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whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin ?
Just enjoying the never ending shit show like the rest of you.
“Michigan, Virginia, 3 Other States Hold Key Primaries: What to Watch”
How many illegals, dead people, and double voters they have voting team blue?
Virginia normally holds primaries in June but it was shifted this year to accommodate the attempted gerrymandering.
Don’t forget the freshly reinfranchised felons. The timing of that mass change of status is no happenstance.
Clay Travis ups offer to $10 million for WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces to play high school boys basketball team
They won’t accept, for obvious reasons.
The US womyn national soccer team fell for this and got schooled by a boys 14-15 years team. The left was furious and made a ton of excuses for what happened. Like the whole patriarchy refs thing, if I recall correctly. They will not make tat mistake again. If anyone takes this bet, it is because they found a way to rig it and get the wanted result. And if it still goes bad, it will be the fault of raycissm, anti-bulldaggerism, and patriarchy, Cause the only good cock, is on a WOMYN!..
There are no chicks with dicks. It’s dudes with fake tits.
The WNBA accepts, and has also signed Tonya Harding as a backup point guard…
Juwwanna Man, baby!
Sad.
We can get rid of more people who disqualified themselves.
That’s more “embarrassing” than “triumphant”.
Huuuge numbers! It’s biggest most beautiful denaturalization push ever!
How many happened the previous Administration?
It is not an easy thing to do.
Needs at least four zeros.
MOAR!
Around 500K/year. Nothing to sneeze at, and probably all the system can handle.
Until they go after employers, hard, and cut off federally funded NGO and state benefits, they’re not going to get rid of enough illegals via self-deportation to make a noticeable dent in the 20-30MM illegals in the country, though.
Banking too. Make it impossible for them to survive.
“Until they go after employers, hard,”
I believe we should fine them to the point they fear bankruptcy to stop them from hiring. Right now that is to me one of the big loopholes and incentives for illegals to keep coming: they will get hired at half pay. But if we really, really want to not just stop the flood, but have a load of these illegals go back home, cut the social programs they all live off of. It’s the free shit they get in “sanctuary” cities & states, courtesy of the tax paying citizens that already are not happy paying this for their layabout countrymen, that makes the stay and risk worth it to these 3rd world socialists.
Kill the social support racket implemented by both parties, and the invasion reverses itself.
The problem here is that the employers of illegals and immigration frauds have considerable political clout. You see this in that cunt from Utah, whinging about, ‘Employers tell me the can’t find enough qualified applicants blah blah blah.’
Employers used to train people when they couldn’t find qualified people. They stopped doing that and kept hiring illegals that they paid 1/2 of the wages while giving them on the job training. Make them bring back the training programs if their job requires that…
So while I believe that people who employ illegals and immigration frauds should be punished brutally – I’m also not blind to what employers have to compete with. In addition to all the taxes and regulatory fees they have to be responsible for, they also have to price salaries to compete with the ‘benefits’ that potential workers get for staying home on the couch, smoking weed and playing XBox. And their taxes are paying for those benefits, so they get hit two or three times over.
*sigh*
Our socio-economic Gordian knot is too tangled at this point, to do anything but cut it in half…
‘Employers tell me the can’t find enough qualified applicants blah blah blah.’
Silently points at the labor force participation rate, particularly for prime working age males.
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/trends-in-us-labor-force-participation-rates-for-men/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog
I know how the labor force participation rate is trending.
So what’s causing it (government intervention in the labor market) and what can be done about it (probably not much at this point)?
I disagree. We need less government in banking.
Remember “Operation Chokepoint”?
Banking too. Make it impossible for them to survive.
Glances up at Capitol One link. Remembers Canadian Trucker abuse. Recalls efforts to require CC companies to track gun purchases and banks to drop gun rights and other perceived non-commie organization accounts.
No, I’d rather not normalize this sort of approach.
Of course I balk at requiring employers under threat of violence to do the states job for them, whether it be collect taxes or enforce immigration law. Enforce it at the borders. Enforce it by arresting and removing those already here illegally with the cooperation of state agencies – if the states don’t want to cooperate, cut off their funding.
Commandeering private resources to enforce the law is not a good idea for liberty, either philosophically or as a practical matter.
Also need to fix vote rigging – yet another major reason the Dems want illegals around is for padding their constituency and getting some of them voting whether they know it or not too.
I am with Putrid in this. Don’t push laws that can be weaponized for politics. Border enforcement/tracking illegals is something that is pretty neutral, banking and employment laws can be used in all sorts of shenanigans that we don’t want.
If its perfectly legal to employ illegals, then a major incentive for illegal immigration will remain in place.
You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.
Like a lot of things, a level of enforcement and regulation that is appropriate for a functional system is wholly inadequate for a dysfunctional system. Is there potential for abuse? Of course. But your system is already fucked up, so . . . .
getting some of them voting whether they know it or not too
It’s more about the census than the illegal voting.
Districting and apportionment is done in relation to total population, not citizen population.
39 Trillion in debt, no election security, a half hearted war, communists in charge of major cities, but sure lets have yet another round of retard fights over the god damned reflecting pool sealant.
That’s the spirit!!
Can we also fight over gilded bridge statues?
Yes, that is also a critical issue of the day!
I would also like to file a complaint about Trump fixing fountains around Washington instead of funding Nepalese troons.
I agree the Sherkhas need US dollars!
What about the twerkas?
Let them work for tips.
And just the tip!
“”I don’t know that I would say I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint,” White said when asked about males competing in women’s sports. “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is the answer. I just don’t. I do think that when we think about various levels of sport, various governing bodies of sport, and things that go into that, like I said, I’m not educated enough at the different levels. I know growing up I played with the boys all the time.”
CWAR
She wasn’t very observant while playing with those boys.
Who are you quoting? And why?
The coach of the WNBA team that Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham play for.
I’m going to assume that the reason I don’t recognize those names is because they play for the WNBA.
And the rest of us are going to assume you are lying.
Couldn’t the Aces jest get some college or pro male players to identify as women and take the $10M?
That would also prove the point being made.
Are there any trans players in the WNBA?
There’s at least one since we made that stupid trade with Russia.
I don’t think Brittany Griner is a dude, for the simple reason that the Russians put her in a women’s prison. Could well be one of those genetic anomalies, but not a dude.
Probably not a dude, but heavy on the juice? That wouldn’t be much of a stretch.
Doubt.
Playing, sure. How many times did she win against the boys?
I’ll bet they took it easy on her and either she didn’t realize it or is in denial about it.
I remember growing up I hadn’t had many girls around to play with, it was always a few boys roughhousing.
In school, I didn’t play at recess much so I didn’t know any better.
First time I went to a friend’s house in town he had a girl playing football and I tackled her like I would anybody else.
She had been teasing me about my glasses which was part of the reason I didn’t play at recess much, so I might have put a little extra into it.
Plus I lived on a farm , so I was strong for my size.(we were about 11).
She started crying and I felt horrible.
There’s no crying in football!
*ActBlue laughs in Mandarin*
I hope Capital has to pay a multi billion fine for this shit. Whether they went along because of team blue pressure, or because they are run by team blue shitheads – and I think that was the case – these entities should respond to these partisan government attacks on political enemies with a harsh “fuck off”. Literally they made up some reason from thin air to pretend they did this for legal purposes instead of for some payoff from the criminal left run government whose main economic engine is fraud in every government system.
legit LOL at the headline
I’m at a loss.
In 2022, following the most profitable year in its history, Whirlpool announced one of the biggest deals in its history. It acquired the garbage-disposal company InSinkErator for $3 billion in cash—$2.5 billion of it borrowed.
Why would they pay that much for a single product company? What a surprise that they are struggling under the debt load now.
https://www.wsj.com/business/whirlpool-abandoned-its-global-ambitions-now-its-in-a-world-of-hurt-622ba54f?st=3TJRsM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m wondering if Whirlpool managers held a good chunk of InSinkErator stock.
It was privately held.
The owner was friends with Whirlpool’s CEO?
It could just have been do-somethingism.
More realistically – a McKinsey PowerPoint deck and rounds and rounds of bankers taking the C-Suite out to dinner.
that’s crazy talk.
Clicked too soon.
Increasingly, C-Suites aren’t populated by operators, people who are there to operate a business. They are populated by transactional guys, MBA types who are there to financialize everything they possibly can. So “record-breaking profits in our core business” is a big meh. “Biggest deal EVAR” is where the juice is.
“Money” burning a hole in their pockets.
Can’t possibly invest in making their own products less crappy. Nope, we have to vastly overpay to ruin yet another product and tank another brand.
Sounds to me like there needs to be a bounty on professional mismanagers who only have an academic understanding of running a business.
They’re a menace to the economy.
This class of people is every bit as socially destructive as the out-and-out bureaucrats.
And symbiotic with those Bureaucrats
professional mismanagers who only have an academic understanding
You think those MBAs from Harvard or Wharton don’t mean something? TOP [WO/]MEN!!!
It means they’re a menace and should be exiled to a third world shithole where they can do no more damage.
exiled
I have to say it appears you actually can be a fascist-libertarian.
I am with UCS on this. The biggest problem we have these days is the horde of credentialed morons that think because they have any degree from some school whom in a far away past meant something, that believe they are the “experts”. So we get people with supposed “underwater lesbian basket weaving” majors with a minor in economics degrees, and barista or bartending experience, peddling communism and that sort of shit for everyone cause they made stupid life moves.
credentialed morons
I’m not disagreeing about the problem, just the ‘solution’.
It’s why I keep going back to Franklin and when despotism is the only government suitable to the people.
A single product company whose single product has a shrinking market.
People don’t use garbage disposals anymore?
Good people who care about the planet compost!
They use them less with the rise in composting, and with decades of evidence that dumping food down your drains leads to grease clogs in your pipes. My understanding is that the market peaked quite a while ago and has been declining steadily.
I haven’t had a disposal since I moved up here, and honestly I don’t miss it like I thought I would.
I don’t know if I’ve just changed my cooking habits, but on the very rare occasion that I’ve thought “a garbage disposal would be really handy now,” I just toss the stuff into the woods.
The apartment I lived in before I bought my house had a disposal. I Never used it. My house doesn’t have one. I never thought “I could use a garbage disposal”
My wife and kids do their part to try and support In-sink-erator. Small utensils constantly run through ours. I seem to have to buy one every 6 years because of this.
Stop replacing it.
I’ve been dumping wet garbage behind the garage for well over 30 years, the pile never gets bigger. Winter it builds up a little but not much.
Game cam says foxes, bears in season, ‘coons, skunks and crows are visitors.
By the end of summer it’s covered with new growth and shrunk back almost flat.
My current apartment has one but I rarely use it.
I forget to notice whether the place I am moving to in a couple weeks has one. I won’t really miss it. For decades I just got used to bagging scraps in the refrigerator until trash day.
“Across the reviewed studies, lower protein intake was associated with better metabolism, altered nutrient signaling, reduced cellular damage and improved cellular maintenance, according to the published review.
Much of the benefit stems from a metabolic hormone known as fibroblast growth factor 21, or FGF21. Restricting protein triggers a surge in FGF21, which animal studies have shown can boost energy expenditure, reduce inflammation, improve blood sugar control and extend lifespan.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/04/health/living-longer-could-hinge-on-one-surprising-dietary-change-study-review-suggests/
Sounds like bullshit.
I agree, my thoughts were “I call bullshit”
The cucks are so desperate to convince people to stop eating meat and become a cuck like them, that they go back to the useless tool of claiming “SCIENCE”, which they completely wrecked during the Kung Flu ..
Lame.
animal studies
Uh huh. Why didn’t you study a bunch of vegans?
Is that like the study that used rabbits to study the impact of cholesterol and saturated fats? You know that animal that didn’t evolve to eat anything like that diet? But we can totally conclude that essentially poisoning rabbits means humans shouldn’t eat saturated fats? That kind of study?
Just eat the rabbits, cut out the middle part.
Just eat the rabbits
But be wary of rabbit starvation! They just don’t have enough fat for a human to survive on a diet of rabbits. Make sure to saute with lots of tallow or lard.
All you need is a male and a female rabbit to create new supply…
Like rabbits, is a thing…
Working on it! I bought another rabbit hutch this weekend.
Been watching rabbit porn on the Youtube. It’s pretty funny – when he’s done, he falls off her and takes a nap.
Have a great recipe from the old country where you use some red wine, onions & garlic, and kidney beans to get that rabbit properly tendered. Roast/braise them rabbit parts in some butter and olive oil with the garlic & onions, and season with salt, pepper, rosemary to taste, Then add some chicken stock & red wine and stew for 30 mins before adding them kidney beans, more wine and stock, and stew it for another 30 mins. Serve with mashed taters.
Not as good as a fava beans, a fine Chianti, and the liver from a census worker that tested you, but worth it…
There was a famous historical debate in nutrition science where Atwater (developer of energy factors for macronutrients including protein) favored high protein intake and Chittendon (digestion pioneer) favored LOW protein intake. Some really interesting data on both sides from a time when it was possible to execute actual human subject testing.
Soy protein is how you get pajama boy and men sitting down to pee cause they now wear dresses..
Animal studies.
Yeah mice eat grain.
The committee concluded in a 25-page report released Monday that Edwards made frequent comments regarding his staffers’ appearance and weight, sent them messages in the middle of the night, texted them deeply personal and seemingly romantic thoughts, intruded on personal occasions without invitation, paid for personal vacations and spent thousands of dollars on gifts.
George: “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon..
House Panel Recommends Censure for Congressman, Citing ‘Inappropriate’ Conduct
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/house-ethics-panel-recommends-censure-of-rep-chuck-edwards-0200a5fd?st=Y4MHgw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ooooohhhh, CENSURE!
The horror, the horror….
Eh, if the people who he represents don’t like this, vote him out. Otherwise it isn’t any business of mine.
the people who he represents
Alcee Hastings waves hello.
+1 “Is you is or is you ain’t my constituents”.
“Why wont other people do what I want?”
New Zealand has a new official language — English
Drop Maori and sign language now.
English-speaking opponents of the move should feel free to decamp to another country that has respect for itself.
English-speaking opponents of the move should feel free to decamp to another country that has respect for itself
Is there one?
My version of respect for itself, or theirs?
An English-speaking country? lol Nope. Well, maybe some island in the Caribbean or something.
Yeah, I dunno WTF she was thinking. Maybe she wants her Fox News gig back, cuz she’s done in DC.
Warning issued for clothing checks at Tour de France Femmes after reports of bra padding
Make them ride naked to reduce cheating.
Q – hardest hit?
Hardest hit is teen age boys. Who hasn’t been down that trail?
That would certainly give the viewership a good bounce.
Dunno, I think they should nip this in the bud.
“Research suggests that large chest fairings can result in time gains of almost a second per kilometre.”
What about real boobs?
Is the cost/benefit enough to make implants viable for flat-chested athletes?
Real boobs?
Those that complain (and teenage boys)
That is flat out cheating.
It’s robust cheating.
“They’re real, and they’re spectacular.”
I was certain that was going to turn into something about trannies.
Catchphrase: “You’re a towel!”
Special ability: Getting high and becoming extra absorbent to clean up any mess.
The Paper in Your Paper Towel Is a Candidate for a Radical Overhaul
Kimberly-Clark says it is developing a fiber with the promise to revolutionize paper-based products
https://www.wsj.com/business/the-paper-in-your-paper-towel-is-a-candidate-for-a-radical-overhaul-4b90898c?st=h23UDN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No
“Muay Thai champion Ryan McDonald stepped in after a road rage confrontation threatened two young women in Queensland”
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/mma/article-16026103/muay-thai-fighter-mcdonald-road-rage-sunshine-coast.html
WTF with his hair?
It’s on video, he did not allegedly try to open the door, he tried to open the door.
I’m reminded of PJ O’Rourke during the Monica Lewinsky kerfuffle. Sam Donaldson kept using the word “alleged”, and O’Rourke finally responded, “Yes, we must only allege that there is an age difference between them.”
Looks like he stuck his finger in a light socket.
Where’s Gilmore when we need him?
Futurama fan confirmed.
Why do bros do that, anyway?
Don’t want to get the other guy’s blood on your shirt?
For maximum attention, I would bet.
He’s an anime character.
Japan’s Keynesian Utopia in 5 Charts. It would be ours too if the US dollar wasn’t the defacto global currency.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/five-charts-that-show-why-the-u-s-and-japan-teamed-up-to-buy-yen-a1ed9bbb?st=BmQYUA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ironic given that we’re suddenly propping up the yen.
“Godzilla vs. Kong child star Kaylee Hottle is laid to rest in Texas after tragic death in car crash at 18”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16026351/Godzilla-Kong-Kaylee-Hottle-buried-car-crash-death.html
Sad.
Very sad.
And that’s why we wear our seatbelts kids. https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15997233/kaylee-hottle-photos-car-crash-godzilla-death.html
“Defendant accused of gang rape of LSU student Madi Brooks, 19, that ended in her death demands her family and supporters are BANNED from wearing pink clothing to his trial”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16027353/Defendant-accused-gang-rape-LSU-student-Madi-Brooks-19-ended-death-demands-family-supporters-BANNED-wearing-pink-clothing-trial.html
STIJLTH
Bitch was hawt, so she was asking for it?
Damn, Swiss… Et tu?
You think that remark was anything other than massively cotemptable?
I read it (especially with the question mark at the end) as being sarcastic.
Same.
“You think that remark was anything other than massively cotemptable?”
It was irony and sarcasm, and directed to the people that would defend these barbarians and their cultureal mores…
I don’t know how long this will stay on Reddit. Note the speed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1vfa336/guy_jumps_from_far_right_lane_to_the_left_oc/
Says the post was deleted…
Dude was doing 115 MPH weaving through traffic when some moron came from the far right lane into the left lane at about half his velocity.
Poster wasn’t happy, but it was two idiots.
Maybe three idiots, as the car taking the video was following another guy going that fast. Honestly thought it was from a cop’s dashcam.
Yeah, I have driven fast, but seriously, doing 115mph on any road with any kind of traffic, unless that traffic is also moving at over 100mph, is idiotic as hell. The sad thing is that tese idiots seem to survive whatever accidents they cause, while others suffer and/or die.
U.S. has used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html
No idea on validity, but I’m sure none of this information that was leaked is classified, right?
I call bullshit.
It’s plausible, but all we have are imaginary sources.
If people understood the inventories we have around (they are insane), that most precision weapons today are a kit bolted to an only 250lbs, 500lbs, 100lbs, or 2000lbs gravity bomb dropped from an aircraft, and that most of the cruise missiles we fired were older ones that were procured as far back as during the cold war and would soon become obsolete (because age would make them dangerous to use). These things have a lifespan, and we are just making sure they got used. Concern does exist for our interceptors since we have been burning through those intercepting cheap drones, but that is being addressed real fast as well.
Also note that the military has different ammo facilities in each of it’s various military regions of responsibility. Yes, some was moved from Asia and Europe to the ME, but not enough to change the posture.
This might be a scare tactic to convince people we need to spend more money getting new hardware to replace what ordinance we used, or into thinking we suddenly have no weapons for whatever reason. But it is bullshit otherwise.
TW:TOS
“Authorities were looking for someone going by fus__ro_dah, after that account used the chat app Kik to exchange sexually explicit messages and images with a 12-year-old girl whom the court refers to as C.H.
Klayme’s username on Kik was fus_ro_dah—with just one underscore between “fus” and “ro,” not two.
It might sound odd to non-nerds that two people would have variations on such an unusual username. But “both names come from the dragon language in the role-playing console game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and roughly translate to force, balance and push,” notes Neil Vigdor at The New York Times.”
https://reason.com/2026/08/03/police-mix-up-usernames-man-spends-18-months-in-prison-for-someone-elses-sex-crimes/
Unusual? No, people are cringelords.
And there’s no point in the literal translation it’s “Unrelenting Force” Cringelord properly, normie.
What was the sex crime? Pulling it out of their pants and doing what their mommy told them not to do?
My username is the same six-letter word everywhere. I specifically chose it decades ago because I suspected no one else uses it and I was right. I have only been prevented from using it once or twice since.
My username has changed a few times over the decades. I never intended to work for the state and had ones related to more youthful interests in years past.
related to more youthful interests in years past.
fapinit123?
My username is the same six-letter word everywhere.
So YOU’RE the one stealing all my “fucker” logins!
Playing Skyrim and trying to do the chants with the microphone ended poorly for me.
My wife came into the room and said something about my “cellphone”. That was enough to shout in town and get all the guards on me. Later it was “pie crow dust” that she used to screw with the game.
A Putin critic leaves Russia after he is barred him from running for parliament
I recall another country tried to bar an opposition candidate from running for office in the last couple years.
He should stay away from tall buildings.
That’s most of the commie EU, isn’t it?
At least he didn’t get stabbed with an umbrella or defenestrated.
“Romantic threads are a standard given annoyance in these films, put in so there’s something for everyone, to advance the plot when there is no more plot to be had, and to give me the opportunity to jump into the debate of: “They’re just men when they’re not saving the world, they should be allowed to date” with an emphatic: No they shouldn’t!”
https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/spider-man-should-give-up-romance-and-focus-on-his-job/
Imagine being this insufferable.
How would Salon react if Spider-Man were having a homosexual relationship?
You know the answer to that.
I don’t hate the rendering or the idea. But don’t call it a Mustang.
2029 Ford Mustang Mach-4 Sedan: Everything We Know About the Next Member of the Mustang Family
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2029-ford-mustang-mach-4-sedan-future-cars
Revive the Pinto name
Can’t wait for the Corvette SUV.
So it’s not just CA and MN. No way…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/03/us-news/inside-new-yorks-medical-fraud-capital-where-often-empty-senior-centers-bill-medicaid-100m-a-year-for-patients/
I will not at all be surprised we find out at least 1/3 of all federal and state spending is fraudulent, going to supposedly great social programs, but doing nothing but funneling a ton of money to people that do no work other than contribute to democrat political campaigns and causes. It is in the trillions. That national debt? It is this shit.
Don’t forget, that is part of GDP too! Cut out this fraud, you’re going to cause a DEPRESSION!!!!
JI, sometimes I can’t tell if you are being ironic or are part of the people making bank 🙂
And it’s not just Flushing. One of these operations ran near me in Brooklyn. Same ethnic cohort.
“How do I deal with manspreading?
Don’t manspread back, says Hanson, “because two wrongs don’t make a right, whether you are a man, or however you identify. But if you need to adjust yourself slightly pointedly, then that normally does the trick.” He adds: “Obviously, don’t use your hands to touch somebody’s leg but you could slightly push against it [with your knee] if you feel emboldened. If you feel comfortable enough, you could always be quite passive aggressive and say something like: ‘Oh, I’m so sorry – am I taking up too much space?’” The general leg aperture rule is “nothing bigger than a tennis ball in between your knees”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/04/the-ultimate-guide-to-travel-etiquette-how-to-handle-36-tricky-situations-from-manspreaders-to-smelly-armpits
Manspreading!
These misandrists are still harping on how men sit?
It’s anatomical, you stupid bint.
Just squeeze in as needed – it’s not hard. Apply street smarts, though. I have been known to stand rather than try to squeeze next to an unsavory-looking character.
These idiots is why i sit with my legs spread as wide as I can and feel no guilt anymore.
I sit with normal spread because I’m not an asshole. 🤨
I am, rhywun. And while I am not proud of that, I am unabashed.
The general leg aperture rule is “nothing bigger than a tennis ball in between your knees”
*gets one of those giant novelty tennis balls*
Maybe an aspirin, once in a while?
Buy a car
Does visceral fat provide any protection to the organs? I’m trying to think of a reason why men pack more of it relative to women and lose it last.
Estrogen increases intramuscular fat.
I’m looking for an evolutionary explaination for Why things should respond that way.
Men having stronger muscles is an evolutionary advantage? Women have a higher percentage of fat to fuel pregnancy?
Mechanically speaking, it might help against wild critters, or at least the smaller ones, by providing physical separation between the skin and vital organs. Once you’re dealing with man-made weapons, that goes out the door.
Since we don’t have a good view at the other hominids, I now wonder what the dimorphism in fat distribution in other apes looks like. It could tell us how far back the trait emerged.
Nature likes dad bods?
Are you talking visceral or abdominal sub-cutaneous fat? I don’t think either sex naturally stores the former, that’s a metabolically unhealthy storage that results from dysfunction of insulin/lipid metabolism.
You would be wrong. Men tend to store more visceral fat and hold on to it longer when shedding pounds.
Women store a larger proportion of subcuteneous fat.
Dat Ass? Or as Q would say: Them Tiddies?
You would be wrong.
Reading up a bit more rather than relying on memory, true.
Visceral fat is normally present, if in very small amounts in a healthy individual. It’s a fast access storage, with signalling and fatty acids being dumped directly into the portal vein rather than back into the general blood stream.
As to sex difference, AFAIU, men store more viscerally, when forced to store, due the inhibitory nature of testosterone. It’s not that our metabolism *prefers* to store viscerally, but rather is more inhibited from storing subcutaneous around the muscles, so if you have a storage signal, more will go into the visceral storage relative to women. Hence why dysfunctional hormone signaling leads to significantly more visceral storage in men.
Estrogen on the other hand encourages storage in the longer term access subcutaneous fat in the breasts and butt (is it Wednesday yet). Combination of that sex hormone storage difference means women store less and men more in the visceral on average, though neither should store very much. After menopause, that female advantage disappears and women store more visceral fat as well due to less of the longer term storage favoring estrogen and, probably, a higher relative if not absolute, testosterone signal that will shift some storage to visceral.
Related, I was just thinking about picking up some green banana flour and doing a few weeks of testing w/ resistant starch supplementation to see if I drop some body fat.
https://staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com/p/shrink-visceral-fat-by-feeding-your
The data indicate it can burn fat independent of calorie intake. Which seems like voodoo, but that’s what the data indicate.
Doesn’t visceral fat also generate heat? Or is that just a subset of visceral fat?
No more-so than subcutaneous fat. So-called brown fat – fat with a high mitochondrial load and activity – generates lots of heat. Baby fat is largely high-activity brown fat.
“In case you did not know about this, the Adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, is now blasting across Minneapolis five times per day.
The Minneapolis City Council – with Muslim members – approved a resolution unanimously back in 2023 that changed the city’s noise ordinance to accommodate this public disruption.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/islamic-call-prayer-now-blasts-five-times-per/
What First Amendment?
All of those who voted for the modification should be on stakes, and the buildings making the noise burned down.
Need the French guy from one of R.J.’s movies, OSS 117.
It was a Bond parody and he went to the Mosque and heat up the guy doing the morning prayer call for waking him up.
*beat up*, not heat up
Did the prophet use loudspeakers? No?, then the faithful of today shouldn’t either.
I wonder how that isn’t anything more than an intimidation tactic. There is no need to do that other than tell their neighbors who is in charge now.
I wonder what form the push-back will take? This will expand to other areas where the natives are far less interested in having a “foreign” religion blast out at them 5 times a day.
I doubt there will be any pushback whatsoever.
Is there any ordinance about church bells or chimes? How about firing a “noon cannon?”
The article seems to imply that it’s louder than existing ordinances allow, otherwise why would they need a law? Unless church bells required a variance too maybe they were already under the decibel limit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whoa. I just ordered an item from Amazon, and 11 minutes later they said it has been shipped. 😯
Yeah, I have noticed insane delivery times in the last few weeks. The orders shipped fast and were delivered in less than 24 hrs. In one case it was 8 hrs… And they were all uncommon products.
There must be a big hub near me since they’re shockingly fast. Often same day for no additional fee.
We have a large distribution center here. Amazon trucks will be delivering 3 items to me this afternoon that I ordered this morning. We have gotten so used to it that we are shocked when an item is going to take more than a day to get here.
Their supply chain and delivery fulfillment system is one of the 8 wonders of the modern world.
There was a note by the product saying it was going to be shipped “sooner than usual” so maybe there is already one stored in Syracuse or wherever the nearest center is. Just weird, I have never seen that before. And yeah, not a common item either.
It’s the AI robots isn’t it. ISN’T IT?
^^^^^YEP^^^^
The national unions have been pressing to unionize Amazon forever. (Hi AOC! How is that “no Amazon office” working out for your district?)
This pressure most certainly will help accelerate their drive to automation, including robotics. They currently have tons of workers picking and pulling orders, now with robotic assistance. Soon, those workers will be entirely replaced, and the union threat nearly eliminated.
Meanwhile, UAW and Teamsters demands have hamstrung American car manufacturing and shipping. How’d that work out, Detroit?
Any minute now, the teamsters are going to find themselves under attack as their stranglehold on ports and delivery drag productivity and raise costs. When the workaround comes, they will be completely sidelined.
The automotive industry has fallen so low that we celebrate a mechanical door handle.
Audi CEO Admits New Flagship SUV Almost Got Those Electronic Door Handles Nobody Asked For
https://www.thedrive.com/news/audi-ceo-admits-new-flagship-suv-almost-got-those-electronic-door-handles-nobody-asked-for
026 Audi Q7 cup holders for ants (top right)
That got a chuckle from me.
But luckily, it still has screens everywhere.
We aren’t savages!
I saw an interesting take on the American and European illegal immigration push.
They were talking about how the far left had spent decades scaring people into having fewer kids. This pressure worked all too well, dropping us well below replacement level.
So now the social safety net is endangered. With an upside down population distribution, there is no way to fund retirement benefits. There are no young workers to fill out minimum wage and entry jobs.
So – the need for mass immigration. But not just any mass immigration. It has to be illegal to trap the new workers in certain classes of jobs.
And the bonus twist – because the bureaucratic class has been coopted by the CWP, they are intentionally importing illegal immigrants who are hostile to the current political and social system. They want to disrupt society and the government so they can replace it with a true egalitarian society.
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This was the take. Interesting, because it has indeed been a call to arms from the left since the 1960s to severely reduce population growth. Many hard left decide that it is immoral for them to bring another child into the world. (How seductive and powerful is an idea that can override the most basic function of life?)
Those same people have a severe emotional attachment to bringing large illegal populations in, and allowing them full participation in democracy…. yet somehow keeping them illegal and therefore in a separate class.
CWP?
And variants. Communist workers party. BLM. CWPA, Socialists for america, British Workers Organization.
There numbers are legion. But beyond the official groups, there are many more socialist groups that hide their true intentions under different labels… yet they eventually reveal their true intentions
There numbers are legion.
No the numbers are fairly small, but the propensity to splinter is off the charts.
In chatting last week with the g.m. at my former employer, he raised the complaint that he couldn’t find enough entry level and semi-skilled workers for the factory, assembly, and warehouse. Being able to speak and read English is a requirement that keeps out many of the legal immigrants. As for those with stupid “degrees” who are working retail or as baristas, they don’t want to get their hands dirty in a blue collar job, even if the pay and benefits are higher than they make now. They would “lose face” if their college degree only qualified them to stack shelves or assemble parts at a bench. I suppose that, one of these days, the move to pay $30 per hour for coffee cup fillers and muffin servers will lead to enough automation that these privileged youngsters will be forced to learn to drive a fork lift or clean oily metal shavings from the machinery.
“Being able to speak and read English is a requirement that keeps out many of the legal immigrants”
How da fuq did tat happen then?
My mom was an immigrant, I have sponsored 2 legal immigrants, my daughter in law is a legal immigrant. I am intimately familiar with the process, and it says you have to be fluent in English, must pass a civic test most Americans fail regularly, and have to have a sponsor that is financially liable if for whatever reason you end up on either state or federal social programs of any kind….
If they failed the speaking English part, how did they get past the rest?
I am skeptical that English “fluency” is required of legal immigrants. Maybe parroting a few words or something but I have interacted with hundreds or thousands of them over the years who can barely speak a word of it.
Alex, all that is to be a citizen, not to legally live here.
My wife is still on her green card and has never had a language test.
She wants to become a citizen after her mom dies, since she doesn’t want to hurt her mom’s feelings.
“I am skeptical that English “fluency” is required of legal immigrants.”
It isn’t.
Mike Rowe is doing the lord’s work here.
I still dont understand why we allowed government subsidy of womens studies and African american studies degrees. We should only subsidize things that are needed. So yes to materials science degree loans and grants. No to international peace studies masters degrees.
“My wife is still on her green card and has never had a language test.”
I understand the differentiation, but are we saying we give green cards out to people that have no intention of becoming a citizen, and thus, face the tests? That these people feel no obligation to learn English at all? If I ever heard an argument for why no help entity should ask you to press some number for some other language, this is it. And that comes from someone that is fluent in 7 languages because of life…
That reminds me that I should add Mike Rowe Works to my annual giving (along w/ The FIRE and IJ).
He is indeed doing great work.
I paid for 2 employees going from student visa through H1-b to green card to citizenship. It is a pain in the ass. Took many years and cost probably > $20k each. They and their families are fantastic additions to the country and were paid high wages the entire time.
Immigration isnt a problem. Mass importation of illiterate non-english speakers who come from areas where American social and governmental systems are anathema is a problem.
What Cyto said…
The fact the people opposed to any immigration enforcement of any kind want the illiterates that go on welfare is telling…
I blame human resources. Needed a replacement on the shipping dock. I could have taken some kid out of in high school who paid some attention and trained him. But the requirements listed on by HR was something like need x years of warehouse experience.
Millions of them, I would guess. Chain migration FTW.
You could have taken a kid out of junior high and trained him.
Labor laws and compulsory education are largely to blame.
No one will hire kids anymore because the state forbids it. They lose the first job training in work ethic. Yesterday at the bank I overheard the teller talking to another customer that the bank was just a fill in job while he looked for a real one in his field. She told him she was trying for the FBI because that was what her degree was gunning for.
She’s going to work the hotel her Indian parents run, he’d degree is going to be a total waste and he’s going to be at the bank for the next two years until he gets a slightly better retail job.
All of that sounds accurate to me.
“The proposed “labor acknowledgment,” introduced last fall by Councilmember Shontel Lewis, would recognize the lasting impact of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and racial segregation while affirming the city’s commitment to addressing inequalities that continue today….
NPS stated in 2024 that “While Colorado was never a slave-state, becoming part of the Union after the Civil War, the shadow of slavery was ever present. From the entrenched KKK in state and local politics, the practice of redlining and the inequities of having property, systemic racism is something the state is still grappling with today.”
Lewis has spent months working with the Denver African American Commission, Justice for Black Coloradans, and other community organizations to refine the language.
The Denver Post also reports that Lewis has also filed to run as a DSA-backed Democratic candidate for Denver mayor, and her government website describes her as “an unapologetic, Black, Queer Womxn grounded in her values of love and humanity.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/denver-city-council-considers-opening-every-meeting-with-a-mandatory-slavery-acknowledgment
CWAC
grounded in her values of love and humanity
Anyone translate that from Newspeak?
It means she hates people.
It means she is better than you.
Well, she hates certain people. You can probably guess which ones.
*spit-take*
I guess all the bowing and scraping to you guys in 2020 wasn’t enough. Oh well, fuck off.
The fact that these people are being taken seriously means we are already done as a society. Even if they dont keep winning office
“Spokane arson suspect shot and killed his own father in 2010 after a dispute about doing the dishes”
https://thepostmillennial.com/spokane-arson-suspect-shot-and-killed-his-own-father-in-2010-after-a-dispute-about-doing-the-dishes
CWAA
Outrageous he wasn’t still imprisoned.
Yeh, I see a great argument for reasonable doubt in court since you are suffering the trauma of having to burning down half the state cause you had to off a parent for telling you how to do dishes…
We should be merciful since he’s an orphan.
And as a point of pride, he is a SELF MADE orphan???
The mom lived.
The media put out a fire weather warning.
So of course some crackhead is going to take it as a challenge.
“KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore has banned the two core members of British band Massive Attack from reentering the country after they displayed a Palestinian flag and expressed support for the Palestinian cause during their concert in the city-state last week.
Singapore police said in a recent statement that the two men were investigated over their actions during the July 29 concert, including the unfurling of a foreign flag and one member shouting “Free Palestine” on stage.
They were issued stern warnings and blacklisted from returning to the city-state, it said.”
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I’d listen to stern warnings from Singapore. Speaking of successful former colonies, Singapore takes itself very seriously. Along with British law and business, they’ve also kept their naval “Don’t Fuck With Us” history. You can’t buy gum there, but you can bring it in and certainly enjoy it as long as you play by their rules. I can’t imagine the Flock camera nightmare SG must be a decade after I left the port. If caught vandalizing or doing anything ‘improper,’ I imagine knocks would swiftly come to one’s door.
Better to be feared than loved? Well. *ka-ching!* Folk there sure know not to fuck the State. Singapore don’t play.
Yeah that is a level of control freakery more than I would accept even to achieve a more “orderly” society.
This is the kind of stuff the makes me nuts. Mind you Japan Times makes the NYT seem conservative.
In the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, 275 people died, including 225 — or more than four-fifths of the total — whose deaths were classified as disaster-related, as opposed to directly from the quake.
The issue is they never contrast this to what “natural” death rates would have been during the same time period under observation. In this case the article is about deaths due to heat and dehydration after the current earthquake. It’s been 38-40C. Without a doubt there are going to be higher death rates in vulnerable populations (i.e. sick and elderly) until they can running water, electricity and AC. It’s not the at shocking.
One week on, disaster response in Kumamoto shifts to helping survivors
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/04/japan/quake-disaster-related-casualties/
Looks like he stuck his finger in a light socket.
The Don King Academy of Style.
Immigration isnt a problem. Mass importation of illiterate non-english speakers who come from areas where American social and governmental systems are anathema is a problem.
*bangs tin cup on table*
“Why is the US running low on missiles?”
It’s a mystery.
It actually is a mystery to me. We went from paying an entirely unreasonable amount for defense, to double that amount… and double again. Most of that has to be going to procurement. And we have not had much in the way of missile attacking in the last decade. Why would a couple of salvos at Iran have wiped out our supplies?
Are we just cutting checks and not getting any product?
Secret moon base. To deal with the Nazis.
Because we’re shipping all of them to Ukraine?
Oh. Right. Ukraine.
Dang. They let that slip out of the news cycle and I completely forgot for a moment.
Dang. I am not too happy with that.
How much of that are we doing? Is Trump doing the same thing Biden was? Is that why we don’t hear any squawking?
OK, i looked
2024. By 2025 and 2026, new commitments fell sharply to just four hundred million annually.
From $27 billion to $400 million.
Massive drop.
But rebuilding must take time.
And AI has the answer
You’re right about the shift. Direct US aid dropped sharply, and now other countries fund purchases through the PURL program. Europeans like Germany, the Netherlands, and Nordic countries buy US-made weapons, mainly Patriots and other munitions, then send them to Ukraine. This means the money goes to US manufacturers, but the weapons still come out of American production lines and stockpiles. The real constraint is limited manufacturing capacity and long lead times for complex missiles.
So Trump has managed to con Europe into paying off Raytheon et al keeping the establishment happy without us having to pay a dime. Nice. I wonder why he hasn’t touted that accomplishment yet.
Now the issue of low domestic supply is real… but could be abated relatively quickly in a pinch, one would suspect.