Two Fridays in a row. I don’t want to hear one word about puttimg in the hours from any of you schmucks.
This is totally normal for Chicago. Sad.
Its too latemin the day for black pills.
Maybe Boening should try making planes, they’re terrible at covering their asses.
Somebody owes that homely Jewish broad an apology. Can you imagine this turning into a tranny George Floyd riots?
I’m giving 6:1 odds on stupidity. The winner gets nothing of value.
This is so much nicer than taking it in the ass.
Did you even read the fucking article?
The retailer recently cut some of the prices at its warehouses, Costco’s CFO, Richard Galanti, said during an earnings call late Thursday. Among the reductions: 48 Kirkland batteries now cost $15.99, down from $17.99; a four-pound bag of mixed frozen berries runs $10.99, down from $14.99, and a pair of reading glasses is now $16.99, down from $18.99.
SCORE! Although what are we really complaining about?
Inflation has slowed down over the past several months, but shoppers haven’t necessarily seen price cuts: Food still accounts for a larger portion of consumers’ spending than it has any time since the early 1990s.
Shit people actually have to buy that is curiously omitted from inflation data, costs more you dumbfuck. Except berries apparently, that’s a good price.
Tell Rufus I don’t need no god damn job. I’m First.
You may be First (at the moment), but you’re not my goddamn supervisor. Tell him yourself! 😉
WINSTON’S MOM!
Hey baby!
For Winston’s Mom
Lefties commit hate crimes. I’m shocked.
But wait… I though Chicago was MAGA country!
It is MAGA 5D chess!
“Its too latemin the day for black pills.”
The people benefiting from the racket are all praying that they are themselves all long gone when it implodes. In the mean time they know they are dooming us all but don’t give a fuck.
Some of them, probably – yeah. Some sincerely believe “This has always been there, it always will be.” (Ignorance of history). Some sincerely believe they can inflate their way out of debt without serious impact to the country (Ignorance of economics). Some believe that men can become women by really wanting it and Guam can tip over (Ignorance of reality).
As Winston’s Mom said — the safe bet is very much on stupidity.
The drunkenly typed links are the best links.
You APPOLOGIZE to that hard working woman!
/Beta
You’re not my Beta Supervisor either! 😉
Don’t white knight me, cuck.
I think you are mistaking me for one of your other “guests” that likes that shit, BEATCH!
We’re all a whore, we’re all a cuck when it comes down to base definitions.
Cuck.
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET?
Drunkenly, or blearily? Also, since WM’s typos most frequently involve “m” and “n,” I’m thinking their might be some type of coded message here.
I just figure it can be hard to type while earning her $20 downtown and all….
Text to speech is hard when your mouth is full.
Hey I aint complaining.. I actually enjoy the fact that we aren’t perfect people. Also, what SDF-7 said
Boening?
Freudian slip?
100 percent my first thought there.
“Maybe Boening should try making planes, they’re terrible at covering their asses.”
I like how they took a page out of any unelected and unaccountable US government bureaucracy and basically shrugged and said the evidence “disappeared” and oh, well you are fucked trying to proved it was diversity hires that didn’t do their work…
Good to know I that if I get in trouble I can just “accidentally “destroy the evidence and it’ll be fine..
When you and I do it, because we will be labeled MAGA regardless, it is obstruction of justice.
Welcome to the new system of oppression, baby!
And suicide your whistle-blower.
It is amazing how often the government accidentally wipes drives.
At this point it is obvious they – and especially the unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic machine selling us out to globalist marxism – actually believe using the “We are incompetent as fuck” excuse is a better defense to avoid accountability and as a means of getting away criminality, and they are getting away Scot free using this shit, because people just shrug and let it be.
“If it succeeds, none dare call it a fuck-up!”
The Deep State isn’t going to prosecute itself.
As far as the camera footage goes, overwriting security footage, at least, is completely normal, nay, universal, after a fairly short period of time.
I don’t know if this footage was supposed to be kept for any particular length of time or if it was handled any differently than other footage that Boeing takes for the same purpose. And I suspect no one else does either, or at least it isn’t showing up in any reporting.
So it’s a little early to go all “coverup” on this based on that. The refusal/inability to identify people or testify, that’s a little different.
My fucking underwear was approved by inspector 6 and my car door has an inspection sticker on it, neither of which are as important as the hatch on an airplane.
LOL!
Not Inspector 7?
Right. My company makes avionics, and we can identify every resistor, capacitor, IC, mems chip, PCB, connector, screw, standoff, housing, faceplate, label, etc., where it came from, who assembled it, and when they did it. No cameras involved in the process, just job travelers that are archived forever. Lot tracking, job tracking, and sign off on all assemblies that go into aircraft is the industry standard – and Boeing is the one who developed most of the standards.
I smell bullshit.
I toured Raytheon’s missile factory in Tucson several years ago. They literally tracked every nut and bolt using a system virtually identical to how hospitals track meds dispensed in their units. I recall no mention of video (which probably would have been a bad idea, national security wise, anyway).
I’m just saying the “ermagerd, they overwrote the video” is not a red flag for a coverup, is all. In fact, I’m perfectly willing to believe that most of the “insert shrug emoji* from Boeing is simple incompetence. Which is arguably worse, as it likely means this is how they do everything.
I agree that the overwriting video is not a cover up.
To me it looks like a red-herring to deflect the fact they *should* know exactly who, when, and what parts were used when it comes to work performed on that airframe. Incompetence and lack of following procedures will bite them in the ass, but if they can say “but mu video is erased!” and people think “oh well” then maybe it won’t bite too hard. And you’re right, the incompetence worse for any who know better.
I don’t have special underwear for fucking, I’m not that fancy.
The burden of government spending has increased by nearly $3 trillion over the past 10 years—nearly doubling in just one decade!
More than $2T of that is just locking in the “emergency” spending.
Don’t start me… I know I’ve ranted here more than once that at a bare minimum not locking in the “pandemic” spending should have been a no-brainer and would at least help.
But no…. our perpetually budget-averse Congress keeps “continuing resolution” blowjobbing the Executive Branch’s wishes and slammed the throttles into “flank speed!” with the ship of state pointed firmly at that economic Gibraltar of reality right in front of us….
(On today’s episode of Convoluted Metaphors….)
You lost me at blowjobbing.
The essence of never let a crisis go to waste.
“This is so much nicer than taking it in the ass.”
Anesthesiologist hardest hit. When I did this the only people that wouldn’t negotiate their pay with the insurance company was the guy gassing you. Your choice was to take it up the ass without the gas, or pay what they wanted out of pocket. Fuck them for being assholes.
I proctologist was about to write in a chart and he noticed he was holding a thermometer.
“Nurse! Have you seen my pen?”
“No doctor”
He said, “Thats great. Some asshole walked off with my pen.”
I hope he didn’t notice it was not his pen when he tried to chew on that thermometer…
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Booooo! (-urns)
There was also that story recently that blood tests can predict early prostate cancer and there is no need to be doing so many back door exams. I haven’t reached the age where I would have been required to bend over, so I have been saved.
I have a deal w/ my doctor that the only people in his office allowed to do that exam are the young nubile interns with thin fingers. I get a double whammy cause I can then joke that I usually have dinner bought for me before someone does that to me…
Boeing makes me sad. I was all for their vision in terms of how they view the flight deck and having humans as the final decision makers in control of the aircraft. Man have they really just shit the bed. I thought with the Max line they’d weather through the missteps and hundreds dead but it seems they didn’t fire anyone and that person(s) has their hooks in the company to bring it down. Good thing they have billions in defense contracts I guess.
What has happened to Boeing is inevitable. When our society decided to make competence and success “oppressive” things, and anyone that was competent and/or successful, or valued success and competence, was deigned an oppressor, with the government actually enforcing this idiocy, it was just a matter of time that everything requiring serious competence to do would unravel.
Welcome to the world of people dying – in droves -because we let evil fucking marxists tell us we needed to stop doing things right & well, because that was racist, misogynistic, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic, and complex things started killing people.
Look, fat — my aides say that will hasten the downfall of Western Society and bring about the Final Utopia where all the Proles we let live will be kept in nice open air prisons while robots and AI do all the work.
And Corn Pop? Yeah — Corn Pop was a bad dude… and most people I meet outside of Washington remind me of him! So unless your rusty rain barrel razor blade can take my F-52s, you better just simmer down there and feel my hairy legs in the pool!
Can I take questions now?
My brother worked for Boeing – defense stuff. I once asked him if there was a firewall between their defense side and commercial aircraft. He said no and I’ve been nervous about flying ever since.
The wall between defense and commercial went away around 1992, not just at Boeing but in the defense industry at large, which is also when I decided my AE days were done.
I was involved on the govt side as a Boeing defense customer. It did not inspire confidence in them, and that was long before the DEI craze.
I was at Pratt & Whitney and when I saw them tell me I couldn’t talk about the work I had done there but then got rid of all the security, I left for GE where I found the same shit, and told them I was done with AE and would just work on EE stuff. Took me a while to realize that was just as fucked up and just quit and go work as a consultant doing IT for whomever would pay my rates.
Your rates, I assume, were the same as downtown?
i actually made beaucoup money – the IRS loved their share – but my ex was too good at spending it faster than I (and even we, cause she made decent money too) could make it.
From my (very limited paying attention) perspective — I think that’s part of the problem. The guaranteed revenue stream / crony relationship with the government has made them very, very comfortable. So who needs to care about things like competency when it is DIE quotas for the next Fed contract spreadsheet that’s going to keep that gravy train aflowing?
They seem dead set on destroying their held records (777 and 737s) of the safest airframes in service in terms of millions of miles flown to accident rate.
Gov. contracts are a pain. They don’t work.
I have been told by a whole slew of do-nothing and add zero value people involved that it works great (for them to get paid to add zero value).
I can finally afford my reading glasses addiction.
As a devout onanist, I need my glasses, too.
“I’m giving 6:1 odds on stupidity. The winner gets nothing of value.”
When I left the AE/EE engineering world to do software permanently (did software for AE/EE before), I had a wise man tell me that developing software was a race between those trying to make fool proof systems and the universe birthing idiots that would find a way to fuck any system. He warned me that eventually I would come to the realization the universe would always win as making stupid people was the most simple and easy thing. That’s why the stupid are the only thing in the universe that surpasses the amount of Hydrogen atoms.
Exhibit A that the stupid is winning.
This is so much nicer than taking it in the ass.
Hey, now!
Oh, you meant in an icky medical context.
Carry on…
BAZINGA!
These people have no shame and will only continue to repeat the lie. If you say it enough, it becomes true for their purposes.
If the narrative demands it, so shall it be.
It works for them, and helps them win. The initial furor and lie is remembered by the zombies, and the truth, either because it is never covered or just covered in passing so long after that it is too late, matters not a bit.
Not having either a conscience or shame allows you to do whatever you want to win, and not feel bad about it. Alinsky didn’t thank the devil in his book of what strategy the left should follow by mistake.
Speaking of taking it in the ass, Zelizer needs to get his tongue out of hers.
Also love how abortion is equated to reproduction (i.e. reproductive rights). The whole point of abortion is to avoid reproduction, after the fact,.
I get a lot of hate when I tell all the “independent & strong women” that are living with cats and on government assistance that it sure baffles me that the hill they have chosen to die on to prove their independence, strength, and equality, is the ability to murder their offspring.
Young single women are the most reliable voting block for Dems. That should tell you a lot.
When you want to front as strong and independent but need backup because you know better, nothing helps as much as daddy government.
The Dems are trying their hardest to do exactly that. They certainly don’t give a shit about “trans kids”.
Considering they have not a single policy success they can run on and they are again no longer an unknown entity, they absolutely are looking for the next thing they can use to create chaos, fear, widescale lawlessness & destruction, to scare the usual suspects into voting team blue.
BIDENOMICS!
The number of upscale leftards I have met that will tell you that the costs of things are out of control and then pivot on a dime to claim all is groovy and well when you tell them it is socialist government spending & money printing at work, is staggering. How fucking stupid and evil do you have to be to knowingly pretend something hurting everyone is good because of your religious cultism?
When you are already so sucked up into your own ego – believing you know best for anyone but yourself?
The “Why won’t those smelly suburbanites and country hicks just not get on board with the movement and our utopian vision for the future already!” types nod vigorously.
They aren’t called luxury beliefs for no reason.
The corporate greed narrative is weak, but it’s all they need. Most people don’t even know what inflation is.
Of course, you could just ask them to take their positions to the logical extreme. Why even tax people? We can just accrue debt or print money endlessly with no repercussions. Who cares if the rich pay any taxes, or the poor pay anything? It’s all meaningless. The government doesn’t need to take in any money if debt doesn’t matter.
Christ, even if that were true, and tax ‘revenue’ didn’t matter, they’d still support higher taxes because it’s jealousy, greed, and the raw exercise of power at work rather than any particular logic.
Government should pick winners and losers….
For some reason…
That’s socialism.
This phenom is the least worrisome of the ones facing retirees and those of us that want to retire sometime soonish. The amount of people I know that decided they would just retire during the Kung Flu scandemic to avoid the bullshit with employers, and the even bigger wave of those that left just after that debacle when the employers told everyone to come back to work in the office, are now basically back looking to get work is staggering.
I myself went from thinking I would meet my retirement threshold in 2024 now are looking tat the new numbers and seeing it will be 2034 before I am back to that same level based on our current numbers (which keep getting worse). At this rate, I might not get to retire at all before government starts confiscating private retirement investments (and others too) in order to keep their Ponzi schemes and other socialist rackets going.
That article reads a lot to me as: “That mechanism we put in to funnel money into the market that our cronies control and the plebes are to happily give us is being slightly clawed back! Oh noes!”
And re: retirement — I fully expect to be pushed out of the industry before I can retire. Given inflation, I’m hoping I can figure out something else because I’ll doubtless have to keep working until I keel over (and I try to stay on the higher end of employer life insurance while I have that option so if I do, my family is covered for at least several more years).
We have the choice to drop down to the standard of living people getting government subsidies and payouts have to avoid this unraveling though, so this is not a total loss, right?
Sub 4% and this is the thrust of the article? I guess because 96% actually saving for retirement isn’t sexy.
I really, REALLY, hate reporting on retirement savings. So many articles talking about average 401(k) balances that leave out IRA’s (where most people should be putting their 401(k) after leaving a job). Conflating median/mean/average for savings numbers. Warning about 401(k) loans while talking about how you can instead do an hardship withdrawal instead!
Hell, I took a loan against my 401(k) to pay the down payment for my house. The interest rates were minimal, and it prevented me from needing to liquidate positions that would have hit me with capital gains tax.
How’s our OH, IN, IL, MO, and AR friends doing today?
No love for us in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” and other socialist block east/west coasters?
/sniff sniff
It is Spring — so I’m assuming a front spawned several twisters in the midwest or something, KK? (Sorry to not follow weather news for the whole country….. so gorram boring here weather wise, I typically don’t even look at it….)
What are we chopped liver?!
Why are you chopping the liver? It should be dusted with salt and black pepper then cooked with onion and bell pepper.
Soaked in milk, dipped in flour+pepper and fried with onions. Never encountered someone mixing in peppers before… I suppose it would work, but just not anything I’ve encountered before.
That’s for beef liver. Human liver may cook different, would have to ask the Haitians.
Chicken livers are best as rumaki.
Human liver requires Fava beans and a fine Chianti.
I used to just use onion, but one lazy time I went to the pre-cut veggies and found they were out of just onion, but saw a ‘fajita mix’ of onion and bell pepper. I figured I’d try the mix, and it turned out positive.
There’s no reason to fry the liver, it cooks so quickly as is that I spend more time cooking the veggies before adding it than it takes to cook through afterwards.
I’m also talking about beef liver. Annoyingly, the butcher tends to only have calf liver in stock most days, which has less flavor and a higher price tag.
If I weren’t so stocked on fresh meat, I’d probably take the liver out of my freezer and cook that up. But I’ll save it for the time being.
“less flavor and a higher price tag”
I, too, would pay more for less liver “flavor”.
Good liver and onions is sublime.
My wife won’t make it and doesn’t like the smell, but there is a restaurant near me that makes it as good as homemade.
One time, we had a cow die because it fell over and my stepdad and I skinned it and hung it and pulled the liver right then, my mom almost puked when he cooked it, because it still had a purple sheen to it.
Best liver we ever had.
I only tried eating it once. Smothered it in bacon. Not even bacon could make liver taste good.
I would love a good liverwurst sandwich right now.
It might be like sauerkraut, if you didn’t have it as a kid, you won’t start liking it as an adult.
I used to have to cook liver and onions at the greasy spoon. I’d nearly gag while it was sizzling away on the flattop.
Why do people insist on eating filter organs?
Ha, perhaps. I grew up around a lot of sauerkraut but refused to eat it. Didn’t like it when I finally tried it as a teenager.
When I could not taste for 6+ months after covid I ate a lot of sauerkraut as a proxy for whether or not I can taste. When I could taste again, I stopped eating sauerkraut.
Because they stem from cultural traditions formed when you damned well used every last bit of any potential food source?
I mean — hell, look at gelatin: “boil the hooves until you get something usable”. Bone stock. Tongue.
If there isn’t a Medieval European recipe for how best to prepare ox asshole for the nobles, I’ll be stunned. There’s probably still one in China today (or at least use the ox asshole to lure unsuspecting rats to their doom or something…)
In Olden Days, every culture (not just the Indians) used every piece of the critters that they had the good luck to kill. Nothing noble about it, they did it because they were HUNGRY.
They ate everything they could. No scraps left and picky eaters died out.
Organ meat also has nutrients not always present in muscle meats. Pretty important back before multivitamins and year-round fresh produce were available.
Bell peppers are never a good idea.
Obligatory.
That is just categorically wrong.
All peppers have their place – even if some are more suited to chemical warefare tha cuisine. *glances at Sean*
There is no situation in which a bell wouldn’t be better substituted with something else. A poblano for example.
When did you move to Haiti?
In KY, you’re probably biscuits and gravy.
Or if close enough to Cincy, Skyline Chili! 😁😋
Unscathed in SW OH! 👍
Surprisingly little drama in Nerk Ahia, given what the weather radar looked like last night.
All safe here in IN, we didn’t see any of that bad weather. But we are still reeling from Tres insulting our fine state over the last few days.
Illinois still sucks. Other than that, great. I work in Missouri so I get double shafted at tax time.
The Storm came through here night before last. Came in about 5 waves, with hail big enough to crack a windshield (didn’t crack ours, tho). All fucking night long. Thunder and lightning very very frightening!
It was lovely!
Magnifico (oh oh oh…)!
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
Scary Moose, Scary Moose, will you do the fan dangle?
$128 trillion in total obligations, including unfunded obligations to Social Security and Medicare as of September 2023 (the latest data available).
It can be reformed.
Only an educated public will recognize the problem and demand that it be fixed. As Americans, it’s time for us to “get it.” Quit being the silent majority, and take an active role in fixing the problem. The citizens of this great country must make our voices heard. Do something. Speak up. Speak out.
The solution requires that Congress makes some politically difficult choices, and that will not happen without mass public support. Only with informed public support will our Congressional leaders take notice and fix the problem.
Nevermind, we’re doomed.
Guy that has never held a real job in his life but became a millionaire peddling socialism while sucking at the government’s teat, has another great idea.
You know who else never held a real job in his life?
King Charles III?
My former brother-in-law?
I used to think getting old was a blessing. I’m not so sure anymore.
Yeah, I am there myself Fourscore. What a racket.
When I hear people say “beats the alternative” I say “have you tried?”
No one who has taken the alternative is singing the praises of it.
That (((kid))) came back after a couple days and said it was pretty cool.
Well they aren’t complaining either. We’ll all find out soon enough but I’m in no hurry.
VDH shares wisdom. I am sure the usual cabal will not only ignore the advice, but call him names for telling the truth.
They got cute with the “Ides of March” and made it easy today..
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There was practically no snow this winter in Boston. But in Sapporo there’s still so much snow on the ground and it was even snowing today. And they are not even good at removing snow from sidewalks in downtown.
Safe lite repair, safe lite replace.
Getting a new windshield.
That’s the way to go…
With a crack, that’s the best option.
Its a lot cheaper to purchase the windshield yourself and have a professional install it. At least it was 6 years ago when I did that.
USAA covers the replacement 100%. I think they’ve put some limits on that, but when I had to replace one a few months ago, that was the deal.
And yeah, crack = replace. It’s just a matter of time, since it’s only going to get worse.
State Farm does too. Just call them up, and they send you to someone with better techs than Safelight.
Partisan hack was shamed into not retaliating..
I bet she still tries to get this done, just without scrutiny because it got her in trouble. The cultists will not be dissuaded from revenge and punishing their enemies for making them look bad.
So has anyone that has looked at this Tik-Tok bill noticed that the only courts where challenges/issues could be heard is the D.C. court circuit? On that alone I am against this bill because it will be abused by government. Those 5 layers of whatever to prevent abuse would simply be overridden by the D.C. courts when the cabal needed to fuck us all over.
It was mentioned yesterday. They had that same language in the ‘immigration’ bill too. Something about consolidating to a single court circuit seems dubious and nefarious.
Yeah, we noticed.
I’m not sure why DC needs its very own Court of Appeals anyway.
But eyepatch McCain said it “Does Not Harm American Companies Or Individuals”
Why do you hate America?
You must be one of those people influenced by a foreign adversary that I’ve heard about.
Well, after I saw what the fuck they did with the Patriot Act, you are going to have to forgive me for thinking that while foreign adversaries sure as hell are to be a big concern, our government being evil is existentially worse.
Big Brother loves you Alex. He only wants what is best for you.
Then why does it always look & feel like what he wants for me is to get ass reamed by a donkey?
Crenshaw is a sack of shit-that heroin addicted SNL cast member was right about him.
The TikTok ban bill suddenly got so much traction because since October 7 there’s a lot more pro-Palestinian messages compared to pro-Israeli ones on TikTok than on other platforms. The American establishment is fanatically pro-Israel, that turned many of them against TikTok even those who didn’t care about it half a year ago. The talk about fighting the CCP is just to placate the conservatives who hate all things China.
The point is that someone – and in this case it definitely was the CCP – was easily able to manipulate the Tik-Tok algorithms to push some agenda. That said agenda pissed someone off is immaterial. This thing is a weapon, and a seriously dangerous one. Whether the enemy is the CCP or the US government is immaterial t me.
You are correct sir, the Israel criticism sealed the deal it looks like. As for the algorithm, maybe it’s manipulated but maybe it reflects what people are actually interested in and that’s why it’s so damn popular.
Well harrumph, we can’t let people decide what they like – they might like all kinds of things that WE do not approve of!
“The American establishment is fanatically pro-Israel”
Not including the large swathes who are openly anti-Semitic, of course.
Like who? My own representative Pressley and her ilk? The TikTok bill was the first time I agreed with her on any controversial issue: I presume she doesn’t hate kittens and puppies.
She doesn’t count? And I wouldn’t be too sure on the puppies thing. Mohammed didn’t like ’em.
Well, good chunks of academia and the media, as well as a more narrow swathe of government functionaries.
I’m 100% with you — anything that tries to lock in “The Federal Government’s Pet Court” as the sole recourse should be dismissed immediately on its face.
My opinion is, unfortunately, worth precisely what everyone pays for it.
How to square that Wade is disqualified but Willis is still eligible to continue with the case is amazing.
The judge said either you both go or Wade goes..gee I wonder what Willis is going to do.
The deep state got to the judge… This ruling is a fucking travesty of justice.
McAfee wants to be CJ of the Supremes just like his hero? 🙄
Apparently prosecutors can just tell demonstrable flat out lies in a court of law straight to a judge’s face and basically fuck all happens to them for it. I think I wanna be a prosecutor when I grow up. What a Goddamn joke.
Absolute immunity baby!
That’s downright Solomonoronic.
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works!! is what the proggies running Minneapolis are saying today. They were so sure that they could mandate rideshare pricing that they went ahead and passed a city ordinance. Uber and Lyft told them if they did, they would leave. City Council called their bluff and now Uber and Lyft are leaving Minneapolis.
It’s cute that Minneapolis thinks they have the economic sway of California.
It’s frightening that leftists still think the laws of human nature, economics, physics, chemistry and biology should not apply to their fever dreams. The mountain of dead bodies and the calamity foisted of upwards of 3 billion people should have by now dissuaded these idiots of these stupid games, but it only seems to have encouraged them to double down.
King Walz is always copying Cali. He implemented their electric car mandates and other cute stuff like that.
Cool link bro.
Circular linkage.
Kind of appropriate for talking about leftie thinking.
Trying again
Why are all the People of Color sitting in the back and those lacking pigment sitting in the front? I’m sensing some sort of inequality to fair seating. Also those cheering seem to be all of one ethnicity.
Holy shit that’s amazing.
“The vote was met with cheers from an organized group of drivers”
Yay, we just lost our jobs!
How come we’re not getting paid? Didn’t we just vote ourselves a raise?
I’m pretty sure they all thought that the evil capitalists would have to pay them more.
The entire time they’ve been trying to pass this ordinance, Uber and Lyft have told them they’d leave if it went into effect. None of the proggies believed them. They all thought they’d cave and pay more.
I’m sure the cab companies are overjoyed. “Thanks for eliminating our competition.”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Just to throw fuel on the Autonomous Vehicle debate…. Drive into the white light.
This was always going to end with networked cars. In other words, not “autonomous” at all, but centrally controlled.
They don’t have to be controlled centrally all the time, just when the center wants to.
Mesh networking is far more likely.
Lots of opportunity to actually share data from one car to another and actually improve safety. For example, a car that just went over black ice can broadcast to the cars around it and cars following it can adjust traction control to make it less likely the next cars would skid.
That sort of protocol would be so easy to add in the concept of command nodes that can dictate the behavior of other vehicles. At first it would be presented as being for public safety and put on ambulances, etc to make sure their path is clear – but would be rediculously easy to abuse.
OK, “centrally controllable” rather than “autonomous”, as if that’s any better.
Once lit, the phase indicates nearby drivers should simply follow the car (AV or human) in front of them, instead of trying to anticipate something like a yellow light’s transition time to red. Additionally, such interconnectivity could communicate with traffic signal systems to determine when it is best for “Walk” and “Do-Not-Walk” pedestrian signals. Based on their modeling, it appeared such a change could reduce intersection congestion by at least 40-percent compared to current traffic system optimization software. In doing so, this could improve overall travel times, fuel efficiency, and safety.
Or we could just go back to having a human traffic cop at every major intersection, blowing his whistle and waving his arms.
Think of the good, well-paying union jobs!
This is how they plan to fortify the 2024 election to make sure they save their democracy. And by democracy they mean their institutions of power. Not the American people’s right to pick their leaders.
Where the Dems rule you gotta beat them at their own game. You can only make integrity work if you are on top.
“You can only make integrity work if you are on top.”
That’s what she said?
“Why is your strap-on named ‘Integrity’ anyway?”
They’re not leaders, dammit, they’re servants.
When was the last time you heard serious use of ‘public servant’ other than in a eulogy?
Meanings matter, and the shift from ‘servant’ to ‘leader’ is emblematic of our trajectory.
Bitch, we lead, you follow. Capiche?
This is how all organizations work – there are those that lead and the rest follow. There are ways to keep that reasonable, but there is no way to avoid the division.
This election should be a perfect example of why mail in ballots month before the election are a bad idea. Instead of thought experiments with hazy examples, we have two concrete examples of why this new system of voting early is dumb.
In Trump’s case, if he is convicted and pulled from the ballot just before the election, how many of his supporters who voted early are going to be happy that they vote will now go to Nikki?
And how about Joe? It wouldn’t even be that surprising to see him keel over just before the election. Would his supporters be happy if he was replaced with a pro-Israel (((politician)))?
Technically, you’re voting for a slate of electors and not a candidate.
Superb read. Hopefully not hindered if you aren’t a subscriber.
This puts into words some thoughts that have been floating around in my head about why we are where we are – that this isn’t so much abandonment of the Enlightenment as it is a logical (if reductio ad absurdum) endpoint.
I haven’t seen Winston around here in a while.
Pimp’n his mom is a 365/24/7 job?
THIS ^^^
“This is so much nicer than taking it in the ass.”
Why am I not surprised that Winston’s Mom prefers a little prick?
She said ‘Dr. Ring Ding I am sorry,
But the sight of your needle frightens me’
This is how you headline.
Slap On The Fani: Fulton DA Told She Can Stay On Trump Case If Lover Pulls Out
Astonishing. While I suppose you can argue that maybe the affair and the graft shouldn’t disqualify her (as I believe OMWC has implied), but the perjury shouldn’t just get her kicked off the case, or even out of the DA’s office. It should get her kicked out of the profession.
…And into prison.
Wasn’t there still a chance for perjury charges being filled? I thought I saw there were still legal troubles going forward for the DA.
Who is gonna file the charges? The problem with the system is that it is the very people that would have to respond to abuse that are doing the abusing, so nothing ever happens.
Who is going to do the kicking? This guy?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/friendly-reminder-judge-scott-mcafee-donated-fani-williss/
Crooked? Corrupt? Demonstrably lie in court? Launder money? Overcompensate an unqualified colleague you’re fucking? It’s all good.
Our legal system is so fucked it isn’t funny.
But, but she was DEMOCRATICALLY elected! That has to take precedence*.
* unless the wrong party/person won the election, then the will of the people was thwarted.
Say what you want, but team blue is mercenary as fuck and good at doing that. If you consider the upthread discussion about the problem of stupidity in general, it explains why the people cheering this on because “my side” will be crying and sniveling when they put them up against the wall in the umpteenth round of liquidating the obstacles to utopia on earth…
“This is so much nicer than taking it in the ass.”
Not something I would expect to hear from Winston’s Mom.
https://archive.is/0ElvO
Friday Funbags.
Because I’m stupid, I forgot which side of the bed I was on and rolled over … right out onto the floor.
Mind you, we have a captain’s bed so high I need a stool to get into it, so I fell on that too.
Lovely start to a lovely day in a lovely week packed with similarly (relatively) harmless stupidities and irritations.
Ouch 😣
Jeebus, lady..
That is one heck of a way to start a day…
Sorry.
It would be too disruptive to the case to remove Willis. What if they handed the case off to another prosecutor who looked it over and threw the whole file in the trash?
Yesterday, I was skimming through an article about this mess. In reference to the charges dismissed by the judge, the “analyst” wrote, “Knowing Willis, and her temperament, I think she’ll re-file those charges. She hates being told no.”
This got me thinking. I suddenly had a mental image of Willis and Letitia James as in the role Eddie Murphy played in “48 Hours”. You know the line:
“I’m your worst nightmare. A nigger with a badge.”
“What if they handed the case off to another prosecutor who looked it over and threw the whole file in the trash?”
That should answer itself, right? Because they know that would happen and it would destroy this desperate move to keep the people from having a candidate they don’t want.
Great explanation.
Headline of the week.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-rake-six-figures-month-32359478
Attractive enough whore but I only believe the six figures stuff if she’s including to the right of the decimal.
Yeah, I think she is lying.
What currency?
“I record it all in binary, so there are more figures.”
She means she has six guys send figurines of their penes to her each month.
More bullshit from OnlyFans PR department.
In the present essay, Mark argues that the origin of our victim-obsessed politics lies in the idea of rights, the very principle on which the modern state pins its legitimacy. This is significant, as it suggests that identity politics is not so much a departure from liberalism as a consummation of its basic logic.
The concept of “rights” has become so tortured and polluted as to be essentially meaningless. I try to not even use the term.
I am thinking this is one reason Libertarianism never had any hope of succeeding – it wants to marshal a revolutionary spirit but it is crippled by the NAP.
No philosophy that has “leave me alone, and I will leave you alone too” has a chance to be a serious movement unfortunately. Human nature is to stomp other people into doing what you want.
Funny thing is, you can’t find many people who would seriously argue that they know what is best all by themselves. But they’re quite willing to argue that what is best for everyone can be decided by someone (or some group of people). So it isn’t the pure will to power in the individual, but they are quick to believe that others that agree with them must be right!
Yeah, the scariest group of these is the people that believe an unaccountable and unelected bureaucracy that would basically serve no purpose if it solved the problem it was crated for would try to solve the problem it was created for instead of creating more problems to justify its existence.
But, but they are PRIESTS, oops, I mean EXPERTS.
Couldn’t have said it better, there.
Great. That kid’s parents are both guilty of manslaughter. Why not go after his teachers?
Did you even read the fucking article?
If there was fucking in the articles, people still wouldn’t read them.
“Can you imagine this turning into a tranny George Floyd riots?”
Not really, not enough there. Although, if they were going to try and pull that off, they would not choose an actual trans person killed for being trans (which is rare), they would pick, at best, some sort of Matthew Shepard thing. They don’t want clear cut incidents because they don’t stir up as much controversy. Just like the three incidents BLM chose each time were bullshit, why feminists rally behind false rape accusations, etc. This way you have people on one side pointing out that’s not what happened, and people on the other side screaming those people don’t care about the issue.
-1 Nashville school shooter
While whether the shooter was trans is questionable, no one is going to be upset the cops shot a mass shooter regardless of identity.
Shooter is not a holy victim anymore. It was only in being a victim that he/she had that moral authority.
I don’t think any kind of shooter was ever perceived as a victim.
Timmy Simpkin was.
No idea who that is.
Shot up a classroom in Arlington. He was the proper color and managed to not kill anyone, so he was a bullying victim not a criminal. They even let him out on bail.
They don’t want clear cut incidents because they don’t stir up as much controversy.
So…which way are you arguing?
This wasn’t a clear cut incident, but there also wasn’t enough there.
You also want to wait until nighttime weather is warmer, and it’s closer to election day.
I will absolutely buy the weather argument.
We should all read Common Sense now and again.
250 years later and an argument Paine destroys in the first paragraph still exists.
Madison’s rejoinder: If men were angels there would be no need for government.
That isn’t a rejoinder, that is Madison quoting paragraph 2.
Courtroom theatrics
The charges against James Crumbley and his wife are thought to be precedent- setting — the first time prosecutors had sought to hold parents of a mass school shooter criminally responsible.
Prosecutors maintained throughout James Crumbley’s trial that he should have reasonably foreseen that his son was troubled and primed for violence.
Instead, said Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald in her closing argument, Crumbley bought his son a gun and failed to lock it away from him. To make her point, McDonald took the murder weapon from a courtroom table and threaded a cable lock through it, a process that took about 10 seconds.
She called it one of the “tragically small” steps Crumbley could have taken that would have kept four students at Oxford High School alive.
Now we have our precedent for pre-crime prosecutions.
I believe some states have some sort of “safe haven” law, allowing a new mother to drop a baby off at some place like a fire station rather than raise it herself. A revival of the old baby-in-a-basket-on-the-doorstep dodge.We should expand that to include teenagers. Can’y cope? Dump him off at the cop shop and wave goodbye.
This gal should still be prosecuted though?
Seems like a straw-purchase arrangement to me.
“placing powerful weapons”
What did she buy? A bazooka?
Better or worse than liver?
*No, it isn’t Mitch McConnel.
Today I learned that the keratin in feathers and the keratin in hair are actually different proteins.
“Let me tell you about different proteins in hair”
— Bukkake Actress
Damn you Q for sending me down the Star wormhole. However- this caught my eye:
Ex-Power Ranger’s clothing line with Hitler’s ‘pretty good one-liners’ as quotes slammed
Anyone know what a good Fuhrer 1-liner would be ?
“Kopf will rollen!”
Just march in backwards Herr General, the Poles will think we’re leaving.
This was always going to end with networked cars. In other words, not “autonomous” at all, but centrally controlled.
You don’t hear too much about this anymore, but I distinctly recall people cheering for the day when a driver could “hand off” control to the smart road, allowing strings of cars to run bumper to bumper at high speed, in perfect synchronicity. No worries, mate. Embrace the glorious future.
-.-
The legislators are trying to make Adultery legal in New York.
It is still technically a misdemeanor.
That bill was too long to read. Did they give the legislators a cheat sheet?
I bet this is just the precursor to making pedophilia and bestiality also legal.
They can still prosecute Trump for it, right?
This clip is a bit older, but I just saw it.
Stammer, stutter show me clips of this lifelong affliction from back when he was running for the nomination in ’88.
If Joe strokes out and is in a vegetative state, I am sure they will say “Joe just doesn’t say much because of his lifelong humility and reticence to talk about himself”. And every single media hack will repeat that line.
Man, imagine him winning the election and dying before he’s sworn in. Would that beat the Harrison record, on a technicality?
No if not sworn in
That’s been my thought exactly. I don’t ever recall seeing him stammer or stutter before the current glitchfest (which also isn’t stammering or stuttering).
Yeah, that excuse is pure BS. I remember very well him speaking with clarity, confidence, and bravado, while lying through his teeth. Which the press dutifully referred to as “embellishment.”
Ashley Dyrdahl, the sometime girlfriend of Shannon Gooden, was indicted for allegedly buying the weapons used in the shooting of three first responders in Burnsville, authorities announced Thursday.
Is she charged with murder, or just the straw purchases?
five charges of straw purchasing, five counts of making false statements during a gun purchase and one count of conspiracy.
If Joe strokes out and is in a vegetative state, I am sure they will say “Joe just doesn’t say much because of his lifelong humility and reticence to talk about himself”. And every single media hack will repeat that line.
Doktor Grandma will be the Holy Oracle who interprets his wishes for four glorious years.
Fantasy
Because of the perennial gridlock on Capitol Hill, budgets rarely influence actual spending levels these days, but they are still important political documents, especially in an election year: Biden’s budget proposal is effectively a draft of his 2024 policy platform.
The key political takeaway is that the White House is determined to frame the upcoming contest between Biden and Donald Trump as a choice between a Democrat fighting for the American middle class and a Republican stooge for the plutocracy. In economic terms, the budget amounts to an effort to expand the social safety net and, simultaneously, reduce the federal deficit by raising tax obligations for the richest two per cent of American households—and particularly the very, very wealthy, who have prospered greatly in the past few decades.
The riches, how we hates them.
The centerpiece is the various proposed tax increases on corporations and the very wealthy, which together would raise more than $4.5 trillion in the course of ten years, according to estimates from the Treasury Department. Some of this money would be used to fund new child-care and preschool programs, restore the child-tax credit, expand student-debt reduction, and reduce health-care costs; the rest would go toward cutting the deficit….
*guffaws, slaps knee*