“Work” – Glibs style!
The book definition of Labor Day – “Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the United States.”
Yeah. Whatever. In the grand spirit of the USA chilling everything out, it is now simply the unofficial end of summer, one last big day off to grill and knock a couple of beverages down, oh, and the school kids get an early day off.
Here at Glibs, GRAND EDITOR FOR LIFE, DR. FIELD MARSHAL SWISS SERVATOR has graciously put up this open post and given the regulars (including himself) the day off.
Talk amongst yourselves, everyone.
Republicans: It’s the trans!
Democrats: It’s the guns!
Blaire White: It was the CIA.
“We Need To Talk About The Trans Shooter, Robin Westman.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyv3q0brjKw
I’m just going to take a day off from diving into that well of shit, thanks. May have something, may not… don’t care to subject myself to it today.
Hear! Hear!
That’s exactly what a fed would say!
Mentally ill person explains craziness?
Her views seem more sane than most.
JI, he knows it intimately
And those two responses sum up the problem. Her? He? It’s one or the other.
Calling her “he” is basically socon virtue signalling.
XX or XY?
What gamete does Blair White produce, or has that been removed from the equation?
Calling him her is the virtue signaling.
I personally am enjoying all the leftoids calling the trans shooter he/him. Along with the media. Kind of proves that they don’t believe their own bullshit.
We need more Feral Holidays.
Oh, wait, that said Federal Holiday
You just want an excuse to go wild, UCS.
Groundhogs and turkeys are native.
So, Razerbacks?
When should we have Feral Hog Day?
When people have been worn down enough that the boulders of stress in their lives are now Little Rock, obviously UCS.
When should we have Feral Hog Day?
In much of the midwest, every day is Feral Hog day. They are classified as varmints, so they may be hunted in any season*, frequently with guns that would not be legal for game. Pro-tip, the old boars and sows are tough and gamey, shoot the young ‘uns if you’re hoping for a pork dinner.
*Although for numerous reasons, you should probably avoid deer season.
They have made it to Idaho as well.
Not that I count the south east corner of my state as part of Idaho.
It’s northern Utah.
Thank the desert that’s all we have here.
Sadly Spud, we have the west side invasion of Ada and Banock counties.
Well fuck. It was just about 100 of them down by the Nevada border a few years ago.
Put a season on them and it will at least be kept in check. I will happily shoot a couple for the freezer. Better yet, treat them like coyotes and the season is year round.
Reporting live from Waffle House….
whaddup doh’
Can’t make out your message, Tres… it is too scrattered to get what you’ve covered. Hopefully not because you’re being smothered.
He got in a fight.
I think he rather likes a good smothering, IYKWIM…
In honor of Swiss giving us the day off, I will finish my pending Glibs piece and hit submit.
Huzzah!
Swiss has a QWERTZ keyboard. 🙂
He wanted a QUARTZ keyboard, but Quartz is illegal in Switzerland.
Not a work day — but too good not to share. All y’all in coding — you know full well we’ve had code reviews like this.
+ 1 https://xkcd.com/2347
Where’s the part “Unmaintained since 1983”?
NPM left-pad incident
Rat, that’s awesome!
11 lines of code.
🤦♂️
11 lines of code everybody was calling.
taking advantage of undefined behavior
Yep
“Researchers are preventing marauding gray wolves from mauling herds of cattle out West — by blasting tunes by Aussie rockers AC/DC from drones.
US Department of Agriculture biologists are finding that the classic rock group’s hit tune “Thunderstruck” and sounds from Hollywood flicks can leave the wolves shaking all night long — and away from valuable livestock near the California and Oregon border…
The researchers concede it is possible that the wolves will wise up and ignore the noise and acknowledge that the deed is not dirt cheap — with the drones costing about $20,000 each, not counting the price of training and employing pilots to run the operation.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/31/us-news/ac-dc-has-wolves-thunderstruck-in-rockin-new-way-to-protect-cattle/
Good thing it isn’t a bunch of wild leopards. They’d go deaf first.
If they blasted Duran Duran the wolves would all go hungry.
Fuck Bill Clinton and his fucking Canadian grey wolves and his fucking roadless rules and his fucking massive expansion of wilderness areas.
Shoot every wolf.
Sell every acre.
As someone who has hit deer and have those property destroyers munch their way through my roses and everything else regularly, I welcome our new canine overlords.
There ya go you moron. What a brilliant piece of advice. Take the last good thing in the U.S and destroy it. We can’t have a single blade of grass not paved, my god someone might lose out on making a constantly debased dollar.
They don’t seem to have much impact on the white tail population.
Plenty on the elk and moose population though.
And livestock. They love sheep and cows. And dogs.
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/ginger-cat-appreciation-day/
😸
Ha! As if I had any say in which cat used the cat distribution system to acquire me as a pet. (The newest cat (tuxedo, not ginger)… about 3 years ago maybe? — Literally walked up to me in a grocery store parking lot, circled my ankles, plopped down in front of me to show her belly and did a full on purr with kitten eyes… She knew a sucker when she saw one.)
The orange cat is the best.
#BlackCatsMatter 🐱👤
I did not pay enough attention at the time…I just thought “Of course he did”….didnt Barack ‘Imtotallynotacommie’ declare May 1 some kind of labor holiday?
Good morning, Suthen, Sean, SDF-7, Tater, Ted’S., JI, homey, and U!
In honor of the holiday, I slept in a little bit. However, I AM going to have to labor some because I blew off doing laundry until today. And if I’m really motivated, I may try to make the floors a little less dirty.
🙁
I have to do laundry too. I appreciate the reminder, though it makes me sad
I don’t mind doing laundry if I can avoid having to iron anything.
Easy to avoid ironing things.
In fact, easy to avoid most things that require any kind of extra effort.
I was wrong. I’m at a laundromat washing sleeping bags that the boy puked on on our camping trip.
It’s not a vacation unless one of us pukes.
I managed to make it through almost six years of the army only ironing two or three times.
Took the name “‘smores” a little too literally and overindulged?
I surprised myself by having a couple of small projects (assemble a small bookcase, replace an old under-the-cabinet fluorescent with a LED light)… and got them done between 6 and 7:30… so now I can be lazy all day but still claim overall productivity. Progress!
Nice!
GM 🙂
I wish I could sleep in, but my brain won’t let me.
I need to reset my sleep schedule. My brain wants me to sabotage it more.
Have you paid your International Sisterhood of Laundresses dues? And both sweeping and mopping fall under different unions, so I am afraid you cannot have clean clothes and clean floors. Pick one.
All of those have been decertified and outlawed. Report to your local precinct house for inmate processing for violation of the labor liberation act.
My project for today is day 3 of cleaning up our gas fire pit. Misc. leaves and crud have blown into it over the years. It’s a multi-day project because we put decorative “rock” (really, glass) on top of the regular rock years ago. Separating out the decorative rock is tedious chore. I should finish that today. Then I’ll need to spread it out on a tarp and hit it with the leaf blower to get the crud out.
While I have it exposed (heh) I want to check the burner as well to make sure it’s working well. Of course, the little holes for the gas to come out are on the underside, so if any of them need it be cleared, it will be (another) pain in my ass.
Did my laundry yesterday.
It’s been three years since the floors have been clean.
Adding a second child to the household ended that dream.
There is still hope!
If they didn’t disgorge a third of the contents of the entire house onto the floor everyday we may be able to see the floor, and the counters. They put crap everywhere.
Feel-good story
AR670-1 would like a word with his hair.
But no shave profile!
Give that man a Soldier’s Medal.
That really is a great story, but I’m still going to root for Navy come December.
😄
Given the patterns of spread and migration of critter populations all animals are ‘feral’….especially humans.
Feral technically means “formerly domesticated” so critters never domesticated are still Wild, no matter how far they’ve wandered.
Like I said…especially humans
Never mind….I am not awake yet and not enough coffee. Ignore me
Good morning, everyone. I decided to delay making breakfast to check on the site and and hang with you all for a bit.
^^^This is how you euphemism.
Good morning, Tonio! I’ve had a bowl of cereal (AKA Breakfast 1.0,) so now I’m going to pack up my laptop and head out to Tranquility Base (currently 58 degrees F.)
Ah! That’s more like it! 😊🌞🐦🐿🌳🌲🌳
Just back in from a horseback ride, still in the 60s here.
Mornin’ Tonio.
Commie Mammary Monday titties for the proletariat!
https://archive.is/eswlU
I think I should like to go on a picnic today.
In honor of this day, I want to thank all of the MomGlibs who have gone through labor to birth us, and the next generation.
And along with that, all of the Glibs who enacted that labor.
Somehow it seems apt that you posted right after Q….
Happy holidays from the people that brought you the 5 day work week, the ability to buy a 3br house and two cars, and finally grievances for mopping the floor when you dropped a coffee.
You speak for James Watt and Thomas Edison? Man you really are loose in time!
It IS the best of times, so far.
All advances of the 20th century were due to the rise of organized labor.
We need to return to the glory days of union membership.
Brought to you by the group that put “that’s not my job” in the contract.
+1 40-year retirement at six figures paid by you and me
“that’s not my job” is annoying, but it pales in comparison to “you cannot touch that piece of equipment, which you own, and are expert with, because this is a union venue, so you must let Surly McBreakitall set it up, break it down, and operate it.”
“Under the contract I’m only authorized to turn the equipment off. Another group is responsible for turning it on.”
I’m struggling with my searching for some specific information.
I’m trying to find the equations to calculate the radius and rotational period of a ring required for the centrifugal force at the inner face to be 1G. I’m brainstorming some space habitat designs and the internet is giving me the wrong set of correct answers.
Found enough data to sort it out.
A station with a 24 hour rotational period and 1G centrifugal force would be 138.5 miles in radius. The circumference would be about 870 miles.
Nice big colony…
The linear velocity on the edge would be just over 55 miles an hour.
Not too fast that it would feel awkward.
And it saves gas!
But it takes all day to get to the other side!
Half a day really.
In Sifi stories with ring or cylnder habitats I’ve wondered if internal transportation systems would need to be compensated for.
Same with mass shifting. Lots of small water tanks around the outside wall to ballence it constantly? Like an ever changing tire on a perpetual balancer.
Any particular reason the ring would need to complete 1 rotation in 24 hours? Just curious.
The mental image was of a “glass” roof on the inside of the ring and using the local star for sunlight by being slightly tilted.
Interesting. As it orbits the star you would get some quasi-seasonal effects, with two days of total shade each orbit.
Larry Niven built one of those in “Ringworld”.
Does that structure wrap around its parent star?
“how obsessed with Trump they’ve been and how their hatred has boiled over into madness[…]They’re strung-out junkies by now, hunting for that dopamine hit that comes from blurting out what shouldn’t be said”
https://www.sashastone.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome-the-movie
Who the gods want to destroy, they first make mad.
They are one neuro-misfire away from yet another assassination attempt.
OK, fine, I’ll finish up the post I have in draft. Geez.
As if you really had something better to be doing today?
Shit.
It’s some stupid bank holiday.
I was going to go into town and run to the bank.
I hate bank/government holidays.
I had a union gig in a restaurant as a sous chef. When I found out we didn’t have to clean the screens above the grills like in every previous restaurant job I had worked, that was an actual, tangible benefit to being in the union. Cleaning screens sucked.
Did they ever get cleaned?
Yes, other than a cursory wipe down, we didn’t even clean our work station. A cleaning crew came in every night after shift and did it. Screens got cleaned on Wednesdays. I supervised from the bar.
Outside cleaning crew?
Must have been a high dollar place.
It was a white linen steakhouse. We got most of our steaks from a small packer/butcher along with some other higher volume cuts from Kraft We had a produce guy that stopped by everyday with fresh produce as well. They also used a small bakery on St. Paul’s West Side for bread/cakes. They didn’t cut corners. The heaviest I weighed in my life.
Never trust a skinny chef.
If they bothered to have a sous chef, it was fairly high dollar.
Zwak, the restaurant business is one that I know very little about, high overheads, slim profit margins, and crappy hours. That’s about all I know.
“If they bothered to have a sous chef, it was fairly high dollar.”
It’s just division of labor. Which happens at busy inexpensive restaurants. I was a sous chef for a seaside blues bar. It wasn’t a fancy place.
That’s typically not a sous chef job in a non-union restaurant.
It was in the 2 other restaurants I had worked in before that. At least cleaning out the grease trap was the dishwasher’s job.
I built the range hood at my house.
That makes me responsible for cleaning it out.
I do not like that job. I should build a rack to put the screens in so I can use the hot water pressure washer outside.
Today is a slow news day.
Has Trump been seen today? I hear that is a concern for some people.
If only the lefties would run back into their burrows when they see him like groundhogs with shadows.
He’s posting on Truth Social
It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not??? They go off to the next “hunt” and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work. They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don’t seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!! I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as “BRILLIANT” as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter! President DJT
Huh. And if Operation Warp Speed wasn’t so brilliant, will the person that signed off on it remove himself from the public sphere? Nah.
The person responsible can always borrow from Hillary — what difference does it make at this point.
Trump did what anyone in his position would have done with Operation Warp Speed bullshit.
It was the Dems who tried to ram those vaccines down our throats and make them mandatory despite bitching non-stop about not taking the Trump vaccine until he lost the election.
Trump did what anyone in his position would have done with Operation Warp Speed bullshit.
I remember when Trump got up and announced the country should close down.
I’m not giving him a pass on Operation Warp Speed.
Speaking English with German grammar
Japanese is a subject, object verb language.
Its construction frequently sounds like it is said by Yoda, which makes me wonder if that’s the inspiration for his speech style.
It’s a bit like declined languages like Latin that I know and German that I’m told have some flexibility in word order because the declensions provide grammatical context.
So the order would be:
Japanese Boys little sisters love.
?
Where do you put the word unhealthily?
Usually right in front of the verb the adverb is modifying.
Japanese Boys little sisters unhealthily love.
Interesting
Does the same hold for adjectives? I assume so since you didn’t correct my Japanese boys and little sisters order.
Japanese Boys WA (HA) little sisters GA unhealthily love.
HA, pronounced “wa”, topic marker grammar “particle”
GA, subject marker for an intransitive verb like “love”.
Japanese as in nationality is a noun. Noun modifying another noun comes in front with grammar particle NO.
Japanese NO boys.
Nihonjin no otoko no hito tachi.
Japanese no male gendered child no people + tachi used to pluralize people words.
Japanese very rarely pluralizes things. People is an exception. Usually you use context.
Maybe it is just because of my primary sources of knowledge about Japan, but Nihonjin NO otako looks wrong to me.
Nihonjin Yes otaku!
Otaku is a polite form of “you”.
Normally in Japanese you avoid using pronouns if possible and use the person’s name. Usually last name unless very close.
In the early days of anime and manga conventions the attendees were to excited to try to remember everyone’s name and frequently used “otaku” to refer to each other.
It struck the “normies” as very strange and has stuck ever since.
I knew the ‘no pronouns’ thing from watching subtitled anime. I did not know that about the word otaku; in fact I had kind of assumed from the way they use names in conversation that there simply weren’t first and second person pronouns.
Too complicated, I’ll stick to English where everything is wrong regardless of what you do.
(((Jarflax Sensei for instruction thanks
Too complicated, I’ll stick to English where everything is wrong regardless of what you do.
It’s the three writing systems thing that scares me off from trying to learn Japanese lol.
(((Jarflax, it’s actually the reverse. They have a fuckton of them, but they go out of their way to not use them because it’s more polite and/or redundant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns
How the hell do you learn a system that complicated? Especially a system that complicated which is rarely used?
Take a look at Tagalog order
(((Jarflax, it’s not that bad. You learn the 10 or so most common ones and work from there.
Now counter words on the other hand are widely used. This gift is from Chinese…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word
I’ve only mastered the most common of these.
So you can’t just say dog? You say small animal, then specify? Or is that only when counting? and if inu means dog, what does shiba mean? and why is it not akita inu?
Writing systems are easy! Hiragana is just syllables, katakana is the same as hiragana but for foreign loan words and without curves, and kanji is pictograms of hiragana syllables (and can be spelled as such).
also sorry, you did not sign up to teach me Japanese grammar lol.
Akita inu is perfectly comulent!
https://youtu.be/_Iou5pU67vE
No you can just dog.
Watashi no uchi ni inu ga imasu.
Our house(hold) has a dog.
Watashi no uchi ni inu ni hiki ga imasu.
Our house has two dogs.
As I noted Japanese only cares about plurals when the distinction is needed. If it isn’t important it’s left that it could be either.
Brushwood dog? Hmm, I like it, although the dogs themselves are too yappy for me.
Ripe rice paddy dog? That’s just wrong, unless I am very very mistaken about the strength and aggression level of ripe rice.
Rice paddy dog?
http://english.agrinews.co.jp/?p=10924
Ok, that is a serious fan.
Bane of the working man
“Every policy of the Trump administration is designed to lift up the American worker, promote great-paying blue-collar jobs and to rebuild the industrial bedrock of our nation,” Trump said at a meeting of his Cabinet last week.
Many labor leaders could not disagree more.
“By every measure, this has been the most hostile administration to workers in our lifetimes,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler told me in an interview ahead of Labor Day. “Working people are really not feeling secure in this economy.”
If you simply look at the numbers, workers appear to be in pretty decent shape. As of July, average wages were up 3.9% over the last year, outpacing inflation. Unemployment remains low, at just over 4%. Most people in America who want a job are working.
But behind these numbers, there’s a lot of uncertainty and tension.
[insert laundry list of atrocities]
It’s a good thing AI is coming. Trump has deported or fired all the workers.
Can we deport the union bosses?
Workers are doing fine under Trump. Labor leaders are not, graft is down and with their alliance with the Bureaucracy in shambles they can’t even extort sexual favors from workers to tide them over now that their hooker budget is cut. It’s very sad.
As sometimes happens with the Bee – is that really satire?
We need a word for the new category. Ridiculous state of affairs described sarcastically as in parody, but with the despairing realization that it is in fact probably true. Poerody
The laundry list of atrocities: (1) A wind farm project has been canceled, leaving laborers out of work and signaling bad things for the renewable energy sector; (2) some federal employees are no longer employed; and (3) immigration enforcement and deportations have been hard on certain industries. Tucked in that last one:
“The Trump administration is now not only cracking down on people who are in the U.S. illegally, it has also ended programs that provided hundreds of thousands of people relief from unsafe conditions in their home countries.”
Apparently the U.S. is supposed to take care of all who show up, or take care of them in their own countries. I assume this is a reference to USAID, which they don’t mention had a side gig of toppling foreign governments.
More union propaganda
Federal employees have had the right to join unions and collectively bargain over working conditions since the 1960s. Unlike private sector workers, government employees cannot negotiate wages or strike. But through collective bargaining, they do help shape disciplinary procedures, parental leave policies, how overtime is managed and much more.
Giving workers a say in workplace policies, the thinking goes, leads to less friction in the workplace and more effective government.
*pause for laughter*
But President Trump has abandoned that idea. Instead, he’s argued that federal employee unions pose a danger to the country. In March, he issued an executive order ending collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers at about 20 federal agencies. Almost immediately, many agencies halted automatic deductions of union dues from employee paychecks, cutting off a critical source of cash flow to the unions. Just ahead of Labor Day, Trump issued a new executive order, adding about a half dozen agencies to the list.
I’m sure those fine men and women will voluntarily compensate their brave and noble union honchos voluntarily. Just put a tip jar on the desk.
If Trump’s team had any common sense, they’d have him quoting FDR on public sector unions for a week, then admit to where he plagiarized the lines from on day 4 when the howling was nearing its peak.
FDR WAS AN OLD WHITE MAN!!! /the unquestionable modern-proggie response
Those trips to the Caribbean don’t pay for themselves.
Nor do the colossal donations to the Democrat Party, which always pushes for more government, which results in more cash for the government-sector unions. It’s a mutual back-scratching arrangement.
Across the federal government, some workers aren’t waiting around to see what happens. They’re quitting now, having decided a government job just isn’t worth it anymore. Many workers fear with unions gone, they won’t have a say in matters such as telework or family leave policies that make a difference to their quality of life.
“Although they came to the federal government because of their passion for public service, they also came because of the flexibility of the government, and those flexibilities are just being wiped away,” says Anthony Lee, a longtime Food and Drug Administration employee who’s also president of NTEU Chapter 282, representing some 9,000 FDA employees across the Mid Atlantic.
No more cushy do-nothing job sucking the taxpayers’ teat? What a tragedy.
Self-deportation, its not just fo foreigners!
Whoa, the FDA has 9000 unionized employees – just in the mid-Atlantic?
Why does the FDA have that many people at all?
/Rhetorical question
Because other people’s money pays for it.
Just think…the FDA has more pencil pushers in the Mid-Atlantic than we have technicians maintaining FAA equipment country-wide.
“Although they came to the federal government because of their passion for public service
Assumes facts not in the evidence.
Mass stupidity event
An 11-year-old boy died in a Houston hospital Sunday after he was shot while carrying out a “ding dong ditch” prank the previous night, police said. The boy hasn’t been identified.
The Houston Police Department said the boy had been playing the prank with friends late Saturday, which entails ringing the doorbell of a home and running away before anyone inside comes out to answer it. A witness saw the boy ring a doorbell in east Houston and flee the property before he was struck by gunfire, according to a police statement.
Officers received a call about the shooting just before 11 p.m. local time. Police said the boy was wounded when they arrived and taken to a nearby hospital, where he died on Sunday. Sgt. Michael Cass, a Houston homicide detective, told CBS News affiliate KHOU that a witness had recalled someone exiting the house that was pranked and “shooting at the kids running down the street.”
I’m sure this took place in one of the nicest parts of Houston.
Was it a doorbell ditch, or was it the thing where they pound on the door like they are trying to break in? I suspect it was the latter.
I’ve seen video of full on hard kicks to the doors. Home invasion style.
Someone did that to us. I have it on video, but the kid had his shirt up over his face like a mask. It’s really a stupid thing to do because it will lead to more shootings.
12 gauge
I know the story is fake because having delivered pizza, no ones doorbell works, especially not on the eastside. This is true in almost every city.
“Ding dong ditch.”
I never heard it called that until the early 2000s.
I called it that in the 70s.
How very progressive.
I need to get back to work so I can stop spending money. So far this weekend Ive replaced a kitchen sink faucet, the disposal, a battery for Jugsy’s jeep, installed 3 sets of blinds, and $150 at the grocery.
Now the water heater keeps turning itself off.
Those all sound like reasonable repairs, not cocaine and hookers.
You have a problem with cocaine and hookers? What kind of libertarian are you!
Shouldn’t there be some blackjack involved too?
some blackjack involved too?
Only if you can’t spend your money fast enough on cocaine and hookers.
In 2023, a California man was found guilty of murder for intentionally ramming the car of three teen boys who rang his doorbell as a prank, killing all of them, the Associated Press reported.
What the fuck was he driving? A Killdozer GT?
one of the boys rang his doorbell and exposed his buttocks
That’s going too far …
Shot while at the door might raise issues of self defense, or at least manslaughter, but I think the get into car and chase them down to ram them step probably justifies a premeditated murder charge
Crackheads rarely wear seatbelts in the Kia they just stole.
Thwarted
An aid flotilla carrying activist Greta Thunberg, which aimed to sail from Spain to the Gaza Strip, has been thwarted by the weather.
Stormy conditions forced the return of the vessels, which had sailed from Barcelona on Sunday, according to a statement by the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Newsweek has contacted for comment by phone and email.
The renowned activist had intended to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, where Israel’s stepped-up offensive has raised further fears for the population, which humanitarian groups say face famine.
Global warming strikes again.
Señorita Scowlyface needs a new schtick
If she doesn’t get arrested soon the money will stop flowing.
Oh no! Anyway…
There is good Star Wars content being produced now!
https://youtu.be/_Iou5pU67vE
Whoops, copy didn’t work
https://youtu.be/ZzNmS9Twtw4
Glibs is a commie front group celebrating this commie holiday. I have to find a new place to First.
So the firster union is striking is what I am hearing you say?
There’s no union. It’s a guild. Get it right.
Ahh, so pretentious and twice as commie as an ordinary union. I get you. Like the Screen Writers
How could anyone be pretentious about Firsting? It’s more important than breathing. It is the essence of life. You’ve gotten so wrapped up in the sugar business, that you’ve forgotten the taste of a real First!
Was it a doorbell ditch, or was it the thing where they pound on the door like they are trying to break in? I suspect it was the latter.
How many times did it happen? I don’t care how maniacally crabby you are, the likelihood you grab a gun and chase somebody down the street and execute him over a one time event is pretty low.
If this is a sustained recurring torment, however…
… release the robotic Richard Simmons.
True. I’m just looking for some accurate reporting, and I don’t think that was an example of it.
There is no crime in Chicago
At least 53 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims wounded, according to police.
The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying Pritzker “better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming!”
Our greatest threat is that crime boss in the White House.
I doubt that Donald will actually send his stormtroopers to Chicago but getting the mayor and governor to loudly declare their support for the rampant crime is kind of genius.
Ugh, feel like dog poop. Was going to do a homemade pasta dinner and we nixed it.
Now, tomato bisque and grilled cheese will be it.
I don’t know, having tomato soup with a stomach like that could be very bisque.
Is dog poop more keto-friendly than pasta?
Ok, this is the point where I’d say just go with being fat, the diet isn’t worth it.
My union is….worthless. Fight against mandated covid vaccines? Nah.
Fight against telework/WFH? Tooth and nail (its cause all the permanent union slugs had to go into work)
You may be misunderstanding who they work for.
And the fire pit burner is corroded and needs to be replaced.
So corroded, in fact, that I can’t get it off the pipe with the tools I have. The sensible part of me says “Hey, it’s gas, you probably want to get somebody out here to put the new burner on anyway.” The part of me that never learns says “How hard can it be? I just need a bigger hammer.”
This three-hour project is going to take at least a week to finish.
Hmm, disassembling gas appliances with a hammer? I think you need to do that by candle light for maximum OSHA trolling. Maybe have some spare propane tanks and a gas can or two around, or reloading supplies.
Smoking a cigar.
I’m not holding your beer.
Shut off the gas and using 2 pipewrenches, go to the last clean fitting and just rebuild it. Its not hard
I was short a pipe wrench.
It’s apart now, new burner ordered, but the old one was a 3/4 fitting, and they only make that size burner with 1/2 fittings now. So, at least one more trip to the hardware store, for a reducer with the right thread pitch.
“This three-hour project is going to take at least a week to finish”
I learned it from you, RC, or maybe the other way around.
I just got my hoses from the garden rolled up and put away. What would have been a one hour job 15 years ago I was able to stretch into 5 or 6. Time for another cup of coffee, before I pick some corn for dinner. I don’t want to rush things.
I have been moving significant MLW’s apartment for 2 days and almost done, my hip that is. Im right behind you 4x, things take a lot longer as we age.
As a guy that spent an hour under the kitchen sink yesterday, fighting with decades-old fittings with a basin wrench, my back and shoulders agree.
So what you’re saying is – change your pipe fittings every few years?
Not if he keeps his pipes clean.
All the things that should be made out of stainless steel are in fact not.
My hips included
The new burner is. And if I can find the adapter in stainless, it will be, too.
Crazy
President Donald Trump on Monday called on pharmaceutical companies to “justify the success” of their Covid drugs days after the Food and Drug Administration set new limits on who can receive vaccines for the virus.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The FDA on Wednesday approved the latest round of Covid vaccines, but only for people at higher risk of severe illness.
Ask pharmas to provide evidence of efficacy? Who does that?
They were all very effective. They scored 10s of billions of effectiveness points in the 2021 and 2022 annual reports.
So, they are going to start faking the numbers again.
A timely announcement
Pfft, we need follow no such rule here in the Notheast.
(The water was still numbingly cold at the beach last weekend)
But I prefer clams, must I consume the oyster aw well?
Cause Blech!
Dorothy Parker endorses eating the clam.
Same rule the locals use for deer hunting.
For much of the year, lack of refrigeration is a bigger problem than an excess of game wardens.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/us-news/polish-ceo-piotr-szczerek-who-snatched-hat-from-boy-at-us-open-finally-apologizes-for-behavior/
CWAA
I got caught, so I apologize. No, I haven’t given the hat back, why do you ask, did you not hear my apology?
His “apology” exposes him as an even bigger douchebag: “it was a mistake”; “I was excited”; “I thought he was handing the hat to me”.
I feel for his employees if his business is wrecked as a consequence.
I’m not sure I can support current-year “get caught doing something stupid online and your life is ruined” thinking.
How many Pollocks does it take to steal a hat?
Just one.
Does a fish know it’s swimming?
Daskalakis said in an interview that the new group members “were told that they have the ability to, quote, ‘prevent CDC bias from entering the work group.’ That’s unheard of. I don’t know what CDC bias is, because that’s not what we do. Our science is unbiased.”
And critical thinking is defined as “everybody who’s smart agrees with me.”
Our science is unbiased.
And we never accept remuneration from, or invest in, Big Pharma!
What am I missing? There was some kind of rumor OMB died? What is that all about?
He took labor day weekend off, and no one bothered to ask, they assumed he were daid,
Kennedy continued: “The CDC has problems. You know, we saw the misinformation coming out of Covid. They got the testing wrong. They got the social distancing, the masks, the school closures that did so much harm to the American people.”
But SCIENCE!
The SCIENCE compels you!!!
OK father Merrick
It appears that gold and silver are doing very well, the question is, is this good sign? Or bad?
/gold bug
Metals are contrarian generally, but since both parties are now adopting a spend all the money all the time philosophy openly, I am not sure how any commodity goes down in price without a massive influx of supply, cause those dollars are deflating faster than an old man’s erection when Whoopie enters the room.
Indicator of inflation.
If you are one with the gold you may do OK. I’ve never figured out, how when you sell the gold, the buyer pays wholesale, i.e. less than what the market says. So if gold goes up 10% over your purchase price you probably would break even selling to a gold broker and still be behind the inflation.
Definitely an indicator, and Im not selling either,
But thank 4x and jar for your thoughts,
Go Glibs!
Yaaagh!
I’ve physical gold and silver as “deep insurance” for a SHTF event. With any luck, I’ll never need it and never sell any. The nieces will be in for a pleasant surprise when they divvy up the estate.
*checks gold price*
Holy shit! $3500/oz?
*checks silver*
Dayum. Over $40/oz?
Yep, like you Im chilling no need to frenzy over inflationary run ups on price
Just checked silver. $100 face value bag of US junk silver is $2900 now. Was $2400 in 2021.
Big ouch.
Giuliani injured in car wreck
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash in New Hampshire after helping a domestic violence victim, said Michael Ragusa, Giuliani’s head of security.
New Hampshire State Police said the crash happened on Saturday, Aug. 30, just before 10 p.m. on Interstate 93 northbound in Manchester.
Authorities said the crash happened across from where troopers were investigating a reported domestic violence incident.
Ragusa said Giuliani was a passenger in a Ford Bronco that was struck from behind by a Honda HRV after he had been flagged down by a woman claiming to be the victim of that same domestic violence incident.
Contrast the domestic violence report in the WMUR story with the NH State Police press release on the incident.
So they were traveling southbound, stopped and talked to the woman, waited for the cops, then got back on going north and got rear ended just opposite where they originally stopped?
That’s just . . . weird.
and the NH State Police updated their release.
So they were traveling southbound, stopped and talked to the woman, waited for the cops, then got back on going north and got rear ended just opposite where they originally stopped?
The initial NH State Police release (at the end of the NH State Police link) told a very different story: The NH State Police were on 93 investigating a domestic violence report. The police witnessed a wreck in the other side of 93, and that wreck involved the car Giuliani was in. Different from the WMUR report.
The updated release matches what was in the WMUR report.
I might be having a drugs / bunghole moment, but has this news been sussed over?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, under Secretary Scott Turner, is moving to tighten enforcement of federal housing rules by requiring Section 8 tenants to provide proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status.
“No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded housing, riding the coattails of hardworking American citizens,” Turner said in a statement.
Federal law already prohibits noncitizens without legal status from receiving housing assistance, but past administrations have allowed local housing authorities discretion in enforcement.
Nice!
Now he is throwing widows and orphans in the street? Does his cruelty have no bounds?
I see Trump has been blocked from deporting minor sex slaves. ““I do not want there to be any ambiguity,” said U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, who noted her ruling applies broadly to Guatemalan minors who arrived in the United States without parents or guardians.”
Sparkle. Her name is Sparkle.
Born in Trinidad and I dont see how she became a citizen. Also, she should have recused herself. “From 2014 to 2021, Sooknanan worked in private practice at Jones Day, becoming a partner at the firm in 2020. Sooknanan resigned from Jones Day in January 2021. Before her resignation, The New York Times reported that she denounced the firm’s work in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Trump administration, saying that one lawsuit “was brought for no other reason than to deprive poor people of the right to vote.”
“returning them to a country where they fear persecution”
Ah, the lie that never dies.
According to the questions Lindsey Graham posed her during her confirmation, she became a citizen in 2009. I could not find the path she took to get citizenship.
“Does his cruelty have no bounds?”
I certainly hope not.
No foreign born judges or lawmakers. There are plenty of other candidates to fill all of those positions. End carpetbagging entirely as step 2.
Meanwhile…. https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/housedemocrats/Documents/Oregon%20House%20Democrats%20Pass%20Landmark%20Housing%20Equity%20Bill.pdf
Half are carpetbaggers, all are anchor babies.
There it is.
Fuck off, commie.
https://www.greateridaho.org/
lol Progs have manufactured for themselves a concern for “privacy” that was never of any interest to them before but now it’s different because guess why.
Holland & Holland was working on a semiautomatic hunting rifle in 1908
Cool!
Welp, I submitted a Life in the Desert (with bonus cocktail!) post.
I have three in the pipe as of now, must be boring
I’ve always wanted to visit the desert and maybe do some hiking (yes, I like to physically torture myself sometimes).
I need to think of an article and just write the damn thing. Maybe I’ll do a narrative of my next woodworking project.
“to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the United States.”
What is this nonsense? Haven’t we been told that the foundation of everything of value today has been built by enslaved peoples and our wealth has only come through the exploitation of their labor?
We’re living on stolen land!
There was a big dumb protest in my town today. All the signs I could discern were:
– Something that had a lot of words on it, but the only ones that were large and legible enough were “racism is patriotic”
– Support Ukraine
– That fucking stupid “love is love / science is real / no human being is illegal / feminism is for everyone” etc.
Sounded like a bunch of Lefties supporting the current thing(s). Then somebody was making a garbled speech through a megaphone, something about “okay to be gay” and “I want you to wrap yourself in that pride flag”.
A brave last stand before everyone is hustled to the camps.
love is love
I was pleased to see this bit of surrealness in my super-lefty area
*Kif sigh*
https://ibb.co/35qgkjGP
Make it make sense.
I love it. Now I want to get my own parody of that sign printed up. I guess a couple libertarian ones could be:
“Taxation is theft”
“Gun rights are human rights”
All I can think of right off the top of my head.
I want to infiltrate one of these rallies with signs like “Hands Off Criminal Illegals”, “No Kings, Just Commissars,” “Hands Off My Wallet; Gimme Yours,” and “We Demand More Men in Women’s Locker Rooms.”
“Socialism is evil.”
“The ATF is a criminal gang.”
“The FBI is a criminal gang.”
“The state is a mafia.”
“Every gun law is an infringement on my rights.”
“Property rights are everything.”
“Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.”
“Gun control means keeping your booger picker off of the trigger until you are ready to kill something.”
“Leave me alone.”
Where are all y’all? I know it’s a ‘holiday,’ but wowza. I’m at the Wolf’s Lodge in Cincinnati. Fun, but the boys were quite content to stay in the wave pool, which was rather tame. They also loved a big ‘hot’ tub with comfortable space for ~20 folk. It was more of a small, heated pool. We went on two of the ~5 cool slides. One was a two-person tube ride, and youngest nephew decided he was too small to fit on his side on his own, so he sat in my lap on the way down, instead. He’s very trusting of me and seeks me out.
‘Great’ ending: We hit the pool at an awkward weight and balance, and tumbled out of our tube. I had a huge “OH, FUCK” moment underneath, afraid of how the just-5yo would react. He swims remarkably well and has no fear, to his credit. The panic lasted until I resurfaced, simultaneously with my exuberant and beaming nephew.
Both a great and frightful Uncle Moment, frankly. And a great, though slight, glimmer into some of the high -low, emotional swings of parenting. I’m glad I can take advantage of the youngest’s youth, unlike the 10 and 12yo.
AND! He decided earlier that he’s gonna sleep with me in my bed, cuz his parents aren’t here for this trip. Just me, my parents and the three boys. He just hopped into bed. Time for his bedtime story, and we shall see how swimmingly this goes. It’s the first time he’s done anything remotely like this. Kinda a really big, gushy wow-wow moment. *melts*
The 12yo warned me that Ez may wake up and pounce or hit me. “You’re not your brother, but, yeah. Ez may treat you like you are. Good luck.”
Was it a slide that has a bowl in the middle that you circle a couple of times and exit through the center?
Great Wolf in Garden Grove has one like that, when my kids were that age I would take them on it and we would almost always get turned around in the bowl and go down the final slide backwards, then flip end over end when we hit the pool.
This one: https://www.greatwolf.com/southern-california/waterpark-attractions/indoor-water-park/coyote-cannon
We would never be going the correct velocity, so the front of the 2-seater would catch right where that little jet is and spin us around.
Took the little people
To Silverwood last week. No water park this time, slayed the regular rides, wife got 20 rides in, I did 14, kids somewhere in between.
https://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/
That was exactly the one! So not just me?! Good!
We went on another with the three boys, Mom and myself. Notable: I purposefully, and correctly, picked my spot in the family octagon tube. I went down *the whole slide,* artfully dark and enclosed, backwards. It was a fun visual curve ball to it all. Strongly recommend.
That sounds fun. I’ve never spent time with boy relatives. I have them somewhere, but my parents moved away for my dad’s job before I was born, so the extended family was just some people I’d see every couple years, if that.
A couple step-siblings now have kids, but they’re all girls. I did have a moment somewhat like that when one of them asked me to tell her a joke, and she actually cracked up at it.
If you must know, the joke was “knock knock / who’s there? / Lettuce… / Lettuce who? / Lettuce in, it’s freezing out here!!”
I’ll see myself out.
“…cause those dollars are deflating faster than an old man’s erection when Whoopie enters the room.”
I….uh…..oh, gross
Rule. 34.
Think on it.
No.
You can’t make me.
Dressed as a nun
“No. You can’t make me.”
Already have. “One more Oprah of your own! ONE MORE OPRAH! ONE MORE OPRAH! ONE MORE OPRAH!”
Rest easy, sweet steed.
Speaking of Rule 34, in an odd way, I had a *fantastic* day with Cutie Colleague on Monday. She was all-in on our playful work banter, and I ‘caught’ her in such a good way. I am, and have told her, that I’m quite a cartoony person with my voices and noises. I pushed some (of our bigger) carts into others with a clang, and I made an impromptu noise signalling its force, with a “Myest- oh-me!” -type exclamation and a little voice I use. Just me talking to me, cuz I do that. (Sometimes, it talks back!)
She bowed over in outright laughter and I teased her, kinda (silently) poking her cuz she thought it was both funny *and* cute. “Whaaa? Whaaat?” or so. And she was giggling as she said “Nothing!” a few times.
Happened last with my psycho-ex three years ago, but this is the first time I’ve felt A Crush on a girl since then. Many interesting hormones and thoughts flowin’, and it’s (literally) remarkable how I can feel the physical differences in me. Powerful and positive.
(Fuck. What a shitty album name that’d be. (Is?))
Continuing work banter, she was laughing as she said she hates when I slam heavy ‘boxes’ onto our carts. (She was responding to our chat how I *DETEST* our work radio station’s “Sensory Friendly Hours” where no music is played. Just fucking silence.) I stopped doing it and won’t again around her.
There’s obviously chemistry between us, but when I asked her out a couple weeks ago to a light negative, I purposefully haven’t done anything other than be me, which is naturally playful. As I had to walk away for other duties, I did notice her look at (watch?) me leave. Hrm. Uncertain. What is, however, does reveal that hormonal flood. My brain *is* in that high school flood of biological thought. It’s remarkably fun. I don’t even expect anything from this, though it’d be divine. It’s not positive Distraction Dust, but positive Practice. And good for everything. [REDACTED praise for her.]
A remarkably expressive face. *swoooooons*
Y’allins be wierd with y’all rule 34 and such,
We just go to tijuana, its all 34 there!
I finally finished up my latest vomit book. Two and a half years. It doesn’t usually take me nearly that long to finish one, but shit, so much going on and I couldn’t document it in my usual fashion.
ANYWAY. What would you all think about a journaling or productivity post? Productivity’s not exactly my forte, but I manage to get shit done,
Also, an office supply shopping list.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U, Sean, Ted’S., Teh Hype, Roat, homey, and ChipP!
How goes?
So far, so good! ::checks local traffic map:: No accidents showing up on my commute route…yet. Payroll was last week, so I don’t have to rush to get it done in a blind panic today, and I got a pretty good head start on month end stuff before I took Thursday and Friday off. And my boss is on vacation this week. 😁👍 In good technical news, it appears the search-for-an-emoji function has been restored in Windows. 🥳
How are you?
I’m not sure..
Are you not feeling well? 😟
I didn’t do laundry yesterday so I’m down to one outfit, I don’t want to deal with work, but it’s bad form to call out after a long weekend, especially while some of the team is out on regular leave. I have this weird craving for cheap ravioli – not the canned crap, but this bagged stuff that used to be $2 but is now $3.09. But it’s not that good for me. It may be more of a generalized carb crabing that fixated on one I used to eat.
I’m somewhat worried since I A: ordered new computer stuff, B: had it delivered, and C: haven’t even opened the shipping box, just left it in the corner for over a day now.
At least one of these predicaments is easily solved. 😉
So, I should call out of work, buy ravioli and wat it while setting up computer stuff?
Sure! What the hell? 😄
🤔
I don’t think that will end well.
Funs over. Back to work, except you really old people.
👷🏽♂️🌤️🍳
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbqbQawo-A
🤠🎶🎶
When was the fun supposed to have started?
You misplaced your fun gloves?
Ted, oh Ted!
Fighting off danger!
Can’t go back if you never left.
All play and no work …
+1 for the Motorhead appearance
suh’ fam
whats goody
Government….
https://www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/54479/mondelez-faces-legal-action-over-german-milka-bar-shrinkflation-claims/
Wow, no other company would do that.
Fuck Mondelez. They shut down the iconic Nabisco factory in Fair Lawn, and the aroma of delicious cookies no longer makes the drive on NJ 208 more tolerable.
Now, with fewer calories! The new, not quite diet Milka !
ÖRF reporting on GovSec workers protesting Trump in Chicago. They’re actually using the “Hey hey ho ho” chant. 🙄
Illegal migrants have to go?
Boy the White Sox really blow?
We’ve got spirit yes we do …
Fight!
We may not win, but then again we might!
And even if we don’t, that’s still all right!
Our quarterback is really not too bright!
The way it looks, we may be here all night…*
*cheer/spelling lesson from a long-ago episode of The Electric Company
+ Easy Reader
Morning all.
I am watching the news off and on….the Dem party appears to be a fatally wounded animal flopping around on the ground. They are still convinced the problem isnt their shit ideas, it’s the messaging. Wow.
Hint: You have become a communist freak show. I dont see any JFKs, Tip O’Neals etc. What I see are clowns spewing gibberish and picking the wrong side on 80/20 issues every time.
Is that the ICE protest or the National Guard protest? The Resistance has so many tentacles I can’t even.
It seemed to be billed as “workers vs billionaires”.
Ah, commie rabble. It’s all the same crowd anyway.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! 😃 How are you and yours?
Enjoying the early fall like temps, thanks very much. Global warming has taken a vacation for the last few weeks.
Choir rehearsals start tomorrow, I probably should ease up on the smoking. Tobacco is bad for your voice, unless you are Nat King Cole. Didn’t do much for his lungs, though…
Mornin. All y’all.
I hear thunder, we can use some rain.