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Swiss Servator
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Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!
My name is not Eve!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHJ0_ci8xbk
All of the Christmas kids I knew were Carols, Hollys, or Nicks.
No Chrises?
Never let a Chrises go to waste!
Dammit Neph, I have a Christmas SIL and her name is Holly and I never put that together.
No Chrises?
Their GPU couldn’t run it.
(((Jarflax going decidedly old school. Nice — though next STEVE SMITH will tell us what he did to his Beowulf cluster and Grendel’s mom.
Merry Christmas all.
STEVE SMITH MAKE ACQUANTANCE OF GRENDEL MOM. WHERE THINK GRENDEL COME FROM?
…and to all the Glibs!…
Enjoy the day(s)
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!
“The State Department is barring five “egregious” European figures in the “global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the US, it revealed Tuesday.
State Department officials contended that those five Europeans flouted a visa policy rolled out in May restricting those who work to censor protected speech in the US from entering the country….
The five Europeans blocked from entering the US are: former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton; Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Clare Melford, who is in charge of the Global Disinformation Index; and Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders at the Germany-based HateAid.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/trump-admin-bars-five-european-officials-from-entering-us-due-to-extraterritorial-censorship-campaign/
They sound like a bunch of commies.
Good. And then we should sanction countries who try to fine American companies for refusing to engage in their desired censorship.
I’d settle for recognizing that they are no longer our allies (and implicitly that they have no legal options to enforce their inanity). Two birds with one stone that way.
Not implicitly. Overtly tell them “Fuck off with that shit.”
“HateAid” LOLOL
Yeah, kinda apropos, isn’t it.
Has it got electrolytes?
It definitely has what plants crave.
Paging SugarFree: “Bukele challenges Hillary Clinton to take El Salvador’s entire prison population.” Eeeeeeewwwww. I’m sorry, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Not even Tren de Aragua gang members deserve a fate that terrible.
At least his name isn’t Bukkake.
Bukakkele?
Damn you Zwak! Now that’s how I’m going to read his name going forward!
That’s how I read it the first time.
Get out of the gutter and let me float on by.
Buckle or Buccal.
SUPERTRAIN! (Believe it or not, SFW).
That better be the disaster of a circa-1980 TV show!
[ clicks link ]
Season 1 episode 8 stars not only Penis von Lesbian but Frank Burns!
Hillary may be a soul-sucking demon, but she is no succubus.
She’s the succubus for the asexual community. She inflames their lack of arousal and feeds off disgust.
“All the death row inmates have information that could lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton”. Save the taxpayers money.
Merry Christmas everyone and good morning!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone.
And most of all to OMWC!
And most of all to OMWC!
Ah, I finally understand where the phrase “He’d like a kid on Christmas” comes from.
Merry Christmas all you miscreants and misanthropes!
M&Ms – look different on the outside, all taste the same! Diversity for the win.
JI- Consider that taxed.
I can taste a slight variation due to the different artificial colors.
Happy birthday, dear Jesus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqw7LxicgPM
Merry Christmas to all!
The Big Guy told me on my special Pope Phone that he is happy with all the Glibs this year.
We need more newbies and the oldbies to return!
All are welcome, especially at this time of year.
ZARDOZ bless us, everyone.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. MAY THE VORTEX BLESS YOU.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I don’t think I’m getting the gift of the gun this year.
But my sister in law did give me a box of LE 45acp two days ago so that was cool.
I am!
Shame! You’re not supposed to know ahead of time!
“Tech-savvy sleuths have discovered a way to uncensor the heavily redacted files on notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the Department of Justice continues to release the documents.
Some portions of the documents, initially blacked out in Adobe Acrobat by the federal agency, pop up when copied and pasted into Google Docs or Microsoft programs like Word, The Post confirmed during a test run….
Anyone can read redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc,” social media influencer Jake Broe wrote on X Tuesday, along with a video demonstrating the federal agency’s major document faux pas.
“The people at Trump’s Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.””
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/tech-savvy-users-discover-a-way-around-redacted-parts-of-jeffrey-epstein-files/
LOL
“The people at Trump’s Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.”
Are we sure it wasn’t on purpose?
This is far from the first time government agencies didn’t understand that adding layers doesn’t redact the underlying text.
I don’t know. I took FBI training during the O years. The tests at the end had the answers embedded in the page if you knew how to find them.
You’ve got to use those detective skills to find the info!
Adobe Acrobat will permanently redact if you use the functionality correctly. Who screwed up?
The end user.
“I can’t see it, it must be gone.”
Yes, I question whether it was incompetence or malice. But having also been involved (after the fact) with one of these incidents I’m certainly willing to believe incompetence. Would be interesting to learn whether the actual work was done by appointees or careerists, and who supervised that.
Passing a resolution to force the DOJ to release this had consequences.
Huh, who would have thought that could happen?
Stupidity? The redact tool is right there, easy to use. This is beyond incompetence.
RJ – Have you ever worked with End Users?
There’s a reason you can never make anything idiot-proof.
They keep making better idiots.
Oh great another techy mock the end user thread. Maybe if developer types didn’t get orgasmic about redesigning interfaces, renaming functions, and moving them to different menus, when they don’t simply replace them with something less suitable every new release there would be a chance for End Users to learn how things work!
Jar – there is ample blame to go around.
This is one of the reasons I’m by preference (if not always by work assignment) a kernel engineer. I know damned well you don’t want me anywhere near a customer facing UI. A well documented, contractual API is the most I ever want to interact with users through (and “users” would be “non-kernel libc clients” here).
So consider this techy agreeing with you, (((Jarflax.
(((Jarflax:
I blame the UI devs the most.
“Oh, you have a perfectly functioning interface? Let’s change it to make it more intuitive!”
Spoiler: It’s never made better.
Neph that’s not even bothering to mention Alan Kay’s point on technical people being utterly unqualified to design UIs.
End user has to Get Gud with every redesign. It’s not on the software designer to keep functionality and the process streamlined. His job is job security and constant change. If a product is functional he’s out of a job.
” If a product is functional he’s out of a job.”
So, same as a teacher
This is not the first time the US FedGov has been burned by low-level employees not understanding the Acrobat redact feature, nor will it be the last.
“The people at Trump’s Justice Department” doing the actual document work are almost certainly staffers who were there long before January 20 of this year. But it would be a waste to have a perfectly good use of “stupid” without including a “Trump”.
Never let a smear opportunity go to waste.
Merry Christmas to all.
Swiss, thanks for sharing the clip of Linus.
No broadcast for the Peanuts Christmas special anymore, it’s on Apple and physical media.
Drives me crazy. I have a digital copy from the time before Apple bought the rights, thankfully. And you can get a DVD.
After 60 years it should be in the public domain.
I’ve protected myself from losing access to my favorite Christmas TV special by having the One True Grinch* (the ’66 animated adaptation) on Blu-Ray. I may see about adding ACBC to my collection.
*Other than the original book, of course.
Here it is, about $12.50 for Blu Bray, about $9.50 for the DVD. If you bundle the Halloween special and Thanksgiving special you can get the whole set for around $19.
https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Blu-Ray/dp/B002HQZX9I/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0
“Blu Bray”
Et tu, keyboard?
Thanks, R.J.! 😃👍📺💿
R.J.:
Now, I wouldn’t want to tell anyone how to violate the law, but you can do some very good searches by appending site:archive.org to the search bar for some items.
Blu Bray was Eeyore’s call sign. Hell of an Operator!
Might as well get Valentine’s and Easter Beagle too.
Blu Bray, smooth is slow.
“A prominent Rhode Island Democrat was caught on camera belligerently chiding a cop and calling him a “d–k” during a wild DUI traffic stop where she ranted, “God forbid I was a black person, I’d be arrested.”
Cranston Democratic Committee chair Maria Bucci — who is connected to the state gubernatorial candidate — berated police with a series of insults while asking them “You know who I am, right?” when she was pulled over shortly after midnight last Thursday on an East Greenwich road, the bodycam footage shows….
“I honestly feel bad, if I was a black human, I think you guys,” she said as a cop objected. “No, honestly, I feel bad for the people, I feel bad for the people that are not in my position.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/prominent-ri-dem-caught-on-cam-calling-cop-d-k-during-wild-dui-stop-god-forbid-i-was-a-black-person/
CWAC
I’ve watched some bodycam footage where I’ve gone “those cops are dicks”. I’ve watched some where I’ve gone “This calls for excessive force”. I haven’t watched this incident, but I’m thinking it might be the latter.
Actually looking at real individual situations as distinct events is forbidden! You must pick your narrative from the offered choices and stick to it no matter what. The choices are Thin Blue Line and ACAB, there is no room for nuance or combining the two!
As if anyone outside a pretty small circle of party insiders would know who the Cranston Democratic Committee chair is.
At least the cops provided their anti-racist bona fides by arresting the white woman.
I suspect her bubble consists of that circle of party insiders.
If there’s any justice, she will shortly find out what things are like for people who aren’t in her soon to be former position.
Does anybody know this woman? She doesn’t seem to know who she is.
She appears well-known in Democratic circles in the Ocean State after unsuccessfully running for Cranston mayor in 2020 and state representative in 2024, according to reports.
A towering presence in both party and community!
Spoiler: There is no justice.
That was meant to respond to Slumbrew. I plead lack of sleep.
It never ceases to amaze me how people won’t just shut up during these things. Also, Ray Romano is a cop now?
Are all residents of that county with senators assholes?
Morning coffee and work here. Christmas Eve later!
I am working at home at least, so I shall take my meetings in pajamas like a true slacker.
Tonight I will have a charcuterie plate and some port for dinner with the family. No travel this year. So glad.
Tonight: “BBQ”* meatballs (and cole slaw if we feel like something green.) Tomorrow: tortellini soup! 😋👍🍲
*Spoiler: actually made with chili sauce and grape jelly
actually made with chili sauce and grape jelly
That ain’t got nuthin’ to do with BBQ. You Ohio folks are… odd.
😶
That… does not sound appetizing on first read.
JI, it might not be a good day to have a new true BBQ review.
There’s probably a more proper term for this carry-in favorite other than “those little meatballs Aunt Mabel makes.” I just don’t know what it is. 🤷♀️
Real chili or Skyline?
“actually made with chili sauce and grape jelly”
I need to see that recipe.
Minced Carolina Reaper.
I’ve heard these called cocktail meatballs.
juris imprudent:
I hate to say it, but that’s a widespread midwestern thing. Right up there with Ro-Tel and Velveeta as nearly mandatory at any company pot luck.
Roughly equal parts Heinz Chili Sauce and grape jelly (one 12-oz. bottle of sauce per 12-ish-oz. jar of jelly) mixed thoroughly in a Crock Pot. Dump in a bunch of frozen meatballs, stir to coat with sauce mix, and slow cook ’em until heated through.
Ro-Tel and Velveeta is widespread. My wife loves it. And we live where you can get actual Asadero or Queso cheese just as easily.
That’s probably more accurate, as long as one does not erroneously use Heinz Cocktail Sauce instead of the chili sauce. (Beware! They’re usually right next to each other on the shelf at the grocery!)
@GT – 😱
I remember K-Tel, but have never heard of Ro-Tel.
those little meatballs Aunt Mabel makes
That makes more sense to me, even without an Aunt Mabel!
🙁
The butcher is open today but closes when I get out of work. So I can’t buy anything.
Disclaimer: I did NOT have an Aunt Mabel. I DID, however, have an Aunt Theora on my father’s side and an Aunt Zerna (ackshually my great aunt) on my mother’s side.
U – was that scream for using cocktail sauce for the meatballs or for the actual recipe?
Also, can you sneak out for an “early lunch” and get to the butcher, if your purchase would be safe in the break room fridge until you leave work? Maybe label it “sample for doctor”?
The drive alone is a half hour each way from the office, plus however long it takes to wait out the crowd.
Oh, the scream was a joke at the recipe.
We brought Ro-tel/Velveeta/can of Hormel w/o beans to a friends house who was making barbacoa on Halloween. They were Hispanic as were many of the guests and had never had the combination before. We didn’t have any leftovers to bring home.
I want to stop by the butcher’s, but I don’t know their holiday hours, so they’ll either be packed (refrigerated perishables do work best fresh), or closed.
Tonight, the wife makes seafood soup, and tomorrow it is leg o’ lamb.
This is our Xmas tradition.
We will celebrate the birth of a Jew with ham, of course.
“Russell Brand has been charged with two new counts of rape and sexual assault, police confirmed tonight.
The actor and comedian, 50, is already facing one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape, as well as two counts of sexual assault, relating to four separate women….
He is due to appear before magistrates next month over the two new charges, which relate to incidents alleged to have happened in 2009.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15409819/Comedian-actor-Russell-Brand-charged-two-new-counts-rape-sexual-assault-police-confirm.html
Will he have a court appointed archeologist?
British judges can now sentence him to up to three years without a jury trial.
He’d probably serve more time for mean tweets.
Baldrick?
No, he’s mostly retired, except for the occassional special.
Odd how these unprovable and evidence-free accusations from well over a decade ago, starting coming out of the woodwork only when he started exhibiting Wrongthink.
Coincidence, I’m sure.
Oral rape.
Yeah teeth say that’s not a thing.
“Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in alleged wasteful spending in the U.S. government throughout 2025.
The newly released report found an estimated $1,639,135,969,608 total in government waste over the past year. Paul, a prominent fiscal hawk who serves as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that “no matter how much taxpayer money Washington burns through, politicians can’t help but demand more.””
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/23/rand-paul-festivus-report-2025-government-waste/
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent more than $1,079,360 teaching teenage ferrets to binge drink alcohol this year, according to Paul’s report.”
That sounds challenging. Ferrets seldom live more than 10 years
clearly the money went to something else even more corrupt and probably evil.
Stout for the stoat.
That was a typo, should have said “teenage furries”
“alleged” lol
The success of doge.
The failure of DOGE really tells us everything we need to know about who really holds the levers of power.
Eight hours to get through, and no real work to do today. oh well.
I’m sure you can figure something out. Just don’t get caught.
My work usually lets everyone go about lunchtime. However, I’m in eastern time and my work is in Alaska, So lunchtime is at the end of my day.
As long as you’re getting paid for it.
When we had our startup going, the schedule for the day had me wake up early to prep for the big Xmas dinner at our house. Then I’d swear to my wife that I was needed at work and I’d go into the office.
No work really got done at the office. It was just an excuse to get away from the Altar Kids who were wound up so tight by the prospect of opening presents that evening that it was impossible to be around them.
The office was a sanctuary for guys like me. We had all sorts of drinks available on our conference room table. Throughout the day our clients would drop in for some small talk and a libation or two. (They usually brought some booze of their own and we’d end up with more than we started with. A real Xmas miracle).
Finally after about the fourth call from Mrs. Holiness asking when I was coming home, I’d return. Then a big dinner with the family and present opening.
Am I the only one who works on these holiday adjacent workdays?
Spent my morning fixing stuff so far.
UCS:
For the most part, I loved working over the holidays. Everyone else is gone and you can focus on things that are important to you. Clean up the Out Tray.
No meetings, no time wasters dropping in on you. Great times.
I managed to connect two airlines to a valve on my work truck project. One line done off of my list which grew by two lines today.
Pictured: a Glib celebrating Christmas.
https://d6qri28i0zv2wi.archive.is/3h6c6/b12303447c9ee1ee6ad0ae83c77360ec27a24547.webp
Pulchritudinous posteriors on a festive Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.is/qxnwI
webp is an abomination of a file format and needs to be shamed out of the public arena.
Why? (That’s a serious question.)
It’s google proprietary claptrap which managed to introduce new security vulnerabilities to software which supported it. A lot of software doesn’t because of pointless complexity and the google proprietary claptrap. It tries to fil a role that was already filled and does it in a bloated, insecure manner – change for the sake of change and making it worse.
Shorter Answer: It’s a PITA to deal with and when I gank a .webp image for a website illo it’s easier to screenshot the image than try to deal with .webp bullshit.
“Owens, a former TPUSA staffer, has recently pushed a conspiracy theory that Erika Kirk, TPUSA security chief Brian Harpole and Nevada GOP Rep. Mark Amodei met at a military intelligence base the day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, implying his slaying was an inside job. At AmericaFest, Kelly defended Owens from the stage, saying she welcomed questions about whether Israel was involved in Kirk’s murder and declaring she had no obligation to stop Owens from asking them. For that, Kelly was skewered on stage by Ben Shapiro, who incidentally was responsible for giving Owens her first podcast at the Daily Wire. ”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/24/megyn-kelly-vs-everybody-maga-media-is-mad-at-the-podcast-queen/
OFFS!!
Leave it to the “Right” to go full Spider-Man meme armed with shotguns when having even the slightest chance of getting anything done.
Yep, never let an opportunity go unsquandered. The year started with DOGE promising to finally turn off the spigot, control of all branches of the Federal Government, and every appearance of a chance to create long term momentum back away from the precipice. Then we got the Big Beautiful Bouncing Baby Budget Busting Bill. Charlie Kirk’s assassination briefly mobilized and united the right. Then we got the conspiracy grifters doing their damnedest to actualize the left’s Nazi scares. We can’t have nice things because we break them. We always break them.
If you want to know why I don’t consider myself part of the ‘right’, all you have to do is look at them…
Agree with Sheldon. Also a pox on both sides.
When Alex Jones is the voice of reason, you might want to rethink your life’s decisions.
“Federal judge rules against Trump admin over New York law that allows illegal immigrants to drive
The law also prevents federal immigration agents from seeing the driving records of illegal immigrants during traffic stops. In February, the Justice Department, Fox News reported, sued New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Attorney Letitia James, arguing that the law violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which states that federal laws supersede state laws….
“As I said from the start, our laws protect the rights of all New Yorkers and keep our communities safe. I will always stand up for New Yorkers and the rule of law,” the attorney general said in her statement.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-rules-against-trump-admin-over-new-york-law-allows-illegal
Deport her to Uganda.
Insane. As soon as it’s overturned, the DOJ needs to conduct a predawn raid on the data center, remove all the data and servers, and arrest all involved as accomplices to illegal entry under federal law.
Someone needs a Conspiracy After the Fact charge, methinks.
Does “all New Yorkers” include gun owners?
So the Feds only have supremacy when they choose not to enforce federal immigration law (because Pepperidge Farm still remembers the Arizona ruling from years back, after all…)? That’s the supposed legal reasoning?
Obligatory reaction to all the birds flipped towards the rest of the country from these assholes these days.
Merry Christmas all. Thank you for being a parasocial family.
No christmas tree at the hotel this morning. Favorite time of the year for travel because I don’t have to do the decorations.
You holding up OK?
If he is, I’m sure he can hustle along I-40 to TX or AR.
Wocka wocka! 😄
Now I’m hearing Statler and Waldorf (playing the Marley Brothers) from Muppet Christmas Carol….
“More of gravy than of grave?! What a terrible pun!”
“Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer!”
Might have to go rewatch that for the umpteenth time…
The family that smut-peddles together, stays together.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/adult-content-creator-films-son-36439559
“VENTI-FADA: Striking Starbucks workers set up protest camp at coffee giant’s Seattle headquarters”
https://thepostmillennial.com/venti-fada-striking-starbucks-workers-set-up-protest-camp-at-coffee-giants-seattle-headquarters
They look like assholes.
Narrator: They are.
One of the beardos has been in every photo of a protest against Starbucks across the country. Just throw him out of a helicopter.
Modern problems require primitive solutions:
https://www.mrsdoepee.com/product-page/doe-in-estrus-spray
Not sure how that would work?
It will attract bucks who will be riled up looking for the Does and get violent with the people sprayed.
It is like a very short skirt. Bucks will be so focused on trying to look up it, they don’t notice the hunter up in his stand.
Deer are just another species where the males’ dicks lead them into all sorts of trouble.
CT, have you ever smelled that stuff? It resembles a hobo who pissed himself in a public restroom on a hot day.
ES wouldn’t that just attract more leftists?
Crowds of leftists being chased by stags in rut sounds like something I’d watch. I’ll make popcorn.
(((Jarflax:
The final scene would be some blue haired proggie with a nose ring staggering out of an alley. They’d look at the camera and say “Last time I do that for twenty bucks”
Doing twenty bucks in an alley sounds like quite a stag party.
Hard working girl does what she has to.
Fire them.
The end.
“In a recent press conference, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accused Vice President JD Vance of being a white supremacist over remarks he gave at the final day of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, in which he said “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/tim-walz-claims-jd-vance-is-a-white-supremacist-after-vp-says-white-people-dont-have-to-apologize-for-their-race
So tiring.
I never had to apologize. I am green, after all.
“Authorities arrested Thunberg under the UK Terrorism Act for displaying a sign in support of Palestine Action, a group the British government has classified as a terrorist organization.
The arrest marks the latest chapter in Thunberg’s evolution from teenage climate crusader to an adult pro-Palestinian advocate.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/greta-thunberg-arrested-under-uks-terrorism-act
Deport her to Uganda.
“the pent-up energy, she releases with her ‘very extra lovers’ makes her a better and more experienced lover with me… Apparently I should be thankful”
Creative excuse for cheating.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/edgy-girl-pays-hot-men-36330013
Can we bring back at least enough shame that the rest of us don’t have to hear about whatever kinky crap people get up to already?
Why do you hate capitalism? You think Daily Star would profit on less prurient content?
I’m seeing definite signs of untreated bipolar disorder here.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
As the Illuminati have become increasingly obsessed with the fact that Westerners are not producing enough future tax cattle, stories like these are getting more and more prevalent.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-needs-more-husband-material-11ae071a?st=SBquxH
TL:DR – Men are failing and not getting married, women hardest hit.
Then again, perhaps men have decided that “higher ed” is a feminized commie scam and aren’t participating because it doesn’t offer them anything of value?
So, they want to implement the handmaid’s tale?
Yeah. If I were a young man right now, I’d be hard pressed to find a woman I’d want to marry. Every young woman I know is a commie. I don’t know any young conservative women. To Hell with marrying that. I’d go work a blue collar job and enjoy what time I had on the earth without a mate rather than marry somebody with communist leanings. Church is full of them too, no breaks there.
There’s a part of me that’s expecting something akin to the role of the concubine to make a resurgence.
The fundamentalist churches have young conservative women, but they want fundamentalist young conservative men
The problem isn’t with the men. The problem is that women won’t settle for anything less than what they think they are worth (which is definitely inflated).
Most women with a college degree won’t consider marrying any man with no degree. Even if their degree is in something silly like Gender Studies.
Most men are willing to compromise on a lot of things as long as they are getting some nookie.
Don’t those women know that 6-6-6 is the mark of the beast?
JI – Some of them demand four sixes.
Wasn’t the mantra of women’s lib that women don’t need a man? So why is this a problem? I mean, shouldn’t the fish be happy that there are no more bicycles available?
Yes, the current situation is entirely by design.
If my wife dies on me I’m going after the denim skirt wearing girls.
How does a skirt wear a girl?
Male incels are evil and need to be ostracized harder. Female incels are victims of the patriarchy.
Likewise, “men going their own way” was evil, but the four-by movement is stunning and brave.
And the powers that be wonder why men are tuning out and suggest the solution is even more demonization of traditional men.
The powers that be hold on to their theories no matter the results they yield. Obviously the theory is sound, it is reality that is wrong.
These are also the people like the Hate Aid person above who insist that fake news/misinformation/threats to democracy means simply speech that they disagree with, and are more than willing to use the power of the state to extirpate speech they disagree with.
If the young woman in question doesn’t want to be a mother and raise a family, and if sex is going to be on her terms or not at all…I question exactly what she’s bringing to the table.
Be careful out there
<em.Most women with a college degree won’t consider marrying any man with no degree. Even if their degree is in something silly like Gender Studies.
Back in the old days, I used to see couples in the grocery store who looked like they were getting dinner stuff on the way home from work. A pretty girl in a nice dress with a guy who looked like he had spent the day at the bottom of a muddy trench. They would smile and laugh.
It’s a good thing we freed those women from that shame.
Headlines yesterday said new Epstein documents contained references to Trump.
“Holy shit is that guy an asshole” is a reference, but they want you to think he was in the dogpile right up to the soles of his feet.
I am so glad the media is spending all their time on this important matter instead of trivialities like the economy or eroding freedoms.
Cozonac of the day
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PRNWHHvCXMFERNkx5
Yummy
“Epstein has a sick fetish for girls with black squares for heads”
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-photos-reveal-epstein-had-a-sick-fetish-for-girls-with-giant-black-squares-for-heads
Genius,
That was the play that the Dem committee wanted. Black out faces, claim you are protecting victims, any picture with any girl must be a victim. Also…Bee is awesome still
Straight from the Doublespeak Dictionary
A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners.
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Onwurah said on Wednesday: “Banning people because you disagree with what they say undermines the free speech the administration claims to seek.
“We desperately need a wide ranging debate on whether and how social media should be regulated in the interests of the people. Imran Ahmed gave evidence to the select committee’s inquiry into social media, algorithms and harmful content, and he was an articulate advocate for greater regulation and accountability.
“Banning him won’t shut down the debate, too many people are being harmed by the spread of digital hate.”
“Nuh-uh! I banned you first!”
Wow. That’s pretty fucking shameless, even by the standards of the typical male Karen ‘anti-disinformation campaigner’…
A spokesperson for GDI called the sanctions “an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship”. They added: “The Trump administration is, once again, using the full weight of the federal government to intimidate, censor and silence voices they disagree with. Their actions today are immoral, unlawful and un-American.”
Good gravy. Talk about impenetrable delusional certitude.
I’m going to jump on the Glibs Zoom around 1200 Eastern for a while. Hoping to be able to introduce you all to some very special ladies at the place I’m staying. Big gals. Shout-out to Tres Cool.
Gay bears in drag?
Hawt
You’ll have to join to see what I mean.
My money is on PUPPERS!!!
Did I win anything?
Ima need my “special laptop” for this one
Never cooked scallops before. I know home kitchens have a hard time with proper heat management..but I will try. Its a haute meal of scallops and hotdogs.
Imagining gordon ramsey calling you a stupid donkey is the key to cooking scallops
Nah now he will comfort me and tell me its okay. He’s gone soft
You need a good deal of butter, and don’t let it go too long. It’s not difficult, but it does take practice, and they go faster than bacon.
It’s not that I know what I would even buy at the butcher’s but the closing time has lodged in my head as a proxy for the real issue – I just don’t want to be here today.
I don’t want to deal with failed scheduler agents. I don’t want to dig up missing .ini files. I admit deleting 30gb of old reports was cathartic, but I still would rather been somewhere else.
you work for the government. Just leave. they aint firing you.
I’m the supervisor on duty. For some reason, everbody who reports to me decided to not waste leave on taking today off.
Where have all the homes gone?
The recent rise in homelessness is not coming from people in permanent housing programs. Federal data show those programs have had a 95 percent retention rate since 2019 and remain among the most effective tools communities have. Available evidence shows 78 percent of the increase was from people experiencing homelessness for the first time. During the inflation crisis that followed the COVID-19 pandemic, the rising cost of essential goods and the cessation of housing protections better explain the spike in first-time homelessness.
Instead of addressing these economic problems, HUD is reviving transitional housing models that attribute homelessness to personal deficiencies. These approaches were phased out precisely because multiple randomized controlled trials found them less effective and more expensive.
The administration cited a study to claim that 75 percent of unsheltered people have substance-use disorders and 78 percent have mental-health conditions. Based on that claim, HUD concluded in its funding announcement transitional housing is necessary to address the root cause of homelessness.
But the cited report is a non-representative study that only covers 15 states and explicitly warns the findings do not explain the causes of homelessness. The administration’s justification for this radical policy change is thus unsupported by the evidence it cites in its own documents.
Reading this, I can only conclude HUD has so completely fucked the low end residential rental market nobody but a booger eating moron (or a highly sophisticated and well connected homeless-industrial-complex insider) would be crazy enough to subject themselves or their inventory to the risk of being compelled to enter one of these programs.
I remember when section 8 housing was pretty common.
During the pandemic, governments across the country showed that they have powerful tools at their disposal to stabilize housing during crises. By issuing eviction or utility moratoria and distributing emergency rental assistance , state governments kept millions of people stably housed.
They can do this again.
Governors must prepare temporary eviction moratoriums for households affected by the funding disruptions. They should be ready to allocate emergency rental assistance to ensure no one loses their housing in the dead of winter. And they must work with landlords to bridge the gap until legal challenges are resolved or Congress intervenes.
Our experience during COVID-19 shows this is a question of political will, not capacity.
Nobody likes slumlords. What could go wrong?
Now talk about the dishonest tenants.
Why come the cost of housing is so high?!?!?!
*deletes sarcastic lesson in macroeconomics.*
You all know what I was going to say anyway.
Greedy landlords, duh.
We did this thing when we had an “emergency” and everyone went completely fucking insane, so why can’t we just do it all the time?
Permanent state of emergency is music to every leftist’s ears.
See for example NYC rent control which is still an “emergency” measure.
The Feds say hi
Amazon Prime members, claim your Fallout and Fallout 2 on Luna.
But, I already have them on Steam… and CD.
What is this?
Why come the cost of housing is so high?!?!?!
Nothing incentivizes the creation of new supply like theft of the old supply.
Recitation of the catechism
Years like this one, with an average number of overall storms, but an above-average cohort of very powerful hurricanes, are getting more likely because of climate change.
That’s mainly because global warming is causing ocean temperatures to rise dramatically. Planet-warming pollution — most of which comes from burning oil, gas and coal — traps huge amounts of extra heat in the atmosphere. Most of that extra heat is absorbed by the oceans.
We believe, therefor it is true.
Everybody enjoying their lunch?
No.
🤢
😟
Watch, it’ll clear up in time for work after Christmas.
Just had an open-face chicken salad sandwich. Need to use it up to make room for what will likely be a large casserole dish full of leftover tortellini soup tomorrow evening. (The recipe makes a big batch.)
Yes.
Felling kinda crappy. Might be better after lunch.
Hope you feel better! Take it easy on the eggnog! 😟
Get well soon
Wife and I shared a gyro and a bowl of avgolemono soup.
Pastrami on Keto bread with mucho mustard, a small handful of barbecue chips, and a pickle. I love my lunches.
Something’s not right…
Where’s the CHEESE?!
Smol lunch today.
Planning on a 16oz. New York Strip, (homemade) twice-baked potatoes, Caesar salad, and half a bottle of Russian River cab for dinner, and probably a little 16-year-old Lagavulin 2023 Distillers Reserve after.
And Scottish Eggs Benedict for Christmas breakfast.
I think S’deT was making a little joke that our Wednesday midday digestion is often upset by Sug’s fiction. As well it should be.
It’s funnier to take it at face value.
Lunch? Not yet. Thawing shrimps for later.
No, its only 10:35,
Tall Cans at 11
Merry Christmas everyone
Fuck it,
Tall Christmas Cans!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, all you magnificent bastards.
Sorry, I’ve not been around as much as I’d like; turns out starting a new career in one’s 60s places a fair amount of demand on one’s time.
Merry Christmas Animal!
Merry Christmas I love all your works, lots of fun, and very creative YKWIM
The BBC explains the origins of Christmas to the Pidgins:
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c62d4lwx0lyo