Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – OnlyFans edition

by | Feb 24, 2021 | Daily Links | 339 comments

Children Expelled After School Finds Out About Mom’s OnlyFans Account

 

Three children were expelled from their Sacramento, California Catholic school Sunday after school administrators took issue with their mother’s job: modeling on the adult members-only site, OnlyFans.

According to 44-year-old Crystal Jackson, her foray into OnlyFans began as a way to rekindle the spark in her 14-year marriage.

“I went through menopause early and I was just like, wanting to have that connection with my husband again,” she told NBC affiliate KCRA.

So she and her husband, Chris, began posting content to OnlyFans, which reportedly ranges from pin-up style photos to “sexy stories” Crystal writes for their subscribers.

Their “hot wife” content was a hit. When the couple began uploading to OnlyFans a little over a year ago, they made $15,000 their very first month. Now, they’re pulling in over $150,000 a month. Jackson’s Instagram account, under the alias “Mrs. Poindexter” boasts over 500,000 followers.

Here’s the problem with Catholic school, a buncha horny nuns running OnlyFans searches on the moms. “I’m breaking the habit,” is a double entendre, you know.


 

No Charges for Rochester Officers Who Killed a Black Man Having a Mental Health Crisis

The Rochester police officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man having a mental health crisis, will not face charges after a grand jury declined to indict the officers Tuesday. The officers, responding to a call in March 2020 by Prude’s brother, handcuffed and placed a hood over the 41-year-old’s head, before pinning him to the ground in the middle of the street. In a matter of minutes, Prude, who had recently been hospitalized for mental health issues, stopped breathing, and ultimately died of asphyxiation a week later in a local hospital. The father of five was naked at the time of the arrest. “I placed a phone call to get my brother help,” Prude’s brother, Joe, told reporters last year, “not to have my brother lynched.”

What do you think this is, last summer? Orange Man Bad is gone; your usefulness is at an end. Maybe, maybe the Dems might need you for the midterms, but even they know without Trump to run against, that is a lost cause. You were sold out. Get your head around it, BLM/Antifa.


 

US Navy tests ‘solar satellite’ that can beam power to ANYWHERE on Earth from space

THE US Navy has fired a pizza box sized satellite into orbit that generated enough electricity to power an iPad.

The Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM) was launched in May 2020 and harnesses light from the sun that it converts into electricity. According to CNN, the experimental tech is attached to a drone that orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

It’s designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.

“To our knowledge, this experiment is the first test in orbit of hardware designed specifically for solar power satellites, which could play a revolutionary role in our energy future,” said Paul Jaffe, PRAM principal investigator and co-developer of the project.

“Some visions have space solar matching or exceeding the largest power plants today – multiple gigawatts – so enough for a city,” he told CNN.

Did anyone else bother to turn on HELIOS One in Fallout: New Vegas so you could use the Archimedes II solar strike? It sort of had that mini-nuke disappointment about it. Characters survived it when it should have reduced everything to ashes.


 

1994, Ball State University, the Downward Spiral tour

Marylin Manson leaves the stage. No one knows who they are at this point; Marylin is not even wearing the ghoul make-up yet. The house lights fade and the crowd settles. It is quiet as a medium-venue ever gets, murmuring, coughing, a couple of groans. The band is quietly futzing on the stage. They are about to start. A lone voice, a girl’s voice, screams “TRENT! I WANT YOU TO FUCK ME LIKE AN ANIMAL!” The first chord rises.

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339 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Their “hot wife” content was a hit. When the couple began uploading to OnlyFans a little over a year ago, they made $15,000 their very first month. Now, they’re pulling in over $150,000 a month. Jackson’s Instagram account, under the alias “Mrs. Poindexter” boasts over 500,000 followers.”

    doubt

    • Chipwooder

      I mean, she’s cute in a milfy way, but who’s paying to see her when there are a million similar looking chicks online you can see for free?

      • Not Adahn

        Maybe she’s got charisma?

      • Swiss Servator

        Maybe she is a really good writer?

      • DEG

        Review of her OnlyFans page.

      • Old Man With Candy

        She’s pushed out three kids and is menopausal. That chute has to be the size of a traveling suitcase.

      • Mad Scientist

        If we can find my keys, we can drive out!

      • zwak

        She exudes Real. All those pretty girls in the make-up and stripper heels, whatever costumes they wear, exude Fake.

        That is what makes money.

      • zwak

        By the way, that is not a cheap area of Sacramento. The area is a strivers dream, middle class reaching for upper-middle. I used to live on the far end of the area and hated it.

        And that school feeds into the one Greta Gerwig (semi-famously) went to, which is a very pricy place.

      • R C Dean

        She exudes Real. All those pretty girls in the make-up and stripper heels, whatever costumes they wear, exude Fake.

        Well, Real certainly jiggles my handle.

    • creech

      This is the kind of boast that gets the IRS’s attention when your return comes in and shows significantly less income.

  2. UnCivilServant

    Did anyone else bother to turn on HELIOS One in Fallout: New Vegas so you could use the Archimedes II solar strike?

    Maybe once or twice.

    • Timeloose

      From Larry Niven’s Fallen Angels. https://www.baen.com/fallen-angels.html

      Microwave transmitted from sat.

      “Their escape is aided in a similar manner. Though the Angels are unable to walk due to their overexposure to weightlessness and must be dragged along on sleds, the microwave power transmission beam reserved for Winnipeg is diverted to warm the travellers as they return south to their van. In addition, a tribe of nomadic Inuit peoples shares supplies with them in thanks for the warmth provided by the microwave beam.”

      • EvilSheldon

        I so love that book.

      • DEG

        “Fallen Angels” is a good book.

    • Cowboy

      “They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.”

  3. kbolino

    There’s a giant gray box where I assume a video was supposed to be that says, “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.”

    • UnCivilServant

      Your betters at Alphabet know better than you what your eyes should fall upon.

    • juris imprudent

      Go ask your parents to disable the content restrictions on your computer. Geez.

      • kbolino

        If a click the link to “Watch on Youtube” it works fine. I’m signed into my Google account already so who knows.

      • db

        I never sign in to youtube so I can’t watch it.

      • rhywun

        Yup. You need an account. Oh well.

  4. Shpip

    The Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM) was launched in May 2020 and harnesses light from the sun that it converts into electricity. According to CNN, the experimental tech is attached to a drone that orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

    It’s designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.

    Let me know when it’s up to cooking enormous pans of Jiffy-Pop.

    Spoiler Warning: every single one of you know what clip this is without clicking.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Great I never saw that movie. Grumbles.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Stop playing with yourself Shpip.

      • Shpip

        C’mon, man! I stopped doing that (checks calendar) literally hours ago!

    • db

      Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?

      • Translucent Chum

        Not at this moment.

      • Mojeaux

        A girl’s gotta have her standards.

    • juris imprudent

      Does this taste like yogurt to you?

    • zwak

      Who says that?

  5. Not Adahn

    THE US Navy has fired a pizza box sized satellite into orbit that generated enough electricity to power an iPad.

    How much energy is required to launch a satellite into orbit?

    • Stillhunter

      The bigger question: Is there pineapple on the pizza inside the box?

      Oh, pizza box SIZED! Nvmd…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And isn’t the method of transmitting power from space down to earth just going to exacerbate global warming?

      • juris imprudent

        Global MICROWAVING!

      • Drake

        If they are using solar radiation that wouldn’t otherwise hit the Earth, then yes.

  6. db

    Children Expelled After School Finds Out About Mom’s OnlyFans Account

    Drugs / Ass?

  7. Nephilium

    Several of my friends knew Trent back in the day. They described him as a short dick who kept trying to pick up random girls at the bars by saying that he was in a band.

    Better version of the same song.

    • EvilSheldon

      I mean, a lot of the time that works. Or so I hear.

      • The Vacatious GT

        Can confirm. (But only if you’re REALLY in a band.)

      • KromulentKristen

        And only if you’re Simon Lebon

      • Swiss Servator

        Hey, KK – My wife had first dibs on him!

      • KromulentKristen

        How old is she? We’ll go by seniority

      • juris imprudent

        Oh Swiss is so screwed right now.

      • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

        oh it works alright, how do think I met my Wife.

    • Chipwooder

      I think he dated Kennedy at one point, which is kind of hilarious.

    • db

      I have a friend who went to college with him. He said about the same thing.

    • Agent Cooper

      He’s from my neck of the woods in Western PA. Before Cleveland and TVT, he used to go to places, get drunk and do Zeppelin songs on the piano, or so I’m told. I’m a little younger.

    • Jerms

      I thought all those singers from the 90s killed themselves? Whats he still doing hanging around?

  8. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Microwave it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.

    • Sean

      Yes, it can’t parallel park.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I thought that was sexism?

      • DrOtto

        Is that a jab at Asians?

    • kbolino

      I’ve seen plenty of black people biking and hiking and amazingly not one white person stopped them and told them they weren’t supposed to.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Cultural appropriation!!!

      • EvilSheldon

        Last time I was up Old Rag (last August), there were a ton of black, Latin, and Indian hikers, and one little old Chinese lady who said that she’d been hiking Old Rag twice a year for twenty-plus years (and she looked it.)

        Campus Reform is full of shit, as per usual.

      • KromulentKristen

        Love me some Old Rag. I doubt I could make it up there in under 8 hours nowadays

    • pistoffnick

      “Racism: is there anything it can’t do?”

      dessert topping/floor polish

    • Mojeaux

      I was deprived of the essential human need to ski because I was poor and also didn’t know how to ski.

    • Plisade

      Oh yeah, maybe we should get rid of all the armed KKK dudes guarding the free neighborhood parks and the trailheads at all the free state and national parks. And the ski resorts really should stop using their spectrophotometers to check for lightish skin color before letting people buy tickets.

    • RBS

      I’m sure black people need this dude speaking for them.

    • KromulentKristen

      Why don’t 99.9% of white people ski?

      • The Hyperbole

        99% of white people who “ski” don’t ski, put your feet together people and ditch those hourglass shaped monstrosities!

      • KromulentKristen

        ?

      • db

        Even with the extreme curve skis that make carving ridiculously easy, people still scrape the slopes flat. You still have to be able to properly link the turns and exert enough pressure to make a properly carved turn. It takes skill and effort to do it right.

      • KromulentKristen

        Yeah, I ski like an 80-year-old on kiddie slopes. I ain’t scraping nuttin.

      • db

        If I might make a suggestion, advanced lessons are worth the time if you want to break out. If not, cruising is a lot of fun too. You be you!

      • KromulentKristen

        I skied like a speed freak in my childhood years. I don’t ski for adrenaline. It’s a zen thing, like shooting a pistol.

      • db

        Nothing like being in the zone. I find it when I’m skiing sometimes, sometimes on the rifle range, just taking a shot every few minutes, spend a few hours enjoying the outdoors and making the gong ring.

      • KromulentKristen

        My favorite trail that I’ve ever skied is Lower Liftline at Bolton Valley. It’s the exact right pitch to allow for straight downhill at a reasonable speed without turning or poling or skating.

      • The Hyperbole

        Just look at these magnificent bastards (skip to the 4min to get to the skiing) then tell my some yahoos with their boots shoulder width look one tenth as graceful.

      • db

        Yeah, I use a very close parallel stance, you don’t need to keep your feet so wide apart, even with parabolic curves.

      • KromulentKristen

        I think Stein Eriksen is da bomb and was a beautiful skier, but I also think the same of Didier Cuche.

        But I ski…comfortable. Like, whatever my legs want to do, I do.

      • waffles

        Fair. I tried to teach my 67 year old mother some mogul technique today. We got through it and she picked up a few things. But the caution remains and it’s just so damn difficult to get her to break out of a defensive posture when skiing. I blame the years of negative reinforcement skiing with my dad who’s instruction consisted of standing at the bottom of the pitch and yelling “TURN”.

      • db

        Skiing in Iran 11 months before the Ayatollah’s revolution.

      • db

        And, with the Empress of Iran, no less.

      • waffles

        Ok, yeah it’s magnificent. But on a modern setup you can just rip and it becomes like surfing a giant unending wave. I will say there’s definitely a bigger skill gap on older gear than there is now.

      • waffles

        Now you’ve gone and summoned me, old timer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5-m9VjYv8 You just can’t get through woods like this on narrow sticks. Powder is love, powder is life.

      • db

        That’s a lot of powder. Out here in western PA we get ice and packed granular if we’re lucky, maybe a few inches of powder if we’re very lucky.

      • The Hyperbole

        Those skis don’t seem especially shaped, wide is different than parabolic. also unless its a fisheye lens thing they appear to only be about 3 feet long which probably matters in the trees more than the shape.

      • waffles

        Those are exceptionally wide and parabolic. Decently long too at 185cm. Yeah, it’s difficulty to tell. The main advantage in the woods is being able to go over the terrain (hidden stumps, logs, etc) rather than just plowing into it. It’s a different technique and it’s a blast.

      • KromulentKristen

        I loved the glades when I was a kid. One of the reasons I started skiing out west was the really wide trails.

      • KromulentKristen

        (meaning, I’ve completely changed my ski style since I was an unfettered yoot)

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I don’t ski because fuck skiing.

        But I do love a good ski bike. That’s shits fun.

        I used one in Whistler about 15 years ago. Virtually no one had seen one before and I met more people on the mountain that day than in the entire 15 years since. Everyone wanted to know what it was all about.

        Awesomeness is the answer.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Blacks probably don’t ski for the same reason I rarely do. It’s too damn expensive.

      • Mad Scientist

        And it’s freakin’ cold!

      • creech

        Golf, too.

    • rhywun

      The lack of opportunity to participate

      is a figment of your fevered imagination.

    • waffles

      “Whites can be cultural omnivores in ways African Americans can’t. That’s important because these activities contribute to health and well-being and, especially in the arts, a sense of being fully human,” he continued.

      wow, racist

  9. Rebel Scum

    they made $15,000 their very first month. Now, they’re pulling in over $150,000 a month.

    Someone said this is non-nude. Seems like a lot for that.

    • Gadfly

      The Reddit review linked to above indicates that the Only Fans page is full nudity, no porn. So people are paying for erotic images with an engaging personality. If she does have 500K fans, I can see her pulling in $150K/month (she’d only have to get 30% of her fans to give $1 each month).

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *strips off clothes*

        *waits for charming banter to result in money rolling in*

        *gets cold and puts clothes back on*

  10. Count Potato

    “stopped breathing, and ultimately died of asphyxiation a week later in a local hospital”

    What?

    • Not Adahn

      Crazy peple can hold their breath for days. It’s like retard strength.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Took a REALLY deep breath, first?

    • Gadfly

      Yeah, there has to be more to the story than that.

      • R C Dean

        Speculation here:

        He stopped breathing on scene, was resuscitated. Taken to the hospital, likely non-responsive. Perhaps declined at hospital, family had a DNR/DNI order on him, so he wasn’t intubated and died of “asphyxiation”. Or the hospital fucked up and didn’t intubate him. Or the family pulled life support, and the stupid reporter said he died of “asphyxiation”.

      • SugarFree

        What I’ve heard is he was brain dead on scene, they got his heart restarted, and he ceased life functions a week later.

        And he had been kicked out of a hospital earlier in the day while exhibiting signs of a psychotic break.

      • db

        kicked out of a hospital earlier in the day while exhibiting signs of a psychotic break.

        That sounds like…bad judgment?

      • R C Dean

        Well, psychotic breaks and bad judgment go together.

        Oh, you mean by the hospital? Could be, but maybe not. Much depends on the details

  11. Count Potato

    “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.”

  12. DEG

    So she and her husband, Chris, began posting content to OnlyFans, which reportedly ranges from pin-up style photos to “sexy stories” Crystal writes for their subscribers.

    Their “hot wife” content was a hit.

    Hmm…. her NSFW subreddit looks good.

    The Rochester police officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man having a mental health crisis, will not face charges after a grand jury declined to indict the officers Tuesday. The officers, responding to a call in March 2020 by Prude’s brother, handcuffed and placed a hood over the 41-year-old’s head, before pinning him to the ground in the middle of the street. In a matter of minutes, Prude, who had recently been hospitalized for mental health issues, stopped breathing, and ultimately died of asphyxiation a week later in a local hospital.

    Totality of circumstances, hth

    The project envisages an array of dozens of solar satellites that, if scaled up, has the potential to provide huge amounts of power at a moment’s notice.

    Why do I smell bullshit?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Saves link for later

    • Plisade

      “Why do I smell bullshit?”

      The military is trying to find ways to limit the need for and the vulnerability of supply lines. Drop in teams that use battery-powered equipment; beam them energy to charge back up.

      • Plisade

        What?! Brooks’d it!!!

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Oh, I’m sure she uses battery powered equipment.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s a Gilmore.

  13. Rebel Scum

    When “lies” means “information that damages my narrative”.

    O’Brien said specifically that media outlets should not “book liars or advance lies,” and should stop “posing every story as having two sides,” when some stories had many sides, while other stories only had one legitimate side. She also said that newsrooms should recruit more diverse newsrooms, and that the media should invest in “efforts to challenge media who disseminate misinformation.” (She cited Media Matters for America, a left-wing organization that organizes efforts to boycott conservative media, as a positive example.)

    Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who also appeared as a witness, criticized O’Brien’s approach, saying it was not fair to support free speech and a free press, but only “as long as you’re not a liar.”

    “Who’s the arbiter of that?” he added.

    “I do not believe that lies deserve equal time,” O’Brien later said.

    • Chipwooder

      She cited Media Matters for America, a left-wing organization that organizes efforts to boycott conservative media, as a positive example

      Excuse me while I wipe away several tears of helpless laughter!

    • kbolino

      other stories only had one legitimate side

      Even a story with only one participant has multiple sides. What exactly do they teach at j-school anymore?

  14. Enough About Palin

    Had a March 18 appointment at the Hennepin County Government Center to get an drivers license. Just got an email cancellation stating:

    “We are contacting you today because your scheduled appointment for a driver’s license or state ID at the Hennepin County Government Center Service Center has been canceled.

    Access to the Government Center will be restricted to the operations of the Fourth Judicial District Court ahead of and during the trial of former MPD officer Derek Chauvin, scheduled to begin March 8.”

    WTF???

    • Jerms

      First time driver? You very young or just doing it a little late?

  15. KromulentKristen

    Welp. My friend in Maine (lived a few dorm doors from each other) has the cancer again. More of her liver will be coming out.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    • db

      Fuck cancer, yo.

    • R C Dean

      That sucks.

      I’m pretty sure if they ever open me up, they’ll take one look at my liver, take a few pics with their phones to share with friends, and close me up again.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s a pisser. Sorry

  16. Rebel Scum

    Psaki that semantic horseshit to me, baby.

    “We’ve seen some photos now of containers. Is there a better description?” Doocy asked. “Is it kids in containers instead of kids in cages? What is the the White House’s description of this facility?”

    “Well, let me give a broader description of what’s happening here,” she responded. “We have a number of unaccompanied minors, children who are coming into the country without their families, what we are not doing, what the last administration did, was separate those kids, rip them from the arms of their parents at the border, we are not doing that. That is immoral. And that is not the approach of this administration. These kids, we have a couple of options, we can send them back home and do a dangerous journey back, we are not doing that either. That is also putting them at risk.”

    I know the Dark Side is going to cause her to deteriorate sooner than later but she is kindof a would for me right now. So I guess that is a position I will have to circle back on later.

    • kbolino

      The previous admin also stopped the “separate children from their parents at the border” policy in like 2017 too, so really you’ve changed absolutely nothing at all.

    • bacon-magic

      You do realize you’ll have to push her and her pink commie hat out the helicopter right?

    • Yusef, Chaser of the Devils Tail

      “She is kindof a would for me right now. ” agreed, just because, and please shut up, or wait, let me help you with that…..

    • Agent Cooper

      “Of unaccompanied minors, children who are coming into the country without their families,”

      “was separate those kids, rip them from the arms of their parents at the border”

      Someone square these two statements for me. They seem incongruous.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s a bit inarticulate, she’s describing the treatment of different categories of immigrant children across administrations. The first are unaccompanied and the second are brought over by their parents. Joe is putting the former in tiny houses, Donny put the later in cages.

      • Stillhunter

        That popped out to me too. Of course no reporters followed up I’m sure.

  17. "Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"

    Twitter says questioning the importance of the NATO alliance online is now “hate speech” that has gotten people purged.

    https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1364285191867531264

    Bro, does Matt Welch work for Twitter?

      • kbolino

        I like the “100 accounts with Russian ties”; not Russian government ties, no apparently just being Russian is bad, mkay.

        Does anyone remember that national origin is actually a protected class?

      • grrizzly

        It’s been like that since at least 2016. It got slightly better after the Mueller group got shut down.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuck Twitter

      • Mad Scientist

        THIS

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      NATO, who I’d expect your average Russian to oppose and with good reason, sucks only slightly less than Twitter. Yay MIC!

  18. Rebel Scum

    Maybe people that were never slave owners do not owe anything to people that were never slaves.

    Obama said he believes reparations are “justified” and that “there’s not much question that the wealth… the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it — was built on the backs of slaves.”

    The former president claimed that a reparations proposal didn’t make its way through the lawmaking process during his presidency due to “the politics of White resistance and resentment.”

    “And what I saw during my presidency was the politics of White resistance and resentment. The talk of ‘welfare queens’ and the talk of the ‘undeserving’ poor. And the backlash against affirmative action,” Obama said.

    “All that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a nonstarter but potentially counterproductive.”

      • kbolino

        The first part is a little funnier but it took me a bit to find it

    • Mad Scientist

      They don’t give a shit that your family wasn’t here at the time, or never had any slaves, or maybe have a relative who once was a slave. You, whitey, have benefited from the systemic racism since then, so you have to pay.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And like every other government program, it won’t be a one time deal not will it ever end.

        *resumes looking for real estate in Uruguay*

      • Mad Scientist

        Of course they’ll pay them, because the beauty of systemic racism is that slavery doesn’t matter. If you’re black, you’ve not experienced the same privileges that white folks get, so you get reparations.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s almost like they planned it this way. Reparations will continue simmering on the back burner until their internal polling shows they’ve won by a sufficient enough margin on the systemic racism issue. Then they’ll get serious about reparations.

      • db

        So, what if, and I’m just spitballing here, what if, out of your great-grandparents, only three were descended from slaves, and the rest were always freemen or immigrants?

      • db

        That joke works a little better if the term “great” is removed.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Or that your family, which had been here for over 250 years, was dirt ass poor until the 1950s.

        My grandmother’s house in asshole Florida (the house she grew up in) didn’t have electricity or running water until the mid 60s, just a few years before her mother’s death.

        But yeah. White privilege.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My father grew up in a holler in coal mining country. All sorts of privilege right there.

    • Gadfly

      maybe not even the majority of it

      Anyone who claims that a majority of the nation’s wealth was produced by slavery is making the claim that slavery is the most efficient economic system that there is. Since slaves never accounted for more than 20% of the population, to claim that they were responsible for a majority of wealth creation would be to claim that they were far more productive than free persons. Now, I guess this idea makes sense coming from Commies, since they claim that the best economic system is where everyone is enslaved, but from anyone else that should require a double-take.

      • zwak

        Dude, you’re, like, asking Obama to do math and stuff.

        He was, like, a law professor before he became a saint.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      “And what I saw during my presidency was the politics of White resistance and resentment. The talk of ‘welfare queens’ and the talk of the ‘undeserving’ poor. And the backlash against affirmative action,” Obama said.

      Really? I must have missed that.

    • Hank

      Good old Daily Mail, a great go-to source for USA news.

      I don’t know how good it is for UK news.

    • Jerms

      MSM all over the story just like if involved Don jr. right?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I missed the “payment” part at first glance, and had Ron Paul’s “IT’S HAPPENING!!!” come to mind.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Got my fed refund last night thankfully. Waiting on two state refunds now.

    • The Vacatious GT

      Hmmm… I may have picked a good day to start a short vacation. ::pictures boss running around as if his lack-of-hair is on fire::

    • Gustave Lytton

      Trial run for the financial system off switch?

  19. LCDR_Fish

    Well..of course I forgot to take my “before” pic of my receiver.

    Unfortunately a little cramped for space on the back patio where I can legitimately hang something and paint it without too much mess.

    Cleaned with acetone – but I know I was too close to the piece when I painted it – just didn’t register in the moment- do stuff like this so infrequently. Waited about 15 min and gave it another coat. Definitely looks like it could use a little sanding in spots – unfortunately I’m running out of daylight now.

    Any suggestions for tomorrow? Spot sand and repaint 2 or 3 more coats of black before matte clear?

    • db

      When you clean with acetone, I should have mentioned, make sure the part has a chance to warm up to ambient temperature. The rapid evaporation of acetone will cool the metal down and if it goes below the dewpoint, it can cause water to condense, which will cause problems with the paint. If you are in a dry place, it won’t be so much of a deal.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Well it all felt dry due to evaporation and air remp outside when I started was about the same as ambient indoor temps….

        Just a little light blistering (reminds me of some old army gear). Should I do any re-treating of any sort tomorrow or just keep painting – at better range? Its dry to touch now.

      • db

        did you scuff the surface? It needs scuffing to get rid of the oxide layer and give the surface some “tooth” to bind the paint.

      • LCDR_Fish

        No – it was aluminum and a milled one so it had a couple rougher bits – so I thought the acetone was just the oxidizer remover.

      • db

        No the oxide needs to be removed by physical scuffing or etching with a mild HF and/or phosphoric acid solution. The acetone is to remove debris and cutting oil, or skin oils. I didn’t realize you were planning on doing it right away, or I’d have taken a bit more time to write about the process.

      • Mad Scientist

        The acetone is to remove oils from your hands left by handling the piece, or the original machining coolants. That’s why you should wear gloves when you do the acetone wipe, or your fingers will just add new oils to replace the ones you wiped off.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Live and learn. Not the worst results – I’ll tweak some more tomorrow. This was a cheap one. I may spend a little more on a proper one in the future….but at least I’ve got this one ;p

        Guess once I get the materials, I could take it down to bare metal and start again if I had to – but now that I’ve got 500 rounds…I really want to put this one together and shoot it a little ;p

      • db

        To be honest, the oxide layer will protect the metal against most corrosion, and I bet it would look really cool to have a two-tone piece.

  20. Count Potato

    “Hitting the gym ‘WONT make you thin’: Exercise doesn’t help you lose weight because we burn the same amount of calories every day regardless of lifestyle, claims scientist

    He added: ‘Even within industrialised societies, people who are more active don’t burn more calories every day, even that’s what we’re always told.’

    The scientist explained that people who are more active do burn more calories on exercise, but are spending less energy on ‘other stuff’ such as immune functioning.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9296357/Hitting-gym-WONT-make-claims-scientist.html

    • Swiss Servator

      Warty Hugeman laughs.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s some real sciencing there

    • Gadfly

      I mean, no. Just from personal experience, as someone who has never dieted, never counted calories, and rarely watches what I eat (does it taste good? eat it), I notice that my weight increases when I’m less active and decreases when I’m more active. I lost 10lbs last summer just by walking a bit more, and making no other lifestyle changes.

    • EvilSheldon

      He’s not completely wrong.

      Excercise has a surprisngly small effect on your daily calorie expenditure. It’s not nothing, but it’s also not much.

      Excercise won’t make you thin, it will just make you stronger and healthier. If you want to get thin, eat less.

      • Mad Scientist

        As the great Warty Hugeman says, “If you don’t want to be a fat fuck, don’t eat fat fuck food.”

      • R C Dean

        people who are more active do burn more calories on exercise, but are spending less energy on ‘other stuff’ such as immune functioning

        Pretty sure this is completely wrong.

        Plus, I believe one benefit of working in gyms is that the other members expose you to whatever bugs are circulating, which is what keeps your immune system tuned up.

      • mrfamous

        He’s talking about NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis) and it does auto-regulate with exercise fatigue. But:

        What he’s saying is only true if you do absolutely everything else “by the seat of your pants.” Exercise won’t help you lose weight if you make no other conscious efforts to do so. You’ll be less active otherwise and eat more food to make up for extra calories burned.

        But why would you do that if weight loss is your goal? Furthermore, most people don’t want to “lose weight,” they want to “lose fat” and the research showing how critical exercise is in the latter is absolutely unequivocal.

        Layne Norton is gonna have an aneurysm when he sees this.

    • Not Adahn

      spending less energy on ‘other stuff’ such as immune functioning.”

      So THAT’s the reason olympic athletes have so many venereal diseases!

    • Agent Cooper

      This is technically true if you are counting lbs. I have a bad BMI but I look better than most of my contemporary friends because I actually work out.

    • mrfamous

      Whatever this person’s name is, you can safely ignore any and all fitness and diet advice from him from here on out.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Thicc Chicc’s Piccs Tease Tater.

  21. grrizzly

    We saw a similar document from the UK government about spreading panic over coronavirus. Now a German document.

    Fifth, the state may actively want to instill fear in the population, thereby contributing to the making of mass hysteria. Illustrating this point is the leakage of an internal paper of the German Department of the Interior during the first weeks of the COVID-19 crisis [101]. In the paper, the state experts recommended that the government should instill fear in the German population. In order to spread fear, the paper endorsed three communication strategies. First, the state authorities should stress the breathing problems of COVID-19 patients because human beings have a primordial fear of death by suffocation [102,103], which can easily trigger panic [104]. Second, the experts emphasized that fear should also be instilled in children, even though there is next to no risk to children´s own health. However, children could get easily infected by meeting and playing with other children. According to the report, children should be told that when they infect their parents and grandparents in turn, they could suffer a distressful death at home. This communication advice intended to invoke anxiety and feelings of guilt. Instilling guilt is another measure used by governments to make the population more supportive [105]. The recommended message instills fear of being responsible for infecting others who die a distressful death. Third, the German government was advised to mention the possibility of unknown long-term irreversible health damage caused by a SARS-CoV-2 infection and the possibility of a sudden and unexpected death of people who were infected. All these communication recommendations were intended to increase fear in the population.

    • kbolino

      They say “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”, implying you can’t see hell when you’re starting out paving. But in this case, the road is short enough that everybody can see the destination, and yet they paved it anyway.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Unintended consequences that are entirely foreseeable aren’t unintended.

  22. LCDR_Fish

    Good news for Gourmeltz. My buddy had a hearing on Monday and there was a continuance till 12 Mar. AG wanted him closed the entire time but the judge denied it.

    I’ll be there for lunch around 11 when they open on Dat.

    • KromulentKristen

      Good for him!

    • DEG

      Good.

      I bought the “Day Drinking for ‘Merica” shirt from his store. It’s on its way.

      • The Hyperbole

        ditto, in fact I just checked and it was in my mailbox.

      • The Hyperbole

        If anyone else is thinking of ordering a tee, consider jumping up a size they run a little small.

      • R C Dean

        Suuure. The t-shirt is tight around the middle because they run small. ?

      • Gadfly

        If anything, a shirt that extols day drinking should be a little looser around the middle than normal sized shirts.

    • DrOtto

      That’s great news, and the fact he’s not ordered closed bodes well for the hearing. When the state has a good chance of prevailing, they would have ordered him closed.

  23. Not Adahn

    Someone’s parents must have hated her.

    There’s a FSE from Thermofisher wanting to get credentials to work here.

    Her first name: Barbie

    Her middle name: Doll

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Advise her that name changes are easy (pro se) and cheap.

  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    So now the son’s high school (boarding) is pushing the vaccine to the students without involving parents in the discussion.

    I don’t think they’re going to enjoy the phone call I’m going to make tomorrow.

    • one true athena

      Is any commiecootie vaccine even approved for under 18?

      • R C Dean

        One is approved for 18 and up, one for 16 and up. Can’t remember which is which. The newer ones in the pipeline, no clue. But I doubt any of them will get approved for under 16.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Is Pfizer for 16 and up?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nope. I can’t believe they’re this stupid.

        But it is a school of the arts, so…

  25. The Late P Brooks

    She also said that newsrooms should recruit more diverse newsrooms, and that the media should invest in “efforts to challenge media who disseminate misinformation.” (She cited Media Matters for America, a left-wing organization that organizes efforts to boycott conservative media, as a positive example.)

    Diversity of skin tone, uniformity of thought, I guess.

    Why don’t these people just burst into flames when they say something that stupid and self-contradictory?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Media Matters is the most partisan full of shit “news” organization on the face of the fucking planet. They should be emulated on precisely not a damn thing. I’d rather get my news from The Daily Pyongyang Bugle than from them.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    According to 44-year-old Crystal Jackson, her foray into OnlyFans began as a way to rekindle the spark in her 14-year marriage.

    *makes chicken noise*

    • pistoffnick

      “*makes chicken noise*”

      As in a choking chicken noise? ;^)

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Any suggestions for tomorrow? Spot sand and repaint 2 or 3 more coats of black before matte clear?

    I’d hit it lightly with scotchbrite, then wipe it down to get the sanding residue off. Just use a damp paper towel. Acetone will probably take the paint completely off. It sounds like you got some runs. Don’t get too close. Just sort of dust it with the paint.

    • Mad Scientist

      A light acetone application shouldn’t take off much. You want to get your oily finger prints off and any sanding residue. I’d just dampen a microfiber cloth with acetone and, wearing gloves, wipe it down.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Thanks for the tips. I’ll give it a shot tomorrow.

        For a matte clear coat (or 2) – heavier spray at a distance or still light dusting?

      • Mad Scientist

        In my (limited) experience, you apply the clear exactly the same way you apply the color. Too close and you get runs and sags. Too far and you get holidays. Just use the same technique you used for the color coats.

  28. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Ouch. Just ordered 500 rds of 308. 100 rds self-defense and the remainder target. My wallet sat in the corner and sobbed afterwards.

    I don’t know what’s happening. I figure best case scenario is prices return to normal in a couple years. The more realistic scenario is prices and scarcity continue like this for several years. Even more realistic scenario is that my state will soon ban online purchases of ammo… and possibly not just online… so any price is better than unavailable .

    • R C Dean

      Much depends on what comes out of Congress (and, of course, your state legislature). If Congress passes the batshit nuts bills they have now, ammo will not get cheaper (effectively) ever. If it all dies, somehow, then I think we’ll see high prices at least through the end of this year.

    • EvilSheldon

      What’s happening is that demand for ammo is through the fucking roof. That’s all.

      • db

        Yeah, prices and availability in Canada are just fine, per one of our Northern posters here.

      • EvilSheldon

        Canada, sadly, has not added seven million new gun owners over the past year.

        I’m really kinda okay with this development. Partly because I have plenty of ammo and components stashed for the next two years (yes,I know I’m being an asshole, I’m sorry.) But also because consistent higher demand is the only.thing that will get some additional capacity built into the system. And also because seven million new gun owners is a major political and cultural bloc.

      • Sean

        Don’t apologize.

        “Buy it cheap, stack it deep.”

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, you’re always being an asshole. :-p

      • EvilSheldon

        Hey, I resent that! Sometimes I’m asleep!

      • Surly Knott

        Everybody needs a hobby.

      • waffles

        I haven’t bought ammo in a couple years and now I’m scared to look. I just have a few dozen rounds for my hunting rifle and a decent pile of .22lr. Hopefully things will chill out and the market demand will get met.

      • KromulentKristen

        9mm is ~$1/rd generally. I’ve seen it as high as $2/rd

        I check Federal every day to see if they have any in stock. They’re at ~$0.50/rd when they have it in stock.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Should be cheaper than that from Fenix tomorrow if you can get your order in on time.

      • KromulentKristen

        Do you know what time they’re supposed to go live?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        9mm is ~$1/rd generally

        Cheap range stuff (brass case) can be had for $0.60/round if you know where to look.

      • EvilSheldon

        Fenix goes live at 10am EST, according to my email.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Yeah,. I should have said I don’t what’s going to happen.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        *know

        can’t type today

      • EvilSheldon

        Ago. I don’t think anyone does, at this point. But the manufacturers are making noise about opening new plants, so that’s a good sign. We may have a fourth domestic primer manufacturer coming online here shortly.

  29. Jerms

    Hmm…. her NSFW subreddit looks good.

    I just perused her pics so intently i think i owe her some money.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Peruse all you want but try not to go blind.

    • R C Dean

      I do feel the urge to untie her top in the pic above. I suspect she is one of those people that the camera loves.

  30. Count Potato

    “WATCH: Rep. Steve Scalise enters an FBI report into record during Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. The report shows that the shooter who tried to assassinate him was an MSNBC viewer who believed Republicans were Russian agents.”

    https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1364654025526960130

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Interesting, I’d never heard that part. I thought the guy was just a nutter.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That doesn’t count!

  31. The Late P Brooks

    For a matte clear coat (or 2) – heavier spray at a distance or still light dusting?

    If you get too carried away, you’ll get runs in the paint. Multiple light coats are better than one heavy coat.

    that’s how I learned it.

  32. KromulentKristen

    The original Nightwatch in New Orleans is coming back on A&E! SQUEE

  33. Count Potato

    “A student at Smith got a janitor put on leave and a security officer tarred as racist, both of whom make less than her $78,000 yearly tuition, because she insisted on eating in a deserted dorm she wasn’t meant to be in. Wokeness is a smokescreen for class.

    A cafeteria employee with lupus making $40K a year, half of Smith tuition, told the student that the dorm was closed but still let her in. The student posted the woman’s photo and email to FB, captioned, “This is the racist person.” She’s now unemployed and no one will hire her.”

    https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1364695686088917004

    “Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College

    A student said she was racially profiled while eating in a college dorm. An investigation found no evidence of bias. But the incident will not fade away.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      78k?

      Jfc

    • Gadfly

      Wokeness is a smokescreen for class.

      There is some truth to that.

    • creech

      Someone needs to be cancelled…and it ain’t the janitor or cop or cafeteria lady.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What a bitch, she ought to be expelled but shit like that gets rewarded now.

    • EvilSheldon

      Wokeness is a smokescreen for being an asshole.

    • rhywun

      Terrifying. This shit is coming for everyone. Will I be out of a job tomorrow? Who the fuck knows.

    • wdalasio

      Her name is Oumou Kanoute. I understand the reluctance to name these people. In civilized circles, one doesn’t drag people’s name through the mud in front of the whole world. But, I see no sense in extending the more against doxing to people who make a habit of ruining people’s lives on a whim. These are the “people” who take pride on “calling out” others. It’s not going to stop until they start getting named and shamed themselves.

      • R C Dean

        Thanks for that. I was wondering. They should absolutely be named (and, in her case, shamed, hard and often). There should be no such thing as an anonymous accusation that anybody takes the least bit seriously or acts on.

  34. commodious spittoon

    Three children were expelled from their Sacramento, California Catholic school

    That’ll teach em.

    • pistoffnick

      They should have chosen better parents.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Those kids are going to get teased relentlessly.

      • zwak

        And the mom is going to tease the rest of us.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In her defense, it truly was a tragedy for us all.

    • R C Dean

      Bill is certainly smart. Hillary isn’t dumb. But Chelsea . . . hoo, boy.

  35. KromulentKristen

    It’s still February and I have my balcony door open. * sobs *

    One more year. One more year.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m in the process of figuring out my optimal last day of work – it will be sometime after 30 March 2022, could be the 31st, or might be April or even May. Absolutely done (barring some total disaster) by 30 June.

    • db

      Uh, it’s not complicated. You set a fire with an incendiary device, destroying property and endangering the lives of others.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Uh-huh

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      BIL’s mother almost got taken for about 5k this week. He’s got his hands full trying to get control of her finances.

      • KromulentKristen

        The guy whose livestream I linked to has saved a few old folks from scams in real time. As has Jim Browning, the Master(scam)baiter. Glad your BIL’s mother was an “almost”

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        My mom got scammed. I haven’t been able to get the full story from her, but she says a message popped up on her screen telling her that there was something wrong and then she received a phone call. I doubt that’s true because it would require a level of sophistication that I don’t think the scammers have. I suspect either the message popped up telling her to call a number or they called her randomly and directed her to a website. Anyway, they asked for her log in, and kept telling her the password wasn’t working, so she just kept going through the list of all her passwords trying to find the one that worked. She then gave her debit card number (not her credit card) for their services. Thankfully she doesn’t do online banking, so the damage was limited. But holy moly, she made every mistake in the book.

      • KromulentKristen

        I suspect either the message popped up telling her to call a number or they called her randomly and directed her to a website.

        Yeah, it’s usually one or the other. They have Facebook groups to buy & sell contact lists & popup campaigns. It seems like the government-based scams (IRS & SSA) are becoming less common.

      • R C Dean

        Mater Dean almost got taken in while were there for Thanksgiving. Not sure how it started, but it was one of the Amazon scams. Mrs. Dean overheard her side of the convo, and recognized what was going on.

  36. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Every time I refresh, MILF pops up on my screen. She’s starting to grow on me.

    • Count Potato

      So this is how she has 100K subscribers?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Is that all that’s growing?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sounds like he’s not too happy with the police which is going around quite a bit on the right and it’s about time.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Leftists are stupid. End of story.

  37. Count Potato

    “The US possesses classified intelligence about illnesses in autumn 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was carrying out research on bat coronaviruses. The intelligence should be declassified, and soon. ”

    https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1364601801836802054

    It’s the WaPo, so who knows?

    • creech

      Soon? What difference, at this point, does it matter? Trump might have won had he treated chicomvirus as an attack from China and not a hoax.

      • Count Potato

        He did blame China and didn’t treat it as a hoax.

      • creech

        If I were he, I’d have been at the UN demanding China provide full disclosure, inspections, analysis and what have you and, if they didn’t, ask for UN member sanctions against China until they complied. Maybe threaten to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. That it took them a year to allow even minimal WHO inspections was a travesty. Yeah, Trump allowed himself to be distracted by the assholery of the Impeachment effort, but he did not respond forcefully to the chicomvirus pandemic.

      • UnCivilServant

        How do you remove a permamant security council member against their will? As long as the CCP holds two seats there (ours and Taiwan’s) there will be no UN sanctions.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He never sued any nuns, the agency’s lawyers did.
      Fact check: True.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just like Harris never said she wanted to use prisoners as free laborers, her staff did!

      • The Hyperbole

        That’s what happened and she did speak out against it at the time.

      • EvilSheldon

        ‘Speaking out’ against something that your own staff is doing, doesn’t cut a whole lot of ice with me. I could make an argument that it is worse than just keeping your gob shut.

      • The Hyperbole

        You are District Attorney of Cali, one of the hundreds of assistant DA’s makes a stupid argument, what do you do? condemn it it no uncertain terms? is immediate resignation the only correct response? If you have evidence that Kamala was pushing this then lets see it, otherwise it’s a weak “gotcha” at best.

      • EvilSheldon

        I fire them for cause. It takes about fifteen minutes to fill out the termination paperwork, and about fifteen more to have one of my staff edit up a press release, just in case.

        If I’m the boss, I’m responsible. Cut and dried.

      • The Hyperbole

        I fire them for cause.

        Yeah good luck with that, now fire all the shitty teachers and bad cops.

      • EvilSheldon

        There’s no luck involved. All it takes is someone in charge with the desire to make it happen.

    • rhywun

      CWAA

      ^Applies to everyone he has nominated for every position, from what I’ve seen.

  38. Gustave Lytton

    It’s Wednesday, so the color of sky on planet journalism must be neon green:

    https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2021/02/oregon-leads-us-in-armed-militia-interest-is-breeding-ground-for-fema-concentration-camps-conspiracy-theory-report.html

    Sure, that’s what Oregon is know for at the moment.

    In the run-up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Oregon led all states in per-capita internet searches for “armed groups” and conspiracy theories.

    This data comes from Moonshot CVE, an anti-extremism tech company

    Moonshot CVE, which is funded by the United Nations, various governments and big-tech companies such as Google, develops “databases of tens of thousands of keywords which indicate risk — for example, ‘join Oath Keepers’ — and runs ads against those keywords,” says company manager Clark Hogan-Taylor.

    The Moonshot ads are designed to be “violence prevention counter-content.”

    They might as well start research into changing the sexual orientation of amphibians. Do they use black helicopters for their persuasion?

    • R C Dean

      Moonshot CVE, an anti-extremism tech company . . . which is funded by the United Nations, various governments and big-tech companies

      So, SPLC with a server farm and international support.

    • zwak

      They are making a full-court press to bury the summer of love activities. And when they gotta push this hard and clumsily, it makes me think they are losing the info war.

      • Tundra

        They are getting crushed. Winners don’t act this way.

  39. I'm Here To Help

    Read an article on Zerohedge about the leave allowances that are included in the latest COVID-19 relief bill, and I see my job becoming really difficult if this thing gets passed. The text from the section in question:

    **quote**
    (b) PURPOSE.—Amounts in the Fund shall be avail- able for payment to an agency for the use of paid leave by any employee of the agency who is unable to work be-
    cause the employee—

    (5) is caring for a son or daughter of such employee if the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to COVID–19 precautions;

    (2) TOTAL HOURS; AMOUNT.—Paid leave under this section—
    (A) may be provided to an employee in an amount not to exceed 600 hours of paid leave for each full-time employee, and in the case of a part-time employee, employee on an uncom- mon tour of duty, or employee with a seasonal work schedule, in an amount not to exceed the proportional equivalent of 600 hours as estab- lished by the applicable agency; and
    (B) may not be provided to an employee — (i) at a rate that exceeds $35 for each
    hour of leave taken; and (ii) in an amount greater than $1,400 in aggregate for any week.

    **quote**

    So, federal employees can get $35 an hour for a 40 hour work week for 15 weeks under this. All of my staff make more than this, but I have a feeling that several who are close will do the math and come to the conclusion that they can take a 4 month vacation with only a minimal hit to their take home pay. It’s going to make my job, and the team dynamics between the breeders and non-breeders who are left to pick up the slack, much more difficult.

    (and no, I have no clue how to do html tags for links, quotes, etc., and I’m too damn old to learn now…)

    • rhywun

      Non-breeders have been getting the shaft for my entire career – this just kicks it up a notch.

      But am I to understand is only for Feds? How generous of them.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No bigger hole than Susan Rice though.

  40. KromulentKristen

    Comment on auroras borealis live cam: “auroras bore me”

    You’re…you’re watching an aurora live cam.

    • Mad Scientist

      UCS comments on live cams too?

      • The Hyperbole

        legit LOL, well done.

      • KromulentKristen

        Snork

      • KromulentKristen

        SWISS!!!

    • Stillhunter

      Link? We missed it lately with the cloud cover.

    • limey

      Was their name Alis by any chance?

    • Tundra

      Awesome. I hope someone gets that to Shapiro.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Whatever yanks your chain I guess.

  41. Count Potato

    “No president has entered the White House with as clear a focus on Alzheimer’s disease as Joe Biden. The commitment and attention on Alzheimer’s at the highest levels of our elected leadership is long overdue,”

    https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1364591304097808385

    I couldn’t agree more.

    • rhywun

      *snort*

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He probably has vascular related dementia but it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other as far as the symptoms go.

  42. Gustave Lytton

    Just unpacked a calendar giveaway from a supplier. It’s gone from the usual heavy duty, laminated, dry erase one to a cheaper thin paper version. But they still have their annual conference slotted for next fall. Optimistic I think.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      For years I’ve ordered a cheesy pinup calendar with badly augmented horse faced strippers imitating construction workers and given them away to our customers. Each year we give away less of them because of rules forbidding them in work areas, etc…

      I skipped it this year and we’re getting phone calls from guys who really want a copy and have been collecting them. I guess they’ve never heard of Internet porn.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Those girls are way too high class compared to the calendar I was sending out.

      • Count Potato

        Now I really have to see one.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I appreciate the attention to their eye and hearing protection, but the dangling long hair and loose clothing around rotary equipment makes me cringe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Scalping are sexy

      • Count Potato

        Yeah, those aren’t top models.

      • limey

        I’m into it. Do I have low standards?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I miss the Ridgid calendar.

        I keep a JAL cabin attendant calendar on my desk. The quality is lower this year, there are male CAs, and sounds like it may not last much longer. My work desk is also behind two or three locked doors so I’m still a bit of a wuss. I’m sure if I was in a open plan with three hundred people, it would never fly even though there is nothing remotely pronographic about it.

        (*ok OLs are hot in traditional business clothing that is almost never worn in this part of the country)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Stihl used to have a top tier girlie calendar they would send out to their distributors. Almost on Pirelli level, but not quite.

      • KromulentKristen

        See, now, I would like a calendar of hairy lumberjacks holding massive…Stihls. Like the huge ones that the pros use. There are lumberjack calendars, but lots of them are hairless or look like hipsters

      • Gustave Lytton

        ‘I swear my bar really is 30″!’

      • Count Potato

        Snap-on was good because it also had classic cars.

      • Tundra

        The Pirelli calendars were amazing. Snap-On was solid, too.

        I miss that stuff.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yeah, I have one of the Pirelli’s squirreled away. It’s probably worth some money now.

      • KromulentKristen

        Sorry – (((LOL)))

      • KromulentKristen

        Maybe December. Maybe. Pass on the rest. They’re all real purty.

      • Tundra

        Excellent.

    • Count Potato

      Is it hot chicks with power tools?

  43. Gustave Lytton

    Utter bullshit

    https://kval.com/news/local/oregon-fines-another-florence-restaurant-inspection-done-by-phone-to-avoid-armed-people

    An inspection “conducted” over the phone should be thrown out on its face. Unfortunately the ALJs are anything but impartial judges and will suck the cocks of their employer as directed. Boo hoo, would be tyrants might have to face the music for their own actions. Note that there’s nothing about calling the cops if they actually were illegally threatened. That they didn’t tells me the owners weren’t doing so unlawfully, it was the state employees overreacting, and the owners were within their rights to deny entry to Stasi agents.

    • rhywun

      Panic! Terror! High Risk. EXTREME RISK!!

      FFS.

      • limey

        Extremely danger

    • zwak

      Oregon is an open-carry state, so no violation there, and in the case of an actual threat, I am sure they are advised to leave immediately and come back later with the local police or sheriff. And doing an inspection over the phone is such, such bullshit. I would sue immediately and look to carry it up the chain. Where are the restaurant owners groups in all this BS? I would be putting their feet to the fire also.

      Oh, and stop answering the phone. You should have your distributors on your cell phone by name. Don’t answer anyone you don’t know.

    • Hank

      As long as they wear brown pants to go with their brown shirts they should have no cause to fear embarrassment.

      https://instantrimshot.com/