CAPRICOPHAGIC CRYPTID CHOMPS CAROTIDS: This creature is a nightmare.*
TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT: It’s both sad and scary when a SCOTUS justice worries about how that darn, pesky 1A thing hamstrings government’s attempts to censor speech it doesn’t like. And it’s not just that one justice we have to worry about. Here’s a good explainer of what’s at stake in Murthy v. Missouri.
TOO-LOCAL NEWS: Virginia state government liquor monopoly not bringing in as much revenue as expected. Maybe that has something to do with this. And this.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT. FOR YOUR RIGHT. TO RE–PAIR: A story about IP law, DMCA, right to repair, and why the ice cream machines at a certain fast-food restaurant are always broken. “After one company built a Raspberry Pi-powered device, the Kytch, that could provide better diagnostics and insights, Taylor moved to ban franchisees from installing the device, then offered up its own competing product. Kytch has sued Taylor for $900 million in a case that is still pending.”
FBI SMACKED DOWN IN 9-0 SCOTUS RULING: Story here. The federal courts are notorious for finding any excuse to NOT rule on certain things, things that would rock the boat. We are all familiar with their “standing” chicanery, and I’m surprised they didn’t declare this moot to avoid ruling on the merits. This ruling is if nothing else a small victory for due process and accountability.
LONG READ OF THE DAY: Over at the Brownstone institute, Lani Kass writes about the assault on language, people who believe rights come from God, and the Military Leadership Diversity Commission.
GEE-WHIZ SPACE LINK OF THE DAY: “Benchmark Space’s first electric thruster is in orbit and ready to begin operations as the company moves into large-scale production of the systems. […] Xantus is a metal plasma thruster that uses molybdenum as propellant.” Everything you wanted to know about Moly B Denum. Another, more flirtatious, Molly.
(*)If anyone can ID the instrument being played, and the style of music in the opening (before it gets all thumpy), I’d appreciate it.
“It’s both sad and scary when a SCOTUS justice worries about how that darn, pesky 1A thing hamstrings government’s attempts to censor speech it doesn’t like. ”
It is. I never even went to law school and I could be a better judge?
She’s not a biologist either.
And possibly not a woman!
So many good follow-ups that weren’t made to that answer.
“So, if you can’t define “woman”, how will you apply antidiscrimination statutes that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex? Because that’s what the statutes say: “sex”, not “gender identity”.”
Her question was something like, You wouldn’t want to prevent the government from asking to take down TikTok videos encouraging kids to jump off a roof. While I recall something in the Constitution about free speech, I don’t think there’s anything about it being the federal government’s job to prevent kids from doing stupid shit.
It’s not like we have a shortage of idiot teenagers. In fact, they seem to me a renewable resource…
OT: Saw that you linked that mod yesterday afternoon. Got it saved, and may try to get it up and running this weekend.
Thank you.
I did stupid shit way before TikTok.
“You wouldn’t want to prevent the government from asking to take down TikTok videos encouraging kids to jump off a roof.”
I would.
The English always found general warrants very useful — maybe she can argue that the 4th Amdt shouldn’t be so picky about that.
Give it time.
General warrants? Shameless self-promotion: https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/05/a-mans-house-is-his-castle-james-otis-the-fourth-amendment/
Oh, pish. We’ve had general warrants for quite some time. They are just a lot wordier now, but the basic thrust is “Go here, search everything, take whatever you think we can use against him for any purpose.” That’s a general warrant, and it’s pretty standard now.
We’ll certainly see in the FBI seizure of those Los Angeles safe deposit boxes – that is this SCotUS term as well.
That one makes me really, really angry.
Someone in my Twitter feed was claiming that she was just deploying the Socratic method, not that she was advocating for allowing the government to squash speech. I suppose it’s possible, but she started the sentence with “I worry that….” which implies that she has an opinion already.
Yes, it’s an intellectually dishonest rhetorical device. Literally, concern trolling.
I think you may be a bit foggy on what being a judge means.
Did I say I know about being a judge? Aren’t I just asking questions? How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? What about prairie dogs?
Why is a government in the business of selling anything besides permission slips? They shouldn’t be selling booze, lottery tickets, or anything like that.
Baptists. Temperance women. Remember, these people had recently convinced America that the Demon Rum was a deadly poison and should be illegal. People just wanted legal booze back.
Welcome to recreational MJ!
When Prohibition was repealed, the authority to regulate booze went back to the states. Some states looked around and saw no legal booze market, a massive vacuum that was just begging them to fill it with cronies and corruption and graft.
So they did.
Hey, Illinois … oh, yeah.
Progressives.
Because in Virginia the bootleggers like only have incompetent competition.
feel free to insert “to” anywhere after “like”
Last time I checked, New Zealand (really!) is the only country that has legalized home distillation.
Praise be to government for allowing me to buy beer and wine in grocery stores.
What is worse than Virginia’s monopoly on liquor? The VABC police.
I didn’t think the Biden White House was a thing in 2020. Point still stands, though. And why would OMB allow his three-letter agencies to cajole, coerce, and collude with Twatbook and the like?
I didn’t think the Biden White House was a thing in 2020.
Oh, good catch.
And why would OMB allow his three-letter agencies to cajole, coerce, and collude with Twatbook and the like?
A very good question. Perhaps one or more high level bureaucrats exceeded their authority. Sounds like fodder for congressional hearings and investigation.
I just listened to the Human Events podcast today. The House Oversight committed launched an investigation into the transition integrity project, a group of deep staters and Dems who were behind that censorship, and had planned all sorts of bad things such as riots and alternate electors had Trump won.
https://twitter.com/HumanEvents/status/1770885601669050612
“I didn’t think the Biden White House was a thing in 2020.”
It was “thereafter”, though.
“And why would OMB allow his three-letter agencies to cajole, coerce, and collude with Twatbook and the like?”
Well, there was the extremely popular #resistance to OMB. It was his administration, after all, that definitively proved the agencies are completely autonomous now. Plus, he probably didn’t mind them shutting down criticism of his disastrous COVID policies.
Because OMB had no fucking clue about how to run the federal govt and no interest in figuring out how to do it. I wouldn’t expect he learned anything from this should he be in office the next 4 years.
I don’t the President can just fire anyone he wants.
*insert “think” after “don’t” *
There is some question about that. I believe they passed a law in the early 20th century expressly forbidding that, but unclear whether the law is constitutional WRT executive branch employees. Progs are of course spinning the situation to claim that would allow a president to fire federal judges, which ignores the whole three separate and coequal branches thing which makes ppl question the law.
And even if a president can’t fire people or eliminate positions, the executive should be able to halt or nullify rulemaking by unelected, often unappointed, bureaucrats. We also need the Chevron overturned to establish the principle that Congress can’t shrug off it’s responsibilities to executive branch functionaries.
“unclear whether the law is constitutional WRT executive branch employees”
Isn’t every agency employee an executive branch employee?
Unless he’s the President of Argentina.
Or has the cojones to fire any federal employee whose job isn’t specifically authorized in Article I, Sec.8.
Fire ‘em. And let the process is punishment thing work in your favor while they try to get it overturned.
Exactly this.
There is a reason why CEO’s have underlings, and so does the president. No one man could figure out the largest organization in the history of man, no matter who they are or what their politics. Add in an incredibly hostile workforce, and your joke about no interest in finding out is not just unfunny, but a huge part of why the country is so fukt.
“…your joke about no interest in finding out is not just unfunny, but a huge part of why the country is so fukt.”
I second that.
It would be entirely possible to hire people who will follow directions and give orders. Say what you will about bureaucrats, but when given an order in writing with a deadline and the person above them expecting results – you can actually get results. Sure, slow and painful, but possible.
What you can’t do is bullshit around, tweet what you want done, change your mind based on the last person you talked to and THEN expect results. And THAT is Trump being Trump.
“Hi, my name is Barak Obama, I am so pleased to meet you.” Or, to quote Blade Runner: Are you for real?
Look, the only difference between 44 and 45 was a complete hatred of the second, while the former got every bit of leniency possible. 45 didn’t even think he was gonna win, his own party tried to sabotage his run, and they are, supposedly, the people who are gonna get shit done for him? Get the fuck out of here. Obama might not have tweeted, but he had the complete acquiescence of the media to give him a bully pulpit, which is in effect the same thing. Remember the beer summit? Or his sticking his nose in every bit of cultural war? Yeah, not to mention he changed his mind on everything from Guantanamo to AFPAC, and I am sure as shooting that midwit did it after the last person he talked to.
No, I don’t think Trump even thought that our “civil” service was as evil and partisan as it turned out to be, and the media never gave him the customary period that a new president gets while he figures things out. “Say what you will about bureaucrats, but when given an order in writing with a deadline and the person above them expecting results – you can actually get results.” Which we now know is complete bullshit, as seen in the lies that were told to him RE Syria, COVID, and so on. And no, he cannot just fire someone, as that has to go through each and every bureaucrat that is lying while answering to him, as seen above.
Personally, I am indifferent to the man, but I am a bit sick of people blaming what amounts to the political failures of the last 100 years completely on his head.
The problem I have was when Trump was right he didn’t stick to it. I agree that past failures aren’t his fault, just his own. Did he give an order on Syria? Or did he just make off the cuff statements? Who did he tell – do this or tender your resignation?
That’s why deSantis would have been a better choice, but what can you do?
I still voted for him a couple of days ago…why the heck not?
I did the same on Super Tuesday. Trump and Haley were the only candidates still in at the time, but since polls said there was no chance of Haley (my least favorite option) winning, I figured I could vote for whoever I wanted. It’s a shame so many people drop out after just a couple primaries.
I did the same in CA.
You think he was actually told about it? Or that they would stop if he told them to?
“He’ll sit right here and he’ll say do this, do that! And nothing will happen.” – Harry S. Truman on what it’s like to be President.
They’d stop if they were fired for insubordination for ignoring a legal order from their boss.
Then there’s a wrongful dismissal suit which the judge, who hates the president, decides in favor of the employee.
That part comes years later.
“I’m surprised they didn’t declare this moot to avoid ruling on the merits.”
They didn’t want to look “racist” because Muslim?
That is precisely the reason this was a 9-0 decision.
Exactly where my mind went. If it was One eyed Jimmy who plays with explosives too much, it would be 5-4 or 6-3.
“…One-Eyed Jimmy…”
Are we not doing the phrasing thing?
I know. Sheesh.
Hey, all the government has to do is change it to a suggested no fly list and they can just let the airlines know who is on the list and let them decide if they want to let terrorists on their planes.
Kind of afraid to post this actually because I’m afraid it will give them ideas and it e local FBI watchers a promotion.
*FBI drone jots notes*
I think the instrument in question is a hammered dulcimer, possibly of the Chinese style as used by Dead Can Dancd.
*Dance. Stupid clumsy fingers
Benchmark Space Systems flies first electric thruster
Untz untz untz untz…
Cute photoshop of the doge. I just noticed that.
Democrats love Big Tech huh? Must be about like STEVE SMITH LOVE HIKERS. And equally painful.
Google must be laughing their asses off.
Google isn’t. Epic/Tencent is
I’m sure Congress has defined monopoly to include non-monopolies.
I’m sure Congress delegated that to the AG (and maybe some other department heads).
Speaking of right to repair…I haz a new skylight!
You know I love the caulk…
https://ibb.co/2qJFSrM
W00t! If I hadn’t known what it was I would have thought it was a fancy iced cake on first glance.
Ma’am, don’t you think that is an excessive amount of caulk?
If she likes thick caulk, who are you to complain?
No such thing 😂
Husband: Going to Lowes. Want anything?
Me: Nope.
Husband: *outside getting in car*
Me: *running to front door* HONEY CAN YOU GET ME SOME BLACK CAULK?!
Awwwww yeah!
See, that could have been helpful context for Sugarfree’s cartoon he linked!
/tries to duck
LMAO
Husband returns home with large black man. You scowl.
Husband: “What? I got what you asked.” *after a few seconds * “Ooooooooh! You said caulk….caulk caulk caulk!”
Speaking of cryptids, it looks like STEVE SMITH paid a visit to Big Jet TV. And by “visit”, mean
https://ibb.co/k4P1zB1
Today in schoolgirl ultraviolence,
“‘Bullied’ California teen Shaylee Mejia dies in hospital days after vicious high school bathroom attack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13224097/mom-claims-daughter-died-bullies-high-school-bathroom.html
“Missouri teen charged with bashing Kaylee Gain’s head into pavement is the ‘real victim’, an honor roll student who was ‘defending herself’ in the brawl, family says”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13220395/Family-Missouri-teen-charged-Kaylee-Gain-victim.html
What a great family.
If 25 years ago and claimed honor roll student I would maybe believe it.
From what I’ve seen she wasn’t defending herself, it was an arranged fight so it was mutual combat. Meaning there is no self-defense claim if somebody gets hurt. It also wasn’t racially motivated or bullying on her part, so lots of people posting this video have been lying about that, too.
True. The heart breaking part is people standing around after one…two…three…four head smashes and then filming the young lady seizing on the ground. Truly a fucked up situation all around.
I’m willing to believe there’s more to the story than we’ve heard. There usually is. But smashing someone’s head on the pavement is way out of line.
FTA
Orly.
Oh stewardess, I speak jive.
That is exactly where my mind went.
Given that school’s metrics, making the Honor Roll may just mean that she can
tieVelcro her shoes in the morning.“She shows up three days a week and never had a felony until now. That makes her a model student at Hazelwood East.”
That’s what happens when you name a school after the captain of the Exxon Valdez.
Students drinking heavily would explain the brawl.
It wasn’t self defense, it was murder. None of the family’s points are relevant to what she did.
They’re always honor students. If a cop shoots one, the shotee was singing in his grandma’s church’s choir on the previous Sunday. He was destined to be valedictorian and had already been accepted to John’s Hopkins medical school.
Just for the record – if you or your daughter, son, spouse, live-in transsexual rubber gimp, or other loved one is suffering from persistent headaches after being hit in the head, get them to the friggin’ ER.
“live-in transsexual rubber gimp”
Oddly specific.
In a bid to aid Texas in securing its border, Florida is sending a platoon of special ops types.
I’m venturing into the unknown. I’m doing game development as my side gig. Nothing fancy of course because well…I have no clue.
Software or tabletop?
Software. My oldest has been developing a tabletop for years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5fBO-Ua2rk
Exactly!
I have the Pan Am board game…haven’t played it yet. I don’t know any nerds down here.
This right here, very different workflows.
/remembers some of the more… intense… board game geeks bringing their homebrewed games to playtest
My oldest game he has been developing is….consuming
ATC simulator? 😉
It’d be very boring.
I beg to differ
Seriously their job is 99% routine.
So are pilots’ jobs, but there are a fuckton of flight sims.
However, the MS flight sims, at least, have ATC already, so you wouldn’t need a separate game for it.
What kind of game?
Kicking around a few ideas in the vien of Disco Elysium or Kentucky Route One.
Er…Kentucky Route Zero
Costco greeter simulator? “Welcome to Costco. I love you.”
Or you chase them around the store demanding to see the very thing they need to check out. Club Card Capers
Video game pictured:
https://www.ign.com/videos/custers-revenge-retro-game-gameplay-scoring-with-the-ladies
I want the arcade version.
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Sounds like an oud to me.
When the Arab musician played, the crowd oud and aahed.
boohiss
I thought sitar. But you may be right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZzmLwcf04
I took a bellydancing class and while the tune wasn’t the same as any of the ones we danced to, the rhythm was middle-eastern and so, would have been played on an oud.
Bellydancing? OH MY! -*George Takei voice
Honestly, I wish I’d stuck with it. It was fun and I still have my veil and zills.
I still have my veil and zills
Now that is phrasing!
I was thinking something like that, but I know diddly squat about mideastern instruments and music. The five minutes research I put into it wasn’t helpful.
Yeah. Somewhere in the oud/lute family. Not sitar.
OK so my watch it ticking normally, but it’s exactly 13 minutes behind. So, continued WTFery
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/03/21/langhorne-yardley-road-home-middletown-sovereign-citizen-curtis-smith-bucks-county-guns-ammo-prison/73052735007/
Oh, that’s a new phrase!
🙄
Like 9mm for example.
The same war zone ammo most police use.
Worse liars: Watermelons or Gun grabbers? I guess I have to toss in the entire Fed Judicial system at this point.
Gun grabbers. Every word they utter on the topic is a lie. Watermelons are pretty bad too, but there are honest discussions to be had on man’s impact or lack thereof on the climate and what solutions are viable.
Plus gun grabbers want guns gone while watermelons still want heat, ac, and cars.
NATO-spec 556 is usually going to be better stuff than the lame .223 Remington spec.
I’m still at a bit of a loss as to what crimes this dude committed. His gun and ammo stockpile seems like a truly pale imitation of my own (I’m up over 50k rounds of loaded ammo in my office closet at present.)
He was a felon and prohibited from possesing.
Maybe. But 50 years for it?
“Boxes of ammunition.”
A box is from 20-100 rounds. Nothing big. Anything under 500 is running low.
But was it high-capacity ammo?
There are three types of firearms: Saturday night specials, assault weapons, and sniper rifles. Did you know that some of these so-called “hunting” rifles are so powerful that they can destroy a thousand pound grizzly in one shot? No civilian needs that kind of destructive capability!
Another “sovereign citizen” – which tells me he is nuts even absent any felony convictions.
I enjoy watching SovCit encounter videos.
I can actually elicit some sympathy for LE dealing with that brand of asshole.
#ConfidentlyWrong
What are you on about? Earnestly believing you live in Rothbardistan makes it so, no?
First the govt has no free speech rights nor right to privacy. Yes, they censored in violation of the 1A. That this has to be litigated and argued about as if there is any doubt is very depressing to me. Just saw on the TeeVee earlier debates going on in the public square participated in by adults, some of which hold offices or positions of power. They were arguing back and forth as to whether dudes should be allowed to participate in girls sports. This should not be debatable. The answer is no. It is immoral, destructive far over the line into crazy town.
That we have to debate about the obvious is an ominous sign to me.
Of course govt is going to go broke in the liquor business. More than one state has gone broke running casinos, haven’t they? Nobody fucks things up as well as govt.
Apparently not everyone knows this.
Ice cream machines. Another example of the failures of the free market system.
Disband the FBI. Burn their facilities. Piss on the ashes then salt the earth.
The woke fucktards are only able to succeed because we let them. Stop letting them.
“They were arguing back and forth as to whether dudes should be allowed to participate in girls sports. This should not be debatable. The answer is no. It is immoral, destructive ”
I’m not a huge fan of girls sports. They’re basically an invention of the Fed gov anyway. Sure, let females play sports, but I don’t find them to be something sacred.
“far over the line into crazy town.
That we have to debate about the obvious is an ominous sign to me.”
That, we agree on.
“Bruce Springsteen returns to stage looking unrecognizable — and a little bit like Tilda Swinton ”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/entertainment/bruce-springsteen-unrecognizable-on-tour-tilda-swinton-ellen-degeneres-comparisons/
LOL
One for Bruce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4MTHivAcyo
Congrats to him and Ellen on transitioning.
Another, more flirtatious, Molly.
Excellent.
What is not so excellent are Internal Server Errors.
McGregor?
She was a little whore.
Well, MacGregor was with two guys
In my friend group, this song had a section that eventually evolved into:
Molly McGregor she was a little whore
All the boys did know this
And knocked upon her door.
On the day she died
All the boys did weep
For Molly McGregor
Finally got some sleep
Tonio, these links are not just serviceable, but PERFECTLY serviceable.
I shout-out to my peeps whenever possible.
😂
Nice work.
🥰
How about the government can’t ask anyone to do what it is prohibited from doing whether through persuasion or coercion?
One of the justices mentioned that hundreds of times every day people in the government contact newspapers to tell they they didn’t like a certain story or op ed, etc. Seems to me they shouldn’t be doing that either, but it’s been normalized which means it’s ok?
I wish Congress would pass a law forbidding this, so the courts have no wiggle room to interpret, but I’d bet hell freezes first.
I thought that was brought up as a “what if” hypothetical, but I haven’t done a deep dive on the oral arguments.
[TW: from Politico.]
Many of those act like subordinates.
Yes. A law telling the government to stay in its shit-speckled lane would be nice but I agree it will not happen.
Either way the decision falls will be positive, I think:
1. The government wins. It was not using coercion at all, just suggesting. Good. News outlets start to tell the government to F off with the suggestions. Suppression decreases. True believers will keep believing and will go out of business by cooperating with Big Nanny.
2. Government loses. Yay! Press goes wild. Some outlets will go under, because they cannot compete without the heavy hand of government suppressing alternative ideas.
Huh. So Alito is a moron and unimaginative.
Just a lifelong establishment shill who got where he is by having blind faith in the establishment and their narrative of being virtuous and altruistic. At least he decides on the side of constitutional protections, most of the time…….when they get around to it.
“Oprah’s Ozempic TV special shows she’s a disappointing sellout ”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/opinion/oprahs-ozempic-tv-special-shows-shes-a-disappointing-sellout/
I’m going to laugh after it eventually stops working and she blows up like a balloon.
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today
We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here.
Wow, fuck these people.
These violent invaders were not shot because……?
A couple of years ago a mounted border patrol agent waved his reins in the direction of a couple of border hoppers and we had a week-long “national conversation” about racism, slave owners whipping slaves, etc.
I pointed out earlier that the only reason the left wins these contests is because we let them. We play by their rules and concede far too much.
Someone here said once about R’s that they are getting shanked in the prison yard while trying to play by Queensbury rules. Fuck that.
Someone else pointed out that R’s have bargained away our country and conservatives have conserved nothing.
Newcomers.
Thankfully, it looks like the wire fence (wall) ended up stopping them. Need some water cannons on the border to deal with this shit.
Does the TXNG not have any crew-served weapons?
*
Sounds like a sitar.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sitar+sound&rlz=1C1SJWC_enUS1062US1064&oq=sitar+sound&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:be08fc7a,vid:7u-c-mIKUJw,st:0
Instrument – Flugelhorn. Style – Manouche gypsy jazz, popularized by Bela Fleck, although he played it on the accordion.
I’ve only heard/seen Fleck on banjo.
Exactly what I was hoping it would be.
Metal plasma? Not nearly as metal as the TOXMAX
“FBI SMACKED DOWN IN 9-0 SCOTUS RULING”
To be fair, as members in good standing of the Dominant Culture, they had a Muslim plaintiff to give them cover. I wonder if they would have done the same for, say, a sovereign citizen type. Kudos to the lawyers for getting a plaintiff who can push the anti-racism/intersectionality button, though.
Honestly, I’ll still take the win on shitting on the no-fly-list. You gotta start somewhere.
Only 20 plus years after it was created. Thanks SCOTUS. Let that be a lesson to all other government agencies. Egregiously violate the constitution for two decades and you’ll eventually receive a finger wagging you won’t soon forget!
Well, you’ll be retired on a nice pension by then, but someone will get a strongly worded letter.
Definitely a good ruling. 👍
Woo hoo! 😃🥳🏀 The only March Madness team I care about, the U of Dayton* Flyers, just came from behind to win in their first NCAA Tourney game since 2017!
*whence came one of my wasted college degrees
And they went on a 24-4 run to end the game, including one 13-0 spurt. Good grief.
Is that where you go to learn fancy words like “whence”?
Them Marianist brothers like to use them Bible words.
A friend of mine is a UD grad (likely our age) and he had some brothers that actually wore the robes.
My very first class there – I was a part-time grad student in Teacher Ed – the professor wasn’t in robes, but he started the Philosophy of Education class with the Lord’s Prayer, and there was a crucifix on the wall. After 16 years of public school, it was a bit of a culture shock for little ol’ me.
Lots of nuns showed up for summer classes, and I had a rather older one as an instructor once that I remember. (Language Arts Methods? I forget.) She would look at the grad students sternly if they arrived late.
I know where you went to HS.
I suppose a crucifix in class would be a stark change.
(Pedantic correction: 17 years counting kindergarten.)
Woot!
Looks like the Catamounts are playing Duke Sucks tomorrow
Catamounts >>> Nittany Lions! 😉
Oofa, I got a few paragraphs in and began to sense my BP already rising.
Had to tap out.
Will a cartoon lower your blood pressure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9g0guAid_I&list=PL9oJgG9ELlgibNYyzTtyNLjXUq-9_udCt&index=105
Drove up to the local-ish offices of Giant-Huge-Mega-Goliath-EnviroCorp™ today.
Spent an hour talking to a regional VP, an hour talking to a district VP, and another hour talking to a project manager. They have an offer ready.
Looks like Tres is about to be spending a lot of time in Cleveland.
Post script- also wandered around un-chaperoned and talked to the underlings and field techs. They seem happy.
Is Drew Carey still in Cleveland?
A warning to Neph?
The kids were remarkably chill for the first half of the after-school shit. Then insufferable twats as remainder. Payday tomorrow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
After a few days off, I took 10mg of my “Amphetamine Salts” RX. (That was half of one. Um. me thinky they hard to get.) I had a legit moment where I wondered if this is how all “Normal” people felt each day. Hrm. Just a single day, but an observation. I think Neuralink w Musk and more would have fun with me. Learn much, I like to think.
Those kids bring a snack? Long after school programs make kids crazy without a snack.
First thing is a snack with milk or juice. Then they have ~45 min of recess. Outdoor, weather permitting. Then they have a choice of Clubs, one of which is a gym game. We usually have extra snacks later. We can get spares and the rest… gets thrown away. Each day.
It’s predictably sickening.
OT: I have been watching media related to the Ruby’s Ridge -> Woco -> OKC sequence of events. I had vague undemanding of how messy it was but my God… talk about a black pill sispenser.
*Waco