I often worry that I just don’t have enough “Oh, fuck off.” I mean, I can say “Oh, fuck off,” or even a strong “OH, FUCK OFF!” or the orbital strike of “OH, FUCK OFF!” but is it really enough for this level of bullshit? Three fucking masks? Admitting that the one mask forced on us isn’t enough, and neither is the extremely retarded-looking double mask?
OH, FUCK OFF.
Heads on pikes. Rivers of blood. A Game of Thrones prequel series. Fuck these idiots.
[wheezing like a pug]
‘Inspired Choice’: Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post
During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged that his administration would address inequality and racism. Now that he’s been sworn in as US president, his appointment of a prominent sociologist to the nation’s top science office is raising hopes that the changes will extend to the scientific community.
Alondra Nelson, who has studied the societal impacts of emerging technology, as well as racism in science and medicine, will help lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as deputy director for science and society, Biden announced on January 15. She has spoken and written about divisive and controversial subjects in bioethics, such as gene editing and direct-to-consumer genetic tests.
Scholars say her inclusion on Biden’s science team emphasizes the importance of science’s effect on society, and vice versa.
I FUCKING LOVE SOFT SCIENCE!
Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”
Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”
Baby don’t First me…don’t First me…no more.
‘sup fam
Getting ready to upload my time card for this week, as I get ready to fly away from the snow for a bit.
i.e., made a whole lot of people’s lives much easier…
Ended paid child labor?
People aren’t Society.
It’s like you don’t even SCIENCE! brah.
When cisheteropatriarchcial capitalists use technology to justify their rancid exitence by “improving” the lives of individual people, they are obscuring the damage done to Society by shifting the focus away from systemic oppression of intersectional identity groups. Only by understanding that it is the good of Society that is important can we achieve true equity and justice.
I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!
No, no, no.
Before all this new communication technology was recklessly foisted onto the public, the rubes were pretty happy. They were easily able to digest the news from one of the three big networks with ease.
Now the message from the MSM can barely be choked down because all these bad people are out there writing things that are different. It is making their guts and their brains hurt.
Once our benevolent sociologists eliminate those troubling sources of doubt and apprehension, things will go back to being good again. No! They are going to Build Back Better and only have One approved network news program. You won’t even have to worry about choosing one of three identical programs to watch.
That program being Big Brother’s face in 90% of the screen and repeating over and over “Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength. You must obey”
Sounds like a blockbuster.
It sure will be. No one will dare switch the channel.
When i saw the 2 and 3 mask thing… I realized that this is all a big game to them. They want to see what level of stupidity they can get americans to go along with, and are running out of ideas.
It’s a head game to get people to wear one mask. “Screw these dumbasses, I’m only going to wear one. That’ll show ‘em.”
We haven’t had a viral video recently of people yelling at non-maskers. Single maskers will now be shamed.
If three masks are 90%, how about just go right to a plastic bag sealed over your head. 100% effective!
I want to know the source of that 90% claim. Is it 90% of virus-sized particles? Based on what scientifically valid studies? Or is just pulled out of their ass like the models they use?
The 90% claim is 100% bullshit.
Is it 90% on the inhale, or the exhale?
Because I would bet mask efficiency is less on the exhale. And that’s supposed to be what matters, right? “My mask protects you and your mask protects me”, right?
How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge
The point is that there is no real point beyond showing up the pros — proving to them that they aren’t as smart as they think they are and that they don’t have the ability to control everything.
Which, again, has its roots in Trumpism. The entire notion of Trump’s candidacy and presidency was to stick it to the elites. And then, well, uh, there wasn’t really a plan beyond that. The screwjob was the point. (Montreal screwjob reference!)
That strategy — if that is even a word that can be associated with what this is — has massive limits. Sticking it to the man will only get you so far. It’s not a solution to any problem. It’s just a way to express frustration, anger and a feeling of helplessness.
Think of it this way: Giving someone the finger might make you feel good in the moment. But it doesn’t solve anything.
God damnit
Those plastic bags better not be single use!
Sort of…
So… recycling all over again.
Fuck, we are stupid.
I contend they still have the option of asking citizens to tie a plastic bag over their head to immediately stop the spread of COVID.
That’s odd he’s disagreeing with his own lawyer.
Love when luddites are put in scientism positions!
LA County has more people than the state of Virginia, but their director of public health isn’t actually a doctor. She has a PHD in Social Welfare.
But man, we gotta be real vigilant about populism. Wouldn’t want a bunch of unqualified people taking power.
No we wouldn’t; what we would want is the door into the office to lead directly into an industrial duty wood chipper. Anyone looking to take power is welcome to it.
“‘Inspired Choice’: Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post”
…and the rest of the world laughs at us…
“The Reddit mob that’s cost hedge funds BILLIONS: How pack of amateur traders led by YouTuber ‘Roaring Kitty’ sent GameStop shares soaring another 120% – bringing total surge to 1,700% in four weeks – by taking on Wall Street”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9193697/GameStops-three-largest-shareholders-gotten-3BILLION-richer-two-weeks.html
I don’t get any of this.
/financial moron
I sort of get it…..but some of those Reddit guys are going to lose a lot of money eventually, aren’t they? Once they all start selling and the price plummets, anyway.
Yup. But it can be expensive to go to a Broadway show or buy a transferrable automatic weapon. Some people are willing to pay a lot for entertainment.
The big winners bought in at around 5 bucks/share. They should still clear at least 7 figures at the end of this if the gov doesn’t intervene.
10% to the big guy.
Oh sure, I know some of these guys will still make fortunes, but not everyone.
u/DeepFuckingValue made approximately 130,000 * 199.53 = $25.9MM TODAY.
In addition to the 22MM he was already up. On a 53k investment in calls in Sept 2019.
Calculation method: He has 50000 shares and 800 Apr21 @$12 calls.
Just saw the daily update, he sold 300 calls today.
Current position:
50000 shares = $17.4MM
300 calls = $16.8MM
Cash $13.8MM
Correction, the first 300 is correct, the position is 500 calls.
If they’re smart, they’ll start bleeding off their positions now (if they haven’t already). Given where a lot of them got in, if they start selling now it will be hard to lose money.
I just peaked in there, supposedly on Friday the 29th is a bunch of the shorts coming due, so people are trying to ride through till Friday apparently this will really fuck over Melvin. But its Reddit, people might just be circlejerking.
Melvin claimed to have covered their position today, but reddit doesn’t believe them.
Yeah I saw some of that.
I don’t know, I’d cash out while you still can. Don’t be the last one in the elevator when the cable snaps. Especially the guy who got in early. Cash out at least 35 or 40 of your 55 million in paper gains.
See above, he cashed out 300 calls today.
Rewatch Trading Places.
+$1
Man, journos really don’t know anything unless it’s on the teevee, do they?
That’s a good story and now they’re talking about regulations to prevent it. We can’t have the wrong types of people manipulating the market you know, they might be able to rip off the people we prefer to have ripping people off.
I read some of the major brokers, including TD Ameritrade, are now banning their clients from buying GameStop shares.
Hmm, maybe “preventing” is a better word. Just so much banning go around with companies these days.
ZeroHedge has a couple of articles about on it. It sounds like the Reddit group is gaming an investment fund that was looking to game regular stockholders. Good for them I say.
As near as I can tell, this was pretty much spontaneous, which means its not market manipulation under any sane definition. How the SEC is going to outlaw small investors spontaneously piling into a given security will be interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised if they “inadvertantly” outlaw Motley Fool and similar.
The thing is, the hedge funds, high-speed traders, etc. need the small retail investors. They make a lot of their money off of them, and not off of each other.
Manipulating by buying a series of calls in Sept 2019. Yeah, that is manipulation.
That is what Roaring Kitty/DeepFuckingValue did.
” $3 billion in net worth” They had better sell, first sell may make it, after the first one dumps the value may go down (a lot). Can’t spend net worth, unless it’s liquid.
I’ve already seen some rumors that the reddit mob is going to target some other shorts, such as AMC. Get ready for the next subject/body of your next spam pump and dump schemes.
AMC, Blackberry. I’m sure there are others.
Mises.com weighs in.
Admitting that the one mask forced on us isn’t enough, and neither is the extremely retarded-looking double mask?
And I’m an asshole for calling Foochy a senile quack.
*kicks pebble*
I prefer homeopathic masking.
I said it earlier, i’ll say it again. Trusting the Government to keep you safe as an informant seems to never pan out.
So the “Proud Boys” thing was a government setup all this time?
I AM SHOCKED.
Hard to see, but I don’t think so. Tarrio is not an active informant, and not for anything political in nature. This is about stuff that happened a long time ago. The DOJ is doing this to ruin his reputation amongst his compatriots.
It looks like a two pronged attack to me. 1) Ruin his leadership position with the Proud Boys. 2) Link the Proud Boys to a guy convicted of fraud.
3) Get him killed by angry drug dealers
I’ve got a sociology degree, maybe I can get a ride on this moneytrain. All aboard, destination over the financial cliff.
Somehow, there was not much interest in mine, lucky for me.
“One mask ain’t enough, man
You better make it three”
Just take an old belt and strap a MyPillow to your face, the dude can probably use the business.
“‘San Francisco can’t figure out how to safely open schools but they have time to cancel Lincoln’: Fury as board votes to rename 44 schools honoring ‘racists’ such as Washington and Jefferson”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9193103/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-rename-schools.html
I’m no historian, but didn’t John Wilkes Booth already cancel Lincoln?
It’s all been a long con by Southern Democrats!!!
They ought to get a rich man to vote like that.
??
The United States has, at this point, been skinsuited along the lines described by David Burge.
Even current senator Dianne Feinstein’s name did not escape the chopping block, as the first female mayor of San Francisco and lifelong Democrat became the only living person whose name was noted for removal.
Lol.
Fury
*skeptical gaze*
The kind of people that show up to school board meetings can be a bit excitable.
Well, I guess if the house is on fire it doesn’t matter if you start playing with matches.
Also, on the list of banned school names:
I think that’s enough of a casus belli for Texas to secede from California.
Science is Dead. Long live Science.
“Demi Moore, 58, shows off her VERY taut-looking complexion as she struts in low-cut blouse for the Fendi show at Paris Fashion Week”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9193347/Demi-Moore-58-storms-catwalk-HCFW-Fendi-Paris.html
WTF?
What a shame.
Plastic surgery gone wrong. Someone needs to call Lin Wood and get to suing.
Related: https://www.fox19.com/2021/01/26/sandmann-fires-high-profile-attorney-lin-wood/
Eek!
Any pics of women not named Demi?
“WTF?”
It’s called a Glasgow smile.
What a strange milieu it must be where people think that is a good look.
Well, they have all their friends doing it, their hangers-on and the dipshit grrl power media telling them they look great and anyone who points out that they look like a car accident fucked Swamp Thing is just a “hater.” Multiple points of reinforcing self-delusion.
And her daughters keep getting spreads in fashion magazines despite being ugly enough to be admitted to Bryn Mawr.
Admitting that the one mask forced on us isn’t enough, and neither is the extremely retarded-looking double mask?
No hat tip? Well, I never…
That’s Dr Alondra Nelson to us deplorables. .
I just got back from the grocery store a little while ago, and by golly I saw a gen-yu-wine multi-masker in the wild, right there in the cookie aisle.
He/she was doing it to protect you, I’m happy that you weren’t exposed to a wanton single masker.
racism in science and medicine
Namely the scientific method and biology, which are both clearly racist.
Well there was that Tuskegee experiment. And rumors of shady organ-harvesting practices are starting to come out.
So today sucked. I had a battery die, found I left the jump starter on so that battery was dead, and then my bench charger wouldn’t light up.
I mean what are the odds of those three things happening simultaneously?
Murphy says Hello!
Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement
A licky boom boom down.
I read that as “Scientologist” Alondra Nelson.
Doesn’t really make much difference.
Close enough, for government work.
Betsy DeVos was unqualified for her cabinet position because she was never a teacher.
“Biden’s selection is an “inspired choice”, says Keith Wailoo, a historian of race and health at Princeton University in New Jersey. Nelson’s “scholarship on genetics, social inequality and medical discrimination is deeply insightful and hugely influential across multiple fields, most notably because of its focus on excellence, equity and fairness in scientific and medical innovation”, he wrote in an e-mail to Nature.”
“most notably because of its focus on excellence, equity and fairness in scientific and medical innovation”
One of these is not like the other.
Well, it’s got science right there in the title, works for me, and Ms Nelson, if I may be so bold, is also a real PhD doctor.
/Embarrassed face
OMWC’s Fourth Law: Any discipline that includes the term “science” in its name, isn’t.
Crazy how that works.
I should have bought tomato soup at the grocery store, but I didn’t think of it.
DAMMIT
I could use some professional advice…
I am selling my home & my plan is to strike out in an RV for a few years. I would like to retain my job and work permanently offsite.
We have been WFH for almost a year. I predict we won’t go back to the office until at least late 2021, possibly 2022. That will be two full years of telework. I have one colleague that does the same work as I do who lives in Ohio, and he’s been doing that for, like, 5 years.
So I plan to approach my government bosses about my making my telework situation permanent, AND not having a fixed residence (although I will have a fixed address to pay my taxes, etc.). In a little over a year, I will be homeless (but flush with caaaaaaaassshhh!). I would like to have my living situation worked out by early 2022. So, less than a year. My work situation will directly impact my living situation, so I need to get the ball rolling with the bosses in the next few months.
The agency I work for has also been pretty squishy-soft on mental health & shit during the ‘Vid times and the Capitol Hill “trauma”, so they’re not like a traditional company that wants butts in the seats no matter what. I have quite a bit of room here, is what I’m saying.
How do I approach this with my bosses? Keep in mind that we only communicate via email, Slack, and video conferencing (my dad said I should “casually mention it at that water cooler”, and I said “what water cooler?”). My contract company will be the ones to ultimately work this out, but my government bosses pretty much have all the say. My company will do what the government tells them to do. So I need to work this out with them first.
From their end, I’m thinking the only real issue is “permanent WFH”, possibly with a side issue of “available to show up in meatspace”. If you get a “yes” on the former and a “not necessary” on the latter, then I don’t see why they would care where you live or what you live in.
Don’t ask for too much, I guess. Ask for what you need them to approve, and no more. I’d probably work “looking to relocate” in to an early conversation, to set up the “not necessary to show in meatspace”. I see no need to lay out your whole plan to go digital nomad, though. Once you get the answers you need on those two issues, you might go a little further on where your home base/fixed address is going to be (I’d set it up so that asking you to show up requires real travel), and see how that goes. Once everybody has settled in to you not being around and not planning to be around, maybe let them know, as an aside but not asking permission, that you’re thinking about the nomad thing.
I would need to show myself in meatspace approximately once a year to get re-badged. My Ohio colleague does the same.
I’d be a little anxious springing the nomad stuff on them late in the process. But I agree that maybe an initial discussion on what’s possible from their end could be beneficial.
Why would they care where, or in what, you lived, as long as you were doing your job?
The thing about bureaucrats is, they look for reasons to say “no”. I’m thinking you set this up so that they have said “yes” to everything that should matter to them, so that if they get cold feet because you want to go nomad and they can’t wrap their conformist bureaucratic brains around it, its basically too late, as they have already said “yes” and don’t have a good reason to reverse course at that point.
I make my living manipulating bureaucrats (as do you, I suspect), and this would be my approach. Basically, three stages:
(1) Permanent WFH, show up once a year to get rebadged. If yes, then:
(2) Planning to relocate to new home base/fixed address. If no problem, then:
(3) I’ll be spending time travelling, but I’ve got a setup that lets me do all my work, you’ll never even know. At that point, if they have the concerns Dad has outlined, you’re pretty far down the line and can deal with them more easily.
If you open with “I wanna be a digital nomad living out of an RV, that cool with you?”, its just too easy for them to say “no”.
This makes sense…bare bones. Get the basics covered.
I suspect I will not be the only person asking for this, although my two other colleagues (besides the one that lives in OH) are tied to the DC area by family, so they won’t be asking. But if there’s going to be a thundering herd of WFH requests, I want in on the ground floor.
Show them video of you doing shots of hollandaise sauce and youll have them eating out of your hand.
So I plan to approach my government bosses about my making my telework situation permanent, AND not having a fixed residence (although I will have a fixed address to pay my taxes, etc.).
I would never tell them that you plan on not having a fixed residence. Logistically, you only care about making your telework situation permanent and explain that you will be moving out of commuting distance.
I would have concerns if someone on my team planned on working while driving around in an RV. Will they have stable internet and enough bandwidth for video conferencing? Will they have good cell service at all times during business hours? Will they be able to guarantee silence at any time during the day for client calls, which can happen without notice? These may not apply to you though.
I have answers for those connectivity questions 🙂
So it seems like the best course of action would be to
1) Work out permanent offsite work with my bosses in a general sense, but don’t talk about the lifestyle change
2) If my bosses are agreeable to permanent WFH, I’ll need to make sure my contract doesn’t tie me to a specific location. If I’m not tied contractually to a location, then there’s no need to even mention the RV life as long as I’m fulfilling m obligations.
Works for me. My step 3 above is if you feel like you need to inform them more specifically.
Kristen, Will we see you on one of those “tiny home” shows?
Naaaa…those things aren’t really that portable. I want to be mobile. I’ll likely get a small 5th wheel or a motorhome with a towed car
I asked that tongue-in-cheek. My wife likes to watch those shows and I can’t help making comments.
“Yes, it’s a bit cramped because IT’S A TINY HOME!”
“There actually is a long-existing industry for that. They’re called RVs and motorhomes.”
Frankly I think it’s mostly hipsters trying to “do something special” with their “environmentally-friendly construction” bullshit.
Yeah – I like the idea of a cozy space, but those tiny houses are the worst of both worlds. If you’re gonna go small, you should at least be mobile! (that is not a euphemism…I don’t think)
I think it’s more accurately “They’re actors, hired to make a bullshit “reality” show, and none of it is real. They don’t live in those stupid little things.”
Sure, some hipster assholes probably do, but I’d bet those shows are all bullshit.
“There actually is a long-existing industry for that. They’re called RVs and motorhomes.”
Those are for the wrong type of white people.
Yeah the most environmentally friendly thing lifestyle is probably
1. Live in a house that’s already built. Do whatever you can do make it passively regulating and low energy consumption. Insulate, use shade trees in the summer and sunny windows in the winter, use LED bulbs, etc.
2. Live in a walkable neighborhood within a couple miles of work, school, shopping, entertainment. Actually use the walkable neighborhood.
3. Plant a big garden. Cut your meat consumption down. Buy from local sources whenever possible.
4. Own only the cars you need, used ones that gets good gas mileage. Try to make one or two trips a month to bulk buy necessities. Make Amazon orders once a week instead of daily.
5. Be anti-consumerist. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Buy used clothes, toys, etc. Buy quality items and make them last. Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without.
I agree with your dad. Your daily communication strategy would not be impacted at all, whether you are on the move in a trailer or in a house. I am thinking about doing the same thing, and I know a ton of other people who also wish the freedom of the open road. Just do it, make sure every place you set up has good internet accessibility.
Late to the discussion (as usual) but I’d like to point out an issue that we ran into leaving home for just a couple of months. We had three shopping bags of mail that was held during that time. Granted, about 80% of it was junk mail but there were some items in there that had to be taken care of such as medical bills from my mother-in-law, refund checks, and other items. Of particular interest was a Certified Letter that needed my signature. Since I wasn’t there to sign for it, it was returned. I have no idea who it was from; could have been the IRS, could have been a lawyer letting me know of an inheritance. That kind of bothered me.
We had plans of touring the country in our RV (hope to resume when the panicdemic has calmed) but this points out that we have to stop by our mailbox at least every other month.
I know that people leave home for long periods and I would be interested in knowing how they deal with this.
Did you use one of those mail forwarding services?
To whom does one forward it? We might be in Kentucky one month and Maine the next. The USPS doesn’t do “General Delivery” any more.
First link i found: https://ipostal1.com/mail-forwarding-service.php
My dad did it (I don’t remember if it was this specific company or not) when he was “homeless” for a few months after selling his house. It sends pictures of every piece of mail and gives the option to hold, shred, or forward.
I was thinking USPS. Thanks for the link, will look into it.
I will use a mail forwarding service as I plan to do this for a few years
That’s literally, patently unconstitutional, not that anyone cares.
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So transparent and they don’t even care anymore.
I’ve been thinking about this. It is unconstitutional, but would the courts grant standing to anyone who sued to prevent it, or would it become permanent like DACA?
Anal tests only.
U.S. ‘actively looking’ at mandating COVID-19 testing for domestic air travel
The airlines and their trade associations are pussies. They will only make weak & token efforts to stop this. Bailout $ is much sweeter than actually turning a profit.
Meh, if it means I get to moon the TSA, it might be worth going back to air travel.
Tangentially related.
Also related
The DOJ is doing this to ruin his reputation amongst his compatriots.
Just like in the movies:
“Turn informer for us, or we’ll tell everybody you did. You don’t wanna be a stool pigeon, do ya?”
And then when it suits them, tell everybody what he did.
The FBI taking Lester for a very public ride around town in their car in Mississippi Burning, yep.
Three fucking masks?
Why do you want Grandma to die? 666 fucking masks is the right number.
Biden’s selection is an “inspired choice”, says Keith Wailoo, a historian of race and health at Princeton University in New Jersey.
I tapped out here. What a steaming pile of garbage.
Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys
There is always a mole.
Most transparent admin in history.
President Joe Biden’s press team may move to restrict the briefings held at the White House to liberal mainstream media outlets, if language from the new President’s deputy press secretary if more than just talk.
“Organizations or individuals who traffic in conspiracy theories, propaganda and lies to spread disinformation will not be tolerated,” TJ Ducklo, Biden’s deputy press secretary, said in a statement to Politico, “and we’ll work with the WHCA to decide how to handle those instances moving forward.”
Given liberal media figures’ extremely wide-ranging definition of “disinformation,” it appears possible to likely that any journalist or reporter who is critical of Biden policies “will not be tolerated” at the White House.
Now imagine if Trump had tried to do this.
I do remember him trying to yank Acostas credentials, and then CNN suing to have them re-instated.
If I was POTUS, the White House Press Room would be a lottery. Two week terms. You can submit your info to be included, and if you get selected, you can either take your credentials or auction it off to the highest bidder.
He was being a cunte and deserved to lose his privileges but that was a “war on the free press”.
Well, it is pretty transparent.
restrict the briefings held at the White House to liberal mainstream media outlets
“Organizations or individuals who traffic in conspiracy theories, propaganda and lies to spread disinformation will not be tolerated,”
Ummm.
MATH IS NOT FAIR
#cancelmath
I have to port this UCS comment from Joemala over here, because this is the winner of the day, and you all can just shut it down
Update from the front lines:
COVID patient volume continues to decline and we are converting units away from ICUs and back to regular units, and ramping up surgeries. Staff vaccination got to 70% and is pretty much holding there.
We had to postpone/cancel a fair number of urgent surgeries (cardiac, etc.) in the last few months because we simply didn’t have beds. This wasn’t a government lockdown order, it was just so many COVID patients that we ran out of beds. We are seeing deaths from these delayed surgeries. I found out that when the Gov. (Idiot-AZ) banned elective surgeries in the spring, which technically include urgent surgeries that aren’t emergencies, we basically ignored him for urgent surgeries as long as we had beds, so we didn’t see this during the first wave.
I asked how many flu patients we have seen this year. The answer was “None, because nobody is testing for flu.” If you are wondering where the flu has gone, that’s where. The flu hasn’t been knocked down by masking, etc. (which never made sense, because why would one infectious disease be knocked down by masking, etc., while another one was ramping up to its all-time peak). Its not showing up in any kind of reporting because nobody is looking for it. If we stopped testing for COVID, it would “disappear” just like the flu has “disappeared”.
Interesting info – thanks!
Also, unlike COVID, there actually has been significant studies done on the effectiveness of masks versus influenza like illness and they have not faired very well, particularly the cloth ones.
That, of course, will not matter. I hold to my prediction that much of this country, and most of the biggest retailers, will require masks in indoor public spaces for well more than a decade. That’s how these things go.
“If we stopped testing for COVID, it would “disappear” just like the flu has “disappeared”.”
I remember when Trump joked about this and the media had their usual freakout.
I mentioned it in the comments last nite that I did a job for a double masker yesterday. Funny enough he had already had the first dose of vaccine as well. He lightly admonished me for my bare minimum neck gaiter which I use for working. Seeing as he was hovering around me the entire time I was working I told him that social distancing works better than masks. Wanker.
Move along, nothing to see here.
When people are denied public records they routinely reach out to us for assistance and more often than not, we are able to request the same records and we get them. When this happens it is an indicator of a problem because if we are able to get those records, so too should others.
The DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek and her Chief Deputy Scott Mackay signed a contract with Dominion Voting Systems Inc. on January 24, 2020. After a copy of that contract was requested by an individual and denied, we were asked to assist in getting the same records. Our Freedom of Information Act request was granted and we find the Dominion Voting Systems encouragements to avoid transparency very troubling.
And see, herein is the real scandal. You cannot argue for having free and fair elections if you are going to be endlessly opaque about your methods. The software should be open-source, and not this bulshit.
You don’t have to claim the election was stolen, just that they system is bulshit and it shouldn’t be so secretive.
“we find the Dominion Voting Systems encouragements to avoid transparency very troubling.”
Ya’ think?
They cheated their asses off and stole this election. Destroying confidence in fair elections is a bad, bad idea.
If you are wondering where the flu has gone, that’s where.
Hiding in plain sight. Not particularly surprising.
Thx for the update.
Is she a devout Catholic?
At her daily White House press conference Wednesday afternoon, Psaki responded to questions over whether the administration might get involved in the ongoing stock surge by noting that they’d just hired Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary.
“Is the White House concerned about the stock market activity we’re seeing around GameStop and now some other stocks as well?” one reporter asked Psaki. “Have there been any conversations with the SEC about how to proceed?”
“Well, I’m also happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury secretary and a team that’s surrounding her and often questions about markets,” Psaki replied.
She continued by noting that the White House would send reporters to the Treasury for comment, “but our team is, of course, our economic team, including Secretary Yellen and others, are monitoring the situation.”
Psaki is proof that redheads have no soul.
Maybe its just my confirmation bias, but she seems not terribly bright, either.
She’s bright enough to say the right words to properly direct journalists in the direction she wants them to go.
“We have more important things to talk about”. Oh, ok.
“Redheads: blondes from Hell.”
As a redhead, I take umbrage!
WI Senate votes to end mask mandate
Wisconsin’s State Senate is voting to overturn Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate, sending the resolution to the State Assembly.
A total of 18 state senators voted to overturn the mandate, while 13 voted against the resolution. Two Republicans — Sen. Dale Kooyenga and Sen. Robert Cowles — voted against throwing out the mandate.
Murderous mob strikes again
A second police officer who responded to the riots at the Capitol earlier this month has died by suicide, the D.C. police chief revealed on Tuesday evening.
Jeffery Smith had worked for the Metropolitan Police Department for 12 years and died on Jan. 15—just nine days after thousands of MAGA supporters stormed the Capitol.
“Officer Jeffrey Smith’s service and presence will be dearly missed at the Second District,” MPD Second District Commander Duncan Bedlion told The Daily Beast in an email. “My prayers are with his family during a very difficult time.”
Charge everyone who was at Trump’s rally with murder.
Smith’s last tweet: “I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.”
So the death count is now 6. And double count that for convid deaths.
“Well, I’m also happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury secretary and a team that’s surrounding her and often questions about markets,” Psaki replied.”
It’s really really a load off my mind to know that the establishment, our intellectual superiors, are back in power. I just worry so much about the threat of populism, what it could mean for this great country if someone who wasn’t very smart was in a position of power and influence.
This is funny. They are without a paddle. This is like Marco rubio repeating the same thing over and over again. “VAGINA! WOMAN! DIVERSITY!”
This woman never, ever answers a fucking question, unless it’s a softball that makes “What has most enchanted you?” look like a grilling. Everything is hemming and hawing and “uhhhhhh ummmmmm”, followed by “I’ll circle back to that later”
Another officer, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital on Jan. 7 from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.”
That’s as much as you need to know. He was a HERO!
injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.”
How . . . vague. Intriguingly so. It would encompass injuries inflicted by someone or something other than the protestors.
The reporter probably doesn’t know any details either.
Democrats Vote To Reinstate Trump As President So Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional
Journalists Justify Loudly Cheering On Biden As It’s Needed To Keep Him Awake
Heroes, laying their lives on the line
As threats continue to mount against members of Congress, concern is growing about the safety of some lawmakers when they travel outside Washington and the security bubble it provides, multiple sources told CNN.
Intelligence based on social media chatter and other information, which increased after the January 6 insurrection, indicates a heightened threat for members of Congress in their home states, a law enforcement official said.
Lawmakers in both parties have been reluctant to share details about specific threats they have received in the weeks since pro-Donald Trump rioters breached the US Capitol and 10 House Republicans voted in favor of impeaching Trump for inciting the insurrection.
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Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security warned about potential violence from extremists who object to the presidential transition, hold anti-government views or are motivated by false narratives.
Meanwhile, criminal complaints against some of the individuals who participated in the January 6 storming of the US Capitol have validated concerns about the safety of members and their families when they travel back to their home districts.
Not asked: why these people are despised by their employers.
How many of them thought Rand Paul deserved what he got?
“…or are motivated by false narratives.”
CNN: We’ll be in charge of the false narratives around here, thank you!
It would encompass injuries inflicted by someone or something other than the protestors.
Or an “undiagnosed condition” which caused him to have a stroke after he got back to the station.
In “Too Local News”, I attended the Zoom public hearing for NH House Bill 63.
This bill would have the state refund all fines collected for violations of the Governor’s State of Emergency, restore any revoked licenses, and expunge any records.
Here is a summary of my notes from the hearing. I think a full-blown article would bore you all to death. Even this might be a bit on the long side.
I found out at the hearing that there is an amendment to the bill which changes the bill’s effective date and removes the provisions requiring an immediate end to enforcement of the emergency orders. The bill, as amended, will not take effect until the state of emergency ends.
The Zoom meeting was a bit of a shit-show of technical problems and poor connections.
Based on the questions for the prime sponsor, the Democrats on the committee are opposed to the bill.
Most of the people speaking during the public comment part of the hearing were in favor of the bill. Very few business owners spoke. One legislator said she had asked many business owners to testify, but they refused for fear of retaliation from the Governor and/or the State AG’s office. I know the legislator and I doubt she is making that up.
Only one person spoke during the public comment period against the bill. This person is a state representative whose district covers Durham and another town whose name I did not catch. I’d say about half the time he spoke he complained about how the governor spent money. He said that Covid is “a calamity that has killed more Americans than the Civil War”. Apparently he forgot about the Spanish Flu. He also thinks masks are not controversial because everywhere he goes he sees everyone wearing masks.
One of the people that spoke in favor of the bill also used the opportunity to rant about Zoom meetings for legislative business. She thinks it is a way to silence opposition. I find myself agreeing with her.
The committee vote for the NH legislature is a recommendation or a referral back to committee. The recommendation can be “Ought to pass”, “Ought to pass with amendment”, or “Inexpedient to legislate”. Generally, “inexpedient to legislate” kills a bill. “Ought to pass” doesn’t mean the bill will pass when it comes up for a vote before the House or Senate. Based on what I see on the legislative calendar, the committee vote has to take place before Feb. 18th, 2021.
I just received some good news.
The committee passed HB 63 with a recommendation of “Ought to pass”. The legislature’s staff have not yet updated the bill status web page. At some point in the future, the bill will come up for a vote before the full House.
Nice auroras in Norway right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MjQfWo3RcI
That’s pretty cool.
Also, unlike COVID, there actually has been significant studies done on the effectiveness of masks versus influenza like illness and they have not faired very well, particularly the cloth ones.
If you went to full tilt clean room biohazard protocol, you would probably experience a meaningful level of enhanced safety.
But using that as a justification to force people into cloth masks and train robber bandanas is like saying, “A .44 magnum will stop a grizzly bear. Take a BB gun with you when you go into the back country.”
Full precautions – a real N95, face or eye shields, and a gown, all fitted and worn correctly – work pretty well, based on our experience with nurses who were heavily exposed day after day, but didn’t get sick at more than the community rate.
But that’s absurd for the genpop.
Uffda. It has been a tough day today. Too many emails from crazy proggie relatives. Surprisingly my sister was not one of the malefactors today.
Several emails with links to stories from “health professionals” about how bad Q has been for people and how they can be saved. I’d tell you how to save your soul, but I didn’t bother to open any of them. That is how far gone I am.
Other emails from people saying that it is still super important to stop whining, mask up and listen to our betters.
Several of the senders have reacted badly in the past when I have mildly pushed back on their screeds. I don’t need them sending me more of that shit, so I just ignore their crap.
That makes me feel like a giant sissy for not fighting with them.
I was also sent an article from a relative who forwarded an article by our God Governor Walz railing about Trump’s danger to Democracy.
Really, really wanted to reply with, “a lecture on dangers to democracy from a man who has usurped all power in our state from the our elected representatives is a bit much for me to take”.
I’m sure this relative would be so outraged he’d actually call me in person to lecture me on why I am a bad person.
But why haven’t I seen anyone from the professional punditry pointing out the utter hypocrisy of these governors claiming any pro-Trump protest is a threat to democracy all the while while wielding dictatorial powers that would have been unthinkable in Jan, 2020?
Democracy is just used as a substitute for “the policy preferences of the gentry liberal class”. Imposing those via force is actually democracy.
Man, you’re much more patient than I would be.
“I don’t shit on your front porch. Why do you insist on shitting on mine?”
“That makes me feel like a giant sissy for not fighting with them.”
Dont. It is a Sisyphean task. Fuck that rock.
85% of the emails from them are fine and they are basically nice folk.
Most days, I just figure why get my panties in a twist about petty crap like this. Just ignore it and move on. Today, it just feels like shit has snowballed.
To be fair, I think the same thing about my marriage. Young Me would have stood his ground, proclaimed the righteousness of his stance and fought with Mrs. Holiness. Now Me, shrugs and says “I was going to lose that argument anyhow, so let’s just roll over and give up”.
You are a wise man, some hills aren’t worth taking a stand on.
/Gen Custer
People are still bombarding each other with their puerile political opinions via e-mail? I thought that had all migrated to social media 13 or so years ago, thus reducing collateral damage.
work pretty well, based on our experience with nurses who were heavily exposed day after day, but didn’t get sick at more than the community rate.
I am perfectly willing to believe some people or groups, in specific circumstances, should take those precautions.
Going to the grocery store, or buying a new toaster at Walmart? No.
That makes me feel like a giant sissy for not fighting with them.
You cam always go bail out Lake Michigan with a teacup.
Reposting at the bottom, because I am dumb:
How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge
It’s OK, I recognize you posted it first.
The point is that there is no real point beyond showing up the pros
Well, and making a crapton of money.
Sticking it to the man will only get you so far. It’s not a solution to any problem
Maybe “the man” is the problem?
So the “pros” or “elites” are now a rapacious hedge fund trying to screw other people over?
“That strategy — if that is even a word that can be associated with what this is — has massive limits. Sticking it to the man will only get you so far.”
Well, it seems to be strategy enough to bring down a multi-billion $ hedge fund run by “pros.” I was assured the pros/elites have answers for everything.
Anthony Cumia interviews Mike Rowe (~18 min):
https://youtu.be/W0YPGGgfTSk
He was also on the Fox News Rundown podcast Monday morning.
“Melvin Capital ➐
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Gamestop $10,300,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my hedge fund is bankrupt”
https://twitter.com/sgtballsvevo/status/1354278686388846592
LOL
That guy might be a wee bit of an antisemite.
But he says that saying he’s an Anti Semite for being anti-israel is anti-semetic itself. Checkmate!
But only an anti-semite would gatekeep antisemitism. Reverse checkmate!
Goody. Just what I need. Time for the traditional state budget Kabuki theater.
GOP will talk tough for a while, but will eventually knuckle under because every MSM outlet in Minnesoda will paint them as baby killers if they don’t go along with King Walz’s plans to raise taxes on “the rich” and give shit tons of money to “the poor”.
I think a politician could make a lot of hay proposing a budget that had a work from home tax (let those fucking Karens pushing for more lockdown feel some pain) and a wage reduction for govt workers. Again, how many of them have felt no pain at all during this?
If you support government lockdowns, you have not been affected financially at all.
“How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge”
https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1354511775107059722
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge-trumpism/index.html
Chris Cillizza has to be dumbest person on CNN. Which is like being the whitest person in Norway.
Don’t be dissin’ Ole and Sven by comparing them to Cillizza!
Sven and Ole are just dumb and friendly. Cillizza is stupid and petty.
Never forget: Chris Cillizza has a framed picture of himself on a shelf of his bookcase. Who does that??
Replying to
@ChrisCillizza
Just write a song about him and move on. Seems to work for Taylor Swift.
To be fair, this BBC journalo also has a picture of Chris Cillizza on her bookcase. It isn’t framed though.
Close the thread, Jimbo is today’s champion.
Do you think Chris is really mad that Trump was sort of right? The mob of unwashed yokels really might be smarter than all the “right” people who Chris hangs out with.
Sure seems like the yokels outsmarted the fancy experts at the big hedge funds this time.
Well, I’m glad our national scientific policy is being set by a real scientist. At least they didn’t put an urban geographer in charge.
Of course, if you got Minnesoda’s urban geographer to run things, he could also head up the diversity and inclusion office too. Save some money.
Then we’d be free from the hidden scourge of white supracist skyway systems.
You will have to puzzle through that story yourself because I don’t have the education to follow along as to why whitey needs to walk outside in subzero weather instead of using a skyway.
I cant think of anything the left wants that is not punitive in some way or other to the general public.
My favorite is “Stop popping bubble wrap!”
It must be the “no negroes” signs at the entrance?
Well to be fair, St. Paul did have one very egregious incident where a black guy was tased and beaten for being uppity in the skyway.
As bad as cops beating a man for “not cooperating” with them when they hassled him for no reason, the worst part of the situation was that there wasn’t a peep out of BLM or any other black civil rights organization. A decent citizen was beaten and tazed while waiting for his daughter to get out of daycare and nothing is said.
Less than a year later repeat felon Jamar Clark gets shot while scuffling with police and the city erupts. The reason the cops were there is because Clark was hassling the ambulance crew where were there to treat his girlfriend for the beating Clark had given her earlier. He was trying to stop them from taking her to the hospital until he could convince her not to say anything to the cops and have his parole violated.
So BLM goes to the mattresses over a complete shit stain for an incident that had nothing to do with racism, but won’t make a peep about a very racially motivated beating of a solid citizen.
It is fascinating how the left always latches onto the biggest pieces of shit to make into their martyrs. The more controversial, the better, it seems.
It’s almost like divisiveness is the point.
It really is. Scott Alexander did an essay on it. Only by pushing the extreme cases can you be sure that the people supporting you are really supporting you.
Nobody righteous would want to agree with a nazi.
It’s more of a case that non-controversial cases don’t generate controversy. If everyone agrees then it gets no publicity, no clicks, no ratings, no opportunities for finger pointing.
While that would explain media coverage, it doesn’t explain why cases everyone could agree on don’t go viral on social media or generate the haterage that the… questionable cases do.
Cases everyone could agree on don’t go viral on social media because everyone quietly agrees. There are no hate clicks, no attacking the other side, no flaming in the comments, etc.
Are there any whites left in Minneapolis?
Here the major cities have maybe…maybe 10% of the white population they used to have.
A friend of mine used to have a 4000 sq foot antebellum home in Alexandria sitting on 1/4 of a city block with a 8 foot brick wall around the property. He spent half a mil renovating it.
Pedestrians would regularly lob trash over the wall or throw rocks and bricks at the house. He finally tired of the maliciousness, sold and moved out in the country.
Hmmmmm……
Would you be willing to look up the percentage of non-white residents in the Twin Cities by zip code?
Because our covid map lists that information out for you. If you drill down on that map you can see how many new cases, total cases and the population in a particular zip code. And of course it also tells your the % of non-whites living there. Why? Who knows.
Maybe if there is an outbreak you want to be sure the Karens don’t go crazy blaming the mouth breathing deniers for not following the SCIENCE only to find out that most of them are BIPOC?
This thread is hilarious:
https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1354532507723640835
I hate twitter. Prof Galloway has a good point.
“Andy Ngo flees United States after multiple death threats by Antifa”
https://rfangle.com/news/andy-ngo-flees-united-states-after-multiple-death-threats-by-antifa/
Feds Arrest Twitter Troll Ricky Vaughn For Posting LOL Memes, Biden Administration Claims Subversive Election Interference Via Twitter
Yeah that’s actual, no shit, tyrannical government. Anyone who signed that warrant is a traitor to the Constitution.
Maybe they are arresting him for IP theft? You know because The Onion already did it?
Once again. This guy was free for 4 years. Then within a week of the administration changing he is arrested. This is nothing short of a political prisoner, and is Tyranny.
That’s just insane.
No more insane than the banana republic bullshit they have been up to for the last five years. They really are lunatics running an asylum
Somebody said it the other day, but this is starting to feel quite different from the country I grew up in.
Sure, there were grifters and there were activists and there were nanny starters and there were idiotic regulations and there were liberty blind spots, but there wasn’t some coordinated social movement attempting to exile their political opponents from polite society.
No, this is different.
It’s seems to be getting way worse when journalists are caterwauling that platforms aren’t doing enough censorship.
I have bad news for you folks in Florida. You are about to be impaled with an invasion of desperate frisky people from the Triangle of Hell aka CuomoMurphyWolfensstan.
You have been warned.
Where is the outrage at this gal for displaying her dildo in a zoom meeting with the BBC?
Poor Toobin gets raked over the coals for having a bit of self fun, but she gets to skate? I want the mob with all the torches and pitchforks.
And I’m not even bringing up the micro-aggression of being a white dildo instead of a woke black dildo.
She’s Welsh. That is what’s considered black there.
And why would you put it on your bookshelf like a display piece?
Is it an urn with her late hubby’s ashes?
Err site is doing this weird thing where it only displays a couple of comments or none at all. I need someone to enact some labor for me.
56-23
Oh wait you weren’t asking about the cal game…
I fixed it myself. No thanks to the lot of you! This is the thanks I get for all I do around here?
Reddit has purged r/wallstreetbets and the new one wont allow GME posts. Orwell was just off by 37 years.
I peruse Reddit for some memes regarding computers, but i don’t kid myself that it is any sensible location for having free or open conversations. the place is Entirely occupied by leftists and the Company is run by leftists.
I read the college football reddit. That is reasonably politics free. But, yes, to the rest of it.
I occasionally land there when searching for some esoteric software developer question & the information is usually quite useful. I would otherwise never choose to go there willingly.
#metoo
Reddit has some good porn subreddits.
No matter what your particular preference is, there is a sub for it.
This can’t possibly surprise you. “Disappointed,” maybe. But this is gonna get cracked down on, hard. The fact that nobody likely did anything illegal isn’t gonna matter.
OFFS!!
NBC just showed Joe talking about his EO that requires the feds to buy only zero-emission cars. “It will create 1 million jobs!” Not at all surprised that Joe’s statement wasn’t immediately rebutted by a newsreader reminding us that it was “unproven,” “false,” “unsubstantiated,” or “unproven.” Shit, if Trump had said, “The sun will come up tomorrow” the media would have said “Scientists say that remains to be seen.”
All i can hope is that everytime the media does these blatant agenda driven switches, a few more people realize what a complete sham it all is.
The one that i hope people catch on is with the governors immedeatly flipping on lockdowns as soon as Biden was sworn in. It would be nice to see some voters looking for retribution against these guys who transparently destroyed their lives, without prejudice, just to just to get at Trump.
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” – Some Dude
The problem is that most people probably believe it.
One of my favorite things that leftists will do is say something stupid and then when they get shat on go “Look like i made the russians mad! they are sending the bots after me”. Case in point:
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1354561645327089667
You wish you were anything more than a fleck of dust on an Asses Ass
Anybody just know that zoom/teams/virtual meetings is going to be your career downfall when eventually you press the wrong button or forget it’s on and you call someone a retard? I have to keep my virtual software on at least 3 hours a day. I don’t need to have a camera or microphone but I need to be prepared to take virtual calls. I realized the other day I just left my microphone on luckily no one was in the virtual room.
I come from the last generation where saying retard, gay, fag, and so on were standard swear words.
I only ever use “Hold Spacebar down to talk” in Zoom. I never toggle the mic on or off.
I ride the mute button like a $10 whore. Not that I’m prone to outbursts, but no need to take a chance.
So kids strep came back negative…so either mono or covid. Doc wont do bloodwork until coivd test. So tedious to get any type of medical work done.
I’ve dealt with Doctors a ton over the past couple years. What I’ve learned is that they do not know what they are doing. Your cashier at Walmart spends more time thinking about you than your doctor does.
Sad but true. They go through the flow chart in their mind and find the most likely solution for a large population, which isn’t always the correct solution for you.
On the same day that a Trump memer is indicted for election interference via memes, everybody in government, the media, and Wall Street get all hot and bothered because retail beat the shit out of some hedge funds. It’s never been more clear who is in charge.
Haig?
Short and sweet.
The SEC about to ban outsider trading
https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1354459314451341317
“just in: Discord has shut down the /r/WallStreetBets server for “hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation”, a spokesperson for Discord tells me. “To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks”
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1354570005686398979
Bullshit
I mean… What financial fraud occurred?
I’m just catching up on what happened while I slept. Seems like a lot of people are glad the shorts are getting hammered. In theory there isn’t anything wrong with shorting a stock. Crony markets change that dynamic, however.
Just for the record, this is the standard way to get a site, server, or forum banned. Pop in with a sock-puppet, drop some explicit hate speech/violent threats/illegal images, screenshot and report.
User “Shorty Melvin” posts CP in a side channel, boom down comes the server.
I was just thinking ‘I wonder who could have posted the offending posts? It’s such a mystery.’
TD Ameritrade stopped letting their customers buy Gamestop and AMC.
This stinks of the Biden admin stepping in. Doing the bidding of their Wall Street overlords.
Tech and Wall street got him elected. They will be damned if they don’t get something out of him
Kassy Dillon
@KassyDillon
While there are a ton of Wall Street bros tripping while trying to explain what’s happening with GME, it’s simple:
GME will continue to rise as long as it is funny. That’s how the internet works and this is the internet’s doing.
XY asked me to explain this to him. His conclusion: “Soooooo they’re trolling.”
Yes, son. Wall Street’s being trolled.
Robinhood wouldn’t let me access my account.
Having all of our lives tied up in these tech companies and their satellites is a huge mistake. It’s gonna bite us all in the ass sooner than later.
I heard you are not alone.
John Kerry: Learn to code
If the market is already doing it, then there’s no need for you cunts to put your fingers on the scale, now is there, you lying piece of shit?
Its ok to tell the peons that, But when they get upity and tell the poor journalos that, well that’s hate speech.
Could we get a fact check on that?
Done:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm
I rate this Mixed.
in 2019 turbine and Solar Panel installers were among the fastest growing occpations, but so were: Derrick operators, oil and gas, Rotary drill operators, oil and gas and Roustabouts, oil and gas
There’s a lot of smart financey chatter today. My investments go as far as owning things that may be of some greater value someday but probably not. Stuff is tangible and I understand it. I am the sort of simpleton that rarely finds themselves among libertarians, but here I am.
*Licks freezy pop and smiles at clouds*