STEVE SMITH HELP WITH LINKS!
STEVE SMITH HALP FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS WITH LINKS. IT MEAN HIM GET UP VERY EARLY. BUT IT OK. HIM DO LINKS, THEN GO VISIT CAMPGROUND. BY VISIT CAMPGROUND, MEAN GET GOOD START ON DAY. BY GET GOOD START ON DAY, MEAN FILL RAPE QUOTA EARLY!
STEVE SMITH GIVE CASCADIA LINKS. FREE CASCADIA! BUT WHEN READ LINKS, SHAKE HEAD AT SILLY HOOMANS WHO LIVE IN CASCADIA. STEVE SMITH SORRY IF HEAD GET TIRED. FROM SHAKING.
HERE LINKS!
- SLAVER GIVES SELF MOAR POWER FOR MOAR TIME. *SHAKES HEAD*
- HOW ELSE KEEP POSITIVE CASES ONLY UP! *WEAR TINFOIL HAT*
- THIS LOOK LIKE SEA SMITH TURN OVER TULPA BOAT????
STEVE SMITH HOPE ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS HAVE GOOD DAY!
Thanks, STEVE. Sloopy and banjos are wrangling kids, work and such – good to see other staff pitch in.
other staff pitch in.
I didn’t realize that STEVE was able to type with his “staff”… multi-talented, that fuzzy beast is.
You are a solid guy, Swiss. I feel privileged to have “met” you. “Life is short and life is shit and soon it will be over!”
STEVE SMITH SOLID TOO!
“ahem”, StEVE SMiThee.
I thought OMWC was the kid wrangler?
Only if he gets close enough.
whaddup, ‘yo
FREE CASCADIA!
I got nothing
Oh, I am sure STEVE SMITH can give you something…
RUN PIE! RUUUNNNN!
PIE RUN AND GET WARMED UP, STEVE SMITH LIKE WARM PIE.
LIKE THIS!
I find it very weird German companies add (f/m/div)* at the end of job titles when recruiting.
Data Integration Engineer (f/m/div)
WTF. If you gonna add div to it just get rid of the whole thing.
What is “div”? Something woke, I guess.
This tells me what they’re really looking for is “f” or maybe “div”.
I know we try to make a competitve offer for any divinities that apply for a job here.
And an angel of the lord appeared to me, and we turned him away because his resume was out of date.
So could you tell us about a time thy had a disagreement with management and how did you handle it?
“I told him it’s better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
This is like, every IT manager in the world.
Of course, IT managers prefer the icy version of Hell.
I handed the tool that I was using over to the “boss” and walked away. This has occurred a few times.
Not woke enough?
div = diverse
Well, unless it’s the Staatsoper hiring, then it’s “diva”
I contain multitudes.
My name is Legion.
My name is T’wando. Try to not hire me. Go ahead…
Two or more apostrophes in the first name I’m not hiring
/Rule of thumb
Diverse?
Divers?
I am a certified instructor for both PADI & SSI!…
Diverse?
De longer you work here, diverse it gets?
Divinity ?
No. Divine! – https://youtu.be/WUF3w0M_e7U
How many guns were “onboard.”
Good morning, Glibboys.
whaddup G-Money
How many guns were “onboard.” – are fishermen particularly buff?
…yes?
Since the concept of the Atlas stones came from fishermen, I’ll go with yes.
Rogue Wave?
https://youtu.be/DlOl9LOUQ0g
Was it a Blue Wave?
STEVE SMITH WEDNESDAY MORNING LINKS
I suppose this is appropriate for hump day.
Good morning, STEVE SMITH!
There is a person residing in the governor’s mansion here who could use a bit of your special skills. Assclown is locking us down again. Just in time for Thanksgiving. Bars, restaurants, gyms, youth sports. You know, anything good in the world.
What’s the end game, here? And why is this occurring all over the world? All for a virus that really ain’t shit.
It really makes this yeti wonder.
End game – conditioning the populace to obey and comply with arbitrary orders and diktats without limitation in order to achieve greater control over people’s lives.
Some kind of long game to make everyone hate state governance so much they clamor for unitary FedGov control?
If I wanted to break a populace, I’d follow what DeWine (Fucktard – OH) is doing. Vague warnings, threats, then graciously not enacting his worst ideas, but replacing them with something that gives an illusion of choice. All so his supporters can say, “He still loves us, he said he was going to break our leg, instead he just gave us two black eyes.”
All while bleating that it’s “common sense”, and because the number of cases (but not the deaths, hospitalizations, or ICU admissions) are spiking.
Benevolent Dictator theory…and it works on most of the American populace
I saw someone’s lame attempt at a meme where they transformed “curfew” into “care for you.” Total lack of awareness as to how Orwellian that sounds.
SLAVER GIVES SELF MOAR POWER FOR MOAR TIME. *SHAKES HEAD*
Who knew that governors could simply unilaterally declare never-ending states of emergency and give themselves dictatorial powers with out any end point?
What a country!
And reelect them too!
They can re-appoint themselves, using their executive powers, save money, save time.
The founders did. But apparently the legislative and judicial system that was put in place to stop this shit can’t be arsed to do so.
New Illinois restrictions:
•All bars and restaurants close at 11pm and may reopen no earlier than 6am the
following day
• No indoor service
• All bar and restaurant patrons should be seated at tables outside
• No ordering, seating, or congregating at bar (bar stools should be removed)
• Tables should be 6 feet apart
• No standing or congregating outdoors while waiting for a table or exiting
• No dancing or standing indoors
• No tables exceeding 6 people
• Reservations required for each party
• No seating of multiple parties at one table
• Indoor gaming terminals must suspend operations
• Includes private clubs and country clubs
Low Crawl it is then.
No dancing
Damn Baptists are at it again!
Fortunately, the weather in Chicago is just delightful for the next few months.
Good enough for a 2am Stroll to Subway.
That’s so good, I almost got choked up.
So…
21k people given a placebo. In five months, 162 get the coof.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/covid-19-vaccine-trial-complete-pfizer-and-biontech-update-their-promising-result
Now, it’s not in this article, but on the radio they reported Pfizer was using a stricter definition of catching the coof than Cuomo is — they required you to hav at least a runny nose in addition to a positive ‘vid test.
So Pfizer winds up with the same 95% success rate as Moderna.
Why is the FDA approval still pending?
Don’t you bureaucracy bro?
Hilariously, I think its because Pfizer’s study isn’t quite ripe yet, because not enough people in the control group caught the ‘Vid.
Think about that one. We can’t approve this “urgently needed emergency” vaccine because people aren’t catching the disease it immunizes against.
I’ll just take the placebo, Thank You. Fewer possible side effects
So Placebo is 92.3% effective against Covid?
Good thing I’m not much of a traveler, all these closures would be infuriating. I mean, they are, but only because I’m worried about what this is all doing to our country and countrymen.
Off topic, but I’ve got a good chunk of leave from work I’ll be taking in the next couple months and was looking at options for earning a bit of money on the side. After looking at a list of suggestions for jobs I can do at home, based on my needs and (lack of) skill sets, transcription work looked like a good option. Does anyone have any experience with that line of work? How in demand is it? It looks like there’s free transcription software out there and you can take jobs whenever you’re available. I only speak English and don’t have a working knowledge of technical language (ie I probably won’t be able to transcribe medical stuff).
I am actually thankful my relatives were hesitant about us coming up to NYC for Thanksgiving when we checked in back in September. We told them we would do something else.
We decided on Florida, which was a good call apparently.
I had a patient a few weeks ago that told me she went to NYC during the lockdown to pick up a relative that had become homeless. She received thousands of dollars worth of fines and got phone calls back then about quarantine. I guess the toll cameras and her ezpass was utilized to harass her
Tolls, that’s how they’re doing it. Figures.
Fuck New York
John Carpenter had the right plan for NY. [Just have to relocate all the pols in Albany first]
If the fines are from NY only I would advise your patient to never go back there again and just not pay. I have a few coworkers from NY that had minor violations they didn’t even know about until they went to renew their registration, rack up late fees into basically unpayable sums. They say they can never go back to NY now. Too bad because my company is based there, so a ton of promotions go through there.
Not sure that’s a good idea, they’ll likely go to collections and end up on her credit report.
Eh. You can negotiate with collections.
WTF?
You could always try starting an Onlyfans.
I think Mojeuax does medical transcription.
Skagit County asks those without COVID-19 symptoms to not get tested
Sensible…unless you are trying to keep the casedemic fear alive.
It could be an incentive thing. My employer gives 10 days paid time off to quarantine to employees who test positive. We have perfectly healthy people regularly get tested, hoping for a positive result and that ronacation.
We’ve had to get multiple tests now in order to go back to work or attend school. If one family member sniffles and the school or employer finds out. Can’t come back without a test.
My sister had to take 3 tests total in order to return to work or she had to wait the 2 weeks.
We have a number of students who have been quarantined multiple times this semester…oddly enough, always just before major exams.
The demand is proving too high for testing capacity. County health officials are now asking those without symptoms not to get tested, and instead, just stay home for the 14-day quarantine period.
If we want more money, we have to get that positivity rate sky high!
How about neither?
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday extended her declaration of a state of emergency for COVID-19 another 60 days until January 2, 2021.
Convid-1984 is never going away because it is the key to total and arbitrary control over you.
Too Full to F – – – You can’t always make room for a dick. Especially if you’ve eaten dessert.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/too-full-to-f-cazzie-david-book-excerpt.html
For straight couples, there is one key difference between sex for the male and for the female: a woman gets a penis inserted into her while a man gets to insert his penis into someone else. That’s all nice and good. Sex is pleasurable for both genders. But from what I’ve discovered, only one gender has to save room in her body if a penis is to go into it — meaning that sometimes, if you’ve eaten a hearty meal, there isn’t enough room for a penis.
Sure, women can eat and then have sex. But they really can’t eat a lot. You know the saying “You can always make room for dessert”? Well, you can’t always make room for a dick. Especially if you’ve eaten dessert.
BBW porn says they’re a liar.
That explains why there are so many obese women without multiple kids from multiple fathers across the United States.
Oral.
“For straight couples, there is one key difference between sex for the male and for the female: a woman gets a penis inserted into her while a man gets to insert his penis into someone else.”
This is like sooper transphobic.
Also: this was supposedly written by an adult? This sounds like a cross between 7th grade health class sex ed and stories girls make up at slumber parties and then send to Cosmo.
Learn to code.
I went to college with her. Never had any classes together, but word was she relied very heavily on her fathers comedy and name to get through the classes. As in submitting rewritten versions of Curb and having no one point it out.
Despite Jugsy being a waifish 320#, and keeping a Size 24 “girlish figure”, she’s DTF after eating. Whereas Im more prone to, “give me half an hour or Ill get cramps”.
There is a French saying about the quickest way to indigestion is sex after a meal.
That’s why sammiches come after sex.
*lights ENB signal*
*gestation
1. You eat too fucking much.
2. You’re just not that into him.
(stated as an expert on eating too much and not being into dudes.)
Second wave feminism has been insisting that sex is rape since I was a toddler.
Andrea Dworkin scowls in approval.
One does not invoke the name of the Beast.
“I know. Kinda awesome, isn’t it?”
-Ayn Rand
We need to teach femenists to not rape?
Something for Pie
Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, as part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson is casting as a “green revolution” to cut emissions to net zero by 2050.
——-
The plan offers 582 million pounds in grants for those buying zero or ultra-low emission vehicles to make them cheaper to buy, which was welcomed by auto industry group SMMT.
“Success will depend on reassuring consumers that they can afford these new technologies,” SMMT said in a statement, adding the new deadline posed an “immense challenge” to the sector.
Johnson’s plan was broadly welcomed by industry.
Green New Deal!
Since consumers are too dumb to know what is best for them, we must give them a
nudgeshove.Well electric cars do take more ICs than petrol ones so in 2030 I may even get a bonus
LOL no they won’t.
What about lorries?
Maybe. It’s probably easier to twist the arms of companies you’re regulating than fickle individuals.
Wow Boris totally sounds like some crazy right winger. Why did Labour and the media spend so much money and ink against him?
I think the koof gave him dain bramage.
Never pay the dainbreld? Do you smell toast?
Talk about a TINO. I wonder what Corbyn would have been like right now.
Burning jews for heat.
NEED MOAR COAL?
This morning’s talking point:
THE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT IS OVER! HUZZAH!
No detail, no context necessary.
I was just wondering, the other day, what sort of behind-the-curtain armtwisting the EU has been engaged in, in their desperate need to force the Swedes to tow the plague-stricken lion.
Today’s the day we lock down again, no brewery seating,
no Mexican food eating,
something something Governor,
Needs a good beating,
I think the line you’re looking for is “F*ck our fu**ing Governor,”
i did a #Warhammer40k Power Armour Review, now with this handy guide, you too can be hip to whats hot and whats not among the ranks of the imperiums astartes
https://twitter.com/K_Iragana_A/status/1329010475590320128
Blood for the blood god!
You know who really deserves a massive raise after his 2020 performance? You guessed it, Andrew Cuomo!
OFFS!
Well New York? You going to just let Cuomo continue to fuck you in the ass?
Well, if the GOP would stop nominating Nazis they might have a chance here.
So, the GOP needs to stop nominating Republians?
That’s what they do in Chicago. Democrats run as Republicans in Cook County, just in case the populace gets any funny ideas about voting the Dems out.
In government you fail up.
Tell me about it. My wife constantly hears from me “how did this moron make it this far in the FAA?”
My best friend and I, both FedGovs and old military buddies usually have a couple beers and lament that hard work, genuine knowledge, and drive are promotion killers in the government.
So, $1 for every COVID positive senior sent back to a nursing home?
Sounds fair.
I’LL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!!!
BY GET GOOD START ON DAY
If I wanted to break a populace, I’d follow what DeWine (Fucktard – OH) is doing. Vague warnings, threats, then graciously not enacting his worst ideas, but replacing them with something that gives an illusion of choice. All so his supporters can say, “He still loves us, he said he was going to break our leg, instead he just gave us two black eyes.”
Yesterday, reading that story about Rice University and their student snitchery and cultural re-education program, I asked myself, “Is this explicitly based on the Korean POW camp model?”
This is so incredibly insidious. “See Something, Say Something” meets “I’m Not Angry, I’m Just Very Hurt and Disappointed. I Thought You Were Better Than That.”
The Stasi wished they were this successful in getting people to snitch on each other.
FESTUS CAMP ONE NIGHTDAY WITH STEVE SMITH BUT SLEEP IN BEAR DEN FOR BE SAFE. MOTHER BEAR VERY NICE. ONLY EAT ONE ARM. WORTH.
You shoulda introduced her to STEVE SMITH and let them play while you ran home brah…
Baseball birthdays, Garry Sheffield, David Ortiz, the immortal Jaime Moyer, and Tom Gordon.
Also fairly recent. The best older player was Jack Coombs, who retired in 1920.
Jaime Moyer retired in 2012. Moyer started the year Pete Rose retired. Rose started the year Stan Musial retired. Musial started the year Charlie Root retired. Root started the year Burt Shotton retired. Shotton started the year Arlie Latham retired. Lathan started in 1880, which means he played with guys from the beginning of professional baseball.
I am sure there is a shorter link from the beginning to present, but maybe one link shorter at most. And I found that in just a few minutes.
Speaking of early ball players. I found this picture in the loft of a cabin on the property of a house i bought a while ago. Wound up selling for $55,000 at the auction.
https://robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2008/spring/1151/1862-knickerbockers-reunion-team-photograph/
Did we already know that you were a fireman?
Sounds like a very Tulpa thing to claim.
Well then tell me to fuck off.
“See, bazeballs isn’t all stupid and boring.”
Fine, I was wrong, jeez.
WOW! What a great find and subsequent story.
Righteous bucks!
Irrelevant but thoroughly enjoyable timeline, robc.
It is relevant on Moyer’s birthday. He played until he was 50.
Just noticed something I didnt know. Moyer is the all time record holder for home runs given up, with 522.
The next 4 are all Hall of Famers.
New White Sox manager Tony LaRussa managed a player born in 1925.
Counting Minnie Minosa is cheating.
He really retired in 1964. His two at bats in 1980 was a stunt.
But they were real at-bats.
That’s a pretty good list. Sheffield probably had my favorite batting stance to emulate as a kid. Tough not to like Ortiz, even with any ‘roid allegations. Moyer was fantastic — arguably the platonic ideal of the soft-tossing lefty. And Flash Gordon, IIRC, had a good couple of years for the White Sox in the early 2000s.
As a Yankee fan cant stand Ortiz-seems like a goid dude but we couldnt get him out in a big spot for like forever. Same for Manny.
“One person rescued after Tulalip Fisheries boat capsized from rogue wave near Everett”
Umm… that’s not a thing in that area.
I wonder what actually happened…
SEA SMITH!
SEA SMITH LOVE TULALIP ON AN ORGAN!!
Team Red is useless.
The Board of Canvassers had originally voted 2-2 along party lines. The tie meant the election results were not certified.
But later into the night, the Republican canvassers flipped and voted with the Democrats, while the live video stream was down.
“After hours of angry responses from Wayne County residents, the change in course was approved by the two Republican and two Democratic canvassers with the demand that the Secretary of State’s office conduct a ‘comprehensive audit’ of precincts with unexplained out-of-balance tallies,” the Detroit News reported.
It is not clear if the approval was conditional on the “comprehensive audit,” or if the investigation was merely requested.
The News reported the broadcast of the meeting went about as well as the vote counting on Election Day:
The high-stakes vote, with the eyes of the nation on Michigan’s largest county, apparently took place while the video stream for the virtual meeting wasn’t working.
“That passed unanimously,” Republican member William Hartmann said when the video began functioning again. “We just voted on that.”
Moments later, he said, “We’re going to adjourn,” and the board ended its meeting at 9:08 p.m.
They prove again and again why they’re worthless, cowardly shits.
You beat me to it. I saw that shit while on a break last night. What in the ever-loving fuck is going on there?
“the Republican canvassers flipped and voted with the Democrats, while the live video stream was down”
Oooooooof course they did. This is why Establishment Pachyderms are so much worse than Jackasses. Jackasses will look you right in the eye while they stab you in the gut and twist the knife. Pachyderms will tell you they’re your best friend and on your side until the end then stab you in the back the instant you turn around.
They’re all in on it. Elections don’t exists to choose who rules us. They exist to grant the sheeple the illusion of that, and to let off societal steam. Both sides are in on the game, but don’t seem to realize that the curtain has been pulled back and their masks aren’t working anymore. This form of pressure valve isn’t going to work anymore.
The next step is either real freedom, or real tyranny.
My money’s on the latter.
Both. First the tyranny. Good and hard, for a good while. Then the blood and fire. Then a brief bit of freedom. More blood and fire. More tyranny. etc.
Sigh. So much for Having Nice Things.
controlled opposition dude.
“But later into the night, the Republican canvassers flipped and voted with the Democrats, while the live video stream was down.”
So do you think they used lead or silver to get them to go along?
Werewolves and vamps are bothered by silver, but what’s affected by lead…ohhhhh.
Oh wait no the Democrats just doxxed the Republicans children to get them to change their vote.
Totally healthy. Totally normal. Much unity.
I would not take kindly to such an action.
Did it right on video, and it worked.
JFC, got a link to the video?
Huh. Isn’t such a thing a crime?
Isn’t such a thing a crime?
For you, me, anyone without a -D next to their name, sure.
Quit being such a scamp, Leon *pinches cheek*
It’s all over MAGA Twitter.
https://twitter.com/correctthemedia/status/1328969920357535744
Names her full name, her town, and her kids school.
But totally not a threat.
You see, that kind of implied threat would not go over well with me.
In fact, I think that’s why helicopters were invented.
This one needs to go now, he’s only 26 and this is his first elected office.
Also, what a total liar – in a subsequent tweet he claims to not even know what doxxing is.
I keep saying this: this is not the Democratic Party of Kennedy, or Carter, or even Clinton. This is the post Obama party. They literally, actually, truly believe that a MAGA hat is the same thing as Klan hood, and that anything is justified to keep such people out of power.
He honestly believes that he is threatening her children for the greater good.
Don’t negotiate with terrorists. Hand them your wallet, keys, balls, wife and kids then blow your brains out.
#Winning
Too Full to F – – – You can’t always make room for a dick. Especially if you’ve eaten dessert.
Maybe if you’re Mr Creosote’s sister.
+1 wahhhfer thin mint
+1 I Vomited
I mean the odds are good for this
https://twitter.com/DianaWintah/status/1328829721312948228
An I will also leave this here
https://twitter.com/drawsputin/status/1328774295745679361
Same response as Blaire White: if the secondary sex characteristics are good enough, I’m unashamed of my willingness to hit it.
Ass Wednesday seems somehow appropriate for STEVE SMITH in the morning.
https://archive.li/uElYR
Over the weekend I took the family, along with another car-load of kids/parents (my local social circle), out to this place : https://fa-chiba.foret-aventure.jp/eng/
It sounded like the kind of venue where STEVE SMITH would make an appearance but luckily we all escaped unscathed.
What’s that groundcover under the equipment? And did you steal me some?
What? Not the suicide forest? In current year?
It’s Japan, you just get used to stepping over the suicides everywhere. Nothing 2020 about it.
I have a friend from college who is a stuntman in Hollywood. I just checked his imdb (this relates to something upthread, but never mind that now) and he is mostly a stunt coordinator now, but he still does stunts occasionally. His last work as stuntman was in episode 9 of The Mandalorian. So now I need to rewatch it to see if I can spot him. He was probably one of the stormtroopers so I doubt I will be able to pick him out.
This morning, one of the talking head douchebags asked a guest:
“What will the Europe and the rest of the world think of us, after seeing Trump’s outrageous refusal to graciously concede defeat in the election?”
What the guest did NOT say was, “Probably no less than they they thought of us while watching the Democrats spend four years desperately trying to delegitimize Trump.”
Don’t you understand Brooks; Democrat win = legitimate. Republican win = tyranny.
Further: Blatant Democrat cheating = NOTHING TO SEE HERE NAZI. Republican desire for election security = ZOMG DEATH OF DEMOCRACY.
“Do you spend all your time worrying about what other people think about you?”
“Only when I sleep at night.”
That’s what she gets for doing actual police work.
Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. Police were seeking 13 more people who had yet to be identified. In the process, one of the protesters was severely injured when the statue was pulled down on top of them by his accomplices. That was also being investigated separately.
You might think that would be pretty much the end of the story, but it wasn’t. Among those arrested was State Sen. Louise Lucas, several leaders of the local Black Lives Matter movement, officials from the NAACP, and a member of the local school board. Since several crimes had obviously been committed, you might think that Chief Greene (who is Black, by the way) would be lauded for holding all citizens, regardless of their status accountable. You would be wrong, however. Howls of protest emerged not only from the community but from elected officials. Yesterday the situation came to a head and Chief Greene was unceremoniously fired.
Terry, you mendacious cunte.
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe tweeted: “Our hero Louise Lucas and her fellow proud Portsmouth citizens deserve our admiration. Grateful this despicable political persecution is over.”
It sounds better in the original German
#KristallnachtHeroes
Lucas has been around forever and is corrupt as they come. She is so beloved that one of her own employees tried to run her over two years ago.
Portsmouth, or P-Town as it is affectionately called around here, is a miniature Detroit/Baltimore.
What happened to the employee?
Prison
This is why I will unashamedly nullify if I’m ever on a jury for someone accused of burning down a goverment building.
Only one side is allowed to push political prosecutions.
Turning over the mike to the milk snatching Iron Lady
Sometimes I think maybe I am harsh. Maybe Noah Smith is not a moron. But then…
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1328598417011052544
It’s hard for some supporters of student loan forgiveness to understand the antipathy toward the idea. But I think a lot of it is this: America has developed into a class society divided between college-educated and non-college classes, and student loans felt like an equalizer.
Personally, I think student debt forgiveness is a good idea, because giant piles of loans hold back the potential of many of our most productive workers, who would otherwise be starting business, switching to better jobs, moving, etc.
But that’s a very economist-y view.
“Of course, to an economist, any win, even for the golden kids, is a win for society. And if student debt is holding our economy back, just get rid of it!
And in fact I think this is the right and obvious thing to do. Duh! More GDP!!”
Much economist. Imagine all the businesse3s those gender studies majors would start all of a sudden.
As an economist, he should know that the students allowed factored in loan repayment to the decision making process and determined that it was worth it before they took out the loan.
s/allowed/already/
If he were an economist he wouldn’t act like there was no cost to this. Why not forgive all debt, as the reasons he gives is valid for all debtors.
“Now do creditors.”
They’d work so much harder if they didn’t have all that debt to pay off! Yeah, that’s totally how it works.
“Bloomberg Opinion writer. Founder, http://TestAndTrace.com. Writes about economics, tweets about rabbits.”
Moron status confirmed, despite Yeats avatar.
Yes, rewarding the already privileged is a surefire way to prosperity.
Personally, I think student debt forgiveness is a good idea, because giant piles of loans hold back the potential of many of our most productive workers, who would otherwise be starting business, switching to better jobs, moving, etc.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
It’s as if they want everyone to forgive the commie professors for being really shitty at education. If they could educate something marketable, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Those hot takes don’t write themselves.
switching to better jobs – if better jobs means better pay this would not be stopped by student loans. if it means doing something I am passionate about but does not pay this would not improve the economy. It is a particularly stupid part
Depends on how much better. Quite a few student loans have a repayment rate that changes based on your income. So the better paying job may mean you now have to make payments.
But can that lower your final income? that would seem counterproductive, not unlike some welfare payments
On top of tax thresholds, I would guess yes. But I never had any student loans.
Only if you sign up for that specifically and it’s small fraction
Many more people make decisions up front based on IBR than actually end up qualifying for and obtaining IBR.
It was the single most common counterargument to “its going to take you 15 years to make back enough to offset your law school loans” back when I was advising people on law school admissions.
I think I have claimed before my dislike of “The Unincorporated Man.” I much as I dislike the novel and the general idea, sometimes bits of it have an appeal. The idea of a school not charging tuition but claiming a percent of your future income is an interesting idea.
So in the Spider Robinson Callahan’s series, a bunch of barflies come into a life changing amount of money. While they’re trying to decide how to spend it and invest it, one person floated the idea of asking the local medical/legal schools for the people who had the smarts, but failed to get financial aid. After getting the list, they would then offer to pay the tuition for the students in exchange for services throughout their career (IIRC, there was a cap on number of hours per year per student that the group could request). With the option for the student to pay back the amount at zero interest.
I believe that story came out in the late 70’s/early 80’s.
My Alma mater’s on it
Apparently Yale experimented with it in the 70s. Not sure why it didnt stick.
It wasn’t compatible with the federal student loan scam?
If they’re so against student debt, why don’t they stop the government students loans?
Gah. Woundsday already? All this time I believed it was Duesday. Freeday and Shatterday will come around. I can’t wait for Shunday.
Howdy Festus!
Festival of Youth, Wembley 1946
(lifted from London Underground Facebook page)
https://twitter.com/lloydyes/status/1328995293946384384
thicc?
Methinks there might be pillow fights at the annual meetings.
1946 London — fashies or commies?
look like libertarians to me
Much economist. Imagine all the businesse3s those gender studies majors would start all of a sudden.
I’m too busy imagining all the businesses currently being destroyed by government fiat.
Wait until the govt hires even more of those gender and ethnic studies majors to regulate businesses! Wheeeeeeeeeee
?We’re already there?
Seriously, legal departments are being flooded with 20-something single girls whose heads are filled with that mush. HR is basically 80% that type. Marketing is getting there, too. Now the operations and strategy departments in R&D are starting to fill up with them.
Yep.
Our HR flunkies want to be “business partners” and pretend to be involved in actually running the department as if some 30 year old chickster with zero business knowledge and experience of the company or industry has any valuable to contribute. “Here’s this cool new thing I read about in SHRM magazine!” Fuck. Off.
Someone needs to explain to them that the title they want is faux-prestige to make up for the lack of pay and respect.
HR departments are no joke physical manifestations of demons on our dimensional plane and we should treat them as such.
The HR department of a large company should be 4 old cat ladies sitting in the basement with 25 year old computers, updating people’s comp and benefits all day. Almost everything else is overhead at best.
But you forgot about Gov’s Gift to HR: Laws that enshrine HR as more than just a branch of finance.
fire and holy water dude, it’s the only way.
I worked for a company that had a scarily competent HR person. Actually, it was the best all-around back-office support crew I’ve ever seen. Accounting, HR, IT — all of them were dedicated to the idea that their job was to remove barriers to front line people getting shit done. I’ll never see the like of it again.
Yeah, and when you need them to do their job, they collapse faster than a paper tiger.
Needed clarification about a hourly represented employee for a contract related issue. “Just ask the employee’s supervisor” “No, they do not know nor are they the arbiter and deciders of how it applies, HR is”. If you don’t know, ask your Labor Relations SME that sits in the same department, though honestly they should be able to give an answer because that’s a key part of being a “partner”. Went through several cycles of emails including their bosses before they finally did their jobs. Totally worthless.
Amen.
Top notch analysis
President-elect Joe Biden will be taking over a country that is even more sharply divided on urban-rural lines. One of the biggest reasons why the divide got bigger in 2020 may be the coronavirus pandemic.
For conservatives such as Judy Burges, a longtime state legislator from rural Arizona, President Trump did as well as he could have managing the response to COVID-19. As she waited in line to vote this fall, Burges said the economic fallout has been worse in small towns dependent on small businesses.
“This coronavirus has really shut down a lot of businesses,” Burges said. “We have a lot of small businesses going out of business and we’re losing sales tax revenue.”
Rural Republicans mostly spurned the COVID-19 business shutdowns. Many Democrats called them essential to protect public health. While some in America blasted the president’s chaotic pandemic response and his spreading of racist conspiracy theories, Trump racked up wins in some rural counties by even bigger margins than in 2016.
“There’s this sense that decisions about the pandemic are being made in cities and kind of imposed on rural spaces,” said Kathy Cramer, an expert on the rural-urban divide at the University of Wisconsin. “That doesn’t sit well with a lot of folks and may have driven them further from the Democratic Party.”
You don’t say.
his spreading of racist conspiracy theories
Wait, wut? Citations, please.
“Chinese coronavirus…” I assume.
“We have a lot of small businesses going out of business and we’re losing sales tax revenue.”
Biden’s month long lockdown will do wonders for that.
my brother works for the state of va and he’s saying the budget talks are incredibly grim here, so like I can imagine a place where theres not a sizable gov population of check collecting peons would be fiscally dire.
The city of Cleveland is already expecting about a ten percent drop in income, not counting any changes in grants or what happens with the local tax collected on people working from home outside the city.
What i dearly love is that all those places will pass tax increases to make up the shortfall, rather than cut their budgets.
Yes we know we caused you to go out of business, but now you need to pay up.
Not to worry, our newly minted VA Democratic majority will be frugal and not spend us into oblivion, right after they spend a million bucks to investigate racism at VMI, and spend a million to investigate…
Oh yes it is. Grim doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I’ve just had an epiphany that much of Left-wing activism is actually little more than a mere fashion statement – something they use to attract attention to themselves and signal the type of person are.
https://twitter.com/TheAliceSmith/status/1328637844584341505
No shit Sherlock.
lmao, where has this person been Mars?
They’re all in on it. Elections don’t exists to choose who rules us. They exist to grant the sheeple the illusion of that, and to let off societal steam. Both sides are in on the game, but don’t seem to realize that the curtain has been pulled back and their masks aren’t working anymore. This form of pressure valve isn’t going to work anymore.
Now I am reminded of some old movie where a lottery drawing is being held, and somebody grabs the bowl and discovers all the ticket numbers are the same.
There was an Andy Griffith show episode with that. They’d rigged it to benefit some sad-sack, and then he pulled the size tag out of the hat instead of a paper, so that he still lost.
Last day on the job.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1328815047104139268
I watched a FedEx truck do that in a too narrow feeder street many years ago. I think he scraped about thirty parked cars.
Wow. Zero fucks given there.
amazing.
https://twitter.com/benyahr/status/132869268029406822
Apparently Dolly Parton donated 1 million to vanderbilt research team that was tasked with a key component of the Moderna Covid Vaccine. So Dolly Parton has personally done more to combat this virus than anyone in the CDC or FDA.
It was hilarious watching Lincoln Projecteers pretend they were fans of hers.
Dolly Parton is my absolute favorite celebrity; she has used her good fortune to help so many people. She is someone who I can genuinely admire and respect.
Apparently she’s an incredible charitable person and really geniune so it’s not surprising she doesn’t run out and shout to the world what her politics are or constantly insert herself into the national dialogue.
She has a literacy program where she will give 1 book per month to any child in selected zip-codes around the country; my kids were enrolled when we lived in Brooklyn but The Rockaways does not qualify (there is wonderful Jewish charity here, PJ Library, that provides a similar service). She has been married to the same fellow (who stays out of the limelight) since 1966. Just an all around awesome human being.
And self deprecating.
“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!”
Smoking a Carolina Reaper chili.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1328864930838286340
When it’s been awhile…
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1328856635649961984
I seared some ghost peppers in cast iron pan a while back. Ran everyone out of the house.
He’s doing it wrong.
Someone on my wife’s side of the family (a 20-something) bought one of those peppers online and thought it would be cool to see if he could eat it whole. He did. And then he spent 24 hours on the toilet feeling it on the way out.
I’ve got a grinder of smoked ghost chili flakes sitting on the table. One year, at Thanksgiving, my dad saw it and gave a couple healthy grinds over his plate. After the first bite, he commented, “That adds a lot of heat, doesn’t it?” A couple minutes later the forehead sweating started. I figured, he’s an adult and can suffer through his own bad decisions.
Now, when the older nephew tried to convince the younger nephew to put some on his food, I had to step in.
I once ate a whole Jalapeno right off the bush for no other reason than to try it. Somehow my beer addled brain came up with the notion that it wouldn’t so hot since it wasn’t ripe yet or something. Yeah, I drank another three beers in quick succession to get past that – but I don’t think I’ve ever been so drunk that I would try that with anything more potent than a Jalapeno or Serrano.
*shifts uncomfortably in my seat*
This is why I’ve eased off the spiciness in my food, for the most part. I still like to eat it…..but it seems to get more painful on the way out as I get older.
Derp-sters believe they have an exclusive hold on the truth. They don’t appear to realize that is not going to end well for them.
Oh, please, pound me with the truth you big stud-muffin.
They have all the momentum to shape that narrative and will do so.
“succumb any time soon to more journalistic business-as-usual”
This was the same logic they used to abandon their mask entirely during Trump Admin. Not enough people believed so they abandoned basic journalism and peopogandized harder. It didn’t work well. I imagine that by 2024 you will have major networks refusing to show anything about a competitor to Joe Biden. “We would talk about the competition is there was any serious competitor, but the GOP has not nominated anyone serious”
They will justify one party state thus.
“It didn’t work well”
President Elect Joe Biden would beg to differ.
In a squeaker. With likely massive voter fraud. And even then, nearly every contested race went against them.
And lots of Republican down-ballot victories.
If you designate “winning the presidency” as the only standard of success then i could see you. But 70+ million people voted for Trump. They are not winning hearts and minds, and the more they are propaganda, the more the lose. Nothing is guarenteed, but the Corporate Media has done serious harm to their ability to be “the arbiters of truth” and that is a good thing.
I agree with you and I feel like conservatives are being the same whiny babies now progressives were.
Democrats ain’t that popular. Yeah they are probably trying to cheat. Keep taking back local governments.
sure we will probably inexorably slide into socialism eventually but it’s a long fight still.
^^^ THIS
They are not winning hearts and minds, and the more they are propaganda, the more the lose. They are not winning hearts and minds, and the more they are propaganda, the more the lose.
I’m not so sure, given the control they have acquired over the main channels of info distribution used by most people.
Exhibit A: We are now at a point where governors are unilaterally dictating how, when, and where people can have family gatherings. Even three months ago, I would have never believed it possible. But here we are, with very little pushback from the public, and enthusiastic adherence by a not-small fraction. I attribute this mostly to the tsunami of COVID panic propaganda via the establishment media and their new partners, the Tech Lords.
Fun note, back in 2011 a FedGov employee named STEVE SMITH really did take us to the woods and rape us, and by that I mean….
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/FAA-employee-accused-of-stealing-plane-1292120.php
Well Swiss, looks like another round of lockdowns are coming to you on Friday. I’m hearing indoor sports will be affected. 🙁
Where I work it is a clown show. Mask goes up! Mask goes down! We’re all gonna die! One good/bad thing is that we’re hiring on the Xmas crew so at least I get to get a little extra lechery on but they don’t follow my rules. I’ll be chasing the floor shift on their breaks just to fulfill my job. When they start staggering breaks I may as well not show up except to clean the bathrooms and empty the garbage. Last night nearly did me in.
Well, it looks very likely that my Thanksgiving plans just got cancelled, but thankfully not by an overreaching politician. One of my staff, who spent the better part of Monday sitting by me in the office working on a debrief document, just let me know that his daughter tested positive for COVID and that he is showing symptoms. Which means I’m now isolating.
We weren’t planning a huge Thanksgiving, but I question the wisdom of having my parents (who are in their upper 80s) come down when we might be contagious. We’ll see when my coworker’s test results come back and whether or not I have to go in for a test.
You do realize that it’s the sniffles, Right?
For me? Yes, I do. I’m pretty sure that I’ve already had it already.
For my father, who is 88 years old and isn’t in the best of health, I don’t know if I’m willing to risk it.
You’re not allowed to take reasonable precautions, you must submit to the authority of the experts and allow them to make those decisions for you.
What? You mean you are taking reasonable precautions on your own? Who could ever have imagined that?
Thank you – one person is reading my post correctly.
We weren’t planning a huge Thanksgiving, but I question the wisdom of having my parents (who are in their upper 80s) come down when we might be contagious.
You mean you can evaluate risk on an individual basis and structure your interactions in a way that reduces contact with the most vulnerable when there’s potential that youve been exposed? We don’t have to shut down the entirety of society to keep the vulnerable safe? ?
Yeah, my parents did consider various options on how to come down here, and finally settled on driving themselves. Thought that it would be better than going through the airports and sitting on a plane for the trip. They were already somewhat hesitant about coming down, but I think this will be the thing that finally does it for them.
Just to be clear – the self isolation is my choice. As was the choice not to wear a mask while working with my coworker (who has 5 daughters going to school and a wife who is a teacher, and has a history of infecting the office with all the sniffles that go around). As is the choice to recommend the parents stay home instead of coming down for Thanksgiving. I don’t need a politician deciding this for me.
Speaking of student debt
Cancelling Student Debt Via Executive Action Would Build Working-Class Power
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/student-debt-cancellation-department-of-education-law
I don’t read tankie talk just the same way that I don’t read Zerohedge comments. I’m broken enough already.
I’m right with you on that. I had a good chuckle at ol’ MacLean and MacLean. It was much needed this morning, thanks.
via executive action?
lol.
It would do exactly the opposite, but who cares?
“We are working class, but better than people who work for a living” is a wonderful summary of how commie intellectuals see themselves.
Yeah. It’s a wonderfully succinct way of putting it. So desperate to be accepted as “authentic”, yet so painfully, embarrassingly, useless, arrogant, and clueless.
Well, you see, a lot of the real working class doesn’t hold with wokeness. Those duped souls even still go to churches and do things that aren’t all political. They NEED us, to help them be better.
So many unanswered questions about College Debt Forgiveness. Like is it a one time thing (answer is no, it’s never a one time thing), Do you take on debt and then just get it forgiven when you graduate?
And then you get the “I just payed off my debt to the Government, how will i be affected?” (FYTH). or “I didn’t take on debt and went to a university more within my means” (You get to pay for other peoples Harvard Education! Don’t you feel good about that?)
Is the forigiven debt reported as Income on taxes like other forgiven debt ( Magic 8 Ball says, “Possible”), that would make just people who have Student Loan debt now have IRS Debt. Maybe then they will call to abolish the IRS?
Can we abolish my debts to the IRS? it sucks dick writing them a check every year paying off my citizenship/freedom they’ve loaned me.
I want my new truck payment forgiven. Oh, and my mortgage. Fuck it, just pay all my bills for me.
“…call to abolish the IRS.”
STOP! I can only get so erect.
Best description of what this really looks like…
via executive action?
And then the loan fairy waved her magic wand, and they all lived happily ever after.
The End
I’m going to be so everloving mad if, after spending the last 3 years scrimping and saving and sacrificing to aggressively pay off my massive pile of student loans, The Wandering Mind just happens to wish away everybody else’s student loans.
There are three occurrences that I’m watching for in order to shift my financial habits away from traditional retirement investing and in a less confiscatable direction. 1) student loan forgiveness, 2) single payer, 3) 401k/IRA alterations.
Were on the precipice of the first. The second is probably 3-5 years away. We’re just hearing the first rumblings of battlespace prep on the third.
The smart ants won’t keep all of their food in the anthill when the locusts start swarming.
No shit. Liquidating assets and moving cash offshore is a definite possibility for me.
The 401k One is going to be bad, And i think will come upon us rapidly. Social Security is insolvent already, it is only a matter of time before that crisis comes to a head. 401K confiscation with the promise to “repay” will come next.
The Argentines have already done that a couple of times.
I’m going to be running low on ammo if/when that happens.
My prediction is that the confiscation of retirement accounts will be incremental, and be done via a requirement that some (escalating) percentage of the accounts be held in “safe” government bonds. IOW, you give them your money, they give you an IOU. Easily sold after the next big market dump as “protecting your retirement”.
My checklist for leaving the country now has a new item on it – getting assets out of vulnerable vehicles. May well just be liquidating IRAs, 401ks, etc. and taking the tax hit, depending on how things are developing.
3a will be Roth. All those untaxed gains are an easy target.
3b will be 401k/ira.
Other way around. Traditional 401ks and IRAs will be converted first to Roth. That would be more palatable and has already started being floated.
I don’t want to imagine what politics would look like after they did that. There would be a ton of very very pissed off people.
Massive Republican wave election. Then once in office, they would strike a Grand Compromise where the entire structure of the confiscation stays in place but middle class people get a refundable tax credit.
Nah they’d just pass a tax cut and whine they didn’t have the votes to do anything about the wealth transfer they campaigned on ending for two years.
Nah, it would be
“Look the budget for the next FY is set up with the Big Grab of 401ks baked in. We can’t be fiscally irresponsible and remove such a massive piece of the revenue side. We are fiscal conservatives, after all .”
yep, good job team I think we successfully wargamed that out.
Because “free” university worked out so well in Europe?
well every lefty will probably tell you university is magic in europe
I think you mean “free” primary school and it worked as designed. Controlling the culture.
Feeling grumpy. Here’s a couple of videos about how SCIENCE! is still a human activity.
Kinda goofy pop-sci, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jijuG9tyoR0
More serious, by a woman who is fetish material for a certain segment of the population: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qqEU1Q-gYE
What do you guys think of this? The idea is that instead of lock downs, the government should spend money getting rapid in-home tests to everyone. Everyone would then test themselves 2x a week and self-quarantine should they test positive. The claim is that even with 50% compliance it would still make a big difference.
how bout they fuck off with the testing and we just go about are lives like normal? I don’t want to negotiate my rights with these fucking terrorists.
why the fuck are we basing reopening strategies on healthy people getting tested anyway? It’s fucking retarded.
A new medical standard where people not showing symptoms get tested for everything under the sun will cause an amount of misery that is incomprehensible. _Everybody_ has at least a little something medically wrong with them, whether they know it or not. If you search for it hard enough, you’ll find it.
That doesn’t mean finding it results in a better long term outcome for you. Almost certainly the opposite and the costs of such a regime are staggering.
This. ^^
Or, government has done far too much already and maybe it should shrink itself back to the admin of basic infrastructure and public goods (itself an all too nebulous definition), and stop using what is a now endemic, and overwhelmingly mild respiratory virus as an excuse to grab as much control as possible. I don’t give a flying fart just how indignant and outraged the “centrists” and lockdown-lovers get that someone should dare question THE SCIENCE. Just say no. Push back. Call them out for being the miserable, obsequious little cultists they are.
I was beaten to the punch more succinctly by the above comments.
Effectively making every citizen a hypochondriac and it opens the door wide open for a pass of sorts to allow you out of the house. Papers Please
If it wasn’t a requirement to prove you tested negative I rather like the idea. At home, cheap, and likely to end this.
I’m really wondering how much of this third wave is false positives, or assumptions that people have the ‘vid when it’s the regular cold and flu season. Especially as (at least here in Ohio) all of other metrics are going down.
You don’t end tyrannical overreach by giving the tyrants more power over you.
Poor Kevin, no one actually read the article.
Granted yes, I don’t trust the government to not warp it into mandatory participation and requiring everyone to report test results, but the program as outlined in the Times article seems reasonable.
Can’t read it. TwatBlock on.
We are at war with a virus that is currently winning by taking two 9/11’s worth of victims every week—by Christmas it could be three. There is no question that if 1,000 Americans were dying each day in a war, we would act swiftly and decisively. Yet, we are not. This should not be about politics—it is about human beings—and we should be acting like it.
What is “context”?
I don’t want to negotiate my rights with these fucking terrorists.
Rights are non-negotiable.
At war, with a virus?
Can anyone really be that retarded?
Every executive in US Government?
BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT’S WHY
Gov. Kate Brown made her statewide two-week ‘freeze’ official Tuesday with an executive order that makes the measures enforceable by law.
The freeze will take effect starting Wednesday and aims to limit group activities and slow the spread of COVID-19 in Oregon where cases have reached a record high.
As part of the freeze, social gatherings can not exceed more than six people.
Restaurants are limited to take-out only, while gyms and fitness centers, museums, pools, sports courts, movie theaters, zoos, gardens, aquariums and venues will be closed. Grocery stores, pharmacies and retail stores are limited to a maximum capacity of 75%.
All of the freeze measures are enforceable by law.
Mom puts her foot down. You bad little boys and girls are going straight to bed without your supper. And no teevee.
I’m eager to see how Antifa complies.
‘Member Occupy? I remember.
I wonder how many of those mewling, sucker-punching, nefarious little pieces of garbage would align themselves right quick fast in a hurry with the AB if you chucked them in the big house. It’s get the runes inked and fall in line or your on your own, Andy. It’s a horrible thought and I don’t wish it on anyone. What kind of system of “reform” incubates violent racially tribal criminal gangs? That’s another discussion I suppose. Mind you, it’s not like these antifa kids aren’t some of the most viciously racist, fascist people around. Perhaps they’d fit right in. What a sad state of humanity.
I have to wonder how proud of themselves those people will be ten, twenty, thirty years down the line. Lotsa shit that I did that I want to take back. That guy you kicked in the head? That’s your neighbor. The one you screamed spittle at? Her daughter is marrying your son. (Not that I did that, just imagining.)
If they live that long. A reactionary wave is becoming more likely with each passing day.
All of the freeze measures are enforceable by law.
Not really.
“All of the freeze measures are enforceable by law.”
What law? I doubt any LEO would know.
The Pope wishes he had as much moral authority and clout as a (female) American governor.
The pope is too busy toobin’ the little bishop over large-bottomed instagram models to worry about that sort of thing. Re-hash some warmed over watermelon marxism and pad it out with some Obama speech style nothing words, make some tenuous links to scripture and your done. That’s your next address to wherever or whomever knocked out in half an hour leaving the rest of the day for “prayer and quiet reflection”. Is the pope a Catholic?
Uffda. Those science loving statists sure do have a hard on for the Dakotas. Latest rant about how those non-mandating rubes are killing themselves. How can you argue with sciencers like the Federation of American Scientists? That screams SCIENCE!!!
So NoDak has about 750K citizens and SoDak has about 800K. So the 18.2 and 17.4 per million numbers are a projection. They didn’t even have that many deaths last week.
that article was hilariously fucking stupid. I saw it the other day. I think I laughed maniacally through the whole thing.
That overly qualified statement doesn’t seem cherry picked to me.
For five minutes last year, the unincorporated township of Bumfuck, Bumfuckistan had the worst COVID numbers anywhere in the world.
In October 2020, President Donald Trump had the highest incidence of Presidents with COVID in American history.
That’s an impeachable offense.
North Dakota has move up to #8 on the total deaths per million chart.
Top 10 is now:
NY 1871
NY 1756
MA 1491
CT 1338
LA 1324
RI 1206
MS 1203
ND 1017
DC 935
IL 893
So, what, 14 people died there last week? HOLY SHIT!!!!!
See also: “WHAT IS GOING ON IN SAN MARINO!?! They have the worst rates in the world!!!”
I believe with the 2nd wave, Belgium has passed them.
San Marino is at 1251 deaths per million and have been at that since May. Belgium is now at 1288 per million passing San Marino 2 days ago.
That is 42 total deaths for San Marino.
Huh. I was mostly making the point that people are latching on to a statistical artifact that comes from comparing a place with a few hundred thousand residents with a place that has millions.
I know, I get it. Belgium has enough people to be a real stat.
“Nuke it from orbit, President Biden, It’s The Only Way To Be Sure.”
“We’re deeply saddened by the loss of every Dakotessan…Dakokataneenan? All those non-Biden voters. Maybe the rest of you will make sure to wear your masks and cower in your homes to prevent this tragedy from occurring in your State. We have more than enough megatons to deal with the other fiftyfive states. Right, Barack, fiftyseven minus two? Yeah, fiftyfive states left for me to Senate over.”
Think of the screams of joy from the Woke Brigade when those nasty white men on Mt Rushmore are obliterated!
I’m thinking more ululations, ISIS style.
Although that may be cultural appropriation. The bad kind? Who knows.
Whoops, they used the neutron bombs instead. Next time?
But the third significant digit after the decimal point makes it sound so SCIENCE!
Unless you can do math, and realize they are saying ND had 13.6 total allegedly COVID related deaths last week, and SD had 13.9. Clearly, the ND number is bullshit – how do you have 0.6 deaths?
“Mostly Dead”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVlNiAYshQ
They got better?
They started flatlining just before 12am Sunday.
Well I’m off to eat a big salad with questionable shrimp. Work was terrible but hanging with you lot made it feel better! Pray for Festus…
*side-eyes Festus’ shrimp*
Them mud bugs is awful suspect.
Oh sorry, mud bugs is crawdads. Shreeyumps is the little guys.
They’re all benthic filter feeders.
“skrimps”
https://youtu.be/TYSCzU_RiGY
https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1328722814690611202
You can’t say fuck this guy more emphatically. And what makes me sad is that there are plenty of Conservatives who are still in the mindset that this guy is great. Fuck him.
The replies give me hope.
He is great in some respects, terrible in others. I think that makes him a standard GOP Congress critter, does it not?
Terrible on Guns, Terrible on War.
Seems pretty terrible squish to me.
He’s the new McCain.
I won’t tar him with that brush quite yet. McCain was uniquely repulsive. Crenshaw is definitely a disappointment, but McCain was way beyond that.
I am so glad I lived to see the time when Republican interventionists are becoming the minority.
I do appreciate the eye he gave for our country though. I’m willing to poke out one eye of a radical Muslim in retaliation.
Are we leaving the embassy, too? You’re telling me we can’t have situational awareness without major airbases? Surely, there’s somewhere else for SEALs to get their deployment on.
dan crenshaw is a cia asset.
Can you believe someone has stolen the recently laid turf on my grandads grave over the weekend?! And from another relatives grave too.
An ornament, a drink left in memory, a candle I could almost understand.
My brother and our friend spent time making this look nice.
https://twitter.com/Afterglow85/status/1328746572251865088
jeez
Hey, I had a bare spot in my yard. Don’t judge.
Well, I’d start looking at friends and relatives with new lawns…
More seriously, what shitbirds.
“Damn, Bob, nice 8’x4′ patch you got goin there….”
Several Years ago they arrested a local Cemetery worker for grave robbery. Seems he was taking the stuff people left at the gravesite and hoarding it. I feel kinda bad because it wasn’t clear that he was all there.
People who hoard (especially things that have no value) (not including bona fide collectors) are not all there.
I’m a keeper, not a hoarder.
Also, one of the dudes on my favorite hoarding show once said, “We’re all 5 bad decisions away from shitting in a bucket.”
I think of that often and ask myself, “Which bad decision am I on right now?”
I went to visit Jimi Hendrix’s grave in Seattle.
*hangs head*
I may have taken a roach that was left as an offering
Meh, he wasn’t gettign any use out of it.
So you don’t ascribe to the proximity effect theory?
AND WHO LEAVES A ROACH AS AN OFFERING?!
Someone left something unburnt. Some other asshole already came up and burned the original offering.
Here’s an idea, stop leaving stuff for dead people. You’re just leaving stuff for live people.
Angela McCardle and Tom Woods were making predictions on the course of COVID the otherday:
Angela: They are never going to give up their power, and will use this to camel nose in “papers” requirments to enter Gov Buildings, and eventually public/private places. Her reasoning being, that power gained is power hard wrested back, and that the state likes it’s new power too much.
Tom: Biden admin will issue a Mask Mandate and other “mandates” that are easy to circumvent/ignore, then manuever into a position where they can argue that this is over and get back to “normal”. His reason being Biden did promise that he would get people back to normal, and if he doesn’t it will not bode well.
what are your thoughts.
I have no thoughts suitable for public consumption at the moment.
Biden did promise that he would get people back to normal, and if he doesn’t it will not bode well.
Campaign promises are never kept.
It’s not going to be Biden for very long anyway.
I’m trying to imagine the scenario.
Biden croaking from the Kung Flu would create the greatest opportunity for blame to be put on Trump and provide a clear tragedy that would be used to implement new restrictions for the greater good.
Camelgirl can not-keep his promises just as well.
“Just the tip”
He promised the largest election fraud in history and delivered.
I think this isn’t going to stop until their is an uprising or they legitimately run out of money to enforce the rules. The rules themselves are never going away.
His reason being Biden did promise that he would get people back to normal, and if he doesn’t it will not bode well.
Two words, relentless hammered home by our Information Overlords: New Normal.
I was just thinking today about how acclimated people already are to mask wearing. And how hard it is for me to remember what the hospital was like back in February, when we still had open visitation. There were always a fair number of people in the halls, and compared to then, its a ghost town now. But the Before Times are fading from memory, leaving room for a New Normal to be instituted.
New Abnormal.
The object is control. Biden will get nothing back to normal. His campaign slogan is that of the WEF/UN 2030 agenda. And that shit is sinister. *adjusts tinfoil*
Politicians, who live for control over other people’s lives, don’t voluntary give up power unless they are punished super hard for wielding said power. Winning the presidency, keeping the House, and possibly acquiring control over the Senate in the GA runoffs, and hardly any incumbent congresscritters booted out – not my definition of punishing.
Enough of the citizenry keeps rolling over and begging to be controlled, and they’ll get it, good and hard. Until enough of the bastards get voted out of office – or run thru a woodchipper.
/blackpilled
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/caught-part-6-michigan-georgia-like-pa-va-caught-pattern-biden-gained-lead-massive-vote-dumps-remainder-votes-possessed-biden-trump/
Looks like its been confirmed that Michigan and GA have the same voting patterns. The article does a good summary of everything so far but here’s the synopsis for Georgia.
Now the data could be falsified. Assuming the data is correct, is there any non-fraud reason that, from the point Biden takes lead, for the exact same percentage of votes to be reported for subsequent batches? I’m trying to understand how, if accurate, this isn’t a smoking gun and clear evidence of election fraud.
I am skeptical that there is any way for the pattern to match so exactly. That seems like wishful thinking. I’d have to see the data.
^^^ Even in a fraudulent scheme you would see some noise
I am skeptical, looking at the graph, it looks like the incremental vote is in fractions, which makes no sense. So I dont think that is the valid chart, I think some of the numbers are calculated, not actual. It looks like the vote number is an integer as expected, but the incremental vote per person is being calculated, and isn’t the actual integer number, so I call BS on this one.
Edison provides the vote count as { Biden 0.496, Trump 0.481, votes 101291}
Looks like those numbers are columns 3-6 in the spreadsheet. I’m guessing rounding explains the fractional votes.
Batches vary enough in size that they should follow Benford’s Law.
And obviously the same ratio repeating exactly is clearly blatant fraud.
Then Biden was allocated batches of votes for hours, some with negative Trump votes
That’s the part that defies explanation.
From that point on for the next 53 batches of votes counted, for EVERY SINGLE vote batch the batches had exactly a 50.05% to 49.95% victory margin for Biden and Trump cementing Biden’s lead.
My understanding is that mail-in ballots are basically randomly mixed when they are centrally counted (unlike in-person ballots, which reflect local voting patterns), and you would expect to see a very stable pattern all through the counting process. There is another analysis which purports to show that the mix in mail-in ballots took an abrupt change partway through the counting process, more or less right after the (also inexplicable) stoppage in the upper Midwest states.
Yes, but if you are pulling in low numbers at a time (some of these batches are less than 100 total), you will have some random variation from even a perfectly mixed batch.
However, this looks to be a complete BS chart to me as the counts aren’t in integers, so I think someone generated bogus fraud evidence and didn’t do a good job of hiding their column math.
Okay, so the data could be fabricated. The claim is that it was pulled directly from Edison Research and there were concerns that the some Edison Research counts also had fractions instead of integers.
Or the Dominion ‘weighting’ was being applied.
Keep taking back local governments.
Decent sentiment. But, I’m not sure how much good it does. Unless you have some vision of non-Democrats ever taking major metro governments, it’s hard for me to see how that stops the cheating. The thing is, you don’t need massive fraud to swing an election. A big lot of ballots coming out of Detroit or Philadelphia or Milwaukee is all you need to pull it off. Unless you get a raft of Republican prosecutors at the state level who’d be willing to make Torquemada look like a pussy, it’s going to continue.
Metro areas are only about a quarter of US population. About the same as the rural population. Each party tends to obsess about the influence of the opposing party’s geographic area of dominance.
Now note, we’ve only accounted for HALF of the total population, with the remainder being ‘burbs and ex-urbs (both about a quarter each). So the notion among Repubs – that the cities will overwhelm us, and among Dems that our system is unfairly slanted to the sparsely-populated areas are both equally off-base.
not that it matters but masks are a crock of shit.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1329068654349185025
Can’t beat religion with facts and logic have to counter it with new better religion. I say we start selling anti covid force-fields projected from some kind of bracelet.
Bracelets are the worst enclosure for a force-field. You want to use a pendant or a utility belt.
Moran.
you can keep your gay belt I decided to go with a smart phone app.
Have fun when your homophobic force-field app crashes the first time someone fires at you.
have fun scaling up your faggy fashion accessory.
^^hasn’t even considered the bandwidth needs yet. destined to fail.
GayShield2000 on shelves this Xmas.
my app isn’t for normal proles you walmart selling hack. only elites with proper 5g coverage.
5g coverage?!
Idle Hands’ App has a backdoor for COVID!!
how are there so many fbi agents on this website? I won’t bite fbi agent leon I won’t.
Yessssssssssss
Those corona virus apps are your best friend Comrade Citizen! Install several of them.
GayShield2000: No Networks, No Cameras, No Microphones. Just a forcefield on a faggy belt. And it works for teh gheys too.
$49.95 Now Accepting Pre-Orders
Studies have shown no statistically significant difference between pendant/Utility belt and Bracelets for projecting forcefields. In fact the data may suggest that Circlets are the best.
Ah, yes, the circlet projects extremely well, the problem there is wearability. The damn things don’t stay on.
I hate this style of science journalism: “There is no statistically significant difference, and the data says it may actually ->”
No it doesn’t you can’t have both of those statements and be intellectually honest.
yeah sean davis is annoying.
annecdata: Gingers named Sean, Most Annoying People Ever
even worse if they’re short too…
Not so sure. I think you can say “no statistically significant difference, although the rate of infection was higher in the group that wore masks”. Accurately reports both the data and the analysis of the data, doesn’t it?
You can’t say “No statistical difference” and then say “according to the data, mask usage may actually increase the likelihood of infection”. Either there is no statistical difference, and the fact that means ended on one side of each other is just noise, or there is statistical difference. The fact that it wound up in this configuration is statistically random, and so it is _not_ true to say the data says something it does not say.
I agree that saying “may increase” is BS (as I am fond of saying, this is a misleading way of saying “may or may not increase”), so that particular formulation is BS.
I don’t see any problem with reporting what the data is (“mask wearers were infected 3% more often than nonwearers”, or whatever), and to report that the data shows no statistically significant difference? But the use of the word “may” injects an implication of causality that is unsupported.
I have nothing wrong with reporting the summary statistics and then saying, there is no statistical difference, it’s the “may increase” part that is weaselly to me.
It doesn’t appear that’s what happened though. It appears the masked group had fewer infections, though not very many.
What gets me about the mask stuff is the belief that somehow all the work that’s been done studying masks on other viruses (chiefly influenza) don’t apply at all because this virus is “novel.”
Again, the argument seems to be unless you can somehow 100% prove that the masks don’t work at all, then therefore they do work so shut up and wear the damned mask or else. That approach is a lot of things, but “scientific” ain’t one of them.
That bracelet will surely have copper in it. And maybe garlic too. And a watch that is perpetually set at midnight ’cause we all know the chicom-19 respects curfew hours.
Each bracelet includes a 24-carat flake of genuine tiger-and-covid repellent, hand-carved, artisanal imported Swiss Alps granite.
(It’s the resonator crystal for the field.)
resonator crystals are so ciche 90’s arizona. We have a radio resonating signal that mimics a high resonance hawk screech keeping all the bat virus’s at bay since 1883.
yeah, man, solid state lasers and quartz timers, are like, so out there.
go listen to hootie and the blowfish or the gin blossoms again. High frequency radio signals are classic americana.
I get my fill of the Gin Blossoms when I run through the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
Whoops, no, that’s the Goo Goo Dolls all over Freddy’s Dead. *shrug* samediff.
This study was completed a while ago, but they were searching for a journal that would agree to publish it.
I do love the comments talking about since the study doesn’t prove they _don’t_ work, that means the masks do work. Do you even science, bro?
I thought the point of masks wasn’t to protect the wearer from everyone else, but to protect everyone else from the wearer. In that case, studying who gets it while wearing a mask doesn’t mean much.
But if the wearer protects everyone else, why does everyone else need to wear a mask?
If one mask protects everyone in a forest, does it make a sound?
As best as I can tell on Twitter, that depends entirely on what argument they’re trying to make. They’ll claim one at 10am and then claim the opposite at 2pm. For example: “mask it or casket” (quotes included) gets 105,000 results including this one:
https://www.kxan.com/state-of-texas/mask-it-or-casket-says-state-emergency-chief-as-governor-orders-texans-to-wear-masks/
The direct evidence for so called “source control” may actually even be weaker (which suggests a confounding unknown third variable which might correlate with mask usage) than masks as PPE, but the difference is that there’s an actual mechanistic argument in favor “source control,” whereas there’s little to no reason to expect a protective effect for cloth or surgical masks of any significance for viruses. Viruses are simply to small and if a cluster hits your mask, and the chances of a sufficeint number getting through the mask are pretty good.
The problem is that a mechanistic explanation for “source control” is in no way any evidence that they actually work, just a possible explanation as to “why” if it was shown that they did. To show they work, you’d actually have to do some sort of study of the data and that data as of yet does not exist, and it _has_ been looked at with other viruses before.
“mask it or casket”
It’s this kind of petty sloganeering bullshit that I love in our elected betters.
North Dakota, which first hit the top of the FAS global mortality charts last month, tallied 18.2 deaths per million last week, and South Dakota had 17.4 deaths per million, according to the FAS analysis.
Less than 20; per MILLION.
Put a million jelly beans in a jar, then take out twenty.
OH
MY
GOD!!11!
Genocide.
https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1329063452271403016
No evidence, etc etc.
I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that comparing a single precinct to an entire country is comparing apples to oranges. At the precinct level you are more likely to find these kinds of anomalies. It’s much less likely in a larger population.
I like what Larry Correia said in a piece, talking about his days as an accounting auditor: 1 red flag is a mistake. 3 red flags is incompetence. A dozen red flags means your job is going to be fun and someone is going to jail.
If this was the only thing, it would be a mistake.
Back in the 80s, I took at intro accounting course. The prof was a kindly old lady, grandmotherly type, who turned absolutely giddy and viscous (if you can be both at the same time) when discussing people she had sent to jail for fraud.
Changes in viscosity would cause me to seek medical attention, if I was still solid enough to ambulate.
Heh, I caught the at in the first sentence. Missed that typo.
and by caught, you mean “awww, fuck, still no edit button”.
At the precinct level you are more likely to find these kinds of anomalies. It’s much less likely in a larger population.
P(at least one instance has occurred in a small sample) < P(at least one instance has occurred in a large sample)
You probably mean frequency and not likelihood, but even then I think you're implicitly weighting by impact.
P(the measure of the effect is significant in a small population) < P(the measure of the effect is significant in a large population)
Second inequality should have gone the other way
Bracelets are the worst enclosure for a force-field. You want to use a pendant or a utility belt.
Moran.
You misspelled hat. Preferably a hat made of a highly ductile, lightweight nonferrous metal.
Do I have to think of everything?
That’s not how fields work at all. Do you even faraday, bro.
Trump Signs Executive Order To Double Debt Of Journalism Students
Think of how many new journalism students this will be able to fund, how can they not support it?
*Nelson laff* Most ‘journalists’ have communications degrees! Stupid Drumpf!!1!!
Again, the argument seems to be unless you can somehow 100% prove that the masks don’t work at all, then therefore they do work so shut up and wear the damned mask or else. That approach is a lot of things, but “scientific” ain’t one of them.
It COULD work, so we HAVE TO try it.
If that’s not SCIENCE, what is?
There is a consensus that they work! #Science!
what are your thoughts.
Kill them all, and let God
sort them outgrind them into a fine paste.I keep saying this: this is not the Democratic Party of Kennedy, or Carter, or even Clinton. This is the post Obama party. They literally, actually, truly believe that a MAGA hat is the same thing as Klan hood, and that anything is justified to keep such people out of power.
He honestly believes that he is threatening her children for the greater good.
Because you can EVER threaten a child for the cause of good…
Well yeah, Clinton Democrats are Trump and his ilk, super-racist-Nazi-Republicans.
“Suffer your little children”, Maybe they thought he was threatening them?