U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!! What a great win, even with the horrible officiating we were stuck with. On to Belgium, who had to pull a rabbit out of their ass to beat Senegal. And credit to Harry Kane, although not for that horrible dive, for his two solid goals to move England along. In Wimbledon, Joker and Sinner both won in straight sets. But Joker is definitely starting to show his age. If he makes the semis, it’ll be a successful tournament. And some dude for the Rays has homered in six straight games, which is impressive as shit. And that’s it for sports.
You want to kill business? This is one way to kill business.
There’s no question. These are very obviously just more scams. Same as in all the other cities. I swear, we’d balance our budget if the fraud was rooted out of this shit.
“Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?” These “silence is violence” dickheads need to be publicly shamed.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I don’t understand the logic here. Are they this full of hate for their political opponents that they will go so far as protecting a convicted pedophile from deportation?
Couple this with the link about New Jersey and we’re almost to full retard. It’s none of the government’s business.
Well, the first word in this headline is wrong. And that should come as no surprise. And neither should the story about this mentally ill man.
“Lean into the Jew-hate. That’s the Dem way.” The left’s leaning into anti-semitism in a way that hasn’t been seen in some time.
“We need our slave labor!” Democrats never change.
Swing and a miss. I’m not so sure their expectations weren’t wildly optimistic. Somehow I feel like taxpayers are gonna end up footing the bill for this.
And speaking of government overreach, which has been a bit of a theme today… There’s nothing that state won’t regulate. Well, aside from the fraud they allow en masse.
Here’s a fun one. Like most of their tracks. At least for me. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
“Proponents also say it’s about fairness because employers benefit from having some lower-income workers with taxpayer-funded health coverage.”
That’s retarded.
Isn’t a “single payer (gov’t) health plan” cheaper? I mean, that is what they always tell us, no?
I am not seeing the issue here, unless they are full of shit and know it.
It’s only cheaper if they can steal a bunch more money from the actual producers.
Also, it’s never cheaper.
So, full of shit it is then!
Correctamundo!
Single-payer legal care. Because no lawyer does anything worth more than minimum wage.
Easy there Ted’S. Let’s not go crazy.
New Jersey’s legislation tries to address some of the concerns. It would exempt temporary, seasonal and part-time employees.
A see another shift to part-time like with Obamacare.
They can address that by passing a law forbidding companies with more than 50 workers from hiring part-timers.
There’s no problem government can’t solve!
Beat me to it.
So they are basically telling people on Medicaid they are unemployable.
Policing businesses is more lucrative for corruptocrats than policing individuals
I’ve had this argument with people before.
“When people with jobs get government benefits, it’s corporate welfare! We’re all subsidizing their low wages!”
Okay, let’s eliminate the subsidy, anyone with a job can’t get government benefits.
“How dare you!”
Fo funsies, the Feds should sue California on Commerce-Clause grounds regarding packaging labels.
Shut up Wesley.
LOL yes. He’s just a dick, I don’t know or care about his politics.
Takei, however, is very loudly a radical leftist and needs to be condemned in the harshest way but of course nobody will go there.
Wheaton’s politics basically mirror Takei’s.
Washed up Trekies are washed up. Why anyone pays any attention to them is the question.
Successful actors and musicians are just about the last people whose opinions on politics anyone should care about. They live in luxurious bubbles, surrounded by courtiers whose livelihoods are dependent on keeping their meal ticket insulated from reality. They work in an industry that is legendarily full of sexual scandals, fraud, and general dishonesty. The downs syndrome kid bagging groceries has more credibility.
Takei and what’s his Wesley have nothing going career-wise. This type of BS is the only publicity they get.
I figure he jumped in on it cause of his new shitty show he will probably be on.
Gotta get your name back out there
Takei is a willing — nay enthusastic — catamite for the party that threw him in a concentration camp.
I can only believe that he at once point owned a full gimp suit.
Remember Dickwolves?
The best story about useless Wesley:
https://www.glibertarians.com/2022/11/sttng-missing-episodes-1-wesleys-woes/
Ironic that his whole campaign online used to be “Don’t be a dick”.
Brilliant. Fond memories of that one.
Takei and Wheaton can’t even really understand The Rock’s situation here. The two of them trying to tell Johnson how he should manage his fame is like a man with 5 bucks telling a billionaire where he should be putting his money.
All the more reason they hate him.
And, of course, the expectation that Johnson will mirror their politics or else.
“At one point, he offered her $10 to keep quiet about the abuse, according to DHS.”
Stupid foreigner, everyone knows it’s $20.
Rural versus city prices. Everything is more expensive downtown.
“Well, the first word in this headline is wrong. And that should come as no surprise. And neither should the story about this mentally ill man.”
https://archive.ph/xWjzD
“Officials said Howlett was sitting on a handgun and had an MP5 submachine gun in the back of the vehicle.”
Full-auto or bad journalism?
Verdammte!
Airsoft.
(don’t actually know just riffing on shitty journalisming/LE panicmongering)
Full-semi-auto
“Officials said Howlett was sitting on a handgun and had an MP5 submachine gun in the back of the vehicle.”
MP5 is impressive, but I want to know whether it was an actual full-auto MP5, or just a semi-auto version. Also, did the person have an FFL?
I have questions.
Regarding Walz’s infuriating pardon: This is a message to immigrants to remind them of the patronage which Walz and DFL provide. The immigrants understand their assignment — vote DFL and the DFL will protect you. That this infuriates and demoralizes the center and right is just icing on the cake.
Does it demoralize, or enrage? If the later, it is building moral conviction to remove these asshoe.
Both. Infuriate, enrage; poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe.
Pardoning a pedophile might not go over well with most of the state. But Walz doesn’t care. He probably relates to the guy.
Convicted pedophiles want to retroactively change their plea to guilty and look to Brother Walz for absolution.
What will Gov Klobuchar do after the election. The present Lt Gov is running for Klobie’s senate seat. Mystical musical chairs…
Remember this, term limits supporters.
As I said in the overnight thread, stated versus revealed preferences.
Are they this full of hate for their political opponents that they will go so far as protecting a convicted pedophile from deportation?
Yes.
Agreed 100%. However, when your fucked up POS claims that I didn’t pay for an item you don’t get to call armed agents of the state with a monopoly on violence to respond to disagreement. It’s purely civil.
Theft is still a crime though. And I don’t know if I want “if the government can’t dictate how you staff your business, you can’t call the police when you suspect somebody of a crime.”
It’s just inviting more government control over your affairs.
‘We’ve proven we can do so in the name of public health and the populace will go along with it. Stealing is public health issue, so sit down and shut up’
/probably someone somewhere
I’m ok if it’s human being that is giving a first hand sworn attestation of the theft and calling the cops.
You don’t get to play that game when it’s a machine claiming theft.
Yeah, was it you that posted the story about the Ford employee fired because of an Aramark vending fuck-up that said he hadn’t paid for a cooking, but he was able to prove he had? That was infuriating.
Ocasio-Cortez: Deporting immigrants under TPS will increase labor costs
She also wants to raise the minimum wage …
That’s (D)ifferent!
Consistency requires critical thought. Critical theory makes critical thought impossible. You are never going to win an argument with these people by pointing out contradictions. Contradictions don’t falsify propositions based in a system of thought that discards the notion of Truth.
Increasing the minimum wage will increase efficiency, thereby lowering employee costs.
I think I remember that from my Samuelson primer.
They hate Americans and America in general. They shove this outrage in your face and dare you to object.
Well, I object. And so does a majority of Americans.
That’s because you’re a white supremacist.
It’s the only possible reason you would object to an illegal alien convicted of child sex abuse remaining in the US.
Imagine how many pedo’s would be free if he was in the White House.
Ignoring the dates are bullshit, California just raised the price of food for the whole country by forcing companies to relabel everything.
” The law applies to restaurants with 20 or more locations and covers nine allergens: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans and sesame.”
BREAKING: Bread contains wheat.
Manufacturers should just increase wholesale prices to retailers in California in a normal world.
*Looks at bag of Zapp’s potatoe chips and sees “Not for sale in California” notice*
“Starting July 1, third parties can no longer file objections to adults’ petitions to change their names due to gender identity.”
Was that ever a thing?
Why do you hate California nudging the rest of us into the glorious utopian future?
Because California is evil. It needs a beatdown and a widespread purge of pretty much everything.
That was a great game last night. I kept waiting on Freese to do something catastrophically stupid and he only did once, but it didn’t cost us.
And Tim Ream managed to not get beat for an entire game, which might be the most surprising thing I’ve ever written.
Chain restaurants must now list allergens on menus
Will this be a repeat of when sesame was added to the list of allergens?
It’ll be a repeat of when they had to label everything as cancer causing.
Prop 65 didn’t result in businesses adding carcinogens.
The best part of that article – six-year-old Audrey, in the meantime, has outgrown her sesame allergy, likely due to ingesting trace amounts, but her mommy blogger mommy is still upset because won’t somebody think of the children?
Did they actually add sesame, or just start listing it as an ingredient instead of doing whatever hazmat shit the law required for it to be considered sesame-free?
A totally neutral outfit. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
It’s almost like she doesn’t have principles of her own.
“Do what it takes to get power” is a principle of sorts.
Almost?
That is odd. Usually when a trans-woman commits a crime, they refer to him properly as a man.
At least they left the trans off. Better that women get the bad PR splashed on them than the trannies. Let’s women know where they are on the stack, if nothing else.
Let’s what women?
When I saw that autocorrect, I knew I would get Ted’sed.
Maybe Americans can be paid to do those jobs rather than be paid to sit on their ass playing Xbox.
This is why you’re a racist.
“A middle-class upstate New York mom has been charged with allegedly supporting an Islamic terrorist organization after donating $30,000 in cryptocurrency to the violent, antisemitic group, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, a self-proclaimed stay-at-home mom, according to her Facebook account, exchanged messages with a terrorist in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group in Gaza, once telling him “I wish every day were October 7,” according to prosecutors in the Western District of New York.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/middle-class-ny-mom-led-anti-israel-extremist-group-donated-30k-to-palestinian-terrorists/
WTF is wrong with white women?
They’ve been coddled to the point where they truly believe they can do no wrong. Brainwashed into believing the west is the most misogynistic culture ever to have existed.
They’ve been lied to, repeatedly.
And they are wired to crave consensus approval. Which means they are much more prone to getting sucked into psy-ops rather than hold a view that is not reinforced by the psy-op.
CT – to answer your question – It varies from person to person.
They have too much free time. They shouldn’t be allowed on social media until the floors are all swept and the dishes are all done.
Tucker is going to start a third party. Like socialism, it will work this time.
A true third party has never been tried.
The LP haz a sad.
well… that is if the LP could get its shit together.
It will be for the workers, very nationalist, economically a bit socialist, and the uniforms will be stylish.
Bingo!
Democratic National Socialism! They can use the same arguments the DSA uses – “no, no, this is Demo-crat-ic Socialism, not like the gulag stuff”.
With the exception of the uniforms, it sounds like the army.
How much of their investment decisions are being driven by DEI and or BDS considerations?
At least 110%.
I want to see retired PA teachers starving and living under bridges.
Why just the retired ones?
Well, the story was about pension shortfalls. I assume the non-retired teachers aren’t drawing a pension.
All government teachers.
Well, then maybe they shouldn’t have invested in private equity funds. My hospital did that awhile back, and it caused no end of accounting problems and consistently lagged on returns.
That’s because your hospital wasn’t connected the way endowments like Harvard are.
There are various tiers of PE access even to those that have the ability to invest in it.
With s&p 500 up 36% in last two years there should be no excuse for having an underfunded pension plan.
“Lil Wayne no-shows opening tour concert in Maine as fans are left outraged”
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/02/entertainment/lil-wayne-no-shows-opening-tour-concert-in-maine-leaving-furious-fans-waiting/
But he looks so reliable.
I think I saw that guy passed out in a tunnel at Penn Station.
How many Lil Wayne fans can there be in Maine? It’s Maine. I thought he’d go no further then Boston before the fan base dried up.
If being on time is racist, Li’l Wayne is the least racist of all.
I guess his first show wasn’t a Bangor.
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani was roasted online for urging New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to a balmy 78 degrees as a punishing heat wave wallops the Big Apple — threatening to send temps soaring to 100 degrees for the first time since 2012.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/mamdani-roasted-for-telling-new-yorkers-to-set-acs-to-78-as-nyc-heat-wave-hits/
He should be roasted for real, but 78 doesn’t sound that warm to me.
Yeah, that’s a pretty standard government functionary nag. Adams did the same.
And yeah, 78 is not really that bad. Especially when it removes the humidity.
Only thing is he and his ilk are not above taking over smart thermostats or ordering the utilities to report abusers
I haven’t seen any calls for that yet, knock on wood.
Give it time.
Shut your dirty whorish mouth. *turns thermostat to 68
I keep mine at 75 – plus a fan running, seems to work for me.
We got a new AC unit 2 years ago. I told them to keep their “free” new smart thermostat and leave the old dumb one.
78 is a fucking sauna.
When we lived in Tucson, our daytime AC temp was 80 (mostly for economic reasons) and the nighttime temp was 76.
Mamdani and his ilk should STF about what people do with their thermostats.
I am not a robot.
Beep. Boop.
Hello fellow human! How about that consuming food ad respirating, eh?
Jeez, it just hit me too.
OMG. I can’t use my phone anymore. It blocks the screen white instead of presenting a captcha.
Do you run any adblockers or blacklists on your phone?
I am not using a VPN, but I am using Brave, which by default is a giant ad blocker.
I switched to Firefox and I can access the site on my phone again.
It’s possible that one the blacklists Brave uses has blocked something required for the authentication.
Me too. I assumed it was the work VPN that triggered it.
Me three…might be some DOS attack somewhere so cloudfare triggered protections
Firefox is working flawlessly, which supports Sensei’s theory regarding Brave.
You knew this was coming after Ukraine bloodied both Moscow and Russia’s refineries.
Massive Russian Strikes Pound Ukraine’s Capital, Killing at Least 17
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russia-ukraine-strikes-kyiv-9f76c67d?st=KLPatV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I assume the media will call this a war crime while ignoring what facilitated it.
You can argue that the refinery attacks were because of previous Russian attacks on Ukraine, of course, although I know the idea that Russia started the war is heretical around here.
And while encouraging much more of the same.
I’m pretty sure that most people here understand that the Rooskies started it with insufficient causus belli.
It’s a war. Why is it seen as surprising when people at war attack each other? I kind of get the surprise and outrage when Iran goes off on its wild flailing strikes on every neighbor because usually countries at war try to attack the countries they are at war with rather than just hitting everyone, but other than that I just don’t get it.
I guess I’ll be a heretic with you Ted’S. Screw Putin.
I’m rooting for Ukraine, I’ve already been compelled by the IRS to to donate to cause.
They’ve got enough of my money for their cor rupt governement.
Russia obviously started it. There was so much propaganda from all sides I’m not qualified to agree or disagree with it.
Ukraine can suck it too. I am tired of both of them.
The number of civilian deaths is tiny.
Not my circus.
Not my monkeys.
Refineries have always been legitimate military targets.
Wonder if Alito was trying to smoke out a rat with the retirement story.
I’ve heard that’s what he did. The rat that leaked the abortion decision, specifically. Although I think it was probably a clerk who did that, and the ones who were there then would all be gone by now.
Theoretically, with a quite high probability (though not 100%, yet) this’ll be my last day in Meijer’s Receiving dept. Splitting my three shifts this week into half-hours (plus unpaid lunches), I’m 34/51sts of the way through. I’ve already given my ‘soft’ two-week notice, and they know I’ll verify if this extends further.
A fascinating time. This escrow processing gig would be (another) first for me into a whole new realm. It would also allow enough money for me to get my own place. I got a place in Kokomo I liked when I was still with the Peru Tribune and they have a location nearby. Rent would be affordable and it would be a rather predictable game changer. I’m eager, but one pant leg at a time, Ev.
Tues and Wed were 11.75 and 11.65 miles on the job, respectively, with much carrying, lifting and shuffling. Oddly, and I really mean it, it’s the most chill gig I’ve ever had. No reprimands, no stress, just get shit done. Enjoy your Thirsty Thursday.
As long as you’re welcome at your parents, consider building up some financial cushion first.
That will certainly be done. I won’t think about my own place until 3mo in. Only working 3 days/wk now for $330 after taxes while I sought ‘meaningful’ work, and a safe, mid-line bet is I’ll earn $800/wk full time at Dominion Title Services. I can get a place for about $900/wk at that location, so within safe levels. Though utilities and internet, in addition.
Saving is a primary goal, though (compared to me) I’m doing quite well, now. Also true, psychological and environmental barriers /concerns will be lifted once I get my own place again. Gives life much more purpose when you’ve got your own shit. I seriously joke that without my own (social) life at present, I feel like pawn in game of (other people’s) lives, without anything outside work to base my own schedule on. Last time I had my own place was with this same Turtle Creek Apt business, was there for three months before I resigned from the paper. (Still regret that, but I was full-on nuts, then. *DAMMIT*) They gave me my full deposit and were openly happy I’d kept it so clean.
Okay, onward to very possibly my last shift with Meijer. Keep the place clean and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!
(Uh. That doesn’t help y’all much, does it? Do ALL the things I wouldn’t do. Maybe the’ll rub off on me.)
Aruba and Jamaica are nicer than Kokomo.
Kokomo has the better guns.
Let me if I have it right.
You will make 800 a week
Your rent will be 900 a week plus utilities.
Ah got it! You’ll only be a minus 100 plus utilities. I say go for it!
In the event the local college offers an Intro to Economics class a refresher may not hurt
If there’s an Intro to English class sign me up too, I could use it, see?
Lights the Neph signal!
Big Brewers Are Making an Outsize Bet on Tiny Cans of Beer
‘Pony’ beers get attention from brewers like Constellation Brands that want to appeal to moderation-minded drinkers and the GLP-1 crowd
Why… But whatever works.
https://www.wsj.com/business/big-brewers-are-making-an-outsize-bet-on-tiny-cans-of-beer-57766956?st=BC3WfE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Jeebus. I thought the 12 oz cans were already the small ones, since a proper serving is a pint.
The only proper amount of beer is none. :-p
Rolling Rock did a great job of selling the pony bottle experience. https://onwardstate.com/2015/03/25/the-all-american-rathskeller-from-prohibition-to-ponies/
Guess what years Timeloose was at the college.
One of the most prominent days in its history was the day the Skeller set its case sale record. That original case of Rocks sold by Dean Smith was purchased for only four dollars. When the bar was bought in ’86 by Gastiger and Hill, they were selling cases of Rocks for $7.50. [pullquote]Come on down early, we’ll try to set a case drinking record![/pullquote]As Gastiger continued the Skeller’s Case Race tradition, he saw it become just short of a State College holiday. When spring was near, the Skeller would set a date for those willing to come down and purchase as many cases as they wanted. In 1991, the original record was broken when 943 cases of Rocks were sold. In 1993, ten years after the original case race, the Skeller sold 1,003 cases, once again setting a new record. Three years later, the Skeller sold a total of 1,053 cases of Rocks, the most cases of beer sold in a single day.
It works in some places. Down in TX during summer, a standard can gets warm by the time you are finishing it. and those giant 40 oz cans might as well be soup 10 minutes after opening them. That would stay cold and carbonated until it was completely finished.
I was just gonna say. Killing a forty before it goes warm has been a problem as long as beers have existed. Cubbies are a reasonable solution to this.
The empties are also easier to hide from parents and/or cops.
Ontelaunee provided Mid-Atlantic Sectional branded coozies. They wouldn’t fit a 40 though.
A local brewery that’s known for high test beer (for a long time, their weakest beer was 7.5%) added 8.45 oz (250 ml) cans to their lineup before the lockdowns. I think it was a big help for them. They had always been known for expensive bottles, but they also used to only do 22 oz bombers for their big beers. They eventually did some in 12 oz bottles, but when you’re talking about a 15%+ ABV beer, sometimes a smaller serving size is appreciated.
But that seems to be talking more about the pony bottles that the big brands have been releasing of ~7 oz bottles. Here they have a tie to the Little Kings creme ale from back in the day, and are either priced as dollar beers, used as garnishes for lageritas or Bloody Marys, or done as chasers for shots.
“Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to pla-i-ay!”
I’ve had sour ales from Cascade Brewing in the mini-cans. I think it works well for some types of products — particularly the higher ABV beers.
Marketing decided this sounds better than “shrinkflation hits the 12oz beer can”.
I don’t think this counts as shrinkflation. The 12 oz package isn’t going away.
The new package is to fill an actual customer demand for smaller packaging.
Whether this is a fad or a long-term change of habits is yet to be seen.
kinnath:
The one that I don’t quite understand is the 19.2 ounce cans. It lines up with the inferior British imperial pint instead of the superior ‘Merican imperial pint (of 20 ounces). They’ve stuck around longer than I expected.
I remember once in high school I was visiting my cousins in Seattle and we acquired an 8-pack of small (8 oz, maybe?) bottles of Lowenbrau, but I’ve never seen that before or since.
In bizarre World Cup news:
https://www.byteseu.com/2158777/
Each seat, constructed of cream and tan leather with polished wood trim, can lie flat, features a massage function and is equipped with an individual television.
The only channel available on the televisions on Wednesday: Fox News. The televisions otherwise displayed an American flag with the presidential seal.
You do have to appreciate how the WH knows how to troll.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/air-force-one-qatari-maiden-flight-16bbff04?st=ixXvH1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Eight death row inmates could soon be marched into Idaho’s newly built $1.2million execution chamber, after the state officially made the firing squad its primary method of carrying out the death penalty….
The state has also purchased five Daniel Defense DD5-P rifles chambered in .308 Winchester, fitted with scopes, suppressors and bipods, at a cost of more than $24,000.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15945019/Volunteers-shoot-prisoners-killing-chamber.html
Your tax dollars at work.
Sniper rifles for a firing squad? Government is retarded.
Someone owned a gun store stocking very pricey rifles and was friends with the guvna.
What else is new?
Should have just bought a pneumatic bolt gun, works for livestock.
+1 Anton Chigurh
Not really a sniper rifle (12.5″ barrel) but your point remains.
Also, if you’re doing a firing squad execution anywhere other than outside on the prison grounds, complete with blindfold and cigarette, then you’re doing it wrong. Have some respect for the traditions.
If you want the good stuff, that’s around 6,000 tons of sand.
Should hang them publicly and leave their corpse on display at the crossroads.
I’d bring the M82 for free.
Can line them up.
They could kick in two cans of M66 ball for my time.
Firing squads should use shotguns. I guess you could argue about whether slugs or 00 buck would be the preferred load. At the ranges they use for executions, there’s no reason to use rifles when you have a more lethal alternative available.
And yes, at ranges of up to 20 yards (buckshot) or longer (slugs), a 12 gauge shotgun is absolutely more lethal than a non-magnum (at a minimum) rifle.
Embrace the power of and – There was a load for muskets known as “buck and ball” I’m sure you could do the same for a shotgun shell with a slug in front of shot. Probably a 3″ round.
I’m not seeing a “more lethal” here. Five .308 at 20 yards? Dead is dead.
.30 caliber? How about 30mm?
“How about 30mm?”
A10’s are expensive.
I was going more “per shot” than “if I shoot him enough times he’ll die”.
How much to dig a pit, and just bury them?
Gonna do it anyway, why not start with that?
Or, if you absolutely need to do something, how about this:
Recommended Captive Bolt Stunning Techniques for Cattle
by Temple Grandin
Department of Animal Science
Colorado State University
(Updated February 2020)
https://www.grandin.com/humane/cap.bolt.tips.html
Surely this is an ideal application for some DARPA autotargeting system?
You’d think a heart-and-spine shot would be trivial to make.
Why not just fill the yard with banana peels and make the convicted carry a waitress tray full of nitro glycerin wrapped in buckshot from one side to the other.
“We need our slave labor!”
So raising wages is a bad thing right? Especially minimum wage.
This could be the dumbest picture of the use of portable AC that I’ve seen.
Europe Learns It’s Hard to Start a Trade War With China During a Heat Wave
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/europe-learns-its-hard-to-start-a-trade-war-with-china-during-a-heat-wave-a2480fdd?st=76bvbP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We need strategic AC unit resetves
Typo… Eh you can figure it out
First it would seem the rest of the world is going to need to hold your hands and instruct you how they are used.
“Air conditioning is a human right” will be the chant by end of summer.
It is already 89 with 70% humidity but at least I have AC.
After VAR review Thot Thursday thinks you’re an idiot.
https://archive.is/2WKRS
“A woman has become the first person to be publicly caned in Indonesia’s Aceh province for ‘committing obscenity live with a man on social media’ under its strict Sharia law.
The punishment was handed down after she and her partner were accused of kissing during a TikTok livestream….
Dozens of onlookers watched the caning, with some calling for the officials who carried out the punishment to ‘whip stronger’.
It is unclear how many of the 21 lashes she was sentenced to the woman had received before she fainted.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15947047/Woman-passes-caned-committing-obscenity-live-man-social-media-Indonesian-provinces-Sharia-law.html
I’m sure we’ll hear the outrage from feminists any minute now.
Animals.
Probably not easy for a woman alone to escape that totalitarian shithole, either.
Back when I was a Pacifica/Democracy Now! listener, they were all in on independence for Aceh. I assume the rebels were communists.
That was enraging/horrifying.
What is wrong with those people?
I think I know what is wrong with those people.
What is wrong with those people? – colonialism?
Pie is angling for a professorship.
“We need our slave labor!” Democrats never change
We need cheap immigrant workers or labor costs will spike. Also, the minimum wage should be $40/hr.
/leftist derp
Welcome to Wall St. Hiring slowed. This suggest the Fed is less likely to raise rates. This makes markets go up.
My question: did her husband notice the loss of $30K?
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/middle-class-ny-mom-led-anti-israel-extremist-group-donated-30k-to-palestinian-terrorists/
Did drugs fall out of either of their asses?
So is Rhode Island like Washington by refusing to investigate and prosecute theft?
What is the point of having employees monitoring self check out if they are not allowed to interfere?
It is “interesting” to watch Spokane stores become ever more customer unfriendly as more and more items have to be locked up to prevent theft.
It’s weird to go to stores with everything locked up.
I’ve heard the no stop by employee policy is more about insurance than anything else.
Guy I know on his day off stopped a thief in the parking lot of the Walmart he worked at almost 25 years ago. Had to fight to keep his job.
If/when I move to an area like that I will probably, finally spring for Prime and just have everything delivered.
I shopped at a drugstore like that a year or so ago in Manhattan – I had to call the guy over to unlock the shelves four times. Absolutely ridiculous.
Good question. I guess some criminals will be deterred by the presence of warm but defenseless bodies but by not means all of them.
I sure as shit would not interfere in that situation – these days it means risking your life.
The true purpose is to force the stores to have a minimum number of employees. The natural result of increased labor costs is increased automation.
They monitor if you didn’t pay Jay Inslee’s bag tax.
I take the bags and don’t pay the fee at Walmart unless the old Asian woman is watching the self checkout.
She’s like a damn hawk.
I finally gave up fighting the Bag Wars and just bring my own damn bags now. I don’t shop in huge quantities anyway so it’s no hassle for me.
We do most of our shopping at Costco and in Idaho so the bag BS is not that big of a deal.
They want you to be uncomfortable and as unhappy as they are. So counterproductive laws like bag bans.
WSJ: General Mills Aims to Win Back Thrifty Consumers With Protein and Pet Food
Who is the pet food for? (It’s down in an up market. Not a good sign.)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I cannot make myself give a fuck about this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmb2x37ID28
“Oh gosh darn it! Our mathematically unsustainable economic pyramid schemes are going to fail; get the peasants to crank out more tax cattle!”
My only issue is the we need to bring endless uneducated third wolders in to make up the difference. If that was not a think some population decline should not be a major issue with technology.
Fact of the matter there was a unique population boom 1950-1980 we cannot sustain that.
But this is part of the contentious boomers are trash discussion.
which boomers?
The nuclear missile submarines.
about 70% of em I would guess.
the ones who voted themselves pensions but not to fund the pensions. The ones that bought houses and turned nimby. The ones that voted government largess but not taxes. The ones who gift debt and unfunded liabilities to future generations. those ones.
also the ones which protested the war they had to fight but supported most those they didnt
Just ignore the data showing mass third world immigration is a drain on the economy and the public fisc, bringing about the collapse of government benefit programs sooner rather than making them sustainable.
Just ignore the data showing mass third world immigration is a drain on the economy and the public fisc, bringing about the collapse of government benefit programs sooner rather than making them sustainable.
But CATO!
Those people would primarily be the activists in the first half of the boom. Their activism resulted in the deep-seated political cynicism that defines, in part, the 2nd half of the boom aka generation jones.
Other than owning a home and not wanting someone to dump an industrial facility into my back yard, I don’t fit into any of your neat categories. But I am a late period boomer.
well as always people talk broadly. not all boomers goers without saying. I do not see myself at all as a typical Romanian, and many Romanian generalizations do not apply to me personally.
Aside from that some people claim you need a growing population to continue “innovation”. I am skeptical, at least for the near future.
Government caused it with taxes, spending, state schools and regulations.
Did I just get a text? Let me check! OMG…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ukzcmq/oc_classic_indiana_driver/
see this is why I like trains.
lol At the crashing thru the fence at the end
Hey that’s hitting close to home. They were probably taking a call regarding a gun shipment to Illinois.
I talked about this Indiana crash yesterday. Looks like the Cyber Truck driver attempted to drive straight across 4 lanes of the divided highway without stopping. He actually hit the side of the other car, which is incredibly bad timing. There are a lot of crashes and some fatalities on that stretch of 49, with people doing exactly this sort of thing. Some intersections have stop lights and some don’t.
https://nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_56961522-b8bf-4804-b0d1-1a4d5a4d5850.html
It checks out for a Cyber Truck driver.
A Cyber Truck and a Nissan Altima? They’re both guilty of something.
I swear, we’d balance our budget if the fraud was rooted out of this shit.
I have had some friendly disagreements about how bad it is, but I will stick by my estimate that 50% of all federal money spent goes to fraud. I agree, that could very well balance the budget.
Look at it this way… Federal spending has shot up over the decades. Does even 10% of that increase produce ANYTHING tangible?
The current FY2026 projected annual deficit is $2 trillion.
A month and a half ago, Steve Miller claimed that there is hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud. How are you going to balance a $2 trillion annual deficit (about $39 trillion total debt) on cutting hundreds of billions of dollars?
It’s a start.
I, for one, don’t buy the argument that, if this one spending cut doesn’t balance the budget, its fiscally meaningless and we shouldn’t even bother.
I, for one, don’t buy the argument that, if this one spending cut doesn’t balance the budget, its fiscally meaningless and we shouldn’t even bother.
It’s a good thing I don’t buy that either.
What I’m pissed about is the morons going around saying “We cut this fraud we’ll balance the budget.” No you won’t because that fraud is too small.
“fraud” is small because the programs are written to maximize grant grifting and minimize performance standards or auditing.
FY19 spending was $4.4T. It spent $7T last year. Rollback the “emergency” funding rebaseline.
And then look at states. Florida has more people than New York but New York spends more than twice as much and gets worse results. That’s about $100BB of fraud right there, every year.
LA Times Headline: Trump administration sues California over ‘Glock ban’ law targeting machine gun pistols
No spin there.
Even if it is dishonest spin, The NFA and state-level machine gun bans are unconsitutional.
Fight me.
The DoJ suing states (don’t forget VA!) over 2A violations was not on my bingo card. I’m attributing it to Blondie getting punted.
Why do you want to punt Debbie Harry?
Who doesn’t want to punt Debbie Harry?
Arrowhead Ranch | Park County, CO | 2,980 Acres
Arrowhead Ranch offers an exceptional blend of productive ranching, premier recreation, and breathtaking Colorado scenery in the heart of South Park. Situated at the confluence of the South Fork of the South Platte River and Fourmile Creek, the Ranch features more than nine miles of live water, outstanding trout fishing, abundant populations of elk, mule deer, pronghorn, and waterfowl, and a fully improved headquarters designed for year-round operation. Currently operating as a working bison and cattle ranch, the property includes a beautifully remodeled owner’s residence, guest accommodations, extensive barns, corrals, and infrastructure that support both agricultural production and recreational pursuits. Located 15 minutes from Fairplay and 45 minutes from Breckenridge, Arrowhead Ranch combines privacy, accessibility, and investment potential, creating an outstanding opportunity for those seeking a legacy ranch with world-class fishing, hunting, and western lifestyle amenities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGRQegHTmc
$7,850,000
I’m goin’ down to South Park gonna have myself a time,
Friendly faces everwhere humble folks without temptation,
I’m goin’ down to South Park gonna leave my woes behind,
Ample Parking Day or Night, people spouting, “Howdy, Neighbor”…
See if this is more your style.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/harley-davidson-jochen-zeitz-santa-fe-home-ff30fbfe?st=Yxunuj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The woke German is moving out.
Santa Fe, N.M? I already have 3 estates there I do not need a fourth.
Yeah, but Colorado.
How a Master French Chef Makes Croque Monsieur | Fundamental French Cooking | Bon Appétit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mev_EZ030nc
I bet OMWC cant make a Croque
I can make a frog croque
Last night’s movie was Ruthless People. I had forgotten just how good it really is.
Plus Helen Slater. Yowza.
Yes, it was a great movie.
Make movies great again!
We watched that last week. It was pretty good.
TW:TOS
“A just-published comprehensive new review in The Lancet takes stock of what researchers around the world have learned during the past six years about the safety and efficacy of those billions of mRNA vaccine shots. The analysis by an international team of researchers takes into account the data from randomized vaccine trials, post-authorization surveillance, and active pharmacovigilance systems.”
https://reason.com/2026/07/01/new-study-of-billions-of-mrna-vaccine-shots-confirms-their-safety-and-efficacy/
The Lancet burned any credibility they had during covid.
“The analysis found that across various clinical trials and real-world data, mRNA vaccines are about 87% effective against any documented SARS‑CoV‑2 infection, 93% effective against hospitalisation, and 94% effective against mortality within 14–42 days after vaccination.”
So you need a booster every six weeks?
We need to hit our quarterly sales goals somehow.
/Pfizer
That artificial 14 – 42 day window pretty much says it all. If it doesn’t make you wonder what’s going on outside that window, you probably have fibrous blood clots in your brain.
I suspect much fuckery in those numbers, anyway. what does “87% effective against any COVID infection mean”, anyway? It invites you to believe that the infection rate in the vaxxed was 87% lower than in the non-vaxxed, but how do you assemble a comparison group to the pool of people vaxxed 14 – 42 days ago, anyway?
From my anecdotal observation, people who took a booster were far more likely to have a serious COVID episode than people who didn’t. I’m perfectly willing to accept the possibility that what I saw was just an anomaly, but I’m going to take some extra convincing that what I saw with my own eyes just ain’t so.
Which was very little.
The only vaccine they said didn’t cause autism.
Every single prime minister starts with a 10 year plan to fix the country. Then stuff happens, budgets get squeezed, awful decisions have to be made, everyone gets angry. And it’s always the PM’s fault. Coming soon: Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband slash welfare to fund defence
Robert Largan
@robertlargan
Everyone has a 10 year plan until they get punched in the exponentially growing statutory obligations they’ve set themselves.
https://x.com/robertlargan/status/2072048708091289974
“We’re going to start with a Zero-spend budget. All esisting programs are suspended until reauthorized, reformed, or abolished.”
“What do you mean we lost the election?”
I’ll spare you the link, but I read a “Founding Fathers Spinning in Their Graves” yesterday (The Hill, I think).
I can’t even remember the vast parade of horrors the guy listed, but one I tripped hard over was how outraged they would be by the Supreme Court decision eviscerating independent government agencies. Because those guys were all about the all encompassing regulatory state.
The whole thing was like that. We broke free of the British in order to establish a more perfect bureaucracy. We traded Mad King George for Mad King Donald.
Archival footage of Dublin in 1915, capturing the city’s streets, trams, horse drawn carriages and people going about their daily lives before the Easter Rising.
Footage: J. Gordon Lewis for British Pathe
https://x.com/RareIrishStuff/status/2072006281280311347
“The Washington State Democratic Party has adopted a new party platform that blames the Israeli government for the rise in antisemitism in the US while embracing a series of anti-Israel policy positions, drawing sharp criticism from Jewish leaders, Democratic lawmakers, and Republican officials across the state.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-state-dems-adopt-party-platform-blaming-israeli-government-for-rise-in-antisemitism
CWABOA
Let’s blame black people for the rise in racism, too
When you put it like that, I’m willing to say maybe there is something to it.
I blame the white people who supported BLM.
And nothing else happened
#votebluenomatterwho
They finally feel safe to openly admit what everyone knows. Now if only they would openly admit to being communists too.
It happening!
Ron Paul gif here
What I’m pissed about is the morons going around saying “We cut this fraud we’ll balance the budget.” No you won’t because that fraud is too small.
You just need to properly define fraud.
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker
Aetius
@AetiusRF
It is decreed that with the weekend celebration of this great nation all black pilling will be kept to an appropriate minimum regardless of the SCOTUS ruling. Anyone caught black pilling this week will be declared a British loyalist and have their AC taken from them
https://x.com/AetiusRF/status/2071953586821443787
The surprise celebration is almost here. We’re invading Britainistan on the 4th and liberating them from their Government.
A new academic study analyzed more than 500,000 anonymous English ChatGPT conversations and found that over a third were used for creative writing
One of the strangest findings was a user who generated thousands of fanfiction stories about Doki Doki Literature Club characters giving birth.
Researchers said the person kept requesting different versions of the same idea, making them a clear outlier in the dataset.
David Hines
@hradzka
Sigh. OK, I’m a dumbass. Believe it or not, my kid and I were trying to convince my wife that
https://x.com/hradzka/status/2072486691366215739
Give birth to what? DDLC is dark
https://x.com/hradzka/status/2072582352031920348
I didn’t get the reference either.
Oh I got the reference, but without spoiling what is an interesting game, giving birth is not what DDLC characters do.
Am I going to regret looking this up?
It’s a game that appears on the surface to be a typical romance VN, but it is not.
87% effective against any documented SARS‑CoV‑2 infection, 93% effective against hospitalisation, and 94% effective against mortality within 14–42 days after vaccination.
100% of those people would have fallen ill and died if not for the vaccine. This stuff drives me nuts.
I know. It’s hard to read that as saying anything other than “without the vax, 94% of people would have died from COVID within this 4 week(!) window.
Now, I’m pretty sure what they are “really” saying is that the odds of dying from COVID within that window were 94% lower if you were vaxxed. Which I am pretty sure is also bullshit. Our ICUs were full of people who vaxxed as well as unvaxxed.
Any time I see a percentage reduction or efficacy reported I remember that I have never met a reporter who could do math beyond counting.
My feed on the social media has been filled with leftists trying to gin up sympathy for Haitians. One featured a Haitian protest.
There were like five Haitian flags. Not a single American one was present in the photo at least. And it’s just like…you people don’t even know how bad you look to the majority of people. And if people have actually interacted with Haitians on the regular? Forget about it.
Schrodinger’s shithole. We have to protect the wonderful people of Haiti from the horrible criminal scum of Haiti. They become wonderful when they come here and get a healthy diet of household pets. But Haiti is definitely not a shithole even though it’s too awful to return Haitians there.
It’s almost like the activists don’t actually care about the welfare of Haitians and the rest at all and are agitating for other reasons.
get all the Haitians to fight all the Somalians to the death and the winners get Canada!
They can fight with poisoned knives wrist to wrist. This will solve the issue with ‘victors’
I know they don’t get the headlines or attention the Somalis get, but god are they awful people.
I’ve worked with Haitians. They were nice people who did their jobs.
The Haitian home health aide some agency sent to care for my GF’s mom smoked crack and stole from her.
Jobs Americans can’t do
The pain will be felt across hospitals and emergency rooms, which already operate under persistent staffing shortfalls, but it’s the long-term care sector, including senior care facilities and home care, that will suffer the greatest disruptions, said Steffie Woolhandler, a distinguished professor of health policy at City University of New York at Hunter College and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
“It’s going to be a disaster in the Boston area, where a lot of our nursing home and home care aides are Haitian,” Woolhandler told NPR. But beyond that, she added, “If the United States becomes inhospitable to noncitizens, which I think Trump is doing, we’re going to have a lot of problems staffing our entire healthcare system.”
Trump is decimating health care!
Who will rape the old folks and steal their meds without the wonderful Haitians?
Cover-up!
On the same morning Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized last month, emergency medical personnel went to his home to respond to an unconscious person who appeared to experience “cardiac arrest,” according to a public EMS dispatch call reviewed by CBS News.
During the recording, a dispatcher called in a “cardiac arrest” and a medic said there was “CPR in progress” at McConnell’s address. The dispatcher also said somebody was “unconscious.” The call came in before 9 a.m. on June 14. The senator’s name is not mentioned during the call, and CBS News has not confirmed the identity of the unconscious person.
Audio of the call was first shared by journalist Desiree Townsend.
On the same day as the dispatch call, a spokesperson for McConnell said in a statement that the Kentucky Republican was hospitalized and was “receiving excellent care.” No details were provided about why he was admitted or where.
He must be forced to retire now, I guess.
Kentucky has a Dem Governor. Much as I hate McConnell I’d say put him on ice until November.
These are the same people who were utterly incurious about Joe Biden’s cognitive condition.
“A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.
Conservative commentator Dustin Grage posted the footage to X on July 1. In one clip, Teha Delaruelle speaks against a background displaying the words “Kill Your Local Republican,” then points to the message. “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says, giving followers a one-month window to act.”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/01/trans-democrat-teha-delaruelle-activist-kill-your-local-republican/
The media needs to stop calling these people transgender.
You lost that fight ages ago, not that it was even a fight worth having.
It’s a fight worth having.
Why? What do we gain by nit picking which lunatics get custody of the idiot name?