In the way she does best, Prime hit me up with a seemingly simple but profound question. I tell her stories of the people here, like this doozy from the café yesterday:
“Is there dairy in the cream of asparagus soup?”
“Yes, there is dairy in it. I’m so sorry, I’ll make sure we write that on the board.”
“Oh you did. I was just hoping it was a lie”
Her response: “You deal with rude people, you have to continually hide your thoughts and identity, and you have to cater to stupid people. Why do you continue to live there?” I admit I didn’t have a ready answer beyond, “It’s safe, it’s beautiful, and I have a family, a house, and a business here.” But this did get me thinking… and clearly she was five steps ahead, as usual.
Birthdays today (I’m thinking) include a guy memorialized in the best comic strip ever; another fucking lawyer; a guy who turned beer into urine without using kidneys; a weird cult figure admired for his stupid shit, not his great shit; a guy who ate a cookie and couldn’t shut up about it; what civil rights leaders used to be before they won and had to turn to grift; the white version of Laquanda T’kiana; a believer in free enterprise; Michael Strahan’s spirit animal; a guy who had only one notable quote (“The next four years will be filled with pretty words and pretty music and a lot of goddamn nonsense!”); my favorite wrestler when I was a kid; Ilhan Omar’s spirit animal; a cop, a judge, and a bolt-necked giant; a guy who is sadly remembered for the wrong reasons; a notoriously leftist folk singer who was basically on our side; my former representative, who was a half-decent guy; and a guy who doesn’t play accordion.
But I play Links.
Which set of pathological liars should we believe? OK, let’s check the body cam… wait, what?
If there’s a GoFundMe for hacksaws and hammers, I’ll donate.
Because they can’t possibly be abused, right?
JFC, is he still alive? Who knew?
“We’re just as good as Chipotle!”
Shit, I’d get the fuck out of California, too, if I got a nice offer.
This wouldn’t be an issue if our immigration laws followed the OMWC Plan.
This (although clearly a fictional telling) is uncomfortably familiar. Unfortunately, I just have to bite my tongue at these events since this is all Received Wisdom in our little beacon of blue in a sea of red. Some delightful imagery; “The table had divided emotionally, though not intellectually. There was me, and there was a collective organism composed of linen, indignation and inherited silverware.”
Besides the fact that JS is always great, he does a perfect George Harrison quote from The Beatles’s cover of this song. Just wonderful all around. (edit: Apologies, YouTube and WordPress seem to be having a fight this morning. Here’s the song, and it’s worth it to click)
The soup is a lie?
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Did you mention that guys have to constantly hide their thoughts and identity and are taught that/practice that from an early age?
“Bring your whole self to work. Except the part that likes tits. Or guns. Or freedom.”
Or logic and to be able to tell stupid to shut the fuck up and stop wasting everyone else’s time.
Amen to both.
And to be fair, this is pretty much universal.
Who lives in the “ideal” place? Nobody.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2022/10/but-what-if-your-whole-self-is-frankly-aggravating.html
I want to take this comment out and get it pregnant!
As we look to one day retire and possible locations, I had suggested to Mrs Hero (a staunch dem) a quiet exurb 50 miles from the current Hero Manor. She refused to consider it, because that area is run by Republicans and she’d be surrounded by them.
I’ve been living in one of the bluest fucking corners of the bluest states for 25 years, and moving to a red county is off the table because it’s hard to live with people who don’t share the hive mind.
The thought of having to think for oneself does put off a lot of people.
Mister With Candy, I’m not sure the best way to inquire or if you’re able to peruse the comments on weekdays. There was talk of both Not Adahn and I dropping in on Pie’s visit to your neck of the woods. Seeing as how the easiest spot to find is your place, I figured it’d be polite to check to see if it’s okay to drop in that weekend.
Apologies, we’re pretty much at capacity- it was a stretch to fit Pie in but those were special circumstances (he’s staying with one of my neighbors, a rather comely lady of middle years).
But we’ll try to get him back and get you guys in.
I wasn’t even thinking of asking for accommodation. That hadn’t even come to mind.
I can’t wait to read the story about that.
Isn’t the rule he can’t harm her if she didn’t invite him in?
Well, shit. I was planning a trip to Maine and the Maritime provinces, where I’d look around and see the sights, then scoot west to Alfred for the Glib’s Gulch meetup.
I knew The Saxon was booked up, but figured it was for something else.
Should’ve announced my plans earlier, I reckon.
I have a refundable reservation In Olean, so I’m not out of pocket if the crowd is too large. This is why I go and ask before assuming I can stop by anybody.
Well, it saves me the awkward question if it’s ok for me to bring Pie a ham from Oscar’s.
“Which set of pathological liars should we believe? OK, let’s check the body cam… wait, what?”
By now everyone should know “witness statements” in certain demographics are about as reliable as asshole bleaching attempts using distilled water. In fact, these demographics that demanded and got us to have all LEOs wearing bodycams are now actively demanding that stop because the body cams practically always show they, and not the LEOs, are the problem and the cause of the problems. I am gonna bet that as soon as we see the bodycam footage it will look like it did for that dumbass Goode and Predi assholes.
I hold equal credence for those “witness statements” and “claims by cops.” I.e., zero.
That’s why I like the cams…
The anti-ICE campaign has been successful enough that the default position seems to always favor their targets whether they are guilty or not. The language at CNN and every other MSM outlet is a reflection of that.
IOW these guys are complete fucking idiots for not operating body cams at all times because nobody is gonna believe anything they say. That’s just the way it is.
Some things will never change.
That didn’t take a campaign, it was there from the start.
“bout as reliable as asshole bleaching attempts using distilled water.”
I find this oddly … specific.
“This wouldn’t be an issue if our immigration laws followed the OMWC Plan.”
What’s the plan?
Mine would include none of this “temporarily protection” nonsense FWIW.
Mine has several pillars – No guest workers, no family visas, no chain migration, no mass asylum, no temporary protected status, death penalty for traffickers, death penalties for illegals who kill citizens, death penalty for people who return after deportation, no welfare.
Birthdays today (I’m thinking) include a guy memorialized in the best comic strip ever – Michael Malice?
What does Marcellus Wallace look like to you?
SAY WHAT AGAIN!
Jane Goodall.
But this did get me thinking – Move half way between the Rhone valley and the Loire valley
That’s called “Burgundy.”
“Shit, I’d get the fuck out of California, too, if I got a nice offer.”
At this point, are the people left in CA those that can’t leave, are part of the grift, or are to stupid to realize they are the sheep in the sheep & wolves vote on what’s for dinner? Yeah, some people say they are staying to fight to save CA, but those people are crazy and not aware of the fact that to fight marxism’s creep, you need to be killing the people profiting from it.
Yes. I’m one of those who can’t leave yet.
It’s Adam Carolla’s Rich Man Poor Man: You both want to stay in California.
Hey, in China the taxes are lower and the government less intrusive.
a weird cult figure admired for his stupid shit, not his great shit
WE COULD HAVE HAD ENDLESS FREE WIRELESS ENERGY BUT THE OIL INTERESTS DIDNT WANT IT
“Oliver stresses that there needs to be ‘better opportunities… and mechanisms that allow anonymous reporting to be taken seriously and dealt with at the local level.’
She also notes that the charter ‘falls into the trap’ of focusing solely on women. ‘There’s nothing in the charter that addresses intersectionality with race, with LGBTQ+, with social class [or] anything else.’ ‘[The UK government has] not done anything about this broader range of diverse characteristics and the bigger challenges faced by women who sit at these intersections,’ she says.”
I don’t know what a material scientist is, but that’s retarded.
Material science deals with developing things like alloys, composites, etc.
But the problem with the charter is that it focuses on characteristics irrelevant to success in the roles.
See, I think anonymous reporting should be disregarded out of hand.
Once upon a time, journalists were taught that if you used material from an anonymous source, you needed multiple corroboration points, and if that story turned out to be bullshit, you were supposed to issue an article exposing the source who sold you a bill of goods – effectively burning them.
I think this was more “ratting people out to the authorities” than “making shit up for publication”.
a guy who ate a cookie and couldn’t shut up about it
Do I have the Romanian wine for you…
I don’t think the book was titled “If You Give a Vampire A Cookie”
*jots some stuff down*
whaddup doh’
You deal with rude people, you have to continually hide your thoughts and identity, and you have to cater to stupid people.
And people have to ask why I’m retired and enjoying it so much.
Who would have to ask?
Because no one ever enjoyed their retirement before JI.
Well, some people think you should keep working…
“Women make up over 50% of science undergraduates. Yet, the proportion of women pursuing a career in Stem after university declines, with a 2025 report finding that women are three times less likely to have careers in R&D than men and earn less on average when they do. Women hold just 31% of professorships, with this falling to 6% for women of colour.”
Tell me feminism has morphed into a female supremacy movement without telling me.
6% for women of colour. – wait isn’t that proportional to population?
6% is probably a proportionate number for black women. For POC chicks as a whole, I couldn’t say.
A few questions.
How many of those Undergrads graduate with a STEM degree?
How many change majors or drop out?
How many get an MRS and decide not to go into the profession?
How many go “You know, I don’t actually like this field”?
Why are you trying to push women into jobs they don’t want?
Why are you trying to push women into jobs they don’t want?
Because it was never about empowering women. It was always about destroying the things that make life worth living in western civilization so that they can have their glorious revolution.
And an even spicier question: how many just couldn’t cut it because there is a documented discrepancy between male and female abilities in certain fields (i.e.; men are better with systems and abstract reasoning; women are better with people and interpersonal relationships)?
How many have children and the pregnancy/kids get in the way of the career? Higher tier STEM jobs generally require a sizable commitment and projects can last years upon years. Putting a project on hold because Dr. Whoever is preggers and on leave isn’t usually an option.
Hence the need to push all the men out. They are just defective women anyway.
“And an even spicier question: how many just couldn’t cut it because there is a documented discrepancy between male and female abilities in certain fields (i.e.; men are better with systems and abstract reasoning; women are better with people and interpersonal relationships)?”
Who was the lady that became a journo and wrote that article about how when she used to be in IT, she had just come back from a great weekend vacation with her boyfriend, full of sex and shit, and dying to talk about it, and while sitting at the breakfast table the guys came in, she started talking thinking all these geeks would be dying to hear about her getting plowed, only to have one of the guys mention he had rebuilt his sever farm over the weekend, and all the geeks gave up on her and started talking to the guy with a bulge in their pants and a gleam in their eye. She realized right then IT was never her thing, and left.
Men are about things and understanding things. Women are about people and people stuff. STEM is things. It will bore and select most normal women out, no matter how bright they may be. My ex had an IT background. She hated it and would much rather spend her time looking at stupid TeeVee about human drama. I find that crap about humans being asshats tiring.
Sweden tried this and failed. Yes, I know we cherry pick when to use Sweden as an example for good or bad, but the program was pretty cut and dry.
Putting a project on hold because Dr. Whoever is preggers and on leave isn’t usually an option.
My company “fixed” this by giving everybody a lavish amount of parental leave. I’ll take advantage of it with trashbaby #3, but it’s not like I can’t read between the lines on why they implemented their parental leave program.
Putting a project on hold because Dr. Whoever is preggers
No one is irreplaceable. All projects have multiple backups. The pregnant person will begin delegating key tasks well before the scheduled delivery. We survive absent members without much difficulty.
Some project groups handle it well, others not so much from what I saw. It usually depended on whether the PI’s lead research assistant was worth a damn or not.
They end up in commercial or management roles rather than technical roles
Or they get a degree in Chemistry and then go work for a government regulatory agency
Because they can’t possibly be abused, right?
floc means pubic hair in Romanian. Make of that as you will
Pubic cameras are in a different niche than police cameras.
Yeah, but they both end all up your butt.
Cop union response: Oh, yeah?
“focused . . . on deepening relations with foreign leaders who share Mamdani’s worldview.” Like the Ayatollah.
I do not understand why a mayor has an office for international relations. In Romania the mayor is a local government position. They administer their city or town. There are relations with foreign leaders. Mostly exchange of ideas with mayors in other countries but even that is rare.
I think that was the idea here too, but the global struggle requires more creative usages of the existing infrastructure.
there is no office for that just an occasional conference once in a while if that. I would say local government should be basically banned from any sort of foreign policy. That is the prerogative of the central government. I do not want to even hear any foreign policy opinions from the local government. None of that England bullshit about local councilors for Palestine or some shit
These sorts of offices also become a means for the mayor to take first class travel at the taxpayers’ expense.
So many outrages coming from the administration of that asshole but this one rises to the top at least for this week.
Stellar credentials. 🙄
A lot of people are geeking out about Obsidian getting thrown a Fallout spinoff to patch some holes in Microsoft’s gaming balance sheet with quick sales.
Thing is, New Vegas came out Sixteen Years Ago. This is not the same team that made that game. This is the team that made Outer Worlds and Avowed, neither of which wowed.
Expect disappointment.
I know what some of those words mean.
I picked up Avowed during the most recent Steam sale, and it has the most woke bullshit option I’ve ever seen in a game. In a fantasy game, there is an Arachnophobia filter. This changes the models for giant spider monsters into something that looks more like a 3-d model from the Centipede game. The three most common starter monsters in fantasy games are rats, spiders, and wolves. If spiders make you that uncomfortable, how have you played fantasy games in the past? Why are you picking this one up?
I’ve noticed ‘Arachnophobia’ mods for various games for years. But those are mods. I guess I figured them to be on the same level as replacing dragons with Thomas the Tank Engine.
We have 76 for that.
Disappointment is a renewable resource.
I don’t see how a just-announced Fallout game is going to have any quick sales. Probably the best case scenario for anything that isn’t a completely inadequate 6 hour playthrough is 2-3 years of development.
“Quick” is a relative term.
The main studio working on the Franchise has a current project which is at least 2-6 years out from release, then it would start on the next Fallout, which puts it well into the 2030s. By starting somebody on something now, there is the potential for sales before 2030.
I mean at this point if you don’t expect disappointment from a AAA game you haven’t been paying attention. There are good games still being made, but it’s not the way to bet on any individual project.
I was responding to a rash of unrealistically optimistic reactions from people you’d expect to know better.
“racism is treating adults as morally incapacitated children because you find accountability aesthetically uncomfortable.”
I’m stealing that.
That is a great line.
That piece is one great line after another.
Collectivism’s appeal is the false promise that government will protect you from the consequences of your choices. People that constantly make dumb choices love the idea of collectivism, but never understand that the only way that government can do that is by denying you the ability to make choices, and especially those they deem to be bad. And to keep control, this leads to government having to punish you when you do not do what they want.
Collectivism makes everyone loser children incapable of the most basic things humans did in the past.
This (although clearly a fictional telling) is uncomfortably familiar. Unfortunately, I just have to bite my tongue at these events since this is all Received Wisdom in our little beacon of blue in a sea of red.
that was funny
bit long though. brevity and all that
I am only about 1/3 in and yeah it’s hilarious.
“This is why these conversations are impossible. You keep retreating into facts.”
LOLOL
Yeah, that almost made me wonder if we were drifting off into Titania McGrath territory.
“I had broken the central rule of elite dinner conversation: one may be ignorant, malicious, sanctimonious or absurd, but one must never be impolite enough to notice.”
Most excellent.
Makes one quite glad to neither aspire to, or actually be included in an “elite dinner conversation”.
Moose Willow Ranch
📍 Dubois, Wyoming
Listed for $6,000,000 // 160 +/- Deeded Acres
Flowing through the heart of the Moose Willow Ranch, Horse Creek is the crown jewel of this extraordinary 160-acre wilderness retreat. This classic freestone fishery winds 1 ¾ +/- miles through the property, offering walk-and-wade fly fishing for wild rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout averaging 12–14 inches all within one of Wyoming’s most breathtaking settings.
Property Highlights:
• Expansive views of the dramatic, jagged skyline of the Absaroka Range
• Main residence with caretaker’s home/guest house and other supporting structures
• Walk-and-wade fly fishing for wild rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout averaging 12–14 inches on private, uncrowded water — all within a true Wyoming wilderness setting
• Minutes from the town of Dubois and KDUB airport
• Year-round access with power and fiber to the property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2SV6y7x6Z0
I remember when 5 inches was enough… expectations these days
$6m and not even a square mile?
Lame.
It is an “inholding”, a private property completely surrounded by a national forest, and it has both sides of a pretty good waterway, both of which are very rare.
I do think they are asking too much, especially since the buildings are pretty meh.
National Forest is another word for land where other people own it.
Any property is going to be surrounded by land other people own.
Which is why it doesn’t count for the acreage value, which was my complaint. The plot is too small for the price tag.
Which is why it doesn’t count for the acreage value,
I’m not big on “muh pruhpurty vehluzz”, but 160 acres in the middle of a national forest is very different from 160 acres between two CAFOs. Same size, could be in the same area, vastly different prices.
New Haven Ranch is a 2,422±-acre cattle and hunting ranch northwest of Hulett, Wyoming, featuring 2,182± deeded acres and 260± acres of BLM lease. Rolling pine-covered ridges, timbered draws, native-grass pastures, TL Creek, Music Creek, a 7±-acre lake, and numerous reservoirs create exceptional wildlife habitat and productive grazing land. The ranch supports approximately 150-155 cow/calf pairs along with healthy populations of wildlife.
The ranch encompasses 2,422± contiguous acres of diverse Black Hills terrain. Elevation changes create a landscape of timbered ridges, sweeping valleys, open grasslands, productive hay meadows, and sheltered creek bottoms. The diversity of the terrain is one of the ranch’s defining characteristics, providing both operational functionality and exceptional wildlife habitat.
Two primary drainages, TL Creek and Music Creek, wind through the ranch, carrying seasonal water and further enhancing the property’s habitat and water resources. The combination of timber, water, grass, and topographic diversity creates a landscape that supports a wide range of agricultural and recreational uses.
Water is one of the ranch’s standout features. Near the center of the property sits a beautiful 7±-acre lake that serves as both an outstanding fishery and an important water source for wildlife. Additional reservoirs are scattered throughout the ranch, ensuring dependable water distribution and supporting healthy populations of wildlife across the property.
The improvements at New Haven Ranch reflect the property’s working heritage and are both functional and inviting. The headquarters is anchored by a spacious lodge that serves equally well as a family retreat, hunting headquarters, or ranch residence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2-8c5NgFs0
$6,750,000 and more than one mile square
“Parents on some employment-based nonimmigrant visas, like the E-2 that my family had, can lawfully renew their visas indefinitely while raising their children, but they have no easy way to convert that lawful status to legal permanent residence for their children.”
I’m sorry but bullshit. The guy wasn’t a seasonal working picking strawberries, he was an engineer. One of my best friends was born in Holland and moved to the US when he was 12 because his engineer father got offered a job here. The company helped the whole family get green cards in short order. If the Mexican guy in the article didn’t for decades it’s either because the author is lying about him being a professional, the company he worked for was shite or they were too fucking lazy to do what was necessary.
Holland – do you mean Dutchland here in Europe? he was probably white european or something, privilege and all that. Also tall I wager all them bloody dutch are tall
And why should there be an “easy way” for any foreign national to get permanent status?
It used to be that foreign professionals that are good and have come to America for work, will only have to endure an onerous government process and it’s costs. But they will make it through with no problem unless they are criminals/commies. They have to however want that full time residency/citizenship and work toward it. The game is very different for low skilled labor and people that remain of visas instead of applying for residency. I would not at all be surprised this journo is to dumb to know better or just lying their ass off to create sympathy.
Some kid of color was found dead. For the past three days NPR has been trying to convince everyone that it was a racisty klan murder without offering even the slightest bit of information to back it up.
There will be a press conference with Crump and Sharpton today about it.
This has convinced me that the corpse is likely responsible for whatever happened.
Of course it was the KKK, who else could possibly murder a youth?
KKK Chicago is very very busy.
Statistically speaking, other people in the same age cohort, sex, and ethnic background.
(((Jarflax:
They have to hustle to come up with new sponsorship after the SPLC money started drying up.
KKK in Chicago is only active during blizzards between midnight and 4 am.
I saw a brief story on this when he was still missing (black friend with three white guys on boat, right?). Did it turn out he drowned?
No idea. NPR is staggeringly vague, but loaded with implications.
Under the Q plan, all foreign Friday Funbags ladies are eligible for immediate citizenship.
https://archive.is/n948W
What’s “paid the toll” in Arabic?
https://nypost.com/2026/07/10/world-news/ny-mom-jamey-carney-suffocated-to-death-in-ireland-home-before-alleged-killer-ahmad-alsaqer-fled/
Quite a high price to pay for interesting cuisine, no?
Carney, who was working for a healthcare consulting company, met Alsaqer at the pro-Palestinian rally a year and a half ago.
Reaping, sowing, so forth.
Yep, I read that and my sympathy went right out the door.
my sympathy went right out the door.
I hope mine didn’t/doesn’t, though it’s easy to allow oneself down that road. One can acknowledge a level of culpability – that’s not really the right word; allowing your ideology to drive yourself, through suicidal empathy or whatever psychobabble we are using these days, into a situation where the outcome increases in likelihood? – on her part. A sort of you reap what you sow, though she was only, maybe, indirectly sowing. One can still have sympathy for her and her daughter for what happened. Even if at the level of sympathy for a human being that was lead astray so wildly by her peers and teachers that she ended up in that state of confusion.
Sympathy for the immediate situation she found herself in and the outcome of that situation while acknowledging that she played some part in creating a social structure and placing herself voluntarily in that situation/structure where those outcomes are more likely and her mistaken belief that her advocacy didn’t make such situations more likely.
I can still feel sympathy (regret?) that this thing that shouldn’t happen to any person happened to her, even if there’s some aspect of “what did you expect to happen to people, regretfully including you, under your preferred systems?” to it.
To me, this is like the religious snake handlers – you’re taking that risk on faith. I sure as hell wouldn’t.
“What’s “paid the toll” in Arabic?”
Allah Akubar!
Apparently Johnny hates life too.
🙁
RIP
The one hit I know is great
Even in service to the CCP? Shit, man.
Basically from the frying pan to the fire, no?
“the second half of their lives is too precious to accept anything less than total fulfillment”
How many dicks does it take to reach total fulfillment?
https://nypost.com/2026/07/09/lifestyle/grey-divorce-is-booming-as-record-number-of-older-americans-split-up/
Paging Tonio to the white courtesy phone….
Gould married at 34, but by 49, she found herself asking a life-changing question: “‘I don’t want to be on my deathbed and wonder what my life would have been like if I had gotten divorced.’”
Wives leaving their husbands for greener pastures — behavior that we crucified men for — progress baby!
I think the whole “wait to get married” was not the best idea.
I got married at 22 and my wife was 24.
We basically grew up together.
By the time I was 34 I was pretty set in my ways and can’t imagine how it would be to start living with someone new.
We got married at 19. Celebrated our 50th last spring. I have basically been married my entire adult life.
I think the whole “wait to get married” was not the best idea.
You backwards anti-feminist bigot!! How are women supposed to be empowered if they can’t slut it up until 25, suffer crushing loneliness, anxiety, and depression between 25 and 32, and get married right as their womb begins drying up? You must hate women.
“She is now a grandmother, Reiki master, philanthropist and author.”
Ah, a bullshit artist and/or a flake: Reiki master gives it away.
Been dating in that female pool for close to 14 years now, and I have to admit the lesson is that if they are decent looking and not downright broke, whether they had been married before or not, they are always a suit short of a full deck, and that is why they are single. Fun for action, but never -EVER – to be married unless you want to lose half of your shit. And never believe any of them when you tell them – up front – that you are never getting married or moving in together permanently, and they say tat is fine. Sooner than later they will start hinting they want to get married and act up. which is when you move on.
While the motive is unknown, the technology itself has drawn criticism in the past from people concerned about the data it’s collecting.
I’ll admit to a chuckle thinking about the possibility of it being Antifa cutting these down as opposed to freedom folks.
Why would commies be opposed to surveillance?
OpSec.
I doubt every place they’re operating in is friendly to them.
Because the surveillance makes it harder for them to do crimes, silly!
(Don’t mistake this for a defense of Flock, or government surveillance in general. To a certain degree, I want it to be easier to do crimes.)
Yeah, they’re not against surveillance per se, just themselves being surveilled.
We just had a small kerfuffle here in Minnesoda due to bad Flock data.
Flock hatred is so high that the journalos have totally forgotten to rage about this dude’s white privilege. Surely a black guy would have been shot dead on the spot.
Luckily the guy was calm and followed the cops’ instructions. And nothing happened.
“Moment of truth Alleged Charlie Kirk killer’s trans lover reveals moment he tearfully confessed to the shooting”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/09/us-news/tyler-robinsons-trans-lover-lance-twiggs-seen-in-police-interview-shown-in-court-for-first-time/
This is getting silly.
Israel got to xem too??!?
Candice is that you still trying to keep that grift going?
I find this hilarious to an irrational extent.
All the silly conspiracy bullshit about how it’s impossible for a .30-06 bullet to leave an exit wound is driving me somewhat up the wall. Both the conspiracy retards, and the otherwise intelligent people who try to explain basic terminal ballistics to the conspiracy retards )instead of just telling them to fuck off and blocking them.)
Some people have obviously never gone deer hunting with a 30-06.
Da Fuq? Pistol rounds can go through and through, so of course a full sized battle rifle round can too. In fact, I’d be asking questions if a .30-06 didn’t go out the other side of a human struck front-on.
I thought the conspiracists were claiming the opposite? That it was impossible for the bullet not to have blown out the back of his neck.
Anybody who knows anything about ballistics knows that bullets do weird shit sometimes. That’s really all the explanation this needs.
This is correct.
The cartridge that the shooter used (allegedly) was a 150-grain Remington Core-Lokt jacketed soft point. It’s about the cheapest crappy hunting load you can buy off the shelf at Academy Sports. It’s entirely believable that the rather fragile, unbonded bullet hit CK’s spine, fragmented, and the fragments were mostly contained by his skin (live human skin is incredibly tough.)
Bullets do weird shit, bone is harder than people think, especially in the vertebrae, the density of the various colloids that make up our sacks of meat varies widely, spin translates to english on impact etc. etc. I was just trying to correct the misstatement of what the idiots believe, not support their obviously stupid position. For this case to be anything other than an assassination by Tyler would require many people, of widely different ideological bents, to be lying in ways that will destroy their lives, There is no conceivable motive that could cause that.
Were I on a jury, I would nullify if the charge were vandalizing a Flock. I might convict on the trespassing charge if the camera were on private land, but not if it were on government property/easements or the like.
How many of these cases get to a jury versus being pressured into a plea deal?
Like most things we are in the minority.
One of my co-workers wished we could be more like Singapore.
This was after she had been sent there for a week and was amazed that there were cameras everywhere.
I would probably nullify if the charge was murdering someone who allowed a Flock camera on their private property.
In your next life, try to make better choices.
Eh. Nosy biddies with binoculars and a phone have been a thing since there have been phones.
“Truly frightening footage has emerged of hundreds of venomous snakes escaping a breeding farm as floodwaters smash through a village in Hengzhou, China.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/10/world-news/horrified-villagers-living-in-fear-after-hundreds-of-venomous-snakes-escape-farm-as-floodwaters-crush-city/
Why are they breeding venomous snakes? TCM?
Antivenom is made from venom. To collect venom you need the snakes.
Also, a lot of nutcases think drinking snake venom is somehow to their benefit, or proves something other than that they have stomach acid.
Those snakes will all be dead within a month. Captive-bred snakes rarely survive in the wild.
Take Florida for example of how this works…
The Burmese Python problem in the Everglades was a very unusual edge case. That’s why I said ‘rarely’ instead of ‘never’.
“SNAKES AS FOOD IN CHINA”
https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat11/sub73/entry-7529.html
Pshew… I thought this was some weird kind of sex thing…
Why are they breeding venomous snakes?
Fauci still has some budget money to burn? Use it or lose it!
“Shtein is spending his summer working at the Washington DC-based libertarian think tank, Reason, where he has written articles titled, “Trump’s Trade War Caused a $15 Billion Decline in U.S. Farm Sales to China” and “ New Study Finds Average College Professor ‘Only Slightly Less Left’ Than Bernie Sanders” in recent weeks.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/09/us-news/teen-creep-busted-for-subway-grope-is-a-yale-student-who-once-rallied-against-sexual-harrassment-training/
Obviously guilty.
“Everything is voluntary”
“But you won’t like the consequences if you choose not to volunteer the way we tell you.”
I’m not surprised ENB hires interns like this.
He stuck two fingers up her cooch in front of her four kids and whatever other riders were there?
There are cameras in the cars, right?
Yes. The whole thing is complete horseshit.
“Police searching for creep who raped boy, 15, in back of NYC home
Cops released multiple pictures of the suspect, who is described as having a medium complexion, a medium build, and long black hair.
The alleged rapist was also wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and carrying a pocketbook, according to the images. Police have not identified their gender.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/09/us-news/police-searching-for-creep-who-raped-boy-15-in-back-of-nyc-home/
Can they identify this person’s sex?
That’s a man, baby!
I am still trying to figure out what a medium complexion is.
A light skinned Ninja?
Fairly light. Like most people throughout history, ghosts are racist.
A POC, but not a black.
Over and under that this guy was a climate change collectivist believer?
I love how the news supplied pictures of this ‘home’ so we could see what it was like.
He should have been living on a street in the Loin and creating 1,000 pounds of trash.
/SFGate
Tonto National Forest
Maybe my vision is acting up on me, but I don’t see many trees in that forest.
Royal and National Forests are not about trees but the type of law which applies.
Was Erdogan telling the tools to off themselves?
I made that joke yesterday and everyone insisted he gave them far too much ammo.
Well, shame on them for not seeing your brilliance with that comment UCS. The extra ammo was for them to have a Hillary Clinton type suicide, is my guess.
“Fears cops have discovered America’s worst ever female pedophile after she allegedly attacked terrified babies… then sent police QR CODE linking to evidence trove from hell
Christy, of Moorhead, has now been detained on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of using a minor in a sexual performance. She is yet to enter a plea ”
https://archive.is/R5FR3
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15959891/female-pedophile-kimberly-christy-child-sex-abuse-minnesota-dakota.html
Two victims is the worst ever?
Babies I guess so more gross than the standard story in this vein but doubtfully the worst ever. Somewhat more twisted than usual pedo doesn’t get the clicks though.
“Is America ready for fake steak? Beyond Meat debuts bizarre new product at Wegmans and H-E-B”
https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15967435/beyond-meat-steak-wegmans-heb.html
No.
Do we have any lapidaries here? I want to buy a specific item that I can’t find online: an Iris carved from rose quartz.
Rose colored optical implants?
I’d accept a fleur-de-lis, though an actual iris shape would be best.
“Florida millionaire wooed bestselling author before allegedly forcing her into cuckolding fantasy with black men who he paid ‘reparations’: Litany of claims detail degrading sexual abuse
But according to an explosive federal lawsuit, Atherton alleges Vitale turned her into his sex slave, forcing her to wear a dog collar, sleep with other men and bring him to climax twice a day….
Vitale, who ran his own consulting business and owned a beachfront condo in Clearwater, Florida, showered her with clothes, shoes and jewelry when they met in person for the first time, the suit claims.
But that same visit, she alleges, Atherton was pushed to wear a collar and take part in a sexual encounter with Vitale and another man, setting the tone for what her lawyers describe as an escalating system of ‘swinging’ and sexual control.
Despite this, the pair became a couple and Vitale sponsored Atherton’s work visa through his company, Allstar Consulting Services, clearing the way for her to relocate to the US and share his $1.1 million condo.”
https://archive.is/vydtP
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15962891/paul-vitale-hacia-atherton-florida-lawsuit.html
Secretary cosplay gone bad?
I still don’t know what her legal claims against him are.
You have not properly understood the Schrodinger’s Agency of women. He forced her to do these things by asking her to do them while her autonomy was in the women are helpless before male power phase, not the girl boss phase.
Translation: He was attractive until he wasn’t.
Atherton, who has since relocated to St Petersburg, Florida, says she has been left with lasting psychological scars, including ‘PTSD, depression, disrupted sleep patterns, anxiety attacks, hypervigilance, a persistent sense of psychological instability.’
I guess the work visa didn’t expire after the breakup. It’s also noteworthy that she didn’t flee back to Aussieland, but just moved fifteen miles down the road to another beach community.
If she discovered that he’s into kinky shit that she’s not ready for or willing to do, why didn’t she bolt at the first opportunity?
Despite this, the pair became a couple and Vitale sponsored Atherton’s work visa through his company, Allstar Consulting Services, clearing the way for her to relocate to the US and share his $1.1 million condo
I feel exactly zero sympathy. If you don’t want to be degraded, maybe leave when the guys puts the dog collar on you and forces you to screw some black dude.
Technically I think the black guy was screwing her.
If only there were some sort of regulatory oversight
eaport Residences, formerly dubbed One Seaport, has been a blemish on the Lower Manhattan skyline for more than seven years, languishing in limbo as a concrete skeleton along the waterfront at 161 Maiden Lane. Developed by Fortis Property group, the skyscraper was planned to yield 80 condominium units, but since the discovery of its 3-inch vertical misalignment, there seems to be no feasible path to completion. And given its tenuous foundations, the structure poses a serious risk of catastrophic collapse.
The City of New York can’t afford to wait any longer. It’s time to do something about the Leaning Tower of Lower Manhattan.
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Whatever the true state of the tilt, the building has sat exposed to the elements and unmonitored by any public record for the better part of a decade. That’s long enough. The city should require Fortis to commission a current structural survey, made public, before another year passes. If the tower is sound, Fortis should be forced to sell to a developer that can actually put the site to use—potentially as affordable housing, since it’s hard to imagine buyers lining up to pay condo prices to live in a tower with this much baggage.
And if the survey turns up what the Reddit photos suggest, the building should be demolished before its foundation problem becomes the City’s problem. Yesterday’s scare at the Pfizer conversion, bad as it was, involved a structure that has stood on solid ground for more than 65 years. A 670-foot tower coming down on the Seaport waterfront, on a foundation nobody has fully trusted since 2019, would be an order of magnitude worse.
This looks like a job for a daring young socialist hero.
Scholars
As communication scholars who study the symbolic roles of meat and meat-eating in political communication, we see the construction of “Tofu Talarico” not as a one-off political jab but as part of a more sophisticated rhetorical strategy by which politicians appeal to voters.
Attacks on Talarico show how, across American politics, what people eat is a metaphoric marker of who they are, from political affiliation to regional belonging and cultural values. Eating meat – or not – plays a huge role in the political process, and accusations of meat avoidance, regardless of whether they’re true, can be a potent rhetorical weapon.
Right wing fanatics engage in scurrilous smears about dietary choices because they have no rational policy arguments.
“As communication scholars who study the symbolic roles of meat and meat-eating in political communication”
This is a paying job?
Thanks USAID!
“His girlfriend follows a plant-based diet.”
They haven’t seen Pulp Fiction?
“Oh, a bullshit artist.”
This usage is consistent with what food politics researchers call the “sexual politics” of meat, wherein meat imagery is often used in displays of traditional masculinity. This is evident in other jabs levied at Talarico. For example, Watters linked Talarico’s diet to his sexual orientation, joking on Fox News that Talarico was a “gay vegan” with a fake girlfriend.
Appeal to manliness is the lowest form of argument.
“food politics”
Oh STFU