Not much happening in the world of sports aside from the release of the new CFP rankings. And there weren’t really any surprises. WC qualifiers are back starting today. Some HUGE games in Europe taking place over the next week. And that’s it for sports.
It will affect just more than them. Sure, they’re gonna complain, but it’s a win for everybody around them who are used to being crowded out of their own seats. I’ll rate the new policy a win.
This was a bizarre case and I’m glad to see the newspaper win. I’m not glad that taxpayers will be on the hook for the payment.
It ain’t over till it’s over. But yes, it appears on track to be over.
What do you mean “right now?” This could have been written at any point in time over the last decade, at least for a lot of people who majored in stupid shit.
Oh no, whatever will we do without British Intelligence? I wonder why they’re so fond of drug-runners.
What does the law say? Oh, that’s right. The law, and constitution for that matter, means nothing to Jackson.
Go ahead and sue, dipshit. Just like Spaulding Smails, you’ll get nothing and like it.
This is a fascinating story. Not because it really teaches us about something interesting or because it’s good writing. But it truly is a fascinating bit of race-baiting sophistry. Perhaps the best example of it since the Obama years.
This is a biggie. And the way it ended has screwed over a lot of people.
Talk about a bullshit story. She tried to scam them and they didn’t get scammed. So of course the left is outraged. Note: I’m not defending Joel Osteen here. The dude is an idiot.
These guys need more love. Let’s give it to them. They deserve it. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely but chilly Wednesday, dear friends.
“Sure, they’re gonna complain, but it’s a win for everybody around them who are used to being crowded out of their own seats. I’ll rate the new policy a win.”
In other news, body positivity influencers are being cancelled for losing weight.
“I think it’s going to make the flying experience worse for everybody,” he said of the new rule.
So says one Jason Vaughn, “an Orlando-based travel agent who posts theme park reviews and travel tips for plus-size people on social media and his website, Fat Travel Tested, said the change will likely impact travelers of all sizes.”
No, it will make flying better for the general flying public, and worse for entitled obese people and actual giants, weight-lifters, etc.
To be fair, a positive impact is a impact.
I personally witnessed a case where a person paid for an extra seat in advance and was told when boarding that since the plane was overbooked they could not have it. It was a friend of mine who at the time weighed close to 400 lbs. I think you should have to pay for an extra seat, but I also think airlines are assholes and will play games.
Tonio: article submitted.
I’m sure they always overbook just like hotels do.
SOP
Narrator: The seats will keep shrinking, and normal assed people will be charged double.
If you purchase the second seat (and most airlines offer both extra seat for fatties and a comfort seat for anyone, sometimes an extra for your cello), it’s just like your regular seat. They want to take it, they have to pay to bumping (involuntary denied boarding). If you book it correctly, it’s on the same reservation so they need to bump both you and your empty seat (and any other members of your same party).
Airlines do play games and shenanigans, but they are bound by their contract of carriage.
Pound mile matters.
Cartoons often more valuable to an airline than passengers.
“Meyer’s 98-year-old mother Joan, the paper’s co-owner, died of a heart attack the next day, something he blames on the stress of the raid. ”
Sad.
It ain’t over until AOC sings.
Democrats aren’t responsible for the shutdown. Also, Democrats will fight reopening the government.
::polite applause::
There’s a younger, bigger-tittied commie now. Just got elected in Ithaca.
lol Just looked it up – she won with a grand total of 243 votes. That is a bit higher turnout than the usual around here.
Not pretty though
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communist-councilwoman-from-ithaca-hannah-shvets-defeats-landlord-candidate/
And an actual Commie.
OFFS:
No, it has caused all of those problems. And she will help make them worse.
Fuck off, commies.
I appreciate you sourcing from The Peoples World. Hard to argue with their characterization of someone as a communist, though I’m sure Pie’s X follows would make a go of it.
I also love how they make sure we know her opponent was a LANDLORD oooo scary! No mention that you don’t get anywhere in this place as a Dem unless you are at least in Bernie or AOC territory.
Not as good as The People’s Cube
https://thepeoplescube.com/15-ways-new-york-gets-worked-over-if-mamdani-wins-t24551.html
I am richly enjoying the new radical base going apeshit and threatening Schumer because he isn’t rEsIsTy enough.
So, it ain’t over until AOC takes Southwest?
I should call up charities to see if they will give me money without questions.
Yeah, it seemed to offend her that they said she could fill out an application to see if she was eligible, rather than just just provide handouts without question as to whether it was legitimate.
My church is far from a mega-church, but we aint sending anything to a random caller. Come in and talk to the pastor? Yeah, he will get you to the right place to get it, or provide it himself. Or call you out as a scammer.
Yeah this is nothing new. Way back in the 80’s we would have garage sales, and people would show up early looking for kids clothes they could buy and resell. They would get pissed that my mom wouldn’t open a half hour early for them.
We have a friend now who buys things on clearance, the resells them when they’re back in season. So she might buy school supplies cheap in the spring, and resell them online in the fall.
One could easily make money selling things you got free from a church.
Malcolm in the Middle did it.
School Supply Arbitrage!
We have gypsies and other occasional scammers that show up in our church and try to panhandle parishoners on their way in and out. Our church also have a local charity to help such people if they are truly in need and it has a 400 million dollar operating budget. There is a second one almost as big that does housing, and of course local parish groups. These people are routed to those groups.
The charities not only provide assistance, but try to help assess the need and provide access to other social services. Sure today you need formula, but maybe tomorrow it’s going to be rent, clothes, something else. But they need to vet you since there are plenty who will take advantage and steal from the truly needy.
That is how I make my spending money at this point. Not clothes, but machine tools.
Zwak, what you you have for sale now?
I have a Bridgeport mill and a LaBlond lathe.
Would like a digital readout for the mill.
Janet would have made a better justice.
That’s Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty.
Are you for real?
That’s a jam.
Hmm. They really should have cropped that map of racists so we couldn’t see NoVA, MD, NY, MA, CT and NJ.
I’d like to see the rate at which leftist denizens of the political class in DC send their kids to private schools.
Public schools are for the help.
Like Obama canceling the voucher program and sending his girls to private school?
Obama just did it to help the those schools with their diversity. He wanted to send his kids to public school but also saw something needed to be done. Such are the choices of a selfless public servant.
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
ProPublica – no way!
The solution, of course, is to make private schooling illegal. State indoctrination must be mandatory.
I’m sure the 16% of white kids in the public school are getting a fantastic educational experience.
Plus more busing or something. Wasn’t that supposed to solve this “problem” decades ago?
You can’t solve this problem – what would the race hustlers do then?
“”I was calling to see if y’all could help with formula at all, I have a 2-month-old baby, and we ran out last night, so she’s been going all day long without food. Is there any way y’all could help with formula?” Monroe asked.”
Maybe not talking like Jasmine Crockett would help.
We give food to plenty of people who talk like that at the food pantry at pur church. Of course, we dont respond to random solicitations by phone from a thousand miles away.
I haven’t looked at wire fraud statutes in a while, but this lady seems to be flirting with a federal crime.
Yeah, my first thought was why isn’t she, you know, showing up there?
I said basically the same thing up above. We don’t have a food pantry, but our pastor would get her to one. But not via phone.
When I was more involved with this kind of thing, a number of groups would hand out a minimal (say a day or two) of an urgent supply then have people provide more detailed info if they wanted/needed long-term help.
Exactly. You say you come down to the distribution point for a some immediate supply and get set up for something of a longer duration.
If the individual doesn’t show you know its not a crisis.
Many folks would gladly meet you where you’re at if you provide a name and address and are within a reasonable distance of the church.
If you’re calling a church in Houston from your home in Kentucky, that’s clearly scammy behavior and nobody wants a part of it.
@ Trashy: I guess assumed cell ‘phone. Given mobility, area codes don’t tell you much.
I assumed “where are you located”was one of the first questions asked. I may be wrong there.
She lied about everything else, so I assume she would lie about where she was.
Yeah, quite possibly. Obviously she took it far enough that people hung up on her when she said it was an experiment.
I don’t believe a word out of this lady’s mouth when it comes to her characterization of the phone calls. Produce the recordings or pound sand.
Fair observations all. I guess I was thinking more generally. Give an emergency supply to anyone but dig deeper for longer commitments. And, in general, never cash.
Thankfully for her nonexistent baby, Monroe was able to find a few churches that offered to help
So the article is basically bullshit. She called churches, some offered to help despite the whole thing being a scam, but the article is about the Church (if you consider Osteen’s scam a Church) that said it would take a few days, and the one where the person who answered the phone said there were no programs to help. It’s more of why social media is poison. Content creators are rewarded for posting outrage bait so they find the worst asshole to film, edit the footage to make the person seem as bad as possible and post it. Multiply this by a few thousand ‘influencers’ and watch everyone decide everyone else is an asshole.
Who do these people think they are, the BBC?
I wonder how far it is from Kansas City, KS?
CBS News must not have an edit button either. So we aren’t alone in that.
Edit fairy note: some of us have edit buttons.
whaddup doh
You mean voucher systems that would allow the the kids in publix skewls to go to these private ones? How racist.
Everything to these people is racist. At least everything white people do.
“Robinson said she encounters Black residents who won’t put campaign signs for Black candidates in their yards. They fear that white residents, who own most of the local businesses, might shut them out if they do.”
Really?
No. It’s a lie. The Deep South is among the least racist place in America.
If they want to see real racial division and high-level racism, they should have visited Boston.
Philly.
When I came to NYC in the late 90s I was amazed how much better it was. Now I get to relive my Philly experience. I’m sure that things will be less divisive once Mamdani takes office.
They could always just move out of Philly.
Philly had other ways to MOVE people out.
Look fat, there is a Narrative to push.
Philly had other ways to MOVE people out.
I see what you did there.
Note the non-capitalization of White.
That’s code for Irish.
For once I would actually rather do some work than subject myself to that torture.
Thanks for taking that one for the team!
I’m not glad that taxpayers will be on the hook for the payment.
They should have taken everything from the cops, personally, and whoever they wanted to implicate (mayor, etc.).
And once that’s done…the boats.
“Elizabeth Hurley, 60, is red-hot in tiny chain-link bikini and matching cover-up”
https://pagesix.com/2025/11/11/style/elizabeth-hurley-wears-red-chain-link-bikini-and-cover-up/
So she actually is the devil?
Yes.
Her birth name was Bathory
Better a deal with her than Peter Cook.
“You FILL me with INERTIA.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnoWb88Jr4
Never saw the remake.
I was hoping for a link to nuns on trampolines….
I considered that one too, Beryl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9kg-Ngz0Q
or Al Pacino.
I wonder how Devine Brown looks now? She proved
“Eager beats pretty” decisively.
Checks out. They are pro-crime, after all.
With China’s collapsing bridge yesterday this is timely. The article is interesting because it tries to dig into the cultural and management implications of the “good enough” approach common in China.
The Chinese Concept of “Cha Bu Duo” Is Not What You Think It Means
https://archive.fo/KAQyu
Minimum Viable Product?
Yes, but embed it in the culture as well.
It’s got both strengths and weaknesses as the long article notes. It’s easy to pick on Chinese quality, but there are plenty of Chinese goods that are actually able to compete 100% globally on a quality basis. We and the west ignore that at our peril.
A collapsing bridge isn’t viable.
A collapsing bridge isn’t viable.
Did the right people get paid? Then it is viable.
“Look, our requirements were to ‘Put up a bridge.’ What happens after that was not part of our MVP.”
That was very interesting, thanks!
Everything in China is a fraud. It is the lowest trust society in the world by a long shot and for good reason.
It wasn’t a landslide that took out the bridge?
They noticed the changing geology and the bridge was not in use.
Question that I never bothered to research was how much they knew about the geology before they decided to build a bridge.
I was building the front wall to a glass melting furnace in Dongguan. I marked the precise locations I needed 24 mm close tolerance holes. The foreman grabs the torch guy…for precision holes. After much discussion, I finally convinced them to use a magnetic drill.
That right there is Cha Bu Duo in action.
I love my mag drills.
Some of the most useful tools I’ve ever bought.
Just think of the boost to China’s economy when they rebuild it!
Broken windows is for pikers.
“Good enough” is positive from a trusted friend, not so much by the methed up handyman you hired.
“”The US military has been accused of spraying toxic chemicals into the air for decades as part of a secret program that has backfired in its goal of stopping global warming.
Dane Wigington, an environmental researcher for 30 years, claimed that the conspiracy surrounding ‘chemtrails’ is not only true but has actually crippled the Earth’s ability to naturally overcome the pollution caused by humans.
The ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy focuses on the idea that the government has been spraying a host of dangerous chemicals from commercial airliners for several reasons, including to control the weather and make people sick….
He estimated that airliners equipped with secret nozzles and tanks on their wings, filled with aluminum, barium, manganese, graphene, and various polymers, have dumped between 40 and 60 million tons of nanoparticles in the sky every year.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15281179/us-military-secret-spraying-chemicals-chemtrails.html
Who knows?
Then why am I buying graphene sprays for my car if the .gov is coating it for free?
Chemtrails!!! = people mistaking vapor condensation in the atmosphere for chemical spraying.
Conspiracy theories get more common as the general trust level declines. Wonder why the trust level has been declining?
Does this mean that we have a (good) reboot of the X-Files to look forward to?
My trust in (good) reboots is non-existent
Here’s the thing. Chemtrails are real, contrails are real. The important question is, when you look up at the sky on a random Tuesday, what’s the chance of it being more than just water vapor?
I have no idea the answer to that. I’m highly skeptical of the idea that commercial airliners are rigged up with sprayers, but we’ve possessed the technology for weather manipulation since the 40s and used it in Vietnam. There are plenty of projects going on globally to this day. The idea that fed gov is using that technology more freely than publicly known wouldn’t shock me. However, every contrail that lasts more than 5 minutes isn’t aluminum.
“Conspiracy theories get more common as the general trust level declines. Wonder why the trust level has been declining?”
Jews. It’s always Jews.
Well, we know them Chemtrails are alyoominium when they reflect Jooish Space Lasers.
On a serious note, I used to know a guy who was a devout believer in ‘Chemtrails’. He was not sound of mind, and I’m glad he’s gone away.
So thousands of airline maintenance mechanics and fuel jockeys are better at keeping secrets than the CIA or Catholic Church …….
Sure that checks out.
That’s always where that falls apart for me as well – it requires a conspiracy of silence so vast as to be unbelievable.
Thousands of Americans complicit in spraying $something on everyone, including themselves and their own families.
A good conspiracy theory has to be about things that cannot be objectively verified. Sprayers and tanks? Show them to us.
Sprayers and tanks? Show them to us.
Exactly. By the way, why wouldn’t they just build it into the engine itself if they were integrating it into the design of the plane? Why have some big nozzle hanging out the back when you could put it inside the bypass part of the engine?
Hell, mix the additives into the Jet A and no vast conspiracy needed. It’s a “proprietary blend of detergents” and you just have to pay off a handful of chemists and metallurgists.
Things might be interesting in the House after 4 PM:
The 218th and final signature for the Epstein discharge petition will happen tomorrow.
At 4 PM today, the House swears in the last person Massie needs for his discharge petition.
Discharge of near totally redacted pieces of paper!
To save money the government buys pre-redacted paper.
I thought Massie might actually lose the Trump feud, but then Trump shit his pants the last few days and Massie continues to press on.
Trump’s self destruction over the last few months has been sad to watch. My link to the Barnes interview below lays out the how and why he’s so far off the rails.
“Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump had spent hours at his his house with one of his alleged victims, according to newly released emails.
The pedophile financier named Trump multiple times in emails to Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff over a period of 15 years, according to the communiques released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
Epstein asserts Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in an email referring to his being kicked out of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club for harassing young women who worked there.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15284115/Epstein-says-Trump-spent-hours-one-victims-trove-shocking-new-emails.html
Sure, Jan.
If there was anything legit on Trump, it would have been “leaked” years ago.
Agreed.
This. That is bullshit. I wonder if there is anyway he can sue.
I saw an interview with Massie on his discharge petition.
Massie says he thinks there is nothing in the file implicating Trump of criminal activity because Biden would have used it. Massie thinks Trump flipped on releasing the Epstein files because Trump is for reasons unknown protected some very powerful people that are in the files.
And by years ago, we mean 2015. Probably 2 weeks after the RNC convention. Because the island was no secret and they could have throttled MAGA in it’s crib.
And if that weren’t enough, there were not only 4 years of Biden, but 4 years of FBI that works for a guy they hate that could have leaked that shit.
Wolff the fabulist?
In one email dated April 2, 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: ‘i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.’
Maxwell replied: ‘I have been thinking about that…’
Guy was terrible at typing.
They should have started the email with “Hello fellow child molesters and FBI investigators”
I have noticed that serial liars are completely unaware of the concept of ‘credibility’.
“Coco Austin, 46, reveals the unique reason she breastfed her daughter Chanel until she was age six”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15281727/Coco-Austin-46-breastfed-daughter-six.html
WTF?
Does the daughter have the nickname Milkmaid Dead?
A church with 59B in assets…no way their phone rings day and night with one grifter after another looking to skin them. Nope. They should just throw cash at any anonymous caller that can find their phone number.
They must know a tremendous number of Nigerian princes.
Princes who adore you?
Isn’t there supposed to be a shitty music link in there somewhere?
Bad joke considering what is actually going on in Nigeria at the moment.
I understand that Hollywood refuses to create new content, but why the sudden Schwarzenegger fascination?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/predator-badlands-dek-monster-23c88b7d?st=joJKUr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-running-man-glen-powell-edgar-wright-stephen-king-1236423446/
At least the Running Man remake is based on the story instead of the previous movie. The story was quite good (IMO), predicting (to some level) the rise of reality television shows and mass participation in them.
In the book, the person is released in public, given a head start, and needs to hide from the hunters. The general public can call into a tip line and get rewards if they lead to something. The runner earns so much money per day of avoiding capture, with a grand prize if they survive for so long (that no one has ever won).
This time they got him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Democrats Release New Epstein Emails Referring to Trump
Messages put president’s relationship with Epstein back into the spotlight
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/democrats-release-new-epstein-emails-referring-to-trump-ad8e5824?st=DNe4XW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Democrats Release New Epstein Emails Referring to Trump
Release, fabricate; tomayto, tomahto….
“Referring to” is carrying a lot of weight.
“Kapoor took legal action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) after they used an image of Cloud Gate, which was installed in 2006 and is known locally as “the Bean”, in an advert.
He settled out of court with the NRA in 2018. “It’s a bit more complicated with this,” Kapoor said of the more recent incident, “because they’re a full, if you like, national army unit.””
No idea how he had a case over a public outdoor sculpture.
Fuck you, that’s how.
AKA “a friendly judge”
National army? I am forming a picture of what we are dealing with here….
‘Settled out of court’ could mean anything. It might mean “Yes, I will withdraw my suit if you dont sue me back”
RE: Segregation Academies article:
In Greenwood Mississippi where my parents grew up, the whites built Pillow Academy when they desegregated the schools. My dad was actually the first wave of black students allowed to attend the newly integrated Greenwood High, but they still had separate proms and other activities. By the time he graduated from high school, Pillow Academy was up and running and with the exception of the really poor whites, most of the white students attended the school. While they didn’t explicitly ban black students it was too expensive for most black families and it was alluded to that if you send your child there, it would be an unpleasant experience.
Fast forward to like three years ago, I visited Greenwood for an uncle’s funeral and saw a brochure for Pillow Academy that had a couple of Asian and black students. While still majority white, I don’t think the parents or the board makes a big stink out of black students going to the school.
The segregation story – I keep forgetting if segregation is good or bad.
Good when blacks request a black-only dorm and graduation?
Bad when whites send their kids to a better school?
We don’t even like living among each other. The black students in college who kept up the most ruckus about racism and microaggressions always stayed in white majority areas and would have never been caught dead living in the hood.
The segregation is economic. I dont see anything about that in the article. The article was written by someone whose idea of southern racism comes from a comic book featuring a cardboard cutout of bull Connor as the villain.
It would be unfair not to mention that all of the history taught in schools today is of that quality.
People in the past were just as complex as we are today with just as many subtle circumstances as we face today and populated mostly by people who were doing the best they could with what they had to work with.
This is why judging them by our standards today is incredibly stupid.
Given the time, social organization, technology and economy of the time Aristotles lengthy defense of slavery as ‘the natural order of things’ seems self-evidently reasonable. Today? Not so much.
Today? Not so much.
Thanks to evil Western culture!
A lapse in SNAP benefits has become one of the most tangible effects of the 42-day government shutdown, which has left federal employees without paychecks and sparked increasing flight delays across the country.
Don’t forget rampant vandalism and graffiti in Our National Parks.
As far as I can tell, this is sincere.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/
Is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/hs8l2zm/a/iphone-pocket-by-issey-miyake-short-cinnamon
2 grand to get all colors. cheap all things considered
I keep my phone and pocketable items in my pocket.
Weirdo.
you have pocket privilege unlike the poor wimminz who needz to spend 230 bucks, or more because not all colors go with all outfits. PINK TAX!!!!!!
The iPurse is revolutionary!
II put mine in my, get ready for it. Pocket.
“To be clear, no one ever actually asked that of anyone, and the “all” was added by conservatives looking to discredit the movement. What “believe women” meant was that women are not lying about the fact that sexual harassment and assault are a problem in society that far too many of us experience, and that when a woman tells you, on a personal level, that she has been sexually assaulted, to not immediately assume she is guilty of lying, like you would with any other kind of story about anything else.”
https://www.wonkette.com/p/ross-douthat-somehow-not-worst-person
Feminists said “women never lie about rape” for decades.
See my comment above about serial liars unable to understand the concept of ‘credibility’.
The ‘dont believe your lying eyes’ bit doesnt work very well.
Who was it recently that claimed ‘no democrat ever called Trump Hitler’?
Pritzker. Of course, their are entire data centers of video showing the opposite, and several videos featuring Big Pritz himself.
One of the Fox talking heads called him “JB-back Ribs” the other day.
Due to an unforeseen naming conflict, we are renaming Project AELLA to Project OSSAS (Open Source Summaries At Scale)
Thank you to those who brought the context surrounding this name to our attention, and to our partners and the research community for their ongoing support.
https://x.com/samhogan/status/1988448512137457767
heh
Look who knows camwhores by name.
why do you hate citizen scientists?
She’s a camwhore? I thought she was an IRL whore.
I looked her up, and the brief description included “cam girl”.
https://aella.substack.com/p/the-vision-of-slutcon
she was a IRL prostitute until she started making good money on onlyfans. Now she still does actual sex work but rarely. She used to charge 1600 an hour for an honest fuck, though by her own admission she rarely showers as she does not like it, so take it with a grain of smelling salts.
So literally a dirty whore?
Did anyone see the Aurora Borealis last night? I live just west of Fort Worth and had a view, second time in my life I’ve seen it, last one was in the 80’s. First thought was a fire north of me, then maybe the lights from a radio tower were illuminating the sky. Finally, when the tower lights were ruled out, went to Facebook to see if there were any big fires. Lots of people in the area were posting photos of Northern Lights. People in more northern latitudes had a better view, and people as far south as Galveston could see it in photos.
It was too cloudy for us last night.
Up north here we can see them quite often.
It’s so overcast here I never see the stars, much less the aurora.
I never saw it where we live until earlier this year. I didn’t know about it being visible last night, but people here are posting pictures of it on Facebook. It is really cool. With the naked eye it’s just splotches of color, but the cameras on some phones can take amazing photos of it.
My phone did it little justice, but my daughter got some great shots.
May happen again tonight, but it is difficult to predict. If it does I’ll break out my Canon and a good lens.
Necron, hopefully you have a tripod. That plus a long exposure should give you some really good shots.
Yep. Got a couple of nice shots. First time I’ve seen it with naked eye.
TOK it was very red to the naked eye. My phone honestly did not add much to it with its longer exposure.
https://ibb.co/svZmn0qV
Yes! I am in northern New Mexico and they were visible. My sister-in-law in southern Colorado said that they were overhead and quite spectacular.
I missed the show in March; the forecast is for more tonight.
De rigueur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
Toxteth:
Not this?
Indeed. That started playing in my head as soon as I read Necron’s comment.
I am going outside tonight. I have been working so hard I missed a once-in-a-lifetime thing in DFW.
Also reach out here: BrusselsSproutHead@proton.me. It’s a shame you are in DFW and I can’t find you when there is a get-together.
Email sent.
It was great. I’m just south of lewiston Idaho.
My wife said it was an 8 or an 8.5 and may be bigger tonight.
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
weight classes are just women’s sports for small men
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1988593588809461886
Mary Pat Campbell
@meepbobeep
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1h
Pro sumo doesn’t have weight classes
It’s one of the best aspects of the sport
As far as I can tell, this is sincere.
An absurdly expensive Apple revival of the fanny pack? I’ll have two.
It is the iSCROT
Pointless day old retort:
For thirty grand I could get a Caterham, which would be infinitely better than the “best” Miata of any vintage.
Those are results for university students at UC San Diego.
Only 87% can do math at 1st grade level; just 19% can do math at 8th grade level.
However bad you think it is, its worse.
Universities get 30 times more inflation adjusted gov’t cash then they did in the 1950s.
https://x.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1988272986454102150
this can’t be true
It cant? Academia has been nearly completely skin suited by the commies.
How many times have we heard that math, competence, merit, good work ethic, family,
rule of law etc: the pillars of western civilization, are racist?
I would like some verification but find it no surprise at all.
At my school, “remedial” math meant pre-calculus. I believe it was a zero credit hour class too.
There was also a remedial english class that was held at 7 AM. I think it was the only 7 AM class offered. I had an 8 AM after it, it was entirely foreign students and athletes.
*clears throat*
It can’t? I can believe it.
Does that mean 13 % can’t do math at 1st grade level?
I can do math at 1st grade level, 2nd, 3rd as well, maybe even beyond.
Yes, that’s what it means.
And another thing on the churches and money…my church sends a bunch to overseas missionaries. Including one in Kazakhstan. We don’t just blindly send them checks, every few years our pastor goes on a trip to Kazakhstan, partly as a mission trip, but a bit to “audit” the missionary too. Same for the mission in Northern Ireland we support. And etc. And both of them have made trips to Colorado to address the church too. The one from Kazakhstan apologized for this english because it is his fourth or fifth language. Meanwhile, he was easier to understand than the guy from Ireland.
Cause the guy from Irland was drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsx9rxZ4U
There are no alcoholics in Ireland
Did you say “what is this? Mexico?”
(For those who do not know, in Mexico signaling left from a right lane when there is “no reason” to change lanes, is use to inform the person behind them to go around)
The things you learn in Reddit comments.
This pair was turning left into a gravel road and both of them signaled early about their intentions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ouscbp/oc_i_thought_you_were_signalling_for_me_to_pass/
The use of technology is partly cultural. It is amazing to me how many cultures two generations from wearing a bone in their nose cant figure out how to operate a toaster.
The mention of Aella made me think of the Frisco “rationalist” community which made me remember I hadn’t posted this yet.
https://archive.is/1w2bs
If the whole intellectual-proggie-pretending-to-not-be-a-proggie thing doesn’t work out, Scott Alexander could make a killing in the esoterica biz.
I find it as the kids say cringe to self-identify as a rationalist. Just cause I say I am rational dont mean I iz.
You know what? Just shut it all down. I have no fucks left to give.
Fuck you, kid. I worked 2 (sometimes 3 jobs) during college.
I worked four years before going to college so I could afford to go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Eads
Don’t make fun of the retarded.
He can get a pair of gloves and boots and be hired tomorrow.
I have a question to the glibertariat.
I seem to see on the interwebs that Americans shower with a wash cloth. Is this a majority / wide spread thing? In Romania it is not really a thing, though a sponge or loufa or brush is used on occasion.
Yes.
All of those are common here, washcloth included.
Washcloth or loofa usually. I haven’t used a washcloth in years because cheap loofa washcloth things are ubiquitous and work better.
I use a bar of soap.
You just love bars of all sorts.
Same here, but if I’m extra dirty from doing yard work or something I’ll use a washcloth.
Same. I hate ‘body wash’ with a passion.
Count me in this group.
The wife uses a washcloth though
I too, just use a bar of soap. My hands are rough like a loofa anyway.
To be fair, I think we make loofas from the sloughings of your species.
RJ gets it.
I never liked a washcloth. I’m using a pouf thingie now.
Or just a bar of soap too.
A poofie. I used to do bar way back in the day. Then I showered at my now wife’s house with a poofie and body wash. That’s all she wrote. Of course I get whichever soap I like, but the method hasn’t changed in almost 30 years now.
Loofa. I also have a handled brush to reach that little spot in the middle of my back.
Body towel.
Bar of soap for county lockup.
Washcloth is the only appropriate implement.
Anyone who uses a loofah is wrong.
Sponge is just strange.
My wife does this.
I don’t get it either.
I have hands for a reason.
“Indiana University (IU) has removed lecturer Jessica Adams, who taught a course on “Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice,” pending an investigation into a student complaint. The probe stems from Adams’ use of a controversial graphic titled “pyramid of white supremacy” that labeled “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) as a form of white supremacy on par with “police murdering people of color.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/indiana-university-lecturer-removed-after-calling-maga-covert-white-supremacy-during-presentation
I can’t believe she has a nose ring.
Wow, here’s me saying something nice about IU!
(Go Boilers!)
These types are slowly finding out that the rest of us are getting sick of their shit.
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has declared that the Democrats in the House will not support the spending bill that advanced in the Senate this week, which has brought the government shutdown one step closer to an end. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has also been attacked for the Senate vote, which allowed the bill supported largely by the GOP to go forward.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hakeem-jeffries-vows-house-dems-wont-support-bill-to-reopen-gov-as-chuck-schumer-attacked-over-senate-vote
Why is he this weird ass grey color?
Polonium.
His soul is starting to bleed through the makeup
Lizard people have color blindness?
Protecting our most vulnerable
It’s a win for “federal employees who are not going to be traumatized by RIFs going forward,” said Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, the former governor of Virginia, a state home to nearly 150,000 civilian federal workers.
“I’ve got some folks who didn’t like the vote, but I’m going to have a whole lot of federal employees who are going back to work and they’re getting their paychecks, and they can live through the holidays without worrying that they’re going to get a bad email at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning that they’re laid off.”
“They have been living under a cloud of anxiety since Jan. 20, and we’ve lifted that cloud to some degree,” Kaine added.
Priorities, man.
Have they made so that it will make it just past the warranty in the thinnest oil possible? And is the lifter sticking cylinder deactivation optional or mandatory?
GM’s New V-8 to Come in 5.7-Liter and 6.6-Liter Sizes, Report Claims
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a69381523/gm-new-v-8-sizes-report/
Friend of mine just got a 2025 GMC big ass pick up. I didn’t want to tease him about the motor.
0w-16 or 0w-8, that is the question.
I must have dodged a bullet in out 2016 6.2L Yukon. Cylinder injector deactivation and it’s not had a lick of trouble since we got it 40,000 miles ago. Had 100k on it when we got it so I guess it’s proved itself.
“Jihad Dphrepaulezz, 25, was arrested for allegedly stealing a necklace off a victim off an attendee of the TPUSA event and then left the victim of the robbery bloodied in a fight.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-agitator-named-jihad-charged-with-assault-robberty-after-tpusa-brawl-at-berkeley
Worst name ever?
Last name looks like random letters typed on a keyboard by a cat.
A cat who hates Jews?
A “rapper”. I’m sure that is his birth name. 🙄
I have a property in a rural area and when people up there turn left, they signal and then frequently pull into the left side of the road to make the turn from the opposing lane if there is no oncoming traffic. I have never cared for that, but can see how this might have been prevented by that practice.
It did seem like they were pulling right for a wide left turn. That generally drives me nuts here as you easily go around.
If they had pulled right to the center line it may have been more obvious what their intentions were. Still, I’m not defending the truck that tried to pass them.
D’oh! Meant as a response to Sensei’s Idiots in cars thread.
Lately, not by my choice, I have been spending a lot of time with a young family. They aren’t doing anything out of the ordinary, I just forgot how ordinary because of my self-imposed isolation. My usual joke to people is “I dont get out much but when I do it reminds me why I dont get out much.”
I find what I notice and forgot was so common extremely annoying.
Every communication they have, every bit of information they convey, every question they ask is saturated with and oozing emotion. The inflections, the whines, the appeals to emotion for everything from ‘pass the salt’ to ‘I have to do X tomorrow’ is just nearly sickening to me. Also, human instinct is to talk slightly louder than the ambient noise so if more than one of them are talking it quickly reaches a crescendo of yelling at the top of their voices.
It is driving me crazy.
Yeah. I also find the incessant emotive displays annoying, and also a good sign that I’m being hit up for something.
The more overtly you emote, the less likely I am to believe you…
Yep.
The deal fell far short when it comes to health care. Democrats failed to win an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits that were boosted during the Covid-19 pandemic and are set to expire on Dec. 31. Instead, they secured only a promise from Thune that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the health subsidies by the end of the second week of December. The House has made no such promise.
“Obviously, the Democrats did not hold the line,” said a disappointed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who voted against the funding bill.
“Look, I think it was a terrible, terrible vote at a time when we have a broken health care system,” added another progressive, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who caucuses with Democrats.
Temporary- two decades to flatten the curve.
Have they made so that it will make it just past the warranty in the thinnest oil possible? And is the lifter sticking cylinder deactivation optional or mandatory?
Cam and lifters are now routine service items at every oil change.
The metal shavings from the cam helps add needed oil viscosity?
When I started into this business 19 years ago, I thought soft cams/lifters were a thing of the past. To be fair, most people who experience the problems are customers who go by the oil change light and further or stick conventional oil into a complex motor like these. Today’s motors are not as forgiving as the early 2000s motors, which tolerated any number of maintenance sins.
“Ablative variable timing”
Robert Barnes is a long rant on how Trump’s hubris and horrible personnel choices are destroying his Presidency.
Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent are doing real damage.
https://rumble.com/v71jd7i-foreign-policy-hubris-and-maga-division-w-robert-barnes-live.html
From the Road & Track sidebar:
Tremec dropped one of the bigger bombshells at the SEMA Show this year with its new six-speed manual transaxle that just so happens to fit up beautifully to a C8 Corvette. We paid a visit to the automotive parts supplier a visit in Las Vegas to learn even more. And luckily for all of us, Brad Denniss, a longtime engineer with Tremec and current senior sales engineer, was happy to answer questions.
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What else might this transmission bolt up to? Well, both the C8 and Ford Mustang GTD use Tremec’s TR-9080 DCT, and Denniss suggested that similarly to the C8, this new six-speed transaxle would fit right up to the GTD. (What a lovely coincidence.)
Wait, what? A mid engine Mustang?
The Mustang GTD uses a torque tube and rear mounted transmission to move more weight rearward.
I’m not sure where the motor sits in the chassis. Probably still too forward to be a front mid engine.
Here is a weird question:
In game of thrones, in the North the king who condemned someone to death also carried out the sentence, both show and book, using the sword to behead.
In America if there was a law that said the judge who passes a death sentence needs to also shoot the convict as a method of execution, do you think there would be any judges willing to do it or would the death penalty go away?
Hard to say. In death penalty cases there is rarely any debate over whether or not the crime committed deserves the penalty, only about who is eligible and if the accused is guilty.
I dont think having the judge as a trigger man would make much difference.
it would make a difference if no judge is willing to be trigger man no judge will give the death penalty. I do not think there is a mandatory minimum death penalty soa judge would be forced to sentence to death, or is it?
Alternatively, wither the judge or the prosecutor should shoot if the prosecutor requests the death penalty.
Ah, the old “judge, jury and executioner” construct.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”
Manhattan lawmakers want more affordable housing for artists
https://gothamist.com/news/manhattan-lawmakers-want-more-affordable-housing-for-artists
A prequel to the Mamdani era begins!
NYC has been subsidizing artist lofts for decades. There is nothing new here.
The “Portrait of New York State Artists” survey in 2022 revealed that 57% of more than 13,000 respondents earned less than $25,000 in the previous year and nearly 86% earned less than $50,000.
It’s time to set minimum prices for art.
It’s already been done, think von Mises or Hayek explained that.
Minimum is zero, which is what my starting/ending price probably would be.
Makes me wonder who’s dick you have to suck to qualify for such an entitlement…
“In northern Brazil, near the city of Belém, a strip of rainforest about eight miles long was cleared to build a four-lane highway in advance of the COP30 climate summit that began on Monday.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/brazil-carves-through-amazon-rainforest-highway-ferry-global-climate
LOL
Interesting twist in the government funding bill.
https://www.cato.org/blog/congress-reopens-government-reignites-prohibition
They should just make it legal.
No.
The Mustang GTD uses a torque tube and rear mounted transmission to move more weight rearward.
I had to look. It doesn’t appear to have a torque tube, but it’s front engine rear transaxle layout. Shows how closely I follow this stuff.
Wow these euphemisms.
Manhattan lawmakers want more affordable housing for artists
Gypsy lofts in midtown office buildings!
“Latest Tucker Guest Bigfoot Reveals How Mind-Controlling Chemtrails Are Sprayed Over The Flat Earth By The Jews”
https://babylonbee.com/news/latest-tucker-guest-bigfoot-reveals-how-mind-controlling-chemtrails-are-sprayed-over-the-flat-earth-by-the-jews
Candice Owens hardest hit?
NOT UNTIL STEVE SMITH HIT CANDACE OWENS!
SHE TOO CRAZY EVEN ME, NOT HITTING
Did he drive a diesel van?
Ukraine corruption scandal explained: The $100M plot rocking Zelenskyy
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-corruption-scandal-explained-100m-plot-rocking-volodymyr-zelenskyy-energy-sector/
Wait – are we going to be shocked to discover that Ukraine is as big a corruptocracy as Russia?
Interesting prelude to the second act.
You say ‘discover’ like we don’t already know this…
I am not going to be shocked.
Proto-Presidential jibberjabber
The adulation was gold for a governor with presidential aspirations as he steps into a power vacuum. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle climate policies both at home and abroad, and other likely Democratic presidential contenders are absent from the United Nations climate talks. Seeing a chance to plant his green flag on an international stage, Newsom is embracing the role of climate champion as his own party backs away at home and the politics of the issue shift rightward.
It’s a role fitting Newsom’s instincts: anti-Trump, pro-environment and pro-technology, and with a political antenna for the upside of picking fights, finding opportunity in defiance.
“We’re at peak influence because of the flatness of the surrounding terrain with the Trump administration and all the anxiety,” he told POLITICO from the sidelines of a green investor conference in Brazil on Monday.
Camwhore doing camwhore stuff.
So you’re betting he picks Aella as his running mate?
Ask him why California still allows internal combustion vehicles? Just one more pol who talks the talk but realizes it is impossible to walk the walk. I bet he bicycles around Sacramento and to the French Laundry too.
You mean the same climate policies that destroyed California?
And that are rapidly being recognized as bullshit even by normies?
Yeah, stay the course, Gav. 🙄
The areligious* are increasingly anti religious and want to seize any assets from organized religion specifically churches. Just like commies, French revolutionaries, and others throughout history.
*they claim to areligious but they’ve substituted culture and politics for formal religion.
It’s concern trolling by revolutionaries.