Forgot to set my alarm!
I actually managed to throw that together pretty fast. Might be a record. Here’s a song that’s stuck in my head.
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“Forgot to set my alarm!”
It’s OK, these things happen.
Biological clocks are not reliable.
Lily is pretty good about waking me up when it’s time for her to go on her morning patrol.
I wake up due to natural causes
Steak for three days in a row.
Biological clock fully functioning and erect.
“Forgot to set my alarm!”
And yet, links up to Banjo’s usual standard, so good on ‘er.
Unfortunately for legal scholars, the line is very real. Hidden away in the third paragraph of Jackson’s opinion, buried on the 33rd page of the decision, you can find the travesty.
I tried reading Jackson’s opinion when I read the whole decision. I think I tapped out after that paragraph but I don’t remember that line. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if it is there.
I think Jackson wrote her opinion, which Sotomayer joined, in order to bash Thomas without understanding what Thomas wrote. Thomas even gets called out by name in Jackson’s opinion.
Don’t forget “wait for it” in her dissent of the universal injunctions ruling.
She’s so bae.
Yassss Queeeen. *clap emojis everywhere
Are we not doing finger snaps anymore? I can’t even.
I’m waiting to see “no you didn’t” in a dissent.
“And AR-15s and similar rifles did not suddenly come into common use yesterday. On July 21, 2022, Breitbart News pointed to NSSF data showing there were already more AR/AK-style firearms in circulation “than Ford F-Series trucks on the road.”
They came into common use after the assault weapons ban expired. Before that, very few people owned them. It was the gun grabbers that made them popular.
Ford Assault Trucks may be responsible for more deaths than AR-15s as well. That’s why FATs need to be locked up when not in use.
I agree that the fats neeed to be locked up.
I feel targeted.
My Ford Assault Truck killed a bird the other day. It has a taste for blood now. MUST BE RED MEAT!
It’s just a little weight. *waddles away sobbing
They had been around since the sixties, and they were common in the firearms community before the AWB, which was enacted due to that commonality (along with AK’s being common). The left just hates guns and they thought it was a good wedge issue, but it backfired on them, and normies started buying them.
“which was enacted due to that commonality (along with AK’s being common)”
I’d be surprised if they were more than 1% of rifle sales.
I will always use this figure on the lefties now:
# of people per year in Europe who died from the heat during to lack of air conditioning: 175,000
# of people per year in America who die from being shot by a rifle (any rifle): 364 (2019 data).
Per year?? Do you have a source for that?
I hit up Brave for he data, which told me this:
“There is no single official yearly statistic for deaths specifically caused by AR-15 rifles because the FBI and CDC do not track firearm deaths by specific weapon models, grouping them instead under broader categories like “rifles.” In 2019, the FBI recorded 364 murders committed with all types of rifles combined, a figure that includes hunting rifles and other long guns alongside AR-15s. “
And here is the FBI table it came from:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls
Ugh I’m on my phone and therefore lazy. I meant the heat deaths in Europe.
I was thinking the same thing, Rhywun.
UN news.org:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766
They will see it as more of a reason to ban ARs along with pushing a harder green agenda.
So, hysterical climate propaganda. I am skeptical.
It was the gun grabbers that made them popular.
Indeed. I know several people whose gun purchasing decisions were either directly (to piss them off) or indirectly (to establish the platform as commonplace to aid future litigation).
Same as it ever was, same as it is now.
You should have seen XCal this past weekend. They were sold out of everything.
I remember the racks of cheep AK and SKS rifles in the late 80s early 90s at the local Tru Value hardware store Big V. Those things were everywhere.
Remember M16s and ARs from the A team.
As I recall, the A-Team used Ruger Mini-14s.
AC-556
The A-Team certainly made the stainless Ruger Mini-14 famous, but they used M-16/SP-1 rifles much more often in the show. True fact.
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_A-Team_(TV_Series)
Thank you for the clarification
The popularity was increasing before the bans. Sub $100 SKS and $300 AK available in around 1986 fueling the interest. I remember my friends returning from spring break with Chinese AKs from a Florida gun show around that year. The AR competition was from the cheaper milsurp semiauto imports and Mini-14s. My first AR was a SARCO parts kit in around 1989. Also in this same time period was a wide variety of imported semiauto copies of foreign select fire weapons.
AR-15s and similar rifles did not suddenly come into common use yesterday
Irrelevant. The second amendment just says “arms”, common use doesn’t enter into it.
“If a program’s graduates do not meet this threshold in two-out-of-any-three consecutive award years, the program is categorized as ‘low-earning’ and loses eligibility for Direct Loans. Bachelor’s programs in Religion/Religious Studies (53.3%) and Graphic Communications (17.7%) most frequently failed the earnings test, according to agency data.”
No mention of all the lefty indoctrination “studies” majors.
Those are quickly hired by NGOs and coffee stands.
Those majors
paygrift well.TBH I don’t like the idea of some apparatchik making these decisions. The correct action I think is privatize it all again. Let the dummies waste their own money as long as I don’t have to pay for it.
Agree. This program is just a right-wing version of Smart People using data to conduct central planning.
Top. Men.
We had idiot dem politicians at one point insisting that higher paying majors, like sciences, finance, and engineering should pay more loan interest than lower paying majors like humanities and of course Teaching.
Starbucks is going to lose their educated workforce.
OMWC hardest hit.
Update on last night’s unpossible shooting
Two men are dead after a multi-town manhunt and subsequent police standoff along the Interstate 495 corridor on Tuesday, the Worcester and Middlesex County District Attorneys announced.
The series of events began at the Shops at Highland Commons parking lot in Berlin, Massachusetts, at 3:30 p.m.
According to Berlin police, officers were on their way to the shopping plaza for a reported assault when they heard that shots were also possibly fired at the scene.
When officers arrived, they found a man who suffered injuries from several gunshot wounds. Aid was rendered to the victim, but he was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Feel-good story, since we’re a half hour in:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/sports/golf/irish-golfer-battling-cystic-fibrosis-deep-bunkers-and-difficult-pins-qualifies-for-the-open/ar-AA26YqxL
Good news, Indiana!
“Federal authorities have dismantled an alleged firearms trafficking ring that prosecutors say funneled dozens of guns from Georgia to Chicago street gangs, with some of the weapons later linked to a juvenile murder and other violent crimes.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/feds-dismantle-alleged-gun-trafficking-ring-that-funneled-dozens-of-firearms-from-georgia-to-chicago-gangs/
Whew. Without me going to practice regularly our state has really been falling behind.
“Florida woman claims cocaine found in her butt after arrest must’ve been from ‘intimate encounter’
When staff removed her hand, a baggie dropped to the floor containing 3.8 grams of cocaine.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/30/us-news/florida-woman-claims-cocaine-in-her-butt-mustve-been-from-intimate-encounter-busted-by-cops/
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Reposting a story about drugs falling out of someone’s ass?
*temporal meta-loop ensues*
In this case, apparently the drugs fell in.
The ol’ In-Out ‘Urge’!
(that is for OBE, IYKYK)
🎵If you wanna get down, shove it deep in your brown, cocaine🎵
“Page Six hears that Alpha School — the “AI-powered” school that, as we’ve reported, runs a summer camp featuring omakase classes and “life skills” like building Trojan horses — has launched a second school where students are guaranteed to graduate with a million-dollar business.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/01/lifestyle/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-graduate-with-million-dollar-business/
omakase classes?
I’m guessing this is the most pretentious way they could title a class in menu planning and cooking.
Advanced Barrista 302
“Puck management and the Short Pull. Balancing customer expectations and the realities of the machine”
Trojan Horse Building is a lucrative market.
Trojan Horse Building is where I recorded my first dubstep album.
Who wants to be an emperor?
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260630_11/
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/editorial-japan-govt-should-not-let-male-line-succession-derail-imperial-law-reform/ar-AA26XerF
Can I phone a friend?
I have a few conditions starting with driving on the right.
The Mainichi remains true to form.
As it stands now when women from the royal family marry they are legally no longer part of her parent’s family. It’s not unique to the royal family. That’s how it works when women get married. They join their husband’s family register.
It can work in reverse as well – the husband can join the wife’s family register and leave his family. However, this isn’t possible for the royal family.
Depends, do I get 1980’s Francesca Annis, early 2000’s Barbara Kodetova or am I stuck with Zendaya?
Don’t put things you don’t want discovered in writing.
Inside the Egg Price-Fixing Scandal That Spiked American Grocery Bills
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/inside-the-egg-price-fixing-scandal-that-spiked-american-grocery-bills-4a919c51?st=L9Su3K&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“As a group we need to bid like they vote in Chicago, early and often,” an alleged co-conspirator said, according to a federal court complaint made public this week.
So we now need to go through kubuki theater. The state will explain how they ripped off consumers for billions. The egg companies will vigorously deny all claims. They will settle for something industrywide in the hundreds of millions, but admit no wrongdoing and the desire to “move on” or “put the issue away”.
The hundreds of millions will be used to further extort companies in the future and reward political friends. Consumers will see little to none of it. Rinse and repeat.
Make sure Swiss sees the comments.
Other than lawyers who is getting the hundreds of millions?
Whichever federal and/or state agencies will get a chunk. After that whichever party holds government will send cash to various “non-profit” consumer or special interest groups for most of the remainder.
On something agricultural like this I’ve no idea who will be greased. Rest assured the actual consumers that were harmed will not see a penny.
The consumers will almost certainly end up harmed by the uses the NGOs put their share toward. It’s Democracy in action, corporation does bad thing, gets fined, NGO gets money to do worse thing, and down and down it spirals.
Remember when the government forced producers to slaughter tens of millions of birds that had immunity to the avian flu?
That had zero impact of course and was as logical as all the covid measures.
Ass Wednesday is at an impasse.
https://archive.is/avlke
The first girl does look a bit impish.
She looks 15
Impish kind of goes along with youthful. I made a pun, not a hook up.
Girl in the white hat has some nice puppies.
The important thing is that your automobile have as many emissions devices as possibly upon it. One more benefit of our AI utopia!
Compared with turbines, reciprocating engines tend to be smaller, less efficient, more emissions heavy and require more frequent maintenance. But they are more readily available.
Small-Engine Makers Gain Big Momentum in Data Centers
For data centers looking for off-grid power, small engines are cheap and readily available
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/small-engine-makers-gain-big-momentum-in-data-centers-32cd1254?st=ZYuXp4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s a good thing NY is all but banning data centers. The planet will thank us as it heals.
As I see it the South will have the data centers, factories, and skilled workers. The North will have commies and illegal alien unskilled labor. Odd role reversal from the 1800s.
Just saw my first “NO DATA CENTER” shop placard in the wild.
JFC the people around here are so tedious. It’s not just the usual anti-jobs, anti-business mindset that all the overeducated elites share – they seriously believe it will cause their electric bills to skyrocket. The state has been doing everything in its power to make that happen for many years but let’s blame Big Data that doesn’t exist yet. Retards.
“Now Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the 82-year-old, who has repeatedly claimed that the president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room during the spring of 1996 and then defamed her by denying her claim, saying that she wasn’t his type and claiming she had made the whole thing up to boost book sales.”
https://nypost.com/video/supreme-court-hands-down-major-rulings-including-decision-on-e-jean-carrolls-sex-abuse-trump-suit/
Did she even say it was the “spring of 1996”??
But the rape accusation decades later with no proof whatsoever is not defamation. Got it.
I remember reading in numerous places she couldn’t say which year.
“It’s my story and I’m more or less sticking to it”
“The fact that this case was a 5-to-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread,” the vice president argued during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
This is the most pathetic cope imaginable. It’s not hanging by a thread at all. A decision is a decision, regardless of whether it’s 9-0 or 5-4. Given stare decisis we’re probably stuck with this for at least another twenty years. I’m not going to hold my breath that Congress will do anything about this even if there is a Republican majority in both houses.
Thank you for expressing exactly what I was thinking.
The GOPe is afraid they will be called bad names if they do anything.
Nor will they suddenly board deportation express to stop the anchor babies.
Plus they don’t want to do anything – they have always been in favor of increasing immigration just like all of the left but for different reasons.
It doesn’t prevent a law banning pregnant tourists.
I like UCSs take.
Make them get abortions before they come visit.
Or going hard on birth tourism palaces
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-justice-dept-directs-prosecutors-to-prioritise-birth-tourism-probes-following-court-ruling/article71167679.ece
Given that an amendment wasn’t passed circa Wong Kim Ark, I highly doubt it would be done today.
We won’t have a nation in twenty years.
Barely do now.
The illegals will flood back in as soon as the commies take over.
This Insane Line in Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Birthright Opinion Is Making the Court a Laughing Stock
I don’t think it’s that “insane” line that’s making the court a laughing stock.
And really now, insane? That’s grasping at straws as bad as Vance with his ‘silver lining’.
NPR was saying that the decision is a win for OMB since he won’t be implementing an unpopular de-citizenizing of anchor babies.
Gone to Australia
I’m leaving the U.K. because things are bad there, and I expect them to get worse.
Interesting. I’ve no idea about what residency and citizenship requirement are in Commonwealth Countries.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/gone-to-australia-6ada8cef?st=BCSgQm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And the writer thinks Australia is any less bad?
If you are UK citizen that might be the best of a bunch of bad options.
some like the weather in Australia. I do not but some do. Shit with good weather is better than shit with bad weather. That is what keeps California in business.
Also so wages are quite higher in Ozzy. England has soviet levels of wage compression.
Canada is closer…
But is it better or worse? Certainly colder in most places!
The academic she cites in the article is a complete and utter fraud. Doesn’t even drop a single “diversity is our strength.”
This person is totally in touch. The wealthy Turk his friend knows is totally secular and thinks his maid is. Obviously she hasn’t murdered him yet. So she must be one of the good ones, too.
Ask her about Palestine.
The secular parents possibly came here for economic opportunity, but their children are prone to exploring ways to add meaning to their lives, and there are plenty of radical Imams waiting to point the way.
They are attracted to the American victimhood Olympics, as well. Palstine turbocharged that shit and made it so they all had a cause. That is really the mindset on the left. I call it the “Remember the Titans” generation because if they were anything like me, they had that shit film shown to them like 500 times in high school by every lazy cunt teacher. But if it wasn’t that, it was one of Hollywood’s 500 other “first black ___” films that bastardize history. Everyone wants to feel like they’re back in Alabama 1965 and fighting the good fight.
Even then, I get tired of even seeing the immigration to the United States compared to Europe’s on this front. You can say a lot about Hispanics, but there’s at least some shared culture and history. Religious commonalities. The Muslims we get are also already filtered in many ways though they’ve done their damndest to just mass import them on a few occasions and let them live together.
Europe had millions of military age males from the poorest and most backwards parts of the region mostly walk into their countries purely for free shit that they were obliged to give them. In a matter of years.
There is a massive, massive fucking different between Juan and Muhammad. Anyone who has been to the Middle East who says they are ok living next to these people in large numbers is either insane or lying.
A radical Inman is one that ignores sura nine.
There is also a massive difference between the US and Europe re Mohammeds. I lived among them in Brooklyn for a decade and they were mostly fine, well assimilated, etc. I have very different takes from Europe.
Until that botch Linda Sarsour moved on and started weekly agitations just outside. I left shortly thereafter.
I read somewhere that a lot of UK meds go to Australia after their residency, they make more money and have easy citizenship requirements being a commonwealth country.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/your-kids-school-bus-is-about-to-become-a-roaming-surveillance-vehicle
JFC. I really need to put a bike rack or something into my trailer hitch. For carrying my bikes…
Sure. Of course in many places an obscured plate is a license to pull you over and go on a fishing expedition.
I’m seeing them in increasing in usage, but not a lot of traffic stops.
TBF, any asshole cop can lie and pull you over for literally anything.
The Flock camera at an intersection of my commute has suddenly gone missing…
Good.
Privatize the schools.
Problem solved.
On the Bucharest weather front, a subject I fell y’all find absolutely riveting, We had one of the most intense storms in recent memory last night. I do not remember such intense thunder really. Also a ton of rain. The city was massively disrupted today. We got 80-90 liter/square meter of rain bout three fiddy inches per foot in primitive measurements. The subway flooded (don’t remember that before), some tram lines and underpasses flooded. I got to work ok but many had trouble. It is not know if it counts as a June or July rain. The record for July is 98 l/m2 in 1954, for June it is 136 l/m2 in 1910. They moved the end of high-school baccalaureate exam from yesterday to today due to the heat, but today pupils were late due to the disruption. The had a second afternoon session for those who did not make it for the 9AM one.
It did cool down but the humidity increased. This morning 21C / 98% now 32C / 65%.
We’re riveted by how you Europeans can’t handle typical American weather.
I handle it but it is unpleasant. Bitching about the weather is a time honored tradition.
Bitching about the weather is a time honored tradition.
Pie, you will love our farmers then. They love to bitch about the weather.
Growing up in a tourist trap as a kid, you learned to follow the weather so you could talk to all the visiting farmers. Bonus points if you also followed the price of wheat and corn.
It was our hope that if you humored the farmers by agreeing with their raging about weather and how the govt was screwing them on crop prices you would get a tip. Never worked. Farmers were notoriously cheap and never tipped.
Wow! You are stealing my rain!
It’s only 80F so far this morning.
Dewpoint is 75F, relative humidity is 90%. It will be just shy of 100F today. We may not see rain until August.
69* here today with a dew point of 48.
And just one more thing for the wife to bitch about.
Dewpoint is now 79° here. I just came in from outside and I am not leaving the house for the rest of the day dammit.
Further subway disruption as one of the flooded stations caught fire.
That sounds a lot like Washington Metro.
How do the Europeans grow crops with such low temperatures?
you wish you had our tomatoes
PieInTheSky:
You mean those invasive, non-native fruits?
Why, do you steal them from Italy?
Mr Ilium, the Eurovision thread is down there. 👇
Tomatoes came from America. You’re welcome.
you wish you had our tomatoes
Pie:
Are you trespassing on Q’s territory? I admit, though, your tomatoes are very nice looking
I am reminded of Superduperstorm Sandy in 2012. I don’t know the precise measurements in old-world or new-world units but it knocked out train tunnels for a year and a half. I had to ride a ferry to work.
I had to ride a ferry to work.
Isn’t that the dream for you?
So much better than the poor cis workers. They had to pull a train to work.
Speaking of NPR, the story about the bogus aAlito retirement is not that it was some intern pushing the wrong button and delivering an unverified script to Nina Totenberg, but rather an old lady having a senior moment:
While it’s understandable that her fantasy would involve a conservative retiring, nothing about why her subconscious chose Alito over Thomas.
Undoubtedly it’s latent racism.
That would be the Grim Reaper in her likely fantasy.
We’re more likely to get a diabetic coma than a retirement.
Two graduate-related stories caught my eye this month which, taken together, expose the folly of the last quarter-century of British higher education. First, Policy Exchange published a report entitled Tarnished Towers. It demonstrates how graduates, burdened by debts accrued from their studies, are finding it increasingly difficult to secure jobs. Among those who graduated in 2024, only 57 per cent were in full-time employment a year later.
At the same time, the government announced that taxpayers will subsidise visas to the tune of £5,000 when British firms hire highly skilled workers from abroad. In a Telegraph article, we learn that this is intended to address skills gaps in “tech and digital, life sciences and clean energy sectors”. This comes against the backdrop not only of graduate underemployment, but also of already mammoth levels of immigration.
Taken together, the Policy Exchange report and the new government subsidy amount to an indictment of Britain’s approach to skills. After decades of expanding higher education in the name of preparing Britain for the future, we find ourselves with graduate underemployment on the one hand and acute skills shortages on the other.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-big-crunch/
So, exactly the same as the United States. But no worries both countries are punishing the fuck out of innovation and business anyway so soon we won’t have need for “skills”.
And what did the unemployed natives study? It’s possible they studied tech, but likely they studied Intersectional Grievances rather than Engineering.
Well, we passed out a ton of visas to “skilled” workers when we had no shortage whatsoever of skilled Americans, so I wouldn’t assume that importing workers means there aren’t any native ones on offer.
Importing workers into a populous 1st* world country pretty much only means “We don’t want to pay our workers market rate”
*or rather any place where you can still learn modern skills
After Deadly D.C. Crash, FAA Moves Toward Sweeping Aircraft-Technology Mandate
I love it when politicians hold up props. The gun ones are usually hysterical, but technology is close second. It’s an aircraft. All the R&D and certification are part of the cost of the small device. I’m sure the device proper has a small BOM cost. Plus installation. Again not cheap because of the R&D and certification.
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/after-deadly-d-c-crash-faa-moves-toward-sweeping-aircraft-technology-mandate-81335b8a?st=MSYt2X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My dad was putting one of those in his plane last year.
No wonder general aviation has dropped off. They force you to buy a bunch of wiz’s bang tech to surveil you in a sector that is already incredibly safe.
Cars WILL be next.
This 4,245± acre cow/calf operation in North West Kansas offers a rare opportunity to acquire a large, contiguous holding of productive High Plains grass. Designed for efficiency, the property features well-maintained fencing, reliable water sources, and the capacity to support a scalable cow/calf operation. With its combination of strong grazing potential, functional improvements, and convenient access, makes this NW KS ranch truly turn-key.
Located in the Northwest Corner of Kansas this 4,245± acre cattle ranch offers a highly functional and well-maintained operation in the heart of northwest Kansas ranch country. The property features quality perimeter and cross fencing, supporting efficient pasture rotation and livestock management across a large, contiguous tract of productive grass. Owner rated at 400+/- head.
Water is a standout attribute, with the ranch being well-watered throughout and complemented by a year-round natural water source on the northern portion—providing consistent, reliable supply for livestock in all seasons. Improvements are equally strong, including good working pens designed for ease of handling, shipping, and day-to-day operations.
In addition to its grazing capacity, the ranch includes approximately +/-850 acres of tillable ground, with +/-130 acres irrigated. This blend of grass and farm ground offers operational flexibility, feed production potential, and diversified income opportunities. Currently being utilized as planted pasture for expanded stocking. There is also potential to expand the tillable acreage.
Adding to its long-term value, all Income Producing mineral rights remain intact and can transfer with the sale. With its combination of dependable infrastructure, natural water, and productive acreage, this property is well-suited for a cow/calf or stocker program and represents a strong opportunity for both operators and land investors alike.
This ranch features two active Gravel pits that can provide an immediate and ongoing source of income. Both pits are well-established, with proven material and accessibility, making them suitable for continued use or expansion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR1YxLmWfdE
I often see nice looking farms with lots of trees and lakes and stuff that look like they could be a rich person retreat rather than a working farm. This is not one of them. Ug Lee.
All Kansas is dust in the wind.
It’s comments like this that bring us to the point of know return.
Carry on my wayward sons.
I drove through a tornado in Wichita once.
Rock quarries you say?!
But Kansas.
Nope.
Experience one of the largest and most unique ranch offerings in Northeastern Montana. The Black Ranch spans more than 35,000± contiguous acres, including 26,610± acres of BLM lease permits, 4,680± acres of State Lease land, and 3,710± deeded acres. This exceptional Montana cattle ranch offers outstanding grazing resources, reliable water, extensive wildlife habitat, and a proven history of successful ranch management.
Designed for both seasonal and year-round cattle operations, the ranch currently supports approximately 750 to 775 head of cattle for seven months, with carrying capacity varying based on annual moisture conditions. The property is divided into seven large grazing pastures and four smaller holding pastures, all supported by dependable water sources including springs, reservoirs, pits, and the year-round spring-fed Willow Creek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-JAC17o6M
Wait 35k acres for 700 cows? Is this like those million acre Australian farm that support 100 sheep?
Northern Montana is mountains giving way to fairly arid high plains. It’s a pretty place but not lush by any stretch of the imagination.
In the American west the traditional way the BLM permits animal carrying capacity is one Animal Unit Month (AUM) (or one cow and calf) per section (1 sq mile) per inch of rain.
For the permitted land 26,610 / 640 =42 AUM per inch of rain. 700 head assumes 16 inches per year. Probably pretty damn generous for NE Montana.
Got to leave some grazing for the pronghorn! (I am only kind of being snide here. There is something deeply charming about watching the pronghorn and cattle share the range.)
On my way to wark yhe was a tree that fell on a car. The xar got lucky minimal damage
https://photos.app.goo.gl/T2m5Z2uQPqXuxy6QA
Good Lord. So that is your car?
no.
Did you take a blow to the head?
“Design the worst festival panel you can think of”
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2072224745676849621
It’s telling that “And Others” is the most exciting of the list.
Good news for Pope Jimbo and any other inclined Minnesota Glib – bathhouses are back on the menu in the great state in the North! At least in Minneapolis.
You can officially mingle in the calming waters right along side Muhammad and Ahmed. Because you know they’ll be there enriching that whole scene.
I do not visit Turkish bath houses.
What sort of bigot has never let a Turk inside of them?
not into chess
Hopefully Jimbo has time to try a few out so he can recommend one to my hockey team next year.
If nothing else, it will be a good stop for all the Glibs heading to the Honey Harvest.
A nice way to relax and get rid of all the kinks from their long travels.
I still remember being a teen age kid from the edge of the prairie and sneaking off to view all the “adult” stores on Hennepin Avenue. That was the legendary pit of depravity back in the early ’80s. It made quite an impression on all of us.
In the ’90s it was all torn down as part of urban revitalization. The empty lots sat empty for decades. When the City Council finally decided what developer was pure enough to be allowed to build on it, another decade or so followed of business failure after business failure. (The ultimate being that a Hooters across the street from the stadium where the Timberwolves played went out of business) Now the property is owned by the Timberwolves who were basically given it for training.
I’m worried that it won’t be long before the Somalis figure out how to scam this.
Won’t be long before they open “The Bating Center”.
“We sell Fish School Supplies”
Antipodean Empire 🇦🇺
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A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman in Northern Australia, The Bulletin, 7 January 1904
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Sorry Pie – bad news!
Canada will take part in Eurovision Song Contest 2027
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x2y2vwqn1o
I will ignore it extra hard.
I find it predicable when proponents say Eurovision is about finding unity through culture, when the culture represented is a very specific, campy subculture that Our Betters(tm) believe should be accepted by all.
This is how I’ll remind you, Pie.
https://youtu.be/Aiay8I5IPB8?si=9iFkgMKNwlgEvtrj
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-FnGb4wbY
@Ted that actually was not that bad
*All* my music choices are good!
I love the 80s remake because of course I do.
I specifically didn’t want to be conventional by picking the well-known version.
Nickelback is underrated.
Fight me.
I require a cassus belli related to something I care about first.
I knew a guy once who was a genuine unapologetic Nickelback fan. He had a farm that he’d let me shoot on, so I tried not to give him a hard time about it.
I have several Nickelback CDs. I always liked them.
They didn’t earn all the hype they received on the way up or all the disdain they got on the way down.
The radio programmers deserve your scorn, not the band.
EvilSheldon:
Watching the Bananaball games, there’s at least one player who used Nickleback for a walkup song. The color commentators were both saying they didn’t understand the Nickleback hate.
They don’t have the best commentators.
So Nickelback is the Canadian Green Day? I keep their first hit album around mostly out of inertia but I feel kind of ashamed listening to it.
I saw them live before I heard about them. They opened for sevendust and creed.
Nickelback is better live than on the albums.
And big in Japan (no not that big in Japan!).
https://youtu.be/_P9zR5KaPsc?si=TJSn4-pGlIEK1Ahy
Strange, I had the impression that the “First Take” videos typically featured significant artists or songs. Not ratty has-beens trotting out their one hit from a decade ago.
Did somebody say big in Japan?
https://youtu.be/2SUDZ30_PXg?si=Az2Zg0qFkgY-IzDu
I dont get it.
Decent AI summary
I know that. I do not know why it was directed at me.
Canadian pride at Eurovision, I assume.
I would have thought it would be a reply to the eurovision thread…
I have heard that Cyber Trucks were bullet proof and that seems to be the case. Mrs. TOK drove by this crash yesterday. She said it looked like the Nissan was going south on the divided highway, and the Cyber Truck pulled out in front of it. (This is just a guess, there is no official cause announced yet). The Nissan was totaled and the driver died, but the Cyber Truck didn’t have a scratch.
https://nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_66736b20-1276-4620-95dd-e134a6d200cd.html
Also depends what parts collided and the difference in size and mass.
This is a tough call. Cyber Truck owners drive like they own the road, OTH it was a Nissan it colluded with…
Another innocent person viciously murdered by Elon.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I’ve been remiss lately on these links, so this is a big one.
The rise and fall of America’s all-you-can-eat buffet
I don’t go to them because I don’t want to subsidize the obese.
They are really gross.
The fatties, the food or both?
Chinese ones can be decent.
But I haven’t been to one since before the plague so maybe they died out too along with anything else affordable.
The Pizza Hut and KFC buffets in Southern China were 1 trip types of places. It was funny to watch skinny Chinese dudes layer a pyramid of food on their plates.
Needed to get their money worth
How about the Viking?
I’ve been to a Golden Corral twice.
Both times the food was average at best and there were fat kids maybe 8-12 years old with plates full of cake and ice cream.
It was depressing.
Mrs. Holiness loves all you can eat buffets. It is a) cheap and b) lets her nibble a lot of stuff instead of having to commit to one entree.
Mostly she likes the Asian buffets. She is still mad that her favorite no longer has a custom build your own pho station after the Rona Panic.
pho real?
This is also why Mrs. Parnell likes buffets.
Paris in Vegas used to have a good breakfast buffet, but AFAIK all the buffets in Vegas are gone now and are not coming back.
I admit, I do like the Korean all you can eat buffets with the in table grill. You can keep ordering raw ingredients and eating them at your table.
K-Pot is a good example.
all the buffets in Vegas are gone now and are not coming back.
Vegas deciding to go ‘upscale’ and ‘classy’ ruined the only things even moderately fun about the city. As a reasonably clean and safe sleazy den of sin and excess it made for a fun weekend every once in a while, but as a wannabe Monaco I can find better ways to waste money.
I think the last all-you-can-eat buffet I’ve been to was on Glibcruise v1. The food was pretty good.
Inside a 1,000-Year-Old French Château with a Rooftop Terrace, Cinema & Spa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuaSyisDHAQ
You ameripoors have no such fine real-estate
Not gonna lie, that place is beautiful. But then I think about the upkeep…
Also the taxes the castle.tax is high in frenchland. Thats why there are hundreds on the market
My income needs another zero.
Or I needed to have listened to my wife about buying bitcoin in 2009.
*adds ^0 to 3Door’s income*
All you can eat buffets are a great weight control aid. You watch all the morbidly obese people waddling back and forth with plates piled high, and you lose your appetite.
Burn it all down
Voters in Denver picked Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old political newcomer and a democratic socialist, as the Democratic nominee over longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the state’s 1st Congressional District, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
The victory continues momentum for the Democratic Socialists of America. Last week DSA-backed candidates won two primaries in New York as well as several state assembly primaries. They also advanced to the November elections for mayor in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles..
DeGette has been in Congress for nearly 30 years and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Kiros argued for a leadership change and centered her platform around working families, establishing universal health care, child care and elder care. She also committed to not accepting any corporate PAC money.
“Working families” aka the SEIU, teachers and municipal employees’ unions.
Foreign born persons need to be barred from holding senate and house seats.
See yea Ted Cruze
time to buy more ammunition
“Working families” includes any gov dependent, including the ones who don’t work.
But yeah, the communist takeover of that party continues.
Uh huh. I wonder how many pro-Hamas rallies she has attended? Most of the “DSA” are more honest about what they “center their platform around”.
Another “Has America lost its way?” poll.
Of course we can assume every person in that poll thinks we have tipped into authoritarian oligopoly and fascist racism.
Promise denied.
Retired warship that long called San Diego home is sunk during live-fire exercise near Guam
Fortunately Guam didn’t tip over during the exercises.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/07/01/retired-warship-that-long-called-san-diego-home-is-sunk-during-live-fire-exercise-near-guam/
My income needs another zero.
Only one? Dream big.
My other additional digits are 9s.