It was a wild day in the NFL. And I suspect every team is gonna practice their FG blocking a lot this week. It was also a wild day in MLB, and will be a wild race in for the WC spots, the AL Central, and AL East. After being swept at home by the Mariners, the Astros are on the verge of not even making the playoffs. Those injuries and a piss poor rotation have caught up with them. Across the pond, Man City and Arsenal played to a draw and Liverpool move to 5 points un in the EPL. And in Baku, Max controlled the race from start to finish while the Mclaren drivers had a bad day. Which is as good as I could have hoped for. And that’s it for sports.
I don’t think these people know what “banned” means. Or they just want age-inappropriate books in schools because they are either retarded or want kids reading porn. Either way, their definition of “banned” is very different than the real definition of it.
I don’t think these people know what “loophole” means. Or they just want free care for everybody because they are either retarded or don’t understand how contract labor works.
Racism is, sadly, still alive in America. And it’s coming from the usual, at least for the last generation, suspects.
She’s a better person than me. And I have an amazing amount of respect for her grace in a moment like that. An inspiration to us all.
This is interesting. I assume leftists will all run out to take it now, as an act of defiance.
I don’t think these people know what “conspiring” means. Or they just want all liberals to support an avowed socialist because they’re retarded or don’t know how free will works.
I’m not so sure all of this is necessary. It’d be a lot easier to diagnose mental illness as mental illness and just reopen the asylums.
In a reasonable world, I’d agree with this. But the power of identity politics on the left can never be underestimated. She checks some of the right boxes for them. And that’s more important than competence.
Oof, that’s some piss-poor security. What a shitshow.
Talk about a design flaw. Somebody’s liability insurance company is about to take a big hit to their bottom line.
I’m not ready for this. Fortunately it’s just a song. And here’s another song. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
The Giants keep beating themselves.
Too be fair — everyone else’s hands are way too small.
Turns out that Daniel Jones might have been a pretty good draft pick. Just not for the Giants.
” either retarded or want kids reading porn”
The power of “and” ?
Put The Turner Diaries in school libraries.
That, and make sure they renew their subscription to Shaved Snizz.
More like the power of hand, amirite?
Where the white women at?
I’m BACK!
“Then she started receiving unexpected bills from doctors who worked at the hospitals but, because they weren’t on staff there, didn’t have to abide by the facilities’ financial assistance policies.”
It’s rare for doctors to work for the hospital.
“”I don’t think that I could be a provider that, in good conscience, charges patients money in addition to the hospital fees,” she said.”
Then you are going to be working for free.
I think that entire generation watched Scrubs and thinks that’s how everything in the medical field works.
Furthermore, what kind of person complains about having to spend $5k out of pocket for the people who contributed to saving their life?
The kind of entitled who thinks they’re owed everything.
In this economy, I’m glad that when I went to speculatively price tires this morning (need to actually measure the gauge… they’re just looking a little worn to me so wanted to get an idea) it wasn’t $5k.
Getting out of major medical anything much less life threatening for just $5k? I’d be doing the Snoopy dance (assuming I could and it wasn’t my legs broken, of course).
OMG capitalism makes you pay money just to stay alive!!!
Try not paying your taxes to a socialist state and see how long you survive.
The general public does not know that. Ask a hundred randos if doctors work for (as opposed to at) hospitals and most will say yes.
“I don’t think these people know what “banned” means. Or they just want age-inappropriate books in schools because they are either retarded or want kids reading porn. Either way, their definition of “banned” is very different than the real definition of it.”
Embrace the grooming kids agenda, and this shit all makes sense.
Why do you all hate the “right to read”??
If these are Union Schools, those kids can’t read.
That’s why the dirty books have illustrations.
Tylenol is a complete scam.
paracetamol has its uses.
Maybe if you’re febrile.
I prefer acetaminophen.
Maybe if you’re febrile.
I’m pretty sure the cure for that is not paracetamol, but rather more cowbell.
None of the OTC painkillers do anything for me.
That… is rather a severe understatement.
I can’t help but think that moving the Baku race into the Fall (I had to go check — but it used to be mainly March or April) with the very different weather (and tree branches!) makes this a much, much more treacherous track. Lower average temps — very different wind patterns. I suppose folks will say “They should adapt” and all… and yeah, they probably should — but setting up strange gusts that screw up downforce and grip on a track with some of the trickiest corners of the calendar (high speed entry in the fast sectors, castle turns in the old city) is asking for just the sort of oddness this weekend got.
If they keep it here and keep having more red flags than English soccer gets red cards — they really should revisit the decision.
Have to say it was an interesting watch, though.
Morning all.
I don’t care for the track and am less than thrilled that it’ll be on the calendar through 2030 at a minimum. But I do like that they moved it to a time of year where there could be more variables. It’s the only thing that made interesting a weekend that usually a Monaco-like parade.
I have to confess a certain fondness for it solely because I find it fun to drive in the game. And parade or not — the castle turn is always treacherous (I forget if it was Schwartzman, Schumacher or a different F2 driver a few years back who had dominated the race from pole for like 28 out of 30 laps… then clipped the wall misjudging that turn and was out… so so easy).
Erika Kirk’s a better person than I am. I think the best possible response to the left’s behavior in this is exactly what she is doing, because it lets everyone not entirely indoctrinated by the left see just how hate filled they have become, but I couldn’t do it.
Agree on this. It was an incredibly powerful act of faith, and better than most people could muster.
This has to really burn the hardcore left. They will be hard-pressed to find a way to condemn her for this, and it only make their own track record of hatefulness more obvious.
Hard pressed? “she is a cynical sociopath and that was a calculated manipulation. Charlie getting shot is the best thing that ever happened to her and she is happy. You are a bunch of suckers.”
All they have to do is put themselves in her shoes and tell us how they would behave. Nuthin’ to it.
Suthen, there is one time on TOS where I posted a comment mimicking a lefty response. Matt the editor responded and said it was scary how accurate it was. I’m getting that same impression from you. You know these people better than they know themselves.
The astonishing thing is they will say that, believe that, and find it impossible to understand, or even believe that saying it pushes people away from their cause.
Oh look Suthen, Rolling Stone from just 2 days ago:
Donald Trump and his administration used Charlie Kirk’s murder as an excuse to ramp up their ongoing campaign for total power, in their most authoritarian week yet
https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1969386940580708753
I’m not sure I could either, but thankfully I’ve never been in that type of position. It is a choice between being bitter and cynical, and letting go of that. The person who benefits most is the forgiver. We know this on the surface, but it’s still impossibly difficult.
I know myself well enough to know that forgiveness is beyond me.
“I don’t think these people know what “loophole” means. Or they just want free care for everybody because they are either retarded or don’t understand how contract labor works.”
You can quickly come to understand they want slavery, when they admit to you they want the people in the healthcare industry to take care of them – specifically – for free. And fuck everyone else.
“Among the plotters were at least two billionaires and one of New York’s biggest building developers. Days after that meeting, Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager and some-time activist who has a net worth of nearly $10bn, also weighed in.”
So you are saying it’s the Jews?
As much as I don’t like it — that does seem to be the consistent position for the activists… though in Sulu’s case… I think he may just be stupid. What a shock for an actor, I know.
““I remember all too well the lack of access to books and media that I needed growing up. First as a child in a barbed-wire prison camp, then as a gay young man in the closet, I felt confused and hungry for understanding about myself and the world around me,” said the “Star Trek” actor, who spent part of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.”
Can we send him back?
It’s not lack of books keeping kids from reading, it’s because they have a fucking screen in front of their face all day.
Probably this for a lot of them — “want to enslave everyone else to work for their benefit under the guise of ‘Free services’ or ‘Tax payer funded'” is likely true for the ones that understand what they’re doing. i.e. actual socialists.
Meh, for Crockett — while she is racist… I think it is just a minor facet of being dog awful stupid.
She started race grifting as soon as she got to college.
Stupid people don’t win elections. She is more evil than stupid.
“”My son saw the bullet go past his face about 6 to 12 inches in the dugout.”
Your son is a mantis shrimp?
I’m sure the kid thinks he saw it, but the brain retroactively added it based on other information.
I recall the distinct sound of a bullet passing overhead but have never seen one in flight.
Shoot at a dark background with the sun low and behind you.
I have seen bullets plenty of times. In fact I had a round shot fishing weight hit me hard enough to penetrate my shirt but not my skin once. Had it been going a hair faster it would have penetrated my skin and I would have still seen it coming.
It is not impossible that the bullet here was going very slow but still hard enough to injure someone. A bit of lead flying through the air carries a suprising amount of energy. It doesnt have to be moving that fast.
Or the local cops were firing off their BAR and using tracers.
I see bullets in flight fairly regularly, though it’s about the amount of time that it’s in my field of vision (bullets going away from me can be seen, bullets moving transverse to me cannot.)
Depending on what/how if the bullet had slowed enough it’s plausible that it could have been seen, or the kid could have just seen the impact and mentally dubbed in the rest.
Characterized by the PD as recreational gunfire or hunting. Map says the gun range is the police dept’s range. Let me guess…the bullet is the same caliber as the PD’s carry pistols.
“Look, just because we carry 9mms doesn’t mean it was us – everybody and their grandma has a 9mm”
Eh, that’s mostly true in Texas.
I know. That’s part of the joke.
I assume the gun range was there before the ball field.
The gun range should have thought about that before building there. See also airfields.
From the satellite view, it looks like the police range shoots in the opposite direction of the ball fields. So, if it came from the police range, it seems that it would likely have been a negligent discharge, and we all know because of their super powers cops would never have a ND, or if they did, would never be held accountable.
Also, it looks like they have a skeet range. Drone practice?
Speaking of F1, Horner is officially done at RBR. And he got PAID.
I wonder if/where he’ll land now that he’s available.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/christian-horner-100-million-red-bull-settlement-f1-return
Maybe… maybe not… I find it interesting that the embedded map for the article shows what I have to assume the name of the property for said firing range as “Katy Police Department Gun Range” — which is suspiciously not named once in the article.
If this is actually the local yahoos firing off in an unenclosed range with poor range safety procedures… I wouldn’t be surprised if a “qualified immuni-tah!” argument is made by local police chief Eric Cartman.
Obligatory reaction all the same.
Looking at the overhead of the gun range on Google maps…the angle they’d be shooting at doesn’t go in the direction of the baseball complex at all. It’s at about a 45° angle from there.
Somebody done fucked up badly.
Maybe it was just a player celebrating a play with some gunfire. You know how those Texans are after all.
“Maybe it was just a player celebrating a play with some gunfire. You know how those Texans are after all.”
Nice.
I’ve almost finished writing “Judge of Jinwick”. This one was special – I wrote it such that each chapter was only about the wordcount I aim for in writing a Glibs article. My normal chapter length is rather longer than that. I can’t say it’s a Noir style story, since I’ve never actually read any. It’s an homage to my mental image of such.
Anyway, Hopefully I’ll have it proofed and ready for you lot to ignore at your leasure. (I keed, I keed. I know some of you do read the articles)
I’m surrounded by assholes.
Fish Buttholes May Be The Reason We Now Have Fingers, Study Finds
Related Wild New Study Suggests Buttholes Once Had a Very Different Purpose
It is a little-known fact that abalones have 5 assholes.
And the rest of us with just one are analones.
I’m glad you’re one with your asshole.
My dad would comment when he had a stomach flue that he may have the dreaded Muhamas, where you break out in little assholes and shit yourself to death.
Looks like he was ahead of the curve in this research.
“”Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things,” zoologist Andreas Hejnol told Michael Le Page at New Scientist.”
LOL
Sounds like someone who’s going to get arrested in the near future.
Fish buttholes is definitely the reason that Troy McClure had fingers…
““We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was, a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake,” she declared. “His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/21/opinion/aocs-lies-about-charlie-kirk-reveal-the-truth-behind-left-wing-bile/
CWAC
I didn’t seriously entertain the idea that “the Left” was involved in Kirk’s assassination until “the Left” started cheering.
I was thinking about this over the weekend. The HAVE to say things like that. Their hardcore base is trapped in a bubble of delusion, and they have to keep feeding into the hate and fear to keep them loyal. The problem is, that’s not winning any new converts. Which is why they have to cheat, redistrict, and import another voter base.
They could just stack cash in numbered accounts and quietly slink away.
I’m sure we’d let them go just to have them be gone.
“A Michigan high school athlete’s spine was fractured during a junior varsity football game when a boy twice his size leaped up and flattened him, according to shocking video….
Footage taken by fans in the stands shows a Lakeshore player tackling the 15-year-old Kalamazoo Central player named Colton as the two teams tussle.
Then, while Colton is still on the ground, the hulking Lakeshore teen climbs off him, stands up and launches his full body weight back on the curled-up teen — pancaking him, the video shows.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/21/sports/high-school-football-players-spine-fractures-after-player-double-his-size-body-slams-him/
CWAA
I almost posted a link to that story. What an idiot.
How is that not assault?
FTA
“It’s unclear if the player on the rival team will face any punishments for his alleged misconduct.”
Nothing to see here.
@commie_quotes
“Our social opinion quite rightly strongly condemned such degenerate «importations» as long hair.”
– Enver Hoxha, 1973
https://x.com/commie_quotes/status/1969770866377420929
We should impose high tariffs on long hair.
Peter the Great wanted to discourage long beards, so he taxed them.
We should tax facial peircings. At least until the supreme court declares that a free expression infringement in a decade or so.
As much as I despise facial piercings — they’d be right to do so as it is artistic expression of a sort.
More importantly — bodily autonomy and self-ownership are the underlying foundation of the First anyway (the right to your own mind, own conscience and own thoughts), so I’d be against it on that principle.
And taxing just the piercing shops / whatnot bugs me on “targeted taxation is social engineering” which I despise.
Hey… can we just cut spending dramatically and get rid of most of these stupid taxes already while I’m appealing to principles most of the country gives lip service to at best and despises at worst?
I wasn’t being serious.
Let the idiots announce that they’re idiots.
Sorry, lady, the state owns your husband’s body:
https://apnews.com/article/zambia-edgar-lungu-south-africa-burial-ruling-db3ffc3ee61ee40832112971e0566f18
“She added that she wouldn’t push for the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with his fatal shooting, telling the New York Times: “I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger.
“Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?””
I’m no theologian, but that’s not how it works. Well, unless she becomes Governor of Utah.
No, but it speaks to her desire to turn from sin. And if she believes retributive killing of someone is sinful, then she will find herself in a bad spiritual place.
Executing a murderer isn’t sin.
God commands that murderers be executed.
Failing to execute a murderer is disregarding a command of God.
Failing to execute a murderer is sin.
It may be more of a Catholic thing — but yeah… I was thinking “That’s very much how it works” on the Heaven side. Just as much a sin to decide to do something in your head and heart but lack the opportunity versus actually doing it and all.
What the Utah legal system does outside of her control is irrelevant — if she sincerely wished him dead, God would judge her for that, yes. (Now honestly… I think God understands these emotions and that she might regret that impulse later even if she gave into it now, etc… but I’m much more on the side of God being Love and Mercy (and often misinterpreted) even in the Old Testament (where be honest… if you were God you would have smote some stiff necked tribes a lot more than He ever actually did) and believe that Purgatory exists as a way to purify souls that have not rejected God but are still unworthy to enter into His Presence — so such human moments don’t innately lead to eternal damnation. Such thoughts (I know, I know) may well be a sign that I am lukewarm and will be spat out… but that’s still what my heart and mind have come to over the years.
I’m not so sure I’d agree with that being part of the new covenant. Yes, Romans 13 1-7 says the state wields the sword, but she’s not part of the state. She may well believe that if she has the retributive killing of that person in her heart, then she’s committing a sin.
Furthermore, there’s loads of passages where Jesus explicitly calls for non-violence.
I can find nothing in the New Testament that explicitly calls for the execution of murderers. But I am no biblical scholar, so I might have missed it.
If she were addressing a college of theology I’d take issue with her words. She wasn’t. She was speaking to a gathering of grieving people who could easily be incited to rage. Instead she did her best to preach her faith to them and turn them to constructive outlets for their sorrow. The theology is poor, the message is as Christian as it gets.
According to the Waller County Sheriff’s Office, the shot came from a neighboring property where people were engaging in target practice or hunting
People or Popo?
And who the absolute fuck is hunting on a police gun range?
Nobody is hunting there. They just can’t say “Police demonstrated poor muzzle and trigger discipline, resulting in an injury.”
It’s dove season. And there’s plenty of decent dove hunting there because a lot of the area is low. I would not be surprised if they were shooting at birds. But not with a 9mm and not with anything that would travel than kind of distance.
So they just don’t want the reporters to grouse about it?
Everyone is supposed to quail at the sound of gunfire.
Not everyone, just mere Pheasants.
Yes, hunting exists. And yes I’m assuming that it’s a police gun range based on the google image. Do the King’s Men open their landholdings so that peasants can poach their game? I’ve never known a gun club to permit hunting on its property (but y experiences are obviously limited.)
A quick gander of that area by a reporter would shed some light on the whole matter.
Probably a New England/New York thing. I know of many gun clubs that allow hunting on their property, and a few hunting clubs that allow target shooting on their property.
That would goose the page view numbers, wouldn’t it?
OK also. My Uncle’s clubs had big “hunting prohibited” signs.
Not everyone, just mere Pheasants.
Don’t count out the Huns.
* Fourscore now has a pair of Huns in his freezer. It was part of the bribe I give him to get me off the chore chart at the Honey Havest.
There are plenty of police gun ranges that allow recreational use. I don’t know if the Katy PD Range is one of them.
ETA – a quick shufty of the Google overheads reveals that the Katy PD range has a skeet/trap setup, so it’s a fairly safe bet that they do some recreational shooting there.
The general direction of fire is in nearly the exact opposite direction of the baseball complex. So if this actually happened (and it’s not a bunch of local Karens trying to get the range shut down,) my money is on someone jerking off with their gun in the parking area.
I should have made this more explicit:
The reporting so far is insufficient for me to believe that the shot came from that range. I know the reporting makes that implication, but it’s unlikely that the reporter would have that knowledge, nor the source that the reported is basing that on.
Real life example: My local range has been under fire for YEARS for supposedly dropping shots on an adjacent residential neighborhood. There are a fuckton of pieces of evidence that it’s not us, including basic ballistics, some of the damage being inconsistent with a bullet strike, some of the evidence being completely bogus (like an intact cartridge next to a broken window) but there have been rounds recovered from at least one house — though the orientation of the impact again, was NOT US. Eventually some DEC ranger caught a poacher who was shooting from a different piece of property in a manner which was consistent with the known actual impact. This of course has not been edited into any of the previous news articles.
Just for Rhywun – Gruniad derp, always progressing toward the peak.
lol
/reads headline, taps the fuck out
I used to think The Guardian was the worst newspaper in the anglosphere until I stumbled upon Jacobin.
To be fair, Jacobin is just some stupid website that does not have the history, reach, or influence that is anything like The Grauniad.
Rhywun’s in the market for a tradwife?
No no no. Someone who is assigned oppression at birth.
““There was a whole array of women’s magazines that glorified housewives” in Nazi Germany, says Koonz, a professor emerita of history at Duke University. “It would be the equivalent of social media today.” Frauen Warte contained nothing too political – just broadly appealing lifestyle content about keeping a clean and well-provisioned home while raising a healthy family, with occasional debates about how much makeup one should wear. A barefaced look was preferred – much like the “clean girl” trend of today. “In a censored society everyone needs debates about harmless topics,” says Koonz.”
Because there were no women’s magazines that glorified housewives outside of Nazi Germany in the 1940’s?
The left has to tie family and home to Hitler because they hate those things so much and Hitler is literally the worst.
The segment of the “Stop Making Sense” concert movie that includes “Life During Wartime” is just amazing as an example of how great the 1980’s were. Black and White people dancing goofily together and everybody in excellent shape.
That whole concert is *fantastic.*
But did you see any trans people dancing? Totes wrong!
So I saw a failure at advertising this morning. There was a billboard along the highway which had a robot in a pose resembling a recent American Eagle ad. the tagline was “no jeans, just great vodka” while failing to identify what brand of vodka they were trying to sell.
Credit for the idea, but if I don’t know what product you were trying to sell, your Ad fails as an Ad.
Fucking clankers.
As opposed to clanking fuckers?
Clanking fuckers are dudes with brass balls?
It’s Svedka. They’ve been using the robot for a long time.
Also, it’s nice to know that NY is fine with vodka billboards. I’d drink even more if I lived there.
I stand corrected. The bot is making a triumphant return after a 12-year hiatus.
https://www.rockingrobots.com/svedka-robot-returns-after-a-decade-along-with-memories-of-past-controversy/
Today I learned Svedka is a pormanteau of Sweden (Sverige) and vodka.
As a rando who actually drinks vodka but doesn’t recognize the mascot, a billboard should still tell me when I’m looking at it who’s selling what.
I have purchased Svedka now and then and had no idea about the robot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It might not have been more than ten years ago, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvertisingFails/comments/1nk1sno/i_dont_feel_like_this_is_bad_advertising_per_say
Every Team except the Bengals may practice field goal blocking drills. The Bengals need to focus on things a LOT more basic than that. Think Pop Warner level.
We were keeping an eye on that score in disbelief as the game went on. I heard at the end of that game, they showed the last couple of minutes of the Browns/Packers game, which made the Vikings fans even happier.
34-3 at the half, and if you were on any Bengal’s fan sites there were people posting the score was 31-3 at the half because somehow the Bengals managed to turn the ball over while running out the clock….
(((Jarflax:
At least we can both root for the Lions tonight.
It’s just another Mammary Monday…
https://archive.is/qarhS
The word retarded is making a comeback. The golden age is upon us.
Someone recently called me out and said “I don’t like that word” (referring to retard). I asked which would be more acceptable: moron, idiot, sped, slow, febrile, imbecile, or some other word meant to mean someone who has the intellect of a cabbage.
“Democrat”
I’m still in the habit of using “Special”, since that was the euphemism of the week when I was growing up. We didn’t use those technical medical terms.
It’s just French for “late”. Maybe class it up as retardaire (latecomer)?
I remember having a drill sergeant who almost never swore and used only the mildest of insults. Her go-to was “crazy” perhaps because she didn’t like saying “retard” or one of the many other epithets.
At graduation, she told me I was funny as shit. I think it was because she overheard me say: Hey, what’s the best part about masturbation? You don’t have to talk to anyone afterwards.
The word is mean! Use a kinder word. Ok, but we’re on round like 12 of adopting new words for the condition, and they inevitably get used as insults because the condition, tragically, is a failure to develop ordinary human faculties, and thus makes a perfect insult.
***
Someone recently called me out and said “I don’t like that word” (referring to retard).
***
suggested response: OK, ‘tard. There, is that better?
Derpetologist:
Rick and Morty nailed that joke already.
No more retarded bombs?
And many of those words started out as clinical terms.
This one always makes me laugh. Reaper uses it a lot in his movie reviews.
“But Howell confirmed that common rhetoric in transgender ideology, especially the conflation of words with violence and refusal to recognize a person as the opposite sex as life-threatening, is a core feature of the TIVE designation, which he compared to Islamic terrorist expression that portrays peaceful opposition as a “life-or-death struggle.”
No idea how that is “transgender ideology”. It’s just standard leftist words are violence, paradox of tolerance, rhetoric.
“The shorter memo includes an unsourced statistic that Just the News has been unable to trace: “Experts estimate that 50% of all major (non-gang related) school shootings since 2015 have involved or likely involved transgender ideology.” It’s not in the longer memo….
The closest source Just the News could find made a broader claim in a different time period: The Western Journal said “roughly” 40% of “successful and would-be school shooters” since 2020 were transgender or “trans-suspected,” but the article is paywalled.”
I only found one shooter who was transitioning.
This whole push is beyond stupid and just playing into the hands of Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/107-days-review-a-campaign-of-wishful-thinking-56660699?st=Gyp8jy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
To be fair, The Guardian is correct in that elections are now won there by ignorant retards voting to steal all of the money from productive people.
Woo hoo! The P220 is out for delivery to the LGS today! Not enough time to take it to Nats, but definitely it’ll be the goto for L10 next season. Unless I decide it sucks, in which case I’ll be looking to unload it.
Take a shot at it first.
You can send to it Sean’s home for wayward Sigs.
Be careful they sometimes just go off.
I hope I love it. I’ll get a pic of it once it’s in the holster. Er, on the holster.
Security schmecurity. This shit is just gonna get much worse and there is literally nothing to stop it absent a Butlerian Jihad.
Wait until everyone uses biometrics and a breach means that they can now get to every site using your biometric id. Of course, you can easily change that info, right?
Keeping with the them, is our younger work force retarded? My oldest works at a gas station. They schedule her for 20 hours a week, and they end up calling her in every day off because there are so many call-offs and no-shows. They had a meeting Friday to talk about it, and the new rule is they are fired after 4 (!) no-shows. Then over the weekend 3 people were no-shows. I’ve spoken to other people, and it’s not just the gas station that’s a shit show. There’s a big trend of people quitting by not showing up.
THEME
I thought one no-call no-show was a termination?
When I was in fast food/retail it was two. Not two in a month, two in a year, or anything like that. Two in total, and you would be fired.
My entry-level job was a call center.
It’s FOUR at the gas station. That’s where we are as a society.
TOK:
I’ll have to ask the girlfriend, I’m not sure if she has a policy. But she’s had people go through the interview process, accept the job, and then… nothing. They didn’t show up, they didn’t call, they didn’t respond. Radio silence.
I’ve heard similar stories talking to acquaintances in the service industry as well.
Neph: I am hearing a lot of those stories too. A few years ago my MIL worked in food service at a nursing home. She’d have people go through training, work half a day, and then never come back from a break.
Just walking off without talking to anyone is confounding to me.
TOK:
I used to do temp work any time there was a break in school. I also had my usual part time job, so the temp work was usually 2nd or 3rd shift.
One temp job was second shift and it was helping screen print a bunch of t-shirts for an upcoming concert. The screen printer was in a storage unit with no AC. My job was pulling the shirts off a heater that was drying the puffy ink on the shirts. It was hot and miserable. I sweated my nuts off.
At the “lunch” break, I made it over to the liquor store across the street and bought a 40 before they closed. I drank it in the parking lot and when I walked in, the guy running the shop asked me to come over to chat. I was sure he was going to give me shit about drinking the beer.
Nope. He told me I was the first temp worker ever to come back after the break. He actually wanted to see if I would take a full time job. I laughed and told him I’d finish the shift, but I wasn’t coming back tomorrow.
Had he thought about doing something about the dangerous working conditions?
Sounds more like lazy than stupid.
It’s also amazing how many people call off because “someone is in the hospital”. Must be really, really dangerous out there.
TOK:
There was a running joke in the City Watch cycle of Discworld about how many grandmother funerals officers would be allowed to attend per year.
There is a glut of openings for entry level jobs. There is also a sense of entitlement and narcissism that is more prevalent (said every old man ever). However, I do think the way that a number of high profile internet personalities stumbled into high income has mislead people to believe that hard work is for fools.
There is a less severe but still big problem with the newer crop of college grads. Instead of being scrappy and trying to scurry up the corporate ladder, they want to punch a clock 9-5. Fine qualifications and fine people, but a general lack of fire in the belly. No wonder they can’t afford to get married or buy a house.
What’s so great about fluffing the egos of exploitative narcissists who are never going to promote you anyway?
I recently read a piece that was talking about the younger generations approaching the office job as an incubator/launching pad. Get the steady income doing a make work job (like most entry level work), but instead of focusing on the work, use the time to brainstorm other ideas, launch products, etc.
Some of those people working at companies will likely be very surprised when they find out their employment contract gives the rights to all of that stuff to the employer.
Development during work hours? Foolish.
I agree that kids nowadays don’t seem to want to put in the hours to get ahead.
They seem much more happy to take time off and travel or have fun. I’m only 90% convinced that is a dumb strategy. Looking back, I wish I had done more fun stuff when I was young and dumb.
I didn’t have the money when I was younger. Just managed to keep my bills paid and debts serviced.
One of the Altar Boys had a job loading UPS trucks. The shift was 3-10 (or something like that). The pay was pretty good, but if you showed up on time for every shift, you got a bonus of $200.
I get the odd shift hours would make it a tough job for anyone who likes to party, but the bonus was a huge add on.
The kid says that he and one other guy were the only ones who ever got it. Everyone else was late or a no show every week.
I’m in the maintenance side of hard rock mining. My main customer hires guys all the time that make it to the end of their first shift and quit, make it a few hours and quit, get hired, no show for the piss test, ect. Bunch of lazy fucks.
In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with pop-ups requesting consent to cookies.
Only 16 years. I’m sure whatever replaces it will completely solve the issue.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/
All websites must use EUroAuth to validate visitors identities, and logins. Only EUroAuth cookies are permitted. Any persistant information must be registered in the user’s EUroAuth profile. Users without EUroAuth credentials may not use websites. EUroAuth credentials must be tied to real name government Idendification to make sure you are permitted to view the sites you visit.
My adblocker stops most but not all of that shit.
True, but not on my work machine.
The prop 65 of the internet.
This is how people end up being part of a Human Cent-iPad.
Win.
The decision marks the end of a controversial practice in which Amazon pooled identical items from different sellers under one barcode. The system, intended to speed deliveries and save warehouse space, had also allowed counterfeit or expired goods to be mixed in with authentic ones, according to The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.modernretail.co/operations/amazon-to-end-commingling-program-after-years-of-complaints-from-brands-and-sellers/
Because right below it:
Amazon sends a literal brick to a customer in lieu of the RTX 5080 they ordered — the latest cautionary tale in the line of ‘commingling’ inventory scams
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amazon-sends-a-literal-brick-to-a-customer-in-lieu-of-the-rtx-5080-they-ordered-the-latest-cautionary-tale-in-the-line-of-commingling-inventory-scams
That explains the nasty inconsistancy in some products.
Very much so.
“resellers”
Maybe related but for some years I have refused to buy anything not “sold by Amazon”.
Does Costco poke rate higer or lower than gas station sushi?
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/recall/costco-recalls-poke-kirkland-signature-possible-listeria-rcna232842
🤢🤮
Raw fish requires very, very specific handling if it’s to be eaten that way.
What’s Winston’s Mom’s poke rate?
$20, same as downtown?
You’ll need a denominator to have a rate. Is that per poke, per hour of poking, or what?
Mrs. Holiness and I first ran across CostCo poke in Oahu and were instantly hooked.
We’re completely normal, so how bad could it be?
I suppose folks will say “They should adapt” and all… and yeah, they probably should — but setting up strange gusts that screw up downforce and grip on a track with some of the trickiest corners of the calendar (high speed entry in the fast sectors, castle turns in the old city) is asking for just the sort of oddness this weekend got.
Those cars are entirely too downforce dependent. Watching the in-car “highlights” from qualifying, the cars just wouldn’t stop or turn. Was that wind gusts? I don’t know.
I don’t disagree with this assessment. But there’s no way around it until hopefully the next (not next year’s but the following one) TDs redesign the cars completely. And we all know that’s not going to happen.
I am flabbergasted that there’s really only one driver out there who seems capable of driving in almost any condition by changing the downforce on his car. I guess Max is just in another class as a driver, which is why he’s so skilled when he gets behind the wheel of any kind of car, and nobody else on the grid shows the slightest interest in driving anything but formula cars.
“Tennessee man getting off a cruise was caught with child pornography on his phone simply because he was randomly selected for a secondary search, according to court documents…
CBP agents routinely search the phones of people re-entering the United States, whether they are citizens or not….
CBP has the authority to warrantlessly search electronic devices at US ports of entry, whether that be at airports, seaports or land border crossings.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15108635/jason-alan-miller-child-porn-carnival-cruise-eight-children-pregnant-wife.html
No idea how that’s constitutional.
It’s not, but since when has that really mattered?
I’m honestly surprised they don’t exploit the 200 mile “international zones” or whatever they call it around airports to pull this crap more often.
Make it vertical distance and place the entire US within it.
I am beginning to wonder: what do they classify as child pornography? What if the guy had ten videos of his daughter in the beach in a swimsuit? I am beginning to wonder about that blanket statement, like I wonder about blanket statements like “he posted about his love of Nazi ideology.”
It does seem like a charge that would be easy to abuse at least to destroy a reputation, since the evidence is illegal to share or even view.
“Random”, given the amount of legal and illegal data collection.
Prosecutors would never wrongfully accuse someone of child pr0n
“Most recently, Wang visited McDonald’s in Poland, where he was pleasantly surprised at the interesting offerings.
‘I got the cottage cheese cucumber breakfast McMuffin,’ he shared, describing it as tasting like ‘cream cheese for bodybuilders.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-15081311/mcdonalds-strangest-food-items-fast-food-menu.html
What?
I do not want to subscribe to that person’s newsletter.
You wanted a nice day out flying kites with your family. But @NaturalEngland
won’t let you.
Natural England won’t let us build, won’t let us have fun. It won’t let us do anything.
The Government empowers them to block everything. This has to end.
https://x.com/lfg_uk/status/1970059386534977751
kites are dangerous someone could lose an eye
Sounds like a situation that could be fixed with some revolution.
If somebody stopped me from flying kites I would definitely be in a revolutionary mood. That’s my relaxation when I can do it.
Mr. Banks haz a sad. 😢
People voted for the socialist Labour types because they wanted to get rid of the aristocracy. Unfortunately the socialist Labour types wanted to replace the Aristocracy not get rid of it.
No mercy
On Sunday, huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab, which included a plan to assassinate Lula, the vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, and a supreme court judge.
The pro-democracy protests were spearheaded by some of Brazil’s best-loved musicians, including a trio of legendary songwriters who were at the forefront of the fight against the country’s brutal 1964-85 military dictatorship: Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil.
“The Brazilian people elected Lula – and that’s why democracy in Brazil endures,” Veloso, 83, told tens of thousands of demonstrators who had braved 35C temperatures to pack Rio’s Copacabana beach.
As Veloso, Buarque and Gil performed a series of dictatorship-era classics from a sound truck by the sand, the crowd chanted: “Sem anistia” (“No amnesty”).
Sometimes I think democracy would be greatly improved if the losers were executed.
Democracy would be greatly improved if anyone ever held an honest election.
Not really, you would still have dumb voters.
For some reason I don’t believe anything in that story.
“Sourdough and submission in the name of God: Tradwife content fuses femininity with far-right ideas
Arguably the most popular anti-feminist content today is produced by women”
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/22/sourdough-and-submission-in-the-name-of-god-tradwife-content-fuses-femininity-with-far-right-ideas/
This shit is so tiresome.
All that was standard leftist granola hippie fare until about a decade ago. Does Salon have 5 year old writers with no grasp of the past?
That switched. Now the left is for war, big pharma, etc.
When it comes to slavery you have to give them points for consistency.
Nobody is allowed to make their own choices unless they first check with the Smart People.
“But at the core of the tradwives movement are more divisive beliefs: that women are meant to “submit” to their husband’s leadership, for example, or are not meant to work outside the home.”
Is BDSM still ok?
When will they realize that the fruits of feminism is miserable women?
They get it. That is why they push it.
I will never get the “I don’t want to be happy, I want to make other people miserable” mindset.
misery loves company
When I’m miserable, the last thing I want is company.
It’s better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
‘Destroy the nuclear family’ is one of the major points in their agenda.
Leftist ideology is the ideology of slavery, of destroying everything that makes people freer. Prosperity, family, purpose, responsibility, critical thinking, rule of law…all must be destroyed. All institutions the stabilize society rendered inert.
You can’t get the glorious future without destroying all of the oppression that exists in the real world. That’s why the revolution must eventually eat its own.
Women found out staying home is preferable to banging on a keyboard all day, not that surprising.
“Content creators” are nauseating though.
STEVE SMITH BANG AT HOME, ON KEYBOARD, IN FOREST. NOT PICKY.
I am flabbergasted that there’s really only one driver out there who seems capable of driving in almost any condition by changing the downforce on his car. I guess Max is just in another class as a driver, which is why he’s so skilled when he gets behind the wheel of any kind of car, and nobody else on the grid shows the slightest interest in driving anything but formula cars.
Did you see the Chris Harris interview? Max talked about how Jos would put him in different scenarios in kart races to make him figure out how to drive through them. I wonder if he fucked with setup to make him learn how to drive around a problem.
I have never really been a Max fan, but that made him a little more human.
I am beginning to wonder: what do they classify as child pornography? What if the guy had ten videos of his daughter in the beach in a swimsuit?
Naked baby pictures. Of your own baby. As people have done since photography was invented.
Nope, apparently the sick fuck had actual child porn and even admitted to it.
Does Salon have 5 year old writers with no grasp of the past?
Attention span and memory of a gnat.
There was slavery and racism in the past therefore everything in the past must be discarded.
When do I get my payout for the fact my ancestors where put into slavery when Hannibal invaded Italy?
Oh yeah, I forgot.
Uncivil: I have to laugh. The ineffective ad on the billboard has people from all over the country talking about the ad and Svedka vodka.
I don’t know it’s them.
Stars of stage and screen turned out at marches in other major cities to decry that bill and congressional efforts to reduce Bolsonaro’s sentence as part of a supposed attempt to “pacify” the politically divided South American country.
“Long live democracy! Long live Brazil!” the Golden Globe-nominated actor Wagner Moura told a sea of protesters in Salvador, the capital of his home state, Bahia.
Moura, the star of the Netflix drama Narcos, hailed the “extraordinary moment” his country’s democracy was experiencing after Bolsonaro’s historic conviction – a contrast with the democratic backsliding in the US under Bolsonaro’s re-elected ally Donald Trump.
Democracy requires the total subjugation of anyone who disagrees with you.
Finally Brazil can return to the utopia it was before the interloper almost killed Democracy.
On the gun range thing: there’s a range off I76 just outside Sterling, CO. It runs roughly parallel to the interstate and is maybe quarter mile from the interstate.
Hermiston Gun Club off I84 is right off the freeway. Can see the shooting positions but not sure about the orientation of fire.
https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/08/08/duluth-man-shot-leg-while-driving-interstate/
Barn Find of the day, 2fer:
https://barnfinds.com/turbo-icon-1987-buick-grand-national-project/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
https://barnfinds.com/original-paint-interior-1965-pontiac-gto/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)
When I see “The engine has been rebuilt already” I get worried. By whom and to what level? That has the scent of basket case all over it.
“Don’t worry, each cylinder has been rebored to a different size, as have all the valves. No two are identical.”
“The duct tape gaskets are holdin’ just fine. Don’t you worry. Plus we routed the coolant through the oil pump since that was getting a bit hot.”
You are on fire this week!
“Ah, that’s what the extinguisher under the driver’s seat is for. Flares up every so often, just send a few puffs through this hole in the dash.”
That’s just the engine block self welding the cracks!
Crimes against nature
Officials in Tibet are investigating after Canadian outdoor apparel brand Arc’teryx set off fireworks in the Himalayas in a publicity stunt that was widely criticized over its potential impact on the environment.
The fireworks display, called the “Ascending Dragon,” was staged on Friday by Arc’teryx and prominent Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang at an altitude of about 18,000 feet in the Himalayas, a highly fragile and unstable ecosystem in southwest Tibet, according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.
The show played out in three acts, with bursts of color igniting one after another along the ridge, tracing the mountain’s outline in rainbow-like waves, according to videos that have since been deleted.
Horrific.
“highly fragile and unstable ecosystem”
🙄🙄
The same ecosystem China and India regularly fire artillery at each other.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Under the hood is the heart of what made the Grand National a legend: the turbocharged 3.8-liter V6. In stock form, these engines pumped out 245 horsepower and 355 lb-ft of torque, which was enough to make them the quickest American cars you could buy in 1987.
That’s so cute.
Anything less than 1,000 horsepowers is a slug.
Behold. A vintage Cadillac with a modified 500 cubic inch V8. That might get you halfway there or more:
https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1949-cadillac-coupe-deville-gilford-nh-413151
I’ve worked on those engines. For the huge displacement they are weirdly small and light. I’m sure it’s significantly lighter as a powerplant than the original V8 in that coupe (probably a 331?). It’s amazing how quickly casting technology and metallurgy advanced in those years.
Want
Drivetrain would have to go.
We have a TD down in the shop right now. Trust me, you don’t want any more power in those things…
Not to mention doing an engine swap on a T-series is pure hell…you can barely service it as is without pulling it completely apart.
Reality intrudes
Porsche raised plenty of eyebrows in 2022 when it pledged to make the 718 fully electric at the expense of its gas models. While the EV Boxster and Cayman are still in development, Zuffenhausen has realized that eliminating the combustion engine outright would be a fatal mistake. The German sports car maker is now showing serious cold feet, and that’s welcome news for enthusiasts.
Although the current 718 bows out next month with the final production run, a new generation will arrive with a gas engine still mounted behind the seats. In its latest “strategic realignment,” Porsche confirms the next Boxster and Cayman will continue to offer ICE power. Here’s the twist: only the “top” versions will retain combustion engines.
What does that mean? Porsche may be limiting them to RS-badged flavors or something similar. While we’re used to EVs being pricier than their ICE equivalents, the next flagship 718 could flip that script, making the gas version the more expensive choice.
What a twist. They’ll jack up the price on the more desirable option.
It will still outsell the electric one by a really wide margin. And they will clean up with profits. Same will happen to Dodge when they finally put a V8 in the new Charger next year.
Just looked it up….I’m honestly a straight six fan, so I’m pretty pleased with how that car’s turning out – in theory.
Except for the damn infotainment system.