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McGondor calls for aid? Well, I have a price: they go back to using beef tallow for fries.
And the deep fried apple pies!
And they shall have it. Summon the Body Positive Marshmallows!
Burger King declines to send help.
Lies!
Jack in the Box slips in from behind and shoves a dirk into McGondor’s back.
Meanwhile, Culver’s slips away with the loot and Chick-Fill-A stands in the corner, quietly praying for us all.
They could have put the fire out but the ice cream machines were broken.
But BK has the Fryer of Doom. Where the One Onion Ring to Rule Them All will be destroyed.
And Burger King shall answer!
…With the most obnoxious advertising campaign in all of fast food; thus increasing McGondor’s sales despite it being overpriced dogshit!
McGondor
I larfed. I’m going to hell.
Sounds legit
The Food and Drug Administration wants to limit nicotine in cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products, a move the outgoing Biden administration and anti-smoking advocates have said could make smoking a lot less addictive and easier to quit.
Or, you know, people will smoke more, looking for the accustomed effect.
Or vape higher nicotine levels like I do.
Where do you find this higher nic vape? I can only get 6mg/ml high VG juice from my favorite supplier. I’m wanting 8 or 10. Maybe I should mix my own but that’s a pain in the butt.
Just tried a disposable last week and holy shit those can hit hard.
Hiya, Bob! Long time, no talk! How goes it? I finished up a job around noon and started day drinking because fuck it! I’m going to shit all over this link with brain-dead farts, poor spelling and even worse grammar!
…(burp)
Yeah, I suspect I got more nic from vaping than I did from cigs. The not coughing and hacking all the time made sucking down Juuls a bit easier.
Subtract the temperature about forty degrees and I’m right there with you. And today is fairly warm in comparison to the last few weeks. I’m afraid to open my current electric bill.
See the correlation between light/low ABV beer drinkers and lardasses…
…Or, basically a single tax.
*sin*
I’m doing alright, my hip hurts and I’m cold, it’s only 65 here and I’m skinny
Nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that makes them highly addictive, and Erika Sward, assistant vice president of national advocacy at the American Lung Association, says capping the amount allowed in cigarettes to very low or non-addictive levels could have a huge impact on the popularity of smoking. Sward says there’s ample evidence showing such a move would dramatically reduce both smoking, as well as the nearly half million smoking-related deaths in the country every year.
“Ample evidence.”
Ample speculation, you mean.
“smoking-related deaths”
“with covid”
“organ failure”
Now, if I can avoid all these can I die from “natural causes”?
Had a call a few minutes ago that another friend passed away. John was a few years younger but he caught cancer a couple years ago.
I don’t see bad attitude, lack of compassion or high degree of non-stoicness on the list so I’ll pick up my new, bigger, thicker glasses tomorrow and pretend that the laws of economics have been challenged and defeated by the change in DC.
…bank accounts of Big Tobacco executives.
I have ample evidence that my wife will be the Crispus Attucks of this new Revolutionary War if they try to cut back on her nicotine levels.
I will probably get murdered as collateral damage for not putting the seat down two days after the restrictions hit.
ample evidence = my model
There is a fair bit of evidence that nicotine provides some neuro protective benefits. There is currently a study going on about its use as an Alzheimer’s preventative.
I have heard repeatedly that the hazardous part of smoking is not nicotine; it is all the other byproducts of combustion.
Yep. There are a ton of additives in ciggies. I suspect tobacco alone would be fine.
No, disagree, it’s never good to inhale burning plant material, the nicotine however….
Which is why all of the anti-smoking groups pivoted to anti-nicotine groups. Hell, couple of places I’ve worked you had to pass a nicotine test in order to not pay an extra $150/month for health insurance.
Doesn’t vape juice have a ton of stuff in it as well?
A friend of mine uses nicotine mints. Have you guys ever tried that? I’ve always hated smoking and chew but there are times a little nicotine might go well
California needs to pass another and better clean air law. The Brush Fire Abatement Act to make people stop using brush fires as a way of starting hillside erosion from spring rains.
Strange that the peasantry has suffered for many years of cleaning up the causes of dirty air to find it was all for naught, over powered in one week.
Nicotine
Vegetable glycerine
Flavor
Yes, to make it clear that it’s really a cultural issue, not a health issue, for them.
Though to be fair, nicotine is not great on the heart (it speeds it up) but it’s far less damaging overall than the other crap in smoke.
Yusef:
That doesn’t sound too bad. What’s the fucking panic about vaping?
Tundra:
Doesn’t vape juice have a ton of stuff in it as well?
Altar Boy #2 says it depends a lot on where you get it. I guess you can buy cheap Chinese vape juice off the internet that might not be very good for you.
I have no idea if he is right or not, but he’s one of those whippersnappers that had everyone vaping in high school. So maybe he knows something?
Pope Jimbo:
There was the big scare in the before times about vape cartridges causing unknown illnesses. Most of that was tracked back to black market/knock off cartridges with some… questionable ingredients still in them.
Jack in the Box slips in from behind and shoves a dirk into McGondor’s back.
Breakfast all day, FTW!
I honestly don’t know the difference between the menus.
Okay, I looked them up.
No gravy. Boo.
The difference is Jack in the Box’s secret menu…it really drive home the incontinence.
Jack has egg rolls and monster tacos, top that McDs
My wants are simple, and a large bucket of gravy is one of them.
Jack in the Box wants >$10 for their top of the line burger, more expensive than Hardee’s…
Little harsh compared to the others.
If I’m going to piss away money on a “value meal” I’ll hit a local Hi-Boy and get an Italian Steak sandwich coupled with the city’s best onion rings for around $15-16. To Hell with the big chains.
I mean fer fuk’s sake; a foot long cold cut combo from Subway costs roughly $11 bucks after tax and it’s little more than a hodgepodge of table scraps pressed between bread with around the same nutritional value of the average cardboard box holding a bag of cereal.
My bitch is that Jack used to be the value king.
3 in the morning after bar hopping, you could scrape together pocket change and eat decent. They have went the other way now.
In a too-local story, each university in Florida is governed by a Board of Trustees. That body is made up of the student body president, the president of the faculty senate, five people appointed by the state university system’s Board of Governors, and six by the governor.
For his slate at the University of West Florida, a commuter school of 14,000 in Pensacola, Governor DeSantis appointed an obscure academic named Scott Yenor.
Professor Yenor has, in the past, said and written things about women in academia that has women academics getting their dresses up over their heads (he once described your typical AWFL as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome”). The AP covers the kerfuffle in their typically fair and evenhanded manner.
Project 2025!!! My god it has its tentacles in everything.
You should have seen the shit they were writing about him in Idaho.
DeSantis is just picking fights now. Pensacola and UWF are about as liberal as Lubbock.
Maybe he’s just looking for a new adventure since the legislature is slipping away from his grasp.
I’m still stuck up here on this mountain. The road is getting worse each day. It just will. not. melt. We have pretty much until Saturday, maybe Sunday if we’re lucky, to melt this shit so I can get out of here and get to the store before daytime temps get into the 30s. I’m not hopeful.
I’m keeping myself entertained by watching webcams on the great lakes. The Soo Locks are finna shut down for the winter, so I guess fapping is now my only option. Fapping and work.
¿Parque no los dos?
Worked for Jeff Toobin
OnlyFans it is huh?
That’s how you make lemonaide.
The Lake has started to freeze, if the cold keeps up, we may actually get a frozen lake again.
As of midnight tonight, Lake Superior is closed off from the rest of the lakes until March.
Well, Kilauea is erupting, so maybe that will provide some interest
You’ve given up drinking?
Tomorrow it will have been a week since I left the campground…normally I go out somewhere every day.
Time to buy a side by side.
Don’t know if that’s highway-legal. Gotta drive a couple miles on a 4-laner US route to the store. But it would be nice!
Live dangerously!
You should check. When we were out there we saw tons of them on the road.
My first shotgun was a side by side. I graduated to an over/under and preferred it much more.
More dead-ender grandstanding
Tractor maker John Deere faces a federal lawsuit that accuses the company of illegally forcing farmers to use only authorized dealers for critical repairs, boosting its multibillion-dollar profits.
The lawsuit — filed on Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission along with Illinois and Minnesota — escalates a long-running battle over farmers’ right to repair their own agricultural equipment and parts.
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It’s unclear how the case might proceed when Republicans take control of the FTC after Donald Trump becomes president on Monday. The agency’s two Republican commissioners had voted against suing Deere; one of them, Andrew Ferguson, is Trump’s pick to become the new FTC chair.
In their dissenting statement, commissioners Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak wrote that they welcomed the FTC “taking up the cause of the farmer” but made procedural arguments against the lawsuit. They said the timing, right before Trump’s inauguration, lends the case “the stench of partisan motivation.”
I am 100% in favor of right to repair, but this is just looks like dumping more poison into the well.
Yup. I agree 100 percent. They will fuck up any chance of meaningful rtr.
A farmer friend of mine (who is a wizard mechanic) refuses to buy the newer stuff. No debt is also a nice little benefit.
John Deere gets all of the attention but the other manufacturers do the same thing and not just with the big stuff. It goes all the way down to lawn mowers etc.
I have exactly one place I can take my Kubota to for repairs.
Things I think abot before making a purchase. My JD lawn tractor had to go to the shop to change a drive belt. I finally gave it away, the new owner took the lawn mower off and uses it as a little garden tractor /wheel barrow.
Right to Repair is important and should be allowed.
I hope that the farmers are ready to pay more up front though for tractors that can be serviced by anyone. I’ve worked for companies that factor in service costs as part of their pricing model. If that goes away, they are going to have to get paid more up front.
I can also empathize with the manufacturers. If Bubba bricks a tractor because he doesn’t know what he’s doing, you know that the manufacturer will get blamed as much as Bubba.
Another two-minutes-before midnight regulatory dump
U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.
Food and Drug Administration officials granted a 2022 petition filed by two dozen food safety and health advocates, who urged the agency to revoke authorization for the substance that gives some candies, snack cakes and maraschino cherries a bright red hue.
The agency said it was taking the action as a “matter of law” because some studies have found that the dye caused cancer in lab rats. Officials cited a statute known as the Delaney Clause, which requires FDA to ban any additive found to cause cancer in people or animals.
I thought they banned it years ago. I wonder if it’s in those Little Debbie mini cherry pies I have for breakfast sometimes.
My jar of cherries says “Red 40.” But I wonder how many of the poisoned type consists of a daily deadly dose? Probably the Manhattans they are in is far more problematic.
Isn’t banning dyes in food one of the things RFK Jr wants to do? I thought he was too crazy to be in charge of anything.
Just four short years ago, the Coca-Cola Company was publicly coming out against Georgia’s voting integrity laws and was urging its employees to “be less white.”
Now they’re doing stuff like this.
My, how the turn tables.
Huh. It’s almost as if the C-suite doesn’t believe any of that shit and just goes with the path of least resistance.
Huh. I don’t believe I have seen worse hair than Trumps, but, there it is! In a side-by-side, even.
RIP Jim Traficant .
Yo, you forgot all about Don King?
A farmer friend of mine (who is a wizard mechanic) refuses to buy the newer stuff. No debt is also a nice little benefit.
There was a flurry of articles a while back about the booming market for low tech ’80s-’90s farm equipment.
Chasidy Hobbs, an Earth and environmental science instructor and president of UWF’s faculty union, called the comments “disheartening” and “offensive.”
“My most important work of my life was being a mother,” she said, “while also working as a professional woman in a career that I find almost as important as motherhood — to help the future generation learn to think for themselves.” But she added that she looked forward to working with the new board.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Energetic techno music lifts my mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWQXLmAODnM
Lights the Suthen signal!
20,000-year-old ‘human’ fossils from Japan aren’t what we thought
More and more I think that likely most of what we know about the universe and earth’s past is probably wrong.
Progress is being less wrong than we used to be.
Daily Ray of Sunshine? Or just a guy with a great sense of humor?
Great practical joke!
Can’t get a leg up on that guy!
This thread needs more Eurotrash techno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d44ykdKvCw
Mom is almost officially under hospice’s auspices. She is probably going to be discharged tomorrow to … my house.
She will be in XY’s empty room. I didn’t do anything with it because I didn’t feel like it. Perfect for my mom.
It was my idea. Nobody wanted that, including Mom. Mom thinks I’ll burn out. My husband thinks I’ll burn out. My brothers think I will burn out.
This is true. I WILL burn out, but that’s okay. The point is to stretch what money we do have until either the house issue has been resolved so she can go to a rest home, or she dies. We have about $40k, maybe $50k after we sell her car, but that will disappear in 5 months.
This way, I will have hospice nurses, a bather person, and I can hire home health help on an hourly basis 4-6 hours a week that will be far cheaper than a rest home. And Mom still has her income.
Medicare still pays for hospice. She has too much to be eligible for Medicaid for the room and board.
So if I cry uncle, hospice will still transfer her to a rest home. I just didn’t want to front-load the expense when we have a fight ahead of us and no idea when Mom will go.
Aunts Selfish Cunts, though … There will be a reckoning. She and her low-class, low-IQ people didn’t count on Mom not dying and high-IQ vengeful children.
I expect to face a situation like yours in a few years. Of their 3 children, I live closest to my parents, and they consider me to be the most compassionate and trustworthy. I have their instructions and have spoken with them at length about it.
My paternal grandfather requested a Viking funeral whereby his corpse would be loaded upon his sailboat, set ablaze, and pushed into the sea. We were unable to accommodate that request because of various California laws. However, he did leave a fun treasure hunt for his heirs with a treasure map he concealed in a false tooth for years.
peace after war
port after storm
rest after work
death after life
Is It Legal? Viking Funerals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQJOs8rm6xM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VivUVsVPLu0
I’ll join the chorus in offering sympathies for your travails. Going forward I doubt you will regret looking after your mom. You may want to look into tax deductions/credits and such…
https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/taxes/tax-deduction-for-caregiver
I think there are some situations where you can claim an adult under your care as a dependent.
I really should build my own lightning-powered musical instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiHGDYeMAAU
Behold the current and future backbone of team blue:
Childless Cat Ladies – the musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZafPnU8GQ
I think I saw those two at the hippie grocery store the other day.
“current and future”
Not too distant future though with the whole “childless” thing…
Dammit.
I get that the whole fiction arm is there to sell miniatures, but I hate writing for someone else’s characters, and I’ve repeatedly failed to write a pitch for a book that interests the editors.
Write other people’s characters into sex scenes.
What is wrong with you?
Ted’S. has a thing for fanfiction?
It’s not as if I’m suggesting writing sex scenes involving real people.
He is free to write some if he wishes.
The end goal of the writing is to get hired by the publishing arm of GW, it has to be something that they would want to put out under their own imprint.
So, if I come up with an idea, it has to be something that makes sense for their official content.
UCS:
With Slaanesh, all things are possible.
No, Mr Ilium, I don’t do chaos.
Chaos is boring.
Your fiction reminds of Edgar Rice Borroughs, and in a good way. Modern audiences might be put off by that style. Read some Raymond Chandler or Ernest Hemingway action and try to write in that style. The action scenes from the works of Haldeman and Heinlein also come to mind.
Short. Punchy. Telegraphic. Less is more.
Get drunk and pretend the room is on fire while you write. Listen to something violent and chaotic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuuDWd8SL7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9RuDEea0o
Ironically, I’ve never read anything those first three men have written, not heard of Haldeman, and despise Heinlein.
Please understand that this comes from a place of love:
If you hate what commercially successful and critically acclaimed authors have written, why do you think so highly of *your* work?
The Forever War is one of the few military sci-fi novels written by a combat veteran. You should read it.
Again, this comes from a place of love. The action scenes in your work have as much suspense as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdm7xRSlho
Actual violence is chaotic. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EyDN6x9rQ
I can tailor my work to cater to what I think should or would happen. Besides, success in commercial writing has more to do with marketing and salesmanship than writing.
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I can tailor my work to cater to what I think should or would happen. Besides, success in commercial writing has more to do with marketing and salesmanship than writing.
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That’s a cop out.
Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, was printed out of pity by a well-wisher at the Naval Postgraduate School. Later, a copy wound up in the hands of President Reagan who raved about it.
Good writing will always be recognized if you show it to enough people.
Mark Twain was a nobody until one of his short stories was published in newspapers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County
You can’t count on luck, especially with the sheer amount of noise in the market. And we’ve seen plenty of examples of people’s work getting pushed for reasons unrelated to quality.
Recognizing what is needed is the furthest from a cop-out.
C’mon, UCS. You can do it.
Picture yourself in this situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8R50nvv5gc
Now write about it!
Reading that link reinforces my belief that 90% of fantasy writing is making up names for people places and things.
No, not 90%, it’s just the most difficult part.
Unleash your inner gonzo journalist, UnCiv!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asDlYjJqzWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh06wlg9RmU