Welcome back to a sea on stability during the swells of summer weather. I’ve had to turn on the AC at last, but may be able to turn it off over the weekend. But you care not for that, so lets get to the links.
I’m waiting for Steam to pull out of a country.
I care not about Ro Laren, but I do like the idea of a survival/immersive sim in the Trek universe.
The shame ended? (Archive link)
A trick is something a whore does for money or candy.
Gaming saves lives.
I’ve seen pieces claiming Jason X and Nightmare on Elm Street 2 are underappreciated classics, but this is a new one.
Damn (checks notes) insurance companies!
We don’t need your fire or your love (I will never tire of sharing this story). We need you to shut up and learn our ways.
For the drink this week, I’m going to bring back an old classic. Invented during prohibition, but not here in the US, I give you
The Scofflaw
- 8 part (2 oz) bourbon
- 4 part (1 oz) dry vermouth
- 1 part (0.25 oz) lemon juice
- 2 dashes grenadine
- 1 dash orange bitters
Put everything into the shaker with ice, shake until combined and chilled, then strain it into a chilled cocktail glass. That’s it. Not difficult to make, but there’s a lot going on in it.
With that, I’ll let you head out and enjoy the weekend. I hope you get what you’re looking for.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/gabbard-rescinds-biden-era-intel-assessments-that-were-skeptical-about-havana-syndrome
Wait, how can this be? I was assured that Tulsi was fired fired yesterday by error free reporters and solid anonymous sources.
And… I’m out. Made it to very end of the first sentence, at least.
She’s faculty at Howard University.
Dr Hatton! Dr Hatton! We have a black student that wants to major in Euro-American History, we need your professional help.
Hatton/Patton, they sound similar
/Too old to worry
Can we have a pogrom please?
Yeah, holy shit. Apparently Dr. Stacey thinks Austin Metcalf was chasing this poor black boy down to beat him to death with a large burning cross.
JFC.
I should not have clicked on that link. I want to chase Dr. Patton around with a billy club(RACIST!!!).
Good choice. I skimmed it: it’s everything you would expect.
Good lord: because I’m bored and have been spectacularly unproductive today, I decided to read the comments.
I decided to read the comments.
#metoo
They’re as stupid as you would expect.
Skimmed a little. It’s terrifying that she’s filling students’ heads with that evil rot.
I found a good comment. The comment is on the article, not in reply to any other comment:
I can only attribute this level of stupidity to higher education. You had to have gone to college to have as stupid of a take as this.
But I respect the hustle. Grab that engagement I guess?
Comments are amazing.
Damn, that looks good. Neph, I’m blaming you if I’m too hung over tomorrow morning to meet by buddies at the range…
I was worried about the grenadine and bourbon, but the drink really works.
What the hell is wrong with you?
JK. But I liked her character a lot and she’s a very good actress too.
If what I heard about DS9* is correct, the actress got done dirty.
*The character of Ro Lauren was supposed to slot into the Kira role on DS9. Since she was created in an episode, they didn’t want to pay that writer for continuing to use the character through DS9, and created Kira
I have her as a Lego minifig.
I thought it was, “…money or cocaine.” But I guess it depends on the age of your whores.
*ducks, runs for cover*
I assumed Neph meant “candy” euphemistically, as in “nose candy.”
Really? I need to link this?
He says “candy” in the pilot, and “cocaine” in the extended pilot.
I had always assumed they producers changed the bit for moral reasons, much like the, “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school!” line from Fight Club.
[hangs head in shame]
High school girls do love Coke.
They love meth too.
Beginning of the article:
Tech companies such as Apple and Google have been asked by the UK government to block access to naked images on smartphones and other devices for under-18s.
A few paragraphs later:
The government said it will bring forward legislation to force firms to activate the features if they do not comply voluntarily within three months.
So they’re not asking, they’re telling. Fine journalisming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1u2sv6c/neighbour_shot_my_pc_through_the_wall/
The Reddit post that the story picked up has more photos. It looks too small for 9mm more like .45ACP.
The comments are all over the RAM. If that was 50 series card I’d be more upset about that.
I love the variation of the dog ate my homework excuse.
Depends on the size of her hand, that could be a 9mm, although the profile looks more like a 230grn. .45ACP.
The dog story is complete and utter bullshit.
G10, which is what circuit boards are made from, is really strong. Regardless, I’m not going to be using my gaming rig as a dryfire backstop.
That would be the poor dude with the destroyed PC’s hand.
Also lots of knife scales like to use G10.
Poor dudette. She’s a girl.
I have quite a few knives with G10 handles or scales, but I only have one with scales made from reclaimed circuit boards: https://sakparts.com/products/91mm-computer-circuit-board-scales-victorinox-swiss-army-knife-sak-handles
Interesting! I just skimmed both. Thanks.
So let’s talk about Jeff Metcalf’s failure as a father.
Let’s not, you loathsome cunt.
I have tried to remain blissfully ignorant about this story.
There’s another family involved that I think merits discussion more than the Metcalfs.
From the Rust Belt article:
I guess, “Minding her own fucking business,” was never an option…
Mazel tov on your tikkum olan.
“Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries”
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“You stood in that courtroom and told a Black teenager he failed his parents, himself, and society. But perhaps the harder truth is that you failed your son first.
In your own memorial language, you told us about the kind of white boyhood Austin was raised inside. It was a boyhood steeped in conquest language, hunting rituals, warrior fantasies, masculine toughness, and the romance of force. You told us about a child praised not just for being kind, curious, gentle, or careful, but for becoming a “leader” and a “warrior” in a racist culture where those words too often mean dominance.
You, sir, told us that Austin learned early how to hold a weapon, how to aim, how to take down a living thing, how to be proud of the kill, how to have that moment folded into the mythology of father and son. This tells us something about the values and emotional curriculum being cultivated around him and about what kind of white masculinity was being celebrated.”
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Uh. Yep. And fatherless children have ‘no one’ to teach their children how to behave properly in society. Perhaps that’d help black kids from their ‘current’ and incredibly violent behavior. Blame the WoD for graduating kids further into criminality, but ‘free’ checks for every baby-factory mamma who pumps out a kid WITHOUT a father is the key lever, here. No one will get pissed about that, cuz who wants to say they hate children and single months(?!), but really, cuz no one wants to stop the ‘free’ money rolling in.
Such a great, subjugated group to keep illiterate. And reliable. (Or are they? Love how minorities voting for Trump freaks the Left out.)
If your ‘boundaries’ include ‘being able to go wherever you want without asking permission, and violently attacking anyone who confronts you about it’, then you are going to end up in prison or dead. This is not so much a lesson as it is a description of reality.
And Karmelo Anthony apparently has a living father, Drew Anthony.
I haven’t gone into it myself, but the family soaking the GoFundMe themselves and still ‘giving’ their kid the public defender?
Uh. Damn. Talk about ‘parents’ not giving a fuck about their kid. (‘Well. He’s dead, but we can still get checks off his corpse!”)
How dare that father be there to teach his son valuable lessons about life!
That’s fucking white supremacy!
Carmelo acted the thug, no question. But probably too much testosterone on both sides? Was he in the rival’s tent to cause trouble?
Why not welcome him, “Come in get out of the rain. How’s your team looking?” instead of treating him as an interloper? What is so wrong with trying to be friendly with a stranger, whether its a white boy in a black neighborhood or vice versa? If you are brought up right, you don’t go looking for trouble just because someone is from the next town over or from the school that beat you on the gridiron last week or because you got to stand up against someone whose skin color isn’t yours or who asks you to leave their private property.
I’ve heard some poorly supported rumblings that Anthony was in the opponent’s tent looking for something to steal, or that Metcalf may have thought so. No idea of the veracity, but I do know that shit does get stolen at high school athletic events, and that a member of one team doesn’t have many legit reasons to be hanging out in the other team’s facilities.
Well, he was armed. And even back in the day in rural Texas, athletes who carried knives routinely, didn’t carry them during athletic competitions.
Who gives a fuck about race or other ancillary details? Anthony stabbed Metcalf to death for no good reason. In a better time he would have swung for doing it.
The lesson Metcalf’s father forgot to impart is: Expect that he’s carrying a knife and he will stab you with it. (Wisdom imparted by a palefaced Army drill sergeant over 60 years ago.)
I knew a guy who did not get that lesson and he ended up like Metcalf.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: NH State primary filing period is winding down
Pete Hegseth performs zero bench press reps.
What was that? Not even half way up.
Officer and e7+ pushups.
Don’t be dissin’.
Any word from Suthen of late? TPTB: any way to contact him?
So many have drifted away. I sort of remember Suthen mentioning a physical problem (I think)
Is there an open enrollment? To encourage the others, lurkers?
I was wondering about him.
Political brother from another mother.
Mostly happy ending
The San Francisco Police Department responded at 7:36 a.m. to the Trader Joe’s grocery store at California and Hyde streets on the report of an active theft. Arriving officers struggled with the suspected shoplifter before he fled on foot into the street, authorities said.
“Two officers pursued the suspect on foot into the street where all three were struck by a vehicle,” SFPD said. “One of the officers was pinned beneath the vehicle.”
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The police officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the collision and remain hospitalized. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said he has spoken with both of the injured officers and wished them a full and speedy recovery.
The driver of the involved vehicle remained at the scene to cooperate with the investigation.
I can’t believe the cops actually bothered.
And- how was the driver supposed to get away with his car high-centered on a cop?
Please tell my Trader Joe’s rang the bell for that.
Paging Tres, Tres Cool to the comment section please. I think I found your new watch.
Just in case he prefers J Pop.
https://youtu.be/8U97BVIjT34?is=G4y9x4NHXRukcoDW
I added that as a GlibFlick request from him.
because you got to stand up against someone whose skin color isn’t yours or who asks you to leave their private property.
How much of this was Texas high school “spirit” completely independent of race? I find it extremely hard to believe there were no black kids on Metcalf’s team, or that he somehow existed in some bizarre fantasyland white boy bubble.
This is why I have tried to remain obdurately ignorant about this. It’s just so mindbogglingly stupid.
Some of the teens who testified against Anthony were…wait for it…black. Teammates of Metcalf’s. It was a pissing contest between two boys that spiraled out of control or was escalated to the point of stupidity by Anthony.
Dr. Stacey Patton is a cunte.
^
A wig snatching cunt, whatever that might be.
New York Times headline:
New York Primary Elections: What to Know and How to Vote
Vote for the commie, duh.
We visited Parma today. Sadly, none of the cheese was smoked.
I see a major new market opportunity with Hunter as spokesperson.
I hope you got a picture with the flamingo.
Ben & Jerry’s ‘Cannot Criticize’ Trump, Co-Founder Says
https://archive.fo/ZLtcZ
The fucking hippie doesn’t understand what happens when you sell something.
He can buy it back and criticize away. They want to sell it.
Ben and Jerry’s sucks. It’s just not good ice cream. That’s the real scandal. I’d take the local Public generic over their shit not to mention several brands that are objectively better in every way. It’s like the last thing I’d buy even ignoring the politics.
It’s the best I’ve ever had outside of homemade.
Oh JFC.
Neph, I have my creme de violette now and am going to make the Lady in Blue and the Aviation for my wife this weekend.
Should be good, but if I use lemonade instead of lemon juice and simple syrup does that make me a heathen?
Actually the heathen would be her because she’s the one drinking it. I did the same substitution when I made her a blackberry bramble and she loved it.
If she was a sophisticated soul, she never would have married me.
Personally, I don’t like lemon in anything.
It makes you a heathen, but the math checks out. I routinely use sparkling lemonade or Italian sodas to make variants on Tom Collins (gin, lemon juice, simple, sparkling water). It does mean you give up the control to adjust the balances.
You can call it “aoi jyoshi”. Literally blue lady. You can’t directly translate it in Japanese without using the word for clothing unfortunately.
Was the “content creator” the one who got his ass kicked?
https://abc7ny.com/post/17-year-old-boy-beaten-coma-knicks-game-4-win-outside-madison-square-garden/19281915/
It’s a shame how teenagers are getting banned from public spaces.
/Lenore
Yes. And a friend of his apparently.
https://jbsfoodsgroup.com/articles/jbs-usa-announces-network-changes-to-strengthen-operations
Local meat packing plant to close.
Hope I don’t lose my good beef prices. 😱
Strips are $7.99/lb this weekend.
Ooooo
How much are you asking to strip?
Does Winston’s Mom condone the stiff competition?
I think it’s her clients who are stiff, not the competition.
Gene Shalit has died, 2½ months after his 100th birthday.
Gene Shalit was still alive!?
Life well lived.
Predictably, man with (current) monopoly on reusable space rockets with an already-established global network of internet providers, is now a trillionaire. Gotta throw in weath disparity, just to be journalisticky.
“Musk’s new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich. Year after year, his former (although now very distant) billionaires club has reaped a growing number of members — from tech titans to celebrities. All the while, more and more people worldwide are struggling to pay their everyday bills. Many have decried the arrival of the first trillionaire as the latest and most alarming example of that wealth gap.”
And GODDAMN did the giraffe-sizing people have a good time! “In terms of physical cash, one trillion U.S. dollar bills laid end to end would stretch nearly 97 million miles (or almost 156 million kilometers). That would account for the distance of more than 200 round-trip journeys to the moon — which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles away from Earth. It would also surpass the roughly 93 million miles between Earth and the sun.”
Well. They didn’t add the pertinent bit, so *I* did, the fuckers: That’s 28.45 billion giraffes long.
Now many bananas?