It’s tourney time for real. Prepare for noon to midnight games and some upsets. And across the pond, Liverpool got their shit together finally and are now in the UCL quarterfinals. Newcastle got demolished by Barcelona, and Spuds also got thumped. And that’s about it for sports.
What an odd situation. In Canada, they’d have probably just MAIDed her. Not sure if that’s a word or not, but I’m using it.
This is kind of surprising. I mean the deploying of troops, not the attacks. Question: has Europe ever been more than two generations one way or the other from trying to exterminate the Jews?
The plot thickens. This will be interesting.
He seems stable. I can’t believe the union let him get fired though. That would have never happened if he was in NYC.
Good. We need more like her.
The Hittler Zielinski election is not what I expected this year. Good for the French for not getting hung up on names, I suppose.
This is pretty retarded. So the location should come as no surprise.
Move one more item from the conspiracy theory column to reality. ::sigh::
Well maybe they shouldn’t have allowed all that fraud. Stupid ass NPR.
NIMBYism for the win! If I had to guess, I’d bet this project was going to fill the pockets of some government officials and/or their connected friends. But either way, it’s kind of funny.
Here you go. Something light and fun. And here’s one of my favorites. It just starts off fast and never stops. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
The plot thickens. This will be interesting
Will they paw through his wife’s underwear drawer?
Only if they’re looking for the bare necessities.
(Alternate take: Then they’d be the Unmentionables instead of the Untouchables)
The wife who was killed by ISIS?
Maybe Anubis sent her back?
His wife was killed by the Joos! ISIS was just their patsy!
(this is literally being asserted by the groypers I’m unfortunate enough to encounter).
Nah, the Joos were supporting the Al Nusra guy and I don’t think they get along.
The new one, the one who works for Max Blumenthal
Love that it takes 5 months and formal legal processes to kick someone out of your property. Mark of a “civilized” society that we’re so adverse to harm that we allow those who ignore the laws to tromp all over those who follow them. Progress!
Canada might have MAiD’d her… but might also have recognized her claim to the stolen land of her room or some madness.
Morning all.
She acknowledges that the hospital resides on land that was stolen from the alligators…
Surprised this wasn’t a plot device in The Hospital. I guess that would’ve been ahead of it’s time.
Similar situation at a hospital I worked at. Patient refused to leave. He would need some sort of nursing care outpatient, so he would refuse to talk to social workers and most doctors. When the hospital did manage to find potential skilled nursing facilities patient’s wife would call them say he is a violent threatening ass (he is) and that she would sic his lawyer on them (facility didn’t know the lawyers track record was shit) if they accepted the patient.
I was the patient’s nurse several times because I was a travel nurse and he had burned so many bridges over the prior year with the staff that they were never assigned to him.
This is a top 20 hospital system, so I can only assume it wasnt legal ineptitude but rather the higher ups just didn’t care and didn’t want to face any PR slights.
I think the higher ups were satisfied with the situation once they got him to spot yelling and throwing things at staff. To try to make life less comfortable they banned him from receiving outside food. I really don’t see any way that he left that hospital except in a body bag
So the patient got to be a bump on a log. Watch Tv all day. Sleep when he wanted and initially get all the fast food he wanted. As stated he was forced to only get hospital food eventually but at least he didn’t have to cook.
His wife lived off his disability checks an it was rumored was having an affair. The only task she had to do was bring him fast food initially and call any SNF placements to scare them from taking him
I’m sure the tribes there around 500 BC were perfectly fine leaving the Jews alone. It seems since then, Israel just Gauls them.
Maybe it’s due to AI pogramming?
I say we blame it on the Romans!
What have they ever done for us?
Blame it on the stars that shine at night.
“direct oral suction”
Phrasing? It’s rare that the whole ritual gets attention in the press.
OMWC hardest hit….
OMWC?
The story didn’t mention Greta Thunberg at all. Or fun butt stuff.
“So the location should come as no surprise.”
One thing I absolutely do not like living close to NYC is the light pollution. The only things in the night sky I can generally see is the moon and the planets.
I couldn’t care less but I am a bit baffled here. The Manhattan Borough President is not a legislative position – it is a figurehead.
I’m guessing you’ll just have to live with the light. 😞
I read it as the turkey proposed the legislation (while in the legislature) and has since left and become Borough President. Could be wrong… but that was the only thing that made even a little sense out of that article.
Perhaps.
I would like to think that even the braindead luminaries in my current state would not impose that insanely expensive and completely unnecessary bullshit but all bets are off these days.
If my neighborhood ever tries to enforce the covenants I’m going to do one of two things, make a motion to dismiss the entire structure as there has never been enforcement or a body setup for over 20 years, or introduce a dark sky rule and shit every asshole with their tens of thousands of lumens in blue LEDs on all night down.
I get anger. I get psychological damage. I don’t really get posting crap like this on the internet unless you’re looking to suicide by cop. Of course, I don’t get all of the TikTok videos where people seem to enjoy making it clear what pathetic losers they are either…. just because you can post stuff online doesn’t mean you should, younger generations…. Funny how we had a better sense of that before the Eternal September.
“Thomas Keller, the chef-owner of French Laundry, attended a Yountville Town Council meeting on March 3, 2026, to discuss the proposed Yountville Commons affordable housing project in Yountville, Calif. ”
In his chef’s whites – naturally.
At least he bared his head in respect…. didn’t want them to see him toque’d off.
His clothing matched his supremacy?
I’m guessing in addition to graft, the project is intended to spite residents who thought they had escaped living near the poors.
IIRC wasn’t it Obama who plotted to put Section 8 housing in every town in America?
Only in the towns that vote the wrong way.
They wanted that in every neighborhood. They claimed that putting poor ppl in middle class neighborhoods would magically transform those poor ppl into high-functioning, productive citizens. Just like they claimed that dumping a bunch of tribal third-worlders into America would magically transform them into civilized ppl. In reality, it was always about punishing the successful.
“They claimed that putting poor ppl in middle class neighborhoods would magically transform those poor ppl into high-functioning, productive citizens.”
Forced bussing was so successful at making kids smart, so it was reasonable to think this. I guess.
Yountville voted the correct way.
respect his authority
Eh, I wager he came right from the kitchen and was headed straight back there. The dude puts in the hours.
“We love you chef!”
If he worked for Fauchi he would have shown up in his lab coat.
For Texas that’s merciful, isn’t it? I would have thought “start at 6 feet, clerk gets a loaded .45… see if you can dodge the rounds” was a more standard Texas punishment….
I like that he’s described as a shoplifter…🙄
I beat a ticket in east Texas because a court certified copy of an accident report wasn’t made available to me in a timely manner. The state trooper that cited me was pissed. As I was leaving, the clerk “joked” they were going to give me a 5 minute head start.
I had to threaten to do that a few times, and once we actually did file trespass paperwork on a patient who wouldn’t leave after being discharged.
Is the hospital feeding the (ex-)patient? I get how regular squatters operate, but this one is a new twist!
Oddly, my proposal that we cut off the TV and food service to the room was rejected.
Funny about that! That’s what I would asked too.
Lock the TV to a kids channel with no way to turn off.
Or CNN.
I would cut off TV, food service, and remove all furnishings; bed, call button, blinds, everything. Let’s see how long someone wants to stay in an empty room. If anything goes in, housekeeping removes it first time she goes to the crapper.
The beds have wheels right? Wheel them down to the morgue or the ER waiting area.
Wheel them to Psychiatry. Something is off is you want to live in a hospital.
Oh no…. the enviro-wackos aren’t trying to regress humanity to the Stone Age… not at all… never happen…
(Ok, that said — I’m not overly fond of light pollution either. From a purely utilitarian perspective, light that isn’t illuminating things at ground level (i.e. what goes up and makes us lit from space level and all) is really wasted energy, after all. Better lighting / more efficient / more directional is cool… but as with most things, that should be market decisions where it makes sense, and nothing above local government level if it must be a public lands thing).
Even lights directed downwards reflect back up. Light is tricky like that.
My brain is just flashing to the Fleet of Worlds and waste heat now…. some energy leakage is mandated by physics and all.
The big thing I’m against in lighting is LEDs.
They are not good for your health, especially at night.
Some people don’t care.
Property rights end at the property line, if what you do crosses the property line only then do your neighbors have a legitimate cause. My county has no noise ordinance and I’d like to keep it that way, so I shut off the radio at 6pm when I’m working outside and generally keep it down.
I turn off all my outside lights unless I need them to do a specific task at night.
New neighbors just leave the damn things on. They are outside here pushing rock around with their tractor but the lights are on all night
And have ended stargazing in my neighborhood completely. https://ibb.co/FqzB9yYW
Certainly one more “ritual” that reads a lot like “some messed up priest wanted to do this back in the day, so wrote it in” (rather like the “God’s portion is shared with the priests and is a good BBQ” that most of the MidEast seemed to be in on back in the day… I think the Greeks at least gave the gods the offal and the “thigh bones wrapped in fat” which might have deprived them of some good stews, but not the briskets… OMWC will doubtless point me to a Jews Day Tuesday archive that sets me straight on some things I’m misremembering on how this works now…)
The hospital has repeatedly made efforts to coordinate her departure with family members and offered transportation to obtain necessary identification, the lawsuit said.
Yeah, there’s other things going on here.
“Let’s not argue and moan about who defrauded who….. The important thing is that we’re entitled to your money, in a very real and legal sense!” (Our government has long since burned down, fell over and sank into The Swamp….)
First, can I get an eyeroll for “spent years planning”?
Second, why do I doubt you have to show proof of employment to live there?
[eyeroll]
“Yeah, sure I’m what you’d call, self-employed. That’s it.”
“workers”
Yeah, that’s an old lefty trick. Housing for “workers” really means housing for the homeless or mentally ill and maybe some actual working people.
See also: “The Working Families Party” – a commie front group here in NY
They called it “worker housing”, copied from Europe, but people here with jobs called it “the projects” and did anything they could to live anywhere else.
and Spuds also got thumped
¿Que?
They won, albeit not by enough to advance.
So much for a Championship team in the Champions League next year.
They are so laughably predictable. Must be a day ending in -y.
Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: ‘We Can Trust You Now’
I’m waiting them to attach his new aircraft to some carrier aircraft, release it, and glide for a landing. After that put a splashy video like it flew under its own power. One of the many things I’m unhappy Trump did was this guy’s pardon.
https://www.wsj.com/business/trevor-milton-pardon-nikola-trump-3163e19c?st=fzVsHP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Reference:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54161343
I wish pardons were more like nominations requiring confirmation than a plenary power.
The King must be able to dispense some favors after all!
Saying the quiet part out loud?
WSJ editorial board says no point!!!!!!
That kind of cowardice and evasion of responsibility by a legislator should be treated as a criminal act. Unfortunately that would require that legislators have the courage to live up to their oath of office.
It would also require voters not to be the predictable assholes they actually are.
It would also require the political parties to stop nominating morally bankrupt sorry-ass wet noodles for public office. They’re moral cowards and grandstanders because it’s their role to oppose anything that reduces the amount of grift going on.
We moght have to debate ideas, defend policy and you know, be a representative! How dare you!
Congress was designed to be the “first among equals” of the three branches. Actually, the three branches were never intended to be “co-equal” at all. The systemic institutional failure of Congress to fulfill its role is one of the fundamental problems afflicting this country.
And short of dissolving the government entirely, there is no fix for it. Sure, theoretically you could vote out the entire current population of Congress and replace them with people who are willing to shoulder responsibility, but that ain’t gonna happen.
In addition to all the overnight drama in the Middle East – look what’s coming next week!
The Marine Corps unit expected to arrive in the Middle East next week could help seize Iran’s strategically important islands near the strait
https://www.wsj.com/world/iran-war-us-marines-strait-of-hormuz-b1d7c249?st=Kqv8WQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Pure insanity. I hope somebody can talk sense into Trump before they march off into the Tutenburg Forest.
It’s gonna happen. Trump’s a deluded tard who’s under immense pressure. It’s a good bet he’s going to do the stupidest thing short of using nukes.
From what I can tell, Iran hasn’t really closed Hormuz, and is letting certain ships through, including a few carrying oil to China in violation of sanctions.
My question: the purpose of seizing Kharg is to cut off Iran’s oil exports. Can’t we do that by closing Hormuz ourselves?
Driving global oil prices even higher?
That would require strategic implementation beyond superior air power.
While we have the vast edge in navel power too, getting other nations to protect their vital imports also seems to be the hangup in securing the strait.
Like seizing Kharg wouldn’t impact oil prices?
There’s another scenario that just came to mind – to stop potential sabotage by regime agents who conclude the war is lost and want to deliver a “fuck you” to whoever gets the country afterwards. Their ranged capacity is ever diminishing, but someone on the ground could still ‘scuttle’ the facilities.
I’m not talking about securing Hormuz. I’m talking about cutting off Iran’s oil exports. Of the two options for doing so, seizing Kharg seems far and away the hardest and riskiest.
The current situation, where Iran can keep exporting oil to fund the regime and nobody else can get oil through the strait, seems the worst of all possible worlds.
India is desperate for fuel. They are escorting their oil tankers (paid for in yuan) to India. Are we going to try to interdict the Indian Navy?
I would think building a canal through the UAE and Oman south of the strait would just end Iran’s permanent threat vis-a-vis closing the strait.
I say that knowing nothing about how likely it would be, but it’s something I would have looked into about, oh, 47 years ago.
There are mountains there that would make it prohibitive.
Now, a pipeline could probably be made to work, but you would need terminals at each end that would be targets just as phat as, well, Kharg.
Well, crap. Thanks for the info.
Shorter than the Panama Canal and no more mountainous. It could be done, all within the UAE.
Now, a pipeline could probably be made to work, but you would need terminals at each end that would be targets just as phat as, well, Kharg.
Since 2012. The Saudis also have a pipeline to bypass the Straits. The Saudi’s pipeline goes to the Red Sea.
On the UAE Pipeline, Iran has targeted the infrastructure around the east end of the pipeline.
Plus building a canal there wouldn’t involve a wet tropical climate, dealing with a Chagres River, Malaria, Yellow Fever, and collapsing mountainsides. Just drought and horrible heat.
But I agree with RC that a pipeline sounds much more practical (and defensible).
Good solutions that would take years to build (assuming Iran and the Houtis don’t blast the construction). Not going to alleviate the incoming pain on energy.
I bet you’d forgotten that these dumbshits were still around.
Hmm, perhaps sanctioning a union that knowingly admits illegal laborers should be on the table?
I could never forget that outfit – one of the worst of the lot. Always causing trouble everywhere.
Actually, I was more making fun of In These Times but I see the quote causing the confusion.
Oh. I don’t know what In These Times is.
Just recall the SEIU being a particularly vile example of its kind – up there with teachers’ unions.
Seems legit
No, no, no. Cubes removed from the past to sell in the current will have a net zero impact on the amount of mass involved. there will just be a period with less mass hanging around. The problems will be that the lower mass will cause the Earth to slip out of its orbit to a more distant one and spiral us into an ice age.
But if the loss of mass is not evenly distributed then the earth will wobble in its rotation, causing the planet to flip into its side like Uranus. Then the seasons are all screwed up, agriculture collapses, and the human race is destroyed before the time travelers return to the present with their stolen Rubik’s Cubes.
And thus Paul Erlich was right all along!
In the least important controversy these days, the local press is still discussing the problem that Romania’s eurovision song entry called Choke Me glorifies dangerous practice of erotic asphyxiation. This made me ask the real question: has any glib listen to it and what is the official glibertarian opinion etc.
Alexandra Căpitănescu – Choke Me | Romania 🇷🇴 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0YmI0dPb8
Eurovision?!? Not since ABBA…
I have never heard of it, and would rather not listen to anything being submitted to Eurovision. Such is the negative reputation of the contest.
Wrong side of the hot/crazy line for me.
It it as entertaining as that song/video Poland (I think) put out that had hotties churning butter suggestively?
First time listening. I’m getting a real Halestorm vibe from her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA&pp=ygUJaGFsZXN0b3Jt
I like the “Diva Dance” bits.
I remember when I was an undergrad and some guys being weirded out by their girlfriends wanting to be choked during sex.
and you swooped in a chocked em yourself?
No, that would be weird for DEG to choke the dudes while the dudes are otherwise occupied with the girls.
She’s not convincing me that Romania isn’t full of vampyres.
I imagine that a Eurovisioner’s idea of southern rock and mine are different.
southern – Europe, America, Africa ? who knows
Just like “country” music.
What country?
I was expecting Romanian, not English. If you’re celebrating Europa or whatever.
I think a majority of Eurovision songs are in English.
I’m trying to figure out how to properly describe the very particular flavor of contempt I have for this guy.
There is an absense of logic between those statements.
Only sissies use hammers! Or nails! Real men push boards together until they fuse!
Its the big truck=smol penis argument but applied to gunz.
🙄
Let me guess, they’re also scared by thunderstorms, Golden Retrievers, and sporks.
And clapping. Any kind of clapping or unusual noise. Hence the push towards Jazz Hands.
Oh wait, sudden unexpected motion can be triggering . . .
Which link is that from?
The NYP “Spanish teacher threatens school superintendant.”
Ah. So less coward, more asshole.
I wonder if there are any other useful tools this guy holds in such regard.
Ketanji Brown Jackson?
[golf clap]
[joins in the golf clap]
This is an example of what I call viewpoint delegitimization. There is no legitimate argument for anything opposed to leftist orthodoxy. It also dovetails with gaslighting and projection, and is Orwellian.
You are not allowed to have legitimate concern for your own safety based on the increasing random violence in our society. No, your desire to have a gun is based on irrational fear.
You are not allowed to have legitimate concern about biological males in womens’ restrooms and changing rooms. Your opposition to that is based on ignorance and irrational fear.
Etc.
Yeah, all the trendy so-called “phobias” are like this now.
Moralism. I have good morals and if you oppose me it is because you have bad ones.
A perfect piece of earnings release BINGO from General Mills.
“We expected this reinvestment approach—along with the impact of divestitures and timing headwinds—would pressure our sales and earnings through our first three quarters,” Chief Executive Jeff Harmening said in prepared remarks Wednesday.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/general-mills-posts-lower-profit-sales-amid-turnaround-0dca77e0?st=NbCY1Z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Commentary from them and Cheesecake Factory this AM suggest that MAHA is having an impact. When Team Blue regains control these same companies will whipsaw in the exact opposite direction for the next fad. You wouldn’t to stick to your core competencies.
Lately I’m not sure corporations have core competencies any more than government does.
They are all on the coattails of bad government policy propping them up.
New food pyramid directly impacts school meals, prison, and hospitals.
Good.
Ukrainians sometimes add traditional motifs. Romanians paint their balconies in random colours (which you can do individually as planning laws currently mostly allow this).
https://x.com/doktor_val/status/2034604864081141805
I am generally against strict planning laws but the way Romanians painted their apartment buildings is a steelman argument for strict planning laws.
Although I’m in an HOA, siding, trim, doors, and all are various colors. When I received a notice that my garage and foundation needed repainting I changed the colors of both.
“What are you doing looking at my house?”
(-.-)
HOA Karen drops neighbors Ford GT500 off lift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0G7gZ906AE
Hopefully she had to sell her property to pay the damages.
This was very obvious AI.
Although honestly, not a bad representation of HOA Karens.
You have to paint the concrete foundation?!
That just adds unnecessary maintenance.
Hegseth – we need to keep burning through cash – give us another $200 billion.
https://x.com/i/status/2034614182914470278
Wasn’t he supposed to be a change of pace as the top military dog?
“It takes money to kill bad guys.”
He has the same oratory skills as his boss. 🙄
Damnit, there go the tariff refund checks but stupid unnecessary wars ain’t cheap.
Please tell me (((you people))) have a Do Not Suck list where you can banish herpetic mohels.
Today, Green Party leader Zack Polanski outlined his economic philosophy at an event organised by the New Economics Foundation (NEF). I will not pretend that I was listening with a completely open mind: I mostly made up my mind about Zackonomics on the day when Polanski said that his three favourite economists were Gary Stevenson, Richard Murphy and Grace Blakeley.
My issue with that is not that all three of those are completely wrong about economics (although they are). It’s that they are all wrong in very different, and mutually incompatible ways. You can be a fan of each of them in isolation (although you really shouldn’t), but you cannot, in a meaningful way, be a fan of all three of them at the same time.
Stevenson believes that wealth inequality is the source of all of the world’s problems: he thinks the billionaires are hoarding all the wealth, not leaving anything for the rest of us. His solution, therefore, is to tax their wealth in a punitive way.
Richard Murphy, on the other hand, is a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He believes that governments can print as much money as they like, and that they do not need tax revenue to finance spending. This would make a wealth tax superfluous, or even actively harmful, because it entrenches the idea that taxes fund spending.
Grace Blakeley, meanwhile, is an orthodox, Bolshevik-style Marxist-Leninist. She believes that capitalism is like The Matrix, with the capitalist class in the role of the machines. In that worldview, discussions about different monetary or fiscal regimes are, of course, completely moot, because these are all just changes within the Matrix.
How can anyone be attracted to all three of those philosophies at the same time? That’s very simple: all three are vaguely fashionable, and at the end of the day, that is all Zackonomics really is: a “greatest hits” album of fashionable platitudes.
https://thecritic.co.uk/zackonomics-is-incoherent-and-outdated/
fuck it might as well
OK, why would anyone expect some kind of intellectual coherence from a Green leader?
Just playing to the base.
people expected more from this green leader because unlike others who had bullshit jobs before politics, he had the important work of increasing women’s breasts via hypnosis, charging 200 pounds a session for his services.
One shouldn’t, but see Tonio’s comments on viewpoint normalization.
The media happily normalizes Green Party evils, as well as cranks like Richard Murphy.
Islamic terrorist attacks are just blowback from America’s GWOT, which was just blowback from 9/11, which was just blowback from America supporting Israel, which was just blowback from the Ottomans fighting against America and Britain in WW1, which was just blowback from Britain seizing Egypt and supporting Greek freedom from the Ottomans, which was just blowback from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and hundreds of years of oppression, which was just blowback from the Crusades, which were just blowback from the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, which was just blowback from the Byzantine Empire’s expansion into Syria …
https://x.com/romanhelmetguy/status/2033582174599786861
So, what you’re saying is, instead of exiling Mo, the pagan arabs should have just executed him and saved the world fourteen hundred years of hassle?
Ask the Romans how that worked out with that other guy in the the mid-east.
Exceptionally well? Foundation of the greatest civilization to date? I’m not sure an ideology of conquest and domination survives it’s founder’s immediate execution the same way.
I specifically said to ask the Romans – there is a credible argument about the role the conversion to Christianity played in the demise of Rome.
I do not find the argument all that credible tbh. The crisis of the third century happened before. I do not think Rome was on the brink of a comeback.
I don’t see it JI – how about you make the argument. Rome was falling beforehand, and after conversion half of it survived another thousand years.
Personally, I don’t think the Roman government was ever stable. The Republic was always teetering and troubled, never mind how it became the Empire – in that sense it was a lousy object model for our own government.
Nietzsche seemed to believe that the religious transformation was highly detrimental.
Can we have one more crusade?
A last one?
Maybe a final one?
The House of Lords has voted to DECRIMINALISE ABORTION AT ANY STAGE OF PREGNANCY by a close margin.
https://x.com/spucprolife/status/2034409361678946815
Might as well extend it a few years after birth. Why not.
Don’t restrict that decision to the mother either. Other passengers on the airplane should also be able to elect to abort that baby.
ok good one
Because England’s slow-motion suicide isn’t proceeding quickly enough…?
Blood for Baal with an extended pinky and an ascot. The Phoenicians did it better.
I’m listening to a case from South Korea where a woman got a late-term “abortion” in which the doctor put the viable baby in a freezer to die:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15613907/Woman-murder-abortion-36-weeks-delivering-live-baby-docs-freezer-die.html
Some evil lady from Amnesty International is trying to blame this on the government.
At least through the 75th trimester.
Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
https://x.com/simongerman600/status/2034525420050161983
checkmate americans stupid acres
Just as a foot was some random guy’s foot, an acre is some random team of oxen plowing a field for a day.
my dick is not 12 inches but smells like a foot was an old saying
Wait until you see a land deed whose measurements involve chains and rods.
Hah! Most of us growing up in Australia knew that a chain was 22 yards because that was (and still is) the official length of a cricket pitch.
I vaguely remember learning furlongs and a few other imperial measurements. But Oz went metric when I was in grade school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selion
It coms from feudal agriculture. a Selion was a plot of land worked by a serf, 1 furlong by 1 chain (or 4 rods). A furlong was generally how far an ox could pull a plow before it needed to rest — about 660 feet or so. The rods the plowmen used to steer the ox were about 16.5 feet long. 4 rods was 66 feet. A selion was one acre of land.
How many square giraffes is that?
Are we talking metric giraffes?
You use spherical giraffes in metric.
You can’t use a metric giraffe in this context. You end up with a value in deciliters per light year.
Assume a spherical giraffe….
My garden is 16.7 square rods. How much chain link fence will be required, if the long side is a 100 feet?
The biggest stupidity in the measurement wars are people who believe the average person needs to convert between units instead of just needing standard units.
The measurement wars are 99% people with no actual intellectual accomplishments trying to bolster their ego by association with something they perceive as scientific.
A PINT IS 568 mL !!!!!!
A pint is a pound, world around.
you’d be lucky to find it for 5 pounds outside a Wetherspoons
These days, that’s cheap beer.
A pint of tungsten isn’t
I assume you mean wolfram
Sorry, I meant to say children of the night metal.
An acre is a useful unit of measurement. It is based on actual work and the space needed to feed one person for one year.
A hectare is based on some random length murderous frenchment picked because they hated everything that had been built before.
work and the space needed to feed one person for one year – in every country for every crop I assume?
In every country that mattered when it was defined.
you are saying french plowmen were lazier than english, or just ate less?
A: France doesn’t matter.
B: of course they’re lazier.
C: they had no choice, if you don’t grow enough to cover yourself and the church and the segnior, and the king, and…
The French had longer rods than the English.
space needed to feed one person for one year
Well then, promising 40 acres and a mule was quite generous wasn’t it?
I said it was based on that space, not that it was that space.
But I was mistaken, it was based on plow time.
The hide was the unit based on feeding people.
Mea Culpa.
Also the Japanese koku, which was the amount of rice needed to feed a person for a year, which doubled as the monetary unit.
Farmers literally grew money!
Well, it makes sense.
Taxes predate currency, so taxes had to be paid in food. Food was paid to gain the services of people who didn’t grow it. The food per person per year is a good measure for how much those services are valued. Carrying it over to minted currency was the simplest action.
Also, the yield per acre of wheat in 1800 was only 20 bushels. I think today it hovers around 60. I found these data points trying to validate my mistaken memory.
Can we all at least agree that people use different measurements but the MM DD YYYY format is retarded?
No.
If you’re not using the ISO standard format (2026-03-19) I have to question your ability to live in a civilized society.
Commas instead of periods to mark decimal places is also tarded.
Commas instead of periods to mark decimal places is also tarded.
I can adjust to the different date formats, but I have to agree here.
the commas thing is so annoying. also saving comma separate value files from excel with ;
This.
Military Date Time Group …
Hear me out…..
Metric time
Conserving Sumerian time is the most conservative value of all.
So, why do you need “hectare” if you’ve already got 10^4(m^2)? Why are you adding derivative units when your whole point was (supposedly) simplification? And why would you use 10^4 when everything else in your system is 10^3?
Because you want an even exponent for area which is inherently 2 dimensional? Just as you want a power of 3 exponent for volume which is inherently 3 dimensional?
They wanted it to be bigger than an acre since the kilometer turned out to be shorter than a mile.
So what you’re saying is square kilometers would be sane? Again, what is the purpose of hectares?
It’s almost like OG units were based around being convenient and useful whereas metric is about imposing order on the peasantry. –
No, using square kilometers would be useless.
I always thought the reason for “hectare” is that it is reasonably close in size to “acre”.
Next thing you’re going to tell me is that the meter was chosen because it was as close to a yard as they could get by juggling coefficients and various distances.
I seem to recall a wise man once writing “a meter is a froggy yard.”
Measurements before metric and tractors.
I hate having blood drawn.
That is all.
well liking it is not relevant.
You know, comments like this really don’t help your efforts to push back against the vampire thing.
You’re biased.
The phlebotomist at my doc’s office is pretty great. She has very good hands.
But if she looked and dressed like a sexy vampire, the whole experience could just be that much better…
There are goth themed restaurants, but a goth hospital?
Holy market opportunity, Batman! Why has nobody thought of this?
Welcome to Silent Hill Tater.
Try having it photographed instead.
Juan Carlos Pino, a Cuban mechanic, has modified a 1980 Fiat Polski to run on charcoal due to U.S. sanctions cutting off oil shipments.
https://x.com/PiQNewswire/status/2034572842541752604
that is probably good for the climate. Greta approves.
Reason #477671678736456732582 to hate K-Slop music:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kpop-fans-crash-service-lines-south-koreas-900-bln-pension-fund-over-boy-band-2026-03-19/
Now all we have to do is convince S. Korean fans that Iran is responsible for Enhyphen’s dissolution.
Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften
Nøglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortæller nu for første gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage Grønland “på den hårde måde”.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forberedte-sig-paa-muligt-angreb-fra-usa-floej-poser-med-blod-til-groenland-og-gjorde-klar
Not enough pictures like this.
Talk about crime busting.
They stopped the bad man.
From Arkhaven, a delightful piece about Firefly, and the potential animated continuation series… Caution – some mild spoilers if you haven’t read the comics.
My favorite quote:
Let the zombie series die.
Put it out of our misery.
I don’t think that your misery can be fixed. Only shared.
I loved firefly but am ambivalent about it coming back after all these years. I don;t really do comics so just the series and the movie though.
The comics (I own them all) basically explore all the plot threads that Joss Whedon wanted to do in the TV series. The big one got wrapped up in the movie, which means that a continuation series would likely have to de-canonize it.
I share your ambivalence, just because I have no faith that anything good can come out of Hollywood right now. But…against all odds, Hollywood does occasionally come out with a banger. I have every intention of seeing Project Hail Mary in the theater. So, I’m willing to give a Firefly continuation a fair shot.
The Drinker gave a rave review on Project Hail Mary and I guess if you ignore the insane basis for the movie (our sun is dying), then okay, but that’s a big ask in my book.
Eh, that’s the same scenario in the final episode of B5.
I have long thought animated was the way to go with Firefly.
A møøse bit Pie’s sister once.
vamoose?
Looks like two more lost Doctor Who episodes were found, both are William Hartnell episodes:
https://www.oann.com/entertainment/two-long-lost-episodes-of-doctor-who-have-been-found-fans-will-soon-be-able-to-watch-them/
Washing machines are the *only* modern invention which every single Amish group has embraced at least to some extent
Washing clothes is truly the worst chore without modern technology, bar none
https://x.com/atlanticesque/status/2034071186267603383
I had a 3 month period in my younger days in which I had no access to a washing machine. Hand washing clothing is not fun.
My parents knew a old woman a long time ago who was against washing machines saying that you should only wash clothes in the river as was the way in her youth.
Either she was mentally ill, or too proud to admit she couldn’t afford one and wanted to masquerade it as a choice with faux moral superiority.
Stay near running water for safety?
The Real Marines who did boot camp at MCRD San Diego got to spend an hour every week (or so) washing their clothes by hand at some cement troughs between the barracks. The WM’s (women Marines) who went to boot camp at Parris Island got to use washing machines.
In truth, washing your clothes by hand outside at the trough wasn’t too bad. The DI’s pretty much left you alone. Being in San Diego meant that the weather was almost always nice. Not a bad way to spend an hour.
Army Basic Training had weekly laundry service.
Army basic for me had washers and dryers. We did our own and had to stay there to make sure no one stole our stuff.
“House Bill 5524 would prohibit restaurants and other food service businesses from using polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, for takeout, while also limiting items like utensils, napkins and straws.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/lifestyle/connecticut-proposed-to-go-packaging-ban-worrying-restaurants/
Just put the food directly in the customer’s mouths. Works for birds.
Bring your own container like for stores?
microplastic free !!!!
Sadly, imitating Japanese culture isn’t going to make us more like Japan.
Yes, but I’d like to try packaging plastic within plastic with extra plastic bags for later all the same.
Four years on, however, there is evidence that New Jersey’s bag prohibition not only failed to curb plastic usage, it backfired. According to a new study released on January 9 by the Freedonia Group, 53 million pounds worth of plastic shopping bags were used in New Jersey prior to implementation of the state’s bag ban, a figure that has risen to 151 million pounds since the prohibition was instituted.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2024/01/22/new-jersey-bag-ban-followed-by-increased-use-of-plastic/
They had the best of intentions however!
If the goal is grift the failure is opportunity to expand. Witness the Pacific trash crisis that is a direct result of recycling programs shipping trash to China which immediately recycled the valuable parts and dumped the plastic in various rivers.
I love the restaurant owners complaining about how it will ruin them. As if they are any concern whatsoever when there is eco-virtue to signal.
I’ve managed bars and restaurants. Let the legislators try if they think it’s so easy.
That’s getting too cheep!
“Sydney Sweeney is a boudoir ballerina in latest seductive lingerie pics”
https://pagesix.com/2026/03/18/style/sydney-sweeney-is-a-boudoir-ballerina-in-latest-seductive-lingerie-pics/
They hate us for our freedom.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15658817/Sydney-Sweeney-stuns-pink-sexy-new-SYRN-lingerie-drop.html
Dilemma
Norway has also made clear that it is already operating close to maximum output. This presents a dilemma for the EU because increasing supply would require new exploration and investment.
Oslo suggests the EU is shooting itself in the foot with plans to put an end to oil and gas development in the European Arctic as part of a push to mitigate climate change. It points out that Russia has huge plans to expand liquefied natural gas production in the Russian Arctic.
Norway is lobbying Brussels hard to change its policies. This is just one of a host of ways environmental decisions are being sucked into the vortex that is Europe’s energy debate.
The hunt for short-term answers will dominate Thursday’s EU summit. There is deep concern among a number of leaders that spiralling energy and possible inflationary rises, (coupled with possible refugee influxes to Europe on the back of the growing Middle East crisis) will alienate voters and play into the hands of populist nationalist politicians on the right and left of the European political spectrum.
Rationing and price controls will fix it. And making right wing populism illegal.
It is heartwarming to see that reality is finally biting ecotards in the ass. The “green new deal” is dead – not everyone is accepting that reality yet but it’s coming fast. I wasn’t sure I would live to see it happen.
today in fitness
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1549781089847308&set=pcb.1549781393180611
Don’t skip goon day?
“Donald Trump threatens new war with China over flirty skater skirts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15652001/donald-trump-sues-chinese-fashion-brand-initials-trademark-djt.html
STIJLTH
https://imgur.com/gallery/car-talk-with-martok-dump-qbp91fw
Hah!
My goodness, how have I not seen this before?
“Lunatic Megyn Kelly is FINALLY ruined! Her appalling X-rated smear of my friend proves it… but now I know her truly disturbing plan: JOSH HAMMER
So she cozied up to the utterly deranged Owens and the Nazi-sympathizing Carlson. She’s gone out of her way to pick fights with a number of public-facing Jews in media, such as Bari Weiss, Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin and even yours truly.
Now, she’s at war with perhaps the most venerable of all Jewish conservatives, a man who is a noted personal favorite of President Trump’s: Mark Levin.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15657527/megyn-kelly-mark-levin-josh-hammer.html
https://archive.is/3Xc8E
Will you assholes knock it off?
Political commentary, like politics itself, attracts petty narcissists independent from ideological bent. I think this is a big part of why fixing things seems impossible despite a lot of fixes themselves appearing very simple to implement. The people who would have to implement the fixes are not the type of people who fix things.
So only mechanics and tradesmen should be allowed to hold office?
Hmm, I could probably be persuaded to support that rule. At minimum a ban on lawyers or academics holding any policy making or legislative office seems like a good idea.
It could hardly be worse than the crop of malevolent idiots we have now…
Is there a scorecard to keep track of all of this?
Big heist at Prada factory near Venice
‘Commando’ made off with shoes worth hundreds of thousands of euros
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2026/03/19/big-heist-at-prada-factory-near-venice_e5294259-e7e7-4b8d-bb82-c216332e9ac9.html
Do they have anything cute in a 7 Wide with a not-too-high heel?
Those thieves have condemned their soles to Hell!
Not to be arch but shouldn’t you have said heel?
Bite your tongue!
The road to hell must be walked in high heels?
“Controversial manosphere influencer HStikkytokky made a series of crude claims about Piers Morgan’s wife while appearing on his YouTube show.
The social media personality, whose real name is Harrison Sullivan, recently appeared on Louis Theroux’s Inside The Manosphere documentary, which explored the rise of ultra-masculine communities online.
Piers confronted him about a series of comments he made on the Netflix show, including his vow to disown his son if he came out as gay…
The exchange then became personal, with Harrison making a series of disgusting claims about his wife, Celia Walden….
The team at Piers Morgan Uncensored have not released the interview, but the footage emerged online in a livestream Harrison shared on Kick.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15660293/piers-morgan-netflix-manosphere-harrison-sullivan-hstikkytokky.html
Don’t talk to anyone named HStikkytokky.
I would think that was obvious but holy shit chasing clicks must be addictive I guess.
Look in the background? Are the US taxpayers really flying her here?
Japan rejects U.S. report calling PM’s remarks over Taiwan ‘a significant shift’
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/19/japan/politics/japan-takaichi-taiwan-us-report/
Scratch that, maybe JDF logo.
Oh for crying out loud. It’s “white lightening”, sugar and fruit flavor. I enjoy it in the summer over ice, but it’s not exactly aged spirits.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/03/13/food-drink/raising-profile-umeshu/
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“President Donald Trump’s former top counterterrorism official who resigned over the war in Iran said his suspicion piqued when the FBI blocked his investigation into Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Joe Kent, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, went onto Tucker Carlson’s podcast to explain how he lost confidence in Trump, who he believes was duped into the war by Israel….
Kent suggested that there were foreign entities and potentially other domestic powers that were somehow involved in Kirk’s death, but did not provide any evidence or explicitly blame Israel.
Kent did say that Kirk ‘was under a lot of pressure from a lot of pro-Israel donors.’
A law enforcement source familiar with the FBI’s investigation into the assassination told the Daily Mail that Kent would often walk into meetings and make unsupported, outlandish claims that it was foreign actors who killed Kirk.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15660969/Trump-counterterrorism-FBI-Israel-Charlie-Kirk-killing.html
OFFS!
The NCTC moved from IC to LE?
Assuming that this isn’t an administration propaganda op – Kirk certainly wouldn’t be the first SF hitter to have the cheese slide off his cracker…
So he went batshit and joined whatever cult of lunatics that are surrounding Tucker these days. Yeah, I can see that as a final straw for Donald.
What happened to the tranny banger who was arrested for the killing? Why hasn’t that trial started? I can’t imagine it would take all that much investigation.
They’re in pretrial hearing trying to keep it out of the media, disrupt the prosecution team, etc.
The trial has started.
Also, bf was a furry, not trans.
Huh. My media diet has not contained this. I should probably expand it until it does.
I don’t think the toxicity exposure would be healthy if you did that.
“A fitness influencer has been condemned for a vile racist rant she posted online.
Anya Chappell, 21, who has almost 70,000 TikTok followers, filmed herself walking along in a Sunderland shirt yelling racist insults at passersby.
Chappell is seen walking through a town centre yelling into the camera: ‘I want to smash some c*** into next week. We are making friends with all these p*** n*****s.’
A car is heard sounding its horn, which she appears to respond to, shouting back: ‘Aye f*** off, you f***er. Here, I am not being funny, no p*** is telling me what to do.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15658601/fitness-influencer-fury-footage-racist-abuse-viral.html
Paki?
Can’t we just call influencers by the old name – narcissist?
The GOP has thrown Ilhan Omar into the briar patch again.
Congressional ethics probe = [null]
You lack ethics so qualify to serve in Congress.
Trump insinuated
How can anyone question a modest jump in the value of those assets? Unless they are straight up racists!
The sad thing about all this, is that it will only make her more powerful. She is dumb as a box of rocks, but she is a genius at the 5D chess moves of portraying herself as a victim.
Maybe this is all true and we can denaturalize and deport her:
https://x.com/repofsomaliland/status/2034435436874170758?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Sloopy:
Mrs. Holiness is perpetually perplexed about why Omar hasn’t been arrested at the very least. Her preference would be to deport her back to Somalia.
The ideal outcome would be for the Supremes to rule against automatic citizenship for babies born in the US. Then when they prove that Omar lied during her naturalization process, they can deport her and her no good daughter.
I forgot to post this, even though it’s not a link. This company has had AI develop a translation system to take things from English to LinkedIn speak. And it’s fantastic.
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin
Yes, I posted that in yesterday’s afternoon post.
Thanks for giving it another plug. It’s perfect!
It’s fantastic. I only use LinkedIn to post auction stuff, mainly because I find it full of nonsense like the stuff this AI produces.
“Huge thanks for the shout-out! 🚀 Truly appreciate the support—it’s a perfect fit! 🙌 #Networking #Gratitude #ProfessionalGrowth”
LOL!
I stopped signing in there the second I was (re)hired at my current job, but yeah there are certain types who love posting that exact crap. Over and over.
“A Florida trans-identified male public school teacher has launched a fundraising campaign, asking for donations to relocate to Maryland amid a state legislative crackdown on LGBTQ indoctrination in the school system. Saorise Stone, 32, of Orlando, expressed irritation that he has to “self-police” himself in the classroom or risk losing his teacher’s license.
Stone, a high school history and English teacher, said he has to ditch the state “before it’s too late” and hopes to raise $15,000 by June. He cited Florida’s parental rights bill that prohibits the forced use of pronouns in classrooms, the banning of certain books written by “queer authors,” which were axed for inappropriate sexually explicit content, and a recent court ruling that decided sex-change procedures could be excluded from Medicaid coverage.
“My partner and I are trying to raise funds to get out of Florida this Summer. I’m a trans woman and a lesbian, but I’m also a public school teacher in Orlando,” Stone wrote on GoFundMe.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-teacher-launches-gofundme-to-escape-florida-crackdown-on-lgbtq-indoctrination-in-classrooms
Looks like Lilly Wachowski donated $5K?
Of course you are.
You didn’t really think he was a tater, did you?
“Seattle activists and media outlets rushed to frame the arrest of a “pregnant Venezuelan woman” in Seattle, who was “separated from her child” as a vulnerable migrant mother caught in the crosshairs of federal enforcement, but court documents allege she is actually a human trafficker tied to Tren de Aragua (TDA), a violent Venezuelan gang.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-media-paints-glowing-portrait-of-pregnant-venezuelan-ice-detainee-linked-to-tren-de-aragua-sex-trafficking-ring
Washington mom
They were out for a pleasant afternoon stroll.
It’s a mystery
As candidates blame taxes and climate rules for high gas prices, experts point to a more complicated, less politically convenient reality: The recent spike is largely driven by a global oil shock tied to the war with Iran, not state policy.
Nevertheless the war increases a deeper vulnerability for California, where gas prices climbed above $5.50 a gallon Tuesday compared to nearly $3.80 nationally: As refinery capacity declines and reliance on imports grows, global disruptions can trigger higher prices in California than anywhere else.
“The current increase is almost entirely due to global oil markets,” said Paasha Mahdavi, a UC Santa Barbara political science professor and energy policy expert. “The problem, though … is that our starting point is so much higher than nationally.”
State analyses show California’s higher gas prices come not only from taxes and climate programs but also a large remaining “mystery surcharge,” an unexplained markup oil companies add to gasoline prices.
It couldn’t be that the cost of doing business in California manifests itself layer by layer in every transaction.
You know, like a sort of “value destruction tax”.
“While reimposed restrictions on abortion pills could energize Democratic turnout in the midterms, just as Dobbs energized voters to protect abortion in states with GOP-controlled legislatures, SBA Pro-Life America warned the GOP is facing a electoral clobbering if the Trump administration doesn’t restrict abortion pills.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/abortion/justice-departments-attack-red-states-widens-gop-rift-abortion-pill-rules
doubt
I have to agree Tater, I do not think this is a hot issue in this election.