It’s here! Eclipse day! What? But it was beautiful blue sky yesterday… Oh well, we’re going to sit up on the deck and the shop and drink while it gets dark and cold.
Links?
Well, at least we know why she was banging the dog.
No fear mongering here folks. None at all.
Awfully nice for the Mayo clinic to catch up with the rest of us.
Sigh… Put down the feed bag and go for a walk, people. Five percent of you actually need this.
Okay, I’m out. Here’s some fine, fine Swiss rock and roll.
Still no idea how people like that find each other.
I’m not sure I want to know.
Love can be ruff.
Their marriage has gone to the dogs.
I bet he’s in the doghouse now.
*starts playing AC/DC Given the dog a bone*
Him chasing kids, no wonder she got all knotted up.
Looking at the picture of the happy couple, I can’t tell who has better sweater puppies.
Discouraging nuclear war might be a case where fear mongering is OK.
Fallout drops this week!
The First Amazon Prime ‘Fallout’ Show Previews Are Glowing
The previews are glowing. Get it? GET IT?!!
Ugh…. sounds ghoulish.
It might appeal to a small enclave.
Only if they pull out some good scripts from the vault they put them in — of course, that would entail calling back some of the crew from their vacation in the shady sands.
That’s not going to happen, they’d have to Institute a meritocracy, which is the furthest thing from the moral Necropolis they reside in,
What — are you saying someone would railroad them into making some sort of karma choice? Just wait a minute, man — I don’t think I’d be alone wonderer or some sort of chosen one to think that they’re not going to say “Yes, man!” to that.
You have to Master yourself lest you overload your comments with megatons of references.
It’s interesting because this goes hand in hand with Russian saber rattling over the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and against NATO.
^This.
Don’t mind at all given how casual this Administration treats issues that could trigger WWIII.
I’m assuming they have some super deluxe bomb shelter.
They do realize he was President once before?
All I can figure is that they’re scared the last 4 years have shown him the possibilities… (i.e. that he’ll do to them what they’ve been trying to do to him…)
When in doubt, assume projection. If he wins, they’re planning an actual insurrection and they don’t want him to have the tools to stop it.
Again, go with the classics I suppose… 1860, here we come!
One problem, among many, with Ozempic, is that after a while it plateaus and there is rebound weight gain. The whole thing is stupid. It only works because you eat less. You can do that without drugs just by putting less food in your mouth.
Buy only food you dislike? I once saw that piece of advice re quitting cigarettes.
That whole “cottage cheese and a piece of lettuce” diet? That would fit for me, certainly.
Only buy cigarettes you don’t like? Switch to menthol or vice-versa?
I read that Biden is going to delay his menthol ban until after the election.
Biden was lobbied by none other than the Rev. Al Sharpton. Who was in turn paid by the tobacco lobby.
Problem for whom? Not for the pharma companies. They get customers for life at a $1000 per shot. Weight Loss as a Service (WLaaS).
For about 18 months?
My understanding is that in order for it to have a long term impact, you are on it for life. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from news carefully concealed commercials, er, news reports I’ve seen.
I’ve read after a while it stops working.
I’m too lazy to look into it, but it’s possible that we are in agreement. It stops working unless you are up to date with your shots. Like the Covid vaccine.
Best tool you can get is a kitchen scale. Weigh your portions, treat eating as dosing with medication, be strict with yourself. Shorter but much nastier route — get IBS-D. For either, giving up all joy in living is not necessary, but may happen ;-\
Seriously people. Portion control, which a kitchen scale helps with if you use it rigorously.
I concur with the kitchen scale.
Someone once wrote that dieting was like forcing an alcoholic to drink three shots of whiskey each day. Any more and you get sick and die. Any less and you get sick and die.
Eating your body weight in protein (unless you are already over 200 pounds and not a body builder) is hard to do and will keep you from overeating as well.
Grams to kilos?
The rule I’ve seen is gram per pound of bodyweight for us dummy Americans.
Why not just re-air the classics?
https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA
Narrow gaze right back atcha there, Swiss! We don’t get to do that your way often, so have to say I relish the opportunity.
ARGH!! Spud did the links. I thought the Raclette challenge thing was self-deprecating and didn’t look at the author section yet. Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SZ6k9RoR0
Spudalicious mustered up quite the pun. I nearly missed it.
It’s a miracle someone didn’t whip it out faster.
Oh, I get it now.
Took me a while to catch up.
Shit. Now I want French fries.
“The preprint study found that the use of puberty blockers on male children can result in mild to severe testicular atrophy.”
Feature, not a bug, for the demons pushing them on kids. They also inflict irreversible harm on girls.
“This study presents a conversation about the need for more research into the potential dangers of puberty blockers on young males.”
Give us money!
I thought nothing would shock me anymore but the widespread acceptance of this undiluted evil did. My god, who would allow that to happen to their own child?
These people should be doing life at hard time in fuck-me-in-the-ass prison.
They’re not allowing it to happen, they’re pushing their kids to have it done. This is the new Munchausen by proxy.
I think of it as the new lobotomy. One day it will be viewed the same way we today view the horror of wholesale lobotomies.
It’s almost entirely white women.
No fear mongering here folks. None at all.
Golly if “the living will envy the dead” maybe our foreign policy should back away from poking the country most likely to light us up.
‘A “Bolt out of the Blue” attack against DC is what everyone in DC fears most,’
I guess “fears” is one word you could use.
They had to qualify that statement.
Outside of DC they might use “anticipated”, “applauded”, “hoped for”.
“Whacked off to?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_Under_Atomic_Attack
***
Kill the Myths (15)
Atomic Weapons Will Not Destroy The Earth
Atomic bombs hold more death and destruction than man ever before has wrapped up in a single package, but their over-all power still has very definite limits. Not even hydrogen bombs will blow the earth apart or kill us all by radioactivity.
Doubling Bomb Power Does Not Double Destruction
Modern A-bombs can cause heavy damage 2 miles away, but doubling their power would extend that range only to 2.5 miles. To stretch the damage range from 2 to 4 miles would require a weapon more than 8 times the rated power of present models.
Radioactivity Is Not The Bomb’s Greatest Threat
In most atom raids, blast and heat are by far the greatest dangers that people must face. Radioactivity alone would account for only a small percentage of all human deaths and injuries, except in underground or underwater explosions.
Radiation Sickness Is Not Always Fatal
In small amounts, radioactivity seldom is harmful. Even when serious radiation sickness follows a heavy dosage, there is still a good chance for recovery.
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Also: after 2 weeks, 99% of the excess radiation will be gone.
At this point – an adversary is more likely to use high atmosphere bursts for EMP combined with hacking or other infrastructure attacks. Globalism, urbanization and the general softening of society means most of us wouldn’t survive if the infrastructure is down for very long and certainly we won’t be in a position to fight back pretty quickly.
Or they could just… you know… get our own crop of idiots to pay for gain-of-function research and take us out with bio-labs.
Or use social media to introduce divisions all across society and pitch mass self-sterilization and whatnot…. if they’re playing the long game.
Sort of the opposite of what Annie Jacobsen says in her book Nuclear War: A scenario.
That said she also mentions the dangers of an EMP blast that SDF-7 mentioned.
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Scenario-Annie-Jacobsen/dp/0593476093/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zc4pVis1Ig85dlnJ_KqFwungtl6Oq6gFzV3CX8WACwCCqfG7kAm2GwNQfJckmS-4OoHkLQjZkJSsaDYNh3YW3qmqRehUJ23pduhsOPzPCjINyxdqUYSaZzPPv3NjD01j-4_v52Bo8J8Y2VAgffyfvA.ajVE0MPQ8CmO9fp7qh1kolDZ4ucYIAS7HbE5VkuGKP0&qid=1712609403&sr=8-1
Atomic bombs are not fatal to mankind – check
My gasoline powered automobile is killing the earth right this moment – check
And gas stoves ARE fatal to mankind.
“BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is seen scarfing down lunch as she goes grocery shopping with son at Gelson’s in Calabasas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13276957/BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-lunch-Gelsons-Calabasas.html
#FatLivesMatter
“shapeless pink Adidas poncho and Crocs”
Hot
Cullors distinctive mole on her forehead, as well as her various tattoos, including the ‘line’ tattoo that runs from her chin to her chest and ends with the numbers ‘818’, were visible during the outing.
She was also wearing the same nose ring she has been seen flaunting on recent Instagram posts.
You have to try to be this unappealing.
Was 818 the year Columbus bought slaves for his plantation?
Guessing it’s the area code from a mansion in which she’s laughing at the rest of us.
Is it Hitlers area code? ‘Cause that would fit, too.
San Fernando Valley.
” Transgender women will no longer be welcome to compete as females in NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) competitions, the governing body voted Monday.
The NAIA’s national convention, the Council of Presidents, announced the decision Monday, stating that beginning August 1, ‘only students whose biological sex is female’ can compete in women’s NAIA sports. The vote was a unanimous 20-0. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-13285271/transgender-women-banned-naia-ncaa.html
Good.
Don’t they mean “sex assigned at birth”? Do better, The NAIA.
It’s akshully assigned at conception when that misogynist sperm comes hammering home, deciding for the woman what the sex is going to be.
Yeah, but this is the private school league. The NCAA to which the vast majority of colleges belong is a whole ‘nother animal.
A horse of another gender?
private school
indeed
70% of access problems are about access to venues/institutions/occasions that shouldn’t exist at all, that shouldn’t be be wings of government
shrink government to its proper size and scope and life gets clearer and easier instantly
True, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Also, it can be a factor which schools female athletes attend.
Praise Biden
A new analysis from the former chief economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers found that the large increase in immigration in recent years is a major part of why the U.S. has recently experienced extraordinary economic growth compared to peer nations.
Economist Ernie Tedeschi, now a research scholar at Yale University, writes in a new report that the rise in the immigrant population since 2020 accounts for at least a fifth of U.S. growth since then. That goes a long way toward explaining why the U.S. has grown almost twice as fast as the next best performer among G7 economies since the pandemic. Furthermore, he notes, “absent immigration, the US labor supply would have shrunk by 1.2 million since 2019. Instead, it expanded by 2 million.”
That’s a big deal. The report is a reminder of a truism among economists: Immigration is good for the economy, helping bring in new laborers who create goods and services, spend money on goods and services, contribute to the social safety net, and help spur innovation.
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But this report is a reminder that the arrival of large number of undocumented immigrants has helped fuel yet another round of American exceptionalism in the global economy. Biden’s relaxation of Trump’s harsh immigration policies has not proved burdensome to the U.S. economy, but has served as a boon to it. As Semafor’s Jordan Weissmann points out, Tedeschi’s research comes around the same time as research from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project suggesting that recent revisions in the estimates of undocumented migrants entering the U.S. help account for how employers were able to keep hiring while policymakers were able to get inflation under control.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
What’s another trillion, more or less, tacked onto the deficit?
One has to wonder then how the numbers look on a per capita basis. Also, isn’t this an admission that the “newcomers” are holding down wages, especially at the low end? I thought income inequality was supposed to be a problem.
How to lie by omission – I don’t see the word “legal” anywhere in the glittering paean.
– “Newly declassified documents reveal in macabre minute-by-minute detail what the end of the world would like.” –
How about what the end of the world does not like? Why is no one reporting on that?
Good God. I get that nobody proofreads text messages and emails, but a well known “news” site headline? If a writer can’t be bothered to reread what they’ve written, why would I waste my time?
And GET OFF MY LAWN!
Also: after 2 weeks, 99% of the excess radiation will be gone.
Neutron bomb, FTW!
👍
Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.
Hey, kid, wanna make 10 bucks?
The ultimate capitalist weapon.
Efficiency and progress is ours once more …
“Newly declassified documents reveal in macabre minute-by-minute detail what the end of the world would like.”
I don’t know what the end of the world would like, but I’d like a beer.
They serve beer in hell. Except it’s an IPA.
Meh, I hear it’s a dry heat.
Yo, AvGeeks – what’s the rate of descent feel like?
https://ibb.co/hYwh6FQ
*what does THIS rate of descent feel like?
You don’t feel speed, you feel acceleration/deceleration.
Probably idle descent from cruise to approach operations. You would feel the initial deceleration, but not much else once you get to a steady vertical speed.
I am not a pilot.
4800 fpm is a bit more than double the normal rate. This particular aircraft was squawking emergency at the time.
None the less, if it’s not decelerating, there’s not much to feel.
Sure, some moderate degree of beefed-up — and humanely executed — border enforcement may not be a bad policy idea for Democrats to embrace. But Democrats will be strongest when they work with the truth: Migrants, as they have through all of American history, enrich the U.S. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say it.
And what is your proposal which will get us back to a situation in which immigrants are a net gain to the economy? Because I do not believe that to currently be the case.
You expect them to net it out with all the benefits and freebies they receive, as well as the impact of crime, housing, etc.? How did so much hate get into your heart?
What are the minorities in the cities complaining about? Apparently the are building Teslas in those big shelters.
Of course legal migrants can work, illegals cannot.
When anyone talks about Swiss rock and roll, I go here. A little dark, but groovy.
I think of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
Swiss rock
The food is terrible, and the portions so small…
https://www.westword.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-in-denver-dont-like-spicy-mexican-food-20262551
“Donations of spicy Mexican food aren’t sitting right with the stomachs of Venezuelan migrants, many of whom rely on free food while they wait for a chance to work and move out of shelters, where the portions are too little, some say.”
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“Most migrant encampments don’t have porta-potties, Nucete points out, and “if you have spicy food and people who are not used to spicy food or refried beans — because we actually eat black beans, and they’re more solid — your bowel movements are going to be completely different.””
At least someone has a sense of humor….
“One Denver resident donated “boxes and boxes” of spicy Cheetos to a migrant encampment, Nucete recalls, “and nobody wanted to eat them. ‘They’re really spicy to us, and we’re just afraid they’re going to waste,'” she says migrants have told her.”
Know where the best Venezuelan food is?
Colombia? It sure isn’t in Venezuela after Chavez/Maduro
The Haitian Barbecue?
“Lovely notes of burning rubber and gasoline.”
Vet?
The zoo.
Well, it used to be a zoo.
With hungry eyes of passers-by?
Who would have thought Chipotle will solve our migrant crisis.
I find it funny that the do-gooders apparently think all Latinxes eat spicy food.
Cuban cuisine is very mild.
They think Hispanics are just one big like-minded group, which is hilarious. Growing up in Miami taught me otherwise. I couldn’t get half of my Hispanic friends to do anything if the other half were going to be around.
Army recruiting flexed to increase production from the hispanic population back in the early ’00s.
“Send all the spanish speakers to those markets!”
It wasn’t too long before we found out that sending a Puerto-Rican recruiter into a Mexican neighborhood was “No Bueno”.
Way worse outcome than random placement.
Yep. Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in particular would absolutely refuse to do anything together. Can’t tell you how many times I would see various groups of them all yelling at each other after school.
Non-Cubans in a Cuban neighborhood seemed to be an issue as well.
I’ve been assured my entire life by all right-thinking progressives that all Hispanics do think a like. Guatemalans, Brazilians, Panamanians and Mexicans have all the same preferences, desires and needs. Same with Ethiopians, Somalians and Jamaicans.
Racial categories are completely organic and were definitely not invented by racist-as-fuck elites as a way to sort people into artificial voting blocks to maintain the illusion that the country is naturally split 50/50 between two totally ideologically separate parties that genuinely care about their constituency’s concerns and give drastically different outcomes while they secretly collude behind the scenes to make all the decisions that matter and stack the deck in favor a de facto American aristocracy.
Nosiree.
The British categorized the “races” of India, as they called them, according to various attributes. The downfall of scientific racism came because anthropologists could never agree on how to classify people.
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American anthropologist Carleton S. Coon wrote that “India is the easternmost outpost of the Caucasian racial region” and defined the Indid race that occupies the Indian subcontinent as beginning in the Khyber Pass.[3][4] John Montgomery Cooper, an American ethnologist and Roman Catholic priest, on 26 April 1945 in a hearing before the United States Senate “To Permit all people from India residing in the United States to be Naturalised” recorded:[2]
The people of India are predominantly Caucasoid. Their features, hair texture, hairiness, the shape of the nose, mouth, and so on, are all distinctly Caucasoid. It is only in some of the far, out-of-the-way places of India, as in this country, that you find certain traces of other races.[2]
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_definitions_of_races_in_India
“….could never agree on how to classify people.”
That is easy: Simply place them on the spectrum of assholes 1-10, ten being the complete assholes, ones being only a little bit of an asshole.
“We seem to have nine useless categories.”
It’s a shame that whites taught them how to be racist.
This is my experience growing up in Miami too. Don’t dare call a Cuban guy Puerto Rican, or vice versa, and don’t dare insinuate that Argentinians aren’t European.
There is no such thing as the Latino Vote. It’s a fucking myth.
Spicy food is popular in certain regions as peppers are often the only source of vitamin C.
Venezuelan migrants, many of whom rely on free food while they wait for a chance to work and move out of shelters
Doing their part to boost GDP.
The armies of squeegee guys, rose vendors, teenage panhandlers, etc. at every intersection in my town are driving the Biden Economic Miracle.
We’ve had a chipmunk infestation the last few years at Casa TOK. We’ve seen a lot in the last few weeks, but I didn’t want to put out the live trap because it’s still cold at night and I didn’t want to be cruel and have one freeze to death.
Just now I heard what sounded like a squeaky toy outside the front window. I looked out and there were two of them fucking. They’re just taunting me now. It’s game on, I’m setting the trap.
Were they doing it doggy style?
Munky style.
Some of my friends/neighbors live trap critters and haul them several miles on the theory that they won’t find their way back. Little do they realize that people in the other neighborhoods are doing the same thing as well. Just strengthening the critter gene pool.
I solve the problem permanently.
Most relocated animals will quickly die anyway.
That’s going to be a problem with relocating grizzlies and wolves, they become opportunists rather than independent.
I drive them south and drop them off in a corn field. Hopefully I’m feeding snakes and hawks. I don’t have the heart to do it myself. My trap is supposed to catch several at a time. The only time that happened was last summer, it was hot and I found three of them dead in the trap. No more Christmas albums I guess.
Thank you for your service.
TOK, there is another solution
https://www.pyramydair.com/product/weihrauch-hw50s-breakbarrel-rifle?m=2152
Fun.
We, er, someone we know, used to have a skunk problem. They’d trap the skunks and let animal control handle the rest. Eventually animal control informed them that it was illegal for them to kill the skunks, but if the skunk was already dead of natural causes, they could take the body away. So the people we know would drop the trapped skunks in a tub of water and dispose of the bodies in a field. It’s kind of sad, from what I hear, but what are you gonna do?
I’m guessing live capturing a skunk and tossing the cage into the back of the vehicle for delivery to the countryside would produce sub-optimal results.
From what I hear, if you get a trap small enough such that the skunk can’t lift its tail, it can’t spray, but it seems there is always a little bit of leakage.
I’d have a tough time trusting that technology.
Since TedS’ isn’t here
https://youtu.be/xBYV_7a0FQs
Total eclipse, from 5 to 11 o’clock on its sundial. I got to enjoy it with Dad in a nearby cemetery. We were shocked more folk weren’t out there. We live right on the Monon Trail. It’s fairly ‘famous’ and it was surprisingly chill. Saw a dude biking through totality without a care in the world. Passing trucks+ on 31 are doing work and more, but a cyclist…uh. I’d take a moment there, bro. The ‘dusky’ atmosphere and it feeling like 8:30 five hours early was perhaps the most unique aspect for me. It was lovely to get to share it with Dad about a quarter-mile walk from home. Nearby Carmel High School, I think the largest in the state with 5k+, was selling parking for fucking $20 in their parking…region. Natch, they’re building another addition to their athletics shit in Wealthy Land. I noticed no differences in local traffic or during my Kroger errand earlier. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There was a fascinating moment where I was literally without speech. (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐈’𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭.) Fun history! (According to wiki…) The first predicted eclipse was ~585 BC by Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus. I particularly liked this bit: “According to Herodotus, the appearance of the eclipse was interpreted as an omen, and interrupted a battle in a long-standing war between the Medes and the Lydians.
𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐚𝐜 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐯 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞”.
I wasn’t really excited about it but I got done with work in time to get to the bar and watch it. It was pretty cool, I won’t be traveling thousands of miles just to catch another one but if one happens to occur where some friend or relative lives I may be tempted to schedule a visit around the event.
I was taken aback. But ,YEP. It’s a 90-min event, or so. Definitely fascinating and worth it. I can’t IMAGINE setting up vacations years in advance over it. HOWEVER…I am not ultra-interested in astronomy+. I absolutely would go out of my way for it, but not a flight. A day trip? Especially with kids, other loved ones or friends? THAT would be perfect.
I’m happy I did what I did. Kids just had spring break, plus today was a day off for schools in Carmel-Clay. Work resumes tomorrow and we shall see how my last four days w the kiddos goes.
Depends on where the eclipse is. I can understand all those people who took a trip down to Mazatlan for the eclipse, since it’s still a Mexican beach holiday.
The next total eclipse will be in August 2026, with totality in western Iceland as well as part of northern Spain from Oviedo to IIRC Valencia. If money weren’t an issue, the fjords of Iceland sound like a nice place to visit, as does Spanish Galicia.
Time to play Guess the Author:
Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA
Minorities are starting to support Trump. Look what he’s done to them already. He must be stopped.
The crime in Democrat run cities is Trump’s fault.
Barf.
Jussie.
Is it Amanda Marcotte? Is she still around?
Good guess. I hadn’t realized she was still around until today.
Sounds like Amanduh. The Pride of Columbia.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/us-news/jewish-alumni-rip-columbia-university-over-antisemitic-incidents-and-tell-administration-to-do-their-job/
But I’m old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.
Ok.
Either didn’t happen or she neglected to mention that she had been driving at the time.
I think you’re right on the former. TDS has caused a new kind of thought crime. The guilty party no longer needs to even think wrong thoughts. If an AWFL can imagine you slighting them, you’re guilty of whatever they pictured you doing in their heads. If one red hat wearing reprobate did something imaginary, they all did something in reality.
I am going to go with ‘did not happen’.
I wonder if Amanduh can tie her own shoes much less operate a motor vehicle.
So she tracked down the men that punched these women and did a long form interview exploring their motivations?
No? She’s just wildly speculating as to the identity and motivations of a small number of perpetrators of the current viral-video-of-the-week trend?
Of course Salon doesn’t have comments for people to mock them. Fucking cowards.
I remember when that started….all of the lefty sites started eliminating their comments sections, a transparent admission that they dont like being called out for being mendacious and completely full of shit.
The depth of Amanduh’s stupidity and mendacity never fails to amaze. How does she do that? How can anyone say something dumber than the last time every single time they open their mouth?
I really, really want to believe that Salon puts Amanda under tight deadlines to pressure her into barfing up something jarringly stupid, which she does with regularity. In my fantasy, the Salon higher-ups giggle themselves to tears with each other in the break room, and then march to Amanda’s cube to soberly tell her what an insightful, thought-provoking piece her latest offering is. Alas, I have to assume they actually think this bilge is smart writing.
I like to think that she’s an act.
No way this will be abused…
Find My Device can locate Pixel 8 even when turned off, coming to Pixel Buds Pro
Even if you can turn it off in the settings, is it really off?
No.
“He punched me then said ‘this is Maga country'” – Scared New Yorker in 95% Democrat New York
Didn’t they already try this shit in Chicago, and black people?
Outrageous
There is no known number of transgender athletes at the high school and college levels, though it is believed to be small. The topic has nonetheless become a hot-button issue among conservative groups and others who believe transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete on girls’ and women’s sports teams.
“The NAIA understands that legal action being taken to challenge the policy is a possibility, but this policy is one our membership and board felt like was the right decision,” the NAIA said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Shiwali Patel, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, said her organization was outraged by the NAIA policy.
“This is unacceptable and blatant discrimination that not only harms trans, nonbinary and intersex individuals, but limits the potential of all athletes,” Patel said in a statement. “It’s important to recognize that these discriminatory policies don’t enhance fairness in competition. Instead, they send a message of exclusion and reinforce dangerous stereotypes that harm all women.”
Dizzying logic.
So…in sports, it’s a minor issue because they are very few of them, but in the military it’s a big issue because they are so many of them?
NPR and other outlets assured me that transgender service members are an essential demographic to recruit and retain.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/983118029/pentagon-releases-new-policies-enabling-transgender-people-to-serve-in-the-milit
wikipedia says
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Transgender people are significantly more likely to serve in the US military than the general US population.[176][177] According to 2014 estimates from the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, despite the ban on military service, about 21.4% of the total transgender population in the US is estimated to have served in the military. In May 2014, an estimated 15,500 transgender individuals served on active duty or in the Guard or Reserve forces.[22]
About 32% of transgender individuals in the US who are assigned male at birth serve or have served in the military, compared to 5.5% for transgender individuals who are assigned female at birth.[22] According to the 2014 study, “[t]he American military employs more transgender people than any other organisation in the world: around 15,500…more than 6,000 of whom are on active duty.”[178]
A 2016 workplace and gender relations survey found 9,000 US military service members consider themselves transgender individuals.[179] In 2019, the United States Department of Defense states that 1,400 service members have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and fewer than 10 service members were receiving gender reassignment surgery.[179]
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Klinger was still in the Army in 2016?
Algys a poof !
Today’s music purchase.
I just found myself in an elevator with shag carpet walls.
It has its ups and downs.
Don’t touch anything.
Mancini’s centenary is April 16, and TCM is running 24 hours of movies with music by Mancini.
The perfect performance of “Moon River”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9FA0BSOQwA
Most relocated animals will quickly die anyway.
Somebody should tell the sea lions in Monterrey Bay.
Clue: If the flood of invaders were making the country better the Biden admin would put a screeching halt to it.
Florida Man Woes
The landlord complained about the oil leak from my car staining the concrete pad I park it on. I guess until I get it fixed, I’ll need to put a drip pan under it. No biggie, but I remember seeing similar such pans under Army vehicles in the PX parking lot of Camp Swampy. It made me wonder how many times oil spilled from those pans inside the Humvee or whatever. My experience with old cars is either they leak oil, burn oil, or both. Last year, a mechanic told me it’d cost $1100 to fix the leak, so I postponed it.
Back in the day, the drip pan stayed in the space when the vehicle was dispatched, but an actual class III leak was a deadline.
Yes it’s old and outdated, but I’m pleased with my meme
https://ibb.co/n7Bsmy3
Your view of the eclipse was suddenly blocked by public transportation?
It’s a Total Eclipse of the Marta.
Oh.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/marta-the-interrupting-bus
Looks like it was an intel operation.
Not AMD or ARM?
LOL!
the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy
Like, fer sherr.
I’m guessing live capturing a skunk and tossing the cage into the back of the vehicle for delivery to the countryside would produce sub-optimal results.
One of my friends accidentally trapped a skunk. He was trying to get the raccoon who was dragging his trash all over the yard every week. He threw a blanket over the trap and managed to get it into the back of his El Camino. When they arrived at the drop off point, he said he practically had to turn the trap up on end and shake it to get the skunk out. I guess he liked it in there.
A professional gamer who formerly held the highest score in the world for Donkey Kong is suing an Australian YouTuber over accusations he cheated to achieve the arcade record.
American gaming icon William ‘Billy’ James Mitchell is seeking almost half a million dollars in defamation damages from Karl Jobst, after the Brisbane-based content creator and video game speedrunner outlined damning allegations Mr Mitchell cheated his way to the high scores.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/former-donkey-kong-recordholder-billy-mitchell-sues-aussie-youtuber-for-450k-over-cheating-allegations/news-story/b1602dcd3ea33a54ca67071a2606ce8f
Billy Mitchell… This lawsuit is sure to bomb.
How does he finance his legal fees? He’s
lostfailed to win so many lawsuits.