We had three days of rain this week. You know what’s weird and never occurred to Gavin Newsom? Lifting weights in the rain doesn’t work. We are the last state forcibly keeping people out of gyms. I hate my governor.
When I sat down to write this article, I couldn’t believe this is the fifty second installment of the Coronavirus Edition. When this started, I thought labelling the “column” this way would be a funny, short-lived diversion. If you had asked me a year ago whether we would still have restrictions on our freedoms I would have told you, you are nuts. No way Americans will put up with these ridiculous restrictions for a year. I can’t believe how wrong I was.
I am genuinely shocked by the wide swath of society that supports what has happened and continues to happen. Many of you have posited why this happened and what allows it to continue. Let me add another possibility. The endumbening of America has been going on for decades. Our scientific literacy has sharply declined as has our historical knowledge.
Home arrest was enraging to me at the start, but I could at least understand the logic of “flattening the curve.” Then I started reading and hearing what happened during other pandemics. Never had the general population been in quarantine, just the infected. But few people knew their history and fewer wanted to learn it.
As weeks and then months went by, the evidence started to mount. There was no correlation between infection rates in states that locked down and those that didn’t. Mask mandates also didn’t correlate to infection rates. Collateral consequences were entirely ignored. Why pay attention to science when SCIENCE! provided the endumbed with reassurance.
The reaction to this plague took on religious overtones and not the good ones. There was no redemption, charity towards others, or humility. It was all about observance, subservience, and damnation for your sins. Color me an atheist if that’s what you believe.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about staying motivated while the insanity persists. Days are getting longer, it’s about to stay light later, and it’s starting to warm up. So, our environment is getting friendlier to outdoor activity.
I’m not much for journaling but I sometimes spending some time to evaluate where I am, what I want to accomplish, and what I need to do to achieve my goals. I find writing down my conclusions is important to the process. Sometimes I’ll keep a condensed list somewhere it’s easy for me to reference. It can be the needed kick in the ass to get me moving.
If I have time to read (something beyond your wonderful, snarky comments) then there are a ton of great motivational books. You all know I’m partial to the Book of St. Goggins.
So fellow Glibs, how do you get or stay motivated?
A song that asks the right questions and prescribes the right remedy.
By staying ahead of BW?
By following the recall campaign and his subsequent backpedaling? It’s ludicrous to average all zip codes in such large and populous counties.
Of course you are right. But Gavin has super secret SCIENCE! that supports it. It’s much too sophisticated to release to the general public because it would confuse us.
I’d think Gavin would be trying to get us to like him enough to abstain from throwing his sorry ass out of office.
But maybe they’ve got the recall vote counting handled in such a way that he need not fear the wrath of the electorate.
“So fellow Glibs, how do you get or stay motivated?”
I don’t understand the question. ?
The answer is beer. Always beer.
I support this conclusion.
This is a simple and timeless truth.
I was going to write a detailed answer, but then I was like, “meh.”
Sometimes you have to get philosophical.
LOL
Very bueno.
This.
No way Americans will put up with these ridiculous restrictions for a year. I can’t believe how wrong I was.
#metoo
New Sabbath wtih Ozzy? I am intrigued. It’s playing as I type this up.
So fellow Glibs, how do you get or stay motivated?
Gym hotties.
Getting back to normal, or as close as can be, after my disc herniation diagnosis. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I think I actually herniated this disc 20 or so years ago and wrote it off as something else. When I compare the aches and pains I feel as things heal with aches and pains I’ve had over the years combined with I noticed no “pop” in my back in the months before the pain started, I think I had to have done this long ago and wrote it off as something else.
Having a haven of normality in this insane times. I have to wear a mask when entering and exiting the lobby area of my gym. There is 100% compliance. Yes, even me. There are signs up about the Nashua mask ordinance. The Governor’s mandate states if a municipality has a stricter ordinance, the ordinance is what you need to follow. Nashua’s ordinance is stricter than the governor’s orders. The current ordinance requires masks unless you are actively working out. There is 95%-99% non-compliance with that ordinance. Almost everyone, once they are past the lobby area, takes their masks off and never puts them back on until they leave. Staff are wearing masks all the time as the goons showed up to threaten the place.
My weight is down again this week. 273.2 lbs @ 27.3% bodyfat.
I had a light deadlift day using a regular barbell. The trap bar I usually use was in use, so I decided to give a regular barbell a try. No problems with the minuscule weight of 65 lbs (bar + two ten pound bumper plates). I talked with my trainer about program changes. He thinks it is time to start loading my spine in different ways. Under his supervision I tried box squats using a safety squat bar. He thought it would be a good idea to start with this bar since I can stay more upright while squatting, similar to a front squat but with the weight on my shoulders. I had no trouble. My new program will incorporate the safety squat bar.
Oh. That Sabbath song is dated 2013. I guess I need to get with the times. I liked it. I heard some old Sabbath in there.
Since this week is St. Patrick’s Day, I’m not limiting booze beyond normal pacing of myself and making sure I’m fine to drive if I’m out on the town. Next week I’ll be back at limiting booze.
Staff are wearing masks all the time as the goons showed up to threaten the place.
Oops. I should clarify: The goons showed up to threaten the place about staff not wearing masks at all times. Supposedly a member took a picture of a staff member not wearing a mask in the lobby area then sent the picture off to the State Board of Health.
Was there any beatings of the snitch?
You mean Karen.
Honestly? I don’t know. I don’t even know if the gym knows who the member is.
How would they if the Karen was masked.
Yeah, got plans for St. Patrick’s day, then the girlfriend and I are heading out East for the weekend. There will be no calorie counting during that time.
Meh. Sounds like a song off of Technical Ecstasy or Never Say Die.
Dio-era Sabbath was the best. Fight me.
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there are youtube videos of it that are available. the fact that you chose one that wasn’t makes me think you are prejudiced against Romanians
Of course I’m prejudiced against Romanians, with all of your Carpathian privilege.
But anyway… The Mob Rules.
Damn, I love that song. Sabbath wrote more good songs on 2 albums with Dio as they did with 6 with Ozzy.
Dio-era Sabbath was the best.
No.
Ozzy Sabbath was meandering, less interesting Goth with occasional metal. Dio and Sabbath raised each other up to make better music. I don’t think either ever did anything better than the 2 albums they did together.
I’ll just remind myself that value is subjective.
Apparently creating fun comics doesn’t translate into superior musical tastes. The first four Black Sabbath albums with Ozzy were pure genius. The next two are mediocre on the whole. 13 is fantastic but lacks Bill Ward.
I like the albums with Dio but don’t think they are nearly as strong as the first four with Ozzy. In fairness this may be like comparing Roth era VH with the Hagar era. It’s really like two different bands.
DEG it’s from the album 13.
Well, one year in, I’m about 20 pounds over where I was last year, and about 20 pounds lower then I was at the beginning of the year. I’ve been hitting new lows each week, and the average weight has continued to go down each week (for this year at least). Spin classes continue, average RPM is now in the upper 80’s/low 90’s (about 10 up from last year), average power has been bouncing around based on motivation and knee health (but is about +20 watts over last year).
The motivation now is to fit into the aspirational cycling kit (just a bit smaller then I can comfortable fit into) I ordered the winter before lockdowns by this summer. On the plus side, I’ve got a target for the metric century rides (once the weather cooperates a bit) as a new brewery opened on the bones of an old one I used to bike to. I’ve also got a couple of half century rides plotted out as well. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any of the supported rides are going to happen this year either (and one of them has been permanently cancelled now).
It sounds like you are back in the saddle (pun intended.) Way to get back to it Neph.
here we have a new bout of restrictions but the gyms are not closed, never been since reopening in june.
I am not usually on glibfit as it is kind of late, but your weird DST makes this earlier.
I have not much ti report. still heavily depressed drink way to much which makes me overeat to keep the stomach calm so still fat as shit. did not weigh myself in the last month but in the mirror i look constant.
My shoulders are still bothering me so gym is not that intense. I stick to full body workouts 2 sets per body part 3x a week, i vary between gym and my home workout setup depending on weather, mostly gym.
I can bench 85 kg for 10 reps without to much shoulder pain which is lame but its what i got. squat 115 dead 125… press 55… body weight around 90kg at 182 cm
I still walk 7 kilometers a day every day… sometimes more
I don’t remember if I described my home gym setup here. Basically each apartment in my building also has a storage room in the basement. I got some cheap gear for that. Rack bench bars weight adjustable dumbbells. Not much but I can squat press dead bench do my skull crushers and some pull ups and dumbbell work. I also got a back hyper-extension bench. The basement room is not heated but it was a warm winter and the temps never got bellow 9C
Are you doing enough back work?
Doing more back work, and more variations on back work, took care of just about all of my shoulder pain.
I believe i am. I have an impingement that I doubt more back work would solve
Have you tried regular stretching and/or hanging from an inversion bar?
/not a vampire joke.
Pic of the basement room gym
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EMmHY-ybvYzleiNDs8kWffO9t-BWobpD/view?usp=drivesdk
I also have two iron 9kg dumbbells which were my father’s from when he was young.
You and your basement privilege.
That’s how a storage room should be used. That, or else a reloading press setup.
The proper use is orphan storage.
What? You use your own personal space to store your orphans instead of just storing them in the mines? Next thing we’ll learn about is that you allow them breaks during their 20 hour a days shift.
Soft, this one, we have to think about revoking his Glib card.
Those aren’t bad numbers if working out is just casual/staying fit. At least, that is what I tell myself after a workout.
My shoulder is also fing with me, so workouts have been lighter and more spread out the past month. :/
I would like to trade my governor for your head vampire.
I finally got a pedometer, I do walk quite a bit, let’s see,
Distance Beers notes sleep Holes played
3-11-21 9.5 miles 7 1st day with device 6 hours 10
3-12-21 9.45 miles 7 7.5 hour 10
3-13-21 5.53 miles 11 7.5 hours 27
3-14-21 2 ? 7.5 hours 9
Spreadsheets don’t convert well in my world I guess
Good news and bad news.
Good news – base gym is open to reservists again – got a good workout in on Friday.
Bad news – they actually opened 3 weeks ago and didn’t tell anyone – only found out when I called them on Thurs. Also per the secdef guidanceast month they now require masking while using the cardio machines and not just between machines (?!?)… waiting to see if I can come up with any supplementary guidance for PT since the masking now is dumber than it was in Nov.
OT: it’s a fucking mystery Batman. Gun crime rises in New Zealand despite government clampdown.
The solution is always more gun control. The results do not matter.
You misspelled “because of”
The solution is more lock downs. They always work.
Cognitive Dissonance Abounds:
Gun Crime has gone down despite the numbers showing it’s gone up! And if it did go up, it’s only because the police have gotten too good at their jobs, or it’s those damn Aussies!
Those Aussies are like the Indianians of the South Pacific, what with their incredibly lax gun laws.
Not to mention NZ was sewn up tighter than a gnat’s ass for the last year.
Meanwhile, in Seattle…
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1371115796894777345
All I see is peaceful protests.
The FBI will look into as soon as they are done destroying everyone who protested on January 6th.
Obviously, per RN’s link, we need more gun control.
Can we just go ahead and call this a purge?
not yet, but TX is a good place to be when TSHTF,
They haven’t even built the camps yet, slow down.
That will be in the infrastructure bill I assume.
I’m sure it will.
Sorry, we were going to put the poor migrant children in the new camps, but we have to use it for the more pressing problem of what to do with the extremists.
So for now, the children have to stay in the cages… I mean, totally not cages. /cuts to commercial – TMITE
My gym pretty much ignored the mask thing from the beginning. People can wear the mask or not as they see fit (most don’t). Most afternoons the place it now at least as busy as it was last year pre-covid. There was a while were the owner wasn’t sure if he was going to make, I can see his relief now.
There have been Karens who have been upset at the sight of unmasked people and cancelled their memberships – and at least twice as many who have joined because people are not masked. It is now my refuge from the craziness in the world.
You couldn’t count on them to spot you anyway.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1371022233192132609
Heh.
My only disappointment is the cop didn’t jam on his brakes and then accelerate.
Sorry, Chafed, some of us live in reasonable states that don’t pull shit like that.
*Florida privilege*
Some helpful guidance on masking while at the gym.
https://notthebee.com/article/nbc-advises-you-to-wear-a-mask-while-showering-at-the-gym
masks are not required here in the gym, but they are required in the reception area
That is incredibly stupid.
Maybe if you extremists would behave yourself, you could have a little of that freedom stuff back.
Governor Newsom is that you?
could someone come over and do my dishes? it only takes 10 minutes……
just buy new ones
I did, I’m trying to be a Civilized Widower, enact my Labor, I’ll pay,
Scared people do dumb things and it surprisingly easy to scare people.
Stop it! you’re Scaring me!
/Wayne’s World…
The teacher’s union isn’t endumbening our kids, they’re just fortifying education.
“they’re just fortifying education”
Also known as leftist indoctrination by honest folk.
I have no idea why all these people are screaming ‘open the schools!’. No, do not open the schools, the kids might actually get smarter again.
Embiggening our knowledge.
Public schools at least sometimes used to have challenging teachers (see present avatar).
oops, shared wisdom
I mean I get it that some parents what their babysitters back. Anyone who cares about actual education could not support our current public school systems if they are paying attention at all, which of course, many are not.
endumbening of America has been going on for decades. Our scientific literacy has sharply declined as has our historical knowledge.
Let me add that when you base your official worldview on mushy secular humanism mixed with an undercurrent of Marxist class warfare, you raise generations of people who can’t reason their way, logically or morally, out of a paper bag.
Look, as long as we’re all equally dumb, that is equality and what is important.
I keep saying it, right now Putin and Xi are having an endless cocktail party and laughing us off the planet, while we commit national suicide.
Hi Chafed! Thanks for this edition and greetings from NOCal. I can’t or don’t want to believe it has been a year of lock-up.
What motivates me..I guess I am not different than anyone else in “the stir”. I want to be in the best shape I can be so that when someone comes for my prison wallet..at the least, I make their experience less pleasant. (Man that was dark and cynical…)
G-fit update: Sleep was pretty great. Food was better no week day carbs… Hike mileage has been leveling off 35 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; I just stopped doing it and I don’t know why. Weight is up a couple pounds (I lost some discipline in food and exercise). Did some MIIT..doing push-ups with a Russian to Eurotrash music… No fast this week.
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
Helpful video of me doing my core workout.
Chafed!
As always, thanks for doing these, brother. I agree with you whole heartedly: I am shocked my fellow’Muricans turtled when the shit started to get real. The fact that, 12 months into this clown show, people still move away from others on the fucking walking paths makes me apoplectic.
I am completely over this shit.
As to how I stay motivated, I like to participate in life. Hiking, hockey and all the other things I love are more fun when I’m fit and strong.
Also having a defined strength program with records and goals is immensely helpful, too.
This week was ok. I didn’t lift on Monday, because my knee was fucked up. Felt ok the rest of the week. Did and sleep were decent, but could stand some tweaking. But when is that never the case?
Have a great week, Glibfitters!
” records and goals” this is important to me now, I want to see my trend lines, and a spreadsheet helps a lot,
The More you Know…….
The accountability is a big one for me. Skipping a day is part of the permanent record.
It better be worth it!
That’s good advice Tundra.
I was just walking home from my shop and a masked Karen walking towards me crossed the street before she got to me, then crossed back after I had passed.
Lolol.
Tell the truth – women did that BEFORE the current masquerade, didn’t they? 😉
Are you an apostate or a gentile?
Today in local news, bears doing shit to fences
https://www.facebook.com/oscar.stanciu/videos/324626399086663/?t=26
More on this thing that happened:
I would like to know the answer to this too. As well why there is now a permanent military occupation of Washington.
The props are right. There does need to be a culling of the military.
I’m sure there is a culling going on right now. All the useful soldiers are being replaced by woketards who would hide under their bed if they knew someone was going to shoot back at them. So their like cops, only more woke.
If you told somebody in early 2001 that this is what the US would look like 20 years later, they would find it unfathomable.
Oddly, I don’t find the military DESTROYING Tucker Carlson on Twitter all that big of a deal. Yeah, they’re swimming outside their lane. What’s new? Add it to the list of wildly inappropriate things FedGov is doing to the rabid cheers of half the country.
Well, it IS unprecedented (the real kind) AFAIK. It is just not done outside of banana republics.
“The DoD didn’t “attack” your show, we absolutely disagree with you! Trust me, you’d know if the DoD attacked you—it’s a doctrinal term,”
The military escalated to threatening Tucker now too.
So, what’s with the Space Force due in desert cammo?
Hey Chief, you planning foot patrols on Mars?
-1 Cloaking device, I have one,
The endumbening of America has been going on for decades. Our scientific literacy has sharply declined as has our historical knowledge.
Ab-so-bloody-lootly.
Friday morning, at the hotel in Pocatello, there was a (masked) guy looking for the coffee cups in the downstairs “breakfast” room (closed), as I had done the morning before They were not in close proximity to the coffee. I plucked one off the stack, holding it by the very bottom, and offered it to him. He declined it, as if I had packed it full of toxic waste.
In a year, Americans have become panic-stricken germophobes and hypochondriacs. A painful lingering death is better than our public health high mucketty mucks deserve.
We have a crisis. GunBroker is down.
Let’s hope they weren’t deplatformed.
Being that the chair of this committee is on record stating her wishes are that social media companies don’t censor enough, I’m sure that Greenwald’s testimony has fallen on deaf ears, but he’s in DC doing dog’s work anyways.
From his testimony:
Each point goes in to great detail. He’s definitely the most coherent voice for both free speech and exposing gov-big tech collusion to silence speech.
I think he’s pissing in the wind as the Democrats want more censorship of anything that runs afoul of leftist orthodoxy (at least as it exists on any given day), and his argument is contra to their desires. But at least he’s there.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congressional-testimony-the-leading?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyMDg5NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzM2OTQ0MjUsIl8iOiJEdENBVSIsImlhdCI6MTYxNTc0OTM5MywiZXhwIjoxNjE1NzUyOTkzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTI4NjYyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.-qjAjfV0lpWWPWUumiIAK3z3ECesz7SxdAzg8rJnn-o
This is why Glen has been cancelled. Not a real gay man anyway.
Yep.
Cancelled at his own fucking publication.
And if Democrats and their media enablers get their way, places like substack will be cancelled too.
The media wants life to return to the pre-internet days where they controlled the flow of all information. If they can’t control
it, they want it eviscerated. They’re fully under the belief that they can put the cat back in the bag via government force.
They’re woefully wrong.
Fired, or “asked to resign” is cancelled?
Sure.
The only reason he has a voice at all right now is because he’s built up a following over the last 2 decades, and went completely independent. And the media is busy trying to censor that too.
They’re doing a shit job of it, I see references/links to his pieces everyday.
How has he been cancelled?
You many want to read Muzzled post, just saying.
I did, I guess I have a different definition of ‘cancelled’ than most people, also “destroyed” and “ruined”. I would assume these people lost everything and are behind the circle K making 20 bucks at a time. Getting kicked of twitter or fired isn’t quite the end of the world.
What’s your definition of cancelled?
I would assume these people lost everything and are behind the circle K making 20 bucks at a time.
Good question.
Addendum: ‘cancelled’ people don’t generally testify before congress.
I’m gonna split my difference on my definition of cancelled.
Canceling to me is somebody being fired or punished by their employer because of activity that occurred outside of the work context plus an attempt to publicize the activity in a way that will reduce the person’s future employment prospects.
That’s a pretty extreme sample of canceled. People can be cancelled without being relegated to working at Circle K.
But fair enough, I’ll play and rephrase what I said.
Glen is not yet completely cancelled because he has the popularity to have survived his cancel attempt. But make no mistake, they tried to cancel him, will continue to try to cancel him, and will not stop until they have either succeeded or just tire of it and move on to the next victim.
You can’t really say that he was “attacked” or “shot at” if the bullet didn’t hit him. ‘Cause if he was shot AT, the bullet would have hit. At most, you could say he was shot near.
Brendan Eich got thrown out of the company he founded because he voted with the majority on Prop 8.
He was cancelled.
The fact that he is enough of an entrepreneur to subsequently found another company and start over does not negate what happened to him at Mozilla.
Impostor – “behind” the Circle K not “at”, If the Circle K will hire you you have not been cancelled or destroyed or ruined.
Trashy- fair enough, although I guess my gripe is with the use of words that have such a sense of finality to describe consequences that may suck and may be unfairly foisted upon people but aren’t the end of the world. Instead of “you’ll never work in this town again” it’s more “you’ll have to work in another part of town.”
Canceling is about eliminating someone’s position, not about removing them to a desert island and wiping all trace of their existence.
“Canceling is about eliminating someone’s position, not about removing them to a desert island and wiping all trace of their existence.”
Well, not yet, anyway, give them time. I’m sure they’ll move on to camps before they get to exiling us to Pluto.
So, if they’re not dead, they’re not cancelled, got it. It doesn’t count if they commit suicide, right? Because in that case, they chose to be dead, you can’t really blame that on anyone else.
Or what we used to call being fired.
I never said dead, I said turning tricks behind the Circle K.
Fired for strictly political opinions? That’s not just firing. It’s something entirely sinister.
But if they’re turning tricks behind the Circle K, they might suck off a politician that invites them to testify before congress, so Bam! Not cancelled.
Nice try NA but that’s why I added the weasel word ‘generally’ into that statement.
“Canceling to me is somebody being fired or punished by their employer because of activity that occurred outside of the work context plus an attempt to publicize the activity in a way that will reduce the person’s future employment prospects.”
I tried to make this point before and got shouted down, but being cancelled is one thing or the other: either it’s some special and complete erasure that doesn’t really exist . . . or it’s some watered down version that is essentially what every does every day and always has . . . versions of which get standing ovations from Glibs if the enemy is suitably “mendacious.”
At the end of the day, political and economic decisions are just so much vector math, with almost no posture, choice, or purchase being purely orthogonal to the other axis.
Yeah nah.
The difference is that in the last couple of decades the reach and effect of a limited number of people is beyond what happened in the past.
The New York Times refusing to print your advertisement in 1923 sucked, but there were dozens of other papers and besides, nobody relied on the NYT as their sole source for information.
Now compare that to Google delisting you in searches and tell me that’s the same thing, NBD.
You do and you’re a liar.
“Don escaped Cancun”
Why would you want to escape that?
Who doesn’t want to see 80 year old obese women nekked, German expats in speedos with sandals and knee socks, or drunk 14 year olds everywhere?
You have a different definition of what 1+1 is than most people.
He was run out of his own publication.
They refused to publish pieces specifically pertaining to social media sites censoring the Hunter Biden story, because it wasn’t sufficiently anti-Trump.
He confounded The Intercept. He had a contract under which his work was not edited. He wrote a piece during the election critical of Joe Biden. The Intercept refused to publish it.
Well, if he thinks he’s going to change the dems back to whatever they once were, he is pissing in the wind. Not sure why him and Tulsi haven’t got the memo yet.
Probably for the same reason so many libertarians still caucus as republicans, despite being against large portions of the Republican Party.
Being part of the major parties is the only ticket in town, and there are positions on the other side (in this case Republicans) that they simply cannot support, even if they have commonalities in some areas.
I have mixed feelings on that, but I openly admit that although I despise political parties, including the LP, which is the only one I have ever been a member of, I typically vote for Republicans, because if we do not stop the openly commie authoritarian democrats, we’d better be learning Mandarin and I’m too old and just tired of shit to learn another language.
The thing I struggle with is the willy nilly use of “monopoly”. This is fascism, not monopoly.
Monopoly would be Facebook owning the servers running Parler and booting Parler when they got too uppity.
Oligopoly would be Facebook and Twitter colluding to force Parler out when they got too uppity.
Fascism is Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, and Google getting marching orders from FedGov agents and their non-profit collaborators and systematically eliminating Parler due to Parler running afoul of FedGov’s desires.
One might argue that true monopolies aren’t possible without government.
Though ultimately I agree. It’s straight up, dictionary definition fascism.
“One might argue that true monopolies aren’t possible without government.”
They might be. But in this case what you have is government colluding with private entities to enforce those monopolies, so long as the private entities do their bidding, the competition will be crushed.
No argument with your premise.
But the fear of monopolies supposes/requires that, even when direct competition is outlawed, that no suitable substitutes can be found. A good substitute for steel might be engineered wood . . for bus rides, jets. It took time and money, but you weren’t beholden to US Steel or Greyhound forever.
Well said Trashy.
“The united Silicon Valley attack began on January 8, when Apple emailed Parler and gave them 24 hours to prove they had changed their moderation practices or else face removal from their App Store. The letter claimed: “We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property.””
Which turned out to be horseshit.
That’s why Apple apologized and made things right. Oh… that didn’t happen?
And, as has been documented, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were used far more by the rioters to coordinate things than Parler was.
It was a hit job, full of pro(g)ection from the start.
This makes me curious about what happened to the companies who colluded with Mussolini after the war. Did they get caught up in the revolt?
Good question. Don’t know the answer.
It think what will happen to FacebookTwitterAmazonGoogle, is that they’ll just be another cog in the wheel of China’s massive crony conglomerate.
Mercedes is still in business in Germany….
Not for long. Fuhrer Merkel and her Euro cronies are boing to destroy the auto industry there.
going
Methinks Daimler AG and the Mercedes-Benz brand will do just fine, whatever befalls the industry/market.
BMW, Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, and most notably the constituent companies of IG Farben such as Bayer and BASF, to name just a few, but then what were the Allies to do? Leave Germany in ruins to become Weimar 2.0 and start all over again?
Right.
Which means that companies that worked with and supported Nazism in Germany were treated more kindly than American business and everyday individuals for the temerity of supporting Trump.
Right. I worked for a German firm for years and remember (have) their 100th anniversary picture book complete with portraits of the boys (children) who ran the plant during the war, during bombings, and who even rebuilt the place constantly as it was hit.
And corporate reparations were still a line-item on the earnings statements as late as 2005 that I know of.
The snow finally melted this past week, so I got to start taking the dog for walks in the woods again. The dog was thrilled. 40 minutes yesterday, a little over an hour today. Saw a single mountain biker in the distance on the next trail over.
When I turned my phone on this morning just before my walk, I got a wind warning from the weather app. It was mildly breezy during the walk, but the wind has really picked up since lunch.
It’s good you and doggo got out early.
He’s a husky, so he doesn’t mind chilly weather.
We had a few weeks in January when there was no snow on the ground. Going for a one-hour walk in 25 degree weather isn’t as bad as you might think, as long as you dress properly.
Had a brief snowstorm here this afternoon.
It snowed here too.
We had a cloudburst. One cloud started snowing while the rest of the sky was sunny.
Runner’s high and habit are two big sources of motivation for me running in general.
Beyond that, I structure my year into three phases, more or less, and within each phase I create more structure. I’m just now winding down my “BMDM” phase. My next phase will be training for and finishing the Hardrock 100 (July 16th – 18th), then I have four months of “fucking around” before I start training for BMDM 2022.
As I’ve mentioned before, the vast majority of my time running is physically fun and something I look forward to. It’s much easier for me to make a habit out of something I enjoy. However, some of what I do for BMDM is annoying and I’ll be happy moving on to the next phase a week from today. Eight months later and I’ll be stoked to start BMDM training again.
“Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
–Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
Greenwald:
But Americans were barred from discussing that reporting on Twitter, and were actively impeded from reading about it by Facebook.
it’s for your own good.
If the bank forecloses on your house, you can always sleep in your car.
What’s the problem?
What’s the problem?
Not making your mortgage payments?
Oh, that’s just a racist opinion.
Lol, Amazon now has “yellowface” as a warning at the beginning of movies.
Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects was infinitely more convincing as a Japanese person than any of the Chinese actors in Memoirs of a Geisha.
He was supposed to be Japanese? I had pegged Kobayashi as an Indian who grew up in/around London…
Me too.
I do not believe this invalidates my original statement.
What the fuck is yellowface?
Jaundice. See a doctor what fer fixin’ up yet kiddleys.
Hepatitis is no joke,
Doctor: “I’m afraid you have hepatitis C.”
Patient: “Well, that’s still a passing grade, right?”
“I actually don’t care whether people are “productive” or not because nobody’s right to survive should be based on how useful they are to capitalism”
https://twitter.com/jaythenerdkid/status/1370980700665475074
Of course this asshole has a paypal link in their bio.
Shut up, hippie.
ask that question when your Electricity goes down you piece of shit,
Produce something, or die, since when did that change?
I think it started back then the British elite with the new colonies refused to work and it’s just making a big comeback now.
Completely disconnected from reality.
A bi, non-binary Muslim. Curious what mosques they go to where that shit is tolerated.
The one that exists only in the mind of leftist apologists.
I actually respect the Muslims in that they really try to practice what their book says.
The People’s Commissariat for Digging Ditches and Filling Them Back In has issued a directive that anyone found to be disparaging the important work of ditch diggers as “unproductive” must be removed at once to a re-education facility for ideological correction.
I mean, this is the sort of commie who would even reject the notion of giving people jobs digging ditches. They just want to to be able to sit around all day doing nothing while getting all their needs and wants met.
It’s like they don’t even realize that real socialist governments demand that their peasants work.
It’s one of the big schisms between “old” and “new” left, generally speaking.
Used to be a time when people were proud to support themselves and their loved ones with work.
I wonder what happened.
“hire me”
LOL and also: not a chance
“what kind of nightmare hellscape are we living in that it’s normal to destroy our physical and mental health so that we can afford food and shelter”
I mean it’s never happened in all of history before that you had to make an effort to survive, so why should it happen now.
What are all those symbols in her posting name?
I love having an ally, Sister is the Bomb!
Sister? Who is that?