The first thing I will say I discovered when I went to work for the private sector, is that I took on a similar level of responsibility at Hank Greenberg’s outfit—at a 12% drop in annual salary.
This is my review of 903 Brewing Kilt Switch:
On the other hand, I wasn’t entirely at a loss. A lot of the “perks” I received from the VA were actually skimmed off the top of my paycheck so it wasn’t a huge hit day to day. This last week of working from home with another Federal worker has lead to a few, let’s just call it flashbacks.
Wait, doesn’t MS have a real job? Sort of, it is a private company but health care is a government racket. I’m talking about my wife. Who has made my schadefraude exceedingly difficult to express out loud.
This came about last weekend when she finally asked over dinner who I voted for. She didn’t like my answer.
”What do you mean nobody?”
”I voted against retaining judges, no on almost all of the ballot initiatives, and a few local races.”
I didn’t vote for president. Like the last time around I didn’t vote for president, and the time before that I voted for Johnson for the lols.
One reaction I saw a lot of was mere shock that the orange man is the president. She didn’t express a feeling of depression like I noticed for about a week following the election at the VA, but she was noticeably troubled. It wasn’t until the EO’s were signed and she checked her email last Sunday it finally came to a head.
Evidently, they sent the return to work email on Friday at 8pm. Because “thats when you send out shady shit”.
The trouble is my wife like most working for her agency, are remote workers. There is no real office for her to return, but Interior does have offices in the area but I can’t help but assume they take on the “revolving office” concept because there will suddenly be more agencies looking for space within the same building. AZ has plenty of space on military bases yes, but civil service agencies include Veteran’s Affairs (VBA and VHA), Park Service, Indian Affairs, Immigration, Border Patrol, Energy, Land Management, Forest Service, etc. What a delightful nightmare to watch them navigate from the sidelines.
”They’re just trying to make people leave.” Yup.
She didn’t get the “fork in the road” email that made headlines recently but when it came up in conversation I mentioned the number of useless people working at VA. It’s particularly irritating because those people were working at a hospital. How devoid of personal standards do you have to be a useless person at a hospital? When asked once how I would RIF the federal workforce my response was to buyout workers at a certain time left towards retirement. A lot of these people will work until they die at their desks, many under the old retirement system that is an actual lifetime pension. This isn’t “institutional knowledge,” its more akin to Fineman’s maxim that science progresses one funeral at a time. You can very well remove anyone over 65 and suddenly make the government more efficient because people my age won’t still be trying to show others how to use Excel.
At any rate it will be interesting how they do this. There are already rules in place for reduction in force that allow hiring preference for those subject to a RIF. So there will be a non-zero number hired back eventually. If it works the way Veteran’s Preference in hiring though, it will create a bottleneck. To explain: as a Veteran my applicatIon is bumped to the top, then evaluated on the merits. This puts a non-Veteran with the same skillset at a disadvantage. Enough Veterans apply, the only ones available are other Veterans, so to bump further to the top you have to be a “combat Veteran”, or a “disabled Veteran” to get a callback. Yes, Veteran status is a factor in rehiring a federal worker subject to a RIF.
In short, there will be an awful lot of very pissed off, but very useless people on the dole very soon. Hopefully they handle it better than the Ba’athists in Iraq.
One of my favorites, Scottish Brown Ale! This one is most certainly a wee heavy at 9% ABV. It is also pretty sweet as a result of the high alcohol content. Is this a bad thing? Not really if you know what to eat it with, like a Scotch Egg. Maybe even Haggis? You know they sell that stuff in cans on Amazon? I’m not about to try it though, I leave that to you. 903 Brewing Kilt Switch: 4.0/5 9% ABV.
Ill check that beer out, sounds tasty
Wait, this last election was stolen?
I keep expecting a last ditch effort to disqualify trump by admitting the 2020 election was stolen, and hence, he can’t be elected to a third term, despite never serving a 2nd.
But the cutoff date for that scheme to possibly work woulda been the inauguration, right? Kamala is certainly too drunk to be handed the presidency at this point, right, RIGHT?!
That tweex is AMAZING.
Yes, although Isn’t that Reddit?
Oh. I didn’t see the clue.
I somehow knew it wasn’t going to be twixxer.
I want bluesky to rename itself Twitter, the ensuing hilarity would be priceless.
I’m assuming that isn’t Mrs. Sharpshooter.
Love the “can’t believe I have to justify every FTE! And the government requires an overly complicated form!”
“How devoid of personal standards do you have to be a useless person at a hospital?”
Oh, they exist.
Elections belong to the anointed ergo an election won by the opponent of the anointed candidate is stolen. I hope Doña Sharpshooter lands on her feet, but I want to see a tsunami of pink slips crashing down on the bureaucracy. Make “You’re Fired” the most common words in government offices!
I am worried about KK, tho.
I worry about her, and about a few other people I know who took the Fedgelt, but I worry a LOT more about all of us if we don’t cut the government back to manageable size. Finding a new job in what will likely be a recession is tough, what lies down the road we have been on is much worse.
What Jarflax said.
HBD To Me. So ends Year Forty-two, “42”, Life Universe And Everything.
Here’s to 43, just a flat out shitty number.
HBD 🙂
Happy birthday, punk!
HBD young man
No complaints until 50 – all of the ones in between are pretty bland.
🎂
🎉
🎂🥩🥳
Happy Birthday
Ive probably got scars older than you….
Happy Birthday, Young Man.
“I’ve got scars…”
/Hell, I have t-shirts older than that, from Elvis concerts
“…43, just a flat out shitty number.”
Wanna trade?
No shit. 43 was awesome. Now I just hurt.
I spent most of my year 43 fighting a war in Iraq. Mixed feelings on that age.
I leave that to you.
$20 bucks a can is a little steep for this mongrel Scot.
Hopefully they handle it better than the Ba’athists in Iraq.
Online chatter suggests not, but as we know, people are pretty easily cowed.
My wife is now going back to the office. It’s a drag, but we are just back to where we were five years ago.
And I did vote for Prez this time around
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-25-at-9.42.46%E2%80%AFPM.png
Yeah, not sure when going to the office became an intolerable burden.
Joan of Arc, the flames licking at her breast.
I saw a thing earlier (the Hill, probably) about how “buyouts” are a bad idea because the best people have more better alternative options so you end up paying your best people to leave and you’re stuck with the timeserver dead weight. It’s a standard issue business school argument. Because heaven forbid you should actually target the low performers.
How do you fix that? He didn’t really say. I’d say find a better way to track productivity. And make it known you’re not paying people to twiddle their thumbs and watch the clock.
Government worker productivity – perhaps the greatest oxymoron of them all.
Anecdotally, the college where I work has become reluctant to offer buyouts to faculty when there’s a budgetary crisis for a similar reason. As one administrator noted, “the people you want to leave don’t, and the people you want to stay leave.” Although here, leave almost certainly means retire rather than finding a higher-paying job.
If you know who you want to leave, drop a testicle and offer them a buyout “or else”.
I’ve never found dangling a ball out my fly to accomplish what I’d hoped, YMMV?
I completely agree with this.
But it doesn’t apply to government workers who are all 100% useless and can all be replaced by no one with zero consequences.
That tweex is AMAZING.
Bubblicious!
“The Army is refusing to name the female pilot killed aboard the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet flying into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.
In an announcement Friday, the Army, which disclosed the names of the two other soldiers in the chopper who died, said the woman’s family requested her identity be withheld from the public.”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/army-refuses-to-identify-female-black-hawk-pilot-killed-in-dc-collision/
Curious.
As someone else said earlier, there could be additional family to be notified. After a few days that excuse is done.
I missed that elucidation, disregard below, till next week, i guess.
Can anyone point to the Army policy that makes that legal? What if I FOIA for the name?
“An immigrant school aide caught on tape grabbing and dragging an autistic Queens student by his testicles has pleaded guilty to a felony and faces possible deportation.
Garnet Collins, 51, tortured the teen at the Anderson Center for Autism in upstate Staatsburg, about 10 miles north of Poughkeepsie, where NYC and state taxpayers paid his tuition, room and board.”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/school-aide-who-dragged-autistic-teen-by-genitals-at-nyc-funded-center-admits-abuse/
Grabbing the balls Americans refuse to grab?
Oh god, the Anderson Center.
They used to (maybe they still do, but I haven’t listened since I started WFH) run a commercial on one of the local radio stations that ran seemingly every day just at the time I’d be driving home from work. (I’m in Ulster County on the other side of the Hudson.) The commercial mentioned the fraction of children born with autism, and every time they cut a new commercial, it seemed as though the fraction of autistic children rose. The old “1 in 69” chestnut went up to something like “1 in 42” or maybe even more.
Frankly it gave me the impression that the Anderson Center was as scammy as Kars 4 Kids [sic].
What’s scammy about Kars 4 Kids?
Kidz can’t drive, duh.
It may not be a scam, but the commercials make it sound like one.
Aids only Jewish kids in “recreation and education”.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/223746050
Run by those grifters out of Lakewood, NJ.
Run by those grifters out of Lakewood, NJ.
If we’re playing word association, “grift” WOULD be my answer to “New Jersey”.
Orthodox, IIRC.
So, just to clarify, carting the female students off like a Six Pack for disciplining is also frowned upon.
JFC!
Junk for Clutching
“Possible” deportation?
For a felony?
Lasagna-flavored beer?
HA! Glad i wasn’t the only one who had to squint to read “LASAGNA” only to wonder what that has to do with beer, only to realize it’s just an adjacent counter item, per his typical counter arrangement.
I didn’t have to squint.
MR HOITY TOITY “MY EYEGLASS PRESCRIPTION ISNT 20YRS OLD” OVAHEEYA
There’s been several pizza flavored beers. With at least one brewed with actual pizzas.
Crack one of those and a bag of Keebler Pizza Chipz and you gotta youself a Real IM NEWYAWKIN HEEYA Moment
*a-chefs keese*
I assumed it had something to do with the ever-present cherry tomatoes on his counter.
Ever more firmly convinced that my current smart phone is my last smart phone.
Your options are dear sir, leave me alone, or die. It is entirely up to you which you choose.
You can have your digital identity wallet installed on your current phone or into your brain.
Your choice, citizen.
Yeah, only response to that is “why are you in such a hurry to die”?
“On Thursday, Democrats in the Washington House of Representatives voted against an amendment that would have required school districts to immediately notify parents if their student is the victim of sexual misconduct by a school employee. Republican Rep. Travis Couture, who proposed the amendment, posted on X, “How any sane person could deny my amendment is outrageous.”
The House Education Committee voted against the amendment to House Bill 1296, legislation Democrats are using to rewrite the Parental Rights Initiative, which was overwhelmingly supported by Washingtonians last year. Instead, Democrats are attempting to require school districts to adopt policies to address the needs of “gender-expansive” students, including concealing information about students’ health and mental health from parents.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-dems-reject-plan-to-require-schools-to-tell-parents-right-away-if-student-is-victim-of-sexual-misconduct-by-faculty-staff
It takes a village.
I’m not the only one who’d expect to hear about it from my kid first, am I? Like when they come home and tell me they got abused at school today?
It took several sentences but I *knew* the story was going to lead to “gender” horseshit eventually.
It’s return to office, not return to work.
THIS is how you FederalBureaucrat, rightheeya.
Good one, Gustave.
My Brother printer was a POS. The lines didn’t align right and no amount of alignment cycles I went through, it just got worse. The print heads were clogged and no amount of cleanin them fixed it. Yes, they were new ink cartridges. Yes, they were branded. My last Brother printer did this at about this age, and I thought it was because I was using cheap Chinese knockoff inks. I lEaRnEd My LeSsOn.
Husband returned it (still in warranty), but they had none I wanted in stock, so we ordered one. Color laser Canon all-in-one. It won’t be here ’til Tuesday. I have had LOTS of printing to do and now I’m reduced to sending to OfficeDepot and picking up my copy jobs. I can’t scan unless I go there.
I say all this because I have found a way to open the lines of communication with Cunty Aunt Susie without displaying any contempt or hostility, passive-aggressive or otherwise while also telling her in no u certain terms she WILL do what I tell her to do.
Lawyer suggested I use the church leaders who inserted themselves. I didn’t want to do that because they are NOT my friends or allies, and my lawyer is not versed in the social/cultural nuances. I talked to my Aunt Mary and she ranted about NOT involving them. But wait! I thought. I can contact MY bishop to see if he’d be willing to have my back, but I would totally understand if he didn’t want to because it’s above his pay grade and I RESENT that Susie ran to her leaders for protection and they complied. While writing that email, I realized there was a way I could do this myself and ALSO tell her leaders to back off. This is MY business, not theirs.
I wrote her a letter. That’s all. Polite, businesslike, giving her a deadline (with a little wiggle room for her to feel like she got something if she protests it) and conditions, and letting her know I’m totally willing to let the property go to auction if she doesn’t comply. Certified return receipt requested, as per best practices. It’s a masterpiece, I tell you. That gives me a firm foundation to meet with her without getting all emotional.
But I can’t print it yet. I can’t even scan the soon-to-be notarized signature pages on my fresh DPOA and healthcare DPOA. 🤬
What is with people buying color printers?
Color signatures.
Do they even sell consumer B&W printers?
Yes, but the quality of printing is not as good. I had one and it just wasn’t up to snuff.
Yeah, you need red for snuff.
Yes, I found a B&W laser printer for pretty cheap, even. Love it.
I was actually at the store to pick up a B&W inkjet but the laser was around the same price so I said fuckit.
If I thought I wouldn’t go to jail, there would be plenty of red for snuff, as per @Evil Sheldon’s suggestion.
Was the Brother ink or laser? Never had problems with B&W laser. Meanwhile the HP at work has turned into a jam-o-matic.
Inkjet. I don’t touch HP with a ten-foot pole.
Aside: I sued HP once (in small claims). They complied with my terms eventually, but not before I got to scream, I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT!!! and slam down the phone.
lol My B&W laser is an HP.
My needs are very light, though. Just the occasional doc I need to sign.
I feel a twinge because I remember when HP lasers were made in Boise. Well assembled. I believe the guts came from Japan.
HP used to be great.
The printer in the house (which the girlfriend brought) broke, she said she was going to go to the local OfficeMax and get a new one. I asked her to wait, and later that day I ordered a refurbished beast of a printer (HP 4015n) for under $200. It should be here today, and will last until the heat death of the universe considering my ~20 page a year printing requirements.
I guess I’m just in the same camp as Rhy and Neph, HP LaserJet1102. Bought that lil bugger around 2010 when my LaserJet5M i brought home from my last in-office gig back in 2005 died of mouse-infestation. I think i’ve replaced the toner cartridge twice, both cheapos. Often Streaky, but sufficient for filing taxes and such.
Color signatures? WTF kind of requirement is that. It’s a print out, so that’s as valid of a sig as it is, a reproduction; whys it matter what color the reproduction of a signature is? Because the original blue ink prints out too dim in greyscale?
If I needed a color printout, well, spending $60 to uber to a KinkosEquivalent would still make way more sense to me than dealing with a color printer, regardless of toner/ink choice. One of my earliest gigs was for a guy who got to betatest one of HPs early color laser machines: what a fucking mess, you had to load pigment into it just like an inkjet, except nanoscale powder instead of liquid, ugh. Great job, still.
Ive got a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350 B&W laser. Its at least 25 years old.
I dont do heavy printing at home, but it works like a champ. 1200×1200 resolution too.
“Certified return receipt requested,”
Nice. Sends a message. Did you cc your lawyer?
Oooh no! *scurries to desk*
“An estimated 100,000 protestors gathered in London today outside the Prime Minister’s Residence to demand freedom for Tommy Robinson and an end to his solitary confinement for the crime of journalism. Over 150,000 more have watched the livestream.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-live-100000-patriots-march-london-freetommyrobinson/
MEGA
lol
Well, good luck with all that. I wonder what the solitary confinement is for. Are they really that far gone?
“In late October 2024, Robinson, founder of the English Defense League and an anti-immigration activist, was arrested and later sentenced to 18 months in prison after releasing the documentary, “Silenced,” per CNN.
The film referenced “false accusations against a Syrian schoolboy who was attacked” in a widely shared video on social media in 2018 and “spread false allegations accusing him of being a violent thug,” CNN and BBC reported. Robinson paid the video’s subject, Jamal Hijazi, £100,000 in damages and was ordered to not repeat the accusations.
Robinson’s documentary also discusses issues of grooming and abuse in the U.K., and he continued to share it after its initial release in 2023.
In late July, 2024, Robinson played the documentary at a large rally in Trafalgar Square in London. When he traveled to the border of the U.K. the next day, he was arrested in Kent under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act….
BBC reported, Robinson “has been separately charged with failing to unlock his phone for police when he was stopped and questioned at a port under counter-terrorism powers.”
British authorities say Robinson was sent to prison because he defied a court order by posting the documentary.”
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2025/01/02/tommy-robinson-elon-musk-mike-lee-x-debate/
I wonder what the solitary confinement is for.
I can’t be the only one who’d prefer solitary to getting raped and beaten up all the time. 5’10″/125-140lbs since adulthood, definitely a poor candidate for Prison Success. I’d assault up a guard to keep getting solitary, except theyd laugh and say “stoppit, that tickles” and toss me back in the yard like a chew toy.
Could be for his own protection. Which, when you think about it, is weird, on account of (a) the prisons being packed with immigrants and (b) he was convicted for saying “hey, there’s a bunch of immigrants who are criminals”.
You’re not.
“false accusations”
“false allegations”
Really false, or CNN “false”?
I just had a discussion with a FB friend in which he argued that Teddy Roosevelt would have kept us out of WWI. TR as the isolationist candidate is a new concept for me.
Wait. Whut? The same TR who asked Wilson that he be allowed to raise his own regiment for service in France?
I think it is more likely (but unknowable) with TR as POTUS that we would have entered the war after the Lusitania was sunk.
Since he campaigned for Hughes by calling Wilson a coward for NOT declaring war after the sinking I think it’s a solid prediction. Personally I think he’d have maneuvered to get us in the war even sooner. His whole identity was based on getting the US a seat at the Great Powers game, and WWI was the Super Bowl of that sport.
You said it more accurately than I did. I posted without refreshing so didn’t see your post.
Hell, TDR WANTED to fight in the Great War! But Wilson being the petty vindictive SOB that he was refused to give him a commission.
That was likely a direct punishment for Roosevelt’s campaigning for Hughes.
From the dedthread. We were informed that the command was permitted to have “Whatever” Month celebrations by DoD. But they had to take place other than standard duty hours.
It is a rapidly mutating situation, but I approve the general results so far. Before I retired my MWR chief was responsible for putting together these events and as part of my duties I had to attend. It didn’t matter the month, the same people always showed up. Their Directorates were paying them to work, and they were not working.
The first one I attended there was a sign language person there doing the hand thing for nobody. I asked how much we paid for that and was gobsmacked by the amount and that we paid for travel to and from as well. After checking with my HR and finding out that we had no known deaf people on the work force or living on base (combat arms ears don’t count) I got with my staff lawyer and told my MWR head “No more sign language is to be paid for.” To his credit, the MWR head was fine with my decision because he thought the guidance was silly as well.
I’m kind of torn about the return to work edict, being a work from home guy myself. Maybe bring in the guys from Office Space to evaluate everyone, then sell off all the offices?
OTOH, we desperately need to cut a lot, and this is a good start. Same with the NGO nonsense.
Hope I’m not stepping on Spud’s evening lynx, but this might be kind of a biggish deal. TT says he read an account (from Epoch Times?) that said the FBI knew about this guy for a long time but did nothing…until shortly after Trump’s inauguration. Just a coincidence, I’m sure! 🙄
Saw that yesterday. Another coincidence, the CIA had determined COVID started in a lab, but we just heard about it this week.
Nothing wrong with mashed Spuds.
Yes there is, they’re carby!
Fair point. I’ve joined the starvation core as well.
corps It’s getting into my hungry hours and my IQ seems to drop
Excuse me?
I’m kind of torn about the return to work edict, being a work from home guy myself.
I want Trump to order all federal offices to be open to the public for business. If they don’t like it they can go work at 7eleven.
I’m kind of torn about the return to work edict, being a work from home guy myself.
#MeToo
There’s jobs that just dont need a physical presence, which will eventually be served by the preserved consciousnesses of former Employee of The Month recipients, like the Eldar Wraithbone (?) network in WH40K, or your typical brain in a jar scenario.
I am too. Some jobs, taking blood, working on a car, and many others, obviously *require* physical presence. But most shit just doesn’t, and I’m happy to save money with companies that don’t require a meat-space store’s overhead. Teaching online is also remarkably stupid, yuck. Office-cafe’s are an interesting idea. My pure WFH shit worked quite well.
Happy bday. You’re now my bro’s age. I believe you and Pat, and possibly Ted are closest to my 37 years. How many sub-two score folk are here? Not many, me thinky. I should re-contact the IN Libertarian Party … my optimistic self feels Trump 2.0 is a different landscape. Young folk are going to need people their age to ‘point’ shit out to ’em. This is not the craziest idea of mine. Hrm.
How many sub-two score folk are here?
The JV Squad of Rareified Air.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14347957/mans-penis-freezes-icy-pavement-arrest-canada.html
He’s canadian so he likely just lost the tip.
Now that turtle-neck is a crew-neck.
DOOOOOOOM!
To be honest, the race to build larger and larger data centers had already started to look like the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960s to build and test larger and larger bombs: They got as far as 50 megatons before realizing it was all rather pointless, but in the process they wasted billions of dollars and dumped enough radioactivity into the atmosphere to kill 100,000 people.
The “AGI race” between companies and between nations is somewhat similar, except worse: Even the CEOs who are engaging in the race have stated that whoever wins has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process, because we have no idea how to control systems more intelligent than ourselves.
In other words, the AGI race is a race towards the edge of a cliff.
The bastard child of Skynet and WOPR is under your bed and it’s going to eat you.
Best rounds for shooting robots?
Magnesium Incendiary or HE, certainly nothing sonic *PFFFTSNORT*
I just skimmed an article at Newsweak (no linkee)- President Trump’s favorability/approval ratings are skyrocketing.
How could that be? It’s mystifying.
About 15% of our population believes they are witnessing the second rise of Nazi Germany. For real.
The ones unawarely clamoring for authoritarianism.
You presume they are unaware. I’d say they are very much aware and for that reason want to make sure they are on the top.
Yep. Christ, they are so pathetic and overwrought. Here’s my SiL on FB:
“Raise your hand if you’ve sat in bed and cried this week about Nazis.
You are not overreacting.
You are not overreacting.
You are not overreacting.
You are not overreacting.
You are not overreacting.”
Ya know, openly stating you’re terrified is rarely a good strategy. They won’t adapt well, cuz first they’ll have to admit they got played by Dems, Biden and Harris. Whoops! Supporting a senile man and party that is shockingly pro child genital mutilation. So scared, all cuz *they* don’t wield power anymore. Sad! (It really is remarkable. Consider me highly impressed, so far.)
Community Note: If you’ve sat in bed this week and cried about Nazis, you are, in fact, overreacting.
I disagree. Those people are just batshit crazy from decades of turning away from the truth.
Sweet sweet lefty tears. More, I need more!
*Passes Jarflax a single-use plastics bottled water to ensure proper hydration*
Salty tears, desired? From her aforementioned thread:
“If you don’t see the red flags you need to study 1933-1944 history. Especially 1933 & 1934. Or you can be an ostrich and wait for cheap eggs. I’m a history dork and one of my favorite areas of focus is WW2 and the events and timeline leading up to it. It’s like they’re using the 1930’s playbook.
During his first term I said that we were getting terrifyingly close to living in the movie Idiocracy. This time around I feel like it is that plus V for Vendetta. I love history. I just read In The Garden of Beasts about Ambassador Dodd going to Berlin in 33, it’s terrifying. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰.”
Uh-huh. You’ve gone bye-bye long ago. When did you take what oath, now? Uh. i purposefully didn’t vote in ’20 or ’24, for slightly overlapping reasons, but a major one was so I wouldn’t be ostracized by them when/if they found out. That was wise of me. Ridicule, combined with the release of information, needs to be craftily constructed for many to realize they were played. Hard. Even if ya don’t ‘convince’ the person you’re talking to, you have a huge influence on the silent standing near. Getting ’em to laugh is clutch.
Hmmm, not a whole lot in that book about AMB Dodds daughter being a Soviet spy.
Keep overreacting. Let everybody know how crazy your goals are.
Ask her which party is performing gruesome medical experiments on confused teens?
If you state something thrice or more, you are in fact overreacting.
TOG:
–PTerry,
FaustEric*🍻 and/or 🥂 to ensure wylie proper birthday inebriation*
(I know, right?!?!)
Best rounds for shooting robots?
20mm depleted uranium.
I disagreed above, you want heat or explosions to really disrupt the functioning of the electronics and/or the moving parts. Just plinging holes in something that doesn’t bleed is just going to leave to crawling through a hydraulic press to eventually kill the muthafucker.
Uh. *raises hand* Where we goin’, here?
I am only half-robot, as of yet. All my parts are moving and I *AM* the electronics. And erectronics. And hydraulic press. With those powers combined.. I’m mighty impotent. My cybergenetic abilities hold promise for future optimization. ‘Twill be glorious to behold. Shy away, now, latent-Nazi fearers. Swarm forth, nubile wrenches.
You are Agile Cyborg and I claim my £5.
He’s not so agile.
Oooh, flattery! Though… who had money at stake in the where now? Excitement, She Wrote.
I may not be ‘agile’ any more, but, oh. I’m spry.
I had to look it up myself.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-so-and-so-and-i-claim-my-five-pounds/259725/4
Agile Cyborg – that takes me back!
I followed the link and it still doesn’t make any sense.
UCS, just some silly old British trope, in short.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud
I couldnt find any of his better bodies of work.
Agile Cyborg 10 years ago
I will be concerned only when robots can walk in their sleep.
I solved my printer problem for the time being by going to Walmart and buying a pair of surprisingly expensive new ink cartridges. I looked a little while ago at b&w laser printers. They have definitely come down in price since last time I looked but I still don’t think it’s worth buying one for the very few times I get the urge to print a few pages.
The LJ1102 was like $250 c.2010, they dont make something like that still? Christ, if mine breaks imma have to hand draw all my govt forms. Set a monitor on a table and trace that shit.
And, having said that, the next windows update will probably brick my printer.
Step 1: Turn off Windows auto-updates.
Step 2: Turn off the nagging about updating Windows.
I don’t care edition.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/the-week-in-pictures-i-dont-care-margaret.php
Step 1: Turn off Windows auto-updates.
That sounds good, but eventually the fucking thing will refuse to function if you don’t allow it to update.
I believe there’s a registry entry that makes it so it doesn’t phone home. I’ve had Win10 for years, shut the auto-update off first thing, shut the nagging off first thing (registry entry), and then yes, I do believe there was a registry entry not to phone home.
I’m a history dork and one of my favorite areas of focus is WW2
You should read up on Stalin.
Rats like it hot
Humans have done a lot to help rats become one of the most prolific mammals on the planet. We leave out food waste and trash. Our buildings and sewers provide cozy homes. We inadvertently help them cross oceans on ships. Now, burning fossil fuels and heating up the climate can be added to that list.
The story pretty much writes itself from there.
tl;dr- there’s nothing global warming can’t make worse.
They’re dressing up as women to get away from gangsters?
I’m fairly certain that all NPR stories write themselves. There might be a human to press a button somewhere but all the rest is on auto-pilot.
Javascript Mad Libs?
Yeah, those Norway rats thrived in the tropics.
I trust in the stupid party’s ability to fuck it up.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/democrats-will-struggle-to-recover-from-record-unpopularity/
That said, they were surprisingly not stupid during the campaign. Another commentary I read argued that the GOP has staked a claim to “common sense” that will be hard for the Dems to overcome. On immigration, gender lunacy and crime they successfully took ownership of the normies. If they can solidify that coalition, it’ll be a 180 from the normies being dominated by the lefty cultural milieu for decades.
But I’m sure they’ll find a way to stick it in the wrong hole.
Oh, you know it. Legendary fuck ups, the repubs are. Despite all the skin suiting by Trump, they are still tards who shoot themselves in the dick constantly.
Come one, come all to Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz!
https://archive.is/capWw/6c483017952a097a46fc1a94945cc77764570672.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/DrRvh/93374f209e63c52f1e63cea194bbb96f9683d700.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/HCvx3/07506fccef3b8dfb397b412c1d96e50718a58b96.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/phOdy/58ee815e6695f8945e90448f6e5f5c97d99e8cc8.webp
NSFW.