Sorry, no clever title for today.
The girlfriend and I watched Punisher: One Last Kill. It is bad. It is meaningless. It serves no purpose. It also doesn’t help connect Born Again to Spider-Man. Long story short, the audio wasn’t the problem.
This sums up my entire interest in the Odyssey.
I desire more options for cuts.
I see the first mistake.
I present the Redneck Lottery.
The AP, picking up the White Man’s Burden.
The study only tested Canadians, so I question the conclusion.
Glad that all the other problems are solved.
Alright ethical vegans, put down the pesticide.
You fucked up. You trusted us.
“It’s going to look like you’ve had work done.”
For the drink this week, let’s move onto a national drink… of Trinidad and Tobago.
Queens Park Swizzle
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) simple syrup
- 8 parts (2 oz) rum (white is traditional, demerara is frequently used)
- 4 parts (1 oz) lime juice
- 8-10 mint leaves
- 4 dashes Angostura Bitters
This drink traces back to the 1920s likely based on an older drink or a mere rename of a drink that existed before. Due to the pull of the hotel, the name stuck, and the drink grew in popularity. This is a drink that is built in the glass, no shaker needed. Start by adding the simple and mint to the bottom of a collins or hurricane glass, and muddling it gently (bruised and battered, not torn and shredded). Top with the rum, lime juice, and half of the bitters. Now you’re going to fill that glass nearly to the top with crushed/pebble ice and stir it. Traditionally you would use a twig to do this, but in the modern era, we have swizzle sticks or bar spoons for this purpose. Stir until the outside of the glass starts to frost, mound more crushed/pebble ice on top (creating a little mound at the top), garnish with the other two dashes of bitter and a mint bouquet. Stick a straw in, and enjoy.
With that, I leave you to your weekend. I hope you enjoy it.
I don’t get it.
Why don’t people cut ties with the thieves in China? It’ll hurt less in the long run to shut down the links now.
Every corporation says “a billion untapped consumers” and promptly give away their business.
whaddup doh’
No clue.
No clue at all.
I’m once again limping into the weekend (no pun intended). I had a very busy week with few results to show for it.
How YOU doin?
I just spent an entire day trying to get one stupid f’in thing to work. From a dozen different angles. And… nothing.
Just cleaned out my storage unit.
So many transmissions and transfer cases I had forgotten I had.
I’ve got bread doh’ in the fridge for tomorrow morning.
I mentioned that “vocal fry” article as well.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/men-use-vocal-fry-more-than-women-counter-to-stereotype/
Surprisingly from the Top Men there:
Plus the bonus of this quote:
Soppy, nope, we are not dropping the standards of professonalism because like, speaking like an adult is hard ‘n stuff.
*Sorry, nope…
I typ gud.
I’m waiting for the defense of uptalk.
It’s good to question established orthodoxies? Like, asking questions? So, like, it’s good if everything sounds like a question?
Chipping Pioneer:
Another Canadian, talking the way ‘merican’s won’t. 🙂
Hate to break it to him, but 2024 was the correction.
Americans saw what happens when the wokescolds can run amok without adult supervision, and they wanted no part of it.
You don’t understand. Arranging districts to secure black Democrats seats is the exact opposite of gerrymandering.
White man at the heart of TN redistricting sadly retires from being the authentic representative of Memphis black people.
They respected him for saying it.
This is the authentic representative of Memphis black people.
Obviously the electorate is coming to their senses and would like to return to the true path of leftism.
I tapped out after a couple sentences. Who has time for that tedious whining?
He walked the talk. He discussed the injection he had given himself when he’d had a bout of ED.
I wonder if the doctor actually performed that injection or did something else. Or is just making it all up.
“The EEOC is here to protect all workers from anti-American bias. Nothing justifies illegal national origin discrimination, and we will vigorously enforce federal laws to restore dignity to the American worker.”
Oh.
“I speak Mexican jive”
/Why are you laughing?
Mexisota?
Eh, the EEOC has brought dumber cases.
Man Man did it better.
Also Odyssey
Also Odyssey
Admittedly, I grew up in the north where wypipo still perform construction labor, but that’s pretty tame compared to the shit I heard on my dad’s job sites.
I bet they even called him gringo.
When N.Y.U. made the announcement two weeks ago, a few students began poring over Dr. Haidt’s writing and speeches and then went public with their concerns. They took offense at some of his remarks, as well a class lecture from 2014.
Of course they did.
“I’m sure he wrote something in the past that we can claim is offensive today!”
This sums up my entire interest in the Odyssey.
They should just scrap the movie and make a new one about a Greek restaurant called The Odyssey. That would support the casting choices. Elliot Page is a bus boy in this one.
Oh Shiiiiitttt!!!!!!
He almost made it, gotta give him that.
Shouldn’t there be a barrier there? But yeah he prolly saw it coming either way.
Damn. Nickel Plate heritage unit, too.
Nickel Plate rail-to trail is in Noblesville, right near me.
I bet that driver was tanked!
The first thing I noticed on the San Diego budget link is that cutting non-tax fees is categorized as “new expenses”.
Shhh… they’re trying to teach you!
And all the cuts are accompanied with the number of poors / government employees “affected”.
Yep.
“You can’t park there.”
“Hold my beer!”
I think that’s one of GM’s China Buick imports. But they all look the same to me.
It’s on brand if it is a Buick.
So that is what being between a rock and a hard place looks like.
I’m not even sure I know what vocal fry is, but there are a couple of commercials featuring women whose voices make me want to strangle them as soon as they begin to speak.
If you want the hear nails on a chalkboard you get get multiple videos of it on YouTube.
Look for a video of Kat Timpf speaking.
Everything with a brain and a central nervous system feels pain by that definition. How’ that’s processed as a subject experience in a creature with a brain that may or may not even be advanced enough to experience consciousness is another question.
This is why I didn’t eat the side dish of crickets when I was ate at a fancy restaurant in Mexico City. Besides, the steak was filling enough.
Reacting to an injury and feeling pain are not the same. I’ve never seen a bug just stop and writhe around without a serious injury that will kill it. Smack a man in the balls and that’s not a life threatening injury, but he will writhe in pain.
Crime of the century
Whether legal or not, I am of the strong opinion that this is an attempt at the largest theft ever by an American politician. It is a conflict of interest so enormous that the term itself doesn’t even really capture what’s happening.
In fact, last month, a federal judge in the case gave Trump’s private lawyers and the government’s attorneys until May 20 to explain how the case isn’t a scam to enrich the president, writing, “Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction.” The judge added that it “raises questions here over whether the Parties here are truly antagonistic to each other.”
Like when former EPA employees at EarthJustice sue former EarthJustice employees at the EPA?
What we couldn’t get through the legislature we will get through consent decrees.
lol
As if any of his many evils can stay concealed for more than a microsecond. 🙄
It’s pretty scuzzy regardless of who is doing it.
And this is why you pay $30,000 a year for a Bloomberg terminal.
What isn’t shown in this video is that properly using one is very similar to coding. It has its own language. I knew about 10 commands by memory. OTH traders know 100s.
When you see some trading desk 8 different screens this is what is going to be on many of them.
They’re essentially trying to find a settlement that would be agreeable to Trump, and shovel a ton of cash over to him in return for him dropping the suit. The mob has a word for that kind of move: “shakedown.”
No one has ever taken as much money in the history of the nation as Trump is attempting to hoover up from the federal government right now.
The sum Trump is asking for, $10 billion, is the same amount in childcare subsidies that he froze last year. It is almost enough to fund federal disaster relief for a year. It is enough to fund the entire National Park Service for five years. It’s enough to fund the Peace Corps for 20 years. And it could all go straight into the Trump family coffers.
OH
MY
GOD!
Do you know how many Somali learing centers that could fund!
a office full of hospices in every major city
This is what life looks like under a mad king; every day brings a new “let them eat cake” moment.
And now, as Americans suffer through the war and the economy that Trump imposed on them, he is thinking about helping himself to billions more of your money.
We’re going to need a bigger fainting couch.
At this point I can give two shits considering how way more is funneled to NGO’s and fraudulent daycares and such.
Yowza, that is some hot horseradish.
At this point I can give two shits considering how way more is funneled to NGO’s and fraudulent daycares and such.
Same here.
And we all know the Obamas barely had two nickels to rub together when they left the White House.
wrt the Odyssey, I’m waiting for streaming or whatever.
So I can FF through the stupid parts.
At best that might leave you the credits.
You misspelled steaming.
Starmer is out there threatening to arrest any far-right loons who think borders, citizenship, or culture matter. He’s not going to tolerate any provocation against diverse communities. They can’t help it if they start attacking Brits in their own country protesting against their presence that they pay to support.
It’s funny. He’s blocking provocateurs who oppose this crap from traveling to the country to participate in this. Come here believing that ISIS just didn’t go far enough and that white women who don’t cover themselves deserve to be raped? Come on in, cultural enricher!
Next you’re going to tell me that donations to the Soros family don’t actually help create “open societies”.
Wait, it doesn’t really give kids cars?
I thought you traded the kids for the car. I mean, it’s right in the title. They were lying to me?
*kicks dirt* Those two were worth more than a ’19 Kia.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVfNhHGE2An/
You know what happens when you assume…
$250?
Jews running Cards4Kds gotta eat too, bro.
Scrap was running about $180 a ton minus the tires.
I saw some Tiktok or short that’s spreading across social media. Some tech dude bro who claims he’s a manager responsible for hiring says that if he has two equally qualified candidates who are black and white, he’s going for the black one every time. Because privilege and he works with too many incompetent white people hired because of nepotism to begin with. Yada yada.
This is meant to provoke a reaction. The reality of the situation is that you rarely have a black and white candidate with equal resumes. If you choose to use race as a tiebreaker in such a scenario, that’s far less objectionable to me and I’d say most people than what DEI actually is which is taking someone who isn’t as qualified and hiring them to produce “equitable” results. Hence the equity part and not anything to do with equality.
Points for being smart enough to emphasize equally qualified.
It’s also just funny that you have this white guy in finance who thinks this way. He almost certainly was the son of privilege himself. He thinks all white people are like himself (and that all black people are self-made). So of course when you get into the details, it’s nonsense. A white male can come from a far more disadvantaged background than a black female and only the truly indoctrinated or ignorant would really dispute that.
” A white male can come from a far more disadvantaged background ”
No way!
Let’s go a step further. The blacks applying for finance jobs most likely come from very privileged backgrounds Like the black students who get admitted to the Ivy League. They’re picked on race, but come from the same sort of economic background when you dig beyond race.
It may actually be far more likely that the white candidate going for a job like that has a higher chance of being from a working class or poorer background.
Sasha and Malia do that head bob thing in agreement.
Shithole
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, already embroiled in a row with Donald Trump over the Iran war, has said he would not advise his children to study or work in the US in the current climate.
Speaking to a conference of young Catholics in Würzburg, the conservative leader, viewed by many as a transatlanticist, said he no longer saw the US as the land of opportunity.
“I am a great admirer of America. At the moment my admiration is not growing,” he said during a podium discussion, citing the quickly changing “social climate” in the deeply polarised country.
“I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there.”
This “polarized” nation does not ban popular political parties. Can the Eurotopian Germans make the same claim?
“At the moment my admiration is not growing…”
HA! Of course. “Only a German is so discourteous to his verbs.”
(Love that line. Happy I kept it in my memory pocket!)
TACO: Chinese takeout edition
Trump 2.0 has been a disaster. Film at 11.
We can debate at who is actually pulling the strings at this point, but it’s not America First in anything.
I’ve already given my opinion on this one. It’s not popular around here.
I might have to emigrate to Zero Hedge.
The real disaster will be when all of his “wins”, that were never codified, are overturned by the next guy. Well, the wins left when he leaves office.
That’s why he won’t let another elecshun happan!
$250?
If you donate your car to one of those
charitiesscams they don’t restore it and present they keys to some deserving family, they run it through the auction and pocket the proceeds.Rawhide used to have teens learn and work on the cars; now it says ‘qualified automotive technicians’, no mention of the kids participating. They fix up the cars and sell them and use the proceeds to run their services. It was started by Bart Starr.
What a Firster gotta do to get a table dance? Say what WHAT!