It’s fucking cold out. Like -5 degrees with lost of wind for a wind chill low enough that it doesn’t matter whether you specify it in Fahrenheit or Celsius. A couple feet of residual snow on the ground and another couple feet arriving tonight and tomorrow. Where the fuck is Greta Thunberg when you need her?
But births happen irrespective of temperature. And today’s include a guy who was a real gas; a bonny lad; someone who scares me; one of my heroes; another one of my heroes; and yet another one of my heroes; the godfather of Michael Strahan; and a complex guy who couldn’t go in reverse.
The fiat money system is even worse than you imagined. Thank our government’s war on “vice.”
Too local: Was he allowed to ride in the ambulance?
The gift from W that keeps on giving. May that moron burn in hell.
The lack of self-awareness is hilarious.
Why we need to take journalism seriously.
“That’s unfair! We’re HELPING!”
Every once in a while, the Old Guy stumbles into something he didn’t know before. I’ve been playing this song for almost 6 decades, with maybe a dozen different bands. And I had only heard Canned Heat’s famous ripoff of it, wasn’t even aware of the original, Bull Doze Blues. Absolutely fascinating.
Everyone panic, we’re all going to die!
Yes, yes we are.
Whoopee! 🎶
Thank you, Country Joe.
“Coldest winter storm ever BEGINS: Half a foot of snow falls across the South as roads turn deadly… and the worst is yet to come”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15489181/extreme-cold-warning-forecast-winter-storm-live-blog.html
Repent, the end is near.
Global Warming: it slices, it dices, it Juliann’s!
COLDEST EVER!!!
My bread fort will save me.
But do you have enough eggs for your egg cannons to beat back the storm?
Yes, and a moat filled with milk.
Old Guy music, and a birthday boy to boot!
“Adding insult to endless injury is the knowledge that anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and fraud protection efforts that justify bank powers and interventions like this are almost entirely misdirected. AML compliance costs banks tens of billions every year. Yet their record for “protecting” customers and preventing legitimate financial fraud is roughly zero.”
More war on drugs nonsense.
Start out with a legitimate concern and use the empowerment to step on others for whom the regulations weren’t (supposedely) intended. See also: It’s for the children.
The regulations just provide the excuse, the underlying reality is that when you deposit funds to a bank account you are quite literally paying that money to the bank for a set of defined services. It’s their money once it is deposited, and all those papers you signed but did not read set out the conditions under which they will give it back to you (including delays you have agreed to) and the services they will provide in terms of paying bills on your behalf with their money in exchange for you giving them yours (all of which are subject to conditions). That’s why it is an ‘account’ not a lock box.
Yep, and this is why a small pile of cash at home and diversification into wealth that you actually possess (land, ammo, gold) is paramount. You never know if/when theyre gonna shut off the spigot.
Oh, and the gold purchases where you own it but they keep it has to be one of the more pointless exercises in investing.
Some folks like to publicly display their gold, others not so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cwcgExm-JQ
Fourscore:
I’ve got a small fire resistant safe that holds my precious metals and identification documents.
I lost mine in a Boating Accident(tm).
BTW, is there a reason I have to log in every 15 minutes?
My wife made up 5 packages of her treasures and sent her nieces, nephew and sister each a package. Registered, insured.
We have a safe but didn’t open it for many years, forgot what was in it, then couldn’t open it ’cause the battery was dead. I have a lot of trouble getting down/up from floor level. Finally got it opened (and convinced my wife that she should let someone else enjoy her finery).
I didn’t read it because I was eight or nine when I opened the account.
How much is war on drugs and how much is the war on “terrorism”? Having worked in financial services at the time of 9/11, the banking stuff really ramped up after PATRIOT act. When Bush said we can’t let the terrorists win and then handed them victory.
“As federal agents target citizens”
Targeting citizens who are acting like maniacs versus citizens who just wanted to be left the hell alone. Sorry Heidi, there’s no equivalence there.
That dipshit Florida Congressman, Max Frost I think, saying “everyone is an American, regardless of status”.
I skimmed about half of that trash. Performative drama and alternate reality agitprop.
Has the TSA ever caught an actual terrorist?
Whoa, that sounds dangerous, you don’t expect those silly people to be doing something like that do you? And thank gods they aren’t armed.
Not one.
To expand: people who know what they’re talking about say that there’s two things which pretty much ended hijacking: first, locking the cockpit doors. Second, passengers no longer being told to cooperate with the hijackers and their willingness to fight back. With the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber, the hijackings were foiled by the perps getting the shit beaten out of them by people who remembered what happened in the 9/11 hijackings.
Unfortunately, the second is being rapidly forgotten as a generation has come along with no direct memory of 9/11. Not to mention sympathy for the poor, downtrodden Middle East “refugees.”
“IT’S A DETERANT!!!”
Tulsi Gabbard?
“Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in Minneapolis and otherwise participated in an economic blackout on Friday to protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge in the state.”
Imagine if they were protesting something more important like taxes being too high. We might just see a revolution… 🤔
Never happen, they won’t even protest taxes that are being stolen en masse via fraud.
Nothing says stunningly brave resist! like withholding custom from your struggling neighborhood businesses.
The guy who married his mommy aged molester is the great masculine hope of the globalists?
I just rolled my eyes at the headline and moved on. We’re living in a simulation.
Did he get those from Biden? I remember they were smitten with Biden wearing those too.
Meh, the issue isn’t fiat money, it is simply any money system. Money is a convenience and we always trade off security for convenience. His bitch started with ApplePay – which isn’t a bank in any sense.
“Because now we have armed, masked federal agents going door to door in our communities, pulling people over in our streets, rounding people up in our neighborhoods, demanding their paperwork.”
Gee, I wonder why, you stupid cunt.
Clinton deported around 12 million. Obama deported around 5 million, eliminated “due process” in many circumstances, and put “kids in cages”. And no one said shit.
Then it was decided to create “sanctuary” cities and states. So local authorities were prohibited to cooperate with the feds.
““They’ve had their necks kneeled on.””
LOL
Is ICE really going door to door? Seems unlikely.
Are they randomly stopping people on the street and demanding papieren, bitte?
I severely doubt it. ERO receives targets from HSI, Border Patrol, etc. Randomly stopping people would be a huge waste of time. Now, just like regular cops, they sometimes go to the wrong address, get names confused, or act like complete meatheads.
I doubt it but when literally every single MSM outlet is going with that narrative it becomes difficult to figure out the truth.
A lot of the lies get debunked but the lies are coming too quickly to debunk them in real time.
“Because I’m having a hard time reconciling it all. I’m having a hard time understanding why the leaders who cried the loudest about government overreach during a pandemic are now endorsing government-sanctioned violence — against their own people. I’m having a hard time understanding why the voters and the political party propping up these leaders aren’t screaming “tyranny” now.”
Because no one voted for any of that, which was completely unprecedented and ineffectual. As opposed to immigration law, which was voted by congress, and not that different than every other country.
against their own people
Illegal aliens are definitionally not “their people”.
Unless we’re going for some sort of bullshit race essentialism.
slumbrew:
“NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!”
I’m at the point I am waiting for someone to use a sign like that as a defense against a home invasion charge: “Your honor, the residents clearly believe that they are living on stolen land; therefore, by their own sign, I cannot be doing something illegal by entering.”
“It was stolen from those guys, who stole it from those guys who stole it from some people but we’re not sure who since the new guys genocided them, who genocided the people before them…”
Heh. There was a professor at UW that did that, saying that he couldn’t do a “land acknowledgement due to not knowing who was originally there. He got big heat, much wamp-wamp.
https://stonetoss.com/comic/its-great-turtles-all-the-way-down/
Justice for the Chemacum!
The Chemacum were literally genocided in the 1800’s by 2 of the dominant tribes in the area that today call themselves “First Peoples”. by the 1900’s there were 3 Chemicum survivors.
The Great White Father cosplays. https://www.chemakum.org/
They’re just pissed because they couldn’t get the non-compliant rabble into camps during COVID.
I remember Clinton’s DOJ also going after larger employers who hired illegals. I still think that’s the route to use. Go after the welfare and the jobs and the problem fixes itself.
If sanctuaries stop releasing criminals who have other sources of income.
Sanctuary laws started in the 80’s.
Don’t think those were laws. It was a church movement.
Oregon in 1987, SF in 1989.
Indeed they were, but those laws were different than the “sanctuary” laws that came afterwards. It was originally sold as “we aren’t going to ask people reporting crimes or stopped for minor traffic offenses about their immigration status”. This is entirely reasonable, and many people think that is how it still works. Even when counties pass laws that explicitly protect rapists and murderers from the Feds.
https://abc7news.com/post/san-mateo-county-sanctuary-co-asylum-seekers-convicted-immigrants-deportation/13156977/
“door to door”. They keep saying that, but is that really what’s happening? I think they are going to specific addresses looking for specific people.
“From a door at a specific address to another door at another specific address is still ‘door-to-door.'”/lying journalist
“Surely money in a bank account in my name is my money?”
Ackchually, it’s a debt that the bank owes you. When you deposited it, you essentially loaned it to the bank. As with any loan proceeds, it’s the bank’s money now.
AML compliance costs banks tens of billions every year. Yet their record for “protecting” customers and preventing legitimate financial fraud is roughly zero.
But the right people got paid and that’s all that matters.
The govt (and that’s any govt) has to make sure their interests are protected first!
USAA has put several fraudulent credit card transactions on hold and contacted me about them over the years, so I’m not sure I would say it’s zero. Of course, that wasn’t due to anti-money-laundering regs, so the (intended) point still stands.
My bank has never put a hold on anything. If I see a suspicious debit card transaction and report it, they’ll credit the money, send me a new debit card, and then a month or so later send me a letter that says, “Yep, that was fraud. Case closed.”.
My one credit card company has put fraud holds on some legitimate transactions, but never on anything that was actual fraud. Like my bank, it’s up to me to catch it.
Yeah, Wells Fargo just did that for me, and was really great in how everything played out.
Yes, I know, Wells Fargo, but this has been a good line of credit.
They seem to be pretty quick with shutting down fraud or what the suspect is fraud with their credit card.
Years ago we had some Australian outfit charge the card three times in a row in a minute or so something like $1243. They shut it down but not before three charges element through. The next time was when I got a call over a McDonald’s purchase at the Atlanta airport. I was waiting online for my double quarter pounder. Last time I flew. Dang, it’s been almost 15 years.
Yep. There is a reason I am putting my rental house on the market next week.
Does your landlord know?
she will find out in the end.
Which end?
This needs to be a three panel comic.
Today’s weather will send those undocumented south way faster than the threat of ICE. The protestors are those wannabee snow birds that can’t come up with the cash to make the trip.
The businesses that closed in support of the protest may be in for a surprise when the weather warms up but the would be customers don’t.
“Testosterone is the primary currency in Davos this year, and the French president’s aviators have placed him at the top of the pecking order”
Not his wife’s dick?
I saw a clip of him giving a speech in sunglasses. It was weird. Does anyone know why he had them on to give a speech?
“He fell”
He talked back to his mommy and she popped him one in the eye.
I have never understood the silly conspiracy theory about her being trans. It’s so pointless and just distracts from the actual weirdness that he is married to his high school teacher with every indication that she molested him as a teen.
He’s claiming some medical reason.
Because he wanted to look chic.
A black eye is a medical reason.
Took a leaf from Rand Paul’s book?
I don’t get those accusations either; she looks like a typical Parisienne to me. Too thin, too much chirurgie plastique.
So you might have heard there was some vocal-fry beta grilling all the American tennis players at the Australian Open this week in hopes of getting a rEsIsT! soundbite. I saw a bunch of them tell the guy more or less to fuck off, but the one I see who has taken the bait and is not named Naomi Osaka is exactly the one I expected it to be lol.
Followed by a lot of whining about how marginalized she is and a bunch of puffy flattery from the woke writer celebrating her stunning bravery. 🙄
“I’ve been playing this song for almost 6 decades”
What do you play?
Flute and guitar. Occasionally bass.
Have any of the protesters has actually ever sponsored an illegal, in their own home, with their own money?
It’s like adopting a kid in Africa that you never see. Just “send your money and we’ll send you a picture of your sponsored child”.
From the number of them that end up getting caught with child porn I would not be surprised to learn that some of them have had an illegal or two in their basement before.
Just “send your money and we’ll send you a picture of your sponsored child”.
There are people campaigning against that now, too. It’s easier to rake off the vig if you’re claiming to help an entire group rather than setting up one-to-one relationships.
“A Florida hospital has terminated a nurse who said she hoped White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gets severely injured during childbirth.
“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear,” Lexie Lawler, formerly a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, said in a video posted on TikTok.
“I hope you f—-ing rip from bow to stern and never s— normally again, you c—,” she added.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/23/media/unhinged-florida-nurse-fired-after-foul-tiktok-rant-directed-towards-karoline-leavitt-goes-viral/
She seems nice.
They only terminated her if the Canadians were involved.
Licensing board needs to come in and finish off her career.
“Green Bay Packers player Rasheed Walker was arrested at LaGuardia Airport Friday morning after he tried to check a bag that contained a handgun and ammunition, prosecutors said.
The 25-year-old offensive lineman was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. after telling a Delta Air Lines employee that his luggage contained a locked box holding his 9mm Glock pistol, according to a criminal complaint.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/23/us-news/green-bay-packers-player-rasheed-walker-arrested-on-gun-charge-at-nycs-laguardia-airport-sources/
New York ignoring federal law.
What law did he break?
“Walker — who joined the Wisconsin team in May 2022 — was charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm.”
So having a handgun locked up in your checked baggage is illegal in NY? I knew they were strict, but wow.
Afaik, NY ignores the “safe passage” provision of the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act, by arguing it doesn’t apply to air travel.
“I first started looking into this issue after I discovered a YouTube video of me being approached and covertly filmed titled, “Picking up Cute Blonde in Leicester Square”.”
Least subtle humblebrag ever.
“Chris Cillizza, CNN’s former editor-at-large who worked with Lemon before both of them were separately dismissed, penned a piece on his Substack with the headline, “Is Don Lemon a Journalist?”
“Are the ‘Pod Save America’ guys journalists? I would say ‘no’ but I am not sure that is the majority view. Is what Ben Shapiro does journalism? Again, I would say ‘no’ — but I am not sure that’s the common take,” Cillizza wrote Thursday. “Don — and others like him that have grown up and found huge success in the independent creator world — are an even tougher call for me.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/media/don-lemons-ex-cnn-colleague-chris-cillizza-questions-journalist-after-storming-minnesota-church/
Two retards fighting.
How successful is Lemon’s podcast, anyway?
*Bings*
He’s got 800,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, which is impressive (and weird since that’s more than twice as many as his CNN show had). Actual listeners/viewers is not readily available.
How many of them are bots.
There is no way that many people are listening to that moran.
Subscribing only takes one click, and you never have to see him again.
Doesn’t mean anything.
Silicone Saturday should probably debanked.
https://archive.is/dN8UX
Some of those ladies are going right in the bank, IYKWIMAITTYD
One person’s housing crash is another person’s affordable housing.
Also, my wife was concerned about the value of our house “falling” (it’s still worth twice what we paid for it), I suggested since we aren’t moving and pay taxes based on home values, this is a net positive.
Same. We did buy a new house but it is more than 3/4 paid off so any impact is minimal. We have no intention of moving again soon. Moving sucks.
I actually need to encourage my daughter to start looking for a starter house now that prices are down. She’s been renting and rents are still going up.
I don’t know what it will take for rent to stabilize. We deported a ton of renters. Local governments seem to treat landlords like ATMs is part of the problem.
For rents to go down, you need a greater supply of rentals to renters. And we still don’t have enough apartment buildings, and that increases pressure up the supply chain.
Part of the problem is the Envy Class’ assertion that all landlords are preternaturally wicked and dishonest, and that every tenant is as pure as the driven snow. A lot of bad law and “tenants’ rights” grift flows from this.
Not to worry, building 3-4 story apartment bunkers in places like Jefferson, Sutherlin, and LaPine. Completely out of place and stick out like sore thumbs.
Primary homes are not an asset. They are a liability. I don’t want my value to go up because that simply means I will be taxed more.
“As millions of Americans brace for severe winter weather, the presenter, 44, took a moment to explain where the catastrophic storm is expected to hit.
During the broadcast, Dreyer accidentally referred to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of Mexico, its name before it was controversially changed by Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15492197/today-dylan-dreyer-gulf-america-mexico-weather-forecast.html
Changing the name was stupid.
I love it as a hilarious F U. Although personally I was pushing for Gulf of Van Halen.
While I agree in principle, I like casually referring to it as the Gulf of America with a straight face, which always gets one of two reactions, a chuckle or disgust. When the reaction is disgust, I then agree it was a stupid move to rename it Gulf of America and tell them everyone knows it should be the Gulf of Texas.
+1 fainting couch
Mexico’s coastline is insignificantly longer than the U.S.’s. So how about we just call it The Gulf of the Americas.
The people complaining about this are the same people complaining that America refers to more than just the US. 😂🤣
He should have added an S to the end of it.
doomer
@uncledoomer
in canada they let you just kill your bitch wife
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2015000821113770467
So…murder. State sanctioned murder. But we are the nazis, never forget that.
That ball is just getting started. Wait till it’s really rolling.
Amazing how thick most people are. Even when it happens right before their eyes, even when they have been soundly warned, they keep doing the same dumb shit. The cycle never ends.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams
Importing millions from cultures that have completely different ideas of what or how important ‘truth’, ‘fair’, ‘honorable’, ‘right’, ‘wrong’, ‘ownership’, etc is is the most destructive and stupid thing we could have done. That is why the left did it.
“Truth, Justice and the American Way”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/heres-how-supermans-iconic-motto-of-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-evolved-over-time-180986927/
From the moment it was born, the USA had a considerable number of people who believed they were entitled to be slave masters.
Added to this home grown variety, were waves of immigrants – mostly from Europe – whose ranks included more who believed anti-Lockean political philosophies. I’m surprised we’ve lasted 250 years with any semblance of the Spirit of ’76.
Photographs of Edinburgh from the late 1800s.
Edinburgh in that period was an industrial hub known for brewing, printing, and manufacturing. It was also famed as the “Athens of the North” for its intellectual and literary culture.
https://x.com/CharmOfCulture/status/2014414245991960662
Most beautiful city I’ve ever visited (maybe Bath too). Those photos don’t do it justice. Taking the sleeper train and waking at dawn in the valley between Old Town and New Town…
….and look at them now. Well, look at the entire anglosphere. It is truly sad.
Yeah, how did they get to be the “scum of the fuckin’ earth”?
A scotsman told me “All the good ones left”
And what about the other people in the hotel?
https://x.com/JDVance/status/2014560168558710997
Such assholes. Where is the one tweaked up skinny shirtless guy who is going to go out there and whip all their asses?
Those assholes do the same shit to hotels where they think ICE is staying.
Although to their credit, they sound like they could use more Hispanic immigrants.
“Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. No matter how much information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. You are stuck with them until they die.”
Your terms are acceptable.
Scum. But keep it up. The more everyone gets an eyeful of their pathetic comic evil the better.
Weird Japanese gravure pics
https://x.com/cocorotoyoshima/status/2014606457304711565
Her whole feed sums up Japanese X. Not to be confused with X Japan.
Promote! Promote! Promote! She’s already 22. Got to get those numbers up to make it to 30. Or land another career.
What am I supposed to be getting out of that?
A gravure idol basically makes a living with by US standards quaint risqué photos. Bikini pics and the like.
In this case she had a chest x ray so you see the outline of her tits. She is being tongue in cheek.
Part of the gig is being appropriately provocative in your words without being too crude.
Ok. Looks like an x=ray to me. I can certainly appreciate the beauty of women but C’mon….this is just the way we are made. Most people need to stop acting like children, grow up and come to terms with that.
Grown men slobbering over some girl like they are in the 5th grade is just more evidence that we are still in the monkey stage.
And no silicone bags.
And I’m wondering how all of this sits with the folks who viewed vaccine mandates as government overreach. Who accused educators and epidemiologists and public health experts of stripping away our freedom and personal liberties. Who couldn’t abide mask mandates. Who viewed guidance as tyranny.
We were merely making helpful suggestions. It’s not like we were going to destroy the lives and livelihoods of the people who declined to comply.
False equivalence is false.
And what about the other people in the hotel?
Whose side are you on?!
For Neph:
https://x.com/Choosing2Thrive/status/2014908838915539037/photo/1
Honestly, I’m glad. The funny thing is local press is wondering how the Browns are going to fulfill the Rooney rule now. McDaniels was one of their Rooney candidates.
““I’m proud to be Somali. To me, being Somali isn’t just eating bananas with rice — It’s a lot. It’s an interesting thing. It’s very hard to describe what it means to be Somali and what it means to be American but it’s like a cultural fusion. It’s kind of like the bananas and rice, you know?” she said.
“People think you could eat bananas with rice,” she said.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/somali-who-claims-she-was-kidnapped-ice-says/
The average IQ in Somalia is 84.
Have many been tested?
I feel like I should just bookmark this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q74Ej1uEl6Q
I read that in CPRMs voice.
“Anti-ICE Leftists Seize the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, Agitators Claim More Than 100 Clergy Members Among Arrested Activists”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/watch-anti-ice-leftists-seize-minneapolis-st-paul/
“Six unhinged leftists barricaded themselves inside the office of San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria on Friday, demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be removed from the city and that local police cease any cooperation with federal immigration authorities.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/insurrection-leftists-barricade-themselves-san-diego-mayors-office/
These people are like teenagers mad at the cops for busting them over underage drinking.
I suspect America is rapidly getting sick of their shit.
I know I am.
I doubt the old ladies’ nationality is under scrutiny. “Let’s you and him fight!”
“clergy”.
Yeah, and my brother’s buddy is a priest of the temple of the sun or whatever that online thing is that let’s you officiate weddings for a small fee.
Well, huh. It appears to be snowing.
Forecast here said 0% precipitation and I could not find a live radar but the cartoon animated one showed no clouds.
It has been snowing heavily for three hours. I’m starting to doubt the reliability of this stuff.
Sensei- I watched that engineering idiot’s cvt thing. WTF? Rube Goldberg would be proud. They should definitely hang that on the variable compression ratio motor.
It’s still got far less parts than a conventional automatic.
The channels and check balls on a valve body look like some alien creation.
One way cam timing is now changed is with an electric motor either continuously running faster or slower than the cam. It shifts it to advance or retard from the default profile.
WHAT IS ‘STAR TREK LIBERALISM’?
When you encounter the worst excesses of the present-day dispensation (‘Gay Race Communism’ some call it) it is easy to imagine that the ideology is, in its various manifestations, motivated by resentful sentiment. In many cases it is, for sure, but it is a mistake to think it is always like this in its conception. The material consequences of the ideology are, if you are being precise, a confluence of multiple competing aesthetic and moral visions
…
Star Trek Liberalism’ then is the best, most utopian version of the present-day so-called ‘Liberal’ settlement, its end telos, ‘the kind of future its advocates actually want to bring about’. You could describe it as something like ‘Highbrow Multicultural Utopianism’. Some of its advocates might describe it as ‘Humanism’. This is in essence high-functioning utopian ‘Liberalism but only for 130IQ+ Anglos’ with the assumption that everybody on Earth (and in space) is also a ‘130IQ+ Anglo’ or that they can at least be uplifted to the state of middle-class anglodom with the right kinds of education
Gene Roddenberry articulates one of the best versions of this ‘humanistic’ vision in Star Trek. At least in earlier series you have what is essentially a Colonial British Office class emulating the culture & standards of their historical predecessors but in space. They wear uniforms and went to officer school and are all preoccupied with hierarchy and honour and fairness and discovery etc etc. It is ‘Master and Commander’ except the crew are a rainbow coalition of nationalities and species. They are out together ‘exploring the Final Frontier’, overcoming problems with intelligence and resourcefulness.
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2014834593279705310
First, solve the scarcity problem. Second, ignore that they never define the economics and what people can own in Star Trek. Third, assume you’ll be a captain and in charge regardless of your abilities.
Finally, ignore the differences between that and the real world.
So…cartoon world.
Top.Men get the chicks and life of luxury while the plebes do the scut work and get killed like ants?
Those aren’t plebes. They are cardboard cut-outs. What do the kids call them these days? NPC’s?
I wonder what would happen if a private business owner put up a sign saying, “Leave your politics at the door”?
It’s still got far less parts than a conventional automatic.
A lot more software, though.
Planetary gears are cool.
Sadly a modern 10 speed with lockup probably has more code than what got us to the moon.
Straight cut planetary gears are cooler.
The Robot Cantina golf cart drive system makes more sense, if you want seamless speed control.
Worse than the Rape of Nanking
It is often said that we are living in a “post-truth” political environment. The term rose to favor due to the 2016 election of President Trump. Oxford Dictionaries specifically cited Trump when it selected the term as word of the year. The irony is that the proof of post-truth politics is often found among those who use it the most on the left, in the media and academia.
The bait boy hoax is particularly disgraceful. It is common to have minor children present during arrests of all kinds. Officers will often try to get family members to take a child rather than put him into child services.
In this case, ICE officers were trying to detain Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an undocumented Ecuadorian national, when he bolted and left behind his five-year-old child, Liam Conejo Ramos.
Rather than leave the child in the freezing cold on the street, the officers took the child to his home to get his mother to take him in. She refused to open the door despite agents reportedly saying that she would not be detained. They proceeded to take the boy to McDonald’s, play his favorite music, and take care of him. He was never arrested. They also did not send him into detention. According to ICE, his father asked for the boy to be allowed to stay with him at a detention facility, and ICE agreed.
They should have left him on the sidewalk.
The goal is to destroy the system. To do that the culture must be destroyed. To replace this system with one where they have total control forever is the only goal. All of the fabricated issues and narratives, all of the theater whining, are only means to that end. They do not believe nor care about any of the things they say.
I am still disturbed by the ‘Canadian government commits murder by whim’ story. They are demonstrating that the goal has b been achieved there. That is what they want here.
Should have arrested mom too.