The events this week are nicely spaced and symmetrical. Today we start off with “news of war” (Mercury-Mars) and Mercury doing what Mercury does. The week ends with Mercury-Jupiter “news of government/change of government.” Smack dab in the middle we’ve got a recommendation to start a plumbing job. Less important on the global stage, but more immediately useful.
Scorpio: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.
Sagittarius: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption, the loss of a benefactor, many contrarieties, failure of marriage projects.
Capricorn: 6 of Swords reversed – Declaration, confession, publicity, boating accident.
Aquarius: 6 of Coins – Presents, gifts, gratification, attention, vigilance, now is the time to act.
Pisces: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Aries: Justice – Justice.
Taurus: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
Gemini: 2 of Coins reversed – Faked fun, letters, handwriting, busywork.
Cancer: 4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Virgo: The Moon – Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Libra: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment. Being drawn after The Moon gives it additional properties of positive change in fortune and greater certainty of good effects.
Also up in the sky before dawn for Monday and Tuesday is a conjunction of Jupiter and Mars. Look for it high in the eastern sky before dawn. Jupiter is the big bright object and Mars the reddish object close by. Ignore Venus nearer to the eastern horizon.
STEVE SMITH WANT SEE URANUS!
Smack dab in the middle we’ve got a recommendation to start a plumbing job. Less important on the global stage, but more immediately useful.
I have some plumbing jobs which I have been avoiding for a long time, because they are almost guaranteed to turn into a massive tar baby mess.
*as soon as you touch anything, everything falls apart
I’m 99% finished with my shop bathroom plumbing.
Only taken me five years.
Sagittarius: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption, the loss of a benefactor, many contrarieties, failure of marriage projects.
This must be a rerun.
“ Cancer: 4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance. ”
Cleavage?
I’m not sure where to go with this one.
🤷🏼
I gotchu
https://youtu.be/-UbB-Q1Xunw
Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
At this, this seems insufficiently shitty. Then I remember some things. It is sufficiently shitty.
Yeah, “family matters, archives, extraction” means some relative is going to unearth some long-past grievance or event and start running with it.
With evidence.
Thanksgiving isn’t this week.
Taurus: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
What’s with all this positive shit?
(Pssst. See below. My power emanates. Let it course through you.)
From dedthred:
Yes, I agree. They’re both awful. So, when I’m looking at such things where both are awful, my question is: Which option does the least damage?
Let’s take the oft-stated around here “Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” Well, I mean, that’s hurtful to hear because I try to think before I feel or at least not do stupid shit while I’m in the middle of my feelz. But I see the result of people thinking with their feelz has wrought and men aren’t exempt, but women have the numbers and they have the voices and they have the motivation to stir others to vote the same way. It’s brought nothing but grief and so, yeah, I get it. The problem intensifies if you say, “Only landowners can vote,” because a lot of landowners are corporations and they have corporate personhood, so that’s a problem.
All of the things we bitch and moan about here are very complex problems and all options are awful. We’re just arguing about which option is more awful than the other. Me, I err on the side of which causes the least damage.
Preach it, Moj.
I note that my argument that, granted that all taxes are bad, tariffs may be the least bad, falls on deaf ears. The usual response is either pie-in-the-sky anarchism (“no taxes, no state, utopia awaits!”) or just plain “taxes are bad, mmkay, and tariffs are a tax, therefor they are bad” without doing the work of comparing the knock-on effects of various kinds of taxes.
I’m on board with the “no one should identified before being found guilty” idea. I’ve found out from extended family experience that at least one county sheriff’s office in NM posts booking photos of ALL traffic arrests (incl. DUI) on their social media within 24 hours. The post celebrates how the sheriff is keeping the community safe before, of course, in very small print noting no one has been found guilty.
There was also a case up in western CO where some contractor had his name plastered all over the local media where he was charged with hit-and-run, vehicular manslaughter, and driving while impaired because the highly trained second officer on the scene recognized “clear signs of marijuana use.” Turned out none of it was true and he never even went to trial – after his business was basically destroyed and tens of thousands in legal fees.
No perfect answer, but maybe forcing law enforcement officers to personally purchase the equivalent of malpractice insurance would be something.
I can see both sides. I live in a jurisdiction where historically, the district attorney doesn’t do his job. One of the only ways to mitigate that is to generate publicity around arrests (the other being vigilante justice, which is bad in theory).
The cost of malpractice insurance would eventually be borne by the agency (and taxpayers), either through salary increases or by direct insurance.
1. Eliminate qualified immunity.
2. Triple salaries.
3. Beef up body cameras.
4. Psych profile, IQ test, personality assessment all wrapped up in a “trade aptitude” test.
Moj, add kill law enforcement unions to your list.
5. Kill law enforcement unions.
Killing all public sector unions would reverse a lot of what has gone wrong over the decades.
“Least worst” is a valuable way to approach the world and what I try to keep in mind.
I was very pleased with Jimmy Carr on Rogan mentioned Sowell in regards to politics: “There are no solutions, only trade-offs.”
Fun episode. I’ve always liked him on QI, as well.
QFT
I’m fine with corporations voting on bonds and levies.
If a corp owns land and is taxed it damn well should get a vote on that. In every jurisdiction it owns property in.
Land owners of all kinds should get a vote in any taxing district they own property in.
Better yet end wealth/property taxes.
Not sure how that would manifest itself, as I’m not going to get a raise for the last few weeks I’ll be working before retirement early next year. 🤔️
About goddamn time.
Last week was supposed to be good for Virgos. I sliced off the tip of my pinky (making a salad of all things). My refrigerator broke, and the replacement wouldn’t fit through the door. Both of the local stores that carry dry ice ran out, so I lost a few hundred dollars worth of meat. Due to the repeated cycles of rain and heat waves (thanks El Niño), I had 4 major ant infestations. My wife’s aunt died. Also, I ran over a crow picking my son up from school, and a lot of people and crows saw.
And this week is supposed to be bad?
So you had a murder of a crow?
At least you had fingertip to eat.
It’s glued back on.
Taurus: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
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Woah. I ain’t reversin’ shit on this one. The stars reflect my mood, reflecting my own gravitational tug upon their celestial bodies. (I affect all things, ya see.) Today is my only day off this week, but it’s fantastic. (Apologies to, or perhaps inspiration for, Derp.) Week seven(?!) at Cox begins, now my fourth in Shipping. Biggest positive is not being on the job hunt. Cuz it sucks. Real bad. Esp when one is not particularly talented in ways that people happily pay you money for. The job search is more a rummaging endeavor, digging for any scraps ya can find.
Well. This one really may work. (I’m still cautiously wary.) Work involves no stress. Constantly busy, yes. People are friendly, chatty, helpful, And nothing at all to bring home, though that’s been true for a long time. (A rare few blood donors, however, I would’ve loved to have brought home, yes…)
So yes, the stars listen to me. Sagittarius, Capricorn, Gemini, to a lesser extent, sorry about your dreadful. I had to get myself right. Omel-Ev-lette, eggs, etc.
Learned a new word from Virgo: Calumny is a false and malicious statement—or the act of uttering such a statement—deliberately made to harm another person’s reputation. The Left’s calumny to tarnish anything they dislike has been trademarked through “Far-Right,” “Fascism” and many more, those trans, black sheep rapists.
Let’s take the oft-stated around here “Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
We all know how rational and smart men are.
See, above re “least worst”.
All of the things we bitch and moan about here are very complex problems and all options are awful.
The always/never trap is easy to fall into and extremely hard to escape.
Poll taxes and literacy tests have a bad rep, but to be honest, I’d be willing to give them a shot.
Combined with evidence that you are a net taxpayer.
Literacy test is better, IMO. The ‘pricing out votes’ is a bad look. Getting folk to make appropriate testing and grading? Ha! And everything will obviously be compared to the actual bullshit tests from yesteryear. And illiterate graduates, etc.
I really like the idea, though. Dumb people listening to puppeteers who talk to ‘their’ level, all to vote for the one who promises them other people’s money. It’s an easy evil genius plan, from the candidates’ POV, sell dumb shit to stupid people. Could be an either/either option? Everyone being able to vote seems an understandable problem with no clear solution, particularly when enforcement is included.
Non-automatic registration and mailing out ballots, too. You have to proactively participate.
I’d be fine with just this level of regulation. Motor voter ramped up the stupidity vote faster than anything before it.
Registration you apply for and have to reapply every two years. Under oath, with violations carrying mandatory jail time.
The leftists flop back and forth between “voting is super-important” and “voting doesn’t need any safeguards”.
Nobody trusts the post office except when it’s delivering votes. Then it’s the most secure thing ever. 🙄
They also come out en masse to vote early, and can’t get their votes mailed until they show up three weeks after election day.
In addition your recommendations Gustave I would zero out voter registration after each POTUS election. Go ahead and register before the next election in your area- if you want. If you don’t want too that is fine as well.
No “motor voter” bullshit. You want to register? Do it as your jurisdiction requires.
How hard can it be to install a tire and tube on a wheel?
Got it on once — backward cause one-way tread.
Got it on a second time — the right direction.
Won’t hold air. I pinched the tube.
A whole flood of youthful memories comes pouring in.
Everything goes into the corner for a time out.
Pinched tube, rear tractor tire. I should have waited ’til my dad got home but nooooooo, I gotta be a 17 year old (or so) smart ass. At least I got the tire on right.
This is a rather fun story, IMO: “A brazen vagrant has seized a patch of prime Manhattan real estate, setting up a sprawling encampment right in Hizzoner’s daily path — steps from City Hall.
Mark Roggemann commandeered roughly 200 square feet of busy Centre Street walkway across from the Brooklyn Bridge entrance about six weeks ago — and has wasted no time making himself at home as he exploits loopholes in the city’s lax new homeless-sweep rules.
So the tenacious tramp simply wheeled his belongings 35 yards north on Centre Street on Thursday, still within view of City Hall and now closer to the NYC Department of Education’s headquarters at the Tweed Courthouse. Roggemann said he knew city workers would be powerless to move him if he relocated a short distance — which proved true on Friday.
If the city slaps a cleanup order on his new pad, starting another seven-day clock, he’ll simply return to his original concrete plot, he said. But he plans to return before then, Roggemann added.
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Pics 4 and 5 have the “street artist” smoking store-bought cigs. Pleased they didn’t edit ’em out or pick not-smoking pictures. The Dems’ open pro-homeless policies are nuts. Here’s how ya kill cities.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/15/us-news/mamdanis-new-neighbor-a-tenacious-tramp-making-city-hall-sidewalk-his-home/
Seven Days?
When you roust bubs, you don’t give them seven minutes.
Seven days
I was expecting a reference to the cheesy time travel TV show.
You have disappointed yet again.
The other obvious choice was Seven days
Ted, you have strange ideas about what is “obvious”.
It gets better:
Unpopular opinion: homeless people shouldn’t have pets.
Those pets are usually mean-ass junkyard dogs kept for protection.
And yeah… how do they pay to care for them…?
There’s a homeless guy I run into who seems like a former GWOT vet. Carries around what is a military issued green duffle everywhere. Covers his face and avoids human contact. But I learned recently that he has what appears to be EBT. I’m guessing some other benefits as well given how he lives. Doesn’t cause any trouble. No pet. But right there would be a way to theoretically pay to support one.
My concern isn’t the cost. If you can’t take care of yourself, how are you going to care for animals?
I was only replying to the question of how they can afford to take care of them. I mean that’s one path.
I’m squeamish on outlawing homelessness. Beyond just basic humanitarianism despite my misanthropy, I just don’t particularly like the idea of government mandating anyone live a certain way. While at the same time I’m perfectly well aware of how they can and do ruin quality of life for everyone else given their behavior.
But on its own stripping people of rights based on living situations poses a number of problems and it’s never been a particular problem in any place I’ve lived. I have to say I’ve never seen a homeless person with a pet even though they exist in my (red) area. Though I’m not doubting they are out there.
“Don’t live on public property” seems an easy way to go. Assuming we have to have public property which I think we always will.
In the Ithaca “Jungle” – what everyone calls the urban campground behind the Walmart – seemingly all of them have their own guard dog. A few dozen brought their dogs along to live in the new apartment building across the street when the do-gooders decided they needed “supportive housing”.
That picture makes Mamdammy look like a retarded muppet.
He should be wearing an army-green Mao suit to complete the look.
Yep, this could be solved by saying “No.”
The Dems would rather use them as props to keep various gravy trains rolling. Fuck the taxpayers.
At the end of the day people are aware that nothing the government aims to fix ever gets fixed, but most people judge the pet programs of the political creatures they support based on whatever the stated intent is.
So we all know there’s a homeless industrial complex where a bunch of people make a living based on there being homeless. A shit ton of money is out there to be bilked. And obviously it dries up if the problem was ever actually solved or improved. We spend a lot of time focusing on that end, but less on why people who live in these places continue to support it even when they can see the evidence of its failure all around them.
Like if the last however many mayors of NYC have been elected to fix education and it still isn’t fixed and the next guy will almost certainly run on the same, you’d think people would reevaluate.
So how do we close the gap? I don’t think it can be done because politics has become incredibly tribal. I’m guilty of it – there’s basically no Dem I would vote for. Closest I could get is maybe not despising a couple because they’re at least good on an issue or two that I care about. And the same goes for the left when they view conservatives. And then there’s the strange minority in the middle who actually flip back and forth when they get angry enough who decide elections (along with simply motivating your base to get off their asses and support you).
That’s before we even get to the problem where even if someone says something to get elected they rarely follow through once they run into the machine in DC. They just get absorbed into the swamp ecosystem.
The left has perfected the art of handing out just enough free shit to make just enough people hold their nose and vote for them even when they see every nuisance in their lives get worse.
There are a couple easy solutions to this but none of them have a chance in hell of ever happening.
So I saw that apparently Fenix Ammo is making its bid for the biggest social media disaster since the troon selling light beer. Anybody got a link to a summary/overview?
The only comment I saw as a tweet about there being more dangerous jobs than the military.
I went looking after it was mentioned by Gustave last night and only thing I saw was as mentioned some comments on vets milking benefits. Which isn’t exactly the hottest of takes and gets said a lot but it’s just really stupid for a business owner. And he’s only doubled down on all of it.
I don’t know who they are besides an ammo manufacturer. Apparently one that sells recycled crap at that. At mark-up?
Their range/practice ammo uses reloaded brass. I’ve used it with no problems. So I wouldn’t call it “recycled crap”.
He’s not entirely wrong about the bennies given to veterans. But he was definitely wrong to post it as an official “Fenix Ammo” tweet. Dumbass.
https://x.com/john_tammes/status/2121633897146421708
https://x.com/gbnt1952/status/2121752737255965048
They are one of several accounts calling-out the staggering VA Disability numbers.
Thirty days
…in the Hole
I like Chuck Berry, but this is the better of the 2 songs…
Won’t hold air. I pinched the tube.
Plastic tire spoons.
That oven door will not defeat me, I SWEAR!!!
You might want to try sodium carbonate. If you don’t have it, you can make it by putting baking soda in at the oven at 350 for about an hour… oh wait, your oven…
Yeah, my oven’s a bit incapacitated at the moment. 🙄
The cleaning is going without incident, just slow because I’m doing six disparate things at the same time.
I’ll bet you buy a steam cleaner before the end of the month
Oh! I want one so badly. But I did get one for our POS house and it tripped every breaker in the house. Don’t want to do that again.
Not all at the same time. Every single breaker tripped when it was plugged in on the circuit.
My oven has “self clean” and “steam clean” buttons. I wonder if they work. I haven’t used the thing since I moved in a couple months ago.
Steam clean softens food residue, and self clean incinerates it.
Don’t self clean unless you need it (i.e. absurdly long pre-heat times)
OK. Yeah, just checked the manual and that’s about what it says. 👍
Crazy rant time – get rid of or severely reform the process for selection. I can see the different purposes in the position but the way officers are selected is really a relic from a bygone era where there was an aristocracy or an educated upper crust to society from which they drew upon to lead the rabble.
This will never happen because the people who would have to lead the charge on this would be…officers.
a) gentlemen by act of Congress
b) officers elected by their fellow men during the raising of volunteers in the 19th century
The market for sports programming is out of control. I’m not a Raiders fan, but I want to see Fernando Mendoza’s first career start.
Google’s “Watch Live”:
DirecTV-I have it, and it’s not there
Paramount+ – I have it, and it’s not there
Hulu- I have it, and it’s not there
Do they not want my eyeballs for advertising dollars?
What’s this about Gavin Newsom “banning creatine”?