Following in the footsteps of the ever-awful Maureen Dowd, CNN gets all paranoid about the new high-potency Marijuana, raises the specter of addiction. Yes, marijuana potency has been rising ever since people started growing it for smoke instead of rope. Prohibition actually incentivized that, since legal penalties for the devil’s lettuce were based on total contraband weight, not THC content. And it is possible to smoke less marijuana knowing that there’s more power per puff; nobody rolls up and smokes an entire “reefer” (marihuana cigarette) anymore, like they did back in the ditch-weed days.
El Choco Taco esta cancelado.
Pennsylvania GOP congresscritter attends gay son’s big gay wedding to another gay, days before voting against a bill codifying federal protections for gay marriage. This is supposed to be a gotcha moment, but it is entirely possible to celebrate the marriage of one gay couple while taking a principled stance that marriage is a matter for the states.
A small serving of links today, since I’m doing double duty this week. The comments are all yours.
“Marijuana”
RACIST!!!!!!!!!
“nobody rolls up and smokes an entire âreeferâ (marihuana cigarette) anymore”
I wouldn’t go that far, there are lots of heavy users out there.
I gotta cousin who’s been Bogarting those doobies for the last fifty years, and shows no signs of slowing down; nice guy, I enjoy his company, but he’s utterly baked.
Uh, tolerance?
Yeah, probably.
He’s still baked like a Christmas ham, glaze included.
lol.
I have a small handful of friends who roll up enough joints during any given day to give Snoop Dogg a run for his money. Maybe they’re a dying breed. I don’t know.
To be fair, a soild glass pipe is a far more efficient investment.
Is it more racist to use MaryJane?
Juju weed.
Pretty sure that particular bogeyman has been around since Reefer Madness.
They’re kinda right. It’s not like yesterday’s at all. It’s way way better.
Who doesn’t remember those awful bags full of shake, stems, and seeds where you had to blow a whole jay to get a buzz?
“No stems, no seeds that you don’t need! Acapulco Gold is…”***inhaling sound***”Bad-ass weed.”
Commander Cody’s got the blues
Yeah, that sucked. I am in Colorado right now so I have marijuana paradise.
-1 ditch weed
Can confirm, but it was quite a shock to the system the first few times I tried nu-weed.
^
Truth.
In the late 90’s mevand mine were flipping out over weed with anything around between the 15-20% THC level.
Nowad
…. Jesus.
Anyway, Nowadays a buddy of mine gets upset when his weakest strain is less than 23% THC.
Hovering around 30% is a good crop.
Which is why the illo for that link is a still image from that film.
Today’s weed for me would be exactly like yesterday’s.
NULL. The NULL set never changes.
Ah, NULLS, the bane of database developers everywhere. Many a bug over the years because some newbie did not know that NULL = NULL returns false.
I hate NULLO’s
At the risk of encouraging SF and his Wednesday shenanigans…
From that article about nullos
Who said a bag of dicks is worthless?
Weed has always made me hallucinate and puke. But I keep trying it every couple years or so.
I like edibles for when I’m not sleeping well.
I use a 5:1 THC:CBG tincture nightly and it works 100x better than any prescription or OTC sleep aid I’ve ever used. A distant campfire makes me feel like I’m about to go into respiratory arrest, so smoking ain’t my bag.
I hate the smell of weed, the effects on me, and pretty much loath week culture. But my masseuse recommended a gummy sleep aid. And I am pretty sure I am gonna try it, considering my body is saying “Oh, it’s 3:45 am? Wakey wakey!”
I also can’t stand the smell. And the particular tincture I take is suspended in hemp oil, which tastes approximately like kimchi soaked in yak piss and left in a vomitorium then aged in a cask of surstromming. A half ounce of liquor neutralizes it in about half a second though. The gummies literally just taste like the generic gummy bears you find at discount stores. Well worth your time to try if your experience is anything like mine. The gummies are typically 5 mg a piece, so you’ll probably need two.
Incidentally, I feel the same way about stoner culture. Never touched weed in any form until I was, what, 32 years old? Back in high school one of my best friends was the central casting stereotypical stoner and I rarely missed an opportunity to tell him what a fuckhead he sounded like. But the day you catch me letting that stand in the way of a drug that’s allowed me to sleep through a night without waking up or constantly dreaming for the first time in a decade will be a cold day in hell (melatonin and ambien both give me wildly psychedelic dreams all night and I wake up feeling worse than I did when I went to bed; ymmv, everybody’s different).
There are sweet tinctures, too. Sorry, I forget what state you’re in.
I actually started with a 1:1 THC:CBD tincture that’s in an agave juice suspension. Sickly sweet, but it at least partially masks the flavor. The 5:1 not only works better for me, but also ends up about 80% cheaper per mg of THC and CBD, and I’m the kind of fella who’s willing to have to wash his mouth out with half an oz liquor to save that kind of dough.
My last trip to the dispensary I bought an unflavored THC-only tincture, which is much more palatable (that one’s in a coconut MCT oil suspension and is, as it says on the tin, basically flavorless). It’s a hybrid strain though instead of an indica, and doesn’t knock me out as quickly. I only really use it if I’m having a particularly stubborn bout of insomnia to top up the 5:1.
I’m in NV.
Incidentally, when I have to move from here and can’t walk into a dispensary and get a nice, neatly labeled, bottled tincture with a precise dropper and dosing, I have no fucking clue what I’m going to do as far as sleep. I’m hoarding a small cache of it now, but that won’t last forever. God fucking forbid you could move to a state with sane gun and tax laws and actually be able to buy intoxicants as well. Or inversely, move to a state with sane-ish intoxicant laws and not have to deal with backwards gun and tax laws.
Pat:
Recreational marijuana is expected to be on the Ohio ballot in 2023. It was going to be this year, but there were fights between the state and the group collecting petition signatures. The compromise was that it will be on the ballot next year, but the signatures already collected will be counted.
I’ve had the honor of casting a successful vote to legalize cannabis in two states. Godspeed to you Ohioans. In the Ohio vs. Texas matchup, I strongly suspect Ohio will be the first to legalize weed by a very comfortable margin. It’s certainly a consideration in my relocation plans. Absent federal legalization or rescheduling, Texas will not legalize weed until somewhere around the heat death of universe, give or take 10,000 years.
Pat:
Considering that Michigan has legal recreational, as does the state of New York, it’s not a long drive to either of them. I have a feeling that will help sway voters into legalizing it here (considering no one in Ohio wants tax money going to Michigan). The previous attempt at recreational here in Ohio was so bad and cronied up that I voted against it.
It specified specific lots of property that would be the only legal place to grow recreational marijuana. All of which were already owned by the sponsors of the bill (scuttlebutt was that to join the club it was a minimum $1 Million “donation” for your parcel of land to be added to the bill).
Sounds about right, it’s the cost of admission for legalization, unfortunately. They did a huge giveaway here in NV to the already-existing, already-licensed medical growers leaving them as a monopoly for the first 2 years of legalization, IIRC. I wasn’t buying any cannabis products then so I didn’t care that much. In any case, it’s still better than throwing people in jail for it.
You make it sound so appealing! But I am currently taking melatonin by gummy, so I get you on the flavor. And thanks for the tips!
Did you try magnesium glycinate? That can help with that 4 am shit, too.
And now I want to smoke up. Fucking peer pressure, man.
I can recall getting my hands on top-shelf weed back in the late 70s/early 80s (Hawaiian, Lambsbread, Oaxacan) that was a lot more potent than our usual ditchweed. It probably wasn’t quite as potent as today’s top strains, but it was pretty damn strong – two-three bong hits and you were just fine.
taking a principled stance that marriage is a matter for the states.
Speaking of…
The case was just the latest example of how red states, supported by Republican-appointed judges, are engaging in a multi-front offensive to seize control of national policy even while Democrats hold the White House and nominally control both the House and Senate. The red states are moving social policy sharply to the right within their borders on issues from abortion to LGBTQ rights and classroom censorship, while simultaneously working to hobble the ability of either the federal government or their own largest metro areas to set a different course.
To a degree unimaginable even a decade ago, this broad offensive increasingly looks like an effort to define a nation within a nation — one operating with a set of rules and policies that diverge from the rest of America more than in almost any previous era.
“The only time I can recall in American history even remotely like this [divergence] was after the Civil War when the separate but equal doctrine began to emerge” across the South as a backlash against the attempts of the 13th, 14th and 15th Constitutional amendments to ensure equality for the freed slaves, says Donald Kettl, the former dean of the public policy school at the University of Maryland and author of the book, “The Divided States of America.” He added, “It’s a multifront war with very sharp swords.”
“Federalism is bad when those icky Republitards do things we don’t like.”
The progs are completely ignorant of history and why the institutions they claim to love so much (at least when it serves them) were designed the way they were.
Progs believe in a glorious future, a future of their design that refutes all that came before it. There is nothing useful to learn from history because it was a time of less progress.
Either let them build a nation within this nation or watch them build a nation outside this nation. Take your pick
Neo-puritans. Someone, somewhere might be disagreeing with them.
Wait, are you saying we could get ALL of them to go to Tunisia, or Chile?
Liberia for the freedom. It’s right there in the name. And as a bonus English spoken there.
multi-front offensive to seize control of national policy
If states are setting different policies, how is it setting a national policy?
Don’t interrupt their circular logic man.
Forget it, he’s rolling
How does that differ from what Progs are doing?
Oh, right, it’s anyone other than said progs.
It was unimaginable to me a decade ago that such a thing as drag queen story time would exist or that people would see abortion as not just something that should be legal but rare, but as something to be celebrated, but here we are.
Now do all those nationwide injunctions during the Trump administration.
this broad offensive increasingly looks like an effort to define a nation within a nation
Progjection. Is there anything it can’t do?
So people with low-level psychiatric disorders are more likely to self-medicate with cannabis than, say, Glenfiddich 18? I wonder why that is?
Por que no los dos?
Psychosis is a major psych diagnosis, as opposed to neurosis which is a minor diagnosis.
Bearing in mind that at least 75% of psychological diagnoses are subjective hogwash only barely more scientifically valid than phrenology. Given another 5-10 years, walking into a psychiatrists office and reciting the boys have a penis line from Kindergarten Cop will likely result in a diagnosis of psychosis.
Fartosis
Find me someone under the age of 35 who isn’t already a pile of free-floating neuroses. I’ll wait.
“space expands, time slows downs, almost stands still”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ
“Its astounding, time is fleeting… madness.. takes its toll”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj0gu5nEGs
Time is a just rubber band
Time is at our command
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxWVAcv70E
Irate Irishman.
This was the best content from the scam-demic
That’s fucking awesome!
+1
Hell Yeah! I was watching an Irish comedian last night, good stuff:
Explaining Irish Wedding Drinking To An American Doctor. – (Uncensored)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GZhuarbKQI
Someone linked that the other day – hilarious.
“I never just drink. I never do that…. I will occasionally drink-drink.”
That was me, and if you really know Irish folks, it’s familiar.
get this guy over here right now: he’s more a real American than 90% of my neighbors
I’ll hire him tomorrow and board him til he finds his own place (and show him where a canoe-load of pistols are so he can swim down and borrow one for a while)
“‘I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit’: VP introduces herself at roundtable on impact of Roe v Wade being overturned”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051105/Kamala-Harris-pronouns-woman-sitting-table-wearing-blue-suit.html
OFFS!!!!
Why is the table wearing a blue suit? Does it identify as a retarded politician?
Whereupon Joe Biden introduced himself as Mitt W. Bush with pronouns of shen and zhen and announced he wasn’t wearing any pants.
“I am Elmer Fudd, millionaire. I have a mansion and a yacht.”
LOL!
How can she know? Is she a biologist?
Willie Brown told her.
I don’t drink coffee, but there is this small coffee shop here in the town where I just arrived, might check it out in a bit. wink. wink.
Glad to hear you got there safe.
Cops were searching a room and vehicle at my motel when I got up. And that motel was a lot nicer than this one, so safety may not be guaranteed.
Is it one of those places that has a lot of young female lefties working there?
That’s what I’ve heard.
Let me stay on the faux Mexican theme.
Adams admits NYC schools, health care ‘inundated’ by migrant influx, but blames ‘callousness’ of border states
https://news.yahoo.com/adams-admits-nyc-schools-health-183134668.html
Yes, those callous states that want something done and tired of paying the same costs that you are now complaining about.
Ummm….isn’t NY a border state?
The northern border doesn’t count, that’s the one with respectable white people, not the one with the day laborers.
Poutine, not tacos.
Definitely substandard, hosers.
zing
but it is entirely possible to celebrate the marriage of one gay couple while taking a principled stance that marriage is a matter for the states.
Or you could even deny the necessity of government sanction of personal relationships in total.
This. But even more than abortion, that idea drives everyone whose not a libertarian bat-shit insane.
Choco tacos were part of the downfall of an ambitious LE bureaucrat! Funny story, and Dan Love was an asshole of amazing proportions. Wonder what he is doing these days?
Thanks for not posting the front view of those shorts.
Noted: TOK prefers the rear view…
“TikTok moms remove videos of their kids from app over fears they are being targeted by pedophiles after footage of TikTok’s most popular ‘three-year old’ girl is saved by THOUSANDS of men
The movement was sparked after the mothers spotted a worrying trend with TikTokâs âmost popularâ three-year-old girl, Wren Eleanor.
Wren, whose mom Jacquelyn has posted photos and videos of her on the social media site since she was born, has more than 17 million followers on the platform.
Her account features hundreds of seemingly innocent videos of the blonde toddler playing and enjoying days out with her mother and grandma, along with sponsored content.
Hundreds of users have been quick to comment on any videos of Wren that they fear could fall into the wrong hands. Searches for âWren Eleanor hot dogâ or âpickleâ were high, meaning users on TikTok and Google were searching for the three-year-old eating those foods”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11050173/Mom-led-TikTok-movement-remove-pics-children-amid-concerns-exploitation-three-year-old.html
Holy shit! You’re telling me there are perverts on the internet? Why was I not informed of this before? There oughta be a law….
If you didn’t realize creeps were trolling the internet before now, you’re not real bright are ye?
New Q-theory – there are no perverts on the internet.
Or doesn’t care, because of the money.
This right here.
“I didn’t realize when I decided to whore my baby out for internet accolades and an ad revenue split that there was anything untoward going on…”
It still never occurs to these idiots that there’s a giant problem with posting everything about their kid’s lives for public consumption beyond the fact that in .000001% of cases a pedophile might put save some pics/videos into a no-no folder on their laptop? What about the fact that the child never consented to being broadcast all the time and having their entire life on display for every kid they have to go to school with, future employer and creep that gets a crush on them to exploit for whatever purposes they dream up. You’re right that you’re a bad mom for selling your children’s lives and privacy for a few likes. Just not for the reason you’ve noted here.
See, that’s where people’s brains vapor-lock.
Principle? No, I don’t believe I do know what that is. /lots of folks not just progs
I’ve never had a choco taco. It just seems like one of the messiest ways to eat ice cream.
Every taco is unique.
I just thought choco taco was what Michelle called Barry’s vagina
Superior: It’s It. The ice cream is average but the cookie is great.
I, too, will vouch for the venerable choco taco. Or at least as it existed when I was probably 7 years old the last time I had one.
On that note, 99% of the ice cream on the market sucks monkey testicles nowadays. They’ve already downsized the cartons from half gallons to 1.25 quarts. FFS, raise the price, but leave some, you know, milk and cream in the product.
Haagen Dazs downsized during the last recession (14 oz), but it’s still a nice pure unfussy product, unlike that woke Unilever line.
I just made vanilla stracciatella for my elderly neighbor as a ‘thank you’ for grabbing our mail & watering our plants while we were away.
I will immodestly say it’s awesome, but between the vanilla beans, the chocolate, etc. it’d be about $20/gal.
I had a free year-long Costco membership that expired a couple months ago. My last hurrah was to buy one of their big 4 packs of their vanilla ice cream. It’s close to that price range. I think it was like $14.50/gal. Worth it though. They’re legit half gallon containers, actually taste like vanilla, and don’t feel like freezer burnt skim milk on your palette.
yeah, those new mini “half-gallon” sizes are pretty pathetic shrinkflation.
I opened a box of water crackers yesterday and of course the box was the same size, but it’s now basically 2/3rd full.
Is Turkey Hill regional?
I think it’s fine.
The only place I’ve ever seen Turkey Hill is on The Sopranos. Out here in the west at least, I don’t think it’s distributed.
Yes, Turkey Hill is regional, and it’s not even the best in the region. Cartman’s FTW.
Abolish State Senates
We need to remove obstacles to mob rule.
Actually this is one I agree with. State senates are stupid.
It is a fair point that state senates don’t actually represent anything and are just another house divided up differently.
Change it so that every county has their own appointed senator.
Then see how the proggies scream.
Yup — skimming it, my takeaway was “Boy was the Warren court wrong. First, the states are sovereign and can organize how they damned well please, assholes. Second, if they *are* organized like the Federal Senate — especially in a state like California, it would give some balance back to the rest of the state that is so so damned tired of LA, SF and Sacramento telling everyone else how to live.” So don’t abolish it, stop breaking it!
Love this quote at the end:
Tell me you don’t understand that we’re a Federal Republic in two sentences….
It’s almost like America is not intended to be a democracy…
Stupid on stilts doesn’t make it less stupid. The U.S. Senate had a reason to exist, it used to be the entirety of the U.S. Congress (under the AoC). The Senate was created to counterbalance the House within the legislative domain – so a check and balance within a larger check and balance.
I don’t see how the federal senate is any less superfluous than a state senate since the 17th amendment. The entire point of the bicameral legislature was that the upper house represented the interest of the state, and hence was elected by the state legislature, while the lower house represented the proles, and hence was elected by the proles.
I wasn’t speaking to the abomination that is the 17th Amdt – fucking progs.
That has been my idea all along, and I have always been surprised that wasn’t in the original plans.
This x 6.022 x 10^23
And ditch the 17th Amendment, while I’m dreaming.
Texas Senate, 22 Democrats, 232 Republicans.
That would be interesting.
Agreed. I don’t see the point of bicameral legislatures in the states. It might be better to replace it with more but smaller districts, at least in a state as large as CA.
Also, isn’t there already one state with a unicameral legislature? Ohio or Nebraska or something?
It’s not Ohio, and the senate here does not follow county lines.
It’s Nebraska.
I don’t have a particularly strong stance on the matter, but it seems that a bicameral legislature is less likely to pass stupid laws hastily due to partisan mud slinging, and anything that puts a brake on the legislative process is an unvarnished good in my book.
Yeah, the NY state senate was the last GOP holdout before we went full one-party state a few years ago. And they did on occasion manage to perform exactly that duty.
Abolish State Senates
What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.
I believe there is a constitutional provision regarding what form of government the states must have.
Yes, republican, not bi-cameral.
Before 1964 I believe (Reynolds v Sims) counties did have a state senator in most states. But then “one man, one vote” and “land doesn’t get a vote” happened and 48 states had to change their constitutions. Since then, all states are pretty much ruled by the largest cities in them
County as Senate was stupidly aping the federal system – where a state is at least a sovereign entity. A county is an administrative unit.
But what if counties were sovereign and had their own reserved powers?
How glorious would that be? Nullification upon nullificationâŚ
Who doesnât remember those awful bags full of shake, stems, and seeds
The war on air conditioning has begun. You really have to read this commie claptrap to believe it, especially the authors suggestions for what they think “should be done.”
Energy collectives and “increasing access to public cooling spaces like libraries”. I shit you not.
I have no doubt in my mind that at next year’s Davos our fearless leaders will all be forgoing this modern decadence as an example for all of us to follow.
https://time.com/6199353/air-conditioning-will-not-save-us/
Come for my HVAC, I come for your head.
Forcing Midwesterners to get rid of A/C will definitely result in a shooting war.
AC will blow the grid but everyone driving electric cars is no big deal and will totally save the earth
Except for the fact that I’ve already started seeing them plant the seeds for the idea that privately owned vehicles, electric or otherwise, must become verboten. As JI says below, real dedication to the cause means going pre-modern.
Oh please. Not of the douche canoes peddling this shit ever expects that they’ll have to do without. Like Obama lecturing Americans about their energy usage while keeping the white house thermostat at a balmy 80 degrees because “He’s from Hawaii” even though he lived most of his adult life in fucking Chicago, the polyp on the asshole of Jack Frost.
I don’t for one second think that devotion to the cause means the “important” people will give up anything. I do know several leftists that will be explaining to me how virtuous they are the next time they invite me over to their house and I’m sweating through my shirt within ten minutes.
Well said.
And that is why you don’t use brackets…
*insert Massie vs. Buttigieg clip from last week*
You see, this is how we get people out of their houses and out onto their front porches, or stoops, again. We can force the recreation of pre-modern communities!
Fans and lemonade: it’ll be just like Mayberry!
They’ll arrest the kids selling lemonade.
You see, this is how we get people out of their houses and out onto their front porches, or stoops, again
That is exactly how I grew up – Six-story walkup in NYC in the 1950’s, “air conditioning” was a fan in the bedroom window if you could afford one. Whole neighborhood out on the streets until midnight, men drinking beer and playing dominoes, women doing their gossipy things, kids running around. I don’t miss it, and have on many occasions let my kids know that this is what is in store for them in a “green” paradise. Sweaty, sleepless misery.
AC is the entire plot device of The Seven-Year Itch.
Puts me in mind of this little ditty
Yeah, I would absolutely refuse to live in a NYC without air conditioning. A window unit was the first fucking thing a purchased when I arrived, in the middle of a heat wave.
Nothing says progress like going pre-modern!
There was an article a few years back in the Boston Globe making that very argument.
Porch Culture
Well crap.
Try this
They’ll give it up at Davos the same year they all decide to get there in rowboats.
That’s just great, since my local public library is a Thunderdome of heroin use and masturbation.
Maybe Mr. Talaas could skip a couple meals…
Start in DC. Also make DC residents eat bugs.
“You have heard then, comrades,” he said, “that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?”
People would quite literally die in the millions here in NV, AZ, NM and parts of TX. Shall I sleep in the fucking library when it’s 97 degrees outside at midnight?
Pre-AC, in the middle east, people would sleep on their roofs during the hot summer days because the inside of the house is unbearable.
Sleeping on the fire escape is the plot driver for the great little late 40s move The Window.
Dr. Jill Biden.
Whoopi Goldberg suggests Jill Biden become Surgeon General of the United States because she’s an “amazing doctor.” The mindless audience of The View clap like trained seals at the idea.
She’d probably be no worse that whatever proggie idiot is in there now.
Old news?
…
Ah I see, resurfacing because the fat whore is arguing with Gaetz.
It’s been over 30 years since I tried mj. I can’t say that I miss it or that I would start up if it was legal. But, I support your right to partake.
Over 20 years for me. If somebody offered it at a party, sure, I’d join. But it never occurred to me to try to find it myself. I’ll probably wait until it’s available in a grocery store.
Different generation. No interest. Cheap whiskey held the allure for most of present day’s 4Scores. Never so much as a whiff.
VN, circa ’71. After work the kids went off to a log in an open area, the NCOs headed for the club, officers played volley ball and then hid in the privacy of their hootch and relaxed.
Both meanings of hootch
Even my dog is on CBD. Does help with sleep (quantity and perhaps quality too).
That “irate Irishman” is awesome.
“And where would ye be goin’; sir?”
“THAT’S NONE O’ YOOR FOOKIN’ BUSINESS!”
Parenting is difficult.
Mom claims her son came out as trans at age 3 after the pediatrician asked him if heâs a boy or a girl
50% of kids that age would say “dinosaur”.
I identified as mars when I was little. I only wore red and wouldn’t respond to my real name for a couple of months. I should demand NASA funding to explore my own body!
You should have stuck with that – you’d have bangin’ theme music
I wanted to be a midget.
You weren’t at the time?
after the pediatrician asked
Find a new one.
She meant to say “I came out as a lunatic when my son turned three.”
The Mom looks exactly how I expected her to look. What a nutter.
Let’s check in with our friends in Wuhan, shall we?
Would tactical nukes be enough to render these sites less harmful?
I “love” how it’s apparently Our Job to level random buildings in Sudan because someone there might be building a suicide bomber vest, but a massive biohazard facility responsible for the deaths of thousands of people just merrily rolls along, being dangerously incompetent at best and a deliberate global bioweapons factory at worst.
Better than that, we send them money.
Of course we would – did you not read how he described it as incompetent and dangerous. The only surprise is that Congress hasn’t pushed more money into that.
It’s simple. Our masters fund and get a say in what the biohazard facility does and who it kills. Our masters get no say in what suicide vest guy does. This cannot stand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmBxRjFcnRo
Paul Sorvino sez (OK, said) molon labe: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11047319/Goodfellas-actor-Paul-Sorvino-dead-83.html
Saw him at a museum in the ’90s; he was very regal.
She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male, and the other two? Well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes…REEFERS!
Hard work good, and hard work fine, but first take care of head…
^^^ this guy gets it ^^^
“My poor decisions are society’s fault.”
One of the directors for George Soros’ Open Society Foundations who specializes in public health, Sebastian KĂśhn, shares in the Guardian how he had sex with multiple men in a weekend for NYC Pride & contracted both #monkeypox & gonorrhea. He blames the system for failing him.
Again, there was a lot of talk about refusing to treat people who didn’t want to lockdown, wear a mask, or take a vaccine…
Salty Cracker talks about that guy.
When I was growing up, some variation of “society did this to me” or “I’m a victim of the system” was a running joke amongst my friends. Now it’s a guiding principle of our culture.
If you practice righthink, nothing that happens to you can be your fault.
Just put that card in the window, shopkeeper.
It made for a great hook at least.
“It’s society what done it.”
“Right, we’ll nick them, too.”
“specializes in public health”
Nice catch.
It’s Ok, just say “sinecure”.
He didnât say âpubic health.â
Reefer, man
Who’s gonna tell P Brooks about the music link at the top?
“For a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.”
He blames the system for failing him.
Ban promiscuous homosexuality!
@Tonio — I love your bio.
territorial displays
Can confirm, I’ve been on some of those Zooms.
Thanks, folks.
I remember reading that Maureen Dowd column when it came out, and being transfixed by her mention of wearing lime-green corduroy pants during her edible marijuana freakout. The whole article gave me a contact high.
Yesterday, just for fun, I was looking at some random car want ad site. There was a first-gen BMW 320i for~ $5000. The pics looked okay. Unfortunately, it was in Seattle or somewhere in that general vicinity. If it had been in Salt Lake, I probably would have called about it.
There was a Bavaria, too, in some godforsaken place like Virginia Beach.
Aw. Haven’t seen one of those in an age. I love 20C BMWs.
Marijuana.
Marijuana!
Marijuana makes my day!
Keith Olbermann launches new podcast
Who asked for this?
“The show will feature a news-driven mix and Olbermannâs trademark âSpecial Commentâ political analysis and âWorst Person In The Worldâ segment”
I’m confused on the last part. How is it a segment if it’s also the entire show?
Well this a really an interesting legal pickle. It really does read like an accident. Iâm wondering if the usual anti US forces issue played a role.
https://news.yahoo.com/navy-lieutenant-sentenced-japan-causes-034922681.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHlQAy7IaSmkjAwTRnJZM5wIRlygaN3kgh6W-s2SI5BkoU4TjyBQsDwOLUpy85_kHBksHUqfinxjTisoF-DyA4JBeLtcU-73ZDma2AXeL1PNrVgXMLY6VGlmNBXuy8Ou3Ix-BoLq86LSnNctEqZV7UhAgsKcjB-1cjTgtLtmdG-E
Havenât seen one of those in an age.
Bavaria? They’re great cars. I had one. It was my dad’s, and he handed it off to me when he got something newer. Made for the open road, back before BMW turned into whatever they are today.
Mobile computer on wheels with the weight of a small truck.
But it still has a 50/50 weight distribution!
We had a 3.0L just like this when I was growing up (a ’76, that’s a ’77).
My parents bought it off neighbors who had had it imported directly – controls were still in German.
Pretty cool car, wish I had bought it off my parents.
Tundra and I were BSing about the cars we used to own, but if you start looking at what our folks had, whole ‘nuther ballgame! My parent’s first new car was a ’66 Mustang convertible, and that came after my mother destroyed the tranny in my dad’s Sunbeam Alpine. A friend’s father had a series of ’30s Fords he restored, another friend’s father, who was Austrian, and a BMW 508 back in his college days apparently.
Er, 320. Gorgeous blonde HS classmate had one (inherited). She looked great in it.
Uffda. 3M says it will split in two
Minnesoda politicians have bled 3M for decades and decades. I wonder if this is 3M preparing an escape pod. The profitable stuff goes into one company that will move to Texas or Florida and the other losers stay here.
Case 1: 3M to establish $1B trust for legal claims over âdefectiveâ combat earplugs
Case 2: Minnesota settles water pollution suit against 3M for $850 million
I really couldn’t blame 3M if they were tired of being screwed over by the locals.
*Medtronic waves from Europe.*
So will there now be 2 1.5Ms? Or 1M and 2M?
Honestly large conglomerates are a PITA to properly value.
Wall St. much prefers simpler stories. But breakups like this usually wind up with a bunch of crap in one entity.
How much of the healthcare business’ 8.6B was from a blank check from state and federal governments for super effective masks? I don’t think the demand for those is sustainable.
No need for worry, you guys still have Digi-Key.
DigiKey is great. I once worked for Digi and my family was totes disappointed to find out that they are not the same company.
The family was getting ready to demand an unending pile of crazy crappy gizmos.
I love Digi-Key. I started buying one-off components from them for various paintball projects starting 20 years ago, and I buy around 90% of the components for the products I assemble, markup, and sell from Digi-Key to this day. Unless there’s a huge price mismatch I’ll give them my business over Mouser any day of the week. For 2 reasons: 1) their customer service is stellar and 2) fuck Buffett.
3M already has a presence in Austin. Thatâs where they develop specialty stuff for electric power systems: terminations and splices for underground cable, tapes, etc.
I’m not gonna lie. I could permit myself to be seen driving an early 320.
Since marriage is a contractual exercise for people to share resources, the State in any form shouldn’t be involved unless and until dissolution (if necessary)
That would be good news for lawyers. They get involved at the beginning of every marriage instead of just at the end of those that fall apart.
I find that whatever is good for lawyers tends to end up being bad for human beings.
I can walk into my local UPS store right now and buy template forms for establishing a sole proprietorship or partnership, landlord-tenant agreement, adoption paperwork, medical directive, living will, last will and testament, etc. They run about $20 a piece. You could simply copy and paste the existing state statutory language into such a template and hey presto, you’ve got a marriage without a lawyer for about 100 bucks worth of documents, notary fees, and filing fees.
Yeah, but state-specific?
Sorry, I hate to say anything negative, but: no.
The legislators make the law, not the private-sector lawyers. They’re busy handing out Kleenex and nipping from the desk-drawer flask.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BHD2b-I-aio
So I don’t know if it’s just Idaho’s overheated housing market or if it’s a sign of things to come nationally. I work for a homebuilder that hasn’t had a single house in inventory for more than a week for the three years I’ve worked here. Sales have hit an absolute brick wall the last two months and we’re going to be sitting on fifty homes here that are all in various states of being built and we’ve completely stopped buying lots and pulling permits. Needless to say, I got laid off this morning. How’s everyone else’s day going?
I hired another employee today. He starts Monday.
Of course, I’m not gaining any ground on this one. Cuz my last hire flaked after 3 days. *sigh*
Don’t worry, Top. Men. assure us there is no recession in sight.
Oops. But post too soon…
Sorry about your job. đ
I’ve known it’s coming. I have a bunch of industry connections now, but it seems it would be foolish to be within 500 yards of the construction industry right now. The reckoning needed to come and I think it may be a long way to the bottom yet. Better to be the first one out the door looking for something else than be huddled with everyone else in the unemployment line when shit really hits the fan.
I’ve known plenty of guys who did cash jobs while still collecting.
Sorry đ
Aw, hun.
Sorry about the job loss. That’ll make for a shitty day.
Our housing market is nearly identical here in Phoenix. Even this spring, houses would hit the market and get sold in a few days. Then June 1st hit and everything came to a halt. Not sure whats going on with actual builders. Inventory is still low, but most people don’t want to catch the market at it’s high point. Wait a year, maybe 20-30% less.
I’ve been pointing to everyone I work with that the fact that we’ve been laughing at how everything is selling for over asking is not a good sign. Clearly not sustainable and there will be huge ramifications from a massive housing bubble. No one wanted to listen to the cynical guy who believes in those silly Austrian economics. My sales manager still doubted me this afternoon when I told him that the next foreclose-a-thon is going to start in the next six months. Blackrock is grinning from ear to ear.
Hugs to my dear Cassandra.
Bummer.âSorry, mang.
My day’s just been filled with prepping and painting a feature wall in our living room.âWe have noticed that homes for sale here in Edmonton have suddenly stopped selling â and some people are sitting on some fairly pricey realty that they were probably hoping to move soon.âOur HOA’s surrounded by expensive homes and the market for that has been relatively immune to the larger market’s ups and downs over the past few years, but not this summer.
2022/2023’s gonna be unpleasant.
Pisser đ I’m the son of a painting contractor, so I understand your plight to some extent. Not always a fun industry.
That sucks, dude. Sorry to hear it but I have faith that all the Glibs are land-on-their-feet types.
The home market is definitely not homogenous: place I was idly looking at in NH is under contract already. 5 days.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/1877-Islington-Street,-Portsmouth,-NH-03801_rb/95360634_zpid/
That house here would be like $2.5M, without a yard.
Sorry about the sudden job loss.
However, Iâm assured by our President that the unemployment rate is at a record low.
Fuck. Sorry, brother.
I was manufacturing construction tools during the last downturn. The spigot literally stopped overnight. It wasn’t gradual at all. We got crushed.
However, good things always seem to sprout from shit.
Good luck and go kick some ass somewhere else.
Sorry about it. Hope you’ll find something good soon.
hang in there
I’m upstream a bit lately: most of my clients lately are in lumber, millwork, or furniture
so a lot of leads in the old sales funnel won’t come true….at least fewer than usual
2022 is made, of course, and 2023 is a decent book, but I could fall off the edge after 2023-Q2
need to focus on foodstuffs during a downturn; meanwhile
there’s cleaning up the shop, equipment
new layouts for efficiency
training (checking boxes that must be checked every year)
cash willing, could run up a couple months’ inventory
I HAVE MUSIC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6VAXgx8MY8&feature=youtu.be
“Chess-playing robot breaks 7-year-old opponentâs finger in Russia
The boy was facing off against the robot when it mistakenly grabbed and broke the childâs finger at the Moscow Open last week, according to local Russian outlets.”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/24/chess-playing-robot-breaks-7-year-old-opponents-finger/
“mistakenly”
“The child reportedly made his next move on the chess board before the robot â a large, automated arm powered by artificial intelligence â had time to recalculate and mistook the boyâs finger for a chess piece, according to Lazarev.”
Hey, we can use this AI for swlf-driving cars!
In Putin’s Russia robot break you.
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1551905268728045568?t=gdF8NYaIvu80cnwDChGqGw&s=19
Anybody hearing about this? Google tells me Biden signed an executive order back in March “seeking to promote voting rights”, but there wasn’t much meat to it. But this Tweet sounds more concrete, despite the lack of details.
[Redacted]
First I’ve heard of it.
I guess this is how they’ll steal every election from now on.
Can we make a deal with them that they can stay in the Capitol building and pass pretend legislation and keep their salaries, but none of their âlawsâ are real?
Maybe the economy could then recover and they still get to play grown-up politician. Even though weâd still have to pay their salaries, it would be a bargain overall.
Yep. Piss on them too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
One look at the Japanese beetles in my garden, and I just had to march over to the local sushi restaurant and give the owners an earful about it.
Whelp, that went in the wrong damn place.
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Theyâre obviously trying to start a shooting war.
“Scientists change Asian murder hornets name to avoid âdiscriminationâ
Scientists announced Monday that the terrifying insectsâ official moniker, âAsian giant hornet,â has been changed to ânorthern giant hornetâ â in what they say is an effort to prevent anti-Asian hate crimes.”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/scientists-change-asian-murder-hornets-name/
Because of all the crazy black guys that follow entomology?
GypsySponge moths say hi.I’ve recently seen a pro- black hiking PSA. As if the Appalachian Trail cares anything about the Fitzpatrick Skin Type of its followers.
How about don’t try to nudge populaces into activities they aren’t inclined to.
PISS ON THAT
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
I have had an awful lot of bourbon. Still, piss on that.
Like this is new? Look how young he was then.
That whole clip is hilarious.
Wait until they find out about the Africanized honey bee.
My doctor keeps telling me I need to drink less beer. So I’m having some vodka spiked lemonade in my motel room.
That’s the spirit!
*ducks*
There’s more old drunks than there are old doctors, so I guess we better have another round.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1552056617872625665?cxt=HHwWgsC8uarRgYorAAAA
“It’s pink”
It’s nutritional, it has vitamin C!
SHARKELBERRY FIN IS TOO A FLAVOR!
Greenpeace is why we canât have the good things anymore.