Yesterday I found myself in the middle of a field in Waco, Texas. No, I did not join a cult again. But I did experience a rare event.
Trump Releases Statement on Abortion Stance, Says Issue Should Be Decided by the States
New York Appeals Court Denies Trump Motion to Delay Hush-Money Trial
Trump Prosecutors Release Jury Screening Questions Ahead Of Landmark Trial
Biden DOJ Refuses to Turn Over Biden’s Recorded Interview With Special Counsel Robert Hur
Biden in jeopardy of not making Ohio’s November ballot
Filings Show Left-wing Gen-Z PAC Blew More than $1M on Travel Expenses, Consultants
Questions swirl around deadly ATF raid of Arkansas home leaving a local airport administrator dead
Study: 1 in 3 Zoomers Have No Income, Poor Economic Outlook
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Yesterday I found myself in the middle of a field in Waco, Texas. No, I did not join a cult again. But I did experience a rare event.
I saw some people throwing virgins in volcanoes to stop it because… CLIMATE CHANGE!
Unfortunately, the crazies who hear voices did try sacrificing others.
At least it was not her cats talking to her…
It’s been done
I was unsuccessful in finding someone to “enjoy the last moments of Earth together” with.
You should have spent time with the plant…
I have it on good authority that you are what they crave…
again?
Morning, Banjos — glad you’re not in a cult? (I mean… there’s a Ms. Manners column… ‘How do you respond when someone tells you they used to be in a cult and aren’t a washed up Smallville actress?’)
After the first dozen, they just lose their charm.
So, you really need to be one of the Apostles?
This is the only cult I belong to.
The Cult of vi!
Oh no you di’in’t
What rhywun sed.
The cult that gives me a lot of vim and vigor through my work day! (Unlike that emacsulating cult…)
Ed tells me I should work out wordplay regarding nano, but I keep forgetting that exists.
Real programmers use butterflies.
(-_-)
Heh…. very nice.
She married a Tosu fan.
“…again?”
She is here, isn’t she?
We’re pretty weak on venerating our glorious leader (which is almost a requirement for any cult).
“Trump Releases Statement on Abortion Stance, Says Issue Should Be Decided by the States”
As someone that doesn’t think abortion is a good thing and would like to see it limited, this is the legal recourse we have now. If those that see it as murder without exception want to make it illegal call a constitutional convention to do so. That is not going to happen if you have lost power however because batshit crazy women that think the proof of their independence is to have the ability to murder their own offspring came out in droves to vote to take over government to prevent you from being able to call that constitutional convention.
Murder is a state crime, and shouldn’t be the purview of the Feds regardless. No convention required.
The problem is that you can’t make the argument it is murder based on the law.
Which has to be corrected at the level of the jurisdiction where the crime belongs.
So, the states…
That’s what I said the first time around.
How do you address the people that want the federal government to ban it?
“Hey idiots”
You remind them that is was federalizing the issue that was the root error of Roe v. Wade.
Trump just did.
That’s NEET.
“Disconnected sounds like someone took their phone away.
1) They don’t define the precise boundaries on Gen Z so it is harder to judge… are they all supposed to be out of high school now? Just mostly? I believe at least the leading wave should be college grads — so some of this is probably the typical “finding yourself, chose the wrong degree and living at home again” phase of life aggravated by the minimum wage hikes, inflation and general cost of living keeping them from doing it 4 to a room with a Domino’s job as past generations did instead of moving in back home.
2) Probably a larger percentage have no interest in working because of video games, bad dating scene and parents willing to pay, granted.
3) The jobs being added being more and more part time, mostly government / health care and predominately taken by non-Americans (don’t link the stupid South Park JERBS! please… that’s one of the few times I think Trey and Matt really missed the mark on market dynamics and flooding the market with cheap labor in what should have been solid entry/journeyman blue collar work at least…), so they may simply not see the point.
4) For the men at least — college at least likely looks like a terrible investment… dominated by crap politics and a female-is-the-future minefield. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they don’t think they have much of a chance in a non-STEM (STEM guys tend to assume merit in the end and ignore societal trends anyway) field given the obvious quota system since 2020.
Maybe there’s a generational malaise thing, maybe there’s a lack of motivation — but their parents will age out and need the money for themselves eventually, so my answer is still “Get the economy moving again, stop distorting the low end labor market, get energy costs down [that’s actual job 1 to get said economy moving again being the foundation] and deregulate so machining and manufacturing make sense [lose the stupid implicit DIE quotas, loosen environmental that’s gone way too far, etc… make it so the non-college guys can be welders, plumbers, etc. again and it makes sense.
Barely informed rant off.
The globalist agenda can’t move forward as long as a blue collar middle class exists. And they are hard at work destroying that blue collar middle class in the US, which means you will see no efforts to do anything but handicap the economy in such a way that government can keep picking the blue collar middle class to lose.
I don’t disagree, I just find the Japanese term to be more accurate. “Not in Emplyment, Education, or Training”. “Disconnected” doesn’t describe the situation in the slightest.
At this point, it’s pretty obvious that “flooding the market with cheap labor” is the entire point.
Sure, the Dems have taken it to increasingly dangerous extremes, but it’s not like the GOP is gonna “fix” it.
But yes, Trey and Matt completely missed the legal distinctions.
…or to crush the middle class or to change the electorate or to….
So many birds, one stone.
I’ve never seen any data or a study on it, but I would love to see something showing the amount of parental support given to adults over time in this country. I would bet that it was pretty stable for decades if not longer, and has been steadily rising for maybe the last 20 years or so. And I would also bet that as parental support is provided/expected, independence goes down and takes employment and engagement with the world with it. It’s just an application of “You get more of what you reward”, after all, and as recently (in demographic terms) as the 80s and 90s, you just didn’t see adults being supported by their parents (aside from, say, some help buying a first house or similar). But it seems pretty common now to, effectively, extend adolescence through the 20s and even into the 30s.
Yeah, my son and his wife (and the baby) are living with her parents. We may be going back to extended families dwelling together – which was the norm for much longer than the nuclear family.
The difference being that, in most of those extended families under one roof deals, everybody worked – it wasn’t just an extended period of dependency. I’m sure there’s some off that going on and its a continuum blah blah, but that’s why I’d be interested in seeing some data.
OK, both son and wife are working – banking for the down payment on their next place (while the condo she owns is rented out). That is different.
I see the wisdom, but then I consider living with my in-laws* would kill me.
*wife is only child
Millennial GF is back living with her parents and working part-time. I will not be advancing our relationship until she’s financially independent.
Living at home until marriage was the norm also.
Maybe, but I’m not really wanting to be downgrading my lifestyle to the point that I can support her and her kid.
Wait, she already has a kid?
Yup. 11 years old.
I’m not sure it was a norm for men as much as women. And I suspect that people got married a lot younger, too.
Yep. And expected to act like an adult earlier.
On most cultures the woman gets married off young, the men get more leeway.
The new couples tend to move in to the home of the boy’s side, not necessarily get their own place, though that varies.
Good move. I have a colleague whose wife used to work, and they had agreed that she’d go back to work once their kids could go to day care. When the time came, she announced that she’d not be working, but would continue to stay with them. This upended all his financial plans.
This was not a mutual decision, but a flat statement of fact by her.
Seems to happen often. At least they’re not paying for day care.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal but I know many immigrants who still live with their parents or in three generational households because that’s normal for them. They’re also generally productive. I think there’s other dynamics here. I imagine that centuries ago, sons did what their fathers did, and were taken on as an unofficial or official apprentice, or they took over the family business if they were in a higher economic class. That’s nearly impossible these days, and I don’t think we’ve figured out how to replace what was lost.
This in completely anecdotal but I know a few Zoomers who just don’t seem to feel like continuous employment is a priority for them. They work for a few months to a year and then quit to take an extended vacation, because it’s too stressful or they just “need a break.”
How they then go on to live with no income for the next six months s a mystery to me. I don’t know that the individuals in question are getting transfers from the bank of mom and dad but it’s the most at-hand explanation. Otherwise it means that they are eating though their savings for very short-term benefits.
What did Hazelitt say about increased calls for socialism?
Eventually you run out of other people’s money? No wait, that was Maggie.
“Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. “
I don’t think this is exactly what I was thinking of but it’s close.
I had some surfer friends do that back in the 90’s; work for six months, and then bail out for Bali or someplace like that. Now, in their 50’s, a lot of those same people are starting to worry about retirement, as they have no savings for it, and often had a kid in their late 30s.
Retirement savings plan: https://www.allthefanfare.com/content/images/2023/03/image-7-1.png
I would have been very disappointed if it were anything else.
I was expecting a lottery ticket
I had a group of friends who would get seasonal resort work and then go on unemployment for a good chunk of the rest of the year.
During the Covid madness, my oldest grandson got his first job, working Xmas part time at Target for six weeks. After Xmas, when he was let go and drew the enhanced unemployment benefits for six MONTHS and each weeks benefits was more than he made per week while working.
something something incentives something work?
I know an ex-carpenter who would do the same, except go on workers comp when he didn’t feel like working.
Looking it up, I see all three of my girls are Gen Z (I thought the older ones were millennials). But the youngest (18) is the outlier. We had to force the older two to get their drivers license, and they are both jumping from low paying job to low paying job. But they keep getting jobs because everyone else is doing the same thing, and it’s hard to find workers willing to do the basics (actually show up, on time, and do work). The youngest and her boyfriend have a great work ethic and have long term plans. Just anecdotal, but I think the younger generation seems to notice their older siblings and don’t want that for themselves.
As the dad of a boy-turning-man about to go to college in a little over a year, I’m saddened by the fact that he will not have the same leeway many/most of us had in college. 20 years ago you did not need a STEM major to find a productive career. Studying the liberal arts was not griefer studies, and those departments used to teach skills that are valuable in the workforce. It allowed most of us to study what we found interesting while still receiving real-deal job skills. These days a liberal arts degree is nothing but political indoctrination and brain scrubbing. Their goal is no longer to educate, but to re-educate. To destroy the values that you grew up with in a bid to convince us that 2+2=5. That men are the best women. That capitalism is an evil to be stomped out. That the poverty students will be living in in the future because they haven’t received any marketable skills is noble, and everyone not living in poverty is evil.
In order to justify the staggering cost of college, hard lines have to be drawn on what my kid can and cannot study. I mean, sure, take that interesting sounding philosophy or literature class, but there’s no fucking way I can justify paying for a philosophy or literature degree. If he wants to go to college, his options of study will necessarily be limited in a way that it wasn’t for most of us. Both Mrs Muzzled and I have liberal arts degrees. I have an advanced degree in medieval literature. She has a thriving career in marketing. I was a stay-at-home dad until recently now that my kids are old enough to not need a personal Uber driver everywhere they go.
Those same degrees today will not afford one the ability to branch out of grieferdom and find a stable career. In fact, many employers will turn them away because of said degrees, because the very essence of what those degrees used to teach has been obliterated in favor of the feels. Even basic writing deficiencies are ignored now in favor of emotional vomit.
We’ve lost one of the Crown Jewels of western civilization, and it’s a goddamned shame.
I will repeat some of the best advice that I have seen written in the last decade or so:
1) Go to college and study how to run a business.
2) In the summers, get a temp job working in any of the trades.
3) Graduate from college and get a permanent job in the trades.
4) Save your money, and then buy out your current boss or start a new business in the trades.
Not everyone can cut it in STEM.
My oldest can. Very smart kid, with lots of aptitude.
He was a victim of insane amounts of harassment in his very small private school for not parroting the typical social media leftist talking points. An 11 year old being labeled by classmates he’d known since he was 3 as a racist and misogynist for stating plain view facts because they went against the made up world of social media proclamations. He received incessant messages, sometimes while he was speaking in class, telling him to kill himself, that he needed to shut up, that he was the reason people are oppressed in society. It was brutal for him throughout middle school. He had to learn very early, much earlier than any of us did, how to intellectually stand his ground. How to support his statements with evidence.
But overall, yes. STEM ain’t for everyone.
That said, neither is studying the liberal arts. Proper research and writing is hard. That is until they decided that the degree itself, the piece of paper, was more important than the substance that made up that degree.
good luck to your son
Are you kidding? That would lead to violent revolt
Ronna didn’t get her television gig — they should hire her. She’ll fit right in.
You think they could get these kids to show up without giving them expensive free shit?
Trump jury questionnaire: the “Boogaloo Boys” is an actual organization? I thought it was just an Internet meme.
Surprised he didn’t throw the NRA in as well.
I think they are planning on the NRA being sued out of existence by the time the trial starts.
‘are you or have you ever been a member of the NRA?’
/New House committee on unamerican affairs
“Trump Prosecutors Release Jury Screening Questions Ahead Of Landmark Trial”
Let me guess? If you say you believe in the US constitution, that our government has become irreparably corrupt, that DEI/CRT are a cancer on our society, or that the legal system is a joke, you are disqualified?
No need to go that deep. If you think there’s a possibility of anything but a Guilty verdict, you’re disqualified.
Orange Man Bad? Yes or no.
I am pretty sure that’s what the questionnaire boils down to…
The guy had a high-profile job. If the ATF wanted to be boring and safe, they could have searched his house while he was at work, then arrested him on the way home. But where’s the fun in that?
Here’s an idea – No federal agent is allowed to possess or handle Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, or Explosives. If they wish to do so, they can resign.
That sure looked like pre-dawn to me. Maybe the judge should’ve been more specific.
Just like how they could have arrested Koresh anytime he left the Davidian property for his morning run or when he was out shopping, but they decided to LARP as Rambo instead.
Gotta get your adrenaline fix, plus medals somehow.
That whole SWAT budget had to be justified. You don’t build that team and not use it.
“Biden DOJ Refuses to Turn Over Biden’s Recorded Interview With Special Counsel Robert Hur”
Let me guess…
That’s because Biden was so awesome and prescient that he even revealed details to things that affect national security!
The possible reasons are legion. If you can. think of it there is no doubt a healthy dose with Biden.
‘National Security’ as a justification has become synonymous with ‘to avoid embarrassment and/or prosecution’.
“Study: 1 in 3 Zoomers Have No Income, Poor Economic Outlook”
How much of this is because Obamanomics/Bidenomics have basically destroyed the American dream (i.e. fundamentally changed America)? And how much of this is because too many parents filled these kids heads with how important/valuable they were without ever having accomplished a single thing of note leading them to expect handouts?
Started with going off the gold standard in ‘71
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Akshully…the US had a silver standard. A dollar was defined in terms of grains of silver and every so often the law defining it in gold would have to adjust.
Coinage act of 1792 defined a dollar as 371.25 grains of silver.
Today a dollar is about 17.125 grains of silver.
A dollar was defined in silver, but other coins were defined in gold and copper. Gold became the de facto single standard in the 1850’s act until the crime of 1873.
Yes.
We all know college is a scam, but I would still struggle to not recommend college to an 18 year old because the credential is a valuable signaling tool.
Car guys – There have been many a conversation on manual transmissions, but watching videos of repairs on old hardware made me wonder – How many of you prefer a manual choke for the engine?
Yeah, not with fuel injection I wouldn’t think. And carburetors are pretty old school.
I should have been implicit that carburated was implied in the setup.
So you’re pretty much talking nothing built in the last what 30 years?
Yes. You aren’t going to find any of it on a machine controlled by computers.
should have been explicit.
Dammit I english gud
It doesn’t exist with fuel injection. So first you’d have to say do you prefer carburation or FI. Honestly, FI is quite nice, but much more difficult for amateurs to play with.
Most later carbureted cars had an automatic choke and they worked relatively well. British sports cars were a bit of an exception. You still had to route cable into the car and they jammed up. So either system had issues.
Based solely on experience with early ’80s V-6s, give me FI any day. Carbureted was so so susceptible to the tiniest vaccuum leak (or mis-routing one hose) and tracking it down was a pain in the butt.
Granted, I’m very much one of the amateurs… but FI was/is a lot lot easier to keep running properly. (At least before the EMP strike mentioned yesterday. 😉 )
Part of that is because of all the emissions stuff messing with the vacuum the carb needs.
Remove that stuff and the system gets much simpler.
This. There is a reason people still love Webers.
MEGA-squirt for the win.
Back when I was looking into vintage (60s-70s) Mercedes that was the preferred way of getting those early FI systems to work. Not sure what is going on now, and diesels are a hole ‘nother ball game.
Auto choke on portable generator. Works just as well as manual (and you can manual set it). Suppose the solenoid is another potential part that could fail but hasn’t so far.
I grew up driving/working on cars during the transition from carbs to FI. Give me FI any day of the week. Other than some early, finicky, FI systems that were difficult to diagnose (my ’77 Cadillac Seville was a great example of this) due to lack of trouble codes/cheap scanning equipment, FI is superior to carbeuration(sp?) in every way.
My dad had 76 Seville that he traded because of the FI.
Assuming you just want to fix, but not modify, FI is the way to go assuming you can get parts. And some of the aftermarket FI systems are really interesting and tunable.
If I have to use a carb, then I like a manual choke. I would not want it on a daily driver.
Also, all 6 of my vehicles have manual trans. I’m a big fan.
EFI is simpler than ever. See below.
https://www.holley.com/products/fuel_systems/fuel_injection/
I had a nice clear view of the hoopla yesterday, but I would have liked to have been out on the prairie or up on a mountain top to get the added effect of seeing the terminator move across.
Still worth the drive, even I was a little disappointed as to how dark it didn’t get. No constellations visible, only Venus and Sirius.
Also, can OMWC or another sufficiently educated Glib explain why afterwards there were dozens Jews doing that pray-bowing thing facing East? Also, what the difference is with the prayer shawls having black stripes?
That sounds like we should have a Jewsday Tuesday afternoon post to me! 😉
Have you not seen a solar eclipse before? I’m surprised we got that many. Not sure any of the previous ones I saw had much in the way of other lights. The corona still gives off a lot of light.
Last total one was when I was a kid in Middle School. At that time we were told not to look at it even during totality, so just pinhole cameras. A
I’m surprised. I mean even my shitty school got the eclipse glasses so we could look up.
I remember on the walk from the bus stop to home there was still a notch taken out as I took another look.
We tried the pinhole cameras – but they did not work one iota.
Eclipse glasses did not exist at that time. I am older than you. The pinhole cameras worked surprisingly well, but required constant attention.
What surprised me was how naked-eye, the sun appears either completely eclipsed or completely uneclipsed. The moment the sun peeked back out it seemed like a full solar disc blasting me.
I didn’t think it was by that much.
This middle school was the one where I saw the Challenger go kablooie.
I saw the one in… ’77 maybe? or 78, somewhere around there, and we used both pinhole cameras and binoculars, which were turned around and pointed at a piece of paper, through which you could watch the whole thing happen.
It was pretty cool.
“We’re the
phone companyGovernment — we don’t have to care.”They did make the mistake of leaving a witness – his wife.
Not for long…….
Abortion issue: Two sides based on completely different outlooks.
1. The individual is an end in themselves.
2. Individuals are means to an end. Eggs, omelets and all that. I have seen a lot of eggshells but the omelet never seems to materialize.
These two will never see eye to eye. Debating this issue is a complete waste of time. Leave it to the states and let voters decide.
Leave it to the states and let voters decide.
But you’ll notice that the pro-life is just as hard over as the pro-choice. They won’t accept anything less than total victory; compromises are just steps toward that.
A little bit of baby murder is ok.
Democratically speaking in this country, yes. Your moral purity is not going to win the day.
And that is why the pro lifers will not be satisfied with the current day laws.
Yep, they will always be a noisy, frustrated minority. I don’t mean that judgmentally, just as a statement of fact.
To end abortion, you need to make a world that people don’t want it.
No different than guns, to stop people wanting them, you need to make a world that people don’t want them.
Fight it out at the state level, why do people not understand that? (I know, because history and government are no longer taught in schools)
I had a nice omelet for breakfast yesterday.
I’m surprised that Tesla blinked. They litigate just about everything and are quite aggressive about it.
I have the exact system the plaintiff’s family litigated and it scares the living **** out of me. I only use it in specific use cases. There is no way I would be using it while playing a game on my phone the way the dead guy did. Bonus is that he made comments to people that his vehicle always failed to stay in its lane at this exact spot.
OTH, Tesla has absolutely oversold the capabilities of its automated driving capabilities and realistically has suffered little consequence from consumers. (The market has occasionally punished for missing it’s targets.)
Tesla Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over Autopilot’s Involvement in 2018 Fatal Crash
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-fatal-autopilot-crash-trial-33936b42?st=27tkonu2axjws7i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Study: 1 in 3 Zoomers Have No Income, Poor Economic Outlook
This is why I don’t join you on the Zoomshit. 😉
In more Scandinavian penis news, this is a good example of Restorative Justice done right:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3413787/swedish-man-creates-giant-snow-penis-to-say-sorry-for-destroying-smaller-snow-penis-1.3413794
It’s like the perfect mix of CA and tech and stupidity. Who doesn’t want Bluetooth connected pepper spray?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/in-the-city-personal-safety-starts-with-your-smartphone-1ab1eb34?st=e0gdy0t605dt3zx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Hey Siri, activate pepper spray!”
“… …. … I’m on it … … … still trying… … … Hmmm, I seem to be having some trouble, try again later …”
“I’m sorry, I can’t do that.”
“You need to enable Location Services and full tracking for his functionality — shall I open Settings for you?”
“It’s like the perfect mix of CA and tech and stupidity”
Something bests CARB?
The FI and carburetor and emissions discussion above.
OTOH, fuck NY.
OTOH, my ammo background check was in fact instant. This should be enough to get me through the season. I need to dry fire more. Also out of state, using standard capacity mags, aluminum cased ammo > brass cased.
I should buy a bottle of scotch for my ammo transfer guy (did I mention fuck NY?)
my ammo background check
🤯
Did I mention fuck NY?
NY: OMB gibs me half a billion or else we take his stuff.
NY: Also, he can’t use NY institutions to get this bond.
NY: Also also, non-NY institution bonds are worthless in NY.
James, whose office led the fraud case against Trump, later raised questions about the “sufficiency” of the bond and noted that the surety backing it, Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), is not admitted in New York, meaning it’s ineligible to obtain a certificate of qualification from the Department of Financial Services. KSIC has refiled its paperwork as a result in an effort to get the process moving again.
Requiring a surety to be admitted in the state where there was a judgement is very well established.
Sounds to me like Letitia James and the judge are trying to say, “You can’t use any of the currently-admitted companies for the bond, and we won’t allow anyone who wants to back the bond to be admitted in the state.”
But is prohibiting the defendant from using a company that does business in the state (oh, and getting admitted counts) a well established practice?
I didn’t read the article…
No. As Ted noted above that’s different.
I was wondering what the justification for denying him services from an accepted institution is.
This whole debacle, all of the legal cases, are very transparently Nazi/Soviet/Maoist/Castroista style kangaroo court actions.
Rule of law is dead.
He’s not allowed to do business in NY any more. Getting bond from a company allowed to do business in NY is doing business in NY. And the courts won’t accept a bond from a company unless it is allowed to do business in NY.
Just have it delivered to the courthouse in singles.
Beria smiles in hell.
Damn eyeglasses, damn car, damn wasteful impulse buys.
I have spent too much. I’m not back in debt but I have to stop spending for several months.
My wife and I just had that conversation – after she commissioned a painting for the dining room and we found out that we owe the IRS $20k.
Ouch.
I’m just down 10% in my cash reserves. Nothing quite that painful.
Yep, waiting to see what the tax bill is gonna be, and just got a 4k bill for the rental (act of god), so HH isn’t looking to be in the cards this year.
Got a sizeable tax bill from the IRS after filing. My accountant got some splaining to do.
Team blue: “It’s not your money”…
I need a new set of summer tires. Ouch.
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So I’m going in for my first cataract consultation later today. I’ve been in the “not bad enough to do anything about it, but it’s irritating as crap” mode for about a year and a half now, and now it’s evidently time to try. Everybody I talk to loves it after they’re done – good. It seems, as far as I can tell, that I’ll need to decide whether to see far-off without glasses (but use readers) or see up close but need glasses to drive, etc.
Any of y’all who’ve done this – recommendations, what did you pick, what did you think about it, etc.?
And specifically, what are the hunting/shooting implications of choices? Is one better for scopes and/or iron sights, or wingshooting, or what?
Two of my coworkers just did this and are quite happy with the results.
I can’t speak as to how they chose for focal point. I’d tend to go with distance and deal with OTC readers personally. That’s what one of the coworkers did.
I had the cataract surgery 15-20 years ago. No change, I didn’t know there was anything wrong ’til the eye doc recommended it. Now night driving is not good, halos around road signs, depth of vision shortened, single lines are double.
Would not do it again if I had any idea about the possible side affects.
—“Everybody I talk to loves it after they’re done”—
Add one more vote to that column. I had mine done 10 years ago and opted for distance implants and readers. Unfortunately for me, after the years passed, my vision again is on the decline. I had my implant lenses cleaned via laser a few years after the surgery, but sadly that is not the case now, just age. It was nice though to be able to wear real sunglasses, not the heavy prescription ones, for several years. I won’t say I recommend it as I don’t know any other vision issues you face, but I was glad I had it done.
“”We Cannot Cope”: Police Scotland Deluged With Politicized Hate-Crime Reports”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-cannot-cope-police-scotland-deluged-politicized-hate-crime-reports
Ach! Nae happy to be reaping what you’ve sewn are you ye wee-brained bastards?
This is the way.
Yep. Overwhelm the system.
Yep, and, apparently, JK Rowling strode forcefully right over their red line and basically said that if they had any balls they would arrest her.
“Sunny Hostin has been roasted by her co-hosts on The View after she claimed the solar eclipse, New York City’s recent earthquake and the arrival of cicadas are all linked to climate change….
Hostin, 55, began by asserting that the total solar eclipse, the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked New York City last week, and the imminent arrival of trillions of red-eyed insects are possible signs of climate change.
‘We have a solar eclipse. We have the earthquake,’ Hostin said. ‘All those factors together might lead one to believe that either climate change exists or something significant is happening.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13285773/Sunny-Hostin-View-hosts-eclipse-earthquake-climate-change.html
How much stupid does it take to get kicked off The View?
They actually kicked her off because they believe all those phenomena are Trump’s fault.
No, that’s how much stupid it takes to get on The View.
^^^THIS^^^
That show is for the dumb and easily manipulated emotionally deficients. Watching it causes intellectual damage in people not in the previously mentioned democraphics damage.
I’m willing to believe that she was reading from a script that was a poor attempt at a joke, because I have a hard time believing anyone is that stupid. I know, I’m an optimist.
If someone on The View made a joke about the climate catastrophe, she would be crucified.
I’m as pro-life as they come, but I’m not happy with some Republicans getting pissed about Trump’s stance. Seems they want nothing short of a national ban. First, the SC has determined this is not a federal issue, so if they get a ban it will be struck down. And second, it won’t get to that, because this issue is red meat for the left and they’ll show up in droves to vote over it. And if they get enough power, they’ll move heaven and earth to remove every restrictions, and that includes packing the SC. From a pro-life perspective, the situation we have now, while not perfect, is very good. Some states do have few restrictions, but most do and some have outright bans. It will be hard as hell for the left to change the laws in all 50 states and that’s a good thing. They much prefer on nice top-down approach to everything.
Agreed. Implementing national anything mere maintains it as a wedge issue and in the wring jurisdiction. Fixing state laws gets less stirred up on the other side and leads to less collateral damage in unrelated policy battles.
Anything at the national level can be flipped in a heartbeat after one election.
Well, it can be flipped to the left, anyway. With the courts enforcing the Dominant Culture, flipping to the right is a much more iffy proposition.
You can’t repeal my EOs with an EO.
Written in permanent invisible ink.
Maybe they think they’re playing the long game that the Dems are so good at.
Too bad they’re so useless at it.
“Do you vow to do your solemn duty as an American, and faithfully convict the Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man based on whatever evidence we choose to present?”
Zoomers have no income, no prospects, but plenty of fashionable face diapers.
“At least 28 Planet Fitness locations have been targeted with bomb threats after the gym franchise sparked fury for banning a customer who shared a photo of a transgender woman shaving in the bathroom.
From Florida to Alabama, dozens of locations in eleven different states reported hoax bomb threats following weeks of backlash against the chain’s ‘trans-inclusive’ locker room policy and the decision to ban the member, as reported by Media Matters.
Silva, who has previously run for Fairbanks Borough Assembly, told the ‘trans woman’ they should really be using the male locker room. The trans woman replied that they were ‘LGB.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13286037/Planet-Fitness-bomb-threats-transwoman-bathroom.html
“transgender woman shaving”
Why do they keep calling someone trans who doesn’t even call himself trans?
My guess is the bomb threats are from the left demanding they get more Xers in the ladies dressing room.
Or to go “See how violent the right is!”
Yes, they are using the fake bomb threats to attack Libs of Tik Tok. They did the same thing before with children’s hospitals.
Today is Driver’s License renewal at the Fourscores. Pretty much eye test only, I think we’re OK with that, cleaned my glasses all the way out to the edges.
I had to drive my mom to get her Driver’s License renewed because she couldn’t drive there.
So why did she get her license renewed in the first place?
I was going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say it had expired already, so she wasn’t allowed to drive.
Though unable to drive is another interpretation…
Official photo ID.
I got new eyeglasses this past week so that I’d have them broken in to renew my license later this year.
Now I have to study for the eye exam.
Auto vs manual chokes: I wire the choke wide open and run the motor off the accelerator pump for a minute or so when it’s cold. It works for me.
Fuel injection, on the other hand, works great until it doesn’t.
Few mechanical systems run in perpetuity.
Unless it’s the mechanical fuel injection on old Mercedes diesels. Those units ran forever.
Indeed. See my comment above.
That trolley naming contest … they filtered out names they didn’t like. You only get to vote for the candidates they approved just like regular elections. No Trolley McTrolleyFace or such.
Are you now, or have you ever been…
judge Juan Merchan released a list Monday of 42 questions spanning strong support or distaste for Trump to affiliation with extremist groups or ideologies.
Extremist groups listed include the right-wing Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and Boogaloo Boys, plus the left-wing anti-fascist movement Antifa. QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory and political movement claiming a shadowy cabal of Democrats pull all the strings of American politics, also earned a mention.
The questions steer clear of asking potential jurors whether they’ve voted, donated or align with Democrats or Republicans.
Only moderate college educated independents need apply.
Pick one you muumuu-earing hack.
One of the standard void dire question sets is designed to find out precisely whether a prospective juror does or does not like one of the parties, either personally or more generally.
Other questions examine where jurors get their news, if they have worked for a Trump-led business or organization and if they’ve attended rallies or protests in favor or against the former president.
“Do you get your news from legitimate journalistic sources, or from right wing fringe conspiracy kooks?”
Circling the drain
An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France delivered its ruling in a case brought by more than 2,000 Swiss women, the majority of whom are in their 70s, against Switzerland’s government. They argued that climate change-fueled heat waves undermined their health and quality of life, and put them at risk of dying.
The court ruled that the Swiss government had violated some of the women’s human rights due to “critical gaps” in its national legislation to reduce planet-heating emissions, as well as a failure to meet past climate targets.
Maybe they should declare war on China.
More people die from cold than from heat. They should be thankful.
San Francisco is a forward-thinking technoutopia. It is known.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/san_francisco_muni_floppy_disks/
I seem to recall until about 10 years or so ago lots of ATMs ran OS/2.
That should make them virus-proof.
It marks the first time the court has ruled on climate litigation. There is no right of appeal and the judgment is legally binding.
Legally binding, is it? What are the penalties, and how are they enforced?
Are the penalties more or less than murdering a judge in Minecraft, and are Swiss prisons like those luxury resort ones?
Not if some country that thinks for itself says “No.”
As the climate crisis worsens, climate litigation is becoming an increasingly popular tool to attempt to force governments and companies to step up their climate action, especially as the world remains wildly off course in cutting emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic warming.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who attended a demonstration, told reporters outside the court that “this is only the beginning of climate litigation.”
“All over the world more and more people are taking their government to court, holding them responsible for their actions,” Thunberg said, adding: “We are going to use every tool in the toolbox that we have.”
Tuesday’s judgment in favor of the Swiss women sets “a precedent for other international courts to follow,” Liston, from Global Legal Action Network, told CNN.
Both the International Court of Justice and the Inter American Court of Human Rights have cases pending which relate to the human rights impacts of climate change.
Finally, we are doing something truly substantive.
MOAR MARXISM!
Moar AC.
That sounds very democratic.
“As the climate crisis worsens,”
See, that’s how you steal a base.
Shocking… Also shocking McKinsey refused to release its data set.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/mckinsey-and-companys-diversity-fog
Reminds me of the black box dataset that the entire edifice of “climate change” is built upon.
You dare gainsay the PRIESTS?!?
couldn’t replicate the results of McKinsey’s first three studies
Wait, consulting firms peddling bullshit results to drum up business? Well, I never.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/ransomware-gang-fail-calling-front-desk-extortion/
So, about as helpful as ever.
Reminded of a comedy skit or movie…I dont remember. The premise was that a robber takes a hostage to stave off the cops but in the end the hostage is so insufferable that the robber begs to police to accept his surrender.
Beth from HR huh? I can only imagine.
+ 1 “Ransom of Red Chief”
“Look, I’m the only one who can talk to the hackers! I have negotiation skills!”
The results were startling: Green and Hand couldn’t replicate the results of McKinsey’s first three studies, which monitored the profitability and executive demographics of an undisclosed group of S&P 500 firms and claimed to have found a positive correlation between diverse leadership and firms’ performance.
If by startling you mean utterly predictable and unsurprising.
Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years
So just a tick over a $1bn each. Right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/28/ev-charging-stations-slow-rollout/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5
It almost seems like getting Newport News to put the engineering plant of a Nimitz class there and charge from it might be cheaper.
“investment”
I did not RTFA, but it would not surprise me if the cost was the total cost of the project and not all the charging stations are supposed to have been built by now.
I mean the day after the appropriations were improved, it would have been possible to write a screaming headline about how they’d built ZERO stations, no?
Just because you like the journalismist’s POV doesn’t mean they’re not lying propagandists.
Not to mention the funny money of government. First, it is an appropriation. Then once a contract is in place, it is obligated. No money has actually moved out of the govt at that point. Only once the bill comes in from the contractor, then it is executed – which still doesn’t mean something has actually been built (as the money intended). Program managers are evaluated on getting money obligated and executed, though the former is the key metric.
Correct. It was tongue in cheek. The program was funded for that amount and this is this the result to date. It’s not what has actually been spent.
It’s also not what the article says either.
Failure to facilitate censorship
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. The announcement came after Musk called for Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who heads the country’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), to “resign or be impeached,” and a statement from X alleged that the orders to remove the accounts violate the Brazilian constitution.
While the court has not released the list of accounts it requested for blocking or investigation, the São Paolo–based newspaper Estadão reported that it includes the fugitive far-right influencer Allan dos Santos, a supporter of president Jair Bolsonaro. (Dos Santos fled the country in 2020 to avoid investigation for disseminating disinformation.) The list also includes right-wing YouTuber Bruno Aiub, known as Monark, who has over 1 million followers on X and has argued that Brazil should recognize the Nazi party, and Brazilian billionaire and Bolsonaro-supporter Luciano Hang.
Separately, after taking over the company, Musk reactivated the accounts of Brazilian far-right politicians Carla Zambelli, Gustavo Gayer, and Nikolas Ferreira. Ferreira, a Bolsonaro supporter, openly questioned the security of Brazil’s electronic voting machines, even though he won his local legislative race.
Lula knows best. pernicious lies and disinformation must be stamped out.
Freedom of speech doesn’t extend to the “far right”. It is known.
7 stations in two years
Good enough for government work.
More legal stupid, this time from Europe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598
Fuckers won’t be around to suffer for the shit they caused. I hope their euthanasia drip malfunctions.
Under Musk, X has become a haven for the far right and disinformation. After taking over, Musk offered amnesty to users who had been banned from the platform, including right-wing influencer Andrew Tate, who, along with his brother, was indicted in Romania on several charges including with rape and human trafficking in June 2023 (he has denied the allegations). Last month, one of Tate’s representatives told the BBC that “they categorically reject all charges.”
A 2023 study found that hate speech has increased on the platform under Musk’s leadership. The situation in Brazil is just the latest instance of Musk aligning himself with and platforming dangerous, far-right movements around the world, experts tell WIRED. “It’s not about Twitter or Brazil. It’s about a strategy from the global far right to overcome democracies and democratic institutions around the world,” says Nina Santos, a digital democracy researcher at the Brazilian National Institute of Science & Technology who researches the Brazilian far right. “An opinion from an American billionaire should not count more than a democratic institution.”
Repeat as necessary.
A study huh? Well, that settles that.
The far right are undermining democracy by not censoring wrongthink!
“Ocasio-Cortez, 34, is spearheading a House version of the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act of 2024, which would make it easier for victims of nonconsensual AI porn to sue publishers, distributors and consumers of X-rated digital forgeries.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/aoc-opens-up-about-seeing-deepfake-ai-porn-of-herself-online/
“And women who face multiple forms of discrimination, including women of color, LGBTQ+ people, and women with disabilities, are at heightened risk to experience technology-facilitated gender-based violence, says a report from U.N. Women.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/aoc-deepfake-ai-porn-personal-experience-defiance-act-1234998491/
Endless series of hobgoblins….
Streisand effect? We’re going to be inundated in AOC porn.
I look forward to this.
Please post links when you find them. 😉
“And women who face multiple forms of discrimination, including women of color, LGBTQ+ people, and women with disabilities, are at heightened risk to experience technology-facilitated gender-based violence, says a report from U.N. Women.”
I mean no, just hot women (women who are women).
And women who face multiple forms of discrimination, including women of color, LGBTQ+ people, and women with disabilities, are at heightened risk to experience technology-facilitated gender-based violence,
I looked it up, here is what they are calling violence:
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is any act that is committed or amplified using digital tools or technologies causing physical, sexual, psychological, social, political, or economic harm to women and girls because of their gender.
No. Only physical harm is violence. The rest is not violence.
Colorado had a big wind event this past weekend. Unfortunately, buildings at a nonprofit for special-needs pigs were damaged.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/pig-rescue-and-rehab-destroyed-by-colorado-windstorm/
You can help. There’s a Go Fund Me link in the story.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/tech/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang/index.html" Something something he who runs away lives to fight another day
Tesla has settled a high-profile case that was set to put the electric car company and its controversial automated-driving system on trial starting Monday.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Jury selection was set to begin Monday in a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a former Apple engineer who died after his Tesla Model X crashed while the Autopilot feature was engaged. The trial could have lasted several weeks, but the parties settled Monday.
An “Apple computer engineer” of all people, should know better than to trust his life to vaporware.
*If I were Tesla, I’d be a lot more concerned about that photo which shows the whole front end of the car, from the pedals forward, ripped off.
“Three thugs wearing black masks and hoodies, one with devil horns tattooed on his forehead, attacked the freedom rally attendees, even shoving and punching elderly women with brass knuckles. Sorgente stepped in to try and defend the women and others, when confronted by all three gangsters who verbally threatened him and then lunged at him. He defended himself with his megaphone.
When the dust settled, Spitzer’s office decided to prosecute Sorgente, a husband and father of two young children, and defend the Santa Ana ‘Lowell Street Sinners’ gang members, naming them as victims. The crime they charged Kim with? ‘Assault with a Deadly Megaphone.’ He now faces approximately three years in prison.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Ann Fawaz is leading Todd Spitzer’s effort to put Kim away. During ongoing pretrial hearings, you could hear courtroom observers groaning and moaning, expressing disbelief when hearing how she refers to the gangbangers as victims and Kim as the perpetrator. The frustration was even more obvious when observers viewed the video footage of the conflict when shown in court, which clearly depicts Sorgente and the pro-freedom crowd as the victims.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/deputy-da-ann-fawaz-corrupt-candidate-judge-orange/
Don’t worry, the judge will declare a directed verdict of guilty.
“A pair of progressive San Francisco lawmakers are pushing a bill that would allow residents in the crime-ravaged city to sue grocery stores that close up shop if they don’t give six months’ notice.
The proposal by San Francisco Board of Supervisors members Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin would require business to either find a successor grocer or work out a plan with residents in the neighborhood to ensure the availability of supermarket options.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/business/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-to-let-city-residents-sue-grocery-stores/
WTF?
All of a sudden, there were no longer any grocery stores in San Francisco. No one knows how it happened.
All of a suddenSix months from now, there were no longer any grocery stores in San Francisco. No one knows how it happened.The lunatics are running the asylum.
Can’t close/lay off people without sufficient notice is an excessively common rule.
When I worked at Freescale, and we needed to close our obsolete Toulouse fab, we had to pay everyone for six months of not working.
Admittedly, this is the first time I remember customers rather than employees being the “victims.”
It’s like they are reading Atlas Shrugged as a how-to guide.
We’re going to be inundated in AOC porn.
Ewww.
Would you prefer Nancy Pelosi?