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I did not choose the Firsting life. It chose me. I was born into this and I will die with this. It is a lonely road to walk, but I wouldn’t renounce my charge even if I could. For the First place is the best place.
Your dead horse is paste, you may want to look for a different one.
Did you know in Finland you can buy reindeer meat in a tube?
Isn’t that just a sausage?
Nah, just a FInnish kink.
Paté.
Touché
Sashay Shante’
I think he means you can buy it on a subway.
Mind the gap.
First post, it’s alright (faster faster)
Second post, I lean right (faster faster)
Third post, hang on tight (faster faster)
Faster it’s alright
/”Brochettaward” by the Beach Boys
More songs should be dedicated to what I do.
But you dont do it well. You’re at best, inconsistent.
You mean like this?
I read that as “the fisting life”. I was left with questions.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Sunday announced 19 new coronavirus variant cases, bringing the state’s total recorded count of the more contagious variant to 29 infections.
Nuke it from orbit.
Well, it’s not like you need an excuse to nuke Massachusetts.
Just send former Gov Mittens back there before you Nuke it.
I have hard time understanding why we’re supposed to panic more because of “the more contagious variant” of the virus. Are the scared people fear that staying 6 feet apart is not enough with this new variant or what? I need the perspective of those who believe in the “run and hide” way of dealing with the virus.
You just need to listen to your Betters.
Don’t think for yourself. Because then you might think you are better than your Betters.
Your Betters are better than you. It says so on the label.
It’s called, “chasing the dragon”
Texas to get $5.5 billion more in federal funding for schools but won’t say how it will be spent
For the good of the children, I’m sure.
On manure.
Schools failing: Throw money at it. At least some things in this world are a constant.
Really, it doesn’t matter how it’s spent. It can just be accounted as wasted, as is most public education spending.
Energy infrastructure is obviously hitting a snag so lets toss money at schools that are barely open.
Stadia.
Google’s network gaming solution is a poor investment.
Minnesota does show up in the Avarice category, ranking second in share of population with gambling disorders.
It’s a gambol just living there.
Post racial America
Will more Black women begin to see the same potential for romantic love with White men? Harris’ next four years in the White House could help provide an answer.
Harris is the first female, Black and South Asian vice president of the United States, but she could also become another type of pioneer. She could inspire some Black women to reexamine a racial taboo that has shaped many of their private lives.
Harris has so far shared few private details about her marriage to Emhoff, a lawyer. They were set up on a blind date in 2013, when Harris was California’s attorney general, and married a year later.
Harris did briefly respond to criticism of her marriage to a White man in a 2019 radio interview.
“Look, I love my husband, and he happened to be the one that I chose to marry, because I love him — and that was that moment in time, and that’s it,” Harris said. “And he loves me.”
As President Barack Obama’s mere presence in the White House provoked discussions on biracial identity and Black marriage, Harris’ marriage could lead more Black women to talk openly about this taboo, one scholar says.
These people are more obsessed with race than Jefferson Davis.
As President Barack Obama’s mere presence in the White House provoked discussions on biracial identity and Black marriage,
Because Barry was white?
Harris’ marriage could lead more Black women to talk openly about this taboo, one scholar says.
I do no think it is taboo unless you are implying that back parents do not want their daughters with white boys.
He’s a mulatto, isn’t he?
Was he heroic?
If he ate wookie ass, I would say yes.
Blech.
I though Mooshel was just his beard anyway.
OK, that one got me!
I think he’s actually a quadroon.
Who lets the occupants of the White House influence their personal life? This seems like a stretch. Especially since I don’t think there’s a taboo on interracial relationships anymore. Also, the first biracial VP was elected in 1928, so I think that goes to show that the VP doesn’t have any influence on these things.
Journalists
Apparently. More evidence that journalists are not real people. Or, rather, not in touch with regular people.
I thought all relationships were mixed race these days. That’s what I’ve learned from TV commercials.
In my defense, I only married a non-white so I can oppress without leaving the comfort of home.
The lily-white ghost of Walter Ashby Plecker has a sad.
Self-awareness rating: Zero.
Some landlords, worried about unused space or slack demand, are taking extra, and sometimes expensive, steps to assure tenants about cleanliness and health. They are getting third-party validations that their practices promote well-being. Returning tenants can expect to see those certifications enshrined in decals or plaques to make them less anxious about working away from home again.
I clean my hands before touching common area things in the office. Lord only knows what is on my kovid keyboard.
Tom, that guy that stays late. You don’t want to know what he does after everyone has gone home.
At the beginning of the ‘Vid hysteria I saw those fake-handwritten corrugated plastic signs reading “Crawlspace Covid Cleaning ###-####.”
Suspicious Link From The North.
Suspicious indeed.
Basically this looks like big cities = sinful. What’s the over/under for how long it will take for this study to be denounced as racist? Trump’s team was called racist for questioning the ethics of city political machines, so the same logic applies.
Nevada ranks numero uno in sinfulness
Somebody’s never been to New Orleans….
Yes, I thought Louisiana would at least be in the top 3.
Forgive me father, for I am from Califonia.
Least sinful, according to WalletHub, is the state of Wyoming
You keep using that word, et c….
“How two states with opposite COVID strategies BOTH ‘bent the curve’: Cases, deaths and hospitalizations plummet by 30% in a month in lockdown-loving California AND open-all-hours Florida”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9262397/How-California-Florida-took-different-approaches-ended-result.html
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
That’s some painfully strained spin.
It looks like every graph is adjusted per million and shows California did worse, unless I am missing something.
California has done better than Florida in deaths per million though not by much. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Florida doesn’t come out better if you control for demographics.
Have they factored in overall median age of population?
Good point. It’s the reason the US and other advanced countries have relatively higher death rates: we have more old people.
I’ve been doing analyses of raw data from Alberta Health for months now.
So far, the CFR (case fatality rate) for people “60 years of age and under” is 0.04%, or approx. 1/5th of the “typical” seasonal flu rate for the overall flu-infected population (0.2%). ”Over 60 years of age” is where the action is: a CFR of 0.8%, or approximately four times the “typical” flu’s overall CFR. The overall average age at death “from COVID-19” is 82 years.
The average age at death of Albertans who don’t have COVID-19? 80 years.
Existential threat my ass.
When all is said and done and they calculate the average years lost per death it will come out to be something like 6 months. That’s my SWAG anyway, and we all know that the S stands for Science.
Fuck.
Every graph is per million, but they mislead even so by not using the same Y axis on both graphs. At a glance, they look very similar. Its only when you look at the scale on the Y axis that you see how much better FL is doing (its rates are roughly 1/3 lower than CA’s).
So lock-downs are discredited, right?
I won’t hold my breath.
I didn’t read far enough into that CNN nonsense to find out if they have noticed the large number of white man / black woman couples in commercials, these days. Such groundbreaking.
Isn’t white woman/black man by far the more common interracial relationship?
White man/Asian woman iirc, unless you count “Hispanic” as a race.
Not in the NFL.
Here’s an “oh shit” moment to wrap up your Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZhnNlutuQ
I had a co-worker, former Navy, talking about rough weather in the South China Sea – the kind where you’re so scared that you aren’t seasick. That was without the hull of the ship breaking.
Edmund Fitzgerald would like a word.
“Gurgle”?
The front fell off
Many Black women have traditionally shunned White men for a variety of reasons. Some say they can’t be with a White man because he wouldn’t understand what it’s like to experience racism. Others say they owe it to their race to marry Black men and build healthy Black families.
Yet other Black women cite more personal reasons for staying away from White men. They say being with a White man evokes memories of how White plantation owners and others sexually abused Black women during slavery and colonization. They’re afraid of being treated as hypersexualized caricatures. (Some Asian women are wary of being with White men for some of the same reasons as Black women.)
I, for one, am grateful to them.
Others say they owe it to their race to marry Black men and build healthy Black families.
Uhmmmm…. Whut?
https://twitter.com/cringe_kingdom/status/1360949998758760452
Look at how overjoyed they are.
The solution to the race mongering will actually come from minorities tired of “good whites” treating them like moronic children. It will not come from the likes of us.
Because color of skin is more important than content of character – or you’re racist.
I figured it was because of dick size.
*Ted Danson agrees*
Some Black women reduce their reluctance to dating White men to one thought — it’s too much work. For example, they don’t want to expend energy teaching White men about racism or dealing with derogatory comments from friends, family and others.
So what’s the solution.
What they’ve always been for – aparteid.
Sane people calling it what it is… racist.
Well, I doubt any black woman has memories to evoke of sexual abuse in the ante-bellum South.
You and your white supremacist belief in the lack of genetic memory.
Wait, are you telling me that Assassin’s Creed had it right on how memory works? Do I now get woke points for playing AC games?
Of course! Don’t you pay attention to the blurb that’s displayed about the team that built the game?
LOL. That disclaimer has gotten ridiculous. It started as a “hey, we’re making a game about the Crusades, but we don’t pick sides” CYA and has morphed into a “look at how diverse we are” ever-expanding participation trophy.
It is the most offensive thing in the games of theirs I’ve played.
So, did the trauma of the Atlantic crossing wipe out the ancestral memories of sexual abuse back in Africa or what?
These people are way overthinking dating & relationships. Are you single? Do you like each other? Boom. Done.
Riiiiiight
I’ll take “Things that never happened” for a thousand, Alex.
In both senses. I’d bet no modern black wi an has ever said that, nor has any black woman ever had these historical feelings.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a fully indoctrinated woke black woman has said (and even believed) those things. And is probably wondering why she can’t get a date with anyone of any hue.
Being crazy definitely hurts your chances.
Yeah, huh. They are very upset that they’re viewed as sexualized. Sure. Nothing pisses a woman off more than acting like she’s hot. OK.
I’m doing my part, motherfuckers!
Step it up, MinnGlibs!
I’m too old. You and Fourscore will have to whoop it up to cover my share of sinnin’.
Rock and roll never forgets.
Short for Goatee McGoatface, undoubtedly.
I saw these goats in a parking lot in Pismo Beach. The owner was telling people that they could surf. I didn’t believe him.
He got your goat?
Charlie don’t surf!
We watched The Last Picture Show again the other night: hard recommend (A for camera work, B for plot, A for cast).
It occurred to me that Sam Bottoms’s career included that, A-Now, and Josey Wales; that’s a pretty good batting average.
I have “made out” with a few women on that beach, never saw any goats though.
Spectacular auroras tonight
https://youtu.be/_vSw2lJswSc
Screen shot
https://pasteboard.co/JOwvzvk.jpg
Purrrrrty
Nice
Thats purrrrty
“Experts say” “Study shows”
The COVID-19 variant that originated in the UK and is now spreading in the US may be up to 70 percent deadlier than previous versions of the bug, according to a British study.
A group that includes experts from universities and public agencies in the UK found that the variant — known as B.1.1.7 — is likely about 30 percent to 70 percent deadlier than the original strain, according to Fox News.
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The findings from the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group were published Friday on the government’s website.
“There is evidence from analysis of multiple different datasets that infection with VOC B1.1.7 is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization [sic] and death compared to infection with” other forms of the virus, the authors wrote.
May or may not. Plus or minus 15%.
We think there maybe probably might be some unknown effect on something.
Just don’t pay any attention to the numbers going down.
That was supposed to be “plus or minus 150%”.
Four of the 29 cases have “evidence of recent travel, suggesting that the majority of cases identified in Massachusetts are community-acquired,” DPH said.
Translation: “We don’t know.”
Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks brought on by
the pandemicthe government panicking and overreacting, but school leaders aren’t so sure they’ll have the flexibility to spend new federal dollars to help them.Fixed it for the article’s author.
Least sinful, according to WalletHub, is the state of Wyoming, followed by Idaho, Vermont, Utah and New Hampshire.
NH? I must be doing something wrong.
Others are following a more rigorous program from the same institute that confers what’s called WELL Certification. It’s far more expensive than the health-safety rating, potentially setting back the owner of an office skyscraper more than $100,000. It requires on-site verification around 10 core concepts, ranging from air and water quality to whether there is fresh fruit in the building or quiet spaces to reduce stress.
This sounds like a hell of an opportunity for grift and graft.
Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks
Err, why?
What will these extra resources be applied to that will overcome the school shutdowns?
Puppy update:
Two weeks old, and they look pretty much nothing like their mom:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210215_143854_1.mp4
Are they paler than before, or was that just the lighting?
Some of them are pretty off-white, some are yellow.
OH MY GOD THEY’RE SO CUUUUUUUTE!!!!!
Puppies! so cute
I want one, but I don’t think my dog would like it
Is their mom not a yellow lab? Those guys are way too much fun. NA needs to start a puppy cam.
Mom is a Great Pyr. Dad is a Golden.
What’s it cost to UPS a puppy? I want one!
I can totally get you on the list.
I am a little far from you for a transfer.
Holy shit, I was joking but UPS does ship animals next day air.
They’re my brother’s in Tulsa.
That is a drivable distance. What’s he want for one of these guys?
*uncontrollable squeeeing noises*
RE not looking like mom. My last dog, who kicked the bucket 15 years ago(?) mom was a black lab. Dad was a golden retriever. They were giving the pups away because it was a, how do you say, not a planned litter. When we went to see the puppies, the one I picked was the clumsiest happiest looking. He was not hanging with the other pups and was off licking a shovel by the shed or something. He was the nicest dog I have ever known. Dumb as a box of rocks and really smart at the same time. He looked like a full blooded Golden. Not a bit of mom in his appearance but if there was water around and he could get to it he was swimming.
Ministry of truth.
Anchor Brian Stelter said, “In the case of the United States, it’s about a ‘whitelash,’ a white Christian America reaction, backlash, to a changing, country personified by Trump. But none of this is going away now, even though the trial is over and even though one phase of Trumpism is over. You also said in an interview with the 19th News website this week that the country needs a truth commission. What exactly would a truth commission be?”
Jacobs said, “We haven’t really done the reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do. So a truth commission — a lot of people will think of South Africa. We have used them in countries around the world. Basically, what it is is its communities all the way up to the national level having conversations about both the gory and the glory of our history and what happened, both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6, that we can come to a common narrative, moving forward, of what we want our country to be.”
OK. I’ll go first. I never owned a slave. I never was a slave. I’ve never lynched anyone. Can I go now?
Your denial only proves your wrongthink. You must perform contrition for the corruption of the blood.
How many Hail Kendis must I say?
“I never was a slave”
I pay taxes.
We haven’t really done the reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do.
Shove it up your ass you racist asshole!
Both of them can go fuck themselves.
I read that as “We will tell you how evil you are. You will do what we tell you to repent. We may forgive you if we don’t think we can get anymore from you.”
I am already forgiven since I have my Walter Williams amnesty certificate,
You may pick up your copy here:
http://walterewilliams.com/WalterWilliamsAmnestyProclamation.pdf
He is still a gangster but the current gang is seen as legitimate.
The House Democrats’ campaign arm has hired an ex-gangster-turned-high-profile criminal justice advocate for a top leadership position, The Post has learned.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, headed by Hudson Valley area Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, tapped Dyjuan Tatro as a senior adviser for diversity and inclusion.
Tatro is known for appearing in the 2019 PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars,” about a group of inmates trying to earn their degrees through New York state’s Bard Prison Initiative.
Through the program, Tatro got a bachelor’s degree while serving a six-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy.
At the time of that 2011 conviction, Tatro had already been doing time for shooting two rival gang members in 2006.
Described at the time as a “triggerman” for the Original Gangsta Killas street gang that terrorized Albany, Tatro confessed to the shootings, and to a “razor slashing” of another victim in 2002 as well as to dealing drugs.
Our gang’s name is the government. Or at least the ruling party of it.
You don’t say.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14487811-mafia-democracy
likely about 30 percent to 70 percent deadlier than the original strain
Oddly enough, they never consider the slightest expectation it might be “less deadlier”.
I wonder why that is.
I’m gonna guess that Rep. Jacobs is just another political grifter.
Thanks wiki, what do I win?
Psht, Joe is at least as Catholic as the current Pope.
Speaking with Catholic World Report, Naumann flatly said that Biden “should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic” while acknowledging that his abortion views stand in direct opposition to the Catholic Church.
“Mr. Biden professes to be a devout Catholic, yet is 100% pro-choice on abortion. How do you think America’s bishops ought to respond to this situation?” CWR asked.
“I can tell you how this bishop is responding. The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic, and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching. It would be a more honest approach from him to say he disagreed with his Church on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to Church teaching,” Naumann responded. “When he says he is a devout Catholic, we bishops have the responsibility to correct him. Although people have given this president power and authority, he cannot define what it is to be a Catholic and what Catholic moral teaching is.”
“What he is doing now is usurping the role of the bishops and confusing people,” Naumann added. “He’s declaring that he’s Catholic, and is going to force people to support abortion through their tax dollars. The bishops need to correct him, as the president is acting contrary to the Catholic faith.”
Mr. Biden professes to be a devout Catholic, yet is 100% pro-choice on abortion.
As with the “but” rule, I think we can disregard everything before the “yet”.
Joe Biden is so Catholic that he looks the other way on his son’s pedophilia. Granted, it’s not with young boys that we know of, but still…that’s gotta count for something.
At the risk of encouraging you, I laughed
Now you need to encourage my music links.
Do you have to mark homemade guns?
I found this guy’s channel through Forgotten Weapons.
Aaaaah. Ya I have heard the “you have to mark them” a few times. Not that I have sold any guns or, um, made any. I make pasta.
Biden Signs Executive Order Allowing People To Keep Their Guns As Long As The Barrel Is Tied In A Knot
Texans Forced To Cut Open Cattle With Lightsabers And Climb Inside For Warmth
Can confirm.
/sent from the innards of a steer stuck in a snow drift
Ditto from Central TX. The power seems to be back on for several hours in a row today, so that’s something.
One rancher and his ranch hand were forced to take these drastic measures when temperatures approached the level of springtime in Ohio and his horse froze before he reached the first marker.
nice
Oh, great. They just dropped a press release about how we’ve got a contract to make some super secret chips for the DoD and “other agencies.” This cannot mean anything good for the work life here.
🙁
Implant chips?
That’s classified.
As am I. I won’t know if it is R. rattus or R. norvegicus until 23andMe reports back.
Prolly just reverse engineering the Lays BBQ chips.
ONLY YOU can determine what is covered under ITAR.
Because if your company is anything like mine, the people who are supposed to do that for you are shit-scared that they’ll get it wrong or miss something, so basically we can’t reveal what kind of toilet paper is used in our facility.
It’s the stuff that is both rougher than sandpaper, thinner than a microbe, and weaker than wet tissues, isn’t it?
No, this stuff.
Being owned by the government of the UAE, we’ve been doing various security dances since we opened.
1) If a variant of the Rona is found to have originated in Florida will it still be totes bad to use a geographic name to describe it? “The Florida virus was detected in South Dakota yesterday”. (Still can’t call it the China virus for sure).
2) If a variant of the Rona is found to have originated in New York, how long before the MSM refers to it as the “DeSantis virus”?
It’s still the Wuhan Chinese Coronavirus, variant 3.
The dishonesty early on over what to call the virus was a warning of what was to come.
That’s back when China was half-heartedly claiming it originated in the US. You can imagine that threw our media for a loop that they have yet to recover from.
You mean our crack investigative journalist corps has not yet found a way to pin this on white supremacists?
Sure they have. Perhaps not the origin, but they’ve clearly put blame on “following Trump’s baaaaaaad example.” If we’d have just Fillowed The Science™️ this would all be in our distant past.
I mean, Cuomo was calling it the European virus back in like July and they are just fine with the UK and SA variants.
The ‘Rona will only get stronger if Cuomo’s Emmy is revoked.
“If you strike down my Emmy, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”
Define success
After three members of a family in New Zealand’s largest city tested positive for the coronavirus, the city of Auckland has gone into lockdown — and the entire country is on high alert.
In a televised address Sunday evening, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country is taking a “precautionary approach that has served us so well as a country.”
With just 2,330 confirmed cases and 25 deaths since the coronavirus pandemic began, the island nation has been one of the most successful countries in the world at controlling the spread of the coronavirus. This has been due in large part to its quick and forceful countermeasures whenever a new virus case is detected.
Don’t forget to net out the adverse health effects of those “quick and forceful countermeasures”.
At this rate, NZ is going to turn itself into the New World. One day a traveler will show up and 90% of the population will drop dead because their immune systems had been so isolated from the rest of the world.
Monotremes and Dodo birds agree.
Success is defined by pronouncing it with a long E. Everything must have a long E.
They can make it so clean I can eat off the floor but I ain’t going back if I have to “mask up”.
You need that special mask that lets you eat.
Hell, I’m surprised I still need to help some offices figure out if they can work remote.
The first attempt today involved trying to use a softphone without a microphone or headset…
Soft phone? *holds sandal to side of head.* “IS THIS THING ON!!?”
Would you believe this much?
The mother works at LSG Sky Chefs, officials said, handling laundry from international flights.
“As we continue to explore all possible sources of transmission for these cases, we will take a particularly close interest in this workplace because of its obvious connections to the border,” said Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, one of the country’s top health officials.
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“We have stamped out the virus before, and we will do it again,” Ardern said. “We have a plan that works for our team of 5 million, and you have shown that time and time again.”
Can we permanently quarantine New Zealand? No one goes in. No one comes out. Ever again.
Why do ewe hate New Zealand?
They are shorn of all dignity.
I see what ewe did there…
Wool you just stop?
These puns are the worsted.
No one goes in. No one comes out. Ever again.
Jacinda’s working on it. The fact that NZ still has some slight vestiges of capitalism distresses her to no end. She will not rest until the entire NZ economy is permanently moribund.
“Mild Max: before Thunderdome”
Narrator: New Zealand has not “stamped out the virus” before.
They’re gonna have one hell of a ride once they start letting people back in.
At some point that tinder will burn.
Don’t forget to net out the adverse health effects of those “quick and forceful countermeasures”.
Those interventions are 100% costless.
Don’t forget the multiplier. They could be 110% costless.
OK, here is the other scenario that I think would be very amusing.
in 2022, the GOP sweeps into power in the House and the Senate.
In 2024 Trump wins the GOP nomination. Polls show him cruising to an easy victory.
What would the liberal SC justices do?
If they retire early so that Biden can appoint a new liberal replacement, McConnel might block the nomination process.
Would they even try to retire? Or would they be like Bader-Ginsberg and refuse to give up their grasp on power?
I’m pretty sure McConnel is such a spineless Swamp Creature that his current Never Trumpism would be memory holed if it looked like OMB was going to be back in power.
I can’t even imagine how hard I would laugh if because they jobbed Trump out of the a victory in 2020, he was able to nominate another 2-3 SC Justices between 2024 and 2028.
It’s fun to picture those scenarios but in reality we’ve seen the last free and fair elections in the US by qualified citizens.
McConnel may be a swamp creature, but he did shepherd through a lot of judicial nominations.
He’s like Pelosi, they know how to work the machine like a pro.
I’m not sure any other GOP Swamp Creature could have kept his party in check to block Garland’s nomination like Mitch did. The absolute lack of principles or morals is what makes both of them such effective operators.
That is why I’m pretty sure if Trump looked like he was going to win in 2024, McConnel would have no problems abandoning all his high minded rhetoric that he is currently spouting about Trump being some unique evil. McConnel would be slick enough to flatter Trump and get him to do pretty much whatever the GOP establishment wanted.
McConnell can fuck over Trump, because Mitch is a pro, and Trump is an amateur.
^THIS.
If Trump truly wants to make a comeback, he needs to find a bunch of (let’s be honest, and not particularly libertarian) effing sociopaths who have no problem doing what Trump wants and are willing to cut a bitch at three AM in a dank, dark back alley of DC (or anywhere else) to get stuff happenin’ (or prevent it, as the case may be).
Plus a whole bunch of swamp creatures need to die in their sleep. Aneurysms, congenital heart defects, 9mm high-velocity lead poisoning, Our Pillow smothering, whatever.
It’s not going to be Trump that makes a comeback. It’s going to be some professional GOP political operator who looks at Trump’s techniques and thinks, “Shit, I can do that…”
I’m totally not down with the rest of your post, though. Bureaucrats unexpectedly croaking? How horrible! What kind of sick fuck could ever take pleasure in such a catastrophe?
(Sick Fuck raises his hand sheepishly.)
I’m not proud of it, but at least I’m honest.
This is why Trump as tyrant is so fucking laughable. He’s the worlds greatest Internet tuff gai; he has absolutely no taste for real violence – just the WWE kind. Honestly, we should all be real thankful for that. We probably won’t get so lucky again.
Yup. He is a big reason Trump got those victories.
They just dropped a press release about how we’ve got a contract to make some super secret chips for the DoD and “other agencies.” This cannot mean anything good for the work life here.
Comrade Biden’s gonna cancel that and put you to work making chips for F-150 transmissions.
I worked at a place that made flexible circuits for Jeep transmissions. My job was to test (bed of nails) every circuit “board” that came off the line. I rejected more than 50% and they still made money..
Well, I’m screwed. The local newsrag just e-mailed me that my letter to the editor will be published tomorrow. I took the position that minimum wages laws are both immoral and economically ignorant. By this time tomorrow, I’ll probably be cancelled and strung up as a neo-nazi white supremacist racist and lying dog faced pony soldier.
The good news is that you’ll be paid a Living Wage while working in the re-education camps!
Sure you won’t be able to spend it anywhere, but it will help defray the cost of the bullet that your family will be charged when your career comes to an end.
Congratulations!!
You’re a one horse pony, man. Congratulations. I look forward to reading it. I’ll look for the link tomorrow if it’s online.
Ehh.
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day.
To you, or to the toad.
On the plus side, you can always point out how eugenicists supported minimum wages as a means to weed out the undesirable. On the minus side, the people accusing you are not looking for rational debate.
Study: Minnesota 10th-least sinful state in 2021
*Rolls around on giant pile of cash from selling indulgences.*
The laziness factor is the one I’m laughing at.
I think living in cold weather places tends to weed out the lazy. If you don’t spend the warm months working hard to lay in a supply of food and firewood you aren’t going to make it through the winter. Similar to repairing your home, car and other things. You can’t really repair that during the winter so you better get cracking.
When I lived down in Memphis you could put things off for a long time. Sure you might have a weekend or two of discomfort, but you aren’t really in danger of dying because you didn’t repair a window.
If a person commits homicide to relive the suffering of the murdered, does that still count as a mercy killing?
To relieve the suffering of the murderer.
Stoopid spell check be changing meaning, yo.
No, that’s generally why people murder, get rid of annoying person, prevent being identified etc.
murder is usually frowned on. But…. sometimes… well, he had it coming
God Damn, I love Chicago!
It depends. You might be describing self-defense.
It’s snowing. Yay.
Fuck snow.
That’s just cold.
He’s just a precious snowflake who resents having to share the spotlight.
This is going to get a flurry of replies.
A veritable blizzard of ’em, even.
Y’all are a bunch of flakes.
I see you caught my drift.
Puns piling up like that and Swiss won’t even be able to plow them out with the narrowest of gazes.
*snirt*
Swiss will be here soon to give us an icy stare.
I’m more worried that SP and OMWC will show up instead and steal my icicle.
You win the thread.
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Just came in from doing an interim clearing of snow from the cars, the driveway, and the front walk, even as the snow continues to fall thick and fast. My toes hurt from the cold. This is one of those times I wish our fireplace was functional. ::tries to persuade cat to lie down on my feet. Cat wanders off, as cats do::
tries to persuade cat to lie down on my feet
A dog would do that for you. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to keep a dog from doing that for you.
Just sayin’.
But then your feet smell like peanut butter….
You mean “popcorn.”
Fritos
Duct tape
Now it is snowing here. Gotd damnit!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/roaring-kitty-to-testify-on-gamestop-alongside-hedge-fund-managers
That should be worth a few chuckles. I hope they call potato in my ass as a witness too.
If a person commits homicide to relive the suffering of the murdered, does that still count as a mercy killing?
Wait- like if you gut shot him first, and then put him out of his misery?
Sure, that could work.
For Tonio (or anyone else that likes cats and trains)
https://twitter.com/HitCockBottom/status/1359193069036343297
mildly NSFW: naughty words like cock and dong
Idgi
Nothing to get-just a silly cat.
I think he looks rather sensible.
I had the same “place foot in mouth” disease for many, many years.
I’m better now . . . ish.
If BABAMBA BEAM shall put his foot in his mouth, then I, too shall put my foot in my mouth, and we shall all put our foots in our mouths. So be it.
Every quantum of my confusion can be broken apart and individually examined, and it is just as confusing as the original confusion. I am fractally confused.
You’re on the cutting edge, d00d.
I am. And it hurts.
*mixes another Vieux Carre*
Stay away from the existentialist philosophy. Or the DMT. Or both.
You’re a Pollock painting of thought.
Alright Glibbies. Before I unbox this new generator we got was making sure I have some sound reasoning on power consumption.
Old generators was only 3000/3500 watts and couldn’t handle the startup and/or compressor kicking on with the A/C. That led to a lot of hot summer grooms.
We have two pieces that are our biggest draws of ampere: a high speed hair dryer at 9.5amps and the A/C at 9.6amps. That gives me 19.1 amps/2292 running watts. I am calculating in an additional 100% immediate increase on the dryer initial startup (which I have measured). That puts me at 28.6 amps/3532 surge watts
New generator is a 3650/4500 watts. I am thinking that will fit our needs quite nicely. Assuming all my wiring is solid of course.
Large conductors, otherwise you sound fine,
Thanks Yusef, I think it is okay too and we are trying to get away from using our 9000watt which is way overkill and has given us more headaches than anything. Weight and noise are the biggest. I think that one operates at 74db, our small generator operates at 58db (super quiet, just not enough power needs when we need the A/C) and the new one we got runs at 65db (like living near a blvd).
Most jennys come with a “surge capacity” (i.e., momentary) rating as well. Does yours?
My local Costco is advertising a Firman (cheap Chinese piece of crap) jenny that’s triple-fuel (gasoline, propane, NatGas) for around $1000 CDN and 9400 watts. Very tempting. Would not last for the long term, but good at a stretch of a few days to a week, about.
Yeah that’s the 2nd number in my 3650/4500.
Ah. My bad. Sorry.
No worries, I didn’t make that clear
All the fuels, like one of those AGT1500 everything turbines. I’m still waiting for someone to drop one in their pickup. Those things can run on diesel and kerosene, too, though.
No. Don’t do it.
Generators are rated on a duty cycle. Homeowner stuff is typically 50%. In other words, three hours on / three hours off.
If you want a triple fuel, look at Winco. It’s quality.
Guess I should note all the rest of the consumption is negligible (LED lighting, phone charging, clipper charging and Bose Speaker) except the water pump but that is a 5amp pump and is never running at the same time the dryer is running.
What I really want to do is get a great trend of daily power consumption and see what it will cost us to either go fully solar+batteries or even offload most of it to solar+batteries. It would be ~105 amp DC with a surge potential of ~160 amps DC. I would need a decent sized battery bank for that.
Which I guess if I make it a 48V system, that would drop to like 75amps….my wife is leery about going solar/batteries.
Can’t blame her, but really, you’re not trying to replace power from the grid, you’re simply invoking an insurance policy against a crappy and unreliable grid, which is a demonstrably true state of affairs.
Where I live (Alberta, Canada) The Powers That Be have been working on shoring up an unreliable grid for the last 20 years (at least). Nothing wrong with that. Nevertheless, I’ve come to distrust the grid, simply because the people who actually run the grid are feckless twits.
*nods emphatically from flashlight lit bathroom*
Do yourself a favor and buy a quality 6 or 7kw generator. It’s a standard size. If you need recommendations feel free to contact me at gotmyglasseson@pm.me
“The best defense against a rapid rise in cases from variants of concern is to prevent the spread of COVID,”
It’s for insights like this that we depend on our Public Health Professionals.
That reads like this!
eight inches of snow
two fingers of Glenfiddich
Your style, sir.
I like it.
Damn..now I want to go buy some Scotch…and I don’t even have snow.
Wait, what? You don’t have a supply laid up?
Are you sure you’re a Glibbie?
I’ve got parts of five fifths left from my run before Trump imposed the tariff.
Tariffs on booze?
The man was a monster. Forgive me, Nancy, I had no faith in you.
It happens…I got bourbon, I got whisky, I got vodka, I got beer..I just don’t have scotch. *sad trombone*
Bourbon and whisky are kissing cousins to scotch.
Receive my absolution. You’re good.
@TPTB: I’m sure (hope?) you guys have seen that seen the post I created for the forum. The only problem is, I am frequently an idiot. Just making sure here that I’m not missing something. I submitted it for review, and it says that it’s pending review. Which makes perfect sense. But then the site layout stays the same (I can still see the original text and can make edits etc) and the ‘Submit for Review’ button is still blue and I can click it again. I did make a change and it seems to have worked just fine.
I’m just making sure that I didn’t do anything stupid, which I am pretty much positive that I did and am continuing to do.
I’m getting off my ass and putting together travel (and other) articles that I can show all of you fabulous folk. Where next? Right now I’m thinking either Cambodia, Osaka/Kyoto, or Istanbul. Haven’t decided. Want to today. I wanna spitball and hear what interests people and what they are most curious about. I also wanna talk about tone and all sorts of other fun things.
I’ve got tons of places and things to talk about. It’s especially important to get it out there while I’ve been given an oddly fortuitous Time Out from Real Life. I know that I’m gonna rewrite these stories based on the audience; my private version will almost assuredly cover the same basics but it’ll include the For Me info, and whatever else comes up out of me.
In the post I’ve got other places listed that I can easily write up. Check ’em out and tell me what ya think!
you can always edit/update and resubmit until they schedule it
Oh, shit. Did I fuck up that bad?!?! It took me to a place to add a post, but I didn’t think about the layout and it doesn’t look familiar to me. I didn’t think about it and assumed that it would just create a post. I’m making the mistake of thinking about it too much. I just need to let it sit for a moment. I do NOT want that to be published here as a full article. Not at all my intention.
I was trying to throw a new post into the forum, not try and publish anything. Mostly just seeing what people in general would be most interested in first. I’m vacillating in my head between writing about my time in Cambodia, Istanbul, or my Kyoto/Osaka trip. My post put up other places I’ve been and want to write about, but I’ll start with one of these three for now, I think.
there’s not much on the calendar: I’d bet we need you pretty soon
Ev, that’s the wrong place to put a forum post. We aren’t using any of the regular WordPress posts on the Forum site, just the forum itself.
It should go in here: https://www.glibertarians.us/community/contributing-writers-space/
You can copy and paste it over to a New Topic.
Thank you so much, SP! And you too, Don.
Posted and ready to go.
From the Department of Homeland
SpyingSecurity article:In September, we were in the midst of more than 3 continuous months of leftists burning down cities nationwide, yet some asshole “whistleblower” wonders why the fuck they were paying so much attention to them, and not to those who, you know, haven’t done anything at all.
Fuck that guy.
Is anyone else sick and fucking tired of this meme that America is somehow a haven for white supremacy?
These fucking people have lost their goddamn minds.