NO. THERE IS NO “OVERTIME”. UNLESS YOU MEAN “OVER TIME, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE A GRAIN SLAVE.”
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THIS IS AN EARLIER HOUR THAN WHEN ZARDOZ USUALLY CONDUCTS GRAIN FERRYING OPERATIONS. THUS, ANY ERRORS ARE DUE TO ZARDOZ’S COGINITION CIRCUITS STILL WARMING UP. ZED HAD OFFERED SOMETHING CALLED “COFFEE”, BUT ZARDOZ’S AUXILLIARY TANKS ARE FOR EMERGENCY FUEL ONLY.
BUT THE CHOSEN ONES HAVE DONE WELL, PRAISING THE GUN AS GOOD (DON’T ASK ABOUT AMMUNITION – ZARDOZ CAN’T FIND ENOUGH FOR THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS LATELY) AND REALIZING THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL. THEREFORE, ZARDOZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
- ZARDOZ WISHES TO NOMINATE HILLARY CLINTON, BARRACK OBAMA AND SUSAN RICE FOR THE NOBEL CLEANSING PRIZE FOR THEIR ONGOING CONTRIBUTION.
- CANNOT COMPUTE – THE BRUTAL NATION OF ISRAEL IS OFTEN ACCUSED OF TRYING TO CLEANSE OTHER BRUTALS IN THE LAND. THEY ARE DOING IT WRONG!
- AT LEAST ZARDOZ CAN COUNT ON THE BRUTALS OF RUSSIA FOR SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED OPPRESSION.
BONUS LINK: MIND PONG PLAYING MONKEYS?
ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS THAT IN SUCH LINKS POSTS AS THIS, IT IS CUSTOMARY TO POST A “MUSIC LINK.” ZARDOZ SHALL DO SO, WITH ZARDOZ’S KIND OF MUSIC.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
“ZARDOZ WISHES TO NOMINATE HILLARY CLINTON, BARRACK OBAMA AND SUSAN RICE FOR THE NOBEL CLEANSING PRIZE FOR THEIR ONGOING CONTRIBUTION.”
They sure as hell look like they don’t want to let you down either ZARDOZ…
They need a chipless verison – psychic monkeys!
There was a brief trend a couple years back for the “mind control” games. Put on a silly headband, and concentrate, and you too have the power to move a very light ball on a specialized table!
Then they realized there were easier ways to train you to think a certain way?
I can’t find the one that a friend of mine actually spent money on, but this is similar. Just as there’s trends in the beer world, there are trends in the board game world.
/looks at the number of %old classic% the Dice/Card Game
A buddy of mine and I used to talk about the future of computing being a bunch of networked chimps. We called it the Massively Parallel Monkey Matrix.
For some reason, I find this to be extremely plausible.
The important thing is that they literally brought back slavery.
For our own good, though, right?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Well, a whole hell of a lot, apparently.
ZARDOZ WISHES TO NOMINATE HILLARY CLINTON, BARRACK OBAMA AND SUSAN RICE FOR THE NOBEL CLEANSING PRIZE FOR THEIR ONGOING CONTRIBUTION. – libya was just great before trump accused poor hillary of misdeeds
“Several international bodies previously criticized Israel for initially refusing to send vaccines to the Palestinians. Israeli officials later recommended sending doses because Palestinian workers frequently enter Israel.”
So not entirely an act of generosity.
Eh. Could have simply sealed the border and told them to go beg the UN or WHO for shots.
They are hugely dependent on Palestinian workers for labor like construction, restaurant, etc. It would be like “A Day without a Mexican.”
I remember that day for being ordinary.
Not at the Chipotle.
I can’t remember when it was supposed to have happened.
I didn’t notice anything different from any other day.
Look, the PNA is a little strapped for cash after buying munitions, explosives, rockets, and lining their own pockets. Why function as a legitimate government when you can just blame Jews?
Everyone else does, amirite?
This site would be perfect if only we got rid of….
*chokes on some white bread, falls over while convulsing uncontrollably*
So that was the model for California Democrats.
Including the jews part or targeting a different minority?
They just substitute Republican for Jew.
Is the coastal road blocked by land mines? We can send some out of work coal miners to reclaim them.
John Kerry just got hard.
Hurry, Honey! The Winter Soldier is thawing!
“ELON Musk claims to have overseen the creation of a cyborg monkey that can play video games with its mind.”
What could possibly go wrong?
They shart owning the fortnite kiddies and cost Epic cash?
The Fortnite kiddies like winning, but that’s not the important thing to them. It’s about having a cool looking character avatar that they spent real money to bling out. It seems that for the youtes of today, it’s not that you have to have the right names on your shoes, clothing, or bags, but you better have an awesome avatar, and paint schemes, dances, and entrance gliders.
I honestly don’t know anyone who plays, so I don’t even remember it exists most of the time. Much like Riot game’s entire catalog.
One of my nephews is one of those kiddies. FFS, he’s not even grabbing the other free games that the Epic store is handing out, he’s just playing Fortnite. Neither of his parents really grok or understand video games at all, so the nephew was surprised when I could start talking about it, and had heard of some of the streamers he liked.
Of course, he still doesn’t listen to any of my suggestions on hardware/software/system maintenance.
If you’re going to install chinese spyware, at least take the freebies.
MOJO JOJO???
Mojeaux Jojo?
Mojeaux?
You can’t spell Jim Morrison with those letters only.
You rang?
You’re supposed to ask that in a Lurch voice.
Someone should insert a John Kerry pic here…
Ape shall not kill ape.
But they can still beat each other at video games, right?
For a second there I thought you said they could still beat each other off, giving a whole new meaning to spanking the monkey…..
Ook.
https://twitter.com/ReviewsPossum/status/1356307312059822086
This logo was mean to se where the pervs were
Say WUT??
“Myntra is an Indian fashion e-commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.”
So who cares?
‘The United Nations last week urged both sides of the conflict to reopen the road, as it hosts a meeting near Geneva to select a new transitional government for the whole country to oversee the run-up to elections scheduled for December.
Belqasem Egzait, a member of the State Council set up as part of an earlier peace process, said he believed diplomacy was moving forward, but would be slow.
“The political track is by its nature complex. That complexity will continue,” he told Reuters.
However, some Libya experts have warned of the risk of renewed fighting as the process drags on.’
The United Nations: Finely straddling the line between insidious and ineffectual.
Implosion of the “must vote Trump because the biggest threat facing America is critical race theory” crowd is fitting.
If you think not wanting to sit through a racial sensitivity seminar outweighs lies, corruption, and Constitutional violations, your priorities are out of whack.
https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1356400421602996229
this is stupid on so many levels
This is how you get more Trump.
“lies, corruption, and Constitutional violations”
No way Biden will do any of those things.
You mean no way the reality handling propagandists will admit that’s what he is doing, right?
lies, corruption, and Constitutional violations
Citations, please.
truth > facts
Woot! I always knew I was (((part), but now apparently I’m Black too!
I’ve just been assigned to be a vitrual mentor as part of the Black Resource Affinity Group (BRAG!)
*does obscene hip-thrust dance in HM’s direction*
Stop bragging.
Jewish on your father’s side? You should also use bold parenthesis.
Thanks!
Oddly enough, in that bush of the family thicket there is a last name I’ve never encountered otherwise. When I moved up here, I discovered a town in Otsego country with that name. I haven’t taken the time to figure out what the connection is.
I visited a town that shared my last name. I was thankful there was no connection.
–Jimmy Rabbitte
That was the very thing in which I saw Colm Meaney; I’ve loved him ever since.
Why does racial sensitivity always mean impugning me for my whiteness?
lies, corruption, and Constitutional violations
But enough about Biden/Clinton/Obama/Bush/etc.
^^ This. If your Racial Sensitivity training involves making “White” be a negative, you might just be a racist.
“Tearful AOC reveals she is a sex assault survivor and accuses Republicans of using ‘abuser’s tactics’ by telling her to ‘move on’ from the Capitol riot
She gave no details about the assault or when it took place.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9212925/Tearful-AOC-survivor-sexual-assault-Republicans-telling-Capitol-riot.html
She was the survivor of a crude pass at the bar she worked at?
Worse. The dude was ugly and poor.
And he just wanted to bang her… not spend time listening to her drone about how unfair life was cause nobody saw how she was a powerful smart woman! The cad!
Ass pinched at a party? Sexual assault victim. Somebody rubs up against you as they make their way out of a crowded subway car? Sexual assault victim. Had a kiss stolen from you by the awkward kid with no social skills in junior high? Sexual assault victim.
It’s just another term that has been bastardized to near meaninglessness.
Victimhood is a mark of coolness, yo!
She’s waiting for the right target.
Poor Unka Joe…
she is a sex assault survivor – even if true, so fucking what? does that mean she can claim at any time to be scared and people cannot say anything about it?
yes
Victims have unassailable immunity from criticism and their pronouncements are holy.
How was Davey Hogg’s first semester at Harvard, I wonder?
With any luck there were a few soapsock parties.
at Harvard? neah
I don’t think even John Lovitt could pulled off that whopper. That’s the ticket.
NBC had a whole segment on this on The Today show this morning. She reenacts the moment when the terrorists were hunting her down and she hid behind the door of a bathroom.
According to AOC, they were literally hunting her.
She sounds like a 4 year old making up a story about a monster under her bed while her parents egg her on.
She sounds like Hillary Clinton when she told the bullshit lie about being shot at in Kosovo.
Bosnia.
Those places all look the same…
/joking
They must have been the worst hunters ever. Not one out of 536?
They could have been gored by buffalo horns! You ever seen a person gored with buffalo horns?! It ain’t pretty.
She not only survived, she got an ‘A’ in the class, too.
This seems relevant here.
She gave no details about the assault or when it took place.
I am sure it is indelible in her hippocampus. ///BelieveWomen
///except Tara Reade
///or Juanita Broderick
I had to break my no Twitter rule for this:
Drama queen.
She explained how at one point a man whom she believed to be a rioter broke into her congressional office as she hid in the bathroom.
She recalled hearing him yelling: ‘Where is she? Where is she?’
‘This was the moment where I thought everything was over,’ she said. ‘I thought I was going to die… I have never been quieter in my entire life.’
She later said she found out the man was actually a Capitol Police officer.
This is so absurd.
The absurdity is that we are supposed to act like she is sane and rational, when the thing she says she was afraid of never happened. She imagined it happening, but it didn’t happen and quite the opposite. But The fact that she imagined it, we are supposed to pretend like it was real.
I get it you were afraid, but what you were afraid of wasn’t real, and we shouldn’t make policy off of your fear driven emotions.
Looks like soon I will be the only non-music linking poster left!
*shakes fist and yells at cloud*
It’s a lonely existence
For Swiss,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVOuYquXuuc
I know it’s frustrating to be the nonconformist, but it would Bavarian-ice for the rest of us if you would just give us our morning music.
I do afternoon links, Mondays…no music!
Hmmm…
Bei uns in Bayern.
The continued closure of the key artery, and lawlessness along alternative routes, underline how Libya remains beset by instability 10 years after the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi but unleashed civil war.
Interesting how one word changes that whole sentence. That is one big ol’ but.
That “uprising” didn’t get old Muammar: the Clinton/Obama influence peddler machine trying to make sure that old Muammar would not screw over the Euros and send his oil to China is what got the guy…
Dunno where Gomorrah is, but Sodom seems to be in Libya. PBUH.
Libyans watching a peace process nearing a critical phase this week in Switzerland need only try driving from one side of their country to the other to understand the obstacles to diplomacy.
Blundering Biden will be along shortly to fix that.
I am not sure anyone will ask him
I, for one, eagerly await President Biden’s proposals to address the problems with labia.
problems with labia.
DR. Jill is alright, but I don’t want Joe’s sloppy seconds.
A woman did her regular aerobics class out in open without realizing that a coup was taking place in #Myanmar. A Military convoy reaching the parliament can be seen behind the woman as she performs aerobics. Incredible!
https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1356315137976672259
That mask oughtta stop any stray bullets whizzing by.
She would have had a larger audience if ALL she wore was that mask…
Nothing will stop the Jazzercise Revolution.
No one ever doubts Scruffy’s commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Tolerance. Inclusion. Unity. Healing.
Wtf? That was supposed to go under Pie’s post below. *gets coffee*
I like it this way
SP’s judgement: fake.
THEY ARE DOING IT WRONG!
Idk. The vaccine has some less than ideal possible side effects.
(((They))) are always trying to sterilize Muslims via “vaccines.” It is known.
Russian prosecutors on Monday backed a request to imprison opposition leader Alexei Navalny for several years on old charges, after police detained a record number of anti-Kremlin protesters across the country.
Sounds like some Russian collusion. ///LockHimUp
Good thing malicious prosecution of political opponents could never happen here….oh, wait…
Elon Musk is about to reveal ‘happy, brain-chipped monkey that controls video games with his MIND’
I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well for humans.
Loneliness Is What Drives Some People to the Right Wing
An interview with N
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-01/loneliness-is-what-drives-some-people-to-the-right-wing
So, they’re finally admitting that the left ain’t exactly the most welcoming or accepting group of people out there?
HA Those Loner loosers! Only Loners are Right wingers!!!
/ Expected Reaction from Media Programming.
Ima just say that my conservative friends are more tolerant of my being gay than my gay friends are tolerant of my conservatism. Maybe something about how the left constantly uses the language of division and victimhood to make people feel bad about how they were born.
Most of gay friends and my gay brother are conservative and voted for Trump.
Tonio, don’t let petty people bring you down man. Life is too short to let others define you.
^^^ Tonio is a Righteous Feller!
Baby, can you dig your man?
He’s a righteous man
“Controversy continued on Monday, as surgeons successfully transplanted little Jango’s brain into a robot monkey body. Scientists now say human-to-robot brain transplants will be possible within ten years.
Cyborg was a documentary.
As was Timecop.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson proved that Timecop was not not true.
Jean-Claude van Jackson once beat a would-be assassin to within an inch of his life with a cane and then did an incredible split right in the Capitol.
Was it like that corporate logo pictured above?
Within 10 years…
:Gets out Researcher to English Dictionary:
Ahh, along with cold fusion.
30 seconds is 30 seconds, same as downtown.
Hey… So whatever happened to Congressional Apportionment? Those numbers are supposed to be released to the president by Dec 31 of the year of the census, and generally released to the public at the same time…
They are busy “refactoring” the numbers to be more in line with what they believe makes the process “socially just”, you peasant….
I believe I saw a headline that said the deadline was pushed to some time in April, due to the unprecedented times we’re existing in.
I vastly underestimated the amount of shit that people were going to use Corona to get away with. Even this being benign, it is stupid that you can’t finish a tally, (something that you’ve been done with for several months) and report it within a week.
Like the election, they realized the results weren’t what they wanted. They stopped counting until they could arrange for the correct results.
Baseball birthdays are much improved. Top two are Wes Ferrell, who could be in the HoF and Red Schoendienst, who is. Following them is 6 more players with more than 20 WAR each. Of note is John Tudor at #5 with 34.2 WAR. I couldn’t stand him with the Cardinals.
1985 was his best year, he finished 2nd in the Cy Young award. He won game 1 and game 4 of the World Series before losing Game 7 to WS MVP Bret Saberhagen. Nothing of note happened in game 6.
Please forgive any ass drugs that may accompany these two links, but some bad news for lovers of drinking where some mildly well regarded British authors used to drink.
In further bad news, we have lost a Trappist brewery. Achel has run out of monks to make their beer. So they have lost the Trappist designation.
In further bad news, we have lost a Trappist brewery – eh no major loss, Trappist beer, like most Belgian styles, aint that good
*recinds Pie’s invitation to stay Chez Rat*
eh it is probably covid infested anyways
I spent a week maskless in Forida, so obviously.
*Rescinds my offer of American citizenship*
*glares malevolently*
mmm, Belgian ale
They make beer from monks? I didn’t know that is what Trappist breweries do.
That’s why they are running out of them. “Yeast? ewwwww…”
In further bad news, we have lost a Trappist brewery. Achel has run out of monks to make their beer. So they have lost the Trappist designation.
NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!
What America can learn from Russia
Spiralling addiction, inequality and an oligarch class can pave the way for authoritarianism
https://unherd.com/2021/02/what-america-can-learn-from-nineties-russia/
As bad as Russia is… It’s still better than what was going on in the USSR.
White-supremacy is everywhere.
Speier wrote in a January 29, 2021, letter to Biden, Austin, and Haines that the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government at large are not “effectively screening servicemembers and other individuals with sensitive roles for white-supremacist and violent extremist ties.”
She wrote, “Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Gab, Parler, and 4Chan, are frequently used by domestic terrorist groups to recruit members and plan violent attacks, including in some of the above cases involving military servicemembers.”
This is as stupid as it is dangerous. Not to mention that if you filter out all of the
conservatives“white-supremes” you won’t have anyone left.I’m sure you could get lots of Leftist Recruits if you promsie them the chance to go oppress those dirty hillbillies and conservatives!
The anti-war chants will be glorious
Hell no, we won’t go!
No one come back atcha!
Get us out of Appalachia!
White-supremacy is everywhere. – not every where . I just looked around my apartment and there is none to be found.
You better find one before someone finds you.
In the years ahead, your personal survival plan will include a list of people you plan to denounce.
Ugh the “OFFS” button on my keyboard is worn out
I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well for humans.
Let’s just get it over with.
Speier wrote in a January 29, 2021, letter to Biden, Austin, and Haines that the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government at large are not “effectively screening servicemembers and other individuals with sensitive roles for white-supremacist and violent extremist ties.”
They just need to pledge their undying loyalty to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Claudia Roden, a British Jew whose family (originally Syrian) were made refugee from Egypt, is one of the world’s most celebrated cookery writers. Her beloved blue ‘Book of Jewish Food’ was recently featured @jayrayner1
in @ObserverUK
and posted on Facebook today.
What ensued?
https://twitter.com/jobellerina/status/1356364469325107201
what could possibly have ensued?
That’s depressing
There is no
cannibalism in the Royal NavyAnti-Semetism in European Leftism“The horseshoe exists, people. Antisemitism is alive & kicking on the Left, Right & otherwise. Antisemitism knows no political party, no religion, no colour, no nationality. Don’t make excuses for ‘your side’.”
It’s pretty much the Left.
“ The Guardian merely gives a voice to those who would erase & murder them again”
There are assholes everywhere but it sounds like she wants them silenced. Let them be assholes, the better to know who they are and to argue against them.
This was absolute genius:
“The Holocaust definitely wasn’t what they say it was. After the war Nazi scientists went to work for NASA.”
That’s deep, yo…..
I thought this was about Elizabeth Warren, but was wrong…
RAAAAC…
“ Prosecutors back effort to put Russian opposition leader Navalny in jail”
To be fair, if they don’t back his prosecution they might find themselves taking an oopsie out of a tenth story window or being served their borscht with a polonium garnish.
Leon’s Iron Law of the Mob:
The more of a minority you are in a society, the more likely you are to be blamed by the mob for everything that goes wrong.
DEMOCRACY in action
Top House Democrats are moving to force Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off multiple committees this week — with or without Kevin McCarthy’s help.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy on Monday: Either Republicans move on their own to strip Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments within 72 hours, or Democrats will bring the issue to the House floor.
The Democrats’ move, while highly unusual, comes amid intense fury within the Democratic Caucus over Greene’s long record of incendiary rhetoric, including peddling conspiracy theories that the nation’s deadliest mass shootings were staged. Greene also endorsed violence against Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats before she was elected to Congress.
——-
Democrats are already teeing up potential floor action if McCarthy doesn’t act, scheduling a Rules Committee hearing for Wednesday afternoon on a resolution to strip Greene of her committee posts.
Some Republicans are privately warning of a dangerous new precedent if Democrats make a determination about who from the minority party is best fit to serve on committees, opening up the potential for a tit-for-tat between the two parties — especially if Republicans win back the House in two years. But while Democrats privately acknowledge their action is controversial, they say Greene’s behavior and rhetoric must be addressed forcefully.
Congress needs the power to veto elections and to reject anybody they don’t like. That’s how you get unity and healing.
Will the Republicans grow a pair or will they fold like the obsequious fucking pussies that they are? Tune in Friday to find out!
Although that woman is nucking futs.
But probably not worse than AOC.
Other than the Border Wall and “Back the Blue”, she seems not all that bad.
I mean they do… They can refuse to seat anyone in their chamber. They did it a few years ago (2018?) whith the guy from one of the carolinas for Election Fraud (which existed then, but only in that race, don’t look at the ballot harvesting going on in California, that’s legit because the Dems made it legal there).
Why do Democrats hate women?
When the Dems strip Maxine Waters of her committees, then sure, banish Green Until then, fuck off.
That’s a fair trade, I’ll take it.
I think there’s a couple more kooky Democrats to strip of their assignments, if that’s the new standard.
Good morning Zardoz.
I have a pickup. Where does one acquire the AA gun? That would definitely set the tone for my forays into the big city.
I’m just waiting for Defense Distributed to put out some plans for a 3D printed 88 flak.
I bet the peace negotiations would go faster if they were being held in Tripoli instead of some swanky Swiss hotel.
If I was a negotiator and my choices were a) continue negotiating while your hotel bar tab was picked up by the UN or b) go back to Tripoli and try putting that shithole back together again, I know what my choice would be.
*I bet a decent tip to the concierge would allow you to expense the hookers as laundry charges on your bill.
A guy in town has an old army jeep (in excellent condition) he drives in the summer with a mounted machine gun. It doesn’t fire and he had to get permission from some entity to do it, but it’s pretty cool to see and always turns heads.
Not even OT if you read the Alt text – Someone at my head office leaked my e-mail to the building management corporation that we are contracted to so my mail has been inundated with pissy little requests and demands for the last four days. Dude, it’s the dead of winter. I’m not worried about washing the windows right now. Where are the buffers and safe guards now, Big Fella? Worst of all, it’s G-Mail which is probably the clunkiest communication system since tribesmen beat on hollow logs. It doesn’t help the situation much seeing as I am an Unfrozen Caveman Custodian and your new world of smartphone apps frightens and confuses me. At least the contact named (not a joke) Mee-Hee has excellent English skills.
Someone at my head office leaked my e-mail – wait business email? And is it leaked or given according to the company policy.
Personal. I am a luddite and only have the one. Maybe leaked is too strong. It was probably tagged on another message. In one way it’s fine, cutting out the ineffectual middleman, but at the same time I don’t need to kowtow to another master. I refused a task last week and it has come to this again. They seem to remember I exist every six months or so and then make my life hell for a couple of weeks. It’s fucked. Might have to nip this brand of bullshit in the bud.
email takes away good letter typing jobs
Do it. Personal e-mail’s off-limits. If your company didn’t deign to give you a work e-mail address, that means that they don’t want you communicating with anyone up your clients’ chain of command. If’n they want to change that, you should be getting a work e-mail, which you can check during normal business hours.
Good advice, Countryman! *starts hunting and pecking*
One other thought:
They shouldn’t be allowing access to personal email on the company network. Giant security hole, in many ways. The closest we have come to getting malware on our system was through phishing on personal email; it was a damned close call, and we have network security that the big cybersecurity insurance carriers use as a “best in class” example. No work anything should involve any email account that isn’t a company email account.
so what is the Official Glibertarian Position on the vaccines? Safe or not? Especially for the elderly
The older they are, the less risk there is that it’ll be the vaccine that kills them.
The elderly should get it as the risk outweighs the reward. As you know, Covid croaks them pretty effectively.
Is outweighed by the reward I meant. Jeez
You just want to kill off all the oldsters, I see.
All people should get it eventually if you want to go anywhere or do anything.
Get your vaccine paper laminated.
Official position?
From this horde of cats?
I will personally avoid being a guinea pig for unproven technologies at this point. Let the rest of you do what you will.
I will personally avoid being a guinea pig for unproven technologies at this point. Let the rest of you do what you will.
Yep.
Unofficially me and the missus is skippin’ the shot. While we are only social scientists we are well past the Best Used By Dates and see no benefits in getting something that may or may not drag out the ultimate results of life.
Most of my Old friends think its gonna be a blessing to live few questionable health years and are getting the shot.
1. We could be right
2. My friends could be right
3. We both could be right
4. We all could be wrong
Proving a negative…
It’s not a vaccine. It’s gene therapy. Fuck that.
I have a pickup. Where does one acquire the AA gun? That would definitely set the tone for my forays into the big city.
I want one of those “Rat Patrol” jeeps with a .50 cal on a post behind the front seats. Or maybe a Gatling gun,
Linked this yesterday: Ma Deuce v. Camry
There was a MG dealer that had a quad .50 AA mount for sale a few years ago, complete with 4 M2HBs. I saw a different one in action at Knob Creek–the owner had cut the barrels short for visual effect and the thing made an incredible noise and light show.
How in the world are you going to mount anything on an MG?
You can build a roll cage on that, with some netting to stop the spent casings from raining down on the driver.
You’d probably need a new suspension for the added weight.
I’ve owned a MG Midget. Even with your modifications, there would be no place for someone to stand and fire the weapon.
It was hard to fit a Q-approved gal into the front seat it was so tiny.
If you plan on going full Rat Patrol the most important decision you are going to have to make is what hat are you going to wear?
The steel pot helmet, the French beret, that pinned up Aussie cowboy hat, or (and I know a shitlord like you is going to pick this one) that Johnny Reb forage cap?
Nah, I’m not interested in giving up the comfort and size of the F-150.
I’ll take the .50, though.
do you have a machine gun license?
no such thing in the U.S.
Permit.
Turret rings leak worse than sunroofs.
Learn. To. Thread.
BRUTALS.
The Great Gun Run of 2020 has definitely continued into the new year, and may even be picking up speed rather than slowing down now that Joe Biden and his Democratic cohorts have control of both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government.
According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s adjusted NICS figures for January of 2021, there were 2,052,130 background checks conducted on firearm sales last month; a 75% increase compared to the figures reported for January of 2020. The unadjusted January 2021 NICS figure of 4,288,240 (which includes checks not related to gun sales) is also about 62% higher than the unadjusted total from last January.
My revolver should be delivered today. I bought it now mostly because I still could.
While it’s annoying to me that I can’t get ammo, I do take some delight in the fact that more guns (especially 80% lowers) are flying off the shelves like never before. Even if they pass some kind of gun control, I’m pretty sure there will be more firearms in civilian hands than there would be if they had done nothing.
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
The number of military bases America has in other countries: about 800.
The number of military bases America needs in other countries: 0.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1356408357926490112
I mean US should keep one in Romania just in case but besides that, stopped clock and all that
Also we don’t need that many in the US.
eh…the border with Canadia is pretty long.
A large but smaller than we have now navy, a vestigial army, and enough nukes to keep anyone from ever wanting to attack us would be more than sufficient.
FFs were opposed to a standing army, so even vestigial may be too large.
Although I will accept it.
Cadre of regulars to form the skeleton of the Army when it needs to be stood up, push everything else to the State Militias.
^This here, a highly capable but small force bolstered by the states’ forces in times of extreme need.
One of the lessons that is drilled into kids about WW1 and WW2 is that the US was totes unprepared for war and had to train with wooden rifles for a long time before we were ready to go overseas and fight.
The underlying lesson is “Never Again”. We need to stay vigilant and keep a standing army on red alerts so we can go fight Nazis somewhere at a moment’s notice.
Or you know. Not.
We didn’t really care about the Nazis and gave half of Europe to the Commies.
And we had no problem winning against both Japan and Germany, so I fail to see the problem with a small peacetime army.
We don’t want to lose those millions of jobs we created, WTF.
Jobs.
The CCC wasn’t half the “jobs program” that the DoD is today.
Lots of E-4 thru E-6s, Lots of O-3 thru O-5. Keep your middle ranks double or triple strength for the size of force you have, and sure, you’ll have lots of sergeants standing a guard post and captains leading platoon strength units, but you could scale up by 3-5X very effectively.
More:
On a leadership call on Sunday, Hoyer, Pelosi and other top Democrats discussed several options for taking action against Greene, including censure, expulsion and the resolution authored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) that the Rules panel is considering Wednesday.
“We’re focused on making sure that we can render powerless the poisonous nature of this member,” Wasserman Schultz told reporters Monday, just before introducing her measure. “The House has to be able to take actions to police its own membership.”
WRONG.
The Congress does not (in theory, anyway) select its own membership, you poisonous cunt. Elections are held. The citizens of that district select a person to represent them. Your job is to work with that person and respond to the wishes of the people she represents.
focused on making sure that we can render powerless
So her district does not get representation?
Not unless they send an acceptable representative.
Hey Neph, do you have a good online source for quality whole bean coffee? I know you talked about being a coffee snob, and I’m finding the local sources hit or miss, and the hits are expensive.
roast your own…
I’ve got several sources that I’ve used:
More Coffee has been my more recent go to, as they offer quick and free shipping to my area (and they’re affiliated with MoreBeer, so I already had an account).
Before, I used the Coffee Project but as I was getting back in, their selection was limited, and they weren’t stocking some of my favorites. They were in the middle of a back end change to their store front, so they may have gotten things back in stock. They also used to do a generic discount code for no rush shipping, which was nice.
And sorry, these are both based on green beans and roasting your own. To me, it’s a great deal, you get better, fresher coffee for less money, and just a bit of a time outlay (roasting a batch usually takes about 15 minutes).
What do you use for roasting? Does a regular convection oven work?
I have an old little FreshRoast that will do about 4 ounces at a time. I’m looking at upgrading to a better one. You can roast in a cast iron skillet, or a convection oven. The issue with both of those is that you need to keep stirring/shaking to move the beans around, and you’ll have to separate out the chaff when you’re done. You can also use a hot air popper to roast beans (which will work better as long as the air flow is enough to move the beans around). The FreshRoast I’m using is essentially a hot air popper with a timer, temperature selection (low/medium/high), and a variable fan knob.
If you like French roast or darker, be aware that you will be generating a lot of smoke when you’re roasting. Both of the sites I linked to above also sell roasters, which usually come with 4-6 pounds of green coffee beans as well.
I prefer the lighter roasts most of the time–dark roasts can be really good for some things, but I like light aromatic flavors.
Sounds like the roaster is a little fluidized bed unit. I’ll have to look into it.
I have one of these and I think it may be possible to roast coffee in an air fryer oven (it has a rotating drum).
We use Sweet Maria’s for our green beans. They have several roasters for sale, and good write-ups on them. We use a Gene Cafe, which has lasted us for years.
The advantages of home roasting: you get access to a big variety of beans, and you can roast them exactly the way you like. Highly recommended, if you can spend the upfront layout for a good roaster.
But make sure you roast the night before. It takes a couple of hours for the outgassing to finish, otherwise your coffee tastes… less. It won’t be as flavorful. At least IMO.
Yep. 8-24 hours for outgassing (which is why most of the bags good coffee is sold in has a one way valve in it). And to avoid this just being a +1 comment, my favorite beans to roast and drink are:
Sumatran (the roast profile can change the flavor of this coffee so much)
Indonesia Sulawesi (this coffee ranks just below Blue Mountain for low acidity and great flavor)
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (another low acid with some bright notes)
For a real change of pace, look for:
Monsooned Malabar for the unique processing method
Various peaberries (these will depend on the main origin)
Various estate coffees
The huge exception to my South Americn > African coffee rule.
Thanks!
This film is a fully plagiarized, shot-for-shot remake of my comic. The filmmakers didn’t ask me for permission to adapt my work. They didn’t even notify me they were doing so until the film had already been released and was winning awards at film festivals.
https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/1356347686497218561
So what is the Official GLibertarian Position on borrowing ideas from, another medium to make a film?
That depends on whether the source is in the public domain.
Ripping off someone who is still alive but obscure is just wrong.
Falls into the shouldn’t be illegal but it’s scummy behavior category for me.
As the law stands now, he will get every* penny of profit that make from the film once he sues them. I have stated my position as opposition to IP (excepting trademark), but doing this without crediting him falls into the fraud category. I also have stated that getting rid of copyright and patent are literally the last item in my agenda, so refer back to the first sentence.
*give or take.
FIFY
Depends on the original deal if there is one.
Start about the 1:10 mark
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_p3W1F1ig
IANAL, but “Moby Dickhead” has to be one of the best handles on Twitter.
“The system, which attaches to the Picatinny rail that’s a standard feature of most military rifles, can best be described as a ‘mechanical isolator’ for a soldier’s support hand, according to Matt Angle, the Wyoming-based electrical engineer who originally developed the system before piquing the U.S. military’s interest at a government-sponsored innovation summit in Austin, Texas back in 2016.
According to the original Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for the ACE, the system is elegant in its simplicity: “A user selects a target or a direction, and then the system holds the weapon in the proper orientation. This effort seeks to merely correct for the shaking of the weapon that is not controllable by the user.”
“I can prevent the barrel from moving in ways I don’t want it to,” Angle told Task & Purpose in an interview. “Basically, you grab the device, and there’s a mechanical linkage system that keeps the barrel still in certain ways. It doesn’t automatically aim, but the whole thing is closer to image stabilization in a camera lens — as your hand shakes, the system moves to keep the barrel still.””
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/army-next-generation-squad-weapon-iron-man-suit/
That’s similar to the Parkinson’s spoons that have built-in stabilization so Joe can eat his puddin’ cup without getting it on his shirt.
*places order*
O yeah, I think I saw an ad for that on QVC–the SteadyBam?
[standard libertarian disclaimer]
I think I asked this once before and got roasted because I forgot the disclaimer.
Poll: Would you accept Swiss-style mandatory military service in exchange for Swiss-style foreign policy?
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Obviously, libertopia would have neither US foreign policy nor Swiss military service, but that isn’t the question.
I guess that depends on whether or not I believe Swiss-style foreign policy would actually happen.
But for the sake of argument, yes, I would.
I think the mandatory military service is what causes the Swiss-style foreign policy.
Would you accept Swiss-style mandatory military service – do I get to keep the gun as once was?
This is one i’ve tought about a bit. I’m pretty opposed to conscription, but the case of “Conscription exclusively for the defense of your people” i will admit i’m more open to. I have to keep thinking about this one.
(And do some research on the swiss conscription laws.
In a 2013 referendum, 73% voted to keep conscription.
Simple version:
Basic training at age 18 and then a few weeks a year until age 35 (or age 50 if an officer). Apparently if “unfit” to serve you pay an addition 3% income tax during those years, unless you are disabled.
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
Yes, but only because the knife has a corkscrew.
Perhaps there is a way to incorporate the Swiss Model without conscription. Per your comment below, let the State offer basic training at age 18 and then a few weeks a year until age 35 (or age 50 if an officer). Participants receive payment for attending plus firearms/armor/gear. If you break your commitment to attend, you must return the payments and firearms/armor/gear.
You’ll have a well-trained and well-armed population without needing conscription.
And include the alternate tax rate. Its totally volunteer, and you get a tax break too!
But you have to do it as a tax break, not a penalty for those not serving.
I’m afraid the toothpaste isn’t going back into the tube. We aren’t going to cease to be an imperial power until we are forced to, as the Brits were in WWII. Now afterwards, then the question is ripe for debate. Since the foreign policy is de facto infeasible, expanding our military footprint is only going to lead to trouble.
I consider taxation to be labor conscription, so conscription as a principle is currently practiced here, not just in wartime. Since I’m against coercion of any sort, no I don’t “accept” it, but just like I pay taxes…
Can I respectfully ask a favor? Please do not bring your dramas and personality conflicts to the Zoom. Many of us see our weekend meetings as succor from the craziness of our fucked up world. Everyone is welcome regardless of willingness to speak or be on camera (though it’s nice if you say “hello”, at least in the text chat).
If you think someone has personally done you dirty, please address that privately.
I will fite anyone that attempts to create in-groups & out-groups here or elsewhere. We have enough of that in politics. We all have people with whom we don’t mesh. It’s fucking life.
The Zoom isn’t my thing to police or regulate, but a) it’s an important part of my week, and b) cliques and cabals give me the hives.
Again, just a request, respectfully submitted.
Or, “just a thought, not a sermon”.
I’m fine with that as long as you stop trying to make “fetch” happen.
Speaking of which, is JATNAS still around?
And yeah, I don’t go to the Zooms anymore for two reasons: (a) I really don’t have much of interest to say (I’m a very boring person IRL, plus I don’t even have a camera on my PC, although that’s a blessing for youse folks), and (b) they always fire up at 6:00 PM local time, which is usually when I’m elbows-deep in prepping or making dinner for myself and my long-suffering spousal unit (who’s been having a lot of tough weeks with her client recently). Buggering off to Zoom afterwards isn’t really doing my duty towards her. She needs to talk things out with me to de-compress from the week.
I’ve seen JATNAS post once or twice not too long ago.
I did not know the word succor was actually in use.
There are reasons I dont stick around longer, and it aint drink,
*taps side of nose*
This is exactly why I don’t Zoom.
I think the times I joined I came in after all the drama. Off course I don’t think I zoomed in the last couple of months.
I can only fake being a decent human being with the buffer/delay/filter of written communication.
I guess your Aries horrorscope is holding true this week
I didn’t think there was too much controversy on the Saturday one.
I’m referring to the cat fight in the comments yesterday, not anything that happened on the Zoom (that I observed). In fact, I had a fucking fantastic time with you filthy bastards on both Friday and Saturday,
My point is simply I don’t want anyone to get turned off from joining us and I don’t want any cliques or in-groups to coalesce because some of you can’t deal with personality conflicts.
Just don’t bring the weekend fun-fests into your dramas, is all I’m asking.
Carry on.
Oh, yeah. That. That was unseemly.
I’ve seen very little drama aside from “ban me” and a couple of other “instances”. It’s almost always a jovial, convivial occasion so far as I can see. Bringing up ZOOM conversations later on the board might get awkward… Mind you, I’m always three sheets to wind when we talk so I don’t take offense.
The Zooms themselves have been nothing but fun (for me), as I said.
It bugs me when people have their little tiffs, then bring Zoom into it as if it’s to blame.
I’ll leave you with this. A uniting force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPW0-kIItS8
I like it.
The underlying lesson is “Never Again”. We need to stay vigilant and keep a standing army on red alerts so we can go fight Nazis somewhere at a moment’s notice.
Texas, South Dakota, Indiana; they’re everywhere.
I will personally avoid being a guinea pig for unproven technologies at this point. Let the rest of you do what you will.
But POLIO!
*I heard that last night
It is weird and you are weak.
Washington Football Team president Jason Wright concedes there are mixed views around the interim name for the NFL franchise, but told Jim VandeHei in an “Axios on HBO” interview that he doesn’t “think it’s that weird.” …
Wright says he came from the bubble that considered the old name derogatory, but upon moving into his new role he “found out that the debate of folks closer to it was much more nuanced than that.” …
‘Hey, we need to get something that can be a great placeholder,’ but there’s also precedent for a team that is named after the place it’s in.”
It wouldn’t be weird if it was more common in that league. Soccer teams are almost universally named after their city. It just seems like American Sports enjoy coming up with mascots and team names more than just naming it after the city.
Too bad a large number of cities in the US are named after Native American names.
Keep the interim name. Change the colors to blue lettering on white jerseys.
am I the only one who thinks based on the trailer that the Godzilla vs Kong movie looks like sharknado with a 200 mil budget?
The budget for King Kong vs Godzilla was $620,000 in 1962 dollars, or $5.3 million 2020 dollars.
That is obviously a different movie title
God King vs Kongzilla?
My money’s on the worm.
Nuance?
Fuck that.
I think this answers the question about the race of the nine-year-old in Rochester that was pepper-sprayed.
You’re acting like a child.
Cops act like cuntes and the city burns again.
Whole bean coffee?
My brief foray into that milieu was cut short more by the ineffectiveness and inconsistency of the “grinder” than the coffee itself. All I ever had or saw was the whirly blade style bean chopper. They suck.
What grinder do people use?
Tinder. Wait what was the question again?
I have an electric burr style grinder; maybe a Cuisinart brand? I’ll gave to go look. It has a variable grind setting for coarseness that works pretty well.
You need a burr grinder. Well a first rule of thumb is if electric and under 300 US dollars it is probably not good. I use a Porlex Tall hand grinder right now, decent results.
That’s what I use too.
I mean there are plenty burr grinders under 300, but no coffee snob will say they are good.
I make v60 coffee though not espresso.
Not sure how the power source matters. Hand driven or motor driven, something has to impart work. Burrs are definitely superior to choppers, but that’s an issue of what contacts the beans and the mechanism of grinding them, not what powers the mill.
The general idea is that you need a stronger motor to slowly turn the burrs instead of one doing it fast, and also burr material quality matters, and cheap grinders have cheap parts
It is a common problem in milling materials of overheating or overworking the milled material, so I get that the speed is an issue–but electric vs hand operated doesn’t matter if the gearing is correct. Burr material probably matters mostly for longevity–keeping a good edge on the milling burr means a better cut. But really all the burr is doing is drawing the bean into the roll or ring gap. This style of mill relies on exceeding the crush strength of the milled material and letting it fracture along natural weak points in the particles to be ground. So the burr isn’t really supposed to be doing any cutting, just giving the crushing surfaces some friction to draw in the material.
You can do the same thing with a completely smooth milling ring/roll if you have another mechanism to force the material between the surfaces, but that’s less efficient and requires more machinery.
but electric vs hand operated doesn’t matter – it does. manual is much simpler so a 75USD manual has much better materials than a 75USD electrical
OK, I’ll buy that argument, if you get better quality on the mill in exchange for the motor.
Mortar and pestle
Mr. Coffee flat burr.
Burr grinder inside of this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Saeco-Vienna-Plus-Espresso-Machine/dp/B002PI82OQ
Good coffee, but they don’t make the machine any more.
My Burr coffee grinder shot my Hamilton coffee maker.
?
I have this one, I am reasonably pleased with it so far.
I almost got that one to go with my matching oxo coffee maker, but I settled on this one: https://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grind-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=burr+grinder&qid=1612283907&sprefix=Burr+grinde&sr=8-3
It does its job, but seems unnecessarily messy. I know that static cling is unavoidable, but it’s pretty bad with the Cuisinart. I have to do the water trick or else the entire area of the counter near my coffee station will be covered in a layer of coffee grounds within a couple days.
Yeah, virtually no static cling with mine.
So when do we get to barbecue the groundhog?
Well, Cuomo has to drop it on its head first.
I thought that was DeBlasio?
I think you’re going to want to stew it instead of BBQ.
PRAISING THE GUN AS GOOD
YES. I decided to buy before they ban them. I’m looking to round out my Tavor collection with a Tavor 7 and a TS12. I’m inquiring with local shops to see if anyone has them in stock or can get them.
“The road is difficult and there is a lot of looting. The trip takes about a day and a half,” he said. That is double the time it would take along the coastal road.
Sounds like they need some Gifts of the Gun.
Israeli officials sent the first shipment of 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to Palestinian medical teams. The rest of an expected 5,000 doses will be sent in three more shipments
Guessing the conspiracy theories this is actions fuels is too easy.
Russian prosecutors on Monday backed a request to imprison opposition leader Alexei Navalny for several years on old charges, after police detained a record number of anti-Kremlin protesters across the country.
This is how a dictator acts, kinda like when NC Gov. Roy Cooper had anti-lockdown protestors arrested.
Incredibly, Tavor TS12s have been the highest selling semi-auto shotguns on GunBroker for at least 2 months. Ain’t nobody buying shotguns to go bird hunting these days.
I now have 2 20-gauge semi-auto shotguns and about 400 shells of #3 and #4 buck.
Not going to be hunting for birds.
Unfortunately it’s illegal in NY.
Mostly peaceful protest.
On Sunday, a group of homelessness activists who dressed up in antifa-style black bloc, armed with batons and knives, entered the lobby of the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia, Wash., demanding the hotel open rooms for homeless people. Antifa agitators allegedly assaulted an employee while other employees hid in a basement room for more than six hours. The police eventually secured the hotel, but in the skirmish, agitators chanted, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” a death threat against cops.
Hotel employees first called the cops at about 11 a.m. Sunday. The staff said a “mob of people wearing black” armed with hatchets, batons, and knives had entered the lobby and demanded the hotel open rooms to them, KIRO7 reported. The antifa agitators wore gas masks, helmets, and goggles, apparently preparing for a battle.
The antifa agitators, organized with the group Oly Housing Now, occupied the hotel after advocates had booked 17 rooms and demanded that Thurston County continue to pay for the room with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding.
I’m sure CNN will get right on that.
They restricted freedom of movement for people with explicit and implicit threats of violence? Kidnapping it is then.
Not mentioned: indictments.
Since AOC is looking for compasion, i expect her to come down on these types who have harrased and assaulted random innocent workers. Surely she won’t tell them to get over it, or just ignore what the leftists do in the name of her espoused ideology.
Israeli officials sent the first shipment of 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to Palestinian medical teams.
What are the odds the vaccine can be kept at proper temp until administered?
Something that entertained me as it popped up in my news feed:
Cleveland Doesn’t Need Your Love—It Needs Your Fire
A woman from New York moved to Cleveland to save us. She was not happy with how her ideas were treated, but it’s okay. She’s got a job as an assistant professor down in Texas now. It’s not quite Rednecks in the Mist, more Blue Collar workers in the Mist.
She’s saying Cleveland needs to be burned to the ground?
And after the first paragraph I already know she’s a Grade-A asshole busybody.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene boasts she is going to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump and says he supports her 100 percent as Democrats push to throw her off committees for her QAnon claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9211907/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-boasts-going-Mar-Lago-meet-Donald-Trump.html
“Tucker Carlson says QAnon Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene is only facing criticism because ‘CNN believes she has bad opinions’ and slams ‘the new democracy where networks get the veto'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9213139/Tucker-Carlson-says-Majorie-Taylor-Greene-facing-criticism-having-bad-opinions.html
The main reason she “is only facing criticism” is that Trump left a giant-sized hole, the biggest hole, huge. Can you believe the size of that hole? Unbelievable. Just look at it. Huge. Such a massive hole. You better believe it folks.
Well 9/11 and Sandy Hook being inside jobs seem like “unusual” opinions for a Congresswoman.
But hell, she got voted in so…
Is that actually what she said or is that how they characterize what she said?
I found this. They use some loaded language, but digging through the links, I found a screenshot of a facebook exchange where she agreed with someone that thinks school shootings were faked.
Hmmm…
So reading the Facebook she is not actually replying to the person right above.
Maybe the media’s got me tricked on this one.
Yeah, by threading she is responding to the original post.
Right, add that stuff and the QAnon stuff to my list posted up above.
There may be a world of daylight between what she actually said and how it’s being presented by the media.
Besides the QANON stuff, I saw that she’s also being portrayed as a wacko for saying something seems off about the handling of the Las Vegas shooting and noting that people seem to die in unusual circumstances around Hilary Clinton. Both sentiments many of us Glibs have expressed and we would be widely panned as conspiracy theory nutjobs for saying so.
Hell, if promoting conspiracy theories disqualifies you from congress, let’s expel every member who spent years promoting the Russia collusion conspiracy theory. Then we can talk about Greene.
That’s different!!!!
the new democracy where networks get the veto
Eh, fuck off. The only “new” thing about it is that people are telling the media to shove it en masse. The networks have been an integral part of the democrat/socialist infrastructure for 50 years.
Tucker Carlson says QAnon Rep.
Reddit groups get their own Representatives now?
Dale Cooper, I, r/biggerthanyouthought, he/him.
“‘Chaos’ in the White House as Biden administration officials argue over whether to call Myanmar military takeover a ‘coup’ over fears they will ‘anger China and be forced to withdraw foreign aid'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9213225/Biden-threatens-Myanmar-sanctions-administration-debates-calling-military-takeover-coup.html
10% for the big guy.
That’s a scary thought. Being forced to withdraw foreign aid.
*shudders*
Call it whatever but fears it’ll anger China should be the last consideration on our list.
Angering China would be a plus in my list.
Thise CCP bastards deserve anything they get at this point.
Yeah, truth means nothing. All that matters is whether we piss off the real looming world hegemon.
Hegemons only exist because the world allows them to – us included.
Goddammit Juris. Stop spitting on my ice cream cone…
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/02/portland-public-schools-taps-climate-curriculum-architect-to-lead-lent-elementary.html
(Reader view bypasses paywall)
A generation brainwashed with garbage and nonsense.
A generation brainwashed with garbage and nonsense.
Muh existential threat!
We need a presidential state of emergency declaration.
We’re gonna die of stupidity long before the greenhouse effect gets us.
All your resorts are belong to us.
“Our town attorney is reviewing the agreement and the laws surrounding it,” Palm Beach Town Manager Kirk Blouin told The Hill.
An attorney and a group of anonymous residents called last month for the town to bar Trump from living at the so-called “Southern White House,” which he converted from a home into a private club.
They argue that staying long-term at the estate violates Trump’s agreement with the town authorizing the club. The agreement prohibits members and guests from staying in the guest suites for more than seven days at a time.
Weekend getaways?
Trump is neither a member nor a guest, he is the owner.
Why are people so fucking petty?
#resisting nazis is not petty!!!1
Because they can be?
Something that entertained me as it popped up in my news feed:
Cleveland Doesn’t Need Your Love—It Needs Your Fire
A woman from New York moved to Cleveland to save us.
You didn’t deserve her, Neph. She’s too pure of spirit, too kind, too generous for a bunch of drunken ruffians like you.
Funny you should say that…
That doesn’t sound at all like a sign of dependency.
It’s even pertinent to a link below.
“Trump slamming isn’t a hobby—it’s an entire social life, and without him, there’s very little to do after six p.m”
Drinking is not a hobby! Some of us take it very seriously!
I’m going to have to circle back on that.
A reporter asked, “Has the White House made a determination about whether it will continue to extend the privilege of intelligence briefings to former President Trump, given the concerns among some Democrats that he’ll either misuse it or leverage it to enrich himself?”
Psaki answered, “Mm-hmm. This is a good question. I’ve raised it with our intelligence teams — or our national security team, I should say. It’s something, obviously, that’s under review, but there was not a conclusion last I asked them about it, but I’m happy to follow up on it and see if there’s more to share.”
Why do former presidents get briefings anyway?
To access the benefit of their experience and institutional memory.
And yet another “we’ll get back to you on that” from Psaki.
Well, they keep asking her trick questions!
A reporter asked, “Has the White House made a determination about whether it will continue to extend the privilege of intelligence briefings to former President Trump, given the concerns among some Democrats that he’ll either misuse it or leverage it to enrich himself?”
How will he misuse that info from a 5×8 cell at Guantanamo?
“Awful news to wake up to of Myanmar’s coup. A friend who lives in Yangon texted me saying that the generals were likely emboldened by Trump’s playbook, as they used false claims of widespread election fraud as a pretext to seize power.”
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1356154003567083520
OFFS!!!
They’re going to keep Trump around as a punching bag as long as they can. They simply can’t quit him–he’s so deeply under their skin, they can’t function as whole people without him.
No I read they were actually using the Democrats stolen election platform from 2016.
likely emboldened by Trump’s playbook,
I guess Trump failed to consult his own playbook.
That’s a good litmus test for idiocy if I’ve ever seen one. If you know someone like that keep them away from sharp objects for their own good and don’t allow them to buy any magic beans.
But what if I have some magic beans I want to sell to them? They repel Trump!
Trump is everywhere. Trump is everything. Trump is everyone.
TRUUUUUUUUUUUUMP
jfc we live in the end times.
Lol. Fuck off.
“Avoid chanting or cheering. Stomp, clap, or bring hand-held noisemakers instead,” the CDC says.
The health agency also suggested holding outdoor watch parties, but says in cold weather, masks should be worn underneath scarves or ski masks, and people should carry a spare mask in case the first one gets wet from snow or rain. Even outdoors, fans should avoid close contact with anyone who is not part of their own household and should wear a mask at all times, except when eating or drinking.
The CDC also has tips for people who choose to attend the Super Bowl or a larger event like a watch party, including limiting alcohol consumption (“Consuming alcohol may make you less likely to follow COVID-19 safety measures.”). The guidelines also recommends planning your bathroom and snack trips strategically by avoiding “using restroom facilities or concession areas at high traffic times, such as half-time or immediately at the end of the event.”
Fucking nosebleed again. It’s like I go about my day like the toughest MF on the prison block and then my sinuses say “I’m not locked up in here with you, you’re locked in here with ME!” Great, stained my brand-new Costco t-shirt. I really should get them cauterized.
My little sister had frequent nosebleeds as a child. At one point my Mom took her to an ENT (not her usual pediatrician) for an evaluation and the doctor told my Mom, in all seriousness that my sister showed signs of an extreme cocaine habit–due to the scarring in her nose. She was 11 at the time. The doctor was nuts.
Griselda Blanco was your sister?
Sounds like your little sister was picking her nose (a frequent reason for childhood nose-bleeds). The scarring may have been due to the constant scratching of the nasal mucousal membranes by fingernails.
You’ve got me. I always copped to being the dumbest nose-picking Glib! 😉
Festus: I get nosebleeds a fair amount in my right nostril only (deviated septum causes all kinds o’ problems). For a fast, temporary fix, get yourself some Otrivin or other nasal spray containing the active ingredient xylometazoline HCL. It shrinks the capillaries close to the surface of your nasal membranes and restricts the blood flow, turning off the faucet, so to speak. In order for it to work, you must blow your nose gently but thoroughly to get the fresh blood (and any forming clot) out, and then immediately spray the Otrivin up the offending nostril. Now you have to wait a couple of minutes, and you might need to blow/spray again if the blood flow washes too much of the Otrivin out too fast.
But it does work! Lasts for six to eight hours, and allows a small clot to form which can fix the problem for days or weeks, in my experience.
(Also, I’ve learned not to blow my nose after I wake up until I’ve had my shower . . . )
THAMK YOU! *holding tissue in nostril*
All kidding aside, alum sticks like they used to wield in old barbershops would probably work the same. It sucks being a bleeder, got kicked off the wrestling team in high school.
Alum sticks will work, but they’re painful (and they’re shrinking only the tissue they touch, rather than slowing down the blood flow throughout the nostril).
I get nosebleeds when I’m dehydrated. Are you drinking enough water?
Fucking nosebleed again
I would suggest that you move your partner back from the headboard to prevent this. Or maybe try another position all together?
But congrats on getting some!
Oh, BTW, once again, a launch of SpaceX’s starship serial number 9 is expected today. Supposedly they have the required regulatory approvals. Local evac order in force starting at 1100 CST.
live stream
Thanks db!!
My pleasureHail Satan!Ah. Just enough grease to the wheels of the DNC to make his vision possible. “Musk, A Man And His Vision!”
I wonder what they had to promise to get the papers to go through.
President Harris first whatever on Mars!
“Facebook Says No More Ads for Movement to Recall Gavin Newsom”
https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2021/01/28/facebook-says-no-more-ads-for-movement-to-recall-gavin-newsom-n318271
The ratchet only goes one way.
Now they’re getting overtly political. Unsurprising.
lmao if they weren’t such inept pussies I’d be worried.
Mr. Orwell, you are wanted at the courtesy phone.
People in areas of the UK with identified outbreaks of the South African strain of the coronavirus have been warned to “think again” before leaving their homes, a government minister said. …
“The message is ‘think again’ just before you go about activities, even for those activities that are within the rules such as essential shopping,” she told Sky News.
“Do you really need to go for that shopping or have you got enough in? Could you work from home? Could you have that conversation with your employer? It’s about reinforcing the rules that are in place.
“We’re at that final hurdle, but it’s still a very perilous stage of this virus and we’ve got these new variants spreading, so we do have to be extra vigilant and really abide by those rules to the letter of them, and also contemplate every action and activity that we do.”
Why are you only wearing the minimum pieces of flair?
I’m continually amazed that people still think that the Rona and its many variants will somehow be completely eliminated somehow. All that is needed is a few more weeks of cowering and a magic shot and then it goes away.
But you still need to wear your mask.
It should have been fairly clear last February that the Rona had escaped containment and was here for at least the near future. Someday we might use our fusion reactor to build nanobots that can completely eliminate the Rona virus, but until then…
Don – add me on lichess if you see this so we can play when both of us have time. PLZ? And anyone else who wants to play chess, add me and we’ll communicate there.
https://lichess.org/@/RoundEarthShill
I didn’t know “lich” was a gendered term.
It’s not. It’s a generic term for a corpse.
Speaking of total ass clowns…
https://twitter.com/BidenLs/status/1356497688804614144
Dooooooooouche
That’s…wat. The more I read the profile the more I saw it was an obvious troll. Then I saw the “verified” picture. What the fuck.
If I remember correctly from before I ditched tinder, their verification process is simply “Take a picture of yourself using your phone using our app.” and then some “processing” takes place. Once the “processing” (quotes because I have no idea what is involved) is done, you’re verified.
“Man”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
“ethically non-monogamous open relationship”
So he’ll give other guys handies as well?
Crack’d Egg owner says wearing a mask a customer choice
“I will not make a health decision for anyone. It is not my place,” she said. “I am there to serve the public when they come in and if they choose to wear a mask, that is fine. If they choose not to, that is fine.”
Employee lawsuit incoming in 3, 2, 1….
Not to mention a SWAT team.
Nope.
I’ve followed the Crack’d Egg case for quite a while.
All her employees agree with her.
In Arizona, the girlfriend and I grabbed a bite at a bar in which no one (staff included) was wearing masks.
“Scientists Have Taught Spinach to Send Emails When They Detect Landmines”
https://www.ign.com/articles/scientists-teach-spinach-to-send-emails-detect-landmines
Well, I taught pigs to send spam.
That’s neat. The description is an annoying lie, but TMITE. But the actual thing they’re doing is cool.
Hey, what happened to the Monocle and Eyepiece browser enhancement links?
“New @nyuniversity report calls conservative claims of social media censorship ‘a form of disinformation'”
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1356249837075886089
“Editor/chief writer of Washington Post’s Fact Checker, revealing the truth behind the rhetoric.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
How can you stand to plow through all of that crap?
I got a text from my brother who lives in northern NJ, a while ago. 28″ of snow..
Only five or six inches here in NYC.
That is about what we have in our part of Northern NJ.. and lots of drifting. Mme Pelouse plowed the drive way this morning… Just enough power and traction to get up the hill, and that was with plowing yesterday at about 12″.
Off to the Airport to clear the Hangar later this afternoon.
What’re you flying?
Mooney M20M Bravo.. Hangar faces north so it won’t clear from just the sun.
I’m pretty sure we have discussed it in your flying articles.
Nothing worse than a big snow storm out East.
The MSM will talk about nothing else for the next few weeks. The rest of us just shrug and say, yeah, that is a lot, but still you should be dug out within 24 hours of the snow stopping.
It looks like the second band of snow we were supposed to get in southern NH is going to amount to nothing, so I’m going to clear the driveway now. It looks kinda windy out. I’d guess about eight inches or so here.
Someone is riding a fat tire bike up and down my street.
Yeah it got really windy and cold down here too. The girls went swimming in the canal with their snorkel gear last night checking out what the local fauna was doing underwater. The wind kept blowing them down the canal. It was cold enough that my middle child is thinking about buying herself a shorty wetsuit.
(Posts like this make life with living)
“I will not make a health decision for anyone. It is not my place,” she said
Just what Hitler would say.
HaHa! Just basically told Mee Hee to back the fuck off! Things are brewing, now…
Good.
Told xit that everything is spic and span and can I please go back to doing my job? Also added that xer should be dealing with my Supervisor.
Put peroxide on your T-shirt stains, and then Zout if you have it. Wash in cold. Repeat if necessary.
I repeat, Costco T-shirt. Still more good advice, though. Thanks, Friend!
Florida man…
Two FBI agents were killed Tuesday morning and three others were wounded while trying to serve a search warrant at a home in Sunrise, Fla., in a child pornography case, the FBI confirmed to Fox News. The suspect is also dead.
The incident unfolded around 6 a.m. in the vicinity of 10100 Reflections Boulevard, Sunrise, Florida. Two of the wounded agents were transported to the hospital and are in stable condition, the FBI said. The names of the deceased will not be released at this time, they added.
Now do you see why the G-men like to stick to Russian probes, Biden laptops and setting up tame imbiciles?
Real criminals are fucking dangerous! Who needs that?
“EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s communications staff have already probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during briefings, according to three sources and written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast”
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1356422896973983746
They don’t want the same rabid mob that greeted our beloved Pie? Heaven forfend!
So we’re back to the Obama days when the President did actually interfere with the freedom of the press and no one cared. Awesome. It’s so…progressive, like a tumor….
Great analogy… The press loves to be ass raped as long as it is done by an autocratic democrat…
That crease in your pants sends a shiver down my leg!
Next step: telling the reporters which questions they are allowed to ask. As if the reporters aren’t already slurping their you know whats.
I have seen a couple of Obama press briefings being prepared on C-SPAN. They literally went around the room telling the reporters who was going to get called on in what order and what the topic of their question would be. So the junior press secretary dude would say “Wolf, the first question goes to you on health care. Then we are going to Brent for a follow-up on Republican inaction on health care. The we are going to go to Ann for a question on wall street.”
The entire thing was choreographed street theater.
Sneaky fuckin jews! Sending smallpox infested
blanketsvaccines to the people trying to kill them!^cancelled
I’m spreading Fake Newz! Haven’t you read my author bio!? I’m an organic troll farmer.
If your next shonen anime doenn’t include the attack BABAMBA BEAM I’ll be disappointed.
#metoo!
Yes, and a wonderful troll farmer indeed!
Dave Portnoy lost 700K on the GameStop stuff:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dave-portnoy-loses-700k-ish-after-selling-meme-stocks
As y’all might imagine, he’s not too happy with Robinhood.
I was talking to a cow orker about this the other day. They drove up the stock and made short sellers lose their shorts, but what was the end game? By pulling this stunt the stunt pullers were due to lose, because Game Stop doesn’t actually make a good profit. Me losing money so I can laugh at someone else for losing money really is something I would never do.
I’d wager that there were enough Bit Coiners and pissed off rednecks that don’t give a shit. Everyone saw what happened over the last year.
“I was talking to a cow orker”
I know his wife is plump, but that’s just mean.
20 comments in before anything related to Jews is mentioned (“jew” as a verb), and another 10 comments before someone posts something about there being too many Jews.
ZH is losings its edge.
“ethically non-monogamous open relationship”
What did you think was gonna happen when you married a whore?
Dollahs!
a second income stream
Is that when you are trying to follow a variety of ethical codes and find it difficult to handle the cognitive dissonance?
So, there are YouTube channels of people eating?! No talking. No music. Just eating.