Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Love the sweetness Harold Lloyd brought as The Boy (and casted with whomever was The Girl in his films). Thanks for bringing a smile to my face with that one, Banjos… and guten morgen.
On to the links…
Snowmageddon requires me to go outside and snowblow..
Enjoy your snowdate then, Alex.
Snowman outside Alex’s house with a big grin on his face.
Frosty winks and gives Alex a knowing smile.
And a twenty.
Same as downtown?
I had the unusual foresight to dump the last of my snow melt compound on the patio last night. I can testify, that stuff works a lot better under the snow than on top.
Had 14 inches so far and cleared it off my 350 foot driveway. It is still snowing so I know I need to go out and do it again later… Fun times since it has to go on top of 2 feet that was still out there..
I’m probably overly pessimistic — but I don’t think the Mexican government will clamp down enough / long enough to make a real change, and I don’t think we should pull a Pershing to try to force this unless the cartels are dumb enough to bring kinetic action over the border. So I expect a few days of chaos settling back down into the prior status quo, really.
I’m not sure they *can* clamp down, at least not effectively. As in, I’m not sure how loyal and compromised their military is. Or how much sway the cartels have over Sheinbaum, and other government officials.
Yup… lots of silver paid out over the years, and lots of lead ready to be delivered if needed.
I saw an image showing that Sheinbaum was helicoptered to a naval vessel for security reasons and the vessel has a communication’s blackout…. Tells me they didn’t think she was safe from retaliation on the ground…
Firey, but mostly peaceful chaos.
I’m not sure the original action wasn’t the army acting on the behalf of a different cartel.
Suicide by Cop — the next level?
He was just protesting.
Peacefully, with a can of gas and a shotgun.
“according to The Washington Post….citing four anonymous sources”
Well, that settles it.
“I’m a journalism!”
My five anonymous sources beats your four.
If a signed letter by 51 security experts is bullshit, what are the odds these anonymous sources are bullshit?
In a sane world, this would be a no brainer (and frankly would be expanded for us plebes, not just the hoi polloi in DC who got spied on). Since Roberts if nothing else hates rocking boats and looks to me like a certified tool of the Establishment — I expect some BS reasoning that no one has any actual recourse when bounds are egregiously overstepped. Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply when the National Security folks don’t want it to, after all….
You really can blame Republicans more than Democrats for the sanctification of National Security!!! No measure too extreme, no excess that can’t be excused. All for two fucking words that can’t be found in the Constitution.
Fair enough, though I honestly think this is legitimately a Both Sides issue (probably due to the apocryphal “Show up as a freshman pol to DC, get honey-potted or have pre-existing photos for blackmail… ‘mysteriously’ start going along with the NatSec folks….”) over the years. Definitely the Patriot Act BS was mainly the Stupid Wing, no argument.
It’s an inevitable result of having a massive security apparatus. The reason the Stasi, KGB, NKVD, Gestapo, etc. end up wielding outsized power is obvious and inherent in their role. An agency tasked with covert information gathering for National Security is always going to end up with the keys to the kingdom. They by definition know the secrets of the powerful and the individual psychological levers to manipulate those powerful people, and they provide the secret intelligence the powerful depend on to make important decisions. Pedophiles take jobs near kids. Would be Richelieus go to work in intelligence.
Remember when Obama got elected with Dem control of the House and Senate and proceeded to dismantle the Patriot Act? Yeah, me neither.
“Remember when Obama got elected with Dem control of the House and Senate and proceeded to dismantle the Patriot Act? Yeah, me neither.”
I however do remember when he used this to drastically weaponize the government against his party’s new cadre of marxist revolutionaries political enemies. He meant it when he told us he was going to fundamentally change the country. Idiots told me it was for the better. Instead he made everything a disaster. From weaponizing the government with leftards to destroying healthcare and race relations. You name it it got worse. But he is the left’s hero for now still. I am sure they will throw him under the bus like they did Clinton as soon as he becomes inconvenient to their revolution.
“hoi polloi” is Greek for common ppl, so is equivalent to the Latin-derived “plebes” (plebians).
Also, that’s never going to happen because one of us might try to sue a judge for, say, releasing a violent criminal alien back into society.
The devil’s greatest trick was conjuring up sovereign immunity.
Which word is misunderstood/used incorrectly: hoi polloi or nonplussed?
Both seem like they should be the opposite of what they really are.
““I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable,” one of Martin’s texts reads. “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.””
Seems rather mild.
I have a feeling the Epstein files were “talking” to him.
Like the constitution, maybe the Epstein files are a living document?
Not any longer, too much is hanging on them.
Gasp! Shock! No one who has paid any attention to the bloated defense contracts that end up delivering nothing or utter crap that isn’t useful for at least 20 years should be all that surprised. Firing 90 percent of the Pentagon probably would be a good start.
I wonder if the bloat was designed to stop any negative effects/leverage during a government shutdown. Kind of like how they bloated up ICE’s budget so high that operations did not stop during the last quasi shutdown. This is a way to make it so soldiers keep getting paid.
Whatchootalkinbout???
Will the successor program be called “IVAS Warp” or “IVAS Bob?”
Add more weight and complexity to a guys kit. Especially to your head, the Kpot is plenty heavy all-ready.
If you had been in in the last twenty years you know this intimately. no cost spared expect on the food.
“Gasp! Shock! No one who has paid any attention to the bloated defense contracts that end up delivering nothing or utter crap that isn’t useful for at least 20 years should be all that surprised. Firing 90 percent of the Pentagon probably would be a good start.”
Not disputing your closing comment, but the real reason they are awash with cash is that the old days of throwing billions at problems that would be solved with the right attitude/simpler solution, and maybe a few million dollars, are all but wrecked and over. You may not be hearing it, but the focus is on ending the money pit procurement that enriched a few connected people and wasted trillions over the last few decades since the fall of the USSR. They want new systems, fast, off the shelf, and at reasonable costs. And I am sure as soon as the usual people take back power they will immediately shut efficiency and delivering value down again. Government is all fraud.
Just be very clear on what makes and keeps the destination states appealing and guard against the push for “more social safety nets / better public unions / whatnot” that a lot of these incoming folks will likely trend towards.
They’ve already turned a number of purple states blue, like Colorado. Maybe TX and FL can hold out but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
“Illinois official got more than $300K from trucking industry while his agency gave illegal licenses”
In the Olden Days we called that kind of payola bribes
Isn’t that just a down payment for doing business in Chicago?
At least the mob had visible action and benefits
In Romania that is just “a wedding gift for my children”.
Sounds like blue controlled urban areas have a lt in common with Romania..
Gut reaction — if man really has Tourettes… well, I think that would give him a pass (though why he is there starts to come to mind… but….) Second take reaction: Wait… I don’t honestly care. “Controversy” will likely be forgotten by the next OMB tweet or ex-Prince Andrew revelation or whatnot.
You know the real reason for the controversy – he’s whiter than a sheet.
The term is “Bleach Demon.”
It’s a word. The belief that hearing it is harmful is an extraordinarily stupid belief. This story is as irrelevant as a BAFTA.
lol
Nice try.
N-Word – Netanyahu ?
*The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince
Heh… nice.
Soon to be known as Queen of the Cell Block.
Illustrated: https://x.com/Scottio200/status/1983998992120999961
Additional footage of the event.
Over the past week we got the worst snow since 2017 but it is all melting already.
The snowpack here is up to the middle bar of the split-rail fences. I’ll include photos in Sunday’s IFLA. It’s nothing compared to Richard’s but still pretty and an excellent workout keeping oneself stable while walking on it.
I didn’t read much over the weekend, so I apparently missed a transition point — but I’d like to thank Tonio, WebDom and whomever else worked/is working on the site. Enjoying the lack of sidebar, return of blue unreads and the prior avatars. Kudos (not the Executioner’s lesser known cousin…)!
Yes!
The font is back to normal, the whole site is glorious.
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! To the entire crew.
“We were the better team” is about as Canadian as a Canadian could be today.
I will admit, refs missed that too many men call in the Third but US went perfect in penalty kills for whole tournament and killed off that massive 90 second 5 on 3.
the cliche saying in Romanian is the team who won wanted the victory more.
We would have won if not for the fact that they outscored us.
This argument always seems kind of self defeating. If you were the better team doesn’t that just make losing shameful? If I were to lose a chess game to Magnus Carlson there is no shame in it for me. If he loses the game to me that would be a different story (and one about as likely as me winning an Olympic medal pushing 60 and obese as I am)
Canada only took 2 shots on the 5 on 3 power play, both by the 19-year-old.
Hellebuyck was the better goalie.
Devon Toews shit the bed a couple of times.
And who thought handing out Olympic mascot plushies during medal ceremony was a good idea?
Women recipients looked pleased or amused
Men had a “what the f…” Look on their face.
The maker of Olympic mascot plushies, of course.
“Silver shines just as bright!”
We’re number 2!
Canada won the popular shots on goal. The US won on electoral goals.
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
I mostly understand the 1400s. The 1300s lost me.
Well that’s no surprise. We assume you got your start against the Turks in Wallachia, after all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I write English more like 1900, than 2000.
Yeah. That’s awful and yet I find myself doing a bit of the 2000s jive he uses.
I got the 1300s. I could get pieces of the 1200s, but no further.
And I oop! Skibidi fr fr.
1611 – the King James Bible was composed in a language cobbled together from a bunch of different dialects of English. You might understand some or bits and pieces of some of those dialects but prior to 1611 English as a distinct language did not exist.
That is still kind of the case today. I have met a few Limeys that could not understand some of their own countrymen’s dialects.
Try going to Scotland in 2026 and talk to some of the people on the street. You will see what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZZBTi3_hPc
I can’t understand any so-called English lyrics in today’s pop music.
Bring back thorn!
I tapped out in 2000s and the 1400s.
Wait I got that wrong, I understood the 1300s and the 1200s lost me.
I lol’d. But it makes me wonder how much of this is actual ” the style of” and how much is “I’mma shove answers to ‘why do we say…’ questions into this.”
haþ no rewþe
Ruthless!
Trump Admin Says Courts Need to Act on Tariff Refunds After Supreme Court Ruling
“Trump re-institutes Corn Laws, says Adam Smith and Rand Paul are wrong.”
Trump must have been absent that day in high school Civics class when we discussed tariffs.
I might accept a Corn Law if it finally killed off the ethanol subsidies.
Where will the mini-distilleries (and the Moonshiner TV show) get their ethanol without the subsidies?
I agree with that!
I’m kinda with Trump on this one. The courts have been sticking their dicks into way too much executive business, so let’s see them take actual responsibility for dealing with the hard implications of their rulings, instead of just grabbing a headline and swanning off to their cocktail parties.
“Derran Adkins, 26, was sentenced to 28 years and eight months behind bars for sex trafficking two teenagers, 17 and 19, along Los Angeles notorious Figueroa Corridor, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-news/vile-la-pimp-is-jailed-for-heinous-crimes-against-teen-girls-he-enslaved/
Sounds a bit harsh for being bad at pimping.
A pimp’s sentence is different from a square’s.
*Golf clap
19 I guess is technically a teenager, although she’s also technically an adult.
17 is an adult from where they are from too.
If you ain’t shippin’ your bitches across a state line at least, then it ain’t trafficking.
Everything is sex trafficking.
Um. They were offering sex by a road. There was traffic on that road. Duh.
Sex trafficking is infrastructure.
“The Laffer curve is bullshit!” <— Heard a thousand times. Half of them were from the paid trolls over at TOS.
Any absurd rationalizations from lefties on how the Laffer curve is still bullshit? Or just handwaving because they dont give a shit if you know they were lying their asses off the whole time?
We don’t need no stinkin’ Laffer Curve. Just print as necessary. Inflation is a tax and we just have to get used to it.
How can someone with two functioning braincells argue that the Laffer curve isn’t real? At 100% tax, you supress all economic activity, so collect 0 revenue. At 0% tax, you collect 0 Revenue. In between there is some revenue maximizing point. You can argue whether we are above or below that point or whether we need even try to maximize government revune rather than minimize spending, but basic logic dictates it’s real.
It’s called lying. It’s really not that rare among politicians and media.
I dont want the government to maximize its takings.
Cut spending
Cut taxes
Go back in time at TOS and ask ‘Tony’.
I recall Obama saying he would raise taxes on the rich even if it lowered government revenue because it would be more fair to punish the rich.
but basic logic dictates
Did you really ask why lefties don’t get basic logic?
Rolle’s Theorem says hello.
“Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”
They tell you exactly what they are doing and people STILL vote for them.
It’s all handwaiving. They use phrases like “no serious economist” but hardly ever actually present data that contradicts it. Occasionally, some jackass will attempt to use WWII spending to argue how we achieved full employment in the midst of the depression, but obviously that has its own set of problems.
“Long Island Democrats are furious over recently surfaced video of an ICE agent ramming a handcuffed detainee’s head into a brick wall during an arrest last month.
Isai Santos Caceras, 35, was being dragged away by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers and resisting arrest when one of the agents got visibly frustrated.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-news/li-dems-erupt-after-ice-agent-uses-handcuffed-mans-head-as-battering-ram-against-brick-wall/
That’s no good.
Did Isai stop resisting?
If he did, then it was good. If he did not, they needed to do it again.
Sorry but I do not give a fuck what happens to you if you chimp out while being arrested. As Chris Rock’s community service from the 90s pointed out: FAFO.
““Androgenic got baldmogged live wig snatched, hairline clapped, full fraudmaxxer reveal. Aura evaporated in seconds. Generational L, no coming back from that,” wrote someone else.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/lifestyle/influencer-androgenic-has-wig-snatched-off-his-head/
Would anyone from the 1400’s understand that English?
23-skiddoo daddy-o!
sksksk and I oop!
Sounds like hipster talk from Judge Dredd. Mega City lingo.
Cheggs billy! I don’t shiv.
I wish I didn’t.
Pie understands it.
“Influencer politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small”
Viddy well, my droogs.
Horrorshow.
They would probably draw their sabres.
In English football trivia for this week, Sheffield Wednesday became the first ever team to have relegation (from the Championship in this case) mathematically confirmed in February. Of course, starting the season on -18 points doesn’t help.
hows Ryan Reynolds team doin’
Sitting in the last playoff position.
Your Mammary Monday rehabilitation program begins today.
https://archive.is/KqbAn
Do you remember your first crappy job? Today’s young people would wish for half your luck, writes Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian, Feb 20th 2026:
This week, unemployment rates for 18- to 24-year-olds hit a high not seen outside the pandemic since 2015. School leavers are now competing for work stacking shelves or pulling pints with overqualified new graduates who can’t find graduate jobs, at a time when pubs, shops and cafes don’t seem to be hiring. Even those employers strong enough to have survived lockdown routinely complain that it’s getting too expensive to hire staff – especially young ones.
The Centre for Policy Studies thinktank calculates that it will cost 26% more to hire an 18- to 20-year-old by this spring than it did in 2024. That reflects government decisions taken for perfectly good reasons, including hiking employers’ national insurance to fund the NHS, plus two chunky rises to the minimum wage for the under-20s (now £10 an hour) in line with manifesto promises to level it up with the higher adult rate (now £12.21) over the course of a parliament. No matter how noble the motive, once it costs the same to hire four teenage Starmers as it once did to hire five, there are likely to be consequences. Yet until this week, when an internal Labour argument about whether they could be inadvertently pricing young people out of work spilled on to newspaper front pages, political debate over why so many young people don’t have jobs has mostly involved blaming them for being anxious snowflakes. Injury, meet insult.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/20/first-crappy-job-youth-minimum-wage
Ms Hinsliff and a few other left-wing commenters are now grudgingly admit that “there are likely to be consequences” to increasing the minimum wage.
My first crappy job was selling encyclopedias door to door on commission, counting wear and tear on shoes and suits I think I earned around $.50 an hour walking 10-25 miles a day knocking on doors. My second was as a barback/waiter/janitor in a bar that had massive brawls almost every night. I have swept up human teeth sitting in a pool of vomit and blood and once had to clean human feces from a urinal an Egyptian exchange student at the University of Cincinnati thought was an acceptable place to crap. Admittedly I had worse jobs than most people.
I guy I knew confused a bidet for a toiled and went all in on it.
I thought a bidet was a toilet.
I am terribly confused now.
Dishwasher at a restaurant my older brother cooked at.
It wasn’t dishing that caused me to quit.
I had lots of crappy jobs when I was young. In order of duration
Street sweeper driver – 3 months
Crawling underneath river barges in protective gear and sandblasting the bottom of the hull – 2 days
Assembly line worker at a Ford plant 1 day and 20 minutes
😂🤣
Please. My high-school aged kid schleps coffees for $20/hr. Cry me a river.
in England?
Plus tips.
My first reported-to-the-IRS-I-need-a-SSN job paid $25/week (plus room and board. Board was sharing a tent, but it did have a power outlet.)
Newspaper boys haven’t been a thing in decades. McDonald’s still looks to be offering shitty jobs to those who want them.
“Do you remember your first crappy job?”
Yes I do. I was 11 and was put to work in the warehouse lifting heavy shit. I knew right there and then that I was going to get me a job that didn’t have anything to do with being a work horse at low pay.
Bussing tables for tips on weekends at the restaurant my mother worked at. This was when I was around 15. When I was old enough to have a real job I moved up to washing dishes for minimum wage, $4.25/hr at the time.
Johannes M. Koenraadt
@johannesmkx
Dig deeper and you’ll find that these Dark Ages never happened.
It’s the phantom time hypothesis by Heribert Illig. About 3 centuries (297 years) were inserted into the Western timeline (the dark ages of 614-911 AD) for political reasons.
Namely, to put the reign of Otto III in the year 1000 when he made a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen, and to revive the Catholic Christian ‘Holy Roman Empire’.
They were able to do this because the people of Europe were largely illiterate and didn’t know about the present year.
It means we are actually living in the year 1729 AD today.
Archaeology backs it up: We have no artefacts from the dark ages. We also found no corpses from the dark ages, and there is no discontinuity in German poetry from the 6th to the 10th century AD, as though there was no stylistic break!
https://x.com/johannesmkx/status/2024776653902053713
So what is the official glibertarian position on the phantom time hypothesis ?
It’s more fun than “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” but less fun than any of the prophecies of “Bob” or any of the metaphysical perturbations of the luck plane via slack.
This one time in Oregon I lost 18 minutes
How much did she charge?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0170817/
So people get to Y2K it up again in a couple of centuries.
I think Brochacho has talked about it. Me? Meh.
They are inserting hours into the timeline every night …
Whoever wrote this knows nothing about the archeological record.
There is no gap in the aretefact record. in the west. It gets even more contiguous when you include other regions and the artefact records of their interactions with the west.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That kid grew a better beard than I can.
Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺
@InfraHaz
Communism already won. China and even Russia don’t need to prove they’re utopias. Communism never promised utopia.
The fundamental logic of state, politics, civil society, and civilization originating in October 1917 has become the dominant force within world history.
It is not reversible.
The “free world” lost. “Capitalism” lost. “Democracy” lost. There is no going back.
You can be a Bolshevik, or a bitching, whining, crying reactionary.
All paths lead to the same conclusion. Communism is cosmos itself.
Have all your sentimental slogans. Future generations will chant only Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping.
https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/2025715226130198774
“Allah Cosmos Xi Xinping” =
Allah/Islam – (submission to the will of God – meaning the call to re-identify the objective material conditions meaning the reality of mans production mediated by nature)
Cosmos – the cosmic universal established by the new Marxist Leninist global (universal) consciousness of the submission to the world’s real existing productive capacity
Xi Xingping – the “Warlord” of the war on production, meaning the concentrated half of global productive capacity within the PRC, the new center of the world under the mandate of heaven.
https://x.com/CDMorlock/status/2025765470876688515
this one has iconography
Communism is just feudalism where a bunch of craven scumbags use the envy and jealousy of the masses to replace the current feudal lords with themselves. Only they think they are supper clever cause they tell the idiots that they, the new feudal lords, are not the ones that won everything, but the government. And then the new feudal lords live like they DO own it all while the idiots starve and freeze..
“The customer told the server to ’round up to $70′ on a check that originally totaled $55.25 before tax – with the rest as a tip. After tax, that would have left a tip of just over $10.
The server then applied a 25 percent employee discount, reducing the bill to $44.79. This meant the worker walked away with a $25.21 tip, while the restaurant received $13.84 less than it otherwise would have.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15576679/dennys-server-trick-boost-tip-customers-clever.html
Those prices are insane.
“This is why one Chipotle customer – a struggling college student no less – was devastated to receive a burrito from the fast food joint that was barely the size of his palm.
The customer, who said they rarely treat themselves to Chipotle, was ‘heated’ after they spent $12.28 on the tiny burrito.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15571199/chipotle-burrito-order-customers-la-jolla.html
That burrito looks fine. Bitch needs to quit his fucking whining.
Prices and tips are crazy.
Tip creep appears to be causing more people to tip less overall.
^^^^THIS^^^^
I used to very tip well, because I worked in the service industry and learned customers can be absolute dicks so I have empathy. However, I now make it a habit to drastically reduce any tip if they give me top options instead of letting me choose what to give.
Why a tip is to be based on a percentage of the cost of a meal is weird to me anyway.
Say a server is working five tables. Average meal takes less than an hour. It’s going to be $100 an average for a table of 4 anymore without drinks. 10% puts them at $40 an hour. Cash is not taxed or reported. Not a bad hustle.
$50 an hour.
The server then applied a 25 percent employee discount For a purchase made by a non-employee, which makes the server a thief.
Firing offense.
I agree.
yep
Grocery store cashiers rack up some points.
An extra trillion in the budget for the banks in 08/09 that somehow never went away, then Covid where we added 40% plus to the money supply in 2 years and cranked up the budget again, which also never went away, then various stimulus and infrastructure grifts, and the Inflation reduction Act that fought inflation by dumping bushels of money into the economy at random (random here meaning carefully dumped into the accounts of connected people who understood the importance of kicking back.)
Voila, your burrito is half the size for twice the price.
I was wokwn oncew more by the crazy lights my new neighbors have on their shouse that shine 24/7 into my bedroom window early this morning so I managed to sit in front of a desktop today and got two submissions in (which I thought went through a couple weeks ago but the phone interphace or my level of signal was poor and they didnt save). I couldn’t figure out a little bit of formatting on WordPress, apparently it hates the tab key and it doesn’t look like it saves three spaces at the beginning of paragraphs instead of using the tab. Oh well.
And damn Im going back to the phone after typing this comment on the desktop. Terrible experience, would not recommend.
Awoken once.
I’m not trying to write like I’m having a stroke in 1800.
Once the website calms down I will get with Tonio and make a new training for WordPress/Glibs. I have a feeling we are not done with changes yet. It definitely requires a little more forethought into what block you want to use next in your post.
RJ. I submitted another one just now and realized I was doing photo captions wrong.
Also couldn’t figure out how to center the piece name.
My apologies on whomever authorizes and reads my pieces if they get edited/published.
RJ.
Also think I screwed up the image for the article heading on the page. Not sure though
They have rentals for Gayla Premier spotlights that you could use to express your annoyance…
I just upgraded my bedroom curtains. I like having the neighbor’s flood lights light up my yard (granted it’s 350 feet away) but not my bedroom.
My neighbors lights are about 300’ away.
I moved out of town to get away from crap like that.
Town caught up to me.
Damn things blot out the stars too.
They have an 85” TV I’m sure they don’t care about the stars either.
The Extreme Process of Traditional Calabrian Salami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnGcg2Tq2ys
Extreme salami?
This is some sort of Onlyfans thing, isn’t it?
“Do we really need to replace our underwear every six months?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/do-we-really-need-to-replace-our-underwear-every-six-months
No.
Big underwear propaganda. Wear them until they disintegrate.
My T-shirts would make Bill Belicheck proud…
I have some shorts from the 90s I still wear.
Make me two tone! Yellow in the front. Brown in the rear.
If you don’t wash it I would get rid of it every few days.
My wife got me years ago when she informed me that she was retiring my old underwear and replacing them with new ones. I had no idea. I just assumed that they were a quality product and lasted a hundred cycles in the laundry.
If you spend as much time shitting your panties as the typical Guardian writer, then yes, you should replace your undies frequently…
I imagine them wearing diapers.
Either way, I still hope they’re changing them frequently.
I assume that temperature is not allowed ’cause Gaia?
Now I have to convert temps.
Turn them inside out and you’re good for another 6 months.
“I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day
Anonymous
Consider the use of the word “female” in these posts. It is not a neutral term here, it is a term of abuse. It’s used by teenage boys to degrade us and equate us to animals. Boys are never described as “males”, but girls are always “females” – the equivalent of sows or calves, creatures that are less than human. We’re also “thots” (whores), “community pussy” and “bops”. “Bop” stands for “been over passed” and is a derogatory term used by boys to refer to a girl they’ve decided has been “passed around” or had too much sex. Sexual equality has ceased to exist online. It’s absolutely fine for boys to have sex, but when girls do, they are called worthless and referred to as objects. “When community pussy tries to insult me, I just want to beat that bitch up.” That’s a message I saw on TikTok….
I can’t speak for every girl my age, but I frequently feel objectified, dehumanised and disgusted by the hate towards women I see online, and I can say with certainty that most of my friends would agree with me. A social media ban for under-16s might prevent young boys seeing endless content that treats women with contempt and hate. Boys at this age are very susceptible to the cool and funny framing of what is, in reality, relentless misogyny. A ban might not fix the problem, but it would help. If society can’t stop it, it can show it disapproves.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse
Fake post arguing for censorship.
Getting off social media is great for your mental health, especially if it causes you that much distress. But people of a certain age think it’s an essential part of life.
So you’re saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen?” MISOGYNIST!!1!
Is it fake? Teenage girls discovering their inner RadFem has been a thing as long as I’ve been alive.
It doesn’t look written by a 15-year-old.
That’s written more like a middle-aged AWFL.
Yeah, BS. That was not written by a 15-year-old anybody.
AI?
Hope you all had a great weekend. We hosted our first DEKA event at the gym yesterday (some of you might remember I wrote about an event I attended last year https://www.glibertarians.com/2025/09/life-after-sled-hockey/).
Ours was smaller of course, no running, and I never got the adaptive rules so I didn’t participate. But we had 24 individual athletes and 6 teams of 2. Everyone had a blast, our volunteers were top notch, and we were able to use our space very well. We had three senior athletes (64, 67, and 70) and they all did great. Our next event is May 3 and we already have 10 people signed up. This is already turning out to be a good investment.
This is good news!
Yes. My wife’s phone and social media have been blowing up since yesterday. When you have that many people raving about an event you did something right. I’m expecting this to generate a lot more members.
Oh, we did close down the gym for 24 hours, but our members were fine with it. That’s why we did it on a Sunday.
Cool.
Androgenic’s TOP RECRUIT Connor Murphy PROVED his jawline is 100% REAL and officially claimed the UNDISPUTED JAWLINE CROWN 👀
https://x.com/Kick_Champ/status/2025256415250485510
The person I worry the most about is my mother. The person I worry about the second-most is you.
WTF 🤮
I’ll bet that dude couldn’t deep-throat even a medium-sized cock.
o.O
Although he looks like he would try.
“Earlier this month, DHS also published plans to spend $38 billion to buy up warehouses across the country and turn them into detention centers for immigrants, a figure that is just a fraction of what the administration wants to spend on its mass deportation campaign. That number alone should demonstrate the policy’s underlying racism. The money could restore more than one year of the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were cut by Trump and congressional Republicans, a move that has seen health care costs more than double for 20 million Americans.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/23/dhs-spokeswoman-tricia-mclaughlins-replacement-is-even-worse/
What is the most racist number?
Shall we talk about why ACA doubled? Part of it is because it is a commie cash grab designed to explode, sure, but another is that states are throwing free health care to every illegal immigrant in the country, and having us pick up the bill. Throwing illegals out of the country and removing free health care to illegals is probably the most effective way of reducing ACA subsidies. Not that the commie who wrote that would ever contemplate this on the Tree of Woe.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the original, stingiest version of obamacare require 14 years worth of taxes to fund 10 years worth of benefits?
The original started taxing immediately but delayed the start of subsidies so the 10-year budgeting number looked better.
What is the most racist number?
Three fifths?
Bravo.
“Racism” = “anything Amanduh” doesn’t like. Got it.
Mad King Donald
Environmental groups have rushed to calculate the extent of those expenses. An analysis conducted for the Sierra Club by Grid Strategies, an energy consulting firm, found it could cost from $85 million to $150 million annually to keep Craig 1 operating at its average output levels. That’s in addition to expenses for the new wind, solar and transmission projects.
“Customers will essentially be paying twice,” says Matt Gerhart, a senior attorney for the Sierra Club. “They’ll be paying for the resources that were intended to replace Craig 1, and now they’ll also be paying for the cost to keep Craig 1 open.”
But I thought wind and solar were free.
Ah, the “lying through our teeth” school of journalism that NPR seems to specialize in.
We’re coming for you
Rice argued during a podcast last week that “it is not going to end well” for corporations, news organizations, and law firms that “bent the knee” to Trump, and that their deference is unpopular.
“There is likely to be a swing in the other direction, and they are going to be caught with more than their pants down,” Rice told Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. “They’re going to be held accountable by those who come in opposition to Trump and win at the ballot box.”
She added, “If these corporations think that Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules, and say, ‘Never mind, we will forgive you for all the people you fired and all the policies and principles you violated, all the laws you skirted,’ I think they got another thing coming.”
One of these days the boot will be on the other neck. And then you’ll be sorry.
By all means, let’s re-enact the Wars of the Roses. That will benefit the country and bring us together under one thumb.
F*ck her, all the Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, and all the asshats that are pushing this. I am sick and tired of globalist bullshit.
AHHH-MEN!
There are lots of ways this could resolve itself, and one of the less pleasant but more probable ones involves a lot of progressive true believers getting killed off.
lol
Cry havoc
“Trump’s reign of terror must end,” declared Pelosi in her remarks, whose long legacy Democrats honored throughout the weekend with tributes and speeches to their “forever speaker”.
Adam Schiff, the California senator and a longtime Trump antagonist, invoked the grizzly bear on the state flag as a warning to the current administration: “When you poke the bear, the bear rips your fucking head off.”
Come November, he declared to a packed hall, “there will be a reckoning”.
Party of civility and reason.
When somebody states loudly and clearly they want to kill you, believe them.
In their speeches to the convention hall, the gubernatorial candidates took turns assailing Trump and pledging to shield Californians from the “chaos” and “cruelty” that his administration has unleashed on the Golden state.
Porter flipped her trademark whiteboard toward the hall and asked the delegates to repeat the message scrawled in black marker. “Fuck Trump!” they chanted. Swalwell, meanwhile, vowed to use the office to “keep Donald Trump and ICE out of our streets and out of our lives”.
Everything else will take care of itself.
CWABOA
What must it be like, being unable to perceive hypocrisy?
“ØnlyFans SIN TAX”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxSXJraZLY
This is two things I hate. Using taxes for other than revenue, and socon soapboxing.
More AI doomporn
Citrini is at pains to point out at the start of their note that this scenario is not a prediction. “This isn’t bear porn or AI doomer fan-fiction. The sole intent of this piece is modeling a scenario that’s been relatively underexplored,” they say.
The piece generated a wave of reaction. One founder, John Loeber, penned his own essay in opposition, arguing that as AI challenges white-collar labor, governments will fund large-scale physical re-industrialization.
Embrace your morlock future.