My actual workload.
This week is absolutely booked solid… I will get to some editing tonight, during the MNF game, but right now let us get right to it.
- Wait…Wut?
- Not how I would go about padding my resume, but you do you, doc.
- Europoors demonstrate superior life that mass transit provides.
- Take that, Frog speakers!
Music is on your own.
Comment section is all yours.
Monday Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
Ummmm….
Ah! So these are the elusive Monday links that briefly appeared last Tuesday!
Must have been some sort of agreement with a German coworker.
Swiss would gladly link these Tuesday for a Hamburger today.
So Glib time travel happened again! Somebody needs to figure this out and make some money with it.
Hmm… now there was a ham sandwich that could have been indicted. (I know, I know… supposedly actually an urban legend… but it is funnier this way!)
I don’t like them.
Frog speakers?
https://youtu.be/sKWvTlLMB-Y?si=5LRG-Fi0wOYl0Gdb
Linked links?
Better than Charlotte, I suppose… (gee… I wonder why folks aren’t terribly keen on mass transit here in the States..)
Afternoon, all you happy people.
US transit is only dangerous because the government doesn’t subsidize it enough …
I’m sure the American PubSec unions would LOVE to get more Americans to sell their cars and ride mass transit instead… They’d get all the new railway workers paying union dues, but more importantly, they’d have yet another essential service under their control so that they could threaten a strike if all their demands aren’t met.
At least you don’t get carjacked on public trans so there’s that.
Something I noted long ago in a job where I depended entirely on my relief to arrive before I could quit for the day… my bus to work was more reliable than their cars, almost without exception. I don’t know how many fucking double shifts I had to work because some asshole’s car broke down.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, he’s done for…
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5492418-trump-epstein-coverup-claims/
Its the drawing and ‘poem’. Ive seen 6 year olds draw more bawdy pictures.
The fact the media amd Dems are focusing on a pretty innocent phrase at the end declaing they shared a secret is even better.
The walls are so close you can’t fit a slip of paper between them.
Can’t be from Trump, it’s not in ALL CAPS.
They’re tired of the perpetual jokes at their expense… so they decided to just rib it themselves?
I think you’re jumping to conclusions.
You have to be quick before you croak.
I thought this thread would have more legs.
Sometimes the afternoons seem slow… we just put the jokes out there and hope then take what happens — warts and all.
I’m green with envy.
I thought it wasn’t easy being green.
“Pupils in the Swiss canton of Zurich should in future only learn French from secondary school or high school onwards, the cantonal parliament has decided.”
What’s the word on Italian and Romansh?
It is all slurred Latin at their core. Make ’em all learn Etruscan!
So go all in on Esperanto?
Esperanto makes my Japanese seem almost useful.
Teach the Goth kids Gothic.
It would probably quickly become too baroque for them.
They should do it for the romance of it all.
The fundraising pages suggested Decarlos Brown Jr. — a career criminal with no fewer than 14 arrests — is just as much a victim as Iryna Zarutska, the woman seen being knifed dozens of times in a random attack.
Why do I suspect the fundraiser was a scam?
Because he was homeless and didn’t have anyone looking after him?
A sick but clever scam. It could have been written by any of today’s Democrats.
It’s a good thing Khan got his anti-car policies in place. Otherwise all those Londoners might try something crazy like driving to work.
You know you’re asking for this now, right?
The reality he seeks is more like this.
What an absolute waste of a day.
In a good way? I’ve had those.
Mixed ways. I didn’t do anything other than lay in bed surfing the once-great internet and listening to my latest recording (which I’m quite happy with) so that I can write about it. I needed the rest, though it’s not nearly enough. I need an extended vacation without my children. A time I can relax and not worry about any sort of responsibilities. But that’s not coming anytime soon enough, so the occasional do fuck-all day will have to do.
But I do have shit that needs doing that I’ve procrastinated for far too long. Nothing undue will happen if I don’t accomplish those things, but being those things are of an artistic endeavor, and I’ve put a lot of work into it already, I’d like to finally finish my arrangement so I can rehearse and record it. It’s likely to become my first album. But I just haven’t had the energy or motivation to get it done, which has caused a spiral.
I’m exhausted. Although I’ve recovered my health from being dogass sick for 3 weeks in late July/early August, I haven’t recovered my strength or energy levels. My baseball season just ended yesterday which, despite loving playing and being with my team, I’m glad it’s over (I run the entire league, so I take care of far more than just showing up and playing). Pretty sure I’ve also been slightly depressed since my oldest left home for college. We are very close, and despite talking at some point everyday, it’s not the same.
“I need an extended vacation without my children.”
Things were very quiet here until the oldest moved back, now she’s only getting 16 hours a week at work and she’s just sitting in a chair, all day, looking at her phone. It’s exhausting being around her. Mrs. TOK is going out of town for a week, so I’m covering her classes at the gym. I’m hoping the oldest gets more days at work this week, and I can take a sick day to just chill out like you did.
Extreme eco mode
More than 90,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees have been recalled because of a software error that could lead to “loss of drive power” and potential crashes, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The recall by Chrysler, issued on Thursday, includes 2022 to 2026 plug-in hybrid electric models of the SUV — affecting 91,787 vehicles. The software error within the Jeep’s “hybrid control processor may result in a loss of drive power,” the NHTSA said.
“An unexpected loss of propulsion can cause a vehicle crash without prior warning,” according to a safety recall report about the vehicles.
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Last year, more than 330,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees were recalled because of a steering wheel issue that could cause drivers to lose control.
Bring back American Motors.
But still better than Ford!
Burn!
This is why I drive a Toyota 4Runner.
Not a Tundra?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-will-replace-over-100000-v6-engines-in-recalled-tundras-lexus-suvs
Even kaizen Toyota isn’t immune. Still they and a Honda are my one and two preference
Love my 4Runner.
Nope. I bought a 2024 4Runner TRD off road premium with the same naturally aspirated V6 in my 2008 that was still running strong at 250,000 miles when I traded it in.
I’m scoping out Toyota Tacomas for my next vehicle (tired of having to beg and bribe truck owners every time I need to haul something large).
I just don’t want one of these fucking behemoth trucks that everybody makes nowadays. I’d really love one of the very basic ’90s models, but it would be very hard to find one in good condition. The early 2010’s models aren’t too huge yet; maybe I’ll find one of those.
I just picked up a 2011 Tahoe with 200K miles. New / used trans installed, new front end components, and DOD disabled.
Should be good for 50-100K miles with little to no issues. Runs and rides great and has only surface rust underneath.
Great deal at just over $6K.
As a bonus I helped out a young mechanic which a family.
Bartender: Hey Shpip! Your wife told me that you do a terrible owl impression.
Me: When?
Bartender: Holy shit, that’s bad!
In the high school talent show, I was going to do an owl impression — but a real comedian beat me to it and was on first.
Hu was occasionally on first on offense but not on defense.
Now I’m expecting for Bro to swoop in and screech about you making a first joke.
Ugh…
My temperature has swung by over a degree in three hours. At least it responds to medication. That tells me it’s real sick and not “am I sick?” sick.
🤒
Good luck — had something like that a couple of weeks ago. Very glad to be over it now.
Blame those germ factories going back to school.
More misery from the school district. 🙁
Nice takedown.
Sweep the leg, Johnny!
Today from the “Boy the UK has gone to shit desk…
Violence is the answer.
America should run firearms to the British public so they can overthrow the tyranny. They’ve reached the point where they can no longer vote their way out of it.
Maybe… I’m honestly not sure at this point there are enough who would actually use them to matter.
Agreed, SDF.
Too many are still scared of being called racist and will just ignore what’s happening around them. They are a subjugated people.
Violence is often the correct answer.
President Cartoon Villain wrecking Biden’s legacy achievements
The Federal Trade Commission is moving to vacate its rule banning noncompete agreements, reversing what was seen as a signature accomplishment of the commission under President Biden.
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The ban, championed by former FTC chair Lina Khan, was finalized in 2024 but never took effect. Following a lawsuit brought by the Dallas-based tax services firm Ryan LLC, a federal judge in Texas found that the FTC had likely exceeded its authority in issuing the ban and halted it nationwide.
The ban, championed by former FTC chair Lina Khan, was finalized in 2024 but never took effect. Following a lawsuit brought by the Dallas-based tax services firm Ryan LLC, a federal judge in Texas found that the FTC had likely exceeded its authority in issuing the ban and halted it nationwide.
Noncompetes are neither universally good nor universally bad. A vast number of them are pointless.
Moral of the story… executive actions can always (potentially, given judicial activism) be reversed by the next executive.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses!*cough* — Long lasting policy changes should be done by the Legislature… as much as they would hate actually doing something beyond pontificating for fund raising…Late Friday afternoon, just ahead of that deadline, the FTC announced it had voted 3-1 to dismiss the appeal and take steps to vacate the rule.
“The Rule’s illegality was patently obvious,” wrote Ferguson in a joint statement with his fellow Republican commissioner Melissa Holyoak. “It preempted the laws of all fifty States, and actively displaced hundreds of existing laws across forty-six States.”
The dissenting vote was cast by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whom Trump had tried to fire earlier this year. Now the lone Democrat on the commission, she returned to her seat Wednesday following a ruling from the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Trump is such a dictator.
We are planning our trip bacl to Vegas to get a sense of what we need to do to sell the home.
Not really looking forward to it. Seriously just want to go as is but I don’t.
I wish you the best. I did my home sale last year. I hated it.
I did some upgrades on the cabin but then got the original price. Watching it sit empty was costing money.
Original asking price, real estate appreciation has gone crazy here.
This Israel/Italy game has been wild.
Another Crusade?
“Romani ite domum!!”
“Right! Now write it 100 times by morning or I’ll have you flogged.”
Why, have Palestinian protestors been disrupting the game like they’ve been disrupting the bike race in Spain?
Never change, SacTown… no one’s going to think you want to rig elections when you… :checks article: prevent cities from verifying voters are who they say they are…
Nope… not at all. Pure as the Tahoe snow, you folks.
Of course, voting is the only right that has no responsibilities or requirements for it. You can’t question any votes, they’re all valid.
If that guy were any more full of shit he’s explode in a thunderstorm of feces. Which I would pay to see.
Which I would pay to see.
So say we all.
Just don’t get front row seats, or else bring a poncho like you had to do at Gallagher shows.
Here’s one for y’all to chew on, under the heading of “there are no coincidences”:
About a week ago, a long-time co-worker brought in some swag bags that a friend of hers had given her. Evidently the friend is some kind of travel agent and was drumming up business. Picture a red bag, with like a coffee mug, business card, glossy brochures, etc. The business is super-well-known, so I’ll just refer to it as “Norseman River Cruises”. We’ve been busy so I left the swag bag on a side table for awhile. It’s right beside where Mrs. Tree does all her normal stuff (including banking) on her laptop.
Now, prior to that, neither of us had ever, ever, ever, talked about Norseman River Cruises, or looked them up on the ‘net, or anything. This bag showed up as the only datapoint with those words on it in the house.
Today, Mrs. Tree got into the banking stuff and noticed that savings and checking were nearly emptied – left like $15. Somebody had gotten in, moved a heap of $ from savings to checking, and then sent it to Norseman River Cruises. The bank is supposed to be seeing what they can do.
So now the bag is out in the shed and I’m going to dissect it all when I get home in a few days. I’m betting the bank finds out that it’s not going to the real Norseman, but to a fake using that name. My suspicions are all on tiny bluetooth-y keystroke logger and transmitter devices…
F*ckers. I keep all my cards in a metal cage in my wallet to reduce the risk. Now they figured out how to spoof gas station card readers. How do you spot that?
So sorry to hear that.
I’m trying to wrap my head around how that would even work without you actually plugging something into your machine at some point. Any sort of Bluetooth MitM would require some massive security flaw.
Regardless, I hope your bank gets things straightened out, pronto.
WTH! I don’t know how those tricks work but something ain’t right.
Gift horses with strings attached.
Hope you can get it worked out quickly. Pinetree
That would be a heck of a coincidence, but if I were to do that (said in my OJ Simpson voice), I would choose a different company name to charge it to so you wouldn’t make the connection. Also, I don’t know how a Bluetooth device would be able to connect without some action on the user’s part.
I think (if it’s really related to the bag) that the apparent connection’s meant to be a red herring. That is, that the scammer inserted some kind of device into the Norseman stuff and deliberately charged in a fake account pretending to be Norseman, so that all the attention goes that way. So it would be a parasite company that could insert itself into advertising stuff at the printers/factories.
Any low power transmitter would also be short range, so it would mean someone being close to the house – which also means it wasn’t just random.
Or the device, whatever it is, managed to install software on the computer and uses the computer’s internet connection for communications, but I still don’t see how that could be done without some user intervention. I’d save the browser history and the router logs for further inspection.
🤔
Pine was hypnotized by the swag bag into transferring the money himself.
🤯😱
Best wishes on getting that sorted out.
(tired of having to beg and bribe truck owners every time I need to haul something large).
This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw a long time ago:
“Yes, this is my truck. No, I won’t help you move.”
Today, Mrs. Tree got into the banking stuff and noticed that savings and checking were nearly emptied – left like $15.
Eek.
Mammary Monday will lease to own.
https://archive.is/yLU4j
Youtube just played an ad in favor of Newsom’s referendum paid for by the teachers’ union saying Trump is waging a blitzkrieg on his enemies. You know who else waged a blitzkrieg?
And the thing is that they think Trump is somehow losing in all of this. They still believe calling Trump a Nazi is gonna move the needle for normies who are well past sick and tired of that shit.
The Ramones?
Norman Schwarzkopf?
The band Blitzkrieg wrote a song that they named ‘Blitzkrieg’.
It occurred to me after watching the Venezuelan boat get blown to pieces and hearing Vance’s rant about all the people (kids) dying from fentanyl that there’s more to the problem than just production and import.
After the stuff arrives (somewhere) it starts the distribution. Someone has to decide where drugs go (Chitown, St Louis, Podunkville, somewhere) At each transfer point the quantities get re-packaged into smaller and smaller amounts and get re-redistributed. Every transfer point money changes hands, unless someone has good credit.
It just seems strange to me that with so many different hands in the pie that the chain doesn’t start breaking down. Each person involved is just as guilty as those 11 on the delivery boat. With the Trump/Vance attitude shouldn’t they be treated equally. KIA on the spot. No trial, no nothing. Fair is fair.
*Duterte nods knowingly*
He would probably cite the idea that those caught here get the benefit of due process. Aggressors coming from abroad who’ve been designated as terrorists need not apply.
I’m a bit torn on this latest escalation in the drug war. On the one hand blue cities out west are open air drug markets where people are strung out all over the joint. It’s terrible, fentanyl plays a huge role in that, and something needs doing. On the other hand the drug war has always been a huge failure and only benefits hangers-on and grifters. Real people only suffer.
Where are all these divorced middle-aged MILFs with soaked panties and mega-sized boxes of condoms in their oversized Coach bags?
https://www.city-journal.org/article/eat-pray-leave?skip=1
First comment is on point.
On the other hand the drug war has always been a huge failure and only benefits hangers-on and grifters. Real people only suffer.
“You can’t end the drug war. There’s too much money in it.”
All enemies, foreign or domestic
Still, Duckworth said she takes what the president says seriously.
“I take what the president of the United States says very seriously, because that is the respect you have to give to the office,” Duckworth said. “And if that’s what he’s declaring, then let me make it clear: it would be an illegal order to declare war on a major city, any city within the United States, by the President of the United States.”
Boom. Black Bag City.
Precedent says we can go to war with ourselves.
Keep digging that hole, Dems.
JFC they are unbelievably stupid.
Great afternoon to you all! Your thoughts are appreciated in my current predicament:
Cleaned up the car as best I can, but the (quite helpful) young man looked, felt it over and confirmed the rubber /tar is actually the primer. The only thing I can do is to clean it as best I can, and most of it really has been cleaned off. The ‘impact’ spot is still there, maybe a 3″x4x spot. A tiny scratch is also evident.
This is gonna cost some $ to fix. Tomorrow I take the Kia Sportage to my mechanic for a look-over. All goes well, should be finalizing the purchase on Wed. I do think the back seats will remain folded down, and I’ll ‘comfy’ it to have a little Nap Zone at work. I’d like to make it a cuddly-snuggle space, but I’d also like an erudite pony.
If Mireille Silcoff’s New York Times piece is any indication, the new divorcée is even having “the best sex of her life.”
That much could be true. I have had fantastic sex with women in their mid-forties.
Think about the judgement of men that takes place if they leave for a younger, hotter woman. But when women leave their family to explore their sexual deviancy, it’s to be celebrated.
It’s tiresome even pointing out the contradictions. The left and society as a whole treats women as if they are children who get all the privileges of being adults without any of the consequences or responsibilities.
What’s that line in As Good As It Gets when his fan asks him how he writes women so well? He thinks of a man, and removes all reason and accountability?
Agreed. The problem ‘discussing’ this is that women have a helluva raise: “Women are treated like shit!’ and that’s absolutely true throughout history and contemporary culture. (It’s almost as if our species has different ‘rules’ for baby factories.) <– Still true, sometimes fostered by Baby Mama govt money!
People forget how fucking "progressive" Western culture is and the fucking tremendous advances the Enlightenment /etc did to give agency to women.
Problem there is folk generally have remarkably little understanding of history and how we got here. Thanks public edu, for graduating illiterate kids on my dime when I purposefully have no children.
Modern feminism works by:
1) Starting with the premise that women should always be able to do whatever they feel like and have whatever they want given to them for free
2) Reverse-engineering arguments to portray this as just “equality”
You’ll see that pattern in every new thing feminists come up with.
Those ladies being named Winston’s Mom, of course.
No, the problem is more existential. The very label “wife,” the structure of “the marriage plot” that links adult identity to family formation, seems to cloud their sense of who they are. It’s as though being a wife and being a person are incompatible roles.
Sure. That sounds about right.
I really don’t think feminists have gamed out what their lives look like without marriage and other aspects of “patriarchy”.
A life of random flings is more fulfilling than marriage and children? Ok, I’m not here to dictate what the “best life” is for every single person. But for women, a life devoted to sexual libertinism very likely leads to raising accidental babies all by yourself.
They’re free to do that if they want, but I don’t think they’re aware of the probable results.
Why do you think they fight so hard for abortions?