It’s a balmy 103 here in Spudsville, but it’s a dry heat…fuck that, it’s hot. I look forward to heading East to the Gulch next week, where the temps will be in the 70’s and 80’s…with 60% humidity, which to me…makes it fucking hot.
Links?
Strap in, today’s Links are full of retardation.
Tammy Duckworth, Senator for all. GFY.
Frenchy finds out he shouldn’t rent to grifters.
What’s more retarded than this is the name Nampons. Tampons for your nose.
And Israel killed thousands of Palestinians daily in Gaza. Retards.
Fun fact. The innocent black woman has a lengthy rap sheet.
They believe in communism. Their dear leader said so.
No shit. Who could have seen this coming?
Okay, that’s it for me. Ima go stick my head in the freezer. Peace out, Glibbies.
I’ll take 94 (and still climbing) with 20% humidity over jungle conditions.
Briggs had a great article debunking the now oft-cited paper which alleged Doge death claims:
No amount of USAID funding any person was given was measured, and neither was it measured whether any person lived or died because of that funding. In other words, X was not measured, nor was Y. Yet the claim (we see next) will be “X caused Y”. Instead, we get things like this: “Our modelling approach, based on previous studies, was done in two stages: first, we created a synthetic cohort of all countries for the years 2024–30, extrapolating and modelling each country-level independent variable from the retrospective dataset…”
Here are their Findings (cutting out the boring stuff, so please check the original):
Higher levels of USAID funding—primarily directed toward LMICs, particularly African countries—were associated with a 15% reduction in age-standardised all-cause mortality… and a 32% reduction in under-five mortality … This finding indicates that 91 839 663 … all-age deaths, including 30 391 980 … in children younger than 5 years, were prevented by USAID funding over the 21-year study period. USAID funding was associated with a 65% reduction … in mortality from HIV/AIDS (representing 25·5 million deaths) … Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.
You see it: the direct claim of causality (deaths in children “prevented by USAID funding”) from a regression, which is forbidden in statistics, but of course happens all the time.
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/61338/
What causal method do they propose that funding left wing subversion has a positive effect on reducing mortality of any source?
Round them up and give them free helicopter rides.
Do you SEE these numbers? I pulled them out of my ass! Now, do not question me or I will call down great vengeance on you!
Without even getting into the sketchy methodology, 700,000 bodies would be hard to hide. Maybe Mr. Awande can point them out to us.
I could not care less if it “saved” 700,000 Africans. I did not choose to pay for it. And I won’t.
Yep. The lives lost in African nations should not impact my wallet. If somebody wishes to voluntarily donate, all power to them.
I read that NPR thing this morning. The same people who quibble ferociously over the definitions of Democratic Socialism and communism apply the one drop rule without hesitation when the topic is right wing white supremacism.
What you see with the Patriot Front isn’t what you get. You see alleged white racists when you’re really getting Feds.
Heard the “Nampon” commercial in my car. Til the end, I swore it was “MANpon.” Was trying to figure out how that was different than “Dude Wipes,” which are also real and popular. My faith in humanity further eroded.
Then “Nampon” revealed its nosy-ness. I strongly advise furthering Dad’s strategy, and just keep an old towel in the car.
My towel’s been mighty useful. (No, never for that. That’s what socks are for.)
You lost me.
Why would you hear a commercial in your car?
/audiobook listener.
SIRIUS still has ads. Or that station did. Baseball games, as well. I eat lunch in the car, or I did. Regardless, I ain’t got time for an audiobook, only for it to stop when I arrive. Podcasts or full albums are for ‘big drive’ times.
Further, I try to avoid distractions that could take away thought-processing power. Cuz. I’m driving.
(I don’t wanna miss any elderly pedestrians, yeesh. Ya get extra points for them. Adds up.)
I find that the part of my brain that processes language doesn’t get used while driving.
It does take a slice of my conscious attention, but not enough to rise to the level of a distraction. When I need to focus on something in the real world, no audiobook has managed to hold my attention over what is happening here and now.
To also be fair, I’m a drummer and the dash is my constant kit. Not from consequence, but I’ve learned to not do it when the act of driving requires any real thinking. Especially true when I’m trying something new, a rhythm or fill, etc. It absolutely interferes, having two, unrelated mental pathways active at once. Adds a wrinkle.
In high school, I backed out of a parking space into Betsy’s headlight, both of us being stupid. Other than that, I’ve never had an accident involving any other people or cars. (Slid off an icy road ~15yrs ago, and last year ran over a curb.)
*fingers firmly crossed*
I’m an excellent driver.
I retain more information from audiobooks than books. Not sure why. I think part of it is I always have a place that I can associate with what I’ve listened to. (Mostly on my commutes to work but I can recall the listening much easier than words I may have read on a page)
I had to look that up.
I had a LOT of nosebleeds when I was a kid. I could have used that then.
I thought Nampon was a city in Idaho.
It was a battle in Korea.
It’s on the border. They herd a lot of sheep and onions in those parts.
My brother gave me “Pumkin Spice” Dude Wipes for Christmas as a joke. He got them back this last Christmas. I suspect it is going to be a regular back and forth thing until they are whithered and dry and no longer smell of “pumkin spice”.
Odd to see BTS here. They’ve been in the news recently, as one finished their military service. Fun topic in class, that.
“All seven members of BTS have officially completed their mandatory military service in South Korea and were honorably discharged. Min Yoongi (Suga) was the final member to complete his alternative social service duties, marking the end of the group’s hiatus.”
“alternative social service duties?” Of course, he got the extra-easy (likely pointless?) path. I’d guess them performing in certain venues counted. Haven’t knowingly heard a song ‘by’ them. (I do ‘like’ two songs by ‘Twice.’ Mina’s my favorite. *swoooon-cuddle*)
I’ll cut Suga some slack, Jack: “Suga didn’t serve in the regular military due to a severe shoulder injury sustained from an accident during his trainee days in 2012. His condition required surgery in 2020 to repair a torn labrum, leading the Military Manpower Administration to assign him to alternative public service as a social service worker.”
I’m still sure it was extra, extra cushy, with plum ‘office hours and caseload.’ (I’m not sure how ‘extreme’ regular Basic+ is for the mandatory service.) From what I hear, the girls K-Pop scene makes Jimmy Savile look quaint. I’m quite certain it’s the same for the boys, one way or another.
They’re also being accused of plagiarism, which is unsurprising considering that the entire K-Slop industry is derivative cultural appropriation.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/entertainment/music/bts-s-swim-plagiarism-lawsuit-big-hit-responds/ar-AA27BIkr
*clicks vid link*
Holy crap that is heinous.
Okay one moment…
Were they fed quaaludes and forced to sing in the men’s room?
Bind
Torture
Sing
UnCiv-
I did a quick check, and apparently ReaLemon is a much different/better product than I thought. Like, actual juice concentrate, not weird lab experiment byproduct. Maybe I’ll give home brew lemonade a try. I could certainly back down the sugar in the recipes I saw.
😀👍
Hope you get good results.
Yeah, RealLemon is fine. I add it when I make iced tea.
Better than DonLemon.
Ain’t no party like a Don Lemon party!
“A” complaint.
This shit doesn’t stop until you ignore them.
Patriot Front’s founder, Thomas Rousseau
[squints suspiciously] Sounds like a frog name.
Commie Frog plant.
A noble one though.
<em.The national DSA website said it believes capitalism must be replaced with “a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.” The group said its vision rejects “authoritarian visions of socialism.”
You might want to check with that guy from the UAW about that.
Start your own goddamn businesses then.
They only last a few weeks and then close the few times they have tried.
I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere.
We need more government funding for public housing for migrants?
I wouldn’t even classify my position as racist. I mean, there are many stories of African students coming to America and outperforming their homeland counterparts and being truly productive citizens. It’s most Culturalist, which I am fine with. I don’t want to import cultures that don’t jive with ours without some level of strict assimilation.
Yup. Accusations of “racism” in this matter are just lazy, cheap shots from people who have nothing substantial to bring to the discussion. It’s disgusting.
Lionel Shriver’s latest novel deals with this exact issue- except it is set in NYC and involves out southern illegal border crossers.
“A Better Life” for those who are interested.
Looks interesting. I have not read anything by her.
She is very interesting. “The Mandibles” follows a family as America collapses from debt and they try to make it to part of the continent with freedom. “Mania” is a satire about when it is it becomes illegal to acknowledge differences in intelligence because “it is the last great civil rights fight.” “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is probably her best-known novel.
Rather than being a fully defined political ideology in the United States, democratic socialism can be understood as a reaction to establishment politics that uses somewhat left-leaning principles, such as universal healthcare, creating more affordable housing and reorienting U.S. policy in the Middle East, all of which are popular among Democrats, said Nick Beauchamp, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University.
“These are the things that the candidates are running on, these are things that people care about,” he told USA TODAY. “They’re not necessarily about either democracy or socialism, but as part of that sort of bundle of left policies that people are now associating with these terms.”
Think of it as an ephemeral penumbra of emotionalism, heavily tinged with envy and resentment.
Or, you know, it could just be understood as a temporary stop on the way to communism – exactly as “socialism” has always been presented and exactly as the no-shit communists who have taken over the movement are treating it.
The better for, err, strategic messaging, motte-and-bailying, that kind of thing.
Yeah, the professor is sympathetic to the cause and doesn’t want to give away the game.
A new “housing innovator” (tinymaxxer?) has sprouted in my youtube feed.
Quonset hut houses.
First you erect a quonset hut. Then you build a house inside it.
Genius!
I thought I saw another shot of her (earlier? later?) taking a dump on the bus.
It’s frauds, felons, and crazies all the way down.
Fortunately the World Cup ends next Sunday.
FIFA is the only thing that makes the NBA finals seem like a reasonable length of time.
How does it make the WNBA look?
Like they’d lose at basketball to a boys soccer team.
The Patriot Front is just an idea.
I know nothing of them, but lean w the crowd here on ‘created by orgs funded /driven by Team Blue’s SPLC brigade.’
Furthering that, if you were gonna make a big, public ‘protest’ on America’s 250th, just why the fuck would they all take public transport to get there? Seems mighty risky, especially now. Feels like desperate.
Anyone heard more legit info about ’em?
Have you ridden public transportation lately? You need someone to have your back. Going it alone isn’t a viable action.
It’s a put-on. [Disclaimer: the joke’s probably already been made, but I’ve been kinda busy.]
And it when it will be proven that the white male was discriminated against (because they and many similar outfits have been openly doing so for decades), the argument will mysteriously pivot to “sure we discriminate and it’s a good thing”.
“the argument will mysteriously pivot to “sure we discriminate and it’s a good thing”.”
^^ My thoughts as well. ‘We weren’t REALLY discriminating. We were … making reparations for PAST discrimination.. /compared to discrimination in other newsrooms, we’re much better.. or they can start the investigation and pull out some child sex stuff on the dude they passed over.
“It’s like Platner! We didn’t know until we KNEW!”
Hmph. Norway should be gifted a goal to make up for the goal that England should not have been awarded. Iffy refereeing again.
Norway didn’t play as well as they should have, but the ref called everything England’s way in-general and by the end “decided” the winner. Aside – I can’t STAND Stu and John calling any match…
Bastards. I was rooting for Norway.
Oh well.
In other news, later tonight we find out who gets to have the Nazi’s hidden gold.
I dunno if I can stand another two hours of The Messi Show.
I will be rooting for the near miraculous, I guess.
Downstairs for a bit and Dad was upset he didn’t get to see much of his Viking Crush. I pointed out a Belgian player who was MUCH more attractive. Mom agreed. (Don’t know the player. Short-ish brown hair, light beard, white.) Dad didn’t accept this.
He was gonna add something and then stopped. Perhaps he didn’t want more jokes thrown at him. *curious face*
No idea who that might be.
aHa! ‘Tis on the tip of your fingers and tongue! A quick look, and it mighta been two guys. (They look a lot alike…)
Eh? What goal was England “awarded”?
The one where the ball reflected off the skycam wire.
“It’s coming home! It’s coming home!”
Well, it’s probably not. But England should be happy they’ve made it this far.
I’m supporting Team Anyone But Argentina or France.
Wish me luck.
@rhy: *Swiss’ gaze widens in support*
TOO LOCAL NEWS: I don’t know what is going on, but I’ve noticed a lot of wrong way driver (link to latest one) stories being reported in NH and MA over the last six months.
No dui charge.
The state AG’s office could be waiting on test results. In NH, the prosecution can and sometimes does add charges on at arraignment.
I blame Trump cutting USAID.
Did money really get cut, or just redirected?
This is fun. Perhaps I shouldn’t fall into this trap, but I think he’s being sincere, here. (He isn’t always.)
“President Trump argued on Saturday in a series of social media posts that the Democratic Party’s leaders have lost control.
“The Radical Left Lunatics, often referred to as Dumocrats, have lost control of their Party. They are being led by loud and unattractive people who have totally lost their way. Hopefully, they will fight back, and not let this sick, Communist ideology, take over America!” he wrote on Truth Social.
“I would often say in Speeches, and otherwise, America will never be a Socialist Country, and I was 100% correct, the Dumocrats skipped Socialism, and went all the way down to Communism. AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY!” he wrote in another post.
In a separate post, Trump described the Democratic Party as a “sinking ship.”
Nobody skipped socialism. We’ve been living it for at least 50 years.
Yeah, no kidding.
Otherwise Donald is spot-on in his usual inartful way despite the furious attempts by the likes of USA Today and NPR to gaslight.
It isn’t up to the Dumocrat leadership to stop the Commies from taking over America. That’s the job of the rest of us.
And it’s looking like we are not up to the task.
Hahaha no shit?
Lemonade recipe for Mr. Brooks.
Is it a little work? Yes. Is it that good? Yes. Does it make most excellent cocktails? Yes.
Sadly, too much sugar for me.
And now… lynx.
LOL local cable news outlet baffled that all the upstate cities (Buffalo, Rochester, etc.) have tons of vacant positions for cops. It’s a mystery.
Also, watermelon agua fresca. It’s so good.
Octordle today had “Warty” as an answer! So was “dumpy,” which is my third seed word, after ‘caret’ and ‘loins.’ (I was playing ‘Rescue,’ so I didn’t put those words in to start.) I forget who put together those words and the fun talks we had about that.
Thanks, to whomever that was!
Didn’t even hit 90* in the CenTex today.
I am drunk.
—-nothing follows—-
Excellent news.
I am stoned.
@R.J.: *high five*
Productive day, today. Possibly adjacent thought: Among other things, I got some v-neck Ts today. Looked up my size, cuz I’m small enough I kinda gotta. So small, slim fit, same as usual, but at Kohl’s instead of my usual. Well. They fit. But like ‘look good in workout’ tight. I’m debating if I like this, and not for the look, whatsoever.
It’s kinda like I’m being hugged. I haven’t decided how I feel about this, so no extreme, either way. I hope the armpits loosen a bit, as I wear it now and likely to sleep. It does feel cozy. I hope it lasts…
Also turns out my Check Engine Light will keep just turning on cuz the damn Emissions sensor. Fuck that shit. Black tape may be coming back in style on my dash. Shyeah.
Pull my finger. I’ll set off the emissions sensor.
Well… trying.
That’s the female mating call. The male call is “I’m rich”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/sRRyeSPRCc
Da fuq?
TW for Pie.
Current dilemma, GTI runs out of warranty the end of August. 8 years old. Do I keep or trade for new? Or get tuned and keep for another year or two? Currently just shy of 63k miles. Literally perfect other than front end stone chips. #firstworldproblems
Keep
Drive into ground.
This.
It’s a VW. That will be sooner than later.
If it’s been a great car, keep it. When I buy cars, I warranty/finance for 3 years. Anything major or multiple minor shit goes wrong, it’s gone before it’s paid for and the warranty is up. Anything that survives that period stays.
Fuck off making excuses for that diving Swiss player. The “mistaken identity” rule is a huge improvement and properly ramps up the penalty for diving.
Too fucking bad he was already on one yellow.
I had heard of that but not fully understood until now. Yes, it seems the correct decision.
I hate that it benefits Argentina.
WOWZA! Otto Hess is havin’ a helluva game, and Buck Canal is doing his best to call it as he sees it!
(STEVE SMITH knows what a buck canal’s good for…)
Yusef and I have run out of potential filaments.
Are you getting some help? Did you reach out to Chafed?
Seconded. *crosses fingers*
Yes, some reassurance. Thanks!
Many many thanks to the inquirers. Ahh, me public.
His friend looks like Michael Malice and acts like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-ka4tEASU
Tres: You are out there somewhere. I found a motorcycle for you:
https://ebay.io/m/DCUlfJ
Wow. NAILED it.
Damn.
LOL!
The cigarette is a nice touch.
Perfect!
Well, that’s about as perfect a strike as you could wish for.
I find myself agreeing with the broke dick split tail, Maine shouldn’t elect a fucking Illinois carpetbagger.
Bob has a Kimber and a Walther, .38 and .45, and two Mossbergs.
I should go leave us all to it, after this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggYI96KhR10 🥂
I have made that same lemonade recipe once. Yum! Once.
I would allow “warty” as a Scrabble opponent.
Someone tell me to shut up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnosvObitGw
Do whatever you can to be as safe as you can. Concerned from afar.
Ta.
I put towels on His bed! 🙀 And I bent over backwards trying to be Southern hospitable to his strange aforementioned unexpected DG guest last night and today.
https://ibb.co/jPg8XvYb
DNGAFSA!