We chose to send our just-turned-five son back to VPK rather than start kindergarten this year. We were on the fence already because he’d be the youngest in his class, basically, but the shitshow public schools dumpster fire of a school year pushed us to send him back to daycare for another year. The daycare we used last year and will use again are awesome. How awesome? They closed a total of zero days for COVID. And, their school year started today. Which confused us because they told me the 24th when I re-enrolled him, but apparently they got an exemption from the state to start their VPK program when schools were supposed to start. So, long and short is I’ll be down to one kid in the house in the mornings now for the next couple of weeks and then (please God!) school starts for the first grader. We may have survived the long nightmare of being around each other 24×7!
I honestly can’t tell whether this is pro or anti-Biden. It runs down a laundry list of ill-spoken racial statements in Biden’s career and then drops this:
Instead, Biden is a Left-wing Archie Bunker, the stereotype-spewing lead character of the brilliant 1970s comedy series “All in the Family.” Producer Norman Lear’s top-rated show was a high-water mark for ethnic humor, which was how Americans once cheerfully addressed and overcame racial differences, unlike today’s corrosive techniques of in-your-face confrontation and Maoist re-education.
Mississippi or Minnesota? Mosquito design “accidentally” makes state flag finals. (h/t SugarFree)
New Jersey police arrest men for helping people to enjoy themselves.
Of course, the neck gaiter is basically for men who just don’t have time to fight all the Karens, so I’m not sure they’ll care about this report that: Neck gaiters may be worse than no mask at all. Um, okay. **makes jerkoff motion** whatever. Ban it and I’ll move to the old bank robber style bandana (when I’m not wearing my glibs “#talismask”)
If you aren’t First, why were you even born?
“a soul may descend to this world and live for seventy or eighty years, just in order to do [your fellow] Jew a material favor, and certainly a spiritual one.”
That’s from Baal Shem Tov, not my own.
To piss on your grave.
Envy is an ugly color on you, my friend.*
*Not really a friend because I would never be friends with someone who is not First.
Since Ive been 1st more times than you, are we friends? Shake?
/passes hand over head
I keep toying with the idea of getting a shemagh to wear out and about.
I don’t know what the men in NJ were arrested for. The outdoor gathering limit in NJ is now 500 – it was lifted last month for the Governor’s daughter’s wedding with 400+ guests. Maybe the cops should have busted up that party.
The gov did that no shit? These fucking people think they’re royalty. Worse, they’re right.
Yep – took from 250 to 500 for his kid’s wedding. But my gym is still closed.
So there we were, sittin’ on the bench, and the meanest, ugliest, hairiest father-raper of them all sat right down next to me and said,
“Kid, whatcha in for?”
And I said, “litterin'”. And they all moved away from me on the bench, until I said
“And violating the governor’s executive order”.
And they came right over, shook my hand, and said “You’re alright, boy”.
“Biden’s comments are racist, but not as this word is shouted today. Biden’s views of Blacks avoid the hatred or homicide of Democrats George Wallace, Bull Connor or a Jim Crow lynch mob.”
That’s backwards. Today, even the tiniest thing is racist, including things that have nothing at all to do with race.
My youngest returned to in-person high school today. I hope they’re able to keep it going.
Meanwhile, I had a depressing meeting with my sled hockey team today. Right now all tournaments are cancelled, and the hospital that sponsors us won’t officially sanction sports until there is a vaccine. Even after we start back up, we won’t have nearly as many funds available for our program. We are still having unofficial practices, but Illinois considers hockey to be “high risk”, so as of this weekend we might not be able to scrimmage, just do “skills with social distancing”. At that point I’m better off just going to stick & puck here in Indiana.
So sorry to hear that TOK.
Sorry, and there might never be a vaccine.
There’s already one in Russia. Perhaps not enough testing to determine if it saves from COVID but might still work as a psychiatric placebo.
It is, in fact, the placebo effect that I’m rooting for, so that our Idiots In High Places will finally lift all these fucking restrictions. Plus I’d have a serious schadenböner if every pearl-clutcher I know gets the vaccine and then a whole raft of ’em come down with mild cases of the ‘Rona. Of course, they’d probably just claim that their infection would’ve been fatal without the vaccine…
Switch to sled basketball. Lower the net to floor level and play on ice with a puck.
Also, wear BLM shirts.
Maybe an on-ice protest?
Whatever happened to the day after Labor Day as first day of school? I’ve been out of the loop so long I assumed school still started on Tuesday after the Labor Day. Do kids need more days in school now for a reason? Do teachers/kids need more days off during the year?
It’s still summer, bikes, fishing,baseball, etc for kids.
/Podunkville idiot
I don’t get it either. Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer.
Most places up north have marched the date forward to extend Christmas break and build in a few more snow days now that they cancel for flurries.
So its about the money. Attendance is a requirement for the cash, the reason administrators hate drop outs.
The final day of school should be the day before Memorial Day, and the first day of school should be the day after Labor Day. Any other policy is an attempt to ruin the true beating heart of American freedom, American prosperity, and American happiness: summer vacation.
Make Summer Great Again.
Yep, back in my day…
Influenza deaths in 2020
https://twitter.com/Nathan_Cotus/status/1293630636033560582
It’s not implausible.
I’ve been seeing similar data for flu and ILIs (influenza like illnesses). They fall off a cliff, in a completely unprecedented way, when COVID data started to be collected. This past flu season actually started out looking like a moderate to bad one.
Possible explanations are:
(1) Flu and ILI deaths got misattributed to COVID.
(2) COVID was a “harvesting event” (actual terminology) that killed people before who would have otherwise died from the flu/ILI before the flu could get to them.
(3) People stopped going to see their doctors when the panic was triggered, so lots of people got (and died of ) the flu/ILI without ever seeing a doctor and getting diagnosed.
(4) Doctors stopped testing for flu because of the tunnel vision on COVID.
I suspect its a combination of all four. This is why I think a good analysis (if we can get one) of excess deaths is critical to getting a real number on COVID mortality. I thinks its clear COVID was a harvesting event to some extent, in that a chunk of its many elderly/frail/comorbid victims weren’t going to make it to, say, the end of the year anyway.
My son had flu (tested for flu) in early March. I suspect two weeks later he might’ve been an ‘suspected covid’ patient, because the doctor would’ve seen him by zoom and he wasn’t sick enough to go through the hassle (then) of getting the covid test.
I tried to find a link on excess deaths in the U.S. for this year versus previous years – couldn’t find anything. Apparently Google and whatnot have tweaked their algorithm to hide that data waaay down in the results.
They have. Literally could not find it when I searched a while back.
Drudge linked to a story the other day that claimed there was like 230,000 excess deaths this year. No, I don’t have that link. No, I will not enact that labor for you.
Very questionable. Excess deaths data usually lags by months. As in, comparing excess deaths through June 2020 with excess deaths through June 2019 will cause you to miss a bunch of excess deaths in 2020.
The CDC site uses “predicted” deaths. IOW, its another fucking model.
“The CDC site uses “predicted” deaths.”
No this is wrong. It is predicting what “Normal” deaths would be. That is the model, and if you are going to say something like “Excess Deaths” you are going to have to have some sort of model to say what normal deaths would have been, or we are back to arguing about whether that old guy with cancer who died of pneumonia while infected with covid was actually killed by COVID.
The model is that they use historical analysis to “predict” how many people would normally die in a given week. Then they look at how many deaths were actually reported. (And these reported deaths are subject to 1 – 8 weeks of delay, meaning that the numbers will continually change for upwards of two months as more deaths come in).
Their model for predicting normal deaths is pretty straight forward and uncontroversial. And you can look on their site and pretty well see where “Actual Deaths” severely departs from the common trend. So we could quibble about whether they should have expected 5000 or 5500 deaths that week (predicted deaths), but it is pretty easy to see that the 10,000 reported was an “excess”.
I am ashamed, there is another bit of prediction going on. They are attempting to predict how many deaths will be reported in the most recent weeks. This data of course gets replaced as real data comes in.
One VERY interesting piece of information: While most states are reporting COVID deaths right in line with the “Excess Predicted Deaths”, one state has reported COVID deaths well below the Excess Deaths reported by the CDC. Even more interesting, that same State is showing a spike in Excess Deaths (from the CDC) over the last week, but is REPORTING a very low number of COVID deaths.
If you follow the main stream media, you will of course guess that it is that asshole government in Florida that is cooking the books. But the actual state in question is spelled with a Knife, a Fork, a Bottle and a Cork.
TMITE: Journo floats trial balloon for reparations program.
$800,000 per black household is a small price to pay to assuage my white guilt.
Only if it includes a one-way tickets and giving up U.S. citizenship.
The Irish can get reparations too?
What is the bankruptcy rate for lottery winners?
Nah, they’ll get 10k per household. The rest is to make sure the bureaucrats get their cut.
I don’t see how it’s even possible to determine who would be eligible. Would some white descendants of Thomas Jefferson get a check?
skin color?
Turns out, via the magic of 23andMe (or whatever, ’cause it was my brother who sent the test in), I have a sixth cousin or somesuch in Louisiana who’s black (at least if his profile pic was anything to go on). I’m dreaming of some sweet, sweet reparation YankMeBucks for my next birthday…
Your brother could be inadvertently snitching on distant relatives by using such sites. The Original Night Stalker would still be a free man if not for people like him. Think of the serial killers.
Get fucked, you show me a former slave and I’ll insist he/she get paid. Otherwise fuck off.
Why not 100 trillion, or a trillion trillion bazillion? We also need a 200% tax rate for everyone.
If they do reparations, it should be a tax, exclusively paid for by white people.
Now we’re talkin’ real money. Crank up the presses (even higher).
If they did reparations, it would tear this country apart. I had one white coworker make a good point. His family is of German descent and from Joliet. He pointed out the unfairness of his family who never owned one slave and were in Germany during slavery giving me, a black dude who lives in an affluent Northwest Suburb money for something he didn’t even suffer for.
I like to ask people to guess what all the talking heads were discussing on 9/10/2001?
Yep – it was reparations. This nonsense comes and goes every decade or so like clockwork.
There are so many “tear this country apart” milestones that we’ve hopped over this year that I’m afraid it wouldn’t actually tear the country apart. It should tear the country apart, because reparations is a deeply flawed concept from start to finish, and anybody who forces reparations on the American people has more in common with the slaveholders of the past than any descendant of slaveholders has.
So, if we’re gonna do reparations for slavery, are reparations to the native americans next?
I’m totally not asking because I’d want in on a 1/16th portion of that.
Show me anyone alive today that was actually held in slavery in the U.S., and then I promise I’ll give three-fifths of a shit.
If I have to pay reparations, then I never want to hear about “colonization” or “privilege” ever again. That’s the deal.
No, that is very much not the deal. In fact I’d bet that more
reparationsbad whitie no cookie dollars get spent on programs to educate you about your inherent racial evil and defectiveness than are ever paid to descendants of slave.That’s my deal, I should say. They can take it or leave it.
So… Hope?
The neck gaiter is also something I may have a use for
whenif the masking fashion goes away. Some of the crushed limestone trails get pretty damned dusty. Crushed limestone + Sweat + Beard = Crazy gray beard that can be molded.Ban it and I’ll move to the old bank robber style bandana (when I’m not wearing my glibs “#talismask”)
Wear a motocross mask and goggles.
You want “dehumanized”? Okay, then.
The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles.
Aaaaand done.
I’d argue that Social-Justice has no principles. A principle being something that you can apply universally and hold as a general truth.
They have a couple. “Wypipo suck“ is one of them.
All SJ policy proposals can be summarized as “hurt whitey.”
As part of this process, white employees must abandon their “white normative behavior”
My abandonment of white normative behavior would include beating the shit out of the trainers and stealing their stuff.
That’s one way to eliminate dissent.
Why is nobody suing companies for pushing an oppressive workplace? I know there will be no recourse in the public sector but there should be in the private sector.
At least in the tech field, I would assume because it seems like every possible employer is in lock step on politics these days. Be noticed as an unbeliever (outcast! unclean!) and you’d better be ready to retire, because I would bet there’s an unofficial black list out there. Gambling on winning the suit and getting enough to live on doesn’t feed the family in the short term.
It will happen. My company is going down this route, and it might be my retirement plan. If they make this kind of training mandatory, I am going to refuse.
I’ll go along to get along if it’s the usual multiple-choice time waster. If it turns into calling me a racist, I honestly don’t know what I will do.
Tell them you’re gay and the only reason they’re criticizing you is because they’re raging homophobes.
*takes notes*
If it gets to that point, I may tell them I identify as a Black man.
Of course, on my team are two black guys, an Indian, a white guy (non-technical), a Costa Rican, and myself.
We’re bordering on the “calling me a racist” side of things at my company. Mostly just emails and optional meetings, but they’re starting to formulate ways to give teeth to this shift.
I’m already planning my escape, but I’ll likely time it with them rolling out something egregious.
Perfunctory click-through computer-based training, whatever.
Struggle sessions led by lunatic SJWs? I think those could generate some very interesting racial discrimination claims, based on the bits of curricula and anecdotes I have heard.
in the past, our struggle sessions were rather restrained. The most they would say was “you’re primed to be wary of the ‘other’, and that applies to race/gender/etc.” or “stereotypes can easily evolve into prejudices if left unchecked”
I doubt anybody is leaving it that bland these days.
No, because like everything else, they’re outsourcing it.
I don’t have a problem with that formulation. But my company acquired another company that had some SJW HR person who started talking about intersectionality and identities and allies in a company meeting, and now we have a recommended reading list that includes White Fragility. The trend is bad.
Sex drives can easily evolve into rape if left unchecked. Ambition can easily evolve into dishonesty if left unchecked. Assertiveness can easily evolve into murder if left unchecked. No crap, every impulse taken to an extreme becomes a deadly sin. The list of Virtues and the list of Sins match up, that used to be the whole reason for discipline and education, until the leftist scum turned every institution into a campaign tool for the philosophy of envy.
I really don’t think they want white people to really get invested in identity politics.
“Horrifying moment nurses and patients run for their lives as woman, 75, loses control of her SUV and plows into Atlanta hospital’s emergency room while still accelerating – killing one and injuring four”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8619789/Horrifying-moment-woman-75-loses-control-SUV-plows-Atlanta-hospital-killing-one.html
Loses control? It looks deliberate.
I hate lawyers so much.
A friend of my wife went to her insurance agent whose office was in a strip mall. She did the wrong pedal thing and ended up inside the insurance office. She took a concrete-filled bollard into the office with her. With a Toyota Carolla no less. Fortunately, on one was hurt. The office cancelled her insurece on the spot.
I can’t really object to them canceling her insurance when her car ends up inside their office. wow.
How many other Asian friends does your wife have?
Several, but they’re not QUITE as bad drivers
Me too. Well, not as much as generalizations, of course.
I hate people named TARDIS the most.
Peak Hate. TARDIS for teh win!
More than likely, she stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and froze in panic, pressing harder. Happens now and then.
Yeah, see the Toyota sudden acceleration defect of 2010 or so.
More than likely, she stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and froze in panic, pressing harder. Happens now and then.
This, most likely, especially since the driver was elderly (since the elderly tend to have slower reaction times).
That happened with the Q-Tips in Florida so often that a) car manufacturers changed their software so that you can’t shift from Park into Drive or Reverse without having your foot on the brake, and b) pretty much every storefront has those concrete bollards between the building and the parking lot.
Not that it thwarts elderly Florida person. Usually they do it going forward, though.
Another covid death.
Granny done gone postal. Look out here she come again! They told her Trump is going to cancel Medicare! *running, screaming, crashes*
reposting because I’m a self aggrandizing asshole (and because I think it’s funny how it lines up)
Not wearing masks flattens the curve
You will love this deductive reasoning.
*opera applause*
A fucking pool party with chlorine everywhere.
Am I the same species as these pants-shitting pussies?
They’re not afraid of anything, they just love the power tripping.
I’m close to renouncing my belonging to the human race. Fortunately, I have an alternative species identify lined up.
*watches video of Grizzly males fighting in spring.
Might want to rethink that plan.
What’s with the meme here about drugs falling out of someone’s ass? Did I miss a thread about incompetent drug mules, or about Mexicans, pot, and ass sex, where that meme became an in joke?
There was a very often linked story about a man accidentally shooting himself in the testicles, and having a baggie of drugs fall out of his rectum. It got linked multiple times in every thread for about a week, eventually building itself into meme status.
Soon it will pass unto that land where it will join the Golden Girls, Browns Pallbearers, and Telling Your Dying Relative That Trump Was Impeached.
And… “thicc?”
Where Tow, the Blue Lion, lives eternal while Dunphy is power lifting while surfing.
Smooches.
while Dunphy is power lifting Morgan Fairchild while surfing
Maybe Lou Reed and David Bowie can write a song about it.
a number of flags that featured “guitars, beer cans, Largemouth bass, a Jesus meme and the Southeastern Conference logo.
Include all of these on one flag.
Davis, 31, and a man identified by police as the party promoter, Marheem Miller, 28, of Camden, were charged with three counts of violating the governor’s executive orders. Davis was also issued a summons for littering and will be charged for violating the local zoning ordinance. Davis and Miller could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Land of the Free.
The “mosquito flag” is certainly an original take on the state’s past and went up on the commission’s website for the public to weigh in on. But it wasn’t to be, and the flag was quickly yanked. “The mosquito flag advanced to Round Two due to a typo in a list of flag numbers submitted by one commissioner,”
Typo. Huh.
The party Sunday in Sicklerville, about 20 miles from Philadelphia, went on and the homeowner and the event promoter were charged, Gloucester Township police said Monday. It is at least the third large party shut down in New Jersey in the last week where guests paid entrance fees.
Jack booted thugs.
Ban it and I’ll move to the old bank robber style bandana
The rare occasions I bend on a mask I use a bandanna. Which never covers my nose.
Well, then it won’t do any good!
Exactly.
My abandonment of white normative behavior would include beating the shit out of the trainers and stealing their stuff.
Don’t forget rapin’ the Hell out of their wimmin.
The neck gaiter study is shite, but I have no doubt they don’t do jack, along with the vast majority of masks people are using. As I’m typing this I’m eating lunch in my van and watching some dude adjust his mask. He has touched his face about ten times in two minutes. In no possible way is that helpful.
I wear a neck gaiter because I want to do the absolute minimum. I’m with Neph, I used them a lot before when fishing or skiing or other outdoor activities so as to not have to constantly reapply sun block. Since this panic has started I’ve been in about 500 homes and businesses to do service calls. I slip it up if I’m dealing with a Covidian and if not it stays on my neck. It goes on half a second before I enter a business and then off a half second after exiting. What a ducking joke.
We had a guy out at the Casa Dean to do some work. He came in with his mask on. I told him “You don’t have to keep that on for me.”
And behold, off it came. I am now out of the zone where I could have caught the ‘Vid from him, so I escaped unscathed.
I had someone out yesterday to check on some dead branches in a big oak tree. I opened the door he stepped back, started to offer his hand, double checked himself until I said, “It’s good” and shook his hand. We then started commiserating about the lockdowns and how crazy this all is.
When I had the guys out here to replace the furnace, they were wearing the masks, and then cautiously asked if I would mind if I took them off. I let them know they could take them off, and I wouldn’t care.
I’m sure I’m due to die of the VID any day now.
I caught a ride from a coworker a few weeks back. This dude is a total MUH COVID DANGER pussy. He has condishuns, he TRUSTS THE EXPERTS, he knows DRUMPF SO BAD YO. So I’m in his car, with my mask on. Because its his car, and his rules. Dude looks at me and goes “Oh you don’t have to wear your mask.”
People are very very fortunate I can’t induce aneurysms with a thought.
Heh, heh. I’ve seen a very similar thing with a couple people.
I’m sure all those workmen were very glad not to have to do physical labor with a fucking mask. It sucks. I had to wear one for 6 hours yesterday as I worked on a couple of particularly problematic doors. It makes work so much more cumbersome.
So… In ways to piss off more people while technically following the executive orders…
Rorshach Masks has released neck gaiters as well. You can watch people call you a white supremacist (based on the HBO miniseries) while you spread your COVID around.
Wut
When did it become a law that the President can’t campaign in the White House? I feel like this is yet another one of those “norms” that just got invented yesterday. What the fuck were FDR’s fireside chats if not campaigning?
FDR never threw ethnic minorities in prison camps, and he never demonized his domestic opposition, and he never lied to the American people either.
He knows Gettysburg had something to do with the
Stars and Barsevil badflag but after all, he is a meathead, and is a bit confused about it.Sort of like if Queen Elizabeth’s coronation were held at Appomatox Courthouse.
US Has Almost 30 Times More COVID-19 Deaths per Population than Third-World Countries that Promoted Early HCQ Use
Someday we’ll have the whole story of how many American lives were sacrificed for politics and pharma profits.
What is the average age of people in 3rd world countries vs the US?
I really think that this is the main thing. The countries that have been hit hardest by this, first world countries, have disproportionately large elderly populations, against a disease that disproportionately targets the elderly.
Yeah how many chunky octogenarians with multiple serious medical conditions are alive in Third World countries?
I wouldn’t trust the data collection abilities of 3rd world countries. I don’t necessarily trust our numbers 100% either, but they are probably closer to the truth than most countries.
You’d have to trust their ability to test to begin with before you could even trust their willingness/ability to count deaths accurately.
I’d have to trust ours too.
Really? I think ours are wildly inflated. Would we know there was a pandemic if it wasn’t on TV? It was a minor cold for the only people I know who had it.
Ours could be inflated due to the incentives that were put in place, but I can imagine that a fair number of deaths were not counted early on as well. I’m not saying our numbers are perfect, just more accurate than most.
My working assumption is that our deaths are over-reported by 30%.
There was a whole effort around here to count “potential” vivid deaths before March.
/whistles innocently, thanks God he doesn’t live next to a mansion with a large swimming pool
Trump Generously Offers To Do Jobs Of Legislative And Judicial Branches Too
In Teleprompter Gaffe, Biden Says His Vice Presidential Pick Is ‘Insert Woman Of Color Here’
The Your Name Here Story
Stacey Abrams Graciously Accepts VP Nomination
Report: Kamala Harris Already Vetting VP Picks
Those are the stories that made me laugh.
This makes me want to replay Portal so I can get some cake.
I have some bad news for you
But I’m from [Insert Home Town Name Here]. Surely, they know I’m not a monster.
Alright… in off topic news. That’s it, I’m done with “virtual” rides. I signed up for one back in March when this was only going to be a couple of weeks of lockdown and it looked entertaining enough with some decent swag. It’s not a fucking joke anymore. All of the supported rides have been cancelled, and I can’t even do a long ride without carrying extra water as places have turned off the fucking water fountains, so I can’t refill my bottles on the ride.
I did the Dirty Kanzelled ride in May. I carried extra water and was lucky enough to find enough fountains that were still working. I’ll probably be doing another one in October. I have a route scouted out where I can stop at gas stations to buy water if necessary.
Everyone knows the MN state bird is the mosquito
We got two sizes.
Those small enough to fit through the screen door and those big enough to open the screen door themselves.
Got that same joke here in Alberta. Also in the Northwest Territories (but when I was in the Territories, it was actually true, dammit).
Ole and Lars were out camping when two giant mosquitoes flew out of the trees and grabbed them. The mosquitoes were at least 8 feet tall and there was nothing Ole and Lars could do.
One mosquito turned to the other and said “Should we suck out all their blood here? Or bring them back home and then suck their blood out?”
“Are you crazy!” said the other mosquito, “if we bring them back home, the big ones will take them away from us”
Since Q is taking a sanity break:
Here and some great ones.
Rowr
I think Ass Wednesday was his thing.
Swiss ass! (you can even see a bit of the ass hole)
Still waiting for the vet to call so I can pick up the teenager. I could really go for some w33d right now.
America is the Indiana of the world.
Amidst a sharp increase in shootings and violent crime in England, the New York Times believes its found the culprit: American guns that are being smuggled in to the island nation where guns are banned. In a new story entitled “How American Guns Are Fueling U.K. Crime,” the paper pins the blame for the United Kingdom’s increasing crime rate on our Second Amendment, though eventually the authors reluctantly acknowledge that most illicit firearms seized in the U.K. come from Europe, not American soil.
I’m not clicking the link, but do they even bother to address how much UK crime is committed with guns to begin with, let alone with guns traced back to America? And I’m guessing there’s no mention made of the influx of third worlders.
Idk. But it is a link to BearingArms, which quotes another site. No harm in giving them clicks.
Their crime rate has nothing to do with imported guns and everything to do with them deliberately importing criminals.
Fuck them.
If only. There’s plenty of good ole Englishmen committing crimes.
I thought knives were the preferred murder tool over there
Guns for show, knives for a pro
Back in my days in Europe the gun crime was from the various mafia groups who were getting their guns from China or Eastern European countries. I doubt that has changed.
Trump is such a cuck. If you’re gonna be a merchant of death, really lean into it.
President Viking:
“Good evening. Today I’d like to announce that America is open for business to all oppressed people everywhere. Arm yourselves. Free men are armed, and there’s no better way to be armed then with American steel. We have American classics, and we have immigrant gunmakers who have moved production to the only country where we know for a sure and certain fact that criminals both private and public sector fear nothing more than an honest armed man. Come. Visit us. See the sights. Eat our delicious food. Drink our delicious beer, which is also the best in the world. And when you go home, take a finely crafted American made pistol, rifle, or shotgun home with you.
Are you British? Yobs run the other way when you brandish a Remington 870. Are you from India? Rapists don’t like 9mm slugs. The SW Shield is a compact and easy to use choice. People of Hong Kong: Marching is great, protesting is great. But the final argument of kings is force. I don’t know if AR15s can win your freedom back for you, but I do know that the PLA will never ever forget your names. “
“Drink our delicious beer, which is also the best in the world.”
The ones we imported from Europe, that is. The rest are IPA swill. But you can’t have everything!
Sorry, I couldn’t let that one glaring inconsistency mess up your great post.
‘vid anecdote: A couple with whom we’re casual friends lost his mom a few weeks back. She had had cancer a long time and was very obviously in end-stages. Friend and his sister (both in their ~mid-50’s or so) had been doing most of the care, and then they managed to get her moved into a local (good) assisted-living facility. She got cootie-tested upon entry. She was asymptomatic but positive for CV-19. Friend and his sister both had to get tested, and they were asymptomatic-but-positive too. His wife and 3 teenagers had the same results. His mom got moved to the hospital after only a day or two in assisted living, and then to hospice, where she passed away. None of the family were allowed in to visit for any of these last few days. So:
– that really sucks for everybody involved
– that’s 7 people (6 of whom were generally healthy and 1 who was very much not) who were positive with 0 symptoms
– apparently, the story is they DIDN’T call her a covid death.
Anyway, mostly just griping.
If I had someone I cared about, say one of my favorite prostitutes, came down with covid and I was told I couldn’t visit in the hospital there’d be problems. Especially if there’s real risk of death. I’m not letting someone I know die alone for their covid theater.
How is Winston’s Mom these days?
Haven’t seen Winston himself around in a while.
“None of the family were allowed in to visit for any of these last few days.”
This angers me to no end.
My mom isn’t afraid of dying (she’d prefer it because she’s not ill, but she’s in constant pain), but she doesn’t want to die alone.
You wouldn’t want to catch it twice!
Me too.
How hard is it to find 45 long colt, and how in demand is it?
A quick DDG tells me it is available but at over $1 per round. Ouch.
No shit??? I have 7 boxes that I’m never going to use.
Mostly on auction sites. Have a look at gunbroker.com
Gun and ammo prices are crazy right now. That is not a good sign….
you aint kidding. I just looked at 9mm. prices start at over 50 cpr for wolf steel cased.
I just bought some 9 from cheaper than dirt and they limited me to 4 boxes
Among the cowboy shooters, I am told that many of them start shooting it to be more authentic, but inevitably switch to .38 because of the cost.
According to ammoseek.com, its out there. During normal times, its around 75 cents a round. Right now its around 90 cents.
im wrong. more like 1.10 a round now.
What’s the best way to sell? Suthen, you mentioned auctions?
Try gun broker
Sorry short answers. Trying to eat tuna fish sandwich and type
I’ll second GunBroker.
Kristen, you’re a member at a club or range right? If so, check to see if they have a members “for sale”/”wanted” list/board/what-have-you.
Good idea! I’ll check
Probably plenty of local places that would be happy to buy it from you – maybe you can at least get a quote and save yourself the shipping. (Did you ask at Elite?)
I’ll ask next time I’m in there. I think I paid about $150 for all of it about 7-8 years ago. I want dat cash!!
Stossel: Anti-Racist Racists
That guy better have a bodyguard.
I find capitalizing the word “black” jarring to read.
“It is condescending… and not helpful. I urge white people to chill. Stop helping us, because you’re making things worse!”
Well, at least Biden brings you Kamala Harris, that should make up for it.
Oy. I’m setting up an Etsy shop for my embroidery stuff (I gotta get my inventory sold, man) and I have run into one problem after another. Also, revisiting old work is disorienting. “Who the fuck did this bullshit?” “Oh. Me.” “Damn, you’re good.” “Yes. Yes, I am.”
Anyway, I haven’t done one fucking thing for my clients in the last however many days because I’ve had administrative shit to do (like tend my needlework business). Five days. Five days of administrative hullabaloo. *headdesk*
XX is going into her senior year. Right now, the subject of a car is on the table. She has a good full-time job and no debt, but also no credit. My dad stuck me with a series of beater cars that sucked my bank account dry for years. So what to do, what to do: TRY to find a decent used car she can pay for in full and cross our fingers and hope it isn’t a nickel-and-dimer OR have her finance something good (hello, Enterprise) when there is no interest and it can build her credit and cross our fingers she can continue to make the payments once she leaves home. We are honestly and truly stumped.
If she’s a saver and responsible, and has a good amount to put down on the car, then financing should be fine.
Cars, including used cars, are a lot more reliable now. A. Lot. Of course, when they do need work, its rarely cheap. So getting nickel and dimed is probably not likely.
She’s going to need a car sooner or later unless she moves to some urban hellhole and takes public transportation everywhere.
IMO, saddling her with debt before she graduates high school does a disservice.
Again IMO, Part of growing up is learning how to take care of your things and work around it when your things don’t work.
Saddling her with a nickel-and-dime beater would be as much of a disservice. Trust me, I know.
To me it’s six of one (getting-to-work security) and half-dozen (getting-to-work insecurity) of another.
Cars are a lot more reliable now then they were in the past. Something like 4 year old Honda Civic will run forever. I have a friend who bought a 4 year old Civic with 200k miles for a song, and it’s almost at 300k now.
You’d also be surprised how much of your own work you can do via YouTube videos and playing with it.
Was going to echo this. Beater’s can be great money savers as long as you can do all the minor work on the car. Window motor breaks? Order up a new part and install a new one. Four or five things like this and you’ve saved over a grand. It’s things like the transmission that can cause the real expenses to rack up. You don’t save much with doing your own oil changes but it does teach you to pay attention to the routine maintenance that cars need.
I’m guessing the used car market is finally starting to get past the debacle that was Cash for Clunkers, but I’m also guessing it’s effects will still linger for a while.
second result for a sub $6000 car when I searched.
I’m half tempted to buy the thing myself. 2012 Focus with a stick and 41k miles for $6k? That thing could go another 150k miles if maintained well.
I owned two Foci. The 2012 we had was a stick. Very sporty and reliable. The wife got 150K mikes with no issue.
Brother was just used car hunting and said the supply has dried up. He thinks it’s more of people looking for cheaper alternatives right now as money gets tighter. I supposed people just not turning over their cars at the same rate right now could be doing some of it too.
I thought Hertz going bankrupt would solve that problem, but I underestimated the number of people in the market for a used car.
Neither my mom nor I have never had bad luck with a fleet car and we’ve never bought a fleet car from anyone other than Enterprise.
have ever*
Stupid double negatives.
just to add some color and show that I’m not just talking out my ass. My first car was a 15 year old Ford taurus. It had a tendency to lurch you into an intersection and stall when the temperature was below 40. It blew a power steering pump, and it eventually succumbed to a broken front spring that punctured a tire. The steering was sloppy enough that we called it “the boat”.
There were a few days where I had to ride the bus to school, bum a ride off a coworker to make my shift, or beg my parents to drive me somewhere because the boat was in drivable. I also put some substantial money into the car to keep it running (on the order of a few thousand). That rickety piece of shit lasted me 6 years before we donated it, and by then I had saved up enough to buy a car that would last me another 7 years until the dumbassery I’ve been posting about in GlibFin.
It sucked sometimes, but I was never in fear of missing a car payment. I was never forced to choose between food and transportation. As long as I had $20 for gas and enough for insurance, I could make it another week.
Saddling her with a nickel-and-dime beater would be as much of a disservice. Trust me, I know.
I strongly disagree. Let’s say you drop $15k on a decent used car. That’s 5x$2k repairs on a $5k beater. Are there some lemons out there that will do that kind of damage to your pocketbook? Sure. Are they common? Not at all.
The risk isn’t being priced in. The instant the ink dries on the loan, you’re in for $15k + interest. On the other hand, your $5k beater may or may not cost $10k over the next X years. Most likely, that cost of ownership for the relatively short period until she’s making enough money to upgrade, is going to be substantially less than $10k.
In your shoes, I’d spend $5k and toss every penny that would be going to the car company into a savings account to buy a better car in a few years.
We’ll have to agree to do so then because I lived that nightmare for better than 10 years. Dad chose the car, I was expected to pay for it and the repairs, and they all ended up in the shop more than not.
So when I say it’s as much of a disservice, I’m not talking out my ass, either.
As already said 1990 reliability and 2020 reliability are radically different things.
This is not something I thought of and is actually quite reassuring.
Yeah we’re not trying to “well ackshually” you. It’s just that cars have gotten much more reliable since 2000, and even since 2010.
I have an 07 Ford and the only time I need to put money in it is when it fails state inspection, and its not a particularly reliable model. If I lived in a freer state I would have only put it in for oil changes.
Buying a 2012 with 90k on it in 2020 is not like buying a 1982 with 90k on it in 1990.
If you can’t afford a repair for your beater you have the option of doing without a car until you can afford it. If you can’t afford your car payment your credit is toast, and you lose the car permanently. I have to vote no car loan here, and pretty much always.
Another thing to consider, no matter how careful you drive, you can still get in a wreck, and if you do then the insurance pays off the loan first, then you get whatever is left over. Especially important with a young driver.
Pay that thing off, then if some idiot hits you the insurance money comes to your pocket.
Whatever you do, teach her how to change the oil. That should save her a few bucks and familiarize her with the workings of a car so that a mechanic is less likely to take advantage of her.
Oil, headlights/taillights/sidelights (I’m serious! my Toyota maintenance place wanted to charge me 0.25 of a shop hour for each light!), engine air filter, cabin air filter, windshield wiper blades, transmission fluid, radiator coolant and windshield washer fluid.
Those things alone can add up to thousands in shop charges over the life of a car, and they’re almost all dead easy to do.
Oh, and whenever a light that’s part of a pair or set goes, replace both/all of ’em. They all have similar life spans, so if one goes, the rest are probably getting ready to do so as well, unless the failure in question happens within a few dozen or hundred hours of operation (“bathtub” failure).
Given what you’ve described, I’d go with something like this.
Simple, reliable, no-frills transportation that won’t break the bank.
Oh that’s excellent, thank you. She has about half that amount right now. My husband is a Hyundai fan anyway. We have 2, in fact.
Haha, SUCKERS!
Before talks between congressional Democrats and the White House fell apart, there was clear bipartisan support emerging for revamping the program, which offers government-backed small business loans that can be forgiven if employers maintain their payroll. One major revision would make it easier to convert the smallest loans — those for $150,000 or less, which account for most of the program’s volume — into outright grants, making life easier for both borrowers and lenders.
But the negotiations stalled just as the Small Business Administration this week began accepting applications for businesses to have the loans forgiven. Now many lenders are waiting to see whether a deal can be salvaged before they start the process. The stalemate is creating more doubts for small business owners as they try to navigate the program and avoid being stuck paying back loans they expected to be forgiven.
“It is frustrating, knowing the benefit this could have for many small business owners who are waiting to apply for forgiveness,” said Holly Wade, director of research and policy analysis at the National Federation of Independent Business, which advocates for small businesses in Washington.
The confusion is the latest example of lenders and borrowers being left in the dark about how to proceed with the Paycheck Protection Program, after suffering through a chaotic launch dogged by incomplete guidance from the Trump administration and SBA technology glitches.
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Swapping wealth creation for debt. What a splendid gambit.
Cool link, bro!
I’m curious if this is how it’s going to work:
1) government forces you to close your business indefinitely
2) government offers to loan you money to cover your expenses while your business is closed
3) government forgives all or part of the loan
4) government charges you income tax on step 3
5) “Maintain your payroll” without any income while the goverment is paying your employees more not to work than you were paying them to work.
My local gym owner got some that money and just gave it back. Wasn’t going to work without a definite reopening day.
That is the business model of La Cosa Nostra, with some minor alterations.
3. You can’t pay off the loan on time.
4. We break your legs.
4 is We print a fuckton of money to cover this and Everyone pays through the hidden tax that is inflation.
When I was first going to college, I was nowhere near as contrarian as I am now, but even then there is no way I wouldn’t balk bullshit like this.
Fucking loyalty oaths and submitting to daily electronic monitoring. Fuck UW-Eau Claire in the neck.
They need it so they know which coeds are ovulating.
lol go fuck yourself
That is very nearly word-for-word the pledge my son has been “asked” to sign at Scranton. Boilerplate. It’s bullshit, but I get the feeling they need to do this to keep assholes like Wolf at bay. At least all his classes are in-person.
Until week 3 of class when some teacher at another school gets The Vid.
That is a concern. Hoping for the best.
Ban it and I’ll move to the old bank robber style bandana (when I’m not wearing my glibs “#talismask”)
My suggestion to SP of creating a #ThisMaskDoesNothing message for the masks on RedBubble (thanks SP!) has been mostly a hit where I’ve worn it (with the occasional pearl clutching). I bought a few extras for the spousal unit and some friends.
It got nothing but positive comments when I was on the island. Especially when I pulled it out of a work shirt pocket to put it on.
I’ll try that Politico link again
Fucking loyalty oaths and submitting to daily electronic monitoring. Fuck UW-Eau Claire in the neck.
That’s a “Gimme my money back” situation.
I thought you bastards were joking when you said Joe had a script to read from when he called Kamala. But it was twue, it was twue. But I don’t recall any of you pointing out that the phone was upside down.
Please tell me that was photoshopped.
the upside down phone thing doesn’t strike me as a huge deal since the mic is at the bottom and he was pointing the mic at the laptop’s speakers, but the script is ridiculous
Why would he point the phone mike at the speakers, though?
so whoever was on the phone could hear the skype call is my guess
Who was on the phone? Why couldn’t they just join the call?
How do we know that was Biden calling Harris, and not a fake – just some rando with a fake script and a picture of Harris on his computer? Where’s his face?
His face is in the pic – on twitter you have to click on a pic to see the whole pic, what is shown at first is just a cropped version. If it’s a fake, they did a good job getting someone who looks like Biden.
Yeah, I have no idea why he would point the phone away from him either.
Of course if he was skyping with Kamala, why did he need a phone?
And what must she have thought during that call when she saw that he had a script?
“I’m gonna bust out the 25th amendment and be president right after the inaugural ball.”
Yeah it’s speaker phone, who cares.
But a script? Like, honestly, that’s not a good sign and of course the media is covering it up by cutting the script out of the frame.
A teleprompter would confuse him.
Since some of you like dark humor, here’s a topical bit courtesy of Michael Malice:
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Huzzah!
“Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights”
In 1976 I was Chief, HRD/RREO (Human Resources Development/Race Relations/Equal Opportunity) of a brigade at Ft Hood, TX. I had an 8 person staff, 4 black (2 Offs/2 NCOs) , 3 whites (2 NCOs, 1 EW) and myself. We were busy stamping out racial inequality, sex discrimination, drug use via surprise urine collection to be tested.
For me it was kind of a General Halftrack assignment , coasting out to retirement. No one ever called, no one ever came to visit us to see what we were doing. I reported to the Brigade Chief of Staff. I thought I had accomplished all the goals and had eliminated the need for those things I was charged to do but apparently they went underground and I was too blind to realize it.
I’m waiting to be recalled so I can be rehabbed myself, it was far deeper within me than I had realized.
44 years later the problem is so bad that Seattle has an office dedicated to its remediation.
We were busy stamping out racial inequality, sex discrimination, drug use via surprise urine collection to be tested.
Huh. They had urine tests to detect inequality and discrimination?
Well, as you know, certain groups are more heavily invested in the drug trade
/Sarc
I hate Illinois Nazis!
And that’s what they get for pissing bigoted.
44 years ago I doubt there was a female in the Brigade. Made the job of stamping out sex discrimination pretty easy.
We were 10% and climbing, Support Brigade. It caused many problems because the troop units didn’t know what to do. I had been in a Sig Bn before going to Brigade HRD.
Pole line women? As long as there was 2 men to run a 90 lb roll of WD1. First time we went to the field some women were assigned pup tents with a man, showers had to be scheduled by time. We began integrating as early as ’73-74, mostly clerks but soon there were some short truck drivers. I had to counsel a senior NCO on what he thought was humorous but could easily have been sexual harassment had I not stopped it immediately. Some romance did blossom and in one case a marriage between an officer and an EW.
My lady clerk at HRD danced topless at a local club, invited us down but to the best of my knowledge none went to see the show.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DEPLORABLEREEG1/status/1293635418185900033
Nice take down.
I wonder why they waste time taking their shirt off. He could have got in a couple punches if he wasn’t fiddling with that.
Was he going flex on him?
It is cultural, and that has nothing to do with race.
In some cultures ‘battle’ is primarily about intimidation. In others it’s primarily about killing.
?
It’s important to know who you’re going to fight. You usually don’t.
I think we know who we are up against and I am fairly certain how it will turn out….just for the reasons I said.
Not my kink.
Kamala is Finnish for Horrible
Google Translate says “True”!
I thought salmiakki was Finnish for horrible.
English too.
Uh oh, Finnish is about to be canceled. As in finished.
Well it isn’t like Joe will Finnish his term, so what does that matter?
Oh shit. Her first EO as president will be to have Linux replaced with Windows on all govt. servers. As if we don’t already have enough security issues.
Mrs. Nixon is Finnish!
Saw this while following Sean’s link: campaign description for Dems
Nice
Not bad.
HarriDen doesn’t work for me. Gets the candidate’s names reversed. Its not intuitive enough.
Joe/Blow is still my fave.
Local Story that makes you go “huh?” on several levels.
A guy purposely ran up on the sidewalk and hit a girl waiting to get on a school bus. She lived, but the guy is only going to get time served and seven months in the county work house. WTF? The victim was thrown 50 feet in the air according to the charges.
Why did he do it?
Rampant crime is a powerful tool for the left.
That’s some real social justice right there.
Brother was just used car hunting and said the supply has dried up. He thinks it’s more of people looking for cheaper alternatives right now as money gets tighter. I supposed people just not turning over their cars at the same rate right now could be doing some of it too.
There have been a few stories, lately, from places like the MSNBC business channel about the “ageing” of the private automotive fleet.
People are definitely holding on to their cars a lot longer. Partly because they can (reliability) and partly because they must (price).
Also, I believe people are driving fewer miles since the Day of the Vid. A trend which can only get worse as local feudal lords restrict travel from outside their fiefdoms. It’s looking like I may never need to buy another vehicle.
Yeah, since Mr. Mojeaux started working from home again, we go almost nowhere except the doctor, dentist, and taking XX to work.
I’m considering buying my leased Accord then reselling it. Only 11,000 miles in 2 years. Blue book has it worth 3 to 4 grand more than what’s owed. Beats throwing away money on return fees.
Why sell it?
I want a truck.
So you can run over protestors?
Insurance companies have been rebating premiums since no one’s been driving anywhere as well.
I just saw a story on the local news a couple of days ago that said your used car has gone up in value by 10-15 percent due to a shortage of used cars. I was thinking bullshit but maybe they were right.
Well shit.
Here’s some good news for a change. Well, not for the rioters… but for the rest of us. If I was even more cynical, I would say this was to try to shift some votes here in CLE.
Ten Northeast Ohioans have been indicted on aggravated rioting and other charges that accuse them of destroying property as the May 30 protests in downtown Cleveland devolved into a riot.
That is good news. Destroying property is now a crime!
Destroying property is now a crime!
Only in flyover country.
Hey, it’s a crime in NYC, too. If you, for instance, deface a BLM mural.
Those crazy Swedes
For months, critics of Sweden’s strategy had claimed the Swedes’ softer approach was for naught. Despite its policies of encouraging social distancing mostly through voluntary action, projections still showed the nation’s GDP was expected to decline 7-10 percent in 2020.
Of course it was never a question if Sweden’s economy would suffer. It’s a nation heavily dependent on exports, and a decrease in global demand was going to lead to economic fallout regardless of what Swedish leaders did. The question was how much would its economy be harmed.
Two quarters of data have emerged now, and it’s clear that Sweden’s “lighter touch” policies have resulted in far less economic damage than its European counterparts.
Indeed, a recent report from Capital Economics, an economic research firm based in London, concludes that Sweden’s economy is the least damaged in Europe, the “best of a bad bunch.
“The Swedish economy has weathered Covid well, thanks in part to the government’s light-touch lockdown, and our forecast of a 1.5% drop in GDP this year is well above consensus,” wrote economists Andrew Kenningham, David Oxley, and Melanie Debono.
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GDP is only half the story, however. Perhaps more importantly, Sweden’s strategy has shown human society can still function in the presence of the coronavirus, despite the apocalyptic warnings from modelers and media.
While modelers predicted 96,000 Swedes would die by July as a result of its policy, as of mid-August the figure stands at less than 5,800, a higher per capita total than neighbors such as Finland, Norway, and Denmark but superior to Belgium, Italy, and others. COVID-19 case numbers continue to fall. Deaths and hospitalizations have flatlined, and reports indicate Stockholm is on the verge of herd immunity.
It increasingly appears that Sweden, the maligned outlier, got the virus right.
Instead of ordering humans confined in their homes, Swedes allowed schools to remain open and groups to congregate in parks, pools, restaurants, and bars. Not only did Sweden avoid much of the economic carnage and the unintended social consequences of lockdowns—increases in drug overdoses, domestic abuse, suicide, and social unrest—their strategy appears to have tamed the virus, unlike so many other nations around the globe who are seeing new waves of COVID-19.
Many experts may be loath to admit it, but Sweden’s strategy increasingly appears to be both economically sound and scientifically sound.
Many experts may be loath to admit it.
You said a mouthful, Shirley.
5,800/96,000 = 6%.
So if we take the rate at which Neil “wild Thing” Ferguson was wrong on his projections for Sweden if the Swedes persisted in their policies and applied it to the 2.2 miilion he predicted for the USA:
6% * 2.2 million = 133,000.
So it appears if we had just done exactly what Sweden did, we’d have lost roughly 20,000 fewer lives. I realize this isn’t exactly bulletproof science, but it’s as solid as any of the other science going around these days, so…
Man, I swear, Kamala has gotten 3 skin colors darker since last week. What is up with that? They know she’s not really black, don’t they? What race is her father? Cuz, hey kiddies, I hate to break it to you, Jamaican is not a race. Now he could be 100% authentic unmixed black. No one will probably know, since if he is not as pure as the driven snow… maybe that was a bad choice…, they are right now scrubbing any vestige of his racial identity from the internets. So, her mum in Indian. But somewhere in her ancestry was a very wealthy Irish slave owner. She be owing many reparation, me thinks. So how bout it Kamala, if they just come to your house and start taking some of your stuff?
She may wearing several extra layers of makeup to cover the botched plastic surgery.
“The pandemic will not be over until we reach herd immunity, either through a vaccine or through natural infections,” Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, recently wrote in The Spectator. “Herd immunity is not a strategy but a proven scientific phenomenon, and to deny that is as silly as denying gravity.”
That’s not what the consensus says. Somebody oughtta suspend that guy’s license to SCIENCE.
I saw an interview with Bill Gates on Bloomberg a couple days ago. He said the only way through this is through herd immunity due to vaccines, or uh, um, natural infection. I’m surprised they didn’t edit the latter part out. It made me think that maybe he’s not so confident in his vaccines.
As foolproof as his software.
Why do I get the feeling that it will not be possible to sue for damages when the rushed vaccines turn out to have serious side effects? If Gates and company are so bullish on vaccines they ought to be putting their own money into a fund to handle this.
I was waiting for the interviewer to ask “Will you take the vaccine? Will your kids take the vaccine?” For some reason she forgot to ask.
Liability and harm have only a loose connection these days.
Anybody have any recs (or horror stories) about new refrigerators? Repair guy was just out and he said dump no more money in this, it’s garbage. So we don’t have to rush but I’m now in the market. *sigh* The Joy Of Home Ownership.
Avoid Frigidaire. It’s what I’ve got now, and at one point the fridge handle broke off in my hand.
I’d like to think I was that strong, but I have access to a mirror… and well, I can see my arms. I’m currently dealing with the freezer holding temps, but the fridge is already seeming to run a bit warm. It’s ~7 years old.
YEah, that’s the garbage I have to replace. I’m not sure how old it is (it came with the house) but I doubt it’s more than 7, and the temperature control is screwed up.
In my rental about 5 years ago, (maybe the same model) I had a similar issue – it was a fairly simple job to replace a circuit card on the back of the fridge – my landlord repaid me (found instructions via youtube).
Had the Consumer Reports 2020 Buying Guide within arm’s reach. What style do you prefer – top freezer, bottom freezer, side-by-side, 3 French doors, or 4+ French doors? (I have no idea what French door models look like if not similar to a side-by-side.)
I’ve heard the French door styles tend to lose cool more quickly? I don’t know if that was just a flaw in early models though with bad seals. I’ve not had one.
Freezer bottom with water/ice please
Space limitations? Older home here and a French door model will not fit in the opening.
CR’s grid doesn’t list features, but here’s their top 5 bottom-freezers:
1. Kenmore Elite 79043
2. Kenmore Elite 79023
3. LG LDCS24223S (Ask for it by name!)
4. (With a “$” that means “CR best buy”) Kenmore 69313
5. Amana ABB2224BRM
For the record, Tom T. claims bottom freezers are the least energy efficient because convection. (When we replaced ours, we got a top freezer. Of course, that’s what I grew up with, so it’s what I’m accustomed to using.)
From what I’ve heard, it’s the other way around (remember, heat rises). I’m also accustomed to the top freezer. My sister has a bottom freezer which is a drawer, which I know would just have buried food sitting in it at some point.
I’ve got several home attempts to try to get my fridge/freezer working better before I decide I need to spend more money to buy a replacement. I’m just annoyed since I also have to drop my car off at the shop tomorrow for an ABS issue.
We had a whirlpool at the last house that had leaking issues which required me to replace the condensation drain. The icemaker also had a tendency to freeze up. Whirlpool is on my no buy list.
LG (2 houses ago) wasn’t terrible, but did have to have a warranty repair of a known icemaker issue. This was 5 years ago, though.
Current fridge is a Samsung. I’m generally happy with it. Some design issues (freezer doesn’t open enough, fridge door doesn’t stay open, had to break the retaining clips to get the glass shelf out when I spilled something), but haven’t had any mechanical problems yet.
I have an 8-year-old Whirlpool in my apartment that’s still almost like new. Runs cold, even.
Our GE is 16 years old and no problems.
My 15-year-old Sear Kenmore (top of the line in 2005) with French doors is still running great.
However, Kenmore isn’t really Kenmore any more.
Many, many hours late to the party but,…to respond to SF’s latest enrty:
“He smacked his lips then tried to lick them.”
*Standing ovation, tosses garlands*
I fucking lost it for a minute or three, bravo.
Anybody have any recs (or horror stories) about new refrigerators?
Not really, but my parents have a fairly new one (I don’t even remember the brand). It has the full width refrig on top and a pull out drawer freezer on the bottom. WAY better than the old side by side style.
The Late P Brooks’s parents are still alive. I thought I had lost the ability to be shocked.
The Late P Brooks’s parents are still alive.
My dad died in July. I haven’t gotten used to it. Still think of them as a set.
My phone still has “Nana and Pop” as the contact, and my Pop’s been dead five years.
Yeah, my mom’s number is still saved on my phone, and she passed away last year. It’s still weird that she doesn’t call me at least once a work, usually when I’m at work in a meeting, God rest her soul.
My dad’s phone number in my phone contacts still said both his and my Ma’s name until I got a new phone 4 months agog. She died in 2013. Her birthday is coming up. I miss her much.
My dad remarried, but it’s still “Bill & Gretchen” to me.
My Dad’s been gone over 50 years, still think about him, my Mom 30 years now. I think I miss my Dad more because I saw my Mom getting older and older where as my Dad died after I’d left home and didn’t see him very often for many years prior to his death. We all have our memories…
Pie – saw your comment about Romania this morning – what’s the local opinion about the Navy Aegis Ashore base there? I’d love to get assigned there (I’ve got a few friends who’ve been over) – but at this point in time, unless I get a mobilization option as a Reservist, probably not much chance of me making it over there on orders.
Great discussion today. Some excellent talking points.
Quid…?
Blue shells.
Just got home from picking the 17-year-old up from the vet. He had clean x-rays (aside from the rheumatizz), clean blood, and clean shit. Yet somehow I managed to come home with, like, 5 medications.
“CNN doctored the Biden-Harris photo to cover up the script”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1293588275379265536
MAGA, bitches.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1291769544000909312
Second wave
New Zealand officials are investigating the possibility that its first COVID-19 cases in more than three months were imported by freight, as the country’s biggest city plunged back into lockdown on Wednesday.
The discovery of four infected family members in Auckland led Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to swiftly reimpose tight restrictions in the city and social distancing measures across the entire country.
The source of the outbreak has baffled health officials, who said they were confident there was no local transmission of the virus in New Zealand for 102 days.
“We are working hard to put together pieces of the puzzle on how this family got infected,” said Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.
Investigations were zeroing in on the potential the virus was imported by freight. Bloomfield said surface testing was underway at an Auckland cool store where a man from the infected family worked.
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Residents of Auckland, home to around 1.7 million people, were given just hours to prepare for the return to level 3 restrictions on Wednesday, requiring people to stay at home unless for essential trips.
“Going hard, going early with lockdown is still the best response,” Ardern said. “Our response to the virus so far has worked … we know how to beat this.”
The rest of the country was placed back into slightly looser level 2 restrictions. The restrictions will initially remain in place until Friday.
Police set up roadblocks to discourage a mass exodus from Auckland, while supermarkets rationed the sale of some staple products amid a rush to the shelves. Long queues formed at COVID-19 testing centres in the city.
Kill the whole herd. Just like at the end of Hud. It’s the only way to be sure.
Lockdown the whole city for four members of the same fucking family? What a bad joke.
Vietnam relocated 80,000 for 3.
Insanity…
Madness.
Their house….
Nobody has ever ever seen Jurassic Park have they?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1293616686961061888
Dude. ??
WHEEEEEEEE!
COVID’s historic significance lies not in what it implies for our daily lives. Change, after all, is the one constant when it comes to culture. All peoples in all places at all times are always dancing with new possibilities for life. As companies eliminate or downsize central offices, employees work from home, restaurants close, shopping malls shutter, streaming brings entertainment and sporting events into the home, and airline travel becomes ever more problematic and miserable, people will adapt, as we’ve always done. Fluidity of memory and a capacity to forget is perhaps the most haunting trait of our species. As history confirms, it allows us to come to terms with any degree of social, moral, or environmental degradation.
To be sure, financial uncertainty will cast a long shadow. Hovering over the global economy for some time will be the sober realization that all the money in the hands of all the nations on Earth will never be enough to offset the losses sustained when an entire world ceases to function, with workers and businesses everywhere facing a choice between economic and biological survival.
Unsettling as these transitions and circumstances will be, short of a complete economic collapse, none stands out as a turning point in history. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.
Pull your skirt down, drama queen. You look ridiculous.
This is the Big Lie that the media desperately needs to convince Americans of. Desperately. That the coming economic shitstorm, destruction of wealth, and inflation was the sacrifice laid on the altar of actual survival.
If people actually realize that it was all for nothing, there will be hell to pay.
Here wego:
More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes.
No, George, not the common purpose!
Wow.
In a complete abandonment of the collective good, U.S. laws define freedom as an individual’s inalienable right to own a personal arsenal of weaponry, a natural entitlement that trumps even the safety of children; in the past decade alone 346 American students and teachers have been shot on school grounds.
The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.
How can the rest of the world expect America to lead on global threats — climate change, the extinction crisis, pandemics — when the country no longer has a sense of benign purpose, or collective well-being, even within its own national community? Flag-wrapped patriotism is no substitute for compassion; anger and hostility no match for love. Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. Leading their charge is Donald Trump, a bone spur warrior, a liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man, with the backbone of a bully.
Oh, the HUMANITY!
The American government spends more money on all those things than any other country in the world.
They never stop pretending it’s the 20s and Andrew Mellon is running the economy while Harding sells public land to his cronies. They perpetually pretend that the New Deal and the Great Society didn’t actually happen, and aren’t actually costing trillions of dollars a year.
They never stop pretending it’s the 20s and Andrew Mellon is running the economy while Harding sells public land to his cronies. They perpetually pretend that the New Deal and the Great Society didn’t actually happen, and aren’t actually costing trillions of dollars a year.
Millionaires in top hats toss pennies from their open top Duesenbergs to the street urchins.
It actually annoys me more than anything else they pull.
The feds collected 3.5 trillion dollars in 2019. There are 128 million households in the United States. You could give the 30 million poorest households in America 50,000 dollars a year for 1.5 trillion. Just take the IRS database, and dump 10 payments of 5,000 dollars each into the 30 million poorest households. Don’t need anything but a computer and some accountants to monitor the program. Oh, and since this churns through, you have at least 60 million households getting the big bucks every other year. At least some of those households would take that 50,000 and break the cycle of poverty. Did you have a really shitty year, actual genuine bad luck and fell down into that bottom quarter? Heres 50 grand to get you back on your feet. Are you a senior who’s actually staring at cat food and no heating oil? Boom, here you go. Post a bounty for reporting welfare fraud.
Standard Libertarian Disclaimer applies to the above of course.
Chinese immigrant poses with AR-15 with a Don’t tread on Me caption to commemorate Tiananmen Square, gets screwed by his school:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/fordham-requires-escort-for-student-who-posed-with-gun/