So this has been bullshit. Excellent trip to the coast. After the second day on the road home, my foot blew up, starting with a swollen ankle. This time the right foot. I’ve been hobbled for days. I’m fearing a chronic problem at this point.
Just so happens I have my annual physical during this episode. Doc says, “I’m going to check your uric acid level”. Yep, after a four year hiatus, I’m back on gout meds. I went from crutches to walking without assistance in 24 hours. “Alas poor Uric, for I knew him well.”
Links?
It’s now negotiations by committee.
It appears the tide is turning. The size of Gavin’s stick seems to have been exaggerated.
$20 all you can eat is not the same as downtown.
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
I think this cool photo gives a good idea why the new engine is badass.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time for a cocktail on the patio. Peace out, Glibbies.
I’m glad the meds are working so well. Hope they aren’t hideously expensive and/or have icky side effects.
That’s the one med I won’t quit because goddam gout is awful.
What messed me up is that flare ups weren’t exhibiting the way I was used to. I don’t want to be on allopurinol because it’s hard on the kidneys, but I’m a lifer.
Yeah, one of my first outbreaks was up in the ankle not down toward the toes. I hate taking pills as a routine, but for me there is no way to control it otherwise.
Wildlife crossing
Albon was exiting Turn 7 during practice when a groundhog ran across the circuit and under the front left wheel his Williams.
The impact with the animal appeared to force the car wide on the exit of the corner and, with no real run-off beyond the edge of the track, Albon crashed heavily into the barrier.
“Alex came around Turn 7 and unfortunately couldn’t avoid a groundhog,” a Williams spokesperson said when asked about the incident, which was not shown on Formula 1’s world feed.
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“Following the incident in FP1 involving wildlife on track, Alex will not run in this afternoon’s sprint qualifying session,” a team statement said. “Despite the best efforts of the team to repair the car, the damage sustained was far more extensive than originally thought, requiring the gearbox and PU [power unit] to be replaced.
Good thing it wasn’t a moose.
Smaller than a deer just drive through it.
Euro weenie cars are not robust.
A møøse once bit my sister.
+1 wonder llama
In the wake of several close elections and a few Republican upsets, Democratic Party elites are increasingly embracing rhetoric that suggests a growing contempt for the will of the voters and an eagerness to circumvent the democratic process to beat the opposition party.
They are dealing with an electorate too ignorant and pigheaded to comprehend the bottomless pit of evil which is Donald Trump. What do you expect hem to do?
Still, it is likely they pick up 20 seats in November.
Not a pleasant prospect but it’s going to get interesting for Team Blue after the 2030 reapportionment of House seats.
Idaho gets one more.
When Boise gets split out I bet it’s another Democrat.
Spud, first thing I checked was the number of toe nails. You have a lot more than I have.
I wish gout meds would cure my ambulatory problems but we live with what we have.
Good that you’re back on your feet, so to speak.
Not my feet. I wouldn’t do that to you.
Tease!
Foot fetishist hardest hit.
Yeah, that sounds like an accurate take. 🙄
Why do I get the feeling the flotilla folks are just assholes everywhere they go, as hinted in the article.
Kinda like Palestinians.
Because they’re omnipresent assholes. Insufferable everywhere they go, all of them.
It’s amazing how the people who oppose Israel believe everything these dipshits have to say. Comment after comment online incredulously believing that Israel raped and tortured these privileged little shits with absolutely no physical evidence of any such thing occurring.
I don’t know what these morons even hope to achieve. Most of Europe is on their side. They apparently want the EU to put together an invasion force and topple the Jews completely. They of course won’t be there to fight because they are cowards, but they’ll support it all in spirit.
President Trump is scheduled to have a call with leaders from nations including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan on Saturday.
Trump said that it’s a “solid 50/50” whether he’ll be able to make a “good” deal to end the war with Iran or have to “blow them to kingdom come.”
“How are you guys going to help me out of this mess I made?”
I hope Trump got Netanyahoo’s OK first.
50-50? So a coin toss.
Overall, 35% of the elite 1% said the U.S. had “far too much” individual freedom, compared to 58% of politically active elites who said the same and a mere 4% of voters overall. A further 19% of the elite 1% said the U.S. had “somewhat too much” individual freedom, while another 11% of the politically active elite said the same and just 12% of voters overall did.
“To be sure, ‘freedom’ may sound like a good thing, in theory, but trust me, it’s not. The vast illiterate undisciplined rabble need to be kept on a tight leash.”
So, freedom’s just another word…
Jiyu means freedom in Japanese, but it has connotations of selfishness and irresponsibility, sort of like libertine.
It’s also a girl’s name.
Wa, or harmony, is seen as a higher value. This is the case is most of Asia.
Social justice is turning into the western equivalent of Asian harmony. This is not good.
See what artists want to do with Charlottesville’s melted Confederate statue
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/see-what-artists-want-to-do-with-charlottesville-s-melted-confederate-statue/ar-AA23SsKT
Bill O’Reilly vs Jacob Sullum from the before place on drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSlpftizbE
News to me.
Dictionary says “ freedom, liberty”.
That’s the way I’ve heard it used. But you could say “the lion was walking around freely”. In this case because it is a lion the freedom isn’t a good thing.
I read the freedom vs harmony thing in Hokkaido Highway Blues, probably the funniest book about Japan and the funniest travel book period.
When Macarthur and pals were writing Japan’s postwar constitution, all the mentions of freedom ruffled the feathers of their Japanese counterparts.
Japan’s ruling party for decades, the LDP, has jiyu in its name.
Arab and African countries make a bigger deal out of independence than freedom. Fresh memories of empire and colonialism are the reason, I think.
It’s more the idea in Japan that which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden.
In a tour, for example, you may be allowed to freely wonder, but you would explicitly told so by your guide.
In the U.S. it used to be the opposite, but today much more like Japan.
That pic is like the before and after from the Brainstorm headset. Knocks my socks off!
Last month, Endless Shrimp returned to select Red Lobster locations, but Adamolekun made it clear in a statement to Fox13 the promotion would be for a limited time only.
I hope, for their sake, that the select locations are far, far away from the “changing consumer behavior” demographic.
I know that Red Lobster had been mismanaged for decades before PE came in to pluck the bones of all the remaining meat, but as a nostalgic Gen-Xer, I’m still a little sad that it’s going to be gone soon. Six-year old Shpip loved him some “Danish lobster tails,” much to the Old Man’s chagrin. It was a treat.
I don’t think I have ever been to one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hate seafood so I am OK with that.
Describing Red Lobster as seafood is questionable.
I’m a nostalgic Gen-Xer for eating fresh seafood in Essex Mass. with my dad after a day/weekend of sailing. I have a had time as seeing Red Lobster as anything other than an overpriced Skipper’s.
*squints suspiciously* Minus the swelling, you have an awfully nice foot. (I presume feet?) Solid ankle switch. Graceful.
(I don’t think that’s you. If it is… get healthy and join Costanza on the hand/foot model career path. Possibilities afoot.)
Hairless, smooth.
I expected a few eyes at least.
“At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my
testiclesfeet… there really is nothing like a shornscrotumfoot It’s breathtaking. I highly suggest you try it.”He said it was his right foot, but the pic is a left foot.
I call shenanigans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbtByiZrKqY
If you had reading comprehension, you’d realize he wrote, “This time, the right foot”, which implies that it was the left foot on a previous occasion.
Ah, I see you’re one of those foot truthers.
Gout, the disease of kings!
Some have said my hands are puffy, but I don’t think it’s gout. As far as I can tell, they’ve always been puffy.
I asked a doctor about it, and she said to avoid salt and eating after 7 pm. I tried that and didn’t notice any change.
lol pull the other one, doc
That is awfully rich.
Eeek re the gout. That’s the most surprising diagnosis I’ve ever received. I’m quite sure I didn’t have it particularly bad, but it was an unnerving episode. Whatever meds they gave worked fairly well, quickly, IIRC. Glad you’re back on your feet.
For my spell, I was living weekly in a cheap hotel in Peru, IN while I was with the Tribune. My ankle really hurt and I didn’t recall a fall or anything like that, nothing obvious (to me) about any of it. (The nurse diagnosed it as soon as she saw me, a touch slower than the shingles-nurse a decade-plus before that.)
I went a day or two letting it try to heal, or just go away, cuz I was kinda convinced I was having a *new* type of hallucination, but instead of sounds, smells or sights, it had gone to a ‘pain hallucination,’ and I lost a bit of my mind stewing over that. So I went to the doctor, and it’s comically difficult to express how happy I was that gout was the issue.
Truck on, Spud.
I feel othered.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5892744-defense-secretary-west-point-address/
I do like this administration doing the exact opposite of all the lame woke shit from the last couple Dem administrations.
That’s the big win of Trump. This, fucked as it is, is not just a foot off the gas of Leftdom, but actively braking it. Some legal battles and SCOTUS wins are pushing at least away from previous insanity, if not being pushed towards ‘real’ goals.
President NOT Democrat is still a massive win. I breathe (slightly) easier with the Lefty Kulturkampf not in full gear
Small victories are still victories.
It got weird when I was in the army under Obama. The lesbians all
Got made seargent in my unit and us normies got fucked.
This.
Trump isn’t perfect. He may not even be that good. But he’s broken several machines democrats relied on to enforce their will, and I’m here for it.
Do I like Iran and $4 gas? No. But I like illegals flooding and my tax dollars going to support every fucking progressive cause on the planet even less, and Trump,has broken the apparatus through which those were happening.
A lot still needs to be codified in law, but frameworks like USAID cannot be rebuilt overnight. It will take decades.
The problem I
See
With sec War talking at Westpoint is that the grads are all college grads. Most of them are hard core lefties already.
Where is P Brooks?
I was all in until I realized a 6 inch model is $30!
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bmw-m3-e30-77263
They really have done well
With most of the Speed Champions stuff. I think the price point on them should be $23-25 though.
Schoolmarms find a way to nail the laziest students.
Do the minimal work to feed the prompt into an LLC a little bit at a time — or at the very least, proofread to see if some paragraphs make no sense at all once your AI spits out your homework.
Dropped the whole doc file into the AI. If you cut and pasted it would have more likely stood out.
Nice. I wonder what the prompt said.
“Insert the sentence ‘I am a cheater’ here.”?
Wouldn’t you have to issue the assignment via a computer to make that work?
Children who like to read and learn should get out of junior and high school as quickly as possible. I kind of wish I had.
During one of my brief stints as a Florida high school teacher, I googled the first sentence of a student’s submission and found the rest of it as the first result. It was a creative writing assignment.
[head desk]
Trashy said something the other day about the lack of originality from high schoolers’ mock patent applications.
That’s probably because they used AI to complete the assignment so they could maximize video game playing time.
So many problems could be avoided and much money saved if IQ tests were given at the end of 6th grade, and only the those with IQs of 115 or above moving forward.
The most technologically advanced country in history pretends like intelligence isn’t measurable.
Unbelievable.
On the other hand, this has some entertainment value:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
For fuck’s sake, a motivated 6-year-old is smart enough to graduate from a US high school:
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Michael Kearney (born 1984) is an American game show winner and child prodigy. He is known for setting several world records related to graduating at a young age and his high earnings on television game shows.
Kearney was working at an improv theater group in Nashville, Tennessee, as of 2023.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kearney
I have said for decades now that school should end by the eighth grade. Ninth at the latest for all but the brightest and then from there go directly to college. There is nothing to be gained by going to highschool. It’s just fluff and 12 page papers. Money wasted on sports programs.
Get out after the eighth grade and get to work. Do t waste your life on more school
And not having a career and a family.
College enrollment became a metric to chase. The logic was simple if you are a retard. People who go to college are more successful and earn more ergo if we send everyone, everyone will earn more.
You know, the fact that so many people think college should be not just “free” but open to all is really all the evidence you need that most people don’t belong in college.
But let’s also get one thing out of the way. The main reason we don’t use IQ tests more in any meaningful way is because of the disparate results. Imagine the outrage with a system where children were weeded out by standardized testing completely from the experience of college. Which groups would barely be represented.
The countries that have “free” college limit who gets to go. Our diversity is why that wouldn’t work here when they realize that among the thousands of incoming members of the next freshman class not one is named Jamal.
We have a couple land grant universities that are supposed to be free to attend by the best students who are citizens of the state.
None of that is true, they take everyone and charge. I could imagine they may even be good CLS hoops if they only
Took instate smart kids.
They were cheating the whole fucking time out in the open, with democrat judges providing cover for Democrat districts to cheat their way to permanent Democrat strongholds. They can’t do that anymore, and they know they’re fucked. They actually have to sell ideas, and they know they can’t do that.
I’m late to the party as usual. But OMWC, I look back on meeting SP however briefly and she was likely the most extroverted introvert Ive met.
And I think her ability to draw people out was with strategic pauses in conversation. She seemed to talk just enough then pause, making the other person start babbling.
She was charming, engaging, and clearly very smart- sorry for your loss.
That’s an excellent description based on the one time I met her in person. She also wasn’t shy about asking questions.
I was at the gym late this afternoon today.
I fucked up.
After getting done with the belt squat machine, I left the plates on it. Now, I realized my mistake about ten minutes after I walked away from the belt squat. I went over and fixed my mistake by putting the plates away. Most people wouldn’t go back and clean up after themselves like I did. But, it’s a mistake that I should never have committed.
I have said five Hail Louies, three Our Arnolds, and one Rippetoe Creed as penance.
Go in peace my son. Coincidentally, I was at the gym this evening and was pissed at the dumbbells that weren’t put back or were in the wrong place. Lazy jerks. I wound up sorting a bunch of it out.
It gave you a good workout, didn’t it?
Yep, after a four year hiatus, I’m back on gout meds
Best wishes Spud.
It’s hard to imagine the Iran war being bungled much worse short of a massive ground invasion. It was tough to really go after Trump for his foreign adventurism when it was short and sweet. He put fear in the heart of every tinpot dictator worldwide to include Iran only to then turn around and squander it with a hamhanded attempt to do the same thing there. He continues to bloviate and make empty threats on the daily as Iran pisses on him.
While America needs a real blackeye to to put neocons in their rightful place at the bottom of the social hierarchy, the consequences of that aren’t going to be good in any other respect.
We should nuke them. The biggest and best nuke we have.
We can share our nuke technology with them. 100 million degrees of freedom!
And thats in ºC !
My bad, that’s 180 million degrees of freedom or 100 million commie degrees.
Supposedly, Trump wanted to nuke Iran and a general stopped him.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rump-nuclear-codes-iran/
Was that right after he grabbed the wheel of The Beast?
Che would have had this idiot himself up against the wall.
QUIET, YOU!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Caba%C3%B1a#1959
I wonder what his opinion of Kyle Rittenhouse is.
Look, I was going to rape that kid, but then I remembered my time in the reeducation classes and why that was bad for society, so I didn’t.
I don’t want to harm society, ya know? Fuck the kid both literally and figuratively.
Ribeyes were $8.99/lb and porterhouses were $9.99/lb this weekend. Where’s all this inflation at?
It’s in the PNW Aparently.
Weirdly the steaks two years ago at the Costco in Astoria OR were something like $4 a pound less than in clarkston WA.
It’s easy to get a semi truck to Clarkston. Not so easy to get one to Astoria.
“Groceries never say die!”
Where are you getting Ribeye for under 9$/lb?
I’m guessing it’s out of the back of a truck.
It was Old Man With Candy’s van and it was actually free. Monetarily.
I can’t eat that right now because reasons but at my supermarket the family pack is currently $16/lb.
Landis markets.
Send me all the 9$ ribeye you got, I’ll give you $10/lb and we will both make bank.
I poked around the Intertubes. I’ll verify this tomorrow at the grocery store.
Ribeye is $16/lb near me.
Another data point:
I’ve been buying, since 2018, protein powder to make protein shakes before I go to the gym.
A five pound jar cost me $57.94 ($11.59/lb) in 2018. In 2026 a ten pound bag of the same powder cost me $163.99 ($16.399/lb).
Explain to the average person that inflation is a backdoor tax on the poor and middle class. They just can’t comprehend it.
Say it’s corporate greed and they’ll just know it’s true because it’s nice and tidy and simple and confirms their priors.
$14/lb at Costco when we bought last week.
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/s/7c4FUIF6kJ
I’ll call that a hard maybe. 🤣
Listen to how everyone is delivering their lines. Nothing about that feels noir. You can’t just make it black and white and put some cheap old-timey clothes on people and think you’ve created noir.
Modern creators are too dumb to know noir and to write it. These are people whose depth of experience consists of not getting the right car they wanted for their 16th birthday.
My favorite SNL skit is a noir parody with Kelsey Grammer. It’s about a private eye who really wants a burrito.
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98bburrito.phtml
I saw that thumbnail on YouTube and thought it was someone’s AI joke.
comic book slop = HARD NO!
“with no power comes no responsibility “
I like it.
So another shooting near the Whitehouse.
I blame Indiana guns.
[polite applause]
Indiana guns.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo&ra=m
“a mentally troubled individual who was well-known to the Secret Service for repeatedly loitering around various entry posts and who has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House”
Suicide by insanity.
When I went in front of a judge last time I tried to plead First.
He was not amused.
I love how the US has been turned into an open air insane asylum. Free range nutters!
Sometimes I wonder if there are more insane people, or just more of them running around free instead of locked up the way they used to be.
With regard to modern nutters, I wonder how dense, poor parts of NYC, etc were like to walk around in, say, 1890-1910. I know there was much nastiness. I kinda imagine the % of crazies would be relatively consistent by generation. (Less during the Depression and other hard times, where evolution weeded out some chaff.)
Really, I’d like to know what old-timey nuts would say on the street corner. Probably *lots* more religious based, I presume. I also presume they were just as violent. Not sure why that’d change.
I think it’d boil down to territory – the less of it, the nastier the squabbles. (And $, yes, but I’m talking the destitute.)
But more than half the time, I’m often wrong, so whaddya know?
Totally unrelated to anything, last night my son got married. Big shindig, no idea who paid for it, beautiful bride, handsome groom (if I do say so.) Saw my ex for the first time in years, she isn’t aging well. Saw a bunch of her friends from 30+ years ago, that was odd. Bride side was huge, groom side small.
Good times were had.
Congrats. Are you a grandpa yet?
My daughter got married a couple months ago, for the third time. We weren’t invited. The first time was an extravaganza, paid for by the bride’s father.
I also assisted in paying for divorce #1. I liked husband #2, he had a job and worked hard but alas, it was not to be. Haven’t met the new guy on the block.
My brother got married back in 2004 when our niece (sister’s daughter) was just shy of 10. She was asking about crying at weddings and whether her mom would cry more at her wedding or her brother’s wedding.
I joked that it depended on whether my sister and her husband would be paying for the wedding. My niece, too young to understand such traditions asked her mom about it, who responded that traditionally, in the days when it was seen as “giving the bride away” to the other family, the parents of the bride paid for the wedding.
My niece thought for a bit and asked, “So my wedding’s going to be free?”
Happy national Escargot day!
🇫🇷🐌🤮
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrcVxnjJO8
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., 4(20), ZWAK, JI, and Grumble!
suh’ fam
yo what’s goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Mornin’ Sean, TC and any/all Gliberinoes/lurkers and gov intellistas.
Supposed to suddenly hit 80 and more for the next 10 days, at least. Global warming is coming all at once.
We’re still being rained on here. So it’s more of a glum morning to everyone.
This guy is jealous
Shouldn’t this be a matter of public record?
What’s a samahdi refuge?
Homeless shelter, it looks like
Offshoot of an outpatient drug rehab clinic, AIUI.
Ex-homeless shelter, it would appear. I wonder if their funding issues have anything to do with the county’s….reticence about providing details of the criminal case. 🤔