My poor students are suffering through a couple weeks of lectures on the Second Law, complete with trenchant comments. This comes after several weeks of Boltzmann distributions and statistical entropy. I tell myself that their eyes are closed because they’re so overwhelmed with the profundity of my explanations of Carnot cycles and Clausius inequalities. In the meantime, I’m so damn busy trying to keep up, I’m neglecting upkeep (not to mention you fine people). My house looks like the IDF chased Sinwar into here. Well then, without further ado, our usual birthdays and Links.
Birthdays today are a bit wanting… but let’s not ignore one of the original great horror writers (and linguist); a guy who actually could find the Man in the Boat; a guy who actually did die; a mediocre career leach who somehow still haunts us; a guy who got destroyed; arguably the best TV mom ever; one more guy who straddled the line between genius and evil; a guy who no kidding Sloopy got me an autographed picture of his ass; and a goofy manic pixie with massive talent.
That said, Links next.
OK, this may be entertaining, but really, how it it actually relevant to the case?
Shrinkage! It was cold in that pool!
Every once in a while, a congresschimp says something true.
“We don’t understand this. These cars were programmed by our top engineer, Wu Mei Huang!”
For Old Guy Music today, here is perfection.
What does that sign say?
It doesn’t say anything, you have to read it.
If the picture was large enough to read, I wouldn’t have asked what it says.
Your mom DID warn you, right?
(it’s a memorial marker for Clausius)
What?
You know, the stuttering emperor.
That was in response to his mom comment, not the German physicist.
If I happen to be the poor sap a DA has decided to target, the fact that said DA is willing to lie under oath would seem extremely relevant.
Just because the DA is dirty doesn’t make you less guilty!!!!
Actually that is completely true. However, in any particular case where the DA commits perjury I would hope that case would be tossed.
Once a DA has been shown to lie, everything done by that DA should be presumed to be suspect. I hate the people that elected her and even more the people that defend her.
As far as I read it proves their sworn testimony to the court of when the relationship started false — hence, proving they perjured themselves. Which for officers of the court should be a big deal. (Removal from the case / disbarment I thought was usual… since they keep waving their big D and race card — we’ll see).
Otherwise nothing, I think.
Morning, Old Man. Glad to see in your classroom y’all obey the Second Law of Thermodynamics!
Agreed. Nothing will happen. Fani will resume the case and eventually be president.
Also good morning, Old Man!
Well, there really is no shortage of assholes that want to be president, Fani would fit right in.
Something something tennis ball, garden hose. The perfect president!
Over Stacey Abrams dead body!
That is a high mountain to climb!
Everyone always obeys all of the laws of nature despite the claims of legions of grifters. See: EVs.
Lavoisier debunked Mesmer – and still lost his head.
Nice….
Yeah, I can’t blame the guy. It isn’t Christian or charitable or probably decent-human of me… but after all these decades of watching the Palestinians spit in the face of peace processes, break cease fires and elect people like Hamas to run them — and all the stuff that Hamas (and those Iranian proxy assholes who ruined Lebanon… Hezbollah?) keep doing… I also have the “Kill them all already, nothing else will fix it.” impulse.
I’m not vaguely in charge of policy, though… so my thoughts on the subject don’t really matter. But there always is the instinct for the simpler solution of “Wipe them out….. all of them”, yeah.
With the multitudes swarming into the US it would be logical to put them all into one place and let them sort it out. Too bad that Australia is already taken and Canada is already worse, eh.
Used to be, back in WW2 days, when a side was whipped they would sign terms of surrender to make the pain stop. Good luck getting the leaders of Hamas out of their cozy enclave by the sea to discuss surrender.
The Palis haven’t elected Hamas since 2007. The better question is why do we treat Hamas as legitimate when they’ve been in office without election longer than FUCKING HITLER.
‘Cause they like ’em?
Well, what do you mean by legitimate? They DO run things in Gaza.
Fair question – we usually say that legitimacy comes from popular consent as expressed through elections. But maybe that isn’t the real measure?
To me, legitimacy is not determined by process, but by results. That is, an elected government can be just as illegitimate as a, say, military coup. Aren’t most “dictatorships” periodically re-elected, after all? Sure, we liked to say those elections weren’t legitimate elections, but that opens a can of worms, doesn’t it?
And even the ones who don’t hold elections – would anybody seriously care to argue that the CCP isn’t the legitimate government of China? I guess maybe the distinction is between “actual/real” and “legitimate”.
Regardless, a government that systematically violates its own citizens’ human rights isn’t a legitimate government, to me.
Results are worse than process. I accept the premise that legitimacy is a tricky concept in reality, but of course we sling the word around really just meaning – results I/we like. Humans are stupid, and even we here only rise a little above that.
I think you last distinction hits the nail on the head. The CCP is the real government of China. But it’s not legitimate.
The government is not necessarily the people.
Dude said kill all Hamas – which is basically a death cult – not the people. That would be wrong by my compass.
But the camera alignment was done by Ho Lee Fuk….
Count Dankula did a Mad Lads youtube video on that cult a little while back. Deep dive and insanely grotesque and disturbing. Far beyond your average horror exploitation movie material.
https://youtu.be/3fIT_3IqyOc?si=Cjlo10b1jh6TvJaX
Thank you for the link but I think I will pass. I have seen enough non-video horrors to last me 100 lifetimes.
How relevant? She perjured herself. She is a bonafide bald-faced liar. Juries should take that into account when weighing her arguments.
Agreed. Kill them all. Seems a bit odd to add this bit, but it should be a no-brainer to anyone with half-way intact moral character.
Yeah, that is bullshit. The scouts, both boy and girl, have been skin suited for how long now?
Turns out getting in bed with the devil is a bad idea, to put it lightly.
“Doomsday cult leader forced his followers to…”
No, he didn’t.
“Doomsday cult leader forced his followers to…”
No, he didn’t.”
Agreed. This stuff always rubbed me the wrong way, same with that nixim (?) Cult in NY.
‘he forced me to have sex and tattoo myself”
Really? Did he have a gun? Take some responsibility for your own actions.
There were some broken legs involved for people who attempted to leave.
I gave my grandfather a J-frame 38 a few days after he caught thieves in his house. He was afraid they would come back.
Upon gifting the gun to him I said “If someone has to be afraid, make it be them.”
I think he had that little gem in his pocket for the rest of his life. He passed away one morning in front of the bathroom mirror while getting ready for work. The coroner found that gun in his pocket.
Make it be them.
Maybe they were just auditioning for Broadway?
Yeah, I was a den leader in the pre-Covid times for my oldest’s Cub Scout pack. It was a constant battle with the other den leaders (who were mostly moms) to do more than just arts and crafts for a couple of hours a week. The final straw for me (and several other parents) was when one of the other den leaders demanded everyone wear masks because one kid and his dad were scared.
Covid showed how bullying people is virtuous, *if you’re doing it for goodthinkful reasons*.
“kill them all”. And how many innocent people die in that process? Doesn’t seem like a no-brainer moral question to me.
No different than any other war. I think the moral responsibility falls on whoever started the war, not whoever happens to win (or lose) it.
You are wasting your breath pitching the emotional appeal. How many innocents will die if we keep on as we are?
Evil flourishes when…and all that. It is past time to extinguish this evil, and make no mistake, it is undiluted evil.
Honestly? When it comes to war it really comes down to shit happens. Who the hell is guilty for starting a war – just the leadership?
Pretty much every war is started by one person -sometimes a small handful of people – choosing to wage war.
Lincoln ordered the attack on the Confederacy.
Hitler ordered the attack on Poland that kicked off WW2.
History books tend to gloss over this by invoking collectivist fictional entities: “Germany attacked Poland.”
Feel free to give counterexamples.
I think the Sumter situation was a hell of a lot fuzzier than “Lincoln ordered the attack”…. but whatever. Some fucking shitshows don’t need to be argued on a Saturday morning.
Agree
Hitler wouldn’t have invaded Poland but for two things: first, he correctly assessed the unwillingness of the French and English to do anything about it, and second, the non-aggression pact with the Soviets. There were a lot of players involved.
The question is: who actually made the decision to order troops into battle to invade a sovereign country?
The thought processes leading to a single person starting that war are irrelevant to the question of who made people start killing other people.
Do you have a better counter example?
But she’s not a witness in the OMB case, she can give no testimony. So I’m still mystified how any of that stuff (including the questioning that got us here) is relevant to the OMB case; her honesty is a separate issue. It is relevant to whether she gets sanctioned or re-elected, but this just seems to be more of kicking up dust than anything actually germane.
And to be clear, she’s corrupt, the case is bullshit, but FFS, attack THAT, not her bumpin’ uglies with another lawyer.
She was being questioned about whether she should have recused herself from the case for a conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof.
Absolutely germane to the defendent receiving due process. Same reason potential jurors get dismissed for cause during voir dire if they have a conflict of interest.
Oh, you mean like we have a real rule of law and not persons? The case wouldn’t have even been brought into court under that standard. So just stop and accept that the electorate is by and large morons who are happy with this (or outraged that Trump is being persecuted – but are equally willing to do the same thing to the Dems). Rule of law? That’s for shmucks.
She’s not a witness. The affair is not relevant. Why would she feel the need to be less than completely upfront about the whole thing? She could have said right at the outset “I’ve been fucking that hot stud, attorney Nathan Wade, for years and I want the whole world to know. We started bumping uglies back in 2019 and it’s the best sex I’ve had in my life!”. That is clearly not what she thought would be best.
Fuck… big stupid rant and I get server squirrels.
TL;DR of the rant – affair is relevant for the initial corruption question (“Why did you hire your fuckbuddy and pay him more so he could take you on trips?”) – other than Wade shouldn’t be on the case, not directly impacting OMB trial.
Lying under fucking oath as a DA? Every case she is or was prosecuting should be instant-appeal and gone over with a fine tooth comb. She fucked the proper functioning of the court (because you can’t trust anything she’s said or done with cases now).
So yeah — more than a little relevant now.
Agreed. Also, if I’m one of those defendants in this BS case and I see an opportunity to ruin Fani’s career and fuck up her life you better believe I’m pouncing on it.
Perhaps not unlike the way Fani’s side turned on Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former law partner and divorce lawyer, after he’d spent so long on the stand trying (in his own arguably inept way) to protect Wade?
Yes, Wade is obviously more of an expert on Georgia criminal law than Willis – so of course she needed outside counsel (and not from the State AG’s office). Fuck everyone.
Illegally obtained evidence is no less probative. We still exclude it, if if that means the guilty go free. Misconduct by the state means the defendant walks is the norm. A non-compromised prosecutor is free to refile charges.
NA is right. I’ll add the allegation is she is personally profiting by hiring her boyfriend and overpaying him. That undermines the integrity of the charging decision.
“He subjected individuals to suspension from the ceiling meticulously, plucked every hair from their bodies or resorted to degrading acts like defecating on them.”
Has anyone seen Creosote Achilles lately?
That piece of shit is down on the range. Here’s the knife, I’ve sliced him up.
He should have confessed in a Haiku.
Didn’t think he was German.
“Google Gemini show me a picture of Hunter Biden”
https://twitter.com/Rothmus/status/1761116370761118001?t=oT5nLzV68cntPWTfzfqncg&s=19
LOL
I also like the “show me a klansman” with a picture off Clayton Bigsby.
😂😂
That’s perfect.
The local media never fails to dazzle me with their writing skills.
” Snow emergencies have been issued for parts of the Miami Valley due to snow.”
thought it was for blow, not, like, real snow…
And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
That reporter should apply for a job as one of Kamala’s speechwriters.
That has to be one of the worst jobs in DC.
I find it hard to believe that what comes out of Kamala’s mouth was what someone else wrote.
Maybe a writer’s words, but not spoken in the same order.
Satchmo!
And, P is pressure, while V is viscosity?
Never mapped out glass, but did enough refrigeration cycles (P,T) to recognize.
Volume. This is for a gas (like Freon!), not glass.
Any of your students who are also theater majors are going to give that turned over umbrella a handle and give you the lyrics for Singing in the Rain on an exam, you realize…..
Interesting. We never checked for volume, it was temp as the result of pressure that got us all riled up.
For a Carnot cycle (the basis of Second Law), there’s four legs, two are isothermal, two are adiabatic. You get them when you consider gas expansion/compression slowly, so that it’s reversible and thus the most efficient possible process for the working temperatures. In the real world, slow is a bad thing, but it’s an idealization to show that any process will be either the same or worse. It gets interesting when you do a plot of entropy versus temperature for the cycle…
Ah, got you. We never had to deal with that aspect, and so it never came up.
I love days were I actually learn something new.
At some point, you just say that a case brought by a criminal (perjury, embezzlement, bribery that we know of) is too tainted because it was brought by a criminal, and throw it out.
Does that have anything to do with whether the defendant is actually guilty or innocent? No, but from a narrow technical view, neither does the whole trial, which produces a result for legal purposes that may or may not accurately reflect the actual events. Consider that appeals are of legal/procedural issues, not the findings of fact about what actually happened.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Innocent Until Proven Guilty still applies, no? I know, I know, TRUMP!!!! but the presumption is still there for us normies, and the problem, as you say, is too tainted.
Huh huh huh huh huh, you both said ‘taint’
“I’m playing with my taint, mom, and there is nothing you can do about it!”.
still there for us normies
Unless we are talking your property (cash, maybe a car too).
If those two get thrown out, the case will die. Not because of Trump’s innocence but because no self-respecting prosecutor would look at that case and say it was legit.
Are there any self-respecting prosecutors out there?
“Self-respecting prosecutor”
That’s an oxymoron for a prosecutor engaging in lawfare, unless they literally believe Trump is as bad as Hitler and thus any tactic is justified.
Is there some relationship between self-respecting and reasonable?
The stick-to-itiveness is impressive but does anyone really think these things will be in play after a couple more years, rather than banned everywhere?
They have to evolve over time. It’s impressive they can function as well as they do now.
That said, politicians must DO SOMETHING or people will die. So I expect they will be banned instead of getting the chance to grow.
Nah, I expect campaign contributions will prevent the banning on a large scale.
They don’t last a week after the first person one of them kills.
In a world where a sufficient mass of people understood tradeoffs, the question would be, are people being killed at a higher or lower rate than by non-self-driving cars? If lower, can the cars be remotely controlled by terrorists or government agents?
Cristine shall be a Goddess amount
carswomen!That’s a surprisingly strong position for a Congress critter.
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I’m sorry — but as a fond reader of the Horatio Hornblower series, that they wouldn’t allow “fother” (as in “to fother a sail to try to keep the rice from sinking your first prize command, dammit”) really annoys me. Jerks.
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OK, I know it’s very unlibertarian, but I have to admit I laughed at this:
“Later that week, a mob of people vandalized and lit one of its cars on fire.”
It was a firey, but mostly peaceful protest.
But this moon will be a micromoon, meaning it might look slightly smaller than usual.
I will fix that. Let me get my sniper rifle.
Big bouncy breasts and bountiful busty boobs for Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/7NGsR
Is she getting a new hymen?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/astrid-wett-resets-body-count-32201642
I just don’t get the “look at my huge ass” thing that all the thots seem to do.
I’m going to take a wild guess it’s for guys who like huge asses.
Assuming the need to assess asses for men with glasses.
I don’t get the “look at me staring at a phone” thing.
“Ayala’s suit also names the American Academy of Pediatrics for civil conspiracy with the providers in publishing, promoting and profiting from AAP’s 2018 statement recommending gender-affirming care, which “fraudulently and misleadingly misrepresents” the evidence for the interventions and the “known risks and dangers.”
AAP “at the very least failed to exercise any degree of institutional control over those ideological actors whom it had empowered” in Rhode Island, the 20-year-old’s suit says.
The providers, who worked at defendant Lifespan Physician Group, conned Ayala at age 14 into believing testosterone “would resolve her mental health issues,” but she tried to kill herself six months after starting the hormone, which gave her irreversible “vaginal atrophy” and “compromised bone structure,” the suit says.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/gender-affirming-care-cross-hairs-detransitioner-lawsuits-conversion-therapy
There definitely are ideological actors, but it’s also about money.
“Gender-affirming care” needs to be in sneer quotes.
I was outside yesterday and briefly observed a group of schoolkids out on a field trip filing back onto a bus.
The first thought that entered my head was when does the first tranny make an appearance – and seconds later sure enough one of the chaperones was an obvious man in a dress.
No real point other than this is current year, and holy crap we are messing up the kids.
The entire education system needs to be overhauled.
Lavender marriage?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13118023/platonic-marriage-sleep-separately-open-relationship.html
Scroll down and look a the demonic stare on that one.
I swear the world is turning into an open air insane asylum.
She is going to kill him in his sleep.
“It has been revealed that the Canadian government has been keeping tabs on those in the “anti-gender movement” that oppose child sex changes, suggesting they pose a “violent threat” to the country.
Reports from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre claimed that the ideology of parental rights and opposition to the modern gender movement were tied to far-right groups, including neo-Nazis and white nationalists….
“Anti-2SLGBTQl+ narratives,” the document added, “remain a common theme in violent rhetoric espoused by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Freedom Movement, and networks such as Diagolon and QAnon.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-intelligence-admits-to-surveilling-parents-rights-activists-who-oppose-child-sex-changes-compares-them-to-white-supremacists
Ignoring that it’s almost entirely white moms who support “the modern gender movement”.
Anti-2SLGBTQl+ narratives
Nice sleight of hand there. It’s just the ‘T’ , for minors, that’s being opposed. G&L are well accepted at this point
Most LGB types I’m friends with are appalled by the crap tacked on to them. Tonio has a delightful term, “movement homos.”
“We learned it from watching you, the Joe Biden administration!”
How long can they really keep pushing this garbage? There has to be a breaking point, right?
@NotAdahn, @Gunslinger was right about Trey feeling like he lost the argument with the tutor because Trey knew he had no moral high ground. Objectively speaking, Carville IS better husband material and everybody knows it.
Pfft the better one isn’t necessarily the right one.
And Marina has her druthers because she is, over everything else, inherently pragmatic.
I just read last night’s installment and the comments.
Yeah, Trey lost that round. I see NotAdahn’s point about false bravado because I see that Carville pushed things maybe a bit too far, but despite that, Carville got away with it because Trey is not the badass he thinks he is. He not only knew he was beaten, but had no idea had to reply because this is not a scenario he is used to.
Be patient- they know what they’re doing
“Sanctions and other economic measures alone are not going to win this war,” said Kim Donovan, an economic statecraft analyst with the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington. “We need to manage our expectations of what these tools can accomplish in the short term.”
The limits of the sanctions-heavy campaign also call into question the West’s larger project of containing Russia by non-military means.
But the architects of the effort counsel patience, noting that the Russian economy has been badly damaged and arguing that what the Kremlin is doing to sustain it will not work in the long run. The impact of some elements of the pressure campaign, such as export controls, could take years to fully gauge, they add.
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“Sanctions alone are not enough to carry Ukraine to victory,” Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters Thursday before new penalties were announced, adding that the “only way” the Ukrainian people will be successful “is if the House and if Congress provides them with the financial resources, but also the equipment they need to continue to defend themselves.”
Meanwhile, it’s anyone’s guess when the Russian economic machine will stop working, and there’s a question as to whether it is now incentivized to keep the war in Ukraine going.
We just need to manipulate the data harder. Meanwhile, keep the cannon fodder coming.
A religious cult leader, who convinced his followers that the world was going to end at the end of the 1970s, subjected them to increasingly twisted tortures if they doubted his word, or tried to leave the group.
Roch Thériault was previously a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Ahh.
rolling stone just emailed me to ask if I’m a nazi because I tweeted “art should be beautiful”
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1761113829667115055
This week’s powerline fun.
Old Guy Music is good.
Are you a certified music critic to say that?
No, and I don’t care.
AI is warning against hating on pedophiles:
https://twitter.com/CBHeresy/status/1761032223820587439
look she said she was 16!
It’s like that wacko radical in charge of the project (?) personally hand-writes every response. The default voice matches so closely to “radical college student” it’s uncanny.
This has been a wonderful illustration of AI reflecting the bias of its creators.
My favorite Armstrong tune is “Skit-dat-de-dat”
https://youtu.be/M6KAbzBs8nU?si=PPp8Lfn-x1treY2h
Here’s a pretty good cover:
https://youtu.be/FxmMdTQuD_k?si=U1vjOBElbVNxzxDG
The plan for post-war Gaza:
https://truthsocial.com/@epochtimes/111987158426428184
Matthew Axelrod, the Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for export enforcement, said last month the U.S. is on the “cusp” of cracking down with even steeper penalties for companies that violate export rules on Russia, China and Iran.
“You can expect to see more big-ticket corporate resolutions going forward,” Axelrod said.
How long until the world declares us a pirate state?
Many U.S. lawmakers want to increase funding for the export control mission of the Bureau of Industry and Security, charged with enforcing restrictions on dual-use goods. But partisan gridlock and the upcoming U.S. general election cycle could delay legislation.
Spending more money is bipartisan.
You have to spend money to make money
Tonio has a delightful term, “movement homos.”
Wouldn’t “movement queers” be even more appropriate?
“DeGens” is more succinct.
Hm… nah, it works.
“Queer” includes “movement” by default.
“Homo” does not so you can qualify it with “movement” to be more specific.
so what is everyone drinking? I am having a rare romanian pinot noir at 12.7% alcohol, most is over 14.
Iced Americano. As ever.
Chai latte, as usual.
When the weather gets warmer, I’ll probably switch back to iced mocha latte for my weekend caffeine.
I’m drinking common water at 0.1% microplastics.
You’ll never get a free slip n slide at that rate.
Unsweetened Gold Peak real brewed tea.
Nothing until after Easter. Then it’s back to making myself fat on German beer.
Water.
Fixin to make a couple shots of decaf espresso
That’s like Finger Lakes level alcohol.
Haven’t started drinking the real thing yet (still on tea), but tonight’s beverage is likely to be Syrah or Syrah-adjacent. I’m down to my last few Gamays (some Julienas and Morgon), so they’re being hoarded.
3d printed gatling gun? I can’t tell on my phone.
https://twitter.com/Nopel_0/status/1761392001595932967?t=9DHU8Vgn5WDcPtp9Jk-R8w&s=19
Poor Joe
President Joe Biden told the nation’s governors on Friday that he’s exploring what executive actions he can take to curb migration across the southern border after a bipartisan deal collapsed in Congress this month. He seemed to express frustration at the legal limits of his authority to act unilaterally.
Biden hosted members of the National Governors Association in the East Room, where he implored them to urge their representatives in Congress to resurrect the bipartisan proposal that collapsed within 48 hours. He also sharply criticized Republicans for backing away from the agreement after former President Donald Trump lobbied in opposition to the deal.
“Over time, our laws and our resources haven’t kept up with our immigration system and it’s broken,” Biden told the governors, lamenting that “petty politics intervened” to kill the deal.
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Currently, it’s unclear how Biden would use that presidential authority to deter the migrants arriving at the southern border, and people familiar with the discussions have cautioned that it has not been finalized and that Biden has not signed off on any directive. The White House could also ultimately choose not to take any executive action at all.
“No decisions have been made on this,” Jean-Pierre said Friday.
Has he even made any sort of clear statement as to what his preferred solution might be? Aside from the obvious tactic of throwing another few hundred billion dollars at it, of course.
https://youtu.be/1jDqFEkNP64?si=KieX27GxLFhhiYtH
So that is pretty dead on.
The description of book 4 is perfect and where I stopped reading.
I liked Heretics.
all the non Frank stuff is probably shit though, they got that right
Autonomous attack cars are perfectly ok. Just don’t license lawfully imported kei trucks because “safety”.
You can get TVRs in the US now. Right hand drive. I’m certain that’ll aggravate the safety nazis somehow.
On Kei trucks: the other night coming back from dinner a kei truck was behind me. I used to see one in the parking lot of my gym, but I haven’t seen that one in a while. I think there are more than one in the area.
Biden is “frustrated” because his lawyers won’t tell him what he wants to hear about immigration. I wonder how he likes what his “political advisers” are telling him.
“Microsoft bragged that it pays its white employees less than non-white employees who are employed in similar roles in a diversity report touting the company’s “pay equity” agenda.
The admission came from the tech giant’s 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report, which outlines the company’s loyalty to the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda.
“All racial and ethnic minority groups who are rewards eligible combined earn $1.007 total pay for every $1.000 earned by US rewards-eligible white employees with the same job title and level and considering tenure,” the Microsoft report, first reported on X, brags.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-brags-that-it-pays-white-employees-less-than-non-white-employees-despite-same-job-title
Isn’t that illegal?
I am not a lawyer but I believe the legal justification reads something like, “crackers already had their turn”.
“Drugs that tweak your DNA to eliminate hunger FOR GOOD and retain every ounce of muscle… top obesity expert reveals the dozens of ‘Ozempic 2.0 meds’ being developed to cash in on obesity gold rush
Blockbuster drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy revolutionized the weight-loss world.
Experts estimate that the drugs alone will raise the US GDP by $360billion, by making workers more productive and healthy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/nutrition/article-13115107/ozempic-upcoming-drugs-obesity-expert.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Do want Reavers? Because that’s how you get Reavers!
Ye gods and little fishies
The Columbia River Basin, an area roughly the size of Texas, was once the world’s greatest salmon-producing river system, with at least 16 stocks of salmon and steelhead. Today, four are extinct and seven are listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Dams are a main culprit behind the salmon’s decline, and federal fisheries scientists have concluded that breaching the dams in eastern Washington on the Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia, would be the best hope for recovering them, providing the fish with access to hundreds of miles of pristine habitat and spawning grounds in Idaho.
Conservation groups sued the federal government more than two decades ago in an effort to save the fish. They have argued that the continued operation of the dams violates the Endangered Species Act as well as treaties dating to the mid-19th century ensuring the tribes’ right to harvest fish.
Mister President, tear down those dams.
Fuck the racist pseudo government groups called tribes.