How Now (Swiss) Brown Cow?
I’ve got nothing, theme-wise today. So, these will be sort of random links.
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Actually, that sort is what I usually do. Anyways, here they are.
- The enshitification of LA.
- Always look for the Union label…
- Maybe Bolivia can get out of the dumps and into a more Argentine mode?
- Presented without comment … just an incredulous look on my face.
Music. to follow up my one from last week, here is another one that should have you envisioning only one thing.
Comment section is all yours.
“should have you envisioning only one thing.”
You are LOOKING LIVE at Glibs Gulch stadium…
I can see Klaus giving them the George Costanza spiel.
I mean it’s the WEF, it’s hard to imagine what they would consider to be serious misconduct. Permitting some prole to have fun? Property ownership by a human being? Christianity?
Property ownership by the wrong
ahuman being?Fixed it for you.
Ahh, but you see I don’t regard trans-national progressives, communist, neo-feudalists, or bureaucrats as human.
It had asked an “independent” and “reputable” law firm to carry out the investigation following the anonymous allegations.
I like how “independent” and “reputable” are in quotes in the original article.
“There is no evidence of serious misconduct on the part of Klaus Schwab. Similarly, there is no evidence of misconduct on the part of Hilde Schwab, who has supported the World Economic Forum (WEF) for more than five decades without remuneration,” the WEF Board said in a statement on Friday.
Following an exhaustive investigation…
Ve haf inwestigated ourselwes and have found nuttink vrong!
“There is no evidence” is the ultimate weasel phrase isn’t it? They’re not really denying any misconduct, and if any evidence did show up, they will just discount it, attack the messenger, or just pretend it doesn’t exist.
“minor irregularities”
Now _that’s_ how you dismiss the concerns of the peasants.
“Our members are not going back to work,” Canadian Union of Public Employees national president Mark Hancock said outside the Toronto Airport. “We are saying no.”
1) Maybe “Public Employees” means something different in Canuckistan. Or maybe Air Canada is a nationalized airline. But this seems off.
2) The sky waitresses do have an inflated opinion of themselves, don’t they? They like to crow about how they’re essential to passenger safety, yet all anyone remembers them for is playing Mask Police during the Stupid Times.
3) Something something Reagan air traffic controllers.
Whenever I’m told someone is a stewardess, I just think they’ve been run through more times than I can count. Male or female.
It was a Canadian steward that brought aids to the new world.
Waitress in the Sky _The Replacements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHkgsYLs0DQ
Nope. Publicly traded.
Air Canada (AC.TO) Chief Executive Mike Rousseau said on Monday that the airline was “amazed” by the decision of its flight attendants’ union to defy the Canada Industrial Relations Board, which has declared the union’s strike unlawful.
Five will get you ten that the stews were all in on “obey” when it came to the slant sicks mandates. But they’re defiant now that it’s their livelihood, aren’t they?
Air Canada was privatized pretty recently. It was a government airline prior to that.
I’m going to imagine they deserve all the solidarity they showed to the Canadian truckers.
So, I was Firsting your Mom last night…
Like other international organisations, the WEF is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, accused of wanting to establish a “new world order” in order to “control the population”.
All unfounded, naturlich. Is it wrong to want to raise one’s fellow man up from the muck and mire of ignorant primitivism?
The just want you to be happy owning nothing.
Is it still a conspiracy theory if they own up to it and openly say “Yeah, we are doing that”?
“There is no evidence”
No proof.
There is no proof of election improprieties. [Aside] Because the courts refused to hear the cases.
Let me stay on topic!
Trump triggers blizzard of Rolex watches into USA
Swiss watch manufacturers reacted instantly to the threat of President Trump’s tariffs by dispatching 2.5x more stock than usual to the United States in April.
https://www.watchpro.com/trump-triggers-blizzard-of-rolex-watches-into-usa/
Inventory is so high that there are sketchy dudes on every corner offering you “genuine Rolex” watches.
Before the pandemic, downtown LA was in the middle of a renaissance the likes of which it hadn’t seen since the Roaring Twenties, when playboys and flappers perused the boutiques and glittering movie palaces of Broadway Street, according to historian William Deverell, author of “Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles.”
“There was a high-water mark around 2015 to 2020. It was a period of energy and redevelopment in the Arts District, in addition to the Historic Core,” Deverell said.
But COVID-19 dealt a blow from which downtown is still reeling — and not just because people stopped going out.
The plague did not deal that blow. The people who did will never be held accountable.
LA needs to exist so NY’ers can feel good about themselves.
Broadway Street? 🤨
Probably others here have been more recently than me, but I went to the theater district in that period and it was utter taxi Driver anomie trying to find a garage. Surly people (the ones who were upright and sober), trash and needles in the alley, etc. Lovely venue though.
*Taxi
Just talk more positively and ignore the feces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1tHQtXCWE
Glen Proctor, who moved from New York with his husband after the pandemic, said they like the quieter streets — even if those streets come with graffiti and hooligans.
“Our life from New York is much more relaxed,” he said. “It can get crazy with the unhoused around, but you get a lot more space for something you would pay a lot more for in Hollywood.”
Urban pioneer homesteaders.
Isn’t that even more telling about NYC?
Yes. Stay only on the coasts, ignore this backwater fly over country.
Missionary versus refugee.
Come on, welcome a few missionaries who will explain how to think and act for your own good!
Sensei:
We don’t treat missionaries well here.
[I will never get tired of laughing at the author of that article]
Yet another reason carpetbaggers should be prohibited from holding an elective office.
@Neph: Holy shit. That author is fucking precious. Fuck, I’m glad I don’t (knowingly) associate with people like her. Christ, what an unseemly cunt. And natch, she still *LOVES* Cleveland.
Best thing about Cleveland, hands down: Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. Game 7, already a classic Series. Extra innings *IN* Game 7?!?! Well, that’s just bazingas. They should be proud. *Most maniacal smirk I can muster*
Evan:
Damn man. I used to like you. 🙂
You know, we’ve been raising the younger generation to understand their roots.
I assume your music selection was supposed to remind me of this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwPtn0aYoU
Question for UCS: What is the surrounding text of “like gnats in a meat grinder”? Color me intrigued.
Apparently, even Latin Americans eventually get the message that socialism doesn’t work.
/Looks askance at New York City
Got a $300 fee to build a homepage for a website (I would have done more than a homepage, but he couldn’t do $500). Hopefully it will take less than 6 hours.
1099 optional?
Good deal, Missy
Great!
Shoot me an email Baby Oil, I need to set up a webpage for my business. I have zero idea how it works or what it costs, domain, hosting all that jazz.
coffee_luke@yahoo.com.
Since I got kicked off of FB I have zero visibility now.
Close on the cabin Friday. Everything has been resolved, AFAIK
One less thing to worry about.
You don’t have to worry about the new neighbors?
I hope not, they may be week-enders, haven’t met them yet
Probably not any worse than my friends and relatives that used the cabin on occasion.
Welcome to Super City, USA
The problem is people can flee cities for suburbs. The solution is centralized government to crush them.
Pay no mind to the city wage tax, commie fucker.
They also don’t spend any money there. All they do is take.
No idea why they wouldn’t live in New Rochelle.
Closer to NYC and served by the same Metro North.
https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-new-rochelle-ny/
Just C? Rob and Laura Petrie hav a sad.
Both of my sisters, when they were teens, had a summer job doing secretarial work for a local summer camp up here that did the “fresh air fund” thing of bringing deprived children from New York City up to the Catskills for a couple of weeks. The work location was in Ulster County, but the employer was a branch of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club located in New York City, so they got NYC tax withheld that they could only get back when they filed a return.
“Dont you see? We had to build the wall. Too many people were leaving for the west. Communism needs people to work. We had to keep them there to show them that communism works.” – East German engineer who designed and built the Berlin Wall…quote is from his death bed after the wall and east Germany had crumbled to dust.
So…Escape from New York is a documentary.
We dropped our daughter off in LA for grad school this weekend. Other than the MS13 tag on the sidewalk, her neighborhood looked ok.
– “Around one-third of commercial spaces sit empty, according to research firm Avison Young — a higher vacancy rate than Detroit.”
Nice!!
Just call it West Detroit.
To be fair Detroit has had an extensive private demolition program for decades removing all those unused spaces, and the few still in use.
until one goth musician ruined it all
And in the darkness bound it?
The Darkness is British. Justin Hawkins is very good at his job, that fuck. I Believe in a Thing Called Love is a great song, and the vid is priceless. Great at taking the piss out of themselves.
He was also a great guest and fast driver on Top Gear!
News for P. Brooks: https://marketing.gilderlehrman.org/l/941553/2024-05-22/wv33q
Close on the cabin Friday. Everything has been resolved, AFAIK
Get everything up to code before they demolish it.
Ain’t that the truth! I was sort of concerned that one morning I’d wake up and find some squatters enjoying my hospitality.
Brutal
After witnessing the debut of the Minnesota Vikings’ new male cheerleaders, the Dallas Cowboys expressed relief that they would no longer be known as the gayest team in the National Football League.
Harsh, but fair.
The NFL cannot help itself. It’s blue collar to the core, and that absolutely infuriates the assholes that run it. So every year they shit on their fans and heritage a bit more overtly. If you are a fan you should know that the people you are throwing money at despise you.
I think 2020 was when I had enough of the NFL. It helped that the Panthers suck and the owner is a POS.
I admit I check sports news for schadenfreude related to the team
I dropped out about 10 years ago, though I was never a die hard fan. More like a watcher on a slow Sunday.
most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time.
Better than Frederick Douglass?
To many urbanists, the suburbs also represent something a little more prosaic, though no less important: a major governance problem.
I watched part of some weird dystopian future movie last night. At one point, one of the Benevolent Totalitarian Ruling Class says something to the effect of, “Given the chance, people will choose wrongly every time. We must eliminate choice.”
Multiple Choice –> True/ False ‘exams!’ The endumbification continues, but don’tcha worry!
If you’re only wrong 50% of the time vs 25%, well, we’re all winning!
[This message is brought you by Baltimore Public Education, proudly graduating 20% illiterate drones.]
The central problems of urban governance — how to run a safe and efficient transportation network, where to put housing, how to cultivate a strong job market — are essentially regional, but the mosaics of incorporated towns and unincorporated county lands that surround major American cities struggle to properly coordinate to address these issues. Each little fiefdom is largely free to pursue its own goals, even if those goals conflict with the interests of the larger metropolitan region, and there are few regional bodies in the United States that have the muscle to overcome this parochialism.
The horror.
The HORROR.
Where is Mister “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” Spock when you need him?
Organizing a gangbang. Unfortunately the many decided they needed sex with the few.
Wow.
That is some 200 proof collectivism right there. Only centralized, total, top-down control will do. I wonder, who does he think should have that power?
*tugs chin…thousand yard Thomas Friedman stare*
STEVE SMITH ENVISION.
ENVISION MUSIC TO RAPE BY.
I dont know who Finke and Hoffman are…I just assume a couple of faculty lounge commies who dream of world communism and mind control.
Los Angeles is exactly what they set out to make it. Have fun morons.
Maybe this time Bolivia can……uh….no. Never going to happen.
I clicked on the NYP link and some bunch of shit started popping up after reading three paragraphs. It froze my computer. I. had to reboot.
“…there is no evidence of misconduct on the part of Hilde Schwab, who has supported the World Economic Forum (WEF) for more than five decades without remuneration,” the WEF Board said in a statement on Friday.”
For fuck’s sake. No remuneration, eh? Uh. Huh. Predictably, most people actually believe this is true. The same way folk believed all *their* priests were, like, totally celibate, f’real. Happily donating all the while.
It wasn’t in the best interest of WEF to air the dirty laundry. Sign an agreement, shut up and leave. The Mission of destroying Western Society is to important for one man’s corruption to taint…
Like how many are giving Trump a pass because he isn’t taking his presidential salary.
Why am I supposed to give a fuck that some billionaires are cheating some other billionaires?
Fuck you.
Tremendously productive day at work with Cutie Colleague. Had a moment with her and snuck in some unexpected and direct compliments to her, when I asked her out and she gave some no-ish response. I told her I found her an interesting person, but likely not for the reasons she’d expect.
The first was that she had an actual personality, one of the few (none?) to have any at work. She beamed at this and we shared our back ‘n forths.
The second was that she has a remarkably expressive face. She’d joined in my cartoonish version of the same before, and ’twas noticed. She doubled over with that, remarkably pleased. She talked about some of her drama class history, and I shared when my parents put me in an acting class when I was ~8. I hated all the monologues they gave us, so I read The Hobbit, my favorite book as a kid. I did Riddle in the Dark, doing both Bilbo and Gollum doing the riddle contest. (Dear Young Ev: That was slick.) She ate all of this up.
The rest of the day, when we passed another through the aisles, she’d make faces at me, and me at her.
The last time, her bit was to quickly up-down zip/ unzipping her work vest we all wear, continuing funny faces at me. Uh. Huh!
Seeds sown. It just felt really good. If something can occur, holy fuckballs cuz she’s stunning and fun.*
No? Well, at least work is a FUCKLOAD more fun, now. (And always a chance to raise stakes…)
Honestly? Also just practice. Social primates gonna be social. I won’t ask her out again for at least 2+ weeks, and just be friendly and PG playful along the way. Work *did* just get more enjoyable.
(I also kinda-sorta flirted with the Wendy’s gal who delivered my 9am lunch to my car. Got her name and she laughed at “Evan from Evansville.” (It works.) That was after my initial flirtation with Cutie Colleague. Hormones flow, yo. I’m unattached.)
Goddammit. That didn’t look so big on docs.
(Yes. That’s what she said, I’m sure. It looked big on the docks, though. Big seamen are impressive.)