The Cowboys and Saints got into a few scraps at a mixed practice. The Astros are back at .500 after a week or so in the black. Nick Kyrgios apparently loves the nose candy. And the Premier League kicks off in just a few days. All we need is for real football to get here in a couple weeks and we’ll know it’s the best time of the year for sports again. And that’s all I’ve got on that front, so I’m moving on.
Fetch a rope. A bunch of ropes would be nice, actually. But we won’t ever see them and we will likely still never know the truth.
They’ll figure out a way to get home. It’s in their blood to travel north and traverse places they’re not supposed to be in. I have faith in them.
What a waste of money. Imagine how much those contributions could have helped The Ukraine. Oh well, good riddance to that grifting assclown.
Their biggest crime are those hairstyles. I say shave them bald and let them go.
The fight against authoritarianism doesn’t need democracy, I guess. How many years are the elections there overdue again?
Oh, please. Here’s a newsflash: everything ragebaits Democrats.
“It was all just a joke. Trust us.” And I’ve got some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you if you buy that bullshit.
When will the racism against these outstanding people end? Probably soon after they stop fleecing us. Let’s get a word from Tim Walz on this latest of these scammers he so desperately loves.
I figured this would be bigger news. I guess the big outlets missed it on accident.
I have a hard time taking this piece seriously. Especially with the “for the past two years” opening. But the rest seems like a lot of emotional fragility on display. But you tell me if I’m right or wrong.
In memory of Frank Beard. One of their best tracks. And I’ll finish with perhaps their last really good song. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I laffed and laffed when I saw that. Could not have happened to a more deserving POS.
He should have been banned years ago for “cultural appropriation”.
I don’t know, I kind of want my uppity tennis players doing coke. The sport is pretty dull as-is.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/4758583/Drug-shame-for-Neiland.html
Caffeine. OFFS!
Caffeine is a stimulant that may help in other sports, but not tennis. I’m not certain if tennis still tests for caffeine.
https://verfassungsblog.de/ukraines-constitution-in-wartime/
Sure, Jan. 🙄
“Those people are not our nationals, they crossed the border.”
How many Mexicans play for the Nationals?
Do you include the minor league team?
Not a ton of Mexican pro ballplayers in MLB (7-12) More Dominicans (90-110) and Venezuelans. (55-70)
A new study found that Democratic X users are more likely to be confronted with posts they don’t like.
Twitter needs Reddit mods to censor wrongthink.
In other words, they hate opinions they disagree with and facts that contradict their world view.
No shit.
Yeah, do every other platform recommending lefty stuff.
Heck, even imgur sidebars lefty photo memes.
A new study found that Republican BlueSky users are more likely to be confronted with posts they don’t like.
Outside of the bubble is pain!
Dar al harb
The Somalis and other new arrivals, with local help, figured out the scams pretty easily.
My curiosity runs in the direction of how much tax, income or sales, was ever paid? I’m guessing,
with a closed society and non-English speaking, it was rather easy to “overlook” or not
understand all the rules. Their social contributions may be different than others.
Bright-eyed college grads who think their non-STEM sheepskin is a guarantee to a cushy six-figure gig quickly find out otherwise, film at eleven.
Learn to pick fruit.
Fifty-five percent said they lowered their salary expectations, and 35% applied to roles they knew they weren’t qualified for, the report continued.
I have an electrician friend who was sentenced to 5 years in prison (served 1.5) for 5 DUIs (no accidents/no one harmed) and his old job was waiting for him when he got out. Learn a trade. AI ain’t taking that job.
Drunks wiring houses….
Meh, he’s an unmarried, weekend warrior. He at least learned not to drive drunk after the imprisonment.
Holy shit. 5 DUI’s? That’s one lucky MF-er.
Frat bro? Do nerds have frats?
Have you not heard of Lambda Lambda Lambda?
“replies under posts are dominated by people (or bots) who have purchased a blue check to get a priority placement under a post.”
They shouldn’t do that. Platforms should be neutral.
Yes, It’s clearly much better to have the algorithm prioritize good think rather than profit by allowing anyone who wants to to purchase the check mark!
Neutral. Algorithms should not prioritize anything.
Algorithm is going to filter/prioritize or it is just dumping everything at everyone.
Selling the checkmarks is neutral, buy it if it is important to you, don’t buy it if not. A business raising revenue by selling enhanced service for a fee is the market at work. I am kind of surprised to find anyone here objecting to that.
I thought the point of algorithms was to prioritize things.
An algorithm is merely a task process. It’s a far more generic term than the parlance has been using it for of late.
*sigh*
“Selling the checkmarks is neutral, buy it if it is important to you, don’t buy it if not. A business raising revenue by selling enhanced service for a fee is the market at work.”
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You honestly can’t see the difference here?
If they filter/prioritize, then they are responsible for it. So no 230 protection.
Are you deliberately trying to sound like a socialist whining bitch, or just being extremely obnoxious? How the hell is selling the checkmarks to anyone who wants to buy them not position neutral? There’s not a way to avoid filtering, posting every tweet in chronological order is filtering, just really stupid filtering. Even for the purposes of that badly written law the filtering that would violate neutrality is filtering based on position. Selling the checkmarks is content neutral. You can buy it or not regardless of what positions you support.
Time is neutral. Prioritizing and deleting based on what content the company likes, or what the government tells them, is not neutral. It’s not the selling of the checkmarks that violates neutrality, it’s the delivery of content that isn’t neutral. Whether the user buys one or not makes no different to what they receive.
Your comment that sparked this whole exchange was a quote about blue checks getting priority placement. That’s what we have been discussing. You don’t get to retreat to the Motte when the Bailey gets too hot for you. The selling of blue checks is neutral, and the selling of blue checks is the subject under discussion.
So you can’t see the difference between selling blue checkmarks and “replies under posts are dominated by people (or bots) who have purchased a blue check to get a priority placement under a post.”
I guess there’s a difference, but it’s content-neutral.
The difference is that one is the action and the other is the benefit that motivates the action, but it makes no difference to the result. Prioritizing people who pay is viewpoint neutral, content neutral and in no way impacts the platform/publisher bullshit dichotomy. Commies can buy the checkmark, Fascists can buy the checkmark, even potatoes can buy the checkmark.
So at this point, I guess you honestly can’t understand.
Ok, how does selling the priority to anyone who wants to buy it violate neutrality? Because it sure sounds like an ordinary market decision rather than editorial control.
Common Tater:
So which order, and which replies should be displayed?
If it’s not all in time based order (which no one does anymore), there will be items prioritized and de-prioritized. Selecting for confirmed accounts that paid real cash is a valid selection for prioritization. Same as downgrading new accounts, accounts that have had multiple complaints, foreign language responses, or ones with too few/too many words/characters.
If I could just deprioritize or straight up hide postings originating in Africa or Asia, I would be delighted.
I have a blue check mark because you do get some extra features with one, and it’s not hugely expensive. And, if I ever grow the account enough to monetize it (like my previous one) you have to have premium.
I have a hard time taking this piece seriously. Especially with the “for the past two years” opening.
Reading it, most of the kvetching is just the reality of entry level job searching. Lots of applying, not much getting of jobs. Same as it has always been.
The polling they did is hard to believe. The ghosting one may be an artifact of the kids’ non-existent attention span. I’ve had situations where the recruiter ghosted me after an interview, only to get a dear John letter 3 or 6 months later. Here’s the thing, though. Any time I bothered to email them and ask the status, they’d tell me.
Rescinding an offer right after it’s accepted is crappy behavior, and I don’t blame the person one bit for being pissed. I’m very skeptical that such a thing happens on the scale required for those poll numbers, though.
Agreed. I still help people with resumes, and non-executive job hunts. You have to send out almost 100 resumes to get one serious offer. It’s been that way for decades. It got harder because of HR computer sorting way before AI.
Having an offer rescinded is not something I have seen on scale, but it does happen. That’s usually due to an internal candidate coming forward at the last minute.
Job hunting sucks, tell me something I don’t know.
It doesn’t help that so many jobs can be remote. That’s what I’m looking for, but now I’m competing people in all 50 states and sometimes people outside the country. If your resume doesn’t precisely match up to what they’re looking for, it will get kicked out.
If your resume doesn’t precisely match up to what they’re looking for, it will get kicked out.
Yup. It’s also hard to tell which openings are real and which are just procedural to hire on a preselected person
I’ve seen job offers rescinded for bad behavior.
I particularly liked this bit:
Think this guy could come across as any more of a conceited laptop-class twit? Go install a residential breaker panel, then come tell me about ‘unskilled manual labor’.
That part is true, but he still sounds like a whiny soyjack.
I know maybe two friends who went straight from college to employment in their field. And that was decades ago.
I know a guy that went from college straight to unemployment.
FWIW my transition from supermarket check stand pre-graduation to supermarket check stand post-graduation went very smoothly.
I had to rescind an offer once, corporate cut our budget unexpectedly. He was a good kid, right out of college, but taught himself many skills that didn’t come with the degree. I interviewed him online and then brought him in to interview and everyone was impressed; my manager, HR, design engineering manager, and my guys who would have been his peers. We made an offer with a relocation allotment for him to move from south Texas to Fort Worth, and he accepted. HR called to break the news, but I called later to offer my sincere apology, and it was a tough call to make. He had already found an apartment and was getting ready to move. At least we let him keep the relocation allotment. About 18 months later we finally got the budget back and I called to give him first shot, it was very polite thanks, but no thanks. Don’t blame him at all.
Don’t overlook the amount of screening done by LLMs these days rather than recruiters. Mrs. Dean has bout in applications for a few jobs that were rejected within 5 minutes. That ain’t a human being doing that.
I’ve also seen job listings that specifically say “don’t try to contact us directly”.
So the dynamic these days is fundamentally different than it was 5 years ago, and is completely unrecognizable compared to 20 years ago.
My son (2023 Communications Tech grad) is having a rough go finding his first real job (he’s a manager at a longtime local watering hole/restaurant) He’s a hard worker and would be an asset to any company, but he’s got to be a little bolder at putting himself out there.
“Does he vote for Democrats?”
Every Minnesota story starts with “There was this guy…”
The chorus “Was his name Walz?” and everyone laughs.
Everybody else on the email convo should be indicted as an accessory. His email address was visible and made it clear he was improperly using a private email account for public business. They knew it, and continued the convo.
“…pour encourager les autres.”
This should be plastered across Federal News – avoid FOIA, go to prison.
/looks for a subscribe button
“In memory of Frank Beard.”
RIP
I was never a huge ZZ Top fan, but respect their music and dedication. When, exactly, does the band become ZZ Theseus?
I saw Rush last month, sans Neil Peart and loved the show, better than I expected. The production value was right up there with the best I’ve ever seen (Pink Floyd). And props to Anika Nilles for taking on the impossible task while having fun with Ged and Alex.
Already has. The current bass player is their former guitar tech.
I really dig ZZ Top’s early slow blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbdu29DAwuE
I guess it’s up to Billy Gibbons if he wants to continue as ZZ Top? That they stayed together for fifty years, and members only left by dying, is very impressive.
I’m having a hard time pulling the trigger on a ticket for Rush. I’ve had my closure and come to terms with it. The clips I’ve seen look great, but it was always about the trio. Like the Marx Bros without Harpo.
Hero, I completely understand. I was pretty sure the R40 would be their last tour and wanted to go, but ticket prices at that time were out of my range, maybe next time. When I saw Neil go to the front of the stage at their last show, I knew it was over and kicked myself for being a cheap bastard for the next 10 years. This show gave me the closure I needed.
Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell – ZZ Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4jyfV_-WAw
If Mexico doesn’t want Mexicans deported to Guatemala, it should stop Guatemalans from traversing Mexico to get to the US, where they create a pool of people that need to be deported to Guatemala.
We are under no obligation to deport people to their country of origin. The government is required merely to get them the fuck out of our country.
That, and people cross the border with no ID. What are you gonna do? GTFO to whatever country we think they came from.
No. Make it clear that if we cannot ascertain your country of origin, you go to Haiti. Haiti already is great.
Minnesota demands cooperation between law enforcement when it suits them.
“However, Abbott said when asked about the lawsuit at a press conference, “I don’t trust Tim Walz on anything, let alone something like this… While they’re making demands, I got a demand of my own, and that is, it’s time for Minnesota to step up and repay the United States of America and Americans for all the fraud that they have committed in their state under federal programs. I will not respond to them at all until they step up and do what’s right, and they acknowledge their fault in the fraud that took place, and they fully repay the United States of America for the fraud they committed.” “
Democracy is at best a temporary brake on authoritarianism, anyway.
WWI was allegedly about fighting for democracy too.
Stalin did win the popular vote.
He knew how to use the bullet pulpit.
Everyone learned about Athenian democracy in school (at least they did when I was a kid). But they don’t learn about all the extreme measures they took to prevent descending in oligarchy. The democracy still went insane, resulting in the Peloponnesian War.
Athenian Democracy also had a very restrictive suffrage. Most people within its jurisdiction had no vote.
The US has already outlasted Athenian Democracy by 70 years. Or at least kept the forms, we were probably effectively an Oligarchy a bit faster than them.
*swoon*
I confess: I set up an X account because I was having a hard time seeing some posts there and didn’t want to fuck around with nitter every time I wanted to look at a meme. It’s a very minimal account, which means X basically feeds me random posts.
And 90+% of the them are utter garbage. Either obvious AI junk, obviously staged bullshit, or completely pointless short videos where nothing actually, you know, happens.
Yes. It’s amazing the junk that is out there. Don’t worry, you’ll get banned for nothing soon.
So around 5-10% useful or engaging content? That’s actually really good for social media.
I’ve heard social media compared to a slot machine. They randomly give you a payout every once in a while, and that’s enough to keep you pulling the lever all day.
Mine is fairly well on point from clicking the heart, although the big breasted “goth” girls posts have gotten more sparse lately. 🙁
I don;t think I ever saw one of those. You are going to have to teach me to find that!
*cough*
I’ve been on X for a long time. I’ve curated things pretty well so I get most of what I would want to see.
There are 2 tabs as well “For You” and “Following” — For You is usually shittier, because it’s more algo driven.
I had a Buc-ees character parody/satire account there for about 2 years. Had 25k followers. Biggest post had 6.2m views. Made a tiny amount of money. Then it got hacked because I boomered out and clicked a link I should not have clicked on night a 2 am.
I might bring it back but it does take up too much time and I’d rather do other things.
Mine is curated pretty well, so I don’t see too much junk. What I do see, though, is all the accounts I follow posting about the same 2-3 topics on any given day. I’m trying to kick the X habit, or at least greatly reduce it, and it’s actually been helpful that it’s becoming boring and redundant.
Vindman losing to some DSA retard warms my black little heart.
“But I had establishment credentials! I really, REALLY hate OMB. How could the voters do this to me?”
We have reached the “oh wow it’s really hard to ride this whirlwind we released” stage. Unfortunately the stage after that one is generally the terror.
Watching the establishment Dem freakout is pretty damn amusing.
Except that the resulting dysfunctional state is going to hit all of us.
My one hope is that they’ll be able to build their socialist utopia, but they won’t be able to keep it.
The pre-war Soviet commies at least had some energy.
Was it an open primary? Were republicans going in and setting up a candidate that would get creamed in the general?
No. The primary was by party.
“Harrowing bodycam footage captured US Marshals plunging several feet to the ground after the wooden deck they were standing on collapsed at the Missouri home of a convicted sex offender.
The clip obtained by NBC News showed the federal task force of four deputy US Marshals and five
Randolph County sheriff’s deputies swarming the second-floor deck of Jacob Alexander Munoz’s home on July 21.
The wooden deck suddenly detached from the home and collapsed, sending the heavily armed task force toppling to the ground and trapping them in a pile of beams, the dramatic footage showed.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/harrowing-video-shows-us-marshals-plunge-several-feet-when-deck-collapses-at-home-of-convicted-sex-offender/
Pedophile termites?
heavily armed task force
Maybe a lighter touch would’ve sufficed?
With pedos? Never.
It takes 9 US marshals to arrest a pedo?
This thing law enforcement does of dogpiling every single encounter drives me nuts. And, then after overstaffing everything they do, they cry about being understaffed and needing, wait for it, more money.
I could argue that overwhelming presense encourages immediate surrender in most aprehendees, and provides sufficient force to deal with the noncompliant.
Sure, I get that. But it seems to me that 3 or 4 Marshals suffices for an overwhelming presence. Not the 9 that we can see.
“Did you bring enough guys?”
3-4 shooters isn’t enough to clear and secure any structure larger than a house trailer – and even then you’d need some people watching the perimeter.
I dislike overbearing law enforcement as much as the next anarchist, but this isn’t really a great example. It is a great example of crappy raid planning, though. No one looked at the rotten, poorly constructed porch and said, “We should probably stage at the bottom of those stairs, just in case?”
Yet somehow law enforcement got by just fine for decades when they would send a couple of guys to make an arrest, rather than a tacticool platoon.
I think there’s a certain amount of rose-tinted nostalgia there. Yeah, six lawmen took out Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, but that was a straight-up ambush killing with no particular desire to make an arrest.
The MOVE raid in Philadelphia, 41 years ago, involved over 500 cops in the first wave.
Overwhelming force has always been a thing in the police mindset, and I kinda understand why. I would just settle for *competent* overwhelming force.
I look forward to the perp catching a slew of felony charges… and three building code violations.
From Penn State to the State Penn.
“The family-friendly Wisconsin State Fair descended into an all-out frenzy as scores of fairgoers threw haymakers and kicks during an out-of-control brawl in the final hours of the annual festival.
Seven people were arrested for their involvement in what officials called a series of “disturbances” at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in West Alis, Wis, on Sunday night.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/19/us-news/wisconsin-state-fair-descends-into-chaos-as-brawl-breaks-out-in-final-hours-of-annual-festival/
Has there always been this much affray? Why are the pictures so blurry?
Jethro and Jebediah raging after a long day showing cattle, I see. Those silly Amish and their culture of brawling.
I thought haymakers are not a good idea in a real fight.
Drunk people are rarely fighting optimally.
“That’s when Panettiere first spoke out against the face wash giant for severing her contract, claiming she was “released” from her Neutrogena contract after speaking up against postpartum depression. The incident was discussed in greater detail in Panettiere’s 2026 memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” and on Jay Shetty’s podcast, On Purpose.
After disclosing her mental health issues on the morning TV show, Live With Kelly and Michael, Panettiere wrote in her book that “Neutrogena canceled my long-standing contract and it was yet another blow in a year that had given almost nothing else.”
Now fans are vowing to avenge Panettiere’s memory by boycotting the zit-zapping brand, at least according to outraged social media posts and market data.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/lifestyle/hayden-panettiere-fans-boycott-neutrogena-over-canceled-contract-revelation/
So they are angry that they ended her contract only after she died?
Social media is outraged!!!1!!
🙄
How many guns does a normal person have?”
“About five.”
“That sounds like a gun enthusiast to me.”
“No, a gun enthusiast has fifteen.”
“That sounds like someone obsessed with guns.”
“No, people obsessed with guns have hundreds.”
“That sounds like a psycho.”
“No, psychos seldom own guns, or maybe have one or two.”
“But that sounds like a normal person though.”
“No, a normal person has about five. We already covered that.”
https://x.com/ThRealKonzilla8/status/2089801262942261350
I broadly agree with those categories.
Myself, I have about fifteen. I could probably get by with five, but I’d be more comfortable with eight or nine.
Hell, I’ve given away 15.
Actually, more than 15.
Down to what I basically need now.
Absolute living-in-a-refrigerator-box minimum – 2 identical carry pistols.
Absolute minimum for what I do now – 2 identical competition pistols that could be pressed into concealed carry duty, 1 AR-15 for PCSL competition, 1 AR-15 for long-range competition, 1 .22 bolt gun for long range practice.
Comfortable – 2 carry pistols, 1 deep concealment pistol, 2 dedicated competition pistols, 2 PCSL rifles, 1 long-range rifle, 1 .22 bolt gun.
So nine.
Low tide over here. Just two. Plan on buying three more once the new house is settled.
My wife has three pistols; I have four.
We also have three rifles (.308/7.62; .223/5.56; 9MM). I really should double up on those.
We have two shotguns (20 gauge).
12 firearms for 2 people. Average per the criteria provided.
Lessee:
4 rifles
3 shotguns
4 handguns
6 pistols, 4 shotguns, 2 rifles.
Normie colleague: How many guns do you have?
Pine: I’m not positive off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure it’s a 2-digit number.
Nc: You have more than 10 guns?
Pine: That’s not really what I meant, but … sure.
(the boating accident quip would have been lost on them)
Counting the Hudson contents, I only have 11+1. Sad.
(+1 because I’m still waiting on the unconstitutional permission slip to arrive in the mail so the store will release it to me)
Wait, I miscounted. There was also the piece of crap. I still own it, even if it stays locked up.
[redacted]
exactly!
I’ll just say that I have been looking for a larger safe or a second safe.
A minimum inventory is 5.
Not today Fed Boi.
Bacon gets it.
“More than a fifth, or 21%, of women under age 30 have a negative view of the opposite sex, reveals a poll by the UK’s New Statesman.
That’s almost four times the 7% of men under 30 who feel the same way, the study found….
The data suggest that young women are shying away from men with different political views because of the internet.
Young women who spent more than five hours a day online hold far more extremist left-wing beliefs about abortion, climate change, and socialism, the poll noted.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/world-news/shocking-poll-reveals-how-gen-z-women-really-feel-about-men/
It’s not just the internet, it’s also schools.
That QAnon Shaman cosplayer needs to take more PE courses.
But it’s men who are broken and need to change….
That’s what the women are saying, yes.
Yes, but look how the idea of men being the problem is seen as a normal place for the Overton window to be, while suggesting women might bear some responsibility for the situation is crazy and misogynistic. It’s the whole “of course masculinity is toxic” vs. “How can anyone even suggest there’s such a thing as toxic femininity/toxic womanhood?”
Look, it’s obvious that men are just defective women.
Stop right there. I’m the last motherfucker to ever criticize being online (on an online discussion board, natch), but if your online activity consists of five hours of relentless doomscrolling on social media, then the problem is with you and your behavior.
Go outside for a walk. Or fire up Netflix and watch an old movie. Watch a YouTube video about refinishing old furniture or roasting coffee beans. Go on KhanAcedemy and do a math lesson. Read a book. Practice playing music. Fucking do something, other than consume content designed to make you miserable.
That’s where things get complicated for me. Yes, we all have agency and are responsible for our own behavior. But some of the smartest people on earth are working on ways to keep people relentlessly doomscrolling, and they’ve gotten very good at that. The result is these 21% of women who are broken, which affects us all.
This is an area where I fall back on my belief that perfection is impossible. Social media is toxic, but giving the Government power over social media doesn’t fix the toxin it just weaponizes it for Government. I see no gain in the trade off.
@Jar that’s where I am. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, if the government actually could/would do something positive here, I might be for it. But it won’t. And so I get to watch people around me go crazy, and I lose friends over this. I can only educate myself, try to fix my own life, and try to be an example, but that’s kind of it.
Never confuse ‘smart’ with ‘good’, or even ‘decent’.
Many of the smartest people on earth are enormously amoral and self-absorbed.
*tugs collar, looks around nervously.
Aren’t like a quarter of women transgender now? It fits.
If they have such a negative view of us, why do they want to be us?
I can at least understand MTF trannies a little bit – it’s nice to be able to pee standing up and all, but on balance I’d rather have the multiple orgasms…
“More than a fifth, or 21%, of women under age 30 have a negative view of the opposite sex, reveals a poll by the UK’s New Statesman.
That’s almost four times the 7% of men under 30 who feel the same way, the study found….
JFC. 21% is exactly three times 7%. I suppose three is almost four.
It’s the New Statesman. This is closer than most prog math gets.
I’m now able to paraphrase a line I heard on Only Murders in the Building: “I’m in my very early mid-fifties.”
#metoo
Not me.
The New Statesman writer is shocker – a woman, so she’s just using Girl Math to get 21% as 4x 7%.
Don’t be much a misogynist.
I thought I had read that LLMs had gotten better at math.
We’ve spent trillions on AI and the big achievement is that we made calculating machines bad at math…
Well, you are sort of assuming that the sample sizes are the same. For example, if the total sample of women is 80 and the total sample of men is 60, if 21% of the women have an unfavorable view of the men and 7% of men have an unfavorable view of women, then the numbers are:
0.21*80 = 16.8 women
0.07*60 = 4.2 men
and we have 4x more women that view men unfavorably. Adjust sample sizes to get integers out if you want.
It’s a convoluted way of saying it – and I’m not sure what the writer actually means – but it’s not mathematically a priori wrong.
All we have is the rate, not the count. She is saying the rate of women with a negative view of men is 4X the rate of men with a negative view of women. There is no reason at all to think she is referring to the count (sample size).
There’s no end of things you can justify by assuming the facts you need to justify them.
Honey Harvest in a month (Sep 20th).
Time to make your plans/reservations if you haven’t already.
Be there or be square.
Why either or? Can’t I be there and be square?
I’ll be there, but I’m more of a round shape.
/closes bag of chips.
OK, OK, some will get a waiver. Check in with anyone.
I’ll be there to do the yeoman’s work!
Hold on – Are we talking the Yeoman farmer, the Naval Yeoman, or the Trek Yeoman?
I absolutely refuse to be at an event were Jimbo is in a miniskirt.
The problem with using a track from Eliminator as a tribute to Frank Beard is that he isn’t on the album. (The credits were fake – the bass and drums were all programmed Depeche Mode style.)
Here’s a good track from their post techno-fixation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6gSIqfBE4&list=RDKj6gSIqfBE4&start_radio=1&pp=ygURenogdG9wIGZseWluIGhpZ2igBwE%3D&ra=m
I remember after Afterburner came out, one of the rock station DJ’s played La Grange and then said that was before somebody gave them that damn synthesizer for Christmas.
As a confirmed hater of everything that started with Afterburner, I laughed.
Hell, I remember when Eliminator came out and I wasn’t that big of a fan of it.
Old ZZTop rocks.
The last two albums they did before Dusty died were back to form. Netflix did a concert film with them, in the old Gruen Dance Hall a few years back that was also a great one. Hopefully it can be viewed without Netflix by now.
I like a lot of their work — even the synth-y stuff.
New York Times:
“Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests”
Something tells me those “pristine” forests look a lot like what I saw in that guy’s youtube the other day: thick beetlekill and a tangled mess of deadfall everywhere.
But let’s all pretend the back country looks like a carefully tended English formal garden.
Was there a pic of Donald with horns drawn on top?
We have more trees now than at any point in our country’s history.
I’m afraid you overestimate how cleared the land was at the start of the country. We had to cut down a lot of trees to put in the farms and cities east of the great plains.
Though you get some deleted trees in the time between colonization and independence.
I suppose if you count “absolute number of trees inside borders” adding the western states causes some statistical oddities.
But no, we’re not at new peak tree.
I had heard that but it you’re right – not true. But we have more now than we did, so we’ve got that going for us.
Agreed, we are up from a low point in the 20th century. The logging in question is not going to cause problems.
From the North American Forest Foundation:
Since 2007, there are 119% more trees than there were in 2007, with two new trees for every one removed.
Every year since the 1940s, total forest growth in North America has exceeded the amount harvested.
“Cameras captured the disgraceful moment an Arizona mayor rocketed through an intersection in her Tesla before she allegedly ignored the attempts to fine her $334.
Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky was caught on a photo enforcement camera going 58mph in a 40mph zone on October 14 last year.
Traffic camera footage showed Borowsky, 61, speeding through the intersection just after 3pm as the traffic light was changing from yellow to red.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16063781/scottsdale-mayor-lisa-borowsky-speeding-arizona.html
That’s either photoshop or there is a haunted painting.
File Photo
Filed in 1995?
Bursting your bubble
Why identify the make?
Teslas are always called out in the media because you know why.
It’s not about the money
Following the first day of arguments in a high-stakes child safety case against Meta, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday that the trial centers around “civil penalties, restitution and distortion,” and is not primarily about money.
“This is not a damages case,” Bonta said at a press conference after the day’s session had wrapped up.
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Meta’s lawyers have previously warned that the consolidated case could lead to penalties reaching $1.4 trillion, or roughly equal to the company’s market cap. State AGs told presiding federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers last week that $200 billion is a more likely figure.
They just want justice for all the boys and girls scarred for life.
I am completely not getting why that nonsense isn’t being laughed out of court.
It’s also about going after information sources that aren’t towing the lefty lion enough.
This story is all over the financial shows and not a SINGLE word has been uttered questioning the validity or motives of these lawsuits. Zuck’s AI manifesto certainly isn’t going to help the situation, and the opening statement from Meta’s attorney basically acknowledged they have issues but are addressing…
U.S. retreat from global order ‘eroding’ European competitiveness, central bank boss warns
Some gratitude would have helped maintain that.
Europe is so anti-innovation I don’t see how they don’t fall farther behind. How do you break such an addiction to regulation?
No, no, Europe is very pro-innovation. They just apply it to regulation. They are very innovative in finding ways to impose their will on any sucker trying to be an entrepreneur.
Yes, the ongoing slow-motion collapse of Wilsonian internationalism is all the fault of mean old Uncle Sam (as represented by Orange Man Bad, probably.)
Maybe importing a few million more vibrant third-worlders will help. Otherwise, go freeze in the dark.
U.S needs to step up and do the right thing.
Invade Europe and liberate it from the totalitarian bureaucracy currently strangling it while driving off the islamic invasion?
This economic growth, Lagarde told an audience, rested on three pillars: expanding global trade, manufacturing supported by access to cheap energy, and “a stable, rules-based global order, underpinned by a U.S. security umbrella.”
How’s that cheap energy thing coming along? Has manufacturing collapsed completely yet?
Manufacturing is in China now. They closed down the high tech clean generation they spent decades building up in favor of having everything made by the country burning dirty coal without scrubbers. Pollution in China doesn’t count.
Suicide of a society is seldom pleasant to watch.
Nor experience.
I once worked with a guy who had a previous job as a concert promoter. One night he had a dilemma; the warm-up band had canceled at the last minute and he was desperately on the phone trying to line something up.
A guy shows up at the door and says, “I heard you need a band.”
Concert guy says, “Hell yes! Are you any good.”
Guy says, “Yeah, we rock.”
Concert guy says, “What do you guys call yourselves?”
“ZZ Top”
I have no idea if this is true or not but it makes a good story.
I don’t care if this story is true or not, I’m going to repeat it.
It’s almost as good as when a co-worker of mine was at a party when a guy was playing the guitar, and he said, “Man, you sound just like Tom Waits…” The guitar player replied, “Yeah, well, I am Tom Waits.”
There are several stories like that I hold onto. I don’t want to research them, because the story is too good to learn it’s false.
“Too good to fact check” is how the publishing industry puts it.
Aren’t all groups discovered singing on a street corner in South Philly?
ZZ Top implies the existence of ZZ Bottom.
Or is it AA Bottom?
And also ZZ Vers (the experimental tribute band…)
NO QUARK SHAMING!
Because it’s antisemitic?
No; because it has the consistency of cottage cheese.
Don’t know if it’s true, and I’m too lazy to look it up, but my recollection was the name was derived from the most common weed rolling papers of the day; Zig-Zag and Top.
“The White House erupted in rage, furious that Ossoff had called out the walking security blanket provided to the president. Because there’s no way around it: Having a babysitter makes the 80-year-old president look even older and weaker than he already is. The over-the-top response revealed how sensitive Trump and his staff are about his visible aging, and how much it ties into their larger anxieties about his rapid decline.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/08/19/trump-aide-natalie-harp-nurses-his-decline/
Biden chopped his own wood.
“Trump’s reference to Pee-wee Herman, played by the late actor Paul Reubens, was both homophobic and antisemitic.”
If I could read minds, I’d make a killing day trading.
Cool. Do they really want Vance running in 2028 as the incumbent?
People with Trump Derangement Syndrome are going to say deranged things about Trump.
Big win for the DSA
Election handicapper Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted the Florida Senate race in favor of Republicans following an unexpected Tuesday win by a democratic socialist in the Democratic primary.
State Rep. Angie Nixon (D) won the Democratic nomination over Alex Vindman, the former director for European affairs at the National Security Council, in another victory for the party’s progressive faction.
Her win prompted Sabato’s Crystal Ball to move the race from “likely Republican” to “safely Republican.”
The lunatic fringe of the Democrat party won’t be enough to win a state wide vote?
The lunatic fringe of the Democrat party won’t be enough to win a state wide vote?
1. don;t be so sure.
2. give it a couple of years.
Remember this is Florida we’re talking about. The lunacy of the DSA is nothing compared to the lunacy of the state in general.
“Hardworking people deserve every opportunity to reach financial freedom with a better economy that lowers costs, raises incomes, and protects the chance to achieve our own version of the American dream,” reads a statement on Nixon’s campaign website.
“Angie Nixon is running because too many families are working harder than ever and still falling behind—while corrupt billionaires and greedy corporations rig the system in their favor.”
With a message like that how can she lose?
reads a statement on Nixon’s campaign website
I thought someone had dredged up Tricky Dick’s messaging.
I hadn’t paid attention to what the DSA twat’s name actually was.
Someone could have fun with that in a meme . . . .
I have to laugh at “Medicare for all” as a DSA plank. Mrs F and I each pay $200 plus a month. Most of the SS people I know have supplemental insurance. At the going rate a family of 5 would be paying close to a thou a month just for Medicare.
The proponents of Medicare for All pretend that it’s some sort of free program, like free education, it’s an entitlement that someone else (the rich) is paying.
Even SS Medicare depends on taxpayer supplement.
I’ve talked to a few “Medicare for All” folks, and the usual retort is “Well, it would be means tested.”
So, poors pay nothing, middles (most of us) will pay something, and the “rich” will pay the rest
(along with doctors, nurses, etc. whose “profession” will become just another union job with pay held down by the folks in Washington.)
I’ve known too many undeserving poor to support entitlement programs.
(Deserving poor are those poor through no fault of their own and legitimately unable to earn a living. therefore they are deserving of charity. Undeserving poor are not.)
There will be an “out” for the wealthy, Mexico maybe. Who wants to sit next to those poor?
I want to see my doctor and lawyer getting rich. Then I know they are good.
“Millions of pounds of longfin and shortfin squid pass annually through Rhode Island ports for distribution nationwide, and calamari is the official state appetizer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/squid-spill-rhode-island-highway
official state appetizer?
“Today, San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is home to the world’s first official Transgender District, and the Compton’s riot is memorialized in a historical marker on the former building’s facade. But inside the building, now known as 111 Taylor Street, the space that held Compton’s is occupied by one of the world’s biggest for-profit prison companies and ICE’s biggest contractor, Geo Group. (Geo Group did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.)”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/san-francisco-trans-landmark-ice
official Transgender District?
One of my favorites from the ZZ Top synth era: “TV Dinners”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6mI708yWc
One of my favorites from the ZZ Top synth era is the extended mix of Sleeping Bag. It’s very synth though.
This should have been the sports news: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/egypt-coach-hossam-hassan-collapse-two-wives-brawl-10839003/
What did Type O Negative know.
Bigamy /ˈbɪɡəmɪ /
noun
Def. – having one wife too many. Syn. – Monogamy
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary