Good morning, y’all. Sloopy and Banjos are doing a drive home from summer vacation, so I’m filling in. I, er, may have missed a rotation last weekend. Florida Man, shit happened, yadda yadda. I did take my little kids to Peppa Pig World, adjacent to Legoland, just an easy 85 minute drive from my house. It will sound like I’m damning with faint praise, but I found the $200 for four people and parking to be (a) about 2/3 of what I expected to pay and (b) the small size of the park did more to keep the kids riding on actual rides than walking around which is great for littles. Totally not worth making a trip from anywhere, except maybe as a day off from having the Mouse put on a mask and point a gun at you, but as a way of killing a summer day I’ve paid 3/4 of that at like, an aquarium. And it was perfect for a 3 and 4 1/2 year old. Considering we’re paying $350 to rent an inflatable water slide for the neighborhood July 4 party… totally worth it. And also, Peppa may be a Brit, but at least she’s not a sniveling, bald Canadian fuckwad like C*****u.
For only about a million, you could be like Travis McGee. I picked up 3 old Travis McGee novels at a used book store this weekend. I hope they’re as entertaining as I remember
Chain this guy by the leg in the path of the fire and let him choose. Gnaw it off or fry.
Homemade fireworks, or just the Philly PD?
NRG Stadium’s rigging crew has not been covering themselves in glory. Blowing up Journey is one thing, but ain’t nobody dumb enough to try to kill Beyonce in her home town. They’d be torn apart.
Looks like Germany is going old school. “Digital arsonists” sound like a late 90s EDM act.
Okay, that’s enough links for Monday, I’ll leave you with this Til Tuesday.
Peppa may be a Brit, but at least she’s not a sniveling, bald Canadian fuckwad like C*****u
I did not know Cthulhu is Canadian.
When you think about it …
I came here just to post that. Now my day is ruined.
*sad trombone*
inorite?
So that’s why poutine looks like it does.
whaddup doh’
Another short week where I need to do 6 days of work in just 4…
Prep work for No Kings 2?
Are they really planning to do that crap?
I did hear there is another day of “action” coming up, in a week or two.
Can we find their remaining revenue streams and cut them off? I’m sick of paid protestors.
July 17th is the next
NoOur Kings protest.On a Thursday? LOL
Retired boomers and commie slackers don’t need to worry about work hours.
@Neph, I like the “Our” Kings formulation.
Our Kings, not Your Kings
The July 17th event is at least their third or fourth planned protest.*
They started doing every other week then the schedule slipped to every few weeks. This one is six weeks after the previous one, and the choice of a weekday is odd. They also seem to be shifting the burden to local organizations and activists — many small protests insteat of several large regional ones. This increases overall participation as their boomer base doesn’t like to travel, and gives the appearance of greater grassroots support than a news photo of a poorly attended event at a state capitol.
They seem to be running out of energy and money. Will be interesting to see how long they can keep this up.
(*)I’m not counting the quickly-organized events following the Iran bombing. They had to react somehow, but that extra event may depress attendance even further at the July 17 event.
I so, so, so want there to be a great pulled pork BBQ place adjacent to this.
Hey all — hope everyone is doing well. Not on much because I’m finally doing the CA->GA move so a bit busy going back and forth across the country. Given what I add to the discussion typically, I fully expect the quality of discourse around here has much improved.
It’s Florida, if there were such a place, it’s probably a 50/50 shot at being an Idiocracy style situation.
I was sad that they didn’t have ham sandwiches.
Did they at least have bacon cheeseburgers?
With Ghost Peppas? 😉
CA->GA move
You have impeccable timing, moving to GA in the dead of summer. Congrats anyway.
As for myself, I’ll be scarce this week. Road trip to VA, pick up the trailer there and haul it down to NC for a burn-ish event.
In sports news, the USMNT tried their damnedest to match Canada, but the goalkeeper wouldn’t let them lose. Three penalty shoot-out saves and he had his hand on two others.
Easier to not mess up SDF-7-A’s schooling.
I learned of the Travis McGee novels through Spider Robinson, so I read them “recently”. They held up for me, and I’ve recommended them to several people.
Mike Rowe promotes them frequently.
Glad to hear it. The books are good, even though I get a wry smile over the neighbor naming his boat after Keynes. As Spider Robinson put it (through one of his characters): never make fun of someone for not having heard of something great, instead, be jealous that they get to experience it for the first time.
Try some of McDonald’s other works. Well worth the effort.
Too late assuming they have the right corpse (which I sure as the dickens wouldn’t be assuming if I were the first responders, but I’m paranoid these days).
But Vance was the crazy one, right Europe?
Not like I need another reason to say it — but given the EU and UK moves in this space, past time to dissolve NATO. Let them be commie autocracies on the way to Caliphates on their own pfennigs.
The EU is lost. I suspect that the next big war in Europe will come when the EU splits with the Western nations minus one or two of them going full totalitarian, while the old guard that was behind the Iron curtain resists that shit. And the new EU order will come at them screaming “Allah Akbar” too.
Yes. Get out of NATO, the Western Euros have lost their minds. They are doing increasingly stupid and dangerous things in their own countries and with Russia.
DJ Firefinger? That’s the best I’ve got for The Digital Arsonists.
There’s probably some kind of fungal joke about burning toes but I don’t like thinking about feet too much.
Glad I’m not the only one still listening to Til Tuesday in whatever year it is now.
2525
https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-with-stupid-mw0000174487 Still gets played around here.
I saw a video of her in 2023 doing the same song. Would still use my celebrity pass.
I like the Aimee Mann songs on the Magnolia motion picture soundtrack.
Belated Happy Birthday to Donny Three-Fingers, assuming he’s still around. Mises my chance in the dead thread, as seems to be happening to me more often.
Excellent music choice. Aimee 💕
a familiar Aimee Mann video
Nice. If I was dating Aimee, I’d want the punk hair back too.
First world problems. I’m trying to do research on the sorts of reources nomads might find on various steppe landscapes. Some asshole named their oil company “Steppe Resources” so my first instinct web search is full of stuff that has jack shit to do with what I’m looking for. I no longer trust that the old conditionals of – for ‘not’ work anymore given what I’m getting.
I don’t want a natural language processed search, I want to be able to exclude categories of results talking about the wrong thing.
What search engine are you using?
That silly duck. Which I know frontends bing.
Might try Firefox or the Brave search engine.
Tested on the Brave search engine. It recognizes search operators and lets you know your results are filtered by them. I did Duck + NOT Duck Duck Go and it succeeded.
Yeah, the NOT query syntax not working anywhere anymore pisses me off to no end.
This is by design..
Look up “Search Engine Manipulation Effect”…
This issue is going to make the internet useless eventually.
Basically, the AI is smarter than you and is going to give the thing you really wanted to see.
*AI being a search engine that was trained by paying advertisers and not the actual users*
You might want to look into articles in archaeological journals. However many if not most may be paywalled.
There are also likely some novels out there with relatively accurate portrays of nomadic life. Why reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to? I cannot of course vouch for the accuracy of any depictions in those works, although considering the innumerable possibilities thanks to climate, habitat, and the species of livestock is involved you probably can’t go too wrong.
Because Worldbuilding is FUN!
I do research to learn and get inspiration. I am not doing real-world accurate stuff, but I want to know what the real world accurate looks like for comparison.
Maybe you’ll find this interesting.
Analysis of Ancient Scythian Leather Samples Shows Ancient Scythians Made Leather from Human Skin.
You work with the materials you have handy?
“Handy”
Relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_bound_in_human_skin
“Looks like Germany is going old school. ”
Miss me with that gay shit. Make the Holy Roman Empire great again!
The next incarnation is the Greater Muslim Empire.
Holy Roman Caliphate!
I would join the joking if I was not worried about how ugly that is gonna make the world a it plays out..
“Ear-splitting, high-decibel street parties fueled by cars with booming sound systems are making life hell for residents from the Bronx to Brooklyn — as the massive automotive meetups are becoming an ever more frequent nuisance.
The unregulated revels are often louder than planes landing at LaGuardia and feature drugs, booze, strippers and wet T-shirt contests, all within earshot of neighborhoods such as Maspeth in Queens, Greenpoint in Brooklyn and Throggs Neck in the Bronx, residents said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/29/us-news/illegal-nyc-car-meetups-feature-strippers-drugs-and-ear-splitting-speaker-systems-driving-residents-nuts/
That Honda looks ridiculous.
I wouldn’t stress about this issue, with the policies New York is implementing all those cars will be burning by September.
I thought that fad would have died out by now but I guess “maximum asshole” never goes out of style.
Fast & Furious is up to like 15 movies now.
People that pump their booming systems late at night should be summarily executed.
My idiot neighbor does that. It’s a pretty nice neighborhood, but this dickweed has this fantasy that it’s “da hood” or something. The cops are over there at least once a month, and occasionally him AND his woman both go to jail for domestic violence because they can’t stop fighting. What cracks me up is that they always pick a Friday for these little spats, so they have to spend the entire weekend in jail. I wonder when they’re going to just keep them for a while; they really wouldn’t be missed.
But yea, noise just for noise’s sake is fucking annoying. Sometimes I feel guilty running my air compressor or powertools, but it’s usually for work that has to be done. I’ve pondered what libertarian ethics would say about excessive noise. As much as most people hate HOAs as they currently exist, I think similar organizations would be a way for neighborhoods to organized along shared ideas of proper conduct.
GRRRRR.
Picked up a big stone chip on my windshield this morning.
How’s your glass coverage?
Dunno
Oh man, that sucks..
Got one a couple of weeks ago. Now there’s a 2-foot crack.
I get to spend my lunch today at Safelite. My insurance is covering it thankfully.
I’m probably gonna have to go dealer, if I want to keep the little jeep icon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/9n2d4j/there_is_a_little_jeep_on_the_border_of_the/
just buff it off?
Rub silicates on it, and walk it off…
I got one on the Tacoma a few years back from a kicked up pebble on the highway. I got one of those 20 min repair kits and it made it a bit less visible and it still hasn’t gotten any larger. You could try that if it’s less than dime sized and you don’t want to spend the money on a new windshield. It cost me like $15 bucks.
I’ve had good luck with this one:
https://www.rainx.com/product/rain-x-windshield-repair-kit/
I’m gonna let the glass place fill it for now. I’ll end up replacing it though at some point. Only 16k miles on it.
If they are able to fill it, there is no need to replace it.
If they do it properly, you won’t be able to tell where it was.
That’s the $79 gamble. I’m just preparing myself for the worst.
*crosses fingers*
Hurry up and wait. Hurry up and wait.
I hate it.
Also, I hate the people and software on a crusade against proper formatting who want to remove the legibility of the correct double space after the end of a sentence.
I wouldn’t have thought you were old enough to share my annoyance at that entirely unnecessary ‘change’ to proper formatting.
I was born old. By the time I age into being a geezer, I’ll have decades of practice.
Preach it, brother. The double space adds to readability when you are dealing with paragraphs of more than one sentence, and especially sentences that are more than a few words expressing a single concept.
The writing of which, apparently, is becoming a lost art.
When I write I tend not to doublespace after a period or colon. WORD never flags me for it, I don’t find it detracts from the legibility and by doing so I don’t have to worry about whether I’m forgetting to doublespace.
Hurry up and wait.
One of many unofficial Army mottos.
I still can’t break the habit…
I kept a pack of cards with me for all the waiting we did.
Personal favorite?
I love the fucking Army because the Army loves fucking me.
Speaking of cars, has anyone seen more murdered out cars lately? Yesterday I saw a murdered out Range Rover, and a few weeks ago an R8.
Can you explain what you mean by that?
All-over matte black paint with super-dark window tint.
I see.
I do not believe I have ever encountered that styling.
The tint is will definitely get you in trouble in northern states, even in the South if it’s too dark.
Traditionally, it didn’t include tinted windows.
Depends where in the south on the tint. I go illegal on mine and it’s never an issue locally, till I travel. Been pulled over twice in Iowa for it.
Murdered-out doesn’t have to be matte black paint, and not necessarily dark tinted windows. It does mean either no badging or black badging, and ideally includes black wheels.
Basically, all black everything.
Used to be around here, but anything goes since covid including expired registration and burnt out brake/taillights.
If you have to roll down your window to see cross traffic when turning at a stop, your tint is too fucking dark.
“Murdered-out doesn’t have to be matte black paint”
I’ve seen it done with black primer, flat poly, etc. but it can’t be shiny.
Just the SUV’s that follow me around everywhere.
After some drama regarding insurance, and a busy Sunday with a moving company, we’ve now moved in to our new place. Boxes everywhere, no gas or internet yet (cold showers last night…), but the latter two issues should be resolved today. I forgot just how much I hate moving. But the new place does have a pool, and a room for the 12 year old to play on his VR headset without me having to hear him, so…win!
Excellent. May you find all your important stuff in a matter of days.
27 months, and we still have stuff in boxes.
See, when we moved, nearly every box was unpacked within a week, because I was not going to play that game. The only ones that were a small handful of stuff that stays in storage anyway.
Same. R.J. don’t play that game either.
Cold showers are the best. I had to get used to them about 10 years ago when my water heater went out and I was waiting on a repair guy (it was hot, sticky, maximum humidity weather, and I did NOT feel like putting off my showers). It felt pretty awful at first, but after I got out, my entire body had this pleasant, tingly, invigorating feeling. Now I always take cold showers unless I’m sick. There are a lot of health benefits.
Old dude I work with is precious, and he’s all there and fine, but old and needs explaining. The youngins are patient with him.
Goes to how many old folks work at places like Walmart these days. He and I were in the same orientation; I don’t believe the others know he’s pretty much here cuz his wife of ~30(?) years died and he wants to keep busy.
Yep. I *totally* get it. The loneliness ‘epidemic’ is rampant. For old folks, that’s how things go, eventually. But for yutes, including my generation? The digital bubbles we create are far more prevalent than, uh, actual people.
Thought for later: Ppl routinely wait much longer for self-checkout, rather than go to an adjacent cashier who has no one in line or on the conveyor.
They prefer waiting alone, for ~5 min, to a quick ‘interaction’ w another human w no wait.
That’s fucked up. And I’m talking self-checkout of 10-15 things. Regardless, NO LINE is superior to a self-chosen delay.
Oh, lordy. Relationships in the future will be obsolete. AI gf and a digital masturbation tool. Sync em up! (…and humanity crumble.)
Does Not Compute.
Unless they’re planning to steal by failing to scan items. Then the delay in order to use the more annoying less convenient option makes sense.
I agree that the delay is probably not worth it if the manned counter is open, but I don’t get how self checkout is more annoying and less convenient. Maybe 15 years ago when they throttled the speed of scanning and asked you questions after every third item, but these days I can do it faster than the average cashier.
I don’t know where you shop, but they still throttle the scan speed and won’t let you do the next item until the scale under the bagging area registers the weight of the item. And it is Sloooooow.
Plus if you don’t remember to mute the voice, it goes and announces to all and sundry the price of every item you scan, and never shuts up about every single tiny element of the transaction.
STOP. TALKING.
There is nothing fast or convenient about them. I get less chatter from the humans, and it goes by faster.
I don’t get how self checkout is more annoying
(moves things quickly to take advantage of this mythical speed advantage)
“unexpected item in bagging area”
“remove item from bagging area”
“Do you have your frequent shopper card?”
“unexpected item in bagging area”
(moves bags out the way so I can continue bagging efficiently)
“Please wait for assistance”
It is the Enshitification, writ large.
Each way sucks at this point.
I see that Putrid shops at the same supermarket I do.
The local Wal-Mart market has about 14 self scanners and only two live checkout lines (usually only one of those is open) but the process is really fast and pretty error free.
They got it working pretty good, but the local Kroeger is just like Putrid describes.
When my bag consists of condoms, lube, adult diapers, and a 3/4-HP battery-powered string trimmer, and the checkout lady looks like my Irish Catholic great-aunt…yeah, I’m waiting for a self-checkout kiosk…
If your big box store carries all of these items, some of them are not going to be of sufficient quality to buy there.
Trump lifts sanctions that Biden put on Hungarian nuclear power plant – being built by Russia with some materials from France.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-29/hungary-says-us-lifts-sanctions-on-its-nuclear-expansion-project
Some sort of registration wall for the article so I didn’t read it, but why would the U.S. have veto power over Hungarian energy policy?
“”Communism involves a centrally planned economy, with no market forces. Prices and quantities are set by a central government authority. There is no democratic political competition, and instead a single party rules the country.”
“He is not calling for any of this,” Grzymala-Busse claimed.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/politifact-says-mamdanis-city-run-grocery-stores-are-not-communist
Yet he wants those things.
“Mamdani has a history of inflammatory remarks about law enforcement. In 2020, he tweeted: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD … NO to fake cuts – defund the police.” He also declared that “queer liberation means defund the police.” More recently, amid his mayoral campaign, he has attempted to moderate his stance, stating that police “have a critical role to play.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/if-he-wins-im-quitting-veteran-cops-warn-socialist-zohran-mamdani-would-spark-nypd-exodus
Queer liberation means defund the police?
“We aren’t demanding government ownership just government control.”
Ah, so you’re a Fascist then.
There’s a commie adjacent term that covers that approach, but it escapes me at the moment…
Hmmm. There’s a name for that isn’t there?
“We aren’t demanding government ownership just government control.”
How are they gonna blame the ulaks and wreckers after this shit show makes NYC into Calcutta of the 30s?
Communism involves a centrally planned economy – only in the initial stages, after which the government just withers away into utopian anarchy
Yes, it withers away once you’ve liquidated every last person who doesn’t believe in the ant heap of community property. No communist society as ever been “real” because they’ve always missed a few opponents (kulaks and wreckers) who refuse to tow the lion.
I recently had one of the people that read Marx, but didn’t understand what he was talking about, vehemently deny my point it always ends the same, and claim that old communism – form the USSR, CCP, Cuba, NK, and so on in Africa – failed because it had come straight out after feudalism was replaced by the new feudalism of marxism (my words here not his). This time the right people would be in charge, and because it will use the evil fruits of capitalism and has an advantage, they will make it work. Man, was the idiot mad when I pointed out there is no amount of wealth capitalism can generate that will make this collectivist shit work, because all collectivism knows how to do is destroy & consume without ever creating anything new.
Envy, is man’s cardinal sin…
The problem of course being that nations that implement ‘Communism’ never get out of the ‘initial stages’ of it until the whole system collapses and the nomenklatura parcel out what remains worth looting between themselves.
As I said previously…Mamdani is not a communist. He’s just in favor of all the social and political policies developed by the communists, to make Western society vulnerable to a communist takeover. Pretty big difference, ya know…
“But he is not really a communist, he is a socialist.” -Whiny Gen Z lefty
“The goal of socialism is communism.” – Vladimir Lenin
we’re paying $350 to rent an inflatable water slide
We bought one for not too much more than that. It isn’t made of the commercial vinyl, but it’s bigger and better built than the ones you find at Walmart. It’s a bitch and a half to get clean and dry for storage, though, especially since the ducks are obsessed with it.
Looks like Germany is going old school.
Well a simple search will find plenty of resources explaining to you backwards Americans the civilized Europe simply has a different definition of free speech.
Exactly! Only by restricting hateful speech, and maybe killing some dirty Jews, can Germany prevent the return of hate!
The Paradox of Tolerance teaches us the need to oppress those we don’t tolerate.
The Paradox of Tolerance teaches us the need to oppress those we don’t tolerate.
And we shouldn’t tolerate squirrels, either.
I blame the racoon that ate the peanuts I left out for the squirrels.
My wife leaves a pile of raw peanuts out by her bird feeder for the squirrels, so far it’s working, but I told her eventually the racoons might find that and then she’ll have to leave them dog food or something.
So, yeah, Mom and I are back to the relationship status quo. *sigh*
Status Quo Ante? Or did she move back in?
Is this a good or a bad development? I can’t tell from context.
Status quo auntie?
No. My mother and I have kind of a codependent quasi-contentious relationship when she is not deathly ill. And so now she’s back to fighting weight and we’re back to quasi-contentiousness.
I mean, parent-child is kind of for life
I know. My mom has Certain Ways Of Doing Things and can’t go with the flow of setbacks in how she thinks things should go. Once she gets her mind set about how Thing X needs to be done and in what order, they have to be done That Way. I have to make decisions and tell her no and then she thinks I’m punishing her.
That’s kind of rough, but it is way better than losing her like you thought was about to happen.
Okay, that’s enough links for Monday
Quality. The best.
Good news in the GL household, taking the missus home from the hospital today!
Yay!
+1
w00h00!!!
I have no idea what’s going on, tho.
If I recall correctly, she had a dental abcess and has to have surgical intervention.
UCS has it. Two surgeries to clean out, third for skin graft, two hospitals, three weeks.
Great to hear!
Excellent!
Thank you everyone! Having Glibs as a distraction has been immensely relieving.
Is this right glibs?
https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/1939219915803894284
https://x.com/GabrielGLouw001/status/1939487241233199182
Yes.
Yes. It’s true. We don’t care.
Well, the only time I care is when they tell me they need to tax me more to “help” someone outside the US… And then I care cause I want to stop the assholes doing that on their squishy parts.
Correct.
Hell, states don’t care what other states think of them.
I have never myself, nor have I ever known any other American who spent one second concerned with what Europeans think.
It’s mostly true.
There are some progressives that are totally wrapped up in trying to turn the US into Europe. Those people hyperventilate when thinking about how the Euros might be looking down on us.
But, yes, the vast majority of Americans don’t give a shit what anyone anywhere outside the US think about the US.
The progressives are trying to turn the US into the Europe in their head, not the real one with very exclusive college admissions and pretty severe (by US standards) abortion restrictions.
Doesn’t change the fact that the progressives are ashamed because they believe they live in a cultural backwater compared to Europe.
“Considering we’re paying $350 to rent an inflatable water slide for the neighborhood July 4 party.”
Oh, so you’re THAT neighborhood? One of my favorite parts of summer is the Saturday before the 4th, the ritzy subdivision right across the highway throws a big party with food trucks and bounce houses, capped off with a professional fireworks show. I’ve never been to the party, but I can sit on my pool deck and watch the fireworks over the water. This year did not disappoint. One day I hope to have the money to thank them for all the shows over the years, and pay for the whole thing.
“On June 25, the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved a law promoted by the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) that punishes parents with up to two years in prison and the loss of parental rights if they oppose the hormonal treatment of their underage children, should an “external agent”—such as activists, educators, or officials—decide the child is “trans.””
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/06/spain-impose-up-2-years-prison-parents-who/
They need an unexpected inquiry.
Can we bring back Franco?
The admin has gotta use that “Regime Change” card before the end of the round, maybe we can get Franco-American. Uh oh, Spaghetti-Os!
They’re probably going to get Saladin instead. Muscular Islam vs. muscular Christianity.
Open question how that goes with regard to the trannys…
I’ve heard that Iran transitions more people than any other country. Which given Brazil and Thailand sounds doubtful.
🤢🤮
Tater, regarding Iran it’s because there are no gays. If a dude is attracted to men they chop off his pecker
Or hang him.
was the food test covered here?
Food Choice Test
https://www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/test.php
Your food choices resemble those of the upper-middle class (67.86%).
https://www.idrlabs.com/graphic/food-choice?1&p=53.57,67.86,50,57.14,32.14&l=EN
I got lower class. and I need the damn thing to allow me to make a comment so I can tell them I know people that eat ass.
Seeing as there was almost nothing in there I’d eat as presented modulo the sashimi, pork loin, maybe the oysters if I was hungry, not sure how accurate this completely arbitrary and nonsensical survey could actually be even if it weren’t arbitrary and nonsensical.
online survey are always arbitrary and nonsensical. its a feature
You gonna get a ton of advertisement now about buttplugs or something..
That’s how these sites always work..
about buttplugs
Go on….
I started and saw where that was going.
I already know I eat like a lower-class poor.
Sorry, I have to complain. Their picture of “Chili con Carne” includes beans in it, which is wrong.
It’s ok. Complaining is kind of what we do here.
I had the same reaction.
Also, any version of “mac and cheese” is shit.
ZWAK:
I beg to disagree. A properly made noodle baked with a cheesy bechamel sauce is a perfectly cromulent comfort food.
I’m going to do worse than disagree. I am going to call ZWAK a heretic and call for him to be burned at the stake.
sounds very low class to me.
PieInTheSky:
The few times I’ve been in a country club, I preferred the company of the staff to the company of the other guests. Besides, those upper crust fucks don’t even know how to deep fry stuff properly.
Mac and cheese is glop. No better than slumgullion.
Or cat barf.
Whose have you been (avoiding) eating? That is not at all a proper descriptor.
Unless you hare cheese.
Are you a Quesophobe?
I wanted everything. But I came out lower middle class.
/Indiana man
Solidly lower middle class.
Of course, they left out all the interesting foods — Indian, Thai, Chinese, Mexican, etc.
I got “you’re a glutton.”
CT – Iran is behind the US, but they’re way up there overall. Look at a picture of a penis too long, and it’s into the sissy hypno chamber with you…
No one can agree on a definition, so statistics are useless. For example:
“In a 2021 survey of 27 of the world’s most LGBTQI+-friendly countries, Germany and Sweden tied as the countries with the highest rate of people who are transgender. According to the survey results, approximately three percent of all residents of Germany or Sweden identify as transgender, gender-fluid, or nonbinary. Ten additional countries posted rates of 2%, the estimated global average.”
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-population-by-country
Gender-fluid and nonbinary aren’t trans.
That Thailand, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a ladyboy, has only 62,800 makes me think they are only counting post-op.
As far as I know, there has never been a real postmortem on the whole “$99 computers will pull the Third World out of poverty” bit that pretty much everyone in tech treated as serious for at least a decade.
It moved from WIRED covers, TED talks, and UN proclamations to silence.
https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1939520689662484906
They didn’t get free broadband. By the time they do another requirement will block them. Only endless US funding can help.
“What Mamdani understood is that in today’s America, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party does not care if somebody is, sounds like or comes close to being antisemitic. For those people, calling someone antisemitic sounds Trumpy, and they understand it as a right-wing hit, rather than the legitimate expression of concerns from Jewish people.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/28/how-zohran-mamdanis-win-in-the-new-york-city-mayoral-primary-could-ripple-across-the-country/
Free shit and kill the Jews!
I didn’t know the ADL was MAGA.
Yeah, keep telling yourselves that, the left. 🙄
Nonsense. It is evidence that primaries attract the most radical elements of the party.
Another blow to tax justice
The world’s leading economies have agreed a deal to spare the US’s largest companies from paying more corporate tax overseas, throwing into doubt the status of the biggest global tax deal in over a century.
The agreement between Washington and other members of the G7 group of leading countries could fundamentally alter a landmark 2021 accord to set up a global minimum tax to crack down on avoidance by multinationals.
The G7 said on Saturday it had agreed to a “side-by-side solution” of taxation that would exempt American companies from some parts of the new global tax regime because of the taxes they pay in the US.
The G7 added that the agreement would “facilitate further progress to stabilise the international tax system”, including “constructive dialogue” on preserving “the tax sovereignty of all countries”.
But what about paying their fair share? Europe needs the money.
? Europe needs the money. – I could use some myself
Is that why you’re not visiting the US? The subsidy checks stopped?
I travel alone usually and it is expensive to rent a car divided by 1 as opposed to say 4. If you people had better trains…
Trains can’t go anywhere worth going.
We don’t have the population density to make passenger trains economically viable outside of the east coast megacities.
And that’s the way we like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc
And even those East Coast mega-cities are served by Amtrack, which shows just how little it is needed at this point.
“…the international tax system…”
No.
“This is a slam dunk for the United States,” said Robert Goulder, a tax attorney and contributing editor at Tax Analysts, a news service for tax professionals. “I think they’re celebrating by doing high-fives over at the Treasury.”
The shift came after the US included provisions in President Donald Trump’s sweeping “big beautiful bill”, referred to as Section 899, that would have allowed the US to retaliate against alleged discriminatory taxation elsewhere by imposing “revenge taxes” on foreign investments.
Finally, an explanation of the “revenge tax”.
As I predicted, the Marcy Rheintgen story was never going to gain traction because she doesn’t fit either political side. She received the usual online hate from the usual assholes (TERF’s gonna TERF), but besides Alex Stein none of the popular podcasters even mentioned it. Not even Blaire White or Buck Angel. That the charges were dropped has received almost no coverage. I couldn’t even find it in the Miami Herald.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4PPLRYvdTic
who?
The OECD agreement to establish a global minimum tax was reached by more than 135 countries in 2021 to prevent tax avoidance by multinationals and update the international tax system for a digital age.
It established a minimum tax rate of 15 per cent of global profits on the largest multinationals from the US and elsewhere, which was implemented by several countries last year.
Under provisions that particularly angered Republicans in the US, the OECD agreement allowed other countries to levy top up taxes on American companies deemed to be “undertaxed”.
Damn dirty hoarders!
The OECD agreement to establish a global minimum tax was reached by more than 135 countries
The US wasn’t one of the 135. They could have gone with their plan and accepted additional taxes against their companies the US would impose.
“Looks like Germany is going old school. “Digital arsonists” sound like a late 90s EDM act.”
Wonder how many have been arrested for saying mean things about afd politicians vs. The rest
IANAL, but “5. Prioritizing Denaturalization” seems rather vague and confused.
https://www.justice.gov/civil/media/1404046/dl?inline
While driving down the highway home, I felt the sudden localized vibration that I interpreted as “blowout.” I pulled over, but the tire didn’t look flat. There were three missing lugnuts. And the other two were loose enough to spin with my fingers. Then I looked closer…
Currently in Eerie waiting on repairs. Hopefully I’ll get home tonight.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250630_094529-scaled.jpg
😧
I’d immediately worry that the other wheels have similar issues that have not yet failed. Not sure how to check though.
Dang bro.. consider yourself lucky you felt it and decided to heed it..
Yeah. I personally witnessed 14,000 gunshots on my stage, and this has been the most serious threat to my life this weekend. An asshole with an impact wrench that charges $110/hr.
“turning my van into a tripod, spinning me into a dimension of pissed off i have never been in my life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii8rC6CPCvM
Yikes, that could have turned ugly. Glad you caught it before it did, but sorry you’re delayed.
Yowza!
Can’t shoot can’t drive… I knew there was something about you
glad it wasn’t worse 🙂
How did they get loose?
Beveled side of a lug nut goes in. If you can see the bevel you have a problem.
Sorry. Hopefully you get this sorted out quickly.
Then I looked closer…
Eek. Did those wheel studs break because the wheel nuts were loose? Or because they were overtightened? Or just old age? Is that an issue with the cars (WRX?)?
I assume it happened when I had my summer tires put on. They aren’t scheduled to get around to my car until 1:00.
I leave my summer tires on the Z year round.
Of course, I park it in the winter and drive the Versa or the Titan during the winter months.
I always set wheel lugs with a torque wrench.
Not a maxxed out impact gun?
How many miles have you driven since then?
I had the same thing happen to me after getting my tires rotated.
It was one of the few times I did not rotate my own tires, I had ankle surgery a few weeks prior.
I drove to DC (3 hours) and was almost home when I stopped at a stop sign and heard rattling.
I started to pull over and it felt like the truck sunk into mud, but when I looked the passenger front tire had fallen off.
I was going 80 mph a half hour before this happened:
https://imgur.com/a/wheel-fell-off-WbSrV2g
I leave my summer tires on the Z year round.
But do you swap out for winter air?
Sending a newbie to the motor pool to swap the summer air for winter air was a tradition in Alaska.
I’d have to check the odometer, but probably less than 1000.
Then I hope the shop that did the work is going to cover it.
For mine, while they never admitted fault, they did do all the work, all I paid for was new wheels that I wanted.
My guess? Loose ones got loose enough that the tight ones were doing all the work and snapped off.
Loose ones hold while the shake kicks in. You stopped in time.
I have some relevant expertise/experience here… Broken studs are almost always due to UNDER torque. Proper torque keeps the stud in tension, and keeps the various forces from cycling from tension to compression or side/bending loads. There can be some oddities for steel vs aluminum wheels, aftermarket wheels (that don’t really fit right), or machining errors. But the under-torque situation, especially since they were recently rotated, is almost certainly it. Always check torque a couple days or 100 miles after a wheel is re-installed for any reason, including rotations.
Final update from 2025 Factory Gun Nats:
Hunter Constantine is dumping money trying to popularize his concealed carry belt. I noticed people shooting from concealment, including some chick with an actual cover garment. It turns out that if you shot while wearkng his belt, he paid the top three best finishing belt wearers $1k or more.
He also donated lots of belts for the prize table. I finished well enough to pick up a $200 gift card to C-More. So I’ll be ready in case UnCiv actually hates the S2 and I have to buy it from him.
“A warped Florida pharmacist will spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping and trafficking dozens of girls — as young as 10 — during repeated trips to Colombia, according to federal prosecutors.
Stefan Andres Correa, 42, was handed the life sentence Friday after authorities discovered more than 100 disturbing videos of him sexually abusing over 50 children stored across nine cellphones, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced.
Prosecutors said the Miami predator preyed on girls between the ages of 10 and 17…
The depraved druggist told investigators he made roughly 45 trips to the South American country to exploit his victims, records showed.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/twisted-florida-pharmacist-gets-life-sentence-for-raping-more-than-50-girls-during-repeated-trips-to-colombia/
It took that long to catch him?