With no playoff baseball and no NFL games, the cupboard was pretty bare for sports today. The NBA apparently started their season last night, but I really don’t care. And it’s still a bit early to check in on hockey. Oh yeah, Jalen Hurts is out for the year in Philly with blood clots in the lungs. That’s horrible for him. And Julian Sayin is likely out for the year at Ohio State. Let’s see which backup wins the starting job. Thankfully they’ve got a bye week before traveling to SoCal to take on USC. Meanwhile, across the pond there was a solid slate of UCL matches, with Man City cruising, PSG laying the wood to Barcelona. VfB getting a solid draw against Atletico, and Liverpool topping Villareal. More matches today. And that’s it for sports.
Boo-fucking-hoo, you hysterical woman. Your job isn’t to reinforce democracy or keep everybody happy. It’s to ensure rights are enforced and constitutionality followed. And democracy is often at odds with the rights of the individual. Get this stupid broad off the court if she thinks her job is anything but that.
Great fucking timing. Let’s close the barn doors right after the whole herd of horses have left the barn.
He knew this would happen. It was all performative nonsense.
This was a bold strategy. Fortunately it did not ultimately pay off for him.
Some animals are more equal than others. And he simply doesn’t give a shit.
This is a coup.I don’t know how else to phrase it. And they’re bragging about it.
I don’t know why this isn’t the norm across the whole country. Of course the watermelons would be against it, even though it would serve their purposes.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! ::catches breath:: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Don’t lay down with dogs. Because those fleas can be pretty fucking nasty.
I’m sure the leftards will still blame the feds. Christ, what an asshole.
Well, I’ll headed to Liverpool this weekend to see a match at Anfield after stopping in Gloucester for a Bath Rugby match. So it’s a perfect day to play these guys. But it’d be a good day to play them anyway. Because they were so freaking good. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Boo-fucking-hoo, you hysterical woman.
The insane decisions from circuit court dictators, on the other hand, are in no way responsible, no sirree.
Those brave judges are reinforcing democracy in her mind, most likely.
The SCOTUS Squad are a much greater danger to muh democracy than her “conservative colleagues”. And the “polarization” this one mourns is entirely the result of leftist agitation.
I have some words for the good judge but experience has taught me to temper my words.
In other words, you wish her a chipper morning?
Repeal the 17th amendment.
She does have a point about gerrymandering. The parties have created way too many safe districts where winning the primary is tantamount to winning the general election. And then you are represented by a corrupt living corpse for ten or twenty terms (looking at you, Nancy).
Yeah but that has nothing to do with any “weakened Voting Rights Act”. She is as dishonest as ever even if she identifies an actual problem.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
As was mentioned the other day, when did Wired stop being a technology website?
Was it ever? I don’t recall it being one.
It did make an attempt the first five years or so to be a technology magazine.
This was a real computer magazine. I miss it.
https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE
I fondly remember that one, and “Compute!’s Gazette”.
R.J.:
This was the real computer magazine.
wired was a “technology meets society” magazine. I was never a computer mag.
Neph: Baud, am I right, or am I right!
I’ve got a hot baud.
Back when it was a magazine in the late ‘80s and ‘90s it was at least half a culture magazine. And a pretty interesting one, too.
The whole article is a master-class in stumping the reader with the question, “Is this satire?”
About 1998 or so.
When did Jalopnik stop being a car website.
Also I’m glad these fools got a taste of their own medicine and wish millions more would leave.
“The NVA required any non-uniformed “federal law enforcement officer” operating in California to “visibly display identification” when carrying out federal law enforcement duties. A federal agent violating this requirement could be criminally prosecuted by the state.”
That sounds as though it would ban anyone working undercover.
Why is the North Vietnamese Army operating in California?
Comradeship!
They are being reeducated. Viet Nam has strayed from the true socialist path and been corrupted by filthy capitalist notions like having food, so they sent their soldiers off to the new center of the Comintern to have their faith restored.
They want to capture all the South Vietnamese in SoCal?
The NVA is a pho military, UCS
“No Vigilantes Act”
That’s cute. 🙄
I don’t know why this isn’t the norm across the whole country.
They want me to disable my ad-blocker.
You mean the doctors aren’t slaves?
“I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services—so no, the health care is not free here.”
The level of retardation is staggering.
To be fair, the UK does have a long tradition of serfdom. Instead of being a farmer legally required to stay on his farm, HRM could just decree that NHS employees are bound to their service.
Always with the ugly Americans in Europe.
What can you expect though from people that seem to live in a fantasy world?
Why do I doubt that the insight that something paid for by the government/taxes isn’t free will be fleeting?
My favorite bit was how all of them experienced how much more hatred Europe has for them nowadays.
Another lesson in “propaganda works”.
Good morning!
This place is locked up tighter than when Obama was scheduled to show up. Then again, he never gave us as much money as the Nihonjin are. The people who spend their day locked up in the Security Control Center, who typically wear concert T-shirts are in jackets and ties.
Is somebody going to snipe the ambassador? Or is Kathy showing up as well? If she’s coming I get it…
AFAIK, no NY politicos are involved with the deal.
It’s actually kind of a fascinating deal. GF owns the land, the investors are paying for the building and all the equipment, and hiring GF to operate it.
That type of deal is fairly common. The improvements (structures and equipment) are where the money is.
Did they have to rent suits? I’m not sure if I know anyone outside of politics that owns a suit.
Meanwhile, at Fujifilm it was shirtsleeves and no ties
https://x.com/japanembdc/status/2110837927400108505
Yes and no. It fits into the insurrectionist plan outlined by DataRepublican – use Democrat governors to defy the federal government and provoke the Insurrection Act.
Just close the airspace over California.
On the heals of the Secretary of State project of course.
They’re not interested in healing.
What a moron. There was really no exit plan that wouldn’t leave a paper trail a mile wide.
Yup. Looks like DataRepublican’s document dump was legit. Every single one of them should be jailed without bond for insurrection.
Confident prediction: Nothing Else Will Happen(tm).
Because Fuck You That’s Why™
Were these people any more attached to reality than those who used to fret about the Trilateral Commission?
Confident prediction: Nothing Else Will Happen(tm). – and still you people are whitepilled 🙂
Shades of the previous “51 former intelligence experts” coup.
Deciding to commemorate such an event means something.
incidentally, that area is where I used to go shooting. it is very nice back there, especially after we did clean up days
Ass Wednesday PSA: if you’ve cohabited with your romantic partner for at least 2 years, you share enough of the same gut flora that eating ass is generally risk-free.
https://archive.is/50vFF
My wife is convinced that if I use her toothbrush I’m going to give her cavities.
We’re rolling up on twenty years. And that’s not how cavities work.
“Today, I received a threatening letter at my Grand Rapids, Michigan office that contained unidentified white powder.”
The Democrats were better back when the white powder was cocaine.
I love the “But its not like in the TV shows!” and “These people are poor! I didn’t sign up for poor people!”
Half of them probably would have stayed home if they had just watched House Hunters International and seen how little you get for your money in the marquee destinations.
My time in London and Dublin was enlightening. In Dublin, one woman was explaining to her boyfriend how much land there was in the US, and how big the houses was. The line that stuck in my head was, “They have their own fooking rooms for the laundry!” Trying to explain the concept of suburbs with quarter acre lots as the standard wasn’t making sense to them.
In London, the three top ads I saw on television were for in house smoke screen security systems, supplemental NHS insurance, and electric heated drying racks for drying your clothes faster.
fuck, i remember doing laundry in England, and my clothes were never dry
I have to explain similar to my Japanese friends about American suburban homes.
Also, Japan single family homes in Japan are basically considered disposable with a lifespan of 20 to 30 years after which they are torn down and rebuilt. Selling a 30 year old home is more expensive than selling the just the lot where it sits because of demolition costs. It’s bizarre from a US perspective.
So homes in the US to my Japanese friends are both huge and old.
I’ve been looking at Japanese homes online for the last several months.
Their disposable nature is so strange.
But newer ones out in the country are much less expensive than anything in Idaho. A vacation home in Japan and the travel expense would be less expensive for us than trying to move within our state.
I read an article about an American couple who bought an older Japanese house, as they were living there and it was so cheap. But, it had rice paper walls, was freezing half the time, and the former owners family had just left everything there, so they had to deal with it all.
Hauling off junk in Japan looks like a disaster. Their recycling insanity makes it bad. Been looking at southern Japanese properties
Wired is still stupid. “while Greece, Germany, and Portugal all have right-wing governments”
Right of Stalin.
“Jewelry found with the burned remains helped investigators identify her”
Criminal genius.
You mean, the divorce dispute, custody fight, and making sure her body was found by starting a fire weren’t enough?
Maybe not, but the “I Murdered My Wife” t-shirt was excessive.
The guy should claim he was depressed like Lindsay Clancy.
TL;DR: UK Government attempts to fine 4Chan and Kiwifarms for violating their censorship laws. Eventually, they give up.
https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
I’ve been enjoying this!
they are just waiting for the right time.
Good. “Ofcom” is as awful as it gets which is saying something for that miserable place.
“Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) raised her head to beg for more cash as she vowed to return to the campaign trail and fight the federal investigation into her immigration status….
“It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time and so we appreciate whether you’re able to send $5, $10, $20,” she said, ending with a “Thank you.””
https://nypost.com/2026/10/21/us-news/ilhan-omar-reemerges-to-beg-supporters-for-cash-as-probe-into-her-immigration-status-intensifies/
If you are suspected of fraud, maybe begging for cash isn’t a good look.
Sounds like another Somali Gold scam call.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
their problem is they did not move to Romania, the true Paradise on Earth
For those of you in a different internet bubble, back during the World Cup there was a German kid that was travelling around the US twitting good things about how he was enjoying his time visiting. Enough people noticed, figured out his schedule and started being… let’s say generous in their hospitality.
Here’s a youtube compilation. Since it not twixter, it doesn’t have his text that inspired the warm feelings. But you’ll notice that at a certain point he’s staying in really nice hotel rooms fully stocked with BBQ, beer, ostrich skin boots and new Stetsons to wear at the Ella Langley concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WCKKb30C6Q
Freddie is back in the US right now on a college football tour.
Yeah, he went to OU/TX.
He got caught in a competitive hospitality storm: “Those people in Town X are fine and all but let us show you how it’s really done!”.
His account is a delight.
The fact that this is a perfectly normal phenomenon does say something about American culture. Mostly positive things.
In Local News
“Hillary Clinton” kindergarten in Bucharest will be torn down and rebuilt. The current building from 1958 is not considered fit for purpose. A new on will be built at a cost of 12.5 million dollars and will hold 240 children.
The name checks out! Just look what the Clinton foundation has done for education in Haiti.
Too expensive.
Fire some district administrators.
More efficient adrenochrome harvesting needed as her flesh mask ages?
it received that name after a 1996 state visit by Hilldog to Romania. Before it was just kindergarten 57.
Restore the historical name. Kindergarten 57 is better. Ignore the fact that it sounds like a bottled condiment.
*barf*
I never tried Heinz 57
You’ve never had a cheeseburger in paradise?
No, but I’ve sailed past his boat.
Occasionally the WSJ editorial remembers it’s capitalist roots.
Flying the Socialist Skies at United
CEO Scott Kirby wants a wealth tax. How about more leg room instead?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/scott-kirby-united-airlines-wealth-tax-31a04c56?st=d7wNTj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Absolutely incredible…
“Wedgewood Polls” just admitted they are a fake polling firm and made up their polls.
Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages.
https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/2112702741995037179
Is this another polling firm or the one that claimed it was a ‘social experiment’?
yes.
yep, my prediction of “no blue wave” is looking more and more prescient
I hope you aren’t whistling through the graveyard. PA GOP is expecting to lose 3-4 seats in Congress – they are spending money on counter-attack ads but shit about “he supports tax credits for billionaires” and “votes lock step with Trump” seem pretty effective to my ear.
In all honesty, I think the D’s take the house by a couple seats and don’t take the senate. Just like every other mid-term in history.
There isn’t some huge law that was a big fight in congress like the ACA or AWB, the polls are shit, and the nation is too divided over what is going on right now in the culture. People might be unhappy with Trump, but he isn’t on the ballot, and those people aren’t going to cross over and vote D in huge numbers.
Could I be wrong? sure, but we have seen this before.
The caliber of woman that resorts to a male escort I’m guessing is… interesting.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/23/lifestyle/diddys-male-escort-shares-ugly-truth-of-high-end-sex-work/
You mean the documentaries featuring Rob Schneider weren’t accurate?
That could be me but I hate the gym.
Threedoor: Male Prostitute
The conference opened with workshops on “Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics,” “opposing institutional oppression,” and “loosening/abolishing gender assessment guidelines.” Later sessions covered “Doctoral Student Narratives of Stress, Resilience and Identity in the Trump Era,” “Fragments of a Queer Anarchist Psychoanalysis,” and “ ‘White’ Analysis: Race, Institution, and the Limits of Psychoanalysis.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-run-the-asylum-at-the-psychological-association-5e6538b7?st=tdYSGZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
psychology was always wowo bullshit.
It was so close to being law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_wizard_amendment
I can’t believe a wand wasn’t required as well.
The more the public starts tuning this nonsense out, the crazier these elite radicals are getting.
Chain the doors…
BREAKING:
The first rioters and looters have been sentenced in France.
The judges practically refuse to hand out prison sentences:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112824497648611575
just kids blowing off steam don’t be too harsh
Interesting conundrum….
With mass protests and riots like this… if you were to aggressively pursue and arrest the looters and other “footsoldier criminals”, you would rather quickly strain your ability to keep them in custody.
Looking at those videos, each French city affected probably could have several hundred to a few thousand people serving jail terms, plus another few thousand with probationary sentences for things like disorderly conduct.
At some point it outstrips the justice system’s ability to cope. Which is kinda the point, I guess.
Which really would put a premium on catching an prosecuting the ringleaders. Lots of “citizen journalists” have documented the professional agitators who pop up at event after event around the country. It should be pretty easy to build some sort of a case.
I mean, if they could put people in solitary for 2 years without trial over trespassing in DC, surely they could do the same for professional riot coordinators.
Which really would put a premium on catching an prosecuting the ringleaders. – unless the real ringleaders have some form of political protection
The instructive value of impaling or crucifying is second only to their cost effectiveness.
It’s almost like they need some sort of militia…
How about a penalty colony on a remote island?
Deport all the aliens amongst those arrested and it’s a lot easier.
Those are harsh penalties compared what they would get in Fairfax County.
I’m with Adam Carolla — they need to be shot. Bring in the Korean army and put them on the rooftops.
They should have been summarily shot.
I’d rather see Soros(es) and Singham wearing a jumpsuit but I don’t always get what I want.
But if you try sometimes….
If they can jail Tate for months without trial, surely they could toss a Soros or two in a rough prison for a couple of months.
We black bagged Maduro and jailed him, why not the Soros pair and Singham?
Kagan was a political hack who got promoted out of the White House to be a partisan on the court, which she is.
The things the court is doing that are a threat to elections are not allowing free speech… they are courts re-writing districts as their own partisan version from an unelected seat and calling that “nonpartisan”. They are forcing in changes to election law and process against the vote of the people and their representatives that make stopping ballot stuffing impossible – like allowing 2 month long absentee ballot elections.
That is our current greatest threat. As long as we allow democrat strongholds to wait until after all the areas outside their stronghold to report their votes before they start counting, elections will be easy to rig.
And the courts have blocked anything that would make that practice even a little more difficult.
As for the elections themselves, I would argue that there is too much leeway for blatant lies on political ads.
I would rather blatant lies than anyone in the government deciding what truth is.
The root problem is allowing the judiciary to run the country. Nothing will change until that stops.
“A Michigan Democratic lawmaker has been busted under the state’s “super drunk” driving law after she was found to be more than double the legal limit.
Lauren Flynn – who was first elected in 2022 – was arraigned Tuesday over an alleged drunk driving offense that dated back to the summer.
Mom of two Flynn, 46, was pulled over while driving in Grand Traverse County on July 24 and recorded a blood-alcohol concentration reading of at least 0.17% – more than double the state’s limit of 0.08%, WPBN reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/21/us-news/michigan-democrat-lauren-flynn-busted-under-states-super-drunk-driving-law/
rookie numbers
she had to drive as she could not walk straight
I’ll have to remember that if I ever screw up that badly.
I’ll be glad when the comically over-sized “smart girl” glasses go out of style.
And college girls stop dressing like they are homeless.
A-list star looks completely unrecognizable as elderly man on set of new movie
https://x.com/nypost/status/2112676078892237252
Cole Silon posts:
Richard “The Rock” Dreyfuss
Yeah, I recognized him immediately.
They are going to screw that book up.
“A second young woman claims she was raped at a frat party near the University of Chicago, according to an explosive new lawsuit — over a week after the elite institution was first rocked by sexual assault allegations at another frat house.
The 19-year-old, identified only as Jane Doe, alleged she was raped during a party at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house on Feb. 7, NBC News reported, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/university-of-chicago-hit-with-second-fraternity-sexual-assault-lawsuit-in-a-week/
“A sorority member at the University of Arizona has alleged she was sexually assaulted by two men at a fraternity house during a night of drinking in late August.
The student told the university’s police department that she consensually kissed one of the men at one point while at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Aug. 26 but doesn’t remember agreeing to sex, according to search warrant records posted Monday night by KOLD-TV in Tucson.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/university-of-arizona-student-alleges-she-was-sexually-assaulted-by-2-men-at-fraternity-house/
This is getting silly.
“Too local” – don’t care.
Stop doing this, the media.
Middle East oil flows averaged over 24 million barrels a day in the week through Oct. 18, surpassing prewar levels despite Iranian attacks.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/more-oil-is-now-coming-out-of-the-persian-gulf-than-before-the-iran-war-6a6d1670?st=dHVNPS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nuh uh. Iran has total control over the strait and there’s nothing anyone else can do about that!
But MSM keeps telling us, before the mid terms, that Iran has “closed the Strait.”
“Canadian ‘moron’ who stole flamingo from Vegas hotel after downing ‘30 to 40’ beers found guilty”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/canadian-bozo-convicted-of-animal-cruelty-for-stealing-flamingo-from-vegas-hotel-after-downing-30-to-40-beers/
STIJLTH
Massively overcharged. That’s some BS.
I love how Japan brought over the capybaras as an experimental food source, discovered they weren’t appetizing, and then bred them as cute zoo animals, only to find that they loved hot springs.
Now, they’re a national symbol of relaxation and healing.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2112720873442664756
Do the Japanese enjoy having capybara shit in their hot springs?
I do not kink shame
Man interviews African rapists and they literally don’t understand why it’s wrong. Like asking a cat about a mouse’s feelings.
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1875295934604796201
Stupidity parallels psychopathy to an astounding degree.
Deportation or hanging are the solutions to that problem.
Embrace the power of and.
“New and large, in some cases gigantic, data (c)enters are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social early Wednesday.
It’s good to be the king!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-says-data-centers-must-provide-their-own-electricity-c843ed56?st=mwMBNN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Dont we all provide our own power by contracting with a 3rd party who sells it to us at a profit?
To be fair the data center people were playing fast and loose with the utilities. They are now requiring firm commitments and contracts before they will quote power rates.
The issue would be if it was a normal business they’d get charged the wholesale rate and the additional infrastructure required get allocated across the whole service base. It could be a win or a loss for the rate payers.
Here the idea is to allocate the costs directly to the data center.
Related:
The Kansas Town That Sued Its Own Residents to Build a Data Center
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-kansas-town-that-sued-its-own-residents-to-build-a-data-center-62f11d6e?st=Cyd9XX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It took me a while to decipher the lawsuit. They collected enough signatures to put it on a voter ballot and the town sued them to keep off so they could railroad it through. DEMOCRACY!
I think the issue is that allocating the cost of new generating capacity, etc. across the whole base is likely to be a net loser for other rate payers, if the data center only pays the ordinary wholesale rate. There’s almost no way there isn’t cost shifting to other rate payers if everybody is covering the new cost. There’s argument that its OK is based on the positive externalities of the data center for the other rate payers. Good luck getting a handle on, and selling, that.
BTW, part of Elon Musks now 2+ year old explanation of why computer needs to move to space was that gas turbine generators were many years on backorder. So are other electrical components required to build a data center.
This is all before you even get to community opposition and regulatory hurdles.
Here he talks about how SpaceX is tackling the problem of getting power
The bottleneck for buying gas turbine generators is the gas turbines. And the bottleneck for those is the blades.
So, he has SpaceX using their advanced casting capabilities to cast the turbine parts. He says this gives SpaceX an 18 month advantage in bringing new power online.
https://x.com/WOLF_Financial/status/2112700622315413676
Take it to the hoop, folk. 391 docs over 21 batches yesterday. Went well and am already on target for Month 1 quota.
Big Things. I hope my luck runs off on Derp, best to him.
Congratulations.
Just keep on keeping on and you’ll do it.
My 16 year old daughter asked the salient question yesterday.
She was asking about the riots in France. What did I think of them.
I told her that they were all related via the CWP variants and were professionally organized.
“But I saw a video where the student said it was about education and class size”
This lead to a discussion. Where she asked “how can you tell which video is true and which is pushing an agenda”
Her Aha moment.
I told her the most important thing is the hardest – you have to be alive long enough to have seen it a few times.
But I told her about the common thread of Antifa and the professional organizers who curate what can be filmed, who can post, what gets promoted and what gets covered.
She had already concluded that NBC and CNN were pushing an agenda. But how can you tell for sure?
She was sure her TikTok videos showed real people and real events…
So I turned her on the Nancy Rommelman’s reporting from Portland, where she details how professional organizers prevented anyone other than their “approved” press from filming or interviewing.
I showed her some recent journalism heroes, people of the left who reported on these issues and were expelled as apostates and decried as far-right nazis.
We had talked about the Cornell case (which her 16 year old mind bought hook, line and sinker), so I showed her Soave going against the current and the kerfuffle that followed.
I gave her links to the original reporting that made Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Matt Tiabbi, Michael Shellenberger, even Radley Balko. People who went against the flow and gave the receipts. Most of whom got thrown out of mainstream outlets for their efforts and branded Nazis.
I wanted to avoid the partisan balancing act of reading Conservative Treehouse and watching MSNow and picking a team, so I didnt give her any of them.
Any other suggestions for a teen with “how do I tell what is real from what is a false narrative”?
No. You are doing the right thing. It is so very time consuming to show the scams and teach how the media distorts every event.
Sounds like you’re doing great. Maybe introduce her to the Two Questions:
“Who wants me to believe this? Why do they want me to believe this?”
This, along with “why now?”
Her Aha moment.
So you took her on?
You are on a roll
Teach her the Iron Laws. I thought we had something in the archives, but I can’t find it.
also: These people are not your friends. They don’t like you. They don’t have your best interests at heart.
The Iron Laws are in the FAQ/Resources section.
Recognizing manufactured propaganda is easiest when it’s something you oppose. When it’s something you agree with, is the hardest to distinguish.
This is something I have a real good handle on and thought would be super easy to explain
I lost her interest immediately. Gonna have to up my game.
Like a grim fairy tale gone wrong: in South Tyrol, the mountain rescue service had to save two German brothers from distress in the mountains in the middle of the night. The boys, aged 13 and 16, had been abandoned by their own parents and ended up stranded at more than 2,300 metres in front of a locked mountain refuge.
The family had set off on the hike together in Toblach. After a few hours, however, the parents turned back and simply let their sons continue alone. The plan was for the teenagers to spend the night at the Bonnerhütte, as the parents believed they were experienced enough. Yet no one had checked the opening times in advance. The traditional hut, built in 1897 by the Bonn section of the Alpine Club, had already closed for the season a week earlier.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/21/hansel-and-gretel-in-the-mountains-parents-abandon-sons-in-germany
Why could two teen males not break in?
Had their parents not taught them proper ways to kick in a door or break a paddle lock?
Scam Central
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/courts-news/prosecutors-allege-complex-web-fraud-minnesotas-top-taxpayer-funded-day-care/89-143c2851-f7fe-476d-b3b0-1521c4b414ba
I din’t do nuthin’
The problem, of course, isnt at the level of the people taking advantage of the system
It is the huge firehose of money spewing forth from government. Of course people are going to game the system.
How much of the value of NFL franchises comes from taxpayer subsidies?
How many fortune 500 companies get a significant portion of their net revenue from subsidies and tax breaks?
These guys are egregious. But they are hardly the biggest. And they are the symptom, not the cause.
The Green Bay solution is the best, but the NFL banned it. Have the teams sell shares to the fans for funding.
Seems obvious and direct
I want to be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each Pokémon to understand
The power that’s inside! (Power inside!)
Trading Cards Worth $1 Million Stolen From FedEx Truck in Pokémon Heist
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trading-cards-worth-1-million-stolen-from-fedex-truck-in-pokemon-heist-c524d19c?st=u5sSPj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Strange times.
Collectables can be a decent inflation resistant asset. There’s a reason rare art, coins, and stamps were so common in 70s private eye novels and the like.
But they have an expiration date. The appreciate as the people who loved them as kids age. When they die, the value plummets.
Witness my mom’s Hummel collection. She loved those little figurines. In her later years, they traveled to conventions for them. Her collection had some very valuable originals from her mom’s things. Others that she picked up.
Worth tens of thousands at one point, filling a corner curio display cabinet.
When she died it was worth a couple of thousand. My sister just donated the box rather than deal with piecing it out.
As the time draws nearer dealing with everyday life becomes increasingly more difficult.
Our plan, so far unsuccessful, is to offer the mundane to kids/grandkids. They aren’t very interested.
We sold our cabin as is, furnished with hand me downs including a boat with a new outboard.. The buyers could decide what to keep/ what to throw away, donate. They were happy with the deal.
This house will go the same way, including a tractor, boat/motor, outdoor tools, riding lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc. Auction sales are more trouble than they are worth, for most people.
gotta steal em all
His departure announcement comes about nine months after Dina Powell McCormick, who served in the first Trump administration, was hired as president of the tech giant, and as Meta has started donating to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
Well Meta has placed its wager for the November elections.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-policy-chief-joel-kaplan-to-leave-company-86cb20dc?st=Lx5vNr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The creators of PHP, a technology that powers as much as 70% of the world’s websites, disclosed a critical security issue Wednesday that could be leveraged by hackers to take control of any system running its software. That would allow an attacker to steal information or launch a cyberattack on anyone visiting a hacked website.
Fun times ahead for spam and phishing.
AI Just Found a Bug That Puts Up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk
AI tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever. Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/ai-just-found-a-bug-that-puts-up-to-70-of-the-worlds-websites-at-risk-fd0902ea?st=8PiwXj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yay! Right after the Indian certificate fuck up.
“Mysterious ‘humanoid predator’ lurking near US border could be from another dimension, UFO investigator claims”
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16224411/jaime-maussan-humanoid-predator-juarez-mexico.html
Humanoid?
Chupacabra.
Thank you for sparing me the effort, Neph.
STEVE SMITH.
I am in DFW, I have not been near the border. Not it.
Seems to me an opportunity was missed in the music selections today. I personally would have gone with “Going Down to Liverpool”. Since I don’t have song linking abilities, though, I shant.
While I enjoy the bangles, I wanted to go with OMD because I love those two songs.
“‘What kind of culture looks at sexual violence and sees an opportunity for profit?’ the nonprofit asked in a social media post.”
https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-16223967/Polymarket-axes-controversial-betting-market-Cornell-7-rape-allegations-furious-backlash-LeBron-James-celebrity-endorsers-face-pressure-cut-ties-platform.html
I AM FULLY SELF_AWARE
1. This claim is downright false. The top 0.001% paid an avg effective tax rate in the high 30s in recent years
2. Zucman’s published stats from 2018 confirmed this. Then he manipulated how he calculates them to fit his story. I caught him red handed.
https://x.com/PhilWMagness/status/2112608585041530900
Hit post early
So what is the Official Glibertarian Position on Corporate Tax Incidence? Is it 100% attributable to the shareholders?
Its passed on to customers in the form of higher prices and/or shareholders in the form of lower profits (through the knock-on effects of lower dividends and/or stock prices).
Economists tend to think that the corporate tax burden is shared between labour and capital, but even among researchers in the field there is substantial disagreement over how much of the burden is shifted to workers. This column exploits variations in local business tax rates in Germany to identify the corporate tax incidence on wages. On average, more than half of the corporate tax burden is passed onto workers, implying a reduced overall progressivity of the German tax system.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/incidence-corporate-taxation-and-its-implications-tax-progressivity
In Germany some do not believe it is 100% shareholder.
Corporate taxes are passed on to the customer.
Unless by incidence you’re asking who’s to blame for the rate being whatever it is.
Zucman disagrees.
Taxes are ultimately paid by the people. Some are shareholders, some are customers, some are workers. Depends on elasticity of demand for your product, what rate of return is expected in your industry, where and from whom you get your raw materials, demand and supply of labor in your locale, and etc. etc.
This.
The left, in their usual anti-business manner, thinks raising them is a way to punish “fatcats” and as usual they are completely wrong.
sure but all that does not make it clear to whom you attribute what taxes payed so that you can make political points about effective tax rates one way or the other.
Corporations do not pay taxes. They collect taxes from employees, shareholders, customers and suppliers.
They collect taxes from employees, shareholders, customers and suppliers. – sure but how much from each 🙂
The second question that comes from a thread linked in that tweet is this:
when calculating effective tax rate payed by lower income earners, should EITC be taken into account thus lowering the effective tax rate?
Zucman states that EITC is a separate benefit liek Social Security and does not affect the effective tax rate.
All benefits – particularly cash benefits should be taken into account for effective tax rate.
We would then also need to take into account subsidies, carveouts… and even harder to price, things like minority participation requirements, environmental impact studies, “impact mitigation” requirements… on and on.
Like, how would you price this:
A friend built a business park for his Optometry business and other professional services. In order to get the permits, he had to pay to put sidewalks, widen the road for a left turn lane and put curbs and gutters. Mind you, the sidewalk went nowhere. No sidewalk in either direction. No curbs. Just at his property.
Cost him a quarter million 20 years ago.
6 months later they came through and bulldozed the whole thing as part of a project to widen the road.
Where does that “hidden tax” get priced in?
Still, Kagan said it’s unfair to say the majority reflexively supports the president.
How magnanimous of her.
Did she happen to opine s to whether the government sticking its proboscis into every nook and cranny of our personal lives might be part of what gives rise to all this polarization and divisiveness?
Joey, do you like movies about clowns?
That may just be added to the list under your name.
So what is the Official Glibertarian Position on Corporate Tax Incidence?
Obviously, the tax code is and must always be a tool for social engineering. We must use the tax code to entice corporations to be better citizens and assist the government in making life better for the people.
that was not the question 🙂
Zucman states that EITC is a separate benefit liek Social Security and does not affect the effective tax rate.
Zucman is a self-aggrandizing political propagandist. Who cares what he thinks?
Well I was curious what others think
I only know about his famous pig.
C’mon Man, that’s no way to talk about his wife, unless you were talking to the pig.
“AM arrived in cars in the 1920s as an appealing value-added feature, but nowadays it is a liability for the automakers’ EVs because the signal can interfere with certain systems and requires special shielding.”
https://slate.com/business/2026/10/republicans-am-radio-cars-propaganda.html
Not how radios work.
It’s Slate. What they mean is that AM radio doesn’t work well in EV’s and requires shielding of motors and motor controllers. The radio doesn’t impact the EVs.
Loved this bit:
So we get to the real reason the fate of AM radio in cars is suddenly a focus of attention on Capitol Hill: Republicans in Congress must be loath to lose the devoted, near-captive audience they have relentlessly propagandized via talk radio for decades.
Not the broadcast lobby, but rightwing talk radio is pushing for this. Cut me a break.
It’s just like laptops cause airplanes to crash.
and cell phones make gas stations explode
The problem, of course, isnt at the level of the people taking advantage of the system
It is the huge firehose of money spewing forth from government. Of course people are going to game the system.
“I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” -Willie Sutton
sammy
@_itzsammy
I won’t let capitalism gaslight me into being a bad person. Everyone deserves food, shelter, and clean water. If you disagree, that’s on you.
https://x.com/_itzsammy/status/2112628692270936355
I knew at least one person who deserved none of that
you are a bad person sammy
What about a hot girlfriend? Surely everyone deserves that too? And a decent internet connection. And coffee and avocado toast.
Communists are ignorant and evil Exhibit MCMLXIX
Well I was curious what others think
Serious reply- If you buy a car (or a potato) and the seller “rebates” 50% of the sale price to you, how much did you pay?
If you pay the government $X in taxes, but the government hands back $N in refunds/benefits, how much did you pay?
two fiftyfive plus change
You paid full price. Not asking/markdown or any other gimmickry, you paid full price. Selling price is full price.
FT – “France’s borrowing costs hit 5% for first time since 2002”
The fact that France can still borrow at just 5% blows my mind.
I am sure it is bigger for the US
Current Treasury Bill Yields (Annualized)
• 4-Week T-Bill: ~4.00%
• 1-Month T-Bill: ~4.10%
• 3-Month (13-Week) T-Bill: ~4.10% – 4.26%
• 6-Month (26-Week) T-Bill: ~4.36%
• 12-Month (52-Week) T-Bill: ~4.51%
US 10 Year – 5.115%
In, before Shpip…
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Are you an alcoholic, considering how much you drink?”
The horse replies, “I don’t think I am,” and promptly vanishes.
This is a reference to philosopher Rene Descartes, who famously said, “I think, therefore I am.”
I could have explained that first, but that would be putting Descartes before the horse.
Sweet.
*narrows gaze
Narrows graze…
Liars and sociopaths, in politics?
A new attack ad from Republican Vivek Ramaswamy features the estranged mother of his in the Ohio governor’s race, Amy Acton, calling her a “liar.” Acton’s campaign and her brother denounced the ad as a “despicable low.”
Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, whose husband was accused of raping Acton when she was a child, says in the spot, “It’s not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy was a serious problem. She is a liar; she lies about her past.”
Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, lashed out at Ramaswamy in response: “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point.”
Fetch the smelling salts.
Grab her by the pussy.
Great, the Aussies are going to ban cars next.
they dont need cars its all desert
Eh, it can be a place where Neo-primitives can live. Invisible Furry Hand can crash at my place temporarily.
Somebody has been “thinking” about this a little too much.
Trains!
https://x.com/reuters/status/2112880329031618645
Deploy the UCS solution.
They’re lined up for a good strafing run.
Wait, we are still doing this?
Who is funding it now? I thought we killed USAID?
Is this a China thing? Gates and Soros?
Regular as clockwork, timed not with economic drivers, but with elections.
OFFS not this shit again.
So…. if I was actually looking to come to the US for work….
Would I walk there from South America holding a banner, pushing a kid in a stroller, or with nothing more than what would fit in a backpack?
You’re not pushing that stroller all the way from Central America. This is a photo op.
For some reason, they think that if the Dems take Congress, the border will open up again. I look forward to their profound disappointment. You’d think Mexico would know they are going to pile up on Mexico’s side of border, and wouldn’t let them in.
“… work and better opportunities … ”
So, economic migrants and not asylum seekers.
Why do I suspect that will magically change if they get to the border?
What’s even more wild is the idiots in the replies saying this is being pushed by TEAM RED to try to get out the vote.
how old are those videos? why know? who benefits?
Every morality play needs a villain
Countries are not doing enough to cut emissions that cause climate change, according to a new report from United Nations scientists. And the United States is a big part of the problem.
The U.S. sticks out as the only major economy where planet-warming pollution increased dramatically last year, the report notes.
It finds that last year, the U.S. was tied with Russia as the G20 countries with the most per capita emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warning gases. China emits significantly more total greenhouse gases each year than the U.S., but has more than four times the population.
Overall, global emissions were basically the same last year as they were the previous year.
If you can’t believe a bunch of United Nations climatologists, who can you believe?
GIGO
Is it just me or is Sloopy’s beard getting longer?
This may be news to you, Bro, but testosterone does cause your beard to grow.
Another First™. Commenting on another man’s beard. There has been a trend lately on a lot of your comments. We are all anxiously awaiting the announcement. *Stands next to closet door
U.S. emissions grew because of increased electricity demand, as well as Trump administration policies that support the burning of fossil fuels. The Trump administration has ordered coal-fired power plants in the U.S. to stay open longer than planned, rolled back fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and ended tax credits for solar and wind projects.
Those policies have made the U.S. an outlier when it comes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, says Inger Andersen, the executive director of the U.N. Environment Programme.
More of President Cartoon Villain’s lawless smash-and-grab criminality.
And in local news. Somehow a win in Blue NJ.
Chathams school board settles lawsuit over transgender student notification policy
District agrees not to reinstate policy allowing schools to withhold information from parents
https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/chathams-school-board-settles-lawsuit-over-transgender-student-notification-policy/
The new report, which is compiled annually by an international group of scientists, comes less than a month before global climate talks kick off in Turkey. World leaders will gather to discuss how to speed investments in clean energy and how to pay for the costs of dealing with climate change. The Trump administration will not participate in those talks.
Still, whether or not American leaders formally participate in international climate efforts, the effects of America’s reliance on oil, gas and coal are being felt around the world, the U.N. warns. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping extra heat that warms the entire planet. The effects of all that pollution are felt globally.
The Earth is about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) warmer on average than it was in the mid-1800s, according to the World Meteorological Organization. That warming is driving widespread disasters, from deadly heat waves and floods to more intense storms and wildfires.
Yes, yes, of course. Listen to the high priests of the doomsday cult. Make offerings to appease the angry gods before it is too late.
100% a lie. There is *zero* evidence of that.
Let’s put some lipstick on this pig
Passionate public protest is as French as “La Marseillaise,” the 1792 anthem that enshrines the collective duty to fight tyranny in the country’s national identity. But this month, the most violent demonstrations in years — and tough policing — have raised concern about riots overshadowing hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators marching against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.
Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?
“How can French people do this to France?” outgoing President Emmanuel Macron asked on Sunday. Nothing justifies the destruction, he added. “We all feel anger and shame.”
But any student of French history would know that the nation’s proud, loud and colorful protest culture has sometimes turned violent — starting with the beheadings of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the revolution that overthrew the monarchy in 1789.
A rich and vibrant democracy, it is. An inspiration to us all.