Coming soon (hopefully)!
Finally some sports news! Now let’s see what baseball does.
Saint Francis Xavier was born on this day. He shares it with poet William Wordsworth, cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg, CIA spook Allen Dulles, jazz singer Billie Holiday, musician Ravi Shankar, mobster Crazy Joe Gallo, acting legend James Garner, CA governor and part-time cult member Jerry Brown, director and vintner Francis Ford Coppola, martial arts actor Jackie Chan, and actor Russell Crowe.
Jerry Brown and friend
OK, that’s a decent list I suppose. But now…the links!
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court upholds the law. Now if others will follow, up to and including the US Supreme Court, maybe we can end this pseudo-Martial Law we’re living under.
“We shall fight it in the ICU”
The British Trump is still in ICU. And don’t go looking for any British news outlets posting about it on twitter if you have any hopes of reading well-wishes from the left. You won’t find much aside from glee at his predicament.
Even now, some animals are more equal than others. Never change, Chicago government. Never change.
Nice haircut, hypocrite.
I guess that goes for New York as well. And I continue to be unsurprised.
The Navy gets into a civil war of words. You know, speeches like this aren’t productive. The guy should have lost his command, but this is unnecessary piling-on.
Papers please! Jesus H Christ. This is getting ridiculous, especially for Texas.
Enjoy this. Don’t worry, irrational Pixies haters. I’ve moved on.
Now go have a great day, friends.
It’s different when the king does it…
So Pat, what are your thoughts on different flavors of Linux? I got that Pinebook Pro. It originally came with blobbed Debian, but now ships with Manjaro. From what I can tell, Ubuntu has the most software packages. Or is it that software sites don’t list Manjaro because everyone uses pacman?
Manjaro basically just duplicates Arch repos and holds back updates for 2 weeks in an effort to increase stability. You can also set up the AUR for additional packages if you need them – I believe Yay is the currently fashionable AUR helper. Ubuntu is Debian based, so nearly any package ever built for linux is available in one way or another. Either one is a good option. The Pinebook, even the Pro, is a little resource constrained, so picking something as debloated as possible is always a good idea. For my OG Pinebook I ended up just installing Arch from scratch on an encrypted LVM, then manually updated to the Manjaro kernel as the mainline aarch64 kernel is broken on the original Pinebook.
So Arch packages should work for Manjaro? I think the Manjaro kernel in the PBP is pretty close to mainline. If I go to the Manjaro site, they list plenty of software that won’t run on a PBP because it’s x86. So maybe being ARM might be more limiting than whatever linux I use, anyway.
Manjaro is built on Arch – packages are interchangeable. The main repo is a mirror of the Arch aarch64 repo, and it’s got a pretty good selection of software. Pretty well representative of the current state of linux on ARM. All the major DEs are available, LibreOffice, VLC, mplayer, Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium, torrent clients, most of the essential stuff you’d want.
OK, good.
Don’t know about Pat, but I’ve been using Mint for the interface. I can’t stand Ubuntu’s Unity.
Ubuntu went back to Gnome for the default interface now, albeit a reskinned version. They’ve got other desktop spins as well – Lubuntu (LXDE), Xubuntu (Xfce), Ubuntu Mate. I think they killed Kubuntu, but Kaos is more or less the same thing.
All my desktop systems are on Void with Xfce, but since the Pine products are ARM based the selection of OSes is a little more limited.
*shrugs*
Until I see a need to shop for a new distro, they’ve still driven me away because of that prior error in judgement.
I’ve never actually installed Ubuntu to disk, but the built in Amazon ads a few years back were enough for me to remove it from consideration. For an easy mode distro I’d way rather just use Manjaro, openSuse, or PCLinuxOS.
… built-in ads are worse than a poor UI.
Who is calling the shots over there? (rhetorical question)
FWIW, I believe the newer PInebook Pros are supposed to ship with Manjaro, and it seems they devote a fair amount of dev time to the Pine devices, so that’s probably the way to go if you want to keep an up to date system with the latest fixes and patches for Pine.
That’s a good point.
I like Ubuntu.
i run 18.04 at home and at work.
Even now, some animals are more equal than others.
“You’re all in this together.”
“Don’t you know who I am?”
OFFS.
Up next, the “DOOOOM!11!” initiative.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces the “We Are Not Playing” initiative at Soldier Field.
Are the Cleveland Browns going to sue her for stealing their franchise’s postseason slogan?
Can’t tell if she’s had a haircut but at least Chicagoans are getting one.
Yeah, saying things like that in public was just totally unacceptable. Now if he’d had information about Trump getting peed on by hookers in Moscow…
prompted calls from Democratic lawmakers for Modly’s resignation
I don’t know if this is new as of Trump, or just newly reported on as of Trump, but it’s as boring and predictable as them bitching every time he fires somebody.
The media is pure evil.
He took a super-carrier out of action in frought times. He should be court-martialed.
Yep, and broadcasted military readiness issues to the world.
Imagine for a moment how the ChiComs would have dealt with an intelligence leak of that nature.
Whoever thought shore leave in Vietnam during an epidemic was a good idea needs firing.
US aircraft carrier should never have been sent to Vietnam
I guess you could say that monkey’s gone to heaven.
There’s nothing wrong with the Pixies – so long as you’re an angsty high school junior eager to show how non-conformist you are by listening to “college music” instead of Van Halen.
Pixies hasn’t been cool for high school juniors or college kids in at least 20 years.
Lol. I was introduced to them by my boss!
This was in the ’90s, but I was well past college.
“You know, speeches like this aren’t productive. The guy should have lost his command, but this is unnecessary piling-on.”
Like shooting French Admirals, pour encourager les autres.
We talked yesterday about this. He fucked up. Hard.
The commander absolutely fucked up. He should have been relieved. But the Navy Secretary should have left it at that and simply refused to discuss it beyond the clear and demonstrable facts. It serves no positive purpose.
Agreed.
As Swiss points out: this shitshow was done to set an example for others.
Quite honestly the glee that some are exhibiting over this is one of the most disturbing things that I’ve seen in my life.
Their religion requires public displays of support for the tenets of their faith.
This
What kind of terminal loser who doesn’t belong in polite society doesn’t like The Pixies?
I like some of their tunes so I guess that makes me a “marginal loser”.
I don’t even know any of their tunes and only heard of them today.
I like Pixie Porn. Does that count?
*needs edit fairie pics*
Be careful what you ask for, Festus…
But I wanted the bouncing boy…
*THAT IS FAIRY POPPINS TO YOU, M8*
faps
Glibs are the best in these trying times.
Nice! Although, far too small to be any fun. Yes, yes, I know that’s the nature of pixies: naked, small and beautiful – just to tease humans.
This song, done in this way, redeems the Pixies for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sgKnDiDOk
Nice!
I hope David Fincher has to at least spend a few centuries in purgatory for making Where Is My Mind the Pixies’ biggest hit.
Is that right? I don’t particularly care for that song, their more upbeat stuff is my preference.
It was used in the iconic final scene of Fight Club, so for pretty much everybody my age and under it’s the only Pixies song they’ve heard.
Surfer Rosa and Doolittle could just be mashed together into a double album and be called their greatest hits collection as far as I’m concerned.
It was very well used in in the TV series “The Leftovers” even though I can’t wrap my brain about what it it all meant in the end.
“This is just something that we shouldn’t focus on. There’s much better things to talk about,” he said.
“I’m more important than you.”
Seriously. We’re ruled be people who break every rule of good leadership.
That’s because they follow a different set of rules…
https://archive.org/details/The48LawsOfPower_201802/mode/2up
HM’s overnight article is very much worth the read if you missed it.
Yep. It’s good and the banter lives up to standard.
Seconded – just read this morning.
No Hihns here. Funny that.
*giggle farts
BULLY!
93% of all libertarians are bullied by other libertarians.
What on Earth is wrong with the other 7%?
I disagree.
The Hype has TWO accounts?
Thanks HM, that’s a reason to get up early in the morn.
The unknown unknowns are always waiting, waiting, ready to pounce.
Hmm. Yes, well written. Perhaps I’m in the minority. But. I found its point rather obvious and belabored.
Wisconsin legislature should impeach and remove the governor. Suspending elections with such a short notice, after he had acknowledged needing the legislature to act is vile. He literally did the “if Congress won’t do what I want, I’ve got a pen and phone”.
Also, thank goodness RBG and crew don’t run the nation, because the seem intent on making arbitrary rule changes the norm of law rather than an anathema to it.
When you start ruling based on “intent” rather than constitutionality of an action, you end up with shit like Title IX being applied to gender rather than sex and decisions like Roe v Wade applying the 1A to a medical procedure. Or shit like Korematsu standing.
It’s bad precedent. Very, very bad precedent.
“Compelling government interest”…
“We know that with careful attention to public safety and strictly following these rules and orders we make our city safer,” Galena Park Mayor Esmeralda Moya said in the release.
I’m sure the statement sounds better in its original German.
You need to go “Full Reddit” and replace German with Yiddish.
She’s technically correct. In fact, you could make your city nearly 100% safe if you ordered the summary execution of anybody committing any offense, including spitting in public or jaywalking. But her job isn’t to make the city safe. It’s to ensure rights are upheld.
Just another well-intentioned authoritarian piece of shit.
People are starting to speed up here (well, noticeably more than usual). I usually do my commute at about ten over the limit and folks were passing me like I was standing still. You have to go with the flow of traffic or you become the liability. Some butt-plug pulled out on the highway two nights ago and I had to hit the brakes hard. Fuck off, speed demons. I don’t always want to die.
I remember that episode. We were almost rid of Wesley Crusher.
That episode was shit. 53 minutes of tension and build up and the aliens are convinced to let him go because reasons. Episodes like that are why DS9 is the best Trek.
Early TNG suffered from being in that no man’s land between episodic story telling of TOS and the broader arcs that defined DS9 and beyond.
That episode would’ve made a great 2 or 3 episode arc. In fact, you can see the potential for such a thing in Worf’s discommendation story.
Yes, like whether or not you had to pay for that cut? And will the stylist be ticketed and fined?
When officials who put these orders in place don’t follow them, it tell me they’re not that worried about it. Much like climate crusaders who fly private jets and buy houses on the oceanfront property.
Rules are written and enforced for the lowest common denominator plebs. When a person who matters violates the rules you can bet it was for a damn good reason because they’re smart enough to decide for themselves so they get an exception.
“When officials who put these orders in place don’t follow them, it tell me they’re not that worried about it.”
One set of rules for them, another for the fucking unwashed sheeple.
And they are not worried, because they sent out the enforcers to make sure the fucking sheeple can’t pollute their air.
What about the geriatric degenerates in congress still holding meetings? Aren’t they this things target demo? are they keeping the meetings to under 10?
“Asked about that, a visibly annoyed Lightfoot said, “I’m the public face of this city. I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye.
“I’m a person who, I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, I felt like I needed to have a haircut,” Lightfoot said. “I’m not able to do that myself, so I got a haircut. You want to talk more about that?”
And people don’t take they personal hygiene seriously? You think for one second people are happy they can’t go get fricken groomed? Twat supreme.
Personally, I’m ANGRY. My income has been cut by 40% and my business is shut down. The thing that burns me is a good chunk of people (at least in my circle) are still going along nicely still working from home getting paid. (Small) Business owners and employees in certain industries (naturally, people who had the misfortune of working on what’s considered to be non-essential – with is meaningless at this point) looks are taking the biggest hit. Ottawa is staying shut until June. Quebec pushed it to May 4. The financial aid I was forced to take doesn’t cover my expenses on both personal and business. For the balance have to take the emergency government loan. Pissed, pissed, PISSED.
Tell you what Bobby, if they don’t open this sucker up, I’m one of those people who under the right conditions, will go riot I’m that pissed.
The same people who are defending her are moaning about Trump not wearing a mask.
Expecting consistency from these morons, is like expecting me to respect them in the morning.
As we have repeatedly pointed out: if tomorrow we had an announcement that Trump had found a cure for prostate cancer, these same people, would show up to decry his masochism and mysogynism in not finding the cure for breast cancer. They will oppose it because he approves it or wants it. If he tells them today he wants a blue sky, they will pray for a snowstorm. If he wants that storm 5 minutes after they begin praying, they will switch to praying for blue skyes.
And since I’m ranting, this virus from CHINA couldn’t have come at a worse time. I expanded the business and have debt obligations that AREN’T being forgiven or deferred through this. ‘We’re in this together’ bull shit doesn’t extend to business. The banks, landlords and credit companies want their damn money. What makes me laugh is the temporary financial aid comes with a string attached: I can’t take in any other source of income while they send the money? Are you fricken kidding me? The amount they’re sending is a STIPEND. They should just send the money and SHUT UP since this is a GOVERNMENT MANDATED partial shutdown.
Fine. I’ll do my part. But what I can do without is some really dumb ass comments like ‘it’s ok. You’ll survive. We need to do this’ from people who still make their six digit income. They’re going through ZERO pain or stress. It’s testing friendships I’m telling you. I’m keeping distance from a close buddy because I’m simply not liking the things he’s saying.
Another buddy of ours isn’t sure he’ll have a business to go back to since suppliers may all be gone. When I mentioned this to the aforementioned friend he said, ‘he has money I don’t worry for him’. I understand what he meant, but it was disappointing to hear. He’s so convinced we have to ‘do this’ I had to remind him a) no one wants to lose their business. It took them 35 years to build it and b) they employed 35 high-skilled workers with avg. salary probably in the 80k range. Now do try to get your head out of your ass and imagine this happening across the CONTINENT.
I can’t imagine that mentality. I’m lucky enough to have not been impacted yet, but my wife’s studio is shut down indefinitely. The callousness required to cheer on this wanton destruction means one of two things. Either they’ve been duped into believing that this pandemic was so serious that nuking the economy is the only way to prevent it, or it confirms their technocratic biases.
Your livelihood is a sacrifice we are willing to make!
#inthistogether.
Rufus don’t worry, if this goes the way I think there wont be anyone with a job. Nobody, Nobody is going to be immune from the fallout of a consumer and sales based economy having 30% unemployment. Noone. No business has margins to sustain that loss.
Something foreseeable something something not unintended.
A decent pair of dog-clippers will set you back about $25 Canadian, you cunte.
Sorry. That child care is “non-essential” is stupid. Never mind children don’t seem all that susceptible to the virus.
Even if they open us, people are on lockdown. Paid vacation basically.
I am working from home, and my wife works in a hospital so we are not impacted at all financially. We know we are very lucky. Even though she isn’t needed, I have started paying my dog walker/sitter 80% of her usual weekly fee just to keep her going and because I don’t want to see her going out of business.
Commendable. I know lots of people trying to do this to help others.
Heck, our company is paying freelance union employees for what we would’ve scheduled them for prior to the COVID-19 craziness, even though there are no sports for these people to edit pregame show pieces.
And it’s not a small sum. I had to provide an analysis for HR with an estimate a week’s labor. Just for the area my group overseas is a substantial figure, roughly $360K. The company will likely end up paying that for 8 weeks. With the exception of perhaps a dozen out of nearly 200 union freelancers, no one is actually doing any work and still getting paid (as well as getting company contributions for their health and retirement funds).
So, when I hear people complaining about the cut throat private sector, I want to sit them down and give a come to Jesus lecture. The private sector is not filled entirely with monolithic, Scrooge McDuck characters.
Wut?
Pelosi said, “Well, people should not have to decide whether they can vote or be sick. That’s just not a good choice for anyone in a democracy. And you would think that the Supreme Court of the United States would not overturn a court decision which gave the voters extra time to do vote by mail by a few more days to get their vote by mail ballot in. So, you have the Supreme Court of the United States undermining the — our democracy. It’s really shameful. 5-4, surprise, surprise.”
Oh, I see. She means it undermines Democracy.
Is she undermining American democracy by undermining the Supreme Court? Of course she is but it’s OK when she does it.
I just this morning watched that Biden presser. What the fuck?
This one?
Best timeline ever
Depression. Pandemic (of questionable proportion) and runaway inflation. 1919 here we go again. Wheeeeee!
And no Harding/Coolidge to save us this time.
Yes.
I… Don’t think it was really as bad as a lot of people are making it. But then i’m kinda grading on a Joe Biden curve.
What i don’t get is why his crew doesn’t do more takes? There’s no need for this to be live.
Come on, Man! He’s obviously not fit to swing a pool chain at that brown guy that I used to stand behind!
Really? The clip actually has me feeling bad for him. There is no one around him to pull him aside and tell him that his mental health is clearly failing him.
They need to drag him across the finish line and hopefully win so they can install whoever gets chosen as VP on the ticket. Are you ready for President Warren or Harris?
Yeah, it used to be funny. Now, there are so many clips, it’s just sad.
IIRC, people with dementia have lucid moments. You’d think if they were going to do this to him, they could at least wait for one and tape him making coherent points.
Oops. Should have read Leon’s comment morely than I did.
I have this sinking feeling that these are his most lucid moments.
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Now I want to see him smoke a cigarette. Joe must be a social scientist.
Maybe that was the best take.
I’m wondering how this the “best” take they had or could splice together to make him look good.
Was he being fed pablum while uttering gibberish?
Lord me.
That whole situation is a shitshow of pols seeming to use the CV for electoral gain. The GOP-led legislature refused to even take up delaying Election Day in a special session. The Governor acted like a king in order to get more ballots counted from reliable Dem voters who had ample time to get a mail-in ballot before now.
They’re all seeking to manipulate the vote. It’s shameful.
Maybe the legislature should have taken it up, but the Governor unilaterally making the decision hours before the election is criminal. He should removed from office.
He should be. His smart, and constitutional move, wood have been to go on a media offensive demanding the legislature do their job so as not to endanger more people. And when they failed to do so,