There may be some dirty rumors floating around I am 40 today. I would like to put those rumors to rest…
…They are true. This scene pretty much sums up my day today. I ask that you leave me be so that I may contemplate my grief in quiet solitude.
Fuck it. ¡Enlaces!
Mexican drug manufacturing finds they experience the unique Mexican problem of Fentanyl shortages for medical use.
The fate of Democracy itself hangs in the balance…
Buying votes from the watermelons: it works here, why not Mexico?
Meanwhile in Spain: You don’t get cool points for eating your own ass.
Queue the el momento libertariano article from TOS.
Milei visits the Tesla gigafactory. Musk simps…Milei simps…
ASSEMBLE
Here’s a tune. Enjoy your Tuesday…because I will.
You’re only 40? You should change your handle to mexican whippersnapper, young ‘un.
But happy birthday in any event!
No shit. Forty is bothering you? I got some bad news for you, it doesn’t get better.
I look back at 40 with fond memories.
#MeToo
No one that young gets to complain about being old.
He’s not 40, he’s a Jack Benny 39.
Indeed! Happy birthday, whippersnapper!
Happy Birthday!
Yeah, I turned 55 yesterday. Bitch can shut up with that shit.
Belated Happy Birthday Rhywun!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks!
Class of ‘87 rules dude!
I was class of ’88 because I spent a year in Germany. 🤘
I’m 52 but class of 89. You should be ’86 no?
I’M CONFUSED.
Happy happy.
I’m 56 come Sunday. Class of ’86.
Happy birthday in advance.
Wifey is also class of ’86. She said if we were in school together, I would have totally ignored her.
True, but to be fair, by her own admission she didn’t grow hips or tits until after I graduated.
This place is lousy with Aries!
Taurus!
Pre-happy.
Happy birthday. Enjoy everyday you wake up without pain.
You don’t understand. Based on my father and grandfather’s life expectancy, I am statistically likely to have four more years.
Ow sorry. Good luck!
That sucks. Happy Birthday anyway.
My brother and I both continue to celebrate living past our mother’s too early demise. Genetics be damned. As if the shitty diet, cigarettes, and alcohol had nothing to do with it.
‘alcohol’
Mex might be in trouble.
Anyway, I agree with you Mex, 40 is old, these guys are just ancient. Hope you love a good long time like they have. Happy birthday.
If I had a cane, I’d beat you with it. “Stand still, whippersnapper!”
How do you do fellow geezers?
Yeah my [older] brothers and I are all well above the family average. Modern life seems to be much kinder.
Happy Bday MS. Y’all make me feel so young. I still have a couple of years before the big 4-0. I also have comparable few years left if family history is any indication. 😬
Happy B’Day, MS
You’re 1/2 way there. The road only gets rougher.
“Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you” Satchel Paige
Now I see why AIDS Fonzie hates Milei.
You don’t get cool points for eating your own ass.
Maybe he had stored his drugs there?
Blech…. I shouldn’t have even hovered over that link.
They’re eating their own! Just like all commies.
Now it makes sense.
Milei visits the Tesla gigafactory.
Batman and Robin for the win!
Shouldn’t that be the Gig’em factory?
Happy birthday MS!
Thank you
Cool tune.
Remember, a bush in the hand is worth two on the street.
Maybe they could get the cartels to divert some of the shipments headed for the border?
Just a thought (not a sermon).
Miss him.
Yep, him and quite a few others.
Some sort of a thingie fell off
A federal vehicle safety regulator says it has contacted Tesla after a Cybertruck owner went viral over the weekend with claims that his accelerator pedal got stuck while he was driving the vehicle.
On Thursday, Jose Martinez said he was driving his new Tesla Cybertruck on his local drag strip in Southern California when the car started accelerating on its own. He said he put his foot firmly on the brake, stopped the car and realized that a rubber cover attached to the accelerator had come loose, pinning the pedal down. He said he had the car for six days total.
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In Martinez’s case, he said he found he could continue driving the Cybertruck without the accelerator cover.
There was a time when nobody would have known or cared.
Heh… there are times when my floor mat can actually jam the pedal. I can reach down and shift it back, though.
And they’ll take the feedback and roll it right into the next iteration — Agile! The customer is the beta tester (or alpha) these days… yay progress!
Next iteration? Whoa! Not so fast,speedy. That release is already set. But it will be considered for a future.
Meanwhile the Ford Bronco and Escapes got re-recalled for leaking fuel and the “fix” being inadequate.
“Eating His Own Feces”
Wall damn, ain’t that some shit?
You wouldn’t be so surprised if it was a German politician.
Dog bites man.
You’re not really getting old until you have a designated spot in your house for your car keys and they may as well be on the dark side of the moon if they aren’t there. Anyway, happy birthday and whatnot.
Cigar box. Keys and EDC items go in it.
I use my flatcap for that. Since it travels, it works while on the road as well.
I too have a cigar box.
The center console of the cars. Otherwise I’d never leave.
A place for keys is just common sense.
Back in the day, up until my early 40s, I could toss them anywhere and I’d know the next day just where they were. Not anymore.
So what I’m hearing is that I was old as soon as I turned 30.
What if I’m a Musklei simp?
Nothing wrong with that. Some fine, upstanding people around here might share the same sentiment.
* looks around sideways *
I um….I don’t know.
Ordinary-Joe-in-Chief
President Joe Biden returned to his working-class childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday to call for higher taxes on the rich and cast Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist, part of an attempt to blunt the populist appeal of his predecessor’s comeback bid.
Biden’s stop opened three straight days of campaigning in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania while his opponent spends much of the week in a New York City courtroom for his first criminal trial.
Biden used Scranton, a city of roughly 75,000 people, as the backdrop to argue that getting rich in America is fine, but should come with heftier tax bills. He dismissed Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee and a billionaire, as a tool of wealthy interests.
It’s all aimed at reframing the conversation around the economy, which has left many Americans feeling sour about their financial situations at a time of stubborn inflation and elevated interest rates despite low unemployment.
Did he give up on the “end of Democrat-ocracy” narrative?
And pay no attention o those Democrat billionaires behind the curtain.
Pivoting to “I’m gonna make the economy better” was not a great move.
Joe leaves and Scranton goes to hell
https://www.mcall.com/2022/01/24/how-power-struggles-court-decisions-led-to-scranton-becoming-a-financially-distressed-city-for-30-years/
Pay no attention to Joe becoming a multimillionaire while spending his entire adult life in public office.
That’s the American dream!
Build Back Better!
Assassinations don’t threaten democracy. Mean tweets do.
Don’t forget the biggest threat of them all: criminal trespassing.
And parading.
Coffee, pastrie, jury duty; fuck my life.
It’s not as bad as your avatar makes it out to be.
I am… in a world of shit.
Well, you could be on jury duty… in NYC.
You’d be the one member willing to give the Orange Man a fair hearing.
You’re a disgusting fatbody private Pyle! You just need the proper motivation.
Ordure in the court!
Great song choice. Mrs. TOK listens that to get psyched up before she plays roller derby.
Nice
They are a band I like and own nothing by. Just remember endless airings on MTV….
Trump is in court. Biden is out speaking in public.
I assume this benefits Trump.
Trump keeping his mouth shut, for a change, while Biden mumbles incoherently.
The juxtaposition of Biden’s cringeworthy fried chicken lunch with a black family and Trump visiting a Chick-fil-A in a black neighborhood in Atlanta is shocking. In a free country with a free press and free and fair elections, they would be terrified.
Biden’s pitch on taxes is a key part of his effort to blunt Trump’s us-versus-them arguments.
It took balls to write that. Any sensible person would be afraid of spontaneously bursting into flame.
Hey Mexi:
For you. (language NSFW).
👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏
“Lord” Cameron talked himself in circles.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/uk-foreign-secretary-david-cameron-reply-to-what-if-british-embassy-was-hit-in-israeli-attack-dubbed-as-hypocrisy-2024-04-15-926418
Also David Cameron:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7AS26A/
We really do hve unimpressive elites.
“Argentina’s populist president meets billionaire Elon Musk in Texas — and a bromance is born”
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
And in other news, Argentinian Peso is now pegged to Dogecoin.
Happy Birthday to Mr. Sharpshooter!
Si!
Thank you!
Disturbing the peace
Belgian police shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters on Tuesday, citing concerns about public order, while attendees protested curbs on free speech and vowed to find another venue for the second day of their meeting.
The annual National Conservative conference, held this year in Brussels, comes ahead of Europe-wide elections. As campaigning for the June 6-9 event heats up, mainstream parties fear that disenchanted voters might turn to the people at NatCon 2024.
To be sure, political accountability might sound like democracy in action, but we cannot allow those people to destroy our Good Works.
Shut down a gathering intended to protest curbs on free speech.
Par for the course.
Belgian police shut down the conference by barring attendees from reentering the venue if they dared to leave. A dozen or so officers blocked the main entrance. It was the third venue selected for the gathering after the owners of two other locations shied away when anti-fascist protesters vowed to disrupt proceedings.
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Earlier at the event, anti-migrant sentiment featured in a number of speeches. Some targeted what they saw as the follies of climate policy, “narco-socialism” or “woke indoctrination,” often with sharp opposition to multinational organizations like the EU.
Lashing out at the bloc’s treaties, and the pledge in the preamble of the founding EU texts to an “ever-closer Union” among the 27 member countries, Polish lawmaker Ryszard Legutko said it all makes “medieval monks look almost like intellectual anarchists.”
So fascist. So scary.
Yikes, sounds pretty radical. Now where do I sign up?
Happy Birthday MS! I hope you get to drink a 5 out 5 beer.
I second that.
I’ll probably get wasted later.
Drinkin’ beer for breakfast makes the whole day painless
Or getting shit from my friends who shall remain nameless
Can’t be led around by other people’s standards
When the way you feel’s the only thing that matters
Carry on, my wasted glib.
CNN weighs in
The disciplinary action came after Berliner openly ridiculed NPR’s news coverage in a 3,500-word piece for the anti-establishment publication The Free Press, claiming the broadcaster had failed to properly cover allegations Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the runup to the 2016 election, the controversial Covid-19 lab-leak theory and the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story.
Berliner used his complaints about how those individual stories were covered by his colleagues to draw a sweeping conclusion that NPR had lost “viewpoint diversity,” and started “telling listeners how to think.”
Outrageous slander and lies against America’s News Nobility. Sweeping conclusions based on the thinnest tissue of evidence. My god, how can the man face himself in the mirror?
Hilarious. Every one of the major political stories of the last decade…. and they went with their new trope of “asserted without evidence”
Other than the cherry-picked examples of Russian Collusion, the origins of COVID, and the Biden laptop story, Berliner presented no evidence of bias at NPR.
My lawyer friend texted me about the NY Trump trial:
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CNN coverage
Judge reprimands Trump: The judge gave the former president a stern warning for visibly and audibly reacting to one of the potential jurors in court. “I will not have any jurors intimidated in the courtroom,” Judge Juan Merchan said.
I will not have any jurors intimidated in the courtroom by anyone other than the prosecutor and myself!
One of life’s little mysteries
The number of refunds so far this year is down by 3.3 percent, according to the latest IRS statistics that came out before Monday’s filing deadline. It was down last year too, and the year before that.
While no one is exactly sure why, some point to changes in the way people work. Others suspect it has to do with the way the government calculates how much in tax should be withheld from people’s paychecks. And the reversal of fortune could have consequences for how and whether people comply with tax laws.
“We want to make sure that people are, in fact, filing,” said Bob Kerr, a former longtime IRS official, now a Washington-based tax practitioner. “And there are a whole bunch of people who do it because it pays to do it.”
“I think this is really going to be a problem.”
We can’t have people just doing whatever the hell they want without government permission and supervision. We must have obedience.
Some Tesla factory workers realized they were laid off when security scanned their badges and sent them back on shuttles, sources say
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-factory-workers-discover-laid-off-security-badge-scans-sources-2024-4
Yup. That is how it works. That is how I got laid off after a merger (along with half the company)…. and I was a senior executive. They just shunted all of us into conference rooms and called us out 1 by 1 to sign papers with HR and get escorted out by extra security. 2 weeks notice only goes 1 way.
At my my first real job, I got walked out on my 30th birthday. I brought a cake my wife made that day. “Young man, I feel bad but can I have a piece of cake. It looks delicious.”
Full disclosure: It was a scale position and I already had my WARN letter. They let us go weeks early with pay because things were getting ugly and they didn’t want any violence and destruction.
I hope you said, “No. I now need it to feed my children.”
If had kids then, I probably would have said that.
I never said it had to be TRUE.
True, but usually they pay you for two or more at the exec level.
It’s been my privilege to have this happen three times. One with plenty of notice and a generous severance. And two by douchebags. Still got more than two weeks with both however.
Don’t forget to sign your waiver first!
I think more and more companies are doing involuntary terminations by surprise and immediate for exactly the reasons above. Of course, doing it in that manner is probably just as likely to make someone flip out.
We are hybrid now. Friend and former coworker got canned on a work at home day via Teams.
Lesson learned is kill the WiFi on it immediately and don’t let it lock.
Some say the drop in the number of refunds going out the door is a good thing because getting one is tantamount to giving the government an interest-free loan by overpaying your taxes earlier in the year.
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Some tax vets wonder what a decline in refunds will mean for tax compliance.
Surely some people file because they feel it’s their duty, and others because they are afraid of the IRS. But the promise of a four-figure payment is a key way the tax agency, not to mention the tax prep industry, lures people to do their taxes.
This is why we must do everything possible to stamp out self employment and independent contractors. Every patriotic American has a sacred duty to work for a large corporation with a payroll apparatus dedicated to enforcing compliance with the tax code.
And cash. That has got to go.
Not to mention private digital exchange. That probably needs the death penalty.
We should just switch to the government withholding 100% of our income, and then giving us back the amount they feel we should earn.
Isn’t that the plan?
Happy 40th MS! About 6 months after I turned 40 I found out I had an egg sized tumor growing in my skull.
May you not have any tumors.
Goddamn. Thank you.
Hopefully not ostrich.
I think just large chicken variety. 2.5 cm x 5 cm if I remember correctly.
I’m glad you’re doing better.
Sometimes it is in fact a toomah.
I don’t know what you said but I’m going to definitely say say it was an attempt to intimidate a jury and I’m going say it so that the entire jury pool will believe the defendant is conspiring to intimidate them.
Witness intimidation. The man’s a menace. They should put him in a plexiglass cage like Eichmann.
It may be necessary to skip the glass cage and proceed directly to hanging.
Surely they should go full Lecter, just to be safe.
I have only been in the room as the actual jury was selected twice. The other times I was called I was dismissed before that stage.
But in both instances the lawyers (and clients, where applicable) conferred, gestured and made notes throughout the proceeding. I do not know how you could do the job without doing that.
Also…. threatening prosecution for you and your family if you don’t testify as we wish…. not witness tampering. Inaudible whispering and pointing…. jury intimidation.
Glad they are running a fair and impartial judiciary
Party approved!
We should just switch to the government withholding 100% of our income, and then giving us back the amount they feel we should earn.
We all work for the Ministry of Plenty, now.
If they are going to pretend to pay me, I’m going to pretend to do good work.
Happy Birthday MS! May you have many many more.
I think I’m going to try to clean up the flicker on my clock display by adding some pull-down resistors to the data lines and see if that cleans it up. Worst case, I screw it up, short something to ground and light it all on fire.
Honestly, though, I’m not sure how it would even coax the errant signals to ground without being a permanant short. The summaries I’ve found so far have not been helpful in understanding. This is just cargo cult engineering.
Are you directly powering the display from the supply?
No. I’m powering it from the shift register output, as the “display” is LEDs embedded in plastic with no fancy driver circuit.
Alcohol is excluded from Costco’s executive rebate. Why hasn’t anybody told me this in the last 15 years until today?
You bought one of those $20,000 bottles of scotch?
It was either that or a new car. I think I made the right decision.
Have to buy 6 and submit a rebate ticket and a copy of your receipt. Rebate valid for future purchases of similar merchandise.
“Aussie Govt Orders Facebook And X To Remove Muslim Knife Attack Video”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australian-government-orders-facebook-and-x-remove-muslim-knife-attack-video
Damnit, a nation of Crocodile Dundees and this is what they get?
Go to sleep in a relatively free country and you will wake up one day and find…
One inch at a time when we had too much to lose.
We got us a bunch of April babies around here. Happy barfday!
The favorite to win Mexico’s presidential election in June, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Monday outlined a plan to invest $13.57 billion in new energy generation projects through 2030.
Is it still an investment if it has a guaranteed negative ROI?
Happy Birthday Sharpie!
Just for fun:
The first time I have regretting marrying Mrs. Suthenboy –
My neighbor’s mother became ill earlier this month. He had to go to west Texas and look after her. His wife is here caring for her very ill daughter, so she is here alone.
Mrs. Suthenboy and I keep tabs on her, do what we can etc.
Earlier today I was out in the yard and heard pistol shots over that way. She is not exactly the target shooting type so I thought I better
check on her. She had a huge chicken snake in her hen house. She banged away at it, missed every time and could not figure out out how to reload the revolver. The snake had already eaten four eggs and was intent on eating more. I dispatched the poor creature. So we go sit on the porch and talk a while until the home health nurse shows up. In the course of the introduction and the following conversation the girl lets it out that she is never without a gun and a knife.
Me: “Yeah? So you carry a gun and a knife all of the time? Everywhere?
Her: “Yes I do.”
Me: *exaggerated mannerisms and tone* “Dammit!” I stare at her.
Her: “What?”
Me: “I am already married”