The stellar doldrums continue. The only thing of interest will be Saturday when the rubber chicken/bicycle horn effect that comes when Mercury and the Moon team up happens.
Aquarius: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Pisces: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
Aries: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections, resources used to prevent bad things from getting worse.
Taurus: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, law and the like.
Gemini: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Cancer: Judgement – -Change of position, renewal, outcome. Also read as total loss though lawsuit.
Leo: The Lovers – Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Virgo: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and intellectual aptitude.
Libra: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Scorpio: Queen of Wands – In isolation, a dark woman, rural woman, love of money, success in business. However when drawn next to a card representing a man or woman it takes on meaning relative to that card. In this case we’ve got two dudes: The Emperor and The Fool. Which means that no matter what reading I give you, I can never be wrong.
Sagittarius: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Capricorn: 7 of Wands – Valor, wordy strife, holding your own against multiple opponents.
NO WAY ELWAY
NO WAY ELWAY
Sagittarius: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Business as usual.
Leo: The Lovers – Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Have the first three in my wife, no trials to overcome (other than a pesky botanical report we haven’t been able to finish).
Is “botanical report” code for “ordering weed” ?
No, it really is a writeup for a botanical survey we finished up last year that started October 2024. Detailing what we found on a property and where, etc. etc.
… and did you find weed?
When I lived outside of Madison, WI, I’d run into feral hemp regularly while deer hunting. We had some on our property, but I got rid of any I found. Periodically, the local po-po would announce that they had burned X acres of “marijuana” that was always feral hemp, left over from when it was grown for rope.
I, err, heard, yeah, that’s it, that it didn’t have any THC in it, so don’t waste your time.
We also had a lot of wild mint plants in one area. Some of them had the most wonderful citrusy flavors.
Scorpio: Queen of Wands – In isolation, a dark woman, rural woman, love of money, success in business. However when drawn next to a card representing a man or woman it takes on meaning relative to that card. In this case we’ve got two dudes: The Emperor and The Fool. Which means that no matter what reading I give you, I can never be wrong.
So this will either be a good week or a bad one? At least there’s just the two options. I’m interviewing for a higher management position this week, so we’ll see which it winds up being. Part of my interview involved creating a Powerpoint presentation outlining goals for various timeframes, and a description of ‘Core Values’ for the workcenter I’m to oversee. First time I’ve had to do that for a job interview.
“a description of ‘Core Values’ for the workcenter I’m to oversee.” <– FUCK. You've been there a bit, at least, but that'd make my brain broil. Are they asking for what *your* Core Values would be to fluidly run the center, or are they asking if you 'match' *their* "Core Values" and wanna make sure you've got them memorized and won't stray from Their mission?
I suppose, are they asking how you'd run the place, or seeing if you'd be a reliable cog in their machine? I'm sure, or hope, it makes sense to you, but I'd be wondering that the entire time, "How would they *like* me to respond?"
Best of luck on your upward spiral!
Yes, having been there even longer than my current manager, I know the business unit well and what they want to hear. Fortunately it aligns with me quite well or else I’d have moved on to greener pastures. Safety first mindset, management being supportive of employee development, accountability without bias, fostering a welcoming work environment (I use ‘inclusive’ here to just mean anyone is welcome and all input is encouraged). The BU in this company has developed a reputation among production floor personnel of being a place where people want to be hired into because we tend to keep things lighthearted while still being mindful of company goals. Our productivity metrics have improved and our production floor has been where executive management wants to conduct tours for customers and the occasional Congresscritter.
“The Core Values that I plan to implement is “show up on time” and “do what you’re told”. “
HR folks don’t like that kind of stuff, Dean. They want to hear about your five year plan to increase the number of females on the floor and such.
“Taurus: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, law and the like.” I had authority over 5yo kicking a soccer ball back and forth, and that was plenty of fun. Now the three of them I think I’d like to stumble upon Scorpio: Queen of Wands – In isolation, a dark woman, rural woman, love of money, success in business.
^^ Reminds me of this lovely scene in The Library, talking about the librarian: “Look at her. This is a lonely woman looking for companionship. …A spinster. …Maybe a virgin. …Maybe she got hurt a long time ago. She was a schoolgirl. There was a boy. It didn’t work out, so now she needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. She needs a little Kramer.”
I hope Evan gets the help he needs.
The drugs are going to fall out of his ass arent they?
In the form of a helping hand?
This Evan doesn’t need to be “taken to a local hospital to receive “comprehensive help” from mental health professionals.” Was he goin’ lefty in his vid to bring a li’l ‘stranger’ danger to his auto-erotic exploits? Or just a very firm “don’t send dick pic” lesson?
Is “Dawn” hot? I’m guessing she said something a bit more than just offering congratulations to that Evan. Preliminary conclusion? Don’t send unrequited dick pics, and stop blabbing to the press for attention. (Boiled down? Stop being childish.)
I mean, I could see it having gone down either way. I have known dudes who are very proud of their dick and just want to share it with anyone and everyone willing or not. I have also known more than a few women who like to downplay leading a guy on and that pesky thing called accountability.
News I can not really use.
I’m so, so tired of the dramatizing of shit like this. I don’t condone sending videos of you masturbating to almost random women for a host of reasons to include it’s pretty skeevy in general, but she appears to be of age and I doubt she’s a virgin here. Can we just not pretend as if he actually violated her in some way?
And the sad reality is that if a relatively famous individual sends dick picks to a lot of females, they are down. Because plenty of women are skeevy, too.
Oh, like the actresses that were fine with Weinstein (and a cast of thousands before him) as long as it advanced their careers?
That’s one example.
My favorite is on social media you get all these 30-something year old women lecturing men and to be blunt even younger women about age gaps in relationships. Specifically, older men with younger women. They seemingly obsess over it and clutters up my feed (I don’t want to hear nonsense about algorithms – they aren’t the perfect reflection of what you interact with let alone care about especially on Facebook).
They are always silent on the agency of the 20 something year old girl dating the 40 something year old man. Always. The man is a predator. A creep. The girl is being manipulated/gaslit/what ever other attack they want to level at the guys.
I don’t tend to wan to date younger myself for a host of reasons not the least of which is young people are fucking obnoxious, but:
1. Consenting adults, not really my concern
2. These women are not children and they are making a conscious choice as much as some people want to infantilize them in this scenario.
3. No one ever talks about the younger dudes who have a smaller dating pool because a decent portion of women LIKE to date older and how that influences how those same men behave when they are older.
I’ve seen it get as ridiculous as attacking a 23 year old male for dating a 19 year old. There’s literal science saying that male brains “mature” or develop at a slower rate. It’s something like 25 before the male brain is fully developed. With regards to young women, these hags are the first ones to point out that the female isn’t fully mature but no such grace is extended to the guys in these scenarios. They’re just predators.
To add to all this, there are no shortage of 20-something progressive white girls clogging up the rest of my feeds telling me how their political positions are just oh so righteous. And then the dopey broads clapping for them. ICE BAD! IMMIGRANTS GOOD! SAVE act racist/misogynistic! It’s all these dumb young girls who I’m told are children when it comes to dating lecturing me on reproductive “rights” (aka abortion) and anything and everything under the sun.
It’s enough to make a sane man snap.
Random thoughts
It’s infantilizing all over. 18-19 year olds are teenagers.
Celebrating high school (or younger) students bravely walking out to “protest” ICE with zero consequences and often assisted or encouraged by faculty.
My wife is older than I am. Now that would be grooming I guess. “I’m a victim!”
Well, to be fair most husbands could claim to be victims.
*ducks, closes tab*
Effete egghead disdain
There is an undeniable appeal to the hard hat and the grease-stained overalls; to the sweat on the brow of hard men in vintage posters; to the virtue of a hard day’s labor on the production line. But the American political class would do well to overcome its nostalgia for the past and forget about promises to make manufacturing great again.
The promises make little sense.
We’re a high functioning service economy now. College professors, management consultants, hairdressers, dog walkers, ass wipers… the list goes on and on.
This is the best version of Rusty Cage, and I liked the original.
Not meant to be a reply dammit!
Hard to take an author seriously that references the ‘…supposed “giant sucking sound”…’. It happened exactly as Perot predicted.
Yeah, dirty jobs are for third world peasants. We have better things to do in the first world than make stuff.
Lol did the author take a shower after writing that ode to sweaty men?
It was gettin’ awfully feverish in there, wasn’t it? Deep down, that author wants it hot and hard, all the grease and grime, from all that physical labor, men coming home steeped in such healthy *sweat,* the steam visibly rising as they return, wanting a cool towel, and hands, *hands,* to wipe it all off, that sweat coursing lines in his ripped abs, chiseled face, exhausted from such productive work…
He was a farm boy. There was a girl. It didn’t work out, so now he needs a little tenderness. He needs a little understanding. He needs a little Kramer…
Oh, they probably had to clean up a little, yeah.
Not just the dirty jobs, but all of the environmental impact of mining and refining the materials for modern gadgets – yeah keep that shit in countries where we’ll never see it. /progs
The decline in manufacturing, however, is less a story about policy blunders than one about the long progress of the US economy, which has to a large extent graduated out of producing stuff like phones and cars and into the delivery of services, like finance and healthcare – a process similar to that followed by other countries that moved up the ladder of success.
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It is true that manufacturing workers earn more, on average, than those employed in the service economy. But that is an argument for policies to raise wages for low-wage service sector workers.
Factory unions drove up the costs of making cars and widgets, making those companies no longer competitive with places with cheaper labor. So we ‘graduated’ to providing services. But we need unions to drive up the wages those workers are paid.
Healthcare is a growing “service” because of an aging population. The demand is directly tied to demographics. I don’t think anyone with a shred of common sense would point to that as a sign of an economy improving and getting stronger. It also simply isn’t inherently productive. Keeping Grandma alive for an extra five years isn’t really adding economic value to society and you could really argue the opposite pretty easily.
At the end of the day there needs to be an underlying product involved and it’s really fucking creepy to me how progs shift their opinions over time to completely contradictory things. They used to be first in line to mock the entire notion of a purely service based economy for a country the size of the US. We can get into the underlying questions of why’s, but I don’t care to. It’s just yet another piece of evidence to drop in the bucket that you are dealing with people who don’t just lack principles, but also intellectual integrity. They are NPC’s. The most heavily propagandized idiots out there.
Health care is (also?) a growing service because of hundreds of billions of government dollars flooding that sector.
Throw in osha, epa, and a hundred other parasitic agencies driving up costs.
that moved up the ladder of success
Is that ladder found on the right side of history?
J-F-C what morons.
The dream of greasy overalls and hard hats does not justify protectionist policies that harm American consumers or other wasteful incentives that are failing both to generate jobs or to produce anything of value.
What value did hammering out this drivel produce?
These euphemisms . . . .
Dunno about you, but I’m still looking around for the harm to American consumers of Trump’s tariff deals.
harm to American consumers
My favorite wine cost me 20% more this year.
Spanish wines are no longer a great bargain.
1st world problem I suppose.
How much of that is (a) baseline inflation and/or (b) supply/demand/wine market volatility?
Although the tariff is 20%, which does seem something of a coincidence.
There is a valid case for a nation like the United States to nurture some manufacturing industries – especially those that will prove important for national security, like advanced semiconductors, or advanced energy technologies needed to reduce carbon emissions.
But the many campaigns Washington has embarked on over the years to restore manufacturing to some image of past glory are largely driven by misplaced nostalgia. It is true that manufacturing workers earn more, on average, than those employed in the service economy. But that is an argument for policies to raise wages for low-wage service sector workers. The dream of greasy overalls and hard hats does not justify protectionist policies that harm American consumers or other wasteful incentives that are failing both to generate jobs or to produce anything of value.
One must recite the obligatory green catechism and genuflect to the high priesthood. And every right-thinking person knows consumer preference is a terrible means of determining value.
Value creation is an outdated capitalist myth. Just pay the people what they’re worth.
I love it when people with masters degrees make me coffee on my way to the rock quarry.
If its delivered by B52s I’m OK with it.
Otherwise, no.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-5-billion-pledge-gaza-aid-board-peace-members
Kate Pierson for Ambassador to Gaza?
The gazans would love to entertain her and all of her fans.
Cancer: Judgement – -Change of position, renewal, outcome. Also read as total loss though lawsuit.
Like going from cowgirl to reverse cowgirl.
SHE’S CONNECTING THE STRING ON THE TACKS ON HER BOARD, PEOPLE. POWERFUL PEDOS BE AFRAID.