With the popularity of the “it do be like that Mr. Stancil” going around, others have clued us in to the Newspeak all around us, Tim Pool posted a screenshot to TwiX of a Google search that triggered my autism so much, that I had to use Google to see if it was real.
Yeah…its real.
¡enlaces!
El Presidenté Mujer announced an extension of trade talks between the US and Mexico. While the press is touting the USMCA as a reason Mexico has more or less been spared by tariffs, but my theory is they’ve been kissing Orange Ass.
Chexican. There’s your new slur. Chexican.
I’m fully convinced of the Orange Man’s corruption now.
We may be witnessing the silliest US-Backed coup in history.
The big news over the weekend was in Argentina. Where Millei’s ¡AFUERA! agenda got a huge boost by his party winning legislative majorities. Previously he was stymied a bit by opposition but if this cope and seethe article from Al Jazeera is any indicator, this is encouraging news. Also encouraging are the politicians in that part of the world being significantly better looking than ours.
That Springsteen got a biopic but Tommy Lee didn’t, is an affront to humanity.
Is they is or is they ain’t?
Well, they’re certainly not my baby. She knows her grammar (and no… her grammar is not in the kitchen baking cookies).
They do be
Black Water – Doobie Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV7a22pVrj0
Sigh. I weep for humanity and the culmination of centuries of progress devolving into slang and texting speak.
“Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/quotes/?item=qt0427935
Yep. Nobody wants to be accused of talking like a fag, or having shit that sounds retarded. So culture, intelligence and speech keeps falling lower and lower.
Yet, even if I attempt to express it in a genteel fashion — I find I do still desire confectionary baked goods.
😂🤣
I’m more sanguine about the whole thing. These memes are perfectly harmless and they do crack me up.
it do be like that, rhywun
Well said
NC-17 movies have an uphill fight and there is no way a Tommy Lee biopic comes in at R
Get famous, get rich, get high, get laid, get old…I think I’ve seen that one already.
I skipped most of that except “get old”… managing that part of the deal just fine.
“In this country, first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the woman”.
Well, I’m kinda mad at them right now because they punished Mick Mars for getting old faster than they did.
How do you keep a Tommy Lee biopic from running long?
Probably. And that’s probably wise. I doubt I’m the only US citizen that intermittently wonders if we should have just kept it all in 1848 and that both our neighbors should really be more cognizant that they have the military strength of a wet Kleenex these days….
Combine those gut instincts with screwing us post NAFTA, the cartels being extra annoying and the exploitation of the PPP years… and I’d be on the side of “It may not be morally right… but neither should we be provocative right now” if I were Mexico.
If we had kept it all in 1848, among the things we would have kept is millions of peasants who love them some socialism.
Pass.
What? Latinos aren’t allowed to like Chex Mix? Not like they’re asking for Hot Dish or something…
Isn’t Chex Mex cultural appropriation?
Yes it is
Yaaaaaaassssss, King!
“Got a biopic”, you people sound like a bunch of libtards, there not are only so many biopics allowed and they don’t get allotted by decree. Someone decided to make a biopic about Dusty, the fact that no one did for the “MIB” and “Fugitive” star isn’t an affront to anything. Fuck sake get some perspective.
There was no “Jones” on the end of “Tommy Lee.” Trust me, I always check because Tommy Lee Jones… 🤤
(From the FIFA link)
Huh… must have had some really shitty parents.
The K is silent,
-a-a?
AAAA?
Is everyone just calling for him when they fake flop?
Carryover from previous.
I took me a while to find the magic incantation to dredge this up, but eventually I got there.
Why doesn’t Stellantis quit half-assing that miracle motor and just license electropneumatic freevalve technology from Koeniggsegg? That way they can achieve perfect valve timing and lift for any rpm and load. They’re already ten miles down the rabbit hole. Think how jealous that guy at Ford would be.
No, no, no.
Nissan needs to put it on its variable compression motor.
Wait, Google isn’t fictional? I thought it was something people made up to be the platonic ideal of an evil tech company.
They be real, yo.
So you’re saying they do be like that?
Yes. Yes I am.
We already have one Spanish-speaking territory that’s a bit problematic. You’d think the U.S. would learn.
OTOH, all those proven oil reserves… maybe Venezuela needs some liberatin’ at the very least.
And if we went the full colonization route, I can envision cheap flights and great payara fishing.
I alluded to it above… if we start grabbing land — lets just do it for real and be done with it. Take Latin America all the way down to Panama. A lot shorter fence.
Screw Venezuela.
I’m saying we subcontract that out to Argentina.
Works for me. We should adapt hedging equipment into bayonet mounted mini-chainsaws for added fun.
Dude, they couldn’t even take over the Falkland Islands, and England is how far away?
That was before the libertarians took over. Now that half the country must own automatic weapons, they’d probably have a better shot.
Venezuela is twice the size of Iraq – all of it mountainous jungle. Vietnam on steroids for the nostalgia?
Do they have the backing of 1.5 super powers?
Probably more on the head than I would have thought before I got cynical.
I’m convinced the West is only dicking around in Ukraine to get at the resources.
“the press is touting the USMCA as a reason Mexico has more or less been spared by tariffs”
The United States Marine Corps Association looms large, although TIL that they generally use the acronym MCA which sets up even more jokes.
I thought it was Mexico depending on a US standard Machine Check Architecture. Too many bus errors, after all.
From the Halls of Montezuma…
I wish I could find ass implants anything other than revolting. That chick is completely adorable until she turns around.
Don’t wish for that – they are revolting – wish that girls would stop ruining their bodies with procedures that make them ugly.
Tarek William Saab, a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, says Trump wants to turn Venezuela into a “colony” of the US.
Do we get busty Venezuelan women as tribute?
Don’t know why — but MS’s links put a not so busty Columbian woman in my mind (probably because she was mentioned in the FIFA link I expect… danged ear worms…)
Yes, but we need to design sexier Handmaid outfits.
I’m up for hot Latin women in dirndls.
No, just failed Scandi car companies.
Dude, we are colonizers! It is what we do. Read a history book. All the US ever does is colonize and pillage.
Why would you expect anything different.
I could go for some good pillaging right now.
Meanwhile in more stupid shit the U.S. has tried in Venezuela.
US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader
He sent us all his criminals, we can send him all our boomer wokies. Maduro will surrender within a week.
“No Kings Cruise line, taking you to the best in socialist destinations.”
Venezuela can be the 53nd state, after Greenland and Canada.
None of this will stand.
TX and AK have votes too
This actually makes great sense.
53 is a prime number.
So going through with those annexations would indeed make the United States “One nation, indivisible.”
Some might find that joke derivative, but I think it adds to the discussion and there’s no reason it should divide us.
No, no, no, no statehood. You do not want to bring in that many people who voted so poorly. Only territorial status with no voting rights for anyone advocating socialist or communist tendencies.
Oh boy, 40 more socialist congressmen.
Alternate headline, “Python cares more about diversity than security”.
Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules
The Trump hatred at Ars amazes me.
Free association says “If you want to discriminate… just don’t do it with government money”, so okay PSF… you do you. (Though I strongly suspect there is some academic funds sloshing around their balance sheets….) Maybe we can get a general decoupling of this crap (HA! He says knowing damned well that when the “correct thinkers” are back in, they’ll happily turn the trough right back for the swilling…)
The Python foundation can get bent.
You can bet that the next Dem administration will reinstate the DEI requirements that were probably there before Orange Hitler took over. Surely they can wait a few years to get their virtue signal on again.
This tells me that I should be very careful using Python for anything important.
Not even the DEI part specifically, although that’s important too, but the fact that Python is grubbing after taxpayer funds to patch their security problems…
So the Python Software Foundation values DEI more than security.
Correct, and they’re not the only ones. Mozilla is similarly woke, as are many more Silicon Valley open source groups.
It’s gonna take many years to unwind the stupid and evil that BLM and similar outfits caused.
I had a nice visit with my lawyer today. I say it that way because I took art lessons from his mom for 10+ years and I know the family well. She has since passed, but his office was decorated with her paintings. He sent me home with one, and made it a point to say this was from HER, not from him.
Down to business. Since the other driver and I are both from Indiana, we’ll file in Indiana which is a lot easier. Right now I have only an ER visit, so there isn’t much to sue for, and as he said it wouldn’t be worth suing to get a few thousand six months from now. So tomorrow I’m going to my regular doctor for a follow up, and hopefully get a referral to a concussion specialist. It’s been a week and it hasn’t improved. I don’t have the severe headache or light sensitivity, for me it’s more like motion sickness and it gets worse as the day goes on. But once I get into a specialist he can start the lawsuit rolling.
Hope it works out and your body settles out soon, TOK.
Since you’re both from Indiana — I assume the major problem was that as the other driver was weaving in and out of lanes, they gunned it. At least that’s what Chicago would claim…
I see what you did there. But no gun running that night, just my wheelchair in the trunk and we had to extract it through the car because the trunk was jammed shut. Once this is all over I’ll post the crash pix, and maybe even the dash cam footage. It’s worthy of the Reddit “bad drivers” that I often see in the AM Lynx.
Lack of consortium to the courtesy counter!
Good luck small suits can drag on for years and years.
OTH, you were walking fine before the accident, right?
Now I can’t feel my legs. It’s terrible.
Heh.
Hoping for the best.
Personally, TOK, I hope your symptoms clear up way before they turn into a serious damages claim.
Agree. I’d hope you get healthy way before I hope you get rich. Unless you are picking up the bar tab at the next hockey tourney.
This.
Count me in with the lawyers. I am still having long term issues from when I damaged my back, and after two surgeries, the report is that now I have scar tissue impeding my walking, along with MS issues.
Trying to get things sorted when there are multiple confounding problems is a task fit for the gods.
I wish you a speedy recover and the swiftest resolution possible. Sorry you’re going through all that.
Quite frightens me, frankly. I kinda reallyreally want to disable those airbags that go off round one’s head. Uh. Me no wanty. I’ve slid off an icy road and hit a curb, but I’ve never hit nor been hit by another car. (I’m an excellent driver.)
Did you mention the conjugal rights violation?
Make sure they compensate you for that.
Prince George’s Co. leaders hope to keep Shoppers stores open
And nary a single word about why these particular stores are closing. Anyone want to guess?
Well, here’s the reason
“Those stores are not unprofitable,” he said.
They need to be closed because they are putting the company in too high of a tax bracket. It’s corporate greed all the way down.
I’m sure they will get around to eradicating all those food deserts right after they successfully roll broadband access out to everyone.
Elon basically solved the broadband access problem.
My place isn’t considered underserved because I have Starlink and some RF tower a few miles away. We’re in a little sliver that doesn’t have cable or fiber and likely never will.
I thought the Biden admin wrote the rules in such a way that Starlink was right out as a means for hicks in the sticks to get clicks.
Looks like Trump might have changed course a bit
I’m not up on all the details, but I did poke around on the state’s broadband website, looking for more info after I posted. I think there is BEAD finding that has been or is set aside for me, but I’m under the impression that the RF tower they put in moves us out of “unserved”. Fiber is a couple miles south of us and a half mile north of us, but we’re in a no man’s land in the middle.
Oh fuck off. If you’re gonna treat me like the enemy I don’t want your fucking business anyway.
Former NH Dem state representative expected to plead guilty to child sex abuse charges
New Hampshire’s first elected transgender-identifying state House member, Democrat Stacie Marie Laughton of Nashua, won’t have a happy Halloween this year.
Laughton, 41, born Barry Laughton, is set to appear in the United States District Court in Boston on Friday for a change of plea hearing in the child sex abuse image case that’s had him locked up for more than two years.
The Friday court date will likely see Laughton plead guilty to at least one of the three serious felony indictments against him.
Child sex offender? That guy? Say it ain’t so.
That thing that never happens keeps happening.
Wait, what? A transwoman is a kiddie diddler? Well, whoever heard of that!
I’m just surprised they used the correct pronoun.
NHJournal has gone back and forth on what pronouns to use for Barry Laughton. I remember one NHJournal article on him which was obviously written to not use pronouns at all to refer to Laughton.
There was a recent article in my local paper about a hometown guy who has done something in Hollywood. They make sure to point out that he uses they/them pronouns, but spend the rest of the article using his name, probably because the article wouldn’t have made sense if they used his preferred pronouns.
Chexican?
I can’t keep up with they crazy kids.
Ivanka is appointed to something. I’m outraged.
Trump isn’t trying to topple the Venezuelan govt, he’s trying to get some empanadas, the bestest empanadas to go with his Diet Coke.
Damn it. Now I want an arepa.
He’s trying to get them to send some hot Venezuelan women instead of the criminals they’ve been sending.
With the govt shutdown, I present you with the country’s worst stocked food shelf
I’m sure people will be flooding that food shelf because they love those TSA workers so much.
Let’s start a Gofundme to buy lutefisk and durian for all the starving SNAP people!
Many of the TSAs I’ve encountered look like they could lose 50 pounds or more without any problems.
“Yeah…it’s real.”
SMOD, hear my prayer.
Meh.
There are all sorts of other linguistic horrors that we tolerate.
Southerners use “fixin'”
Texans use “coke” for all soda.
Rubes use “casserole” instead of hotdish. Or worse, they play “duck, duck, goose” instead of “duck, duck, gray duck”
Foresooth! And verily, my good sirah!
SMOD has disappointed us all. Its time to worship the true redeemer: The Yellowstone Caldera.
A Geologist’s take on Yellowstone.
Sorry, it’s not the doomsday crater you’re looking for.
Trump is in trouble now! Brother Keith and a bunch of other AG’s are suing to keep SNAP funded.
Again, why won’t anyone bug King Walz about the fact that we used to have a $17B surplus and now we are running a deficit because the DFL spent every cent. Ask Walz how nice it would be to have that $73M/mo now.
Horrific
On at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post’s official editorial line landed in sync with its owner’s financial interests.
In the most recent instance, the Post defended President Trump’s jaw-dropping moves to raze the East Wing of the White House without any of the typically required studies or consultations as he seeks to build a vast ballroom. “Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere,” the Post wrote in its editorial, which first appeared online Saturday.
As the White House had announced, Amazon was a major corporate contributor in helping to defray those costs. But the Post did not initially disclose that.
I’m sure the ethics wallahs at the Columbia Journalism Review will issue a stern rebuke.
Did Rachel Maddow offer a disclaimer that Comcast was a big contributor to the Trump Ballroom? Seems like her employer also has some financial ties to that issue.
The local NBC outlet mentions it every time they covered the “desecration” of the women’s wing of the WH.
They skipped the endless studies and consultations! The republic is lost!
All those shovel ready consulting jobs gone.
Just one more bullshit job needing shoveling, eh?
“It strikes me that the failure to do this [disclosure] is concerning – whether out of negligence or worse,” says Marcus, the former deputy editorial page editor. “I think telling your readers that there might be a conflict in whatever they’re reading is always important. It’s a lot more important when it involves whoever the owner is.”
We’ll just call it the advertorial page from now on.
Al Roker just informed viewers that the hurricane devastating Jamaica is “700 times” more likely to have been caused by human climate change. Wonder whose ass he pulled that number out of?
Science!
He should have used decimals in order to be really scientific.
700 times zero is zero, so technically correct.
700 times more likely to have been caused by human climate change than what? Santeria curses? Unicorn fan dancing? Baseline natural seasonal weather effects? Because for the last one to be true it would require that 700 hurricanes result from human climate change for every natural one, and the Atlantic averages 7 a year, with 5 so far this year, so…
So you are going to make me work…
https://www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyclones/melissa-2025
So this is “science”. It would appear the temperature rise of the ocean is the 700x factor. So it is strength and not frequency that is attributable to the climate “crisis”.
I’m not about to dig through the report for the bullshit science explaining the sea temperature and how that 700 number was derived.
Even if the temp is higher – debatable given the massive corruption of the data – there is zero evidence that humans had anything to do with it. And no way to actually prove it.
Rock Island Auction has an Enigma machine up for auction in their December auction.
Wow. You know who else… oh fuckit
So glad I have today /tomorrow off, cuz I totes mcgoats watched all of Game 3. Damn. Both teams, especially LA, are gonna be running on gassed arms. This is good for me in my hope Game 7.
Applied for a temp, legislative editing gig I’ve applied to before, so that likely won’t be interesting. But I’ve decided to go the remote route and found what I’m likely gonna be looking at, if I continue this pursuit, as an AI content editor, sort of an odd underling of coders who monitor the code AI produces. The description is right up my alley and it certainly is interesting, in its own way, though I’m also not expecting much. I do have experience writing and editing SEO shit for int’l businesses, though I did that a number of years ago, so I’m not entirely a rookie to it.
Sent the gigs and my cover letters to my voca rehab dude, cool guy, for our weekly update-chats. *shrug*
I’m sure MN Munchkin’ll call later to vent of her similar-ish struggles in The North. Funnily for a quasi-paralegal, she’s trying to get back into Family Services, which she has an active hatred of – or rather, of 80% of the recipients she had to deal with. She and others worked in Todd County before layoffs hit. Our unromantic journeys together would make a good comedy one day, working idea of me teaming up with plasma center donors to act as vengeful Robin Hoods on the leeches she complained about.
I’d like Mo’s thoughts on this. Medical transcription has shown itself, but that’s something I’d have to research and study. Likely SEO as well, especially for anything data related, as I didn’t have to do that before, but I’ve at least touched into remote, SEO writing +editing. Remote is likely the avenue but I can’t be freelancing right now. There do exist longer contracts and such, and that’s a step forward, but I s’pose I shall see.
Curious, unsure ground. Almost assuredly, I’m gonna have to weave my way into something a little squirrelly, well-off my radar. Kinda the spice ‘n sparkle of life, in its own way. (Positive spin (and reality) is positive.)
Not Moj, but I notice the auto-generated transcripts on podcasts are terrible. They can’t handle homophones and proper nouns.