Can he play the sax the same time?
Coffee up, boys and girls! It’s Monday morning, and an ugly one outdoors for many of you. Stay safe on the road with the stupid drivers.
This is great, just great. Who would have thought an agency to protect the American people would be turned against the American people? Err…..again.
In order to save the free market, we must put our boot on the neck of the free market.
In the, “head on the desk” department.
Sorry sweetie, your last name isn’t Biden.
For some reason, I ended up bingeing on the 2Cellos this weekend. They finally called it quits, but this is always enjoyable.
Harris’ niece wrote a children’s book called “Ambitious Girl”. Yeah, no shit. Runs in the family. A lot fewer people would be harmed if it didn’t.
Did she emphasize the importance of this?
Nice. Was expecting a pornhub link.
More like this
“This backfired spectacularly”
No shit.
Local news had several stories about the unprecedented and completely unpredictable unemployment/PPP/relief scams and fraud that happened.
who cares? We’ve still got ink and paper to print more.
Hey, we’ve got plenty of money, we’re not nearly out of checks!
Nigerians made off with billions.
I’m beginning to think Nigeria has the right idea.
Let it go. Reparations and all.
For NOT bringing them to America?
True. From what I hear, they should be thanking us for not bringing them to this racist shithole.
“Harris is a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur who boasts more than 800,000 followers on Instagram, where her posts range from political to personal.”
How many of those did she buy?
50% Russian bots, right?
When you say “buy”, are we talking money or sexual favors?
Yikes. That’s a lot of favors.
There are websites where you can buy IG followers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9224105/The-tricks-used-aspiring-influencers-fake-way-fame.html
“The Biden administration is sending a clear signal to Wall Street that the industry’s Washington cops are back on the beat. Regulators and federal prosecutors are probing potential misconduct in the GameStop trading frenzy, as the Securities and Exchange Commission moves to restore harsher penalties on wrongdoers”
You big corporations better keep the plebes in line, or else. *basks in the glow of our new found togetherness, you know like a bundle of sticks tied together gets stronger *
They’re going to bring Preet back. I just know it. [fingers Elder Sign medallion and mutters]
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=woodchipper&iax=shopping&ia=shopping
Vermeer BC1000XL or GTFO. Also, thanks for giving me an idea for something for you people.
I actually received a Mysterious Package that contained an amulet with the Yellow Sign on it.
Is it a CA Prop 65 sign?
No, he’s realized that we’re in spitting distance of Lovecraft Country (the real one, not that crappy TV show)
It was one of the greatest gifts I’ve gotten. Unfortunately, I can only tell you about if if you’re never going to receive it and might be interested in dropping $300 on a gift for someone else.
Or how a bundle of wires twisted together gets stronger.”
“like a bundle of sticks tied together ”
They told me I’d be suspended if I used that word again in school
I love 2Cellos. And that video is excellent. That must have been so much fun to make. Also, Stjepan – would.
Have you heard of Apocalyptica? They started by doing Metallica covers on four cellos, then moved on to original music (and added a drummer and a part time vocalist). Seeing them live was a trip, the guys sound nothing like what you would expect when they start talking.
They are great!
+1 Kronos
I was wondering if the bows were going to last, they must go through them like guitar picks.
Same energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3NQSqnbBPE
You know, I’m pretty smart. I’m probably smart enough to have come up with a pretty good COVID relief grift/scam, and maybe even to have gotten away with it. But I didn’t. what’s wrong with me?
You have some moral principles? Like the rest of us suckers?
I blame your environment. Growing up like that has to hurt…
I certainly wasn’t provided with some basic tools for survival in today’s world.
You aren’t “carny trash” like the people who have taken over the system?
“Sorry sweetie, your last name isn’t Biden.”
You think that’s the problem? I bet you she wasn’t sending the customary tithe to the ‘ big gal ‘.
Yeah, everyone knows you have to kick up to the Boss.
Baseball birthdays: HoFer the other Billy Hamilton, Ron Cey, Russell Martin, and Johnny Cueto – who is one of my favorite pitchers of this millenia.
The current Billy Hamilton has 178 stolen bases so far and will never come close to the original.
Hey – the Penguin (Cey for non-Dodger fans)! From back in the years when I cared about baseball.
I hated all those dodgers, Dusty, Ron, etc.
Steve Garvey was the worst.
Johnny Cueto was a really fun pitcher that I enjoyed tremendously at his peak.
He had 3 great seasons. They were non-consecutive which makes defining a peak hard. But at his best, he was fun to watch.
Just a really unique player with his constantly changing delivery and really just fun to watch on the mound.
“The current Billy Hamilton has 178 stolen bases so far and will never come close to the original.”
He’s gonna get there! I still have a projection system that says so!!!! 😉
Which is worse, being the 2nd best Billy Hamilton or being the 4th best outfielder born in Denora, PA?
“This is great, just great. Who would have thought an agency to protect the American people would be turned against the American people? Err…..again.”
Always suspected this agency and the whole Patriot Act thing was a racket to eventually sick big brother on the fucking unwashed proles.
I assume the idea was for them to compete with the FBI as for who could be the worst, most intrusive assholes in our lives.
You can mute this and the body language from says it all about where things stand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V33Op4UHPI&feature=youtu.be
“It was just a date change!”
The problem is that our culture is failing. Truth doesn’t matter any more. Little lies are OK, big lies are better.
“Truth” is all that matters. It’s definitely better than facts.
She looks kind of Asian. I thought he’d get cancelled for saying slanted so many times.
“Germany’s most influential dictionary has stirred debate by issuing guidance to make the language more gender neutral.
Duden, which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the use of the masculine form of nouns to describe whole professions.
The change applies to some 12,000 words and has exasperated traditionalists and some linguists.
German is a gendered language, meaning all nouns fall into either masculine, feminine and neuter forms.
Some nouns, like jobs, have both a masculine and feminine form, with the masculine form being used to describe the occupation in general terms.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9260687/Influential-German-dictionary-axes-general-masculine-job-titles-make-language-gender-neutral.html
Do you know who else spoke German?
Sideshow Bob?
Die Fürherin?
Queen Victoria?
I think I’ve spotted the problem…
Ted S.?
Donna Summer?
Otto von Bismarck?
My father?
I did took a German class back in College.
Wait, is that a ”you’re as bad as Hitler” joke?
It’s fine with me, we could use more Lebensraum around here.
Did your class assign some 1920s German literature?
Hans Gruber?
Yipee ka-yay mother fucker!
Bill Clay?
-32 this morning. Water line froze where it comes into the house. Hair dryer running on the cold spot now, will thaw out in 20 minutes or so and be OK. First time this winter. Doesn’t happen often. The cold air seeps down the concrete blocks, only freezes at night when water isn’t used for a few hours.
Set alarm an run every few hours?
Nah, just leave it on at a trickle over night.
Leaky faucet ftw?
Yeah, unusual, most years it doesn’t freeze but the extended cold spell is the problem. Not much snow this year either so the frost is probably deeper.
Even Fourscore doesn’t remember last time it was this cold
It’s all because Glowball Warmening has screwed up the polar vortex!!
We had a ton of Global Warming stories just a couple weeks ago because we had a very mild January.
That’s how you know AGW is bullshit. It’s unfalsifiable.
They need to start naming cold fronts to make them more menacing. Tune in to our coverage of Cold Front Ragnar. It may save your life.
It isn’t cold fronts, but here are the winter storm names for 20-21 Looks like that has been a thing since 2012.
Winter storm Douchebag is coming!
Even Fourscore doesn’t remember
So, just over 1 Fourscore…what’s that in Evans?
My shower drain trap has been frozen for a week. This morning the cold water in the bathroom is frozen all together.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9260011/Demi-Rose-leaves-little-imagination-poses-NAKED-covered-rose-petals.html
It might have been funny if they covered her in honey and put her on an ant hill?
Smells like… desperation
Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but now researchers from the National Institutes of Health have added evidence for yet another potential benefit for wearers: The humidity created inside the mask may help combat respiratory diseases such as COVID-19.
The study, led by researchers in the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), found that face masks substantially increase the humidity in the air that the mask-wearer breathes in. This higher level of humidity in inhaled air, the researchers suggest, could help explain why wearing masks has been linked to lower disease severity in people infected with SARS-CoV-2, because hydration of the respiratory tract is known to benefit the immune system. The study published in the Biophysical Journal(link is external).
“We found that face masks strongly increase the humidity in inhaled air and propose that the resulting hydration of the respiratory tract could be responsible for the documented finding that links lower COVID-19 disease severity to wearing a mask,” said the study’s lead author, Adriaan Bax, Ph.D., NIH Distinguished Investigator. “High levels of humidity have been shown to mitigate severity of the flu, and it may be applicable to severity of COVID-19 through a similar mechanism.”
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The researchers did not look at which masks are most effective against inhalation or transmission of the virus and defer to the CDC for guidance on choosing a mask(link is external). Earlier studies from Bax and his colleagues showed that any cloth mask can help block the thousands of saliva droplets that people release through simple speech(link is external) − droplets that, if released, can remain in the air for many minutes(link is external). While the current study did not examine respiratory droplets, it does offer more evidence as to why masks are essential to battling COVID-19.
“Even as more people nationwide begin to get vaccinated, we must remain vigilant about doing our part to prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19,” said NIDDK Director Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers. “This research supports the importance of mask-wearing as a simple, yet effective, way to protect the people around us and to protect ourselves from respiratory infection, especially during these winter months when susceptibility to these viruses increases.”
Now do all of the bacteria that people keep re-breathing and concentrating in that humidity.
OFFS
“may… could… might”
LOOK AT MY ASS. I’M GOING TO PULL SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
Well? We’re waiting!
Hell, nutrition scientists make more declarative statements. Granted, they’re almost always wrong per subsequent research, but dammit they have confidence!
I’m 50/50 whether any of this goes away. On what hand everyone seems to have had enough, on the other hand everytime I start to lean towards this almost being over I see some poor coward with two masks on.
The humidity created inside the mask may help combat respiratory diseases such as COVID-19.
Fuck. Off.
In freezing weather humidity from your breath will create an ice shield on your mask.
Holy shit, Spud, that video is awesome!
Then you’ll really like this one. Same schtick but with extra effortless Steve Vai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGggAGITwg
I don’t know how I am just now learning about those guys! That was great!
Huh, why don’t they rock as hard without high collars and lapels? Weird. Cello Rock.
NOT SCIENCING!
Fuckers just won’t let the globalist marxist mandarinates do what must be done to protect their rackets, erm, I mean the planet!
Come on, man. You’re not going to let us get beat by fucking Europe?
Do better, Joe.
*sigh*
Don’t give them any ideas.
That’s $500B of graft. They should be able to reward all their cronies with that.
That’s this whole green energy shit in a nutshell: a system of graft favoring those connected to the crooks in government peddling this green shit.
I almost wish they would just give the money to the connected and left the rest of us alone. That would cause less damage.
Ably substituted, Spud, but needz moar cute critters!
The Biden administration is sending a clear signal to Wall Street that the industry’s Washington cops are back on the beat. Regulators and federal prosecutors are probing potential misconduct in the GameStop trading frenzy, as the Securities and Exchange Commission moves to restore harsher penalties on wrongdoers.
Attorneys in the Justice Department’s criminal division are conducting a wide-ranging investigation into possible market manipulation from the trading surrounding GameStop, and recently issued a subpoena to Robinhood as part of that, a person familiar with the matter said. The probe, though, appears to be in its early stages.
“We’ve got your back, Wall Street.”
Yeah, they will make damn sure the unwashed masses don’t screw up the hedge funds’ racket again.
The élite hate nothing more than being exposed as frauds when it comes to their claims of being the smart ones, and they go real revengey on anyone that shows them up. Ask the orange guy that kept making fun of them for examples.
Good old Joe from Scranton, still looking out for the little guy.
…in other news, Biden signs executive order to bulldoze all of Lakawana county as part of green energy initiative.
“Developing: New Hampshire Department of Justice Refuses to Investigate the Largest Voting Machine Counting Error in State History”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/developing-new-hampshire-department-justice-refuses-investigate-largest-voting-machine-counting-error-state-history
“Move along, nothing to see here!”
Okay, that reporting sucks. Was it exactly 300 or roughly 300?
Both are problems, but they are different problems.
Also, this is why if Dominion was suing me, my response would be “Bring it.”
That’s why you gotta look at the pictures. R’s got shorted: 297, 299, 303 and 298. D’s were +99, -21, -28 and -18.
That is what I saw, the question is why does the article say “exactly 300”. That implies a different type of error than “roughly 300”. This is why the articles look like conspiracy theories.
Read the article. It includes a picture of form with the corrected vote totals.
This is how you make sure people decide the political class needs to be dealt with harshly.
I wonder if it is possible to code a voting system such that the count is performed similarly to a double-blind experiment where neither the counters nor the counting software knows which candidate any particular vote is for until the tabulation is complete. It would require complete traceability to verify the count at the end but would make very difficult any manipulations during the work flow of counting.
I think that is overthinking the problem. Random hand count audits in each precinct is a lot easier.
I suppose that might be the case, but you still have to trust the auditors, and trust the election officials to allow them to do their jobs.
Double hand counts. 2 people at each station, 1 representing each party.
The first person identifies the vote, which is then immediately verified by the second person, then recorded. If they aren’t in agreement, it gets escalated to a supervisory pair. If a vote cannot be verified after the second pair, it’s automatically trashed.
But every vote must be simultaneously verified by two separate people.
So, is the argument that this is a standard feature of Dominion, or that there is some person(s) responsible within the bureaucracy there for exploiting a flaw?
See, that’s the problem: none of these accusations are real accusations. Most of it boils down to innuendo about things that look suspicious, but there is very little follow-up. In a media environment that cares more about ratings and clicks than the real stories, no one needs to dig deeper than is necessary to excite the viewership for more than a few minutes.
Is there really any investigative journalism anymore? I mean, at scale?
There is propaganda and tabloid reporting.
What makes the New Hampshire results even more suspect:
** Republicans flipped the New Hampshire Senate from 14-10, Democrat, to 14-10 Republican in 2020.
** Republicans flipped the New Hampshire House from 230-156 majority Democrat to 213-187 Republican majority in 2020!
** Yet, Joe Biden who was 4th in Dem primary and Kamala Harris, who did not make it to the Dem primary, won the state 52.7 to 45.4 to Trump.
These results are IMPOSSIBLE.
Impossible? There are a good number of Never Trumpers among NH Republicans. Sununu mentioned in an interview that “his guy won” in reference to whom he voted for for president. Sununu has kept his distance from Trump.
I don’t know why a bunch of folks are only looking at Windham. Other towns in NH had vote counts change on a recount. No one is talking about them.
And some of those other towns were bigger than Windham. Example. See the vote correction for Dave Wheeler.
No Gateway Pundit trigger warning?
“HYPOCRISY: Disney producer once called for the death of Covington kids by woodchipper”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hypocrisy-disney-producer-once-called-for-the-death-of-covington-kids-by-woodchipper
That’s different, because the Covington kids were racists.
And therein lies the rub: these people want a double standard enforced and get real ticked if you point out that is why we got Trump and he will not go away.
I like to remind those kind of people, that Trump wasn’t all that good at punishing their bullshit and they really aren’t going to like the next guy that will be.
True, the entrenched bureaucracies were rather effective at thwarting Trump. I expect the next guy will be far more ruthless in his pursuits.
I won’t give Disney any business. Period.
wait till disney finds out what disney thought of the jews.
HIs anti-semitism is very overblown. I’ve read a lot about Disney over the years, and he’s not on some Henry Ford level at all.
I wonder how far it would be forgiven if one of the “Hang Pence” chanters apologized? If said person worked in Hollywood, the answer is “never.”
That’s our schtick. Can we sue?
I’m more interested in punishment for theft of the woodchipper meme. Libertarians, and more specifically Hit n Run-ners own that shit.
But, but, whataboutism.
Alternatively, “in the ‘that was our plan all along’ department”
Just caught up with your article from last night. Nice!
I, of course, am Frank Reynolds, but without the money.
Thanks, OM!
Your cock ring just fell off.
Can he play sax at the same time? Probably
https://youtu.be/BARAHLk-8dk
In my on again, off again search for a morning teevee news source which isn’t complete and utter shit, I clicked on to the Young Turks just in time to see them play a bit cell phone video of a couple of mask vigilantes in some store in California physically attacking some woman for not wearing a mask. They were all women, actually. The Turks were giddy with joy.
Made me proud to be an American.
It was the first time DHS had identified the extent of the danger posed by domestic violent extremists and white supremacists.
White-supremes are everywhere apparently. I like the “and”. Being a racist does not necessitate being violent.
I think we would find that DHS like a lot of other LE agencies is chock full of white people, and as we all know, all wypipo is part of the problem. Such a conundrum.
LOOK AT MY ASS. I’M GOING TO PULL SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
SCIENCE!
How billions in pandemic aid was swindled by con artists and crime syndicates
Con artist and crime syndicates such as the US government.
Pa & wife each got their 2nd vax dose last week. Said dose #2 fucked both of them up real good for a day or two. Luckily it was only a day or two at their age.
My wife works in a hospital and got both doses of the vaccine pretty early on after it was out. She said it was about like the flu vaccine, very little side effects. And here’s the ridiculous part: although the entire hospital staff has been vaccinated, the state (NJ) is still mandating that they have to wear both N95 and surgical masks all day, gown up when entering patients rooms, etc. etc. It’s insanity.
Signaling and setting an example.
If only there was some solution… I know! Moar gun restrictions and opioid restrictions!
Long article about how poor docs are being threatened by opioid addicts who just won’t listen to the experts. They don’t need those pain killers, other therapies are just as effective. But those drug fiends won’t listen and instead threaten to shoot docs.
I hope the idiots that mandate inadequate pain management get ass cancer and then are told to do physical therapy and take Advil for the pain.
Hell the whole opioid crisis was started by the govt telling doctors to be more aggressive in pain management. Just because that happened to be incredibly profitable for their pharma stakeholders is sheer coincidence.
The pharma stakeholders they then sued for their part in the opiod “crisis” and then collected billions from in “fines” and “restitution”.
What a fucking racket.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ social-media-influencer niece has long used her aunt’s fame to boost her own personal brand — but now that Harris has entered the White House, aides have become increasingly concerned about the ethical implications of the promotional pattern, according to a report.
No shit.
“Some things can’t be undone,” a White House official, speaking about niece Meena Harris, 36, on the condition of anonymity, told The Los Angeles Times.
“What difference at this point does it make…”
My LinkedIn account is getting spammed by factoring sales reps. Ugh.
Must be a sign of the times.
I get the same shit. It’s technically a violation of the LinkedIn terms of service to attempt to connect with someone you don’t know, or have a close common connection already. I think there’s some sort of exception for people in similar industries? But I get tons of connection requests from people who just want me to buy crap from them or use their recruiting service.
Rolling blackouts all night here. 45 on, 45 off. The 3 year old is thoroughly confused about why nothing works. It is currently 4* Murikan outside right now, so I may need to start escalating our response plan beyond candles and blankets.
It’s a good thing Biden has made a staunch effort against global warming and fossil fuel. / Snide political comment
Stay safe out there trashy
What we need is more energy generation & distribution control by big brother!
Why the rolling blackouts?
It’s about as cold as it has ever been in Dallas and they can’t keep up with demand.
How they’re prepared for a 110* day in the summer but not for this, I dunno.
Hope you and your family stay warm trashy.
No gas heat.
Nobody spends the money to put in a second stage gas heat system in those areas. So when everybody’s electric strip heaters kick in at the same time, demand goes thru the roof.
Ah, got it. I live in the northeast where you only need enough juice to switch on the furnace.
With the bean heavy diet of most Texans wouldn’t gas heat only require a bic lighter and a modest amount of limberness?
So, mostly electric heat rather than natural gas or oil?
Yup. I think we have a heat pump in the rental here, and it’s all various forms of electric in this area. Heck, some winters it hardly gets used.
Power’s back on for the 45 minute window, so we’ll use double what we would be using anyway. ?
Looks like A/Cs use less power than electric heaters?
If so, color me surprised. I thought A/C was rather inefficient comparatively. Maybe my intuition is shaded by growing up in the north where gas furnaces were a thing.
The actual problem is likely to be generation. They expect high demand in summer because of heat, and thus, plan to and generate enough power during those heat months. I bet you nobody planned for heavy winter heating consumption, leaving you both low on the delivery capability side AND because heating with electricity is seriously inefficient.
They use the same if it’s a heat pump, which is just A/C running in reverse. The problem that only works if the inside and outside temperature differ by less than around 50 degrees. So if it’s 70 inside and 110 outside it works. If it’s 70 inside and 0 outside, it doesn’t. So it needs to use auxiliary resistive elements, which are way less efficient.
I saw spot prices on the West Texas Hub of over $11,000 / kWh.
Sorry, that’s $11,000 per MWh
For reference, back in the good old days prior to 2008, we used $35/MWh as a year round average price when evaluating capital projects. The highest price I ever saw during that period was during peak summer demand at about $1,200 / MWh as a spot price on the hourly market.
It’s colder in Houston than here in NYC. That’s something else.
Candles, bro? Srsly? Rechargeable LED camping lanterns are dirt cheap at Wal*Mart. For those of you who would never camp, LED rechargeable video lights also somewhat cheap and are also a good source of emergency lighting.
Always go for dual-use technology whenever possible.
I prefer old fashioned oil lamps (I have a couple of railroad lanterns I use when the power goes out as well). When I need really good light when the power’s out, I have a couple of Coleman gas lanterns that do the job just right.
If the power’s out more than half a day or so, I hook up the generator to keep the fridges/freezers/furnaces running.
with this temp, just toss the food outside.
It’s sunny and bright out. The candles are for a modest spot heat source. They’re not gonna keep the house warm but they will keep fingers warm.
Candles are dual use. They provide heat, that’s why the winter car emergency kits I grew up with always included candles. I use candles in my fireplace and you can feel the heat when sitting on my couch. It’s 9 candles, but still.
Seems like a generator might be a good investment. I’d suggest a dual fuel (gasoline and propane) one.
While it is for our business, we have three generators (a 3000 watt, 3650 watt and our mamma-jamma 9000 watt). I doubt we will have to use them in Vegas, but then again, I think a lot of people in Texas right now said the same thing too.
I love my gennie and the fact that I can just throw a switch and crank it to power things up. Wish I had gotten the propane one however, as using gas, while easier to get, is way more expensive, and under Biden, to become prohibitively expensive….
We got a generator after dry Hurricane Ike came through, and were lucky to get our hands on one. Have since acquired a smaller, quieter one, and we got our gas furnace rigged so that if we turn off its breaker and connect the generator, we can run the blower. Haven’t needed it yet, knock wood.
I wish I had gotten the dual fuel as well.
Into the unknown
While we don’t yet know the extent of how much the vaccine limits transmission, early data from Moderna and AstraZeneca suggests a modest protection against asymptomatic infection, and therefore a lower ability to spread the virus.
“We don’t know so much about whether or not [the vaccines] are able to prevent infection, meaning you might become infected and unwittingly transmitted to others,” said William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “That’s something we are still learning about.”
While these vaccines are some of the greatest scientific achievements Hanage has seen in his career, immediately going back to pre-pandemic life is not a good idea, he cautioned.
In a sane world, the credibility of “public health experts” would be zilch at this point. Nobody would even bother to ask them for directions to the men’s room.
But the intellectual elite continue to hang on their every word.
Because these vaccines and the subsequent immune response they illicit are absolutely nothing like anything ever before. I guess it’s a good thing the smallpox and polio vaccines weren’t so ineffective at preventing illness and transmission.
Pretty impressive that the vaccine can reduce the rate of asymptomatic transmission. Especially since the the rate of asymptomatic transmission is zero.
Granted it is a Chinese study, but the onus is now on the Public Health Officials to put up their data that demonstrates that asymptomatic transmission is a thing.
…the onus is now on the Public Health Officials to put up their data that demonstrates that asymptomatic transmission is a thing.
Narrator: “It is not a thing.”
I have noticed that the local reporting on asymptomatic transmission has ramped up since the vaccine roll-out.
From a political point of view the vaccine is going to be great.
The vaccine will greatly reduce cases and deaths, but not get rid of 100% of them. So the Statists can keep scaring everyone with tales of the Invisible Enemy.
They will use the continued existence of the Rona to keep their dictatorial powers forever. After all giving them up would mean that the Rona would spike again. So masks forever! No dining out! No school!
Yep. Look at the narrative. Numbers are looking great! Its working! BUT WAIT! You still have restrictions so be good little boys and girls or I will have to put you in time-out again.
We have not a Big Brother government, we have the Nanny State.
protection against asymptomatic infection – Stolen base?
Still not aware of any solid evidence of significant asymptomatic transmission. Certainly the recent paper touted by the CDC wasn’t evidence. It’s perfectly valid to use priors in the model (e.g. asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic as they did), but you can’t then use the model as proof of the the prior, as the press and CDC implied. The empirical evidence for asymptomatic transmission is pretty weak as near as I can tell, some serology studies in Asia I believe?
It’s comforting that every government in the world is buttering us up for mandatory dosage of this thing that nobody seems to know anything about.
Anthony Fauci pees sitting down.
I do when I am drinking…IDGAF
As long as your trousers and underwear are below your knees and you’re sitting on a proper receptacle at that point you’re good to go.
If you’re still sitting at the bar there could be problems.
New idea for a bar!
“You want to open a tab? And be catheterized?”
Too short to use a urinal, give him a break man.
DA FUQ? Who would have seen this coming? My bet is that they will keep saying this happened anyway, because without this one, the only other death of impact is Ashely Babbet being executed.
I do want to point out I had a major row with the Minnesoda girlfriends the day after this happened because I told her to calm the fuck down as I expected none of the things people were being told by the dnc operatives with bylines she has a tendency of listening to would pan out as being even close to what happened. I told her that was based on previous history of them fabricating facts or reporting things out of context, always exaggerating in the most negative way possible when they were not outright making shit up whole cloth. Several other team bluers and orange man haters that I talked to also got angry with me for dismissing the whole thing as 99.9% likely to be negative propaganda, especially after the 7 previous months of team blue not just promoting, but financing riots & insurrectionists – the real kind – and not agreeing we should be hanging all team red fucks, all so they could try to get Trump out of politics permanently and not have to worry about him coming back to plow their faces with his dick.
As that entire fable – created by these people to again try to impeach the bad orange guy – falls apart, and we discover that they conflated and fabricated to paint what happened in the worst possible light (after spending months telling us that if bad orange guy was reelected burning shit down and other more heinous crimes against people they didn’t like would be warranted) with each new revelation, my belief is that those that have had enough of the inept credentialed class will become more entrenched in their belief these people mean to fucking stomp on the faces of those that resist their changes so they can create a hereditary system to protect their racket. I suspect the credentialed class wants more clashes they can paint the rubes as evil with, but since every attempt to create a narrative collapses (and each incident even faster than the last one), I suspect they are getting desperate to cause something they can use sooner than later. The troops are staying in D.C. because the very people that encouraged the rabid mob to burn, loot, and pillage all summer suddenly have their panties in a bunch cause this mob came after them directly!
This can’t end well. There are two divergent paths here that simply have no common ground anymore.
What’s hilarious is the libs really turning on Cuomo and Newsome. If they ever come for Fauci I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to walk around without an erection again.
They will come for him as soon as he outlives his usefulness as a sellout or they need a sacrificial idiot.
Mobs are fickle things. All of these assholes claiming to lead them can find out how quickly they are standing out in front, all alone.
Ah back at work and in my email box is a ‘voicemail’ from Secretary Pete. I didn’t listen. Maybe I will on this holiday.
Other work things, our temporary manager for the next 6 months is such a departure from our last manager of 8 years and a departure in what I like in a manager. He is the type of manager that believes he should be the arbiter of information.
Typically, I am running projects independent of management as I get paid well to know WTF I am doing. I typically brief out to air traffic, district level management, etc. Now I am relegated to briefing my temporary manager and that usually means I have to sit around while he briefs my topic only to ask me if I need to add or change anything; which I usually do.
Time will tell on that one. His stint is up in June and he will have to put in for the permanent position against me.
Cry me a river.
A Fort Myers woman says Buccaneers Quarterback, Tom Brady’s, latest throw is an insult to her family’s legacy. She’s referring to the viral video of Brady tossing the coveted Lombardi trophy across the water during a Super Bowl celebration boat parade.
“It just upset me that this trophy was disgraced and disrespected by being thrown as if it was a real football,” said Lorraine Grohs. Grohs is the daughter of Greg Grohs, the master silversmith at Tiffany and Company from 1967 to 1994, who crafted the very first Vince Lombardi Trophy.
“I have a big history of this trophy being made by my father and it’s such an honor and I know all the craftsmen that made it when my dad was there also at Tiffany’s and it takes a lot of hard work,” said Grohs.
Grohs also described sleepless nights, feeling upset that the passion and pride her father put into the trophy was taken so lightly.
Then drugs fell out of the trophy?
“It just upset me that this trophy was disgraced and disrespected by being thrown as if it was a real football,”
Get over it, lady. It’s just one of fifty-five trophies and it didn’t take any damage. It’s no Stanley Cup and from the stories I’ve heard about what some hockey players have done with it on their “day with the cup” throwing a trophy like a football is the least of indignities it could have suffered.
Yeah I bet the caretaker of the Stanley Cup has come to the conclusion to never ask “What did you do with it while you had it in your possession?” Rather take it, buff it, and move it along.
FTFY.
The correct response.
“Evangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don’t follow Nikki Haley’s lead & clearly state they should not have followed Satin into the bowels of hell. But, perhaps they are too busy at sex parties.”
https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353
what?
Catholic evangelicals? Satin?
And this idiot actually believes he’s smart.
Best response:
“Evangelical Papists dressed in satin robes was not on my cocaine-fueled bingo card, but here we are.”
Stupidity, from a celebrity, on Twitter?
Did the sun rise in the east this morning?
That’s the problem with guys like Spicoli. They never get their nose broken often enough.
Seventh-Day Adventists should be court-martialed by Brahmin priests for not eating enough rough foliage but perhaps their too busy growing their mustaches.
Drunk.
I’m more concerned about the evangelical agnostics.
What the hell were you thinking? Man Stabs a female cop in front of other cops and range instructors.
Vegas Man Shot 14 Times Outside a Vegas Gun Range
I’m gonna go with “suicide by cop”.
Suicide by cop, they usually don’t physically attack the cop – they just wave a weapon around until they get clipped. My vote is ‘severe untreated mental illness, compounded by substance abuse.’
I’m a little curious what he was doing around a shooting range/concealed carry class in the first place, though. Was the dead guy a prohibited person? The LL clip mentioned charges, but not convictions.
That poor truck behind him got ventilated.
Rule 4.
“What the hell were you thinking?”
Whenever I read that phrase I take it as a clue that thinking had nothing to do with the process which lead to the result of the action described.
Great video. Street fights can go from zero to ultra-violence in less time than it took me to write this sentence.
If you’re gonna carry a gun in public, either in a professional or a personal capacity, it might be a good idea to have some grappling and combatives training, no?
14 hits. How many fired? 2,457?
I have every confidence that the Minneapolis City Council will waste that $6.4M. If it doesn’t get siphoned off for other purposes, I bet all the recruits will be woke as fuck and part of the best paid class of recruits ever.
You know what they are trying to do is create opacity in how money is being used so it makes it easier for them to steal it, right?
Doesn’t matter. They will be as inept at stealing that money as they are in every other facet of their lives. They will get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, but it won’t matter.
The only thing more certain that they will try to steal that money is that it won’t matter to the average Minneapolis voter. They will all get voted back in again and again and again.
Think it’s cold now just wait till Gates finally blacks out the sun with dust.
Uffda. I caught about three minutes of Gates pontificating last night on 60 Minutes.
If Bill Gates was dropping out of Harvard today, would he even rise to the C-suite at any large corporation? He seems like one of those guys who is pretty intelligent but was sitting in exactly the right place at the right time. Kudos to him for figuring out how to make billions as the PC market was starting up.
That doesn’t make him an expert in everything though.
He’s not terribly smart. He was driven to be rich, and he caught an incredibly lucky break; and he has been smart enough not to fuck that up.
I had a night school instructor that claimed to be at Harvard with him. She claimed that he was pretty ordinary but then again, sour grapes? I’d be pissed off teaching at a Community College in a podunk town if one of my erstwhile classmates became one of the richest men on earth.
Pretty sure that our yard squirrels do that same dance on the top of the neighbor cat’s head.
A research paper published on November 20th highlights a case study of almost 10 million people in China. What the study found was there were 300 cases of Coronavirus in the population being carried without any symptoms at all. So the scientists then tracked the asymptomatic carriers. The contact tracing of 1,174 “close contacts” with the asymptomatic carriers showed ZERO transmission. Not a few, not a couple, but zero -none- not a single transmission of Coronavirus from a person without symptoms.
That’s not SCIENCE.
Needz moar presumptive rate of infection modelling..
Joe has been crowned. We can all go back to sleep now. Call a lid on it, if you will.
Would still be very critical of *anything* coming out of China. They stonewalled the WHO for a year before even letting them in to the original lab for a 1 hr visit.
It’s BS all the way down.
That is why I threw in the caveat about the veracity of the Chinese researchers. But it is a nice study to use in order to force the CDC or other Public Health Experts to show their work. If they don’t have a better study showing that asymptomatic spread is real, then they should shut up.
Minnesoda tried to do a study, but then abandoned it because they “didn’t have the resources to complete it”. My suspicion is that they were coming up with similar findings as the CCP and decided to go full on Tobacco Executive and spike any research that would be inconvenient for them.
I drove by this the other day. It was probably the most gruesome accident I have physically seen.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/two-dead-in-south-las-vegas-valley-crash-suspected-dui-driver-arrested/article_9f54c116-6e38-11eb-a5d3-f74631b45efd.html?block_id=1002214
The GMC truck held up but that Honda Pilot was absolutely creamed as well as the occupants unfortunately. GMC driver was most likely coming off the ramp from I-15 and blew through the major intersection against a red light.
I take that turn every morning when I go into work and I don’t care if I get honked at while I scan for idiots like that GMC driver cause I do not want to be what that other car ended up like.
Weight matters.
Ugh. Is it just me or do most of you see something like that and nope the fuck out?
Yeah I was wondering if I should link the article, I am not one for death porn. Sorry Festus.
Saw a motorcyclist get killed right in front of me a couple of years ago. I was waiting at a red light when the left turn arrow turned green. The people going left next to me started turning and the motorcyclist blew through the red light smashing broadside into a car at 50 mph; like hitting a wall. It was surreal like watching something in a movie. That actually made it a little less traumatic since if it had clicked in that moment that what I saw was a real person I think I would have puked.
I read up on it later and, surprise surprise, the ‘cyclist was drunk.
Worst I ever saw was a car that got caught between two 18 wheelers. There simply wasn’t enough room left in the cabin of the car for a person after they pulled it out from under the front truck.
That was 15 years ago, and to this day I’ll GTFO if I ever find myself in a situation where I’m surrounded by big trucks.
It drives me completely nuts, how so many people on highways will pass a big rig at only +2-3 mph, hanging out alongside for so long. They have no appreciation for what can happen if the truck blows a tire, or swerves, or has a load shift while they are alongside. Stay the hell away from them as much as you can. I got caught between a rig and the guardrail in a construction zone once when the rig swerved toward me–I elected to drag alongside the guard rail rather than let the rig run me over. I keep my distance now.
Most stressful drive for me is I80 – so many trucks. I once got stuck between two big rigs in the middle lane with another to my left. I think I was stuck like that for 45 minutes. When I was finally able to get out, I found a rest stop and sat shaking for a while.
On I-80 in PA late at night, I was behind two trucks driving side by side.
One truck was weaving. The other wasn’t.
This went for a couple of miles before the one that was weaving stopped weaving, slowed down, and moved behind the other truck.
I figure the one driver was asleep and the other guy was trying to wake him up.
I kept my distance the whole time. Once the weaving guy moved over, I punched the gas and passed the two trucks like they weren’t moving.
Come drive I-95. See our lovely truck races on hills in icy conditions.
It takes 12-18 seconds to overcome a big rig on the highway, typically. If you can do it in 12, do it in 12 because of everything else you just said.
Since I highway travel quite a bit, make sure they get the space they need always. I wait until I can fully see them in my rear view mirror before I change lanes in front of them, I always make sure they can see me in their side mirror if I am behind them and I will do my best to give them space if they need to change lanes.
Oh absolutely. I got stuck because of a bad combo of construction, and a broken down truck. I always try to stay away.
I do it in 5 seconds or less. Speed limits don’t apply when I’m passing big trucks.
Correct. This is why I don’t totally hate slower truck speed limits. Not a fan of the havoc it wreaks on normal traffic flow when they decide to pass one another, but it makes passing so much easier when they’re doing 5 over their limit. I don’t enjoy doing 15-20 over to get around a truck sufficiently quickly.
Oops, missed your part about +2/3 mph for passing. Yes, give it +10 if you can and do what you need to. Like crossing a street, it is no time to meander.
Our drunks are hardier in Minnesoda.
A buddy of mine had been riding motorcycles since he was about 15 (illegally) and had graduated up to Harleys decades ago. He came back to Japan and passed the “Large-type Motorcycle” test on the first pass – something unheard of here. The tester actually asked him if he wanted a side job as an instructor.
After he heard that one more on a long list of fellow biker-buddies had died in an accident he hung up his spurs and sold the Harley. He realized that it was just a matter of time before he drew the wrong hand.
There’s this onramp onto US-183 in Austin. I have no idea what happens with it — maybe some sand gets spilled on it?) but occasionally a vehicle just goes straight sideways into the median and begins rolling. I’ve personally seen it happen twice, and it killed one of my lab techs.
I saw that happen once…around here there is a spot where two highways merge. Two lanes on the left, two merging into one, and then merging into the left two from the right. I’m not sure exactly how it started, probably this woman in the right hand highway was overtaking someone in the merging lane and swerved to avoid them? But she lost control and her little SUV began to roll, and kept rolling right into the lane I was in about 1/8 of a mile ahead. I got on the brakes and stopped about 100 feet from where she did–she had been ejected out the window of her car as it rolled and I saw her flying in the air and hitting the pavement. She was damn lucky her car stopped rolling and just slid forward, or it would have rolled right over her.
She was just sitting in the middle of the lane while traffic barreled at her at 70 mph. I stopped and got traffic moving around her–it was amazing she was alive.
Aaand here comes the wind. Wind plus extremely cold light dry snow makes impressive drifts. Yay.
You should have someone video you streaking nekked in that shit and put it on youtube!
?It’s just another Mammary Monday
With jumbo jubblies
They’re bouncy and bubbly
Squeeze ’em, shake ’em all day
It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://archive.li/GNmkZ
Fucking FUCK it’s cold out. The well head froze up and there are rolling black outs because the natural gas heads are frozen and all of the, used to be coal fired, natural gas power plants aren’t producing enough electricity!
It’s actually warmed up a bit here from yesterday (high temp y/d was -7F, overnight low was -19F). I think it’s supposed to get into double digit positives today.
We’re up to the 20’s today, but there’s predictions of 8-12 inches of snow through the day into tomorrow. Tomorrow is supposed to be the cold day with a low of 2, and a high of 19. By next week we’re supposed to be switching back to the worst of it, snow and rain mixes for several days.
Freezing rain for us today and later in the week. Oh joy.
Drugs falling out of my rear… maybe? Good on the 12-year old defending his grandma and her home, sad that she didn’t make it, but it was a one for one as one of the assailants later passed.
Grandma’s injuries were not life-threatening, per the article.
Oops! Thank GT..I conflated the two since they were in the same paragraph on who made it and who didn’t. Even better news.
I love a happy ending! ; )
PHRASING!
I was going to let it go
I bet you were!
/saynomore!
+1 Robert Kraft
Nice work, kid!
Did anyone here see the Gates interview on “60 Minutes” last night? He seems to have put some money, and prestige, behind nuclear power as a way to combat climate change. I was a little taken aback. What do you scientific types think about the nuclear reactor stuff he was promoting?
Didn’t watch, so no idea what techs he is talking about. There are some really promising things with SMRs and of course the real right way to go (short of fusion) is liquid salt technologies, like the liquid thorium fluoride reactors.
One of the biggest Global Warming™ proponents, James Hansen, is also a big proponent of nuclear power. I have to at least give him credit for following the logic of his beliefs and not buying into the fairy tales or the “renewables”.
I did not see the Gates interview, because I’d rather be stabbed in the eye with a red hot mechanical pencil than watch 60 minutes. But-
I believe the Dept of Energy(?) has issued a permit for the lab in Idaho to build a prototype small modular reactor. Is that what he was talking about?
The 2-3 minutes I saw of him was of a prototype of a gizmo that created cement that contained carbon dioxide. Supposedly the normal way of creating cement creates all sorts of carbon dioxide, but Gates Gizmo actually sequesters carbon dioxide as it creates cement.
I rolled my eyes and flipped the channel at that point.
Burning limestone to Portland cement — which is in large part calcium oxide (CaO) produces large amounts of CO2, both via combustion to generate the required heat, and in driving off CO2 from CaCO3 to make the CaO ( CaCO3 –> CaO + CO2 at very high temperatures and heat inputs).
Then, in the process of the cement curing, the CaO picks up CO2 from the atmosphere as well as undergoing reactions with other cement constituents and water. I’m not sure what’s new about Gate’s gadget you describe. CO2 sequestration has always been a feature of cement curing, but producing the cement in the first place liberates large amounts of it.
One of the primary methods of environmental CO2 sequestration is through the biological formation of shells in the ocean, which eventually fall to the seafloor.
Some theories even have the CaCO3 being subducted beneath crustal plates, with the Ca and C being reduced at extremely high temperatures in the upper mantle. Further, some theorize that hydrocarbons can be generated geologically by this process, contributing to some of the “fossil” fuel reserves. It’s well established that fossils do decay and generate peat and coal and liquid hydrocarbons. It’s less well established what real contribution the geological processes have to the hydrocarbon fuel inventory of earth.
I was half paying attention but what I got out of it was Gates has invested in a company that “solves” the reactor high pressure water cooling problem by using some sort of high temp liquid sodium that doesn’t need the high pressure. This supposedly can be contained, unlike a Chernobel type disaster; therefore can be scaled way down to mini-reactor/neighborhood size and is less expensive. He still was big on solar and wind but felt safe nuclear had a big role in power generation.
OK, so LFTR tech. That has been well known and studied since the 1950s and ’60s and is a very technically sound solution. I hope they’re able to kick start it into commercialization!
Or wait, could they just be talking about sodium cooled reactors? Those are also well known, having been used in military reactors for a very long time, mostly Russian.
OK, I looked it up. One of Gates’ investments is in sodium cooled fast reactors, which are OK, but nowhere as good as the LFTRs.
Basically they use liquid sodium metal as a direct coolant for a more traditional reactor core, and then transfer that heat to a surrounding water jacket.
The only problem solved is the need to keep the reactor core flooded with water–BWRs use direct flooding and generate the steam used in turbines by contacting it directly with the reactor core, where PWRs heat pressurized water and then transfer the heat via shell and tube heat exchangers to make the steam separately.
Sodium cooled reactors are just similar to PWRs without the pressurized core.
Liquid salt reactors where the fuel is dissolved in the liquid core are the way to go–some technical problems remain to be solved but they are probably the best way to go overall.
Fast reactors ought to be part of the waste management approach even if they’re not the ideal powerhouse. Decommissioned thorium reactors will still need to be chopped up and done-something’d with…BURN EM.
I’m not up on the latest, but this link might help.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/08/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-nuscale-small-modular-reactor-project/
Last I read, take it with a grain of salt, was that a series of nuke plants were going to be built along the Snake River. I hope it happens.
The Snake River Snuke Sneries!
So, now we know why all of the faux concern about asymptomatic spread after vaccination – they were expecting this. The vaccine is working, and that just isn’t going to foster fear!
If Bill Gates was dropping out of Harvard today, would he even rise to the C-suite at any large corporation? He seems like one of those guys who is pretty intelligent but was sitting in exactly the right place at the right time. Kudos to him for figuring out how to make billions as the PC market was starting up.
Wasn’t Ballmer the one who was actually competent at building a business?
I think you’re thinking Paul Allen; Ballmer came in years after the founding.
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But Ballmer gave us this, which shall live forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVscYI5XlQ
Was that when they previewed Microsoft Bob?
Mornin’ peeps!
*reads lynx*
Fuckers are working overtime to make sure bad shit happens. I wonder, will we have show trials or drone strikes first?
Re-funding the MPD won’t do shit until they start prosecuting crimes. Our city is completely fucked up. Fuck you, Frey, and you merry band of retards too!
Geez, Spud, are you trying to kill me with these lynx?!?
Minneapolis had such great fun with closing down skyways during Trump rallies, delivering pallets of brick downtown in strategic places prior to “mostly peaceful” protests, and engaging in other one-sided shit stirring, that it’s only fitting for the pigeons to come home to roost.
I’d say “Let them reap the whirlwind”, but I know that in the end it will be you and Jimbo and others in the greater state of Minnesota that will be footing the bill.
Heck, Biden might even throw them some sweet federal $ since Minnesota is firmly in the Blue column now.
Momma is getting more serious about leaving. It’s not like where we end up is gonna be much better, but I have a bad feeling about this place.
I live just a few miles from Valparaiso University. They’ve made news lately because they are getting rid of their nickname, the Crusaders. I’m not surprised at that, but I am surprised they flew under the radar this long.
Couldn’t they have just added Caped in front of that?
On the one hand, obvious IP infringement. OTOH, most school districts probably have a better legal department than DC comics.
*sigh*
*roll eyes*
Seriously, Valpo? Seriously?
As a Valpo Alum, all I can say is that they will never get a cent from me, for a multitude of reasons. And, I’ll encourage absolutely no one to go there.
It’s cool that you went there. It is a beautiful campus, I drive by it all the time. My two sisters and my sister in law went there for nursing. They have an accelerated program where you get a 4 year degree in 1.5 years. It’s expensive but it’s a good program. But I would also discourage people from going there, mainly due to the price tag.
My Uni is one of just a few where the mascot totes guns . If they ever disarm him, middle America is lost.
Like ravens abandoning the Tower of London
Okie St?
Yosemite Sam Technical School?
I balance my cow pokes undergrad degree with my grad degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Oh, I wasn’t trying to disparage you by any means, sorry if that came off that way. I’m the last person here to mock anyone about where they went to college, believe me(didn’t go). I just think the mascot is funny looking.
Pokey St.
Yup.
That leads me to two questions:
1. Are you ClubMedSux from TOS and I never realized it with the new name?
2. If not, Did you know him while you were there?
No and No, I never knew anyone else from here or TOS that went to Valpo.
Speaking of Indiana connections at TOS, I eventually realized that one of the less frequent commenters there was one of my capstone lab partners at Purdue. I don’t think he made the migration here, but I hope he did.
The university I attended has never received any money from me. Why should they? They already got money from me when I paid full rate to attend.
I’m amused thinking about what historians 100 years from now will say about this era.
There will be a break in the historical record where nobody is left who can read or write. Future archaeologists will sift thorough the rubble snd make conjectures.
They might even deduce that some horrid plague called coronavirus destroyed civilization.
Aliens built everything it was always aliens.
You think people will be able to write 100 years from now? What an optimist.
Well, writing is racist and only for White or Asian supremacists.
Yeah, I’m more picturing the end of Beyond Thunderdome.
My high school Alma mater has a demon for a mascot. Not the cute red kewpie with horns snd tail either. More of an ominous figure.
Not sure if anyone gets triggered by that. Satanists maybe?
My high school was the Redskins. Needless to say they are the Red Hawks now. Whatever. The bigger issue is that we were the only school authorized by Al Capp to use Lonesome Polecat (the indian from lil abner) as our mascot.
And losing that is stupid. One suggestions at the time of the change was to change from the Redskins to the Polecats and keep him as mascot. Red Hawks somehow won despite being lame.
Likewise my college alma mater. Given the dominant architectural style of the campus, they should have gone with the Red Bricks.
If yellow jackets ever becomes non-pc, red bricks would work for mine too.
Also….Miami?
Yup. The ORIGINAL one in OHIO, dammit! /obligatory rant
Miami was a University before Florida was a state.
Also, Ohio was a University before Columbus was a city.
::hisses at the mention of that other so-called university in Ohio::
Just do like we do and add a sic, as in:
University (sic) of Georgia.
The Red Bricks would be my alma mater. I don’t think there’s a single building not made of red brick on campus.
Wait, there was that one temporary building, but it might have been torn down by now.
An architecture major friend would rant about the red brick boxes with “the LEGO snap-on shutters and cupolas.” Most older and more unique buildings would be replaced with the artificial simulated quasipseudoGeorgianesque, which led someone else to observe that Miami kept tearing down the history of Ohio and building the history of Virginia.
We had no historic buildings near the campus because it was an empty plot donated by Kodak. It’s now next to impossible to build new buildings because building the campus has caused the still-empty part of the plot to turn into a ‘wetland’ that has extra federal hoops to jump though. Even though it was not a wetland before the buildings went up.
We referred to this as the Boggs Castle — it was the Chemistry building. Legend was it was over budget so windows were cut to save cost.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Boggs_Chemistry_Building%2C_Georgia_Tech.jpg/800px-Boggs_Chemistry_Building%2C_Georgia_Tech.jpg
A common myth going around was that one of the buildings was built backwards – because part of it jutted into the path of the main walkway that runs from one end of campus to the other in an otherwise uninterrupted line. But that building is on a hill and the lobbies are appropriate to the entrances as they are located.
RIT?
U. of Oklahoma — gorgeous Cherokee Gothic red brick buildings.
Yes, GT
I think all my schools are safe for mascots. Some school names may need to be changed since they were named after dead white guys: a president, a film director, and a civil engineer.
Mine was and is a Model-A Ford. Guess that will never be controversial because Henry paid a “living wage.”
He’s still a white male.
Mine is still the Blue Devils. The ladies’ teams are called (for now) The Blue Darlings.
All mascots heretofore known as Crusaders will now be known as Whirling Dervishes.
**True story: the “new” 155mm Howitzer ca. 2000 was called the Crusader. Then 9/11 happened and the fear of an anti-Islamic backlash (which never occurred) generated pressure to rename it from Crusader.
Eventually they cancelled the Crusader altogether and instead made massive upgrades to the existing Howitzers, which are named the Paladin.
Paladin. Let that sink in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s
Crusaders with magical healing powers are less offensive somehow.
Bad (or maybe not) news for squirters and/or people in relationships with squirters.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25545022/
Conclusive proof that female ejaculation is diluted pee-pee.
Our tax dollars at work!
In my experience, squirters are more adventurous and a better time. I’ve never noticed a urine smell from it nor any color. But, it’s not shocking that’s what it is either.
I saw people posted one of those pop songs that is better covered than the original (much like Lady Gaga). Here’s a couple more covers:
Ear candy Puddles version
A horribly racist version sung by a Mormon
The entirety of Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies is built around this (assuming you like punk).
That was my introduction to Puddles. Agreed, beats the original.
The second one is certainly..interesting. Not ear candy.
Not the first thing he’s made that is… questionable by modern wokeness standards.
I had fun with a few neighbors and they really did some mental gymnastics when I argued that one: The United States has had many ‘insurrections’, most of them borne from Government policy or even Presidents and two: That the BLM movement fits the definition of an ‘insurrection’.
I am sure I will be cancelled and probably ruin my chances of running for HOA board.
For those looking for a bright and happy escape, the girlfriend and I sat down and watched the Charles Phoenix’s Addicted to Americana slide show last night. No masks, no comments about the current political/social climate, no anger, just a glorious look at slides, kitsch, and classic cars going back to the 1920’s. Currently a ticket to rewatch the livestream is $25, and will allow you unlimited rewatches through 2/28 (it may go free then it may be purged, I’m not sure).
Charles Phoenix also does a brief talk about his new cream soaked cookie cake. The downside is that the girlfriend has now learned of shoofly pie.
My kid watched one of those limited-time web presentations.
It was a Tesseract Concert, which was friggin’ great.
But only available to watch for 3 days.
Of course I figured out how to rip the stream, but that’s not the point. The point is what the fuck is the point of limited releases like that? Why not just sell it?
And, as a side note, though the concert was great, I was pissed off at the audio stream. They went through the trouble of making sure the video looked stellar. Full 4K. But the audio they streamed with it was bullshit 256k mp4. Why make sure the video is great, but give a bullshit compressed audio feed for a fucking concert? I’d prefer full audio and NO video.
I ordered it as a package with the signed book for the girlfriend for Valentine’s day. In this case, I would guess the limited nature is that he makes a living traveling around and doing similar presentations. The girlfriend and I both recognized a couple of the slides and stories that were on the time-limited stream from times we’ve seen him before. It also looks like the link just goes to an unlisted video, so if you have the link, anyone can watch it.
A no-shit QAnon crackpot just came in the store.
He noticed my rather sarcastic mask signage and took that as a signal to let loose with all conspiracy cannons.
I for one, am happier now that I know Biden doesn’t actually have any executive power and Trump reincorporated the seat of the federal government to Mar-A-Lago last year and will be reassuming power on March 5th.
See if you can get this guy on the Zoom this weekend.
I think you’re thinking Paul Allen; Ballmer came in years after the founding.
Ah- Could be. I’m not exactly a Microsoft scholar (in any sense of the term).
Gates has never impressed me as a guy who could run the night shift at a 7eleven.
He could if he stole someone else’s ideas.
I question your strategy.
“It simply has to [move on from Trump],” Flake advised on “CNN Newsroom.” “We have no choice. We’re headed down a demographic cul-de-sac if we don’t.”
“There’s really no future with Trumpism,” he added. “So, we’ve got to move on. It’s difficult because the president’s base is still there, but we have to move on.”
Host Pam Brown asked, “And what if you don’t? What if it just is the party of Trump?”
“Well, we’ll just continue to lose seats,” Flake replied. “We’ll continue to be, frankly, in a permanent minority if we continue this. So we have to. We should want to as well. I mean, look at what has happened since the last election. The president lost the election, then used every lever at his disposal to hang on … to the White House. And we saw what resulted on January 6.”
A cosplay panty raid?
It was a diversion: https://youtu.be/tlpQL3zgKXQ
Well, we’ll just continue to lose seats,
*checks 2020 House results, shrugs, moves on*
We’re headed down a demographic cul-de-sac
*checks 2020 minority voting results, shrugs, moves on*
*checks 2020 state level results, laughs hysterically at Flake*
Yep. As much as I hate to admit this, but populism is the GOP’s only way *out* of the demographic cul-de-sac (that the Boomercons have driven them into.)
I for one, am happier now that I know Biden doesn’t actually have any executive power and Trump reincorporated the seat of the federal government to Mar-A-Lago last year and will be reassuming power on March 5th.
HAIL, SATAN!
It’s SATIN.
Devil with a blue dress…
MATTE DAEMON!
We the he’ll doesn’t the Libertarian party take a loud and clear stand against the massive government overreach into our lives in the name of Covid?
Too many big L libertarians believe in the virus scam? Just want to be invited to the fashionable parties?
Seems like now would be a great time to welcome disillusioned GOP voters into the world of liberty. Maybe some non socialist lefties too.
“Why the Hell doesn’t “
Geez. Pardon my bleary eyed typing.
Mises Caucus is on a mission to do just that. A lot of people are disgusted by the freak show that is the LP. I still won’t vote, but using the platform to advance the principles of liberty (rather than wokeness) seems like a solid enough goal and I will support that.
/My Conservative Friend: You’re a libertarian, right?
/TH: Yeah, pretty much. Why?
/MCF: Are you paying attention to the party? How the hell can you vote for those people?!
/TH: I am, that’s why I don’t .
It’s fucking pathetic how many people who know better refuse to use their platforms to speak up.
Are you really asking why the Libertarian Party doesn’t do something eminently sensible? Have you ever paid much attention to the LP?
Nobody does.
The LPNH bought into the Covid bullshit.
It drives me completely nuts, how so many people on highways will pass a big rig at only +2-3 mph, hanging out alongside for so long.
#METOO
It pisses me off to no end to watch some moron just driving along next to a truck at 80mph. I’ll hang back off the truck’s bumper until I get room to roll on the throttle and blow by.
No work today. So out of misguided boredom I checked out my YT recommendations feed. Apparently they really think I need to build a tiny house in a northern wilderness and really, REALLY need some more Jesus in my life. Have I ever searched for those things on YT? Nope. But YT knows best, no matter who many times I say I’m not interested.
That….that sounds like a trap. I would assume some Fusion Center is just waiting for people to look at those two so they can identified persons for the upcoming Freedom Act, Patriot Act Part Deux
I just assume it’s a combination of being spied on here(nevermind that I use DuckDuckGo) and somebody trying to save my soul after being aghast at my porn search topics.
Are you logged into gmail at the same time? Because unless you’re signed in, they use some really random crap – probably region based from the vpn or something else.
Probably. I hate Gmail and try to avoid using it when possible but I don’t make it a point to logout after being forced to. But if I wasn’t, I’m still not sure if that’s the problem though because I also get a ton of recommendations for videos in languages I don’t speak. I just look at it like a monkey slinging shit at a wall and seeing what sticks.
History, nature, science, and a sprinkling of sports and music. Those are the only things my feed should be recommending.
Word of the Day: “Oorie”
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1359236328408440835
I love 2Cellos. Do you like the Piano Guys too?
I just finished and other part of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” in my piano lessons. Song is driving me nuts.
I do like the way the lessons are taught, it brakes down the song or scales or cords and explains it to you. Then you play it. It was developed by Quincy Jones and Harry Connick Jr.
https://www.playgroundsessions.com/
For years leading up to El Paso, the Department of Homeland Security — created to prevent another 9/11 — had been under growing pressure to do more to address domestic extremism.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
The TSA and its supporters can go fuck themselves.
But the scale of the fraud in the unemployment program created by the CARES Act has reached a staggering level, state and federal officials say.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
Following an increase in crime, Minneapolis has had a change of heart about defunding or abolishing the police. In fact, the city is going to spend millions to beef up its law enforcement.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
A White House official went as far to say that the book bearing her aunt’s first name, along with a Phenomenal sweatshirt printed “Vice President Aunty,” are not allowed under existing ethics rules, the paper reported.
Here I thought rules were for the little people.
Here I thought rules were for the little people.
Has the book been pulled, or its title changed? Has the sweatshirt been pulled?
If not, then rules are (still) for the little people.
Facially unconstitutional rules to boot.
Unless niece is a government employee or official, ethics rules should have zero application.
“For years leading up to El Paso, the Department of Homeland Security — created to prevent another 9/11 — had been under growing pressure to do more to address domestic extremism.”
Isn’t that where the cops killed a bunch of people?
Part of our job is to go to our dashboard and check equipment status. Its nearly all remote monitoring but the past two days the only turn over we have received is “quiet”. I get in today and check our equipment and one of our sites has been on engine generator for two days and commercial power has been out for that length. Luckily we have a good amount of fuel but seriously people. Do you damn job and check the equipment.
#totallyworthlessfedgovs
“Localizer is unmonitored” takes on more meaning now.
That is what PIREPS are for! Some of those sites have such poor infrastructure in terms of communications. Even better, there have been two preventative maintenance tasks which you are to check the remote monitoring system for problems, signed off for those two days saying everything was A-OKAY. Maybe it is a good thing I am not boss right now. That would be pencil whipping.
That could have the potential to get people killed. And then the NTSB report would read “Pilot failed to…” with a contributing cause of inadequate maintenance of navigational systems.
True. It is one of our top five, or used to be. ATC was failing to solicit PIREPS for VORs, localizers, etc. Typically as maintenance, when we lose our RMM, we ask ATC to solicit a PIREP to determine our level of response. However, that again is more for VORs. ILS, response is always within 4 hours because of what you just said. We cannot rely on an aircraft that doesn’t have what a Flight Check A/C would have to determine an monitored system is accurate.
We don’t want a Die Hard 2 situation on our hands; as badly as that movie represented our systems.
https://twitter.com/KeiraSavage00/status/1361114200387375105
Savage…
Heh.
Lol. Much milder reaction than the journal deserves
Hero.
I can hear what he says
*can’t goddammit
*mumbles in Australian about looking forward to hotdogs*
I like it.
“Some schools in Oregon are being informed that asking students in math class to “show their work” is “white supremacy.” What exactly would happen if this faction got its way and all American classrooms are like this? ”
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1361076234378166278
My grades would have gone up?
Actual conversation:
Teacher: I reduced points for you not showing your work.
Me: I showed all the work I did. (If your problem is so freaking simple I can do it in my head, that is your problem, not mine).
The parenthetical was unstated, but my HS calculus teacher knew I was thinking it and mostly stopped requiring me to show everything. I made her happy but putting some intermediate step down.
Humble brag incoming. HS Trig I probably slept through a good portion of the class and honestly, squeaked out a C only because the teacher would come by, tell me to wake up and say you need an A on this test if you are going to pass the class.
Of course, looking back I realize what a complete stupid thing that was to do, but I was 16 and playing hockey before and after school.
I learned to show my work because I typically had to explain it to other students anyway.
Controversial claim: k-12 education is skewed to favor girls because girls are more predisposed to listen to the rules and obey than are their male counterparts.
Controversial to whom?
The Matriarchy?
If by Matriarchy you mean teachers unions snd the govt DoEd, then yes.
I was once told we have two options: the nanny state or the daddy state.
I am a proponent of gender segregated classrooms.
I think it’s more than just rule following.
My buddy used to fall asleep in AP Chem, wake up when called on, give the right answer and fall asleep again. Think he got a 5 back then.
Same dude also flunked out of Texas A&M computer science for getting addicted to counterstrike.
Once he kicked the gaming habit, he finished up at Sam Houston and has been doing solid programming (and enjoying all aspects of it from what I can tell) for the better part of 20 yrs.
Me: Did I give the correct answer?
Teacher: Yes, but you didn’t show your work. How can I correct your errors if I don’t see your work.
Me: I gave you the correct answer.
*Fast forward 2 years to Signals and Systems class*
Prof: The answer is included in the question prompt. Good luck getting there.
LOL
My digital image processing prof handing out the final exam:
“There’s some stuff in there you’ve never seen before, I just want to see if the grad students can figure it out, but you all have to do it. Have fun.”
Daily argument in my house. Middle son is great at math and most concepts he naturally gets. So things like factoring a polynomial for him isn’t some great mystery. I have to remind him, show your work. Prove your math, that is what you are doing. Especially since there are apps out there for pennies on the dollar that will calculate their work for them and give them their steps.
It was the same with me. I hated showing my work. My son was the same way. His version of showing his work was chicken scratch all over the page. But what do we know, we’re white.
and give them their steps.
that’s basically a math teacher.
Isn’t this constant claiming that things that are objectively true must be “white supremacy” essentially creating and then perpetuating the idea that whiteness is in fact superior?
Any rational student of any color who seeks truth and facts in math and such gets “That’s white supremacy!!!” thrown in their face. That will lead them either to stop thinking rationally (or even wanting to) or to meekly accept that if they want to learn truth , they have chosen the “white” way.
I feel for the eager young minds out there hungry for knowledge, and our education system just keeps handing them crap sandwiches.
But is it not equitable that there are crap sandwiches for all, rather than delicious hoagies for only some, comrade? Do you seek to disenfranchize our most vulnerable children with your evil “school choice” agenda, comrade? We must support our brave teachers’ unions, comrade. They work tirelessly to dish out to glorious crap sandwiches to all the children, even those with heinous unearned privilege! We march onward to equity!
Some people would read that and say, “Sounds good to me.”
The only need for math is in calculating intersectionality scores.
I knew imaginary numbers would come in handy someday!
+i
√-i
Accusations of “acting white” have been a thing for decades. It’s weird seeing it now being pushed by everyone in charge. So very stupid and destructive.
Next will be going after requirements to label the units. Something that escapes many people out of lazyness. Hey, is that -3 dbm, Watts, or something else? Did you look at the indicated units on the meter to make sure you hadn’t hit the units button by mistake?
“Look, I measured the bridge, it said -3…”
(you know, with your Bridgometer3000, by Fluke, the only way to ensure quality bridge construction.)
“I sometimes wonder if behind some of the anti-racism strategies are the alt right trying to stoke hate. Surely, no sane person who has the best interests of black people would advocate this.”
Yeah, that’s it, dipshit. Take the red pill.
I found a non-Blaze source for the article on Minneapolis police needing millions to staff up after crime skyrocketed, and I posted it to FB.
A liberal acquaintance (who is the wife of a friend of my husband, so why she thinks I give a shit about her opinion is beyond me) commented:
My reply was the same remark I made on the original: How’s that working for you?
That’s on par with my dipshit fraternity brother who posited that they should pack SCOTUS because they’re overworked and need to spread the case load more.
He didn’t react kindly to my suggestion that they should do it regardless of who won the election.
Let me guess; she expects you to give unconditional good faith to her mental and semantical gymnastics while only ever making bad faith worst case assumptions and flat out lying about your arguments and opinions?
Pretty much yes. Libs can get away with “But you know what we MEANT!!!”
If only someone had thought of a better phrase things would be different.
I like “demilitarize the police”, but somehow that never gained traction, and more to point, never was very popular with the very grifters astroturfing this whole agenda when they realise that the next stage of their plan absolutely requires a militarized police, at the Federal level.
Now look here, you. We have to carry flash bang grenades for neutralizing toddlers in the crucial first seconds of a no-knock raid of pot possession. That kid could have been packing heat.
“Demilitarize the police” is something I could back. Like so many movements, if they had gone the sane route, they would have broad support. They can say they don’t really mean “defund”, but they let the crazies take charge and run with it.
Minneapolis has the added problem that they had an undertrained Somali cop (part of a liberal plan to get community representation on the force, fast tracked and not fully trained) who opened unprovoked fire on a harmless Australian lady who’d called the cops to report an assault in the alley.
So they can’t really point to community cops as a big success, and they can’t pin all the wrongful deaths on white officers either. Plus about 6-8 cops resigned all at once last summer. Guessing they didn’t like the way the “reorganization” was going.
No one neat solution here. I don’t know if better training would help decrease use of lethal force or not. I think the police union would also have to stop defending their own “no matter what.”
I forgot the Damond shooting was in Minneapolis.
I saw a “demilitarize the police” sign around here a few weeks back and was pleasantly surprised to see a sign that I actually could whole-heartedly agree with.
So, that’s like 1 out of 98,475 so far. Progress.
No, they meant defund. If they meant reform, they would have said reform the police, which actually would be a good idea.
Yes. If there’s one thing we’re learning, it’s to take the left at their word. They usually say exactly what they mean – only up until now, few thought they were actually serious about all the ridiculous and stupid things they say.
I do wonder whether they will tone down the “fight” rhetoric they are so fond of using in speeches, seeing as how it could incite an insurrection.
I’m guessing nah.
Why they call it “defund” I will never know,
Because they were proposing to reduce/eliminate funding for police departments?
What are those dancing kids’ arm sleeve things? Some sort of welding PPE? Kinesiological support device? Bandages?
Really bad tribal tattoos?
Pentagon has the documents.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2321251/pentagon-admits-testing-wreckage-ufo-crashes/
“The inclusion of advanced technical reports on Nitinol is curious,” Bragalia said.
“Nitinol is a shape-memory alloy that ‘remembers’ its original shape when folded or crunched, and snaps back seamlessly and instantly.
“This memory metal characteristic was reported by many witnesses at Roswell.”
I’m not saying it was aliens…
The government has been releasing more of this kind of thing. Not sure what the end game is. I’m not sure these are alien artifacts.
Turns out it’s not okay to joke about a dead piece of shit:
“LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an internal investigation after an officer reported that a photo of George Floyd with the words “You take my breath away” in a Valentine-like format was circulated among officers.”
https://www.startribune.com/lapd-investigating-report-of-george-floyd-valentine/600023374/
” an officer reported”
A regular Infernal Affairs, here.
Fuck UPS. Last scan was origin scan Friday morning for supposed Saturday delivery. Status for the past two days has been check back tomorrow.
Ill trade you DHL. Two books from Germany are in limbo somewhere since Christmas. My guess, in someone’s house in Frankfurt.
UPS lost a work shipment for us a couple of weeks ago. Says it was signed for by Mary. There’s no Mary in our shipping and receiving Dept.
Good thing our vendor insured the parts because they’re having to remake them now. Loss of 4 weeks on our schedule.
Fuck UPS,
If they were made of an expensive alloy, you can guess where those parts ended up.
Just copper!!
FedEx is no better. Ordered hot sauce. Sat in the back of a FedEx truck in sub-zero weather. Hot sauce in glass bottes does not like a four hour ride at -15 degrees Fahrenheit.
I’ve learned not to order mayo in winter or summer due to that.
Do Better, HOT Sauce. Smdh.
I’ve had packages that changed delivery services in route. The primary delivery service delivers to the local USPS office and calls it delivered. It took two additional days to actually get it to my house. I don’t recall the vendor or if it was UPS or Fedex.
If only someone had thought of a better phrase things would be different.
Exactly. Don’t make a serious effort to analyze and fix the problem, just think of something else to call it.
You can call your outhouse a mobile auxiliary sanitation containment unit if you want, but it stills smells like shit when you open the door.
“Nitinol is a shape-memory alloy that ‘remembers’ its original shape when folded or crunched, and snaps back seamlessly and instantly.
We used to call that a “spring”.
The only really nifty memory metals are the ones that hold the new shape that they get mechanically bent to, but then spring back to original if chilled or if given a bit of current to carry. Those have some cool applications.
springs
spring back to original if chilled or if given a bit of current to carry. Those have some cool applications.
I have heard about those. That would be really handy in the right application.
“Hey honey, pass me the lube and the power supply”
Watching a BBC show about the Bloomsbury Group and the women just ripped off their corsets and tossed them out of a window. Of course, over a hundred years later the founder of Spanx is a billionaire.
Yeah, but there’s no way you want to see her topless a hundred years later, billionaire or not.
I feel for the eager young minds out there hungry for knowledge, and our education system just keeps handing them crap sandwiches.
I remember when a museum affiliated with the Smithsonian was circulating this garbage, commenting that there were two places I could expect to see this sort of characterization of the races – academia and the neo-Nazis over at Stormfront. What it amounts to is a war on competence. There’s nothing substantive about black or brown or whatever people that makes them inherently incapable of competence. It’s that an element of our society is actively at war with the very notion of competence. Because if competence hierarchies aren’t a real thing, there are only power hierarchies. And the power grabs by the advocates of these ideologies are justified.
Just looking over that. You’re right. A lot of what they’re calling whiteness are strategies for success in the modern world.
It’s that an element of our society is actively at war with the very notion of competence.
Yup. Personal responsibility is racist. Meritocracy is racist. Using your talents is racist.
Why? Because you make a really shitty commie when you can do things for yourself.
Because if competence hierarchies aren’t a real thing, there are only power hierarchies.
We have a winner. Critical _______ theory is always about reducing everything solely to power dynamics. I saw it with critical legal theory in law school, and I see it now with critical race theory. Its seductive, as all reductive theories are, because it simplfiies a complex world, and taps into confirmation bias. Its a self-licking ice cream cone that is particularly insidious with race, because it teaches people every setback in their life is because of their race. The successful non-whites are either invisible or somehow metaphysically white, and the unsuccessful white people are just invisible.
Bernie Sanders directly addresses as part of the war on “meritocracy”