“You are a deserter….but from which side, I wonder.”
Work is reaching a crescendo of wildly busy and astonishing idiocy, all at once. So, of course, I am about to go on a week’s vacation (I scheduled this back in March). Part of me feels like a deserter. A slightly larger part of me is flipping both middle fingers up and walking off laughing maniacally.
But that won’t stop the links. The links never desert you.
- It is a SugarFree world out there.
- Might be a good deal…but as I have often observed with other militaries…the parts, maintenance and such are eroded quite easily by corruption.
- Again, I didn’t realize SugarFree’s work was so wide ranging.
- Time to buy!
Comments are open and all yours.
They just have to account for the side effects… namely, a reptile dysfunction.
Nobody wants a soft snake.
Iguana let that one slide.
Even worse is the new skinks that people will be into.
Until OMB changes his mind again. Then it’s “TAG… Heuer it!”
The worst part is getting the snake to pee on your kidney stones…
You have to bait him with a candiru.
I believe you mean the DREADED candiru!
Monday Afternoon Deserter Links…Lawrence of Arabia movie still. Swiss made a pun.
You have to squint a little to see it, though.
Not if you beat up a protester and take their keffiyeh. That will keep the sun out of your eyes and give at least one idiot their just deserts.
(-.-)
Wait the joke wasn’t about chocolate?
He wanted to see who was offendi?
flipping both middle fingers up and walking off laughing maniacally
Obscene
Apart from getting massages and PC gaming sessions in the middle of the ocean, Newell also owns a marine research organization, called Inkfish, and cofounded a brain-computer interface and neural chip company, Stafish Neuroscience, both of which will have a presence on board the Leviathan.
“Yachts have great potential to serve as platforms for scientific research,” Newell said in a statement. “It’s about recognizing that you’re part of a broader community and ensuring the yacht’s presence adds value to the communities around it.”
In short, Newell is the prototypical billionaire that the 21st century is minting at a record rate.
It’s a write-off.
Don’t talk shit about Gabe!
I made it halfway through the second paragraph before I got an overwhelming urge to punch the author in the face.
Stop deciding how Gabe’s money should be spent, fuckface.
Jealous bitchiness doesn’t make puff-piece articles any easier to read.
If you can’t create a world-dominating gaming portal and platform for minimum wage, it does not deserve to be created.
Macron and Zelensky sign letter of intent for Ukraine to buy up to 100 Rafale fighter jets
I wonder whose dollars they plan on using?
Yours, but just try asking them for a ride in the jet you bought.
Time to buy!
I’m one-and-done with Breitling – I’m less than impressed with the quality of my old Superocean.
I still love my solar Jack Mason. Outperforms its price.
I want another Laco.
Having a DIN standard for pilot’s watches is just very, very German.
I’ve always like the looks of them, but they have a reputation as pilot’s watches, and I’m not one.
I think my next piece will either be IWC or Carl F. Bucherer.
My aging eyes appreciate the readability of pilot’s watches.
Daily wearer
Mine, only the band is a Leatherman Tread:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185605642362
I am very happy with my Hamilton
https://www.ebay.com/itm/277487728773?_skw=hamilton+h3+military+watch&itmmeta=01KA9YXW2SYG56N0DT5BH84MB3&hash=item409b8eb885:g:f2MAAeSwUABpC5qZ&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAABAFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eISshuoEZLssucEZjR%2F6YSoc88POLBKbBidjbghlaf3NSP9eG8paZEQc2SRX9YMH1GW1UAheuO1nfMNbvMDwm4DpLHBNbdaN8bOh%2BgSj40wiQgrcWArqbwuCD6f4j%2FeTd2%2FxBHdZ8K2gBRiTrBo84LcVKOs64SwPY%2Fza2yohxHn75mrtO%2Bpn5mdpK6TMIofdkSPBkDW2cQGOUv0BYHgEm6G7ZcHnReo15cIpDNdP9SUmgXQiEQXaALF6KWEipO3pntjwrKmdd2kpG0mI%2BsVv5ONW8czSWPHwoNvYEJDHYWA%2F91xGQ2XSY0l3PbI7cGeDY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9LB977SZg
I’m looking at a Tissot PRX Carbon or stepping up to an Omega Moon Watch.
I’m very happy with my Hamilton Venture and Field khaki.
My iPhone keeps pretty good time.
I think I last wore a watch in 07 or 08.
The trusty ol seiko.
….yikes. Watches are stupid. I can’t imagine dropping $30k-50k on something so… huh. [REDACTED]
Legit gripe: Watches are *all for righties. So find/pay extra for one with the dial on the LEFT so that hand can be used to tinker with it wrapped on your *right* wrist. Otherwise ya just scrape/rub the band on the desk every time you’re writing.
First thing a woman looks at? Shoes? I’ve heard that one. I also ‘get’ watches as a status symbol/ display. Can’t have your Wall Street chum roll up in an AMC Pacer, I s’pose. Such curious creatures, are well;. Social primates gonna social.
To be fair, can you imagine dropping $30-50k on… anything?
Disagree. Watches are functional and, I dunno, expressive. And there’s no reason to spend 4, never mind 5, figures on a good watch. I think the most I’ve spent is $600, and I have some nice watches. Currently wearing a Luminox. I’m almost never without one.
Beats, IMO, sticking your face in your phone to find out what time it is.
Best watch I ever had was a $200 dive watch in the late 90s.
The most expensive watch I ever bought was in HS because older bro told me it was impressive to have a cool watch.
Like 70 or so eighties-bucks on a Seiko. Nice watch. But I haven’t owned any watch in a few decades.
I filed and sanded down the knob/adjustement thing on my seiko so it wouldn’t catch on and ruin the cuff of my flannels and jackets and it would still wear them. Twice it caught hard enough to pull the entire cam that the cam is out of the watch.
Watches are not for us, the few, the proud, the 13%.
I am weirdlydextrous and was so hung up on it I taught myself to write right-handed. I very rarely wore a watch as a left-hander.
Also, I do most things better right-handed anyway. Except I cannot draw with my right hand to save my life.
I wear an Armida A2 milsub – a dive watch. It’s a nice watch, ETA 2824 movement and I was able to order it with a domed crystal. Armida is an online boutique watch dealer based in Hong Kong. Good bang for the buck watch, bought it in 2012 and I still wear it daily. I’ve always worn a watch, no plans to stop or switch to smart watch. I’d love to splurge on a nicer watch some day.
A review of the A2 if anyone is interested: https://www.ablogtowatch.com/armida-a2-watch-review/
I can’t swing a stick left handed (baseball, golf) or shoot left handed and I’m right eyed, I can sorta shoot pistol left.
I can’t use a fork with my right hand or produce legible letters right handed. Can’t pick my nose right handed either.
“To be fair, can you imagine dropping $30-50k on… anything?”
Remarkably fair, and nope. Can’t. But on a (frequently) mechanical device whose function is already served in my everyday pockets? Uh. Huh. I at least get it with a car.
50,000. That’s 2500 times downtown and an astonishing(!) 3.1 MILES of Twinkies long!
Unperson him
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Harvard University to cut ties with Larry Summers, a faculty member and former president of the school, over ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment,” Warren told CNN.
“If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein’s sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else,” she added.
Okay, you sanctimonious old biddy.
Watch out, she’s on the warpath.
Someone is gonna get the chop!
She said the same about the committee member texting him in 2019 right? RIGHT?
lol But she was A-OK with him displaying less than sufficient gender purity so long as he continued to put out lefty talking points for the right team.
Okay.
Now do plagiarism….
The most surprising news of the day to me is that Patton Oswalt has a wife.
Didn’t his wife pass several years ago?
First wife died 2016; remarried 2017
Now I feel bad.
…
OK, better now.
Married this lass:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385
First wife died 2016; remarried 2017
Worse than Thomas Massie.
Right?!
Not that I thought he was gay or anything, I just always found him rather annoying.
My gaydar is not functional.
Ask the women I dated.
So is mine. Not helpful, believe me.
My buddy Phil got hit on by all the gay guys.
He dressed like a dandy while the rest of us either dressed like we ran a shovel for work or grabbed whatever was on top of the laundry hamper.
The guy that wrote Task Manager for Windows put together a short video on how it works.
The comments came after a CNN inquiry following new details revealed about Summers and Epstein’s friendship showed Summers making sexist comments. The two also frequently discussed political events.
Summers has previously said he regrets his association with Epstein.
Some sins rub off on you if you get too close.
I thought that was Monkey Pox
Nuance
The Supreme Court made a horrible mistake when it gave Trump absolute power
By now, the U.S. Supreme Court surely must see that it made a horrendous mistake last year when it ruled that presidents are above the law. The court’s conservative majority should admit its error and fix it.
Their decision in Trump v. United States was naïve at best. More likely, the court bought into the right wing’s confusion about the difference between a unitary president and a dictator. Either way, the ruling put the Constitution and the rule of law into the hands of a president who willfully abuses both.
I didn’t read the opinion either, but I don’t think that’s exactly what it said.
Dictator! Fascism!
NO KINGS!
It started out with a retarded headline and it just got more retarded from there.
Shit rolls down from The Hill.
William S. Becker is…executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, a nonpartisan climate policy think tank unaffiliated with the White House.”
Fuck him and anything that comes out of his cakehole.
a nonpartisan climate policy think tank
From their website:
Fossil fuels are the principal cause of global warming.
The fossil energy industry uses its money and influence to keep governments from addressing climate change.
Only the power of the people can break its grip.
Yep, checks out, completely non-partisan. Fully communist.
@Bobarian – Nah, ya see, none of those is *partisan.* They’re ‘factual.’ So ya see? Duh.
“Presidential Climate Action Project” – HA! No shit, I thought their bullshit would be a ‘project’ that determined the political climate. Funnily enough, as above, there really isn’t a difference.
Growing up, my legit fantastic 5th grade teacher had us watch an Captain America ep on Earth Day. Not that anyone paid any attention. Just an easy teacher day in April, with pizza, IIRC. Woulda been 1998. It’s funny, looking back, at how hilariously bullshit each episode was. Just anti-people. Well, anti-Those Other People.
*kicks pebble* People will be people. Seems to be a consistent theme. Huh. Wonder why.
You sure you don’t mean Captain Planet?
The Marxists are really making their moves to get elected. LA mayor now is being challenged and Temu Obama now has one challenging.
I’m loving it. Let’s get this shit over with. See all y’all on the other side, maybe.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-detains-21-year-old-who-has-lived-in-us-since-he-was-a-baby/ar-AA1QBC8h
Don’t care. GTFO.
Deport his parents too.
While I think DACA is illegal, it’s apparently been accepted as law since it was done by King Obama. Wouldn’t this kid have been eligible?
I don’t know about this case, but I have seen cases where the person didn’t bother to file paperwork and it was so terrible that they were deported.
I suspect that’s the case here too.
No paperwork? +1 Babu
I have a former co-worker who went into practice in immigration law just because of cases like this. Of course, this was all the way back when Clinton was president, so tough shit, it isn’t new and has always been a possibility.
Once in office, he wasted no time proving how ill-advised the court’s decision was. Under the cloak of presumptive immunity, Trump has become the most thoroughly corrupt president and imminent threat to democracy in American history.
President Cartoon Villain, at your service.
Cite some examples and we can talk…
All kinds of corruption are illegal, but the best example they have is he overestimated a value for a loan from a bank, and the bank agreed on that value.
If Back To School taught me anything, there’s probably a ton of corruption in the past of a guy building things in New York. He’s had to pay off unions, mobs, regulators, city councils, inspectors, etc. etc. Did he do some bad things himself? Probably. And those things are…
Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
So shut up.
-MSM
Destroyed an historic facade? (Bonwit Teller, IIRC.)
To be fair, that is the one thing they successfully lawfared him on.
He’s probably done much worse.
OTOH, had the Central Park ice rink repaired early. That must have been frustrating to observe from his window before taking it over.
If this was applied always I would have hope, but I am sure this judge is not going to give the wrong team the same benefit in the future…
https://thehill.com/homenews/5609014-comey-wins-grand-jury-materials/
King’s men have more protections than ordinary citizens!
The problem isn’t that the left violently tries to shut down speech it dislikes. The problem is the pouncing righties. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/14/taves-turning-point-set-a-trap-berkeley-fell-in-deep/
Taps out before the first sentence.
Bizarro World.
You can trust the author. He went to the Columbia School of Journalism.
right-wing echo chamber that feeds on images of universities in chaos and out of control
Right-wing is anything to the right of Trotsky, da comrade?
Now I too, want a fez.
I think I would look very swahvay and deboner.
I have spares should you visit.
So I go work for a few hours, all the commentary stops. Tulpas!
It’s when we check in with our handlers.
Whoops. Was in another tab: That printers still can’t easily, routinely, connect w other devices to simply *print* is a deep sign that inability is either coordinated or forced. (Both.)
A plug-in, connect, and *print* printer, with little fuss, is highly sought and would sell. Seems like simple cars – every one wants one but one way or another, seemingly it’s semi-impossible to produce one.
See also, the ’90s Saturns. Just functional cars. See an Additional Also: C̵a̵s̵h̵ ̵f̵o̵r̵ ̵C̵l̵u̵n̵k̵e̵r̵s̵ previously named the I Hate Poor People Act.
1D, 2D, or 3D printers?
The I hate poor (fiscally responsible) people act screwed us as we were in the market for a used 4×4 for my wife.
It drove up the prices of used Subarus to more than the price of new ones.
Used Tahoe?
Not for you.
Used Suzuki Vitara?
Fuck you NO.
Jeep XJ, ZJ?
Crushed.