So, I signed the permission slip to allow my youngest to view the eclipse at school. The simply stipulated he bring his own glasses. No problem, I told the wife that I found some available at REI and I could pick some up while I am out. She said she bought a box from Amazon. Cool. By the time I dropped off my son at school yesterday it occurred to me it was never delivered. My wife found them later in the mailbox…
She ran them over to school, but I presume he borrowed a pair from a buddy.
¡enlaces!
The headlines from Mexico this week had me doing the Jim McMahon meme. Lets go with that.
Brazilian court tries to push Musk around. Musk responds by being Musk.
Not sure how the online right will handle this one. The Milei simps and the Thatcher simps will just have to fight it out.
Man, once we’re done reliving the 70’s, the new 80’s is gonna be lit.
Haha, a bit early?
Damn… I should have left a comment the first time I saw these. I assumed they’d be wiped. 😉
Like, with a towel?
With a cloth, yeah — but what difference, at this point, does it make?
Damnit
My Firster sense is tingling.
You’ve got The Power?
TW: Don’t click.
Meh, I have seen (and heard) worse.
Maybe we can also have drugs and ass sex links? Sunday nights look open.
Hunter has one covered and his father is reaming the rest of the country up the butt — so we’re covered?
How long were you holding that joke for?
“As a result he said “the Texas Nationalist Movement believes that the only way to secure our border with the United States of Mexico is to no longer share a border with the United States of Mexico” and thus would begin offering aid to secessionist groups in the north of the country.
Miller commented: “Many years ago I learned of a movement that was developing within the northern states of Mexico whose goal was to separate from the United States of Mexico and become self-governing independent nation states.”
You need to get rid of the cartels first, otherwise they will just be independent nation states controlled by the cartels.
If we’re going to screw with Mexican sovereignty I’d rather we get their southern border to secede and just stop the inflow on the narrow point. Seems easier.
That Brazilian judge is the same asshole Glenn Greenwald’s been complaining about-a real authoritarian sack of monkey shit. He’s a perfect representation of the mindset too, dude looks like a cross between Aleister Crowley, Lex Luthor, and Telly Savalas.
I’m admittedly anti-globalist, but my first reaction to EU courts, much less Brasil courts is “Go fuck yourself”. Which it sounds like Elon is thinking as well (closing whatever facilities X has in the country and if need be, not doing business with companies from that country). I’d love to see more of it.
When I first saw his picture I thought it was Anton LaVey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey
Anton LaVey on the outside, Anton Chigurh on the inside.
I was hoping for that gif today
It never fails to lift up my, uh, my afternoon.
Aleading Texas nationalist group has warned Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador it will begin actively supporting secessionist movements in his country in response to what it argues is his failure to control illegal migration into the Lone Star State.
Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), delivered the message to Obrador in videos published on social media in both English and Spanish. The TNM is campaigning for Texas to leave the United States and become a fully independent nation.
While you’re at it, wish me up a cool new modern hacienda.
With a staff that looks like Salma Hayek and Selena.
“A Brazilian court has announced that it will be opening an investigation into X owner Elon Musk for obstruction of justice, after Musk reactivated far-right accounts that the Brazilian government had flagged for removal.”
Why would the Brazilian government have any authority who is on The Artist Formerly Known As Twitter?
Because, FYTW.
The Brazilian Supreme Court is out of control.
They really need to get trimmed.
Don’t cut yourself so short — feel free to wax on about your thoughts… there’s no taint of shame here for that.
They are…
Brazil nuts?
*slow clap(of butt cheeks)
RRRRRRacist!
Then obviously that Court
[dons sunglasses]
needs to get packed.
There is going to be some major upheavals there soon…what am I saying, seems like the whole world is going up in flames. *memes some more
Supposedly the US intel agencies are behind this. That sounds like a conspiracy theory, so it being 2024 the safe bet is it’s real.
It’s not so much a conspiracy theory as a sneak peak at the future coming to a country nearer to you.
Somebody–maybe somebody who posts here–quoted a South American general who said, “The reason there are no coups, putsches, guerrillas, revolutions and such in America is because America doesn’t have an American Embassy.”
I see that msn article has adopted the axios bullet point format. Great.
In an article I read earlier (sorry, no linkee) there was a spectacularly Orwellian quote from that judge about his collectivist vision of truth.
A new Falklands War, this time a bum-fight. The Brits can’t get their carriers out of port while Argentina can’t really afford a navy or air force. The EuroFighters based there are probably enough to prevent Argentina from doing something stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._1435_Flight_RAF
I’m admittedly not British — but since I don’t think they need coaling stations anymore and the Royal Navy can (as you mention) barely sortie… I’d be willing to talk to Argentina about the islands.
But maybe they need the last of the Thatcher generation to die out so it doesn’t hurt national pride (not like they give a shit about it in other ways that I can tell… but maybe).
If the Brits can muster a little national pride, they shouldn’t fucking waste it on some lousy south Atlantic islands. But frankly, I’m more inclined to believe that national pride would be treated as an mental health disorder there.
British hate crime.
Yeah, my initial thought was that the motherland would shrug its shoulders and let it go without a fight. It’s not 1982 anymore.
*shrug*
“Mexican TV outlet accidentally airs man’s testicles during solar eclipse coverage ”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/world-news/mexican-tv-outlet-accidentally-airs-mans-testicles-during-solar-eclipse-coverage/
LOL
Man, the eclipse coverage was nuts!
The guy sounds like a sad sack.
I’ll bet the producer got real testes when he realized what happened.
If they would have panned over, we’d have gotten the first visual evidence of a black hole.
That was some low-hanging fruit.
The name of this manga, “Gintama” (銀魂) , is actually a pun on the Japanese word “Kintama” (金玉), which means “testicles”. The kanji for “Kintama” is written with the kanji “gold” (kin – 金) and “ball” (tama – 玉). “Gintama”, however, is written with the kanji “silver” (gin – 銀) and “soul” (tama – 魂). Though “Gintama” literally means “silver soul”, the fact that it’s one letter off from saying “testicles” was intentional as a joke. Such a title fits the manga’s strange sense of humor.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4733&page=22
Some people had clear weather. Some had cloudy weather. There was a vas deferens in experiences.
They went Balls to the Wall with their coverage of this story.
Judas Priest…SWISS!
What’s “deez” en espanol?
Obviously, the Falkland Legion should bum rush Argentina and murderape 1200 people.
That will show them!
“Tori Spelling admits she can’t poop or pee alone — so 7-year-old son watches
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum explained that she always did her business in front of her husband – but now goes to the bathroom in front of her kids since splitting from the actor.”
https://pagesix.com/2024/04/09/parents/tori-spelling-admits-she-cant-poop-or-pee-alone-so-7-year-old-son-watches/
No.
That poor kid.
Can’t she just get a cardboard cutout of her husband?
Just point a camera at the toilet and sell access on OnlyFans. That way she can make money from peeing too.
Too big of a labor group to take on if she tried that. No one in Hollywood wants to mess with the You’re-A-Peeing Union.
OK Shpip, give SDF-7 his account back.
And just like that SDF-7 is doomed to hell.
Paging Chuck Berry…
I’ve heard of a shy bladder but an exhibitionist bladder doesn’t sound real.
Anyone else and that’s multiple calls to CPS.
Remember, this is LA. Any and all grooming is okay. Calling someone a groomer will get you thrown in handcuffs.
I’m sure life’s been really hard being a very unattractive narcissistic attention whore since her daddy died and she can’t get work. To be fair, by Hollywood standards this is a relatively healthy outlet.
“This NYC chicken joint employs cashiers Zooming in from the Philippines — and still wants you to tip!
Every cashier wants a tip these days — but what if they’re on the other side of the world?
A new restaurant chain in New York City is outsourcing staff to the Philippines, using screens with hostesses on Zoom calls instead of in-person employees to greet customers and help with check-out.
The shops — which specialize in fried chicken and ramen — are taking advantage of the massive wealth gap between New York City, where the minimum wage is $16 per hour and a Southeast Asian nation where hourly pay is closer to $3.75.
But when customers check out at Sansan Chicken, Sansan Ramen, or Yaso Kitchen — with locations in Manhattan, Queens, and Jersey City — they’re still prompted to add a tip of up to 18% on top of their bill.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-from-philippines/
Who tips at a take-out restaurant?
When people ask me for a tip, I tell them to First more. And that they’re welcome.
Does any of that reach the Philippines?
Maybe?
“On a recent afternoon at Sansan Chicken in Long Island City, a reporter for The Post was greeted by Pie, a 33-year-old hostess who works from her living room in the Philippine city of Subic. The cheerful remote worker said she is employed by a company called Happy Cashier and that she enjoys her work. Pie declined to disclose how much she was paid but said customers sometimes leave generous tips despite the fact that she’s not actually there in person. Once, she got $40 at Yaso Kitchen in Jersey City, she said — adding that she splits tips with her manager and kitchen staff at the restaurant….
The dynamics of the operation seem to be cloaked in secrecy. It’s not clear if the hostesses work for the restaurant or a third-party company that hires them out. It’s also not clear who owns the restaurants, and how much the hostesses are getting paid. The Post could not reach the businesses’ owner, and employees would not divulge information about their bosses when a reporter asked.”
‘The dynamics of the operation seem to be cloaked in secrecy. It’s not clear if the hostesses work for the restaurant or a third-party company that hires them out. It’s also not clear who owns the restaurants, and how much the hostesses are getting paid. The Post could not reach the businesses’ owner, and employees would not divulge information about their bosses when a reporter asked.”’
My guess: a Chinese money laundry.
[Biden ears perk up]
I’ll leave a few bucks. I like to think it goes to the kitchen staff.
Not fucking 18%. A couple bucks.
If it’s a regular restaurant with a waitstaff, I’ll tip 15 – 20%, same if I ate there. I don’t tip at all at Subway, Dunkin Donuts, etc.
I think all this take-out tipping started with Starbucks.
Tipping in general has gotten out of control — I don’t know if it is a perception of “poor me… they don’t pay me, you should!” guilt tripping or what… but I distinctly remember 10% being standard, 15 if someone is really good… now it is “Recommended 20% for anything and everything — feel free to go higher!” because I suppose that’s easy to program into the apps and like the spam emails — if enough folks just go along….
If left to the wife, 25%. Me, I keep it around 15%.
Baristas typically get whatever coins are left over, but this really started with the advent of debt cards.
STEVE SMITH GIVE TIP.
Welcome to Manhattan.
Pass. I’m not talking to a fucking screen for takeout or sitdown.
The minimum wage is, of course, zero. If you can’t produce value equivalent to the artificial government mandate, you’re not getting hired.
All aboard the Bidenomics train(wreck)
U.S. small-business confidence slipped to the lowest level in more than 11 years in March amid rising concerns about inflation, according to a survey on Tuesday.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said its Small Business Optimism Index fell 0.9 point to 88.5 last month, the lowest level since December 2012. It was the 27th straight month the index was below the 50-year average of 98.
Twenty-five percent of owners reported inflation was their single most important problem in operating their business, reflecting higher input and labor costs, up 2 points from February. The share of businesses raising average selling prices rose 7 points from the prior month.
That aligns with a pick-up in consumer prices in the first two months of the year. Price increases were prevalent in the finance, retail, construction, wholesale and transportation sectors. There was also an increase in the share of businesses raising compensation even as demand for labor is cooling.
The NFIB reported last week that hiring plans among small businesses in March were the weakest since May 2020.
If those people don’t know how to run their businesses properly they deserve to go broke.
I keep seeing commercials on TV pointing out the rising prices of everything.
Which is bad news for Gropey, IMO.
“FORTIFY HARDER!”
Don’t they know inflation is coming down? They must be victims of malinformation.
Malinformation? Maldisinformation? Dismalinformation? Mismalinformation? Misdismal….ah fuck it. I have trouble keep up with the prog word jumble.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Deep Thought
Here’s something cheery to consider the next time you use an AI tool. Most people involved in artificial intelligence think it could end humanity. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the odds of it happening vary wildly depending on who you listen to.
p(doom) is the “probability of doom” or the chances that AI takes over the planet or does something to destroy us, such as create a biological weapon or start a nuclear war. At the cheeriest end of the p(doom) scale, Yann LeCun, one of the “three godfathers of AI”, who currently works at Meta, places the chances at <0.01%, or less likely than an asteroid wiping us out.
Sadly, no one else is even close to being so optimistic. Geoff Hinton, one of the other three godfathers of AI, says there’s a 10% chance AI will wipe us out in the next 20 years, and Yoshua Bengio, the third of the three godfathers of AI, raises the figure to 20%.
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Elon Musk, speaking in a "Great AI Debate" seminar at the four-day Abundance Summit earlier this month, said, "I think there's some chance that it will end humanity. I probably agree with Geoff Hinton that it's about 10% or 20% or something like that,” before adding, "I think that the probable positive scenario outweighs the negative scenario."
In response, Yampolskiy told Business Insider he thought Musk was "a bit too conservative" in his guesstimate and that we should abandon development of the technology now because it would be near impossible to control AI once it becomes more advanced.
"Not sure why he thinks it is a good idea to pursue this technology anyway," Yamploskiy said. "If he [Musk] is concerned about competitors getting there first, it doesn't matter as uncontrolled superintelligence is equally bad, no matter who makes it come into existence."
I’m shaking in my boots.
I take this all with a grain of salt. As it turns out, people are really, really bad at predicting the future.
Bad and getting worse. This reminds me of a video suggestion I’ve been meaning to share.
https://youtu.be/yln5fsEXA2M?si=Qt5c3FI8CkGiwFi4
If you’re a fan of Critical Drinker, you should know Little Platoon. He appears with Drinker on streams, but he’s got a more academic approach. Truthfully, he’s just smarter by miles.
Anywho, he compares Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov in terms of political philosophy. There’s good clips of each of them explaining their philosophy. Asimov sounds like your modern prog who believes that we can have perfect central planning and purely scientific bureaucracy, it’s just a matter of putting the right people in charge.
Herbert on the other hand actually understands power and what humans who have it actually behave like and is extremely skeptical of anyone that tries to predict the future or plan society. I knew I liked Dune, but I had no idea how much I liked Herbert himself.
That was a very good video, I caught that the other day. Actually, it gave me a name for a concept that underpins everything I despise about the managerial class: Whigs.
I’ve hated the term ever since I heard David Brooks refer to himself as one in an interview a few years ago.
AI couldn’t end a Burger King kid’s meal.
But it could design and run a massive propaganda and censorship campaign to control an unwitting populace. Good thing we have free speech and independent press organizations here in the west so this can’t happen.
No it couldn’t. Sucks too much bro. At least according to the ani-AI propaganda campaign I just consumed.
anti
The “editor” needs an editor.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/npr-fires-back-at-staffers-missive-about-left-wing-miscues
The original article was interesting, but while acknowledging that NPR screwed up some reports the author still says George Floyd was murdered.
I wonder how long he’s going to be employed at NPR. I’m assuming he’s got something vested after 25 years.
That Wired article…..
Platforming “far right activists”.
Yeah. Like several elected members of the legislature. This judge unilaterally silences and jails people on his own nickel. Kind of a Mulah for the Brazilian government.
Rumble already left the country for the same reason.
That google, facdbook, et. al. have not seen fit to comment speaks volumes.
Forgot who put it on Xwitter, but allegedly the judge wanted it to be kept secret, and ordered Xwitter to lie and say the accounts were suspended for violating terms of service.
Jill Biden visibly ‘uncomfortable’ as Joe Biden reveals favourite WH memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_sf50Fzks
spoiler – he likes his adult kids jumping into bed with him, supposedly
Viral video exposes Joe Biden’s ‘chronic lying’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ske5NvXgIno
Heritage he’s claimed: Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Puerto Rican, Black, Greek
It was Taco Tuesday at the Not-VFW veterans club I visited today. I overheard a Vietnam vet mention a “steam and cream” near the base he was stationed at. I learned that term from Hackworth’s book About Face. It’s slang for a combo sauna-brothel. It was a different time then for sure. There’s a picture of Hackworth in Vietnam where he has a spoon for opening beer cans in his top pocket. I had a Yuengling in a frosted mug and got the bartender’s permission to leave my tutoring business card in the peppermint bin near the entrance/exit.
Sad trombone.
https://deadline.com/2024/04/stage-act-2024-1235879289/
Not that different from the argument of team-owners and jock-sniffers when trying to funnel tax money into stadiums.
Without robust national investment, more nonprofit theaters will close.
*tunes tiny violin*
Let them close.
What a tragedy (heh) that no media technology exists that would allow playwrights and actors to produce dramatic works and reach an audience beyond those who might have the means, motive, and opportunity to come to a theater in person. 🙄
“We’re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories. We believe that inclusion—among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage—is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.”
It’s challenging work cramming global warming and “women and minorities hardest hit” into every single story, no matter what the actual topic might be. Nuance, my bloodshot eye.
Berliner wrote in The Free Press, a digital outlet founded by Bari Weiss, that Americans have lost trust in NPR due to a lack of “viewpoint diversity” among its staff. He cited NPR’s coverage of the COVID-19 lab leak theory, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and allegations that Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election as examples of how “politics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work.”
Pffft. As if that’s a credible news source.
I love that viewpoint diversity is in scare quotes as though it’s some imaginary hobgoblin. How is viewpoint diversity any more imaginary that racial diversity?
Because there are no other legitimate viewpoints. /humorless prog
I’m afraid that my Mötley Crüe heart has been co-opted by one of Nikki Sixx’s side projects.
Yeah, well, I listened to that Henry Mancini album while doing some data entry today and now I want to see a sixties movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yQV7I6VZdc
Posted this on the dying PM Lynx thread yesterday, so shamelessly posting it again: The perfect performance of “Moon River.” (The second song of the medley is nice, but optional.)
A voice more perfect than Karen Carpenter’s.
not possible
You beat me to it.
I wonder if Karen Carpenter and Cass Elliot hung out together they would both be still alive.
Okay, so I listened. It’s perfectly adequate, but really, she’s got way too much warble in her vibrato.
HOWEVER, girl groups and 60s music #FTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOr00V8MPHA
April 16 is his centenary. TCM is running 24 hours of movies with music by Mancini.
Awesome!
You’re welcome!
He’s the worst.
No, he’s got kids.
No one can coopt my love for Sam Kinison.
Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.
Not buying it. NPR’s squeeing-teenage-girl Obama worship was advocacy turned up to 11.
It’s hard for me to pick the most nauseating moment of Obama worship, but here are my top 2 picks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6r_j7Xeyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
There’s even a Yiddish one called Yo Mir Kenen.
Mmm Mmm Mmm
Yeah GT, that one is up there too.
actual squeeing Obama girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
He’s late to the realization, but at least he’s there.
“EXCLUSIVE What you can and CAN’T eat amid America’s bird flu outbreak, according to ex-FDA food chief: Avoid steak houses, salad dressing and even some favorite desserts!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13284365/bird-flu-outbreak-farms-chicken-beef-milk-eggs-food-safety.html
Yeah right-hey Daily Mail and Dr. Darin Detwiler, I’ve got something y’all can put in y’all’s mouths.
I keep hearing about the new most deadliester than ever cooties and how just hearing about it on the news can kill you but the fear mongering doesnt seem to be getting much traction.
I guess that’s what happens when you take a giant steamer on your credibility.
So Ken’s Steakhouse salad dressing is off the table?
Lol, no.
I have it on good authority that wearing a hairshirt and whipping yourself in public is the best way to combat climate change.
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Flagellantism was a 14th-century movement, consisting of penitents in the Catholic Church. It began as a Christian pilgrimage and was later condemned by the Catholic Church as heretical. The followers were noted for including public flagellation in their rituals. This was a common practice during the Black Death, or the Great Plague.
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjcYk-MIEc
Firstsuckers are creatures disguised as groupies who would suck the life force from Firsters. It all starts off benignly enough, but soon the Firster is no longer able to get erections of his usual duration. And from there, his loads are reduced in size and frequency until eventually they dry up entirely. They are among the most devious of weapons in the arsenal of the seconder.
A Firster who can no longer have an erection lasting over 3 hours, who can no longer produce the payload needed to drop mad Firsts upon the world, is no Firster at all. To have the power to First stolen from you….
Bruh. Erection Day is Nov. 4th.
Put in face-to-face notice, written prior, that Friday, April 12 will be my last day at the after school daycare bullshit known as “Extended School Enrichment.” I thought about giving them an extra day or two after Boss mentioned something. At the end of the day, my face broke out with some redness it kinda does sometimes — Directly caused this time by dealing with my generation’s decision to foster all this shit. It’s like Korea, but instead of actually LEARNING at schools all day, these kids are just baby-sat. The parents get to pat themselves on the back! And that’s all that matters. Yuck. No more, say I. Great incentive. Next contract starts April 22 and will be nuts. Next week I gotta set up my office and get Ready Set.
I’m gonna be bouncing up to Buchanan, MI to pick up supplies. I may be going on quite a fun Day Trip or maybe a short mini vacation. I hung out with the ex last night. Welcome/Goodbye hug and that’s it. We watched the Yankees win and thankfully not the Cubs do whatever it is I don’t want to rethink… Fuck it. I’m fucked and so’s she, but both in the best ways for the two of us. How/why could I be with someone NOT as half-fucked, half-unicorn as me? Eyes open, but ya only live once. Miss every shot ya don’t take…
Just caught a bit of an interview with Juan Williams, recently fired by NPR.
His take? They are narrow, rigid minded people living completely within a prog bubble with contempt for anyone not in 100% agreement with their radical extreme left view.
When you have lost Juan…..
The ‘liberals’ who got this ball rolling are now enjoying the fruits of their labor.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/a9/5f/60a95f42cd847bdd7baddace10d0a9a7.jpg