That first goal…wow.
It’s been a pretty good NCAA tournament so far. The US got the better of Mexico in soccer last night. Baseball is right around the corner. And that’s pretty much it for sports today. So on to…the links!
That’s not what “cornering” a market is. You know, Europe could always get their shit together and create something now and again. What’s it been since they created something of substance, like a hundred years or something?
What’s there to grapple with? Companies are private platforms and they aren’t liable for what somebody else writes. And the government has no business whatsoever threatening them if they don’t remove things the government doesn’t like. Pretty fucking simple.
No. Fuck off.
They can shit in one hand and wish in another. This needs to stop. For real. These people, who were never enslaved, need to get on with their lives since we’re a full 8 generations since the last person was enslaved in this country.
Where’s AOC now? Didn’t she say people only steal because they’re hungry? Ooh well, I guess these people are REALLY hungry if that’s the case. Close the fucking border.
The irony is ironic. And nobody involved will ever notice or acknowledge it.
Idiot
I hope this guy’s time in office is short. Because this should infuriate his own people, not just those of us who are living at the end of the pipeline he’s facilitating.
“We are Borg.” Did he also pitch a show hosted by a former Obama WH official? God knows there’s enough of them.
This is a polarizing band. And I don’t know why. These are both solid songs. Feel free to fight about them in the comments. No wait, just enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends!
Really? Whatever happened with Max’s brake caliper actually gave us a decent race on Sunday, good sir! (Well okay — Sainz actually pretty much kept it locked up… but the papaya bros at least did have a shot conceptually…. 😉 )
Morning, Sloopy!
Shit, I forgot to mention F1 since the race was Saturday night and so much happened yesterday. It was not intentional.
Yup, I was glad Sainz won that. I think there is a pretty good chance he will be number 2 at Red Bull next year. Either that or he takes over from Hamilton at Merc. Either way I like him as a driver and he very much deserves a spot on the grid.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
A 3 day online class I have to take for my employer’s new boondoggle software purchase that is 10 hrs long and is on CST so it starts late and runs even later…
My bet: The last hour or two is a talk on DEI.
If it is I am suing my fucking employer… This vendor is supposed to be teaching me how to use their expensive tool. Not how to BE a tool.
Now you have to report back. If you have a struggle session I will find some horrible parody of a woke film to show as a palate cleanser on a Thursday night. Probably something by Full Moon.
In the last year or two the city I work for created two new executive level positions that are only supervised by the city manager: a DEI director and a chief innovation officer. Both are absolutely useless but are great at creating new and interesting ways to waste my time. So far I’ve managed to be off for all of the “mandatory” in person DEI training but I was at the first meeting we had with him and the city manager when the first thing he said to a room full of firemen was that we are too white.
Which is supposed to be absolutely illegal… but four legs good… two legs BETTER is where we are.
the first thing he said to a room full of firemen was that we are too white.
I’d have proposed city-bought tanning beds for all fire stations to alleviate his concerns.
+ Rachel Dolezal
“him” – DEI director? Well there’s a fucking lawsuit waiting to happen. Isn’t it known that DEI must be filled by a her at worst or a xem more appropriately?
From Scott Adams: “DEI” = Didn’t Earn It.
I really hope this takes, and takes hard. Cause it is the best take on that Shyte.
Oh, thanks for that.
Yeah, I am all over that one.
Re #1: Minitel? Dyson vacuum?
Damn my verbosity.
France did make Minitel (I think that’s the name).
And they’ve been butthurt ever since the early ’90s that no one else wants to use it. I’d fall back to my typical thought of “What if the tech companies just told the EU to pound sand?” — except our own DOJ is being f’ing morons regarding Apple (the iPhone is nowhere near ‘monopoly’ status, assholes). So now all I can think is “They have pockets and our hand isn’t far enough in them! Waaaah!” is the common theme across governments of the world.
Sigh.
Now do yellow journalism in the late 1900s, assholes. This isn’t new — just the power of the printing press is digitally more widespread.
I 100% agree with your summation, Sloopy — though I do favor not allowing backbone (and fucking banking) providers to pick and choose based on the speech of their clients. Either you’re a neutral platform or you’re not — and the tax breaks to fund fiber, easements, etc. over the last couple of decades says to me that broadband providers shouldn’t be able to lock anyone out of the digital public square. Maybe that’s insufficiently big-L Libertarian of me… never claimed to be one, so I don’t care.
Hell, the actual partisan press of the Founding Era makes the yellow journalism era look pretty tame.
“Hello, we’re here to break your presses and burn your building”
“the Supreme Court is wrestling with whether platforms like Facebook and Twitter, now called X, have the right to decide what users can say on their sites.”
Like you said, you’re either a platform or you’re not. Seems pretty straightforward to me – If you want to decide what users can say on your site, you are not a platform, you are a publisher, and you get all the liability of being a publisher.
I tend to agree also that, as long as you pay your bills, you shouldn’t be cut off from water, electricity, gas, banking, infrastructure in general. If that means a private company can’t choose to disassociate from you, well, we’ve seen what happens when the government encourages private companies to disassociate from wrongthinkers, and I prefer the former.
I’m gonna channel all of Mrs. Prole’s relations, on your last paragraph, and ask if that is significantly different than public accommodation laws meant to prevent nedding some modern version of “Green Book” listing of hotels and restaurants that allowed black travelers to use their services.
I get that — but the difference for me is the HUGE difference in barrier to entry for any generic business versus backend internet providers. (Which is why I stress backend — an ISP is relatively easy so I think there should be more flexibility there, and frankly I’d rather folks were able to directly form a coop and contract with a backend provider to be their own ISP worst case). There just is not a way to “make your own” like there is for restaurants, hotels or perhaps credit unions.
With regard to banking — the regulatory system and interconnection has made it virtually impossible to be outside of the approved “system” which makes it an effective extreme barrier to entry if you’re sufficiently outside of the mainstream….
But again — I freely acknowledge there’s probably hypocrisy in my positions on this versus freedom of association. Mea culpa, I am only human.
The deal with being married to a black bleeding heart liberal is that, even trying to avoid discussing politics, it’s impossible to not hear in your head how they would react to such arguments … and agree to much of the practical effects of that logic, since there really are people who want to trample on civil liberties.
Kind of a “you today, me tomorrow” view.
Same goes for being married to a white bleeding heart liberal, especially one who works in the ivory tower.
In scope, but not in principle. I suppose a different angle would be to prohibit the government from making any suggestions, comments, etc. whatsoever regarding whether any company should allow anybody to use their service, but I have doubts about how well that would work.
If the government just steps out of the sphere altogether, the market will solve the problems of bigotry you’re referring to. It may not have been able to do so a hundred years ago, but the prevalence of social media makes public accommodation laws outdated, in my opinion.
Expanding on this: if a business owner explicitly denies somebody service because of race, it is immediately amplified to the point that everybody knows it right away. Even 25 years ago the people who were denied service were resigned to word-of-mouth complaints and writing a letter to the editor of a local or national paper and maybe somebody taking notice and amplifying it. This made it hard for the market to correct the bigotry by exposing the racism. That no longer exists since a slighted person can do it themselves online and immediately get it amplified to the point that it becomes readily noticed and other players in the market can express their willingness to accommodate the slighted party. As long as we live in an age of immediate social media access to the entire world, public accommodation laws are unnecessary and should be abolished.
Furthermore, public accommodation laws have been manipulated to impact businesses they were never intended to impact. We’re way past them being used to ensure that a black person could get equal access to a hotel room or fed on a restaurant. They’re now used as a cudgel against anybody in any industry the government feels is even remotely discriminating against a protected class of people for any reason whatsoever (see: male trannies accessing women’s-only spaces).
Get rid of them altogether and the market will provide.
Of course the need for that Green Book was sustained by the Jim Crow laws in all of those states. Take away the power to lawfully discriminate from those states and the fucking elected representatives and the fucktard voters – and gosh, what’s left?
Jim Crow did ,ore than that. It legally compelled businesses that wanted to sell to certain potential customers- that they could not.
I am not blind that many biz wanted the laws to “compel” actions they already desired. But not all biz wanted that.
I am 100% willing to extend reparations in the form of $1000 and a plane ticket to Liberia with the contract that they don’t come back here. Ever. And obviously their citizenship is renounced.
Otherwise, I don’t want to hear it — if this country is so fucking terrible and Wakanda is out there somewhere for you — go. Go build it. Go find it. Whatever.
What about Egypt? You know, since we was kangs and all.
At this point — I’d even allow Tahiti honestly. Getting the grifters and whiners out of the country would be a bargain at that price. So as long as they can’t come back — Egypt is fine.
Maybe send them to Nubia. I don’t think the Egyptians would let them in.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended, is all I can think. Bleah.
Another reason to seal the border. Would simplify things dramatically.
The first reason people don’t fix problems is that they misdiagnose the problem. Too often on purpose. The second is that they want exactly what is going on so they have no incentive to fix it. I have had many tell me team blue are idiots because the only reason they are against a border wall is because the Bad Orange Man was for it. I think it is far, far worse, stupid, and evil. The fact team blue accuses anyone that notices the border invasion and points out they have an agenda to replace the voters of being RACISS, tells me this is exactly the plan. And by pretending there is not a border crisis, but then saying that if there is one, it is the fault of the raciss people, and then demanding more money, not to keep people out, by for example building a wall, but instead to spend to help an even lager horde be government processed, they are making this all clear as by design.
They are doing it to us on purpose.
I would certainly agree that the “border security” crap that only funded processing faster makes that abundantly clear. That all of this followed by amnesty is the plan isn’t even vaguely debatable at this point, imho.
RACISS!
This is about Blue states and cities being both biological sinks and subject to out migration, and trying to use immigrants to plug that hole. That is, not only are those Blue areas not having many new births, but the existing residents are fleeing to Red places with better job prospects.
So they’re deliberately trying to fix their self-created problem with new immigrants to replace the population (and electoral votes) they’re losing.
Except now they are saying they don’t want more illegals. Although I suspect the new spending bill throws more than enough money at illegals that they may decide to be bought off on that front.
They don’t want more in their jurisdictions, because they’re running out of OPM to subsidize any more influx, and are philosophically incapable of saying “y’all can come here, but make your own way”. They’re at capacity for their approach to handling immigration.
But they still want to win elections, hence the plan to foist the influx on surrounding Red jurisdictions to turn them Blue also.
Won’t change representation until after the ’30 census. The red jurisdictions sure as hell are not going to let them vote in the meantime.
Hmmm… Kate Mulgrew is about the right age for that now… stop bogarting the trans-phasic torpedoes there, Kate!
From what I recall she didn’t age too well…
Checks Google… yeah, she put on some LBs.
/Tres Cool has entered the chat
But what’s her bra size?
I’m certainly not intrepid enough to ask.
One of the Mexican commentators pre-game called it dos a cero to the U.S. again. The others show him absolute daggers of looks. Hope he has a home north of the border.
Have the Mexicans pulled a Colombia yet and killed the poor fool that auto goaled and cost Columbia the game against the US a few decades ago? Call me when they graduate to that.
That’s not what “cornering” a market is. You know, Europe could always get their shit together and create something now and again. What’s it been since they created something of substance, like a hundred years or something?
to be fair the US is suing apple as well for monopoly
Most of the west, probably all of it by now, is now run by inept fucks, not there to create or help create shit, but to do social media management to convince you their ineptitude is a good thing.
The US government is dumb as fuck too. But they’re suing for different reasons. And that suit in the US is going nowhere.
Sent from my iPhone
You know, you can turn off that message footer
But it’s beneficial. People I’m emailing are more likely to call me when they read that I’m emailing them about something from my phone, which means I’m probably on the road and more likely to be in a position to talk rather than read what they emailed me about.
It’s beneficial as a signaling device. And not just the social kind of signaling.
Eh, I don’t want to talk on the phone to anyone if I can avoid it.
That would make things kind of difficult in my business. Jeez, I can’t imagine going a day without professionally talking to at least ten people. I would consider it wasted.
people who have an easy time talking to people have an unfair advantage. Dare I say privilege! The government should somehow stop that.
There are benefits to both. I do wish less people would think a phone call was the appropriate manner to convey a complex error message/command though.
well where I work the more complex the error message, the more likely is that I get a screenshot rather than a piece of log I can copy/paste, which is also kinda annoying
Pie:
At least a proper screenshot can be read. Hell, most people can’t tell the difference between a slash and a backslash.
\/\/\/\/\/\
Well, email is the clearest method of communication, assuming the sender actually knows what they need and want, rather than needing to hash out something. Thus it is followed by talk, which is best for said hashing.
Text is for little girls.
You misspelled “single page typed memo”.
LOL
My phone email message footer says, “I am out of the office. Please forgive typos and brevity.”
Like Sloopy, I want people to know I’m answering them when it’s not convenient for me to do so.
Also, I have gotten a lot of business because I have a phone number that I will answer and speak to people.
I see your error…
You expect people that think their problems are the only important things to be worried about/address to show courtesy…
I noticed that the big spenders are the ones who notice (and appreciate) things like that, and they are also the ones who want to talk on the phone.
Chortle… well played.
Apple has a monopoly on Apple products.
Recalls the U.S. suit against Microsoft.
I suspect the real problem with the lack of open-ness with Apple is that it is keeping the govt from accessing what they would like to get at.
I wish — but I suspect it is more keeping the govt from accessing what they would like as easily as they would like it. I think Apple rolls over for warrants as much as any other company these days.
Yeah, it is the bother of having to get a warrant the govt would rather do without.
I suspect their concern is more the paper trail and having to have some lame excuse like “My dog ate the paperwork” or “The tech wiped the database by mistake (with a cloth?)”, which they would prefer to avoid in case of FOIAs.
Congress wouldn’t hold anyone accountable for multiple repeated FISA violations. Why would they bother to even cover it up at this point? (What difference… would it make?)
You forgot “no reasonable jury…”
How much would you like to bet that the lawsuit gets quietly dropped, once Apple agrees to rubber-stamp Fed unlock requests on iPhones?
Lots of nefarious outfits are working to destroy the U.S. from many different angles and this is their Holy Grail. Pass this and try to implement it, and the US is over and done with.
The American blue collar middle class was and remains the biggest problem for the globalists and their neo marxist new world government. Remember, under marxism, you reach equality by dragging all the common serfs down to the new level. It would take forever – and definitely be impossible for the current rank of idiots running things (into the ground) – to lift all other people’s tides up, so they will destroy America to force Americans to go along.
Welcome to the future. A giant shithole with large body counts. And they already have an excuse for why it will be a thumbs up scenario. They have cleaned up a lot of the parasites infesting poor Gaia.
Which cities in Europe are the best for start-up businesses?
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/03/24/which-cities-in-europe-are-the-best-for-start-up-businesses
Paris was named the best city for start-up businesses, closely followed by Madrid and Barcelona, in a new report from UK-based training company The Knowledge Academy.
The various cities in this ranking earned their scores on a scale of 0-10 judged by the number of available office spaces, rental prices, proximity of top universities, the speed of internet (Mbps) among others. However, the report didn’t consider regulatory background, bureaucracy or taxation.
Aren’t regulations pretty similar/the same across the EU? I just assumed it was all done by Brussels instead of individual nations.
What a strange place.
It worked briefly?
I’m sure there was life before Maastricht though.
…Until it didn’t.
I miss those pocketfuls of different coins every few hundred km.
Is this how it must be again, Lucy Ricardo blocked at the French/Italian border for lack of passport?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vPTYxY8CY
I like how the things they looked at are only relevant to laptoppers, and not to anybody who wants to start a business that doesn’t involve staring at a screen all day.
However, the report didn’t consider regulatory background, bureaucracy or taxation.
Of course it didn’t. What possible effect could those things have?
Examine some actual statistics, you won’t find Paris leading in start-ups.
but the croissants are delish
In today’s Biden appointee can’t (or won’t) do the absolute basics of the job story…. Budget directors aren’t supposed to talk about budget projections, after all. That’s just a false narrative!
OMG – that photo – those faces. PRICELESS!
I know. “Welcome to Karentown.”
look just add another trillion to the budget and everything will sort itself out
You just keep hoping we’ll print enough to send you a few million, Pie. We probably will at some point – but that’ll be equivalent to a Starbucks coupon when we get there.
the Countryfile presenter has claimed there is “disturbing” evidence of racism in the countryside … researchers at the University of Leicester found clear examples”
The “researchers” are Hate Experts with PhDs in Hate Studies. So yeah, they found hate
https://twitter.com/Alex_Paschim/status/1771648611249496443
Junk science grads need junk science work…
And as usual, people that produce no value and have jobs to fight “Shit”, will ALWAYS find more of the “Shit” to fight… Perpetual job security that way…
SPLC, and before them the John Birch Society, and before them the anti-Catholic groups…
The grievance industry and advocacy industries are wholly self-perpetuating.
Only because no one has turned off the spigot sustaining them.
One could make the argument the spigot was opened as wide as possible because the people throwing away the money were able to themselves steal a huge chunk of that money being pissed away on this idiocy,,,
The only reason the US didn’t collapse during BLM was because there was no communist party capable of leading the movement into revolution.
If you want the US to collapse, you should join IMT and RCA.
BLM was a movement that innitially had pretty radical aims but there was a lack of class analysis, the leadership of BLM got bought by democratic and in general there was no actual organization capable of centralizing the protests, it was spontaneous social media riots
If there was a communist org capable of turning this radical democratic demands into socialist one with class analysis and a socialist program, a org that controlled and coordinated unions along with students to demand a transitional program, there would be no US tomorrow
https://twitter.com/capyqueer/status/1771532680863142334
Sounds legit
Why the hell would the socialists and communists want to dissolve the US government? It is their greatest tool at the moment.
If they actually collapsed the government(s?), they’d get CHAZ writ large in some areas, and very, very pissed off conservative enclaves no longer held back by the Fed in others. I don’t think it would go well for them in the long run. You morons need to disarm the non-students first or your little Mao Red Brigades are not going to be happy when you step out of the compliant urban centers.
The moment the play violence turns to real violence these little shits will run home to mommy.
A lot of those little shits have more experience with real violence than a lot of the conservative suburbanites who think they’ll point a gun and send them running. Don’t underestimate them.
I live in an area with a *ton* of retired combat veterans; I’d cast my lot with them.
Ha – you mean like the goobers that play militia in the woods?
Which ones?
It’s the flip side of the Civil rights Era, where the communists tried, unsuccessfully, to take over the civil rights activists trying to fix injustices.
With BLM, the Communist organization was mostly successfully overrun by civil rights activists who didn’t agree with the actual agenda of BLM organizers, but agreed with the disingenuous words in the BLM name.
BLM is just warmed-over 1960’s Black Power – it gathered some steam from unusual quarters via the college idiot pipeline but that’s about it.
The billboards are fading and the flags are fraying already – their time is over.
Their flags are proudly flying in schools all over my part of the country.
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CRUSH the CARDIO
Bikini Sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI-PeWV5BGM
Red bikini on the left gets the Q stamp of approval.
These “prank” videos are going too far. Don’t involve children in your nonsense.
https://twitter.com/The8BitIdiot/status/1770779507277824047
that is a good way to get an ass kicking
I hate people.
T.O.M. had something to say about pranksters and practical jokers.
Yeah, I don’t think that format is going to be as productive as they want…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/video-shows-encounter-between-youtube-prankster-and-food-delivery-driver-who-shot-him/3433999/
Odds he gets himself shot again – 2 – 1.
He should try to pull a joke like that on Dick Cheney while Cheney is going duck hunting…
“Cook says he plans to continue making his YouTube prank videos.”
Christ, what a self-important dumbfuck.
Next time hopefully he puts a toe over the line just far enough to justify a severe ass-beating. A little “wood-shampoo” may give him pause and reconsider his career path.
He needs to spend a LONG time eating through a straw.
Good morning all.
I’m making a new week’s resolution to go to the 6:30am BJJ class at least three times this week. I feel pretty good so far with one class down. Gonna have to budget for more giant wipes though – the gym doesn’t have shower facilities…
6:30 am?
Who’s up for that that early?
There’s a certain element of ‘Eat a live toad at 6:30am, and the rest of the day will be endless joy by comparison…’
Because you are tripping balls?
That’s how I’d interpret that.
I don’t go to a 10th Planet school. Hallucinogens on the mat are pretty rare at my place.
It is too early, I can’t figure out what that extra ‘J’ stands for?
Brazilian Ju-Jitsu
That’s a type of private parts waxing, right… Or is it whacking? It’s confusing.
It’s how you subdue an (((opponent))). Good thing it’s Brazilians and not Arabs.
That sounds like a lot.
What you did there was seen.
Without Mammary Monday all is lost.
https://archive.is/06nAm
“Drag queen ‘story hour’ at Pennsylvania library is canceled after bomb threat
A planned Drag Queen story hour at a Pennsylvania library was canceled after several bomb threats and the discovery of a suspicious package”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13235741/drag-queen-story-hour-pennsylvania-library-canceled-bomb-threat.html
I thought a suspicious package was the point.
How DARE you call it suspicious, you transphobe!
Some 500 families had signed up for the event
Oh come on.
You know them Amish.
There are a lot of white mothers who want to virtue signal.
Odds that another drag queen planted the suspicious package: 3 to 1 in favor. Unlikely a crazed conservative did it.
MAGA Trannies FTW?
Most likely a lefty so they can trot out that “stochastic terror” crap again.
1. Right calls out creepy groomer shit.
2. Left makes fake bomb threat.
3. Bomb threat gets reported in the media.
4. Left blames the Right for inciting it.
Drag Queen story hour is a strange battle to fight.
“Senate Democrats were left red-faced at a hearing on climate change as their ‘expert witness’ proved to be anything but when faced by veteran senator John Kennedy.
Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse invited Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to give his perspective as the committee considered the impact of climate change on the recreation industry.
But it was all downhill for the 23-year-old as he struggled to answer basic questions and could not remember his tweets claiming the war on drugs was designed to jail black people, and calling for the police to be abolished.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13234019/Incredible-moment-Senator-John-Kennedy-destroys-Olympic-skier-Gus-Schumacher-Democrats-invited-testify-expert-witness-climate-change-reads-damning-old-tweets.html
Kids are idiots. Stop platforming people like Greta Thunberg, David Hogg, etc.
I’d just like….ya know….
the young Alaskan did not seem fazed by his mauling at the hands of the Republican Senator, insisting it had been a ‘huge honor’.
There’s no snow in Alaska?
He was too stupid to know he was mauled.
The fact so many kids consider themselves “experts” on climate change shit because of the brainwashing they got in school is staggering. I can’t name the number of times I have run circles around these young employees – some of whom are legitimately more worried about climate change doomsday scenarios than let’s say the stupidity of what they believe hurting their financial futures – with basic facts. It’s like these kids have no logical reasoning skills and lack the most rudimentary and basic understanding of physics, chemistry, and in while not directly tied to climate change (although they blame everything on climate change the se days), biology.
The fact so many of them suffer from severe mental issues due to the idiotic belief earth will be Tatooine or Water world in a decade or so, makes me want to gulag the people that have done this shit to them.
Greta was some 5D chess move. When your opponents say you are acting like a shrieking autist, getting an actual shrieking autist to be the face of your organization.
Pretty embarrassing to be outsmarted by a US Senator. It’s like being beaten up by a girl.
Its a shame he didnt get Hank Johnson.
Be thankful this is the best the climate catastrophists can come up with. All emotional appeal, not one real clue.
So far, based on how many young people – especially woke women – live with angst and sever depression because of this hoax tells me they have done way too well for the comfort of the people that are not idiots manipulated by emotion…
Well there are a lot of idiots manipulated by emotion, even if not all in the same direction.
The only thing I get emotional about these days is the lack of people wanting to kill commies for their mommies…
TJ. You know it was TJ.
Toe job?
It’s cheap, but it’s not free
What are the odds the SEC finds a way to put the whammy on the Truth Social IPO the folks at Team Blue are all so worked up about. There must be some sort of Trump exception. If he gets a big payday from that he might find a way to wriggle off Letitia’s hook.
I went to the dog park/woods yesterday morning — it was 11 degrees and there were 18 inches of snow on the ground. I want back there in the afternoon, it had warmed to above freezing, but sill a nice insulating snow layer.
I woke up this morning with a tick attached. W. T. Absolute. F? Doxycycline ingested.
find a nicer park?
My encounter with a tick was on my sack… I hate the freaking things.
Oh Lord. Made me twitch.
I needed help from my wife to remove a tick that had attached itself near the back door. I will never question her love and devotion after that day.
My ex found the thing, fat and happy, on my sack during some extra curricular activities. She passed out when I just yanked it off… I should have gone to the doctor after, but a year later I realized I had Lyme and had it finally treated. Lie and learn.
Lie=live… damned keyboards.
Sounds like you’re
[dons sunglasses]
ticked off
I’d check the dog.
Fyodor Dostoevsky is the greatest content creator you’ve never heard of.
Reading his work changed everything I knew about business.
He often communicated ideas in long made-up stories, so I’ve synthesized the 7 principles to elevate your online presence from gulag to new Jag ↓
https://twitter.com/DylanoA4/status/1771935126563299595
elevate your online presence
I hate him, and everyone that reads him. [Seriously, how do you cultivate your feed?]
, how do you cultivate your feed – I don’t really? I just follow a few accounts and then twitter recommends others which I occasionally click
Well, it seems you find an awful lot of stupid shit. I suppose that could be representative of Twitter, but somehow I think you’ve got some kind of curation at work.
JI has it right…
It is frustrating however how many “Penis reduction” and “Women looking for hung guys” things I get from the damned AI…
well one or two of the accounts curate stupid shit. Like commie / tankie stuff.
This particular post made the rounds on several things I watch. But I do not strictly have a feed and follow the same twitter accounts all the time. Some it can be weeks between taking a look. I do not follow most.
Just trust in the AI that thinks I want cricket updates, daily NBA digests, random stories from domain-squatted sites, stories that I’ve already clicked through and read, and then stories about special deals from months in the past.
So apparently the NYT style section is gushing over some AI generated image that that one chick from Destiny’s Child has on her new album cover.
Gushing? I thought AI art was the terrible thing that was going to destroy lives? Entertainingly, the reviewer for Secret Wars on the AV Club proudly stated that he deducted a WHOLE LETTER GRADE from his reviews because of their AI art opening credits.
What if that Russian concert shooting was a CIA dry run for a “MAGA white supremacist” attack on a Biden rally, featuring one of those snipers who can shoot the cherry off an ice cream sundae at 1000 yards?
Is that like 12 people?
With a bumpstock so he can shoot 1000s of rounds per minute.
I didn’t think he was allowed that many sundaes.
Letting the fleas run the flea circus
MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski railed against NBC News’ decision to hire Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst Monday, saying they hope the network “reconsiders its decision.”
“To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage, but it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier,” Brzezinski said during Monday’s “Morning Joe.” “We hope NBC will reconsider its decision. It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on “Morning Joe” in her capacity as a paid contributor.”
MSNBC President Rashida Jones told employees on Saturday night that there were no plans to have McDaniel, the former chair of the RNC, appear on MSNBC (a cable arm of the NBC News division), according to the Wall Street Journal, following internal backlash to news of McDaniel’s hiring.
I’m sure the dozens of loyal Morning Joke viewers breathed a sigh of relief.
[Answers question about who would attend a Biden rally]
we want the standard clean milquetoast token republicans other leftie press outlets have.
Pretty embarrassing to be outsmarted by a US Senator. It’s like being beaten up by a girl.
Bravo.
“I know you won’t be surprised to know that we’ve been inundated with calls this weekend, as have most people connected with this network, about NBC’s decision to hire her,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.” “We learned about the hiring when we read about it in the press on Friday.”
“We weren’t asked our opinion of the hiring, but if we were, we would have strongly objected to it for several reasons including but not limited to, as lawyers might, Ms. McDaniels’ role in Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme and her pressuring election officials to not certify election results while Donald Trump was on the phone,” Scarborough continued.
“Well, goddammit, Hot Lips, resign your goddam commission.”
Fuck the cartels and fuck AMLO. I wonder how much is going into his bank accounts from them. As I mentioned last week, I had a long discussion with an illegal immigrant from Mexico and he told me he paid 5k to cross the border about 7 years back. He says it is now up to 8k. No one crosses illegally without paying the cartels, it has turned into a huge cash cow for them.
The U.S. wants what the cartels deliver – that’s the problem.
drugs, mexicans and ass sex?
Correct.
I am now convinced that the US actually owns the cartels. Like practically all south American countries Mexico is really a failed state. The CIA owns and runs the cartels, which basically keep Mexico from collapsing into pure anarchy.
The US in the 19th century should have expanded to have the whole north American continent down to the Panama canal and then use the canal as a moat against immigrants, while Americanizing the territories it holds. Someone should write an alternative history.
The Panama Canal wasn’t dug until the 20th Century.
but you could basically figure out where it was going to be
The original idea for a canal was across part of mexico because it would be flatter and easier to dig a sea-level channel. That idea was never started. The Panamanian jungle was not particularly suited to the operation, and absurd stubbornness was the key to completion.
*the mountainous Panamanian jungle was not well suited and required the use of locks, so the longer Mexican site was deemed easier to dig.
I’ve never heard that, rather than Mexico, the original concept was across Nicaragua.
I would not be surprised if there were a bunch of proposals.
And I could be wrong about which idea was floated first.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoceanic_Corridor_of_the_Isthmus_of_Tehuantepec
See the history section
And a palindrome.
Darien Gap used to be (and mostly still is) the natural impediment.
what is the official glibertarian view on putting electrolytes in the water for gym drinking? I am thinking something flavorless if I can find.
My body lets me know when to start guzzling Gatorade, so, you do you, but until I’m craving that salt-and-potassium goodness, I figure I’m fine.
Gatorade? how old school given every influencer has a hydration product these days. I saw that Prime stuff even in a Romanian supermarket. Means local kids have too much money I suppose.
Robert Downey Junior’s character Kirk Lazarus, playing Sargent Lincoln Osiris in Tropic Thunder pointed out that if the character had too little electrolytes his brain was not functioning well…
Right before he went all lead farmer…
I stick with Brawndo, the thirst mutilator. It’s got electrolytes.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho would be a better President than Biden.
Shut up!
Sit your monkey-ass down!
Chill out.
Shit.
I know shit’s bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.
But I got a solution.
But did he get permission from the Foreign Policy Grownups first?
North Korea said Monday that Japan’s prime minister has offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but stressed that prospects for their countries’ first summit in about 20 years would depend on Tokyo tolerating the North’s weapons program and ignoring its past abductions of Japanese nationals.
Japan acknowledged it has been trying to arrange a bilateral summit but dismissed North Korea’s preconditions for such a meeting as unacceptable, dimming the prospects that Kim and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would hold a summit any time soon.
Observers say Kim wants improved ties with Japan as a way to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies, while Kishida wants to use possible progress in the abduction issue, a highly emotional issue for Japan, to boost his declining approval rating at home. After admitting in 2002 that it had abducted 13 Japanese nationals, North Korea allowed five to return home but said the others had died. Japan believes some were still alive.
Maybe the Japanese no longer trust American foreign policy.
You can never trust American Foreign politcy – it changes with every whim.
BY WHIM MEAN…
Every four years.
Or when the Demetia causes forgetfullness…
Wow. Talking to Japan? That will really piss off the South Koreans.
The peaceniks in Seoul can tolerate a lot from the Norks, but cozying up to the Japanese is beyond the pale.
Academics to students: “Be sure to substantiate your claims with credible, verifiable sources”
Academics to readers:
https://twitter.com/NC_Renic/status/1771956780031004895
If students quote Wikipedia or do Google searches they should get a fucking F.
I am starting to believe we may need to go back to the days of encyclopedias, but nothing would stop these cuntes from putting bullshit lies in those as well.
That would have been me at 3:00 a.m. the day the paper was due. 😄
America’s Fastest-Growing Metro Is a Wild Retirement Community in Florida—but Are the Rumors True?
Uh… are the parents swingers, and their kid knows about it? Or does he think the STD’s are hiding in the bushes, ready to pounce on unsuspecting victims at any moment?
Old bitches be putting out, yo!
When life gives you lemons… It is time for a Lemon Party!
Wisdom like this is why I am a member of the church of Pope Jimbo!
I wonder if that website is still up.
I don’t wonder enough to make me check and see.
Obligatory.
Haven’t you heard about the luffa code?
Old wives’ tail.
“Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the past he has said “you cannot fight violence with violence,” and on other occasions he has argued the government has to address “the causes” of drug cartel violence, ascribing them to poverty or a lack of opportunities.”
He’s done so well at creating opportunities.
The fact this idiocy happened tells me we live in a society doomed for collapse.
assault poptart
Over and under that this idiot gets a cushy and plum job either in academia or with the failing legacy media as a commenter to spread the “Didn’t Earn It” shit?
I saw The Pixies this year in Indianapolis. They toured with Modest Mouse, certainly one of my favorite bands. (I do quite love their music, though they know they are not earth-shattering musicians, but Isaac Brock’s style/lyrics is the selling point.
On Good News for People Who Love Bad News, back-to-back World at Large+Float On pretty much encapsulate the story of my life: Starts with the aimless, lost wonder of my self and mind; coupled with the ‘reality’ that no matter what happens, I quite happily end up on my own two feet. <–I'll see if I can add that as soundtrack for my submission.
Whoops: I broke my left femur a few days before. Cracked it around my titanium shunt. (Same happened to my right femur! Got suckerpunched in Korea and fell on a curb.) I still went with my bro. Both bands were good, I ‘spose. No talk, just play, and both are pretty open about it. (I think Cat Power opened. Then Modest Mouse opened for the Pixies. They alternate on tour.)
Not the greatest show, by any stretch, but was certainly worth my time. I was happy to go out with crutches on a freshly broken leg to not miss it. This WAS, however, the weekend I was to start at Kroger. I bagged the first day, cuz I couldn’t do produce, as I was hired to do. I made it through training and 1.5 shifts before it was just… time for me to actually rest. By the time I healed, I was kinda deleted from their system and would have to start over from scratch.
* Have a 5pm into meeting for another opportunity, but today I got another! Gonna call in a bit, but a 2 mo gig, $18/hr, hybrid shit grading tests. I actually should be able to use my bro’s place as a ‘Location’ so I’m not just at ‘my’ place. I do need some social connection. Having a job is a great Way In to all that.
* The other: Whittingham Agencies in Indianapolis. I believe I’d mostly be doing secretarial shit. Today is just the vid to see options, pay and where I’d want to take it. It’s a 60/90-day start and then the decision/shift into whatever path. I’ll find out at 5 with just a chill zoom vid to explain.
Curiosity, She Wrote.
“On Thursday, a drag queen and registered sex offender with a long history of sexual offenses with minors was arrested in Brown County, Wisconsin. He is currently facing eight charges involving sexual conduct with minors, including two charges of having sex with a minor.
According to the Brown County Jail’s intake form, Dwight Evan Chisolm was charged with felony offenses of child enticement- exposing sexual organs, along with three counts of misdemeanor sexual assault by having sex with a child age 16 or older.
Chisolm was also charged with three misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure to a minor by allegedly exposing his genitalia to a child. He is currently being held without bond.
He was previously arrested in May 2023 for teaching children at a dance studio. At the time, the drag queen who went by “Sno Wight” was charged with one count of working with children as a child sex offender and two counts of bail jumping.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/drag-queen-sex-offender-arrested-again-for-sexual-offenses-with-minors
The end goal of people pushing this shit is to desensitize other adults to the point that they allow them to legalize sex with little kids…
How many million metric tons of bullshit is that?
The Biden administration announced $6 billion in funding Monday for projects that will slash emissions from the industrial sector — the largest-ever U.S. investment to decarbonize domestic industry to fight climate change.
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly 25% of all the nation’s emissions, and has proven difficult to decarbonize due to its energy-intense, large-scale operations.
Iron, steel, aluminum, food and beverage, concrete and cement facilities are some of those involved in this initiative. Recipients of the funding, which is coming from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, include 33 demonstration projects in more than 20 states.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said during a call with news media that the technologies being funded are “replicable,” “scalable,” and will “set a new gold standard for clean manufacturing in the United States and around the world.” White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi said this funding aims to eliminate 14 million metric tons of pollution each year, equivalent to taking about 3 million cars off the road.
Six billion here, six billion there…
Those technologies are everything but real.
—Constellium in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is going to operate a first-of-its-kind zero-carbon aluminum casting plant and install low-emission furnaces that can use clean fuels such as hydrogen. The company produces aluminum for a range of products including cars and planes.
And of course “zero-carbon’ means shifting carbon emissions to behind the curtain with offsets and other nonsensical chicanery.
Yes, how are they getting the hydrogen in the first place?
Electrolosis of the water given off by burning methane to produce electricity for the electrolosis.
Or coal, propane, oil, etc.
Tire fire
The latest Lauren Southern video is sad. According to her, Canada wouldn’t let her into her own country because she is friends with Brittany Selner.
Canada is now East Germany.
The production of new aluminum in the U.S. has been precipitously declining in recent decades, especially the past few years, largely because of energy costs, said Annie Sartor, aluminum director at the green industry advocacy organization Industrious Labs. The process uses a tremendous amount of electricity that’s about 40% of the cost, Sartor said.
“These facilities have historically been located near cheap fossil energy. And today, 21st century coal, or coal and gas, are no longer cheapest,” she said. “These facilities that are reliant on fossil energy to operate can’t compete in the global market for aluminum. And they’re closing.”
The investment for Century Aluminum Company is game-changing, Sartor said, because shifting to producing new aluminum with 100% clean energy will help the climate, stabilize the industry and create jobs.
Switching to “green” energy will drive down prices, you betcha.
Unicorn farts emit no carbon!
And cheap hydropower.
Trump’s bond reduced by appeals court to $175 million. I guess there are still some adults left in the system.
That’s bringing it down toward the amount he actually defrauded.
Gosh, I sure hope all those poor companies that lost money to this fraud get their full restitution. Every penny paid back, with interest!
I’d even go as high as ten times the amount defrauded.