UK SYNAGOGUE STABBING ATTACK: I salute the bystanders and security who intervened at the cost of their own lives and presumably saved many more people from death or injury. The identity and motives of the attacker remain unknown at the time I’m writing this. Ongoing BBC coverage here.
THE TALENTED DR ROBERTS: Over at RedState, the wonderful Jennifer O’Connell brings the receipts about the former Des Moines, Iowa school superintendent who was not only in the US illegally, but has many other interesting things in his past. In addition, other reports indicate Roberts may have been registered to vote in Maryland.
THE KINDNESS TRAP: The slogan is everywhere: “kindness is everything” on those annoying, virtue-signalling yard signs; “bee kind” t-shirts with a cutesy little bee drawing worn by your favorite AWFL. Over at Spiked, Stella O’Malley walks us through the weaponization of this seemingly harmless phrase.
NYT UNINTENTIONALLY MAKING THE OPPOSITE POINT THAN THEY INTENDED: I love how Jess Bidgood opens her fear-mongering screed with a reminder that “[w]hen Republicans forced a government shutdown in 2013, the Obama administration fenced off the Lincoln Memorial and other monuments on the National Mall.” It gets worse from there — “[White House budget director Russell Vought] framed the shutdown as a chance for the administration to rid itself of excess bureaucrats, particularly for programs that don’t fit with Trump’s agenda.” Trump’s agenda is populism, and these programs don’t fit with Trump’s agenda because they are unpopular with the voters, and certainly don’t fit the notion of limited government. Your daily reminder that you don’t hate the media enough.
OH NOES: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg, via UK State Media. The last time they nabbed the little scold they gave her a sandwich and asked her to watch a documentary about October 7, which she declined to do.
QUALITY TROLLING: Without explanation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration has reverted from using the disease name “mpox” to the obsolete “monkeypox,” which the world abandoned in 2022 because it was seen as racist and stigmatizing. This is doubtlessly the thing that pushed poor Jane Goodall into her grave.
OKAY, THIS IS FUNNY: Newly announced visiting professor at the vaunted Harvard University Kareem Khubchandani performs drag under the stage name “LaWhore Vagistan.”
AND SPEAKING OF PERFORMANCE ART: Stripping isn’t something I associate with Moms for Liberty, but along comes California granny Beth Bourne taking it off at the schoolboard meeting to protest boys in girls’ locker rooms. (h/t, and a beer if we ever meet, to Common Tater)
WHY GRANNY STRIPS: That’s trans activism in a nutshell — “comply fully or else.” Over at The Critic, Seán Atkinson walks us through why anything short of enthusiastic support is unacceptable to the QUILTBAG++. Contrast the QUILTBAG++ POV with that of the people mourning Charlie Kirk who didn’t demand performative mourning from others, but merely called out the hateful responses to his death.
I say facilitation of immigration fraud, aiding illegal aliens, etc, should be grounds for los of citizenship, even if natural born.
“Starmer says Britain must defeat rising antisemitic hatred…” Without stopping the giant waves of Muslim immigration. Good luck with that.
They have plenty of homegrown anti-Semitism.
The wind blows in all directions but not at the same time, other than a tornado. Results an be devastating.
The comments on the Monkeypox article are something else.
A: It’s a racially neutral name.
B: Being primarily an STD passed among gay partners, it could be stopped by just abstaining when symptoms appear. But saying so is apparently -phobic.
C: I don’t think anyone has died from monkeypox. Maybe one severely immunocompromised case, but it’s not like Ebola.
” just abstaining when symptoms appear”
But that could take 2-4 weeks. Gimme a break, man
I know, right. Abstention is oppression.
When will chickenpox get a non-racist name?
When they revert back to the timeless “whorepox.”Plagued Fort Leanard Wood for generations.
Fun bit: Dad was there in ’72. He was ill-assigned to a dump truck and raised the bed at the wrong time and destroyed a good chunk of a hangar bay. I bet that was fun.
Fortunately I was only at Fort Lost in the Woods, Misery for a couple months.
You mean raaaaacist? Cause thats what they are.
I know better than to dive into that pit.
I remain amused that it’s the racist left that finds the name racist. Normal people never gave it a second thought.
I refuse to believe that Shin Bet couldn’t rustle up a Clockwork Orange-style media chair…
With her in a straitjacket, and, like, lidlocks on her glazzies?
It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
They can borrow my chair. It’s the one I preview the Thursday Night movies with.
“Bear runs through aisles of Arizona grocery store
A bear surprised shoppers at a southern Arizona grocery store Monday when it walked through the front door and ran around inside for a few minutes before exiting the building.”
Tonio, Jesse, hardest hit (by the women and minorities who hate them).
If they associate the grocery store with food, the bear will have to be put down.
Nah, the bear Left cuz the picnic basket didn’t contain what Poo was lookin’ for. Respectable, for him to know when he’s beat.
We had the same thing here at the dollar store a few years back. I figure he was looking for Honey Nut Cheerios. No luck so he wandered off before the sheriff could get there. After that he resorted to just stealing all of my figs each fall.
I bear hunted with another guy, we used Honey Crisp/Sugar Crisp? cereal for bait. His daughter worked for Malt-to-Meal and brought bags of sweepings. Bear(s) were eating the cereal but I never saw any.
I get more pictures on my game cams in the yard.
Bears are the perfect ‘hate to love’ critters. Smart, curious, endearing, destructive, unpredictable, dangerous and cute as hell.
Maybe the IT senior executives and C Suite should consider a JLR product as their next vehicle.
Japan is running out of its favorite beer after ransomware attack
/s Super Dry
If they’re dry, they should try reading one of my Firsts. Fluids will be gushing from every orifice.
Diarrhea is nothing to joke about.
Or laugh about…have you seen the results?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi
Everything will be all ‘HITE!!
I like Asahi, grab a can every year or two.
It’s just not good enough to justify the foreign premium price.
In the U.S. it is brewed domestically under contract.
I’m always hard pressed to pay a premium for any beer that does that.
My favorite part of that story.
No kidding.
Teachers were probably relieved and left shortly there after
^This.
Don’t assume they didn’t engineer the whole thing from the get-go. Skip day for students; short day for teachers. Only the taxpayers and society lose.
Teachers’ In-Service
Union Day
1/2 Day for Football games out of town (Texas only)
So, a day that ends in a ‘y’.
I have so many questions about the origins and participation in said walkout. Not to mention degrading their own educations to accomplish what, exactly.
It makes them feel virtuous.
They are walking out to protest the arrest by ICE of the illegal alien grifter that scammed his way into being a school super.
Upside down indeed.
I bet none of them knew the name of the superintendent. They just saw it as a way to get out of class.
I have little doubt that the teachers led it.
What Rhy says. It is the teacher’s union.
Bout to make DNF Associates quite pissed off for trying to sue my elderly mother for *checks notes* $1215.56 for an unpaid line of credit. Good luck assholes.
Easiest first step is to claim the amount is “in dispute” even if it is legitimate debt and the amount is correct.
Ya its a long road. We knew dad was slipping but didn’t know something were going with mom. Find it curious that as soon as us kids were getting a handle on things these companies suddenly got around to 10 year charge offs
“We knew dad was slipping but didn’t know something were going with mom. ”
Mrs F and I are carefully watching each other. I think we’re both beginning to see some signs in the other person. Fortunately I do all her home shopping so there are no surprises and she doesn’t watch what the UPS guys are delivering for me.
My friends and I are watching each other, last week I got the report that my 10th grade girlfriend has the big A, another girl was having personal conversations with Jesus, a third is in a nursing home and into depression, waiting for the time to pass.
Shit sucks. Really does. My mom is in full “I am on a long goodbye with my husband”. What does a son even say to that?!
Was just told by new boss that the paperwork has gone through, but he believes I am on his team…but my paperwork is still with my old boss, which means I am not furloughed… The perfect spot in all FedGov…no one knows what you actually do or belong to!
OBE, you are truly the ex-PFC Wintergreen of Glibs.
Good luck.
Luck? Where we’re going we won’t need any luck
Bob Slydell: What would you say you do here?
Pretty much this
So, for the first time in a long time I finished a video game.
“Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma” is apparently not “Rune Factory 6”. Before it came out I tried “Rune Factory 5”.
Rune Factory 5 is an involved Farming Sim with an ARPG attached. Guardians of Azuma is an ARPG with a Village Management Sim attached. The farming mechanics in Azuma are vastly simplified versus 5, but 5 was so overdone that most of my effort was spent managing the largest Potato export business in the region. I had all sorts of recipes for other crops to make products, but nothing to cook potatos into. But I got so good at producing bumper crops of potato that they funded everything else.
In Guardians of Azuma, you can just delegate the basic farm chores to your villagers, leaving you free to do the problem solving and adventuring that requires someone able to swordfight local gods and win. The visuals are much improved in Azuma, and it really is a pretty game. I guess it was fun enough since I did finish it and almost do all of the side content (leaving the RNG and busywork dependent crap that wasn’t any fun) Best of all, I actually managed to use the dodge mechanic, which I typically fail at in most games.
I rarely finish a game unless it has some sort of accessibility features that let me pass the tediously too-difficult parts.
Huh. I just noticed the post title box is transparent. When did that happen?
If you mean on the feed (main page), that’s above my pay grade. I just sling content and develop new writers.
You can file a Form 27B/6 form with management, and await resolution.
+1 Brazil Nut
also https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html
So the new pope blessed a block of ice?! That will surely shore up the Catholic base!
Melt it down into Holy Water?
Im not sure what is emanating from the Vatican can be deemed holy.
Knights of Columbus hardest hit.
On this block I will build my church.
I hate everything about today. Work is balls. The stupid phone is now defaulting to Apple passwords, not my fucking Brave passwords so when I am logged out I have to go hand-type my password in for here, because Apple sucks ass.
I am about to have a Weekend Update John Belushi moment.
*pulls up barstool* We doing this?!
Yeah. Beer me. Better yet, whiskey me.
I just spent two days dealing with assholes who are on an opposing team and quite adjacent project, are pissed off cause the new team I am on produced measurable results cheaper and lightyears faster than their team who is still in the planning phase. Even our programmer, who has no field experience jumped in like the Architect of the Matrix and was like “Nah guys, this isn’t a big deal”.
I caught a massive mistake in some cost numbers that were publicly released as gospel and now that team that released the numbers is backpedaling, yet I am the one that has to go in and analyze their work for them.
As always, I am some kind of corporate janitor, cleaning up shit.
RJ, I spent my army time tidying things up for the senior officers.
Phrased that way it sounds like you were burying Hookers.
HAHAHA!
They are doing the meme
1. We aren’t using federal tax dollars towards illegal immigrants!
2. Well, we are, but not really…just in ERs!
3. “To Be Seen in a day or so”
4. It always ends that this is good for citizens and taxpayers so shut up and take it you bigots!
@NA, my dad had his good qualities and he was a sight better than HIS dad, but he was deeply insecure, depressed, and I suspect hypoglycemic, which often manifests like alcoholic rages. I mean, a liter of generic cola right before bed might tell one some things.
Anyway, he was very envious of people with money, but wanted to better himself financially, so he also had competing goals.
I have now gone through 3 HDMI → USB3 adapters plugged into the switch (which works fine), and they all have to have drivers installed, BUT the other company’s laptop is locked to new installs. I don’t even know how you’d do that for a switch anyway. Install on both computers, I guess, now that I’m thinking about it.
Wait..what are you trying to do here Mojeaux?
Two computers, single peripherals?
Yep. Everything else works, except the monitor. The HDMI → USB3 adapter has to have a driver installed and I can’t install anything on the company-provided laptop.
This is a deviation from transcription norm. A contractor is to use her own equipment. I’ve never had a company send out equipment to me if I’m not an employee.
Monitor and computer have VGA or no? Only HDMI or DisplayPort?
So, this is a temporary gig for a lady who is the VP of transcription of this octopus company, for whom I’ve worked before for years. We’re good friends. Transcription is the red-headed stepchild of the revenue cycle, and bean counters don’t know jack shit about it, so she has spent years trying to educate people why this is an acceptable loss-leader.
Their transcriptionists are all in India. There are 4 layers of QA: transcriptionist, QA, reviewer of QA, auditor of reviewer. Every report, every time. In the US, you have a transcriptionist and the occasional QA spot-check accuracy overview. I asked her directly, the ROI for 4 Indians is HIGHER than for US transcriptionists? Yes.
However, there is a big account on the line that Indians can’t do: IMEs (for workman’s comp, etc). They’re conversant with medical vocabulary, but not with conversational English, which is how these reports are dictated, so she needs US transcriptionists just to get us caught up and then India can take over and learn. Well, okay, I’mma help a friend out.
I have spent the last three days trying to figure out this convoluted, primitive system WHILE trying to pound out lines (how production is measured) AND getting no good direction, no specs, no good docs from India (who are supposed to be supplying the correct templates). Yesterday, I had a complete meltdown at my friend and then SHE realized what was happening with the new US transcriptionists AND India, but the person she needs to talk to is on vacation.
All right, so as soon as we realized where the bottleneck was, I put on my Queen of the Workaround Solution tiara and got to work. Solutions ahoy! And now I’m settled into my temp gig and pounding out lines.
Still pissy about the monitor adapter in the KVM switch, tho.
See the ones I use in yesterday’s evenings links that I replied to you about. I’ve had good luck with those.
Oh! I missed those. Will do!
Oh, none of those are quite what I need.
I may have forgotten to mention. I’m getting onboarded as a contractor with ANOTHER company who’s sending out laptops, but this is because it’s a government contract. That’s a permanent gig, so… My switch is for 4 computers. The switches with HDMI ports are for 2.
It’s very possible my friend will keep me on, too.
There is TWO different pieces of hardware we are talking about and you will likely need.
1. A KVM -that’s the device that connects a Keyboard – Video (monitor) and a Mouse. A KVM! It appears you need one for 4 devices. KVMs usually have monitor inputs in the the form of DVI or HDMI. HDMI is more common. (Sample here – not a recommendation – https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Computers-Monitor-Keyboard-Button/dp/B0BWNDX4VL)
2. A device to convert the USB-C common on laptops into HDMI (or DVI) so that you can connect it to the KVM.
That last thing you want is some shitty USB or HDMI “switch”. They will create all kinds of headaches for you.
I have the switch already. It works fine.
I need the HDMI >> USB3 adapter to be a plug and play.
Hence the driver headache…
I’ve got my locked down work setup on a kvm. My wife’s two HIPPA compliant contract laptops on a kvm and genuine FedGov laptop complete with looney toons ID slot working on a kvm.
as they try to kick off a broad national conversation about health care costs that can possibly carry through the midterms
I wish they would bungle their way into an honest “conversation” about the health care system. As if that could ever happen.
Shocker: “Cost nearly triples to build train between LA, Las Vegas”
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/cost-nearly-triples-build-train-la-vegas-21081353.php
No way! Still, till this day, it is hard to compete with $100 tickets round trick from LA Basin to Vegas or ~$60-75 in gas for roadtrip to Vegas….
OR
Drive to Methville and leave your car in a questionable parking lot to hope on the train for the last 5/8ths of the trip in our comfortable and incredibly slow train that will probably drop you off no where near where you want to be.
And if you really wanna get there cheap…GoBus it bitch, I have. $30 and some culture.
That was always the issue. If you look at the number of flights between, say, SF and LA daily, there isn’t enough track space to clear the que, so to speak. And the issue is the same in the LAX-LVN flight plan. Now, all of those carriers have had 50-60 years to min-max those flights, which keeps costs way the fuck down.
Even without the regulatory burden, they were trying to recreate Sisyphus by going choo-choo.
Why even build it? Who wants to be trapped in either town without a car?
So you take one of the good things about old BMWs and enshitify it modern BMW standards. Got it.
https://www.theautopian.com/how-cheap-chinese-gauges-from-aliexpress-completely-transformed-my-18-year-old-bmw/
Know what is awesome about inline ChatGPT image creation? It is like 1994 all over again and renders in like I am on dial up
Yes, but will it do nudes? That’s the most important thing. I’m betting it’s already locked down.
1. My work account doesn’t have images.
2. I’m not trying that on my work account even if I did have access…
Tis. It will do suggestive, not explicit. Even though I asked for risqué. Which in my mind, isn’t pornographic generally.
“Manchester police say they believe the synagogue attacker is 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent”
With a name like jihad, who could have seen this coming?
Amish sure do get around.
Before long the BBC will change his name to Gerald L. Seamus to avoid any backlash.
Do British jails have enough space for all the wrongthinkers this story is going to flush out?
You can file a Form 27B/6 form with management, and await resolution.
Not a complaint, merely an observation. Considering my abysmal observational skills it could have been that way for weeks.
I deem it a major improvement, especially when “that” gif comes back around.
‘h/t, and a beer if we ever meet, to Common Tater’
Thanks tater.
For once undressing actually made sense as a way to make your point. I salute her.
Looks like the Guardians let down the Cleveland fans just like the Browns. The Indians wouldn’t have done that.
Well, no Reds – Indians WS. I’ve lost interest.
The Indians did that many time, I think they were called the “Nips” the last time they won a title.
FT headline:
“Donald Trump Threatens Permanent Spending Cuts as US Shutdown Continues”
Oh, please Master Donald, don’t toss me in that briar patch!
Just what a fascist would do.
The fuck is a “Permanent Spending Cut”? Sounds like me every other morning, “I’m never drinking again!”
That’s when the US government doesn’t increase spending as much as planned.
Ah Standard Operational Bullshit, Got it.
Ah, SOB, the movie that had Mary Poppins go topless.
Viking Funeral for the SOB.
Best funeral filmed.
The one guy demonstrating all of his excremental bodily functions is the only thing (other than Julie’s perky tits) that I remember from that movie. Might need a rewatch.
Julie turned 90 yesterday.
Here’s to her, may her tit’s be forever perky.
Hype: sent an e-mail a few weeks back for a What Are We Reading. Think I got the e-mail address right but not sure. Did you see it?
Yes, I got it. My bad, I usually reply but I’ve been slackin’ lately.
I’ve only got you and Fourscore so far, I need to get one of the linksters to make a plea for submissions to whatarewereading25@proton.me so I can push out the Autumn edition. Ahem, Ahem.
No sweat. Just wanted to make sure.
Listening to a table of folks so old I thought they would be the oldest in their family, but their conversation is all about their parents.
Kind of like posting on glibs.
Also, a masker is among them, food arrived and now the mask is off. People are crazy up here.
I’m not sure the internet is worth all the destruction it has caused. It has really turned a lot of people into monstrous assholes.
Turned? Or showed?
I dunno. It feels like there are more assholes than in the Before Times.
Turned.
Society could keep real assholes mostly in check, but the internet makes it safe for people who would NEVER act out at all to find their inner Biff. Then they get used to it. And then they like it.
Now, maybe I can see the argument that bullies serve a purpose in society, but if HALF THE CLASS is bullies, that doesn’t work so well.
Here’s another project I’m chewing on. Lately, I’ve taken to proofreading my book by listening to it on text-to-speech. I can pick up weirdness and too many instances of a word too close together that way. Stuff like that.
Anyway, I’ve never listened to audiobooks for fiction. I don’t care for being read stories, but I found out I DO like hearing my story out loud, no matter how shitty the pronunciation. Like, WOW. I’ve had requests for an audiobook, but it’s fucking 300,000 words long (750 pages, small print, single space, narrow margins).
There is NO WAY I can afford to pay for an actor.
There is NO WAY I’m going to use AI because I listen to AI voices doing AI-generated stories to do unpleasant tasks to and to put me to sleep, and its inability to distinguish heteronyms and noun vs. verb stresses drives me batshit insane.
There is NO WAY I’m going to do this myself, even though I have the dramatic flair for it, because, as the Zoomies know, I sound like a 12yo redneck.
BUT it occurred to me I could get a voice modulator. OR a software that can adjust the pitch a little (and oh, look! I already have Audacity!).
Suggestions welcome.
I find your project interesting. I’m curious how new, AI-world will deal with the obvious consequences of being able to fake every voice, or piece it together (fairly) seamlessly so it sounds like a real person is saying shit they’d never say.
I’m a Cardinals (and Brewers!) fan and fucking *LOVE* the DH. I’m sure they could get ‘me’ to say that, scarily enough.