Good morning! Yes, I plagiarized this gif to make your morning that much better. Sloop is channeling SloopyinCA and can’t be bothered with things like Links right now. So Spud is on scene.
Eurofag ball has broken out all over the country. That’s it for sports.
Links?
“Where’s my jerking off gif? I know I left it around here somewhere.”
I’m just going to leave this here for your enjoyment.
Those with weak stomachs my want to avert their eyes.
M-effing book has been thrown.
And yet she’ll still get re-elected.
Alrighty, that’s it for me. We’re down to the fine details for Friday’s shindig. Peace out, Glibbies.
Holy shit, different countries are different!
That is a staple Business Insider story. They’ve got be in the high 10s if not low 100s of these stories.
They take some US family or individual who moves outside the US and does the Alice in Wonderland thing. They’ve done several to Japan and they consistently crack me up.
Were they also singing “What’s this?” as they did so?
Expat American woman: I used to buy my underwear at a department store, but here in Japan they have these vending machines.
OMG please make this happen.
That communist is one of the dumbest motherfuckers in Congress.
And now that Dan Goldman has been ousted, we have a new challenger for that title!
There are so many to choose from and their average IQ is poised to take a nose-dive in November.
Every time Ro Khanna shows up in public, he should be reminded of this, laughed off the stage, and treated like a pariah.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TodaysArticles/comments/7fia31/no_this_is_not_how_portugal_does_the_internet_not/
That link doesn’t show the meme. Try this one, and no virtue signaling about Twitter, please.
https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/923701871092441088
Reddit kicks me out now. So weird.
I’m. It downloading your stupid app.
may lead to the deaths of millions of children overseas
Fuck off Ro, you simple-minded has-been actor.
It may have lead to millions of jobs created or saved too!
His net worth has roughly quadrupled since 2017 – all the time he’s been in Congress and not actually creating wealth.
He found one study that said this might happen. Why do you hate science?
He’s trying to get Musk killed. I hope Elon sues him back into the Stone Age.
Statements like Ro’s fire up the crazies, like the ones from the softball shooting, Kirk’s killer, Trump’s would be assassins, and the Kavanaugh would be assassin.
That’s a lot of fraud.
Tip of the iceberg.
That’s probably two orders of magnitude short of the Medicare/Medicaid fraud every year.
The ruling reverses a nationwide stay issued by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, who found the policy created a significant risk that individuals could be wrongly deported before having a meaningful opportunity to prove they were exempt from expedited removal.
Another Biden judge who ticked off the “darkie” and “vagina” boxes to receive her commission. They’ll be a thorn in the republic’s side for decades.
It isn’t like we weren’t warned about this.
Wait, wut?
You get to stay if you can hide from the law for two years? WTF??
Shouldn’t being here illegally for longer periods be an exacerbating circumstance worthy of greater punishment?
Yeah, that seems backwards.
“You get to stay if you can hide from the law for two years? WTF??”
No, but it’s a different process. It goes from expedited removal to deportation.
They should get deported immediately after being found to be illegals.
Sucks to you, go.
“Her previous work included serving as “Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” at The Infatuation, a website which reviews restaurants and neighborhood activities.”
Most useless job ever?
Sounds like a web site 3 or 4 people could run on weekends.
NYC commies even harder.
Hope they dont ruin the food or ill never get a real bagel
You could go to Poland.
Are there Jews in Poland to make bagels anymore.
I could be wrong, but I think I remember reading bagels were invented by Catholic Poles.
Other places have bagels too.
What’s Cleba, and why would I want to buy gel from it?
Well, at their first location, they sell live bait too. But I recommend the rosemary sea salt bagel with chorizo cream cheese.
the Cleveland of bagels? that does not sound good.
Tucker like a lot of WASPs was a fan of the older, more useless GOP. They were all pretty anti-Jew anyway and now the Dems are also openly antisemitic he must feel free to let it fly.
“more useless GOP”
Hard to imagine.
Tucker moving to Islam infatuation was not on my bingo card.
I’ve met some former Catholics that like Islam and defend it. They like rules and hard consequences.
Tucker Carlson has always been intelectually vacuous and morally dubious. And a shill for whatever.
At least he stopped wearing bowties.
Tucker has always been a stooge for the intelligence bureaucracy. And when Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, the IC was the main target. As long as it was just talk, Tucker played along. Now that the talk has turned to action (which included outing the IC as a supporter of the Iranian regime) he’s showing what a fraud he is at heart.
What has come out recently about the IC and Iran? I don’t remember seeing anything.
Iran’s ability to produce Integrated Circuits has always been poor.
Crowley had already filed a lawsuit in February alleging that the city violated the labor code when she was summarily kicked to the curb by the mayor. This new suit, however, is different because she is alleging that Bass personally defamed her and should pay damages out of her own pocket.
Way out of character for a DEI hire to claim victimhood after being held accountable.
Victim on victim action? Where’s your intersectionality now bitches?
This new suit, however, is different because she is alleging that Bass personally defamed her and should pay damages out of her own pocket.
Good luck with that. But if she causes that will happen it will advance the goal of weakening immunity. I think. IANAL and don’t know if there is a defamation exemption to immunity.
Also, why can’t they both have been inept? I suspect both sides can show ineptitude in this case and it’s not defamation if it’s true.
So – an addendum to my review of “The Adventures of Elliot”. I have to start by saying I was wrong in my previous comment. They were not sequel baiting, I just did what the game told me and got the bad ending the first go round.
To elaborate – you do not make choices in this game, the plot is linear. This is fine in of itself, I have no problems with that. Up to the point I’d played at the last review the game was very clear on what you were to do next. The main quest always had an objective with a marker in red directing you to where to advance the main plot. Side quests had objectives in green, while those you’ve not accepted yet still showed in your log with a location where you could find the quest giver but no details on the quest. So when I depleted all of my visible quests and only had a purple objective marker telling me to confront the boss, I did, slew the boss and got the bad ending where the princess was freed of the ice but still magically comatose, and there were major gaps in the story.
This is where I was when I wrote my previous commentary.
Unsatisfied, I looked online and found there wereother endings. To get the good ending you were expected to ignore the purple quest marker and go find a hidden quest to get the strongest sword in the game and talk to the three cat sages to learn the sealing magic go back and seal away the boss rather than slay the boss. I did not see this ending so I don’ know what becomes of the princess in that one. Instead I saw there was a third “true” ending and just went for that. To get that one you have to visit the three cat sages, get the strongest sword, then go and find six more hidden purple quests to fill in the remainder of the story, uncover the identity and motive of the bad ending boss, learn how you might instead redeem them, unlocking the path to the secret final boss threatening the world, muster allies for that, fight it, then have a semi-playable epilogue before getting the credits with an ending slide where Elliot marries the princess.
Thing is, there is nothing I found in the game which hinted that if I went and wandered back to places I had no reason to return to I’d be able to start hidden quests to answer plot questions left unanswered in the marked questlines. I can’t figure out how I was expected to find these unless the developer thought I’d just to scour and re-scour the map hoping to trigger unmarked quests when this mechanic had not previously been used before the marker to confront the bad end boss popped up.
It’s this nonsense around the endings that drags down what was otherwise a passable game.
That is some seriously bullshit game design.
That’s generally my reaction to any time I’m forced to check a guide.
I lost all interest after I rage-quit it the other day.
I appreciate the “Easy” setting but it’s not enough on certain bosses for some of us. There is literally no reason not to provide some sort of God mode like some games do. But they already got my money so why listen to me.
On “how was I supposed to find that”, my brother and I bought a DOS game back in the 80s. It was a Fantastic 4 story game with simple greenscale (on our monitor) graphics. You typed instructions like “go north” and “look around” and it would tell you what happened: “you see a path”.
We couldnt escape the opening puzzle where Thing is trapped in a tar pit. Nothing we tried worked.
Over the years, it resurfaced a few times and we tried it again. Never figured it out.
Just a couple of years ago, decades later, after the Glib Exodus, I found a YouTube video playthrough.
The secret? Thing had to swim down. (We tried that). Not once. Not twice (we tried that) but several times (we did not tried that). He finds a drain or something and escapes that way.
The game didnt have any way of hinting you out of the trap. On the opening screen.
I share your frustration.
Interesting. I too have often wondered not just “how was I ever supposed to find that?”, but also “how did anyone ever find that?” Even for simple things like cheat codes.
Coincidentally, last night I was playing “The Last of Us” with my teenage daughter. It was pretty great storytelling. And there are multiple strategies that can work, which is cool.
This, of course, got her talking about “when are we going to get a new console?” Our PS4 is almost as old as her.
This lead to a discussion about AI and the next generation of gaming. I am pretty excited to see what a really talented studio can do with true AI embedded in games. Instead of a dialogue tree where I pick from 3 responses, I can use my headset and just talk with in-game characters, who actually understand my speech and respond to what I am saying.
This might be the next VR headset of gaming – an incredible new technology that has the potential to revolutionize gaming but never quite catches on because developers just cant quite make the leap to develop something that takes full advantage.
But wow, the potential for making “playable story” games fully immersive is massive.
I think the reason VR headsets haven’t caught on isn’t because developers haven’t figured out how to use them. I think it’s because, for a lot of people, they are unusable for any length of time – too heavy/bulky, vertigo/motion sickness, etc.
The other problem with VR is the same as the motion control fad – a lot of us don’t want to deal with the change in interface. I no more want to randomly flail about a remote than I want to blindly stumble about my living room until I collide with furnature or walls. I’m much more comfortable sitting there with either a controller or keyboard and mouse looking at a monitor. I don’t even use separated joycons from the switch or switch 2 I got a single controller because it’s more comfortable.
I completely agree with the “control interface I am used to” argument. I am deadly with a mouse and keyboard in FPS games. But put me on a game controller where you use your thumbs to aim and I look like I have Tourette’s and cerebral palsy at the same time.
I played Fucking Swordquest Earthworld and Fireworld. Worst ever.
We fired up the NES toploader and tried Yoshi for the first time last night.
Not what we expected.
It’s kinda like Tetris.
Switzerland taught me to value slower living: long walks, downtime, and fewer activities. I liked that being busy was not glamorized.
While living there, I quickly learned the popular local Swiss-German phrase “Langsam, langsam,” which means “slowly, slowly.” I heard it often and eventually started saying it to myself whenever I caught myself rushing for no real reason.
Without the context of whether the phrase is analogous to “Measure twice, cut once” or just a Euro version of “island time,” it’s hard to know if this is praise or a condemnation of the Swiss.
Now, Switzerland does have a reputation of being industrious, but that may well be because we’re comparing it to the rest of Europe.
“ Now, Switzerland does have a reputation of being industrious, but that may well be because we’re comparing it to the rest of Europe.”
^This.
I worked with a guy who moved from Switzerland to Germany because Switzerland was too industrious for him.
But there is Switzerland and there is Switzerland. I would venture to say Zurich is more industrious than some other places.
Are you suggesting the Italian speaking regions may be the most lackadaisical?
I don’t think they have any industry to be industrious at
Yes they do: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8scpGwbvxvI
Our previous next door neighbors were Swiss. The wife was a Martha Steward clone. She was always doing something. She baked fresh bread every day, she organized neighborhood get togethers, she remodeled her kitchen by herself. She was a ball of energy.
She is still legendary in our neighborhood. When we tell people where we live, we still say “next to where Nicole used to live” and everyone knows where that is (10 years after they moved back to Switzerland).
I am NOT saying though that this slow living thing isn’t real. All the other Swiss people we’ve know were definitely way more laid back than Nicole. We felt bad for the young Swiss woman (and her family) who moved in next door after Nicole left. Everyone expected her to be the same force of nature that Nicole was. We were all puzzled why she wasn’t constantly organizing things for the neighborhood kids.
The biggest cultural misunderstanding we had was about schnapps.
Nicole and her husband Sven were constantly entertaining and we were always welcome to wander over and join them. They (and all the other Swill folx at the party) were constantly trying to get me to drink schnapps.
I grew up on Phillips peppermint schnapps. Loved it long time, until I finally realized it didn’t love me back. Still butterscotch schnapps is practically mandatory for any ice fishing expedition.
So when they were trying to get me to guzzle schnapps at their house, I figured it was for the same reason we urged young ladies in our high school to drink schnapps… In the hope that enough schnapps would get rid of those pesky inhibitions.
I always refused and stuck to the whiskey that I brought over from my house.
Finally they wore me down and I tried some of their Swiss schnapps. Uffda! It is nothing like Minnesoda schnapps. It isn’t some super sweet syrup in a plastic traveler bottle. It was much more like some vodka. Pretty great stuff.
After that I was happy to help drink any schnapps that the brought out at a party. Did it work as well as Minnesoda schnapps at lowering those inhibitions? I won’t admit to anything, lest we lose our Family Friendly rating.
Checking last night’s “after I went to bed” discussion, there was a very good discussion about the justification for welfare as a sop to the poor to prevent mass theft and a mob overrunning the gates of the wealthy. (Paraphrased) Europe was mentioned as a place where this is common thought.
Elon Musk elevating to Trillionaire status brought the aristocracy argument to the forefront here in the US. I see it everywhere. I have argued it under posts by notable socialists like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, etc.
They are all making the exact same argument. And all those millennial communists who think they are social democrats are passionately following suit.
The European arguments about the landed aristocracy hoarding all the wealth are dominating the discussions on the left. All of the national democrats are singing from that hymnal now. They want to confiscate wealth because “they have too much”.
When prodded, they invoke worries about power – having that much wealth means you can buy the government (witness our illegitimate president Trump who was bought into the office by Elon Musk).
This is becoming a dominant thread on the left. They had attached themselves to a modified version of the Marxist class struggle that substitutes race, but now they are going back to attacking the wealthy. The “reasonable” national leaders like Sanders, Warren, Pelosi, AOC, etc are pushing for a tax on wealth, usually 10% or so per year.
The rabble are not making this argument. The rabble are making the “they have too much and the poor don’t have anything *because* they have too much.” They want to take it all. They are making the “generational wealth is evil” argument. The kids didnt earn anything, so they dont deserve the estate. We should simply take it all.
I dont know about real numbers, but online this is very popular and passionately believed.
The mob is quite literally at the door. The mob in this case is young rich kids who come from homes with net worth in the millions carrying pitchforks on behalf of those who “dont have a home”. They are lead by the likes of Ro Khanna, who got his hundreds of millions through the inheritance of his wife. He thinks people with billions should be stripped of their wealth (but not hundreds of millions, where he sits).
I forget who said it here, but once again socialism is just envy + government power.
Emotions like envy, lust and hate are extremely powerful and extremely easy to manipulate with the right techniques. It’s just appealing to the worst in humanity and wielding it to gain power.
There’s a reason those have been traditional vices. And why the left abhors traditional morality.
The 7 deadly sins are basically the left’s platform at this point.
having that much wealth means you can buy the government
The next governor of California – Tom Steyer!
oh, wait.
“We” didn’t earn anything, either. So why do “we” deserve the estate?
That is way too sophisticated, no chance they can follow that. (I have tried).
Also, those goalposts move quickly. I had that exact argument early this week on X, and the comeback to that was “nobody said that. The government needs funds for roads and infrastructure. This is jist a fair way to raise that money”
Literally in a thread *only* about a confiscatory inheritance tax and “they dont deserve it” + “they buy power”.
I’m jealous of you, and a greedy little shit. Therefore it’s virtuous to use the government to bully you and steal your stuff.
You’re not wrong about the goalposts shifting. It’s really noticeable going from, “Generational wealth is evil!” to “The awful Boomers are hoarding all the houses and not leaving anything to their kids!”
Interestingly, I’m starting to see that later complaint quite a bit over on the new right.
I’m pretty sure that politics wasn’t always an extended screaming toy-throwing tantrum, but that’s certainly where we are now.
One strike against the rising tide of communists is that they are deeply, deeply stupid. Unfortunately they figured out all they have to do is take over an existing Party.
Yeah, from what I have seen, stupid is no barrier to entry.
What’s scary is, they didn’t take over “the stupid party”. So now we have “an even stupider party”.
One of the (many) problems with the two-party system, is that the parties tend to confuse their epistemology. The stupid party tends to think that the evil party is stupid, and the evil party tends to think that the stupid party is evil.
I generally opt for stupid AND evil when considering the parties.
So they are stupid. They are also legion, and they vote.
stupid AND evil
Oh, you mean bi-partisan.
Everywhere I keep seeing the fixed pie fallacy of wealth get tossed around. “We have too little because they took all the wealth away!!” is so widespread these days. With all this access to info you’d think it wouldn’t be so common, but here we are.
Doesn’t help that we gave every kid a taste of sitting at home playing video games and getting checks from the govt during Covid.
Why can’t the govt just keep doing that?
Given that that gif has now been used two days in a row (and may replace Lobster Girl), I’d say Ass Wednesday is ON TOPIC!
https://archive.is/JlTep
No offense, but those aren’t asses in the GIF.
True, but I can’t alter what cheesecake maps to which day or the universe will be destroyed.
Do you even Discovery Channel? Breasts are a butt for the front, according to Science.
I am on to you Q linking all this is a (((plot))) to demean western wimminz !!!!!!!!!!
I think they do a good enough job demeaning themselves they don’t need my help.
“The Department will not give comment for decisions that may be pre-decisional nor will we comment on alleged internal discussions,” said acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez
“pre-decisional” is new buzzword for me. I’ll have to see if I can slip into work and if anybody notices /sarc
I have no opinion on Gen. Donahue, but I do know our military is absolutely crazy top heavy.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-cuts-army-commanders-storied-career-short-as-part-of-broader-shake-up-686d952b?st=ygkgky&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Douglas MacArthur says hello.
For full mumbo-jumbo credit, you have to refer to a decision being pre-decisional.
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
No reason why that popped in my head, I just thought it was Peartinent to the discussion.
“pre-decisional” is normally the codeword for do not discuss. Acquisition sensitive is another. You even see the two together.
So a DoD(W) buzzword that’s been released into the wild.
From 1945 until Obama the Commander of the USAREUR (US Army Europe) was a 4*. Obama as part of another “pivot to the Pacific” downgraded the position to a 3* and upgraded the USARPAC (US Army Pacific) to the 4*. Until the end of the post Cold War drawdown having 4* in Europe made sense. The Army had two large corps assigned to Germany (primarily) and if the soviets were to invade at least two more corps would join the fight. Plus the USAREUR CG was also the deputy CG of NATO. Now the Army in Europe has two brigades plus a large hospital and some small ash and trash units. Plus a Euro is now the Deputy NATO CG. The job realistically should be 2* except for dealing with other nations aspect. Trump reelevated the post to 4* as 45 and kept the 4* in Hawaii as well.
We can easily lose 20% of FOGO positions w/o hurting readiness at all. But that means, some people will get butt hurt. Oh well. I worked over five years in the PACOM headquarters and FOGOs there are as numerous as kids at the pre-XMAS sale at the PX. There were everywhere.
M-effing book has been thrown.
Good. But remember that they can appeal, and that a future Democrat or Socialist president might pardon them or commute their sentences to time-served.
This is why Texas also needs to prosecute them so that if some future Commie president pardons them for the Federal crimes, they’ll still be in the can for State crimes.
Like every Democrat President.
Most of them are still up for prosecution under Texas state laws.
Not sure if those sentences played a part in this story, but I’m guessing the thinking of the other Minnesoda Resistance perps has changed.
Of course, not everyone has gotten the memo.
Of course, in our country ruled by laws and not men, the success of her case will 100% be determined by the judge assigned to the case. If she is lucky, she will get some Biden appointee and win some serious cash.
Before any of you tear up about the injustice of someone being arrested on the way to her medical appointment, you might want to pump the brakes on your empathy.
The same new organization ran a story with pictures of the Heroic Resistance from this winter.
Interestingly the captions around any scene of Renee Goode’s death all had a captions with this in it: an ICE agent fatally shot her while she was observing immigration enforcement actions
I guess that is technically true. She was looking at an ICE agent in front of her car as she tried to run him over.
Yeah, in 20 years they’ll all be tenured ivy league professors.
Bill Ayers says hello.
“Posting to his X account, Johnson announced in all apparent seriousness: “Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City’s capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans.”
The city, he continued, is “centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.”
“Transfemicide” is the “targeted killing of a transgender woman motivated by transphobic and misogynistic hatred.”
Chicago implemented its state of emergency in 2024.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/opinion/mayor-brandon-johnson-declares-a-transfemicide-crisis-ignores-hundreds-of-black-deaths/
centering the voices and lived experiences?
Translation: I’m throwing logic and objectivity out the window in lieu of pomo bullshit and sob stories.
Have you any idea what’s it like to be a fem-bot living in a man-bot’s man-puter world?
“Transfemicide” is the “targeted killing of a transgender woman motivated by transphobic and misogynistic hatred.”
Not misogynistic since those ppl are not actual women.
They’ve also created a problem for themselves AMAB/AFAB bullshit (see Monday PM links) which would seem to imply they shouldn’t use “trans.”
“They’ve also created a problem for themselves AMAB/AFAB bullshit (see Monday PM links) which would seem to imply they shouldn’t use “trans.””
I think you might be misinterpreting that. While AMAB/AFAB is bullshit, as sex isn’t assigned at birth, it’s observed. The “trapped in the wrong body” thing goes back decades as a way to help people understand things.
Many years ago I felt as if I were trapped in a woman’s body. It went on for months and was a very dark place. Then one day I saw the light and the next thing I knew a doctor slapped me in the ass and handed me to my mother wrapped in a blanket.
as a way to help people understand things.
I think you misspelled confuse and obfuscate things.
” think you misspelled confuse and obfuscate things.”
No, I didn’t. It’s just simpler — albeit metaphorical — language, rather than having to explain neurological dimorphism, sex is different than gender, etc.
No, I didn’t. It’s just simpler…
Yes you did. It’s “simpler” and wrong. There is no such thing as being “trapped in the wrong body”. It’s a tautology – your body is your body, end of story. Your mind and body are not separate entities (the greatness of “Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres” notwithstanding) and you are not trapped in anything, just like you don’t “go through the wrong puberty”.
When one uses ‘simpler’ – but wrong – language to describe something, it can lock one into making the wrong inferences and taking incorrect and potentially harmful approaches.
I don’t believe for a second that such language was adopted “as a way to help people understand things.” It was adopted as way to obfuscate the nature of an illness – or even to pathologize a natural variation in human character traits – and assuage and soothe some peoples distress. But it is incorrect and doesn’t do anything to help the people impacted and in fact makes it worse. It does allow people not affected by it personally to pretend to empathy.
Obviously, the initial intent of the reasoning for adopting that sort of diffuse, incorrect language is open to debate and not a soluble question. But I will maintain that you are wrong in your statement that it was intended to help people understand anything, knowing that you can make the opposite conclusion and I can’t prove you’re wrong.
Again, it’s metaphorical, not literal.
Again, it’s metaphorical, not literal.
You didn’t say it was metaphorical, you said it was “a way to help people understand things.” I contend that it was never intended to ‘help people understand things’, not that it’s not a – very poor – metaphor. It was meant obfuscate the true nature of the, in very rare circumstances, real illness.
“No, I didn’t. It’s just simpler — albeit metaphorical — language, rather than having to explain neurological dimorphism, sex is different than gender, etc.”
Quoting a follow-up after my initial response to your statement, the original containing nothing about metaphor, doesn’t exactly make your point.
The contention has nothing to do with the literary structure/figure of speech, but rather with the statement, presented as fact, that the intention of said figure of speech was to ‘help people understand’.
It’s like saying gays were “born that way”.
Postmodern woke babble. It signals to all the right people that he is an educated elite.
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I’m reading this new book about Disraeli by Emily Jones. I will post my thoughts about it in this thread
https://x.com/MyopicEeyore/status/2068753401572102527
Tucker has become very anti-Israel based on their actions and undue influence on our politics. Hardly the only one.
Never heard him say anything particularly antisemitic.
He does go hard at the “Christian” Zionists like Huckabee, who preaches heretical nonsense.
He is kinda morphing into Pat Buchanan.
Pat is a jerk, but he isn’t always wrong.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Ted’s:
Not a digital one.
What about the old digital clocks that flipped the numbers?
I didn’t like Buchanan – until everything he said turned out to be right.
Will Anyone Buy This Cheap EV Truck With Hand-Crank Windows and No Radio?
So the top shelf Can-Am UTV side by side is $22k. It’s AWD, but not road legal. I understand why they don’t have AWD to keep things simple and price low. But if I want a dead simple work vehicle and don’t need AWD I can see it being very compelling.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/will-anyone-buy-this-cheap-ev-truck-with-hand-crank-windows-and-no-radio-699b285a?st=UPrxwJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I like it. A lot. Problem is the battery is so small (even with extended range) that it wouldn’t go from DFW to Oklahoma City without needing a full charge up. Each way.
Think local work truck. Or use around town / farm / ranch/
It’s not something you want to use on a highway for anything but the briefest amount because of aerodynamics and small battery.
The use case even in DFW is lots of highway. I still like it, but it would be for a different part of the country. I wish them well.
Delivery trucks for auto parts store and similar businesses. Pizza and other food delivery that is done in-house these would work for just fine. There’s probably a market for these, just not sure how big it is.
Buried in there is a comment about people once thinking Amazon was an underdog.
Count me among them.
Their early advantage was “we sell online” and they were developing a warehouse delivery system that could handle volume and supply chain.
I was certain that Walmart, the supply chain king, was going to go full online any minute and eat their lunch.
They easily could have swamped Amazon at any point from the late 90s on. Until they couldnt. They just never got it right. Still haven’t.
I suppose that is a real lesson. No market is really captured. I didnt learn that, to my own detriment.
Back in the early 90s I had an idea for a product. I was 100% going to be able to make a better mousetrap. Cheaper.
I saw a limited window of opportunity, because a better technology was coming in a decade or so. But I let the barrier to entry stop me. I tried to bring some people on board who could launch the product, almost guaranteeing success. And when one of them went to block me instead of joining me, I gave up.
It was dumb, but I was just a kid and I didnt know how to do any of the business things you needed to know.
Sears showed the issue previously. You’d think when you’re based on magazine and mail order you would be able to easily transition to online sales, but they didn’t.
I’d consider it if it were ICE instead of EV.
So you’d rather have immigration goons on your three-wheeler than Evan.
The EV simplicity is part of the attraction for me. No FedGov required emissions systems and much lower maintenance costs.
So what you’re saying is – we need to take a chainsaw to the government regulations on engines.
Maybe grab this Toyota if it ever actually does come to the US?
I really like the idea. A cheap basic frame/engine. Then you can customize the bed area to be what you need it to be.
Out in the country a lot of people use UTVs as recreational and work vehicles. The sheriffs generally ignore on-road use if you’re on a county road adjacent to your property. I would not buy a 2WD version, though.
There is a Montana company which will register your not-street-legal vehicle in Montana and send you Montana tags which magically make the vehicle street-legal.
The Montana loophole is well known on by collector car people. Bonus is avoiding taxes. However other states are cracking down on Montana registrations.
if you’re on a county road adjacent to your property
Or at Walmart or at Sonic or for limited stretches down the highway, at least around here. 😬
I don’t get the romanticism of hand cranked windows. I find the ability to lower/raise any window very useful.
Motors, wires and switches.
Thank god there are no motors, switches or wires in an electric vehicle. I have a 20 year old truck and the electric windows go up and down every day, zero failures.
He doesn’t even have to touch the switch!
I have a 20 year old truck and the electric windows go up and down every day, zero failures.
I have a couple of windows that take their sweet time on my 22yo truck, but I’d much rather the electric windows (I often have kids in the back who wouldn’t have a chance of using a crank while strapped into their car seat)
You’re not supposed to strap your orphans into car seats.
Until the motor in the door for a power window breaks, and it costs over $700 for a repair.
My first new car was a Chevy S-10. The car dealer ran an ad in the paper for a super low price. When I showed up he said “it has a heater and a key, that is it”.
I still bought it. No radio, no power anything (windows or locks), a manual transmission. The power locks and windows were missed much more than a radio or AC.
That truck lasted me for years. Still sort of miss it.
Usually it is the mechanical components that fail.
Montana Ranch For Sale – Porcupine Creek Homestead
Looking for a Montana Ranch For Sale? Porcupine Creek Homestead is made up of 116± acres located in the coveted Shields River Valley east of the small town of Wilsall and an hour from Bozeman. The property is a blend of cottonwood and aspen grove riparian areas bifurcated by small flowing springs, two ponds, and valley views that encompass the Crazy Mountains to the east and the Bridger Range to the west. Once owned by a prominent Livingston banker, he built the historic Victorian-style home, which became the centerpiece of the property. In 2005, a restoration project began, and the house was effectively recreated to its exact dimensions and vernacular. This small two-bedroom one-and-a-half bath was masterfully re-created and appointed in a charming way. A six-stall horse barn was added near the residence with a large two-bedroom apartment that lofts overhead and sits next to a spacious two-car garage. Several years ago, a large trout pond was created for aesthetic and recreational purposes with a secondary primary building site in mind. The property is well-kept, and the hayfield is managed appropriately to produce forage crops and attract the multitude of wildlife that exists there, including whitetail deer and moose. Porcupine Creek Homestead is an easy-to-own property with nicely appointed improvements in proximity to Bozeman, Livingston, skiing, and the lively aspects of these desirable mountain communities, yet far enough away to find solitude in a highly sought-after river valley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzJRkbLaL5c
$3,850,000 Wilsall, MT 116± Deeded Acres
This is it – peak Gruniad.
Which goes on to bemoan the death of consultancies in the wake of AI.
There’s always government work, you hacks. There is no way that goes away.
But the commie shitholes they want have a nasty tendency to stop paying the rank and file bureaucracy because they ran out of other people’s money.
That’s when you move and suck all the wealth out of the next jurisdiction.
If I had a dollar for every ‘rock star’ I’ve had to clean up after (once they got let go or promoted out for being a fuckup), I’d be a rock star myself.
The very concept of the ‘prestige career’ can’t die soon (or painfully) enough.
That’s my take too. But oh no, we must wail and gnash our teeth about the loss of STATUS. I can’t even begin to express my contempt for the author and editor of that piece.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, consult.
I’ve done all 3 of these things. What’s left for me?
OnlyFans?
That girl should cut back on the tamales a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjC0vMIrOAk
*dat phat bass do
Can we wreck air travel any more? Boston says, “hold my beer!”.
I was relaxed for sure, but also antsy. Due to the bus schedule, I had to check in by 10:15 a.m. for a 2:50 p.m. flight.
I Tried the TSA’s New Way to Dodge Airport Security Lines
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/i-tried-the-tsas-new-way-to-dodge-airport-security-lines-efcde972?st=PirEeV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oily Oik?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/girlfriends-sleazy-boss-bonked-dozens-37275974
that is only available to premium subscribers such as yourself.
If you had to pick one or the other, is the office bathroom or the office building roof better for a quickie?
Roof. Even in the heat. Or cold. Bathroom guarantees everyone knows.
I assume these are fake? I couldnt read all of it because of an advertisement overlay, but I cant imagine actually asking for advice here. I mean, no matter how hot, you are at a no.
1970s Romania | Transylvania | 1970s Bucharest | Mamaia | 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmIMOShaCQ
I will watch that later. I do enjoy nostalgia looking at 1970s interior design and fashions.
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
@OrevaZSN
The Earth was fully stocked: water to drink, soil to grow food, forests to shelter us, a sun that rises every day, a moon that moves water, and oceans that regulate the climate. Then, men invented war, debt and capitalism.
https://x.com/OrevaZSN/status/2069661906873286740
That’s like so deep maan. Really makes you think about it all.
The more I think about it, the more stupid the original becomes.
Said person is welcome to move to an uninhabited island and enjoy the slow life.
Or move to a commie paradise like Cuba – oh wait, even they are starting to give up on it.
Earth also came with predators to hunt you, bacteria and virus to kill you, and disasters that will mock your concept of safety.
give the brown bear some socialist literature and it will leave you alone.
You seriously think a person who posts that will listen to reason?
I’m starting to think that we need another good world war, just to cull out some of the useless chuckleheads…
unfortunately in the past couple of wars the better people died.
…like those r-tards parading their idiocy in front of the Reflecting Pool.
Yeah. Those kind of chuckleheads always find a way to dodge responsibility, including a draft.
“Protestors identifying as ”Team Algae” hold signs along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, June 21, 2026.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/media/kelsey-grammer-sends-message-to-trump-detractors-obsessed-with-reflecting-pool/
We demand to be taken seriously!
I though Antifa was just an idea.
We should take them seriously. Here’s a case where they identify themselves correctly. They ARE pond scum.
Oikophobes.
How it feels in France right now.
https://x.com/simonmaechling/status/2069687826879279474
Yep. And England. Sad.
The heat wave in Europe is making it rly hard to repress the knowledge that we’re all gonna burn alive within the next 10 years
https://x.com/doubtpointv2/status/2069312937773158486
One must admit the knowledge is suppressed. No one ever talks about global warming. I never heard of the concept until today.
Capitalism is great because everyone can boil to death so we can have a trillionaire
https://x.com/KamilMPoet/status/2069448241096102302
I knew Elno was the one responsible!!!!!!!
I like Elno. Like Elmo, only a trillionaire.
I encourage stupid people to continue displaying their stupidity for all the world to see. The only downside is that the extremely stupid have no shame.
We’re supposed to be getting into the 90s next week. Somehow I think we’ll be able to manage just fine… see, we have air conditioning.
Oh so do I and it is going strong. Future Pie can pay the electricity bill.
Interesting (if useless) fact: in one of the Swiss cantons, you must have a doctor’s prescription(!) to install an air conditioning system.
Let ’em swelter.
“Penthouse Pet is caught breaking the law again — but soft judge lets her off”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/us-news/stephen-cloobecks-wife-to-be-penthouse-pet-adva-lavie-appears-in-court/
STIJLTH
Ooof. It seems that standards at Penthouse are not what they once were.
It also appears that a felony is not a felony anymore.
One thing that hasn’t changed? Men are stupid. Holy shit, how did you become a billionaire and still want to marry this one?
She is gross
Yeah, she’s more Hustler material.
I doubt he was soft.
Elon v Ro debate problem: Ro is protected by the speech and debate clause and can happily defame Elon with impunity.
Watching Elon run circles around this mental midget could be fun.
Only on the floor of Congress. It wouldn’t apply during a debate. I’m not sure exactly when/where Ro accused Musk of murdering millions of children, but if it wasn’t in Congress, he is exposed.
Woah! So I’ve got an interview Monday morning for the “Escrow Processor” gig at a local Title Service! Last I saw, pay would be $20-$22/hr, which would be kinda game-changing. I made $40k at the Peru Tribune, which is ~$19/hr.
They called me the day after I sent ’em my stuff, but since the job didn’t seem to be listed anymore, I called ’em up to ask if it was still open and how best to apply. Lady gave me the VP/attorney /co-owner’s info and I sent it directly to him. That worked out!
They want me to bring some references, of which I may be able to get a couple friends to help out. Big ask, uh… anyone here willing /able to be a reference? Ya know about me, my work and my ability to adapt to different work. I don’t know folk in the US to really give me work references, esp as the Tribune shuttered right after I left. (I was the last managing Editor of that place. Eeek.)
Kinda a Big Ask, and I can assist, but I gotta ask the folk I know!
Gotta go to the receiving bay to unload trucks! This is a pretty tremendous change. I also have an interview with FedEx on Friday for a System Admin-1 gig, which is exciting cuz it’s a toe into Big Corporate. An odd time to be Evan on the upswing! Gotta bounce but I’ll be popping in throughout the day! Everything’s (kinda) coming up M̵i̵l̵h̵o̵u̵s̵e̵ Evan.
Best of luck can’t relly help reference wise i would think
Read carefully. It’s Title (pronounced Tie-tal) service. It is not a job at the Titly service
Japan has officially overtaken Mexico as the main source of international beer across Australia, according to tracking data. db looks at how the sector is adapting.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2026/06/japan-becomes-australias-main-supplier-of-beer/
In the US – Japanese beer is brewed locally under contract.
It’s not clear from the article if that is the case in Australia.
This made me think it is not
As such, the premium import market is undergoing what local reports are calling “intense structural change” as international brewing trends have started to reshape consumer beer buying habits
Gimme my mfing The Premium Malts here..
Depends on the beer. There are some that are shipped overseas. Contract brewing has a long history, there’s some breweries that only exist in name, such as Pabst Blue Ribbon. It’s not uncommon here for local restaurants (especially small chains) to contract a house beer with a local brewery to have on tap.
Another guy escaped “paradise”!
North Korean Soldier Makes Rare Escape Across DMZ
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korean-soldier-makes-rare-escape-across-dmz-e9bd9fe7?st=FPc4eh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
France has confirmed its first case of Ebola – a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9gzr9rdjlo
The coverage of the antifa trial in Unicorn Riot was hilarious.
You see, the shooter merely fired a warning shot to prevent the cops from violating civil rights. Any injuries were purely the result of friendly fire from the fascists.
If I’m depressed or generally feeling down, I think about what the typical Antifa goon is going to experience in a federal maximum security prison, and it perks me right up.
I’m surprised I haven’t (yet) seen anyone argue that he’s covered by “stand your ground” laws.
You’d have to not be the aggressor, and knowing that you’re dealing with law enforcement in the course of their duties really hampers your case in a court of law.
In the court of public opinion, the people who’d want to argue in favor of the domestic terrorists don’t like those laws.
Labour is ‘determined’ to complete the controversial hand-over of control of the Chagos Islands, Attorney General Lord Hermer has insisted.
The deal was paused indefinitely in April after US President Donald Trump withdrew his support, labelling it an ‘act of total weakness’.
But Lord Hermer has resurrected the treaty – which critics have dubbed a ‘surrender deal’ and an ‘absolute betrayal’ – telling MPs he hoped it would be signed ‘in the coming weeks and months’.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15923529/Lord-Hermer-resurrects-Chagos-Islands-surrender-deal-tells-MPs-Government-determined-signed.html
On the long list of utterly retarded shit Britain is up to, that is up there
We should just buy the claim to the Chagos off of Mauritius, make it a US territory, since the strategic value of the base in terms of covering the indian ocean sea lanes is still significant.
Labour is aggressively anti-Britain so this is not surprising.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My philosophy of life in one ten-second clip…
I don’t know that sort of looks AI to me.
Why Japanese students aren’t woke
Why smash a system that works well?
https://spectator.com/article/why-japanese-students-arent-woke/
Japanese students aren’t woke because their educational system hasn’t been taken over by wokist instructors. The culture places a high value on norms and conformity, and they actually feel shame – which sorely needs to make a return over here.
Also because they haven’t imported, ever, a lot of non-Japanese “minorities”, so there is no basis for any kind of intersectionality nonsense.
More than you expect have been imported, but far less than the west.
Right now there is a huge pushback about the ones that have been imported. Most of the long term Japan expat community is not happy. For example, paperwork fees for legal work and residency have increased astronomically.
Because they aren’t ruled by “global citizens” who hate their nation and everyone in it?
https://archive.fo/GGXm1
Long – lunchtime reading.
Bureaucratic systems that actually work* can be incredibly resistant to ideological capture.
This is why the first element of a Marxist takeover is to damage the systems so that they don’t work, or are perceived so. Wokeism is both a means to do that damage, and the end result of the damage.
* – Didn’t R.A.H. say something about government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate? I might be remembering that from my old Notebooks of Lazarus Long screen saver.
Which is kind of funny, because the Japanese teachers union is hardcore communist. Like opposing playing the national anthem at school.
There also can’t be a me too because they don’t mate and breed.
Can you figure out a way to have a bouncy gif of Lobster Girl?
I think someone animated that a while back.
Duck.ai won’t do it because it thinks a girl kissing a lobster is bestiality.
“It’s not bestiality, it’s inter-species erotica.”
Why can’t everyone be as cool as roller derby gals?
I don’t believe any of that for a second.
I can believe that there’s a contingent of TERFs involved in roller derby who would put the elbow or foot to a transgender player. At least based on the players I encountered through the punk scene.
Paging Kevin to the white courtesy phone….
:: rolls up sleeves ::
Yes, it has been very inclusive for years. I have seen a transgender player here and there on women’s teams, and normally it’s not a big deal, but recently my wife’s former team has played against some rather large male-to-female trans people and even some of the most lefty players refused to play because they don’t feel it’s safe.
Her cousin’s team is a male team, but they allow female players, and nobody has a problem with it as long as the female players know what they’re getting into.
Regarding these “microagressions”, reffing is highly subjective and it really depends on the ref. My wife has certain refs she hated because they tended to call penalties on her more often. This person is just bitching in the same way every other player does.
Overall the sport is very, very lefty and and very, very “inclusive” and I have a hard time believing these claims.
You mean like the Cleveland Guardians?
I voted for this!
Trump protect us from Romanians!
So you want to keep Pie out?
well you are all safe now
Dude won’t last very long. They make them go out in the yard for exercise when the sun is out.
I’m sure his fellow cons will step up and go to bat for him and his special needs.
Eurofag ball has broken out all over the country. That’s it for sports.
“Sports”
In one of yesterday’s metric kickball matches, England playing in a Boston bereft of beer since the Scots left for Miami, struggled mightily against the soccer powerhouse that is Ghana, failing to score a single goal.
But as one wag pointed out, the English usually have a difficult time in Massachusetts.
It was in fact a match commentator that dropped that line on the air, which is just fantastic.
“Sydney Sweeney flaunts pinup-worthy curves in skin-tight burgundy lingerie set”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15924607/sydney-sweeney-cleavage-syrn-lingerie-brand-video.html
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/23/style/sydney-sweeney-flaunts-pinup-worthy-curves-in-skin-tight-burgundy-lingerie-set/
Because America!
I just learned something new that is rather irritating.
Dones are banned in both National Parks and New York state parks – you know, the kind of places that would both be least invasive of other people and where the views would be something you’d want to get a look at.
I really shouldn’t have expected anything else from legislators.
I never seen a done in a park.
drone.
The only thing worse than drones in my hiking parks are bluetooth speakers. Usage of either should be punishable by death.
Exception for SAR operations.
What are you doing hiking in my videography park?
Carlson’s a terrorist now?
I mean terrorist lover =/= terrorist…
A War to Win Back Your World
An interview with Bernie Spofforth.
https://www.thefreemind.co.uk/p/a-war-to-win-back-your-world
The opening sentence of the book is startling:
“Every year in Britain, around 12,000 people are arrested for the things they post online.”
This is a great opener but a horrible fact. Would it be fair to say that your book basically explains how we got here?
Yes, that’s what I hope people discover and then understand. It has taken 50 years to get to where we are, and it will take more than one democratic cycle to get us out of it.
…
Please could you give me three points you would like people to take away from this book?
Things are much worse than you think.
Changing the party probably can’t change the direction.
Life as you knew it will never be the same again.
…
In the course of your research, what surprised you the most?
Surprised or just quietly disappointed? I had hoped to find 5 blokes in a room smoking cigars like Bond baddies taking over the world. Disappointingly that wasn’t the case, it was far more mundane. It really was overreaching mission creep, lazy and incompetent national governments, a lean to the hard left after the war and ridiculous ideology within institutions which allowed global business to take advantage for their own benefit.
Someone has uncovered the prospiracy!
This.
Republicans hate bipartisan compromise
n a rare display of bipartisanship, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to pass a sweeping housing bill on Monday—with only five lawmakers voting against the legislation. Ten other Senators did not vote.
All five of the lawmakers who voted against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act are Republicans: Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Rick Scott of Florida, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
The bill seeks to increase the U.S. housing supply by easing regulations and encouraging building, lower housing costs, restrict the presence of institutional investors in the single-family housing market, and give more control over housing to local jurisdictions, among a host of other provisions.
I’m sure that is precisely what was in the bill.
LOL
Trump Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-abruptly-cancels-signing-ceremony-for-bipartisan-housing-bill-c94f5ff1?st=NvJQcb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The signing ceremony is now unhoused? Perfect.
OK. I’m too lazy to go dig up links, but I’ve noticed something lately and I want the Official Glib Position on the topic of: Do Dogs Rape?
A couple months back, the NY Times ran some piece which claimed that the Israelis had special rape dogs that they used on the Pali prisoners. Everyone lost their shit and swore that it was pure propaganda and utter fantasy. The rabid left claimed that dogs could be trained to rape.
Recently the report about rape gangs came out and there were several instances where victims claimed that they were raped by dogs and the video was used to black mail them. Unsurprisingly (at least to me) the usual suspects had all switched sides. Now rape dogs were totes believable and were being used on British girls.
So what is the deal?
Dogs do not do that to humans. They cannot be trained to do that to humans.
#TacticalLegHumpers
I remember reading about “rape by trained dogs” a long time ago.
People also believed lemmings to be suicidal for decades.
The internet isn’t being helpful for me here. All the responses are about legality and ethics, not whether it’s physically possible.
Donkeys on the other hand…..
Put me down for ‘bullshit fantasy.’
Also, for the people repeating this accusation, it probably would be interesting to take a look at their browser cache…
Weep for the victims of pernicious nationalism and false pride
Governing is harder when resources are squandered on an exercise in self-harming statecraft. Disentangling the UK from the single market and building new systems to impede trade were processes that burned through reserves of diplomatic capital and economic credibility. The cost in foregone growth – the measure of how much richer Britain would have been on the pre-referendum trajectory – is estimated to be in the range of 4% to 8% of GDP.
That number doesn’t include the emotional toll: the coarsening of debate; radicalisation and polarisation; the toxification of political culture by a movement that sold immiseration as liberation and, when it all went wrong, blamed the losing side for refusing to indulge the delusions of the winners.
Britain is not the only democracy to experience the economic imbalances and social dislocation that incubate populism. Historians will situate Brexit in the wider context of a pan-European and transatlantic nationalist backlash against the complacent style of liberal globalisation that thought it had already won its final ideological battle when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Davos Man Globalism is so self-evidently awesome it never occurred to us anybody could be dumb enough to oppose it.
Is that the same Brexit that the elites on all sides have fought bitterly since the voters approved it? That’s hilarious bullshit even for The Guardian.
Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyqldl3p5o
LOL even some of the doomsayers are admitting that the klimate krisis was hysterical bullshit.
Don’t fall for it, France.
There is no confusion between sex and gender.
Mammals have sexes.
Words have genders.
“There is no confusion between sex and gender.”
Sure there is.
The Free Press is paywalled.
The whole thing? I was annoyed that they didn’t indicate which articles were until you clicked on them.
Do Dogs Rape?
I think you might have to take a field trip to Tiajuana to answer that one.