Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful morning it always is! I hope ya’ll enjoyed your Thanksgiving feast.
Sidney Powell files lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan.
Not only is Biden going to cure cancer, but he is also going to end racism.
Republicans set to redistrict 188 congressional seats.
Jobless aid to expire for 14 million after Christmas.
Hydroxychloroquine study finds that the drug reduced hospitalizations by 84%.
Trebek’s recorded Thanksgiving message before his passing.
Disney increases planned layoffs to 32,000.
What the hell happened to Drudge?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“If the Electoral College does elect President-elect Joe Biden, are you not going to leave this building?”
JFC. A reporter.
Drudge was skin suited long ago.
Disney laying people off in these troubled/uncertain/critical times?
Ugh, I just cant do it. It is just too stoopid out there.
Trump plans rally in Georgia. – one last rally before fading into obscurity
G’mornin’ Pie.
At Thanksgiving dinner yesterday people brought pies. We had apple, cherry, pumpkin and key lime. I had a sliver of each and thought of you.
NTTIAWTT
“We’ll just tell your Mom that we ate it.”
I can get limes here but have never been able to figure out what kind of key I need for a key lime pie
The keys to a good pie maker’s heart…
Try West Indian limes or Omani limes if you can’t get actual Florida Key limes
Key limes are nearly spherical and much smaller than regular limes–most are only 2-3 cm in diameter.
For you, a skeleton key.
Trebek’s recorded Thanksgiving message before his passing.
He didn’t take time out to do this; he did it as part of the introductory remarks he made every day on the show. It’s just that this particular show was scheduled to air on Thanksgiving (and of course the producers knew this).
Trebek’s final show was originally supposed to air on Christmas, but due to preemptions they’re running two weeks of “best of” shows so the final show is not set to air on January 8.
I saw an interview with Trebek back in the day. Despite the brainy reputation of the show Alex appeared to be a bit of a lunkhead, but a really nice guy.
I dont think I ever watched a single one of those shows.
Have you ever considered NOT being such a miserable, joyless cunt?
Don’t mellow his harsh, man.
Oh wait; I got that backwards.
I know how much harshing my mellow brings all of you joy!
You brought the first actual LOL that I’ve had for awhile. Thank you!
Cunte?
Republicans set to redistrict 188 congressional seats.
The article mentions Iowa, but don’t they have a bipartisan redistricting committee which is responsible for making Iowa’s districts perennial toss-ups?
A lot of states do, and failing that, there’s always the courts to do your redistricting for you as we saw in Pennsylvania.
That story is a big nothingburger.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/redistricting/the-iowa-model-for-redistricting.aspx
Since 1980, Iowa’s districts have been drawn each decade by nonpartisan legislative staff.They follow a strict set of criteria, including a prohibition on the use of political data. Iowa is one of only a handful of states with such a prohibition. The prohibition is broad in scope, and encompasses the addresses of incumbents, the political affiliations of registered voters, previous election results and demographic information not required by the federal constitution.
The duty of drawing both legislative and congressional district lines falls to the state’s LSA. To assist it in fulfilling this duty, Iowa code calls for the creation each decade of a Temporary Redistricting Advisory Commission (TRAC), which provides guidance and advice to the LSA on certain redistricting matters when requested. Once the LSA finishes its proposed maps, TRAC conducts at least three public hearings on the maps and submits a report on the maps to the General Assembly. The entire process is quick—the LSA is required to deliver a redistricting plan in the form of a bill to the General Assembly no later than April 1 or within 45 days of the state receiving data from the Census in the year ending in 1 (2001, 2011, 2021).
After the submission of the first set of maps (congressional, Senate and House), the General Assembly gives the plan an up-or-down vote. The only permitted amendments are to correct errors in the LSA’s submitted plan. If the General Assembly rejects the plan, the LSA has 35 days to deliver a new plan which must address the reasons why the first plan was rejected. If this second plan is also rejected, the process repeats itself and the LSA has 35 days to deliver a third plan. Unlike the first two plans, this third plan may be amended in the same manner as any other bill, or the General Assembly may draft a plan of its own at that point.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnew/status/1332167557969801218
??
Scrolling down I see this:
“Microsoft Math Solver
Any calculator can tell you the answer to 437 x 5. But how many can solve an equation like 3x + 5 = 17?”
Uh….30 years ago it was my $20 Casio.
Performing two operations is hard.
Casio calculators have always been better than TI. But TI poured tons of resources into marketing to teachers and to the administrators who make decisions about what will be adopted for classroom use.
Yeah, I used a Casio, but all the teachers only knew how teach for TI because that’s what was in all the books.
When I was in Uni, HP were the calculators all the serious students used. Great calculators. Until Carly ruined Hewlett-Packard.
“We’re going to build an economy that leads the world… we’re going to save this planet… find cures for cancer and Alzheimers and diabetes, I promise you,” he said. “We’re finally going to root out systemic racism in this country.”
Dream big, Ballgag Joe. dream big.
Speaking of post-racialisms, has anybody else seen that bizarre Vaseline “black baby” ad?
Seriously- what in the everloving fuck is that supposed to mean?
What is the rest of that supposed to mean? Root out Systemic racism? Huh? Save the planet?
I think that all translates to “I am going to fuck you to death”. What a bunch of low rent grifters the Dems are and their voters are drooling, booger-eatin’ morons.
Everyone knows that the first step to rooting out racism is to obsess about race and to categorize people into the race pigeonholes you’ve constructed for “them”.
>>headdesk<<
Make sure you choose one race to be the villain group.
The chinks?
Or de white debil. Take your pick.
Why does “systemic racism” seem to raise its ugly head in cities and states long controlled by Democrats? Has no journalist the guts to point out to Joe and Kommiela that their policies put millions of minorities into prison?
But she’s so presidential!
No but I saw the campaign about “equity for skin of color” on their website. I assume that’s related. And equally eyeroll-inducing.
Also- Greetings from cold, windy Montana. Finally home.
The drive seems to get longer every time. I feel like I went over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
If you smear your black child with vaseline, like a greased pig, he will be able to escape the evil clutches of The Man.
Yeah. I am not sure I want the planet ‘saved’.
*checks meteor report, prays for SMOD*
2 ads I was watching yesterday for two separate products featured a lesbian couple “of color”.
That’s totally representative of random sampling’s of Americans, duh!
And of course they showed them kissing open mouthed, way more than they would show a hetero couple, where couple hood is implied or is demonstrated with a quick peck public kiss.
Yet another ad, for Instagram, was entirely young people of color, and all the men appeared to be gay or trans (Asian dudes in lipgloss blowing kisses at the camera, for ex)
Is this how you cure racism? I lost the script.
(Asian dudes in lipgloss blowing kisses at the camera, for ex)
That wasn’t a K-pop group?
I should point out I didn’t see the commercial you’re referencing.
Oddly enough, I am not a Twitterati but when I follow a link from this site to Twitter it is all about K-Pop on the sidebar. Am I secretly Gay for girly men? Festus is confused…
“And of course they showed them kissing open mouthed, way more than they would show a hetero couple, where couple hood is implied or is demonstrated with a quick peck public kiss.”
I’ll allow it because TV lesbians are better than the real thing.
Banjos links always very positive as far as Trump and always a good song.
Well I was hoping to sleep in today, but I am on baby duty because my wife is going black friday shopping, even after refusing to host or visit large gatherings for Thanksgiving. *sigh*
Isn’t that largely online now?
“Shopping” Don’t wait up! *twiddle fingers*
Did anyone actually read through Powells lawsuits? Is there anything to them?
My understanding of one of them: Pennsylvania – only the legislature is allowed to set voting rules. Law says any ballots received after 8pm on voting day are invalid and must be thrown out. Penn Supreme Court changed rules (they are not empowered to do so) and allowed truck loads of ballots received after 8pm to be counted.
Yes, there is something to the suits but how much and how far it will go is yet to be seen.
Despite all of the gaslighting about the man holding the office of ‘President Elect’ I think Trump has a decent chance of prevailing…I think. We will see.
They’ve been posting excerpts on GP and its filled with smoking guns. She’s been backing up her claims the info in the affidavits is starting to come out.
1) An military intelligence operative explained under oath how we know Russia and China had access to and manipulated the results although the details have been redacted.
2) There is a money trail where GOP election officials in GA set up their own private election consulting firm to funnel millions of dollars in what appears to be collaboration with GOP Gov Kemp, the GA secretary of State, and Dominion.
3) Affidavits coming out with exact details about massive counterfeit ballot efforts being used to pump numbers for Biden.
Scott Adams has some good posts out about the gaslighting being done but there’s too much evidence out there to cover-up. Hundreds of people have come forward to testify.
God, you would think some in the media would actually mention it.
Someone on here said it yesterday, “its too late the referees have left the field and gone home.” So i dont know that anything will come of it.
Banjos, thanks for always having a positive attitude every morning. A good reminder on waking up that it IS a beautiful day!
This! Thank You!
Is there anything to them?
No matter what might be in them, I’m going to asasume they’ll be tossed, because overturning the media’s declaration of a Biden victory would be “too traumatic” to contemplate.
Portland and Philadelphia would be reduced to smoldering rubble if the election was stolen from President-elect Ballgag.
What do you mean “reduced to”?
I was gonna say, “there will be hundreds of dollars of damage if that happens.”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
“Portland and Philadelphia would be reduced to smoldering rubble if the election was stolen from President-elect Ballgag.”
*perks up*
Yeah? Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Agreed. There will be no election redo in any state. Proven levels of fraud will not be large enough to change the results. The anger that “we was robbed” Trump voters feel will be best directed toward the 2022 elections.
Should we get the news outlets to start talking about a “red wave?”
All the polling shows a 30 point lead for democrats. Those guys are never wrong.
To benefit your GOP operative friends? What’s the point in participating in rigged elections whether in 2022 or 2024? Sure, this election was rigged but no you shouldn’t complain too much about it. Two or four years later the elections will be miraculously more fair, I promise. No, nothing will really change about the election process. This is the GOP message and their surrogates like you on this board.
^There’s more than enough evidence to show massive election fraud rigged the election for Biden. The GOP should go down in flames if they don’t confront this now in 2020.
Having last voted for a Republican for President in 1968, I’d guess my surrogacy has long since expired. Reality informs us that there may be a point in participating in future elections unless one wants to abandon the struggle and do a Harry Browne in far North Dakota or some where. If anything, the GOP may provide a few more handholds on the slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
will be best directed toward the 2022 elections.
With all due respect, fuck that with a rusty farm implement.
I’m not voting in 2022. I’m not voting again until they prove to me that they take election security seriously, which will be never. The legitimacy of our electoral institutions has been permanently impacted in my eyes, and I will be finding other ways to protect myself from the authoritarians.
I think the Sidney Powell thing is for reals. Between that and the Guiliani team and all the other suits, there sure seems like a raft of evidence of fraud here. I still can’t imagine Biden thinking he would win by going to sleep at 9 a.m. everyday. If he entered into this election hoping the voters choose him, he would have been campaigning like Trump did. Every indicator screams “rigged election” Let’s just hope that it’s exposed and reversed.
They know they didn’t get away clean from this election fraud, so now they are doubling down on brazenness to overwhelm us old fuddy-duddies into submission.
Then they can bring about the Workers’ Paradise.
The book I mention below about Russian elections is flashing the warning. Americas future is at stake.
Huh. I don’t see my post about the Russian book I thought I’d linked “beliow”.
I guess I screwed it up somehow.
I had a dream last week which featured a blazing hot AmerAsian woman who was demonstrating the intensity of her respect and affection for me in highly specific ways. Maybe I was really dreaming I was in a home improvement commercial.
That was The Home Shopping Network.
I was thinking about taking some college classes in the Spring, mostly to get out of the house and meet some people – i.e., women. But, if every woman is wearing a mask – what’s the point?
Think of it as part of a gimp suit?
Think of it like an exotic veil, concealing her beauty until you get close enough to get under that mask… it’s as sexy as seeing a glimpse of a bare ankle under the long dress or burka.
meh.
Yeah, I don’t buy it either.
But they are churning out “fashionable” masks so that women will treat them as accessories and keep wearing them.
^This. A very good observation.
I wear the disposables on principle. I refuse to try to make it look anything other than a grim reminder, a reminder of pandemic hysteria in my case.
I wear a cheap black cloth one because I got sick of the straps snapping off the disposables. I suppose I should wash it some day.
Oh, and on the outside of the package it basically said it doesn’t work. LOL ?♂️
Do they also charge insane amounts of money for it just because women being driven by a need for fashion will pay a fortune for crap?
Good idea.
Damn straight. I whole heartily support that.
I still can’t imagine Biden thinking he would win by going to sleep at 9 a.m. everyday.
Every poll which put “Generic Democrat” up against President Cartoon Villain showed a landslide win for “Generic Democrat”. Early to bed and late to rise, down in the bunker, and keeping his damn mouth shut was Joe’s best strategy for being that candidate.
So, in the most important election, nay, the BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA!!!, they fielded a candidate who’s best shot was to hide and not say a thing? The polls ( with their stellar record of late) were all they needed? Btw, the polls were flat wrong everywhere except the few highly contested battleground states AND they had the margin dramatically higher even there. Seems like a really stupid plan to have a shitty candidate and rely on the polling data after it was so wildly wrong last time, considering how important they thought it was this time. Then, there was that one time Biden slipped up and said something about an extensive voter fraud network. I guess they want us to believe he meant voter integrity, except there was next to no voter integrity efforts, especially by the dems. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. It’s only because they know they have the media and big tech in the bag that they think they can get away with this.
I don’t really blame people for allowing the gaslighting to work. It’s the most massive propaganda effort ever made. Of course it seems to be working. If it does work, we are truly screwed. I live in CA, and we already have the banana republic style voter fraud system here. They went nationwide and if we let it fly, Newsome will be the t
template for the future rulers of America. Mark my words. This is very real.
The less he said the less reason he gave for anyone to vote against him. It’s a lesson Trump failed to learn.
Bring back Silent Cal – exhumed corpse, incorporeal spirit, I don’t care – just bring him back.
I don’t disagree that the less he said the better for him. I disagree that it worked. It was something lese that worked here. There’s no shame in being steamrolled into believing them, it’s perhaps the greatest effort ever expended in trying to sell a bullshit story. Bullshit still stinks, though, even when it’s in a very appealing and pretty little box.
Here I am, slouching toward Bethlehem. Mornin’ Banjoos! ( I did that on purpose!)
I’m reading a book called “ The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin” by Masha Gessen.
In one passage she describes how Putin changed governing and election practices. Does this “Special Electoral Culture” sound familiar?
Full excerpt here. Good book. Audiobook is read by the author.
https://avrl.catalogue.library.ns.ca/Record/1015595/Excerpt
Regarding Sydney Powell, she comes off at bat-shit insane but insert GIF of Morgan Freeman.
Good morning, Banjos
I caught part of The Wizard of Oz, the other night. Now, every time I see Kamala Harris, I’ll hear the flying monkey theme music.
Kamala Harridan.
We are going to be tired of her voice 5 seconds into her first speech.
Good morning Banjos!
“Hydroxychloroquine study finds that the drug reduced hospitalizations by 84%.”
I fully expect that very early in the Pre-Harris administration they will issue their COVID strategy and one facet of their recommended approach will include the use of Hydroxychloroquine – and the media will act as if it was a great idea “Why didn’t anybody think of this before?”
They will quietly add it back, I think even the media knows that they can’t flip flop on this openly. But I’m guessing then we can say that the media is responsible for most of the deaths related to covid because they shut this down.
Oh ye of little faith. They can easily make up some story about how it wasn’t understood to be clearly effective until the Biden-authorized study showed what a godsend it is.
Or they will alter the formulation ever so slightly so they can claim it’s a new, different drug invented by Joe Himself.
“Now with zinc!”
The media could kill a guy on 5th ave. and still convince a bunch of people that Biden won fair and square. They’re that good.
“Black Friday bonanza begins: Huge lines form across the US as retailers pin their hopes on a $766B holiday shopping frenzy amid fears COVID-19 will dampen crowds of bargain hunters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8992605/America-braces-Black-Friday-Retailers-pin-hopes-shopping-bonanza.html
But people couldn’t have funerals, and voting in person was too dangerous.
Regarding redistricting. Isn’t there some Iron Rule about that? Me, something today , You something tomorrow?
Yes. But that’s 10 years from now at worst.
Meaning, no politician is going to think about those consequences.
I found a three-way for Tundra:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8993489/Elizabeth-Hurley-sister-rare-bikini-snap.html
::gulp::
They are my age. There is still hope!
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
YES!
Bless you, CP!
Would and would.
“Trump tears into Twitter claiming it makes up ‘false trends’ that discriminate against conservatives and demands Section 230 be repealed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8992363/Trump-tears-Twitter-claiming-makes-false-trends-demanding-section-230-repealed.html
Garbage in, garbage out
The country’s death toll since the pandemic’s start is now more than 263,000. And nearly another 60,000 could lose their lives over the next three weeks, according to an ensemble forecast published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week.
One expert told CNN Wednesday night the number of daily deaths will likely double in the next ten days.
“So, we’ll be seeing close to 4,000 deaths a day, which is how you get another 60,000 deaths in only about 20 days,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, said.
Once they get the taste for human blood, there is no alternative but to put them down.
“Kristen Stewart felt ‘pressure’ to label her sexuality before coming out… as she details ‘fear’ of holding her girlfriend’s hand in ‘Trump territory’
That was three years ago and Kristen admitted that being gay isn’t any easier now, as she ‘lives in a world where holding the hand of the person you love can make you or others uncomfortable’.
Using a recent experience as an example, she said of a recent trip: ‘I entered some, like, Trumpian territory, and I felt scared. I have experience of trying to shape what my experience looks like for others, for it to be digestible and not threatening.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8992841/Kristen-Stewart-says-felt-pressure-label-sexuality-coming-SNL.html
Scared of what?
” ‘I entered some, like, Trumpian territory, and I felt scared. ”
Ahh. Chicago at 2:00 AM
“And the I woke up and realized it isn’t 1955 any more.”
No one has cared about that stuff since the 70’s. People may have tut-tutted and stroked their beards (Hah!) but no one gave a fickle finger about it. Not your everyday working person at least. I grew up in the 70’s and became a man in the 80’s. Gay? Good luck to you. Bonne chance!
“No one has cared about that stuff since the 70’s.”
No Shyte.
Remember how everybody stopped buying Elton John’s music back when it became clear that her was gay? Like about 40 years ago? Or how Village People became a commercial flop once it was known that their music was popular in the gay community?
I got the aids from listening to Queen…
I’m not responsible for your feels, you insecure twat. That’s your own head game to play. Feed it or starve it; up to you.
This is the defining characteristic of the generation – a complete lack of self-actualization. If you’re not constantly cossetting their feelings, you might as well be hacking them up with a machete.
Scared of being ignored.
BING-Fucking-GO!
Huh. I don’t see my post about the Russian book I thought I’d linked “beliow”.
I guess I screwed it up somehow.
The WordPress algorithm memporyholed it.
Unless Joe Biden shows up with a plumber butt and a snake, I don’t expect him to root out anything. That fucker can’t even rise from a kneel without two armed help. If he does it, more power to him.
“In a week, more likely two weeks, we will see a surge upon a surge,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said Wednesday. “We’re in for a tough time.”
In other words, projections for the coming weeks are grim. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to begin turning things around.
“It we all got together, wore the masks and did the social distancing, we could bend this curve within two or three weeks,” Schaffner said. “We would see actually transmission go down even before we get to the vaccines.”
Where the fuck are these people? What makes them think nobody is wearing a mask? Mask compliance in Indianapolis was about 99.9%.
People are wearing masks, and it has no effect, you cargo cultist retards.
^^^^ this. They conflate mandated and compliance and overlook voluntary use. Most people here were wearing the mask before the governor’s mandate. But boy were the doctors mad that they couldn’t get him to lockdown and be more of a tyrannical ass.
Toronto is in lockdown because of case numbers hitting 300-400/day in the city area. Most people are wearing masks even outside on the sidewalk, like they were in the summer, yet case numbers continue to rise… Maybe, just maybe, masks do nothing. Maybe all of these strategies brewed up do nothing and the virus spreading is inevitable.
I finally hear of a restaurant fighting back here. He disregarded the lockdown dictate and kept open. The place had lineups and apparently he was running out of food, which gives me hope that not everyone has lost their sense of freedom here. Give me BBQ or give me death
That’s what you said six or seven months ago, asshole.
The entire idea of ‘public health’ has managed to out itself as a complete scam, with all the intellectual rigor of phlostigon chemistry…
NPR was lamenting the SCOUTS decision, saying that Gorsuch was “second guessing public health professionals.”
Public health professionals are no basis for a system of government.
Mask usage where I live is in the 80-90% range. They are not effective.
“BIG NEWS: Pennsylvania Poll Watcher: USB Drives uploaded to machines, gave Biden thousands of votes. Says 47 USB Drives are now missing. EVERY UPLOAD GAVE BIDEN 50,000 VOTES. @OANN”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1332317347722498048
All of this could be true, but there is no way the “results” will be overturned at this point.
The only reason I can think of for drives to go missing is that they got sloppy when replacing the drives, or the files on said drives. “Hey, the drive we turned in was purple. What’s this green drive?”
What is this 2004? Why do you need 47 different USB drives to upload batches of 50,000 votes. This is the most complicated scheme.
Paper ballots, in person, in your voting district of residence, proof of citizenship, purple dye.
None of the computer wizardry or algorithms. Just count and tally. Precinct feeds up to district, district up to state. It ain’t that hard.
There are ways to do this more securely with computers. They have chosen not to (fewer pockets to line, etc.). The general belief that computers are magic and can’t make “mistakes” doesn’t help.
This strikes me as one of those that you’ll never be able to verify.
2nd try.
I’m reading a book “The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin” by Masha Gessen.
In the following excerpt, she describes Putin’s restructuring of government and of elections at the turn of the new century so that power is concentrated in the “presidency.”
Note the characteristics of a “Special Electoral Culture.”
Longer excerpt here.
https://avrl.catalogue.library.ns.ca/Record/1015595/Excerpt
” 5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
Surely the journalist class should be intrigued by the historic implausibility of Joe Biden’s victory. That they are not is curious, to say the least.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/
What are the differences between the German and the American work-ethics?
There could not be more diverse and opposite working cultures than German and American.
Having worked in Amazon, HP and AMD, the hallmarks of an American work culture are:
Long hours
hierarchy (designation) is a sign of professional success (not always!!)
capitalism at the heart of business
achievement of goals, no matter the costs and effort
ends justify the means
using employees as disposable items (notice how quickly companies offloaded the employees in Covid crises)
hustle all day long
brag about the good stuff (marketing is key for all that is “presumed” good)
seeking opportunities and making businesses out of them
spreading or expanding as quickly as possible, as wide as possible
using other’s money (funding) to expand the global ambitions
market domination
bigger is always better
Anecdote : In one such company, the invitation for company summer trips was extended to “only the permanent employees” in the team.
German work culture was pretty visible in companies like Zalando and 2 other startup where I worked in Germany. Some highllights were:
Efficiency value of working hours
Capitalism combined with socialism
goals are defined, budgets are allocated and the results are expected
very strong focus on work life balance
understanding of the fact that 14hours work days are not sustainable
company/business health is reflected by employee health
fresher and young professionals are able to question top management
employee benefits in tough times (Kurzarbeit for those impacted by Covid)
focus on results and quality work, market domination comes organically
strong belief that good quality product/service requires little to no marketing
build world class quality products for long term (eg : homes)
more focus on the DACH markets, rather than global domination
understated and camera shy, especially when it comes to display of wealth
quality is always better.
I have always told people that I am far more impressed with the guy that does a full 8 hours of work in 4 than I am with the one that does it in 12, especially if the quality of the work of the guy that did it in 4 hrs is still higher than the one needing 12. Yeah, I am biased, cause I tend to be that first guy. I always look for ways to automate the stuff I need to do repeatedly to make sure I can just click a button to do it, and will spend the time to make it so. Where I draw the line is the usual “reports” management times want you to produce. It doesn’t matter how accurate and informative the reports are, you can bet your entire retirement savings that the management types will ALWAYS make the wrong conclusions and push for things that actually are adding zero value or serve only to produce pretty graphs so they can tell their management they “solved” some problem that still is there.
Link, Pie?
It was something in the spam I get from quora never know how to properly link that
I’m shocked that startups may have a different work culture than established firms! Shocked!
-1 Free beer and arcade
Not every American company is Amazon, HP, or AMD.
Or… GIGO.
But kindly take your socialism and shove it up your Arsch. kthxbai
Well put.
Germany is, economically speaking, a metaphorical luxury yacht maker to the world. Their target markets are the upper quarter of first world countries and the upper twentieth of the rest of the world. They make high-quality goods, yes, but they sell them for prices that the vast majority of the world’s population cannot afford. Moreover, their primary skill is take what others have already done first and do it better. They’re like the Apple of world countries. Europe in general hasn’t really led the world economy the way the U.S. or China have. The EU economy would rapidly stagnate if not for the impetus of primarily external innovation. Germany’s higher margin, lower volume model just doesn’t work everywhere.
Good to see Plaid Cymru adopting messianic medieval prophecy in their literature. I wish MORE political parties in Britain would follow this exciting lead
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1332266725962895360
Is Joe’s racist solution going to be the final one?
Nothing to worry about if you aren’t a bitter deplorable.
Ok my Putin book post was rejected again. Too long I guess. If interested at all, click the link snd read the longer excerpt.
I’m reading a book “The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin” by Masha Gessen.
she describes aftermath of Putin’s restructuring of government and of elections at the turn of the new century so that power is concentrated in the “presidency.”
https://avrl.catalogue.library.ns.ca/Record/1015595/Excerpt
Good morning!
I think the burnt honey wine disagreed with me, since I woke up at midnight with the kind of indigestion that causes your body temperature to shoot up.
Almost done cleaning — just finished touching up the cast iron (roasted and made gravy in it) and now the only thing left is the stovetop.
I still have the rotisserie spit soaking in soapy water, but the mess is almost gone! Good luck with the honey wine hangover.
No hangover, one bottle with a meal wasn’t enough to even get be drunk.
Huh. I didn’t think the maker would still be in business I would have given them very low odds of sustainability.
The best mead I’ve ever had outside the Minnesota Renaissance festival is Winehaven’s “Stinger” Mead.
Delicious; far better than Winehaven’s wine. And made in Minnesota, though sold throughout the US.
Yum!
Bochet is awesome.
Or rather, my bochet is awesome. Can’t speak to any commercial examples.
I’m reading a book “The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin” by Masha Gessen.
She describes Putin’s restructuring of government and of elections at the turn of the new century so that power is concentrated in the “presidency.”
Note the characteristics of a “Special Electoral Culture.”
What’s scary is that this transformation of elections didn’t have to be directed by the Kremlin.
The electoral fraud was done voluntarily at the local level by people who wanted to curry favor with the President (Putin).
Similarly, we aren’t going to find a smoking gun Dem fraud memo. They can depend on dutiful party apparatchiks to come up with the required electoral edge.
This was an interesting read on The Night Wolves, a Russian biker gang with heavy connections to Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/an-evening-with-the-night-wolves/
“Can someone explain to me how the attorney general of PA knows the results of the election the day before the election itself?”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1323303650622468096
Because he knew they were going to cheat?
“BREAKING: Twitter has suspended COL @dougmastriano
after leading the PA Senate Hearing today about election fraud”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1331756986707415040
You serfs better shut the fuck up and accept the will of your credentialed but totally inept elite globalist master class, or else!
If I were a baked potato in the oven, I would be one that lacked fork poking… This is so blatant that even the enemy is is keeping quiet about it.
Meanwhile, Stacy Abrams is leading the charge for Democrats in the crucial senate race in Georgia.
She still hasn’t conceded the election she lost about 4 years ago and her constant claims that the election was rigged were not censored in the slightest by the media.
Works fine now and no mention on his page.
dude it’s done get over it
The cheating is definitely not done. It will continue as long as it’s done with computers.
Trebek’s recorded Thanksgiving message before his passing.
I got to meet and talked with with Alex Trebek during a local contestant try out/search back in the 80’s. I didn’t make it past the first round but it was a fun experience and I left with two impressions: Alex Trebek was a good egg and I wasn’t as smart as I thought. I will miss him.
“”Guys” is not a not an inclusive term for addressing a group…. here’s some alternatives to try.”
https://twitter.com/dr_krystal/status/1328830004923224065
This idiot is a scientist.
This idiot is “scientistic” as my Austrian namesake might say.
Not the same thing.
I generally go with “‘sup bitches” for a mixed group
Sloth was a sexist asshole!
Is it okay when I use “You stupid fuckers”?
I’m so woke that I acknowledge that you don’t have to be born a woman to have sand in your vagina.
cancelled
Long ago, long ago.
Well, finally got the November cartoon done just before the end of the month. Apologies if it doesn’t run before the end of the month, it’s up to the scheduling faeries now.
Yay!
If it doesn’t run by Monday, that means we have two cartoons next month.
#Christmasmiracle
Black Friday Funbags.
https://archive.li/70vPQ
Today in Internet paranoia, I offer up “is Facebook listening to my calls?”
I called my sister on Thanksgiving using my mobile phone with my long time Minnesota based phone number starting in 612.
I don’t often call my sister, and she asked at the end of the call whether she should reach me at my work cell phone number. I used area codes to describe it: “Call or text my 858 area code number. My 612 is mostly full of spam and text codes.”
Immediately after the call, I clicked Facebook app on this phone, the 612 one, and Facebook had a big blue exclamation point with “is 612….still your mobile number? Please update your number blah blah click to add phone.”
I’ve had this number for years and it’s the only one I have used with FB, and quite often. Why would FB suddenly put that message across my Facebook app other than if their bots listened to my conversation with my sister?
Imma need more tinfoil.
Meh, sites ask me all the time time to verify the PC and IP address I use exclusively to access said sites as ‘a new device’. It’s just shitty programming.
It was neither a new device nor a new log in.
It was listening.
Big tech has set up the most extensive spy network in history. They use all the data to steer us towards what they want. The data they collect is worth more than anything ever has been. They control the news we get, the success of our “leaders” and what damage is done by true info. They have the keys to the kingdom and they are using them against us.
Reminds me of that one crazy dictator dude who called them ” the enemy of the people.”
They use all the data to steer us towards what they [think we] want.
They made their money figuring out what people want and giving it to them. The massive apparatus they built to do this is not so quickly or adeptly turned to telling people what they should want. Almost always, marketing has to find a niche, exploit it well, and expand it. The media-tech nexus has found a niche for first-world neurosis aka social justice causes (save the environment, stop racism, sexism, transphobia, save lives from disease, etc.) and it has been somewhat profitable for them but it requires a target market that lives comfortable lives full of pointless guilt. When it runs up against someone who doesn’t feel guilty or isn’t living a comfortable live, it is ineffective and powerless.
Bullshit. When people seek information, they google it. Google voter fraud right now, and you get page after page about how it doesn’t exist. You get lots of smearing of anyone who’s involved in trying to assert that it happened. They are blatantly telling us what to believe. It’s so far removed from just selling us stuff, it’s like they don’t even care what we buy anymore, they’re worried about what we vote for.
So you scroll past the bullshit to find what you want. Their next step is going to be to delist it entirely. So you go to somewhere other than Google to find what you want. They made their money on exploitation not control. The more they try to control instead of exploit, the more they lose.
If you go a dictionary to look up a word and it says “x”, then it would take extraordinary effort to acquire more info than that. Like all propaganda machines, they bank on the vast majority of people just accepting what they say, because they are called experts. You don’t have to convince everyone, just enough of the total to affect what they want affected. It’s real and it’s happening right now.
Well, if people want to be fed affirming lies, that’s what they’re going to get. The challenge is to break the implicit trust these people have with tech companies, and that starts by pointing out there’s no basis for the trust in the first place. Google wants you to give them money and favor, and perhaps above even that, wants you to not interfere with governments giving them money and favor. This is not a conspiracy theory, it’s just the reality of how the world works. Anyone who doesn’t view what they do with some suspicion wants to be lied to.
Tinfoil is needed. I thought Facebook stated in the user agreement for their phone app that everything you do on your phone can be audio recorded and analyzed even if not using Facebook.
Tinfoil is not needed
Alcoa is up to $20 from $10 in June.
I’ve never experienced any of this “listening to me” stuff you guys keep sharing. ?♂️
Free to OBEY
Adam Skelly, who owns Adamson Barbecue, is being charged with one count each of attempting to obstruct police, mischief, failing to comply with a continuing order and failing to leave when directed.
The restaurant was seized by the Toronto Police Service early this morning, the locks were changed and all persons were restricted from access to the premises, said Toronto Police Superintendent Dom Sinopoli in a press conference late Thursday afternoon.
Toronto began a four-week lockdown this week amid an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases and as ICUs near capacity. All dining, non-essential shopping, salons and gyms have been ordered closed. And on Thursday, Toronto’s mayor told CNN he wasn’t ruling out an extension of the lockdown to last through Christmas and New Year’s.
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City of Toronto Mayor John Tory said he believes Skelly is making a political statement.
“He had a lot of the anti-mask people there,” Tory told CNN’s Erica Hill Thursday morning on “New Day”.
“It was like it was a festival they were having to try and celebrate some of their unorthodox views.”
“But I think the vast majority of people don’t accept that. They’re trying hard to make the sacrifices that are terrible in some cases to make sure we can all get healthy,” said Tory, adding that he believes Skelly will “face huge fines” if convicted.
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Holy fuck! Good luck Canuck Glibs, that is some stazi shit right there.
I saw that yesterday. Cops were cucked. It was magical.
“FREE TO OBEY”
That would be a cool t-shirt
“unorthodox views”
WRONGTHINK DETECTED
Oh, we can’t have that.
The US shares a similar heritage as Canada and Australia: plucky, adventurous free men taming the wilderness.
But Canada and Australia are going full-stazi way faster than the US.
The difference? Guns. Even though LaPierre sucks, I’m still giving to the NRA.
I bought a lifetime membership 20-some-odd years ago and plowed everything since then into actual gun purchases.
We told the King to fuck off, the other two did not.
Is a continuing order similar to an enabling act?
Zoom call was fun last night. Gotta do it again sometime.
Did you just keep holding up nudie polaroids?
Polaroids pfffft.
Daguerrotypes or GTFO.
Wait Q is doing the zoom calls now? What is this place turning into? Camster?
We have way more class than that: more like Chaturbate.
Flogging Molly < Tilted Kilt < crap.
I have a strong loathing for OIRISH. Fake pubs, fake music, fake drinking.
Give me Stiff Little Fingers, a hole in Hell's Kitchen, and a three day drunk.
I have fond memories of a college cheerleader who liked Flogging Molly; so fond I may have done some flogging myself over the years. But Nothing beats
offThe DublinersThe lead singer of Flogging Molly loves it when you point out that in the 80s he was the lead singer of a glam hair metal band.
Thin Lizzy is the greatest Irish bad, bar none, ever.
Today’s typo is brought to you by the letter ” N ” kids.
Them
Sorry, no.
People who’ve covered Them songs- Shadows of Knight, Patti Smith, Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors, The Count Five, 13th floor elevators, David Bowie, Ricki Lee Jones, Dwight Yoakum
People who’ve covered TL songs – Metallica
Case Closed.
What song did 13th Floor Elevators Cover?
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue is a Bob Dylan tune.
Gloria.
Awesome.
Oh and I forgot about I can only give you everything.
add The Iguanas, MC5, The Troggs, Richard Hell, The Chesterfield Kings, Plan 9, Nick Waterhouse to the list.
Most Irish say Saw Doctors were the best.
I’m sure that you meant to say ‘Murder City Devils’ there. Easy mistake to make.
Murder City Devils was from Seattle.
Stiff Little fingers – Suspect Device
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgG_c21NW0c
Good morning, Banjos!
I hope you all had a fantastic day of gluttony.
While there is clearly something to the lawsuits, I’m not holding my breath for a positive outcome. Deep tech has brought out everything to try to keep actual news away from the herds.
We’ll see.
Sunny and nice today in Minne. I’m gonna drink some more coffee and head out for a long walk. I hope all of you have a fabulous Black Friday!
Oh, and on the latest Your Welcome, Malice interviews Glen Greenwald.
It’s a good one.
this was also linked yesterday
Drudge article.
WAY TL;DR. AFAICT Drudge cashed out and rode off into the sunset. Lefties sensed an unparalleled skinsuiting opportunity and took it.
TBH, I can’t blame the guy; he probably sold it for some ungodly amount of money and now he’s sipping mai-tais on some beach surrounded by scantly-clad hotties of his preferred gender (I think I remember him being gay…).
So far as Glib-fit goes I’m doing well. My t-shirts are getting much tighter across the chest and my waistline is shrinking. I was always a slim fellow until I hit 50. Now I resemble a broader shouldered Hank Hill.
Festus New Toned Tits: calmer yet perkier!
You have no butt and a narrow urethra?
Uhhh, probably? I may have had a secret child. It was 1982 and we never spoke again. Her parents were very religious and I didn’t give a care at the time.
“Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: THE GREATEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN.”
https://twitter.com/HarrietMould/status/1331890921277943808
It’s not the greatest video though.
Basically the same point proven by any t-shirt with something in Engrish printed on it from (random Asian country) since 1970.
My favorite chingrish tee shirt was on a little boy and read “grandpa fucking space shuttle”
Epic.
On that note…
This week my kids brought home a short pamphlet from school explaining some new chat service the local schools are using to communicate with parents. It seems some company came up with this idea and obviously didn’t do much research into the branding.
I suppose they were thinking that this was a mash up between school and IT resources so they call this app “SchIT mail”.
“Activist, 90, cited again for feeding Fort Lauderdale homeless
FORT LAUDERDALE — For the second time in four days, 90-year-old activist Arnold Abbott was cited by police for a violating a new city ordinance designed to stop him and others from feeding the homeless in public spaces.
“I expected it,” Abbott said Wednesday after four uniformed officers led him to a squad car and away from a food-laden table at a beachfront city park where he has been ministering to the hungry for more than 23 years….
The ordinance that the city commission passed in a past-midnight vote Oct. 22 limits where outdoor feeding sites can be located, requires the permission of property owners, and says the groups have to provide portable toilets, hand-washing stations and maintain the food at precisely regulated temperatures.”
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-homeless-feeding-citations-folo-20141105-story.html
what was the sodium content of that food?
Man I hate these homeless bastards around here, but that’s just fucking stupid and evil. Feed whomever you want. How about we make it illegal to just plant a filthy flag and claim a chunk of sidewalk for your filthy tent city? How about we make it illegal to steal a bunch of bicycles and start an impromptu junkyard right in the middle of the city? How about we just stop giving them a bunch of free stuff and building them expensive apartments? How about we attach a degree of shame to the idea that not working, bathing and respecting others? NOOO!!!! We’re going to outlaw feeding people. Fucking retards.
On the other hand, ask yourself how you’d feel about your neighbor setting out food for rats next door.
sorry just wanted to make that comparison. In either case I oppose the State getting involved.
Remembering the time we changed our whole day’s plans because we drove past this sign.
https://twitter.com/SeafloorScience/status/1332132138724954113
I don’t mind eels.
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
– Ogden Nash
Thanks for introducing me to the Jaboticaba tree, @TheSaberLion
. It seems like it will trigger multiple phobias.
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1332066603039649792
Coinbase became aware of an upcoming hit piece in the New York Times & decided to preempt it w/ a blog post. Incredibly, this has been interpreted by some journalists as a sort of theft of the scoop, as though private companies are beholden to take their knocks to enrich the NYT.
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1332056200058261510
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1332322229485330433
Social media and the msm are massively benefitting election conspiracy mongers incidentally.
Ordinarily if you read a conspiracy on a far right site, it’s quickly and immediately debunked when passed along on social media.
Now, though, it is simply censored outright or hand waved as baseless by the staff or a link is attached to it that says “there’s nothing to see here. no fraud occurred”
I can’t imagine a better way to ensure these theories on the election stay strong and last for years and years.
These gatekeepers are morons and what they are doing to this country is disgusting.
That which is not mandatory, is prohibited and v.v.
So many things like that lately, and the idiots can understand why free choice is better.
The cooter shooter
Pocket Rocket
Tampon torpedo
Twatling gun
Menstrual missile
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1330915645379239938
What did the cougar do to the vagina to deserve such a fate?
Special tune for Banjos (not at her). Seems appropriate for the Festive Season https://youtu.be/m38EdJeM6dU
Joey Shithead is a fucking municipal politician now. A fucken commie politician but feature that on the the tree of whoa…
I’m just holding my breath and waiting for a comedian to take some pics holding up a rubber, severed head of Biden. I know it’s imminent.
I first read that the wrong way and it was just as funny.
“ It is hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
—Thomas Sowell
Probably my favorite Sowell quotation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8990271/Couple-discover-66-bottles-Prohibition-era-whiskey-hidden-upstate-NY-home.html#article-8990271
Noice!
Things you should not announce to the world #463.
Not as dumb as announcing that you found some buried cans containing gold coins.
Yeah, I’ve never understood why people do that. Haven’t people yet learned that when a government hears about such a find, they joyously yell “It’s treasure! We’ve got guns, therefore the treasure is OURS! OURS, WE TELL YOU!!!” ?
I’m out for now. I had a really bad bit of potato last weekend but seem to be on the mend. Dysthymia IS a hell of a thing.