Good afternoon, my glibs and mythical glibettes. I hope this Wednesday afternoon finds y’all a bit less harried than it finds me. My company went live with my application as their main line of business application, and it has been about as good as one could hope, which means I have about 3 months worth of ticky-tack data migration issues and bullshit things to deal with. But seriously, working from home is great, because nobody is driving all the way across Pinellas county from Tampa to hold a torches and pitchfork tutorial with me as the guest of honor. Or if they did, they would be using said implements on some asshole driver long before they reached me. So at least I’ve got that going for me. I honestly feared it was going to be a lot worse, and honestly, much of the lack of uproar was the shittiness of our prior system. Anyhow, you deserve links, and I’ve got to get back to pretending I give a shit about why this person has to do “double work” on something.
Jesus Christ. Imagine if your city was too filthy for South American and European soccer fans. I’m also unsure whether this is now ridiculously clean, or just a decent start.
Its like the Iberico ham of long pig.
This is the cyberpunk future we deserve.
The Irish are now just like the French.
All right. You kids don’t have too much fun. I know I won’t.
The Irish are now just like the French.
Hey Now! I am offended.
Seriously. Don’t be comparing me to the fuckin’ potatoheads…
I found France to be a lovely place. Unfortunately, it is occupied by the French.
Honestly…I’ve found that most foreign criticisms of France and French people are accurate, if re-framed as criticisms of Paris and Parisians.
French people really are quite lovely, if you discount the inmates of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The rest of the country is just great. I imagine that the same is true of Ireland outside of Dublin.
I’ve only been in Paris briefly. I found it one of the coldest receptions that I got while on business travel.
I spent three weeks in downtown Toulouse on business travel. The French were not particularly helpful to a newbie visitor to the city. I pretty much gave up on French restaurants and spent most of my time frequenting Indian and Chinese restaurants. At least they would speak English to me.
I have extensive experience working with our French subsidiary company in Toulouse. The engineers from France drove me nuts. This definitely lead me to be biased against all French people. Probably unjustly so, but oh well.
I have never travelled to France on vacation. I recognize that I have not direct experience with ordinary French people.
I spent 5 years in France, in the rural areas. The country people were much the same as country folks here. Could not act as the Ugly American, without
losing your new French acquaintances.
I got mugged in Paris – only time in my life.
Beautiful city but unpleasant people overall.
The only people I’ve had problems with in France are the North Africans and the Quebecois.
I’ve been to Ireland. I have not been to France.
People in Dublin are so-so. People get much friendlier outside of Dublin.
The French expats to America that I’ve known were all good people.
Every time I’ve been in Quebec, if I at least stumble through a few words of French, people switch to English and have been good to me. And the women are hot.
I simply can’t understand why Americans can’t get along with the French. I’ve spent months in France–Paris and half a dozen places in Provence, business and vacation–and never had a bad moment with anybody there.
Maybe I’m insufficiently sensitive to slights.
I’d rather be a potato head than a white flag waver.
Some of the nicest people I met in all of Europe were in Dublin. Which, at the time, was a bit of a shit hole.
Same with Limerick, on the west side, and Belfast in the NI.
Just great people. With a slight history of terrorism.
I’ve found that most foreign criticisms of France and French people are accurate, if re-framed as criticisms of Paris and Parisians.
Paris smelled like urine and we started using specific homeless people as navigation aids, because they never moved.
The guy that owned the Air BnB in Ouistreham wasn’t rude, so much, but my wife and I still
make fun offondly remember his insistent efforts to get us to pronounce Caen correctly.Ouistreham, by the way, is an interesting place. It is the location of Sword Beach, the one D-Day beach where French troops landed. Ouistreham was a vacation resort before the war, and the locals almost completely erased all signs of the war to restore it to a resort town. If you want to see bunkers, shell craters, war museums, try the other beaches.
I have not been to France.
Since I don’t have a journalism degree from Colombia University, I need to admit to realizing that I had suppressed memories of flying through Charles de Gaulle which technically means I was in France. I suppressed memories because all the workers there exhibited all the negative stereotypes of French workers.
potato eating surrender monkeys?
Pomme de Terre-orist.
The Irish are mainly micturated off because of the mass importation of migrants. The media are never going to report the real seething about the un-assimilating foreigners. My sister visited Ireland a couple of years ago and said there are parts of Dublin where there no visible native Irish at all. She is the liberal’s liberal and reported that as if it were a good thing.
Others I know who live there are really fed up with the intruders.
The Irish have a bit of a history with that. But enough about the English…
Lawmakers were also scheduled to vote Tuesday on the fuel support package amounting to 505 million euros ($595 million) that Martin said will ease some cost-of-living pressures.
Sounds like they should just cut spending and taxes instead.
That’s just crazy-talk.
Our cities are as disgusting as any low-trust society’s and even more so as many of them have lost the will to “take out the trash”, so to speak because the country is paralyzed with fear over accusations of “racism” and “equity” so we largely let criminals roam free and mentally ill addicts live on sidewalks everywhere.
Thanks as always, Brett. Hope the launch goes as smooth as can be. Just found this and have to bounce, so I’ll add to the links:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme CourtJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.” … She referred to [Trump’s emergency] orders, which often are issued with little or no explanation as “back-of-the-envelope, first-blush impressions of the merits of the legal issue.”
Worse still, she said, was that the court then insists that “those scratch-paper musings” be applied by lower courts in other cases.” …
The orders suffer from an additional problem, she said, a failure to acknowledge that real people are involved, making them “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2
I wish other Justices would go on the record for their concerns that Justice Action Jackson and her constitutional knowledge is remarkably inappropriate. I wish they’d say they’re ashamed, or better, yet embarrassed, to be lumped together with her. Impeachment for incompetence? Is that a thing? It should be a thing.
The left doesn’t find her embarrassing, because to them she’s perfect. Her legal reasoning usually boils down to “I feel like it should be this way”. Ideally they would pack the SC with such people.
Yeeeep. I’d like a social gauntlet thrown: “If you are upset about certain syllables ‘offending’ you, you will be treated as the child you’re acting like. No soup for you.”
It ain’t the fucking ‘N-Words W Attitude. Demonstrate you’re not to be taken seriously, *cough VOLDEMORT! *cough* you won’t be. Dismissed from Adult Conversation.
They absolutely won’t let that opportunity slip by again next time.
They backed down from packing mainly due to the public uproar it was causing. Seems the punters don’t like that, ‘specially when it is nakedly partisan.
Whether or not that would stop them in the future, only time will tell.
Wait, who has been issuing emergency orders? It seems to me the lefty judges have been issuing those to block Trump. Sometimes they may be warranted, but mostly they aren’t, IMO.
I wish other Justices would go on the record for their concerns that Justice Action Jackson and her constitutional knowledge is remarkably inappropriate. I wish they’d say they’re ashamed, or better, yet embarrassed, to be lumped together with her.
Not going to happen. The courts are big into collegiality. And, of course, any criticism of her, no matter how on-point, would be labeled as sexist and racist. The only person who could maybe get away with that is Justice Thomas, but he’s too classy to do that publicly at least while he’s still on the bench.
I’m hearing Ireland is swirling down the drain faster than Britain, and protests are arising from more than just “fuel costs”. Think unchecked migration of savages and two-tier justice and more.
No way. A Manhattan jury too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/livenation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-antitrust-trial-rcna273714
Hard to shed a tear here, however.
Auction the tickets.
You’ve got thousands of tickets. You could do a Dutch auction.
Hand out the tickets according to need, comrade.
The image looks like a slice of highly marbled flesh, reminiscent of a high-end steak with abundant fine-grained streaks of fat. But that’s not dinner.
Nah. Too much fat between the muscle and the skin, not enough intramuscular.
So here’s a thought: cut public transportation so that Sasqueetchia has to *walk* across her food desert to get her daily ration of chocolate pudding and salty snacks. At least she’ll get in some exercise before the Type II destroys her organs.
End the food and medical subsidies.
Let them eat themselves to death.
Please tell me they have a couple cloned Tommases ready to get out of the tank. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-he-has-multi-pick-scotus-plan-ready-retirement-speculation-heats-up
Paging Don Willett. Don Willet to the white courtesy phone, please.
^This.
I think all the talk about Cruz and Lee is just fluffing and speechifying. Plus, Cruz has said he doesn’t want it.
Willett would be like having a second Gorsuch.
“Judge Roy Bean”
Well that’s an ending.
And Vini is unsurprisingly acting like a prick.
Trump blockaded the blockade. Earlier today CNBC said Iran declared it stopped petrochemical exports.
So I guess there is nothing to blockade, right?
Now this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-offers-proposal-allowing-ships-exit-oman-side-hormuz-free-attack-source-2026-04-15/
It’s interesting when the orange man is as crazy as the Iranians.
You have to love MSM framing. Here’s how much money the government is going to give you.
It’s Tax Day. Here’s how big the average tax refund is in 2026.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-refund-2026-average-irs-below-forecasts/
That’s what people actually believe, unfortunately.
It’s the entire reason our system operates as it does. When they issue you a tax bill all at once there’s the issue that people probably weren’t saving to pay it to begin with, but it also highlights for people that they’re getting shafted and their money stolen.
If you never see the money and its just withheld against your will from every paycheck, it solves both problems.
Not a revealation to any of us, but just highlighting the reality. Income tax at first didn’t operate this way and they quickly learned their mistake. It’s maybe the biggest factor in being able to increase taxes without blowback. It’s kind of a brilliant idea for the statists.
Everyone should be 1099’d
It would be torches and pitchforks in DC within the year.
Last refund I got was about 15 years ago when I got audited and they decided I over payed $235.
I had to pay just over $900 to the IRS this year in addition, of course, to what I already paid them. That to me is a win. No interest free loans for them.
I think the same way. I have the IRS dialed in now to write them a check each April. The state is more difficult but I have “refund” down to around $100 annually.
My wife had more 1099 income than I planned. So despite paying estimated quarterly I owed something like $8k plus a penalty.
Because of all the fucking returns I file I also had $1,300 in accountant tax filing bills too.
I’d like to earn enough to have my federal income tax be $8K.
Our friend Google says that is $72k single filer with the standard deduction.
For me as a joint filer all my wife’s income comes in at the higher marginal rates.
I need your accountant Sensei.
He’s a lot less expensive than mine.
Make sure to do your part!
Just completed my annual workplace culture training. I’m ready to deal with the broads, gooks, spics, homos, retards, and freaks in my company. I feel ready to step up my harassment game.
Just remember harass is one word, not two.
It’s Zirass now.
I wasn’t being inclusive enough. I forgot about the Indians (dots). I still have work to do.
“Rescue Me” had a classic bit about mandatory training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliNaspGVDg
Huh. Now NBC has a paywall. Oh, well.
That’s funny.
Let them starve.
I don’t get what these orgs think they’re accomplishing. It’s easy to bypass the paywalls if you are even remotely savvy and want to. But even then nothing is more annoying and ridiculous than clicking on a news story for some site you haven’t been to before or perhaps in literal years and being asked to subscribe.
I can at least get the idea of having a few free stories before “asking.” But if someone doesn’t even know what you’re content’s like why the fuck would they pay to subscribe right away? It isn’t surprising that journalists make terrible business decisions that grossly inflate their actual value though.
I have zero tech acumen so I’m not bypassing any paywall. If they want their propaganda to be seen they damn well shouldn’t charge for it, it’s not like they aren’t also selling adds.
I referenced Ace Venture’s Einhorn is FInkle/Finkle is Einhorn scene in the antifa group (I’m not sure if it should be capitalized, it’s just an idea and all) I infiltrated.
My new comrades quickly checked me for my transphobia.
I used the line in reference to a post on how the people there don’t know what fascism is (because they say all liberalism is fascism constantly). In particular into a comment that fascists are anti antifa.
I’ve been getting into it with tankies left and right. I’ve been called an Israeli bot once. A MAGGot on another occasion. But in general I think they think I’m just some liberal who doesn’t get the struggle and needs to be “educated.”
For those curious to get into the group you had to answer three questions meant to weed out the MAGGots and non-commies.
You had to say what you think of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Say what gender a trans woman is.
And then there was something about Trump and fascism I think which I can’t recall.
I initially said the trans woman is trans. And that Netanyahu was a Jew. Vague and technically true statements that I couldn’t be faulted for. It did not gain me access until I described him as a fascist and the trans woman as a woman.
Reddit I assume?
To be fair. Netanyahu is a socialist as they have commie care in Israel.
One of the ways North Korean spies are being sifted out during jib interviews is to have them say bad things about Kim Jong Un. Seems like a similar litmus test. And a pointless one if they let you in. Well done and enjoy your tomfoolery.
You don’t want to outright call the fascists socialist around these parts. Socialism or economic aspects of fascism are never part of the conversation period beyond general screeching that capitalism always leads to fascism. I tried gently asking how people would describe the economic aspects of fascism. I got some retort that historically fascists haven’t had a coherent economic model. I asked them to let me know who they think the historical fascists were besides the obvious OG fascists in Italy and Germany. Never got a follow-up.
Anyway this is on the Derpbook. I didn’t go searching it out. Was fed posts from there algorithmically and tried responding. Got the questions. Gave up after the initial rejection only to try again and just say the obvious things they wanted to hear to get in.
Haven’t been on FB for a year.
I have to say I miss the local news and marketplace.
I dont miss the shitty adds and the empty headed commies.
Final note – there’s the occasional dig at Trump and Israel. Like 90% of the posts are tankies attacking “liberals” who have joined the group for not being truly leftists. Liberals to shut-up and sit down to be re-educated by their betters. One post by a mod toothlessly asked for them to stop and said that antifa is meant to be a “big tent” movement that is aimed at stopping Trumpists.
I’m kind of like an anthropologists right now.
Radical leftism is so mainstream these days it must be ridiculously easy to imitate one. Who doesn’t know their exact thoughts on every issue?
Nice that robots can now handle dirty savage wild pigs.
When will they advance enough to handle Philly fans?