It’s good to be back to links after vacation. I missed you guys.
No sports today, on to the links!
Garbage science
Participate in a virtue signaling session here. Not that it’s in any way accurate, but at least it’ll make you feel good (or bad) about yourself. At least they didn’t ask what color you are and adjust it automatically. I half-expected them to do so.
Is this Trump’s “if you’re still deciding, you ain’t black” moment? Don’t bother asking the media. They’re not treating these situations anything close to the same.
And there goes another one. I guess Hobby Lobby will have to pick up the slack.
Probably underestimated
Tell me something I don’t know. Because this is no surprise.
This is not gonna go over very well. Or maybe it will. I guess it depends on who she donates money to.
Buckle up, buckaroos! This is gonna be a shitshow.
Fight! Fight! Fight! And I’m here for it.
This “Gone In 60 Seconds” remake sucks. At least for the victims. But those people are probably only stealing because they’re hungry, right Team Blue?
Here’s a great song. Early videos were strange. This one’s even stranger. But the song is even better than the first one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“Participate in a virtue signaling session here. Not that it’s in any way accurate, but at least it’ll make you feel good (or bad) about yourself. At least they didn’t ask what color you are and adjust it automatically. I half-expected them to do so.”
People desperate for religion and meaning to their pathetic lives falling for a cult that gives them that religiousity.
I like how if you give more of your income to the government your carbon footprint goes down.
“Tell me something I don’t know. Because this is no surprise.”
Remember when Google told people not to be evil? Yeah, that was all for show. Google is one of the most evil entities plaguing this country.
If you have to be told not to be evil, you are evil.
You think the people at Google don’t know they are evil and smirk about sticking it to the smellies?
I think back when they started, the Valley was trying not to be evil. Telemetry, tracking — anything that involved siphoning customer data or putting any logic on their system that wasn’t documented was verboten and socially unacceptable (it was scandalous when companies were caught doing it). Information was supposed to be routed freely and enable people to do more from wherever, etc. Socially naive… sure — but that was the mindset.
Then 9/11… and I personally think Snowden happened. And the NSA quickly made inroads “for national security” and tracking / data gathering quickly became expected and good (you don’t want the terrorists to win!) and the natural monetization of that as long as you’re doing it anyway sank in… and we have the shitfests we have now.
I’m sure getting in bed with the CCP didn’t help either….
Yeah, it was reported as a big deal when Facebook was found to be building profiles of non-users (I want to say that was the Beacon scandal, but they had quite a few privacy related issues when they started).
On the flip side, I recall studies that show most people will give up private information (street they grew up on, mother’s maiden name, etc) for a candy bar.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but I read Snowden as the govt looking at what the tech companies were doing ALREADY and said “we want some of that”.
That’s not how I read it. After 9/11, DC+ had every reason, private/public, to ‘invade’ online data. Suppliers were Patriotic to lend them a hand! Foot in the door, and humans be human.
Sadly about Safety Questions: Shit is hard to remember. Too many/zero physical notes and/or shit in the Cloud… Humans esp now have a shitload of data coming into our brains. We don’t have enough ‘boxes’ to update/store this shit. <- – I honestly believe our brains have not evolved to handle the info input now faced w Internet 2.0. — Yes, every gen has said something similar. Those advances were fairly generational, esp after Industrialization. The curve has spiked up now. The RATE of increase is unprecedented. It's all gonna burst. Take away electricity and people'd be dead in fucking weeks. My family is smart. None of them can produce fire w/o it. I have like 9 lighters somewhere, at some capacity, at least somewhere. Yeesh. Fifty cents and immediate, pocket-sized access to hands-down the most important advance in our species.
No humdinger, predictably. Well. Tight-rope of war can't be walked forever. Int'l trade is to big for war to happen NOW! (Huh. Um. Hrm.)
Advertising has always been evil, or at least extremely amoral. Google managed to pretend that they were a tech company for a long time, but they’ve always been an advertising firm under the layers of makeup.
It’s splitting hairs, but they did start as a tech company, only realizing that after about a week that there was so, so much money in advertising.
Link is broken for me
“Fight! Fight! Fight! And I’m here for it.”
They want the uppity voter base replace with a more compliant one. The will of the people of that voter base they want to replace, be damned.
That this just happens to be the same sort of questions every marketing survey asks… and that is really nice for predicting what we can sell you… pure coinkydink! Trust us!
So yeah…. no on that one.
The only footprint I am concerned about is the one our government is leaving on everyone that isn’t an idiot’s face.
*snaps suspenders, adjusts monocle*
58 tons
I didn’t get to the end but at some point I turned green AF. But then again I am single and childless so nyah nyah.
Honesty is completely incomprehensible to Doktor Kilmnick.
Alsotoo, having a distinct, informed perspective that is at odds with the narrative is perplexing.
Need more range time?
We’re getting more evasive.
Heh… some well targeted puns there. Even Swiss would have to be impressed at y’all’s caliber.
Serpentine motion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNU3WumPFQ
The original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0
I love how he makes it back after getting the keys and Falk yells “serpentine, Shell, serpentine!” So he runs back and reruns it “correctly”. True story, back in the day, I was robbed at gunpoint delivering pizza. I ran a serpentine pattern on the way back to my car.
Shrimp souvlaki, yes?
It sounds like a plan
That Bloodbath thing is just because Plan 699 to get rid of the guy the people want has failed as well, and they needed to pivot to Plan 700 to avoid the smesllies getting their way..
I watched that thing happen in real time Saturday on Twitter. At first people were posting unrelated clips of the speech, then reposting maybe one lefty quoting “bloodbath” and commenting “OMG STOP LYING”, then that spread to more lefties, and at the time I realized the next day was Sunday and it would be all over the TV shows. And sure enough, everyone including Nancy Pelosi herself got into the act on Sunday.
The frustrating part is they are repeating the lie often enough to make it the truth. 100% guarantee this will be part of the liberal orthodoxy until the end of time. The interesting part is the debunking tweet got 43 million views last I checked. But the people who still think the news is real won’t see that.
Duh, it couldn’t be in wikipedia if it wasn’t confirmed by reliable sources!
I was in a discussion with someone prior to 2020 election (might have been the same discussion that led to my abortion post all those years ago) and I was asking what’s so bad about Trump – he’s a 90s Democrat, you would have supported him 25 years ago, just give me one thing he’s done that so egregious it merits the hate/fear. He responded with the “Good people on both sides” Charlottesville trope – “he’s a white supremacist!” (never mind being unable to point to any policy position/action that supports that conclusion, he just is). Being a bit naive, I said “you know that’s just a flat out lie, right?” – “No it’s not” – “There’s context you know, within two sentences of that statement he explicitly said we’re not talking about real white supremacists, nazis, etc.” – “No he didn’t” – “OK, transcripts exist online, hell a video of the speech exists, we can look it up right now and you can prove me wrong” – “No, I don’t want to watch that crap”. To this day, I think he truly believes that Trump explicitly endorsed Nazis on that day and is unwilling to look at the source material to reveal the lie he is living.
So – it works. There’s a reason “the big lie/tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth” exists. Because it works. And this will work too. The fools will insist in 2 years, whatever the outcome of the election, that Trump explicitly called for violence and a bloodbath if he lost.
Meh… like his “No sane Catholic would vote for Biden” (paraphrase) line, the OMB has a point. Would a normal politician have phrased it better? Hell yes….. but we seemed to be cursed with very interesting times in the Chinese sense… so this is what we’ve got.
This is pretty much exactly where I am on it. Using Blue phrasing correctly, it’s bad messaging. The right message, but not communicated/ transmitted with grace.
With Biden et. al getting messaging and signaling all wrong, I strongly prefer Better Ideas said ‘crassly’ than Shitty Ideas tremendously delivered like *cough* Obama on MLK Jr. I’ve never voted for Trump, and it don’t matter in IN, but I would consider one this time just for my morality/ fun and honesty over JoeJoe.
I prefer honesty, even when brutal and crass, over pretty and flowery bullshit. The stink is just masked over, but the shit sammich is still a shit sammich, and I don’t want to eat it.
That’s where I was. I like (sometimes) saying controversial things out loud. It be who I be. But in my family +work, doing that politically is a No-Go. I’d like to have fun with it in certain occasions to spark shit when (I deed) appropriate and called for. (I can play the Public quite well, oddly.) I am also, now, Team Blue unassailable with my TBI. (They can ignore and faux-pity!) I say that, but I have never played that card. I haven’t really been tempted, thankfully. That’s the wrong sort of attention I want right now.
In ’24? Meh. BIGGEST influence will likely be the weather.
Note: Growing up, my 15 years abroad, I always would join the political bar conversations w the expats. Now, family and work are the only folk/ppl I see. This is being addressed. Still, talkin’ politics out w my 30s demo? Nah. It has to be just right or someone crosses one of my Red Flags to signal saying what I really think, but delivered well.
I think phasing it “better” is why so many R politicians come off as fake, and that, like schlonged, his phrasing things like this is what makes him appear genuine to Yuge blocks of the populous.
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I took the carbon foot print test and came out in the top 25%. I’m so proud to be an over achiever. At last.
“Buckle up, buckaroos! This is gonna be a shitshow.”
Everyone knows Jenner is not a real woman because, despite the show, he is a conservative!
/progtards
On a related note…. have I mentioned I hate this state?
We need to fight the terrorists over there > We need to stop the criminals before they cross the border
Yahoo article shows how pissed the left is someone else is using the same lawfare tactics they are using to deny the voters their candidate on their efforts.
The left is evil and martial. Willing to commit any and all crimes to win, because they claim their end goal is just. And if there is anything they hate is someone playing the game as hard or harder than they do. See that orange guy they hate.
—“The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records”—
Or, maybe, he is a somewhat honest judge and sees through the Gov’t case.
Unless you see the world the way they want you to, no matter how stupid, evil, or idiotic that world view that they want is, you are the bad guy…
That’s really good news. “We’re charging Trump with having classified documents but we can’t tell you what’s in them. But trust us, they are really secret and really bad.” is one of the worst abuses of power in recent history.
My favorite in all that was the staged display of what they found at Mar a Lago – mostly empty folders with the official classified labels on them. The kind of thing I’d grab as a souvenir.
Wasn’t one of the allegedly classified items a cocktail napkin with something scribbled on it?
If I was the judge, I probably would have opened with “The prosecution asserts that they seized super-ultra-top-secret documents. I’m going to need to see the name and security clearance of every single person who had access to those documents – not actually looked at them, but could have looked at them. The prosecution also asserts these documents must be kept in a SCIF. I’m going to need the SCIF certification for wherever these documents have been since they were seized.
“The prosecution asserts this is a matter of national security, so I’m sure it has the information I requested readily available. We’ll meet to review it at 8:00 tomorrow morning.”
Unfortunately the SC already decided that the government is never at fault for lying about secrecy.
You’ll get no argument from me…. it is like the bands (or their producers) found their most artsy-fartsy film school buddies to make their Senior Year Film Project… that just happened to have the song as a soundtrack more often than not. Always really gets me when the song seems to be telling a story… and then the video is more like THIS IS THE TIME ON SPROCKETS WHEN WE DANCE!. Ruins the whole mood of the song.
Of course… for every nonsensical “I stood models up against a wall, ja?” type art school flick we have something like Take On Me… so I suppose it all balances out.
The problem is the marketing angle….
That industry that puts songs in their videos doesn’t care so much about the song as they do about doing something edgy to impress their peers.
Well…
The ’80s were (imo) the last time when people thought pop art could also be High Art. Videos as a concept were fairly new, video making equipment was likewise new, so naturally it’s going to attract the young and avant-garde.
See the movie Tapeheads for example. No seriously. I love that movie.
I see you are a fan of the Swanky Modes?
It’s so hard to keep trying to get people to watch that. Any ordinary man would have given it up by now.
Sobriety Test.
Thanks for the links Sloopy. I had a couple of days where I felt it was time to take the black pill, but I still hold out hope.
If you didn’t understand why the NYC kangaroo trial levied such a ridiculously high penalty on Trump for a fake crime nobody accused him of other than politically motivated scum, the intent was to prevent him from fighting the bullshit back without financially destroying him.
The people that tell you Trump and his people represent an existential threat to their democracy – meaning the institutions of power they have created , own and use & abuse to stomp on the smellies, and not as so many idiots believe the ability for the smellies to pick their leaders and agendas – are not just evil. They are ruthlessly evil.
Seems like they are screaming for an 8th Amdt challenge.
Well, they were willing to basically end the real estate investment market in NYC to pull off this hit on the bad orange guy, so that level of desperation doesn’t really show much intelligence and forward thinking. After all, they have repeatedly shown that they do not care about consequences down the line, because the damage has already been done and the fix doesn’t really address the shit they wanted to accomplish…
Yeah, “We fine you eleventy-trillion dollars. Pay us now! Oh, you don’t have eleventy-trillion dollars? Then you lose the due process right to appeal, and we can seize everything you own.” doesn’t seem remotely constitutional.
It’s like getting a jaywalking ticket, and the judge fines the indigent defendent ten million dollars and sentences them to death by lethal injection. And then denies them the right to appeal the conviction because they don’t have the ten million.
There does seem to also be a bit of a due process problem with saying “Well, appeals are only for small fines, not for really big ones.” Which is pretty much what this is about.
I am a bit confused. How is it that the court issuing the ruling has any say whatsoever over what cases appeals courts may hear? That, I always thought, was the purview of the appeals court.
Over and under that the $120 million that seem to have vanished actually didn’t vanish but found its way to connected team blue friends and campaign coffers?
They already said they were giving it to the tribes, so I don’t think it even needs to be laundered into crony accounts.
Why are they bribing the already deep blue rez? Because Team Red FYTW.
The kids are back in school. The wife is at work. The house is quiet.
Is the power out too?
Unfortunately no, so I have to work.
Always sucked back into the rat race….
Is this revelation why the deep state has not been going in 100% on canceling Musk for taking over X and making it harder for them to control information?
I don’t think that I would have a spy satellite built, or delivered to orbit, by someone who I didn’t have absolute confidence in. There would seem to be too many opportunities for various back doors…
I am pretty sure they have no security related problem of any kind with Musk and Space X, other than that he isn’t coopted to allow them to lie because of his policies on X.
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe Elon is getting off on the idea of the Feds funding his own private fleet of kinetic-kill vehicles…
It means almost everything you see in politics and social arenas today is kabuki theater.
Inflation news:
In the off-season, the restaurants here have special dinners, prix fixe meals with wine/beer/whatever their distributor wants to push. The are usually excellent and were in the $80/person range a few years ago when I was not worried about saving money or getting fatter. I opened up one of the invites today, it’s $190.50/person.
This phenom seems to have become the norm….
Restaurants where two people could eat decent meal and have a few drinks for $75-95, now cost an easy $125-150 for a similar experience.
But there is no inflation and Bidenomics rocks…
Here we have various food weeks (pierogi, pizza, burger, etc) as well as the independent restaurant groups that do prix fixie meals in spring and fall. The prices have been climbing up for all of them. Hell, one of the local breweries doesn’t have a burger on the menu that’s below $20.
fixie? 🚲
Bicycle girls.
Portion sizes in America are insane. This is profoundly positive, cuz starvation sucks. But is further weakening our culture and species. Far too cozy.
For me: Pro– Get TONS of leftovers. Food lasts me a while. I’m a nibbler, regardless. “Normal” portions are way too big for me. Con– $$ DAMN.
(Yes. Not all of price is caused by supply. Bigger portions add, regardless.)
They are telling lies about how bad inflation is, because after all, it is an election year, and they are totally dropping the economic ball (and don’t care, because it is on purpose).
You will believe what The Party tells you. If you see evidence to the contrary you will ignore it, because The Party is never wrong.
Most of the price is non-food stuff, that’s why proportion sizes have risen so much. They have to raise the price anyway, so giving people more food at least makes them feel like they’re getting more value for their money.
Speaking of your food — how come you’ve never mentioned karpatka? And how have I never had this?
Last Friday my wife and I were eating at an Afghan restaurant she likes. I had pull out my phone and dig up an old menu to prove that prices have almost doubled in the past year.
Every place I have gone to has had brand spanking new menus..
And always because prices have changed drastically upwards…
Some places have even chosen to put prices on whiteboards now so they can change them quicker and with less cost/hassle.
Was just talking about this kind of thing this morning with my sister. I’m expecting to see a lot less dining out options over the next year or two.
There’s already been quite a few cancelled remodel/expansion projects I’ve heard about in the industry, and then there’s places that were closing for a “brief remodel” that still haven’t opened back up years later.
How to make a small fortune in the restaurant biz?
Bit of a tangent, but the food waste described (about halfway down the page) when the inspector shows up is infuriating. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1238531911
“How to make a small fortune in the restaurant biz?”
You start with a really big fortune and piss most of it away?
That was the implied punchline, yes.
“Start with a large one.”
This past year started a kick off of restaurant closures that doesn’t look to be slowing down. And these are just the higher profile launches, failures, and shutterings, not the little mom and pop that opened up with six months of runway. One that’s dominating local news is a place that has had the same ownership for over 20 years (it had a rebrand during that time), due to a rent increase of over 60%. In the owner’s defense, he bought the property from a non-profit who had been charging rent rates well below market.
Did the nonprofit sell the property for more than they paid for it?
So, did anyone else realize how fucked we arewhen a SCOTUS judge commented that she felt it was not good to limit our government’s ability to be evil towards it’s own people just because the constitution said so?
I believe: “Yes” and “Wasn’t it discussed quite a bit in the afternoon links yesterday?”
Along with much annoyance at the whole “fire in a crowded theater” garbage that is her spiritual ancestor on this.
I tend to be locked in work in the PM and unable to join, but it is unbelievable to me that someone on the SCOTUS feels government should not be blocked from being evil.
The old familiar battle cry: IT ISN’T WRONG WHEN WE DO IT!!!
No judgement on reading the PM links or not, good sir… just pointing out that “It has been noted, yes”. 😉
They are the “ends justify the means” crowd. The Constitution is an obstacle to their ends.
That is the bog-standard position for leftists since….well, ever. It is the cornerstone of their entire world view. Kagan said that gauging laws by their compliance within the bounds the constitution defines is ” a novel approach”.
The whole position could be summed up with “I get to do what I want, you get to do as you are told. Fuck you.”
Yes, they are the enemies of the citizenry, of the individual, and of the country. They are evil. It is as simple as that.
They are evil. It is as simple as that.
The mistake is to believe that one side isn’t. They both do evil, just in different ways.
Agreed. This is just how progressives think. The government is there to take care of everything, and we have a “living” constitution that can be bent or ignored if it gets in the way. Your rights are less important than whatever task the government wants to do.
(Heh. One of the fun things to do is point out that DudeBro presidentes country has a “living constitution” and that is what was able to allow him to get additional terms)
Unless KJB’s staff somehow prescripted the question she asked, I don’t think one can say she’s stupid. Utterly opposed to the First Amendment, and the notion that there’s any limits on the government if it interferes with Team Blue priorities, sure.
I saw your question yesterday in the PM links, and, after thinking about it I came to the conclusion that she is either a) an idiot, like I said, or b) so intellectually dishonest as to be functionally the same. Even though you are right about how she answered the “what is a woman?” question per prevailing leftist orthodoxy, it cemented in my mind that if she can force herself to answer that “I am not a biologist” to the question, that she is either one or the other, that she is solely a jumped up midwit, i.e. stupid, as opposed to the other possibility, that she is nothing more than a liar.
In closing, I concur with counselor Dean.
As to whether Affirmative Action Jackson is just not very smart or is ideologically driven when she’s says stuff like “I can’t define what a woman is. I’m not a scientist.” Or “The First Amendment shouldn’t restrict the government from doing important stuff.”
What difference does it make? Either way, she is completely unsuited for the court. And how exactly do you distinguish between “stupid” and “subscribes to an ideology that is obviously at odds with reality in multiple ways”? Doesn’t sticking to a belief system that is repeatedly disproven in front of your eyes count as stupid?
^^^ ding ding ding
My only question is are we marginally better off with her than Garland? I think we really dodged a bullet when Garland did not make it onto the bench.
Is there any action Garland has undertaken as AG that does not scream how lucky we are that he is not on the court?
For whatever reason, he release the Hur report.
I’m guessing he wanted to punch back at Team Biden.
“Doesn’t sticking to a belief system that is repeatedly disproven in front of your eyes count as stupid?”
Not if the problem is that your system is actually of a religious nature and demand fervor. That’s evil.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Old news but good news anyway.
Thanks, Jimbo
Dunno what it is lately but the universe seems to be throwing it in my face extra hard. I know none of us are perfect but over and over for the last couple of months I have seen just how deeply flawed we as humans all are. This of course makes anyone with a shred of self-awareness take a good hard look at themselves.
It seems impossible not to be black pilled.
Hope the fish are biting, that always make feller feel better.
We’re looking at a forecast of a foot of snow over the weekend. I’m happy about hat, lessen the fire danger. It’ll melt quickly. We’ve only had about 8 inches all winter so nice surprise.
Kids will get a chance to play outside over the week end.
How are your critters doing? We had a hard summer last and the winter hasn’t been kind to mine. My bees are going through 8-10 lbs of sugar and a gallon and half of water per day. I probably won’t take any honey this year. Their numbers seem to be upping quickly so we will see.
I may split a hive soon or just ad a couple of supers. I haven’t decided yet.
We don’t winter over the little fellers, we buy 3 lb packages every year. We’ve tried to carry them over but they freeze out, moving them to a shelter doesn’t seem to help. Die and smell bad.
We take delivery May 4th, bees fresh from the almond orchards in CA and ready to work.
I am super black pilled lately too. It sucks.
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But… but… they’re keeping their stores open, right? Right?? ::breathes into paper bag:: That said, though, the store near my house is handy, but so is the Hobby Lobby near my office. And when I wanted washable upholstery fabric to make sofa cushions (to replace a cat-ruined futon mattress) I gave Jo-Ann every opportunity – looked at two locations – but HL had what I wanted.
I also like to shop at HL to scandalize my NPR Lady older sister. 😁
I shop at hobby lobby because they stock stuff I want to buy.
JoAnn doesn’t even have regular buttons for fixing my shirts.
What? You don’t want Disney character buttons on your dress shirts?
Per local news (as the company is headquartered down in Hudson) they’re shifting back to being privately owned, and there’s going to be store closures.
Then I suspect my nearby one is doomed, as it’s not on the fashionable side of town. 😞
Went back through the latest in the local news, and it looks like they’re not planning on closing stores to begin with.
I avoid the fashionable side of town. The traffic is worse.
SLD: Credentialism is bad and government imposed barriers to entry are worse.
Remember some years back when a high school debate team won nationals with the argument, “we’re black, therefore we automatically win all competitions against whitey?” Well, that NuTruth has had time to go through college and law school:
https://www.thepublica.com/washington-supreme-court-rules-that-bar-exam-no-longer-a-requirement-to-practice-law-cites-impact-on-marginalized-groups/
That social justice idiocy can only be implemented if you drag everybody down to the always dropping lowest level. And this basically causes all systems to break and fail. And then the idiots that foisted the stupid on everyone will blame the people calling this idiocy out for that.
I think this is a dick move. I’ve said it about Somali cashiers who won’t do their job (ring up pork products) because of their religious beliefs. I’ll say the same for pharmacists. If your religious beliefs prevent you from doing your job, you should find other work.
More interestingly, I would love to hear a real proggie explain how this works in their world where men can have babies. Sure seems like some real troglodyte thinking in this decision. Only women need emergency contraception? Aitken county is Fourscore’s stomping grounds! Are these shitlords saying that Fourscore doesn’t have legal rights to emergency contraception while Mrs. Fourscore does?
That should be a decision for his employer to make. They employee should neither be protected from nor forced to do it by the government. It is entirely up to the employer. If the pharmacy owner is okay with a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription, then what is the problem?
Good point. I was going to say that if they started their own pharmacy they could do whatever they wanted. The flip side would be fine too. If your employer told you that you couldn’t sell emergency contraception, that would be OK.
Still I hop to doG that Fourscore gets his Plan B and isn’t showing a belly bump at the next Honey Harvest.
The belly bump has been there for a long time, 10-20 years, maybe a reason to change pharmacies. I’ll need industrial strength suspenders to keep my britches from falling down.
As per usual, the issue here is the lack of consistency.
I’d be fine with a universal ruling that said that one’s personal beliefs have no place in the workplace, so long as it’s a legal product or service under discussion.
I’d also be fine with a universal ruling that said that no one can be compelled to go against their conscience, even employees on company time.
What both the donkeys and the elephants want, is for their cherished ideologies to be protected, and the other guys’ to be subject to the whims of popularity.
“I’d be fine with a universal ruling that said that one’s personal beliefs have no place in the workplace, so long as it’s a legal product or service under discussion.”
So much this..
The problem is that the people with a chip on their shoulder tend to be the same people that demand unequal enforcement so they can get their way going both ways. Unequal enforcement is always the problem.
If the ruling was “your employer can say that your personal beliefs, etc.”, sure. If it was “Nobody, anywhere, under penalty of law can allow their personal beliefs to influence their work”, well, fuck no.
Howsabout we just say we don’t need anybody to rule on this issue at all, and leave it to, you know, free association to sort out.
How about “Free Association”? If you are cool with me and mine, yay! I get to work for you. If you are not, boo, I get fired. No if, ands or buts.
Now, if you work for he gov’t? Wear only white, only say hello, and blank walls. No picking favorites for you!
How about I finish reading a comment before I stick my foot in my mouth and repeat what you said?
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Calling that sex discrimination is idiotic. Pretty sad that the Minnesota courts would go along with what’s obviously an attempt to exploit an inapplicable law.
I was looking for a CS Lewis quote for another site, and I came across below. “Is Progress Possible: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” was already my favorite Lewis essay, but I always find something new in it.
I bolded the last line…this is what the equity movement is doing, trying to bring us the latter. Its not the first attempt, it won’t be the last (unless it works).
Free men don’t always comply and do what the top men want…
And the equity movement is about making everyone equally inept so nobody feels left out for being more inept.
Soooo disappointed in this story: Cousins sentenced for trafficking fentanyl, cocaine between Minnesota and California
Turns out it was two guys related to each other who were busted. I guess Kirk will be still be playing for the Falcons next Fall.
What did Kirk Cousins do now?
He forsook the Purple! Left to become a carpetbagger in Atlanta.
Actually it was a great deal for the Vikes GM. The Falcons so overpaid that the GM can let him walk without pissing off the fans. Everyone understands that while Cousins was way better than anyone we had last year (or this year), he wasn’t $180M good. Especially for a guy who is coming off a torn achilles.
Hey I rejoiced when back in the day the Redskins sent him to you purple wearers. Happy to hear you all made out sending him elsewhere, cause the redskins sure didn’t.
Well, we know it probably wasn’t winning a playoff game.
I can see why people whose sole accomplishments are to manage public opinion through falsehoods feel free speech is a real problem..
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-simple-idea-for-speedier-government-pa-payback-fees-wait-time-shapiro-ad59273b?st=rpjjr297tahsz80&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why do the smellies continue to refuse to accept our supremacy over them?
Like with Obama, we were told the WH crypt keeper was going to unite us and overcome the evil of others. In hindsight, in both cases, we ended up even more divided and the uniters consistently talk about how that isn’t on them for being divisive, but on us for not accepting what we are told by our betters.
You just have to accept the power of Obama in your heart, or you will be subject to that power via the sword.
It is very uniting when you look at it that way.
Look at the ridiculous size of the 40 ounce “Quencher”. I’ll be really curious if they can actually pull in men.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanley-looks-to-replicate-the-water-bottle-hype-among-guys-9b1e8b59?st=mg1m41vmyaqghvn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I love my old time Stanley thermos (looks like it might be smaller than that silly cup). Still works great and I’ve owned it almost 30 years.
Only 40oz drinking that is acceptable for a man
That looks strangely familiar for some reason.
Mrs. Prole got me one of those as a birthday gift. I used it once, for show, then tucked it onto a high shelf she can’t reach.
She thinks guys with jacked up four wheel drive pickup trucks with huge tires are overcompensating or something. Cept, this is the feminine version of those trucks.
I think it would sell better to guys if they just called it the Bladder Buster.
“We’re a classy company. They’re the ones who need to change”
Former tool brand going after the metrosexual market after conquering the suburban mommy and Basic College Girl segments. Only one way to see if it’ll work.
(two different Stanleys)
Is that a purse bolted to the side?
I’m still mystified by the way a travel mug became a fashion accessory. I would, however, welcome recommendations for one that would actually keep my coffee hot (but that isn’t outrageously expensive. Looking at you, Yeti.) I’ve been using a Tervis that I got as a Secret Santa gift at work years ago. I think it was the “hot” travel mug at the time, but I’m underwhelmed at it’s temperature-preserving abilities.
My “travel mug” (I actually use it as a thermos to keep my coffee warm in the morning but drink out of an actual mug) is pushing 30 years old and the stainless liner is actually, well, stained, so I just ordered a new one. Because I make exactly the same amount of coffee every morning and drain it from the coffeemaker directly into the travel mug, I wanted something around 16 – 20 ounces that would fit under my coffeemaker.
The Stanley and Yeti options that fit my specs cost exactly the same ($30), which I thought wasn’t bad for a quality piece that would last decades. I would up going with the Yeti.
Report back to confirm whether the Yeti is worth the price, please? Thx!
It’s supposed to get here Friday. I will try to remember to post a review (in comments; I can’t see eking a whole post out of a coffee mug).
Some bleach will get rid of that stain quickly. I have the same issue with the pitcher I use for tea.
Just remember to rinse thoroughly.
Barkeeper’s Friend.
Tried both. neither got it all out.
I have an Aladdin that I bought with the coffee in it at a gas station for $5 around 20 years ago. It’s well insulated. What I like about it is that is much wider and the bottom so it is very difficult to knock over.
That’s how Tres likes his wimmenz.
A wise man once told me: “she little in the middle but she got much back”.
Found results of a Consumer Reports test available to mere mortals (i.e. nonsubscribers): https://www.consumerreports.org/money/travel-products/best-insulated-travel-mugs-a1038854728/
People who actually go into the wilderness often use disposable 1-liter water bottles from 7-11.
And I will pour one out for my dead Nalgene bottle.
(seriously, there is as much fashion in the backpacking word as New York)
Jugsy has a couple of Yeti and Stanley. When I asked about the hype she said “they keep stuff cold forever. You should take one to work.”
I said, “that thing holds a quart and weighs 3 lbs dry. Im not carrying that up a 100′ ladder. I have enough shit to drag behind me.”
Friend: I thought you said you were dieting.
Me: I *am* dieting.
Friend: I just watched you eat three donuts.
Me: But I wanted four. That’s the kind of self-control you need.
Well played.
“Creepy $250 ‘semen stealing’ kits are being advertised on X with taglines including ‘make him a dad without his permission'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13164527/Ads-semen-stealing-kits-Elon-Musk-X-Twitter-deep-fake-AI-undressing-apps-advertising-revenue.html
CWABOC
How are they stealing the semen? Some skank blows ya and then runs off to store the splooge?
Doesn’t really say. I would normally research it out of morbid curiosity but time is short.
I was also looking to get more info by volunteering to figure out how it was done..
There isn’t a clear process yet.
First they have to work the wrinkles out, then they can steal the juice.
Wait…
Wut?
My baby-mama didn’t have any “kit” (so to speak). She used her mouth.
And by that I mean she said “Oh dont worry….Im on the pill.”
Sorry to hear that. 🙁
That which is not forbidden is mandatory!
Semen stealing kit: five drinks with a 2am whisper “I am on the pill, and allergic to latex.”
Damn…shoulda read your post
“Undercooked mushrooms killed two and sickened more than 50 diners at Asian restaurant in Montana, CDC investigation finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13210479/deadly-morel-mushroom-CDC-Montana.html
There is a morel to this story.
You must be a fungi at parties!
I think I see the problem…
Gas station Sushi…
Dont eat at restaurants whose kitchens are staffed by people that crawled out from under a rock last week and are clueless about germ theory?
I did not know you could under-cook mushrooms. Then again never ate morels.
The “journalists” seem quite confused too, since they describe the morel as edible and then try to argue it is toxic raw. They should test that theory on death-caps – themselves.
via wiki
Toxicity
The consumption of Morchella species can have adverse effects. In 2023, a Montana restaurant serving them was linked to 51 people who experienced gastrointestinal illness, with two reported deaths.[72] The consumption of raw morels in particular is advised against.[73] An unknown toxin, possibly hydrazine in small amounts,[74] can be neutralized via cooking.[73] Additionally, cooked morels can reportedly cause symptoms of upset stomach when consumed with alcohol.[75]
When eating this fungus for the first time, it is advised to consume a small amount to minimize any allergic reaction. As with all fungi, morels for consumption must be clean and free of decay. Morels growing in old apple orchards previously treated with the deprecated insecticide lead arsenate may accumulate levels of toxic lead and arsenic that are unsuitable for human consumption.[76]
*story about toxic mushroom*
“Is that real?”
*wikiquote citing same story*
“That settles That!”
I love morel mushrooms.
Unfortunately after going morel mushroom hunting with my dad, he got Guillane-Barre disease and now my wife – with her keen Korean science – has decided that morel mushrooms cause the disease. So now morels are forbidden.
I used to be able to get a fix by visiting Dad during the spring and eating some with him. Since he has passed, there have been none for me.
That’s an amorel position!
Could actually have been the mushrooms, you can get it from a bacteria that is sometimes associated with them.
“Conservative influencer Isabella Deluca is arrested on Jan 6 charges after stealing table that was used to assault Capitol police officers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13211297/Conservative-influencer-Isabella-Deluca-arrested-Jan-6-charges-stealing-table-used-assault-Capitol-police-officers.html
Is this the same woman who was called a thot for baking a cake while having boobs?
Cracker of the day. And a.k.a. SirSniffAlot…
Who Are You in the Russian Revolution
https://www.gotoquiz.com/who_are_you_in_the_russian_revolution
You are a Kadet, a member of the liberal-reformist Constitutional-Democratic Party. You support the republic and the February revolution, and are concerned about both the Bolsheviks and the White Armies. You want Russia to reform into a capitalist liberal democracy like France or Britain.
I was pretty much “yeah, republic is the best option” until I got to voting. Having a hard time not clicking the “Nobody should be allowed to vote, Democracy is a bad system” option.
I actually did click that 🙂
Dave’s Sushi- heard of it, never eaten there.
I am making of fun of sushi in Montana in general.
Eh, Dave’s not there.
デイブのお寿司
The Fitzwilliam Museum warns that pictures of ‘rolling English hills’ evoke dangerous levels of national pride
https://twitter.com/CapX/status/1769693161247400214
can’t have that
Coconut Bikini Full Show | Miami Art Basel | Fusion Fashion 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyl2gdwe4NA
Transparent Try on Haul | No Bra Episode | See-Through Material
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHSvJzqiIl4
nsfw probably
Political science
To Longwell, this new generation of young conservatives is drifting away from the traditional Republican candidates of the past few decades and more towards those that embody Trump and adopt his brash style of politics.
“For people who have chosen to identify as Republicans or conservatives, in this moment, they’ve done it because they like what they see out of Donald Trump,” she said.
Gen Z and younger millennial voters overwhelmingly supported President Biden in 2020 and historically back Democratic candidates. That said, some recent national polling shows Trump and Biden in a closer matchup among voters under 35, leaving potential for the GOP as they zero in on battleground states where margins may be small.
“You change ten percent of that audience, you have fundamentally changed a presidential race,” said John Brabender, a media consultant to the Trump campaign. He cautioned that while Trump has had an influence on young conservatives, so has Biden.
“It can’t be dismissed how important it is in some sense that they see Biden as an overwhelming failure,” he added.
Those young people do not see Biden as a failure because he failed to cancel enough student debt or ban fossil fuels.
this new generation of young conservatives is drifting away from the traditional Republican candidates
It sounds as if she admits they haven’t necessarily abandoned conservative principles. merely unprincipled losers like McCain and Romney.
This city is not in Italy, France, or Germany.
It’s in China and it’s less than ten years old.
This is Huawei’s R&D Headquarters, where 25,000 people work, and it might just be the most interesting office building(s) in the world…
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1769904859455623449
“This is where we look at the information we stole from the people who actually developed it”.
Huawei has never invented anything.
.@WSJ
providing a troubling glimpse into last of the Washington psyche calling the Czech Republic – a “small satellite state” as though they were describing Abkhazia – it is larger than Austria, Hungary, Ireland or Switzerland….
https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1769438948277817709
Americans hatin on the czech cause they have better pistols and better beer.
Why are they only comparing the size of Bohemia with small countries?
And prettier, thinner women.
He’s done lost his mind
Elon Musk is showing the world how radicalized he has become.
The billionaire, one of the most consequential figures to walk the Earth, spent another weekend swimming in the right-wing fever swamps of X — a bad habit that was apparent when his interview with Don Lemon was released Monday morning.
In the contentious interview, Musk equated moderating dangerous and appalling hate speech to “censorship,” bashed the press for legitimate reporting, assailed DEI programs without supporting evidence, skewered advertisers who fled the X platform last year and yet again gave credence to the racist Great Replacement theory, among other things.
To those not fluent in the intricacies of right-wing media, some of what Musk said may have sounded bizarre or even foreign. But in the right-wing fever swamps, where Musk is now deeply entrenched, these are the issues that animate the masses.
Of all the evil stalking the earth apostasy is the most horrifying.
Putting ideas out there might make people think for themselves!
He makes it harder for the machine to program the low information idiots!
I saw clips of those interviews. Musk handles himself very well. And I doubt any “normal” person would have much of a problem with anything he said.
My favorite one was about censorship. He said right to Lemon’s face, “You want censorship. You’d do it in a second.” And that the first amendment protects speech from people you don’t like saying things you don’t like. Otherwise there’s no point to it.
Man Explains to Journalist Why First Amendment is Important
Now that’s ironic. Or is it? I don’t want to get called out by the irony police.
The 1A only protects popular speech. The 5A only protects the innocent. The 2A only protects the military. …
Who’s joining my new bluegrass-punk band, Right-wing Fever Swamp?
Too derivative of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Musk equated moderating dangerous and appalling hate speech to “censorship,”
well, yes.
dangerous and appalling hate speech
Only to your delicate sensibilities, cupcake.
In effect, Musk has become self-radicalized on the very website that he was forced to purchase for $44 billion, sliding deeper into the darkest and most unsavory corners of the platform that has served to only reinforce his own worldview with an echo chamber of conspiracy theorists and ego-stoking sycophants that regularly fawn at his every move no matter how outrageous or preposterously false.
Oh, horror.
If I recall correctly, he could have backed out of the deal and paid a fine on the order of a billion dollars. He wasn’t really forced to buy Twitter.
We need “red flag” laws for business ownership. People like Musk should not be allowed to own large influential business enterprises. The societal risks are too great.
+1 TikTok ban
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/woman-arrested-following-squatter-standoff-her-million-dollar/
Police drag a woman out of her house for bothering the squatters.
They’d be arresting me for homicide.
I know. Why even report it? Just show up with the wood chipper and quietly take care of the issue.
This stuff makes my blood boil. Of course the lazy, idiot cops arrest the actual homeowner and not the criminal to make the problem go away.
Also, I’m looking at that “million dollar house”, and laughing at all the articles that have been popping up lately about how New Yorkers fleeing the city are supposedly finding out that living in Florida or Texas didn’t save them much money after all. Yeah, right.
“Patricia Silva entered the women’s locker room at a Fairbanks, Alaska, Planet Fitness and claims she saw a “man” in there shaving…
The gym backed up its decision in a statement: “Our gender identity non-discrimination policy states that members and guests may use the facilities that best align with the sincere, self-reported gender identity.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/opinion/women-can-be-disturbed-by-biological-men-in-their-locker-room/
No idea why “man” is in quotes. Self-ID is retarded.
Just makes no sense. Kick that dude out, maybe lose 4 or 5 members. Kick that lady out, lose 100s of members and possibly your franchise. And that is absolutely a man.
It worked for E Jean Carroll
A Florida woman alleges in a lawsuit filed in New York state court Monday that in 1993 New York Mayor Eric Adams, then her colleague at the city Transit Police and a top official at a Black police officers’ organization, demanded oral sex in return for helping her get a promotion.
Lorna Beach-Mathura, who was a civilian employee of the department, says in the lawsuit that when she refused, Adams exposed himself and “forcibly pushed” her hand onto his groin. When she pulled away, he continued masturbating in front of her, the lawsuit says.
Now Beach-Mathura is seeking unspecified damages from Adams, the city of New York, New York City Transit Police, the Guardians Association and three other unknown entities, according to the lawsuit filed in New York County Supreme Court. The NYPD Guardians Association is a fraternal organization representing Black members of service, including civilian police employees.
That’s what Adams gets for stepping out of line on immigration.
I bet you are right.
No witnesses, no evidence, no statute of limitations. Sounds legit.
Slam dunk case. Make that bitch rich!
1993
Remember when Clinton used to laugh off these kinds of accusations off because the lack of evidence made it impossible to prove? Got away with it until an intern saved a dress he jizzed on.
Didn’t they change the statute of limitations ideally just to snag Trump?
Now that net is hauling in plenty of their own.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended – I read that somewhere.
“The first over-the-counter birth control pill in the US is now available.
Online sales for Opill, a progestin-only pill (POP), began Monday, and so far the estrogen-free pills are available to purchase on Amazon and directly from Opill.com.
Per the website, once the drugs are in stock, they’ll be available for purchase online at Walmart and Walgreens, as well as in-store at Target and CVS.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/19/lifestyle/over-the-counter-birth-control-pills-are-now-available-in-the-us/
Planned Parenthood hardest hit
They’ll be fine. Their cash cows are ‘bortin the kids of people too stupid to take The Pill, and more recently “gender-affirming care” for deeply confused young people.
Fortune mag headline on google nooz- something about shifting the cost of realtor commissions “between buyers and sellers”.
That whole “seller pays the commission” thing cracks me up. Where does the money come from?
“Drag Queen “Shangela,” who was invited by Kamala Harris to be the first drag queen at her residence for a pride event, invited to the White House, and also invited by President Joe Biden to attend the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-drag-queen-invited-to-white-house-by-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-accused-of-sexual-assaults
“This shouldn’t surprise anyone. If you have a Gmail account, you’ve no doubt noticed how fundraising emails from Republican candidates and conservative causes manage to get buried in your spam folder even though you never flagged them. It was so bad that the Republican National Committee sued Google for its discriminatory practices, but a Biden-appointed federal judge dismissed the case.
But Google’s efforts to help the Democrats go much deeper than sending GOP emails to users’ spam folders. According to a new report from the Media Research Center (MRC), Google has been interfering with U.S. elections for at least 16 years, and MRC has found 41 instances of them doing so.
It wasn’t just to help Democrats defeat Republicans either. In 2008, before Google helped tip the scales so Obama could defeat John McCain, it “targeted support for Hillary Clinton for censorship, suspending the accounts of writers who wrote blogs critical of Obama during his primary race against Clinton.””
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/19/google-has-been-interfering-in-us-elections-for-years-n4927435
Hope that Brin and Page have their villian lairs well stocked, they may need to hole up for a while.
I’m disappointed that my carbon footprint is only in about the 90th percentile. I feel like an underachiever.