Victim?
The NHL season has come to an end and the Washington Capitals snuck into the playoffs in bizarre fashion. The Astros keep losing and this season is becoming a shitshow. This whole thing is getting weirder by the day. But I still don’t see this guy ever getting a chance to play again. And across the pond, PSG thumped Barcelona and Dortmund took out Atletico to both advance to the UCL semifinals. The other two matches are today and they should be bangers. And that’s it for sports.
This doesn’t expose their biases at all. It’s not exactly surprising though. The woman running the place is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive nut job.
Giant piece of shit
What a piece of shit. But maybe they have a plan: He blames it all on her but she refuses to testify, and gets found not guilty. Then she blames it all on him in her trial and he refuses to testify, and she gets found not guilty. It’s bulletproof!
These fucking assholes are just shameless. Their zoning policies are what caused all of the cheap lodgings to be shut down. And their tax schemes only made the problem worse. So of course they’re gonna try to shame others into solving the problems they created.
This sure looks like more than a misdemeanor. But I guess this is the kind of prosecution the community voted for.
Those poor people are just trying to earn a living. I wonder when the progressives will come out and decry this attack on cultural enrichment.
He got one right for a change
So you’re saying they don’t know their own faith? Interesting take. I’m not a fan of the commie pope either, but this attack is waaaaay off.
The lunatics are running the asylum. Or they’re trying to anyway. Bunch of retards.
I can’t wait for this decision to come down. The entire political left will lose their fucking minds.
Let’s rock and roll today. That’s a good start. And this keeps it going. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I AM FIRSTHOLIA I NEED TP FOR MY FIRSTHOLE
ALSO, siebar.
Hola Siebar?
Hace Fresco!
Good God, Bro is amusing for a change.
Particularly since he referred to himself in the feminine.
Haha bullshit. That would be a felony for hitting one of the king’s men.
More bullshit. You have 50 assaults on teachers in the last year. You are a liar who cares more about other factors than basic safety for the people in charge of the classroom.
People so proud of what they’re protesting that they all decided to wear masks.
I saw that. Fire all of them for obstructing business. And for being mask-wearing losers. I can guarantee none of those losers do productive work.
Leave them in the office, barricade the door, allow no food to enter, and only one bottle of water per person per day. Maybe turn off the power to the office so they can’t recharge their cell phones.
Don’t be silly. Barricade the doors, cut the power and water, and pipe in nitrogen gas.
The pipefitters union stands in solidarity with the protestors.
They can be locked inside with the protestors and share their fate then.
“Hey! Door-locking is a union job!”
File a grievence.
No, turn up the heat. Let them see what a day in the middle east is like when you spend all your money on
rocketsprotests.They seem easily identifiable for the firings anyway.
They could just lock the doors behind them and ask them to get in line to leave the office. Make them show security their employee badge. If they don’t have one, have the cops arrest them for trespassing, get their name from the cops when they’re arrested and then fire them. If they do have their badge, just fire them and ask the police to remove them from the building.
Are you sure that wouldn’t run afoul of either CA employment law and/or some union contract agreement?
Perhaps. But they can just pay the required severance and be done with them. They’re disrupting the workplace and I guarantee you there’s verbiage in their contracts that prohibit politicking and disruption while on the the clock and on company property.
If there’s not, then they deserve to be shut down by these retards.
I can just see the wrongful termination lawsuits that result in mandatory rehiring with back pay.
In CA, it’s illegal to “discriminate” against someone because of their (approved) political views.
Unless they’re conservative. You always leave off the last part.
There’s also a difference between believing Israel is in the wrong and staging a protest.
I would think so. I’m still baffled why Google let this go on so long. Why not just fire them after 10 minutes of this nonsense and have anyone who won’t leave arrested for trespassing?
Indeed, absolutely no sympathy for Google here. They’re getting what they deserve.
“Cause Google likes and approves of the message: Kill All Jews.
“Those poor people are just trying to earn a living.”
leave the young ladies at their trade will ya
They’re only doing the Johns that American hookers won’t do.
They are takin’ the place of Pepper Jack’s best Hoe!
So it’s OK to hit cops? Realistically since the cop is immune it’s OK for the cop to dish out justice unlike the teacher.
I wonder how many times somebody who punched a cop in the face got charged only with a misdemeanor?
I have some distant recollection of such incidents. The perpretrators were generally femal and married to connected people of a predictable political persuasion.
In Baltimore, it used to get you a free ride in the back of a van. AKA the “rough ride” or the “scenic route”.
Ther’s not much point in charging a corpse or coma patient.
The full weight is a fear-inducing misdemeanor?
Spoiler: They named Lizzo the acting DA.
“The lunatics are running the asylum. Or they’re trying to anyway. Bunch of retards.”
In the good old days they wold be fired in 15 minutes and security would rough them up on their way out. This stakeholder capitalism bullshit leads to no good.
I think it’s called late stage capitalism now.
It’s bulletproof!
Do even Dem die-hards have a reasonable doubt as to his guilt?
Of course they do. It’s just the way that people of color operate.
Shades of Jim Crow.
Mah daddy taught me to always have six years worth of cash in the house! All black people know this!
His name is synonymous with “corruption” in New Jersey of all places.
Guilt’s got nothing to do with it. His prosecution could hurt the party, therefore it’s a political prosecution.
He was found innocent last time he was caught taking bribes, so why not this time?
Isn’t a bribe up to 400K like business as usual? It’s only when it gets excessive that there’s a problem.
Quid Pro Quo = Family that plays together stays together
National Conservatism Conference: Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels event
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68826577
Brussels police were ordered to shut down a conference for right-wing politicians, including Brexiteer Nigel Farage and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, on Tuesday.
People were stopped from entering the National Conservatism Conference a few hours after it began, organisers said – although it continued for those inside.
The local mayor said he issued the order to ensure public security.
The move to shut down the conference was also criticised by Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who called it “unacceptable”.
“Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop,” Mr De Croo wrote on X.
Referring to the fact that it was the local mayor, Emir Kir, who opposed the conference, Mr De Croo said that while municipal autonomy was a cornerstone of Belgium’s democracy, it could “never overrule the Belgian constitution guaranteeing the freedom of speech”.
And UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called reports of police action “extremely disturbing”.
In a message to organisers, Mr Kir said some of the attendees of Tuesday’s conference held anti-gay and anti-abortion views. “Among these personalities there are several particularly from the right-conservative, religious right and European extreme right,” his statement said.
“The far right is not welcome,” he added on X.
What far right? You have leftists and center-leftists. Europe lacks a right wing.
Oh, they were wrongthinkers? That’s ok then.
And yet, you accept it.
Exactly, where are the consequences?
If course, he’s a Turk, that’s what you get for electing foreigners to rule over you.
Western values in a Rules-Based-Society.
Sen. Bob Menendez could blame wife in bribery trial, unsealed court documents say
Bitch set him up?
She made him bang whores his big donor bought for him? (Or was that an earlier case?)
Honestly, if I was on the jury and they trotted that out, I would probably just burst out laughing.
Which would be unfortunate, as it would get me dismissed and I couldn’t vote to send that dirtbag to the pen.
The problem is that at least one juror will be all in on team Dem, consequences be damned.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-youre-stuck-with-joe-strategy-biden-campaign-iranian-assault-ff183bf9?st=89ljisw75yx6d5s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Or you go with the Friedman approach – you can be pro- everyone as long as you ignore everything about the actual players!
Thanks for the proxy! That currently works at work.
I’m reminded of Castro bragging about how Cuba had some of the finest prostitutes in the world. All literate with that totally legit 99% literacy rate and free healthcare to keep them clean.
Gee – in a place where labor and land is so readily available it makes perfect sense! Plus AI !!!!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-chip-fab-businessgrows-in-brooklyn-c5433a94?st=52bwqg2ct4lkppu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“The lunatics are running the asylum. Or they’re trying to anyway. Bunch of retards.”
Punchline: those lunatics control most people’s access to information on the internet. People piss and moan (rightly) about social media acting as an arm of the state, but so does Google, and Google can do far more damage than social media.
My expectation is that Google is going to become AOL at some point.
It’s impossible to predict when, but something is going to leapfrog their dominant position. And their numerous foibles and inertia will put them down.
I still get surprised that they are the standard. I just use Brave. Usually get what I’m looking for immediately. If not, then Yahoo or Google.
Brave uses Chromium I think and most of the search engines in that browser use Google’s or Brave’s results. Ironically enough, if you want an interesting internet again Yandex is pretty good.
Whoops, Google’s or Bing’s results
It’s all the back end product that puts them where they are. Email, pages and so on.
I rarely use Google, but when I do, I’m always surprised at what a shit “search engine” it is.
Maybe because it’s less a search engine, and more an ad platform.
I generally only use the maps from a private window, and only for general planning purposes (never navigation)
Used to be great and you could find literally anything. Now it’s ads ads ads and good luck finding what you want. They also cull results like crazy and searches that used to get 100K results get 300 and those are all trash.
Big tech has always really been big advertising.
Google has managed to ingratiate themselves into a lot more than AOL (such as the fact that Microsoft uses Chromium as the base for their web browser now), and have a wider spread. I don’t think Google gets dethroned until a new tech comes out that’s a massive change (or a massive pile of internal documents get leaked).
But Google is much more than just Chromium. For example I’ve got an Android phone. Google Pixel no less.
That said something will disrupt their ad / data collection revenue stream and blow them up. The pieces will get sold as they double down on some long shot that fails.
I was just using Chromium as an example. AOL (at least to my knowledge) never had a competitor such as Compuserve or the like use AOL as a core piece of their business. Is there really a solid competitor to Alphabet in the online ad space at this time?
But in the long run, I agree that something will cause Alphabet to collapse at some point in the future, but I’m thinking it’s a generational thing at a minimum instead of a soon thing (like social media).
A lot of the google tech isn’t impossible to just swap with a similar rival. Their lock-in isn’t as strong as it would need to be.
If something blow up their search business and the data collection and ad revenue that generates for them they will be in a world of hurt.
They’ve jammed so many advertisement into YouTube that I expect other video services may start to take some share from them there too.
The issue is the timing which is really impossible to predict despite the fact that I used to get paid to do exactly that for companies in a different industry.
Rumble’s pretty good for political content at least with only a couple of easily skippable My Pillow or free Trump gold coins ads per hour but their entertainment and general knowledge content lags far behind. Youtube’s become so bad that watching a vid there without an ad blocker is a no go for me.
That’s my biggest critique of all of the “totes not a conservative version of [insert major social media site]” attempts. Aside from X, how many of them have any level of content outside of politics?
Or example let’s say I follow 14 of the top 40 disc golf channels on YouTube. I go to Rumble, and there’s one guy with a half baked channel showing off his local course.
Some topics are better (Homesteading, for example), but there aren’t any topics aside from politics where there is anything close to parity with YouTube. As a result, I always end up right back on YouTube.
trashy – yes YouTube is my go to spot for my interests as well. But I think it is generational and younger consumers are not as invested in the platform with Instagram and TikTok pulling viewers from that demographic.
Well you can understand why they never want exposure and accountability. There simply aren’t enough cushy sinecures for all of them.
That pudgy little colonel was one of the more repugnant creatures that came out of the woodwork during the Trump administration.
Reading the fucking the article, I see it wasn’t the colonel. But some other scumbag.
I’m sorry, we’re going to need to revoke your Glib Card for that.
Now that’s music to start the day!
I managed to break my pixel 5a and have no idea what phone to get. Iphone is rather too pricey and i have always had android… I looked at newer pixels but they all seem to have bad battery life which is a main criteria for me
I’m still rocking an Iphone 8.
*shrug*
I’ve always had good luck with iPhones. I guess those Chinese child laborers make a good phone. They can be pricey, but they last forever.
Until Apple starts spiking the performance of their OS on older devices to “nudge” you into getting the latest device (“now with fewer features!”).
I’ve always been frustrated with the interface on iPhones.
I don’t know what it is, but something about it just bugs me.
iPhone SE’s not that pricey if you’re wanting to try Apple stuff but the battery life isn’t great.
I have an SE. nice phone.
Now I would also point to eBay, you can get a near-perfect iPhone 12 for about $250-$300. Those are good units, and cheap.
I’ve had good luck buying a quality refurbished phone on the Back Market site.
Here’s my referral code that should save you $25: 5b2af64ea3b4f354
I still use my 5a and like it a lot.
“Good news” is that Google only promised security updates into sometime later this year from memory. So the phone was EOL.
I’d probably pick up the 7a if I were in the same position.
I have a 6a and have never had battery issues. I think any online review where it is pointing out battery life issues is in comparison to $2k phones that yeah, have better batteries.
Also, these guys make crazy Android phones that look fun and industrial tough:
https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan
Why is that phone only $300, when Galaxies are triple that?
Without actually reading all the specs my guess is that it has some mid tier SoC and runs some version of Android that is rarely updated.
Still does make you nostalgic for your BlackBerry.
Honestly, my current phone is paid off which means it’ll probably dies soon. I like the idea of ruggedized phones, so am thinking about
https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank44
It seems to be more modern than the Titan series, but I have no idea if Panda glass is better than Gorilla glass.
I wager Panda glass is lazier.
On the plus side, Pandas are resistant to falls.
I’m assuming it’ll be more inert, thus more corrosion-resistant.
I just got a galaxy z flip 4. I really like this thing. I’m usually pretty hard on my phones, going through screen protectors and cases like candy. Particularly the screen protectors.
This one folds up like an old flip phone, which, so far, has kept my screen safe. I put a caseborne case on it, and am happy with the size and the level of protection.
Battery life is mostly fine. If I’m running YouTube videos in the background while I work, it’ll chew through the battery in a day, but with the screen off for a reasonable amount of the day, I’ll have 25 or 30% battery left when I go to bed.
The nice thing about a Pixel is you can put CalyxOS on it and have a semi-controllable phone. I’ve been using it for more than a year with no issues.
Huh. Something to look into.
Keeping in mind the roundabout way you will need to get Google Play running if you so choose.
It’s also going to break the secure NFC for things like Google Pay.
I have the 8 not-pro and I like it pretty well. Battery life is fine but yeah not as great as a pro model would be.
Lol. The sheriff wearing General of the Army insignia.
‘This doesn’t expose their biases at all. It’s not exactly surprising though. The woman running the place is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive nut job.’
Extremely on brand. You really proved him wrong!
Also in sports: Portsmouth FC score two goals in the final ten minutes to earn promotion back to the Championship for the first time in 12 years:
https://youtu.be/X8VXMu8KtHo?si=DYKGNGLcrIS42fw0&t=187
In other soccer news, Wrexham earn back to back promotions.
Yeah, it’s pretty impressive.
Even further down the pyramid, one of my favorite teams, Torquay United, won last night to avoid relegation from the National League South. This despite losing ten points for going into administration about a month ago and a further points for playing a suspended player.
Ooh, I’ve just found a new favorite team in the lower leagues.
Cruden Bay play in the (Scottish) North Region Junior Football, Championship division. This is the seventh tier in Scotland (Junior doesn’t refer to age here). Their record: played 26, lost 26, GF 13, GA 140, GD -127. But wait, there’s more: they were also deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player so their final points total for the season was -3.
lol
I remember some years ago we even got Scottish leagues on cable TV. I had so much soccer to choose from I could watch something every day. Now 95% of it is pay streams. 😡
Do you get BEIN on your cable system? I think they carry the SPFL.
I have a weird deal where the cable is part of the rent and I don’t have to deal with the cable company – which is a big plus.
So no BEIN anymore, it’s on a higher tier that I would have to sign up for a separate account and pay extra.
‘it’s at least partially because Catholic Social Teaching famously defies the tidy left/right binary we’ve come to take for granted in US political discourse.’
It’s almost like it’s a universal (right there in the name) Church that has concerns beyond the secular.
Trans people are welcome in the Catholic church but they will not be affirmed. If that is what they are looking for, they should go somewhere else. Pretty simple.
I went to Catholic school for 8 years in the 80’s and this is all consistent with the Church’s teaching on sex. We learned that God made us the way we are on purpose. This uproar reinforces that the trans cult is about narcissism and playing God.
The derp parasitically consumes medicine.
How bad you ask?
Give me that old-timey religion!
It’s thetans all the way down.
Tricknology is real.
Just got around to last night’s article. Thanks RC, I always enjoy your writing. You are an interesting cat.
Regarding tourniquets, my best buddy from hockey lost both legs in Baghdad. (I always wonder if he crossed paths with people like your instructor). His vehicle was hit by an IED, and he put the tourniquet on his own leg, but the Army only provides you with one, which sounds like a big oversight.
Thanks.
Your IFAK is your personal first aid kit. The odds you will need two tourniquets are pretty small and you can only carry so much (from what I can tell, the military wants you to carry way too much as it is). In the military, it’s likely you will have buddies there who also have IFAKs. They’re not supposed to use them on other soldiers, but c’mon. “Sorry, pal, Sarge is gonna yell at me if I use my tourniquet on you. I guess you’re just going to have to bleed out.”
As I mentioned yesterday, I doubt I will care much about the possibility of getting tagged with unlicensed practice of medicine or tort liability if I have to do something to save someone’s life. At least, I hope I won’t sit there and say “I can help you survive this, but until you sign a liability waiver and I hear back from the Board of Medicine, you’re shit out of luck”. But it’s a personal call.
It is a big oversight. I don’t remember the exact number, but a significant percentage of battlefield injuries that require a tourniquet end up needing a second one (it was something like 20%.) Keep in mind though, that the threat you face in your day-to-day life here in the states, is probably different than the threat you face stacking and breaching buildings in Mosul.
I have both an IFAK and a second, separate TQ on my body armor, and a total of four TQs in the aid bag kept in my truck. I only carry a single TQ on me day-to-day though – just not enough room in the khakis for everything…
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From the pope article:
This right here is a great example of how these worldviews are intractable. Paragraph 1 rejects the general orthodox Christian interpretation of transgenderism as a rejection of God’s creational order in favor of “the forbidden fruit”.
Paragraph 2 is stereotypical leftist liturgy. Trans people are aggressed and discriminated against and done violence because their lifestyle choices are not accepted. There is no such thing as “just” discrimination because that goes against the radical egalitarianism the left pushes to shepherd their emotes-for-brains base into the next round of cultural deconstruction. Of course, the church is told to discriminate all the time. There’s an exacting list of requirements to be a deacon or elder of a church, a list that eliminates a lot of really devout people.
The details about the decree that floated up in the Nation article seemed like bog standard Christian approach to gender and sexuality issues. We were all made in the image of God. We were made male and female. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We were all in unrepentant sin before being reborn in Christ. Unrepentant sin after being in Christ is an indication of a weak or dead faith.
Apply these teachings to murderers or thieves or prostitutes, and there’s not much debate. Apply them to the rainbow coalition and the left loses their minds.
Doesn’t the denial of gender-affirming care and civil recognition of transgender lives constitute a kind of “aggression and violence”?
No.
No more than making me subsidize it, publicly affirm their “identity”, and taking children away from parents who disagree. I guess it’s just aggression and violence all the way down.
They have yet to see the aggression and violence they will get with the backlash they are creating.
The hotel had bacon AND sausage in the breakfast lineup this morning.
Livin’ large.
😋🥓
Your morning’s soundtrack
Uffda. The state of business in Minnesoda.
Yes, it seems none of our DFL overlords seems to wonder about all the non-profits that infest our land and whether they are good or a drag.
That story also included this gem. I wish the local GOP wasn’t so inept and at least challenged the DFL enough that they wouldn’t just blatantly say crap like this out loud.
Yes, yes, yes! A democracy means that “fair share” is whatever the people say it is.
TBF a “democracy” certainly can mean that… two wolves, sheep, dinner, etc.
True. But usually pols are smart enough to not say “pray we don’t change the deal any further” out loud.
The problem here is that the DFL controls all three branches of govt and it doesn’t look like it is going to change. They are like bears who have lost their fear of man.
Without profits there won’t be any housing. Investors seem to always want to make money, whether it’s in the real estate, the material or the contractors end.
Never forget: Unprofitable = unsustainable.
And we all know that something being profitable means there will be less of it.
Punchline: those nonprofits are also corporations.
“ Are they positive to the state, or a drag?”
Nothing outside the State . . . .
Tell me again, who are the fascists here?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Bring back Smoot-Hawley
President Joe Biden is calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to triple the China tariff rate on steel and aluminum imports as he makes the rounds in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday, the president will visit the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh.
Biden’s demand to raise the current 7.5% average tariff on steel and aluminum is an effort to make clear that his administration’s recent warnings about China’s trade practices are not empty threats.
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“China’s policy-driven overcapacity poses a serious risk to the future of the American steel and aluminum industry,” National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard said on a call with reporters on Tuesday. “China cannot export its way to recovery. China is simply too big to play by its own rules.”
Bidenomics is really taking shape.
If we don’t raise tariffs it’s going to be a bloodbath.
The leftist ejit protest crowd has really gone all in on masks. Seeing pics of the Google employees protesting for Hamas is hilarious as they are all wearing them. In most of the photos I have seen of the bridge and freeway blockers it looks like north of three quarters are wearing face diapers. It’s like they are trying to get me to despise them even more.
Masks have been part of Antifa/Balck Bloc for decades. Prebought dust masks are easier to put on than bandanas.
Absolutely. It’s just caught on with the rest of them. Not really surprising as they are big on conformity, but a notable development for sure. A decade or so back you might have seen a bandana or two among the hardcore, now it’s a majority thing.
Is it because they still believe The Science? Or because they are trying to make it a bit harder for the authorities to identify them?
The Science gave them an excuse to hide their identity.
I believe the latter. The serious ones wear ski masks or bandanas.
Today, in front page news
“Donald Trump’s stunning secret weapons! Meet the glamourous group of women throwing their support (and social media accounts!) behind his next bid for President – led by Melania lookalike Margo Martin and her VERY alluring friends”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13315233/donald-trump-women-margo-martin-natalie-harp-assistant.html
Sure they might look shiny, but what does their hair smell like? Asking for a
POTUSfriend.Let’s see how they do in head to head matchup with Biden’s influencers.
Regarding the kid punching the teacher. It made me think of the new law in Tennessee? that let’s teachers carry a firearm. I wonder if having a handgun would have prevented this teacher from being punched? Or after the first punch would she have been justified in shooting the student? I say yes. This won’t stop without serious consequences for assaulting a woman.
Student in 9th grade, 18 years old, got a CCL. Shootout is the Science Lab
Aren’t 9th graders normally 14?
Normally but not always
You’d think that one of the male teachers would have come in and roughed the kid up.
Of course the male teachers are all Ed majors, so probably not a sack amongst them. When I was a kid we still had quite a few big guys teaching. Two medium sized male teachers had played semi-pro hockey so you didn’t want to mess with them either.
Do they still have reform schools? I knew kids who did bad stuff (but never THAT bad). Never saw them in school again – it was off to reform school where the teachers were more like parole officers who did not take shit.
My aunt became Student Council President of the girls’ reform school she was sent to.
She is not proud of her time there, but I keep telling her that that achievement would be my #1 thing put on my resume.
A senior administration official on Tuesday rejected the notion that tariff hikes would lead to higher inflation.
“If taken these actions will not increase inflation, but they will protect American jobs and steel industry,” the official said on a call with reporters. “Residual inflation is not coming from goods, these actions will not change that.”
On the other hand, the Biden campaign is looking to maintain a hawkish China stance as he competes against Trump for blue-collar workers’ votes. In that vein, Biden will also reiterate his opposition to the proposed sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
“It’s important that U.S. Steel remains a domestically owned and operated company,” a senior administration official said Tuesday. “The president will make that clear again. He has told the steelworkers he will have their backs and he means it.”
“Residual inflation is not coming from goods.” What does that even mean? Is it a admission that wild deficit spending is inflationary? It couldn’t be. It’s just more corporate greedflation.
Biden is totally going to win back the working class vote.
Dems can’t understand why the white working class aren’t like blacks.
“USDA and China CCP lab are creating deadly BIRD FLU viruses as part of $1m collaboration – and YOU are paying for it”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13314917/Lab-leak-bird-flu-China-army-USDA.html
No.
Yes.
What could go wrong?
I was curious about how the protest was going, so I (literally) googled it. Oddly enough the first dozen hits were just rehashes of yesterday. I had to go down to the Times of India to find out.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-employees-arrested-after-protests-over-israel-project-read-companys-statement-on-police-action/articleshow/109371351.cms
excellent
Were those the same employees that had a sit-in to protest Google working with the US Govt? Oh, right. None of them protested their company working with the Feds to suppress news that might hurt the Uniparty.
Don’t click on that link, unless you enjoy having going to a site that won’t let you leave it, short of shutting down the window and reopening Glibertarians.
?
I had no problems with the link.
It wasn’t Times of India, its your fetish porn site that did that.
He had the Times of Pakistan open in another tab.
What do we mean when we say corporations should “pay their fair share” in taxes?
Rep. @emmagreenman explains a fair share is whatever the people decide and Minnesotans have a #RightToKnow how much large corporations are earning and contributing to our collective well-being.
And when the other animals in the barnyard began to smell the Little Red Hen’s delicious bread, they slowly assembled at the door of her coop. Someone, no one knows who, began to murmur, “Not FAIR.” Soon the murmur became a chant. The animals, emboldened by mob psychology, began to demand that the Little Red Hen bring the bread outside and distribute it equitably among them. Finally, when she refused, they broke down the door and took they bread, and beat her viciously for her crimes against civil society.
When the bread was gone, they threatened her with death if she did not make more.
And they all lived happily ever after.
My understanding is quality has gone consistently down as the company decided to try to become both fashionable and expand it’s brand. It is what almost always happens to niche brands with a strong user base that make products with a long life.
Dr. Martens Shares Tumble as Bootmaker Warns of Tough Year
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/dr-martens-shares-tumble-as-bootmaker-warns-of-tough-year-004f509f?mod=itp_wsj
They don’t fit me so I’ve never bothered with the brand.
Sorry – unlocked article here:
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/dr-martens-shares-tumble-as-bootmaker-warns-of-tough-year-004f509f?st=ck8lttlrnffg2tv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wonder if it is also a problem that when beans cost so much, it is hard to spend $$ on premium boots.
DM’s were a good working class brand that seems to be falling into a standard trap that a lot of companies tend to fall into. Lately it seems that expanding a brand’s appeal often leads to expanding into insolvency. There’s nothing wrong with being the brand that cornered the market on 1980s skinhead head stompings and being happy with that.
But muh wider audience!
Lately it seems that expanding a brand’s appeal often leads to expanding into insolvency.
Everything has to be a growth brand, or the shareholders get angry. The idea of making a decent living by putting out a good but niche product is outmoded.
There is a regional bakery around here whose products are in pretty much every store that sells baked goods in this area. It can be run profitably more or less forever, but the company gets handed around like a hot potato because the bread and pastry markets are so saturated that it simply can’t expand.
The Best Models of Miami Art Basel – Miami Swim Week Pt 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9nPNC_A2-Q
They’re just jealous because Bidenomics is so successful
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Tuesday that America’s recent economic performance is partially the result of the country’s unsustainable fiscal practices, creating risks for the global economy.
“The exceptional recent performance of the United States is certainly impressive and a major driver of global growth, but it reflects strong demand factors as well, including a fiscal stance that is out of line with long-term fiscal sustainability,” the IMF wrote in its latest World Economic Outlook.
“This raises short-term risks to the disinflation process, as well as longer-term fiscal and financial stability risks for the global economy since it risks pushing up global funding costs,” it continued. “Something will have to give.”
Modern Monetary Theory, FTW!
Because “preserving” Indian families has worked so well.
Bill would create the same “safeguards” to preserve black families as they do Indian families. Sounds like a good idea, but a lot of Indian kids get stuck in completely dysfunctional families because they can’t be sent to white eye foster parents.
Maybe consider the fact that Child Welfare is an evil organization? They fuck up everyone, not just blacks and Indians.
On paper CW should be heroes. They save abused kids. In reality, they only hassle people that they aren’t afraid of and abandon kids with crazy dangerous parents.
I have mixed feelings here. I adopted two out of foster care. They definitely needed to be removed from their parents, and in both cases the foster parents were very good to excellent. The same for the case workers we dealt with. But I have also heard horror stories, both in the news and from other adoptive parents.
The issue isn’t Child Welfare in particular. The issue is government workers are unpunishable in general. Can’t be fired. Can’t be sued for negligence. Thus, the system protects bad people during bad things in the course of their work. This results in police killing innocent people without consequences. And results in social workers do terrible things to children or tolerating terrible things being done to children by parents or foster parents.
My direct experience was on the happy end of the spectrum. But horror stories exist.
The problem is that like almost everything involving government, everything hinges on the conscientiousness of the individual people involved. And some very good people do this work. But also some very, very bad people. The good ones tend to get burned out. The bad ones cannot be gotten rid of.
The good ones tend to get burned out. The bad ones cannot be gotten rid of.
The bureaucracy at its best treats them the same, but more often treats the latter better than the former. And we wonder at the results?
Can only swim against the stream for so long…I can see the pinhole of light at the end of my tunnel that’s for sure.
So the rules (and laws) for union actions (strikes/protests) are pretty well established. They have to occur out on the public property and cannot block access to the employer’s facilities.
So the Google protests clearly break those rules. Even if these employees are/were backed by a strong union, they would not be protected by laws or common practices.
Fuck the protesters. Fire them. Arrest them. Sue them for damages.
I watched the first episode of Fallout yesterday. I’ve never played the game.
I thought the episode was well made. The show is someone disjointed because they’re started with three parallel character developments, but presumably these all come together.
I look forward to watching more of it. Since I don’t know the game, I can’t know what “terrible” things they are doing to a beloved story line. So, I am fine with what I am getting.
Actually not really butchering much. Even the original creator of Fallout has given his thumbs up
I just finished episode five. It does start out a bit slow and disjointed, but It’s been getting better as it goes along. As far as faithfulness to the games, it’s incredible. Probably the best I’ve ever seen in any adaptation.
Gremlins
Ford (F.N), opens new tab is recalling 456,565 units of some compact SUVs and pickup trucks in the United States over loss of drive power due to a low battery issue, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.
An undetected low battery charge could lead to some electrical accessories such as hazard lights not functioning properly or cause a loss of drive power in affected vehicles, according to the NHTSA.
The recall includes Bronco Sport SUVs manufactured between 2022 and 2024, and Maverick compact pickup trucks made between 2022 and 2023, the auto safety regulator said.
Dealers will recalibrate the body control and powertrain control modules to fix the issue for free, according to the NHTSA.
The charging system can’t handle the system requirements?
Is that before, during or after they catch fire because of cost cutting on the fuel injectors?
https://tflcar.com/2024/04/nhtsa-ford-investigation-fuel-injector-leak-bronco-sport-escape/
I mentioned before here I love the Band-Aid fix Ford wanted and NHTSA is rightly questioning.
All of us saw this one coming. The NPR guy has resigned. Meanwhile, AWFL boss lady keeps her job on our dime. No word yet on where he will land.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1780612027515388288
Steve Inskeep writes: Meany-pants Ultra-MAGA fascist has a meltdown! Stomps off in a huff rather than own up to his wrongdoings!”
My expectation is that was the plan all along.
The expectation that you preclear external interviews and articles is the norm and well known. He knew what the likely result was going to be.
He wasn’t threatened with termination for the interviews, it was for the essay he wrote — they claimed it was “work product.”
That’s why I said “articles” as well.
Her punishing him will be the best thing that ever happened to him. He will land on substack (as others have mentioned) and double his income. He may even write up how stupid he felt after realizing he wasted 25 years there.
Checks out with my experience of PA pickup drivers. I believe he did tag the sign on the side of the road without hitting any of the other vehicles.
So at least some satisfaction there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1c5vngi/heres_your_pennsylvania_idiot_of_the_day_oc/
I see the abandoned buildings and wonder why? Well, I know the reason but it would seem like another use would be available.
Speaking of blithering idiots… Youtube puked up another “automotive diagnostician” for me: schrodinger’s box, or some such thing.
What a genius. The one I watched last night, he has a malfunction in his LS-swapped(!) Firebird. It sounds terrible, and for good reason.
After fucking around with his magic boxes, he determines that there are weird compression issues in cylinders 3 and 5. He does this with some sort of unspecified wizardry- I think maybe he is reading load on the starter somehow. It throws pretty lines on the computer screen.
After a seemingly interminable period of fucking around and idle (wrong) speculation, he finally pulls a valve cover off, to find a couple of broken rocker stands. Well whaddaya know. I have never heard about this particular failure, or if it is common, but I’m not really in the loop, LS-wise. All that computer stuff is really fancy, but you could also just look at the stupid thing.
The guy incessantly refers to his pay channel. Who would would pay to listen to that fool, I cannot guess. I suspect I might hate-watch him again.
You might enjoy this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@ViceGripGarage
https://www.youtube.com/c/PineHollowAutoDiagnostics
The above taught me that trick. He’s really good at figuring out things with as little actual mechanical removal as possible.
If you have a scope and current clamp the dead cylinder will up as the motor turns over because the current draw with lower compression will be lower as well.
“How Sydney Sweeney became the most divisive star of a generation: Fans defend Euphoria star after director said she ‘isn’t pretty and can’t act’ – while critics are split over whether she’s ‘gussied-up smut’ or ‘the saviour of Hollywood'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13318307/Sydney-Sweeney-star-generation-carol-baum.html
It’s a very long article. tl;dr: boobs aren’t woke
Isn’t pretty? Meow!
That too.
Same with Gal Gadot and Louise Linton being called ugly. It’s part politics and part jealousy.
Envy and jealousy are all the commies have.
That and fanatical devotion!
I will never understand that. But yes, they do.
Of course not. Boobs are great. Woke is not great.
The director is gay and probably prefers flat chested string beans to hide that fact.
The issue is that she’s a sex symbol in an age where the activists have been attempting to de-sexify Hollywood and actresses. They resent seeing this pretty blond get attention for her looks post MeToo.
They haven’t tried to de-sexify Hollywood. They are just trying to convince us that Lena Dunham is hot, though in the end maybe that’s the same thing.
The drinker has a video on the de-sexification of hollywood. It is an actual woke goal to women into strong bosses with no sexual appeal.
I believe he did tag the sign on the side of the road without hitting any of the other vehicles.
Brake failure. The guy’s a hero.
From the poster
“I thought he lost his brakes at first, but he pulled back out into traffic and kept going like nothing had happened.”
“A spat in the exclusive California enclave of Dana Point over protections for endangered mice has ballooned into a four-year, $26million legal battle – with claims of political favoritism and a tragic death…
The upscale Orange County coastal community …. is also home to the Pacific pocket mouse, an endangered rodent that was thought to be extinct for 20 years before its 1993 rediscovery. There are now thought to be fewer than 200 of the species in existence, of which 90 are in Dana point.
The mouse makes its home in a 29.4-acre protected section of coveted coastline, entrusted for decades to an environmental nonprofit.
The conflict, which has become the talk of the upscale neighborhood, began as a simple disagreement over the opening times of the conservation area’s public nature trail.
But in the past three years the city and the nonprofit Center for Natural Lands Management (CNLM) have sued each other, with the former demanding $13,350,000 in fines and a potential $13 million extra in damages, amid allegations of trespass, lawbreaking – and the unfortunate death of a pocket mouse on the trail.
The legal wrangle has exposed claims of preferential treatment by city officials of politically-connected Dana Point bigwigs, and shone a spotlight on the City Attorney’s frequent filing of lawsuits at taxpayers’ expense.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13302873/Dana-Point-battle-endangered-pocket-mouse-death.html
That someone stepped on a mouse has to be the most First World Problem ever.
Wonder how many nukes buried along the San Andreas it would take to detach the loony zone?
Relevant Monty Python sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saY10AWXLIY
My take on the NPR guy is that he was sincerely concern trolling the organization he loves. He just wasn’t smart enough to do a sit-in in his boss’ office.
Child become stronk!
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1780288034732118090
Nice of Creosote Achilles to lend them his house.
If you have a scope and current clamp the dead cylinder will up as the motor turns over because the current draw with lower compression will be lower as well.
That was my assumption. And, depending on how “clever” the packaging is, there is obviously an advantage to being able to test things without trying to get physical access.
And, speaking of Pine Hollow, I watched one the other day about Prius brakes. He replaced some sort of pressure pump/accumulator. The rigamarole involved in bleeding the brakes afterward was truly impressive. I was disappointed because I was hoping he’d get into some sort of explanation of the regenerative braking system.