Apparently, a tropical depression ran up through the Gulf of California and delivered the first rain in recorded history on June 1st to the Phoenix area. I guess they can say that with a straight face because the records only go back to the 1800’s. Either way, the muggy 70° day was a welcome change from the average day in June. Here’s a video of a water spout off the coast of Puerto Peñasco, which is located on the northernmost shore of the Gulf of California, about an hour drive south of the US Border. Great place to get fresh shrimp and day drink.
¡enlaces!
Mexico hosted its first judicial elections, with a surprisingly low turnout. Nevertheless, La Presidenté Mujer hailed it as a success because predictably, her party (Morena) won the seats.
Mexico to co-cost the Womenz World Cup. What, is this not exciting news?
TW: Mexican nudists.
I can’t help but wonder how CIA involvement in hunting cartels will result in a different outcome than their current involvement.
Interesting, I would expect a German court to play along.
LOL. They’re still hung up on Maryland Dad.
Why would it be such a pain in the ass to claim asylum in Canada? Why would it be such a pain in the ass to claim asylum in Canada!?
Here’s a ten minute siege for a tune today. Enjoy your martes!
Body positivity nudists. Why did it have to be body positivity nudists?
Free the Nipple!
Those are dongs.
I didn’t watch the video.
The worst kind of nudist.
There are other kinds?
Unfortunately, no.
I am positive my body would horrify onlookers so I keep my clothes on.
I support body negativity. Make shame great again!
I assume like all nudist stories — these are the last people in the world you want to be nudists. (And just to be clear — I’d terrify the populace if I were a nudist too… but I’m not dumb enough to be one.)
Narcissists are often just as ugly on the outside as on the inside.
In March, the United States government deported to El Salvador 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national
Say no more.
I’m still not clear why the antifa/commie set has latched on to that particular guy’s “cause” so fiercely and I’m sure as shit not going to slog through any more of the purple prose in that ridiculous article to try to ferret out an answer.
Because Trump. That is the only reason.
JI: true.
But just as with BLM types, they sure know how to pick exactly the wrong people to hold up in their cause.
I mean, at least let it be a peaceful old man/woman who never broke the law (outside of illegal entry) and was deported to be the face of the cause. Instead they pick abusers and convicts.
As pointed out many times the point is to disrupt, agitate and spread divisiveness.
Peaceful old man/woman is not controversial.
“I mean, at least let it be a peaceful old man/woman who never broke the law (outside of illegal entry) and was deported to be the face of the cause. Instead they pick abusers and convicts.”
I think these ‘test cases’ are purposefully chosen to create division. Floyd’s heavy drug use -on ’em when subdued- was a rift Team Blue cultivated, but Maryland Man is even more pointed. –> It ‘forced,’ or rather provoked, Lefties into defending a known wife beater. ‘You wanna defend open borders? Well, here’s a dude you should LOVE getting rid of, this wife-beating fuck, but we *know* you’ll endlessly defend him because Trump = Bad. The TDS is tedious, but here its predictability was used against Maryland Man defenders.
It’s kinda like an ‘unforced error’ in tennis, but Trump and his team set it up , purposefully using a man that *should* be impossible to defend, but … know they enemy. Dems can’t help stepping on all those rakes, constantly smacking them in the face.
I’m not positive Team Blue ‘knows’ how to regain ‘calm’ and to not flood themselves after shooting off every toe. They’re wading in their own blood, but have too much ‘pride’ to reveal they’re standing on what remains of their septic, nubby stubs.
That just sounds awesome.
Yep. They don’t know how good they make him look by writing shit like that.
Talk about not letting your right hand know what your left hand is doing….
I think they call that “The Stranger”.
Not to be confused with the Dutch Rudder.
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“I think we’ve developed a kind of collective fetish for manufacturing, which is really unproductive,” Hanson told us. “The problem is not too few manufacturing jobs. The problem is too few good jobs for workers without a college education.” And he argued that policymakers should focus on solving that problem, and not pretend that revitalized manufacturing is the only solution, especially since trying to boost this one sector with tariffs and a trade war could come at tremendous cost for everyone and not produce the desired result of a good-jobs bonanza
I love how these guys pontificate and blabber about this stuff without ever once mentioning productivity or added value.
good jobs for workers without a college education.
You mean jobs that require skilled labor. That would be building shit (the trades) and making shit (manufacturing).
Sales. That is another way of making big buck sans diploma.
You say “super star cities”…I say “shitholes”.*
*TBF, I know nothing about Austin, but I can probably judge it by it’s peers there.
Parasites don’t add much value.
“The problem is not too few manufacturing jobs. The problem is too few good jobs for workers without a college education”
“Good jobs” like DEI officers, HR harpies, and ambulance chasers?
It exposes the “experts’” understanding of the role of companies. They’re GDP and employment generators, and the product itself doesnt much matter. Ass backwards thinking.
Like the G input in it’s calculation?
Brooks, you dont listen. Dont you remember when Obama explained to us that companies responsibility is to provide employment?
Sheezzz, some people.
Meh. The CIA has been playing hide-and-go-fuck-yourself with the cartels since the 80’s at least. I wouldn’t expect anything to change.
Exactly
I’m not even talking about the whole ‘importing and selling cocaine to fund the Nicaraguan Contras’ thing, although that does kinda put the cherry on top. Don’t get my old man started on that one. He’s still pissed that the 7th floor twats were all getting their ten percent broken off while he was down in Peru running sensor ops on the Sendero Luminoso…
Oh believe me, with the flurry of conspiracies that turned out to be true, I can happily entertain the “CIA invented crack” theory.
I cannot believe that the CIA would have invented something so…
Effective.
That depends, Zwak, what was their intended result? It could have been a case of “task failed successfully”
My wife’s car broke down today at the busiest intersection in Fort Collins. So that was a fun time for her.
Bleah.
Is she safe?
That said, this is all pretty theoretical. There’s no guarantee that new or repatriated manufacturers will set up shop in communities that are in need of economic development. And there’s not strong evidence that tariffs can make that happen either.
Enrico Moretti says, sure, manufacturing plants could help some communities jumpstart their economic growth. However, he’s skeptical whether the sector can be an engine of widespread prosperity.
“Given how small the sector is — and how small the sector is likely to stay, tariffs or no tariffs — I’m not really sure that this is really the source of jobs of the future,” Moretti says. The reality, Moretti argues, is that manufacturing has become very automated, so new factories don’t provide that many jobs, and these factories will become even more automated in the future. “ I don’t think tariffs will really change the profound dynamics of the decline of the manufacturing sector that we see everywhere in the world,” Moretti says.
Nobody wants those jobs.
Automation materializes from thin air.
Parts and materials are delivered by the tooth fairy.
There are no jobs left in production.
Really, it’s easier to just tax the shit out of brainworkers in superstar cities and hand out bennies to those hicks in flyover country anyway.
I don’t care if it isn’t the most economically efficient setup relative to pure globalism. Nations should be as self sufficient as possible in my view — and then can trade internationally for either what they can’t produce in-house or with their excess (of which we should have a lot). Pure self-interest and pragmatism… because nations don’t have friends, only transactions of convenience. And human nature doesn’t change.
This.
Also, there needs to be a recognition that cheap plastic crap from China is not in our best interests long term.
Nations don’t trade, people and businesses do. As soon as you ‘nationalize’ it, you are taking choice away from someone.
Those companies that didn’t offshore moved out of the rust belt to the sun belt. They’re not moving back.
Not with that attitude!
But, seriously, if Arizona keeps trending blue, and Ohio gets redder, I can see a business going back.
So Buy Local is bad when Trump encourages it.
You say “super star cities”…I say “shitholes”.*
I’m surprised he didn’t have Chicago on his list.
I should really look at the time before I start corpse-fucking the dedthread.
Penetrated a few cold ones myself.
He doesn’t mean beer. He means other potatoes.
lolwut – That figure must be missing several zeros at the end.
Sure, Jan. 🙄
The city is built on a piece of land passed down from his father.
More magic fairy dust. A social advocacy group in Australia had this to say about proposed increases in electricity rates:
“One off rebates are not the solution. We’ve spent over six billion dollars in those one off payments that keep getting extended. We would much rather see first of all boosting home energy upgrades money to get to all low income housing being at a good energy performance standard, solar panels, access to renewable energy, insulation etc. Secondly, to help people who’ve accumulated big energy debt to have that debt written off…The federal government says it already views renewable energy as part of the solution.”
🤦♂️
It’s possible that politicians can help revitalize manufacturing through means beyond just tariffs, including workforce development programs and subsidies. The Biden administration pursued a more multifaceted strategy (which included subsidies and tariffs) to boost particular manufacturing industries. We are waiting to see more robust evidence on the effect of these policies — although, as we highlighted a few weeks ago, there is currently an explosion in spending to construct new factories in America, and the timing suggests that government policies have played at least some role in the industry’s comeback. Much of this new factory investment is in Southern states.
In the coming years, we’re sure to get more evidence about the effects of government policies, including President Trump’s current trade policy — and whether a potential manufacturing renaissance sweeps America and helps reduce regional inequality.
Only
Godthe government can grow an industry.Industrial policy – it’s good when our team does it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-boulder-attack-suspect-taken-ice-custody-dhs-chief-krisi-noem-s-rcna210711
The family of a man accused of launching an “antisemitic attack” that injured at least 12 protesters in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday has been taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced Tuesday.
Presumably, the family is illegal too.
Good.
Great, the smart set isn’t done with “Maryland Man” yet and here comes “Colorado Family” hot on its heels.
Why is “antisemitic [sic] attack” in sneer quotes anyway?
You know why.
In Mexican sporting news, the Mexican kid lost his lead in the Giro d’Italia on the penultimate day when he got into a standoff with the guy in second while the guy in third rode away for the win.
All the streetcars in Vienna have progress pride flags for pride month, proving that public transportation is gay.
Or that they really want someone to run a train on them, I suppose.
Just wait until a suicide bomber hops on one.
Might want mention that…
https://www.theautopian.com/owners-say-electric-dodge-charger-daytonas-are-accelerating-on-their-own-and-nobody-knows-why/
This POS is going to cost Stellantis a fortune.
I see there were two incident reports, so 100% failure rate?
I’ll see myself out.
I’m sure half a dozen or more are driven by Stellantis employees. So maybe less.
A nude protestor should only be allowed to be nude around blind people.
New Dream Theater – good choice. That Portnoy fella plays drums real purty.
Here is El Estepario Siberiano covering DT’s the Enemy Inside. To be honest, I’m linking this just so you see the t-shirt. I want to buy one.
Hell yeah
I saw Dream Theater twice on this tour, once in Raleigh with my son and again in Wheeling WV with my wife
New album is one of their best
That is a cool shirt
I read about your trouble in the am post, ron. Best wishes and regards. I hope you get well soon.
This would be a great opportunity to tease the wife and try to get breakfast in bed. Of course, that’s most likely why I’m a bachelor…
He does make the band exceptional.
This feature has been in Stellantis internal combustion engine vehicles for many years
Brakes? An ignition cutoff switch?
Unintended acceleration. Designed in!
The Robot Cantina golf cart has a kill switch for the electric motor wired to the brake pedal. Maybe Jimbo can get a ten million dollar consulting fee to explain to the Stellantis board of directors why that’s a good idea.
That’s designed into Tesla. Brake disconnects acceleration.
Unintended acceleration. Designed in!
We made this car to go fast, whether you want it to or not.
Hold on to your hat.
Ugh. Upstairs AC is broken such that it’s an unacceptable temperature for all but approximately 4 hours of the day between about 3-7am. It was hotter in my room yesterday than it was outside. It’s fucking 80 freedom units in there now. It’s a goddamn sweat box.
Sounds miserable.
Do you use a box fan?
I thought of this song:
https://youtu.be/BAyADMSppaw?si=G9CHKYcmmK93wMXU
Clean the condenser coil and evap filter, thats what’s wrong
The old place didn’t have central AC, and my room didn’t have a window unit. I got used to it.
I never had AC growing up in Rochester or Buffalo but oof, it was essential when I moved to NYC. It didn’t matter if I wiped out my bank account but a window unit was the first thing I had to buy. Second was an air mattress. That summer it hit 105 a few times in Hoboken.
Maybe the thermostat is set to 80 degrees?
Throw some water on the stones.
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Base Game $39.99
DLC1 $19.99
DLC2 $19.99
Season Pass $29.99
Steam Combo $69.99
Why is the Steam Combo More expensive than the components which give you all the same content (base game plus season pass). It technically lists game, both DLC and season pass, but the season pass contains both those DLC, so it doesn’t add anything to have the DLC and the Season pass in the same bundle… and pay $0.01 More than just the game plus season pass.
DLC has become a sick joke in recent years. I hate that shit.