked attack and Ukraine joining NATO is no threat at all.
They reported on the “election fortification” after 2016.
Que? You surely mean 2020.
That is remarkably bone-headed.
Of course, a state of war has existed between Russian and Ukraine since 2014 (when Russia seized Crimea), but the idea that we should be fanning the flames, much less actively participating, is, well, bone-headed is probably not the right word.
You don’t understand, we must have an external enemy or we will turn our hatred inwards. Oh wait – turns out we can do both! And even better, we’ll tie our internal enemies to our external one – genius!!!
The Ukrainians also helped the Americans go after the Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
OFFS!
Just another example of why indulging hysteria can work out badly although it is interesting how that nonsense is related to the Ukraine disaster.
LOL
It makes you wonder why the CIA is telling the world this now.
A warning maybe? A sort of “Yeah, we’re in bed with them so tread carefully.” A public admission of that kind of collaboration is kind of an embrace.
Was one of the sites overrun/captured before the docs were destroyed and files wiped?
1899 X Ale
https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/02/lets-brew-1899-barclay-perkins-x-ale.html
Elon is in the brewing business now?
Speaking of mega-mergers
The biggest question remaining about the Capital One deal is whether regulators will approve it. More than a dozen Democrat lawmakers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., signed a letter to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Sunday urging them to block the agreement.
“To protect consumers and financial stability, we urge you to block this merger and strengthen your proposed policy statement to prevent harmful deals in the future,” they wrote.
If Senator Warren is against it, you know it’s bad. She looks out for the little guy.
Top notch analysis
In Rivian’s case, the problem is that the market for high-end electric vehicles seems to be more saturated than the company expected. It’s just not clear how many people are willing to spend $100,000 on an electric pickup truck.
I’d say we’re rapidly approaching the point where everybody who wants one has one.
Needz moar advertising to boost demand!
I’m thinking that using Mike Lindell as a spokesman/promoter would help. 1/2 off, promo code. Get your EV before they’re all sold out.
Giza!!
Needs some glow in the dark truck nuts. That will sell them.
And more than 8.5 years financing.
We’re almost to the point where a normal pickup is $100,000, at least for 2500’s.
Yep, it’s gotten nuts-even a lower trim fullsize is north of 50K.
Twin turbo 3.0L inline six, but it does have 420hp.
$83,400 for a nice 1500
Only if I was in construction or a rancher or farmer and I could write off the depreciation. I’ve always liked the base models when it comes to trucks, even back when they were affordable.
Every time I’m visiting the Ford Dealer I stroll through the showroom. The prices are double/triple what I paid for my first house. OTOH the dollar is running about 25-30% value compared to then as well.
By the time postage and tax is added in that an ad-on of 8-9 %
Ordered new license plates today, total $60 ’cause I wanted new plates. The tabs are about 1/4 inch thick on the old plates. Probably the last plates I’ll ever need, jst get tabs fromhere on out
There is a fella at work here who drives a Rivian. And a Tesla. And a Porsche.
It must be nice to have money…
He probably doesnt have money, he has ridiculously expensive cars.
Time to play Square the Circle!
Govt: Stop adding surcharges to pay for our mandates, it makes us look bad!
Also Govt: Let’s add a $0.50 charge to retail deliveries!
So some fees are good (more money for the gubment, but others are bad (because it makes consumers realize that prices are going up to pay for gubment mandates)
Road maintenance fees? Implying that delivery vehicles do more damage than people driving to stores?
No lie they won’t tell, no deception they won’t spin, no line they will not cross and no pocket without their fingers in it.
Bring back gibbets.
If there was a journalo worth their salt, I’m sure that within a month of the new delivery fee going into effect they could write a story about how the fees are not going to road maintenance but to fund some NGO that promises to make roads more equitable.
I’m sure the All-Woman City Council in St. Paul will solve the problem of broken street lights because how can an all women group fail at anything? (Also, this “urban geographer” columnist is always good for laughs)
I’m pretty sure this guy still would tell you that covid lockdowns were necessary and good.
You know what else a lamppost is good for?
I know I am a foam-at-the-mouth racist super ultra mega and all that but at the risk of over outing myself….how much of this started around the time they started importing citizens from overseas?
I remember when Shakopee was an all American post-card perfect town.
…mega MAGA…where is that goddamned proofreader?
Here’s a thought….