Not much going on around here, so lets get to it!
Its funny they’re talking about “economic war” with Cuba as if it materialized exclusively in the last four years. I suppose Kennedy predated Obama and therefore before time began for journos.
Gays can marry in Bolivia now.
Venezuelans fleeing Venezuela on boats of questionable integrity meet their predicable end.
Good news! The plague will screw up the coffee market!
Speaking of plague: I am NOT trying out a Russian made vaccine.
An image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appears…in a pothole. No, seriously:
That has to be a hoax.
Here’s a tune from a love it or hate it band. Have a great afternoon.
“economic war” with Cuba
That’d last about as long as a real war with Cuba.
real war with cuba would end with a single bunker buster to a specific house.
Primero?
Dang. So close.
So, if we want China harmed, we should encourage them to develop economic ties with Argentina?
…yes!
China already completely ignores Argentina’s territorial waters and troll fishes there. Since their too replace the Navy and Air Force after the Falklands War, nothing they can do about.
Yes, China should absolutely be encouraged to invest in Argentinian debt. It’s a sure thing!
Oh, its sure alright…
Argentina makes me very sad, because it is a place that was on such a good track, and then went really crappy in the 20th Century.
What was the 20th Century good for?
Also as far as i know, Argentina still denominates it’s debt in dollars and under the control of US law… So there’s that.
Parts of Argentina look like Switzerland. They could attract fucktons of tourists over there, instead of just in Ushuaia
They had some interesting immigration patterns there, back in the day.
But I suspect you meant mountains and scenery…
I used to import wine from Argentina. Mendoza (capital of the main wine region) has the infrastructure and development of Corinth, Mississippi combined with the scenery of southeastern Alaska.
The wines are decent, too. Hope they resist the “race to the bottom” that screwed up Australian wines in the US market.
Wouldn’t that make them better?
https://www.wine-economics.org/the-taste-of-wine-does-it-matter-a-global-economists-perspective-part-2/
I couldn’t find a link to the original article referenced, it kept erroring out.
Preferred by the booboisie != better
There are more Kia Souls on the road than Lexus RX 350s, McDonalds sells a helluva lot more beef every day compared to Ruth’s Chris, and more Yellow Tail gets quaffed in a year than Châteauneuf-du-Pape; but I know what I’d rather drive, eat, and drink.
^^
My guess would be that expensive wines lean dry and less sweet, two things that would turn off a wine non-drinker
/person who drinks maybe 5 glasses a year
It would be fun to do a double blind test on wine fans. The presented selection would include low class amd high class wines. Some wines would be presented twice in each selection to see if they were rated the same or differently.
Has anyone tried this with fellow wine enthusiasts?
“Decent” is as good as they get. Everything seems to be styled in that industrial, international, “I could be from anywhere” style. I spent a bunch of time in Mendoza and can’t remember a single time when we tasted something and went, “WOW!”
Chile, OTOH, has some genuinely interesting wines amidst the sea of industrial swill.
+1 Casillero del Diablo
I do like several Chilean wines.
Wasn’t it Chile that bailed out French wines when France had a bad year that killed off much of the grape wines, even the “heritage” ones? I seem to recall that France then replenished their orchards using grape vines from Chile.
The vines had come from France originally, so Chile served as an off-site backup of sorts.
Argentina had a hand in that, especially in saving the Malbec varietal, as I understand.
That was California. And the French rootstock was killed by a louse called phylloxera. It allowed Napa to call some varietals actual French names if I remember right.
My dad’s office partner was an oenologist.
The US bailed out French (and other European) wines when the phylloxera disease hit. American Vinis lambrusca vines had developed resistance to the aphid that causes the disease, while French vines had no defense. Winemakers grafted V. vinifera (standard grape varietals that we all know) to V. lambrusca roots, and saved winemaking in Europe.
Chile, due to its physical isolation, is one of the few regions never to have had a phylloxera infestation.
They’re really sensitive about license plates in Ushuaia though.
To be fair, who wouldn’t make any excuse to throw rocks at Jeremy Clarkson?
Well, true. I don’t think the crew deserved it quite as much, though.
Ushuaia has (had?) a respectable microbrewery there and the seafood was so good and fresh. The geology was remarkable. Even the most non-geologic trained person could take one glance at the mountains and instantly know something remarkable was happening here.
Real communists would be disapointed by Bolivia.
An image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appears…in a pothole. No, seriously:
Quick, somebody- make a plaster cast of it.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is quite the trickster, for a vandal.
She ain’t no virgin, though.
*stoned to death by 10,000 Messican grandmas*
Gays can marry in Bolivia now.
More like Ballivia amirite?
Nah, that was a stretch. ///that’swhathesaid
You should always stretch; you could pull your groin.
“Biden picks Pete Buttigieg, 38, as transportation secretary – making him most senior gay official confirmed by Senate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9056613/Biden-taps-former-rival-Buttigieg-U-S-Transportation-secretary-sources.html
As mayor of a small city, he doesn’t know anything about transportation, but at least he’s more senior gay than the other officials.
This is the reacharound after Biden assfucked him out of the primary.
[golf clap]
What about Ric Grenell? Who is arguably my favorite log cabin.
Maybe that’s regular gay, not senior gay.
Hence the “Most Senior” qualification. Butigiegg will be confirmed as a Cabinet Member, whereas Grenell was only an “Acting Director” and Ambasador. See. This is really revolutionary and progressive.
I love how, in their desire to be ever on the wave of progress, every appointment ever made by “THE PRESIDENT” has to be “THE FIRST”, no matter how many qualifiers it takes.
It’s like to obscure stats in football. No team has ever come back from 20 points down to win by 3 on a full moon at the Meadowlands in December after a snowstorm.
With a left handed orthodontist seated at midfield.
“First black, Indian, unelected, descendant of slave-holding plantation owners to be president!”
And to think, this country used to routinely elect slave-holders to the presidency.
Assuming facts not in evidence – nice try at base stealing, tho.
The most important qualifier, ‘openly’ appears to be completely left out.
In the a.m. links I posted about who he’s rumored to pick for the agency I work for. If y’all thought that shit was shady before, just wait til Sam Power is at the helm!
She can shove her duty to wage warfare up her ass and self decorate a lamppost.
No way should cabinet officials be dual citizens of other countries, particularly Secretary of State. The pool isn’t that shallow there are 300M+ other Americans that should be ahead of her.
And fuck that bag of shit Cass Sunstein. He can nudge himself right into a wood chipper.
Where is her other Citizenship?
She is an Irish national.
Pete will make trucking fabulous.
A pair of truck nuts in every pot.
I don’t know. Truck nuts are kind of redneck. That’s the opposite of fabulous. Maybe some mudflaps with glitter instead.
Maybe a tuning mode for the ECU on your big ol’ Diesel that spews glitter instead of soot when you stomp on the accelerator?
Old and busted: rolling coal
New hotness: rolling fabulousness
Pete is definitely not into mudflaps.
His baby don’t got ’em?
Well, if there was any presidential candidate who was familiar with the 6.7 Powerstroke, it’d be Mayor Pete.
Big purple Peterbuilt!
https://theconversation.com/what-psychology-can-tell-us-about-why-some-people-dont-wear-masks-and-how-to-change-their-minds-150343
The social programming in this article makes me laugh. The fact that people willingly accept it as the truth makes me cry.
I’m guessing that, ‘Setting a good example without being a nagging pest,’ isn’t in there…
Along with lay out whatever evidence you have and let free people make their own damn decisions.
It’s like they’re really puzzled that anyone would like individual freedom, or would think that coercion wasn’t just a benign offer to voluntarily comply.
Let me guess: they also can’t figure out why anyone would oppose raising the minimum wage or would vote for Trump or would want to own guns.
“ I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
FTA We also know from previous studies that people are more likely to comply with public health guidelines if they are clear, precise, simple and consistent – and if they trust the source from which they come.
Consistent and from a trustworthy source. I think I may have discovered why some people resist.
Yeah. It would have helped if they hadn’t started out poo-pooing masks before turning on a dime.
The wide differences in advice from state to state, county to county, week to week, shows how totally arbitrary the rulez are.
If the decrees are all arbitrary, then they’re not scientific. Thus people don’t trust the guidelines, and the term “expert” falls a few more notches on the trust scale.
The poo-pooing was the first flip flop. The CDC’s prior guidance was face masks, dating back to 2007.
Speaking of China’s overseas economic adventurism, how are things going in Africa these days?
Last I heard, they were locking in natural resources as fast as they could.
Still happening.
China is an underestimated threat, and they feel no compunction to be fair and above board when it comes to pursuing their interests.
What the Soviet Union was in terms of a rival or threat to the US in the Cold War, China will soon become.
This is especially bad with Biden & friends coming into office.
——
Disclaimer: I really do believe that Bill and Hillary should have gone on trial for high treason for their selling of US missile and other technology to China.
China gas money now; Russia does not unless the oil prices rise. China is the threat. Russia is a threat only to its own people and especially journalists.
“FDA authorizes the first over-the-counter home test for coronavirus that gives results in just 20 MINUTES and will cost a maximum of $30
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the first at-home coronavirus test that doesn’t require a prescription.
The test, made by Australian manufacturer Ellume, comes up with a nasal swab analyzer that connects to an app on users’ smartphones.
What’s more, it can provide results within 20 minutes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9056293/FDA-allows-use-counter-home-test-COVID-19.html
What does the phone do?
Only $30 + the data the collect through your cell phone.
It’s probably Chinese spyware.
Supposedly, there is a spot where you can opt out of the data collecting. Although I bet it is turned on by default.
“that connects to an app on users’ smartphones”
No. F*cking. Way.
Just like I’m not downloading Gov Coonman’s social distancing “warning” app. The one which they say is totally anonymous and not a tracker or tracer.
It comes pre programmed to return a positive result 68% of the time.
Fuck! I called in because I have symptoms. Called my doctor and he’s quarantined because of exposure. Called all around and there’s just no decent way to get a test. Finally got an appointment at a drive through for Thursday, with results within 72 hours. I gotta use sick time until I get a positive test. Negative and I gotta go back to work and S/T the absence. If I get a positive, I get 14 days paid. They demand that I not go to work as long as I have symptoms. I had no idea testing was such a chore. At least, I get a new annual chunk of S/T on the first. Hope I don’t need it for something real.
Sorry, man. That sucks. I’m having an issues with people getting quarantined because they indulged their children, and the children tested positive. So you get a 14 day paid vacation before Christmas, and everyone else has to pick up your slack. Great. I lost another person through Christmas yesterday. We are going to have some pissed off customers.
It sucks for you. If you’re positive you get paid, otherwise it on you. It’s bullshit. If you get told not work, you should get paid, period.
Latinas are always OT for these posts, but feel free to wait til 3:30 CST if you must:
https://thechive.com/2016/07/07/the-latinas-are-back-with-a-vengeance-70-photos/
or
https://archive.is/MniBU
I’m reminded of Pringles commercials.
Once you pop, you just can’t stop?
Maybe when I was 15, now I need a nap before I go in for more.
“Wearing a used mask can be less effective at protecting against coronavirus than not wearing one at all, a new study suggests.
Researchers looked at three-layer surgical masks, which are very common among healthcare professionals.
They found that, when new, these masks can filter out nearly three-quarters of tiny particles that linger in the air and are most responsible for infection.
But, when used more than once, they filter out just one-quarter of the minuscule droplets because the masks become deformed with each wear.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9055645/Wearing-used-mask-WORSE-not-wearing-one-study-suggests.html
All these mask studies look at aerosol droplets. Is there a lsingle one that looks at a live virus? Otherwise they mean nothing to me.
This, since they haven’t really locked down how the live virus is passed.
“If you lock down people, you don’t need to lock down facts!”
No, it would be morally irresponsible to study the virus because it’s a killer virus mowing down millions in its path.
It singlehandedly murdered the flu.
They all actively ignore empirical data on infection rates and rely instead on the physics of the masks.
In other words, these studies are useless when compared to the mountains of data from actual lockdowns and restrictions.
this x1000. They’ve disregarded any data that goes against the narrative time after time after time. These people are a psuedoscientific religious cult more than anything.
And none of these ever admit that the mask’s filtering capabilities are often rendered moot by substantial leakage from the top and sides of the mask. Apparently the better a mask is at filtering, the more this occurs.
Furthermore, my understanding is 75% filtration is insufficient as the remaining 25% is way more than would be necessary to spread infections.
All of which is besides the point since the studies that exist with regards to flu and flu like illnesses in the past that show no benefit to the masks should, at the very least, be a hint that the default position should be that they don’t work until someone can show a real study that proves they do.
The masks have never had to do with health efficacy. They orignally started down the road because the calculation was simple people needed to feel like they had some control and protection when they left their house. The whole thing is the noble lie. They know they aren’t effective. The governors like it because they don’t have to do anything at all and just have citizens blame each other when the numbers go up.
Well our “pause” is only through Jan as of right now, but given this news I would say we are going to be locked down until March at least.
Sorry Neph, I don’t think we will be enjoying a beer together in 2021….
Viva was already pushed back from April to September of next year…
Continuing the PPP loan disaster
The intention of the PPP loan was to incentivize employers to keep employees on the payroll even during a period when there was no income. The government required you to spend it all in order to get forgiveness.
If, let’s say, there were no other income during the period you utilized the loan and it was the only thing that kept your doors open, which is true for a lot of restaurants and bars, then the loan money is gone and you are probably continuing operations on a shoestring, if at all.
The IRS has ruled that if you expect forgiveness of the loan, then you cannot deduct those expenses on your 2020 returns. This effectively makes the loan income in contravention of the original intention of the program and on an accelerated timescale.
Therefore, as it currently stands, the PPP loan tax implications are going to be bankrupting a lot of businesses that have been holding on by a thread and they would have been better off just shutting down during the period in which they had no business income.
Congratulations are in order to our illustrious betters.
That’s just fucked up.
My, what an unexpected outcome.
That’s why we need another
payoutstimulus plan from the federal government!When you say “those expenses” do you mean the loan repayment expenses or business expenses other than payroll during the period you utilized the loan?
“Those expenses” are the expenses that were used to justify forgiveness of the loan, primarily payroll during the 24 week period after you received the loan.
Basically, they made the loan taxable by making the expenses non-deductible when Congress specifically promised to not tax anyone on the loan.
I purposely set aside a portion because I didn’t trust them to follow thru on that.
wow
Fuck.
If i wasn’t already going out I’d laugh this was entirely foreseeable and it’s completely disgusting. Wait till people find out they have to pay payroll taxes on their supped up unemployment.
I guess I’m not following. The IRS determination seems straight forward, even if it doesn’t advantage businesses. Expenses paid for by non-taxed income is not deductible. If the PPP loan is the only income for the period, what is there to deduct expenses for that period against?
Here is $5K. You have to give all of it to your employees, or you have to pay all of it back.
If you give it all to your employees, you owe us ~$1K in taxes.
How? If you spend it, you still don’t pay taxes on that $5000, just you can’t turn around and deduct the $5000 on employee wages you paid with non-taxed dollars against other taxable income. No taxation on the income (PPP forgiven loan), no deduction using expenses paid for by the same source. It’s the flip side of the same coin.
I’m not seeing this limits deduction of expenses not paid for with the non-taxed funds.
Where it gets screwy is that those paid for expenses are non-deductible if the loan is expected to be forgiven, even if it hasn’t already. So if you don’t file or it’s not forgiven until 2021, you’re still unable to deduct those expenses in 2020.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1187
“I’m not seeing this limits deduction of expenses not paid for with the non-taxed funds.”
It does not.
Functionally, Congress promised that the PPP assistance would not be taxed. Many business owners took them at their word and spent the entire amount on payroll. Now, per the IRS, that payroll is not a deductible expense which effectively increases your taxable income by the amount of the loan.
Add to that, the IRS is already disallowing the expense deduction in 2020 even if you haven’t already applied for forgiveness.
This negates what Congress promised and will put a lot of cash strapped businesses under.
It’s a wealth transfer from the government to the employee that taxes the business owner for facilitating it.
I’m still not seeing it. Under your scenario, it’s double dipping, which while nice isn’t surprising if not allowed. You either get the tax benefit on the income side or the expense side, not both.
Or to put another way, you’re not worse off. You just don’t get free money (untaxed income and being able to deduct using the same dollar).
I do agree about the last point. That was the entire point. It was paycheck protection for still working employees, not a benefit to the employers beyond keeping their business floating a few more months.
Freeing the slaves was racist.
https://thepostmillennial.com/san-francisco-to-rename-abraham-lincoln-high-school-because-black-lives-didnt-matter
Incrementalism is not acceptable. We must have utopia now.
I can’t wait until they go after Obama.
At the rate the left has been progressing, adjusting for the fact that they think they will have 1000 years of leftist domination after Biden… I calculate that in 9 months we will see major cities renaming their MLK Boulevard (you know your city has it) because he believed in judging people by the content of their character.
Judging by the poster children of the BLM riots, preferably an unabashed criminal with no redeeming values other than the color of their skin or some other characteristic.
Say what you will about Rodney King, he sure could take a beating.
https://twitter.com/IAmJohnMirra/status/1338896130772496387
I think bots trying to reduce freedom of speech should have freer speech.
An image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appears…in a pothole. No, seriously:
Relevant.
Good news! The plague will screw up the coffee market!
That explains what I was worried about when I semi-drunkenly ordered a box of long-term storage survival coffee.
“”I Identify as a Dog” ..Okay, Bro.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN6aqcUKCCU
Speaking of plague: I am NOT trying out a Russian made vaccine.
It is just a vodka shot.
Prolly more effective.
Certainly more enjoyable.
You know Trump isn’t even out of office yet. Shouldn’t MS have to wait until Biden is inaugurated before he steals the Afternoon Links away from Brett?
… Did you miss that announcement?
I’ll have you know the PM Links jumped me.
The intention of the PPP loan was to incentivize employers to keep employees on the payroll even during a period when there was no income. The government required you to spend it all in order to get forgiveness.
If the IRS taxes the PPP grants as income to the business, and then taxes that money again, as employees’ income, the thing practically pays for itself.
GENIUS!
“NYC prepares for its heaviest December snowfall in a DECADE: Nor’easter to dump up to 18 inches statewide tomorrow with up to 2 foot in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
NYC prepares for its heaviest December snowfall in a DECADE: New Yorkers are warned to stay off the roads, COVID testing centers will shut and parents are told to prepare for schools to close as up to 14 inches is set to fall”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9056107/New-York-City-prepares-heaviest-December-snowfall-DECADE-storm-expected-Wednesday.html
14 inches is a bit. Not Apocalyptic, but enough to get me to work from home, if i was still commuting to the office.
I don’t see it, it’s doom and gloom Bullshit
Show me where,
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=41.2;-80.4;5&l=satellite
New York isn’t even going to get the major brunt of this, but everywhere else that will be affected is just deplorable flyover country. https://www.windy.com/-Show—add-more-layers/overlays?snowAccu,41.331,-75.432,7
On the upside, there may be skiing this month in some nice places in PA and NY
They are talking 2 feet in my part of NJ. I haven’t got around to panicking yet. Maybe later.
I deployed up to 18 inches on your mom last weekend.
I laughed.
You screwed her 9 times? You must be exhausted.
But not at all, my good fellow. Short strokes and PE FTW.
Looking out at a really beautiful sunset right now.
Pics?
I stumbled out of my office into my living room and caught the same thing.
It’s gone now.
Malmierca said Cuba further reduced obstacles to foreign investment. Now, for example, only projects regarding extraction of natural resources and public services would require a majority Cuban stakeholder.
Other upcoming market-oriented reforms Cuba has announced this year should facilitate investment too, he said, citing the imminent elimination of the country’s dual currency system that has created distortions in the economy.
Whoa. Could a libertarian moment coming to Cuba?
😉
Tens of thousands have fled to Trinidad and Tobago, many making the crossing by sea in often overloaded, rickety boats.
At least two boats disappeared last year on their way to Trinidad and Tobago with a third believed to have capsized en route to Curaçao.
It sounds like they should take some notes from Cubans in Florida.
Eh, a lot of them wound up as shark bait.
Trash bags and inner Tubes?
I for one am already sick of all the vaccine photo ops and PR stories. Check this story out for a good example of the genre.
I grew up next to the White Earth res and I never heard the term “White Earth descendant” before. My guess is that since they got a casino a lot of local white eyes who have a bit of Ojibwe blood in them are trying to get on the rolls.
I wonder who will tell her that if we have to continue wearing masks even after the vaccination “because you never know if you might be asymptomatic and super spreading”, then she still won’t be able to hug her mom.
“Thank you Trump! Now, go away!”
She’s not the blondest, blue eyed Indian Ibe ever seen but pretty close.
All these mask studies look at aerosol droplets. Is there a lsingle one that looks at a live virus? Otherwise they mean nothing to me.
Don’t worry your pretty little head about that. They accounted for it in the model. Shut up and put the mask on.
They are going to N. Korea, right? Right?
Y’know what. Screw it… I’ve alluded to the fact that there was some hinkey stuff COVID related that I was made aware of. Ive anonymized as best I can and have also changed a few words here or there to avoid searches from picking it up, but this is the core component of the email I received a month or two ago. I’m not aware of my employer taking part in this. As far as I know it was only a solicitation from the university and non-profit in question. That said, they didn’t squash this and were advertising it to our ML experts, which made me very uncomfortable.
*rage building*
Spooky Shit right there,
Ah, subject-matter experts and evidence-based decisions, the vanguard of the skinsuits.
Nothing will convince the masses of your good will like secretly trying to get them to behave in a certain way.
Pewdiepie or whatever your name is, roll up your sleeves. You’re on behavior modification duty tonight.
Goebbels would be proud.
Actually, probably not, because while they have the goal of mass propaganda they seem to lack the skills, if that e-mail is anything to go by. Effective propaganda should be short, simple, easily conceptualized, emotionally engaging, and vacuous enough to be difficult to briefly counter. That e-mail sounded more like it came out of the corporate jargon office rather than the propaganda office (although…perhaps that is effective, depending on the intended audience).
I got the sense that this was some sort of corporate engagement liason (or perhaps the mentioned prof) from the university that sent this. I also cleaned up quite a few typos and poorly worded sections, so your point is well taken. I only got a quoted version with an internal contact to email “if interested”, so I’m just speculating.
Which one of you is this?
Costco Culture Jam about Coronavirus
Let me get this straight: New York has to tell people not to eat outdoors during a blizzard?
Can you imagine what would happen if they didn’t? People might decide for themselves!
My brother is one that believes if the government didn’t tell him, or put out a PSA via the Ad Council, or have some law in place, that he would be dead or destitute. He is a firm believer that every aspect of our lives, form birth to grave should be under the strict control of the Government.
He is really fun at Thanksgiving and Christmas when I get him drunk.
My brother is one that believes if the government didn’t tell him, or put out a PSA via the Ad Council, or have some law in place, that he would be dead or destitute.
Is he right? Some people are screw-ups who can’t manage their own lives. That doesn’t mean the rest of us should be treated as such, but you will in fact find people the government has helped.
If you read between the lines on this story about a Covid relief bill in Minnesoda you might be tempted to think that Walz’s control is slipping.
I love the statement that the places that are threatening to open in the future are causing a public health crisis. The fact that they couldn’t put a provision in the bill that would exclude scofflaws from that relief money.
Yummy. Mrs. T is making smoked pork enchiladas.
I guess I’ll make myself useful and make us some Sad Margaritasᵀᴹ (Just ’cause I’m out of Triple Sec)
Car is gassed up just point me in the direction to your compound.
You can come visit if you registered to vote here already.
Speaking of gas; homemade pico de gallo. A carpool favorite.
Since we’re doing odd apparitions today, here’s a shrine to the Virgin of St. Nom Nom.
Now I’m going to have nightmares.
Jim Henson’s most beloved creations were born of the horrible knowledge that strange creatures lurk behind the veil of goodness and occasionally pierce through into our religious iconography.
Virtue. Signaled.
“A global pandemic and racial unrest have led this nation and communities across the country to an inflection point; and … despite the polarization playing out on the national stage, the Austin community strives to rise above,” reads the resolution.
This resolution is the first of its kind in the nation, according to those who worked on the initiative.
The contract should reflect values shared by the people of Austin, reads the resolution. Those values are outlined as:
Be respectful
Listen to understand
Act with good intentions
Support ideas with evidence and experience
Disagree without being disagreeable
Critique the idea not the person
Invite wonder
Austin’s social contract would not be a legal document, but rather serve as a “written agreement outlining a community’s core values and instructs the direction of laws, regulations, policies, contracts, culture and more.”
I used to think they hadn’t moved past High School, but it seems that they’re really stuck in Middle School. That reads like my 6th grade orientation.
Up next: Finger painting to bring us all together, then a round of “sharing is caring”.
“Invite wonder”. Oh don’t worry, I wonder about a lot of things that would probably test their commitment to several points on that list.
When you treat the citizens like children, this is what you get.
The United States of Benjamin Button.
Critique the idea not the person
So let’s test this by saying “If you’re born with a dick and balls, you’re a man regardless of what you call yourself” and see how that goes over in uberwoke Austin.
I am sure they will amend this social contract with what is and what is acceptable to discuss. All others are okay to critique the person as they are engaging in hate speech and thus open to ridicule, cancellation, $2000 fine and/or 3 months in
jailTruth Camp(r)OT: Informal survey here… So more than likely, Trump will be leaving the Oval Office. When that happens, what do you think happens with the Coronavirus policy?
A) Biden-Harris goes full-bore authoritarian with nationwide lockdowns, mandatory masks, mandatory vaccines, etc.
B) The media coverage suddenly becomes more optimistic, numbers start being counted more accurately, and the survival rate becomes a common rejoinder in the media. The “recovery” that happened as soon as Trump was out will be used for eternity as propaganda against voting for “candidates without political experience” (e.g. those who are outside the swamp).
C) Something else – describe.
We’ll have to ask Bill & Melinda, I’d say.
I think they half assedly try a, conservative stages ignore them, and then they claim victory in about half a year.
states
A little A and a lot of B.
National mask mandate and fawning media coverage of their vaccine rollout.
That’s about what I’m thinking. The mask mandate will expire at the time when the rate of new cases would decline anyway and Biden will get credit for all the work the preceded him.
The mask mandates will never expire. They need to be actively stopped somehow. I don’t know how that will happen though.
Governments simply don’t hand these things back to people once they’ve taken them. They have no reason to.
True.
Even if some government official really does want to repeal a “safety measure” that has not worked or is no longer needed, they have no incentive. The second something bad happens, they would get pilloried for it. If they just leave it there forever, people might grumble for a little bit, but it will become the New Normal and nobody will ever talk about it again (except \libertarians, who are written off as a joke by nearly everyone).
My guess is the way out is the same as “TSA pre-check”: charge people money to get a special screening so they can opt out of all of the mandates. IE, selling indulgences. Stick with the classics
We are 6 months away from them declaring victory of course by that time the carnage will be immense. The masks aren’t going away for several years if at all because of how many people love them. Something like 72% of the population wants a national mask mandate.
Amazing what suppressing counter ideas and studies will get a population to do.
They should coin this new tactic something witty like IFLS or whatever some other focus group tested adults think is fun and quippy.
What makes my blood boil is that the “I Fucking Love Science” people actually have a very unscientific mindset. Science does not mean “immediately accept and assimilate any information that comes from government officials”. It’s a mode of thought based on observation, reasoning, conclusion, and constant questioning. It’s clear that most of these people have no idea how to critically analyze anything. Someone told me (months ago) that the US had surpassed China in COVID deaths. I replied, “Well the numbers given by the Chinese government, anyway”, and I was met with a deer-in-headlights stare, as if that thought had never occurred to them. Similar things happened when I brought up the overcounting of cases and deaths.
And I’m not saying that I’m some kind of data analyst super-genius; I have zero formal education or training in anything related to that. But it shouldn’t be that hard for people to apply some basic level of critical thinking to the numbers they are being given.
“I Fucking Love Science” has become shorthand for “I believe everything on CNN”.
Also, a lot of this COVID response shit is not even in the realm of science. Even IF science did say that mask mandates and lockdowns would reduce the spread, that does nothing to resolve the question of whether a government has the moral right to do this.
It has been like this for years. I remember shocking an engineering colleague of mine by saying how much I hate the IFLS crowd for encouraging people to think of science (not true science, but the pronouncements of prominent scientists and scientistic politicos) as infallible, and how they were going to do irreparable harm to the practice of real science in the long run.
Can’t be B – accurate numbers would collapse their whole house of cards; and the media only knows how to sell alarmism (which to be fair, does sell).
B is interesting given the monetary incentives. The current testing regime is a billion dollar industry, if they failed to detect virus as much on a lower cycle they would need less tests. The media is incentives for bad news and eyeballs I predict a relatively quick turn on the vaccine being safe. I don’t know what happens with regard to the media.
The inflated numbers served their purpose. They got rid of the bad orange man. Now the numbers will have to change to make the new guy/gal look like they’ve done something.
Are you suggesting that the entities that masquerade as “press” are purposefully lying to us and/or willing to push an agenda?
What? Me? No, no, no. I would never suggest such a thing. And I’m shocked that there’s gambling going on here.
Just say “where am I” and “are you my grandson” when the authorities ask you.
I think B will be the answer.
Once the media has declared that the Rona Crisis is over, Biden can get busy bailing out all the states and cities that were devastated by Trump’s Rona policies.
Of course, the bailouts will include fully funding the public union pension funds in CA, NY and IL, because they were just fine before the Rona hit.
Old and busted: Rona is going to kill us all!
New and hot: Build Back Better!
C). Like they’re going to willingly lift restrictions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-britain-variant-idUSKBN28P158
They simply can’t afford to keep it going. The amount of destitute people in this country if they keep this going for three months is going to be enough to cripple the system. We are staring down the barrel of a terrible terrible recession if this all ended tomorrow. Your talking about the complete hollowing out of the small business owner, the end of the entrepreneurial class in this country and a massive housing/commercial market crash.
You don’t say!
My more cynical side thinks they’re perfectly OK with this result. To borrow the lyric Insty uses, “They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.”
Drat, I see you got to this before I did.
Sorry.
And yet nothing you mentioned was included in the decision-making process the first time around, why would that change the next time they discover something nasty fell out of an aardvark’s ass?
Honestly not saying this is what happened, but if a group of elites wanted to press the reset button on American society, they couldn’t have designed a better strategy.
Killing small business owners seems to be a feature not a bug. Having most business conducted by a handful of companies seems to be the favored outcome by a sizeable majority of the elected class of both parties.
There are a lot of suicidal small business owners out there especially in blue towns.
I have a neighbor that voted for our current gov ensuring more lockdowns and the near certain loss of his business within a year or so.
Mainline Protestant leadership is also pro-lockdown and voted to ensure its doom too. Certainly there are plenty of small churches that were going to die. The date of death was just moved up. But the lockdowns have devastated all aspects of church budgets from the individual church on up to the national apparatus
Government loves crashes and depressions. Look at what the 1930s did for embiggening the state.
Beggars are easy to please.
Both A with B used to justify how necessary and effective and leadershippy A was.
I think someone mentioned the other day. Testing will remain in place but the cycles will be set to what they always should have been, thus positives start to go down and it looks like Geriatric Jesus is our savior.
And that way they won’t have to revise the old numbers, so Trump will still look bad.
I think A sometime soon and slowly tolling out B a few months after A starts.
Govs get their authoritarian bones stroked
When A is fully implemented the Harris admin gets to claim victory, and say if only trump had done a fed mask mandate from the start more Americans would be alive today
Karens will be hired as “Reminders” at $15 @ hour.. When a person is reminded a picture will be taken and sent to a data bank. 3 reminders and said person will have to attend a class on social hygiene. 3 more reminders and person faces a fine, community service and a longer class on social hygiene. Another 3 and the scofflaw get a vacation for 10 days, a permanent entry on high school records, a conspicuous tattoo and a listing on the No Mask Compliance Identification Board.
Ineligible for any government program, voting rights removed and neighbors within 1/2 mile are notified.
From Trashy, above:
– However, with regard to both COVID behaviours & COVID Vaccines, Public Health Messaging from Public Health Officials has not sufficiently reached the population in both Canada and US.
Wait. 24/7 shrieking has not “reached” the population? What the fuck kind of drugs are these people taking?
I would think “haven’t reached” means they aren’t listening to us….
I am reminded a bit of one of mtrueman’s schticks, that even though Louis Pasteur figured out boiling water could kill most bacteria, good old Chairman Mao deserves the real credit for
killing or imprisoning any actual doctorsbelieving in “traditional medicine” quackerywaging cultural warspreading the good knowledge to the peasants a hundred years later.You know what would really bring the anti-vaxxers around? A PSA featuring naked (except for a mask, of course) Kim Kardashian taking it in the ass, in front of a cheering throng. Maybe get Ballgag Joe to sniff her hair while it happens.
*The vaccine, of course. What else could I have meant?
“Mark Zuckerberg defends Twitter’s decision to suspend Donald Trump Jr account
Twitter confirms Trump can be banned from inauguration day onwards
Donald Trump is the second most-followed politician on Twitter after Barack Obama
Donald Trump, who currently enjoys certain exemptions from Twitter’s policies due to his status as a world leader, will likely lose the protection after 20 January when Joe Biden takes over as the US president.
Mr Trump’s personal account on Twitter could be subject to a ban if he continues to spread conspiracy theories, Twitter has confirmed.
Since the days after the 3 November elections, when it became clear that Mr Biden was leading the race and set to be the next president, Mr Trump has been using Twitter to peddle voter fraud conspiracy theories without proof.
As a result, many of his tweets related to election results appear with the label: “This claim about election fraud is disputed” – even when they have received millions of interactions on the platform.
These tweets are not banned outright as his account is currently covered under the platform’s “world leaders on Twitter: principles and approach” guidelines, according to which the company allows tweets that break its rules to stay up if they see “clear public interest value” in them.
However, they may place it behind a notice that provides context about the violation, according to Twitter’s rules.
That may change for Mr Trump after 20 January when he becomes a private citizen. Post that, if he continues to post such tweets, it could lead to an eventual ban from the platform. ”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-twitter-ban-inauguration-biden-b1774105.html
Best part of the article is we get a former president that will absolutely be treated as a private citizen, even it is just for OMB. Libertarian/Constitutional moment!
Remember all those people banned for spreading conspiracy theories about Russian collusion? Yeah, me neither.
People are going back and forth between Facebook and Twitter and Democratic political campaigns. Once they got the “all clear” for this sort of thing, this was bound to happen. It’s deliberate to achieve a particular political end. Why would they censor their own side?
Alternatives to Twitter and Facebook will have to fill the void. And I’d expect to see these consistently referred to as “white supremacist” apps. They play this game to win. Anything that furthers that goal is fair game.
I have absolutely zero affinity for Republicans, but Democratic politics has played the “machine” game for a very long time and them updating it into the 21st century isn’t surprising.
The fuck they will kick him off.
If Trump went to Parler (or whatever the new thing is) it would be devastating for Twitter. Not only would they lose all their Trumptards, they’d also lose a huge amount of their OMB Blue Check Brigade. They’d go to Parler just to hate follow Trump.
They will absolutely kick him off. Multiple times as a new true believer gets access to the ban button. If they take that button away it will be on every nightly news broadcast as “bombshell leaks prove that Twitter protects racism, homophobia, bigotry and hate speech.”
Donald Trump is the second most-followed politician on Twitter after Barack Obama
If this is true, I’m wondering how many people would follow him on a non censored site. I have never used twitter, never will. If he’s still number two there despite all the people who would never give Dorsey the time of day, he could launch his own service, and twitter would crash. Go ahead fuckwits. Ban him.
I think you may be conflating people that follow Donny because they are on Twitter with people who are on Twitter because they follow Donny. If Donny leaves he may have a lot of people join him on his new platform (whatever that is) but they aren’t going to abandon Twitter just because he left.
Maybe, but over time many might. They just need a place to go. If there is an uncensored video site as an option to YT, I will consider it. Same thing with Twitter and FB. You don’t think there are many people who joined the twatter just because of Trump? I could be wrong, but I think so. I’m not a Trumpster so I didn’t, but there must be some.
If there is an uncensored video site as an option to YT, I will consider it.
The problem is content creators. I looked at bitchute, but there wasn’t much good content if you aren’t 100% politics and current events all the time. I couldn’t find a live stream of the spacex test, for example.
I had no idea they hated El Paso so much in Mexico.
Sorry egould310. Hope you like takeaway.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/12/all-of-oregon-coast-now-classified-as-extreme-risk-of-covid-19-spread-gov-kate-brown-says.html
I’m next door in WA. Gov Inslee has already extended the latest lockdown orders through early January. Oregon is playing catchup.
Although now that I think about it, it’s more like “anything you can do, I can do
betterharder”Same here in Nevada but we used the friendly focus group tested term “pause”; which really should make people more pissed to know that the Executive of a state has the ability to “pause” their lives. Democracy!
If the State can press “pause” on your life, it can also press “stop.”
They are getting around to that.
“Eject” into mass graves?
First they have to rewind to Harris and dub over a few things. Then we can fast forward and hit the eject button.
Cassette World………
Since we followed the media’s advice and were Be Kind, Rewind to the Obama years by electing Creepy Joe, can’t we get a break on the camps?
The Camps are for your own good. Why would you wish to avoid them?
Just think of how many of these 300,000 lives could have been saved if we had just humanely euthanized those initially exposed!
It’s long last time we pressed stop on the state.
https://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1338934939140681731
Who knew it would be the libs who convinced everyone to stop worrying and embrace sharia law?
Good lord clicked through the link:
36% think people should be fined.
Here is the methodology and demographics…wonder why they polled more women and more democrats….
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/Poll%20Demographics.pdf
Also, polls, even opinion fluff pieces like this are bullshit.
Hey, they are just following The Science.
Polling is manufactured consent.
“If children can’t consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?”
https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1334159240466997249
CWAA
I….give up.
If a child can’t consent to an abortion, how can they consent to being born? Pretty deep huh?
The natural aging process is transphobic.
“”How are you gonna keep it from us being able to be in a position where you can manipulate the machines, manipulate the records?… I think we should pass a federal law mandating that the same machines with paper trails be mandatory for every federal election”
-Joe Biden, 2007″
https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1338923147215638528
That was, like, 10 years ago, man. C’mon.
Grim news from my brother: he and his wife have the Wu Flu. The kids probably do too:
“[wife] feels like a dogs ass. Can’t get out of bed. I’m ok little run down. Boys fine ”
The horror. The horror.
I hope they are OK.
Thank you, though I’m being flip – my brother and his wife are in their 40’s and in excellent shape (he’s a former college athlete and still works out like a fiend). I’m 100% confident they’ll be fine.
Good. My brother in Texas had it a few months ago. 54 and overweight. No problem.
I hope they get well soon.
Welp, the wife, kids, and I survived the Commie Cough. My wife got it at work (a center for pregnant and parenting teenage moms) even though she was wearing an N-95 the whole time. She got a bad fever for one day, then felt tired for a couple of days after that. We all quarantined for two weeks. She is now fully recovered. I have never had any symptoms, and neither have the kids.
The social isolation and lack of any outlets for us or the kids took a far worse toll.
“ The social isolation and lack of any outlets for us or the kids took a far worse toll.”
My kids are toddler age and we never abided by the lockdown. We have prog neighbors that did the same. Probably saved our kids from some of the worst emotional impacts of the lockdown on kids
My wife says in her mom’s group they all lockdown and some are still locked down. The kids are beyond bonkers and probably beyond the expected behavioral issues for toddlers
Hmm who would’ve thought isolating kids at a formative social age would hurt them
We’ve struggled a bit with the 3 year old over the past month. Covid + a newborn means that she isn’t getting enough attention, social time, or outdoor time.
Things improved immensely when we actively sought out at least one thing to do every single day to get out of the house.
In a rare spot of good news:
My manager sent me a holiday present: a bottle of Lagavulin arrived in the mail today.
He’s a good dude.
Excellent! Good manager
Much discussion daily on the radio about convincing vax skeptics to “trust the science.” The one thing they avoid mentioning is the principal rational objection: by definition, a rushed vaccine will not have been tested for long-term effects.
I’m skipping past the irony of the same Progs who have spent years talking about the crooked, dishonest, greedy, lying pharma companies now claiming that anyone who is skeptical of the vaccine is a right wing nutjob.
convincing vax skeptics to “trust the science.”
I was wondering which phrase the focus groups would settle on.
If it was really science, then we wouldn’t need to trust it.
Life is easy when you just make shit up as you go along OMWC. And we were always told you could never put a square block in a round hole as children. Pssh.
They know it’s safe since OMB will be gone by the time it’s widely available.
I work with a bunch of young female nurses. I haven’t heard one say she is getting the vaccine. Many are skeptical because it is rushed, but one mentioned she is a newlywed and wants to have kids some day and getting this vaccine as a woman of child bearing age sounds beyond careless. Several agreed to that statement
“I work with a bunch of young female nurses.” Are they on the night shift? Cause RC Dean has informed us that the night shift is the best shift for young female nurses…
Easier to hide in the shadows while you stalk them?
“I work with a bunch of young female nurses.”
I put the brakes on right there,
/In Bondage!
Well i work weekend nights, if an HR rep heard the jokes and conversations he had the rep would faint
We had about 20 new hires this summer all but one younger than 25?
Operation Warped Fetus.
*memories of 80s movies about candy stripers*
“I’m skipping past the irony of the same Progs who have spent years talking about the crooked, dishonest, greedy, lying pharma companies now claiming that anyone who is skeptical of the vaccine is a right wing nutjob”
If I talked politics at work I would totally rub this in the face of my loud, leftist coworker
No explanation, no context required
Even with the vaccine rollout, health researchers forecast that the U.S. death toll could double and reach a cumulative 539,000 by April 1, and are urging people to wear masks and limit gatherings to manage the spread of the virus
Where are those deaths going to come from?
The model, I guess.
Still waiting on the evidence that asymptomatic carriers spread the disease in any significant way.
The vaccine?
Well then, I guess the Social Security and Medicare deficit will be taken care of after all.
So you’re saying that Trump and Operation Ludicrous Speed saved TWO MILLION lives!
Simulation glitch.
https://mobile.twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1338564157424226304
“The worst is unfortunately yet to come,” Dickson said. “There is nothing to suggest that the rate of hospitalizations is going to slow down. So at this point, we’re absolutely confident that this will be worse than the first surge.”
Dickson urged “the public to do everything they can to prevent the spread of this infection for the next two months” to prevent additional strain on the health-care system while coronavirus vaccines are delivered to health-care workers and the most vulnerable.
“If you can give us those two months, we’ll bring the hospitalizations down, we’ll have enough room, we’ll have the workforce to deliver the vaccine and we’ll be out of this thing in early summer,” Dickson said.
“But if we don’t get the public’s help during those two months, it’s going to be a horrible, horrible long winter because there will be a lot of people dying that didn’t have to die,” he said.
This guy sounds like he’s in the wrong line of work.
Second surge, same as the first. I’m Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am.
Hope you got your subsidized vacations in. I just saw that GoTo is being suspended at the end of the month. “temporarily”
Went to Hakone hot spring last month using it. Half empty and no Chinese, so that was nice. Still haven’t used my GoTo eat coupons. KFC for Christmas is the wife’s plan.
I heard Kyoto is quite nice without the crowds of overseas tourists. Exclude everyone but me. I’m a uh, on business.
Hmmm… come to think of it, my company does have a small office in Tokyo. Wonder how hard it would be to get someone to write a letter and have a “meeting” at the Starbucks in 2F? Completely different departments, never heard of me before, yeah, that could work.
That sounds pretty good to me, KFC rocks,
Odd tradition, but when in Rome, eh? Just sucks when Christmas is on a weekday. Kid wakes up at 6am and we open presents. By 8am she is strapping on her backpack and heading to school.
Do you do the Christmas cake too?
Of course. I always want cake. Ordered it from 7-11.
Mrs Straffinrun
Finger licking good.
Japanese Santa is trans?
I surprisingly enjoyed Owakudani.
Guess that’s near Gotemba. Outlet mall time.
Why should anyone believe you given how wrong you were about the severity of the first “surge”?
You are not a Certified Expert until you can avoid accountability for your erroneous predictions.
My Twitter days are over. Had my login saved on the old PC and don’t remember it. April to December 2020. RIP. What a colossal waste of time. I get why people use it, but petty partisan screeching got old pretty quick.
RIP Andalusia Barack.
You had a few good ones, luckily some other people use that same laid back primate avatar so I’m just going to pretend they are you from now on.
And that’s just the ones in Japanese…
Expertise
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to tap former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to lead the Department of Energy, two people familiar with the matter say, inviting a longtime adviser who played a critical role in his debate preparations over the years to join his Cabinet.
Granholm has long taken a deep interest in energy issues and was considered to be a top candidate for Energy secretary if Hillary Clinton had won four years ago. Now, she will have her chance, if confirmed by the Senate.
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Granholm, if confirmed by the Senate, would help Biden carry out his ambitious energy plan. The President-elect has proposed spending $2 trillion over four years on clean energy projects and ending carbon emissions from power plants by 2035. The plan would create union jobs in clean energy and through projects such as the construction of electric vehicle charging stations, updating electric grids, expanding broadband internet access and more.
As governor of Michigan, Granholm had worked closely with the auto industry, the dominant industry in the Great Lakes State, which could help Biden as he attempts to move the country toward electric vehicles.
She loves SCIENCE, you betcha.
Fuck Biden and fuck Granholm.
And fuck Whitmer too.
“President-elect Joe Biden is poised to tap former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm”
No comment.
Depraved indifference!
During a holiday visit to the Children’s National Hospital on Tuesday, first lady Melania Trump prepared to read a story to children by first removing her face mask. The hospital policy says anyone who enters the hospital must wear a mask “at all times,” according to CNN. This was the first lady’s fourth annual visit to the hospital. Normally she reads to a packed room full of children and their families, but this year only two children were present in-person and the event was broadcast across hospital televisions. Masked staff were also present.
Trump kept her face mask off the entire time she read, although she did social distance and had her mask on for a bingo drawing afterwards. The hospital and first lady haven’t returned requests for comment. President Trump and Melania Trump both tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this year, and according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, their antibodies should still be present. Guidance does not differentiate between those with antibodies and those without when it comes to mask wearing. “I’m thinking of you all,” Melania Trump told the children during the event. “Stay strong and well and Merry Christmas and happy holidays.”
Oh
my
GOD!
Why didn’t someone tackle her and forcibly cover her face?
So many tedious assholes, so few bullets…
She had it two months ago so there’s a zero percent chance she could spread it.
So this is basically complaining that she wouldn’t follow an irrelevant rule.
“These rules are for your own good!”
“Guidance does not differentiate…”
That would require a coherent, consistent, rational explanation for what the mask is ostensibly there to do.
I love it when they don’t use the article. It like Guidance is the given name of a living thing.
Unofficially done for the year ??
I have a department presentation to make tomorrow, but that’s a log-on, talk, log-off affair.
Make sure to Toobin.
Have a tasty beverage of your choice!
Only two days left to go for me.
Cheers, Trash. Enjoy the family time.
I’m the one who gets to work through everyone else’s vacation time.
But I did manage to sneak off every Monday in December.
Noice! Breaking up the weeks can help out a lot. I had saved up a bunch of PTO in case delivery of trashbaby #2 went sideways, but she was delivered on a Friday night, so I had a ton of extra to burn.
Mazel tov, Trashy!
Missed that! Congratulations.
Congratulations on your new carbon based unit.
Are you traveling back in time for this post? If you are, I need some time travel advice.
As for me, I’m off every Friday and I will be off from Christmas through the Monday after New Year’s. [Disclaimer: Unless threatened with termination due to CoVid.]
Unofficially done for the year ??
*blows horn, throws confetti*
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpT-mSbUcAAmZYb.jpg
HM has his own flag?
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1338921481775026177
Nice halo, asshole.
The sycophantic celebration everytime a leftist gets appointed or elected to something is really bizarre.
The comments are why I’m okay with civil war.
Wonderful.
??????
This shit again?
I thought he was supposed to be “gun czar” or some shit.
Beto is waiting for that.
lol my bad. I thought it was Beto. never mind.
it’s the guy who is actually gay and not the one who just acts like it.
That’s Beetoff, not Buttplug.
“Wannabe Instagram star allegedly ripped mom’s heart out in shocking murder ”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/wannabe-instagram-star-killed-mom-with-kitchen-knife-report/
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Those were some good drugs apparently.
That’d be this song, I believe.
Seriously, WTF? Someone keeps pumping money via direct deposit into my account. Says “salary”, but all of the places I work for have already paid up. Now I gotta find out which of those places has the Idiot accountant doing this. Ugh. Getting into some big fucking number at this point.
Don’t spend it. If it turns out to be an error the bank will take it back regardless of your balance.
Of course I won’t spend it. It’s actually quite unsettling.
You’re being set up by Yakuza.
Feel like Hunter after waking from a Ukrainian crack binge.
Who knew the PPP applied to Americans in other countries
My mom sent me a message saying how she got a special stimulus grant due to her work. “You meant you got that much in Yen not dollars, right?” “No, that was in dollars.” My jaw hit the floor. 3 years my salary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4pX6TnLJA
It’s a gift. Once they deposit it, it’s yours, right? Also, give them my account number, pls, k, thanks.
Cynical me was thinking about something at work today. The more mask wearing we do, the more positive cases of covid-19 we have. We are up to 20 cases now and it made me think. Maybe people would go get tested hoping for a positive test and presto – no more work until after Christmas. No way that could be a thing, right?
Perverse incentives don’t exist when it comes to COVID.
what is the failure rate these days?
also a nice time to get a positive test if you don’t want to visit certain relatives.
The new do it yourself at home test reports a 95% success rate. That is in a testing setting. “In the wild” they might as well send you a magic shiny 2020 COVID detecting penny with the instructions: Breath on your testing penny and flip it in the air. Look at it on the ground. If you can see Lincoln’s face you have the VID, if you see the US Shield you are negative.
The first time I saw that I thought it was some fake token or something. It looks like something a not particularly talented grade school might design.
schooler, even
“If Vladimir Putin has accepted the election results but you haven’t, you might have a problem.”
https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1338934260481355778
CWAA
Careful, she might hit you with her purse.
HAHA NOW Russian influence in our political process is A-OK.
Not sure what her line of thinking is. He accepted the 2016 results too…
And apparently in Northern Ireland, which apparently started back in Jan/Feb, but I guess there haven’t been many weddings at all this year.
Weird, I was just thinking about them earlier. Do not like at all. It started when I was thinking about this one from Soundgarden. Much better.
Gays can marry in Iran too. As long as they marry chicks.
Even then they still risk “falling off a tall building”
Heads up.
https://ibb.co/y6RYKK8
Sure, be mean and don’t tell me how to read the first kanji.
All I get is power and bird…
Pigeon
Thanks for having a “hato”!
Totally off the subject but what’s the best way to ship a case of beer in bottles?
Know an commercial airline pilot?
a pilot…sheesh.
Did. He had a midair and killed six other people this summer.
How far you have to ship it?
Bubble wrap and cardboard carriers, and more Bubble wrap
The province, home to the city of Medellín, needs around 32,000 coffee pickers from other parts of the country each year to collect its harvest, which takes place between September and December
And it must be playing absolute havoc with the harvest for..wait, that isn’t till March.
First! Bye bye Barr.