Boss makes a franc, I make a pfennig, that’s why I do links on the company ….aw, heck, nothing rhymes.
Editing has been both easy and hard lately. The lack of material leaves me with little to do but jam things in the available time slots…but I do worry that we have enough to fill each week (stares dejectedly at Thursday 1100 slot).
But that is my problem (or the people that Tonio subtly threatens). You get links and comment space.
- Yes, of course she did.
- *Sensible chuckle*
- The UK continues to devolve.
- Ha ha ha ha! I hope the answer is “no”.
Music – old and niche piece.
Comments are yours.
I didn’t realize that was the name of the song.
Good afternoon Swiss, hope you’re enjoying our Native American summer.
It’s Indigenous People’s Summer now.
With how quick they snatched that title, one could call them Indian givers.
Summer of People of Indigeneity
I read that earlier. Meanwhile a good chunk of the NYC West Side’s Jewish voters will pull the lever for her communist husband.
Schwab is a lot of things, but he’s way too rich, white, and sophisticated to get caught in some Third World potentate-level scheme.
See, this guy only ticks one of the boxes, and I’m not sure the Frogs can be considered “white.”
Sarkozy is of Hungarian descent, and the Magyars are Asian.
I think Klaus was looking for power more than money at this point in his life.
Turned? It was all along. Silly Klaus thought that made him the big dog until some other faction decided, no, they’ll take it now. Like watching a mob movie in real life.
For some others present, however, the report confirmed a deeper problem: a pattern of unilateral decision-making and blurred governance by a founder who had long run the forum like a family business.
When the Geneva-based organisation finally issued its statement on August 15, the tone was careful. “Minor irregularities, stemming from blurred lines between personal contributions and forum operations, reflect deep commitment rather than intent of misconduct,” it said.
“I am the WEF.”
For decades, that mission had carried immense weight. Its annual meeting in Davos has been a magnet for heads of state, tech titans and cultural figures – a neutral Alpine stage where elite consensus was forged under the banner of Swiss diplomacy. Its panels set the tone for global capitalism’s self-reflection; its corridors hummed with the energy of dealmaking and diplomacy.
That’s a longwinded way to say circlejerk.
The actual circlejerk would be saved for the five star suites after the conferences ended for the day.
Oh no. Whatever shall we do without elite consensus. It’ll be a new dark age. How will we survive.
There will be many ways of being wrong, not just the one WEF way!
Surprisingly, the consensus was that it was necessary to extract as much wealth as they could get away with from the serfs.
The intent was to determine whether Klaus Schwab, the forum’s 87-year-old founder, and his wife, Hilde, had turned the WEF into not only a private fiefdom but also a personal cash machine.
Why was I reminded of this scene?
Popcorn!
He was a bad dude.
Shut up, you dog-faced pony soldier.
+1 collection of underwater leg hair
Listen up Jack, it’s time for a push up contest!
I’m pretty sure I saw Underwater Leg Hair open for the Butthole Surfers back in the day.
The high temperature in my part of the country is only 82 freedom degrees this week, so I was out doing yardwork today. To my surprise, I saw my retired ornithology professor neighbor for the first time in months. I wasn’t sure if he’d moved away, died, or what.
So I walked over to his house and asked…
Me: Dude, what have you been up to?
Professor: Oh, I was in Louisville for a couple of months. KFC had me up there, asked me to modify their chickens’ genome.
Me: Wha???
Prof: They wanted something CRISPR.
Speaking of birds, do you know how to distinguish a crow from a raven?
You might think it’s just a matter of size, but that assumes fully grown corvids, or at least birds of comparable age.
Actually, the notable difference is in the flight feathers, aka pinions. Crows have 16, ravens 17.
So when you get right down to it, the difference between crows and ravens is a matter of a pinion.
The last time I dropped my wife off on campus, a grad student asked me if I would donate to the Corvid Club.
When I asked her what it was about, she took a step back and said “CAW! CAW! CAW! CAW!”
I broke out my wallet and gave her a twenty. It was four good caws, after all.
Well played 🙂
I heard of that student activity — I think they ended up having an embezzlement problem, though… the group just couldn’t figure out where their money kept going… it was a murder mystery.
KFC will always have a market, because even if you are ravenous you never develop a taste for crow.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
You can’t find a more clear-cut example of caws and effect.
How much mass would you have to drop on Hamas to measurably narrow Gaze?
We had a customer escalation come in today for a DB / AI interaction at a major metropolitan zoo.
Turned out, they’d been using an object orientation model for their DB queries — similar species were first grouped to thread pools, then secondary characteristics determined sub-pools for threads with cpu bindings. The problem was that they’d used plumage as a secondary characteristic… and a school tour was going through the orinthology displays repeatedly. All the sub-pool threads were contesting for the same cpus… and the DB used a rather simple file locking API that’s classic in *nix / BSD systems for it.
We ended up telling them their root cause analysis was that birds of a feather flock(1) together.
fsck you
How will we survive.
We won’t. The egghead internationalists will sit in their doomsday bunkers watching the world destroy itself without their benevolent guidance, and then emerge to rule the rubble.
Francly, I can’t believe it’s Monday, the weekend passed by so swissly.
Thankfully, another (((holiday))) has arrived so it’s like a 2nd weekend this week.
And then Mr. Bigglesworth will take them down… ruling the ruins as the Hairless Cat God-Emperor!
What fun is it ruling rubble once you’ve experienced the lifestyle of today’s elite?
My only assumption is that the current crop are also technocrats who think they can keep enough of the power grid going for AI and robots to keep them in the lifestyle they’re accustomed to after all us icky normals are out of the way.
Wasn’t that Charles Manson’s plan?
What do you think the percentage of WEF members who are able to change their tire is?
I can’t believe any of these coddled dandies will emerge from the bunker with any skills to rebuild the world.
They know that they don’t dare let in any tradesmen into the bunker because they will quickly take over and create harems from their wives and daughters.
I got hit on by a seventy nine y/o woman today. At least she still has her teeth. Unlike the last one.
Where’s Right Said Fred when you need them?
I thought she just wanted to come do chores for you — unpaid of course. She thought you needed an in-dentured servant.
She got tired of hitting on Not Adahn.
Did you hit her back?
Obligatory.
Old women and lesbians tend to hit on me. I’m not sure what that means.
Lesbians? That’s different.
When I was a teenager, it was the very big girls, so things have changed.
They see you as harmless.
Poor choice
Machado’s prize can be seen as both a product of Trump administration diplomacy and a greenlight for war. Last fall, Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, then a senator, signed a letter nominating Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. The letter was signed by seven Republican lawmakers, including Michael Walz, who is now the US ambassador to the United Nations after a contentious and brief term as Trump’s national security adviser. These Republicans supported Machado because she fundamentally shares their vision of counterrevolution and neoliberal restoration in Venezuela. Among other policies, she’s committed to privatizing the nation’s immense oil reserves.
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Machado’s brand of democracy promotion, reliant as it is on US military intervention, deserves skepticism. Speaking on Democracy Now! on Friday, Yale historian Greg Grandin described her winning of the Nobel as a “really a shocking choice.” Grandin noted that Machado supported a coup against democratically elected President Hugo Chávez in 2002. Her hard-line position on economic matters has both hampered and divided the anti-Maduro coalition. And the fact that she’s praised both the bombing of Venezuelan boats and welcomed further American interventions into Venezuela is likely to strengthen Maduro’s hold on power, since it vindicates his claim that the opposition is filled with US puppets. Grandin also pointed out that if the Nobel committee had wanted to legitimize the anti-Maduro opposition, they could’ve given the award to feminist leaders who are both critics of the regime and oppose US intervention.
How dare they give the prize to a neoliberal counterrevolutionary Trump sympathizer when there are feminist yanqui haters available?
continued Europe’s MAGA groveling
The Nation has access to the best hallucinogens.
Interesting to watch the left convince themselves that everybody in the world has gone insane except for them.
It’s kinda predictable, sadly. It’s like everyone’s at the party doing drugs, so ya naturally keep doing more. And different types! And mixtures, how ya snort it and butt- and-vag -chug every source of dopamine ya can. Ya know. Like everyone does. (Whiff some poppers in your front-hole while gettin’ your fuck -spike sucked. Divine.)
But this one dude maybe goes a bit harder than the others and shit’s been going off the rails for quite a while now. Kinda semi unconsciously. And now they’re all givin’ him this weird look and vibe. Trouble is, they’re kinda trapped in *his* house and reality. Don’t wanna piss him off, either to end the drugs or good times, or to face whatever wrath he (may someone) have in mind. So they go along.
OTOH, the Left keeps takin’ the same amount as communal sacrament. All together. It literally, biologically ‘lights’ up the same parts of the brain as religion. Their “Pride” = Jesus. Their belief in the carbon footprint bullshit, while their clerics fly around in private jets, is another example. It’s the modern, consumer-society version of self-flagellation, performed by people *far* too pussified to show their devotion to the cause by suffering *physically.*
Folk w hard lives don’t have the fucking time for this nonsense. The Free Shit Brigade is easily controlled.
You know who else was democratically elected?
Me
Possible Nobel Peace Prize leak was “highly likely” espionage, committee secretary says
Someone on the committee tipped family and friends?
“….betting platform…” Someone made a fortune.
https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2025?tid=1760392275761
There wasn’t that much action on her.
Aside from currying the support of Trump, Machado has repeatedly sought out alliances with authoritarian leaders such as El Salvador’s El Nayib Bukele, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. In February, she was a virtual participant in a conference in Madrid called Patriots of Europe, a meeting of far-right groups steeped in racism.
Great googly moogly.
I didnt click the link until I read this. I had to see who wrote that lunacy. Whatdayaknow.
Currying support?
We’ve dropped tariffs on India ?
Where “far-right group steeped in racism” is anyone not 100% on board with the radical horseshit The Nation has been pushing for 100+ years.
The Cubs are out, but we played the best team in baseball hard. We didn’t get embarrassed. We got *outplayed.* But we shut ’em out once and kept Game 5 close. My desires now we’re eliminated. First off: Game 7s trump ‘the winners.’ Go Game 7s.
Toronto v Seattle? No hate for Toronto, but Seattle never been to the WS. Rooting for them, but wouldn’t be upset to see Toronto do well.
Fuck LA. I don’t wanna see their shit again, and I didn’t the first tiem.
Go Milwaukee, for two reasons: Go small market underdog. Damn, they were good for *cheap.* Obvious team to root for all the way.
Second reason that may baffle some, and make perfect sense to others: If ‘I’m’ gonna lose? I wanna lose to the best. And we played ’em hard. Good fight. Fuck LA. No problem with the other three winning. Fuck LA.
Go Brewers. Give me this. I’m 3-5 for series so far.
I am becoming a Mariners fan, seeing as I am already a Seachicken fan and live in the general area. So, yes, I want them to go.
Also, I want them to run around with the giant trident some more.
I do t care for sports but as long as the mariners are still playing their games step on the local talk radio.
Naturally I want them to lose.
I think we can all agree on that part, at least.
Fuck The Dodgers. Say it louder.
Young Washington trailer. Due out July 2026.
I’m amazed at the success and traction that Angel Studios has gotten. They really seem to be breaking the traditional movie studio model.
Well, the traditional model of the studios was broken in the late sixties, and, well, looks like it is time once again.
Opponents beware!
https://youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA
On the content front, I’ve gotten a handful of ‘What are we Reading” submissions, I’ll slam it together this weekend. Anyone that wants to contribute should send in their reviews , criticisms , and or synopsis to whatarewereading25@proton.me by Friday at 5:34 PM EST.
That’s a very specific time.
I’ll get you mine now.
Mr Swiss – I have random thoughts XI scheduled for tomorrow 11am slot – when I submitted it, I was actually thinking some items were a bit long, so feel free to manually break up – or I can do it as well if given a procedure – into two separate submissions if you want.
What exactly do you do here?
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA said Monday that it will lay off about 550 employees — 11% of JPL’s workforce — as part of a restructuring.
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JPL is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the California Institute of Technology.
“While not easy, I believe that taking these actions now will help the Lab transform at the scale and pace necessary to help achieve humanity’s boldest ambitions in space,” Gallagher wrote in a separate mekor to JPL employees and contractors.
It’s the end of space exploration.
Related to the story on Vodafone, Australia (and maybe Singapore) also devolving: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/optus-network-failure-three-people-dead-triple-zero/105796226
“The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you.” https://x.com/JDVance/status/1977851147877601593
🔥🔥🔥
It’d be nice if there were some gravitas to the people with their hands on the levers of power, but I’ll take what enjoyment I can get.
Being Marie’s to an Indian woman, JD can get away with that.
That and the power of the sham shield.
Who is going to tell her, that she is no where hot enough to pull this shit?
Wife material there.
Her upper arms have serious BINGO-wing potential now. She eats plenty Im sure.
If she were a plant she’d probably be allergic to the sun.
There is help for that but somehow I’m guessing she enjoys the attention.
I listen to a YouTube channel called Tale Foundry. It makes me think. It gives me new perspectives on things I don’t really know, like how to write magic and fantasy and paranormal because I don’t read all that, and I don’t know the genre conventions, but I’m really starting to dig my Cinderella story.
Sometimes I think, “I don’t want to look derivative in case I accidentally am, but didn’t mean to be.”
Sometimes I think, “I know somebody out there has done this, and probably better than I can do it.”
Sometimes I think, “Some of the best work people do is when they go in completely blind, without knowing The Rules, and tear shit up.”
Anyway, so I listened to this one last night and it rocked my world.
If you are good, going somewhere and tearing shit up, so to speak, is the best thing that can happen to any genre.
Do It!
I’m not a professional writer, I write for my own pleasure. That being said, when I find out that an idea that makes me tingly has already been done by a famous author, it’s rather deflating.
I think Stephen King has punctured my ego more than anyone else.
There are no original ideas. People will read an author for the first time if the story summary intrigues them. If they like the story, then go on to read that author, they’re reading for the author’s voice, not necessarily the story.
There are no original ideas.
SugarFree has a sad.
Sometimes I think, “I don’t want to look derivative in case I accidentally am, but didn’t mean to be.”
Do the opposite of what you think, and you’ll look integral to the genre.
I don’t get it. Girl (Pope’ link) goes to a restaurant(?) and records herself being a stupid insufferable cunt?
To what end?
My working theory is that someone is laying the groundwork for their divorce. Dude knows that this will sway any jury his way when the settlement is being made.
It could also be some undercover investigation for Waiter of the Year. Any waiter who makes it through that is in the top .001% of people.
Normal people would have told her to stuff it after she complains about not being able to handle breading on her fish.
She is advertising for a husband. Who can resist someone that makes everything about them all of the time. No matter what y our like or your plans are cancel them and indulge my every whim and things I can make you do just because I can. I mean really, who could resist that?
Jet Propulsion Laboratory has ~5000 people. How many are “rocket scientists” and how many are administrative paper shufflers?
you probably don’t really want to know.
11% is probably the DEI contingent.
I’m sure this is because of Trump
*cringe* but funny
Chef’s kiss.
My working theory is that someone is laying the groundwork for their divorce. Dude knows that this will sway any jury his way when the settlement is being made.
Not only is she unable to cook, she is incapable of ordering food in a restaurant.
Divorce? You mean his murder trial?
It was clearly a mercy killing — she had to be put down.
AI slop is big business
https://youtu.be/Zj7tjvTPwWI
Prepare to be surprised! There is big breaking news in the Mpls mayoral race. You will never believe it.
Ilhan Omar has endorsed Omar Fateh for mayor!!!!
Can you even imagine that Ilhan would decide to endorse the Somali guy? Especially since he is also a rat fuck commie. Especially since Omar Fateh has a string of questionable lapses in his ethics while in office.
Well, I’m sold. Who doesn’t like a city that is more equal?? I mean socialism is cool and stuff.
They know that they don’t dare let in any tradesmen into the bunker because they will quickly take over and create harems from their wives and daughters.
And I immediately think of this excellent movie.
SpaceX Starship Flight 11 scheduled for liftoff ~7:23 EDT
Nailed the booster landing.
Speaking of the pussification of football …
dafuq
Drama queens.
Yep, the Lions’ LB got cheap-shotted on the play, but you can’t wait until after the game to retaliate.
And now he’s paying the price.
It was the “I was being bullied” part that got to me.
If he just hadn’t said that, I’d be, “whatever.” But he had to play the “I was bullied” card.
Dude. Just … dude.