The Carolina Hurricanes have The Capitals on the ropes. Edmonton has Vegas in the same position. The NCAA is open to having a government commission on college athletics, which will suck IMO. And crime doesn’t pay. Jeez, dude got more time than a rapist. Our criminal justice system needs to get its priorities straight. And that’s it for sports.
The end of an era? Looks like it might be coming soon. Guess they should have gone through with that merger after all.
He’s angling for a WH bid. That’s the only explanation I can think of for him to stop being a complete idiot.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! This woman is a race-baiting retard.
Add this to the list of things I didn’t need to know. I am certain that list will grow considerably by the end of this trial.
MORE! MORE! MORE! Don’t stop until you rid society of this menace.
Wow, talk about losing your way. I’m flabbergasted by their hypocrisy. But happy they’re no longer at the trough of taxpayer money.
This is funnier by the minute. 1. What did they expect? and 2. Why do they want to double down on the unpopular things when they absolutely need young people?
I know little about this story, but it’s fascinating. I hope everybody involved goes to prison.
How does he still have a license? It would have been easy enough to have taken that privilege away.
I’ve seen this movie. Sink it! There’s either evil on it or Chris Elliott is on there somewhere. Either way…sink it!
This isn’t a Christmas song. And I wanted to hear it. This second one won’t have been expected by any of you. But it is lovely. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
This is funnier by the minute.
They are still pursuing the modern audience.
And they will learn the same thing that Hollywood is starting to understand: The “Modern Audience” is a mirage.
Lovely Tuesday? If you love rain I guess.
“We have the first Black pope.”
I thought the one percent standard was racist.
It’s not one percent, it’s one drop, which is waay less than one percent.
The slogan of Louisiana Hot Sauce.
“One drop does it.”
“I hate this guy.”
“But he might be 2% black.”
“I love this guy!”
Might be the most racist exchange imaginable.
Every word out of that woman’s mouth is racist. She really is a caricature of herself.
The type of country that Haitians can’t flee fast enough?
I dunno, the Episcopal Church quitting refugee resettlement in a huff because we’re saving the Boers is pretty damn racist.
The implication that it’s okay to be against the LGTBQ+-* community if your black is amusing at least.
I am sure Netflix can find an earlier one.
A black transgender pope once sat on the throne of St. Peter.
Xer name was St. Pat.
Re: David Hogg. When you are too insufferable for the DNC…
The best part is that he’s right and they refuse to address what he’s saying, or even acknowledge that they might have a problem.
He’s right that the DNC is heading off of a cliff, but he is wrong seeing as he wants to take them off a different cliff.
Nah, same cliff, just faster
They’ve got a bit of a problem right now, in that they want the votes but they really don’t give a shit about the voters. They are also long on protest and problems but way short on solutions.
I fully support the extralegal oppression of bikers.
Hear-hear!!!
bikers as in motorcyclists, bicyclists, or e-bike riders?
Bicyclists. You will never find a more entitled, uppity group of people.
Motorcyclists are good.
cavalier973:
Please do not lump all of the fans of recreational cycling in with the slow roll assholes. Even other cyclists hate the slow roll assholes (unless they’re one of the slow roll assholes).
Not all motorcyclists are good either. Aside from the squids on sport bikes, when you get a group of Harleys together, they like to occupy the entire roadway at a much more relaxed pace than the speed limit with no regard for anyone behind them.
Oh do I hate the Harley team biking events. When they stop traffic to allow all of these fat assholes to ride through a stop sign? When they slow traffic down to a crawl so as to allow their slowest member (who can barely handle a Skirtster) to keep up, when they ride six abreast and force every other person on the road to listen to their open pipes (which are set up to just be loud and not help with exhaust scavenging.)
To hell with them.
Strongly agree with Neph on this. There is a huge difference between entitled urban cyclists and pretty much everyone else who rides a bike. I ride off-road whenever possible, and when I do ride on public roads I deliberately choose routes on residential streets.
Jaime Roberto has a sad.
Here’s an important distinction – A lot of the time he’s not being a rolling road hazard.
Another important distinction is that Jaime (and Mr. Ilium) would get that I’m being humorous.
I feel oppressed. Can I move up the victimhood stack now?
Big Bile has got hold of town governments across our beautiful nation, and have diverted needed funds from orphans and widows so that old railroad tracks can be converted into bike paths—and they STILL cut in front of you on the regular streets that were built for actual vehicles.
Big Bike, but Big Bile works, too.
“My taxes pay for roads.”
I know. I also can’t stay at the White House when I visit Washington, fly AMC, and many other things.
Sure does. Epic autocorrect.
Those Rails-to-trails are predominantly used by recreational cyclists who don’t want to ride in traffic and don’t want to get anyplace other than the end of the trail, or a specific mileage goal. Again, it’s the urban cyclists who use bike transit out of virtue-signalling rather than necessity who are likely doing that cutting in front of traffic.
And it’s the diversion of road funds to taking road lanes out of service for bike lanes and other “road diets” that is most infuriating.
Sloopy saying something positive about a cyclist? It’s a [checks songs] Christmas miracle!
I’m sure he won’t make that mistake again.
😝
You misunderstand. I want more of these arrests/tickets. In fact, empty Gitmo of the gang members and find these lycramaniacs a new home there.
Just give us the rail trails, and we can all get along!
No, we need to make room for the renewed railways!
There is a battle between train fetishists and cyclasses in NoVA over a proposal to reclaim a rails to trails path for transit.
As community service, the train fetishists have to maintain the bike trails, and the cyclists have to maintain the railroad tracks.
Autists and assholes sounds like a fun social grouping
Wait, that’s not us? Am I in the wrong meeting?
Touche!
That is the most NoVa thing I’ve ever heard…
Oh, I can think of another… They’re very much depending on Federal matching funds to have any hope of this working — and not only would I expect the Trump Admin to fight them tooth and nail on matching this stupid idea (and probably winning)… they whole stupid idea is part and parcel of what it looks like the Feds are definitely going after to shut down overall and may criminally prosecute.
Newsom is a slimy asshole — but like most slimy assholes, I think he’s got some modicum of survival instinct… and I think it is kicking in a little here.
Oh, and if he’s angling for a WH bid — between the SoCal fires (and that despite all his and Bass’s promises… there have been what… 9 permits to rebuild so far? And some folks still haven’t been able to clear their land? And most people are giving up and moving out (thereby freeing up their lots for what CA doubtless wants to fill with crony backed public housing or something… hey… how’s Maui these days on that topic?) And then there’s <a href="https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/12/9-gas-and-globalists-plan-for-phasing-out-private-cars-n4939717"this stupidity that is 100 percent on him and his idiot minions in SacTown. It is what they want, it is what they’ve pushed for — and I’d like to think after the economy of the PPP years, there’s not a chance in hell that enough of the electorate (outside of California, obviously) will sign up for another worse round of it for at least 20 years until memories fade.
But I’ve been wrong before.
I like the 404 page you get with that link.
Correcting his typo it is
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/12/9-gas-and-globalists-plan-for-phasing-out-private-cars-n4939717%22
Sigh. Some days you feel like you suck…… some days you just do.
He has been angling for a WH bid since he was about five years ago – he was literally raised for it.
“old”, even
This is why I look forward to Sloopy’s links in the morning — his razor sharp wit.
Ugh… then those laws are stupid. Cyclists need to either “share the road” or use dedicated lanes/sidewalks and follow pedestrian rules. Not “whichever I feel like at the moment” — because that is what becomes so damned dangerous — you never know what a cyclist is going to do, because they follow only the rules in their head. And since they’re going faster than pedestrians at crosswalks, zipping across without looking can result in a car not having time to see them like you would with pedestrians.
Pet peeve of mine, sorry… to be fair to our cyclists here, I also hate idiots in cars who cut red lights through parking lots, don’t merge correctly, etc… the idiot assholes who can’t follow basic rules that obviously prevent wrecks annoy me across the board… cyclists are just more likely to kill themselves so it sticks out when it happens, I think.
Agree on the need to follow the rules.
I’ll admit to slow rolling a stop sign instead of coming to a complete stop while on a bike in areas with less traffic, mainly because there’s no blind spots, and I can see there’s no cars visible in any direction. The only times I roll up onto sidewalks is to hit the buttons to trigger traffic lights (in areas that use sensors instead of timing to change the lights, me on the bike won’t always trigger them). I wave through the cars making a right turn on red while I’m waiting, because I’d rather have them turning in front of me, where I can see them than trying to squeeze in behind me.
Yet, I’ve still almost been hit by several drivers, one of which was a cop (who decided to try to squeeze behind me on a right turn instead of going in front of me).
Yeah, this is first I am hearing of this silliness.
Bicyclists are not allowed on sidewalks so it makes zero sense to follow pedestrian signals. I’m guessing this is some radical bullshit to suck up to cyclist assholes.
Also in NYC unlike many places the walk/don’t walk signals are linked to the traffic lights 99.9% of the time anyway. In my 25 years there I never saw an instance where the light was red but the pedestrian signal said “walk”.
Around here there are some intersections where not only does the pedestrian crossing button work, it adds a step to the light cycle where all cars have red, the “no turn on red” signs light up and the pedestrian crossing goes to “walk”. The rest of the time the pedestrian crossings are “Don’t walk” and the turn on red depends on whether the oncoming traffic has a green arrow.
rhywun – Park Ave for sure. I believe there are others on the avenues in Manhattan.
Things have changed a lot in recent years I guess. In my time it was a well known joke that the pedestrian buttons were just for show and didn’t actually do anything.
I second everything Nephilium said. Regarding the NY law about allowing cyclists to follow the pedestrian signals, I don’t interpret that as allowing them to be in the crosswalk. I interpret it as being able to go through the intersection but outside the crosswalk which is good for everyone because I can clear the intersection before cars start going through.
Nissan commercial:
https://youtu.be/wtb1xRbTEtg?si=uxYinb0imYsJGe9x
I didn’t realize that the merger with Honda was off.
Back in the days of the creepy Asian dude in the commercials
Lana. Lana. LANAAAA!
And that’s it for sports.
So yeah the NBA lottery is definitely rigged.
https://x.com/nba_university/status/1922070809964671050?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
“In March, as President Trump and congressional Republicans escalated a nationwide debate over whether to slash health care for poor and disabled Americans…”
Now that’s how you start an article future “journalists”. Remember, not giving is taking, and orange man wants to kill all the poor’s and POC. Never change CBS, you mendacious cunts.
Never mentioned: providing health care is not within the constitutional purview of the federal government.
Also not mentioned – why can’t the states just make up the shortfall? I mean, if it is such a critical service to such a deserving group, surely the good taxpayers of _______________ state will just open up their wallets, nay, beg for a tax increase to make up the difference.
Looks like Google returns suboptimal results, so that people stay on Google longer in an attempt to find what they were looking for.
*makes universal sign for money*
https://x.com/peterwildeford/status/1921426288826605735
Google returns suboptimal results, so I don’t use it for search.
Internet search in general has regressed dramatically since the early aughts, in my opinion. Now let me find the onion for my belt while y’all get off my lawn!
There are two issues with search, one of which may at some point improve, but the other is going to be a problem. The one that may improve is Google’s near monopoly. The other is that we’re searching for informational needles in an exponentially growing needle stack. Search for a quote you barely remember and discover that 37 bands have made songs, and posted videos on Youtube, using the word string you are searching; tweak the word string, find 12 more bands, and a cult with 7 members in Peoria; try again, find 90001 reddit pages arguing about some episode of an anime; give up.
AI was supposed to fix that.
AI makes it worse. It locks in on the results it thinks you must want and keeps showing those no matter how you tweak your search.
Ha!
I just rewatched Halt and Catch Fire, and that was one of the pitches during the fourth season (when the season was about building search/index sites).
*argh!*
I’ve had an order for additional parts for the z80 (still working on videos, but none are ready) but the Royal mail is such a fuckup that it is making this farcical.
The first shipment got marked as “delivered” when it reached one of their own depots and promptly disappeared.
The reshipment has been marked as mistakenly sent to my actual city when it had previously just recieved at the town of origin. I don’t know yet if the Royal Mail has also lost that one.
I’m going to be uncharitable and blame the UK hiring priorities.
It is absolutely crap getting mail from Britain. I have experienced this as well. Exact same thing happened to me, mail made it onshore and vanished. It was not this way before the COVID B.S. I blame both sides, U.S. and Britain.
I’ve had good results once it gets to the US. But it’s probably a case of “Huge organization, your milage may vary” for the USPS.
No one in the U.S. sells the parts?
Some, but not all.
Curious, which ones?
The circuit boards and the ROMs could not be sourced here, though I suppose the ROM content can be delivered digitally, and if he sold the gerber files I could have those made in the US.
I did source all of the components for the floppy controller card from the US, including an oop controller chip that I found as new old stock.
Oh, it’s custom stuff.
Consumer prices were up 2.3% in April from a year earlier, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, cooler than March’s gain of 2.4%.
That was below the 2.4% that economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected.
Market futures are up.
“We need to get to Biden’s numbers so we can gloat.”
Pie, some of you ask, how are things going in the larger communist space? glad you asked !
Alex moves the motion to oppose counterrevolutionary Trotskyism in our work within the British working class movement.
Many who join Trotskyite organisations do so out of a sincere desire to bring about revolution in Britain. In recognition of this fact, we must be relentless in our critique of the leaders of the Trotskyite organisations but open to discussion with their members, many of whom can be reached with our party’s message and won over to it.
Yet the Trotskites are always and everywhere on the side of the imperialism politically. They agree on Ukraine. They agreed on the questions of Korea and Vietnam. They agree on Palestine and Syria.
They objectively lead workers back toward the Labour Party, or into despondency and away from politics altogether.
They have a century of history of working as the direct political agents of the imperialists in the working class movement. It would be foolish to imagine that so useful and well funded a ‘trend’ was not directly linked with the ruling class.
https://x.com/CPGBML/status/1922067156432212111
hangin’s too good for a Trotskite
Wreckers!
Because they are convinced that the youth are basically all commies at this point and they’re not entirely wrong.
neah there are some nazis among the youth not only commies.
Hunt for the Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS. First, artillery with 155mm cluster munitions was used. Artillery missed but scared the Grad, forcing it to flee before the missiles were launched. Then Grad was caught up with and destroyed by a FPV drone
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1922216878509834718
“He said Combs routinely instructed him to massage baby oil all over Cassie and have sex with her while the rapper performed a sex act on a chair in the corner.”
Must have been some sexy chair.
Sexier than a ficus I bet.
He’s a leg man?
“Prosecutor Emily Johnson said the trial would hear testimony from victims who ‘will tell you about some of the most painful experiences of their lives. The days they spent in hotel rooms, high on drugs, dressed in costumes to perform the defendant’s sexual fantasies’.”
Fucking in a hotel room was the most painful experience of their lives?
Did you not see, they were high on drugs also, wait a minute…
Uh, damn dude, I guess that’s one way to downplay the allegations.
On the list of perversions I expected to hear come out in that trial, aggressive cuckold was a surprising addition.
Fasten your set belt, I expect them to got through Urban Dictionary from A to Z.
If the internet is correct, chairs are much less popular than pans.
“A chair? What a piker!”
-JD Vance
I have to agree with Sloopy on this – things I dont need to know.
Maybe it identified as a love seat.
To quote ChatGPT: “There’s no single agreed-upon “purpose” of the female orgasm, but the main ideas include:
It may be a non-adaptive byproduct of shared anatomy with males.
It could play a role in bonding, mate selection, and social behavior.
It might have subtle effects on reproduction, but these are not conclusively proven.
It’s likely that the female orgasm, if it has a function beyond pleasure, serves multiple overlapping purposes, both biological and social.”
https://archive.is/9S4B1
Titty Tuesday.
It’s not a difficult line of causation – it encourages the behavior which leads to reproduction, thus resulting in more copies of the genes that have that trait running around the gene pool.
That’s true and likely a partial explanation; but why then would orgasm from intercourse alone (requiring specific clitoral stimulation instead) be so elusive for many women?
evolution is a matter of relative advantage rather than perfect solutions.
Because evolution is random, with the advantages and disadvantages of any mutation, or group of mutations only becoming clear and reaching a refined state via negative selection of species members who lack the mutation, or group of mutations. With evolution also being ongoing, and therefore any explanation of purpose offered as to the current state of a trait kind of missing the point.
Maybe we as a species are still in an intermediate step of the process of transitioning away from estrus with mating occurring due to female compulsion and male desire? Maybe there is some connection between male willingness to put in the effort to bring a female to her difficult orgasm, and the likelihood that such males will remain loyal and support the offspring, leading to a small advantage for females with difficulty orgasming from intercourse, but not sufficient to eliminate females who can orgasm from intercourse easily?
Answer 4 + not mentioned: During orgasm the vagina rhythmically contracts performing a ‘swallowing’ type motion, the function of which is obvious. Psychologically it is very complex but the female orgasm does serve a function beyond that.
Also, I have often heard women, rarely men, describe horniness as ‘hunger’.
It’s a myth.
Words fail me here.
Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-moderna-merged-its-tech-and-hr-departments-95318c2a?st=RBaKoa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
your two favorite tech together?
“The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.”
So all Trump has to do is help White people and these NGO parasites will self-deport from their grift? Too easy!
you should donate directly to the Episcopal Church
I put this on X yesterday: This looks like it actually is 4D chess.
Sigh…
Car loan interest deduction. A new break sought by Trump would provide a deduction for car loan interest, even to people who don’t itemize deductions. It would begin phasing out once income exceeds $100,000 for an individual and $200,000 for a married couple. That lasts from 2025 through 2028.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-tax-plan-boosts-salt-deduction-ends-green-energy-breaks-57bc922c?st=KpSnRE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Trupys economics were never exactly sound
My last car loan was 0%
that car does not sound like a pussy magnet to me…
Sorry, tax deduction only if you have been irresponsible and have terrible credit.
Lee Kuan Yew edit goes insanely hard
https://x.com/mrexits/status/1922254070405800050
Well, sorry for any Vikings fans who were hoping to come and watch them play the Browns here in Cleveland. Looks like that’s the London game (that the girlfriend wants to go to).
London hotels are quite expensive so start saving up
My boss(from Cleveland) wants to go to that game.
He just said,”Holy shit! London hotels are ridiculous!”
He is still going, so they’re not that ridiculous I guess.
Pie (well… and ron):
There’s a package trip sponsored by the team which includes game tickets, airfare, hotels, and more. That’s the path we’re currently taking. Once the game was announced, the girlfriend was already interested, so the savings have been ongoing.
Is that for season ticket holders?
ron73440:
Nope. But it isn’t cheap. There’s a chance the flight is a charter, so I’m hoping for that.
airfare, hotels, and more – more being all the jellied eels you can eat?
My boss has decided it is all too ridiculous to go after all.
He says if he spent all that money, if they lost would probably kill him.
ron73440:
I’ve never been to London, the girlfriend loves London, and it’s in her birthday month. So it also counts as a birthday vacation for her. My one stipulation is that if I’m paying for the trip, she’s wearing a Browns jersey to the game.
I’ve warned her if she doesn’t pick one, I’ll pick one for her. Watson jerseys are dirt cheap right now…
Wait, what?
Why was that stadium even built?
For football of course.
It was built for soccer. All soccer stadiums can fit football. Maybe this one is extra roomy or something but the article is misleading.
The Jaguars signed a deal to play at least one game a season there if I remember correctly, and they’ve managed to build a substantial fan base doing that.
For football of course.
You joke but they specifically built it to support NFL games.
” features the world’s first dividing, retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf field underneath for NFL London Games, concerts and other events.”
It’s a lovely stadium – saw Spurs/Hammers there last year.
Jaguars play in Wembley. Tottenham is for rotating games.
As slumbrew notes, the garbage artificial grass is used for the NFL. The actual grass pitch for football/(soccer) retracts in and out for maintenance.
Oh right, I forgot about that.
How ridiculously over-engineered. I guess rolling some turf over the pitch would be gauche. Or stay with me here, playing on grass.
Shouldn’t the be going after the Asian market?
NFL games in Qatar?
I can totally see them setting up a retirement league.
S.A. (and China) have soccer leagues that are full of near-retirement players.
The destruction of government education continues.
Joe Feldman preaches that students should be able to retake tests and redo assignments. There should be no penalties for late work and no grades for homework. No points for good behavior, classroom participation or perfect attendance, either.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/grading-for-equity-schools-teaching-b301df23?st=nsj693&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s not racist at all. 🙄🙄
As an unreformed truant, I agree that perfect attendance should not be rewarded. Get a life dude! Man was not meant to spend gorgeous spring days inside a classroom.
But no free passes on late assignments or test re-dos.
Deadlines – and the rush of adrenaline that came when I realized they were only 24 hours away – are what made me get off my procrastinating ass and finish things.
No retakes or redos. Failure to submit or take on time – 0 points.
Failure to attend class – also lost points.
Daytime prisonschool is meant to keep you delinquents off the street and out of the hair of the adults.So… Depending on the context, this approach is not completely insane. Stay with me here.
So, the grade in the class is based on a single comprehensive assessment that determines how well the student knows geometry. A ‘final exam’, if you will. Or a ‘final project’. All of the rest of the homework, attendance, etc., is up to the student to complete or not, as they wish. If a student misbehaves in class, it doesn’t affect their grade – they simply get kicked out of the class.
I see this as treating students as junior members of the adult society they will (hopefully) soon join.
Graded homework and grade reductions based on attendance, pop quizzes, or other busy work are stupid. Your grade should reflect your grasp of the subject not your willingness to comply with some petty tyrant’s demands.
Your ability to comply with some petty tyrant’s demands is a good determinator of being able to survive in entry level jobs.
Which is sad and unfortunate, but not the purpose of education.
I agree that knowledge of the subject is the goal of teaching.
Expecting youngsters to get to the end of the course and being graded solely on that knowledge without it ending up as a disaster is unrealistic.
The quizzes, the busy work and homework are all to make sure that there are milestones along the way. Without them, way too many kids would do nothing all semester, fail the test hard and then blame everyone else for their failures.
I would think that you will get the New Soviet Man long before you get the New Studious Teen.
Sure, but making them the basis of the grade doesn’t fix the problem of kids not being motivated, it just shifts the punishment to the smarter lazy kids.
Jarflax:
The problem is that the current
publicgovernment schooling system is that there’s three different goals depending on who you ask:1) Educate the youth so they can do the good jobs.
2) Train the youth to behave so they can do entry level jobs.
3) Function as day care for the parents who are working.
The real problem is that none of those is a proper justification for public education or mandatory education. The argument for public education, and education mandates, in a Republic is to teach the civic religion (which we now actively subvert rather than teach) and to give incipient citizens the tools required to fulfill the responsibility of the franchise. Job training and day care aren’t public responsibilities.
Neph, you left out
(4) Serve as a lucrative jobs program for the credentialed but otherwise unemployable.
R.C. Dean:
Correction accepted. I was thinking of the generally accepted arguments from the proponents.
Fair enough but I hovered over the link and saw “equity” which tells a different tale if that is his goal.
This.
As described, it’s delusional flapdoodle.
“Former President Joe Biden, 82, has a ‘small nodule’ on his prostate that needs ‘further evaluation’, according to multiple reports.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14706859/Joe-Bidens-health-scare-small-nodule-prostate.html
Poor nodule.
Oh yes, make sure to aggressively treat any possible cancer precursor on the 82 year old dementia patient, that is kind.
I heard a medical examiner say once, “Prostate cancer: You either die OF it, or you die WITH it.”
Yoop. Something like 85% of men over 80 have slow growing cancers in the prostate.
He needs to live long enough to “vote” for the first president.
that is first [INTERSECTIONAL CATEGORY] president
If he dies, both he AND his prostate can both vote for the next Dem running!
Good thing he has a doctor in the house.
How is it I made it to 57 not knowing I just really don’t like Helen Reddy’s voice?
For insufferable feminist socialists of the era I much prefer Joni Mitchell’s voice.
Who is Helen Reddy?
I made it to 53 without knowing who Helen Reddy is.
She was in a lot of Disney live-action films and sang. She was fine in those, and she was in one of my favories (I named my pirate Elliott after the dragon), so I never really separated her from the movies. But just listening to non-movie stuff, I am unable to even.
An Australian icon.
I have never heard of said person whose voice you don’t care for. So, if you managed a longer streak of ignorance than I had, that could take up a lot of those years.
Some seventies chick. I don’t recall her voice.
I like this song, but not her voice.
I remember hearing three of her songs frequently on top 40 AM radio stations in the early-mid 70’s – Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone(Ruby Red Dress) and of course I Am Women.
Never disliked it, but “I Am Woman” is one of those songs I’ve heard enough times to last me the rest of my life. (See also “We Are the World.”)
Likewise was not really a Reddy fan, but I’d rather listen to her than to Cher.
I like Cher’s 70s stuff. “Problematic” now makes it totally much better.
“I’ve heard enough times to last me the rest of my life.”
For me that apples to almost every bit of pop music since 1950.
I recently saw an interview with Charles Bukowski shortly before his death – “If you live enough years you will notice a repeating pattern. The same causes, the same effects over and over again. It gets tiresome. Death? I dont fear it, I almost welcome it.”
That should cheer everyone up for the day.
History often doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Just finished reading a novel that included characters reminiscent of “travellers,” and I ended up with “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves” on the brain. 😖 (Not linking because I’m not a monster.)
OK home now… *clicks*
Yuck I don’t like the song or her voice.
no one is 57 this iteration of the simulation only started 6 years ago
Helen Reddy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4qRDozJFQ
Not Helen Reddy
It’s awesome how many Airplane! bits were parodies of other things.
What’s weirder is I picked up Zero Hour! on iTunes a few years back and actually watch it instead of Airplane! sometimes. It isn’t a bad movie in and of itself. (Of course I’ve watched the Airport series as well — ’77 being my guilty pleasure… just goofy, but sincere in its premise.
That’s Captain Stubing’s daughter!
Joe Patroni couldn’t settle on a career path in the Airport series
“How is it I made it to 57 not knowing I just really don’t like Helen Reddy’s voice?”
You weren’t ready before then.
P.S. I’ve found I really love Julie London’s voice.
I listened to it when she came up a while back… ya she’s really good.
Metro Richmond Zoo
@metrorhmdzoo
Patrick turns 34, receives a royal cloak, and then ties the perfect knot – because even jungle royalty needs a signature look! 👑🦧✨ King behavior.
https://x.com/metrorhmdzoo/status/1921977929082314849
When did the Orangutans conduct a coup against the King of the Jungle?
You don’t know King Louie?
That usurper? He lost in the end.
@Neph I had a friend who had an animation cell from that scene, and he had me paint the background so he could display it. Fun project.
TOK:
Neat!
One piece of swag I’ve held onto over the years was from Lord of the Rings, I went to the Trilogy Tuesday showing (first two movies extended edition, first possible viewing of the third), and they handed out a little plastic molded wall with three frames of film from the three movies mounted in it.
Is it wrong to wonder why all that inbreeding in the royal line has led to so many gingers?
Yes, it’s wrong. It shows a gross ignorance of the actual geneology.
I hear OnlyFans is quite lucrative.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/british-playboy-model-says-its-35215665
I hear it is not, with the average return being only about $1,300/year. When you remove the handful of high earners, that means your average content creator there makes pretty much nothing.
Pareto distributions coupled with young people’s limited experience and judgment about their own talent/appeal are a recipe for sorrow. See also careers in music, acting, writing, or really any creative or entertainment field. Five people end up billionaires, a hundred end up millionaires, everyone else ends up a barrista.
I’m also going to guess that tons of young ladies set up an Only Fans account but then fail to add much content and forget all about it in less than a month.
Like lots of stuff, it takes work to be successful.
So, yes, lots of “content creators” get virtually nothing, but that is because they do virtually nothing other than signing up.
She should have saved and invested some of that money from her model days.
How long does Jewish sex last? 125 minutes; two hours of begging and fix minutes of fucking.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/people-follow-because-im-hot-35151051
Khazar milkers.
Yeah. I think I’m going to go look at those Salma Hayek pics again.
“Amazon driver seen on video pooping, peeing at 2 Los Angeles homes”
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/amazon-driver-purportedly-poops-on-front-porch-of-los-angeles-home/
To be fair, it is Los Angeles.
It’s not San Fran.
I bet it is completely legal there.
In honor of today’s bicyclist love!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1klbe0y/im_sorry_for_not_realizing_cyclists_do_not_have/
“Salma Hayek, 58, covers Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2025”
https://pagesix.com/2025/05/13/style/salma-hayek-58-covers-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-2025/
That’s some 58.
I watched Desperado the other day, dumb but entertaining.
She was a smoke show in that, still looks amazing.
Can’t belive they’re not leading off with a fat tranny.
Trump really is changing everything. Nobody’s seen anything like it.
I fluv that movie. Swoon
I had never seen it and we both enjoyed it, but the physics(or lack thereof) were a little hard to watch.
The 1990s truly were the golden age of late 20th century movies, then the internet ruined it.
@Mojeax, Robert Rodriguez wrote a book on how he made the original version (El Mariachi) in Mexico, with friends as actors and borrowed cameras, for $7000. He checked himself into a hospital for pharmaceutical trials to make extra money. I found it a fun and inspirational read.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/58278246/Rodriguez-Robert-Rebel-Without-a-Crew
“It doesn’t really take a Muse to inspire horny retards to empty their wallets.”
Those are some really nice… poses.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s what I call an “easy win”. It takes no effort, costs next to nothing, but every one of those people get a great memory.
Video recreation of happy hour at the Casa Dean:
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1921986093269823742
what a preposterous way tot treat alcohol.
Hold my
beersomaek“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a plunge into the waters of Washington, DC’s notoriously contaminated Rock Creek — where swimming is banned because of high levels of fecal bacteria.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/us-news/rfk-jr-takes-a-dip-in-dc-creek-known-for-high-levels-of-fecal-bacteria-and-infectious-pathogens/
OK?
*insert but why? .gif*
Because when you pick the crazy guy to disrupt something that needs disrupting, you have to accept that the crazy won’t be directed. Crazy guy is a saturation bomber not a sniper.
Any excuse to take his shirt off.
The derby team has an annual tubing trip, and one year we went down a river that had a bacteria problem at the time. A few people went swimming and ended up on antibiotics due to scratches on their legs getting infected.
On one hand you get improved food and vaccine safety while on the other you get a guy who ditches dead bears in the park and tries to cut the heads off whales. You have to take the good with the bad when it comes to people like him.
The brain worm was lonely?
Yeah, one time when I was in Hawaii, the big news story was some guy who stepped in the canal in Waikiki with a cut on his leg and died a week later after a painful battle with flesh-eating bacteria.
Chuck Norris supplies his immune system.
Chuck’s feces would clean up the creek.
My conviction that he is a nutbag is not going away.
Now that India has confirmed I’ve wondered how much of this was pilot / situation / intelligence or the equipment itself.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/india-breaks-silence-rafale-jet-104619543.html
apparently trump just took concrete steps to universally fix federal regulatory law today
all criminal penalty regulations must be reported and wherever possible a mens rea standard implemented
this . . . i have to be honest i would accept a lot of bad behavior for this
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1922124873653989503
This weekend, I honked at a young gal driving too fast like an idiot. She cut across 3 lanes of traffic to get off at an exit. I was one of the people that she nearly clipped.
I got a dirty look when we were all stopped at the light at the end of the exit ramp. I’m sure she went home and told her dad that some asshole libtard honked at her because of Elon hate.
We need a special honk/signal to let these jerks know that they are acting like assholes and it has nothing to do with politics.
and here I thought you just shoot each other on the freeway
Good idea Pie.
Single shot = You’re a Nazi loving MAGA-tard!
Double tap = Learn to drive asshole.
Air horn.
https://hornblasters.com
“Chris Elliott”
Hey, Cabin Boy was a good movie. That looks like something you’d dream about after a quart of Jack Daniels and a coupla bad sausages was a solid line.
By no possible standard was Cabin Boy a good movie. It is possible that it was so bad that it was entertaining to you, although even that is hard to believe.
Better than The Godfather and Chinatown combined. The flying cupcake that spits tobacco juice, the man shark…what’s not to like?
Stinky is right about Chinatown. I have no idea why that dog shit is considered a classic.
Godfather is OK, but way too long. In fairness to it, it was made back when audiences would sit through hours of crap because there was nothing else to do. All the movies made in the ’70s were way too long (hello The Deer Hunter).
Chinatown sucked, Jack Nicholson is the most over rated actor in a profession full of over rated actors. The Godfather is a great movie, as is the one sequel. Talk of a third movie is a lie. I would mock the modern attention span, but I think it is just a trope people repeat despite massive evidence to the contrary. People whine that a 3 hour movie is too long, then veg out on their couch to binge a dozen episodes of a TV show in succession.
“You’re one of them fancy lads!”
Beyond that and “These pipes are clean!”, it really isn’t a very good movie.
OK, the Godfather is a meh gangster movie, but Chinatown is the best movie made in this great country, and if you are too culture blind to see this, I can only feel pity.
Chris Elliot was awesome in Schitts Creek and Groundhogs day.
I always hated Chris Elliot. Never liked Bob and Ray either.
Chris Elliot must give the best head in Hollywood, because there is no other reason to cast him.
He worked as the idiot mayor in Schitt’s Creek.
His dad was part of an old act Bob and Ray so he is a typical entertainment nepo baby.
I will say, I loved Get a Life, so I’m not saying Chris has no talent. Although I loved the Zoo Animals on Wheels episode, my favorite was when he went to Handsome Boys modeling school and became a male model.
“I am a male model, not a male prostitute!”
Modeling just sucks.
Why should Muslims in Britain understand free speech?
We should stop assuming that our values are universal
A lot of Britain’s problems with integration stem from our failure to perceive the ways in which our own society is different to others in the world. Principles that seem fundamental to us are often the result of unique circumstances that caused certain European societies, and their offshoots, to think about morality, property and the individual in a very particular way.
Because we associate these principles with basic decency, it can be difficult to appreciate that they are not universal without feeling prejudicial toward other cultures and peoples. We forget to consider how and why our particular principles emerged; we assume they were just always there.
Our very broad approach to freedom of speech is one such principle. There is a basic idea that one should be able to say what one has to say — but without a grasp of how and why this concept emerged in England, for the reasons that it did, it is hard to get a feel for why we insisted that the boundaries extended as far as they did. In particular, the freedom to cause offence to religious sensibilities is understood to be a fundamental part of the concept. Even very religious people brought up in the British tradition are comfortable enough with the idea that others have a right to denigrate their beliefs, and that this is inextricably bound up with the rights that protect their own religious freedom. But this is by no means universally understood outside the Western context, where religious people have very different ideas of what it is that protects their position in society.
https://thecritic.co.uk/why-should-muslims-in-britain-understand-free-speech/
Meh they should also teach the wokies of free speech because it was not exactly doing great outside the Muslim issue…
Britain is fucked.
The idea that because prejudging is wrong, judging is also wrong, is going to kill the West. Prejudging is wrong because it generalizes, often erroneously, not because it disapproves of evil or incompetence.
Wait, why do I spend the time to have a basic understanding of a culture before I go if that’s wrong?
It’s a good thing that Britain doesn’t have free speech then, I guess.
Also, and this may seem antiquated and naive, but if a group of people bully their way into Britain and settle there under cover of the helpful, guiding hand of white guilt, they should probably respect local customs such as free speech or move along.
“Around 50 clergy members from Faith in NJ and Faith in Action gathered outside the facility on Monday, linking arms outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center’s front gates, chanting and singing songs. They said they would continue to block access to the facility until they were arrested….
On Friday, Democrat Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Lamonica McIver (D-NJ), and Rob Menendez (D-NJ) rushed past security at the detention facility. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested after refusing to leave the facility. Baraka had been seen protesting outside the facility days earlier….
Baraka has claimed that the Delaney Hall facility does not have the proper permits to run, and has demanded a comprehensive fire, safety, and health inspection. He said he would return to protest at the facility daily after three fire code violations were issued.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-protesters-block-access-to-newark-ice-detention-center-refuse-to-leave-until-arrested
What about the Commodore 64 running the airport?
The Commodore 64 was never used for that purpose.
You’re thinking of the IBM stone tablet.
Tater is right, that air traffic control system does look a little dated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-CiQMObn_0
I don’t think I’ve ever had a facility of any size go through a fire inspection without some findings being made. If we closed every building for every violation of the fire code, we wouldn’t have any commercial/industrial buildings open.
President Boluarte approval rating poll:
🔽Approve: 2 % (-1)
⏸️Disapprove: 94 %
President Boluarte’s approval stands at 2 %, the worst level ever recorded for her in any poll.
Ipsos, 09/05/25
https://x.com/ElectsWorld/status/1921977552400216214
Moraller than thou
“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe wrote. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”
Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to “wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September,” the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.
Keep your filthy lucre, Satan.
Whites need not apply (for assistance).
Apologies to any Episcopalians here but the Episcopal Church USA is a pathetic bunch of fucking losers.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? It’s the Church of England in colonial garb, and England is the wokie Mecca.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2dNCw0hPLs
“Two Trump officials tasked with undertaking work at the Library of Congress were blocked by staffers of that branch on Monday after President Donald Trump fired the head librarian on Friday. A source further told The New York Times that staffers were refusing to recognize Trump-appointed Todd Blanche as acting librarian of Congress.
President Trump fired Carla Hayden as head over wokeness and installed his former personal attorney and Assistant AG Blanche to head up the Library of Congress. Blanche sent two Justice Department Officials over to the Library of Congress on Monday with a letter letting administrators know that Paul Perkins and Brian Nieves would be heading up the US Copyright Office.
Library of Congress staffers refused to let the men in and called US Capitol Police. The library’s General Counsel Meg Williams asked them to leave and told them they would be denied access to the Copyright Office. Staff, the Times said, “is recognizing Robert Newlen, the principal deputy librarian who was Dr. Hayden’s No. 2, as the acting librarian until it gets direction from Congress.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/library-of-congress-staffers-block-trump-officials-access-refuse-to-recognize-todd-blanche-as-acting-head-librarian-report
CWABOA
I remember when the CFPB tried this shit during Trump’s first term.
“You’re all fired.”
Yup, everyone involved in blocking them should be fired.
That would be an executive action and only federal judges can make that call.
Seems like an easy fix.
Does the admin actually have authority of the LoC? Isn’t it part of the legislative branch?
“An agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. government”, per their website.
Is management appointed by congress, or the executive?
A quick search didn’t give a clear answer.
Too bad such trivia wasn’t included by the journalist who wrote that piece.
It would seem that like many things at Google its logo is also becoming more “fluid”.
https://www.theverge.com/news/664958/google-g-logo-gradient-design-change
I wonder how many hours and dollars were spent on this.
A blood vessel popping amount of money.
I worked for a project once that was going to get spun off into its own company. The developers had been told a few weeks earlier that there was no more money for raises, so this year everyone was going to lump it.
As part of the spin off, we had a meeting to reveal our new logo and then there would be a happy hour later. The logo wasn’t anything special, but the people from the outside design firm were entertaining. Their explanations of the elements of the logo were amusing to tech geeks: “The green symbolizes our world wide presence. The purple shows that we will rule.”.
Things went from amusing to down right hostile though when it came out we’d spent nearly $200K on the logo.
The happy hour later was ugly. The bar had a gal going around with cigars. All the devs took handfuls of them just to drive the tab up.
Green and Purple are commonly combined on villain color pallettes because the combination looks ominous. Did these design folks not study design?
The range of the final Upper Palaeolithic cultures in northern Europe has extended into… the Scottish islands, which is unexpected. The Younger Dryas was a rapid climatic cold snap, and Scotland was presumed to be uninhabitable. This must have been a brutal time to be alive.
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1921998707928523056
I mean Talisker is not *that* good
The older Taliskers are, if you can find them.
good enough to live on Skye during the Younger Dryas? hard to believe…
Maybe not good enough to live there, but good enough to make it seem like a good plan to go there to die and leave remains? I mean that’s kind of what liquor does isn’t it?
How else are you going to stay warm? There’s only so many sheep one man can shag…
Of course they aren’t good. They are
rancid gasolinescotch.In no way will this raise costs or immediately be gotten around by Chinese entities. But it sounds tough!
Last week, we reported on Democrat congressman Bill Foster’s plans to introduce a bill that requires manufacturers of AI processors, like those in Nvidia GPUs, to implement tech that allows the US government to track where they end up. Well, it looks like the Senate didn’t want to be outdone, because less than 24 hours later Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas announced the Chip Security Act, his own bill requiring AI hardware manufacturers to allow for geotracking of those all-so-important chips (via Tom’sHardware).
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/us-senator-announces-a-bill-requiring-geotracking-in-high-end-gpus-to-prevent-the-chinese-government-from-wielding-the-ruinous-power-of-your-nvidia-rtx-4090/
Woo! Clipper chip 2.0!
Politicians should never be allowed to make laws about technology. They understand so little about it.
I have a very good friend who climbed way too high in the world of politics. At one point he co-sponsored a bill to ban obscenity on the internet (this was in the ’90s). I sat him down and tried to explain how tcp/ip routing worked and how this law basically criminalized all ISPs. He really just didn’t get it. He really hated my “solution” of just ignoring it and having no laws. Something had to be done!
30 years later, I think my prediction that there isn’t any way to stop pr0n on the internet was spot on.
+1 Ted Steven’s “Series of Tubes”
It goes well beyond tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act
Tom Cotton is such a scrunt.
WTF??
“Brown University expanded its trademark infringement charge beyond Spectator publisher Alex Shieh, who got in trouble for creating the Bloat@Brown database of diversity, equity and inclusion jobs but whose charges keep mutating like a “potentially” engineered virus.
It’s now accusing the nascent newspaper’s three-member board, which includes Shieh, of trademark violation while ignoring the Herald, Shieh wrote on X on Friday. Both rely on “the doctrine of descriptive fair use … There’s a reason every student newspaper in the country alludes to their school in its name without issue.””
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/pure-retaliation-ivy-league-school-threatens-conservative-student-paper-behind
I remember something similar over a conservative paper using the name Yale many years ago.
I was surpised to find a product not only made in the usa, but foolishly made in New York.
Anyone know if they’re any good?
The owner is a member/shooter at SaraSpa.
But is the product any good?
I have one. They’re excellent, albeit a little expensive.
👍
Eh, the $400 price tag hasn’t scared me off, I have principles, plus I don’t have to pay for delivery, since Amsterdam is right down the road, I can pick it up.
I don’t use carts, I use a wagon for big matches.
I didn’t realize that the merger with Honda was off. Talks collapsed because Nissan wanted to be an equal partner, not a subsidiary – which means they haven’t accepted reality yet.
It was called off a while ago. They are slowly doing all the things Honda said they would have to do before they would consider talks again.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/18/japan-automaker-nissan-makoto-uchida-honda-acquisition-toshihiro-mibe/
https://www.automotivedive.com/news/nissan-ceo-makoto-uchida-ivan-espinosa/742117/
Trump wrecked a smoothly running free trade framework
Among the issues under discussion through the Geneva Mechanism are non-tariff barriers — a quiet but potent set of tools China has used for years. These include opaque licensing procedures, indigenous IP requirements, unfair procurement preferences, data localization mandates, and increasingly burdensome compliance expectations for foreign firms. Addressing these barriers in 90 days is ambitious at best, and likely unrealistic.
Maybe he has their attention now.
“Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations…..
The arrest was carried out by the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Team, equipped with a battering ram and tactical gear, according to KSLTV.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/utah-oil-tycoon-james-jensen-wife-kelly-arrested/
I know they pull this shit to scare the defendants, but it makes the feds look like a bunch of fags.
I love that Maxwell goes by “Max”, but apparently Zachary goes by, well, Zachary.
Or possibly, I suppose, Golden, but that seems unlikely.
Guess they should have gone through with that merger after all.
Which one?
“Pierce allegedly told the officers he had been a meth user for 20 years and went to his drug dealer who gave him a pound of meth, but he was not comfortable with that amount because he would not be able to sell it.
He told police that someone attacked him and stole the meth, but the dealer did not believe him and wanted $20,000 or “he would shoot him and his family.”
Pierce told police he saw a homeless man at a nearby pavilion and offered the man meth and a pipe in exchange for helping him chain the cannon, the outlet reported. The homeless man agreed to help Pierce and then the two smoked meth together at the park before attempting to steal the cannon, the report reads…..
Pierce reportedly told police that over the next several hours he used a Sawzall to cut the cannon into four to five pieces, which he placed in his Tahoe, leaving the largest piece of the cannon in his friend’s garage….
He allegedly told police he chose the cannon because it was in a dark area; a detective said Pierce did not have a specific plan to sell the cannon pieces since he did not have an ID, which is typically required to sell scrap materials.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-man-allegedly-stole-rare-historic-800-pound-cannon-park-drug-money-report
Everyone in this story is retarded.
Wait. The dealer fronted a user a pound of meth?
I guess he really wanted an excuse to kill the user.
Reminds me of an episode of Cops where a lady flagged down a cop because she had bought crack, but was given some plaster.
The cop questioned the dealer and her defense was “I’m not a drug dealer, I’m a prostitute.”
The cop talked to the first lady about maybe finding a better way to spend $20 and her answer was, “And do what?, I’ve already had a shower.”
Playing with a dealer’s money, is like playing with his emotions…
Bookies, dope dealers, student loaners, mortgage lenders in the two thousands…….Look, I have no sympathy. You made a shit loan that no sane person would expect to be repaid. You are going to have to eat it.
Conundrum
One big reason manufacturers can’t fill these jobs overnight is because they require workers to have particular skills. And it’s not just skills needed to work on assembly lines. Only around two in five manufacturing jobs are directly involved in making stuff. Manufacturers also employ people to do research and development, engineering, design, finance, sales, marketing, and so on.
Part of the political appeal of bringing manufacturing back is that, historically, they’ve provided good jobs and career ladders for people without a college education. However, many manufacturing jobs these days actually require college degrees.
Carolyn Lee, the president and executive director of the Manufacturing Institute, says that roughly half of the open positions in manufacturing require at least a bachelor’s degree.
That said, the other half of open manufacturing jobs don’t require a bachelor’s degree. And manufacturers say they are also struggling to fill those.
Making stuff isn’t as sexy as being a political activist.
Was it one of you guys who said this is a female problem? As in, women want the same pay as men for the same job, as long as it’s in an air-conditioned office.
But don’t set the thermostat at a comfortable level…
Or a drug addict.
I find it very difficult to believe that they can’t find people for finance, sales, marketing, and so on.
A classic solution to so-called worker shortages: offer higher pay. That would probably convince workers to invest in acquiring coveted skills and enter the manufacturing workforce.
Which is one reason why Oren Cass, the chief economist and founder of American Compass, a conservative think tank, says he’s skeptical whenever employers complain about worker shortages.
“ I have less than zero sympathy for employers who go around complaining about labor shortages and skills gaps,” Cass says. He joked that he has a side hustle, running an “incredibly innovative” biotech firm. “It employs leading scientists at $10 an hour to develop extraordinary cures. I have 500,000 job openings as well, and I have not been able to fill one of them.”
Cass has a point. We’ve covered a similar phenomenon in trucking: trucking companies have complained of a “worker shortage” for decades, yet relatively low wages and challenging work conditions are clearly a huge factor behind that industry’s workforce woes. Addressing those issues would probably go a long way to dealing with their “shortage.”
Don’t forget business owners who have somehow concluded they should not have to do any in house training.
Yes. The whole contract has been broken. Employers feel no loyalty and and employees as well.
Five years across two companies of being told in company wide meetings that everything is great, all the goals have been crushed, and look at how much of a cash surplus we have, only to have that become tales of woe, missed goals, and hardship when it comes times for raises/bonuses.
Yeah, I don’t have much loyalty to the company I work for.
I’m sure this is in no way related to various EV green debacles being canceled.
A federal judge placed Bollinger Motors into receivership after the startup burned through $148M to make about 40 trucks.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/148m-electric-truck-startup-is-going-down-in-flames-fast
I wonder if the Slate truck will survive.
Most comments I’ve seen love the concept, if it had a gas engine.
I think not. News articles keep trying to connect it to Amazon/Bezos, like that somehow has his magic touch. All he did was provide some money.
Not the Vox truck?
Depends on how it drives. I think most people like the idea of driving a small truck, until they do, and realize that small trucks actually suck to drive on a day to basis.
I think their business plan relies heavily on the $7K tax credit, which may or may not survive. Although my optimism that it will be killed has declined rapidly.
No surprise. The Autopians were wetting their pants over Bollinger in comments for at least a year. “Can’t wait! Can’t wait!” I wanted to log in just to tell them it was more fairy dust. That would have been a pointless attempt at balloon-popping.
Now start popping popcorn for VW’s Scout.
If they can avoid being forced into the franchised model it has a shot. I doubt it as the NADA is too strong.
Playing a shell game by multiple form changes to hide the fact that your new energy source is the same as the old energy source is not only dumb but wildly inefficient. Jeebus. These people are grifters, plain and simple.
We are not going to phase out IC motors any more than the people going to climate summits are going to stop flying in their private jets. Good fuckin’ Lord.
The more absurd the lie, the better.