Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful day it always is! If only if I can get my plumbing fixed.
AZ sheriff in border town claims to see a fivefold spike in illegal immigration.
TX Dems concerned with Biden’s open border.
Small businesses lead fight against minimum wage.
This was well known for almost a year, but they now decide to take out Cuomo?
Three dead in a shooting incident at a gun store and range.
It’s fact checkers all the way down.
WHO‘s COVID origin probe lacks credibility.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“AZ sheriff in border town claims to see a fivefold spike in illegal immigration.”
Hopefully the frost will cull that practice?
Don’t be so cold hearted.
There’s no rime or reason with you people!
Don’t get to frosty with this
I once saw Fivefold Spike open for Avenged Sevenfold.
Mornin’ Banjos
Sorry to hear about your cut. I lacerated myself last night too, only mine was at work and with a box cutter.
Not stitch worthy, but since I have a habit of taking a couple aspirin before I go in, boy- did it bleed
At least I think I’ve found bandages that are actually waterproof. This one has survived hand washing.
Cutting myself seems like a hobby some weeks. I keep several small tubes of super glue in my glove box for the occasion. It works really well.
Wife cut herself with a knife i had recently bought. Went right through the sponge and hit a tendon. Needed surgery—wound got infected. When they went to take out stitches the finger was a blackish color. Wound up in the hospital for a week, and needed a port in her chest so she could administer her own antibiotics for a few months. Just bad luck i guess.
Not luck at all. If you want an infection go to the hospital.
^^ This.
I bet youre right, if we would have just wrapped it up good it would have healed up just fine. (Tendon wasnt cut all the way through)
suh’ fam ?
G’morning Banjos! I guess I should stop ignoring the screaming baby….
My first daughter was colicky. Shes 14 and i still hold a grudge.
Haha, turns out this one had a reason to be screaming. The pee reached her shoulder blades.
Well, it sure is Monday, ain’t it the truth
Glibs partied too hard, now they’re payin’ their dues
They had a ball Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
But it’s all over now and it sure is Monday
Good morning, Banjos.
“If your goal is to shut down independently owned mom and pop shops on Main Street and grow the market share of big-box megastores then I can think of nothing better than passing a federal $15 minimum wage today, because it will devastate small businesses,” Brabant said.
You have to have an advanced degree in economics or political science to see how wrong that is.
Believing that a $15 is a good or bad thing?
I believe Brooksie’s tongue was firmly planted in cheek.
“Small businesses lead fight against minimum wage.”
Under fascisms, unlike the idiocy of the communists that put everything in the hands of corrupt and inept leaders directly, government colludes with the big monopolies to control the serfs. That way they can “incentivize” the behaviors they want (government) while allowing those that run these monopolies government endorses to get stinking rich (and give a good chunk of that money to the political class and its machine outside the tax system itself) . Who the fuck needs small businesses to muddle that sweet fucking racket?
All socialist systems converge to a three class one” the top men, the working stiffs, and those that vote for a living. Under communisms the working class all but evaporates (when someone that spends the time to become a doctor, airplane pilot, or scientists gets paid the same as a turd polisher, then why bother?) and you have the top men ruling over people that think their votes matter (how can it when you have one choice?). The fascists don’t like that arrangement because they have nobody to blame as things fall apart. If you leave the pretense of a ,private industry, the corruptocrats can blame them for failures they cause with their insanity, and then step in to “correct” things. Of course, the whole voting thing is also a racket as we saw in this past election without a doubt where the ruling cabal decided they needed to “fortify” the election to make sure democracy was saved. And they won big: the CCP is happy with the results.
Italy won WWII as it turns out. If they wouldn’t have joined in common cause with you know who they’d be replacing all those confederate general statues with Il Duce.
It’s easier to co-opt cultural institutions than it is to eliminate them, particularly when you have an almost unlimited fiat money supply to buy them.
That is the real advantage of the fascist system.
Is our Q a bioengineer? From the WHO story:
I thought he was a chemistry major specializing in silicone products?
“We’re certainly not starting from scratch,” Fauci said.
That must have been quite a struggle. Balancing his hate for Trump with his own indomitable urge for self-promotion.
I don’t know about you, but the moment I hear or read the words “in the middle of a pandemic,” my assessment of the credibility of the author or speaker is automatically reduced by about 75%.
I say go with 95%, since that tends to come closer to reality..
Good morning, Banjos!
And a good morning to the rest of y’all!
The virus obviously came from the fucking lab. The question is whether it was a fuck up or intentional.
I’d also like to know why we were funding research there. Seems pretty fucked up.
Excellent song from an album that is 26 fucking years old! Dang.
Fuck.
Monday theme.
“The virus obviously came from the fucking lab. The question is whether it was a fuck up or intentional.”
The panicked reaction tells me they sure as hell believed it was not a natural thing AND that it was supposedly really fucking bad. But they can’t tell us this without people demanding we nuke Beijing. So once they realized that while ultra contagious and deadlier than the flu, this was no fucking Ebola, they just kept playing the hand they dealt themselves.
deadlier than the flu
That’s the thing, it’s not even that, except in the over 70 (or maybe 60-65) age cohort. It is significantly less deadly than the flu, certainly below 50. Perhaps if one wants to look only at the integrated IFR over all age cohorts, without accounting for effective years lost, one can call it deadlier, but I don’t think that’s what most people conjure up when they hear “deadlier than the flu”. They think their going to die if they even see an infected person.
And Trump allowed them to get away with it.
He was told to rely on the “experts”… I know he sensed they were pulling his leg, but what could he do? I suspect that if we really didn’t have controlled misinformation masquerading for news, we would eventually find that all out.
I doubt he knew about it. After seeing General Dingleberry brag about lying to Trump about Afghanistan, committing outright sedition, who knows what he knew and if it was true or not.
I’d also like to know why we were funding research there. Seems pretty fucked up.
The release of that virus was incredibly beneficial for the Democrats and eGOP. Doing so allowed them to control mail-in voting fraud to install Biden, implement tyrannical lockdowns, restrict speech questioning either of these through their tech lords, push through trillions of dollars in stimulus funding that is being funneled to Dem priorities, continue looting America through the War on Terror, and even a push to reset society in Mao’s image.
*Puts on tin foil hat* Funding anything gives you power and control over it. It’s pretty damn coincidental that this was so beneficial for the Democrats and eGOP, yet the release of a virus in a lab they funded happened accidently. *Removes tin foil hat*
These people would not blink an eye at killing a few million to “fortify” things. I think that was proven repeatedly through events, and made 100% obvious in the last election (and maybe this pandemic). Our mandarinate class despised Trump for exposing what they have done and continue to do to us. There is a reason that one of the most taboo things to them is nationalism, and it is that they have a globalist master plan and nationalism of any kind, but especially in the U.S., threatens that plan. The only country allowed to be nationalistic is China, and that is because they are all OK letting China be the top mandarinate.
I must demure. This is good RHCP before the suck – https://youtu.be/DQVKfnkrmzw Anything after Flea doffed those trousers is just sad and sick. I bought that One Hot Minute album, too. Keidas, what a maroon.
Why we were funding it? Because it is illegal to do work on biological weapons here in the US. We just outsourced it to China. Fauci signed off on it.
I despise that little garden gnome. He deserves life in prison.
That’s unfair to garden gnomes.
Apologies for the probable repost, but here’s something posted at American Greatness by an Edward Ring which I think is perfectly engineered to stick in your craw if you happen to be one of those dag blane libertarians, or you know, take issue with his argument on basic principle.
Do I really need to know about yet another person who hates me?
*sigh*
*clicks*
Guess I do.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!
Eh, he seems to take issue with the cosmos more than anything else. Can’t fault him there.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Damn, a well-read Tulpa! Fuck off and welcome!
Supporting Censorship: Libertarians have stood on the sidelines as left-wing billionaires in the Silicon Valley used their online communications monopolies to manipulate what information Americans had access to in order to destroy a sitting president. All of this in support of their “principle” that these companies are privately owned and so, presumably, should be free to assault the rights of Americans who use their products.
Now there’s a strawman of gigantic proportions.
I dunno. I’ve heard pretty much this exact position from several here.
I think the larger argument is that Big Tech and Big Finance are essentially arms of the government and should be treated as such. We see this in the revolving door turnaround between senior executive positions in these companies and high-level gov department jobs.
The combing of customer data by Bank of America on behalf of the government to find wrong-thinkers was a big wake-up call for me.
On the small scale yes. But I don’t recall anyone defending Amazon over Parler.
BOA execs can die in a fire for all I care.
T. O. S.
Use their products? If we’re talking Google, Twitter and FB – the user is the product; that’s why the ‘service’ is free. Not one of those companies is holding a gun to the head of any these users.
We’re a lot like the Sheriff holding himself hostage in Blazing Saddles.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
All of this in support of their “principle” that these companies are privately owned and so, presumably, should be free to assault the rights of Americans who use their products.
Correct, because the alternative is BAKE THE CAKE, BIGOT!!
If a company is oppressing you, stop using their product. Real damn easy.
See, this gets to the nub of it – I want my convenience and my preferences. It isn’t fair to make me choose!
It’s the latent proggie pillar shining through. “We believe in the founding principles*”
* as redefined by the progressives 100 years ago
Yeah, the problem is that your recommendation relies on you being able to have or create an alternative service. The whole Parler thing should dissuade anyone making your argument that it is as simple as that. The monopolies – with government assistance – have put themselves in a position to cancel and block any and all comers, so you are forced to use their services/products. Choice is an illusion here.
Yeah, the problem is that your recommendation relies on you being able to have or create an alternative service.
Or to simply disengage from the market, which is still an option.
There’s no right to a market alternative that agrees with our worldview.
To the extent that government is colluding with, coercing, and generally fucking with the internet media industry, I agree with you that it’s wrong. Beyond that, the argument rings hollow. It strikes me as conservatives bitching that they don’t have the courage of their convictions and couldn’t be arsed to pull the plug on their Facebook accounts out of principle.
I don’t think it necessarily needs to be an either/or argument.
We don’t have a free market for many industries. It doesn’t make sense to apply free market principles to a crony capitalist system. I can’t simply go set up The Bank of SSD to compete with BOA without running into a myriad of government obstacles placed precisely to obstruct free market alternatives to BOA and other government-favored financial organizations. Local credit unions have been on the decline for years because they can’t comply with the regulatory burdens and remain solvent.
Customers should absolutely cease doing business with Big Tech and Big Finance as much as possible. Migrate your emails out of Google. Try to find a credit union still operating. But withdrawing as much as possible from the system doesn’t negate that that the issue exists and that crony capitalism should be pushed back against and not allowed to be hidden behind the illusion of a free market.
But withdrawing as much as possible from the system doesn’t negate that that the issue exists and that crony capitalism should be pushed back against
I think this goes too broad by a bit. Restricting Facebook’s ability to discriminate based on viewpoint does nothing to reduce cronyism. If anything, it adds to the red tape that makes cronyism viable.
I think this goes too broad by a bit. Restricting Facebook’s ability to discriminate based on viewpoint does nothing to reduce cronyism. If anything, it adds to the red tape that makes cronyism viable.
The rules that apply to a Mom and Pop cakebaker shouldn’t apply to multibillion dollar companies? I’m a proponent of holding the leftist elite accountable to abide by the rules they force on others, but I realize not everyone feels this way.
I’m not sure what the answer is, and I’m not arguing that Facebook shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate (I’m not arguing they should either… I don’t have a position on that yet). I do think that we need to stop considering Big Tech and Big Finance to be private companies operating in a free market, and instead consider such companies to be extensions of the government.
The rules that apply to a Mom and Pop cakebaker shouldn’t apply to multibillion dollar companies?
Public accommodation is garbage, no matter the context. Expanding its grasp isn’t a “win”, it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There’s no good resolution short of a massive restructuring of the government (that will never happen). However, instituting the Fairness Doctrine for social media is a horrible, horrible idea, no matter what specific form it takes.
Public accommodation is garbage, no matter the context.
Well, except in the context of government services. The DMV shouldn’t be able to say conservatives can’t apply for Driver’s Licenses. Or Christians can’t apply for a firearm permit. We are actually starting to see something similar in Britain where the NHS recently instituted a policy of allowing providers to refuse treatment for undesirables.
So I think it again comes back to if you view Big Tech and Big Finance to be an arm of the government or not. Whichever position you hold affects how you approach the issue. If you view them as private companies operating in a free market, then free market principles apply. If you view them as extensions of government, then they should be held accountable the same as any other government or government-adjacent entity.
If you view them as private companies operating in a free market,
What if I view them as private companies operating in a highly manipulated and distorted market?
The problem begins to clarify from that point of view. Does distortion and cronyism negate the 1st amendment? Yeesh, I really don’t like that path. It sounds like hard fascism.
Does treating them as free market participants somehow enable tyranny? Maybe. However, the customer still retains the ability to disassociate, which is really the trump card in the free market. I would argue that the “government arm” line is when you’re not allowed to hire a competitor AND are not allowed to disassociate. ISPs are hovering in a gray area there. Electric companies are arms of the government.
A luxury communication service where competitors exist (even if they’re targeted by anti-competitive collusion) doesn’t feel anything like a de-facto government institution. Fellow traveler? Sure. Crony? Sure. Worthy of restricting the 1A for them? Hell no.
These are all good points, Trsh, and a good discussion. I would add another option to the government arm criteria, which is when the government uses a company to circumvent restrictions placed on government. In doing so, the company becomes an arm of the government.
Using this criteria, BoA clearly became an arm of the government when they went sifted through their customer data to supply FBI with information that wasn’t obtained by with a warrant. I’d have to think more on Big Tech, but would be interesting to examine any associations with the NSA.
when the government uses a company to circumvent restrictions placed on government. In doing so, the company becomes an arm of the government
Interesting! And I too appreciate the discussion.
The question that comes to my mind is how far that scope goes. Is BoA an arm of the government only in regards to information keeping and provision or is the entirety of the company now saddled with the burdens of being a de-facto arm of government?
It has really interesting implications for companies like mine that do work for the government from time to time.
Choice is an illusion here.
Which is why we need the new nationalist conservatism – we can only fight fascism with more fascism!!!
No, you need smaller government and rules that punish monopolistic tendencies.
No, you need smaller government and rules that punish monopolistic tendencies.
Turns out that the first tends to obviate the second.
Monopolies very rarely exist outside of those sustained by govt intervention. Reduce govt so that there is minimal regulatory capture and you accomplish the two things you want.
You might also note that the Republicans, including Trumpists, have completely abandoned “smaller govt” in their rhetoric.
The only dumb bastards still beating that drum are the LP and the non-affiliated libertarianish.
Fuck off, slaver.
All your votes r belong to us.
Nothing says “American Greatness” like arguing for the erosion and/or dismantling of some uniquely American guarantees of liberty.
Having read that, ya’ll might want to read this to bring you back to reality.
That was a good read. Thanks for the reality bump. Everything seems to be going to shit right now, but the leftists have built a house of cards on a foundation of lies, and I am optimistic that it won’t stand for long.
Took the USSR 75 years to collapse even though people realized it was a massive blunder 5 years into that murderous experiment….
The comments were more interesting than the article.
As for the article itself, it’s a combination of a superficial understanding of libertarianism, a superficial understanding of the current dynamics of the GOP, and a heaping helping of “those icky founding principles just don’t work in a modern society” disguised as “libertarians aren’t serious”
Ah. Principals vs. Principles, yet again. We’ll never gain power but we can at least stand proud before the firing squad, at least.
About the brewing Cuomo impeachment/implied federal investigation: Could this be the new administration tying up loose ends? One could easily see, if 2022 goes badly for the Democrats, a primary challenge, and if Cuomo’s allowed to skate, his name recognition and overall good press coverage would make him a political threat to Harris. Always keep in mind that Biden has vowed only to serve a single term.
I think if Dems wanted to knock off Cuomo their media would be covering the story as closely as the Cruz to Cancun trip.
Less a vow than a slip of the addled tongue.
Always keep in mind that Biden has vowed only to serve a single term.
Yeah, the human brain can only tolerate those Aricept™ injections for so long.
‘The Who team’s COVID probe, Ryan said, was a “a collaborative process of discovery between scientists” rather than a pure investigation.
“Basically,” Segreto said, “my interpretation is that what they discovered is what they were allowed to discover.”‘
Or just looked the other way on purpose.
‘Butler also cited the potential conflict of interest posed by Peter Daszak, the director of a New York-based science nonprofit who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal money to the Wuhan lab in the years leading up to the pandemic.’
Ah, there you go.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The real question is not whether it leaked from a lab, which is a matter of general incompetence, but whether it was bioengineered or not. And why was the US government subsidizing a lab in China (not in question) that was involved in such research?
A) I’d say released, not leaked
B) More than likely it was bioengineered
C) Longterm goals of complete control of the world population by nefarious people in our and other world governments set in motion years ago
Of course, I’m talking out of my ass here. I just always assume the worst about the powerful at this point.
[nods sagely, passes ceremonial roll of tinfoil]
*makes origami swan, balances it on nose*
Unrolls about three feet, passes
Oooh, is that the red roll?
I generally ascribe most things to incompetence. Malice comes as a reaction to the risk of being found to be incompetent (see Cuomo, Andrew).
1) The US was subsidizing a lab involved in viral research for purposes of pandemic prevention without considering that the Chinese may also be splicing viruses for their own purposes. Incompetent.
2) The virus escaped. Incompetent.
3) Everything that followed was a combination of malice and incompetence.
This is probably more accurate but it lessens the intensity of my hate boner so I’m going to ignore you for now. 😉
Hate boners tend to last longer. Just sayin’
If your hate boner lasts for more than 4 years, please contact…
I am certain the virus got out by mistake, but once that happened the CCP was more concerned with first hiding it, then once they realized how contagious it was, with spreading it across the globe to make sure it wasn’t only China that took it in the ass. The whole “get the bad orange man” thing was a fructuous side effect they were glad to take advantage of.
It did indeed bear fruit!
Got it? Orange man & fruit punchline FTW… Now don’t go all fruit sushi on me!
Right up there with the integrity of a Penn St. investigation.
“About the brewing Cuomo impeachment/implied federal investigation: Could this be the new administration tying up loose ends?”
I wouldn’t be surprised that it is a combination of things. The first is that Cuomo killed a lot of lefties and while his machine was OK hiding that while they needed to get rid of Trump, they now feel they can hold him accountable. But we shouldn’t forget that democrats play fucking real dirty, and considering how they peddled that asshat as a presidential candidate, I wouldn’t be surprised others competing for that prize decided to “whack” his ass, and this would allow them to do that.
I had always suspected it was some type of Dem internal power struggle, but hadn’t thought through to what, exactly. Your idea makes sense. But sitting president Kamala Harris, our First Black Woman of Color and Asian President(tm), would have had to have really effed something up for him to have a chance at the nomination.
Don’t forget that Andy is the kind of bully who collects enemies. It wouldn’t take much for the knives to come out when there’s a sign of weakness. Just an indicator from the party that there would be no protection forthcoming.
The first really public friendly fire he took was from Leticia James, his AG. I’ve suspected she simply wants his job. Once she issued her report, it became open season on Cuomo.
Called that one weeks ago.
Impeachment/recall isn’t actually a thing if my understanding of NY is correct.
Also, there is going to be literally nothing happen to Caesar at the state level. The Assembly isn’t backing the Senate’s play.
I think you can only cover up things for so long. Most of the time the truth will come out, especially something that involves so many people. But they’ve gotten good at delaying it until a time that’s more convenient.
They didn’t find the minutes of the Wannsee Conference until 1949, IIRC
The people that control the narrative have learned how to not even have to fear that. Look at how they handled the aftermath of the Russia hoax and the revelation that the Obama administration and the dnc were basically running a banana republic. You would think something like that would have kept democrats out of power for a few decades. And that is not the only incident where after people were fed lies for a long time, they slowly leaked out information until when the truth couldn’t be hidden anymore they could use Hilary Clinton’s famous “What does it matter now?” line. They have already laid the groundwork for admitting they stole the 2020 election with that “fortify shit” article too. The people that did this want this out there for their friends to see how clever they are and for the proles to see they don’t matter, but they can’t just say “Fuck yeah, we stole it, but what ya gonna do about it?” yet.
Baseball birthdays:
#1 is Clarence Mitchell — who?
Apparently he was a pitcher from 1911-32, who across 18 seasons (yeah, the math doesn’t work) amassed 23.7 WAR with a W-L record of 125-139 while playing for nearly everyone.
The first I have heard of is Kelly Johnson at #3. Keljo played for 8 teams, I only remember Atlanta.
Pretty mediocre group.
Hey Banjos, you should ask your husband about any soccer games of note this weekend.
Steve Barber was NOT mediocre.
17.5 WAR across 15 seasons is pretty damn mediocre. I mean, sure, it probably puts him easily in the top 10% of all MLB players ever, which is pretty far above mediocre, but I am using a much higher standard here.
Mediocre compared to the top players with other birthdays.
Top 10% is by definition not mediocre. And if you take out his last few post-injury years, the guy was a pretty fair pitcher.
Saw him live quite a few times. Fastball was, for the time, state of the art.
I look at the top 5 or so each day for birthdays. Compared to that set of players, he is mediocre.
Which is pretty damn good.
He was basically replacement level after he left Baltimore. Had 5 (of 8) good seasons with the Os before falling off a cliff.
Well, let’s face it, where OMWC is concerned, if it didn’t happen in Baltimore it doesn’t matter 🙂
I remember Steve Barber getting razzed quite a bit by Jim Bouton in Ball Four.
Bayern Munich decided to have everyone fail their covid tests at just the wrong time.
Not the league I was referring to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qFX_c3Xdk
The lack of red card on the penalty is inexplicable.
Mitchell did not play from 1912-1915 for some reason. I originally assumed WWI, but the years don’t match up.
I knew he missed some years, but didn’t care to look it up. Probably went back to minors (although it was a different setup then).
LOLOL DeBlasio trumped again.
Work: Do your timesheets or we’ll stop paying you.
*grumble*
*Checks overdue sheets*
*sees screen requiring accounting of activity down to fifteen minute intervals*
*remembers why I procrastinate so much*
What was I doing on the 11th of January?
Were you in the study, with Col. Mustard, and a candlestick ?
HEY NOW!
You’re an all-star?
Lawyers do 6 minute increments, so you have it easy.
My hours aren’t billable. I don’t produce a profit for my employer based upon who they can charge for my time.
And my work is in smaller than six minute slices given how quickly I can compose emails to business partners regarding file transfer changes (I can do that stuff in my sleep)
When they made me do that I always put in a fifteen-minute window each day labelled “task tracking and reporting.” They hated that.
We tried to get a charge code for government mandated training.
We have a charge code for mandated training, but not a charge code for filling out task tracking forms, despite the time sink involved.
I’ve gotten down to only 17 task codes.
I was able to stay in single digits. We had people on multiple purchase orders. They had to track by order and task.
Brings back memories. Back in the mid 1990’s I was working as a mainframe programmer at a megabank which shall remain unnamed. Said bank decided to jump on the “client server” bandwagon by replacing our trusty green screens with PC’s configured to run Windows 3.1 as a guest on OS2. This was laughably unstable to the extent that 2-3 hours per day of downtime was about average. Concurrently, management implemented a time-tracking requirement, presumably to trumpet the gains in productivity from the new infrastructure. About two weeks after the initial implementation we received orders not to record any time under anything resembling “system unavailable”. Good times.
A government customer once required 15 minute intervals on very granular charge codes. As a programmer I had to state how much of my time was planning, prototyping, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining and meetings. Whatever their purpose the data was garbage as most people would just guess at the end of the day as long as it added up to 8.
^^^THIS^^^
Back in my consulting days I told my boss to be that my effort was directly tied to how much “documentation & meeting times” he instructed me to have. He didn’t like that. I pointed out that just like he didn’t do work for free neither did I. He kept me around cause I got things done. but he hated that I wouldn’t knuckle under and give him free work.
The (relevant) book I’m currently reading.
Technocrats need data to make enlightened decisions.
The narcissism of the Top.Man!
The last job I had to do that, I was always in good shape when the monthly email saying who was behind came out if my boss was also on it. Fortunately, he always was. I just had to beat him to getting it done.
There, timesheets caught up. It only took… 90 minutes.
My last job was a shitshow when it came to time reporting. For a long time we were able to hold our German overlords at bay and use some pretty simple reporting. Our primary goal was to capture billable hours. The rest of the stuff was fluff and we didn’t really care.
It worked very well. The Germans finally won and imposed that everyone had to track to 15 min intervals. Worse, they made it pretty clear that utilization rate was how devs were going to be measured (they promised it wouldn’t, but it was clear that was the next step).
The result was the devs made sure that every minute was “billable”. Totally wrecked budgets for a quarter and it made our projects go from high priced to ludicrous priced.
Yup. Head office remembers my existence every six months or so. Flurries of e-mails and texts for about two weeks and then they calm them themselves into senescence once again.
FedGov has us to 15 minute intervals…I don’t think I have ever coded anything down to that. We do have a task to account for administrative work, so each pay period I have 2 hours put in to enter my timesheet.
I have a “Management and Administration” code. Upper management hates us using it but clams up when we ask “what else should we code all the status meetings you have us attend with management?”
STATUS MEETINGS! The primary pain working on a tight deadline is all the status reports and meetings that take away from doing the work needed to meet the deadline. The tighter the deadline, the more frequent status updates are demanded.
And the less connected to the actual work the manager, the more they feel the need to talk to justify their existence.
The key being that it only lacks credibility with either people who have no influence on it, or real recourse to challenge it. Because it’s entirely political, because the CCP’s political influence at the WHO is so strong, and because the current administration and congressional majorities are so leveraged and compromised by CCP influence, there will never be any meaningful effort to hold the CCP to account.
The CCP has the world by the balls now, with useful idiots and fellow travelers having ceded so much over the years by way of asymmetrical trade agreements and toothless “diplomacy”, that any effort to extricate Western nations from this would be met with crippling blowback. I largely blame the Obama administration for the US not being proactive enough in standing firm against the CCPs aggression. By the time the Trump admin came along, it was the last hope to try tearing away from Chinese dominance. That ship has sailed (to the South China sea, where it was escorted off by the PLA Navy in waters that they have no legal right to claim as their own but do anyway).
Of course China is always one good power struggle within the Party away from undoing a decade or two of progress, so we have that going for us. Xi won’t be there forever. Generally, the longer they are in power, the more sclerotic they become as well.
I pray for the CCP to come down collectively with a bad case of sino-communistic sclerosis.
I’m seeing the same kind of fear of giants that used to characterize our attitude toward the Soviets.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
NEVER ENOUGH
A $15 minimum wage could become a reality in the U.S.
While millions would get a pay boost from a higher national wage floor, it would still fall short of paying many workers a “living wage” — the salary a person or family needs to cover their basic expenses.
That’s especially true for families, largely due to higher living costs like childcare, relative to single adults.
Even with a raise to $15 per hour, a typical family of four couldn’t afford the basics in any U.S. state, according to a CNBC analysis of cost-of-living data assembled by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (This example assumes two kids and two adults working full-time for minimum pay.)
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“When people are screaming [that a $15 minimum wage] is such a radical proposition, the radical thing about it is, quite frankly, how low it would actually be,” said Judy Conti, government affairs director at the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group.
More fucking “advocates” who can’t think their way out of a wet paper bag. These fucking dummies and their models; they cannot even be bothered to ask themselves what might happen to the price of a loaf of bread or a pound of hamburger.
They don’t even talk about the inevitable price adjustments which will occur. Those higher wages will just be plucked painlessly from the magic hat.
Go ahead, raise the minimum wage to $15/hr, and see how much better off we are.
That’s not what its backers ever claimed you fucking morons but you probably know that.
Hey, inflation doesn’t exist and costs never get passed on to the consumer, you conspiracy nut.
Two adults working full time at $15/hr is almost $60K a year. U.S. median household income in 2019 was $68K. I think these people are full of shit.
Remember: If you have to make your own meals with off brand products, forego going out multiple times a month, cut back on the booze, operate a non-smartphone and reduce or eliminate your cable package, you ain’t “living”.
Living wage…what a crock of shit. Living is cheap if you set your mind to it. People from the third world who have any sort of idea what we piss and moan about must think we’re a bunch of soft little bitches.
Twitter has taught me that it costs $22 to get a single order of avacodo toast doordashed! That means if you’re supporting a family of four, that’s $32k/year just for lunch! Dinners are more expensive, but even if they weren’t, that person is spenging $64k of their (pre-tax!) 60k salary only on food! No wonder Americans are impoverished and can’t pay off their student debt!
Truly, everbody here not being able to afford a highly specialized type of food product purchased spontaneously from an online delivery service that’s less than a decade old is a sign of living in a dystopia…I blame capitalism.
At $15/hour, that’s 4 hours just for meals. 15 is not enough!
They’re not wrong.
*sighs*
Yeah, I know.
Remember: If you have to make your own meals with off brand products, forego going out multiple times a month, cut back on the booze, operate a non-smartphone and reduce or eliminate your cable package, you ain’t “living”.
The sad thing is that you don’t have to do too many of those things to get below $65k a year. A combination of entitlement and financial incompetence leads these people to whine about not being able to afford the basics on a pretty dang decent salary.
This. My two teens in one of their ‘classes’ had to draft up a budget. Some ‘musts’ that they had to account for were internet, smart phone, car, insurance….
I am sorry, those are nice to haves. I survived as a single dad taking the shitty bus while living in a small apartment saving money to get those ‘musts’.
My son told me he needed a game on his tablet. I refused to consider the request until he changed to say he wanted the game on his tablet. They need to learn the difference.
They are the same people that believe doubling the tax rate will bring in double the tax revenue.
Water comes and goes here. I wanted a shower this morning. The water was on earlier, now it is off.
Oh well, off to the store unshaven and messy hair just like everyone else around here. At least I have a nice shirt on.
No farmer shower?
That is a dab of pit stick for the smell and a baseball cap to cover your hair.
Hell, I’m four days unshaven. Not for water issues but just that I don’t give a fuck no mo.
I am running luscious hair from my face to my ball-fro!
A whole 4 days?
I taught my kids the ‘redneck’ shower – clean the armpits, toss on an extra top layer and baseball cap. So same thing. I am remarkably clean kids as I have to yell at them for taking longer than 5 minutes in the shower, but then again, they are 16…
Field bath. A washcloth and canteen. Face, pits, groin.
We always called those bird baths.
Except since we were swinging in the Wing, we had a big bowl of warm water that was heated on the tent stove. Canteens were for Infantry chumps.
I spent a few years in combat support of infantry divisions so I was grunt adjacent. A July rotation to Arkansas for field training was the only time I wasn’t able to wash the funk off with just a canteen and rag. By the second week of the exercise the observers were keeping their distance from us.
I’d also like to know why we were funding research there. Seems pretty fucked up.
Do you think putting a bioweapons lab like that in Peoria (Illinois or Arizona) is going to fly?
Tooele, Utah would like a word.
I guess we’re going to have a celebration of the 500,00th death attributed to the plague.
That will show everybody how serious we are.
Tooele, Utah would like a word.
I would have guessed Nevada.
Did you know the plague has killed more people than WWI and WWII?
We need to get our war dead numbers up. Obama Foreign Policy 2.0 needs to get off their duffs.
Two adults working full time at $15/hr is almost $60K a year. U.S. median household income in 2019 was $68K. I think these people are full of shit.
That’s barely enough for a decent cellphone plan.
From the Glibfit sci-fi thread:
The Expanse is the best sci-fi show ever. There is almost nothing wrong with it, and it is the only sci-fi show that is actually science instead of magic in drag.
I loved B5 but it suffered from bad acting, bad makeup, bad costumes, bad CGI cheesy writing (lol @ “A View From the Peanut Gallery”) and studio interference.
I also loved Farscape but I know that I’ll never be able to convince everyone of the greatness of a show that involves muppets. But holy shit the acting on that show by the muppets! The episode “Out of Their Minds” wherein the puppet actually embodied the physical mannerisms of a human actor? Outstanding. I also enjoyed how the second and later seasons had thematic arcs in addition to narrative ones, like second season’s “insanity” with Creighton going more and more insane, with the rest of the cast joining him in “Crackers Don’t Matter” and “Disco Dargo.” The last season was kind of lame though, though it did include the canonically named “We’re So Screwed Trilogy” of episodes.
BSG started off with such great potential and awesomeness and finished as a flaming pile of dogshit. It was plagued by the tactic of “pseudo foreshadowing,” wherein the writers drop repeated symbols in lieu of actually haveing a fucking clue about where the narrative is going to go (see also Lost and every goddamn thing Russel T. Davies has ever done. )
(Inara = Kaylee) > River Tam
The Expanse does well in following what we know and not trying to give details of the future magic.
For the Expanse, I’m through the first three seasons, but it’s kind of hard to sell the driving blue glow as not being science magic.
Yeah, the protocomolecule IS magic, so the show is not purely SCI-fi, though it plays a diminishing role in s4 and is almost completely gone in s5.
Fair enough. I just finished the season 3 finale over the weekend, and it looked as though the protocolecule was going to have a more diminished role going forward.
Still, even with the magic alien tech, The Exapanse is far more reality-grounded than anything else out there.
Trying to come up with the worst shows wrt magic-in-drag, Dr. Who is probably the all-time worst, but Dune is close on its heels. (Not that I don’t love Dune, but between The SPice, Genetic Memories, and the Holtzmann effect, all of that Universe’s “technology” is magic). The Culture is at least logical/grounded once you accept the three core pieces of magic (The Grid, Minds and energy/matter conversion).
To be fair. You cannot have alien life in sci-fi without it getting a bit off of the beaten path. I appreciate The Expanse getting away from forehead aliens and doing something much more believable (sentient slime)
I haven’t watched season 5 but did read the book. The protocomolecule is what made travel to other solar systems possible and their are ominous signs that whatever killed the protocomolecule civilization is still active and dangerous.
That’s the problem with reality — you can’t travel outside the solar system. Anything interstellar is going to require magic.
At least there aren’t any time paradoxes that need fixing.
Also Zoe > River, but I have a psychological hangup that prevents me from crushing on married people.
That’s just crazy talk.
“The Expanse is the best sci-fi show ever. There is almost nothing wrong with it, and it is the only sci-fi show that is actually science instead of magic in drag.”
I call bullshit.
Q, tell them why this show isn’t as good as it could be if they had more space tits and ass….
Oh shit, I forgot about Altered Carbon!
I never got around to watching season 2. Was it any good?
Yes, but very different in tone. The recap at the beginning of it made me go “I don’t remember Season 1 being anything like that,”
Speak Belter while you do that!
+1 Heavy Metal
I like that movie.
https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/4r4367/south-park-major-boobage-season-12-ep-3
PRICE GOUGING!
WUT? The $2 ho now wants shree-fiddy?
That ain’t no ho, that’s the Loch Ness Monster!
Wow, Cuomo’s going down quick. I guess it’s too much to ask for other pols to realize once they’re no longer useful to The Party, they’re going to get dropped like a hot potato.
They do, which will only enforce compliance with the party line.
Excellent point. I guess I’m not cut out for team politics. Which I think is a plus.
Speaking of which: what’s Manchin’s future look like?
Can you imagine how much seething and gnashing of teeth he is causing? But they challenge him and he crosses the aisle and McConnell is back in charge of the Senate – which is even worse in their minds.
That’s making quite the assumption about Romney, Collins, and Murkowski.
AOC will run for NY gov
I support this.
She’s positioned herself pretty well to do so, and she seems more ambitious than, say, holding a seat in the House of Representatives for 30-40 years. If she wants to be President someday, she needs a Governorship or a Senate seat.
+1 Hillary Playbook
Uffda. Racism is really systemic. I base that on this article about all the black professors leaving St. Olaf. I mean if black people can’t find a haven of safety at one of the most progressive schools in the nation, where can they.
Really though the most fun part of the article is listening to the complaints of Joshua Wyatt one of the student’s at St. Olaf.
His picture is everything you would want it to be.
I feel like I’m back in Jr. High for making fun of this kid, but a man can mature only so much.
Just tell him Beethoven and Mozart were black.
Reminds me of the interpretive dance landlord in The Big Lebowski.
I thought it was a still from the worst Hair remake ever.
I remember when PoC fought to be allowed into spaces they were banned from and were told they could ONLY go to places where other PoC were allowed. Now that that system was removed, we have PoC demanding to be allowed to self isolate, especially in education. Go fucking figure…
I’d bet money that this is really about the college not fully undertaking critical race theory and forcing students and staff to undergo reeducation.
The complainants smell blood in the water and are looking to capitalize on their newfound power.
St. Olaf has a reputation for being a pretty decent school academically. I wonder if all the “white professors didn’t support me” is code for “they wanted me to teach real courses and not inject critical race theory into everything”?
Nowhere in that article is the word “engineer” or “scientist.”
Methinks tis not a coinkidink.
Definitely very focused on the liberal arts. But it has a strong alumni network in the region.
Also in Miami. I think there was a documentary series that touched on the topic. An entire generation of boys was raised on it, I hear.
Race and ethnic studies and dance was quite enough of a descriptor. Didn’t need to give them a click.
The picture though…
FINALLY! I can contribute to the musical discussion like Tundra.
Check out this sick beat
That’s the worst thing I ever heard.
Whattabout that chubby girl singing about her front holes and protrusions on Professor Bill Nye’s show?
I… Uh, I don’t know what that is, but I will not be clicking any links posted in reply to this comment.
For trashy: “My 5ex Junk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UegBEitgYsA
Click it, Click IT, CLICK IT! You know you want to.
It is deliciously cringeworthy.
OMG, I don’t regret the click, but I think I’m having an aneurysm.
“It’s not polite to stare, Johnny.”
I…my brain
Wow, Cuomo’s going down quick.
Blood in the water.
As somebody up above already pointed out, Andy has made lots of enemies, over the years.
^This^
He’s been catching flies with vinegar for decades. The second he wasn’t able to bury that Dem legislator, the jackals sensed weakness and started moving in for the kill.
Think his brother will keep his job at CNN if the Cuomo brand tanks? “Look Fredo, we only hired you as protection from your asshole brother. Now he’s gone, we don’t need you”
They’d blame ratings or say he’s just not diverse enough before they’d openly say the real reason.
Oh, now I’m imagining Fredo going all “mad as hell” on air and being replaced with a black, lesbian Marxist.
Clearing the field for Kamala’s reelection campaign in 2024.
“I just screamed and screamed their names’: Devastated Texas mom describes how blaze killed her three ‘amazing’ children and her mother after they started fire to keep warm during blackout”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9285821/Texas-blackouts-Mother-describes-desperate-moment-fire-ravaged-home.html
Yikes!
Then she immediately ran to the press.
I feel really bad for her, but the sprint to the nearest microphone makes me leery.
I feel bad for her but this is what happens when you don’t have a healthy respect that Nature will always win.
Also in the article
The young family are among the victims of the storm that also claimed the life of 11-year-old Cristian Pavon who froze to death in his home. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been heavily criticized after it emerged he fled to Mexico as those in his state were dying.
I hate our media.
The kid dying from hypothermia seems odd.
I know it was cold, but under blankets inside a trailer? Out of the wind and dry? I can see miserable cold, but dying?
And if it was that cold, everyone should be huddled up in the same bed with every blanket you own on top of you.
People in the United States, in general, cannot survive without heat or AC. We see this year after year in small numbers.
I remember when the family went camping in May and a freak cold snap rolled in (we were in the mountains). While it was only 20 degrees outside, we abandoned two tents and shoved us all in one tent packed in like sardines with all our sleeping bags and outerwear on top of us. No one was ‘cold’.
Some folk don’t understand what real cold is.
One word: “Gofundme”
$84k so far for the 11 year old who “died of hypothermia” despite no autopsy being done yet.
Elevator pitch: new Glibs-based micro-crowd-funding app that uses community reputation points as a grassroots system to verify legitimacy of requests. Funds and requests not restricted, however–caveat emptor, and all that. Needs a system to value, track and deliver all alternate forms of currency, such as preserved goat heads.
working product name “WannaFund?”
*slow clap*
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9285793/Demi-Rose-wows-skimpy-tie-dye-bikini-laps-Ibiza-sunshine.html
Not going to be cold in Tejas.
Blue on blue friendly fire incident? This is gonna cause problems…
Well, there’s already been static building between the Ls and the Ts, why should the Gs get away scot free?
Some people like dick.
I can’t wait until a bunch of teenaged athlete girls do a proper stoning ala Life of Brian on those assholes horning in on their Title 9 indulgences.
BIL is traveling to Hawaii to help his mother as she’s got surgery tomorrow.
Flying thru JFK. Got there yesterday, had to go get his baggage and recheck because he was switching airlines. However, at 10pm the HA ticket counter was closed.
There are no seats in the ticketing area so he had to stand all night until the ticketing counter opened again.
Then, he’s getting his ticket and like a dumbass he put his iPhone on the counter, bent down to get his luggage and it was swiped by the kid behind him. Fucking New York.
Fortunately, he had already uploaded his COVID testing to the Hawaii state website so he doesn’t have to spend ten days in quarantine upon arrival, but still…
If his phone really was stolen at the ticket counter, there has to be video footage of it.
Wouldn’t matter. He’s got to go and I guarantee the kid palmed it off to a cohort within twenty feet of the counter. No physical evidence, and New York doesn’t care about property crime anyways.
that sucks
That’s near murderous rage, right there. Sorry about that.
“Did nuclear-powered CIA spying device lost in the Himalayas in 1965 trigger India’s glacier flood? Locals blame Cold war device for disaster which killed 200 this month
The mission, carried out by the CIA in conjunction with India’s Intelligence Bureau, intended to place a relay listening device on the summit of the mountain which sits on the border with China.
During the ascent, a blizzard forced the climbers to retreat and they left behind the devices on a platform on the mountain.
The equipment left on Nanda Devi consisted of a six-foot-long antenna, two radio communication sets, a power pack and the seven plutonium capsules.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9286325/Did-nuclear-powered-CIA-device-abandoned-Himalayas-trigger-Indias-glacier-flood.html
It was powered by plutonium?
Was it built by Dr. Emmett Brown?
What’s the proposed mechanism? There’s no way a radioisotope thermoelectric generator first fueled in the 1960s generates enough waste heat to melt and release a fucking glacier.
“Presence of nuclear scary stuff” is not sufficient to precipitate natural disaster, no matter what the Daily Fail says.
The plutonium altered the DNA of the Yeti, giving them superpowers including laser vision. They then lased the glacier by accident.
Right, my bad.
It actually made them undetectable. Has to be an alien technology!
Fucking tricknology!
Gojira Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
OK, thanks. For some reason I didn’t think they used plutonium.
WW2? Bah, landslides just like pyramids require alien technology!
Anyone – when they weren’t picking up drugs that had fallen out of asses – see this What If scenario?
Watching Nancy have to give the gavel to Orange Man would be almost worth the catastrophe he’d be as Speaker.
BWAHAHAHAHA! We would get back to the best timeline for sure. I bet based on that article they will draft a bill that says people with orange faces cannot run for House of Representative or the Senate.
That was my thought too. Would they be able to gin up enough votes in the House to refuse to seat him? Are there enough cuck GOPers who would go along with the Dems to block him?
Doesn’t matter how stupid the reason was either.
And if it does happen Trump should be sure to get TaTonka Protester guy there to witness the passing of the gavel as his guest.
He’s already done some much to demonstrate how hollow and unrespectable most politicians are; a second act might be even more fun. Forget Speaker of the House, he should go for Chairman of the Intelligence committee.
That would be . . . interesting.
He’ll never do it. If he runs for anything again, it will be for President.
AOC will run for NY gov
A governor needs demonstrable real world administrative/analytical skills.
I hope she runs and wins.
Sorry New Yorkers, but I demand to be entertained.
Judging by New Yorkers voting habits, no doubt she’ll win, bigly.
I’d vote for her if I were a younger man and if she promised to slap her tiddys across my face. It’s NY.
I’m pretty sure I could find someone somewhat sane, without a horse face to do that who won’t then tax me to death.
The economic burden of a $15 federal minimum wage would disproportionately fall on small business owners
Feature, not bug in the minds of folks pushing a higher minimum wage.
A Democratic state assemblyman in New York says that lawmakers are “inching toward” opening an impeachment probe of Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his handling of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes.
Dammit. Could New York do a better job of holding its governor accountable for his Lil Rona Panic Stupidity than New Hampshire? Shit.
Didn’t a Democratic shill basically state that if a business can’t pay it, they don’t want that business or think that business should be open?
Why yes, yes they did.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/02/21/dem-rep-ro-khanna-we-dont-want-small-businesses-that-cant-pay-15-hour-minimum-wage-n330717
“I love small businesses,” he claimed. “I’m all for it but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to make what they’re producing and I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.” He actually claimed that if workers were paid for their “productivity” they would be paid $23/hour.
He actually claimed that if workers were paid for their “productivity” they would be paid $23/hour.
*spits *
Fucking “labor theory of value” commie.
That is a man who has never signed a payroll check in his life.
Yep.
They’ve also stated that if a small business can’t survive a few weeks/months of lockdowns, those businesses don’t deserve to exist.
Yeah I rubbed that nonsense in the face of some neighbors that all said that back in March 2020 that it won’t be two weeks and we are going to watch friends lose their livelihood. Typical response “then they aren’t good at business”. Fuckers all of em.
They don’t even want to acknowledge the destruction the lockdowns/shutdowns/resets have brought because they still get Amazon packages and Whole Check deliveries daily.
At this point in my life, I’m really questioning the worth of having a diverse circle of acquaintences.
I have a ridiculously diverse circle of acquaintences. I shoot Production, but I hang out with Carry Optics , Limited and PCC shooters too!
No skeet?
At the Western PA Sectional last year, GoFastDon’tSuck had this excellent banner up:
“PCC is not a crime, but it probably should be…”
Have you moved forward with the CMMG delayed blowback upper?
Wonder if he pays these folks $23/hr?
“AZ sheriff in border town claims to see a fivefold spike in illegal immigration.”
Feature, not bug.
“Texas Democrats Issue a Stark Warning for Biden Over His Immigration Policies”
Shut up dummies. Feature, not bug.
“Small businesses lead fight against minimum wage.”
Shut up dummies. Feature, not bug.
Joshua Wyatt, who uses they/them* pronouns, has encountered these issues in their two majors—race and ethnic studies, and dance—while also serving as a member of St. Olaf’s Cultural Union for Black Expression.
Marks Joshua down as probable “disease ridden corpse to be catapulted over battlements in the event of a siege”.
“two majors—race and ethnic studies, and dance”
These are the alternative energy of studies. Need huge subsidies to stay afloat and when gone, no one will notice.
He is DOUBLING his employment chances by having two majors and you are throwing shade at him?
St. Olaf isn’t cheap either, but looking at him, I’m gonna guess he’s getting a free ride based on a bunch of diversity scholarships. At least I sure hope he is.
I’d hate to think of how bitter he will be if he graduates with six figures of student loan debt and finds out that he is going to be working a $15/hr job for a while because no one needs a dancing ethnic token hire.
I can have 10 majors if all I have to do is sit around and talk useless bullshit all day.
He could be the loin-fruit of an upwardly mobile couple of color. I rather enjoy that thought.
He’d still be eligible for far more scholarships than the white kid who came from a family of sugar beet farmers in NW Minnesoda.
You forgot “and doesn’t work when it snows”.
You mean when there’s a forecast of snow. Whether it’s actually snowing are not is a moot point. No one deals in reality these days, gets in the way of the narrative.
You didn’t look at the pic. You’d need a big catapult to get they launched.
Maybe that’s why the use of “they” – big enough for two?
I’m not sure about a name for overweight grifters. I blame academia. Is there no money at all left in actually educating serious students with real useful knowledge? I guess all the money must now be in government diversity programs.
It’s a self-licking ice cream cone.
The over-abundance of federal student loans incentivizes the colleges to create more majors to soak up the dollars.
However, once those departments get a toehold they become like the federal bureaucracy, their continued existence becomes their only priority. So they churn out profs and students that only seek to justify their departments. They’re not afraid of politics, so they get involved with the administration and drive the rational people out.
St. Olaf’s Cultural Union for Black Expression.
Rose Nyland can’t believe it either.
You didn’t look at the pic. You’d need a big catapult to get they launched.
Hack it into more easily flung pieces.
Just because you are leading a barbarian army doesn’t mean that they don’t have standards and lines they won’t cross.
“Brooksy, Khan of Khans, we humbly beseech you to let us out of having to deal with this Joshua creature! Can’t we just kill a bunch of babies and kids instead? Do you know how long it takes to clean the guts of a ethnic studies/dance double major off your blade?”
Apropos.
Offensive material?
“It’s unstated precisely what Disney considers to be offensive on the show, but some characters depict Native American, Middle Eastern and Asian people.”
Can we just ban those people? Seems easier.
It seems that any acknowledgment or mention of races or cultures other than our own is RACISM!!!!
I am not sure when that happened.
The warning will also appear before some iconic movies, including “Aristocats,” “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” and “Swiss Family Robinson.”
For a moment, I thought it read “The Aristocrats” and thought “well, duh….”
Now imagining a slightly drunk Walt in a backroom gathering of comics…
“Swiss Family Robinson.”
Because the pirates are Asian?
The Swiss aren’t shown as Nazi collaborators?
Maybe because the little girl cross dressed to avoid being raped by the pirates?
They are Spielberging the movies to remove the offensive material?
Johnny Cash sang a song in front of a Confederate flag!
How many unsuspecting kids are forcibly converted into Jr. members of the KKK when they accidently see that?
All the white ones and some asians.
Reminds me of one from Duffel blog – which apparently is no more. WTF???
They don’t need to see it. The existence is enough to influence.
It struck me the other day that there’s something curious about the Simpsons kerfuffle over Apu. [I know, I know]
What about Groundskeeper Willie? Surely that’s an offensive stereotype of Scots.
Then there’s Patty and Selma, stereotypical twins [to say nothing of the twins who are Lisa’s classmates] and older single women
Then there’s the crazy cat lady, Barney, Moe, why, every Simpson’s character is a stereotype that must have caused offense.
How odd that only Apu needs, or merits, the outrage mob.
Homer is a stereotype of a straight white family man. I’m offended. Cancel the Simpson’s.
In fact you can only show people who are capable and kind. There cannot be any conflict of any kind. Never mind the dictates of drama state that a good story needs conflict.
yellow privilege
This.
There’s nothing curious about it, really. It’s a pretty specific agenda.
I should point out this was meant to be a play on the general yellow skin tone in the Simpsons’ cartoons, but came out sounding pretty wrong.
I got it ?
You mean Yellow Peril?
Wasn’t Apu like, the sanest denizen of Springfield?
Big number is big
Dr. Anthony Fauci called the United States’ approach of half a million deaths due to Covid-19 “terrible,” “really horrible” and “historic” Sunday.
“It’s nothing like we’ve ever been through in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic,” he told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “People decades from now are going to be talking about this as a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country.”
The death toll — which stood at more than 497,000 as of Sunday morning — has now surpassed that of any American war except the Civil War. The actual number of dead, public health officials have said, is likely significantly higher.
“It really is a terrible situation that we’ve been through and that we’re still going through, and that’s the reason why we keep insisting to continue with the public health measures, because we don’t want this to get much worse than it already is,” said Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and who serves as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser.
Maybe you and your pals should have focused more on treating the sick and protecting the vulnerable, instead of tormenting the healthy.
And, whatever you do, don’t acknowledge a large chunk of those deaths as basically pulled forward by a few months. That might lessen your leverage in your ongoing struggle to reclassify death as a social construct.
“People decades from now are going to be talking about this as a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country.”
And right next to that will be a picture of me! And the historians will gush about my leadership during the crisis. They will write books about how I deftly only revealed information to the public in drips and drabs as I felt they needed to know and were ready for.
— Fauci
Get this man a fucking mirror.
Gadzooks, Ebenezer! The constabulary has seemingly confiscated a handheld musketoon from some unsavory rapscallion! We must alert the citizenry post-haste. Quick Ebenezer, to the telegraphing machine, so we can send correspondence with utmost expediency!!
Lol
Two bullets!
Our heroes in blue like Deputy Barney Fife are completely outgunned!!!!
Nah, They won’t be outgunned when the Arizona ranger comes to town with a big iron on his hip.
A good parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iavdy2qQCrs
Hahahahahaha….who’d they take that off of, Butch Cassidy?
“Bronx educator claims she was fired after sharing Holocaust story, refusing ‘Wakanda’ salute ”
https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/nyc-educator-fired-after-sharing-holocaust-story-refusing-wakanda-salute/
WTF?
One way the commies got loyalty was to put ignorant serfs in charge of things they didn’t understand.
I think we’re seeing the rough equivalent of that here.
It is very racist not to do the “WAKANDA FO EVAH!” salute, yo.
Except that’s cultural appropriation of a fictional group. That makes it very racist.
Also, if any of them actually watched Black Panther, it’s largely a refutation of that shit. The bad guy is the one looting, murdering, and installing himself as a dictator, while justifying his personal vendetta with some racial justice grift. It’s not to say there isn’t a genuine concern there, but his motives aren’t pure, and his methods are extreme. T’challa actually rejects that approach, and ultimately offers the bad guy a chance to rehabilitate. It’s a pretty good movie. There are a few cringey lines but I enjoyed it. Ultimately very positive. Good cast, good story, cool soundtrack. Oh well I guess I’m just a “white voyeur” for enjoying it, but my point is, appropriating the Wakandan salute as some sort of militant black power salute seems ridiculous.
Live by the prog, die by the prog.
Eventually people are going to learn to go down swinging…
+1 Gina Carrano
Steady on, mate
Australia’s deputy prime minister has condemned the “disgusting” behaviour of some Australian Open tennis final fans who loudly booed mention of the country’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
The booing happened during an awards ceremony after the men’s final, when a tennis official referred to global vaccine efforts as a sign of optimism.
Australia started its national inoculation programme on Monday.
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In Melbourne, where the Australian Open was held, the crowd also booed mention of the Victorian state government when Tennis Australia chief Jayne Hrdlicka thanked authorities.
Last week, the government ordered Victoria residents into a snap five-day lockdown amid fears of an outbreak. The tennis event was allowed to proceed and the virus did not spread.
Maybe they were just booing your ham fisted authoritarian incompetence, in general.
Somebody is going to need mail-in ballots and Dominion counting machines if they want to survive the next election.
How long before they cancel this guy?
It would be interesting to watch his true value as a player weighed against his wokeness value in the virtue market. I wouldn’t be surprised if the FA, and by extension, FIFA, started sanctioning players for not being “on brand” with the woke agenda, but for individual clubs there is going to be some interesting variation. Good on him, anyway, for being a stand up guy. Pun intended.
He’s 30 and plays for Nottingham Forest. His transfer value on transfer market is a very generous $1.4M pounds.
Okay, so maybe he’s not the best example, but in that regard, he’s not as well protected as someone younger and much more expensive, so it’s all the more noteworthy that he spoke out. I suppose a cynical lefty “journalist” might project a need for relevance on that decision, before his career rolls downhill, but I happen to believe it’s a pretty bold move in his position.
*glances at pic*
*pops popcorn*
Delicious. That guy is a hero for standing up to this shit. Even better, he’s on Forest!
He dyed his hair blond. Obviously aspiring white Supremacist.
Won’t he be denounced for being white, on the inside?
Reverse one-drop rule?
I can’t wait for that to play out more widely. ?
Gov. Kristi Noem on masks
Nice beaver.
Thanks, I just had it stuffed.
Silly juvenile jokes get a snort out of me but the comic genius of Leslie Neilson turn them into laughing to tears riots. Credit to the director as well.
It would be interesting to watch his true value as a player weighed against his wokeness value in the virtue market. I wouldn’t be surprised if the FA, and by extension, FIFA, started sanctioning players for not being “on brand” with the woke agenda, but for individual clubs there is going to be some interesting variation.
Funny you should mention that. I believe Formula One just announced a corporate stance/program along those exact lines. It appeared to me to boil down as “Your life off track is not your own. We’ve got our eye on you.”
It all boils down to “covering their ass” – and that’s what every organization is doing now. Protecting their “image”. And yes, to do that, they have to scour your social media and basically control your thoughts off the job, not just on.
Ain’t it grand?
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*glances at pic*
Yeah, slamming a black athlete for not towing the BLM lion is going to be quite the minstrel show. Especially with white progressives in blackface leading the charge.
“The Patriarchy continues to try to crush my neck with their heavy boots, cut off my life force and take away my voice—Even those who call themselves artists…………..You know who you are!!! DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY! Now and Forever. #riskwhatyouvalue #valuewhatyourisk”
https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/1362934554647003137
Who will speak out for the poor oppressed celebrities?
You can pry my patriarchy from my cold dead hands!
Since someone brought up my favorite comedic persona yesterday, here he is again with a few nuggets of wisdom on Madge thrown in for good measure.
Duffleblog has a new format. Still very funny.
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/chinese-made-trojan-horse-pretty
Jerm’s wife’s cut finger and infection:
To treat a laceration first wash your hands with alcohol. Then rub uninjured skin around the wound to within about half an inch of the wound. Go about 6 inches at least in both directions and all the way around arm or leg. Disinfect hand and under nails if it is an arm, the foot if it is the leg. Never put alcohol on an open wound. It will cause the proteins in your body fluids to metastasize into a layer that will actually seal bugs in.
Use one of those saline squirt cans to remove any foreign materials that may be in the wound. Sterile saline for eyewashing or contact lenses will work also. Wash wound with povidone-iodine. Rinse with the saline. Wash with Hibiclens soap. Rinse with sterile saline.
Both are powerful disinfectants but neither will kill everything, however the spectrums of critters that they will kill overlap. After washing with both your wound should be sterile. If the wound is a shallow puncture use the squirt capability of the bottles to squirt down into the puncture.
Use a generous amount of triple-antibiotic ointment, and I mean generous, to completely cover wound and have a bit of a mound over the top. Press a non-stick gauze over it to completely cover wound. When you press it down it should squish the extra triple-antibiotic outside the wound onto uninjured skin forming a barrier to any bugs that may wander towards the wound.
Using that self sticking wrap…I forget what it is called…wrap firmly but not firm enough to cut off circulation, 3 layers thick to completely cover the gauze and have at least one layer above and below the non-stick gauze on your limb. If it is on your palm or bottom of your foot you can also use that sticky fake skin over the non-stick gauze then use the sticky wrap. It adds extra protection and will allow you to have light-duty use of the member.
Do this process immediately after the injury then once when you go to bed and again when you wake up in the morning. Do this every day until the wound is healed over. All that stuff is expensive but if you think that is expensive try losing a finger, toe, a limb or even your life. Dont fuck around with bugs. They are going to win in the end but there is no reason to hand them an early victory. I have a lot of experience in this area. I dont think I have a square inch of skin that doesnt have a scar on it.
You are welcome.
*I had a neighbor that got a rather large, serious splinter in his hand. He would not take my advice and entrusted his care to an ER. It got infected and he ended up dying of sepsis. If you try this method you will be amazed at how painless the wound will be, there will be no infection and it will heal up very quickly. Bugs are the only real impediment keeping your body from healing itself quickly. Take that factor out and it will heal in less than half of the time you are used to.
Another tip: The only thing sterile in your house is the inside of rolled paper…three or four layers down in rolls of paper towels or toilet paper. If you need to dry the saline solution off of the wound unroll three or four layers of paper towel or toilet paper from a freshly opened package, tear it off and set aside for normal use. Now unroll some to use for drying.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor I just play one on the internet.
Another note: If the wound is a deep puncture leave the object in the wound and go to the ER. Do not remove it yourself. You cant know if veins or arteries are compromised. The object may be preventing dangerous bleeding so leave it in. You are going to have to bite the bullet and see a doc. They can handle the bleeding, hopefully, and can prescribe systemic antibiotics. If it is a laceration where the edges of the wound are wide apart you are going to need stitches. I have done my own before but I will not recommend anyone do that. Go to the ER.
Another tip: For cuts you should try to bleed it for a bit before starting this process. The outflow of blood helps remove foreign materials.
A few comments:
Sterile irrigation solution is nice, but not necessary in most cases. Irrigating with plain water works dandy, it doesn’t have to be sterile, but you skills be able to drink it. A bottle of spring water with a small hole poked in it makes a great expedient irrigation syringe.
You need to use a lot of water to clean out the cut. A quart per inch of cut, is the rule of thumb in wilderness medicine circles.
Be careful with triple antibiotic ointment. A lot of people are allergic to neomycin, one of the ingredients in the three-drug cocktail, and the allergy presents itself exactly like an uncontrolled infection – redness at the wound site, inflammation, etc.
Jeff Buckwalter is a piece of shit and still hasn’t denied that he fucks sheep.
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maines-holy-donut-sues-oregons-holey-donuts-to-change-its-name/97-0fb377d0-14f2-4684-becc-0078ab3dbe6d
Suing or threatening to sue donut shops all across the country if there remotely similar to his turdballs.
Whelp. Woke up yesterday with a gamed back. Made it through my shift and just now discovered that the person that is supposed to be relieving me on Saturday doesn’t have the door code. They changed that code weeks ago. So she’s been showing up, trying the locks and walking away for over a month. Never heard anything about it until just now. Someone must have complained, finally. Fuck, I can barely walk now, what will tomorrow bring? Best to you Glibs! I need some food and rest and unguents on my lower back.
Reverse one-drop rule?
I can’t wait for that to play out more widely.
Kamala Harris hardest hit?
No, only the original one-drop rule applies in her case.
Which rule you use boils down to how can it be used to advance the left’s agenda.
“Feds seize $2.82 million worth of frosted cocaine corn flakes”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/539645-feds-seize-282-million-worth-of-frosted-cocaine-corn-flakes
Error 1: Shipping a “large shipment” of breakfast cereal to a private residence.
Error 2: Not adding something to the “frosting” to make it look white instead of gray.
Error 3:. Drug offenses scale by weight. And weight is calculated by the substance seized as is, not just the amount of controlled substance. So they will be prosecuted for the weight of the cornflakes.
What about the milk?
“In this mega-viral tweet, this long-time and very close aide to the Clintons made clear why Trump was booted off social media: it happened right after Dems won Georgia, and Silicon Valley knew Dems would exercise vast power over them, so pleased them:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1363890312557563906
“It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.”
https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1347064818944118784
“Congressional Committee Presses Cable Providers on Election Fraud Claims
Before a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked cable companies what they did to combat “the spread of misinformation.”
Three months ago, federal lawmakers grilled Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief, about the misinformation that had appeared on their platforms. Now, a congressional committee has scheduled a hearing to focus on the role of companies that provide cable television service in the spread of falsehoods concerning the 2020 election.
In advance of the Wednesday hearing, called “Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media,” members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter on Monday to Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, Dish, Verizon, Cox and Altice, asking about their role in “the spread of dangerous misinformation.”
The committee members also sent the letter to Roku, Amazon, Apple, Google and Hulu, digital companies that distribute cable programming.
The scrutiny of cable providers took on new urgency after supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly promoted the debunked claim that the election was rigged, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/media/disinformation-cable-television.html
Shouldn’t we… You know… Uh.. *document* that there actually wasn’t any election fraud or rigging… You know… Before we start saying words like disinformation and debunked ….
The priests have declared it so. Have faith. Don’t research for yourself.
Easy solution – only have State approved news broadcasts that must be stamped with approval from Congress before being disseminated to the public that apparently is enthralled and too damn stupid.
“I’m not saying it was aliens, but…”
Nice cable company you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it if you don’t censor the right people.
I don’t even know what to say to this.
Other than the Democrats need to be slapped down for this shit and hard and why isn’t it already happening?!
It looks to me like we are well into Nazi territory now. How long before we go full blown is to be seen but from what the radical left is saying it wont be long.
Keep your powder dry people.