¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jan 24, 2023 | Daily Links | 195 comments

Last Friday I was stuck on an all call with my company CEO.  These things are boring as hell.  So I detail stripped and cleaned my 1911 to pass the time. I am happy to admit I did lose track of one part in the process:  the magazine release retention bar.  Damn thing just launched itself out.

I found it two hours later.

 

Now for the links!

James Monroe is spins in his grave.

Impressive.  I’m truly impressed by this.

Mexico is still at odds with the US over their ban on GMO corn.  Which is really silly given easily the Feds can just buy off the Federales.

The big news late last week was in Peru.  Lot of protests in Lima kind of, sort of turned violent.  How bad is it?  They ditched tourists visiting Machu Pichu.

They should’ve did this 20 years ago.

Lula fires Brazilian Army chief over his apparent indifference to the capitol riots earlier this month.

Modern grifters require modern grifts.

A jaunty tune from the 90’s.  Have a great Tuesday!

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195 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Still, mostly peaceful.

    • WTF

      But fiery.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Con paz y un pocito de fuego.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What? Not enough brochetta?
      Tall Cans!

  2. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was ousted after the far-left socialist politician was impeached for attempting to illegally dissolve the Congress of Peru. Castillo’s ousting sparked the Peruvian political protests in Lima on Dec. 7. Left-leaning organizations and citizens revolted against Dina Boluarte being installed as Castillo’s replacement. Protesters are also demanding better living conditions.

    Not being particularly familiar with Peruvian government, was that an attempt to force elections or was he just seizing control?

  3. Rebel Scum

    James Monroe is spins in his grave.

    Shithole countries in eastern Europe are the most important thing right now.

    • Drake

      We have started buying Venezuelan oil again to make up for Russian oil – and the people running DC don’t really disagree with the people running Venezuela any more.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        The people (currently) running the country don’t (currently) disagree with Venezuela any more.

  4. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    And right on cue…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-signals-rep-jim-jordan-it-wont-hand-over-docs-related-pending-investigations

    The Department of Justice (DOJ) has informed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that information about ongoing investigations will not be shared, in a letter on Jan. 20. The DOJ stated that “any oversight request must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”

    This was utterly and completely predictable.

    • Rebel Scum

      Of course.

    • Grummun

      “As it happens, the House is currently considering the DoJ’s budget. How’d you like to be investigating with pencils and paper in a cold dark room?”

      I know, never going to happen.

      • R.J.

        That was exactly my thought. Pull funding for a month. If there are complaints, pull it for a quarter.

      • Creosote Achilles

        While we are fantasizing,

        “Sir you are in contempt of congress. Sgt At Arms, arrest this man. And have the Capital police bring me his boss. I’m not allowing this sort of treasonous insurrection. We can keep going.”

      • R.J.

        “Seize him!!!”

      • Tonio

        I think they’d need a Senate vote and the President’s signature to withold funding.

        However, it appears that a simple majority of the House could find him in contempt. Unfortunately, it appears that the House has to rely on the US Attorney for the District of Columbia for actual prosecution and enforcement.

      • juris imprudent

        Eric Holder smiles smugly.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All the while good ol Graham runs cover,,,at least now people can really see the uniparty at work.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘“any oversight request must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”

      That is ridiculous.

      There is no deep state, nothing to see here.

  5. Rebel Scum

    Machu Pichu.

    Bless you.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I remember Macho Grande like it was yesterday.

      • The Other Kevin

        Over Macho Grande?

      • Shirley Knott

        I’ll never be over Macho Grande.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That poor guy thinks he’s Ethel Merman.

      • Spudalicious

        I’ve been referred to as Mucho Grande.

    • Rat on a train

      マチュ・ピカチュウ

      • Sensei

        Appropriate as the (common) non scientific word for rat and mouse is the same in Japanese.

  6. Rebel Scum

    During a breakfast with the press, Lula said earlier this week that “a lot of people from the military police and the armed forces were complicit” and had allowed protesters to enter the buildings with open doors. In another interview, the president said that “all the military involved in the coup attempt will be punished, no matter the rank.”

    Funny, that.

    • The Other Kevin

      I think I just hurt myself. I never rolled my eyes that hard before.

      • Drake

        Wow – slight changes to the script. Since the Brazilian military isn’t as woke as ours (yet), this will be a good excuse for a purge. No mention of the cops who actually opened the doors according to the script.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m guessing they won’t get medals, or a funeral in the capital building should they die of a heart attack.

  7. Drake

    Probably past Pie’s bedtime – wondering how accurate this is.

    Romania intends to convene an urgent meeting of the political advisers of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and, probably, Bulgaria, due to military mobilization national minorities in Ukraine, including in the Transcarpathian region.

    I’ve seen the videos of Ukrainian police grabbing men off the street like an old British press gang, to get sent off to the war. Supposedly doing it in a big way in ethnic minority areas because what a shame it would be if all the Hungarian men died.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I’ve been told that the Ukrainians are happy to sacrifice themselves for our geopolitical shenanigans.

  8. Grummun

    Lula fires Brazilian Army chief over his apparent indifference to the capitol riots earlier this month.

    It takes two: one to do the firing, one to accept the firing and walk away.

  9. Count Potato

    “We don’t have a Fox News in Spanish, and that’s what Americano intends to be,” said the network’s CEO and founder Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo.”

    Fox News Latino was in English. Although there were plenty of newspapers in Spanish, no one buys newspapers anymore.

    “Americano’s venture mirrors that of the liberal Latino Media Network, which in June announced the purchase of 18 Latino radio stations around the country. One of those stations, Miami’s Radio Mambi — a longtime fixture in the conservative Cuban-American community — lost several prominent hosts to Americano Media after the sale was announced.”

    Not sure how many people still listen to the radio, either.

    • R.J.

      Down here it is tons. AM and FM are both full.

    • WTF

      Far more than watch both cable and network news combined.

    • B.P.

      The liberal outfit should’ve gone with Latinx Media Network.

  10. The Other Kevin

    I’m guessing you didn’t have your camera on during that call. Otherwise we’d see headlines like SHOCKER: Right Wing Extremist Assembles Assault Weapon During Company Meeting!

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Planning company wide massacre”

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, over Zoom

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        With a virtual assault pistol. It’s worse than a ghost gun.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Duck Hunt leads to workplace violence

      • Tres Cool

        You’re quacking me up .

  11. Certified Public Asshat

    More than 600 participants joined the webinar, including solar companies eager to secure a stake in upcoming projects and disgruntled Puerto Ricans who questioned the reality of implementing solar panels on an island where more than 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.

    “These systems are too costly, and truly hardly anyone can afford them because it’s a debt impossible to pay over many years,” wrote one participant named Wanda Trinidad in the chat.

    Another, Wanda Ríos, said that while the government has helped some businesses transition to renewable energy, she hasn’t been able to get a response about how communities might be able to obtain financial help.

    Yes, the goal is to make you a debt slave.

    • Grummun

      Here’s a less retarded idea: small modular reactors.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I love it.

        Except they’re gonna fuck it up.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Well ok then.

    Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters on Tuesday that he would be shocked if there was anything sinister going on with Biden.

    “I’ve known President Biden for a long time – I would be shocked if there’s anything sinister here,” Lindsey Graham told reporters.

    • Brochettaward

      Lindsey Graham has very different definitions of sinister than the average voter.

      • Rat on a train

        Biden is right handed.

    • Nephilium

      I’ll have you know, Joe Biden is in no way LEFT HANDED!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      And Trump brought that corrupt fuck into his circle.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “They ditched tourists visiting Machu Pichu.”

    I thought of taking a last minute vacation to Machu Pichu before starting my new job. I didn’t even know about the protests. Good thing I didn’t follow through.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      There’s quite the hike, and camping involved. You can’t exactly drive up there.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I’m guessing you didn’t have your camera on during that call. Otherwise we’d see headlines like SHOCKER: Right Wing Extremist Assembles Assault Weapon During Company Meeting!

    Was heard muttering, “You fucker, I’m going to hunt you down no matter how long it takes.”

    • R.J.

      “I’m gonna find you and put you in your place!”

      • Tres Cool

        “One of these days! You’ll see! You’ll all see!”

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Solar panels will keep the rain off you if you huddle under them.

    • The Other Kevin

      Can you cobble together a makeshift shack if you had enough of them?

  16. DEG

    Lula has been trying to reduce the high number of military officers in the government administration left by Bolsonaro. At least 140 military officers have been dismissed since Lula took office Jan. 1.

    Of course.

  17. Count Potato

    Update:

    “‘This is a tragedy but not a crime’: Lawyer for four men arrested over rape of ‘drunk’ LSU sorority student, 19, says VIDEO proves they didn’t sexually assault her before she was struck by car and killed at 3am

    Madison ‘Madi’ Brooks, 19, had been out drinking at Reggie’s bar in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 14 when she was approached by the group.

    The Louisiana ATC has confirmed that they have suspended the license of Reggie’s bar following the ‘seriousness of the allegations and potential threat to public safety’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11671523/Lawyer-men-arrested-raping-LSU-student-says-VIDEO-proves-did-not-sexually-assault-her.html

    • R C Dean

      Well, let’s see what he’s got.

      Presumably, the autopsy showed signs of sexual assault. I don’t know how else they would charge the guys – it’s not like she accused them, being dead and all.

      • Count Potato

        From what I read, at least one of them told the cops about the sex. That plus her high BAC meant it was rape according to the law. (I guess it’s possible she drank more between the sex and getting hit by a car?)

      • R C Dean

        Why did they question them in the first place?

        I’m not really following this closely, in case you were wondering.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well one of the original complaints was over classification

    • Brochettaward

      No. No there isn’t any former president or VP who doesn’t have classified materials. Or a lot of former heads of departments.

    • The Other Kevin

      At this point they’ll just call it a wash, and get together and have a good laugh over a nice steak dinner.

      • Compelled Speechless

        We’re paying!!!

      • Lackadaisical

        Trump Steaks?

    • Sensei

      Oddly this makes sense. Having dealt with regulators this gives Pence and other politicians a chance to empty the closets with minimal repercussions.

      Expect more, not less.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Already can hear what’s her face. “Because of the actions of this administration and forthcoming honest with classified documents…”

    • Compelled Speechless

      I for one find it absolutely hilarious that the cathedral is suddenly going on a tear against well known establishment apparatchiks over “classified” documents. 1) As if this is even close to the worst crime any of these shit heels have committed 2) This isn’t the direct result of ubiquitous use of “classified” status as more of a ruling class mechanism for ass-covering than legitimate state secret keeping.

      • juris imprudent

        ass-covering

        Such cynicism about our noble ruling class.

      • The Other Kevin

        I noticed starting with Biden, they aren’t using that slick “If it turned out the documents did, in fact, have nuclear secrets, that would be treason punishable by execution” line.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        I think you would be more likely to find that line used at the TDS/fiction site.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s starting to remind me of Nannygate from the 90’s.

    • Spudalicious

      That’s the thing with Trump. The DOJ and FBI way overplayed their hand out of retribution, not considering the potential consequences.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        But not being able to get what they want it looks like they’re using their abuse of power and failure to offer a free pass to their co-conspirators with similarly dirty hands and covering over worse.

  18. Rat on a train

    Marylanders could get a shorter workweek under new bill

    Bills in both chambers at the Maryland State House would encourage state and municipal government agencies to shift employees to four-days a week.

    Private businesses would also be incentivized to shift workers to a shorter workweek by offering a state tax credit.

    Employees also cannot see a drop in pay or benefits from the standard five-day week.

    I bet the tax incentives for private businesses where a fig for the real goal of allowing government employees to work less.

    • R.J.

      The unintended consequence will be loss of competitiveness with businesses in other states. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.

      • Tundra

        Iron Law #7

      • R.J.

        Iron Sheik’s law #3.

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Sheik’s Condom?

      • Rat on a train

        Like the minimum wage?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Well, let’s see. You have Baltimore city, where no one is working except in slinging crack, the DC suburbs, which are all government employees, Annapolis area, also all government, and Baltimore County where Social Security seems to employ half the population.

        I think this wouldn’t even cause a blip.

    • rhywun

      Please, taxpayers, contribute to the relief of the crushing burden of work suffered by your betters.

    • The Other Kevin

      1.5 people dangerous enough to keep off airplanes, but I’m sure nobody like that has crossed our open border in the last two years.

      • The Other Kevin

        1.5 million, even.

    • Tonio

      This is going to be fun.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The article doesn’t say if the database includes reasoning or evidence for an individual’s inclusion. I’m just kidding, they don’t actually care.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That actually makes sense. Apparently he was flying a commercial flight, the pilot came into the cockpit and found him swaying in the captain’s chair saying “Daddy says I get to guest pilot. If this thing corners anything like an Oldsmobile, I’ll be right at home.”

  19. Mojeaux

    I’m creating a commonplace book and I realized that I already have one on my computer. I found this I thought you people would like:

    From The Left Hand of God

    The One True Faith is not intolerant because it is some pompous schoolmaster terrified of contradiction, it is intolerant because the Truth is intolerant by virtue of the fact that it is true. It is not intolerant to refuse to allow a teacher to state that two and two is five or three. Such a person would be stopped in all societies at all times.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      All societies? What if two and two equals four is racist?

      • Mojeaux

        Took WAY too long for that comment.

      • The Other Kevin

        The author could not have predicted that our society would someday become that advanced.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Workplace terror

    One Google employee based in the UK told management that “psychological safety is paramount” after parent company Alphabet Inc. shed around 6% of its full-time workforce.

    The employee was outraged that among those let go by Google were high performers and people on immigration visas.

    “How are we supposed to ever feel safe again?” the employee wondered. His comments were reported by Insider.

    The workers at the tech giant appeared to have trouble processing the news.

    You mean Google didn’t adopt me? They just hired me to do a job until they decide they don’t need me anymore?

    OMG how callous.

      • R.J.

        So sad. If you are ever at a company that showers you with free food and tiki bars- run. That place is wasting money and making and decisions. That is not business reality. Of course now we know where a lot of the subsidies for that came from…

        Our taxpaying pockets.

      • R.J.

        “Bad decisions”. I am going to go volunteer to be turned into Soylent Green now.

      • DEG

        I finished the movie the other night. I liked it. I’ve never seen it until now. Thanks!

      • Sensei

        One place I worked on Wall St had free food.

        It was so you stayed in the office at your desk and worked.

      • R.J.

        It was made of PEOPLE!

    • Rat on a train

      I can quit anytime but they can’t fire me. We need enlistment contracts.

      • R.J.

        Sounds like Hotel California.

      • Tres Cool

        “8 year olds Dude”

      • R.J.

        Yeah. Now I occasionally hear it in my head whenever governor Newsom proposes another tax on people not living in California. Growing up that song was inescapable.

    • rhywun

      Won’t somebody please think of the people on immigration visas!!

      You could always give up your job for one of them, honey.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I get that it’s stressful for people on a work visa to be laid off. I’ve been there. But that’s kind of the risk you take when you decide to live and work in a different country.

      As for the high performers, they often get the ax when their whole group gets shut down. They may well get hired by a different part of the company, or if they are really lucky, by a different company, which would give them a salary from the new company while getting severance from the old. Double dip.

  21. Rat on a train

    Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

    It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.

    EVs are a problem. The solution is to get rid of cars.

    I don’t want your walkable city fantasyland.

    • R.J.

      You knew this was coming. Klaus plans to only have cars for the elites. The rest of us are just mouths to feed. Nothing could go wrong with his plans.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sort of like how Moscow had plenty of open roads for the apparatchiks for their Ladas.

    • B.P.

      Wow, that was a quick layover in 100% EV-land.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, there will be nearly 100% EVs. There just won’t be many of them, and only a few people will be able to use them.

        Spoiler: you won’t be one of them.

    • rhywun

      Climate justice warriors are just now coming to the conclusion that green is not green?!

      Serious reporting for serious people.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        No, they’re revealing their actual objective.

        Poverty and despair

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        BUT THE EARTH WILL CRACK IN HALF LIKE AN EGG!!!!!!

    • Compelled Speechless

      Will each of us be assigned to a walkable city fantasy land? Will each be ruled by a noble family loyal to the god-king-emperor?

      At this point I’d rather they mix it up and try to gaslight us into thinking that feudalism is a sexy new system that’s never been tried just to give socialism a bit of a break.

  22. Tundra

    I found it two hours later.

    Happy ending!

    • R.J.

      There goes our family friendly rating…

      • Tundra

        That train has sailed, my friend!

      • Sensei

        Well, some things a man will spend 2 hours trying to find.

      • juris imprudent

        Mythical libertarian women issue a collective knowing sigh.

      • Tres Cool

        /random clitoris joke

  23. Mojeaux

    @Swissy, I made another post for scheduling. It’s in drafts.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    History? What the hell is that?

    Quinn’s decision to enter the industry seemed prescient at the time. “It gave me a really strong sense of safety and stability that in hindsight really wasn’t there,” he said.

    In November, Quinn was laid off, part of a wave of powerhouse tech companies cutting jobs and implementing hiring freezes that began last summer and gathered force through late 2022 and into this year.

    Since Jan. 1, legions of employees have been placed on the chopping block at Amazon (18,000 layoffs), Microsoft (10,000 layoffs), Salesforce (8,000 layoffs) and Google (12,000 layoffs). Those cuts came on the backs of earlier excisions at Meta (11,000 layoffs in November) and Snap (1,300 layoffs in August), as well as at Twitter, which is melting down for other reasons.

    The industry-wide downturn has led many tech workers — no longer basking in the fervent attentions of an industry desperate to woo the best and brightest talent — to reevaluate their careers just as Quinn once did.

    Where they head now could reshape the industry for decades to come.

    “Someone’s loss is another’s gain,” said Dan Ives, a tech analyst and managing director at Wedbush Securities. Highly skilled developers and software engineers won’t stay unemployed for long, Ives said, and the companies that snap them up will probably be those at the forefront of exciting new sectors such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, cloud storage and cybersecurity. “I think it’s a repositioning of tech.”

    The cuts come on the heels of unsustainably rapid hiring over the last five years, Ives said. “Now, the clock’s struck midnight for hyper-growth, [and] you’re seeing tech CEOs rip the Band-Aid off.”

    It’s a moment with notable similarities to the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, when an inchoate version of the internet economy turned to mist before investors’ eyes amid the collapse of Pets.com and other frothy Web 1.0 ventures.

    I wonder how many of those people have any money in the bank.

    • B.P.

      Learn to mine coal.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Allison, a college senior studying computer science in the Bay Area, said she accepted an offer at a FAANG company over two defense industry opportunities in Pennsylvania and Idaho.

    “Better to apply for a place that gives $250,000 and get laid off in 6 months … than go to Idaho and get $100,000,” she said. “I’m willing to accept risk for significantly more money.”

    I applaud your decision, Allison.

    • Gustave Lytton

      $250k out of college? Or even 100k, with zero experience?
      Jesus H.

      • rhywun

        Reality is going to hit that one hard.

    • Mojeaux

      $100k goes a lot farther in Idaho than $250k goes in the Bay Area AND versus possible 6-month termination or long-term employment. Methinks she’s thinking with her social credit.

  26. Tres Cool

    Some of us work all night. I was just listening to the LocalNews™ horror-casting the upcoming Winter Doompocalypse with a potential for all of 4″ of snow!
    They had tips on what to keep in your car in the event of a slide off…..among the items were a cell phone charger and sand bags. Back in the 80s (1980s not 1880s) we had rear-wheel drive, shitty bias tires, no ABS or traction control, no airbags, and barely seatbelts. Its a miracle we all survived.

    Im going to bed.

  27. Rat on a train

    Virginia Rocket Lab launch in a few minutes.

    • R.J.

      Is there a live feed?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Scrubbed

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I swear they said it was scrubbed

      • Rat on a train

        Nope. I was able to see it from home.

      • R.J.

        I see an engine and lots of clouds. Looks launched.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Awesome!

  28. Shpip

    Back in the late 1870s, Atlanta newspaperman Joel Chandler Harris began writing the “Uncle Remus” stories as a serial to “preserve in permanent shape those curious mementoes of a period that will no doubt be sadly misrepresented by historians of the future.” As a teen, Harris had spent many hours in the slave quarters of the plantation / newspaper office where he worked, since as a ginger, illegitimate Irishman he wasn’t exactly accepted by polite society and felt more comfortable in the company of the slaves.

    Chandler’s first collection of the fables he heard in the slave quarters, Tales of Uncle Remus, was written in dialect and became a late-nineteenth century cultural phenomenon.

    In 1946, the Walt Disney Company produced Song of the South, illustrating some of Chandler’s work. By the 1980s, criticism from the usual suspects led Disney to refuse to release the film on any media for home consumption. But Disney did have a Splash Mountain, a flume ride in its featured theme park that featured some of the characters from the film.

    Yesterday was Splash Mountain’s last day as an active attraction at the park. Walt Disney World has already scrubbed Splash Mountain from the park maps, replacing it with Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (coming in late 2024), and removed the Oscar-winning Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from the music played at the park entrance.

    And the whitewashing, so to speak, of Joel Chandler Harris is finally complete, 115 years after his death.

    • Gustave Lytton

      By the 1980s, criticism from the usual suspects led Disney to refuse to release the film on any media for home consumption

      By 1990s, perhaps? The latest rerelease was in 1986.

      • R.J.

        Dammit. Now I have to find a copy and post it.

    • Michael Malaise

      Just think if we would actually educate people about Joe Harris/Joel Chandler Harris.

  29. B.P.

    Hey everyone, it’s News Literacy Week! Here’s some helpful information:

    https://www.denver7.com/news/news-literacy-project/news-literacy-2023-what-to-look-out-for-to-spot-fake-news

    “[Nitwit journalism professor] says to make sure you’re getting accurate information look to websites ending in .edu, .gov or .org first. She says there’s also credible information on sites ending in .com and social media but it may need to be double checked.”

    “”I’m applying to medical school in the spring but part of the reason I added a minor in journalism is because I was and am so frustrated by the misinformation and disinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Senior Gabrielle Abdelmessih. “It cost people their lives and it undermined our public health response in a really big way.””

    • R.J.

      Go to TIKTOK for your news kids. You heard it from Gabrielle first. No fake news there!

    • Tundra

      “A lot of people don’t have the patience to read an article past the headline, so we have to be responsible with how you are directing someone toward a story. Sometimes a headline will suggest something that’s not all too truthful but people won’t read past that point because social media is typically not a friend of context so it can be tricky to navigate,” said Senior Tori Coker.

      What are the odds that the audio would contain vocal fry, uptalk and a dozen “like” scattered throughout?

    • juris imprudent

      Gabrielle Abdelmessih

      Has the CDC got a career path for you!

    • The Hyperbole

      undertook a survey of 2,340 participants…The survey found that 22% of respondents knew at least one person who had experienced a severe health problem following COVID-19 vaccination. Using that information, the authors estimate that as many as 278,000 fatalities may have occurred in the US due to the vaccines.

      I’m no statistician but that seems like some awfully big jumps to conclusions there.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Way to skip right over the important numbers there.

        “ Week two in England and Wales saw excess deaths shoot up again. In England they were 18.8% higher and in Wales 28.7%. However, as I noted in a previous article, the ONS have started using figures from 2021 and 2022 to calculate their averages. As these were abnormal years this skews the numbers. Using the previous five year average (2015-2019) means excess deaths in England are 23% higher (3,047 deaths) and in Wales a whopping 34% higher (299 deaths).”

      • The Hyperbole

        Ah, I didn’t get that that blog is bunch of random posts and assumed the vaccine thing right coming after the excess death thing was intentional and meant to be related.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Math is hard

    These carbon capture systems are large and expensive: To tack one onto a power reactor would cost $750 million. Without strict government mandates or financial incentives, power plant or factory owner operators will have little reason to spend that money.

    In an effort to make this technology more economically attractive, PNNL researchers have developed a smaller modular reactor that would pump one to two percent of the solvent from the carbon capture system into another smaller modular reactor and use it to make a product that companies can sell.

    “If we can give an economic incentive — if they can convert just 1 percent of the carbon dioxide that they’re capturing in one of these big facilities,” Heldebrant told CNBC, then perhaps the factories can “sell enough of things like methanol, or methane or other types of carbonate products to at least provide a financial incentive, so they would actually want to build the capture unit in the first place,” Heldebrant told CNBC.

    They’re starting with methanol, which currently costs $1.20 per gallon. That means 20 gallons of methanol produced would pay for a metric ton of carbon dioxide to be captured. For some sense of scale, the United States emitted 4.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020, according to the most recent data available from the EPA.

    Cut it the fuck out.

    • R.J.

      No shit. Go peddle that crap in China.

  31. hayeksplosives

    I have to fly to Reno from Vegas for a conference in March.

    Options are Southwest and Spirit.

    Is Spirit to be avoided like the plague or is it ok?

    • Tundra

      Not OK.

      Despite last month, SW 100 times out of 100.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Quick flight and you can snag a “paid” seat for only a few bucks the closer you get to flight. Though SW is still good

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        closer you get to flight

        This gives me high anxiety. I need to book ideally a year in advance 😂

      • hayeksplosives

        I rarely have that opportunity. I just booked a flight for another purpose taking off on Sunday. Not a lot of notice there!!

        I miss Delta though 😥

        I detest the Southwest model of boarding and not having a seat assignment.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I can’t not have an assigned seat. My anxiety used to go through the roof when I flew SW

      • Tundra

        Weird. I love it. The plane loads so much faster!

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I also like to fly with the richies, and SW ain’t got no classes. Commies, I tells ya!!

      • Tundra

        LOL!

        I don’t fly a fraction of what I did. So, alas, I gotta pay for the front.

        Fuck. No.

        Just get me there asap.

    • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

      Hayek, I am going to be in Vegas mid March, if you are around and would like to be visited.

      • Ownbestenemy

        What am I…chop liver?

  32. R C Dean

    “Damn thing just launched itself out”

    Oy, 1911s. I have had more spring-launched parts from cleaning those than any other gun. Except maybe the mag spring retention thingy on shotguns.

    • Rat on a train

      There’s a reason certain maintenance was prohibited at operator level.

      • Tundra

        So how does that work? Especially in deployments?

      • Rat on a train

        operator -> unit -> post -> depot -> manufacturer

        Unit armorers deploy with the unit. Post maintenance can be done at forward bases.

      • Tundra

        Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

  33. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I wasn’t convinced before, but with yesterday’s mass shooting in California, it seems that AAPI violence really is a problem.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just not in the way the narrative wants

  34. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    My dad was supposed to be at Machu Picchu last week. It was cancelled the day before their arrival. I’m glad for that.

  35. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    So Amazon will apparently release season 2 of Clarkson’s Farm, but will not make further seasons. All because he said out loud he dislikes a thoroughly dislikable couple. A couple, by the way, that works for one of their media competitors, whose offerings so far have been received…not so well.

    My guess is season 2 of Clarkson’s Farm will be a YOOGE hit and Amazon will come to regret their decision.

    • robodruid

      It will be a huge hit.
      And they wont care.

    • Hyperion

      They need to release season 2 of The Peripheral, Night Skies, Utopia, and Outer Range.

    • R.J.

      Woof. No more car show either?

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Correct, although I wasn’t super into that one.

    • Hyperion

      “domestic violence charge”

      I assume he’s been found guilty by a jury, yes?

      • rhywun

        How quaint.

      • Rat on a train

        The seriousness of the charge warrants action.

  36. Hyperion

    Speaking of Lula. Has everyone heard that he’s creating the South American Euro? Apparently the Argentinian Peso is going to greatly increase the value of that. Lula must have went to Economic school with our favorite economist, Krugabe.

    • rhywun

      Krugabe

      LOL haven’t seen that one in a while.

    • Drake

      I thought there was going to be a BRICS currency?

  37. Brochettaward

    RC Dean posted about Adult Swim canning Roiland from Rick and Morty. He’s also out at his game company. On top of the domestic violence thing, he’s dealing with accusations of being into teen girls. Color me skeptical of texts from unknown authors, most of which aren’t even sexual in nature. “Most” come from minors. Well, which do and which don’t? Like two refer to actual sexual encounters, and one is a long story from some broad who pretends to be a powerful girl boss because she refuses to kiss another girl at his request (even though she went out with him and got liquored up after he had hit on her).

    • R C Dean

      That wasn’t me.