I got nothin’ today. It’s getting cold and supposed to get wet for a couple of days. Garden is done, cabin is closed, football is “meh”. A nap is most likely in order.
Links?
Looks like beating your women is back in fashion.
The worst thing about the ground stop yesterday? It fucked up sportzball.
In a Chinese warehouse, next to the stack of nVidia chips?
JD didn’t do himself any favors.
I like this new and improved Marco.
Looks like they’re still shooting at each other across the pond.
The fact that everybody survived is pretty remarkable.
Okay, that’s it for me. Now to see if Boise trounces Oregon, or plays down to their level. Peace out, Glibbies.
First among Firsters.
Note to self: When booking a Mississippi River riverboat cruise, pick a route that goes no further south than Memphis.
I keep seeing praise for those who responded, but they were extremely slow particularly given the fact that the ship was in port.
Has anyone ever worked a job where women were actually expected to do the same level and quality of work as the men? I find that regardless of who is managing, no matter the make-up of the team if there’s a guy there the expectations are just higher and no one ever calls it out.
Like you can have a team at a job filled with women. If the man isn’t carrying the load or excelling beyond them they are going to snipe at him. Not a reference to me because no woman has ever even been close to competition for me in anything at work (or school), but it’s just funny to me how it works. We hear so much about unequal pay which is bullshit to begin with. Reality is men legitimately do equal work for unequal pay.
It’s most obvious in the “low skill” jobs where anything physical or disgusting has to be done. Then it becomes glaring, but it extends well beyond that.
I feel that I’ve seen this in my professional life. As you said, more glaring in the physical labor I did as a kid, but still happening now in the professional world, just less obviously.
In general people have more sympathy for women so this isn’t surprising.
Women, particularly attractive ones, get so much attention and empathy directed at them that they can’t wrap their heads around what it’s like to actually be a man in general.
For real, yes. On Wall St.
Less so now, but the decades I worked there absolutely.
Saw it all the time in IT, it was also the females selected to get promoted 100% of the time.
The technical IT gals I work with tend to be very good and I don’t see a lot of preferential treatment, TBH. Well… with one glaring exception but that has been taken care of with the rise of “paternity leave”.
I do see this, at least in higher “managerial” roles. Almost all women.
My late wife was a SVP for BofA. She played with the big boys in the Global Investment Bank. She was laid off by a woman after 25 years.
Bingo!
“The federal government owns about 26 million spare parts for its fleet of F-35 fighter jets, but it cannot say where all of them are, what condition they are in or what taxpayers paid for them.
The department puts the value at about $31 billion, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Nov. 9, and says the real figure is probably higher because some parts are missing from its records. That’s about $91 for every person in the United States.”
So let’s go ahead and assume that’s bullshit and place the value at $62 billion at least. I mean hell, how much did we abandon in Afghanistan? That’s just collateral damage. As far where all of them are? I couldn’t even begin to imagine where they’re scattered around the globe or why. Or if many of those parts never existed in the first place and were nothing more than a way to line the pockets of defense contractors and military brass.
Regardless, hyper bloat rears its ugly head again.
Our present Defense establishment assures we can never replicate what we did in WWII.
Rubio accused the court and its global-bureaucracy allies of making themselves “judge and jury and executioner of the international order” while answering to no one, according to the transcript.
The same could be said for certain judges here in the U.S.
Ouch. But I can’t argue your point.
Our law is different, mostly because we can enforce it whenever and wherever we like.
Prediction: LA will have more homeless people in 2028 than they do now.
Yes, they’ll just put them somewhere out of sight.
Ask Beijing how that works.
But I don’t think our commies can get away with what theirs do, and I don’t expect her to do any of the things that would actually work because that would displease her benefactors and the NGO’s.
Newsom did it in SF when the Chinese came. The homeless were back the next week.
I wonder what he did. Stuff them all into hotel rooms?
I worked a lot of hotels in college and for years after and it was bad enough with “regular” customers. I would probably have walked off the job if they told me all the guests were going to replaced with bums and drug-dealers.
He forced them into shelters.
+ 1 backhoe
Re: the ground stop
Colorado State took reps on the tarmac
https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2121393502969831471/photo/1
They really need the reps.
There is no misogynist so bitter and hateful as a female misogynist
All these women were markedly different from the buttoned-up conservative women of old, but don’t mistake their more overtly sexual presentation for liberation. On the contrary, they created an impossible and oppressive standard for women: They were expected to fulfill male fantasies without having even basic reproductive rights, much less freedom of their own.
The prim church ladies of the GOP past were annoying, but at least their self-presentation and conservative values were consistent enough that leaders like Phyllis Schlafly could have long careers. In trying to be both highly sexualized and hostile to women’s sexual liberation, however, the modern MAGA women found the contradictions unsustainable. Being flamboyantly sexy while opposing women’s sexual liberation is a very thin tightrope to walk. Most eventually fall off.
Prim Republican church ladies as opposed to puritan harpies who think sexual liberation must really be rape because women cannot be expected to live with the consequences of their decisions?
The left, meanwhile, finds their contradictions completely sustainable somehow.
You don’t think women can be sexually liberated while still thinking regret = rape?
Misogynist!
Oh, Amanduh.
Can someone translate this from Duh-talk to English?
Abortion as a viable and legal option until the moment a child screams forth from the womb.
I’ve heard it argued that abortion should be legal until the umbilical cord is cut.
Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
They have that now, in blue states across the country.
Oh, I get it. The only reason a woman might oppose abortion is because a man tells her to.
Beyond that, considering the support for Lindsay Clancy.
Plan B is available over the counter in all 50 states AND you can order by mail. Abortion access has never been easier.
Or, if you claim post-partum depression, for five years thereafter.
“The former first lady has long angered conservatives for rejecting the limits of traditional femininity.”
It’s not anger; it’s disgust.
Yes, they’ll just put them somewhere out of sight.
Maybe they can hire some consultants from China.
Watched the USMNT crush Haiti 6-0 in Concacaf NL quarterfinal, while the other TVs were on college football. USC-Indiana was a pretty good game, while Oregon put away Michigan. Pleasant way to spend the late afternoon.
You can’t spell ‘meh’ without me.
From the morning links, I wonder if Abbi Jacobsen will be adding Michigan to the list of states she travels to with her “sister”.