Greetings my fellow Glibs. Still trying to shake off the nap I took early this afternoon when M$ decided to break the primary methods of communication for businesses. It was glorious, but I’m basically worthless now. My brain is trying to figure out what day it is and how it managed to sleep without a kid waking it up for any amount of time. Speaking of kids, took my 11 year old to Universal Studios Epic theme park this week. It’s just like Universal Studios but 75% of the cost and the rides/attractions are only 70% as good. But it was fine. I have a low expectation of these places, but it was a fine day for him. It was also beautiful — 76F, clear, low humidity (for Orlando) — and maybe half full. Which doesn’t mean the lines are short, but they were survivable. Good time for what it was.
Okay, lets do some linkin…
If only NYC had issued more fines and violations, I’m sure this wouldn’t have happened.
This is how you turn a gaffe into a non-story. What’s the point of being SecDef if you can’t toss a few medals to people?
Fun premise for a doomsday novel.
Thugs gonna thug.
90s Throwback
“FDNY: 2 people dead, 4 critically injured in Brooklyn building collapse”
I think the current count is 8 dead and 16 critically injured.
The news had that idiot mayor flapping his worthless gums so I changed the channel.
Is it really that hard to engineer and build a 3 story structure?
Details are lacking for now. Looks like both the construction team was negligent and the collapsed building owners too.
With all of the regulations, permit fees, construction rules, and rent control, is it even possible to earn a return on investment without breaking at least some of the rules?
Maybe if you know the right people.
That’s why we need government housing, grocery stores and medical attention.
The new crop of elected pols are busy promising but never mention who is going to pay for it. Medicare is a great idea if you don’t mention the cost and who is going to pay for it. We forgot to consult with the medical people, I’m sure doctors want to spend years in medical school only to be working long hours with a bureaucratic fixed salary.
Strangely we can see the problems with SS and then believe Medicare/Medicaid won’t suffer the same outcome, only quicker. Once a program is started it has to continue. Obamacare was the cure, right? Right?
Some parts of Teams are broken too.
So I went grocery shopping.
I’ve had Teams calls, but Outlook is nonfunctioning.
Things seem to be working fine at megacorp.
Teams on our work VPN doesn’t play nicely with our microphones. To have an actual meeting, we gave to open an instance of Teams outside the VPN.
OFFS.
We have fun hating on our offshore IT team.
I haven’t been able to get them to out the desktop version of Teams on my desktop for at least a year now. I have to open the web version in my browser.
As a result I don’t get the nice toast pop-ups for new messages either.
That sounds like a blessing.
It is and it isn’t.
My supervisor will not infrequently ask me to help out on XYZ project, and I might miss the message for 5-10 minutes because I only get a little number on the tab instead of the toast pop-up.
Azure DevOps is being pissy too. Or maybe it just always is.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I am so glad I don’t have a job where I need to use any sort of computer, especially a Microsoft product for work.
It’s bad enough having to use the internet to do government compliance.
*laughs in retirese*
I’ll probably retire when my job no longer exists.
Or I’ll die.
Holy shit, that chorus was running in my head the other day and I had no idea what it was. Not the song or the artist – not at all what I would have guessed.
The video is blocked by the firewall. What is it?
Cake
“She’s going the distance… she’s going for speed…”
From the distance, the world looks blue and green.
I know the song.
Large fuzzy dice that hang proudly, like testicles from rear view mirrors…
Fun premise for a doomsday novel.
I heard a theory that if one satellite exploded, it could cause a chain reaction that knocks out all the satellites. That seems a bit far fetched.
It looked cool in that one movie with Sandra Bullok.
Apple is the most valuable company in the world again.
I’m seeing that Elon may hire the li’l horndog to run his chip fabs.
I mean, he’s a CEO who actually has expertise and helped build the thing he’s running into an incredibly successful operation unlike the average one in corporate America these days who seems to just shuffle along from one corporation to the next as if they’re just widgets. Juice the stocks for a few quarters and cash out. Rinse and repeat. It’d be a great idea frankly as these are the sorts of people who actually build things. Not the woke MBA’s.
Just keep him away from the foreign poon. Not much else to really say. This entire “scandal” is kind of ridiculous to me. Don’t really get why it’s getting so much attention. The AI aspect of it? The humor? Alls I know is people didn’t seem to give a fuck when it was active members of Congress or China was infiltrating any aspect of our government.
And barely anyone is even attacking China for their fuckery. I’m real curious to know just how much of their economy is built on corporate espionage.
I won’t direct all my ire at the boomers who allowed this shit to happen, but corporate America as a whole. What the fuck were they really thinking setting up shop in a commie infested hellhole? But it was just we can save a nickel let’s do it. What could go wrong in a country where they don’t even respect basic property rights let alone IP.
Absolutely this.
The Dems are jumping all over it with their usual hatreds of both Donald and technology.
The media is running sob stories because the US is doing “nothing” to help with Somalia’s growing famine. You know, besides the normal aid we give them which was only even cut under “America first” because – get this – it was riddled with fraud.
I mean it’s like an even more retarded Bush the Lesser argument going on here. We have to let them defraud us over there so they don’t defraud us here man!
Only they’re going to keep doing both.
This is the issue where I’m the most black pilled on our future as a society. In a vacuum, we could alter our foreign policy, we could improve our economy, we could increase our cultural virtue, but I don’t see any viable path to shutting off the NGO fraud spigot. That is going to not only kill this country on its own, but it is pouring gasoline on all the other issues simultaneously. This country only declines until and unless Big NGO is truly brought to heel.
The fallacy that America is “rich” is still out there. Sure, individually we have a high standard of living. But our government has more debt than any other country and we’re still seen as the world’s sugar daddy.
Was thinking about this yesterday. Far too many useless worthless overpaid commies on all levels of the NGO grift (the org itself, the grantmaking “oversight”, the government agencies). Even if you could shitcan every last one of them and turn off the spigot, those idle hands will ramble rouse just like they’ve always done throughout history. They are poison.
And the fraud over here often ends up being suitcases full of cash going over there.
Local Somali brethren need to send CARE packages. For just $19 @ month I will ensure the surplus Russian donations are transferred to starving Somali Jews.
Your donations will provide food for a family of 9 .
DO NOT SEND FOOD (OR PUPPIES) DIRECTLY!
Puppies ARE food.
Tender, tasty food.
This sign is darkly amusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)#/media/File:Sign_at_anti_American_protest_in_Mogadishu_depicting_the_Abdi_House_raid_or_%22Bloody_Monday%22.png
The Road to Hell by Michael Maren explains the disastrous effects of foreign aid in Somalia.
Open up your wallets, Minnesota.
Can Minnesotans really afford to donate more to the Somali community after already donating to Ilhan’s defense fund?
Import them and they’ll be rich here and contribute!!
Late break, off in an hour. Work is still going shockingly well. I’m glad it doesn’t bore me, though I really, really, don’t do much.
Post Peru Tribune, which was very different in all ways, and let’s ignore my phlebotomy experiment, this is by far the best, objectively, than all the others. The work, I’d say, is easier than Walmart or Meijer, and the test scoring, and the pay is higher than all of ’em.
Bizarre, and welcome. *Flummoxed face, brightened w a strong shot of cheer*
Gathered from news: Buildings don’t like standing. Also: FB trading of Kim Hong Un’s death seem to be premature, tho I haven’t searched ’round. It was fun being in Korea when Kim Jong-Il died.
“ 90s Throwback “
I approve.
We had some very noticeable hail this afternoon. 😳
We had on-and-off thunder and lightning and lots and lots of rain.
https://6abc.com/live-updates/funnel-clouds-hail-fallen-trees-severe-storms-strike-philadelphia-region/20036438/entry/20036712/
South of Philly got walloped.
Wow. That’s ugly.
Mid-40s here right now; possibility of wet snow tomorrow.
https://x.com/snicklink/status/2120914002222166443
Jensen may be out, but the flogging will continue.
It’s fantastic that this guy is getting roasted using AI.
Wow – chef’s kiss.
I’m hearing a long line of communists trying to tie Donald to this. 🙄
We support free speech.
*some exceptions may apply
Why is Kimchee Dong Dung telling us we’re number one?
I got banned from the Reddits for a post where I dared to point out that 80% of Somalis are on some form of welfare along with 60% of illegal immigrants as a whole.
That’s it. That was the post. This was a hate-based attack as they see it.
Reddit is sometimes a decent source for troubleshooting equipment but it’s full of retards.
Headline: Somalis and undocumented workers are contributors to GDP !
It’s tiresome when groups like Heritage post their pro-immigration bullshit and they lump all groups of immigrants together. Or Christ even illegal immigrants.
The stats don’t lie when it comes to certain groups.
Who don’t qualify for any of it. But that’s OK, because someone else is paying for it.
Like you can’t really gel that stat with the propaganda they throw around.
Just like when they start talking about the percentage of deportees who have been convicted of a crime. Like an estimated 60% of them are also using stolen social security numbers to work here along with a host of other crimes they could very easily be convicted of if there was a will for it.
That’s before we even get into the way they get protected and shielded from more serious convictions or the way they hide the numbers of true arrests.
Same with going after the business owners/execs who knowingly hire illegals (with fake/stolen docs or use subcontractors to do the same) or local politicians and officials who offer benefits or other enticements to illegals.
I kinda wish Trump was the fascist strongman his opponents claim him is.
Deport all illegals
Hang the traitors abetting the invasion
Arrest the judges abetting the invasion
Saw some video from near where I live where a roofer bragged about being part of the blue wave. That’s a very red area and you can guess that normally this guy would not vote blue.
He was talking about how hard working “his guys” are. His guys also work for his competitor funny enough. So sometimes an insurance company prefers him or his competitor and the guys just go do the work for either based on who gets the job (reading between the lines of what the cunt was admitting to, seemingly without realizing it). They’re basically frontmen for the illegals who actually do the labor and they get their hefty cut off the top. They are the legal frontman who can work with the insurance and establish the business entity to collect the money.
On top of that he was charging an absurd amount. Talking about it being a $150k job. So he was bilking the insurance on top of it all.
Then there was a conference around this same area where Charlie Kirk met with a bunch of these types of guys pre-bullet and they were basically all admitting to using illegal labor and complaining about needing it.
There hasn’t been anywhere near enough ire directed at the “blue collar” fucks like this. They don’t want to pay or deal with what it would cost to hire citizens.
The illegals can take less for a variety of reasons even if completely established here. The government not taking its cut in taxes and for entitlements being a huge part of that. Then the business saves money by not having to deal with any sort of insurance for them.
Arguing that we need these people here is akin to arguing that some asshole breaking a window is a boon for the economy.
And even the pro-immigration crowd admits that illegals have been a major factor in driving up costs in terms of everything. You pay less for your roof to get done, but you pay more for your rent or mortgage.
And the socialists are mostly too stupid to realize how contradictory everything they’re arguing actually is (the front line bozos at least). The reality is that the Dems need to import a more brown electorate to win.
Everyone needs to stop mincing words. Today’s illegal likely isn’t voting, but their fucking children will be. That’s been ensured.
“The illegals can take less for a variety of reasons even if completely established here. The government not taking its cut in taxes and for entitlements being a huge part of that. Then the business saves money by not having to deal with any sort of insurance for them.”
That’s the value of illegal labor to the economy — Lower wages based on not having to conform to the rules/taxes/etc. heaped on all the rest of the rubes. If they receive amnesty, that goes away and a whole new cohort of illegals is required to keep the con going. It’s rich that the Dems open borders and let millions in while stacking endless taxes and regulations on legit employers and workers.
Bingo – the open-borders Libertarians (e.g. TOS) constantly praise illegals/immigrants in-general for starting businesses. OF COURSE they start businesses – and most are fundamentally cheating in various ways from tax evasion, visa scams, cash operations, other illicit activities, etc.
The Naples roofer in the video he posted was talking about how he wishes there was a better system for them to get citizenship.
We all know it’s bullshit. Guy is pretending he’s a good guy when he’s making a pretty good fucking living doing not much of anything of value.
The fallacy that America is “rich” is still out there.
Individual Americans might be rich. “Society” don’t own shit other than what it can cajole or steal from those individuals.
It took a long time to finish counting. He must have cheated (that’s sarcasm).
Former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, won Maine’s 2nd Congressional District on Thursday, beating Democrat Matt Dunlap after a ranked-choice tabulation, according to unofficial results from the secretary of state’s office.
LePage, who declared victory last week, beat Dunlap, the state auditor, by nearly 5,500 votes, finishing with 50.8% of votes to 49.2%. Blank and write-in ballots had left LePage just short of a majority on Maine’s first ballot, requiring the ranked-choice count in Augusta.
His win flips the seat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a centrist Democrat, has held since 2019, in a district President Donald Trump carried three times. LePage will be the only Republican in Maine’s congressional delegation after a midterm in which Democrats ousted U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, kept the governor’s office and expanded their legislative majorities.
Ireland’s elections are ranked-choice with multi-member constituencies, and redistributing “excess” votes when a candidate passes the quota (eg. 1/4 in a 3-seat district). Their elections are held on a Friday and from what I’ve seen of their election results, the final seat is tabulated by the following Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.
It’s the fault of the vote-counters, not the RCV system, if it takes more than a week to count in a simple one-seat RCV district.
(Australia also uses RCV. Their elections are on Saturdays and I believe the seats are all filled by Monday, although Raven can correct me on that one.)
I don’t buy the validity of “ranked choices” for the simple reason that “progressives” favor it. There can be only one reason for that.
“What’s the point of being SecDef”
SecWar. Although when the Repubs get assfucked in 2028, President AOC will change it back. Or possibly go full Orwell with the Department of Peace.
NPC – the New Peace Corps.
AOC is not going to be fucking president.
If the country goes full-on communist, we are done for. Kaputt.
The Huang videos keep coming…
I want to barf seeing Trump presented as some voice of reason in all this.
And to be blunt the guy can pull plenty of 10’s by flashing a few hundreds around.
He should have just stuck to fucking his useless HR bimbos he was using to hit diversity quotas.
Another great one.
Perfect.
Tariff man? Say it ain’t so…
Lutnick Fights for His Job as Trump Aides Blame Him for Nvidia Fallout
Note the aides are pissed about Nvidia and not the impact dipshit had on the economy.
I don’t believe Lutnick is fighting for his job – I’m pretty sure he’ll be happy to go back to his life away from the spotlight.
Woke is making kids dumber in a way most people may not have thought of.
In children’s literature, boy protagonists are now out numbered 3:1 by female ones in current day (hat tip to Pens and Poison, shared on here by Moj). So there’s really not much being made to appeal to them.
And it’s only going to spiral more as (woke) women have come to dominate publishing. They select stories based on their tastes and politics. Male authors get sidelined and the pipeline of new male authors will only continue to drop.
Daniel Pinkwater for the win.
Just like college (soon) and many professional fields (also soon).
Indies are filling the gap. Dudes who write all flavors of scific and fantasy are cleaning up. The field isn’t barren. It’s just over there and it’s hard to find.
My boss called it a couple hours before EOB, but I had other work I needed to do and I was so happy not to have endless emails keeping me from finishing my to-do list.
It was still down when I checked out at 5.
Some heads are gonna roll over this.