Eventually the pubsec unions and public schools will run out of other people’s money. Especially as they keep going for more levels of administration amid declining enrollment.
I wouldn’t count on that as long as school funding is largely tied to taxing unrealized gains. Need more money? Just say that everyone’s home value appreciated by 15%, then tell them if they don’t pay, they lose their home.
Four score where I’m from they can only raise the tax rates 3% annually.
Then every three years if they haven’t raised the rates that much they can go back and raise them to match what they could have. It’s a rolling time frame.
They rarely do but they keep raising the accessed value to match the spending increases. My average tax bill has gone up 12.5% every year since I bought our place. It’s more than doubled since 2014.
Threedoor
on February 4, 2026 at 8:47 pm
Do they care that the house has depreciated in that time and needs new carpet, siding and is coming up on needing a roof in the next ten years?
Nope.
You’ll have to buy a permit from them for those repairs and that triggers the accessor to make a personal trip to your house afterward.
Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)
on February 4, 2026 at 8:53 pm
My county raised taxes 11% this year. Only one county commisioner voted against. No talk of cutting spending.
Evan from Evansville
on February 4, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Damn! Damn damn!
Taxes should be due the day before Election Day.
Fourscore
on February 4, 2026 at 9:03 pm
Yeah, mine too, wild swings in the value, occasionally the assessed value will go down but not very often.
One year I paid a tax bill by check, as I remember it was about $800. I waited for the check to clear, no, waited another month and still hadn’t cleared. I became concerned, thinking it was lost in the mail. I finally called the county treasurer’s office and pretended I’d forgotten if I’d paid or not.
Yep, back a couple months. I thought about what to do, finally I re-entered $800 into my checkbook. I tried to not think that I was stealing, since I’d did everything right. I kind of felt the obligation was on the county but they apparently were satisfied. The bank wasn’t out the money, they still had my $800.
Sort of Trumpmath,
Threedoor
on February 4, 2026 at 9:53 pm
School bonds are always off year and in the spring after the primaries.
The teachers unions fight tooth and nail to not have them aligned with the general election as they know turnout would be higher and that would water down the number of school district employees and family that make up a large percentage of the voters.
Threedoor
on February 4, 2026 at 9:56 pm
The various taxing districts set the rates.
Mostly unelected boards.
The accessor values the properties, based on numbers his staff pulls out of their asses. My Idaho county uses the Oregon accessors book, not the Idaho valuation one.
The commissioners decide if they raise the rates of the county portion of the taxes.
We got two new lines on our tax bill two years ago, school district judgement and county judgment. No idea what they are but last year they increased over 100% in cost.
I’m guessing that was for some lawsuit the county and school district lost a few years ago.
rhywun
on February 4, 2026 at 10:06 pm
teachers unions fight tooth and nail to not have them aligned with the general election
I rent so I don’t pay much attention to that stuff BUT I did notice something very interesting recently.
I live in an Ivy League and therefore extremely left-wing town and yet… even here to my great surprise last year the ed budget was voted down and they had to go back to the drawing board to be less obviously rapey.
Threedoor
on February 4, 2026 at 10:11 pm
Here renters pay more as that rent is pass through to the property owner. Your rental is effectively a commercial property and doesn’t get a homeowners exemption on property taxes so you pay full freight.
Renters should vote against bonds but they tend to vote for them and then whine when their rent goes up accordingly.
rhywun
on February 4, 2026 at 10:17 pm
Yeah, I’m not under any illusion that I’m not paying for all the stupid shit that idiot voters approve.
It’s the same phenomenon where dumbasses vote to raise kkkoporate taxes and think they’re not going to pay for it.
Threedoor
on February 4, 2026 at 8:43 pm
Nope.
They’ll simply keep raising property taxes and when owners, er serfs can’t pay the taxes anymore they’ll take the property.
OT lol Today in “the poors are too stupid to find the food we think they should eat”. This is hilarious.
A skyline where fresh lettuce grows a few floors above your head, rainwater is harvested from the clouds, and the architecture itself works quietly to heal long standing urban inequities.
I think I’ve read one or two dystopian stories with this exact setting. TL;DR – it doesn’t end well.
Evan from Evansville
on February 4, 2026 at 9:05 pm
It easily manages to get worse: “At the heart of this proposal lies a deeply human problem. Food deserts. Across Chicago, many low income neighborhoods struggle to access affordable, nutritious food. Grocery stores are scarce, fresh produce is often out of reach, and fast food becomes the default not by choice, but by circumstance. These conditions have fueled health disparities and einforced socio economic divides for decades. Rather than treating this as a policy issue alone, the project reframes it as an architectural opportunity.”
Also funny from the author: “The proposed site for this prank is the most affluent neighborhood in Chicago.”
We’ve beaten this issue to death over the years but ICYMI the author hits the right note at the end:
“How does epidemic shoplifting break the business model of a supermarket?” Supermarkets have a notoriously tight profit margin. There is a reason they avoid high-crime areas.
Nevertheless, from personal experience, I can identify two scenarios.
1. The city in question is a typical American city where every family owns a car, possibly a beater if necessary (as my family did when I was wee). A decent supermarket is typically a short drive away.
2. The city in question is a more urban city like NY or Chicago where a decent supermarket may or may not be an easy walk away BUT the fresh foods that elites are so obsessed with are *invariably* an easy walk away, whether a smaller market or a fresh food stand or some such thing.
I have lived in both situations. In no case is “food desert” anything other than a lefty fantasy, a “white man’s burden” if you will.
I didn’t know it was Rosa Parks day. I saw some bit recently about how the legend has been let’s say embellished over the years but I’m not churlish enough to go there.
More importantly, my mom would have turned 90 today except she’s been gone for 18 years. That is eye-opening.
Property taxes in Delaware County, PA went up 23% in 2025 and 19% in 2026. Years ago, it was solid Red county but is now True Blue and voters keep returning the Dems to power. Clinton’s DOJ got their last GOP congressman out of office with a bogus corruption raid on his daughter’s office a week before the election. No charges ever brought but that was too late as he had lost.
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on February 4, 2026 at 10:14 pm
From another Delco resident: Delco went blue a long time ago in national elections (witness Bob Edgar) but the Republican machine controlled county and local elections for well over a century after the Civil War. That concocted scandal in 2006 not only broke Weldon but effectively finished off the machine.
I had to look that place up but yeah… “inner ring” suburbs that used to be “red” went “blue” decades ago, across the country. It is part of my theory that, well, freedom is kind of toast. All growth is suburban and has been for many decades & now it is all Democrat. Oh wellz.
Suburbs grow by people moving out from cities. They want to escape the crime but demand all the services they had in urban areas. There are tons more bus routes than when I was a kid but buses are 2/3 empty compared to the limited buses routes of my youth.
creech
on February 4, 2026 at 11:27 pm
Republican Wally Nunn was chair of the County Council as late as 2001. He once accused me of calling him a communist. I kinda did. Anyway he confronted me in the parking lot after the meeting and told me he had libertarian leanings, being a contributor to the Reason Foundation and a pal of Manny Klausner. His advocacy of increasing the PA income tax from 2.8% to 4.8% ( critics called it “Wally’s Folly”) pretty well doomed his career.
Fourscore
on February 5, 2026 at 6:13 am
I was called an anarchist by a township board member once. Told to sit down and shut up I said “I’ll sit down but I won’t shut up”
It had something to do with taxpayer money, I can’t remember.
whahappan
on February 4, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Shpip, if you’re on the site, I’m on the zoom but you apparently can’t see or hear me.
One of life’s disappointments is the mathematical distribution of “taking a shit” seems to skew heavily towards “within an hour of the last shower I took.”
Evan from Evansville
on February 5, 2026 at 12:50 am
Big laugh at the end. I see wanting a revolver for shell casings, etc. His criticism of the Beretta as a ladies gun, “and not a very nice one” is hilarious.. but HIS revolver of choice is a fucking “man’s gun” at like 18″. (.44 Ruger Magnum. Whatever.)
People were so casually fun, back then, accidentally. People are so poshed-up and acting, all put on. Sad!
The .44 Magnum is unsuitable for the kind of work a spy is supposed to be doing – it’s not very concealable. I know Bond is bad at being stealthy, but at least try.
Tonight the experiment is paprika gravy. Used mild peppers, nothing hot. Having it with baked chicken and brown rice. I gotta say, it’s pretty good. makes a ton. Next time, I’m gonna try a chili with a little more kick.
I got bunches of good news yesterday. (I chose not to share the bad news that this good news negated)
But I also threw up from unrelated causes 🤮 I hope it was a one-time problem and not sign of a stomach bug. I haven’t eaten since, but I have kept liquids down.
Jerry Springer is dead, but Maury Povich is alive at 87.
He and Connie Chung have been married for over 40 years.
Rat on a train
on February 5, 2026 at 5:21 am
Locally it is Buddhists blocking traffic day.
According to County Officials on Thursday, February 5, 2026, motorists should expect traffic delays along U.S. Route 1 before, during and after the walk; and should consider alternate routes as northbound lanes will be shut down and southbound lanes are expected to be heavily congested from early afternoon through the late evening hours. Drivers are urged to use caution, slow down and be patient while traveling in these areas.
Please keep in mind that afternoon buses of schools located off Route 1 may be delayed due to the increased traffic. Thank you for your understanding and support.
Your unfortunate run in with your PC is ome reason why I have been kicking around an idea for a business providng rural NKY computer services.
Not enough consumer facing places out there besides the weird nerds and *shivers* GeekSquad.
Gender Traitor
on February 5, 2026 at 6:26 am
Are there local PC repair places anywhere NOT run by weird nerds??
Our Anti-Fraud Goddess at work suggested Geek Squad, and there IS a Best Buy handy to the office, but under the circumstances, I didn’t want to trust my hardware and data to just any kid in a blue polo shirt.
During my unemployment in 2007, I applied to the Geek Squad. The application was 10-30 pages, and they didn’t call me back. I had a tech bachelor’s but only one year on a helpdesk as work experience. Not sure what made them not bother to interview.
Tres Cool
on February 5, 2026 at 6:32 am
You can trust them. GeekSquad is really just a front for the FBI.
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Shots were fired shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday around Flatbush and Foxhall avenues, the city police department said on Wednesday evening.
It’s the sort of area that had blue-collar industrial jobs in buildings that looked like they were decaying when I was a kid (well, a few block south on Foxhall, past the Dollar General). I can only imagine what sort of person to do-badders are going to price out of the city if they try to “improve” it.
Congratulations and thank you for playing!
You have won the most sarcastic comment on Glibertarians.com this week!
There is no official prize, however I am trying to get rid of a pile of spare box end wrenches, which are available at my house should you be in the area.
Gender Traitor
on February 5, 2026 at 5:58 am
Well, I DO have a mug that says “Sarcasm Queen,” a gift from one of my sisters. I shall use it with especial pride today. 😁
Gender Traitor
on February 5, 2026 at 5:59 am
Also, good morning, R.J.!
R.J.
on February 5, 2026 at 6:02 am
Good morning! I just couldn’t sleep. Work is on my mind.
We had friends from Manitoba visit yesterday, unfortunately their stay was only for an hour or so, as they were headed home. It was refreshing to hear Canadian libertarians that share our opinions.
The memory makers got caught in big boom bust cycle in the past and likely learned a lesson. I know that Micron said it’s not playing this go around. No idea on the Koreans.
Not Adahn
on February 5, 2026 at 6:50 am
All those tax dollars allocated for our expansion are sitting idle because management won’t build without a certain level of precommits. Which we have not received.
I thought you made specialty silicon, not commodity chips.
rhywun
on February 5, 2026 at 6:58 am
The econuts are protesting any expansion of Micron in my area.
It’s not like upstate New York needs the jobs or anything. 🙄
Fourscore
on February 5, 2026 at 7:02 am
I am so far out of technology these kinds of words completely escape my fathom hood.
“Now you boys (and girls) have a nice day, speaking in tongues”. OTOH the good news is that there is always no lines and a parking spot at the post office.
I did see, recently, someone buying postal money orders. I was thinking it was for some sort of drug deal.
Not Adahn
on February 5, 2026 at 7:03 am
We make whatever people are willing to pay us enough to make.
I have access to ChatGPT and Copilot at work. My coworkers and I all agree that Copilot is far inferior. We also find that it’s useful, but far from perfect.
rhywun
on February 5, 2026 at 7:08 am
I’m supposed to watch 7 hours of instruction on Copilot. Yeah, I have time for that. 🙄
The stuff I work with has garbage for internet documentation, the vendor isn’t going to feed its source code to the AI, and is so reliant on datacenter environment factors that the cloud would have no clue. Our latest bug turned out to be a kerberos issue, not even inside the application – Microsoft patched out the method that was functioning before.
Blasphemer!
Don’t even know you anymore
Divorce coming?
*Sound of wind and tumbleweeds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRxSF0lk-0
From the ded thred:
Neph….
Fucking tag errors….
Is there some maximum appreciation that can be taxed in a single year?
Capital gains may also be waiting if a certain criteria is not met.
Four score where I’m from they can only raise the tax rates 3% annually.
Then every three years if they haven’t raised the rates that much they can go back and raise them to match what they could have. It’s a rolling time frame.
They rarely do but they keep raising the accessed value to match the spending increases. My average tax bill has gone up 12.5% every year since I bought our place. It’s more than doubled since 2014.
Do they care that the house has depreciated in that time and needs new carpet, siding and is coming up on needing a roof in the next ten years?
Nope.
You’ll have to buy a permit from them for those repairs and that triggers the accessor to make a personal trip to your house afterward.
My county raised taxes 11% this year. Only one county commisioner voted against. No talk of cutting spending.
Damn! Damn damn!
Taxes should be due the day before Election Day.
Yeah, mine too, wild swings in the value, occasionally the assessed value will go down but not very often.
One year I paid a tax bill by check, as I remember it was about $800. I waited for the check to clear, no, waited another month and still hadn’t cleared. I became concerned, thinking it was lost in the mail. I finally called the county treasurer’s office and pretended I’d forgotten if I’d paid or not.
Yep, back a couple months. I thought about what to do, finally I re-entered $800 into my checkbook. I tried to not think that I was stealing, since I’d did everything right. I kind of felt the obligation was on the county but they apparently were satisfied. The bank wasn’t out the money, they still had my $800.
Sort of Trumpmath,
School bonds are always off year and in the spring after the primaries.
The teachers unions fight tooth and nail to not have them aligned with the general election as they know turnout would be higher and that would water down the number of school district employees and family that make up a large percentage of the voters.
The various taxing districts set the rates.
Mostly unelected boards.
The accessor values the properties, based on numbers his staff pulls out of their asses. My Idaho county uses the Oregon accessors book, not the Idaho valuation one.
The commissioners decide if they raise the rates of the county portion of the taxes.
We got two new lines on our tax bill two years ago, school district judgement and county judgment. No idea what they are but last year they increased over 100% in cost.
I’m guessing that was for some lawsuit the county and school district lost a few years ago.
I rent so I don’t pay much attention to that stuff BUT I did notice something very interesting recently.
I live in an Ivy League and therefore extremely left-wing town and yet… even here to my great surprise last year the ed budget was voted down and they had to go back to the drawing board to be less obviously rapey.
Here renters pay more as that rent is pass through to the property owner. Your rental is effectively a commercial property and doesn’t get a homeowners exemption on property taxes so you pay full freight.
Renters should vote against bonds but they tend to vote for them and then whine when their rent goes up accordingly.
Yeah, I’m not under any illusion that I’m not paying for all the stupid shit that idiot voters approve.
It’s the same phenomenon where dumbasses vote to raise kkkoporate taxes and think they’re not going to pay for it.
Nope.
They’ll simply keep raising property taxes and when owners, er serfs can’t pay the taxes anymore they’ll take the property.
OT lol Today in “the poors are too stupid to find the food we think they should eat”. This is hilarious.
I think I’ve read one or two dystopian stories with this exact setting. TL;DR – it doesn’t end well.
“Grocery stores are scarce, fresh produce is often out of reach, and fast food becomes the default not by choice, but by circumstance”
A demand without a supply. Hmmm, very strange. I’d be surprised that some sort of shooting war didn’t develop over the limited resources.
I’m guessing illegal drugs are not available either.
It easily manages to get worse: “At the heart of this proposal lies a deeply human problem. Food deserts. Across Chicago, many low income neighborhoods struggle to access affordable, nutritious food. Grocery stores are scarce, fresh produce is often out of reach, and fast food becomes the default not by choice, but by circumstance. These conditions have fueled health disparities and einforced socio economic divides for decades. Rather than treating this as a policy issue alone, the project reframes it as an architectural opportunity.”
Also funny from the author: “The proposed site for this prank is the most affluent neighborhood in Chicago.”
We’ve beaten this issue to death over the years but ICYMI the author hits the right note at the end:
“How does epidemic shoplifting break the business model of a supermarket?” Supermarkets have a notoriously tight profit margin. There is a reason they avoid high-crime areas.
Nevertheless, from personal experience, I can identify two scenarios.
1. The city in question is a typical American city where every family owns a car, possibly a beater if necessary (as my family did when I was wee). A decent supermarket is typically a short drive away.
2. The city in question is a more urban city like NY or Chicago where a decent supermarket may or may not be an easy walk away BUT the fresh foods that elites are so obsessed with are *invariably* an easy walk away, whether a smaller market or a fresh food stand or some such thing.
I have lived in both situations. In no case is “food desert” anything other than a lefty fantasy, a “white man’s burden” if you will.
Seattle thugs ride the buss to the outlying areas and steal from the unlocked supermarkets and Walmarts there.
Fresh produce is good for livestock.
Food.
Damn autocorrect.
Look at the caption on the second photo. I don’t think the author is speaking approvingly of the idea.
No. In fact he has a monthly feature making fun of this kind of thing.
Did I miss something? Was there an update on KK’s job search?
I haven’t heard and have been paying attention. I’m also curious. *crosses fingers*
Ha! The “God-Emperor of the World” reminds me of that WTF opera premier with His Donaldsness, and for some reason writhing hot dogs were involved.
Reality imitating satire imitating the satirical reality.
I didn’t know it was Rosa Parks day. I saw some bit recently about how the legend has been let’s say embellished over the years but I’m not churlish enough to go there.
More importantly, my mom would have turned 90 today except she’s been gone for 18 years. That is eye-opening.
My mom died at 72 too. In March it will be 11 years.
Dad turned 88 two weeks back; he’s about five months younger than our venerable Fourscore.
Property taxes in Delaware County, PA went up 23% in 2025 and 19% in 2026. Years ago, it was solid Red county but is now True Blue and voters keep returning the Dems to power. Clinton’s DOJ got their last GOP congressman out of office with a bogus corruption raid on his daughter’s office a week before the election. No charges ever brought but that was too late as he had lost.
From another Delco resident: Delco went blue a long time ago in national elections (witness Bob Edgar) but the Republican machine controlled county and local elections for well over a century after the Civil War. That concocted scandal in 2006 not only broke Weldon but effectively finished off the machine.
I had to look that place up but yeah… “inner ring” suburbs that used to be “red” went “blue” decades ago, across the country. It is part of my theory that, well, freedom is kind of toast. All growth is suburban and has been for many decades & now it is all Democrat. Oh wellz.
Suburbs grow by people moving out from cities. They want to escape the crime but demand all the services they had in urban areas. There are tons more bus routes than when I was a kid but buses are 2/3 empty compared to the limited buses routes of my youth.
Republican Wally Nunn was chair of the County Council as late as 2001. He once accused me of calling him a communist. I kinda did. Anyway he confronted me in the parking lot after the meeting and told me he had libertarian leanings, being a contributor to the Reason Foundation and a pal of Manny Klausner. His advocacy of increasing the PA income tax from 2.8% to 4.8% ( critics called it “Wally’s Folly”) pretty well doomed his career.
I was called an anarchist by a township board member once. Told to sit down and shut up I said “I’ll sit down but I won’t shut up”
It had something to do with taxpayer money, I can’t remember.
Shpip, if you’re on the site, I’m on the zoom but you apparently can’t see or hear me.
One of life’s disappointments is the mathematical distribution of “taking a shit” seems to skew heavily towards “within an hour of the last shower I took.”
After coffee.
Shower at night so my butt and pits are.
Don’t leave us hanging.
His butt and pits are coffee, obviously.
Hopefully within doesn’t include during.
This one is for Bond aficionados, gun enthusiasts, and anyone (like me) who is surprised there was a time common folk in Britain could shoot a gun.
https://x.com/TheMonologist/status/2019058711205945648?s=20
I like the Beretta better.
Big laugh at the end. I see wanting a revolver for shell casings, etc. His criticism of the Beretta as a ladies gun, “and not a very nice one” is hilarious.. but HIS revolver of choice is a fucking “man’s gun” at like 18″. (.44 Ruger Magnum. Whatever.)
People were so casually fun, back then, accidentally. People are so poshed-up and acting, all put on. Sad!
The .44 Magnum is unsuitable for the kind of work a spy is supposed to be doing – it’s not very concealable. I know Bond is bad at being stealthy, but at least try.
So shooting canned food is a very long tradition in gun videos?
I guess it depends on how you define “common”. I know of some gun owners in the UK that are commoners, though probably have some connections.
The video is a good video.
Tonight the experiment is paprika gravy. Used mild peppers, nothing hot. Having it with baked chicken and brown rice. I gotta say, it’s pretty good. makes a ton. Next time, I’m gonna try a chili with a little more kick.
can I use non-hungarian paprika?
Happy national optimist day!
I’m gonna have a great day and you should too.
😁☀️🥩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM
🎶🎶
I got bunches of good news yesterday. (I chose not to share the bad news that this good news negated)
But I also threw up from unrelated causes 🤮 I hope it was a one-time problem and not sign of a stomach bug. I haven’t eaten since, but I have kept liquids down.
Watch out for that gas station sushi.
I don’t eat sushi for dislike of rice
I’ve got a bad feeling about this …
The good news is Maury Povich saying, “UCS, you are *not* the father!”. :-p
Isn’t he dead?
Jerry Springer is dead, but Maury Povich is alive at 87.
He and Connie Chung have been married for over 40 years.
Locally it is Buddhists blocking traffic day.
Good morning, Sean, U (I’m so sorry you’re not feeling well! 😟), Ted’S., ChipP, and Roat!
Morning.
Feeling any better?
I suppose.
If I had more leave, I’d call out from work though.
I hope you have plenty of fluids to stay hydrated and maybe some light, bland food to nibble on when you feel up to trying to eat. 😟
despite the slander I get on the regular here, I do not have a supply of bland food to turn to.
Technically, I think it’s libel.
And, good morning, GT.
I was going to suggest toast, but you might not have a toaster. 😕
How are you today, ChipP?
I do not have a toaster and tend not to stock mold cultivation loaves.
Thank you, GT. I have a cold, but I’m not going to complain about it on the internet.
How are you?
I don’t think I need to fret about finding something bland.
I found some pepperoni and kept it down.
I’m okay, just mildly inconvenienced with my PC in the shop to get converted to Linux Mint. At the moment, the only laptop I have is a cat.
PurrPC is a very calming OS though.
That’s a pretty good test! 😃👍
It IS quite calming, but the fan is kinda noisy.
Your unfortunate run in with your PC is ome reason why I have been kicking around an idea for a business providng rural NKY computer services.
Not enough consumer facing places out there besides the weird nerds and *shivers* GeekSquad.
Are there local PC repair places anywhere NOT run by weird nerds??
Our Anti-Fraud Goddess at work suggested Geek Squad, and there IS a Best Buy handy to the office, but under the circumstances, I didn’t want to trust my hardware and data to just any kid in a blue polo shirt.
During my unemployment in 2007, I applied to the Geek Squad. The application was 10-30 pages, and they didn’t call me back. I had a tech bachelor’s but only one year on a helpdesk as work experience. Not sure what made them not bother to interview.
You can trust them. GeekSquad is really just a front for the FBI.
They will get the job done.
Two stories in the local paper today, or at least on their web-site:
1. Federal grant bolsters project to improve Foxhall, Flatbush avenues in Kingston
2. Shots fired in Kingston, police say
From the second story:
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Shots were fired shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday around Flatbush and Foxhall avenues, the city police department said on Wednesday evening.
It’s the sort of area that had blue-collar industrial jobs in buildings that looked like they were decaying when I was a kid (well, a few block south on Foxhall, past the Dollar General). I can only imagine what sort of person to do-badders are going to price out of the city if they try to “improve” it.
As always, the stories may be paywalled, but in this case the headlines and the blurb were both on the main page outside of the paywall.
Ah, the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” effect.
Let it decay and “you hate the disadvantaged”.
Gentrify and same.
That never gets old. 🙄
Burn it down and you’re “Mostly Peaceful”
OMG the thumb-sucking from ORF in Austria over the Washington Post job cuts.
Journalists care deeply about the jobs of other journalists. They’re empathetic and altruistic that way.
Congratulations and thank you for playing!
You have won the most sarcastic comment on Glibertarians.com this week!
There is no official prize, however I am trying to get rid of a pile of spare box end wrenches, which are available at my house should you be in the area.
Well, I DO have a mug that says “Sarcasm Queen,” a gift from one of my sisters. I shall use it with especial pride today. 😁
Also, good morning, R.J.!
Good morning! I just couldn’t sleep. Work is on my mind.
Work is a terrible hat.
It is indeed. I just can’t take it off the past few weeks and it is wearing me down.
Please RJ, no 4 letter words that the kids might hear.
[ muffles UDON and ZEBU under breath ]
Oryx!
suh’ fam
whats goody
FBI chief ready to head to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Guthrie’s mom
Seems like a perfect use of federal resources and is in no way trying to buy media coverage.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/savannah-guthrie-mom-trump-fbi-kash-patel
The wall-to-wall coverage is getting a little ridiculous.
It’s the mother of one of their own.
We had friends from Manitoba visit yesterday, unfortunately their stay was only for an hour or so, as they were headed home. It was refreshing to hear Canadian libertarians that share our opinions.
Manitoba is where Maxime Bernier got arrested for defying Rona Panic Restrictions.
The hate birds that hate?
So, an early spring!
Mornin’ all.
I’m never going to be able to buy memory, storage or a GPU for a reasonable price again in the near future.
Google Leans Hard Into Its AI-Winner Status
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-leans-hard-into-its-ai-winner-status-6111835e?st=hnQBTh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m wondering if the bubble is going to lead someone to ramp up production.
The memory makers got caught in big boom bust cycle in the past and likely learned a lesson. I know that Micron said it’s not playing this go around. No idea on the Koreans.
All those tax dollars allocated for our expansion are sitting idle because management won’t build without a certain level of precommits. Which we have not received.
They don’t want to deal with the fascistic elements of the Chips Act?
I thought you made specialty silicon, not commodity chips.
The econuts are protesting any expansion of Micron in my area.
It’s not like upstate New York needs the jobs or anything. 🙄
I am so far out of technology these kinds of words completely escape my fathom hood.
“Now you boys (and girls) have a nice day, speaking in tongues”. OTOH the good news is that there is always no lines and a parking spot at the post office.
I did see, recently, someone buying postal money orders. I was thinking it was for some sort of drug deal.
We make whatever people are willing to pay us enough to make.
Currently you are correct.
I see, a mercenary fab.
Today I was notified of the monthly update for the code editor I use and it’s all AI crap.
I have never seen hype like this in my life. The crash is gonna be bad.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems-ce235b28?st=fXCUbE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I have access to ChatGPT and Copilot at work. My coworkers and I all agree that Copilot is far inferior. We also find that it’s useful, but far from perfect.
I’m supposed to watch 7 hours of instruction on Copilot. Yeah, I have time for that. 🙄
The stuff I work with has garbage for internet documentation, the vendor isn’t going to feed its source code to the AI, and is so reliant on datacenter environment factors that the cloud would have no clue. Our latest bug turned out to be a kerberos issue, not even inside the application – Microsoft patched out the method that was functioning before.