The first CFB AP Poll is out: Texas 1, Penn State 2, Ohio State 3. It’s all downhill from there. This is gonna end up getting settled pretty quickly. They did him dirty. I bet this is big news over there. This is the first I’m hearing about it. And don’t look now, but it’s almost time to start watching the MLB playoff races. That’s it for sports.
Maybe they can improve the place. I’m sorry, but we’re not the world’s dumping ground anymore.
Wow, they’re gonna lose all their slave labor. Well, if we’re a nation of laws they will. How and why the people of that area allowed this to happen is beyond me.
I bet nothing happens. Thank God for the autopen pardons, right Schifty?
Did she not get the memo? I guess not. I wonder if she’ll be put on leave.
It’s the poppy craze all over again. Or 2008. Either way, this was as predictable as an eastern sunrise.
“Different opinions will not be tolerated in our inclusive group.” I guess it’s really not an LGBTQ+ prize after all. It’s a Capital T prize.
Oh, ok. It’s what happens in wartime. Those are the risks. Especially when you are such an ardent supporter and mouthpiece of a terrorist regime.
I don’t think anybody disagrees with this. At the same time, the US has the freedom to try and find a way to stop all of our money and equipment to go to a war half the world away. I wonder if those euros will share that sentiment as well.
Wait, are places still doing this? Complete insanity.
Damn, dude. Relax. Or at least shut the fuck up and seek psychiatric help next time.
Here’s a good one. Not goody, but good. Same for this track. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“It’s the poppy craze all over again. ”
Sometimes I miss her.
Yeah, I wonder what happened to her.
Doing no shit tours. She’s had a couple of shows here since the whole craze when the site started.
Didn’t she release something recently? I seem to remember Mexi posting it.
Am disappoint it took so long to get this link
Hey she’s coming to Indy! Maybe Evan and I can have a date night!
She better milk this cow while she can, once she starts getting old and wrinkly it’s not going to have the same effect.
LGBTQIA2S+ writer’s war?
That sounds gay…
The 2S’s can take both sides.
Whiskey and gin?
Country and Western!
“At least 11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn themselves from two major queer writing prizes. The Polari Prize and the Polari First Book Prize are known as the sole prizes recognizing queer authors in the UK.”
Is there even a definition for queer?
“Progressive”
You like Spotted Dick?
Here is the history of spotted dick, and how you can get some:
https://youtu.be/xAp-FGyLkNM?si=nyfyzu7mgoFEOBQX
It’s a boiled pudding, or something like that. Popular in wartime, because it is inexpensive and easy to make.
And it could be tinned and still be passable.
Yes. Queer = communist. It has little to nothing to do with sexual preference.
The preference to have sex in the dark while hungry.
Is there even a definition for queer?
Yes: ugly, attention-seeking person
Wait, I thought that was “non binary.” Or can the attention-seeker check more than one box?
Shit, you might be right.
You need a multitude of boxes, otherwise it’s harder to be “different” from all of the other attention-seeking ugly people.
“Transgender people in Georgia prisons have filed a class action lawsuit against Georgia corrections officials on behalf of nearly 300 people. The lawsuit accuses the state of cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment, for denying transgender prisoners access to hormones, grooming products, and medical care in relation to transition—effectively forcing them to detransition.
In May, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law SB 185, which prohibits the use of state funds or resources for anything relating to the treatment of gender dysphoria. After passage of the bill, plaintiffs were told that their hormone treatments would be gradually reduced, but were instead cut off from them completely, which can have disastrous physical and psychological complications.”
Then here it says:
“SB185 would also prohibit incarcerated trans people from paying for their own treatments.”
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/trans-people-georgia-prisons-file-class-action-lawsuit-challenging
Probably wise to prevent people from mutilating their own bodies while in state custody.
which can have disastrous physical and psychological complications
but enough about transing procedures
Tough titties.
1) Don’t believe the “studies” that not indulging the psychosis is “harm”, so little sympathy there.
2) Being in prison you lose some rights anyway. Transition when you get out, assholes. And be housed with your biological sex so you can’t literally fuck around. (Bonus points if you keep the inmates from raping each other in the ‘traditional’ ways… prison shouldn’t include that as an implied punishment… but that’s a problem as old as time, I expect).
“Probably wise to prevent people from mutilating their own bodies while in state custody.”
That’s surgery not hormones.
“1) Don’t believe the “studies” that not indulging the psychosis is “harm”, so little sympathy there.”
Gender dysphoria is not psychosis.
I have doubts that statins prevent heart attacks, SSRI’s cure depression, etc. But it shouldn’t be up to prisons to decide medical treatments.
I’d argue that chemical castration and pumping yourself full of unnatural (to your sex) hormones that shrivel your natural organs down to the point they’re artificially destroyed and/or incapable of carrying out their normal function is mutilation.
Sorry, CT — but I don’t think anorexics should get diet supplements either. Indulging their fantasies about living a different reality is feeding a mental illness, I think the medical community was captured by the politics, the peer pressure and is wrong and I don’t think the treatments should be happening. If my nomenclature for their particular mental illness is incorrect — well, mea culpa but the people “classifying” it are the same pandering assholes who say this is “care”, so I really don’t give a shit if my categorization is faulty here. Y’all get the point.
It isn’t up to the prison to decide treatment, it is up to the legislature and they say “no”.
“I’d argue that chemical castration and pumping yourself full of unnatural (to your sex) hormones that shrivel your natural organs down to the point they’re artificially destroyed and/or incapable of carrying out their normal function is mutilation.”
It’s not chemical castration. I’m completely against using lupron on children, but these people are adults who have already transitioned. Also hormones don’t shrivel your natural organs down to the point they’re artificially destroyed.
“Indulging their fantasies about living a different reality is feeding a mental illness”
Stop listening to leftist kooks. Trans people know they are trans, they aren’t “living a different reality”.
If they think they can “become” the opposite gender, they most certainly are. I will never fly to the Sun on my own power no matter how much I believe I was born to. I can not become a T-Rex if my 6 year old self felt I was meant to be one. I can not make myself taller or change my race or any of the other changes to immutable characteristics. They can dress in drag (butch? What’s the drag equivalent for FtM anyway?). They can feel all floofy inside.
They can not affect reality — and thinking they can is by definition mental illness… they’re living in a fantasy and trying to not only say it is reality but trying to get everyone else to affirm it.
“If they think they can “become” the opposite gender”
You are confusing sex and gender.
There are treatments for gender dysphoria that don’t involve hormones or snip-snip and I bet those are still allowed and the writer is disingenuously pretending those don’t exist because the narrative requires “trans” to be just another form of “gay”.
Trans people are living in another reality.
They are insane and need apropriate mental healthcare (not to agree with the mental illness) to break their delusions.
Also, that alleged TERF is a man.
Male TERFs are perfectly cromulent. They just need to submit themselves to female dominance.
Male radical feminist usually means rapist in sheep’s clothing
Example #56895976255478596986342 that insanity and sanity have the same relationship as stupidity and genius.
“Male TERFs are perfectly cromulent.”
Not according to most radical feminists.
I’m going to need a source cited on that.
“Radical” in Radical feminism is a specific political term — left/conflict theory/class identity based politics. While it is impossible to be trans inclusive since RF by definition is gender abolitionist being a man is completely compatible with recognizing the “reality” of the Partiarchy. Now it would necessarily mean that the man always act in an utter state of self-abnegation to be sincere in his beliefs, or better yet self-euthanize since the simple existence of men perpetuates the Patriarchy.
Early on, it was an attempt to find the umbrella term for ‘gay and lesbian’ after gay lost that in the early feminist wars. Now, it’s as others have noted; the equivalent of poison-frog hair color and poisonous politics.
Is there even a definition for queer?
I looked it up, it said “See British.”
whaddup doh’
And don’t look now, but it’s almost time to start watching the MLB playoff races. That’s it for sports.
It’s never time to start watching baseball.
You sound like a subversive anti-American spy trying to create excuses for why people would waste time watching that boring shit, sir….
You could try Banana Ball. They changed the rules to speed up and simplify the game (no stepping out of the box, no bunting, two hour time limit, changes to what happens at 4 balls). The girlfriend has become a big enough fan to go into other rooms and watch live games… on her own!
They’re expanding to 6 teams, and a full season next year. I’m interested in seeing how it plays out for them, I feel like they’ve got a good chance to become a permanent league.
Banana ball would work well if it is like The Harlem Globetrotters, playing exhibition matches on fun nights.
Isn’t Banana ball what the WNBA fans are trying to switch to?
ZWAK:
I’ve watched a couple with her. Still feel enough like real baseball to me, sped up, and a little looser with the players and fans. The fact that they’re selling out stadiums where ever they play says that it’s found a fan base as well. Is it at MLB level? No. But there’s some good play going on in it.
The girlfriend could not explain the infield fly rule, the suicide squeeze play, or what a balk is. But she enjoys watching Banana Ball.
I’m not sure anyone really knows what a balk is, especially the umpires.
I know the definition, but the reality for the umps seems to be “I know it when I see it”.
I have never understood how any person found baseball boring. It is a very tense game that can change scores in a minute, with active fan participation notching up the tension. And the smarter one is, the more enjoyable the game is, as you can see the strategy being played out in the pitching duels. Plus, for the nerds, math.
Basketball, on the other hand, is boring as
a dead fish flopping around the bottom of a boatshit.Sportsball of any stripe is not a spectator sport. If I’m not playing and don’t have a relationship to somebody who is (friend, significant other, blood relation) I have no reason to watch other people play a game.
I’d watch the hell out of some Rollerball! Why do we keep getting the bland and boring safety nazi dystopias?
Like a walk off inside the park grand slam!
Basketball is limit poker. Find a small edge and punish it over and over again.
Unciv hit the nail on the head.
Now I want to see ski jumping off a cliff in full on wingsuits become an Olympic sport.
We can have a new ABC Sports “agony of defeat guy”!
Close enough?
Thanks for the memories, TEd’s. Close to real life for some of us.
Link is the same as previous and doesn’t make sense in context of commentary.
More of the same happens in war, doesn’t it?
It’s fixed. Chalk it up to the fog of links.
Dude…
1) We’re adjacent to two countries. The Minions of America’s Hat aren’t coming through in the same numbers. If they were, they’d be targeted too.
2) By your own cities’ admission… almost half the town is there illegally! If you fish… do you go to a desert to cast your line? Or do you go where the fish are?
Stop trying to tug heartstrings — y’all broke the law, you knew it — hopefully the free ride and pseudo-amnesty is over. Use the self-deport option and get to the back of the legal queue.
Slightly off-topic from the tail of the overnight thread:
I don’t believe you Tres — I think that’s just a pulp fiction.
Morning all… hope everyone is doing better than I am (son is at new school on new side of the continent… think he brought home a flu variant my immune system wasn’t ready for… when you have to find your flannel PJs and an extra 2 comforters in August… pretty sure I’m running a fever…)
If your town is 45% ‘undocumented’ it sounds like the stereotype might be reasonable.
So, are you saying they have beaner before?
Re: the Norse ski jumpers cheating scandal. NPR did a story on that a while back. That story had hte deets explaining that
Meant putting a sail in the crotch of the suits.
This morning, NPR ran a story about OMB’s fascist takeover to the DC po-po where the reporter, wanting to show off how smart and edumacated he was said that residents were having to learn how to deal with “this new status quo.” Apparently none of his editors/producers had a problem with this.
They literally butchered the meaning of that phrase.
DAMN YOU SLOOPY!
I was just lamenting the loss of the word “literally” the other day. I can’t work up the same amount of sorrow for someone misusing status quo.
Less sorrow, more scorn for someone deigning to “educate” me while xemselves being a tard.
The status quo is literally always changing.
This is one of the tenants of my faith.
Is one of your faithful named David?
Who?
“Oh, you guise”
Each comment was funnier than the previous one.
I need that to start the mourning. Cuppa Joe and Glibs for starters. Everything is good.
“This is one of the tenants of my faith.”
You’re renting a half synagogue?
Collecting rent is very Jewish.
Trump should use the national guard to help DC students walk into school.
Why do you hate DC students?
AC/DC students need protection too.
“AC/DC students”
I think I’ve seen that video.
They’ve got the biggest balls of all!
I know it would be off-brand, but I think bringing in UN peacekeepers to patrol DC would be entertaining? Educational?
We don’t need More foreign rapists running around.
Blue helmet trophies hanging over fireplaces instead of antlers.
That’s like inviting Steve Smith to a Girl Scout camp.
Wow, they’re gonna lose all their slave labor.
They aren’t denying.
So they are artificially keeping prices low, while giving free shit to these people they pay too little, fucking consumers over at the state and federal level with how their taxes are being spent?
Remember when it was a Bad Thing that people working at Wal-Mart were also on various kinds of welfare, and it proved Wal-Mart needed to raise wages?
But Walmart is supposed to raise wages but not prices. I may want to help the less fortunate, but I don’t want to be the one paying for it.
They’re counting on a majority of people being more concerned with their cheap crap than they are the law or our society.
And they might win.
At the same time, they oppose free market policies that would lower the actual prices of goods and services, while increasing the quality of the same.
They wouldn’t control that. Control is the goal.
The answer varies whether you’re a politician (power) or a voter (free shit). See: every other Team Blue controlled area in the country.
Human trafficking is ok when the left does it.
In a just world he’d at least be kicked out of the Senate for besmirching their spotless reputation and honor (ha!)… but yeah, we need a Metallica cover for “… and nothing else happens…” as the theme song for this century of decadence, corruption and decline.
Or am I just grumpy? Who knows.
Did she not get the memo? I guess not. I wonder if she’ll be put on leave.
+1 Lara Logan
I’m honestly expecting a “mostly peaceful protestors” moment where the live reporter has their news van stolen in broad daylight in the background.
Somebody on the twitters posted a link to a local news story about a person being shot and killed 1/2 a mile away from yesterday’s protests in DC. But I can’t find it anymore.
Someone getting shot in DC is barely news.
“I think most infectious disease doctors are concerned about the availability of COVID vaccines for this fall,” Gandhi said. “We think COVID boosters are important for older people and those with immunocompromise.”
Well, I suppose there are still a lot of the latter group in San Francisco. If they feel like getting boosted again, they can do so on their own dime.
There are a bunch of lunatic fanatics that still religiously take their clot shots to prove they are devout.
The term is, “…and those with compromised immunity,” you fucking dingleberry.
What are the odds they say “woman” instead of “female” when describing an individual and their job title?
100%
Besides the WEF style foreign investment trying to buy private properties and rent them back to people — I still believe (granted, with zero actual evidence beyond ‘If A, then B’ logic) that part of the housing bubble was driven by the hyper-importation of the undocumented over the last 4 years… and stopping (preferably reversing) that is going to cause markets to slump as the FedGov money won’t be sloshing in for the ‘refugees’.
But yeah — if there was ever an over-inflated bubble right now… real estate is it. A market correction seems inevitable (settle down back there Liam Neeson Ra’s al Ghul… I didn’t say a cleansing fire you psychopath!)
“Besides the WEF style foreign investment trying to buy private properties and rent them back to people”
I think that’s been over exaggerated. Compared to the massive amount of domestic buyers, it’s not enough to change prices.
Somebody in the know did the math and it represents something like 0.15% of the domestic housing stock.
I’d agree that it’s an insignificant amount nationwide. Not sure if it’s enough to impact specific marketplaces, but I’d lean toward saying that it is not.
Maybe… there was a lot of money funneled to BlackRock which then went “investment property” crazy.
And the Chinese looking to lock in foreign assets (as something their government can’t steal as easily… instead our government can!), etc… Again I’ll admit to zero evidence only “feel” and logic from my possibly wrong starting position.
Ranting from a possibly completely erroneous position on the internet is wrong?!? I thought this was America!
The hedge funds have mostly impacted the small local landlord, not the owner occupant, except in rental heavy neighborhoods. They pay lower interest rates which means they can pay more for a property and still have cashflow, but I think that trend will swing back eventually. A lot of those funds appear to me to have vastly underestimated the need for maintenance. They did the math based on cheap money and acquisition and initial rehab costs, but are poorly set up for ongoing maintenance and management. The management model that works for large commercial properties doesn’t translate well to scattered single families and some of the big players in the single family house fund game have started to sell off properties recently.
Yes, depending on where, buying houses to rent is very risky. (In Miami you would be under water now.)
Due to differences in tax laws, as well as you say maintenance and management, large apartment buildings can be a gold mine.
Every market is different. In south Florida its a bubble of people trying to do weekly rentals for tourists
In a market like Toledo its small investors buying houses for cash and doing section 8 rentals. They can recoup all the cash in three years and then forfeit the property for unpaid property taxes.
Somebody in the know did the math and it represents something like 0.15% of the domestic housing stock.
I’d agree that it’s an insignificant amount nationwide. Not sure if it’s enough to impact specific marketplaces, but I’d lean toward saying that it is not.
There are local variations. I’ve heard from real estate investors local to me that the percentage of Blackrock owned properties in NH is near 0 because the housing stock is too old.
In my town it’s Big U undergoing massive expansion in recent years combined with the left putting their usual roadblocks in front of housing construction with the inevitable results.
I’m sure Mojo would have some insights… but from a reader’s perspective — it really seems like it is tough to find anything but YA crap these days (even formerly good authors are just pretty obviously turning the crank of crap… and I assume that’s because that’s what the publisher wants). I’d wish for self-publishing digitally to break the market open… but I don’t trust Amazon not to put their own ideological binders on incoming submittals.
There’s been lots of think pieces about why the white [straight] male author (Link should be fixed now) is disappearing. I have some thoughts and guesses, but will defer to those with more knowledge and experience in that area.
404 page not found
I like that it leads to a 404 error. Very appropriate.
Remove the rel https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-vanishing-white-male-writer/
That was a long winded way to say “because they are discriminated against”.
Well, will see if UCS and SugarFree are here tomorrow.
I keep my hand it this world, and while there is some of the discrimination that is talked about here, but, the reason seems to be that White Straight Men aren’t buying it either. Not fiction at least. But is this a case of Chicken or Egg, no one seems to know.
As far as YA being the most published and read difficulty level, it sits at the level that most casual readers are comfortable with: junior high level. Your average reader doesn’t want ambiguity, adult themes, or challenge. They want MTV beach books.
Ding! Ding! Ding! WTF wins the stuffed bear.
We need more clean YA stuff.
My 7 year old is burning through the little kid chapter books at an alarming rate.
Hell top 200 in the last year since the reading kicked in.
The West has forgotten what war is at this point and thinks it can all be nice, neat and properly civilized. We’re in for one hell of a shock when it comes down to a real fight.
But yes — expecting munitions to honor a press pass when you’re embedded with troops is a fresh level of stupid.
This wasn’t a case of a combat correspondent getting too close to the action. Israel specifically targeted and killed him. Other journalists with him were collateral damage.
Were they? I assumed the lack of coverage those other journalists were receiving was based on their political allegiances being easier to identify.
If they were just innocent bystanders, why aren’t there a bunch of stories about them as well?
Good.
No matter how much you hate the media you don’t hate them enough is true for Israel as well as us.
I hate my government for wasting my money there and Ukraine.
“Israel specifically targeted and killed him.”
Source?
I thought I saw that he was also a Hamasnik, which would make him a viable target regardless of his hobbies/cover story.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-863836
The actual headline of Drakes link:
Israeli military kills Hamas terrorist doubling as Al Jazeera reporter near Shifa Hospital
“The West has forgotten what war is at this point and thinks it can all be nice, neat and properly civilized.”
Too many people grew up in the video game world where you could just spawn or restart the game, and the casualties and destruction was just temporary. The sanitation of war is why we have more of it too. War was something you avoided because it was fucking ugly. When you lost, the cost was slaver or death. Now we think we should be able to fight wars without ever making mistakes or affecting whomever gets designated (or those that claims to be) civilians.
This.
I keep hearing about war having rules, that there is such a thing as ‘war crimes’ etc.
It is all bullshit. War is the suspension of rules and law. It is what happens when all of the rules and laws are abandoned. War is the demonstration of no matter how bad you think it is it can always get worse.
We, as a species, are not civilized. In a civilized world we would not be talking about how war is conducted, we would not be conducting it at all.
Several of us here have been in wars. The rules were drilled into our heads. Mistakes and acceptable risks are accepted. Purposely breaking rules isn’t.
Drake.
Most of the rules were also BS.
My idiot chain of command thought that 50 cal API went agains the Geneva convention and took it out of all of our trucks.
We also took the rules of guarding a U.S. installation to Iraq with us and the EPA.
Generations of idiots being promoted and teaching the next generation incorrectly ruined the military.
No WP rounds either?
Hard to see how we’ve forgotten when we’ve had large numbers of troops in hot wars from 2001 until fairly recently.
Because the United States, as a whole society and country, hasn’t experienced actual war since 1945. I have spent years in combat in my prior career, as have the other ground pounders*, but I have not experienced war. The kind of war that Israel and Ukraine are experiencing- fighting for your country’s existence.
*US Navy last war experience spring 1945. USAF/USN aircraft last real combat experience Jan 1973.
Iraq was statistically safer for me than driving off post.
It was a ‘war’
I do — I also think anyone who thinks “Might makes right” is a vestige of the past is deluding themselves immensely. Russia isn’t going to give up their seized areas and Ukraine can’t make them. Not really what I’d want, but the world often isn’t what people want.
And yes — 1000 percent both not our business and “provoking a fellow first class nuclear power into a potential tactical exchange that could easily spiral out of control” is again… a fresh level of stupid to me. I also have sympathy for African tribes involved in slaughter (especially the Christian ones). I don’t want to send in the Marines there either.
Sovereignty means the ability to hold. You don’t have sovereignty over something you cannot hold. We have a lot of fantasies about property rights and the rule of law, and they are good things, but they all depend in the ultimate analysis on whatever entity is guaranteeing that rule of law having the power to do so, and Ukraine doesn’t.
but the world often isn’t what people want
How DARE you deny the delusional the world they want!
So say we all.
More double-thought from the left. We are expected to welcome millions of enrichers from that shithole at the same time as the left wants to turn us into Venezuela.
How can anyone be a refugee from such a worker’s paradise under the enlightened leadership of the most noble and perfect Maduro?
It’s not Maduro’s fault, it’s all the wreckers and Republicans causing the trouble down there.
Plus the refugees will bring an incredible work ethic, vibrant culture, and amazing street food.
If things don’t work out, they can move to Haiti and get jobs rebuilding a place that celebrities tell me is “Already Great”.
How else can the health department lackeys flex their strap on power up the ass of the common citizen, Sloopy? It isn’t crazy to them… just a perpetual “Flu season is Dictator Season! Yay!”
ONGOING UPDATE: Two additional longlisted authors announced their withdrawal after publication of this article. They are Jane Traies (author of 3000 Lesbians Go to York), who was longlisted for the Polari Prize, and Eleanor Medhurst (author of Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion) for the First Book prize.
Yeah, there’s a couple of books that were never going on my reading list anyway, prize-winning or not.
Prize winning is now a negative indicator for me.
Agreed – the judges who pick the winners are insane.
The Polari prize is looked at just the same as the Lambda prize; no one gives a rats ass about it out side their circle.
What was done there… was seen.
Now on to seeing how bloody redundant I was in my reactions to the links. Betting I hit at least 75% of “saying the same thing someone else did first”.
“COVID-19 levels are up 32% percent from a month ago just as schools across the Bay Area are about to start for the fall semester.
Levels of COVID-19 detected in Bay Area wastewater”
But what about people getting sick?
“Gandhi said she’s especially worried that people will not have access to or trust COVID-19 vaccines after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made controversial moves including canceling funding for mRNA vaccine research and firing all members of a key vaccine expert advisory board.”
The world’s slowest Indian?
I am higher caste than you! Treat me with respect!!!
Covid-19 leads to death, death leads to anger, anger leads to suffering
What is 1.32 times almost nothing.
The number of cases in the county went from 0 to 1. That is an infinity percent increase!
Six
*insert Jethro Bodine gozinta routine*
The wastewater trick is clever and just sciency enough to freak people out
“In a February post on X, Langston wrote, “2nd Amendment in full effect. Gonna slit the throats of agents and their families.”
I guess a knife could be considered “arms”.
“Langston Scissorhands”
Knives are absolutely arms. The 2A isn’t limited to firearms.
And, pursuant to RC’s point, there was a case in NY about just that.
Trump knows how to shake down with the best of them.
Now Trump Wants an Export Tax
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/now-trump-wants-an-export-tax-4141f9a8?st=BsQN37&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How is that going to help onshoring manufacturing?
The great champion of free markets at work!
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-marches-toward-state-capitalism-with-american-characteristics-f75cafa8?st=Eu4nuB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I just think it’s cute they didn’t feel this way before.
It isn’t that Trump is doing it – HE’S DOING IT WRONG!
I actually read the WP before Trump broke them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fact-checker-checks-out-washington-post-glenn-kessler-journalism-3b7ab7df?st=cR2n34&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That core readership – jackals one and all.
It used to be useful to see what regulatory and government impact was going to be on companies across industries. It generally played it straight.
Post Trump it became a mouthpiece for Team Blue’s approach to business. Law X or Regulation Y must follow this approach or disaster A, B and/or C will occur.
I’d say it’s just more obvious because Trump strips away all of their pretensions.
Everybody knows that Wikipedia has been capturs by commies. But someday it might not be. Therefore to prevent that unacceptable possibility, the UK is making sure only the goodthinkful are working on it:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
Briton will be building a lot of government owned search engines, wikis and social platforms soon when all the real ones leave.
The power to pardon is not the power to give permission to commit crimes. Preemptive pardons are not a thing, are they?
The “preemptive” part covers prosecution for crimes that may have already been committed.
I’d assume they’re valid in the eyes of the court for anything Schiff may have done in the timeframe given in the pardon.
There is a very real dispute about whether someone can be pardoned for a crime they haven’t been convicted of, or at least indicted for. I believe the first such pardon was the sui generis one given to Richard Nixon.
At a minimum, I would require that the recipient of a pardon give a full confession to whatever crime(s) they are being pardoned for.
Would that confession have to include all potential “novel legal theories” created by prosecutors in the SDNY?
Biden issued at least one.
I hear that crime is at an all time historic forever since the beginning of time low.
Meme.
This is why I get up in the morning.
/Repetitive laughing
“The town is 95.6% Latino, and as many as 45% of the residents are undocumented, according to the city.”
So I wonder how many ballots were counted from this town with perhaps 25,000 citizens, perhaps less?
Good question. Also, a town with median income of 50k, 50% high school diploma rate and homes worh 500-700k
California, the great utopia
Why do you hate progress?
“too many homes for sale”
Heavens to Betsy. What a calamity. 🙄
Might be a canary in the coal mine. I remember the last real estate bubble. Logic dictates that something has to change: home value must drop or interest rates must go down. Since interest rates are not dropping, home value must drop. A lot.
real estate prices have been artificially high for too long. They need to come down.
I definitely agree with that. It’s a boon for homebuyers.
The problem with real estate prices, once you cut through all the bullshit, is very very simple. Real Estate is an asset. For your average working person it is the only kind of asset they will ever own. Assets on average tend to either increase in value, or at least maintain value. Money is not an asset. The supply of money is continuously inflated. When the money supply is inflated the entities that create the new money steal some of the value of all the existing money, reducing the value of an individual dollar. Wages are paid in dollars and can never keep up with inflation because of that portion stolen by the creators of the new money (and for other reasons, but I am trying for simple.)
Assets hold value
Dollars lose value
Asset prices in dollar terms go up.
Voila
Bubbles are driven by debt. Injecting more debt just makes the bubble bigger and last (a little) longer. It doesn’t make it not a bubble.
Home prices too high = crisis
Not enough housing =crisis
Home prices falling = crisis
Too many houses =crisis
Those pearls won’t clutch themselves!
The left loves high prices because a lot of them own expensive real estate, AND they love to keep the rabble dependent on government handouts.
It’s win-win.
The best power collectivist government gives those few that have said power, and thus whatever wealth has not yet been squandered, is to prevent anyone ese from taking their wealth or creating new wealth. It is truly the belief that there is a finite pie, and you control whom gets any part of it.
Too many? Or not enough?
Re: Huntington Beach
Asked what impact this was having on the economy, Sanabria said, “It’s very obvious that our sales tax numbers are gonna be a lot lower than they were, which means it’s gonna be less money to provide services for our community.”
Well, if the nearly half of the community that are residing there illegally go ahead and self-deport, then the amount of “services” needed should also decline drastically.
Bonus: A sliver of California residential real estate may for a time slip to the “affordable for mere mortals” price range.
And there it is, one of my pet peeves:
Any mainstream discussion of the economy will be about how much the government can extract via taxes or other exactions. New manufacturing plant opening? The story will be about the government’s expected increase in revenue. Etc.
“Free shit” in action.
Of course.
Meet the Parents Raising ‘Carnivore Babies,’ Swapping Puréed Fruit for Rib-Eye
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/meet-the-parents-raising-carnivore-babies-swapping-pureed-fruit-for-rib-eye-36945d3b?st=H39Nry&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Oh… you’re a little baby! Look at your flabby baby arms! Eat your protein — we’re here to pump….
YOU UP!”
Sardine prices are nuts.
And…enough said.
When you want to be absolutely sure your child will be a fucked up mess of an adult.
Naming girls after plants seems fairly common — Rosemary, Daisy, Kamala, Aiko, etc.
Nettle, Kudzu, Ivy, Sumac
😡
I ordered something I thought was coming from Poland. Just got the tracking info… it’s coming from Ukraine.
🤬
Restore the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth! Make Ukraine Polish again!
Funnily enough, it is coming from Lviv, which historically was more Polish than Rus.
Lwów, get it right! (I have a soft spot for the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, oddly it started from reading Lord Darcy, where they are the villains)
I don’t have accent marks on my keyboard.
And I don’t speak Polish.
Jarflax: You mean Lemberg.
So when is the wedding?
*golf clap*
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about.
You have misunderstood the nature and type of product involved.
OBE and Alex, you guys are too easily impress and/or amused.
Beats having a stick up the ass
Stop sticking objects up your posterior and the pain will go away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmKv_z8nfE
JI is awarded one Internets.
If you want something stuck up your ass you are probably better off buying local talent. The Slavic girls tend a bit more traditional, at least on the surface. They’ll still kill or divorce you, whichever is more profitable, once they have citizenship or at least permanent residency independent of the marriage.
Beats having a stick up the ass
Now let’s not be too hasty….
Relevant
Reason does Republicans pounce
“At first, “criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers,” Ken Bensinger and Stuart A. Thompson of The New York Times wrote last week. “Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.””
https://reason.com/2025/08/11/the-self-sustaining-outrage-cycle-of-sydney-sweeneys-jeans-ad/
Reason discovered online outrage optics finally? Good for them I guess.
Even if true, it doesn’t change the fact that after the normies pointed-and-laughed at the fringe loonies, the mainstream outlets started parroting the fringe loonies.
Thus showing that the fringe loonies aren’t so fringe/the mainstream outlets are loonies, too.
‘Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971’: Dionne Warwick at Pop’s Pinnacle
12 CD box set. They know their audience including the physical media. However, I’m trying to figure out the audience. I know this music, but it’s the music my parents listened to. Quite a bit of it is good and I’d happily listen to a tune if it showed up on a playlist. But there is no way I’d buy this or listen to multiple tracks.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/make-it-easy-on-yourself-the-scepter-recordings-1962-1971-dionne-warwick-at-pops-pinnacle-cb7be6cf?st=wxdvf6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There aren’t many fourscores around anymore, few are concerned about music. I enjoyed some of Ms Warwick’s renditions but I’m not buying a 12 volume set.
Exactly!
Most that would care still have the original wax cylinders for their phonograph.
TW:TOS
“A hotel could be legally liable for sex trafficking because it failed to intervene against a guest who wore “sexually explicit clothing” and had condoms in her room, according to a recent ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/11/hotel-sex-trafficking-suit-can-proceed-inviting-hotels-to-profile-and-harass-guests/
That’s retarded.
“The lawsuit was brought by “J.H.” against Paramount Hospitality, a company that manages hotels. J.H. alleges that she was trafficked for sex at a hotel owned and operated by Paramount Hospitality.”
This anonymous adult woman bullshit needs to end.
“The hotel did nothing wrong, JH is ordered to pay legal fees of the hotel chain, and her legal team is personally liable for the libel and slander against the hotel for these accusations. Hotel, please file suit against the legal team.”
Paramount Hospitality would make for a really good pimp name.
If the front desk was running the show, sure, but otherwise…bullshit lawsuit
I don’t even like cleaning people coming in during my stay in a hotel room, I sure as shit don’t want the hotel checking up on me for my own protection.
On the other hand… I understand why Vegas hotels have a policy of checking on rooms every two days (even with Do Not Disturb signs up).
Why? Dod something happen in Vegas to effect that change?
OBE:
It was from a conversation with the security guys. This was at the Orleans, and the policy is to avoid the cleaning people finding bodies.
By the time you can smell the corpse, the carpet/upholstery is a complete loss.
Oh i thoight it was from the shooting that never happened
The suit turns on whether the hotel company violated the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
Fuck everyone in Congress who voted for that intellectual abortion of an act, and of course W for signing it.
Also fuck Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a judge who’s legal training is buried under his Calvinist morality.
We. have seen this sort of thing before. I remember it being about cops using crime as a premise for stealing hotels.
I got clickbaited into watching (most of) a fifteen minute promo/infomercial about Cadillac F1. The team will be run by geniuses. General motors is a design and engineering juggernaut incapable of failure or misjudgement. Those other teams might as well pack up right now, because they’re going to get steamrollered.
It was hilarious.
There are going to be endless jokes about American cars’ lack of ability to corner every time that team wrecks.
I’d love to see GM’s explanation how this has a positive NPV for shareholders.
Anyone who owns GM stock deserves what they get. Buying stock in a company after the prior shareholders were defrauded by the US Government is knowingly receiving stolen goods as far as I am concerned. Fuck GM.
If you own a mutual fund there is a good probability you own it in some form.
I despise what GM did to the taxpayers, but they are a public company. I won’t buy one of their autos as much a the new mid-life crisis two seater appeals to me. However, from a professional standpoint you can’t ignore them.
The best description of GM that I’ve heard years ago was that they are a pension and healthcare provider that makes subpar cars on the side.
Ed:
My dad couldn’t wait to take the pension buyout from his time at GM.
It’s real simple. Either it’s a brilliant marketing strategy that will elevate the brand to rival Mercedes, Ferrari, and Audi or a giant waste of money. If it’s a waste of money, the taxpayer will bail them out when the company fails again.
So really, it’s win win and fucking genius.
It is not what GM did to the taxpayers. It is what Obama and the union did to the shareholders in the bankruptcy. They short circuited the process and changed the statutorily set order of priority in order to pay off the union. Effectively they stole the company from its owners, then sold it in an IPO.
(((Jarflax – it was going to go to BK with no government intervention and common stockholders were unlikely to get much, if anything.
That said, I agree with you as to regards what happened and who was enriched. I’d argue the debt holders who should have gotten some return have the bigger complaint.
The bond holders absolutely got screwed, but restructuring was possible even in the bk, also, the Federal swoop in shortened the timeline and prevented people from selling to speculators to get what they could. The point isn’t that people lost money. It is that the law was blatantly ignored in order to shift money to the union which otherwise would have gone to bond holders and shareholders.
GM is buying Lotus again, aren’t they?
Lotus isn’t allowed to be Lotus due to safety regulations — their cars weigh twice as much now.
On the cootie bugs, do I recall correctly that the scare isn’t about fake hospitalizations or deaths, it is about the trace amounts of cooties found in the sewer?
Yep, like I mentioned above, just sciency enough to fool the true believers
An Instagram post by the Polari Prize account on August 7 addressed the controversy, but only fueled the flames. In it, Polari defended the choice to include Boyne, writing “we can at times hold radically different positions on substantive issues.”
Mercy me. We’re gonna need a bigger fainting couch.
Good rubber stamp check and balance there.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-and-the-trouble-with-federal-grand-juries-law-trump-victim-08ef9812?st=DYC97P&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“not a single victim had testified before the grand juries”
Seems nuts but why bother when you don’t need to bother? Once you’re in front of a federal grand jury an indictment is almost guaranteed.
It’s not just federal grand juries with a broken process.
Can anyone point to a single thing about that debacle that does not stink like hell?
I’d love to see GM’s explanation how this has a positive NPV for shareholders.
Prestige! Everybody knows the target market for Escalades is a perfect overlap with the F1 demographic.
https://babylonbee.com/news/spirit-flight-attendant-says-in-the-event-of-a-water-landing-lifejackets-will-be-available-for-3999
On an actually related note, what the fuck happened at Southwest? Assigned seats? Charging for bags? Did they hire someone from another airline or something. This is like Costco raising the prices on hotdogs or trying to make a profit on roto chickens.
That’s good.
“Wait, are places still doing this?”
My prediction is that the “news” will circle the wagons, over hype every tangentially related death, and try to paint Trump as a dangerous, anti-science fool who’s going to let half the population die from the next plague.
The fact that so many people now refuse to react in panic and let them get their authoritarian freak on, especially since they have Trump to protect them from the usual repercussions by the corruptocracy, angers them.
Stuff nobody cares about but me:
Excitement in Portland. IndyCar should ban passing because it’s risky and people might get their feelings (among other things) hurt. It should be a stately procession, stage managed by the league with gimmicks. Good little drivers should move aside for the stars.
Team Penske won, dodging their first winless year since 1999.
Palou won the championship.
C’mon. Enough people already confuse Indy with F1 as it is.
“Decarbonization”. Completely unforeseeable.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/10/opinion/new-jerseys-insane-electric-bills-could-cost-dems-the-state/
And no, Team Blue will easily hold the state.
And no, Team Blue will easily hold the state.
Because leftists are incapable of drawing the connection between the policies they vote for, and the consequences of those policies. Along hordes of people in NJ who basically vote for a living.
There have to be dozens of us libertarians that still live here. Dozens!
connection between the policies they vote for, and the consequences of those policies
They understand perfectly well that Republicans are to blame for any failure. They just wouldn’t spend enough money on it!
This plays on the teevee about 100x per day.
I present to you the most perfect advertisement ever made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpqTibKMWf8
I love that guy.
I’m looking at a new wristwatch, but it never occurred to me to simply get into an accident involving an 18-wheeler owned by a deep-pocketed company.
The downside of the plan is that I might actually be killed or badly injured. But with a nice enough watch, there will always be complications.
Usually even the most basic watch includes a date function. It’s rare watch that is time only.
– Intentionally Obtuse
Yeah, but my wife won’t let me go on dates anymore, so that’d be useless to me.
— Intentionally More Obtuser
Intentionally More Obtuser
Next time I see a proggie using IMO as a disclaimer – that is exactly what is going to register in my head.
I suspect that this is a no but is Trump constitutionally allowed to federalize the DC police department and deploy the National Guard in DC? And also is this the power we really want the President to have whether they are a Democrat or Republican?
It’s a two-step process.
The constitution gave DC to Congress. In the Home Rule Act, Congress oncluded a provision for federalization of City resources under certain situations. The president has at most a month before that law requires congressional approval of the emergency measures.
In that month he can’t do a ton. BUT, it forces Congress to face up to the giant mess of crime, which will be discussed non-stop in the press. My current bet is a lot of dems will cross the aisle to push major changes in DC law enforcement (pro-Trump) to avoid looking like crime-loving commies.
Not look like a bunch of crime loving commies? I thought the mask was torn off, shredded and burned.
My prediction is that the “news” will circle the wagons, over hype every tangentially related death, and try to paint Trump as a dangerous, anti-science fool who’s going to let half the population die from the next plague.
They currently have a parade of “experts” shrieking about the withdrawal of mrna research funds and how Trump/Kennedy will be responsible for the deaths of millions.
shrieking about the withdrawal of mrna research funds
If it was a fruitful and ultimately profitable avenue of research, public subsidies wouldn’t be necessary.
See? The story writes itself. Just put it on JournoList.
“Literal” Guardian headline.
So, Republicans went around punching Missouri workers in the stomach?
It’s right in the headline.
TDS is simply people who do nothing of value, who produce nothing, screaming about having their supply of free money cut off. That turns out to be an awful lot of people.
Was it Peter Thiel who asked “Saving humanity? Has anyone thought to ask if we are worth saving?”
“Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16…
But now Australia has decided to double down on the stupid, announcing that YouTube will be included in the ban. This escalation reveals just how disconnected from reality this entire policy framework has become. We’ve gone from “maybe we should protect kids from social media” to “let’s ban children from accessing one of the world’s largest repositories of educational content.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/06/australia-completely-loses-the-plot-plans-to-ban-kids-from-watching-youtube/
There are no parents in Australia.
Didn’t the dingoes eat all the babies?
“New rules could soon mean all new cars made in the UK are fitted with in-built breathalysers and black box-style data recorders, just like in the EU. The move has sparked a political row, with some saying it’s less about safety and more about the Labour government trying to get closer to the EU after Brexit.
The government, led by Sir Keir Starmer, says keeping UK car manufacturing different from Europe could drive up costs, and those would likely fall on the customer. But critics argue it’s really about aligning the UK more closely with EU rules.”
https://www.regit.cars/car-news/new-uk-cars-to-come-with-breathalysers-and-black-boxes-under-labours-eu-alignment-plans
That wouldn’t even be on my top ten objections.
Just get one of ya nippas to blow into ya car, eh gov’nah?
The alcohol interlock isn’t required. The vehicle needs to be compliant with an interlock if one is fitted.
Not that I’m on board, but there is big difference between that and the sentence you quoted.
Remind me, where was Jeremy Bentham from?
The man was a visionary, wasn’t he? Practically all-seeing.
I hear southern California is nice, down around El Centro
President Donald Trump vowed this week to rid Washington, D.C., of homeless encampments, issuing a warning that the “homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY.” Though what those plans will look like, including where people will go, is unclear, sparking concerns among advocacy groups.
While previewing an announcement regarding D.C., Trump told those experiencing homelessness in a social media post on Sunday, “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
In his remarks the following day, Trump said that the federal government will be “removing homeless encampments from all over our parks” in D.C. as part of an effort to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”
The advocates can go with them.
I hear Huntington Park needs people. Their streets are empty.
where people will go
Gosh, all of those wealthy suburbs immediately adjacent to DC – seems like they ought to be able to provide a little.
“Elon Musk said on Monday night that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, would be taking “immediate legal action” against Apple, accusing the tech giant of “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.”
Musk wrote, “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-elon-musk-vows-immediate-legal-action-against-apple-over-antitrust-violation-favoring-openai
Battle of the planet of the apps.
Whoops.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/asia/south-china-sea-china-warship-collision-intl-hnk
Do you have it?
I’ve got it!
No, I’ve got it!
The US and allies are flexing in the Pacific. It’s getting a little teste out there.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/3-aircraft-carriers-6-navies-220919800.html
Those baby carriers are cute.
The United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group shared an image on X of the three carriers, plus the U.S. Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS America, sailing side by side in the North Philippine Sea on Aug. 10, with a large aerial force flying overhead. It’s a strong naval presence, with the HMS Prince of Wales, the American Nimitz-class USS George Washington and Japan’s JS Kaga among them.
JS Kaga? You mean the totally-not-an-aircraft-carrier aircraft carrier?
Oh… I didn’t know she was undergoing conversion to an aircraft carrier. Oh, she must not be an “attack aircraft carrier”.
“Those baby carriers are cute.”
Aren’t they? They have those funny ramps instead of catapults.
That should have been the Nimitz, but that’s now in the ME, and they had to deploy the Abraham Lincoln in a hurry.
“The incident is illustrative of something experts have long feared in the contentious South China Sea; one mistake by one captain or pilot could lead to a superpower military confrontation.”
I don’t see how one Chinese ship ramming another Chinese ship could lead to a superpower confrontation, myself.
The Chinese will demand compensation, and the Chinese will refuse, then the Chinese will get into a shooting war wioth the Chinese until the Chinese nuke the Chinese.
Dismantling homeless encampments is not a new practice in D.C. for either the Trump administration or local government, Dana White, the advocacy director for Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit focused on ending chronic homelessness in D.C., told ABC News.
Trump is our new Hoover!
Update:
“The attempted child kidnapping case against Solomon Galligan, a registered sex offender, was dismissed Thursday due to questions about his mental competency, highlighting serious gaps in Colorado’s legal system, prosecutors and defense attorneys said….
Following dismissal, Galligan was placed under a civil commitment allowing up to 90 days of involuntary treatment, the maximum allowed by Colorado law. After that, medical professionals decide his fate.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/kidnapping-charges-dismissed-against-man-who-swiped-child-from-park-deemed-mentally-unfit
One of these days, a bullet is going to solve his troubles.
“Really, for a homeless advocate, it was really an information-less press conference,” Whitehead said. “It points to it being more of a stunt than an actual conference about solutions to homelessness.”
Or maybe you’re not part of the process because nobody gives a shit about your input.
I doubt Whitehead, as a homeless advocate, has ever been part of anything that was about solutions to homelessness.
“An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz”, according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
Can I get fries with that?
Maybe they should have self deported?
Disease outbreaks, just like in the Nazi death camps. Sad.
And?
Kodak cautions there’s ‘substantial doubt’ about its ability to stay in business
Sad, but not surprising.
https://apnews.com/article/eastman-kodak-debt-photography-bankruptcy-876ad52ed39efb57c0c02a1042750f1f
They need to come up with a Dorian Gray line of product – that would sell.
There is still a market for film. Sadly it is very small. I dont think Kodak knows how to be a small company.
I have a complete darkroom in boxes in the attic. I think about setting it up all of the time but….that is a thing that would likely take over my life and I dont know if I want to go down that rabbit hole.
I’m sure there is nothing more to the story of the CIS grad from Purdue. It must be the new thing!
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
https://archive.fo/nCZCw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8._N3b.WpGjEJ9XpFok&smid=url-share
Um, I’M the CIS grad from Purdue. I’m not making that kind of money though.
The layoffs seem to be using AI as an excuse. We use AI where I work, it’s great for low level and mundane stuff but still needs a coder to give it the right prompts and check its work.
Gotta wonder how much contraction there is in the total number of programmers, etc., and how many of those jobs are going to immigrants rather than citizens, too.
AI is stupid. By that I mean that AI can copy and reproduce, but it cannot create.
But since the vast majority of coding projecting are implementing more of the same, AI seems well suited to routine coding practices.
So, who needs a bunch of undergrads that have never held a real job before. It’s been 50 years since of was one of them. So, why should I care.
But AI is never going to break new ground. There will always be a need for real problem solving skills. But god only knows where you’re going to get those people after you wiped out all the jobs that filter out the real talent from the also-rans.
New math
Twelve days ago, poor job numbers forced Donald Trump to confront evidence of his own failures. Presented with data showing job growth in the United States slowing to a 16-year low, the president fired Erica McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics without cause. He proceeded to tell Americans that his own administration’s job numbers should be seen as “rigged,” “ridiculous,” “phony” and a “scam” — baseless claims that the Republican appeared to make up to justify his own outlandish and authoritarian-style decision.
But that’s not all he did. The president also vowed to nominate an even better BLS chief, and on Monday afternoon, the public learned of his choice: E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group that used to have a reputation as a prominent think tank. NBC News reported:
Steve Bannon, a senior adviser to Trump in his first term, had been pushing hard for Antoni’s nomination. Antoni, a contributor to the Project 2025 policy rubric, has been a longtime skeptic of BLS data. On Bannon’s podcast last week, Antoni called for McEntarfer to be fired shortly before Trump pulled the trigger. As chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, Antoni has written a number of pieces for the think tank that are highly complimentary of the Trump administration.
People will die.
“Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund on Monday blasted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for criticizing President Donald Trump’s activation of the Washington, D.C. National Guard over crime in the district, claiming he delayed deploying the guard in the January 6 riot….
“Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake,” Pelosi posted to X. “Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders.”
Sund, who was the chief during January 6, reminded Pelosi that he was denied National Guard approval despite requesting it days before the riot and was later forced to decline assistance from the National Guard because he was not authorized to accept it.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/former-capitol-police-chief-blasts-pelosi-comparing-trumps-activation-national
CWAC
“Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th”
I thought Trump requested the Guard be deployed in advance of 01/06, and Pelosi refused.
That’s correct, but that narrative isn’t useful.
If he has the unilateral power to deploy it now, why did he ask Pelosi for permission back on Jan. 6th? Maybe because Jan. 6th wasn’t yet an emergency (i.e. the insurrection hadn’t happened yet) whereas in current situation it is evident crime has been on-going and seemingly out of control?
Trump learned not to ask for permission.
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
The job market never changes. It is known.
Well, unless Trump changes it out of spite, of course.
Yes, it is known that Trump hates workers.
This is spectacular on so many levels. We have at least 1,000 words too.
The Fake Heiress, the Instagram Shoot and the Abandoned Bunnies
– Three rabbits used in a photo shoot featuring Anna Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, were found abandoned in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
– But the next day, Terry Chao, a web specialist who blogs about vegan causes in her spare time, spotted Parker in Prospect Park, recognizing the rabbit from a Facebook group where some bunnies had recently been listed as available for adoption.
– “When I realized the rabbits were being surrendered to me, I panicked,” he appeared to have written. “At 19, with no experience caring for animals, no pet-friendly housing, and no knowledge of available resources, I felt overwhelmed and made the worst possible choice. Believing, mistakenly, that there were existing rabbits in that area, I released them there, thinking that was my best option.”
https://archive.fo/37M5L
I know that name. The Netflix series about her was wild.
“As God is my witness, I thought rabbits could forage.”
Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.
Que?
Chipotle already has programs in place to hire art and history graduates. They are still working out how to hire and train CIS graduates.
What kind of jobs do the Art History majors have? “You want fries with that?”
What company isn’t building up their *checks notes* art history department in order to stay competitive in the lucrative global *checks notes again* art history market?
CS + art = NFTs
In the same missive, the Republican described Antoni as a “Highly Respected Economist.” There’s ample evidence to the contrary.
Jason Furman, for example, is an accomplished Harvard economist who chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, and he responded to Antoni’s nomination this way: “I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.”
Jason Furman is the epitome of an apolitical expert.
I keep asking people “What are we going to do when robotics, AI and quantum computing makes us all unemployable?”
Most people tell me that will never happen and I get hand waived away….while it is happening. We are going to have to bumble our way through it on the fly I guess. Let’s ask Kodak what we should do.
I’d rather bumble through it on the fly than have a 5 year plan.
Here is this little gem I ran across:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lkMcGcRZ4
Her delivery is terrible but worth the two minutes