Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Bragg Sues Jordan Over Alleged ‘Campaign to Intimidate’
Dem Governor Who Shut Down Churches During COVID Ordered To Pay Over $270,000 In Attorney’s Fees
Chicago will host 2024 Democratic National Convention
San Francisco Whole Foods closes a year after opening due to crime
COVID vaccine fraud prosecution could force feds to share correlated deaths data
Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to remain out of prison during appeal
Twitter Inc. Merged Into X Corp. and ‘No Longer Exists’
FSU professor absent after being accused of faking data to make racism seem more common that it is
That’s all I got for today. I’ll let you find your own song and move along with my day.
The kitten does keep pouncing my shins as I walk down the hallway, but I don’t think she’d care if I bitch about it (and since I find her adorable, I don’t tend to bitch about it).
Morning, Banjos!
I don’t have a problem with the commute but the cats do occasionally take my reserved parking spot.
I thought you took the train.
I did for 18 years. Thanks to Saint Fauci I get to work from home now.
He takes the morning train.
Contrary to popular belief, that song was not about me.
We’re so vain — we probably thought that song was about you.
Oh she most certainly does that too. “Race Dad to the chair before he sits down” is one of her most favorite games ever. Not that she gets belly scritches and a hug out of it before I move her and that incentivizes her or anything… Oh, no…. that would never happen….
Even road traffic was pretty okay this morning. I got ahead of the pack and didn’t hit that many red lights. I wasn’t boxed in or forced to drive someone else’s pace (mostly) it was fairly calm.
Spring Break at a guess? Adults don’t have it off technically, but if your work area is anything like my coworkers, a lot take the week to do stuff with the kids.
FWIW, my company has today and tomorrow off because (((reasons))).
Happy Overpass!
Sometimes the yellow lab cuts me off when we’re heading down to the basement office. The dachshunds use the dedicated long dog lane.
My avatar once stepped on my toe while I was in the process of lifting it off the stair while making that same trip.
I limped for week, as he almost separated the toe from the foot. End of my foot was purple for a week.
Morning Banjos.
I wonder why it took so long for the article about the sued governor to mention which governor it was.
And yet The Science!™ did everything it could to make assembly for goodthink {BLM} permissible.
The first sentence in the whole thing phrased it really poorly, too. It seemed to imply that the people bringing suit owed the money.
The grift is good.
Waitwaitwaitwait…. Which UofA?
Okaaayy… it was SUNY Albany, which makes no sense. What SUNY professor has academic integrety?
Oh, and it’s not the University of Albany, it’s SUNY at Albany. Or the University at Albany.
You can Sloopy can argue about articles together.
I’ve got an alma mater that has a different name in its fight song than on its letterhead. Which is also different than the name that’s engraved on the oldest stones on campus.
Short version: Georgia Tech
Official: Georgia Institute of Technology
Old names: Georgia School of Technology, Georgia School of Engineering
Nickname: North Ave Trade School
Technically, it’s in Georgia.
Short Version: RIT
Official: Rochester Institute of Technology
Old names: Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute
Nickname: South Henrietta Institute of Technology
And Paris, France. And I think somewhere is Asia. Also Italy?
The most important thing is what is missing from the list. There is no Georgia Tech University.
The local university, one of the oldest in the state, changed its name from Oregon Agricultural College to Oregon State University. So, you still see OAC in various places, such as the university radio call letters – KOAC.
Do they sell a KOAC Cane?
They’ve been working on improving their Hispanic community outreach. From now on, the prescribed greeting on campus is a KOAC ola.
With Oregon State College (OSC) in between.
Similarly with the former state normal schools, they were xxxx State College until becoming Universities about twenty years ago. Most of the public universities in the state began as private schools sponsored by churches.
Short Version: Carnegie-Mellon (hyphen or no hyphen, who knows)
Shorter Version: CMU (but not Central Michigan University, thank God)
Official Name: Carnegie Mellon University
Old Name(s): Carnegie Tech, Mellon College of Science
Nickname: That place that took all my money? or 38% Female Enrollment When I Attended– Sounds great!
I hate that ‘at’ crap.
My alma mater was originally called the University of Buffalo so that’s good enough for me.
The theory behind it is that the State University of New York is all one big happy school with dozens of outposts all over.
One chancellor to rule them all…
California is similar. The State system, with schools such as Cal State Sacramento, Cal State Northridge, etc. vs. University of California Davis, University of California Berkeley, etc.
University at Albany, SUNY.
And apparently the Daily Mail is using the SUNY guy’s Tindr profile pic.
Heh I did get a kick out of that.
Stewart told administrators that Pickett’s claims ‘lynched me and my academic character’
dude, the verbage here is not appropriate
Wait… which one is the Chinaman?
Inscrutable.
A very high-tech lynching, no doubt.
FSU professor absent after being accused of faking data to make racism seem more common that it is
The demand for racism in America greatly exceeds the supply.
And people say we don’t manufacture anything anymore….
And the real problem with unconstitutional behavior by elected officials (and their lackeys) is even cited in the article:
No personal liability – no personal consequences… just a fine levied against the very people who’s laws this jerk broke. And we wonder why boundaries aren’t honored….
Hey, Kentucky (et alia) — how about, government that respects the constitution and constitutional amendments detailing personal jail time and/or liability if you violate your oath? Seems about the only thing you could do besides the old “four boxes” solution…
There needs to be a government equivalent of piercing the corporate veil.
Good luck getting the legislators to vote their own personal liability into law.
whaddup doh’
Nice dichotomy there, Banjos. And I’m surprised the Dems would dare to hold a convention there — don’t they know it is MAGA country? Aren’t they worried that their interns won’t be able to get Subway in the middle of the night?
At first I was wondering if they’d be worried at all for their safety downtown — then I remembered most of the agitators are their foot soldiers and nominally aligned… so I’m sure they’ll be fine until they’re deemed no longer of use. Should be at least one more vote-by-mail stuffing exercise before that happens.
It should be mostly peaceful as long as the nominee exhibits sufficient fealty to Antifa.
You’re joking right? It’ll be their biggest chance to get away with the most with the least consequences. They know that the most TV-hungry delegates are 100% ACAB.
I did say mostly peaceful.
Mostly peaceful but fiery?
Can we do better than ’68? YES WE CAN!
Have the rioters breech the police lines and slaughter the delegates?
It’s not the People’s Temple so no harm.
Ballsy that’s for sure – 20 odd months more on the current trajectory (probably boosted with the retard-proggie’s mayoral election).
So you’re saying that it is an X tweeter? Beautiful plumage!
I’ll give Kirsch credit, he puts his money where his mouth is.
A regular Joey Chestnut then?
“Let you find your own song” — Fine… one for all the wonderful misanthropes here, then!
And here’s one from us to everyone else.
Well fine. I Hate You!
Embrace your Hate
Hate Tastes Great
Hate your Hate
Love to Hate
Are the cracks beginning to show?
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1645948412305752064
Trump wins even if he doesn’t run again!
Macron probably wants to be the reincarnation of Napoleon.
The banking situation in the EU is coming to a head. If the BoJ raises rates, it’s going to get very spicy. There’s going to be some serious nuttery over the next couple of months as everyone jockeys for position in the NWO, whatever that turns out to be.
What if the NWO turns out to be the old, old world order? Hmm?
That’s exactly what Davos/WEF is, old European banking interests, front-manned by Schwab and Soros, two of the most decrepit and corrupt fuckers you could imagine.
Oh, are we going back to Rothschilds and everything?
Is it such a stretch to surmise that banks and their associated monied interests which have been around for centuries have their own agendas?
In Europe, the line between political and monetary control is practically non-existent.
And in California it seems: https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/dream/index.htm
Their recent taxpayer subsidized real estate downpayment program is a thinly veiled bank bailout.
Nah. The French have realized that they have no reason to do anything other than issue demands to the U.S. and expect the U.S. to fund their defense budget in any case since de Gaulle. It sucks from the the point of view of the U.S. But, I can’t blame the French for playing that game.
Enjoy your electric future people. Physics and reality be damned!
EPA Seeks to Boost EVs With Toughest-Ever Rules on Tailpipe Emissions
It’s full court press to destabilize the American economy. The Biden admin is working for the WEF, which is just an extension of Davos and the old-world money it represents. They need to destroy US institutions and stability in order to get what they want.
Where in the constitution do bureaucratic agencies get the power to make any arbitrary “rules” they like which have the force of law without any legislative vote?
Oh yeah, the FYTW clause.
Classic doublespeak.
Electric is “cheaper” but it requires massive subsidies and regulations to prop it up.
NPR this morning had an “automotive expert” to say that while the average RV is $58,000 v. an ICE of $48,000, over EIGHT YEARS you’ll save $9k in gas, so the EV is actually cheaper!
The newsreader did not check the math.
Later the expert said that EV’s “should have” lower maintenance costs since they have fewer moving parts.
And over ten years, you’re almost guaranteed to need a new battery regardless of mileage. Work that number in for me, would you please?
Fewer parts dude. And like Wendy’s taught us: “Parts is parts.”
Where is the data?
Never mind how they want to increase use of electricity while reducing our capacity to produce electricity. Also never mind that electric cars are not “green” even by envirocommunist standards.
Solution: Side pipes, not tail pipes.
I like how you think outside the box.
So is Alvin Bragg cos-playing Judge Dredd in his mind?
Nah, too fat…
Maybe he could borrow a suspensor harness from his buddy Vlad?
Baron Harkkonen?
Walmart Announces It’s Shutting Down Unprofitable Chicago Stores
Good thing, now the good people of Chicago are safe from the community-destroying Walmart. Now you’ll see small retailers pop up like dandelions to fill the gap.
Ain’t nobody gonna be wearin’ a North Slope jacket or Air Jordans in Chicago.
Three of the stores are their “Neighborhood Market” experiments which were basically a test concept of small stores that didn’t work out. The other store was profitable until Walmart opened an even larger store three miles away. Kinda proving that middle- low-income people prefer a larger store where they can get a wider selection.
RHEEEEEE — but WALKABILITY!!11! [Which of course was only ever relevant to looters]
I love my “Neighborhood Market”. It is that or Dollar Genital or the local Price Saver (which is gross and over-priced).
‘Orning ‘ordles — at least better than yesterday, but boy did I waste 2 guesses on LL that I really shouldn’t have.
Daily Duotrigordle #406
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 04:19.71
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Blossom Puzzle, April 12
Letters: A D E S K R T
My score: 322 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
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And more good news. First Amendment, what first amendment. We wouldn’t want an AI to misgender someone.
Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT
No way… These wouldn’t be companies who could see their businesses impacted by a change in the market? Or perhaps large established companies with regulatory capture and large legal departments that could use these rules to stifle competition?
I certainly don’t discount that it will play out exactly like you suggest. That said, some sort of legal framework for the liability of AI seems to make sense. We’ve run across cases of ChatGPT “lying” about people. You can certainly make a libertarian case against the existence of defamation law. But, if it exists, “I didn’t call you a kiddie-diddler; ChatGPT called you a kiddie-diddler.” almost certainly shouldn’t be considered a legitimate defense.
Bingo. Newspaper lets ChatGP do the “research” and “write” the article to go after person they don’t like. Popular person’s reputation destroyed after news is repeated by Journolists. Retraction follows on page 16b a month later.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1645974852107661312
AI research should be government only for the common goo
I don’t want any common goo
Fine, just the finest grey goo for you.
He can program it into clothing — “Pardon me, but do you have any grey goo upon?”
How Von Neumann of you.
Bragg Sues Jordan Over Alleged ‘Campaign to Intimidate’
Ironic considering Bragg’s campaign to intimidate.
Which, itself, is nothing to Bragg about…
Chicago will host 2024 Democratic National Convention
It’s fitting to have it in one of their hellholes.
ROS had a decent article on the subject, from Welch.
https://reason.com/2023/04/11/democrats-choose-to-advertise-failures-of-single-party-democratic-rule-by-holding-the-2024-dnc-in-chicago/
TOS…
Another one: Mask Mandates in Hospitals May Have Done Little to Slow COVID-19 Omicron Transmission
I was wrong, but actually I was right.
And…
Breathing is a problem when it comes to respiratory viruses.
Bring back plastic bags!
With a rubber band around the neck.
It’s for the children.
The doublethink would make Orwell . . . Proud? The data doesn’t show any benefit from masking, but I recommend masking.
And we knew before the pandemic masking made no difference. There were literally decades worth of studies showing that.
This is the thing that pisses me off… it isn’t like these people were doing their best and just didn’t know.
The example I use is Science Based Medicine, because they are the ones that told me about studies done in the 90s and 00’s over in Asia where public masking to avoid respiratory viruses is common. And they told me about these studies *years* before Covid.
Then the exact same people jumped on the bandwagon and pretended like they never said any such thing. The exact same people told me it was anti-science to question masking and mask mandates. The exact same people told me that masking is the best thing you can do, and masking simply works. “The data is clear”….
What I really find most horrifying about it is that I don’t think they were lying in the traditional sense. I think the human mind is so incredibly malleable that when placed in the proper setting with intense group pressure, most folk will *actually believe* what they need to believe.
So when Steven Novella told me to “just wear the mask. The science is clear on this one” despite being the person who told me about studies from Hong Kong that showed that in a general public setting they do nothing, I think he was being sincere and earnest. … in that moment.
That is scary. That is how you get mass atrocities. People going along with the herd, not out of fear, but because the brain automatically adjusts our perception. Of reality to fit in with the herd.
Oh don’t undervalue fear. First, fear of the unknown – and very early on, COVID was unknown and scary. Second, fear of standing out from the herd, and being a possible target of mob mentality. Those are real fears with real impacts.
Fear and an unwillingness (perhaps from distrust of one’s own capabilities or perhaps from laziness) to do your own research and think for come to your own conclusions.
Look – reaching your own conclusion means being responsible for the outcome. If someone else decides and I just go along, I’m not responsible.
Group think isn’t a unique feature of crises. It happens every day of the week. The issues exposed by covid were there 50 years before covid. How many core fundamental tenets of the modern progressive pluralist worldview are built on science and philosophy with baked in assumptions that acted as blinders to invariably achieve a certain result? A bad apple may not spoil the entire bunch, but only an idiot bites into the next apple without checking it.
The issues were there, but there was a bit less rot in the “It’s a free country” and “this ain’t the Soviet Union” ethos.
“In the spring of 2020, various restrictions and interventions made sense — even sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them,”
And even willfully ignoring the numerous RCTs since 1918 all of which showed that masking has no significant effect on transmission of respiratory viruses. And also ignoring the studies that show prolonged masking causes physiological and psychological harms.
That was understandable
Only if you are a fucking moron.
Indeed, I wrote one of the first papers calling for universal face masks for COVID-19
Oh, you are a fucking moron. My condolences.
It was understandable, because that’s what I was saying.
I’m having a “discussion” over at Astral Codex Ten about that.
We’ve known for decades masking doesn’t work.
We cut off the vax testing just before the slide in its effectiveness went below the magic 50% threshold.
We knew by Easter, 2020 that COVID was no worse than a bad flu, based on the cruise ships and Northern Italy.
We. Knew. The. Whole. Time.
The black pill? None of the people responsible will pay the slightest price, and are in position and just waiting to do it all over again.
The only scientific argument I ever saw for masking came from Foochee himself. Very early on, the belief was that COVID was only spread thru surface contamination and masking would prevent a sick person from contaminating surfaces (spit and snot).
They knew within a few weeks time that the surface argument was a red herring, and then Foochee doubled down on the mask argument, completely ignoring his own statements from a couple weeks earlier.
I haven’t voluntarily worn a mask since that time.
FSU professor absent after being accused of faking data to make racism seem more common that it is
Racism is very common among college professors.
Virginia DMV makes it near impossible to call in and speak to someone on the phone. I’ve called a dozen times over the past week and never even gotten into the hold queue.
We’ll see if the thirty minute estimate wait time I’m on now is anywhere near to accurate or if I get dropped.
Insert obligatory “And this is the service standard morons want for health care”.
It most likely is not accurate. Getting a good EWT (Estimated Wait Time) presented to callers in queue is difficult, especially in poorly managed contact centers. At one point I had to support a center that couldn’t provide an EHT (Estimated Handle Time) for their different queues, and asked the system to do it. They did not like the response that the system can run any calculation they would like, but they would need to give us what they would want to include in the EHT calculation (as an example, do you include the wrap up or after call work as part of the handle time, or leave that on the agent side instead of the contact side).
Like this ?
Well back when I lived in VA the DMV was actually pretty efficient, much to my surprise. Having grown up in CA, the DMV there was near the pinnacle of bureaucratic sclerosis.
I remember having to get in a line wrapping around the building before the place opened to get certain stuff done in VA. TX isn’t much better, but at least there wasn’t some need to get there an hour before opening to get something done. IN was the best after Mitch Daniels reformed the BMV. It was akin to walking into a bank. Maybe you had to wait in a line that’s 3 or 4 deep, but that was it.
Our very own Andy Breshear has managed to rat-fuck our licensing here in KY. It used to be 15 minutes at either the DMV or Court House and wait three weeks for it to come in the mail.
Now you have to travel to a ‘regional licensing facility’ co-located with State Trooper Barracks. It requires an appointment with a 45 day back-log, but still manages to take hours to conduct (Be here at 1:30PM; we’ll get you and the 35 other people waiting in by 3:00).
To add insult to injury, they have bought ad time on TV and Radio to tell you how much they’ve streamlined the process.
We have both private and public DMV operators. The difference is…staggering.
I think our local DMV is contract workers too.
Eye test: “Do you see that flashing light on the left? And now on the right?”
That may not be verbatim but they are helpful.
Just one more law…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called Tuesday for state lawmakers to pass a law aimed at preventing guns from getting in the hands of people who are a danger to themselves or others.
The Republican governor also said he will sign a new executive order later Tuesday aimed at strengthening background checks on firearm purchases.
“I’m asking the General Assembly to bring forward an order of protection law,” Lee said in a news conference at a Nashville police station. “A new, strong order of protection law will provide the broader population cover, safety, from those who are a danger to themselves or the population.
“This is our moment to lead and to give the people of Tennessee what they deserve.”
The people of Tennessee deserve what everyone else deservers, a culture of private arms ownership and utilization that dissuades the crazy, wannabe mass-murderers from attempting anything in the first place.
What we need is a law that prevents people from ignoring the law, yup yup.
We probably should also close the loophole that allows people who pass background checks to buy guns, yup yup yup.
good thing Europe is free from fear of guns.
Well…except for that Ukraine thing…
war don’t count
Or Northern Ireland, the Balkans, grenades in Sweden, the Italian Red Brigades, the Bader-Meinhof gang…
It’s like gun laws never worked, almost.
They could do something akin to the short story “The Test”. Give a tragic simulation of a gun safety course gone amiss and anyone who still wants a gun after that must be nuts. Problem solved.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called Tuesday for state lawmakers to pass a law aimed at preventing guns from getting in the hands of people who are a danger to themselves or others.
*smacks forehead*
Why didn’t somebody think of this sooner?!
Look, if we just ban Democrats from owning guns, we could have a dramatic reduction in violence.
Germany is on course to shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants on Saturday.
The country began phasing out nuclear power more than 20 years ago – but plans were escalated following Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Subsequent anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany led then chancellor Angela Merkel to press ahead with plans to shut down all of Germany’s remaining nuclear power by 2022.
Sixteen reactors have been closed since 2003.
However, Germany was forced to delay the closure of three remaining plants after Russia cut off European gas supplies amid its war in Ukraine, sparking fears of a winter fuel crisis.
An amended deadline of 15 April 2023 will see the facilities in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, and the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim reactors close this week.
https://news.sky.com/story/germany-to-shut-final-three-nuclear-power-plants-as-concern-over-green-energy-targets-grows-12854958
Did they cancel winter later this year?
“That’s far enough away we’re assuming die untermenchen won’t remember!”
Next week’s headline: “Ongoing brownouts plague Germany.”
That should do wonders for the German economy.
LOL dumbasses. Gaia is just laughing at you, you know.
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi hint they’re engaged
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/11/entertainment/millie-bobby-brown-jake-bongiovi-engaged-intl-scli/index.html
at 19? how old school
Who?
Bobby Brown and Jon Bonjovi.
NTTAWWT.
It’s their Prerogative to be Living on a Prayer.
That convention will be in August, which is outside my normal hockey season so it will be easier to stay out of the city for a week or so. I remember during the BLM protests, they had downtown highway exits blocked with police cars and city dump trucks. My exit to the rink was further north so it was open. It was an eerie sight.
Someone is hungry for another regional conflict an hour later.
A voice recording obtained by ABC News captures the moment of a standoff between a Taiwanese ship and Chinese ship. The Taiwanese officers are heard telling the PLA Xuzhou: “Your actions have seriously undermined the region’s peace, stability and security and deliberately provoked trouble, which have intensified security risk in the Taiwan Strait. Please leave immediately. If you insist on trespassing into our 24 nm contiguous zone, I will be forced to expel you.”
China’s Xuzhou responds, “The 24 nm contiguous zone doesn’t exist. Taiwan is an integral part of China. Those pursuing Taiwan independence are the ones undermining peace and stability across the Strait.”
China also claimed a U.S. Navy ship “illegally intruded” into waters it claims as its own, about 800 miles south of Taiwan. The USS Milius is a guided missile destroyer, it was carrying out a freedom of navigation patrol in the Spratly Islands, in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
The U.S. said it was monitoring China’s actions and that it was “comfortable and confident” it has the resources and capabilities to ensure peace and stability in the region.
Sure we do. Good thing we didn’t send all that cash and weapons to Ukraine, otherwise we might not be able to afford to help that country (Real China) which we have an actual, vested interest in.
They really are relentless. Can they take even a little break from warmongering? Maybe negotiate an end to the war in the Ukraine, then pause the public weapons deals and high-level visits to Taiwan?
As soon as Afghanistan ended in disaster, they were ramping up war in eastern Europe.
Heartbreaking move by fascists who see education as the enemy of capitalism
https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/status/1646083658619518978
Assumes facts not in evidence.
cutting not only the $4.5 million Parson had slated for libraries
It’s the end of civilization.
I can’t name one either. This really is the ultimate meme stock.
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Ron Paul was on Tim Pool last night for anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/live/GbeTQT6Y780?feature=share
Fascist confirmes
It’s the Ron Paul to Curtis Yarvin to chucking people out of helicopters pipeline
Communists aren’t people.
This guy gets it.
The convention’s selection comes after several Democratic lawmakers across the Midwest wrote letters to President Joe Biden and DNC officials arguing that holding the convention in the Midwest would be crucial for Democrats as they seek to keep their hold on the White House and congressional seats.
Does anyone really think of Chicago as “midwest”? Geographically, yes, but in terms of demographics, politics, values, etc., it is not what people think of as the midwest.
No, not politically, ethically, or demographically midwest. It’s a cancerous sore in the region.
“I’m a McDonald’s superfan and you’ve been eating it all wrong – using your burger to make loaded fries is the way forward”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11964341/Im-McDonalds-superfan-youve-eating-wrong.html
Why do the English hate food?
The bad teeth I imagine.
This one weird trick… step 4 will amaze you!
I made it through three and a quarter(?) episodes of Clarkson’s Farm. I was ready to stop after the first two, but … I do not find watching stupid people doing stupid things to be particularly amusing.
“Look at what an incompetent buffoon I am, and I have a camera crew with me every day to document it”
How nice for you, Jeremy. I hope you tip your “digger” over into that pond and drown.
I liked it. It showed just how hard farming, especially for a non-industrial farm is, how a bit of shit weather completely fucks you over, and how the onerous regulations imposed on him by all levels of government makes family farming nearly impossible. In season 2, he tries to open a farm to table cafe for himself and neighboring farms, and the government tries to stop him every step of the way. Without his tv personna millions, he wouldn’t be able to do any of it.
“A former federal prosecutor argued in The Washington Post in 2016 that jurors should use the tool (jury nullification) to reduce racial disparities in prosecution.”
Lol, of course he did.
The disparity that doesn’t exist? Good luck with that.
Does anyone really think of Chicago as “midwest”?
Does anybody think of Illinois as a “swing state”?
Sufjan Stevens did!
Electoral votes went to Reagan in both ’80 and ’84.
That was 40 years ago.
CA went for Reagan in ’80 and ’84. Is California a swing state?
Nearly two generations ago.
40 years ago, CA was solidly Republican. I wouldn’t look at the ‘80s to see what counts as a swing state today.
40 years ago, KY was absolutely a swing state. Today, not so much.
At one time, KY had the 2nd longest active streak, behind MO, IIRC, of always voting for the winner. That ended in 2008. I think KY’s streak was 1960-2004, while MO started their streak in 1956.
I have no idea who has the longest streak anymore.
WI, MI, PA 2008-2020.
All the states except Idaho (for plausible deniability) 2020-the end of days.
Just 30 years ago I was living in LA. Republican Mayor and Governor. Passed that state no-benefits for illegals referendum by a mile. A liberal judge immediately struck it down and that was all she wrote.
Republicans can win, when they aren’t shit candidates. That’s the biggest problem of the Republican party – the assholes they run. If Trump hadn’t thrown the whole thing akilter in ’16, they would’ve lost thanks to one of their standard form candidates.
Republicans can win, when they aren’t shit candidates.
Well, that depends entirely on the state/district, doesn’t it?
Oh granted, there are districts both blue and red, that Hitler could win as long as he had the right initial after his name.
And the Democrat party runs better candidates? I get both sides are shite, but the Dems haven’t exactly chosen the best and brightest to be the ones to usher us into the new glorious age.
FETTERLUMP!!!!!
Sometimes being the lesser shit is all it takes I guess.
Republican candidates do little to distinguish themselves from their Democrat counterparts, they chicken out on discussing major issues. As a result, both Democrats and newspapers can smear them with whatever names and positions they want. So they lose. Almost every candidate lacks nutsacks. It;s not that they bring Queensbury rules to a knife fight, they just don’t fight. Not sauce when that started, but I feel comfortable blaming Bush and the Neocons. Trump is the only person who changed that, and a small subset of candidates took up his model and won. A very small subset. The majority stays retarded fight-averse Neocons.
No coincidence that the two states that went the farthest to prevent election fraud – Ohio and Florida – have drifted farther to the right. Meanwhile WI, MI, PA, and probably AZ have been fortified to the point where it’s doubtful another Republican will ever win a state-wide election regardless of the quality of the candidates.
As an AZian, you are correct. The governor just vetoed a bill requiring that voting machines meet certain standards. The idiot Repubs here, led by their spineless governor, completely blew their one and only opportunity to keep something approaching electoral integrity in AZ.
And I defy anyone to demonstrate that Hobbs was a stronger candidate than Lake. Hobbs is a crashing, charisma-free, mediocrity, practically a lab example of a condescending Karen.
Like Trump, I believe Lake got more actual legal votes than Hobbs, but it’s not who gets the actual legal votes. It’s who can stack up more ballots. And right now, the ballot stackers who matter are Dems, and not just Dems, but Soros Dems, right down the line in AZ.
Hard disagree.
Name one non-shit Republican.
I had to go back to Reagan didn’t I?
Ahh yes. A little under two people a year out of what I expect is thousands if not tens of thousands of Japanese nationals visiting for commercial purposes . Mind you I’m not defending China in any way here.
China’s Repeated Detention of Japanese Citizens Raises Tensions
“A bodega clerk, the mother of a homicide victim and an anti-crime activist will all testify at the Judiciary Committee’s high-profile New York City hearing on Monday.
Republicans are bringing in at least three witnesses to talk about crime in the Big Apple to paint the narrative that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg is more focused on going after Donald Trump than crime in his own backyard.
Jose Alba, a bodega worker who Bragg’s office at first charged with murder when he stabbed a man who attacked him over a bag of chips, will give his testimony at the hearing.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11964519/Judiciary-Committee-REVEALS-witnesses-high-profile-NYC-hearing-targeting-Manhattan-DA-Alvin-Bragg.html
Bread and circuses.
Bread and circuses.
Were you expecting anything more substantial from Congress?
Unfortunately, no.
Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦
@Neuro_Skeptic
“The esthetics of the scrotum is little explored.”
https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/status/1645731564288876548
Navel gazing is out, testicle gazing is in.
This was apparently some research in Germany, so less likely to be our taxes funding it.
We do spend too much time looking at Uranus.
Keep pushing, cuntes.
The Montgomery County School District in Maryland has removed parents’ rights to opt their children out of certain parts of the curriculum and has made LGBTQ-themed books required reading.
The district has made multiple controversial books mandatory reading for its English language arts curriculum as part of an “LGBTQ-inclusive reading list.”
“MCPS keeps painting these books as rainbow unicorn which they are not,” Moms for Liberty Montgomery chapter president Lindsey Smith told Fox News.
Smith said her three-year-old was assigned a book called “Pride Puppy” and an ABC book with images of drag queens under “Q for Queen.”
The report explains, “while several parents requested a policy to opt out of these books, a recently updated policy by the school board insisted that students will be required to ‘engage’ with these materials. In addition, parents will no longer be required to be informed on which books will be included on the lists.”
“Students and families may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials, other than ‘Family Life and Human Sexuality Unit of Instruction’ which is specifically permitted by Maryland law. As such, teachers will not send home letters to inform families when inclusive books are read in the future,” MCPS’ policy reads.
Pitchforks and torches.
Oh, they will keep pushing. And I see less reason every day to believe that the “Just you wait, this time they’ve gone too far” pushback will ever materialize.
And I see less reason every day to believe that the “Just you wait, this time they’ve gone too far” pushback will ever materialize.
I agree. It won’t ever happen. The lessons of Jan 6th and the Canadian Trucker protests show the fate of peaceful protests.
Relatedly, the DOJ has weaponized the FBI to go after parents who speak up. I’ve seen many videos of parents pushing back at school board meetings, only to have the board bring in LEOs to intimidate parents.
Parents who care enough to fight this battle will ultimately choose to withdraw from the system rather than pushback. That’s what we did.
Parents who care enough to fight this battle will ultimately choose to withdraw from the system rather than pushback.
This. Mama bear ain’t changing anything by roaring into the microphone. This isn’t a culture war anymore. It’s a tsunami. Only morons try to fight a wall of water. People with an ounce of sense flee from the destruction.
Except most people do not have the time or money to homeschool their kids.
Then they should stop bitching about the free shit they get from uncle sugar.
In one corner is sacrificing your standard of living to keep your kids from being turned into nihilistic drones.
In the other corner is slaving away to provide all the nice material things to your blue haired, non-binary 14 year old who is destined to hate you anyway because their primary caretaker has programmed them to despise that you’re white and straight.
By the way, there are plenty of other options besides homeschooling, and not all of them are prohibitively expensive. All of them require some level of sacrifice, though.
“Then they should stop bitching about the free shit they get from uncle sugar.”
What?
“In one corner is sacrificing your standard of living to keep your kids from being turned into nihilistic drones.”
Except for many that standard of living is barely paying the bills.
Except for many that standard of living is barely paying the bills.
Does that in any way change the calculus? Some people are between a rock and a hard place, yes. How many are permanently stuck in that situation, with no levers left to pull to fix things? Well under half. Probably under 15%. Even so, are they completely left without option? No, of course not. They may be left without a comfortable option, though.
The vast majority of people could cut their costs in half by eliminating luxuries and consumer debt. No matter the individual situation, the choice is between sending the kid off to spend 40,000 hours being taught a dead end worldview and finding some way, through sacrifice, to get them out of that school-to-slacktivist pipeline. Bitching at a school board meeting is just a loud way of submitting to the first option.
There are also more than a few religious schools in urban areas that will essentially provide close to free education based on means.
The issue is that they won’t tolerate trouble and expect parental involvement in the child’s education.
There is a single mother near me who homeschools her child. She homeschools during the day and works odd jobs during the evenings and on weekends.
It is exceedingly difficult and she’s sacrificed a lot, but she does it. If she can do it, anyone can do it who truly wants to.
“If she can do it, anyone can do it who truly wants to.”
I think you and trshmnstr are way over estimating people’s ability here.
It has jack shit to do with 1/6 or Canadian truckers.
It has everything to do with the mask wearing, head down, shot-receiving, social distancing populace.
I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. My point is that Jan 6th and the Canadian trucker protests showed the fate of those peacefully protest against the system. There’s a clear link between that and the school systems with the DOJ publicly announcing that parents who rock the boat will be considered domestic terrorists. Push-back isn’t happening unless you want to spend years as a political prisoner in solitary while the government seizes your bank account and destroys your family.
Man, if religious conservatives were smart, at all, they’d be lining up the Muslim conservatives as the front people in all of these disputes. First – they have the exact same issues that Christian conservatives (and secular conservatives) have with this crap, and second – they can’t be assailed by the liberal/prog machine because of IDENTITY!
Who has a 3 year old in the public school system?
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs/about/head-start
The govt program proven to have no long-term positive effect.
“A Manhattan urologist already being sued by seven male patients for alleged sex abuse was busted Tuesday on related criminal charges, including some involving underage boys, authorities said.
Darius Paduch, 55 – who formerly worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Northwell Health – carried out the abuse when he was alone with the patients in the exam room, telling them to masturbate while often playing porn, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment.
He would also masturbate the patients, use sex toys on them and conduct unnecessary rectal exams without wearing gloves, the indictment claims.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/nyc-urologist-busted-for-allegedly-fondling-using-sex-toys-on-male-patients/
Maybe Northwell should pay less attention to making stupid anti-gun commercials.
I mean, is it unreasonable to believe that certain jobs would attract certain people?
“New COVID variant Arcturus may be 1.2 times more infectious than Kraken strain”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/new-covid-variant-may-be-1-2-times-more-infectious-than-kraken/
No.
“Fear will keep the local systems in line.”
I would assume the difference between 1x and 1.2x is within the error bars.
I’m guessing it doesn’t say if it’s any more or less severe.
They need to start making up an annual list of new names for variants, like they do for tropical storms.
There was a Kraken strain?
War is coming.
According to the document, dated 23 March, the UK has the largest contingent of special forces in Ukraine (50), followed by fellow Nato states Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).
When your special forces unit is one
dudeperson of special forceness,hexey must be pretty badass.I think it was just a farmer that they conscripted and shipped to Ukraine so they could steal his land.
“A Target security guard punched a customer during a confrontation that was sparked when she asked for “reparations” while at a checkout line with more than $1,000 in groceries, according to a police report.
The ugly incident happened in October at the megastore in Blue Ash, Ohio, and began when Karen Ivery asked a cashier for their manager regarding the bill and reparations, according to the police report reviewed by The Post.
The cashier alleged to authorities that Ivery brought up reparations several times during their brief encounter before the manager arrived, the report states.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/target-security-guard-punches-customer-demanding-reparations/
Thanks, Obama.
Does a knuckle sandwich count as reparations?
Wow. Once you start telling Target cashiers they have a privileged life, you might reconsider your own choices.
October?
Karens come in all colors!! 😄
Good morning, Banjos!
I’ll let you find your own song and move along with my day.
Found mine.
Buffy:
I like you Clarence. Always have, always will.
Yes?
https://youtu.be/agbCXUVGfSU
But are you really happy
Nepo and Ding drew in Rnd 3. It was 3-fold repetition on move 30. Nepo continues to lead by 1 game.
This has been your World Chess Championship update.
I don’t follow the minor league nonsense. Update me when the hot chicks square off.
July.
Like with the men, the #1 woman is not participating. She didn’t even try to qualify. Not sure why.
laurels are comfortable to rest on.
The defending champ is currently ranked #5, the winner of the candidates tourney is ranked #6. They are ranked #378 and #402 on the open list. The women’s #1 is #122.
There are 6 teenagers (born 2004 or later) ranked higher than the women’s #1. It is like when women’s national soccer teams scrimmage against high school boys teams.
This is udderly ridiculous.
Multiple agencies are on scene to a massive dairy farm explosion that took place this evening
📌#Dimmitt | #Texas
Currently multiple agencies and emergency crews are on scene and have confirmed with a multiple casualty incident at South Fork Dairy in Castro County in dimmitt Texas. The explosion took place around 8:15 p.m this evening with reports of a large mushroom cloud rising from the distant its currently unknown how many people were injured as its still developing
Nothing to see here. Mooove along…
Yep, you don’t get those cows milked in time, they’ll get to full and pop.
Do you get spherical cows before they pop?
Likely more oblong.
Specially if they’re…..cowstipated
I am developing n intense dislike for this Honda Element. Practically from day one, it was apparent the starter was in the process of going tits up. I tried to pretend it wasn’t, but I finally had to face the facts. I should just be grateful it made it through the winter.
Even at my usual snail’s pace, it should not take DAYS to replace a starter. As for the youtube wizards who say,”I can do it in an hour. Just come in from underneath and you can do it without taking the intake manifold off,” I have to ask myself what sort of little-girl hands they have. There is no way I could get my mitts up in there. Step one: reach up and remove the connector from the knock sensor, and remove the sensor. I could barely get a finger on the thing, much less grasp it in such a way as to successfully release the catch on the connector.
The good news is, once the intake manifold is out of the way, you can almost see what you’re doing. The bad news is, now I have to put the intake manifold and all the vacuum hoses and other crap back together. I might have it back together by this afternoon. I might as well do something about the hood latch malfunction while I’m in there.
do not have emotional reaction to objects. Has the stoic friday taught you nothing?
It taught me to not do car repairs, since I cannot prevent the car from breaking again.
I had the same thoughts when I swapped the turbo on my Saab.
It wasn’t impossible, but it was definitely more difficult than the YouTube video made it look.
For the most part, I don’t mind being my own mechanic, but sometimes it SUCKS.
Something fun. Bad reviews of national parks turned into travel posters
https://www.instagram.com/subparparks/
Music
Or the cover.
The Beatles was a cover.
Brook’s link is a cover.
Or what ROAT said.
I shall hang my head in shame.
Time passes.
There, all better now.
Bless you. I was hoping for that.
I know The Flying Lizards version from the movie Empire Records.
Great soundtrack.
I like the movie too. I mean, it isnt great art, but its lots of fun.
I really appreciate the movie pointers I get here. My collection has grown substantially.
Empire Records is a fun movie, nearly forgotten in the modern age but to me it nails the 90’s more than most of the other movies.
“I don’t fell that I need to explain my art to you.”
No way this was an accident.
Walmart stops selling shirt after shoppers point out it spells an offensive word
https://i.insider.com/64358a092588f70018ce4c36?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
It could have been. People do stupid shit all the time.
A bunch of chinese women in a hot, sweaty, factory, are laughing.
Heh.
Has the stoic friday taught you nothing?
Little, if anything.
Song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYD-DIggB2k
I don’t know why, but I;ve been obsessed with this cover lately.
It may be the over-production, or the fact that her voice is (almost) Grace Slick level.
I cant tell you another song from her catalog TBH.
Lovely voice.
I know who she is. But I don’t know any of her music.
To me, Grace Slick’s voice (Airplane and Jefferson Starship days) is like hearing Hendrix on guitar.
It’s a shame she fell for that filthy marxist Kantner. But that commie did a good job of showcasing her voice in this CCP anthem.
I have no idea why, nor do I want the psychoanalysis to find out — but I have to admit I listen to this one from time to time.
First encountered it here. Season 4 of that show was pretty wild (and made up for Season 3 that just dragged….
Akshually the live version may be better.
And I honestly don’t know why I find it so compelling.
Timely tune
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I don’t know where to start…
Paywall NYT – Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta
Ah, poor babies. First big RIF? They tend to happen about once a decade. Get used to it.
That happens to other people in other (less cool) industries.
It’s not supposed to happen to the chosen workers in chosen industries!
I remember the military RIF in the 90s. It dropped the reenlistment bonus for my MOS from 4A to 0A. I took an early separation to transfer from the Regular Army to the Army Reserve which still had reenlistment bonuses.
“I know a lot of people who are outraged that the TAXPAYER is on the hook for ANDY’S constitutional violation,” said Roberts in a tweet. “I share this outrage, but this outrage must be aimed at Beshear. If the people of Kentucky want to quit being taxed to pay for these court judgments, Kentucky MUST elect a governor who will actually follow the constitution.”
The taxpayer is on the hook? Dammit. On the other hand, I’ll take the win.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, has declared that 2023 will be the “year of efficiency” at his company.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Good news – stupidity is only a misdemeanor!
The mom of the 6-year-old who shot his teacher is being charged with child neglect
Funny how there is no mention of the child’s father in there.
Im shocked they posted her picture.
https://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nw-mother-richneck-20230411-van3o3ypl5crlholgyz73osx4y-story.html
Seriously.
Speaking of tee shirt art/messaging:
If I still had my screen print stuff, I’d do a run of shirts with a big bold “not equal” symbol on the front.
Feel free to use.
XX != XY
“Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson is a total fraud
Pearson in 2016 vs 2023:”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1645813689717596160
Wow
Holy shit, TEAM partisans will rationalize anything:
grifter gonna grift.
I actually agree – I don’t think there is any question about his character.
That’s a really intense fro
Like Link from Mod Squad.
Psychopath looking to maximize his return.
PA drivers at the NJ shore never change…
Mom charged with murder of 11-year-old son in Horsham, Pennsylvania then fleeing to New Jersey
Sad.
Yup. Complete mental breakdown.
I really appreciate the movie pointers I get here. My collection has grown substantially.
Here’s another
If you like ’30s comedies.
Anybody here fired an At-4 and know how “idiot proof” it is?
Video shows a Russian YouTuber striking himself in the face with a Western anti-tank weapon after holding it the wrong way