*recarga*
*recarga*
*recarga*
Imagine doing this for eight minutes.
Donald Trump opened a migrant children’s detention facility next to a Superfund site, closed it, and Biden reopened it. TL/DR: Trump gave Mexicans cancer.
First off, how do they know there are only ten? Next, if there are only ten they are pretty much wiped out unless there are openings at Sea World. Finally, that is an awesome shrimping region so I kind of prefer that to the porpoise.
Mexico offers to purchase COVID vaccines, but the White House says, “no se venden ahora.”
Remain in Mexico program ends, El Paso notices the camps are empty. Hilarity to ensue?
Enormous invasive species of fruit kills biker. One of a dozen reasons Brazilians scoff at abundant staple their underclass (and first world Vegans) eats because it literally falls from trees.
Its cool, because based on CNN’s coverage, everyone else is going to die in Brazil anyways.
I had to watch Brooke Shields peddle toothpaste before I could hear this.
FRIST!
Dat hair, tho
Isn’t Jackfruit a rebranding of durian?
I don’t think so. Jackfruit are much larger and do not stink.
Doubtful, durian smells like a pungent cheese that was aged inside of a dead possum.
That makes me think of Limey’s surstromming video. Now I gotta watch it again.
Huh, I wouldn’t mind giving that a try. Probably just once though.
I watched a video on how to eat it properly; submerge can in water to open, gut and fillet fish on plate, end up with small amount of meat eaten with large amount of bread, potatoes, and some kind of yogurt condiment. It seems like a lot of effort to go to, and the guy says it’s not really even a delicacy.
*dry heaves and laughs at the same time*
Jackfruit is delicious and has a pleasant, tropical aroma. The taste reminds me of a cross of citrus and banana.
Durian stinks, it has a mushy texture and tastes like, I don’t know how to describe, perhaps sweetened milk.
*glares at durian*
I knew Jackfruit and you sir are no jackfruit!
(I’m Minnesodan I have no idea what either a jackfruit or a durian is)
A jackfruit is really, really big.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Jack_Fruit_Opened.jpg
That’s why I prefer lychee
“Those locations are listed in the federal government’s toxic-waste cleanup program, Superfund, because of the risk they pose to human health and the environment. Shaw Crane began looking into the idea in 2015 but told New Times yesterday she started examining the evidence in detail once the Trump administration reopened the site and began placing children there in 2017.”
They should have called it “Superfun”.
Historically, it has been consumed more by the poor or enslaved
The last time I saw a jackfruit at the grocery store, it came with a $25 price tag.
If it weighed 75 lbs, it is probably a good deal?
You only eat the flesh around the seeds. Most of it is discarded. It’s a lot of work to prepare.
I think it was a little larger than a spaghetti squash, maybe 5-6 lbs?
For Nephilium: my Pa thought a Long Island Iced Tea was an Arnold Palmer with vodka. Bless his heart.
It is a drink from the dark days of the 70’s.
I know what it is…apparently my Pa thought it was something else
An acquaintance of mine tells the story of when he was invited to a “tea party” with some female friends. They neglected to tell him that the cold tea being served in the fancy pot was Long Island Ice Tea…
The full story involves broken tea cups, a torn down shower curtain, and waking up in a shower with the water running.
I always hated when people ordered those.
Most of the bars around here just use a pre-mix bottle of “Long Island Iced Tea” now. If the cocktail bars open back up, I’m now half tempted to try to order one and see what gets done with it.
In many states that’s illegal. It’s also illegal to marry bottles, but pretty much every bar does it.
Oh no… these aren’t made at the bar, a local manufacturer of “high quality spirits” sells it:
Paramount Iced Tea
For only $15 a liter, how could you go wrong?
First they let the homos marry, then the bottles…
What are married homos doing with bottles?
An Arnold Palmer with vodka is known as a John Daly, at least among my cohorts.
LOL
Needz moar M&Ms.
Comes with an optional Marlboro 100.
Fact check: TRUE.
The True Costs of Working From Home
Silly me. I thought not commuting and not buying lunch at restaurants was saving money.
Spend more on rent? How? By moving into a bigger place with a home office?
Poor people don’t have jobs that can be done at home.
It certainly does, my guess is that Mikey owns a lot of NYC commercial real estate and his employees are trying to do him a solid.
You spend more on gas and electricity working from home. That’s for sure.
Idle curiosity: Have you seen A Fish Called Wands and if so did you see it before or after leaving Russia?
Never.
Jamie Lee Curtis’ character appreciates the Russian language.
I bet £1 Animal can’t do it.
Wanda?
I would have EF’d his post, but I don’t want him to get a complex…
Муха, муха на стене
как ты поживаешь?
У меня пистолет
бах, бах мухи нет!
Profound.
She likes Italian too. She went wild when Otto said “Ecco le due cupole del catedrale di Milano!” When I went to Milan expecting to see Jaime Lee Curtis’s breasts, I got a good laugh when I rounded the corner to see what the cathedral actually looks like.
Gas, no. I haven’t adjusted my thermostat. Electricity, yes. But the total electricity bill is still less than I paid for commuting.
Why would their rent be higher?
Lets ask our expert…
If you actually convert fully to remote, you can move from an 800 ft efficiency in NYC to a 4500 ft mansion in West Virginia and save on your monthly bill.
Fact Check: TRUE.
Fact Check: MOSTLY FALSE
While technically true, it ignores context we used so we can avoid saying true.
Fact Check: MOSTLY FALSE.
Although technically true, you will miss out on the stupid fast pace of life, city rats, bums, horrible smells, horrible traffic, and the expert leadership of the mayor. I mean, like, WV is flyover country, and living well there is by default a lesser quality of life than The Big Apple.
I have coworkers that live in the city. They tell me the joys of being able to walk to restaurants, bars, cinemas, shopping, …
I prefer to eat at home, drink at home, watch films at home, shop online, …, and pay less for the experience.
They tell me the joys of
But probably not in the last 12 months.
From my place in the city I can walk by all the closed businesses. You have to drive to find closed businesses.
“Many fishermen have vehemently opposed the gillnet ban because they use the nets to catch totoaba, another endangered species whose swim bladders are considered a delicacy in China and yield thousands of dollars per kilogram. Mexican drug cartels are said to be involved in the illegal fishing and trafficking of totoaba, a large member of the sciaenidae, or drum, family of fish.”
They can’t just stick with square grouper like normal drug cartels?
Mexican drug cartels are said to be involved in the illegal fishing and trafficking of totoaba
Gotta admire the creativity of the criminal enterprises. This is why I don’t think legalizing drugs will break the cartels, as we keep too many other things illegal that they’ll just switch products. Probably to ammo, if the current trends continue.
Do you want to buy some Dr Seuss? How about Song of the South?
There was this little convenience store at the corner of 11th & East Cap in DC that had Guanabana Ice Cream. The dude that worked the cash register told me I wouldn’t like it and told me not to buy it. Now I can’t find it anywhere.
Let that be a lesson, kids. Don’t listen to The Man!
Awesome.
My Liege, King Andy, giveth permission to go camping. But only if you’re sure to wear thine Covid Shield.
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-state-park-campgrounds-to-reopen-march-12
Outside? F that.
The saddest thing you’ll hear today. My neighbor is expecting a visit from her out-of-town sister. The neighbor and her sister have both been vaccinated against the ‘Vid. She proudly told me today that “Dr. Fauci says it’s okay for [her] to hug [her sister].”
Well, JHTFC, Dr Foochy, thank you for being such an humanitarian, you double-masking POS.
Not really his fault that people are stupid.
Only if they’re both wearing Tyvek(tm) suits right? RIGHT???
Kinky!
God that’s sad.
I don’t get to see my sister all that often, and I offered to fly a bottle of wine from my first batch out to her, but she was noticeably concerned about getting close to me, and put me off, suggesting we wait until virus stuff cleared up. I literally haven’t seen a blood relative in person in over a year.
There was a going away party for my niece last July (which had one group of her aunts/uncles trying to keep a toddler socially distant). My sister picked up presents for my nephews the week before Christmas (while wearing a mask, and leaving the kids in the car).
Then when my nephews managed to bork their computer, then I saw them while I fixed it.
I am so sorry. That is the saddest thing about this, the sundering of families. I know grandparents who are deeply grieving because they’ve been denied visits with their grandkids.
Me neither.
I’m planning a visit to mom now that her radiation treatments for breast cancer are over. Haven’t seen her in 13 months.
CWAA
What I think of Foochy.
That is sad. But I guess people do have different priorities and risk management. On one hand you have people like this, on the other you have people like my 90-yo grandmother who early on decided she’d rather die than stop living her life and so has continued to visit friends, go to church (when open), and hug family members for most of the past year.
Fuck
I don’t get out much, but when I do, I always get in trouble because I honestly don’t understand these people.
I see a friend or someone I know and I wander over to talk and try to shake their hand or pat them on the back. Too many of them start back peddling with a frantic look on their face.
I had a neighbor pointedly take a few steps backward (outdoors) and readjust his mask (I think in hopes that I would put one on).
These people who actually fear the Rona are beyond my comprehension. How have they survived for a year? I would think the stress would have either killed them or made them come to their senses.
The Biden administration on Monday downplayed the prospect of sharing coronavirus vaccines with Mexico, saying it is focused first on getting its own population protected against a pandemic that has killed
more than 500,000Americans.I thought “America First” was racist.
I thought “America First” was racist.
Its racism levels depend on the color of the packaging (red/blue).
He’s rebranded it as empathy.
Speaking of bikes, it’s impossible to get a deal right now. People are selling their used bikes for stupid prices, 80% of what they paid for it 6 years ago or more.
It’s the same with lots of “hobby” items.
The used guitar market is fucked to hell right now. Too late to sell, too early to buy.
Give it another six months. I find the deals are usually much better (at least up here), when winter is coming.
/looks at nice sunny day outside, and temps in the 30’s
/sigh
Why? Is there a sudden demand for bicycles?
Like everything else, lead times are months out.
I just spent a half hour trying to identify a Specialized Roubaix frame model from the photos. It’s a 2009 on it’s second owner and the dude wants $550 for the frame, the frame only. And it’s the budget model of that year.
I’m going to have to get my new bike the old fashioned way and steal it from a college campus.
Want a (really dusty) Trek 700?
I know you’re a skinny-tire puke (sorry, Neph), but if you’ll deign to ride with a fat-tire barbarian such as meself I’ll try to keep up. My fast bike tops out at 3.82:1.
There very likely was during the harshest part of lockdowns last spring and early summer. Enough to where the used and new inventories were demolished.
Add in that social restrictions are not over, so people who bought bikes but will not keep them long term have not yet put them up for sale and replenishing the used market, combined with manufacturing slowdowns in virtually every sector worldwide, keeping supply low on new bikes, and you have fucked prices.
This is exactly what’s happening in the guitar market. Once restrictions are lifted enough and that will affect enough people, I expect a glut of used guitars to hit the market, and I’m going to be ready to pounce.
Want a (really dusty, the case is anyway) Epi Dot Deluxe?
WTT: Lightly used Trek bike for a case of 9mm.
Spoiler, you can get a Lightly used Trek bike for the cost of one used 9mm.
What you did there…
Yeah, that took some brass.
Kaboom!
I wonder what the charge would be?
It has occurred to me that my skillz as a jackleg bike mechanic would be useful in a post-apocalyptic world.
I know that Giant has been extra slow to deliver new models to dealers this year, for at least one of their brands.
I’m glad to see more folks (re-)discovering cycling.
lol. I sold off all my old free weights last year when the lockdown was first starting up. I got $3/lb (or some outrageous number).
I was sure I was going to be able to buy all of it back last fall when the lockdowns were over for $1/lb. Boy did I underestimate the stupidity of the herd.
“Without warning, one fruit plummeted from the heavily laden canopy of Tijuca National Park. It hit the cyclist on the head, cracking his helmet and sending him sprawling.”
That cyclist’s name was Isaac Newton.
I admit to laughing at this man’s expense.
Without warning
Do they usually give a warning of some kind?
Is it like a falling bomb sound?
A savory public relations disaster.
Governor Jared Polis infuriated farmers and ranchers by issuing an anti-meat proclamation making March 20, 2021 “Meat Out Day.” In response, meat-centric events are being organized throughout the state, while rural counties are banding together to turn March 20 into a celebration of Colorado livestock and agriculture instead.
The Polis proclamation is taken nearly word-for-word from the radical vegan Farm Animal Rights Movement’s (FARM) MeatOut.org website, and recites a litany of supposed evils of meat and benefits of a vegan lifestyle and even invokes “reducing our carbon footprint” and preventing animal cruelty. According to FARM, its mission is to end the use of animals for food.
Polis does give a nod to agriculture, noting that “Colorado is the proud home to farmers and ranchers alike and we recognize the importance of agriculture in the state.” But this didn’t blunt the ire of Colorado legislators, agricultural producers and county commissioners over the potential economic harm Polis may have triggered.
Logan County Commissioner Byron Pelton told Complete Colorado Friday that he has been taking numerous phone calls and text messages from his constituents.
“I heard several people mention it as a war on rural Colorado,” said Pelton. “These are family farming operations that have livestock and produce and they are very frustrated with the treatment of agriculture right now by the Governor.”
I think there must be more than 10 of those vaquita things. I’ve seen one in the Sea of Cortez while out there fishing off the East Cape. The captain was really excited and he said it was really rare to see one. Still lots of sea life out there in those parts, I can only imagine what it was like decades ago there. We caught two marlin that day and saw a sea lion chomping on a 40 lb opah.
Man, she’s lost a LOT of weight.
“A vaquita for you, and a vaquita for you and a…”
They all look alike to me. Seen 1, seen ’em all
*fiercely narrows gaze*
I think there must be more than 10 of those vaquita things.
Yeah, I would doubt the accuracy of any wildlife counts, especially for something that lives in the ocean. How thorough are they really surveying the habitat when counting? Because to do a good job and get an accurate count would take an insane amount of time and effort, so I doubt they are doing that.
Yeah, I can only imagine how much of a guesstimate it is.
Freedom Bracelet
Israel has rolled out what it is calling a ‘Freedom bracelet’, a tracking device that will serve as an alternative to a two-week quarantine for anyone entering the country from abroad.
Vaccines make you free?
work on that
Impfstoff macht frei?
*applause*
I’m kind of surprised I didn’t get smote for that. YHVH must appreciate audacity.
In other news, they’re also renaming chastity belts to Freedom Undies.
Coming to a town near you. Also, fuck that.
Jews don’t do irony I guess.
This is me giving them the freedom finger.
Get a load of this house negro.
My ancestors were slaves. And my life as a young woman was a mess.
Was my life a mess because my ancestors were slaves? I don’t think so.
My life was a mess because I lived a wanton, irresponsible existence, defined by promiscuity, petty crimes, and scamming the nation’s well-meaning but totally confused welfare system to the greatest extent of my ability.
Did I need reparations to turn things around for me? Certainly not. I needed a wake-up call, which, to my great gratitude, I got from a few church-going black Christians who told me the way I was living was unacceptable.
I went to church, took back responsibility for my life, and turned my circumstances around.
The problem with the idea of reparations is it redirects attention away from exactly where attention is needed: on individuals’ personal responsibility for their own unique lives.
And it redirects attention in such a way to encourage individuals to believe that some abstract, collective entity from the past is the cause of all their individual problems in the present.
Personal responsibility is white-supremacy.
Preach it
I do wonder if anyone can sue a state government for violation of civil rights for the Jim Crow laws. Or do the states have sovereign immunity. There are quite a number of those people still alive.
FYTW
What difference, at this point, does it make?
The cause of death as far as most people are concerned is the Capitol Riot.
By this time the pathologists should have been able to determine the cause of death if it involved any sort of trauma, aneurysm, or any other mechanism of death that can be determined by dissection and observation. I would imagine that most of the lab work would also have been completed by now.
Since the body was cremated, I suspect that there won’t be more pathology or lab work.
How very convenient.
OFFS!!
When Chuckles was a much younger man, he got fed up with the Pentagon for refusing to provide requested data.
So one day, he barged in to the Pentagon and demanded to see several people that authored reports that we wanted but couldn’t get from the Pentagon.
They never let him see the authors, but rattled a few cages that day.
Too bad he’s such an old fuddy-duddy these days. I would love to see him show up at the coroner’s office and start asking questions.
If the autopsy is complete, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be (the guy is buried, and any labs should absolutely have been finished by now), then they know the cause of death.
They do.
But it would tear apart the narrative, so it stays hidden. When there are no facts to verify the narrative, it can’t be challenged.
“Texas and Mississippi lift ALL their COVID restrictions: Both states to end their mask mandates and allow businesses to fully reopen”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9318245/Texas-lifts-COVID-19-precautions-including-mask-mandate-restrictions-businesses.html
Excellent. I’ll be interested to see if businesses here in TX keep their mask policies or drop them after the mandate expires.
The national ones will keep the rules.
Good…I hope the GTOger YouTube channel cranks back up again because of it. Lots of pent up folks gonna be out & about
Constitutional rights are white-supremacy and threaten democracy.
Open season on ‘white extremists’ has been declared. ‘White extremists’ means any person who appears in public with an assault weapon (essentially, a semi-automatic rifle with a pistol grip or other military-style parts). The disturbing scenes at the Capitol building in January have provoked a new phase in the battle against what Joe Biden has called ‘weapons of war’ – even though none of the Capitol invaders carried assault weapons. Now anyone defending gun rights – and even guns themselves – is branded a danger to democracy, and a racist.
‘More than ever, assault weapons are an undeniable threat to representative government’, charged the Chicago Sun Times earlier this month. Last week, a writer in the Washington Post wrote of the ‘extremism of the gun imperialists [which] is directed against democracy itself’ (my italics).
In the New York Times, in January, another writer spelt out what he saw as the connection between guns and the threat to democracy, saying people use ‘the implicit threat of [toting a gun] as a means of asserting the privilege of walking away from the table of representative democracy when the outcome doesn’t suit you. Possessing a gun doesn’t protect free speech, as gun-rights activists often claim. The gun is the speech.’ Commenting on a pro-Trump rally in 2020, the same writer also noted that the ‘military-style rifles paraded alongside banners for Donald Trump… suggested that one of America’s two major parties was, in effect, acquiring an armed adjunct, like Hezbollah or the old Sinn Fein’.
In the Atlantic last month, one writer said that ‘men with assault rifles slung over camouflaged shoulders are the avatar of lawlessness’. He continued: ‘We must ban assault rifles and open carry. Their legality is premised on ideas that are inimical to democracy itself.’ And this month, an article in the Boston Globe claimed ‘white identity politics’ is ‘at the heart of the gun-rights movement’.
“men with assault rifles slung over camouflaged shoulders are the avatar of lawlessness’”
OMG, yes. The camouflage totally means lawless. Now do “urban” camo patterns which were fashionable a while back, maybe still.
The old US Navy aquaflage was the worst.
To make it harder to spot a sailor if he went overboard?
Sailors on shore leave always go overboard.
+1 fleet week in San Fransisco
Is the “woodland pattern” for hiding in the Blue Ridge forests?
If I was a squid I’d rather wear those than the bell bottom dungarees.
men with assault rifles slung over camouflaged shoulders are the avatar of lawlessness
Active duty military hardest hit.
Now do the NFC peeps.
I’ll wait.
NFAC.
Norwegian Fried Chicken?
Come take them.
Actually it’s not restrained representative government that they a danger towards. It is an overbearing government that it’s a threat towards.
Last week, a writer in the Washington Post wrote of the ‘extremism of the gun imperialists [which] is directed against democracy itself’ (my italics).
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
a means of asserting the privilege of walking away from the table of representative democracy when the outcome doesn’t suit you
I would think that keeping people from walking away is a form of imperialism. Self-determination is an internationally-recognized human right.
suggested that one of America’s two major parties was, in effect, acquiring an armed adjunct, like Hezbollah or the old Sinn Fein’
Or like the Continental Army.
I think I’m going to need more guns.
How many guns did they find at the Capitol?
“Seven Proud Boys and 4 Oath Keepers with military ties, 36 women, and an L.A. County cohort: Detailed composition of MAGA riot emerges in more than 250 arrests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9317847/Detailed-composition-MAGA-riot-emerges-250-arrests.html
Funny, they don’t say how many are Feds.
Today, in boobs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9317825/Amelia-Gray-Hamlin-19-slips-sizzling-pink-bikini-beau-Scott-Disick-37-vacation.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9317109/Kylie-Jenners-BFF-Stassie-Karanikolaou-models-retro-Von-Dutch-trucker-hat-Im-cutie.html
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/regular-meat-consumption-linked-to-previously-unconsidered-common-diseases-346192
Fuck off.
The Great Reset anti-meat propaganda is getting into gear.
If you want a war, tell people they cannot have meat.
It’s OK! Did you hear, they just increased the meat ration to 14 ounces from only one pound!
You’ll eat bugs and you’ll like it (it’s been heavily pushed lately and it’s bizarre). Don’t feel too bad, I ate some crickets on a drunken fishing trip dare once and they weren’t as bad as I thought they’d be.
Skrimp are just SEA BUGZ!!1! [runs from room laughing maniacally]
I ain’t eatin no fucking bugs. There definitely will be war.
Look, Soylent Green was set in 2022. Forgive me for not jumping on board any meat “substitute” between now and … well forever.
Something about carts and horses and correlations and causations should go here.
Eh, they found the connection they were looking for.
You know who else ate a vegetarian diet and gave up smoking and drinking?
Russel Brand?
A lady I considered dating?
Oh.. wait… she didn’t smoke. Close enough I suppose.
Aurora KP Index is the highest I’ve seen in weeks…pushing over 4. Aaaaannd it’s cloudy every fucking where.
except here,
Drug, ass, and whatnot.
Can it possibly be legal for government employees to have a shared confidentiality agreement?
https://thepostmillennial.com/michigan-health-director-hush-money
“The separation deal between Michigan Governor Whitmer’s people and health department director Robert Gordon had a two-side confidentiality clause.
Detroit News laid out the backroom negotiations done with taxpayer money. A four-page agreement was signed on February 22nd: Robert Gordon gets nine months salary and healthcare benefits, and in return Gordon promised not to pursue any legal claims against the state.
The decision by both parties not to talk about details had a stated reasoning to it: “In response to any inquiries from prospective employers, employer will state that employee voluntarily resigned,” according to the agreement.
The parties involved assert such secret dealings are standard legal practice. But not everyone in the state’s political sphere is satisfied with this explanation. One such person is state representative Matt Hall. He’s questioning as to why taxpayers are secluded from knowing what’s going on, even though it’s their money on the line in this situation. “The people of Michigan deserve to know what was going on here.
The timing of the situation struck many as off-key. Gordon’s January 22nd resignation came a matter of hours after Gordon signed an order lifting the suspension on indoor dining at Michigan restaurants. The former health department director was reportedly happy he did not have to show up at Whitmer’s press conference announcing the move, that day.
Legalized omerta.
That’s a major fuck you to the taxpayers.
The grand plan to replace all of the perfectly functional sidewalks at intersections in the state with dangerous “improvements” entered a new chapter. Local city is keeping a full height curb in the out section between two street level cuts (so it looks like a pie wedge). Do the retards not see what a trip hazard that thing is?
This whole thing started because self proclaimed Disability Rights Oregon sued the state DOT EPA-style over ADA (fuck you George HW). I hope everyone involved ends up paralyzed from the neck down. Every last one of them.
Every ADA sidewalk and ramp I’ve seen is a major trip hazard. Wierd right angles. Sidewalks lower than the surrounding ground which is awesome for ice. Tall curbs. Ramps pointing towards the center of the intersection and not across it.
I lothe the ADA.
They’re made poorly on purpose so they can keep re-doing them and increasing budgets.
Local city is keeping a full height curb in the out section between two street level cuts (so it looks like a pie wedge).
I don’t get it, you’re going to need to draw a picture.
I think it’s this that GL is talking about.
And at least on some corners, that curb at the corner is much higher than usual (I guess for water?), so a pedestrian has to go to either side.
Shoot, image fail. try copy/paste. it’s a jpg
https://www.cityofvancouver.us/sites/default/files/styles/full_node_primary/public/imageattachments/public_works/page/20888/ada_curbramp_arnada_20thstweb.jpg?itok=3gQaLE-S
Yes, like that, except the outer quadrant pie is much much smaller. Like two shoeboxes together size. Just big enough to catch your foot on. The curb height is about twice the one in the pic as well.
Yeah still not getting it, Is he upset that they removed some curb but didn’t remove the curb where people don’t normally walk? may as well bitch that there are any curbs anywhere if “we” are going to remove some for the gimps.
Wut?
Legislators from New York’s Assembly and state Senate struck a deal Tuesday to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his pandemic-linked emergency powers and return matters like lockdowns to local control.
The deal would reverse emergency powers granted to Cuomo exactly a year ago, in the early days of the COVID pandemic, that gave him free rein to order measures like quarantines.
“I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now. We certainly see the need for a quick response but also want to move toward a system of increased oversight, and review. The public deserves to have checks and balances. Our proposal would create a system with increased input while at the same time ensuring New Yorkers continue to be protected,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in a statement.
The unpersoning of Andy begins in earnest.
Its delightful, isn’t it?
You know, someone really should’ve said something at some point.
Good.
That will put pressure on other states to do the same.
Good. Let them. As long as they are stripping the authoritay from the governor (whoever that might be), and not just from Andy Cuomo the individual.
Wait… I don’t get it. Where’s the hipster juice?
Just when Texas and Mississippi lift all COVID restrictions, Finland Reintroduces State of Emergency Measures as COVID-19 Infections Surge
What’s the point of that? Does that mean that Texas should do what a Scandinavian county with a tiny population should do? Why?
I was trying to say that when American states are ending their lockdowns, the Europeans are still doing them over and over again.
I do see that they’re starting to get a lot of public protests as well.
Wonder how Sweden is doing these days?
They’re all dead, didn’t you hear?
If I remember correctly, the government sacked the Health Minister and locked down. I’d go dig, but I need to get some dinner and get some work done.
Middle of the pack for European countries. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Regular Car Reviews 2021 Tesla Model Y
Why are people wearing masks inside of cars?
I try to ignore that while watching his videos because otherwise, I like his videos.
Yeah, I get it. It’s like when I’m watching Globo news with my wife and people are wearing masks, alone in a studio with no one else around and after about 5 minutes, I have to yell ‘WHY THE FUCK IS HE WEAING A FUCKING MASK!?’.
Good god. Bicyclists are pretenttjerks all over the world.
Here, they’ve spent millions on bicycle lanes, that are wider than the lanes on the highways, and you very rarely see anyone in them. Instead, they ride right down the middle of the fucking road. I had one of the jerks do a left turn right in front of me after a light turned green and I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting the asshole.
It is approaching the time of year when the cyclasses come out to enjoy our country roads. The twisting, narrow roads with no shoulders, high speed limits and few passing zones.
I pass them on HW 12 and 14 in Washington. Not a pretty ride and certainly neither places are safe for cycling.
We have a lot of forest, farms and ponds in the area. Speed limits are normally 45-55. I’ve been caught behind a bicycle going about 5 on a long incline in a 55 zone.
Yeah, they put bicycle lanes on San Pablo in Berkley, running into North Oakland and up into Albany, El Cerrito, etc. Which is a heavy traffic road, in fact, the main thoroughfare around the east bay other than the freeway. So, a lot of businesses, delivery trucks, people parking and so on. And there are lesser travel streets one block off that going the same direction that any cyclist with a brain would take as it is less deadly, less trafficked, and prettier. The whole thing is an unthinking fuckup, but they hate cars so…
Doesn’t mean everyone else hates cars though.
Another birthday for today: D. G. Yuengling
Yuengling Brewery history.
They came here knowing how to make beer, but sometimes before I was born, they started making Budweiser instead?
Their beer isn’t Budweiser, not even close.
You’re right, it’s not as bad, but it’s not good either.
I’ll admit it, sometimes I want a Bud. It’s great for day drinking.
And I hate it when idiots walk into a bar and ask for a beer menu. Just get a Bud, or a Coors, or a Miller.
I like Yuengling. There, I said it.
#metoo
I liked the first 300 cases too, especially because they were $12.
Yup.
Best normal beer is Coors, regular not light.
Normal beer? You mean the American swill we call lager? Probably Miller is the best, although I’d say it’s more of a Pilsner. The rest of it is all crap, IPA swill that anyone can make in a plastic mop bucket.
I mean except for Bud. Bud is made of a water/formaldehyde concoction with some form of artificial beer flavor.
1. Stroh’s
2. Miller High Life
3. Old Style
4. massive tie of every other mass produced swill
Natty Daddy anyone?
I do too. It’s more a novelty in Texas though since we can’t just go buy it at the store. Distribution laws are stupid.
On more than one occasion I was in the vicinity of someone who ordered a Yuengling after saying they were in the mood for a Chinese beer
Always figured it was some kind of weird anagram.
Now drinking
*recarga*
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Recarga? Looks complicated. I think it would take longer than 8 minutes.
Fucking vegans. At least they don’t try to eat Jumping Cholla.
Fweedom! Victory! Evil capitalist corporation fined and humiliated for discriminating against women!
The company makes pallets and trusses. Their crime was to tell a employment agency to not send over any female candidates. Imagine!
No conflict of interest in allocating part of the fine to the dept that sets the fines. Nope. And I’m sure the women’s charity will be totes random and not one run by a close personal friend of the gal in charge of the state department that declared the company a bunch of woman haters.
You have to admit, it was breathtakingly stupid to say it out loud. You could put ‘deadlift 300 pounds’ as a job requirement and then just hire any chick that can do it.
My gut tells me that some crusty old floor manager got pissed when he saw the 100th woman walk in who weighed 100lb and couldn’t lift a hammer and called the placement agency and said things that you aren’t supposed to say.
Yeah it was stupid, but I bet the guy was tired of interviewing candidates who couldn’t physically hack it and tried to cut down on that.
Villaume agreed to hire at least one qualified woman for every three employees from its applicant flow over the next two years.
How the hell are they going to do that one? My bet is that less than one out of every three applicants for the job is a qualified woman.
I hear Gina Carano is looking for work. So there’s one right there.
There’s also…well, you know, lots.
Stories like this one about environmental equity make me want to pour used motor oil directly into lakes.
But not to worry, Minnesoda has a secret weapon! The Magic Indian!
Uffda. I wonder if there is an enterprising Indian out there who realizes selling environmental indulgences to stupid white eyes could be a bigger industry than running a casino.
They did on Parks & Recreation
(sell indulgences to wypipo, I mean.)
*watches season of Yellowstone*
Yep.
I wish I had bought the domain climateindulgences.com when I thought about it years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0USxZp1_JTY
I had to watch Brooke Shields peddle toothpaste before I could hear this.
How about jeans, instead?
I’ve been trying to figure out the implications of 5G lately. The common discussion of it in the business press is that it’s a “game changer”. What I don’t see a discussion of is exactly how it’s a game changer. Yes, I get it’s a lot faster than existing wireless networks. And I understand that it’s adoption may be a requirement for a lot of other technologies. But, the articles I read rarely discuss much of it’s advantage beyond “movies that take minutes to download will only take seconds”. Well…uh…wow, I guess. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for faster internet speeds. But, I really get the impression that a lot of the people heralding it as a game changer are sort of talking out of their arses.
But, that topic got me thinking about a slightly different topic. It seems to me that at least many of the really big “game changers” in terms of technological development aren’t really from groundbreaking changes in technology. Often, they’re simply adaptations of existing technology. The smart phone wasn’t any new technology, per se. It was simply the packaging of existing technologies in a novel bundle. Even the moving assembly line, possibly the great breakthrough of the 20th century, was really just a copying of processes that had been common in meat packing for years.
I suspect 5G will spur some sort of game changer. But, my bet is that the technology won’t be some sort of marvelous breakthrough. Rather it will be a leveraging of an existing technology in a way that can make use of the technology in a novel way. Just one example, the technologists predict that 5G will allow massive parallel discussions in face to face meetings on smart phones. Well, no. Anyone who’s ever trudged through a Zoom meeting knows that’s simply not true. You can’t do that on a desktop, where the wireless time constraint isn’t a factor. You’re not constrained by the technology. You’re constrained by simple design elements of how do you see large number of participants on even a normal computer monitor, let alone a smart phone screen. The person who figures that out, and that probably doesn’t need to be a massive technological leap, will be the person who makes that happen.
Prognosticators are imagining a world where they can just plop down a cheap hotspot and get wired like speeds without the construction costs and time (never mind the backhaul, spotty coverage, interference, and wireless companies’ need to milk ever growing profits).
I was talking to my old union president, and he was saying that much of the infrastructure that ATT, Verizon, Century Link, and so on was going to be going away. That they would be doing only ship to customer modems with zero land lines involved. Basically cellular from the B-box.
So, business-wise it’s a game-changer, but end-user not so much.
Coby was bitching as it was going to kill his union roster.
That’s the belief. It all boils down to desperately trying to find some way to avoid ripping the bandaid off of going to 100% fiber. Fixed or hotspot wireless is just the latest. And it will have the same problems as interim solutions have had before.
It hasn’t killed his membership already? Crew sizes are a fraction of what they were 20 years ago in most parts that I know of. POTS is even further dead but it’s largely irrelevant other than it still makes money just less and less each year.
The radiation causing me to grow a third testicle is kind of a game changer.
It will make it even easier for the CCP to read your traffic.
Dolly Parton calls all you anti-vaxcine-ers, “Cowards and Chicken shits*”
* yeah she says ‘squat’ but we know.
Oh and she delivers so many bad “puns” Swiss might stroke out.
It is a good idea for people her age, for people under 65 it depends.
Apparently Vox or someone similar did a hitpiece on her recently.
Suess books are sold out in foreign Amazon sites as well. Either Amazon pulled them or customers started checking those after they disappeared here.
Also, Ezra Klein demands a bat to the face.
If Japan ever went woke, there wouldn’t be a children’s book or anime creator employed in the entire country.
Amazon.co.jp was one of the ones I checked and out of stock there.
But as long as I can order the butt detective and that farting one and grauvere pictorials, it’s all good.
“Dr Seuss’s stepdaughter says he ‘didn’t have a racist bone in his body’ – but defends pulling of six titles because ‘the world is in pain'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9318195/Dr-Seuss-stepdaughter-says-author-didnt-racist-bone-body.html
Dad, you aren’t racist, but we’re gonna let them call you one because they got feelings.
Dad, you aren’t racist, but we’re gonna let them call you one because they got
feelings. the right to free speech.Hype heard a whoosh.
What?
Would you, could you with a fox?
This is why you’re dishonest. You’re (deliberately?) conflating “let” as in “not legally prohibit” with what Straff was actually saying which is “let pass without rebuttal or disagreement.”
but they did rebut and disagree.
“The world is in pain, and only ever-increasing acts of authoritarianism and censorship will heal it.
Along with money.”
Gee..you went from obscure and a nobody to names in the paper. I am sure you love your stepdad and not at all enjoying this.
As always the proper response is fuck off.
It’s what many people knew, but someone figured out how to make money saying it:
“How Biden’s ‘best friend’ Obama initially refused to support a ‘tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah’ and only coronavirus saved him after doing almost everything wrong, new book claims
“A new book asserts Joe Biden did almost everything wrong during the 2020 election and ran a lethargic campaign that nearly went bankrupt
“The authors claim he was only able to win the presidency due to Donald Trump’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic
“Top Biden adviser Anita Dunn said that ‘Covid was the best thing that happened to him’ because it covered up his failings
“The claims are in ‘Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
“Barack Obama refused to support Biden and reportedly feared he was a ‘tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah’
“One Biden aide put the campaign strategy in blunt terms: ‘You put your dumb uncle in the basement’
“The book claims Biden was so out of touch he didn’t see why his habit of touching women was a problem because he ‘didn’t think he did anything wrong'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9317067/Obama-initially-refused-support-Joe-Biden-aging-politician-having-hurrah.html
Donald Trump’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic
A story that exists only in media narrative and the heads of blue-pilled people.
CovidCollusion between big tech and the media was the best thing that happened to him’ because it covered up his failingsOh, don’t rule out nonprofits and the government in this one, either. There was a lot of collusion to go around.
No collusion. Just fortification.
“Barack Obama refused to support Biden and reportedly feared he was a ‘tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah’
I wouldn’t call watching the shadows for his soulless cannibal veep or any of her bloody-fingered underlings a last hurrah, let alone for a demented old man.
White engineering professor to his woke university in Michigan: “No, assholes, *you’re* the racists” [paraphrase]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9318059/Michigan-professor-says-hes-discriminated-against-40-years-white-man.html
Idea for Derp “White Christian straight man claims he’s being discriminated against because only white Christian straight men can’t complain about being discriminated against.”
Contrary to taking either side in this stupid round of the culture war, I hope they continue hollowing out the universities. Let them be full entirely of Maoists and then let the whole system collapse from its own weight of uselessness.
Even Evergreen has managed to stay afloat after their Lord of the Flies episode a few years ago. I hope you’re right, though.
Neph – when is your tiki article dropping? I could use some know-how
So needy.
Not needy. Wanty. ;-)
This guy gets it
The new Flight Sim is on xbox live thing my kids have. Its a gigantic base 148gb d/l but I have wasted a whole day flying around the grand canyon
Would. My kid back in the day was into flight sim’s. We played often and my fav plane was a Super Cub so I could see how many places I could land. I crashed more than I landed. Probably a good thing I never finished that whole pilots license thing I was wanting in the mid 2000’s.
All COVID restrictions are lifted in Texas. Hooray!
Good. The sad part of all this is that when people do get a little freedom back, they’ll forget how bad they we’re getting screwed even before COVID.
I am solemnly pledged not to forgive Abbot for closing bars in the first place.
Perhaps I can get the Premier of my province (Alberta — Canada’s Texas) to finally do something similar. God, he’s turned into a gutless wonder over the last year.
No One Has Ever Had It Coming More Than Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo is, or was, one of the most immovable objects in American politics. He began his career as an adviser to his father, three-term New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, then became a member of Bill Clinton’s Cabinet. He succeeded Eliot Spitzer as New York’s attorney general, and has since won three straight gubernatorial races himself—the last of which involved a landslide victory over high-profile progressive primary challenger Cynthia Nixon.
This has all been achieved in spite of a reputation for behind-the-scenes unpleasantness so extreme that New York magazine described it as “staggering” in 2006, before he’d ever even won an election of his own. Since then, without having become any more beloved on a personal basis, Cuomo has also developed a reputation among reporters and activists for protecting and perpetuating a corrupt “pay to play” political system, resisting changes to the state’s arcane and anti-democratic electoral process, and vastly exaggerating the extent of his commitment to attacking wealth and racial inequality.
Burn the witch!
Yeah, he’s so unsavory and such a twat in person that everyone around him was just looking for an opportunity to sink the knife in and that time has come.
Except the entire past few years he was wildly popular and no one would say a single negative thing about him.
I would.
I have.
Not so. Just a few months ago you were saying he’s your idol.
…
No … really I mean any mainstream media.
Fear can do a good job of keeping people in line for a while but watch out when they smell blood in the water or the slightest opportunity.
“developed a reputation among reporters and activists for protecting and perpetuating a corrupt “pay to play” political system, resisting changes to the state’s arcane and anti-democratic electoral process”
Were reporters reporting this?
Shush. You weren’t supposed to notice that.
Were reporters reporting this?
You’re so cute.
I’m waiting for something to actually happen to him besides a few weeks of unflattering media coverage.
I just took a pan of bacon out of the oven.
#winning
I just put a pan of chicken into the oven.
I made sauerbraten meatballs with buttered noodles and peas. It was pretty good. Should be served with beer, which I don’t have, but still good. I’ll probably make it again in October, it won’t be a monthly thing.
Neera Tanden Withdraws As Nominee For Office Of Management And Budget
Tanden had served as head of the Center for American Progress, an economic think tank, when she issued her tweets, among them calling Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “Voldemort,” the Harry Potter villain; labeling Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, as “the worst;” and saying that “Vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz,” the Republican senator from Texas. She was also critical of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and some of his supporters.
Live by the sword; die by the sword.
Time for someone equally bad but less well known.
As one person I know states repeatedly, “Most people are on Twitter for the sole purpose of hurting others.” Those people frequently become ideal exemplars of the Iron Law “Me today, you tomorrow.”
I don’t know about that. I am on twitter for the chuckles. There is some legit funny stuff there. I listened to a peter R Q podcast a few days ago where he had another twitter guest. Those guys are there to fuck with blue check marks and mostly those owned by journalists. I respect that because fuck the msm. I have gotten into arguments with rando’s in the early days of vid and ya, it just pissed me off so I don’t do that anymore because I am changing no minds. Twitter is what you make it and I don’t have the arguing chops as some do so I don’t do it.
Fuck Yooooooooooooouuuuuu!
“Once you get vaccinated, you still have to act just exactly like you did before, but with even fewer people.
This is the most unscientific shit ever.
https://www.wkyt.com/2021/03/02/cdc-to-release-guidance-for-people-vaccinated-against-covid/