Rory ran away with it. Then he gave it away. Then Rose gave it back. Then Aberg made a run to the top. Then he collapsed. Then Rory made an amazing shot to get back in the lead. Then he got the yips. Then we went to a playoff and he hit the greatest approach shot of his life and finally won The Masters. What a wild back 9 that was. But good for him. In hockey news, no Original Six team from the US will make the playoffs this year, for the first time ever. That sucks. In college football news, Tennessee’s QB decided to hold out for more money so they cut him from the team. THE National Champion Buckeyes had their spring game. And that’s about it for football. The F1 race was interesting and full of penalties and Piastri showed that he’s probably the better driver at McLaren. And across the pond, Arsenal stumbled on Saturday and Liverpool got a late winner on Sunday to put a stranglehold on the EPL championship. Oh, and my team came in 14th in class and 56th overall in a race of 117 entrants after we had a fuel pump issue halfway through the second day (and a couple black flags due to driver overzealousness). All in all, a very fun weekend. Now on to…the links!
Antitrust? What antitrust? I don’t understand the suit, seeing as there are boatloads of competitors in the same industries they operate in.
All I hear is “give me unlimited money and equipment.” Because everything else he’s saying is not supported by the evidence of what’s actually happening.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! What an idiot. Just say you were reaching across the aisle for your constituents, you cowardly jackass.
Man, I sure hope the autopilot works on this thing. I have nothing else to add to my sexist statement.
I’d almost forgotten about this story. They need to pick up the pace and get the trial started.
Damn, dude. Take it easy. The Detroit Pistons from the late 80s aren’t gonna sign you.
“Science is whatever I say it is.” Reopen the asylums.
Whatever works. Time to head home.
Wait, aren’t eggs cheap again? Oh, USAToday isn’t paying attention. Or they’re trying for a cheap gotcha.
What a stunning statement. And it’s doubly brave when saying it while surrounded by security while performing in front of a bunch of people who paid $500 a ticket.
We don’t need a damn water park! We’re the fourth biggest city in the country. We need an amusement park!
Going pretty far back for the music today. But I don’t expect any complaints. Because it’s some beautiful music. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
“All I hear is “give me unlimited money and equipment.” Because everything else he’s saying is not supported by the evidence of what’s actually happening.”
DON’T STOP MY GRIFT!
… I feel compelled to comment … But I have nothing to say.
Why let that stop me.
Yup… that’s my daily state around here. My natural equilibrium is Lurking.
You might have a future in management or in politics.
Oh… okay.. something about the Masters.
For a minute there I thought you were branching off into Doctor Who fanfiction, Sloopy. Sean would have been intrigued, I expect.
Good morning — hope the racing in Pittsburgh went well. It was interesting that the F1 race had more overtaking than I remember in the F2 race, yeah… and certainly Piastri favored this track… not sure I’d say Lando is the second seat just yet.
Morning all.
Ah… should have kept reading! But glad you had fun all the same.
One of the black flags was mine. Thought I could carry more speed into a corner than I actually could while I was being passed by a much faster car. Just ran out of room and got half the car in the grass.
And I got smacked in the left side by some goober who thought he was gonna keep me from passing. Joke’s on him, because I kept going and he ended up in the tire wall.
Honestly, I don’t understand online advertising anyway… mainly because I will never understand anyone clicking through on their 10000th “The King will die if you don’t solve this simple logic puzzle!” ad or “You watched a meme video with someone making fun of dating apps — here are yoga pants, you must be a woman!” ads or whatnot… but I’ve hated ad based stuff since before Google was even born, so what do I know….
There may be anti-competitive actions though… you don’t need to be a monopoly to do stuff that’s designed to lock yourself into the market. Whether that’s illegal or not probably depends on whether your competitors already
bribedlobbied legislators to… lock you out of the market… heeeey…..I think with (as with most things), it starts out useful, as it’s getting your name out there. Then it just becomes an entrenched spending category. It’s not like people will forget about Coke if they didn’t advertise for a year. Hell, people still lament food and drink companies that changed owners/went under from the past.
Tesla has never run a commercial or done a paid ad.
Admittedly, there is little need to advertize trading in carbon credits. That’s a B2B operation.
Wait, aren’t eggs cheap again?
No?
Still $4/dozen here as of last Friday.
I’m seeing $4.97 for a dozen great value eggs here.
Free here, neighbor dropped in to see what condition my condition was in and left 2 dozen farm fresh eggs. The Price is Right!
@ Four:
Free to those who can afford it; very expensive to those who can’t.
They’ve come down in price slightly here but are still far from cheap.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! What an idiot. Just say you were reaching across the aisle for your constituents, you cowardly jackass.”
She was worried they would Shapiro form PA her house.
She was reelected after locking people up and telling them they couldn’t even buy seeds for gardens (while her hubby went on vacations to their fishing cabin or something).
I would think she would assume she has carte blanche at this point — Michigan apparently just doesn’t give a crap anymore.
Michigan has a carefully crafted system of counting the right votes.
Here’s a “case of the Mondays” face in the first photo, or as the Brits would say, “looks like a bulldog chewing on a bee”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14604423/everyone-saying-gretchen-whitmer-trump-oval-office-meeting.html
You can see the evil seeping out of her pores.
She’ll look like Victoria Nuland in another 5 years.
*wasp
I know I sound like a broken record, but suburban women touch themselves thinking about Whitmer. Do not underestimate what she can do in 2028.
“It worked for four years! I have mistresses who need cocaine!!”
In all honesty — I expected this to be about the one trillion dollar DoD proposal being floated. Because that’s what I’m hearing from the OMB defense wing. (Not to say we don’t doubtless need a major equipment refresh after 30+ years of “Cold War dividend” and post-War on Terror then gifting the Taliban and your favorite comedian there what was left in the stockpiles… but I’m more than a little suspicious of the Pentagon spending anything wisely since it doesn’t look like that stable has been mucked out very much yet.
We could pay for a total tech refresh by shutting down 140 bases around the world, and reducing the “mission” to real national security.
Yes please
There were some old white guys that gave us some sound advice on this issue but honestly, the last thing people want to hear is sound advice.
“Not to say we don’t doubtless need a major equipment refresh”
Before we decide whether we need to go on a spending binge, shouldn’t we settle on just what our military is supposed to be for?
I for one, am not a fan of the current “bomb anyone, anywhere, anytime, for any reason” thing.
Then you must not be patriotic! We have to bomb outer Uzbekistan for democracy.
Man, I sure hope the autopilot works on this thing.
Plenty of passengers to keep him inflated.
::polite applause::
Mark Grupert was reporting that the zero gravity is going to do weird things to the filling in their faces.
Should be quite a show.
I just hope they got the capsule cooling systems right so the rotation doesn’t introduce heat differentials. We’d never heard the end of it from Ms. Perry if her fellow passengers are hot and then cold, after all.
I noticed the MSM was reporting this will be the first space flight “led by an all female crew” implying they would be doing something other than sitting and looking out the windows.
It claims the company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to squash competition and establish an illegal monopoly in the social media market.
Abetted by the federal government’s crusade against TikTok?
Sigh. The Circle Jerks aren’t hardcore. They predate hardcore.
Idiots.
Eh… they were a strong influence, I’ll allow it.
That is like saying The Minutemen were a strong influence and should be called Hardcore. Hell, Black Flag didn’t go that direction even vaguely until Keith left them.
ZWAK:
It’s mainstream media reporting on a subculture, it’s about as correct as they’re going to get. They still think Green Day is a respected punk band.
We stopped doing Easter eggs when my mother forgot how many she hid … until much later when it was obvious we hadn’t found them all.
The Gilmore Girls (of all shows) covered that decades ago. Always make a map of egg locations.
We never did anything special at all as a kid for Easter. Maybe dyed some eggs and put them in the basket with that fake green grass but that was it.
So I was no help when Mrs. Holiness went whole hog on Easter. She’d hide plastic eggs full of candy all over the place. And the kids got almost as much candy that day as on Halloween. They all had a blast.
It was extra amusing to me because Mrs. Holiness’ heathen ass didn’t know squat about Easter really. She just caught on it was a day of eggs, bunnies and candy.
I seriously don’t think there’s room. People joke about mental illness as a social contagion — but there certainly seems to be more than the normal share at the moment (whether that’s inherent to humans in the equivalent to the ‘rats in luxury stop breeding and go nuts’ studies or something else I don’t know).
Might be simpler to just wall off Portland and some of the surrounding area and bus the rest in.
Excellent musical choices Sloop. Offsets your terrible taste in football (both kinds) teams.
Don’t be a hater.
I don’t hate people that like pineapple, deep-dish pizza.
Pineapple and anchovy deep dish.
Now, that’s a pie!
Moje, if you’re around this morning: saw your update on XY. Glad to hear he got squared away; I had that impression from other comments, but the timeline of various events was less than clear. Gotta say, waiting for his young employee’s ride to show up was a real class move. I think ya done good.
Re: sports thug
I would like to see more of this. If you commit a felony assault on the field or off you should be prosecuted. I have always thought that . You dont get a pass because you were playing a game.
Morning all.
That would mean no more boxing, wrestling, or combat sports in general.
Context is important.
Slap fighting has a sad b/c you forgot it.
Slap fighting is indeed sad.
context: We talk about ‘civilization’ quite a bit but I see very little evidence of it.
Slap fighting is foreplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDqgnhkiwM
Ok NA…I stand corrected. That is acceptable.
Duncan Ferguson went to jail in Scotland for a foul he committed on the field, before he went on to become an Everton legend.
He also got into a bit of trouble with the law in England when he beat the shit out of two burglars who broke into his house. Charges were never filed, but it was discussed.
I’d want to see the game film.
Was the other guy reaching in and slapping on rebounds that this guy clearly had? Yeah every once in a while you have to swing an elbow to let them know to cut that chicken shit out.
The best solution would have been for the coach to pull the kid if he was really bordering on assault. Not make it a actual crime.
If it’s the video I’m thinking of, the victim drains a three from the corner and the assailant takes a run at him and punches him with his elbow.
But I’m sure the attacker was a good kid that loves puppies and was planning on going to college so he could give back to the neighborhood.
Happy New Year!
Bill Walton had those bright white fake front teeth because Laimbeer knocked out the originals.
Dude…
Twinkies’ New Owner Courts a Novel Group of Snackers: Stoners
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twinkies-new-owner-courts-a-novel-group-of-snackers-stoners-d3868528?st=Z6K3JX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Duuude…
You know who else liked to eat cake on his birthday?
Loius XVI?
Richard Harris?
Vince DiFore’s girlfriend?
A retard in berserker mode?
“Billionaire soy milk heiress sues Prince Harry’s North Pole guide for £1m as she demands refund for cancelled expedition to the Titanic on doomed Titan sub”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14606501/billionaire-heiress-sues-cancelled-expedition-Titanic.html
You can make a billion dollars selling soy milk?
That explains why there are so many soyboys out there.
That headline. Stop the world, I want to get off.
Offer her a settlement of dropping her over the side above the wreck site.
H L Menken nods enthusiastically
Misanthropy growing.
They didn’t issue refunds for future trips after their sub imploded?
Unfortunately their checkbook and the guy who knew their bank account password was on the sub.
I’ve been told here (JI – ??) that FedGov employees don’t have defined benefit or healthcare in retirement anymore. BI contradicts that.
A federal worker was months away from a full pension when DOGE laid her off. Now she’ll get $3,000 less a month.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-layoffs-federal-workers-pension-plans-retirement-2025-4
https://archive.vn/1TomB
So something like a $70k pension plus HEALTHCARE for 20 years of service. Unreal. I don’t think is quite the sob story BI thinks. OTH, it’s BI so who knows what the real story is.
No one should have a pension at 20 years.
Maybe she should….you know….learn to code.
I’m more interested in what some USAID Powerpoint-shuffler was doing that was worth $170k of my tax money…
One of the means of funneling $$$ to Ukraine.
So ideal time to fire the parasite.
Federal employees do not earn SocSec credits, so I’d say this article is 100% bullshit.
Didn’t they just change that?
She may have SocSec from previous private employment. I feel like the whole article is crafted for maximum spin.
Funny thing is I feel like it works against BI’s intended point.
Just came in after going out to yell at clouds. No clouds this morning so as long as I was out I decided to check on some paw paws I put in last year. I thought the winter had killed them and the last time I checked I saw no sign of them coming back. This morning I see they all have little green, very healthy looking sprouts coming up. I am very pleased.
I cannot remember a more perfect spring. Almost zero mosquitoes, lots of very pleasant weather and everything is unbelievably green.
Obligatory. Glad your paw paws made it.
I cannot remember a more perfect spring.
The snow from the weekend finally melted. Now if weather would stay nice like it is, I might be able to work outside.
/checks forecast
Hmm. Maybe I can work outside once everything dries out. Maybe.
I’m seeing the grass just starting to have some green, looks like spring may show up after all. Winter wasn’t too bad, not much snow and only a few days super cold.
Crab apple tree has the buds swelling, won’t be long
Nothing like a NJ lawyer!
In response to written questions addressed to Marantelli and Ranogajec, Glenn Gelband, a New Jersey lawyer who represents the limited partnership that claimed the Texas prize, said “all applicable laws, rules and regulations were followed.”
How a Secretive Gambler Called ‘The Joker’ Took Down the Texas Lottery
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/texas-lottery-gamblers-jackpot-win-40e3d6fb?st=H9BMVz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Good morning!
RED DOTS ARE CHEATING!
I shot four Steel Challenge stages with a dot yesterday. I haven’t shot that combination since 2023. Not only did I smoke my iron sight times, My accuracy went from >1.5 shots/target to 1.2.
The weirdest part of all of this is that my relative times were much higher than my iron sighted times — I’ve never shot a 75% time before, and these four stages yanked my overall score from 52% to 60%.
That last bit indicates to me that the red dot apologist “shooting red dots makes you better at iron sights” talking point is in fact reversed.
Congrats.
Yup. You’ve probably developed a consistent enough index from shooting irons, that you’re not struggling to find the dot.
Nice shooting!
Thanks. My fastest (relative) stage is… Speed Option?
Again though, the red dots “are cheating” meant I wasn’t double tapping the stop plate since I could see the hit before I could panic about not hearing it.
*For those of you that don’t shoot this game, the final shot on that stage is sufficiently far that it takes ~0.2 seconds to hear the bullet hit the steel plate. This is enough time to think you’ve missed (if you’re focused on your front sight) and crank off another shot, thus adding to your time.
Big fan of co-witnessed iron and red dot sights, myself. On my shotgun I was consistently hitting the steel silhouette target with slugs at 100 yards with a co-witnessed sights before my right eye went bad on me.
Red dots, outside of hunting, are cheating.
The wallhack and noclip abilities are gold.
I understand the origin of sportsmanlike” hunting, and I find it excessively elitist.
If you’re about harvesting meat or culling an overpopulation, you should be cheating at hunting imo. Fish and Game wardens disagree.
I don’t think there’s cheating in defensive shooting, and you should practice how you intend to play, so red dots are good for self-defense and practice at the range, right?
As far as competitive sports go, seems like a separate division for them should take care of any “cheating” issues.
USPSA is up to nine equipment divisions. SCSA has fourteen, since they allow .22LR
It kind of depends to me. The old ideas about hunting ethics had more to do with conservation and minimizing waste and unnecessary suffering and those make sense to me. Things like using enough gun for the particular game, and going after an animal you hit but did not drop are just the decent thing to do. Using optics, while it may be less ‘sporting’ in some sense, seems to fall into the same moral area as using too light a round; it just increases the chances of unnecessary suffering and waste.
That last sentence should have read banning optics not using them.
I stopped hunting grouse with a group of friends because they ground swatted ruffed grouse.
I’ll grant them that shooting grouse in a forest while flying is a lot harder than shooting them on the ground or out of a tree, but I was taught that sporting meant on the wing. I’ll also grant that most of my grouse hunting is in western NoDak for sharp tailed grouse where trees aren’t nearly as big of a deal.
If I was hunting for basic subsistence, I would agree that a lot of sporting rules would go out the window. Since I’m not, I think it is OK to agree to some rules that make things fairer.
I’m not saying I disagree with you, just that using a gun is so far away from a fair hunt that I have trouble believing in the concept. Rocks/nets/bolas/boomerangs? Ok, that’s plausibly fair. But aristocrats didn’t want to put in that kind of work.
What is sporting, what is competition? (self defense is another matter all together, and only results in what works for any one person.)
Sporting (hunting) is grounded on the fact that you aren’t doing this to make an animal suffer, so you do everything you can to prevent that, while following the laws.
Competition is to see who is the best. Optics take away from that, as you now need to use an object other than your natural ability to compete. Using optics is no different than using a solid tripod for bullseye shooting.
Obviously, many here will disagree with me on this, but it gets to the heart of the matter in my eyes.
I would hope so, because what you’re saying is complete nonsense.
In racing sports (competitive shooting is much more like auto racing than typical team sports) there are classifications or divisions, which determine what equipment is allowed and what is verboten. Different divisions aren’t competing against each other. In USPSA, it’s no more cheating to use a red dot in Carry Optics division than it is to run nitromethane in your NHRA Top Fuel dragster.
In boxing (and jujitsu for that matter) they don’t allow weighted sap gloves, nor do they allow you be outside the ring controlling a punching machine. In racing they don’t allow preprograming the course into a computer with breaking points outlined or throttles dialed in for optimum lap times. Both of those sports force human interaction at its top form, no matter the class.
All of these sports, no matter the equipment used, are about human mastery of the physical.
To add, yes, I realize that different divisions allow optics, and this is a huge part of why I have zero interest in them. They completely take away the beauty of watching athleticism in the service of targeting.
In other words, it might be legal, but is not art.
So what you really meant to say was not, ‘It’s cheating,’ but rather, ‘I dislike the aesthetics of it.’
That’s fine. I don’t care about aesthetics. Shooting is not an art, it’s a craft, and in craft performance trumps all other considerations.
A Glib without a contradictory opinion shouted as loud as possible is no Glib.
The logical extension of the argument is to turn the sports into pebble throwing for accuracy competitions. These are at least ostensibly practical shooting disciplines and in a real gunfight you are better off with optics that you have used until you are proficient with them.
“The prison canteen has a rotating menu, with lasagna or vegetarian pasta fazool on offer every second Friday of the month, served with spinach and salad.”
It’s spelled, “pasta e fagioli”, and who cares?
Honestly, that spelling has become normalized. At least here in the northeast.
Italian American friend and former coworker told how razzed he was by his family when he mispronounced it as a kid. His grandparents spoke no English.
Gabagool, manigott…
“Shapiro arson, terror suspect Cody Balmer told cops he hated the governor — and would’ve beaten him with a hammer if he found him: docs”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/14/us-news/state-police-said-shapiro-arson-suspect-clearly-had-a-plan-and-was-very-methodical/
Didn’t think he was Left enough?
Likely. Shapiro’s team has such a long history of this kind of shit and false flags that my go-to assumption is ‘false flag’ and failing that, if it is a leftist victim I assume ‘not left enough’.
Having said that, it is possible it is some loon who got tired of Shapiro spying on him and stealing his mail.
FTA:
Cody Balmer, 38, has been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism and aggravated assault, among other charges
-and-
The entire home was safely evacuated and no one was injured, Shapiro wrote on X.
Criminal homicide?
Attempted murder? Do they give Nobel prize for attempted Chemistry?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQQPNQ0PFSc&pp=ygUdU2lkZSBzaG93IGJvYiBhdHRlbXBlZCBtdXJkZXI%3D
I’m reading “attempted murder” from other outlets.
“Dauphin County district attorney Fran Chardo said at an afternoon press conference that Balmer will be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person (which essentially means assault against a state or local public servant while they are performing their duties).”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/josh-shapiro-residence-fire-arson-attack-cody-balmer-updates.html
This article says attempted murder
According to Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo, the charges will include attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault against an enumerated person, which means intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing or attempting to cause serious bodily injury to certain officers, agents, employees, or other persons while they are performing their duties.
And from the Dauphin County DA’s office
The Commonwealth has charged Balmer with attempted murder, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism, and related offenses. The defendant is presumed innocent of these charges. The criminal complaint and affidavit are attached.
The interestingly the police criminal complaint references criminal homicide.
The police fill out the criminal complaint. The DA decides what to charge based on the criminal complaint. I’m not sure why the cops put criminal homicide in the complaint since no one died.
Odd that he’s been charged and yet there is no mugshot of him.
There’s this, although there have been misidentifications of criminals online before, so grain of salt.
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2025/04/14/who-is-cody-balmer-suspect-in-arson-attack-on-governor-josh-shapiros-residence/
The NY Post has one up. He’s an ugly, crazy mofo, unsurprisingly.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/14/us-news/cody-balmer-suspected-josh-shapiro-arsonist-pictured/
“While Joe Biden publicly led the charge to punish Russia for its first invasion of Ukraine, he used his role as vice president to quietly open a backdoor for Moscow’s gas to flow to its neighbor in fall 2014, at a time when his son Hunter’s Ukrainian energy company sought such help, according to government messages in a private email account kept from Americans for more than a decade.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldwhile-publicly-punishing-russia-joe-biden-opened-back-door
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/timeline-bidens-intervention-2014-russia-ukraine-gas-deal-alongside
““I really think this will make Colorado safer,” Polis said before signing the bill at the state Capitol.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/colorado-bans-guns-with-detachable-magazines-to-prevent-mass-shootings
Stupid or lying?
A stupid liar.
I want someone to create the equivalent of the M-1 internal box magazine but with a 30-round capacity just to mess with them.
KelTec’s gochu fam.
https://www.gunskins.com/blogs/the-wrap/kel-tec-pr57-clip-fed-pistol-with-internal-box-magazine
The people of Colorado are truly getting what they voted for, good and hard.
my cousin was attacked by a detachable magazine.
Are you sure it was a magazine?
Maybe The Jacket can provide an answer, if he can pull his lips off Polis’ ass long enough to ask.
Polis
Ah, the great libertarian hope! At least he’s all in on ass sex and pot, heck maybe smoking pot during ass sex with mexicans. Focused like a laser on the truly important libertarian principles, right TOS?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Too many human larvae with the fuzzy murder machines.
King Walz recently decreed that state workers have to work at least 50% of the time in office. The local drones have lost their shit about these draconian orders.
I love how all these anecdotes stress that the extra stuff going on at home is during lunch or their breaks. Suuuuuuure. Do I look like I fell off the sugar beet truck?
I should point out that the drones do have bit of a case to make because the Walz administration did get rid of a ton of office space and office furniture. I have seen credible stories about there really not being enough room for the drones to come back to.
Seems like King Walz must have seen some polling about govt drones working from home and decided he better get them back in the office asap.
It’s almost like choices come with opportunity costs.
*Looks back at the obscene amount of money I paid for daycare between 2007 and 2015*
They can fuck off.
Yeah, when we were dealing with WFH at the hospital, I don’t think I talked to single person who wanted to do it who didn’t get to “I can look after my kids during the day” or similar, sooner or later (and usually sooner). Yeah, no, we’re not paying you to look after your kids.
A common benefit in Minnesoda is “summer hours”. The idea is that you work a bit more M-F and are then able to take off early on Friday (or in some cases all of Friday if you work 10 hr days the rest of the week).
In June people mostly follow the rules. The 4th is when the slippage starts. By August, it is a joke. People work 8 hour days, but still take off at noon on Friday.
Any manager even suggesting that employees actually put in the extended hours would be tarred and feathered at that point.
What’s the difference between a paraprofessional and a para-amateur?
Para-amateurs will jump out of the plane without getting paid.
Maybe it’s just my older generation, but at 10 and 12 years old we were left to fend for ourselves all the time.
Yup. Latchkey kids!
latchkey kids unite
Summer vacation at the Minnesoda Vatican was 1) Hour of work in the garden, 2) a few more random chores after which 3) any kid spotted around the house got more chores.
So as soon as morning chores were done, it was out the door and off to do something. Most of the time it was down to the park or the beach to hang out with buddies who were in a similar boat.
There’s been a gradual postponing of introducing kids to responsibilities over the last few generations. It’s not really a good trend.
I remember getting in with a key after school when I was 8 or so, and I’d have the place to myself until Mom got home about 2 hours later. If I were sick or off school for some reason, I’d stay home all day by myself. She might call me a couple times just to make sure everything’s good, but that was it.
10 and 12 year old kids can ride a bus.
Heck, during Katrina one drove a bus.
“In 2021, the CDC spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars on solar-powered picnic tables.”
https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/how-is-it-that-the-biden-administration-spent-1-billion-on-furniture-during-covid/
Solar-powered picnic tables?
It would cost too much to run electricity to them.
Need to power the smoke alarms.
I didn’t even know picnic tables needed power.
Giant magnifiers that cook your BBQ would be cool.
green bears are better than brown
What does Tonio think about green bears?
That they need to grow up?
From my quick google search, these magic picnic tables allow people sitting at them to charge their devices. Is it really that difficult to charge a phone overnight?
My wife still doesn’t even though I bought her a bedside wireless charger. Add that she is a phone junkie and she is always complaining about a low battery.
Imagine we’re at a park and my kids phone runs out of power?
A fate worse than death.
I can’t even.
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The Economist
@TheEconomist
In its own plodding way, the continent has created a place where people are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Europe is the actual land of the free now
Illustration: Peter Schrank
https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1910935937254674794
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
reminder that its bad on purpose to make u click
Reminds me of the WWII Museum in New Orleans I took my wife to a couple weeks ago.
Towards the end it had a display for FDR getting ready for peace and how hew wanted to guarantee “Freedom from want”, and “Freedom from fear”.
It goes back to Woodrow Wilson and his “new freedom” where “freedom” is the government taking care of you, not personal liberty.
TLDR- It sounds like communist gobbledygook
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Ron, it occurs to me that this sort of plan / spirit could happen only in a high–trust society.
(early Chuck Jones, even before Private Snafu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Point_Rationing_of_Foods_190613_LTPC.webm )
Also, hunger makes for low–trust societies.
people are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
As in rights to take what others yearn for?
Freedom from want, a fool’s errand…enjoy your scraps from the master’s table, Europeans.
Minnesoda is leading the way in the new tax paradigm “You have money and we want it”.
Stinky, the US had rationing too, obviously. “You know how it is with these A cards.”
This is a funny British film about post-war rationing. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089838
The Minnies should tax the global revenue of any corporation with any nexus to the state. They’d be rich.
Good job mini-soda. Encourage companies to sell even more user data because it’s now a cost.
Jail can be tough on people
I’m having a hard time keeping my mouth shut about things that MIGHT veer into topics that MIGHT at some point veer into touching the political, especially when I don’t know the politics of my interlocutor.
I said, “You’re assuming what I’m going to say and then getting mad at me for it. Everybody does this.” She (XX) (who was mad at me for making everything political) said, “Because it tracks with your patterns.”
I don’t know whether this is a me problem or a societal problem or a her problem. Probably me, I guess, if almost everybody in my family and friend group does the same thing.
In any case I have little enough in common with her that we generally spend our time together in silence.
Running into these little patches of self-awareness and confusion as to where the problem really lies are disconcerting and distressing.
Oof; sounds tactfully worded on her part, especially for her young age.
But congrats both on conquering auntie, and XY’s learning from experience.
Hang in there.
Is this your XX, or some other (random?) XX?
Mine.
I took her to the girlie doc (which is a long way away), which is something she needs me for, which I’m glad she needs me for SOMETHING, and I finally boiled it down to, I don’t KNOW what she thinks or believes and so I make a lot of assumptions about what I can say, and I don’t want to lose her.
So during her visit I sat and thought about this, and realized I don’t actually know her as an adult very well and I feel like I’m losing her and I keep saying things that she doesn’t like.
ANYWAY, on the way home, we talked about the issue, and it turns out that because of everyday life and business that needs tending, we’re just ships passing in the night, and it’s pretty much that simple.
I am sorry to hear that Mojeaux. It is a shitty feeling.
My mother and I are… not estranged, but certainly not on the same page about anything, except maybe books. If that. No one in my family is particularly close, for a variety of reasons, and I struggle to stay in contact with my son, even though we get along well and have things to talk about. But we have very different politics and views in general, so it does make it a minefield to have those good conversations.
Looks like U.S. golf dominance is over. Foreigners have now won 11 of 16 tournaments this year. At least the Master’s #1 and #2 finishers were from golf’s ancestral home in the U.K. #3 was from that golf powerhouse Sweden.
We must not allow a golf gap.
That was a fun F1 race and I’m glad that Piastri took it. I dig him. He is unflappable. Disaster or a win he always retains the same calm demeanor. Too bad Williams didn’t pick up any more points, I’m hoping for them to be a solid mid pack team this year.
“China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
For Washington, Apple is a symbol of tech might. It is the world’s most valuable company, and one that generates great wealth for its (largely American) stockholders…
In China, Apple is the Great Teacher. For a quarter-century, the tech giant has made massive investments in equipment and sent thousands of its top engineers to hundreds of factories across the country, training China’s workers how to meet near-impossible engineering standards and then scale production to enormous volumes.
By CEO Tim Cook’s estimate, Apple’s Chinese suppliers employ 3 million people. Were Apple to move its operations to another country, China would sustain major job losses. Perhaps even worse, it would miss out on the cutting-edge lessons that continue to make it the world’s preferred hub for tech manufacturing.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/china-apple-manufacturing-trump-tariffs
No easy solution here.
I have an iPhone, and never again with that POS. If that is tech, it is 99% useless crap that makes life more difficult.
So, maybe, yeah, that is what “tech” is.
Really? I’ve had two, maybe three, iPhones as my only cellphones over 15 years. They last forever, do what they are supposed to, never any problems with them.
Yeah, mine are tanks.
My first smartphone, an LG, lasted seven years. I probably could have gotten a little more out of it, but I wanted to make certain I had my next phone in time to beat the 3G shutdown.
That, and I kinda borked the Google Play store on the old phone.
I’ve been super happy with Apple.
I’d like to see a breakdown of the $3500 figure. I’m sure they’d be more but that sounds suspect.
They’re probably gonna cost that much soon anyway.
Were Apple to move its operations to another country, China would sustain major job losses. Perhaps even worse, it would miss out on the cutting-edge lessons that continue to make it the world’s preferred hub for tech manufacturing.”
They say that like they think it’s a bad thing.
So Who you got in the NBA? Celtics again? Cavs? OKC? Warriors pulling the surprise?
No love for the T-wolves?
You break my heart Pie.
I prefer the MadCats.
I don’t have anyone.
How Pie became interested in basketball might make for an interesting article.
I blame Gheorghe Muresan.
The Washington Generals are due …
“Let me get this straight. You took all the money you made franchising your name and used it bet *against* the Harlem Globetrotters?”
Is this the new attempt at making the WNBA relevant again? March Madness just ended, give it a break.
I’m rooting for the Warriors, but they seem to be reverting to their mid-season ways.
my team came in 14th in class and 56th overall in a race of 117 entrants after we had a fuel pump issue halfway through the second day (and a couple black flags due to driver overzealousness). All in all, a very fun weekend.
Lemons?
Europe is the actual land of the free now
YMMV
Second comment nails it.
“Too busy yelling at the Camry to look in front of him”
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1jxsp8d/oc_moron_was_worried_about_the_camrys_poor/
I thought those were Connecticut plates.
Then I read the comments. Chicago.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! We hosted another local hockey tournament in the western Chicago burbs, and I got a 2-day hotel stay in a room by myself (one of life’s little luxuries). We split our team into 2, and both went 1-3. But it was fun, and we saved our team money because we’re skipping Nationals this year and hosting instead. Nationals would cost us $15k this year and we’ve had bad experiences the last few years.
I was also called “intimidating” for the first time in my life. We had been renting gym space to a woman who was running HIIT classes, and last month she decided to quit so we took over her business. Saturday she confronted my wife, and said my wife wasn’t grateful or compassionate, and that one time when I poked my head in the gym to see how things were going, I was “intimidating” and caused her to have a breakdown. Mrs. TOK was having none of that. We just have to come up with some cash to buy some of her equipment, and we can finally get this woman out of the gym. Meanwhile we have 2 more people lined up to rent space, and we have a female golden gloves boxer who’s going to run boxing workshops in another one of our spaces.
If she’s intimidated by her landlord visiting the rental space, she’s the one with the problem.
Even worse, this was after we took over running classes, were collecting money from the customers, and were paying the trainers. We don’t want all her equipment, so we’re letting her store it until she sells it. This weekend she cleared out her two rooms thankfully.
99% of the time, someone claiming to be ‘intimidated’ is being a cry-bully and should be treated as such.
If she was really intimidated, she wouldn’t be shooting her mouth off.
Very astute, that is exactly it. From the first time we met her, she had a bad attitude and she was talking shit about her own trainers and customers. Everything is someone else’s fault, and everyone is backstabbing her. So exhausting.
I don’t know… you got pretty broad shoulders.
Good that you’re getting her out of there. It sounds like she is the problem.
She is. As I said she always talked shit about her customers. We met personally with every one of them (40+) to sign them up, and they have all been really nice. She had her business for 7 years, and I have no idea how she did it. Running the gym has been a huge financial strain for us, but good customer service means you keep negativity to yourself and make sure you provide something of value and make everyone feel welcome. People are choosing to spend many hours of their lives there, it needs to become their “happy place”.
That’s especially super-important for a gym, where people are coming there for the express purpose of putting themselves through (sometimes substantial) discomfort. You don’t want to give the customers any more reasons not to show up…
That’s where my wife comes in. She always saw the gym has her home away from home, and she knows that’s important to people.
How the hell someone is in business 7 years and still didn’t figure that out is beyond me.
Existential threat
An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war.
Experts say examples like this shows how under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked.
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On an obscure and secretive TikTok account the Base operates for recruitment, counting just 30 followers, a private and mortarmen in the 1st Infantry Division is listed as a follower. Posts on the account promote the Base’s assassination and sabotage mission in Ukraine, neo-Nazi iconography, and plans to create “platoon-sized units of highly dedicated, trained men”.
The Guardian provided the name and rank to the US army, which said it was now investigating the matter.
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On the private’s Instagram account, he appears to be an airsoft gun enthusiast and a second world war re-enactor that has played as a member of a unit of what appears to be Germany’s Nazi-era Wehrmacht.
Trump’s SS.
“Army of One”
A boot-ass newbie in 1ID is following an evil TikTok account? Holy fucknuts! Panic, panic, run around screaming!
Ukrainian?
“under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked”
So how many Islamonutters were there before Hegseth took over?
The way that’s phrased, the Pentagon was ruthless in weeding out extremists before Hegseth took over. I suppose you could say “since Pete Hegseth took over a few months ago, the Pentagon has not yet succeeded in eliminating extremism”.
Well, they did weed out Hasan many years ago.
Why has it always got to be “experts”? The most weasel worded bullshit trend ever.
Almost as bad as “those familiar with the matter”.
Puppy play in uniform, however, is totes OK.
“The TikTok account affiliated with the group includes a clear statement supporting accelerationism and advises joining the group to be linked up with other individuals to exploit ‘collapse’,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a longtime far-right analyst and expert on the Base who noticed the soldier following the account.
“The Base has been designated as a terrorist group by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.”
Fisher-Birch pointed out that the Base and other adjacent groups, like the now-defunct Atomwaffen Division, are still interested in political violence and continue to prioritize the recruitment of soldiers because “combat experience and military training are prized”.
Is there anybody in those groups who isn’t a narc?
Most of these ‘groups’ literally do not exist outside of social media, so…probably not.
Yes, the retarded kid the feds recruited and are busily persuading to take a special backpack somewhere so they can swoop in and save the day.
It would seem you don’t want to fly in small aircraft in NYS.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-survivors-reported-plane-6-crashes-new-york-rcna201078
I’d never heard of a Mitsubishi MU-2.
It is a good twin turbine aircraft, that has some handling specialities. They are also older and have quirks and they are very loud on the ground due to the Garret fixed shaft turbines.
the article is again why you can’t believe that any reporter can get an article correct. Factual errors about aviation throughout.
This was a bungled missed approach, and/or second approach in IFR and Iicing conditions.
I’d be worried about landing in the middle of lice, too.
Would have expected zero errors in an article about Mitsubishi aircraft.
Oddly the WSJ generally does very good aviation reporting.
All you have to do is run the article past an aviation specialist and the few glaring errors would be fixed, but they clearly don’t care.
It talks about communications from “Tower”. There is no tower at Columbia county, they would have been talking to the Albany approach controller.
An analysis would have included a picture of the ADSB/radar track. What were the freezing levels? Forecast icing? PIREPs?
I wish more of the general public would bear one simple thing in mind: Journalists are not trained in anything besides journalism. You can pull up the syllabus for most journalism degree programs, and maybe there’s an odd biology course or something in there, but for the most part, it’s just stuff about writing and presenting news.
I came to know this with guns after seeing so many ridiculous errors about the functioning and capabilities of firearms. It’s literally like they can’t be arsed with to spend five minutes on Wikipedia to learn what they’re talking about.
Good news
Goldman Sachs on Monday posted first-quarter results that topped analysts’ expectations on stronger-than-expected equities trading revenue.
“When the client makes money, we make money. When the client loses money, we make money.”
They do a shitload of hedging and exotic trades. I’m sure the recent volatility was a huge winner for them.
Yeah. Minimum portfolio size to be a customer of Goldman used to be $1 million, but I suspect it’s much larger now.
They’re not really representing a lot of the common man. At least not in a direct sense.
Scary
The debt, coupled with Trump’s tariffs — as well as the “profound changes in our domestic order” and “profound changes in the world order” — could lead to a “very, very disruptive” outcome, Dalio said.
“Such times are very much like the 1930s. I’ve studied history. And this repeats over and over again,” he said. “How that’s handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession. Or it could be handled well.”
Chaos.
I actually agree with that somewhat.
I totally shoulda voted for the candidate that believes in alleviating our crushing debt and less protectionist bullshit. But there wasn’t one.
It might, or it might not.
That has escalated fears of a massive trade war between the world’s two largest economies
China will bring us to our knees. We’ll never survive as a culture without a plentiful supply of cheap plush toys.
If you saw my daughter’s bedroom you would know this is true.
lol
“An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war”
I wonder how many copies of the Turner Diaries were floating around Ft. Hood when I was there in the early 1990s.
Andrew Heaton video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EGOxmpe8ng
Tee hee at the “Lex Luther” gag.
Earthquake!