Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful morning it always is!
I’m happy it’s finally over yet still pissed they ever let it happen to begin with.
I wonder how long they can keep this charade going.
Democrats are still batshit crazy.
Bring it on, the sooner we have the collapse the better.
We’ll add it to the heap of fraud.
Just like Cuomo, we knew this for almost a year, why now?
Cruz needs to do a photo op of him fake crying behind a fence in front of the facility.
Never understood the appeal of watching actors fellate themselves and each other.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
The New York legislature is putting in a bill that would require them to approve of emergency actions the governor makes… but does not remove any of the illegal orders in effect.
This is part of the Kabuki theatre.
Juvenile immigrant detention center became kids in cages and now it’s back to child migrant detention facility. hmm.. wonder why?
Because of the added toxic waste!
“Just like Cuomo, we knew this for almost a year, why now?”
To get rid of the bad orange man, the establishment spent the last 4 years protecting and supporting everyone and everything that they could use to help them “fortify” the 2020 election. Now that they have actually managed to force the result they wanted, they have decided they need to remove the people that gained too much notoriety and could actually become a threat to their agenda of only allowing mentally deficient or someone willing to suck dick to make a career in power.
No more specialty acts?
/swearengen
Ooooo, Nice!
On the unemployment fraud side, here in Ohio, if you call in to the department to report it, you’re instead directed to an online form to file a complaint. After filing the complaint, you will hear nothing back, but will continue to get mailings and e-mail (if you were smart enough to update your contact information on the profile created for you) about your unemployment claims.
But at least the person responsible has stepped down… effective as of March 8th, but will remain on as a senior advisor until the end of April…
When our Province offered free munnies I got in pretty quick but Judi waited a day. Mine showed up in a matter of days, not sure if she ever got anything. Pigs at the trough.
Man, that’s grim to imagine.
“Meanwhile, everyone still loves sports and football. Maybe Hollywood should take a lesson from the SEC and B1G and focus on the product instead of waxing political.”
No, they’re in the process of skin suiting those and shitting all over everyone.
Everyone still loves sports and football? They love it. They just don’t watch it.
Yep. Didn’t watch a minute of MLB, NHL or college football last season. Only watched a couple regular season NFL games and the playoffs. I’ll probably not watch much of any sports at all this Spring and Summer either. The preaching is a huge turn off, literally and figuratively.
I only watched enough to laugh at the fake crowds.
SP and I were delighted at how much time got freed up for us when we dropped NFL entirely. We went from avid fans seeing maybe 5-6 games per week to exactly zero.
Good work there, fellas.
Years ago the NFL owned my Sundays.
I inherited the sports gene from my Dad. When the NHL went on strike last time I would sit and watch poker with him out in camp. I haven’t watched a sportsball game in its entirety for about four years. Round about the time that I discovered Glibs.
Way more Barbie Dream-House play! Good for you!
Celebrity worship is often a tribal thing. Sure you are a nobody in the tribe, but you are part of something big.
If the tribal chief can’t recognize me individually, I’m not a part of anything.
Poor Joe!
Person, woman, man, camera, TV, Tendie-Num-nums.
Green. Purple.
Purple. Green.
I don’t follow the chariot races.
Perfect
After this shitshow, you can be certain we are being lied to about Officer Brian Sicknick’s cause of death. Wray spent the last 2 years slow walking and undermining Trump’s attempts to force the criminal activity of the 3 letter agency cabal that Obama was using to spy on his political enemies and then spent 4 years running a coup culminating in the “fortification” of the 2020 election, from coming to light despite the fact he finally declassified them. The cabal’s top priorities are to protect their own and to keep their racket alive.
Do even know when he died?
They know what happened. They don’t want us to know, because they are using this guy’s death to further an agenda.
Once they charge “Buffalo Guy” or some other neo-nazi for murdering the cop, the defense will get to see the autopsy and it will become public. So, speedy trial notwithstanding, we are looking at sometime in 2024 after the elections. That should be enough time for the coroner to get mugged to death on the street so he can’t testify.
If they can somehow make this a murder, then they can add felony murder charges to everyone that breached the capitol. At which point, they will get whatever testimony they want.
Even though the story was it happened outside?
Ramones!
‘His latest struggles, meanwhile, often appear less gaffe-like and more fundamental,…
What am I doing here?” the president said at one point.’
The Being There Presidency
That’s why they wanted him…
The people making the decisions are all working Slow Joe like a marionette.
yep
The Dems are not THAT batshit crazy – of course they have to claim the entire Republican party are Nazis. Otherwise antifa may look around, notice that we have a corporate-govt alliance straight out of Mussolini’s design and conclude that the party in power might just be somewhat to blame. The last thing the Dems want (and honestly, this is sane) is for their attack dogs to turn on their masters. Hitler was smart enough to gut his shock troops as part of consolidating his legitimate power, the Dems are stupid and chickenshit to not do that.
Antifa doesn’t oppose fascism as long as it supports their goals.
They have learned the lesson and wield greater silencing powers since the mid-20th Century. They don’t need to physically make you disappear, which is a messy proposition, they just make sure to stifle the malcontents.
All they need do is turn normal prosecutorial behavior back on in those jurisdictions. The protests will dry up in days, and the useful idiots will fall back into either more normal life or their parents’ basements.
My social media was awash in that odal rune bullshit this weekend. I wouldn’t put it past Trump’s media people to subtly troll the progs who only make themselves look silly by overreacting.
That whole “scandal” is stupid and tedious.
Meanwhile, the third Obama administration is gearing up to plunge the Middle East into chaos.
Like Penn & Teller, but way more obvious.
Or fifth Bush administration… Depending on how you count.
Tomayto tomahto.
Aka 7th Clinton admin.
When you see Hitler and Hitler related shit everywhere people calling you out on your totalitarian shit are, I think the issue is with you. Not with the ones you accuse of being Hitler or secret Nazis.
Antifa has already done that.
Mornin’ Banjos! So nice of your Governor to give your freedom back. “Don’t worry! It’s just a little bit slimy! It’s still good! It’s still good!”
Music link courtesy of Officer Larvell Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HHMA1Dpo5M
Love that jam…
Good morning, Banjos!
Congrats on having a relatively sane governor. Somehow, our fuckhead didn’t get the memo that things are getting better. I’m curious, too, how he’s thus far gotten a pass on the nursing home slaughter.
What a whacky, fucked up world.
Thank God we still have the Ramones.
Touring with Lou Reed this summer 😉
“Thank God we still have the Ramones.”
And Lou Reed.
Opening for Lou Reed?
You need to identify as Milo to be first to Do the Lou 😉
FYI, the website was a bit wonky for me just now. It would let me authenticate, but wouldn’t unlock the “reply” button.
It’s was because you touch yourself on the Zoom.
Who doesn’t?
Granted.
I dont; but then, I don’t zoom.
One of the reasons I unplugged the camera
It’s been so long since I have gotten that email forward that I can’t even remember what “unplugging the camera” is anymore ?
My Zoom is pristine.
Unsullied by human hands?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reckoning-dr-seuss-racist-imagery-has-been-years-making-n1259330
No stone unturned. No wall left clean from their shit flinging!
If I Ran the Zoo is one of the discontinued books. I tried to buy it yesterday for the kids but was too late. Every Walmart, Target, and Barnes and Noble within 150 mile radius was already sold out and online as well. Used copies are priced at $500 on ebay. This is insane.
I managed to get on the waitlist at Amazon for a library binding version but we’ll see if that comes through.
Wait…wut? I think I need to go up and dig through the bookshelves!
You definitely should. Books like this should be kept beneath the floorboards in case the thought police barge in.
Fire Department.
Heroes!
I just checked Half Priced Books online, and you can still get it for $7.99.
It’s listed for 7.99 on the site, but I’m seeing unavailable when clicking on the book to order.
Ugh, who would have thought HPB would be into book burning?
The guy was an actual “anti-racist” (and not today’s racist version, either).
Never apologize.
I’ve seen a couple of their examples and I’m not seeing the “hurtful” or “wrong”.
They’re after him for his war work which was admittedly pretty raw.
All the examples are ludicrous. The man drew Furries, for Christ’s sake! Calling most of his characters white, then claiming certain other characters were Asian or Black is all in the mind of sick individuals.
“Never understood the appeal of watching actors fellate themselves and each other.”
So more into the lesbian stuff?
…go on.
Not when it’s Tina Fey, Amy Poehler.
But those ones aren’t acting…. right?
As a lesbian trapped in a man’s body (curse you mother nature, erm, not really cause I like them ladies) I cocncur.
Flipping through the channels on pluto teevee yesterday, I discovered the AFL-CIO is suddenly bombarding us with anti-Right-to-Work ads.
That evil monster Gianforte is up to no good, I guess.
Suddenly?
There’s been a billboard here by 480 for years that in big letters just says “RIGHT TO WORK IS A LIE”, with the small union logo in the bottom corner.
They obviously want “wrong to work” laws.
If the Republicans can’t get Right to Work passed with this kind of majority and the Governorship, I see no reason to vote for them again. (I am hopeful after CCW passed)
I will take my typical contrary position on this: Right to Work is anti-contract and hence anti-libertarian. If a company wants to negotiate being a closed shop, they should have that right.
Its stupid to do, but none of my business.
That would be all well and good if it was also legal to refuse to recognize a union and fire employees who were trying to force one.
You don’t fix a freedom of association violation with another freedom of association violation.
If you can replace a bad one with a less bad one, you’re moving in the right direction.
You don’t fix a freedom of association violation with another freedom of association violation.
Firing someone or refusing to do business with them (a union) is not a freedom of association violation.
Being forced to do business with a union by federal law is a freedom of association violation. I would have no problem with a business freely choosing to have a union, but that’s not the way it works.
The fact that an employer “agrees” with someone it is forced to do business with does not make invalidating part of that agreement via right to work a freedom of association violation. The entire agreement falls outside free association.
Firing someone or refusing to do business with them (a union) is not a freedom of association violation.
I didn’t say it was, I agree with you 100% on this.
Being forced to do business with a union by federal law is a freedom of association violation.
That is what I said.
I would have no problem with a business freely choosing to have a union, but that’s not the way it works.
But a right-to-work law prevents that from happening, which is why it is also a freedom of association violation.
If all the money and effort spent on getting right-to-work laws passed had been aimed at fixing the primary problem instead, we would be in a much better position. Strengthen Freedom of Association, don’t weaken it further.
But a right-to-work law prevents that from happening,
Right to work laws don’t outlaws unions, only a contract provision requiring all employees to be union members.
I will grant that, in the theoretical case of a company that voluntarily takes on a union, and then agrees that all employees must be union members, a right to work law is a free association problem.
But in other cases, vastly more prevalent in the real world, allowing workers to choose to be employed by the company and choose not to be a union member, sounds like strengthening freedom of association, to me.
You all are as bad as the people who opposed immigration because of the welfare state. THEN FIX THE FUCKING WELFARE STATE PROBLEM INSTEAD OF FIGHTING IMMIGRATION.
When current labor law is, well, basically repealed, I will happily support the repeal of right-to-work laws.
Quoting myself from above:
If all the money and effort spent on getting right-to-work laws passed had been aimed at fixing the primary problem instead, we would be in a much better position. Strengthen Freedom of Association, don’t weaken it further.
Quoting myself from above:
But in other cases, vastly more prevalent in the real world, allowing workers to choose to be employed by the company and choose not to be a union member, sounds like strengthening freedom of association, to me.
I think we’re just going to have to agree to be disagreeable.
Eh, not really. RTW is a direct shot at disempowering an entity that has a legal advantage. Furthermore, making the unisons less powerful may (may!) make them easier to un-advantage altogether, mooting the whole problem.
“Actress and left-wing activist Alyssa Milano floated a Nazi conspiracy theory directed toward the organizers of CPAC, suggesting that they deliberately fashioned the main stage to match the shape of a Nazi symbol.”
So sad when a beautiful woman loses her mind. Many such cases.
Also not seeing a nazi symbol. It looks a bit like that thing from Twin Peaks though.
Uhh, Most?
The outcome of these constant accusations is that the term Nazi will become meaningless.
Like racist, bigot, and fascist?
That ship sailed long ago, MS.
Dr. Drew has been saying recently that just a few years ago people seeing Nazis everywhere would be diagnosed.
I’m happy it’s finally over yet still pissed they ever let it happen to begin with.
Fearmongering has run and still runs deep.
I remain convinced that this is a trial run.
Considering the talk of “mutant” strains as if it is something different from any other virus of this type…and other things such as the WEF stating its goals outright…
The Bee claims it is to scare off Californians.
Once again, hard to tell if real satire.
Yep. I am part of a number of text chains (refuse to use web based social media). Lots of people on there were totally freaked out that restrictions were lifted in Texas. Really? So people can make money again, and you are horrified? If you want to wear a mask, please do so. Now it will be much easier to tell who to avoid in public.
Cuomo and Whitmer-
The problem with attack dogs is they don’t always only attack the people you want them to. Eentually, they become a liability too big to ignore, and need to be put down. The DNC has begun to realize this.
It has to do with “ease of use”. Cuomo and Whitmer are past sell by date. They did their job and now will be thrown to the wolves. I wonder if Gretchen’s plastic mask will crack when she get’s impeached.
I’m rooting for a bottle of pills & too much liquor.
Botched attempt and brain-dead. Lets see them wrangle over that can of worms.
Didn’t Al Franken get thrown to the wolves and replaced by a woman with thirty years political activism in DemFarmLabor Party?
Yup.
They had to rid the Party of Franken because he was actually funny. Can’t have that!
Yes. A complete nobody. She was Mark “Gov Mumbles” Chief of Staff. When the old Lt. Gov didn’t run for Dayton’s second term, he picked her. Then Dayton picked her again to replace Franken.
The good news is that she finally won an election on her own last year for the seat in the Senate. Us Minnesodans aren’t that smart.
Well, you do try to catch fish through the ice.
Ain’t no try about it.
*checks Facederp*
*sees post accusing Abbott of trying to kill all Texans by ending the restrictions from an acquaintance who works in a public health department*
*throws keyboard at screen*
You must go through a lot of computer hardware.
He put a lexan coronavirus shield in front of his monitors and uses an already broken keyboard just for throwing.
He’s using a projector on a white wall and a membrane keyboard.
For you.
That movie got so much right. Nothing has really changed in nearly 25 years.
The main thing that has changed is political correctness in the office–it wasn’t enough of a common concern for them to lampoon it back then, and now they’d never get away with it.
Damn it people!
PC LOAD LETTER simply means that the Paper Cartridge is out of letter sized paper. It’s as clear as an error as they could fit on the tiny display.
Now the fact the feed mechanisms for most of those printers had a tendency to wear out and fail to feed paper is another story.
Nephilium has a stack of old electronics manuals for bathroom reading material, confirmed.
Spank bank…
Only fools read the manual.
Part of my daily job is convincing people that the system will operate under the set of rules defined for it, not however they think the system should be operating.
So RTFM!
WHY THE FUCK WONT THIS COMPUTER DO WHAT I WANT INSTEAD OF WHAT IAM TELLING IT TO DO!
One of the holy trinity of movies (along with Pentagon Wars and Idiocracy) that explain life as we know it.
Masks are not mandatory, which means they are basically illegal.
Throughout his presidential campaign and continuing since taking the White House, Joe Biden has promised a transparent approach to press and public relations.
Clearly we another “most transparent admin in history”.
I wonder how long they can keep this charade going.
Considering the msm being full bore propaganda for Team Blue I’d say until he croaks. And maybe after.
I don’t think that he’s long for this world. Dr. Jill belongs in a gibbet.
I can see DR. Jill hiding his corpse in a closet in the White House for weeks because she is determined to be First Lady forever.
And there my mind went.
The puppeteers’ training film: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/
If I Ran the Zoo is one of the discontinued books.
Species colonialism!
These senators are calling for continued financial relief through the economic recovery for American families
None of which will be means tested and “covid relief” bills will still be packed with more pork than a Smithfield plant.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9320309/Demi-Rose-wears-low-cut-dress-serves-tea-home-shoot-trip-Ibiza.html
Pretty girl, shame about the ass.
“Families should not be at the mercy of constantly-shifting legislative timelines and ad hoc solutions,” they said.
They should not be at the mercy of crypto-Stalinist state officials who claim for themselves the power to declare large swathes of the economy non-essential.
“You MOSS be kidding! Lottie shares topless picture to tease adult website where she is commanding thousands for erotic paywall content – leaving her family and model agency concerned
Jarring: On the site, Lottie teases one picture with the words: ‘Slippery when wet’ but it can’t be viewed until $70 is paid on top of the monthly subscription”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9320353/Lottie-Moss-shares-topless-picture-promote-racy-snaps-adult-website.html
$70 for one picture?
We’re in the wrong business. * Checks to see if OnlyGlibs.com is still available *
Been to Glib Zoom, lately? Some folk are giving it away for free!
COVID Unemployment Programs Overwhelmed by ‘Epidemic of Fraud’
*rummages through junk drawer looking for shocked face*
Never mind the fact that the package itself is a fraud.
Hmm, can you really defraud a fraud?
“Direct payments are crucial for supporting struggling families who aren’t reached by unemployment insurance,” the senators state.
Moreover, the stimulus checks can help alleviate poverty, they wrote. Research from the Urban Institute last year found that a then-proposed second round of $1,200 stimulus checks, combined with enhanced unemployment, could help keep 12 million people out of poverty.
When the first $1,200 checks the government sent last year ran out, poverty increased, the senators point out.
The leaders also point to the support the payments have received from both the public and experts.
In November, a group of more than 150 economists wrote an open letter calling for additional stimulus checks. In it, they called the payments an “essential tool” for fighting poverty.
UBI, dead ahead. Just keep shovelling money into the boiler.
I wonder what else keeps people out of poverty. It’s a mystery.
When the first $1,200 checks the government sent last year ran out, poverty increased, the senators point out.
Occasionally I am still stunned by the ignorance.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
You know what would help people get out of poverty? Allowing them to work.
Well, keep them out of poverty for a few weeks.
Also, keep them from looking for work that might keep them out of poverty long-term.
“Raw chicken, moldy bread and METAL SHAVINGS: The disgusting meals which have hospitalized Michigan National Guard troops in DC causing state lawmakers to demand a new food vendor be brought in
Members of the Michigan National Guard complain they have been forced to eat raw chicken, moldy bread and meals containing metal shavings while they remain on guard in Washington DC protecting the US Capitol from attack.
More than a dozen soldiers on deployment have become ill – with some serious enough to be hospitalized – after reportedly being given undercooked and contaminated food..”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9319315/Raw-chicken-metal-shavings-Poor-food-hospitalized-Michigan-National-Guard-troops-DC.html
Protecting the US Capitol from attack?
Oh right, this horseshit….
“Security in DC is beefed up further after Capitol Police receive intelligence of a militia plot to breach the Capitol by far-right group Three Percenters on Thursday – the day QAnon loyalists believe Trump will be made president again”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9319525/Security-DC-beefed-amid-threat-far-right-group-Three-Percenters.html
So when that doesn’t happen tomorrow, everyone goes home. Right?
Yeah, of course, and the fearmongerers will retract their accusations and apologize too.
Does making up conspiracy theories about conspiracy theory nuttery count as conspiracy theory nuttery? Because it oughtta.
I’m fine with it as long as it keeps anything from getting done in DC. Also, if they think they need those troops in DC to protect them, they may be less eager to deploy them to the ME.
They will just call up moar!
I think someone here posted a response to this indicating that the meal issues were a fabrication? Something about NG having been promised a per diem, but since they are being fed now, the per diem goes away, and some members decided a “mouse in the coke bottle” story would stop the meals and restore the per diem?
Turn around and sweep us those drugs.
“Avril Lavigne balances on platform leather boots and Mod Sun shows off his green mohawk as they hold hands during night on the town in LA”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9319909/Avril-Lavigne-beau-Mod-Sun-hold-hands-town-LA.html
What is that asshole wearing?
She is remarkably unattractive.
Obligatory.
I don’t even remember which decade that was written but I guess she wants to get her name out there again.
She must have at least been smart enough to not blow the money she made off that 1 hit (or was it 2?).
Not sure I would have been smart enough to do that when I was 18.
Two and rode that pop-punk craze to the bank. She is looking like a 2nd-tier escort service girl though now.
Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19
Transparency! I can’t wait until he starts threatening journos with the espionage act.
And citing convid is ironic.
Why would he ever need to threaten white-supremacist, domestic terrorists bent on armed insurgency? Just round them up and be done with them.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-national-guard-members-complain-of-undercooked-contaminated-meals-while-serving-in-dc-report
It’s going to suck when they hand out medals for soldiers who “served” in DC. Just send them home already.
I am sure their Governor and The Guard Bureau and CinC Senile are all OUTRAGED!
Drugs falling out of asses all over da’ place!
They’ve got the shits from the undercooked chicken.
“Homosexuality can be declared a psychological disorder, Chinese court rules”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9320747/Homosexuality-declared-psychological-disorder-Chinese-court-rules.html
Those Uyghur camps aren’t going to redecorate themselves.
It’s just “cultural differences.”
So woke
As long as those 1B screaming straight Chinese fans keep buying my jersey, I don’t give a shit!
– LeBron
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-active-ongoing
The FBI is still ‘investigating’ Hunter… yeah… ok!
*wink* *wink*
That crackhead still hasn’t “unwound” himself from his financial dealings with the CCP.
These dishonest cuntes really damage my calm.
“We must not forget the horrors of January 6th or allow revisionists to rewrite what happened that day,” he said. “The hate on display that terrible day is not a new phenomenon in our country. America’s first domestic terror organization the Ku Klux Klan was born in the aftermath of the Civil War to terrorize formally enslaved African Americans.”
He continued:
The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th did not wear white robes and hoods, they might as well have. They are the latest incarnation of violent white supremacist movements that has terrorized fellow Americans on the basis of their race, religion, and national origin for more than 150 years.
You mean like people like you have been doing since the event (which was a riot, NOT an “insurrection”…)?
“The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th did not wear white robes and hoods, they might as well have. ”
Kind of like accusing all of the summer long protestors of being commies! Oh wait, there were literally people waving communist flags during the summer riots, along with black supremacy.
I’m sure glad they were arrested and tried for their transgressions. What? They weren’t? Well I hope their supporters and financial backers have been raked across the public coals. What? Are you kidding? None of them?
“The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th did not wear white robes and hoods, they might as well have. ”
Why would they? The rioters weren’t Democrats.
I think people should point out that the Senators and Congressmen did nothing to protect themselves.
My conceit is that if a Glibs meetup was surrounded by HuffPo protesters who wanted to break in and order drinks on our tab, the Glibs would at least clump up so that we cold protect any mythical female Glibs and to project a united front.
Those jerks all ran for the exits to hide. Every swamp creature for themselves!!
That is one of the aspects of the riots that really bugs me. Maybe if you soy boys had lent a hand to the cops, Chief Tatonka wouldn’t have been able to parade around on the floor of Congress?
Hell Yeah!! During the 1954 attack upon the Congress by Puerto Rican terrorists, Congresscritter James Van Zandt (retired Rear Admiral and Republican from Altoona, PA) tackled and disarmed one of the shooters.
Masks are not mandatory, which means they are basically illegal.
EVERYTHING NOT MANDATORY IS PROHIBITED
Needz moar Palace Guard
As a House panel is set to meet on new spending to ramp up Capitol security, military and federal officials will testify in a Senate hearing that is part of several congressional probes into what fueled the deadly Jan. 6 riot.
Today, a House appropriations subcommittee will hear from acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman to consider new spending measures. At the same time, the Senate Homeland and Rules committees will question D.C. National Guard Maj. Gen. William Walker and other federal officials.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the Rules Committee, says one key focus is why it took the military several hours to show up as Capitol Police were overrun with rioters.
“Every minute counts — every minute counts when you have an insurrection going on,” said Klobuchar, D-Minn. “So what happened there, I think that’s going to be a major part of this.”
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“What took the Defense Department so long to deploy the National Guard and why was that initial response delayed to the point where Acting Chief Contee told us he was ‘stunned?'” Klobuchar said.
Defense officials, including Army Gen Mark Milley, have defended the National Guard’s response saying they went from a “cold start” to having troops at the Capitol in about three hours. Milley called it “sprint speed” for the Pentagon.
Also in last week’s testimony, Sund reiterated his account that “optics” prevented him from getting military support preemptively before Jan. 6, and then he faced that hourslong delay to get military backup that day.
Muh banana republic!
If you find yourself afraid of the people you work for, maybe it’s time for a little self-examination.
“Optics.”
That goddam Constitution needs to go.
Andy Jackson didn’t need no sissy ass protection during his presidency.
Maybe it is about time Biden starts carrying a walking cane and handling his own business?
A legislature and executive so popular that they have to have military perpetually present in the capitol.
I know what Sund said – where is the testimony from the fucking Sgts At Arms for the House and Senate? What do THEY have to say for themselves? Or did Pelosi extract a vow of omerta from them?
While the ‘vid lockdowns take away the real movie theaters, they do save the Drive-Ins… opening day has been tentatively set for March 19th.
Sheila Jackson Lee
@JacksonLeeTX18
1/4 Testimony today on the Hill evidences that in the Portland protests, a thousand people were arrested. People protesting against the violence that was evidenced in the George Floyd murder. People wanting good things to happen. In Washington DC on January 6th, where it is
Such as actual attempted murder of federal officials by atifa/blm thugs. . .
2/4 alleged that 40,000 protesters were in DC with the mindset to overturn a legitimate election and to kill the Speaker, the Vice President, and Members of Congress, in that instance, only 300 persons have now been arrested and are being prosecuted. What kind of justice is that?
3/4 How clearly does that show a racial and political divide where protestors who want to overthrow the government who were the supporters of the former president and exhibited acts of racism were barely prosecuted and barely arrested? The FBI failed to provide detailed
4/4 information to law enforcement that needed to have such information so that a stronger response could have occurred against those who were intending to do the seat of democracy harm and to kill the people inside.
Show me the evidence, especially of how even succeeding in that action would constitute overthrowing the government (it wouldn’t…). (and it ain’t justice if the charges are horseshit.)
For my own sanity I am going to assume this woman is retarded.
You assumed correctly.
The pride of Texas baby!
The pride of crack babies everywhere.
“We must not forget the horrors of January 6th or allow revisionists to rewrite what happened that day,” he said.
And by revision we mean exposing our lies.
Mostly truthful reporting.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/razer-tomahawk-desktop-now-available-to-purchase/
that’s powered by an eight-core Intel Core i9-9980HK processor. Inside, configurations include a 512GB solid-state drive alongside a 2TB HDD, 16GB of DDR4 memory, and Chroma RGB lighting.
is nice and all… but… $2400? No thank you.
Intel Core i9-9980HK
CPU Specifications
# of Cores
8
# of Threads
16
Processor Base Frequency
2.40 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
5.00 GHz
Cache
16 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Bus Speed
8 GT/s
TDP
45 W
Those are some nice improvements since I built my last one. That’s a crazy range of speed though from base to turbo.
The 45 W TDP is at base frequency.
Like with so many other things, computer parts are scarce right now. And the prices reflect it.
Razer charges a premium for their label. I like their keyboards and mice, but I’m not dropping that kind of cash on a system I can build for less then half the price.
Yep. It would be like buying alienware…you are paying a premium for the name.
However, that processor alone is 1200. I am guessing there is a crappy graphics card in the rig or none at all
Yeah..
Gamers who already have a graphics card or GPU can opt for this version to save money. However, if you need a high-end Nvidia graphics card, the upgraded $3,199 version adds in a GeForce RTX 3080
Has the graphics card market cooled down? I know a few years back cards were going for absurd amounts because they were being used in crypto mining.
Last night as somebody was talking about the details of $2 Trillion “covid” bill, I was thinking that the Collapsitarians have to be thrilled with the bill and everything else the Biden “administration” is doing.
Would also accept “Biden” administration as accurate.
What is crazy is that there are a lot of people out there saying that the economy has been snapping back faster than expected and that the numbers are better than anyone had hoped for.
If true and Biden had a quarter of a brain, he could do nothing and claim that his policies saved the country economically.
But no, he has to jam through $2T of debt. People seem to not understand that they will have to repay that money via taxes at some point. Or shit collapses and Yay! free money!
I’m expecting more product scarcity and rampant inflation.
Cash is going to be trash.
People seem to not understand that they will have to repay that money via taxes at some point.
I think the plan, to the extent there is one, is to inflate it away. Because inflation can totally be controlled, and has never gotten out of hand.
I doubt it will ever be repaid – the collapse will take care of that.
I’m calling it the “Pre-Harris” administration – but you do you, brah.
I wouldn’t say I’m thrilled, but I’m much more focused on other issues like the banning of gatherings, curfews, attempts to end the second amendment, and food/ammo shortages. The spending gets a yawn from me now.
Yeah yeah the budget blow out sucks but I see it more like having a terminal cancer diagnosis that will kill me in a year while the issues above are like a group of thugs that have me and my family held at gunpoint. The latter is a much more immediate issue.
We investigated and concluded that we did nothing wrong.
“Over the last several months, the state Bureau of Elections has worked with local clerks to conduct more audits than ever before in our state’s history, and each has reaffirmed the accuracy, security and integrity of the November 2020 election,” Benson said in a statement. “We’ve responded to every question and claim and the evidence is clear. It is time for leaders across the political spectrum to tell their constituents the truth, that our election was the most secure in history, and the results accurately reflect the will of Michigan’s voters.”
That is literally and observably not possible. But feel free to gaslight everyone.
Just curious, but what would it take to convince you, or is there literally nothing that would change your mind?
Same to you, Fortified fella! 🙂
*appreciative gaze*
I accepted what Time reported, for what it was worth. It certainly explained the BS they pulled in PA as far getting the rules changed. It did not however demonstrate that they got votes changed. That little detail wasn’t covered.
And while I agree that ballot harvesting is an illegit tactic, again we have no proof as yet of how it swung the election – and probably never will. So that one is likely to remain an article of faith either way.
The fortification wasn’t about changing votes after the election, but making sure people didn’t have anything but doctored and properly vetted information concerning, well, anything at all, before the election.
…and after.
The highlighted claim is false. But you know that.
I agree. At a bare minimum, it is not falsifiable, which makes it more in the nature of an opinion or speculation. But I think, given the manifest shortcomings of mail-in balloting as implemented, its an absurd statement.
Agreed, the point I was interested in was not disputing their hyperbole, but in the details discussed in the article (about the audit) in particular the notorious county (Antrim) flip.
A logical fallacy calls into question the argument, but not necessarily the conclusion. A fallacious argument leaves its conclusion merely unproven, not falsified per se.
Similarly, a vulnerability calls into question the process, but not necessarily the outcome. An insecure election leaves its result merely untrustworthy, not incorrect per se.
The purpose of saying “this past election was the most secure in history” or similar things is twofold: one, to foreclose any questions about the process, and two, to signal that one is a member of the body. We have, and have had, one of the most insecure election systems in the world, certainly among the “first world” with which we are only ever supposed to compare our gun laws, partly because it is really 50 legally separate elections each conducted under its own set of rules, with ham-fisted but selective oversight by the judiciary. The most telling sign that the system is insecure is the lack of transparency in the process. While the secret ballot complicates full transparency, there is a spectrum of transparency even with the secret ballot, and most states fall firmly on the lower side thereof.
It is kind of difficult to argue that we are living in a liberal democracy founded on Enlightenment values while at the same time going to sometimes ridiculous lengths to control access to information about the process by which our quasi-dictators derive their claim to authority. I am no neoreactionary, but I must admit that monarchy would be preferable to this insofar as it does away with such pretense.
That last paragraph there is directed at the press, government, and related hangers-on not anyone here (least of all juris imprudent, who I assume has no control over the relevant information). What I’m getting at is that the press should be saying “here is all the data on the election that we have” or “we are working to put in FOIA requests across the board to get more data” and not “the election is totally secure, shut up peasant” or “the government says something, so it’s your job to trust them unequivocally”. Like I said, if we’re going to have an illiberal regime, let us at least have one without so much false ceremony.
Well said, on both of the above.
What’s the problem?
Jeff Bezos would owe $5.7 billion in taxes for 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act proposed by a group of Senate and House Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sanders, I-Vt., and others unveiled their proposed wealth tax, saying it would raise trillions in much-needed revenue and help reduce a wealth divide that has only grown wider during the pandemic. The tax would be a 2% annual levy on wealth over $50 million and 3% on wealth over $1 billion.
No biggie. Just write a check.
So all that money will go as direct payments to tax payers, and not into a Warren and Sanders personal slush fund, right?
Hahahaha I kill me!
Wouldn’t even cover a full day of operating expenses for the feds.
That’s pocket change for them.
4.8 minutes.
821 minutes, about half a day
The revenue is only “much needed” because congress keeps borrowing it and setting it on fire. The actual goal is punishing Bezos for succeeding.
“But I am one of you!”
If only
ComradeDementia Joe knew!The quaintest of all our quaint and now meaningless Constitutional provisions is that appropriation bills are supposed to originate in the House.
Yes and Senators are there to represent the interests of their respective states.
Since it’s not an income tax and it’s not apportioned, it is not allowed under the constitution. Not that anyone gives a shit about the constitution.
Cant wait for all the articles that arent at all biased and written with headlines such as “Costco defies governor’s no mask order!” “This mom and pop shop has your safety in mind, unlike the governor. “
And the fun will be pointing out that “and nothing else happened.”
Happy Minnesota Day you frozen Glibs!
https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalMinnesotaDay
Uffda. I can’t believe we let an Iowegian win #NationalMinnesodaDay
Who would want to win Minnesoda Day?
You know what businesses that are just being allowed to reopen need? MOAR REGULATIONS
I can’t imagine how infuriating it must be right now to be a business owner. Having to sit through these fuckheads in govt passing proclamations and ordinances that have no basis in reality and not being able to say much out of fear that if you push back they will make sure you never reopen.
would require employers in the hospitality industry to rehire workers who have been laid off.
I can only assume they wish to kill the businesses.
They “can’t” punish you for your speech but they can sure find a regulation you’ve violated, if they start looking…
Oh, but rest assured, there’s a “process” to lodge complaints of retaliation. But if you do so, plan to spend years and tons of money working your way through it, while they continue to look for other regulations you may have violated.
President Cartoon Villain was vaccinated IN SECRET
Former President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump received coronavirus vaccines in early January on the advice of doctors, according to a Trump adviser speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ex-president’s medical history.
Trump aides declined to say what type of vaccine he received. At the time, vaccines manufactured by both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech had emergency use approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Aides did not disclose why Trump was vaccinated in secret. Polls have frequently found vaccine skepticism to be disproportionately common among Republican voters, a partisan divide that threatens to hamper vaccine rollout.
Line jumper!
If Trump just hung out and played golf in Florida, the media would collapse.
The only reason he should have been vaccinated would have been because he was an all important government official. Therefore this proves that he intended to remain as president in a coup attempt. Impeach him for a third time!
If he already had covid, why would he need to get vaccinated?
Double-secret immunity. It’s how he beat impeachment too.
That’s some nice conflation there, Lou.
I like how thinking “I don’t want to take a brand new vaccine with zero knowledge of the long-term effects” is now the same as thinking that all vaccines cause autism.
Like all those Republicans in Hollywood and Marin County.
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1366409026486075398
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I’d give her an award.
“SCOOP: The Arizona Department of Education has created an “equity” toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by age five.”
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1366820252252733446
Can this shit get more stupid?
3 m/o, sure… Apparently. But the only real thing kids show is interest in why people look different. “People come in all shapes, colors and sizes, sweetheart.” should be the only answer needed.
Well duh!
This documentary clearly shows baby racists
The white baby rushes to attack the black baby. Tries to throw him to the ground. When that doesn’t work, he clearly gloats about his toy car privilege before finally chasing the black baby down the street.
It’s original sin. You can’t get rid of it. The only fair thing to do is to pay more taxes.
This church even has indulgences. Pay 20k to Robin DiAngelo and she will give your company a “seminar” to understand your sin. At least with the Catholic Church, there was a path to redemption.
Can this shit get more stupid?
Can it not?
Since the progressive left applies the one-drop rule to define blackness, a “white baby” is by their definition a baby with a white mother and a white father. A young child showing a preference for its own family is not racism, but with enough pseudoscientific pageantry, anything is possible I suppose.
The rot runs deep even in AZ. Don’t forget, our Secretary of State, the one running our elections, is a Soros plant who accused all Republicans of being neo-Nazis. But our election was the bestest EVAR!
Baseball birthdays: Two 19th century HoFers, John Ward and Wee Willie Keeler (although Keeler played until 1910). Then it falls off a cliff.
EXPOZAY!!!
When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon.
But less than a year later, Kelly-Rae quit. Her tenure inside the company convinced her that Amazon’s corporate workplace has deep, systemic issues that disadvantage Black employees and workers from other underrepresented backgrounds. And she was dismayed by her perception that Amazon leadership was unwilling to listen to internal experts about how to identify and fix these problems.
“Amazon was not doing things in a way that represents best practices that would advance diversity and inclusion in any way that is meaningful and thoughtful,” she told Recode. “Let me add: Amazon appeared to be taking steps backward instead of forward.”
Hard hitting investigative journalisming from Vox. That’s as far as I got.
Something tells me she never worked for an actual profit-driven private sector enterprise prior to parachuting in to Amazon.
Economic incentives are confusing. And RACIST.
She should be working for Sheila Jackson-Lee – then they would both be twice as smart as they are now.
There some people whose demise will raise both the average and the aggregate intelligence on the planet.
I put absolutely zero dollars on Amazon not caving eventually. They’re big enough now, and the original founder is gone, that they can afford to have a massive DEI effort pointlessly churn away lots of money to marginally move metrics that aren’t worth paying attention to in the first place (e.g., they’re not about to hire a black male ex-con from West Baltimore, Camden, or East Cleveland; when they say “Black” they mean “gentry black female” preferably with lots of high class neuroses).
They are probably all regretting their decision to hire lots of black Somali refugees to work in Minnesoda’s warehouse.
Granted the majority of them are grateful for the chance to have a job paying very well for someone with limited english skills, no work history and a sketchy education, but there is a non-insignificant amount of them that are constantly bitching about how horrible it is to work there. And how Amazon needs to do MOAR to make them happier.
Personally, when America collapses and I have to go work at a Hyundai plant in Daegu, Korea I will be sure to beat the shit out of any US refugee whiner working next to me trying to tell our employer that they need to be more woke.
West Africans and West Indians by and large do better than whites in this country. Heck, many East Africans especially Ethiopians do pretty well for themselves. Hearing a Somali activist whine about their condition being due to racism is laughable to me. To your average American racist, there ain’t no difference between any of them.
These people are setting progress on racial inequality/irrelevance so many decades that I can no longer even pretend they truly want racial equality
Racial Equality changed into Racial Justice in the same way Global Warming changed into Climate Change.
They had to make the names so nebulous that trying to pin down their motives and actions as difficult as nailing jello to a wall.
The goal is power. Power for themselves.
Young black men will continue to be spat out illiterate from atrocious school systems, continue to have very few legal job prospects in their own communities, continue to be devalued as human beings, and in many cases, continue killing each other over turf and grudges, while a hundred dozen bureaucratic systems nominally there for their benefit piss away billions ensuring that the status quo continues, but thanks to DEI initiatives, privileged progressive women (and, increasingly, pretend women) will carve out personal fiefdoms in the corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government circles.
Put another way, nobody really gives a shit about Georges Floyd or Trayvons Martin, but their bloody shirts and dead bodies make great tools for climbing the Cathedral ladder.
While pointing out the sexes involved is just matter-of-fact, I don’t think women deserve especial blame. Men are not idle bystanders or woe-is-me victims in all this. But as long as people are cowed by this brand of identity politics, there will be some women greatly benefited by it and some men especially harmed by it.
That comment got edited a few times, and some things got lost in the edits, but I originally mentioned Baltimore and Chicago as examples of where black men can be treated this way. A good many black men do not lead lives anything like what I mentioned here (see: Obama, Barack for example) and it is no more accurate to tar the black male experience as nothing but gangbanging than it is to tar the female experience as nothing but Maoist struggle sessions. However, I’m speaking in (pretty) broad strokes here.
The insidious trap of “racial/social justice” is that its entire justification is underperforming minorities, a permanent underclass. It requires them. When your power and position is dependent on maintaining an underclass, I don’t expect that underclass to do well. Nobody keeps their power and position by solving the problem that keeps them in power.
Yes. And people forget that the class axis is often more potent than the race axis. To a literate college-educated black woman, an illiterate black male dropout is extremely declassé. Just as rich progressives act out their guilt with performative pleas for higher taxes and welfare spending (yet, when outside of the spotlight, they still act for their own benefit ultimately), so too does the mandarin class act out its guilt with calls for diversity, inclusion, and equity (yet being mandarins they are not actually going to stoop so low as to open their ranks to the objects of their guilt).
Amazon is a very results driven company that fall squarely on each person’s shoulders. I can see where that might run into problems with a D&I advocate trying to promote employees on the color of their skin, rather than their achievements.
(I’ve heard from ex-employees that those metrics come down just as hard on diversity advancement and activities like any other corporate defined goals)
Leaked Video Reveals Family Court Guardians Conspiring to Dox Journalist for Exposing Them
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/03/02/caught-colluding-leaked-video-reveals-family-court-guardians-conspiring-to-dox-journalist-for-exposing-them-n1429556
I don’t think this has been posted yet. Very disturbing look at the evil of government in the family court. Conspiracy theory gets thrown around so much but it’s just business as usual.
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
They were just jealous for the judges on the Illinois side getting all the loot. I am looking at you St. Clair and Madison Counties.
Yeah that is the last piece from PJMedia on that whole fiasco that I posted yesterday. It isn’t just in MO, but anywhere there is a family court. They run this racket.
Something, something, this is what privilege actually means
h/t to obe
Condo life: was lying in bed watching TV this morning when I hear “hello! exterminator!”. I gotta get out of here!!!!
Onn a good note: my friend that just got hired at the Smithsonian will be looking to move to DC in Oct/Nov – earlier than I thought. Hopefully we get to spend a few months together before I head out to the sane part of the country.
Do not miss those unannounced visits. One time, the place I was at was selling their complex and they had investors coming through. My place was on the list to look through. First, I am deeply private and do not want strangers walking through my place and second, I had my two boys, both youngin at the time so I made sure every Lego and Matchbox car we owned was strewn throughout the house.
It was fun watching them dance around all of it.
It’s ridiculous…they didn’t even send an email around like they normally do.
It appears my elderly dog laid a nice turd in the living room, too, so the exterminator got to see that.
Hope he stepped in it.
“Take your shoes off…don’t want you soiling my carpet.” -OBE
I once toured a house we were considering buying as a rental. The owner and realtor had talked to the tenants ahead of time and scheduled our visit. The ground floor tenant refused to open the door, saying they were busy and asking if we could look at the upstairs apartment first. So we went to the upstairs apartment. The tenant politely asked us to remove our shoes. I was wearing sandals, but did remove them. We walked upstairs and found ourselves standing on a filthy carpet with so much ground-in dirt and grit, in every room, that I was afraid of cutting my feet. We took a good look around at the structure and fittings, had a look in the kitchen, and saw the range cooktop was completely covered in about 1/4″ of dried out ground beef. We thanked the tenant and went back down to the lower apartment.
The lower apartment tenant let us in and we saw why she was “busy” earlier–the entire kitchen counter was covered with jars of fermenting liquid, and they had obviously quickly cleared a still off the range, which was sitting in the corner of the kitchen.
One of my old landlords pulled that on me one time. This was the shady sub-sub-^x lease in Manhattan. I couldn’t believe it. No landlord has ever done that to me before. Bunch of snotty Euros traipsing through my studio that I could no longer afford and exclaiming how “affordable” it was.
Good thing it wasn’t the Land Shark.
That’s annoying. This house may not be in the greatest shape ever, but at least it’s mine and nobody can just barge in here.
I used to live at this apartment where the maintenance guy would do inspections every 3 months and furnace filter changes every 3 months. It would make sense to do them at the same time, right? Nope, they’d do them separately so that every 1.5 months, I got woken up at 10 AM (I worked second shift and didn’t get up until 1 PM). They were supposed to give you 24 hours notice before entering, but I’d leave for work a little after 2 PM and the notices would never be there; I’d find them when I got home that night, which meant that I technically didn’t have to let them in.
Before the ‘Vid, they used to do twice yearly filter changes & inspections. They haven’t done one since Oct 2019, which is fine by me.
KEEP FEAR ALIVE
The US is facing a very real risk of losing all its recent gains in the battle against the virus as highly contagious variants take advantage of Americans getting lax with safety measures.
There are worrying signs already. While US Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations were trending downwards for several weeks, they are still alarmingly high. And that downward trend now seems to have stopped. The most recent seven-day average of new cases shows an increase of just over 2% compared to the prior week , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said yesterday. A similar increase was reported in the most recent seven-day average of deaths, she added.
“Please hear me clearly,” Walensky said. “At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. These variants are a very real threat to our people and our progress.”
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, who was a health adviser to the Obama White House and a member of the Biden Transition Covid-19 Advisory Board,said Americans need to hold on to the strict safety measures for another two or three months. “We should not ease up, allow indoor dining, big groups … getting rid of mask mandates,” he said.
Zeke Emanuel- there’s a guy whose opinion is trustworthy. Take it to the bank.
Fourteen months to fLAtTen tHe CuRVe!
Do better, Americans.
for another two or three months.
Just 2 weeks to flatten the curve, comrade.
Zeke is the guy who wants to implement Carousel when you hit 75, right?
Whelp, I’m out. Just had to attend yet another “safety” session to satisfy my corporate masters. Do they realize how hard it is for Luddites to sign off on this shit? I can’t imagine what it must be like for the Undocumented Foreign Colored Women.
Will SpaceX launch SN10 today or nah? Weather looks good, range is clear. But no livestream yet.
Hmmm…I’ve failed to notice that there was a SpaceX launch planned.
I do love watching those booster rockets come home.
This is their Starship – the one that’s crashed a couple times. Hope they stick the landing this time!!
Oooh, need to look around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM Runs a stream. SpaceX doesn’t start their stream usually until the 1 minute countdown?
Usually around t-minus 5 minutes for tests. For their commercial customers, they start earlier so they can run promos.
I worked at Iridium for their first 6 or so satellite launches with SpaceX. SpaceX would assign different livestream hosts for different launches. One time we got the inimitable and highly popular John Insprucker as the host. My stupid-as-rocks boss said “oh…they gave us the old ugly guy today”. This was the VP of marketing, not knowing that Insprucker is SpaceX’s most popular personality by far, and would get way more views than anyone else. But yeah, he’s old, so he’s useless.
Here’s another third party stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbgoqMcirI
The comments/chats on these streams are so freaking dumb.
I also have heard the commentators (not SpaceX commentators, but other streamers) say some amazingly technically ignorant things.
Like, in one particular example, they keep referring to a piece of equipment that is part of the liquid methane sub-chilling apparatus as a “condenser.” It’s not a condenser, it’s an evaporator. It’s used to evaporate liquid cryogenic gases. It’s a common piece of industrial equipment. It is a big set of parallel runs of vertically oriented pipes with heat transfer fins on it. The fins are exposed to atmosphere in order to transfer heat from the air into the fluid they are trying to evaporate. The fins collect ice from sublimating/condensing atmospheric moisture on the outside. It’s not a “condenser” but they keep calling it that, and they are propagating so many stupid ideas.
At one point they had a “guest commentator” on who completely ignored Elon Musk’s stated goals to colonize Mars and said outright that resource extraction and exploitation on other planets was a bad thing and something SpaceX is not into. I just shut off all the audio and chats and leave the video on in the background. It makes my blood boil a bit to see how these “IFLS” people get things so wrong and their hordes of followers lap it up and regurgitate it.
When I hear “I Fucking Love Science” it invariably means one or both of these:
– I Fucking Love Pretty Photographs of Galaxies and Neil DeGrasse Tyson Memes
– I Fucking Love the Official Government Position on a Scientific Topic
Yep. I’m so fucking tired of it. I’ve ranted before on the topic, and won’t again now, but it really sticks in my craw.
Just did a bit of looking around and discover that SpaceX has done more with around a tenth of the money than the Gemini Project did.
SpaceX: 1.3B
Gemini: 10.6B (in 2021 Dollars)
Granted SpaceX has had the benefit of sixty years of aerospace engineering know-how and greatly streamlined production systems, but that still seems like quite a price differential.
Capitalism is inherently deflationary.
Constantly striving to do the most for the least will do that.
Road closed, pad cleared…unless something weird happens, should be happening today.
Structural racism strikes again
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fatal drug overdoses nationwide have surged roughly 20% during the pandemic, killing more than 83,000 people in 2020.
While the CDC doesn’t track overdose deaths by race, a growing body of research suggests Black Americans have suffered the heaviest toll.
“It wasn’t until we started looking at the level of race and ethnicity that we realized Black and brown communities are being disproportionately affected,” said Dr. Utsha Khatri, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
Khatri’s team analyzed drug overdose data collected in Philadelphia during the pandemic. They found overdose deaths surged more than 50% among the city’s Black residents.
Among whites, by contrast, drug overdose fatalities remained flat and in some months even declined.
“COVID really just acted as salt in the wounds of health and social inequities, perpetuated by structural racism both in Philadelphia and across the country,” Khatri said.
The only reason this story saw the light of day is the racism angle. Additional deaths due to the lockdown aren’t what anybody wants to hear about.
Now, if they can just find a way to pin it on Trump.
You’d think a city that has elected Democrat administrations for the last 59 years would have rooted out that problem.
Can’t they blame Indiana for this?
It’s not one of those migratory guns. Blame Texas and Florida instead.
In tribal/ethnic/racial politics, the downtrodden plight of X is always the fault of whatever contingent of non-X remains. This reaches levels of unparalleled absurdity in places like South Africa, Palestine, or especially Zimbabwe, but the messy end of Yugoslavia, or the shit going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia right now are other good examples.
It’s from those rogue Republicans undermining the system from without! Like in California.
They are trapped in a quagmire of their own making. If they pull out too quickly the proles will notice that the Rona doesn’t sweep in and kill everyone. Then they might start thinking that the whole lockdown was an unneeded reaction that fucked a lot of good shit up. Can’t have that.
Need to start preparing them with future deadlines that aren’t too far off, but far enough off that you can plausibly claim victory and hopefully escape before shit gets bad.
I wish I still had that faith in the populace.
/looks at people still cowering in home nearly a year later.
suggests Black Americans have suffered the heaviest toll
Fentanyl Floyd could not be reached for comment.
structural racism
So we are getting rid of affirmative action?
Whoa, wait, we were not regaled pre-pandemic about the decrease in white male life expectancy due to deaths of despair? I guess that’s all been memory-holed?
Fuck.
Voluntary mask wearing during flu season is pretty common in some cultures. If someone wants to adopt it here, I dont see the problem.
Voluntary? What is that word? I expect as soon as the scales turn, the Karens will be demanding public masks because the mere sight of them will get their panties in a wad.
*public mask bans
Could they wear their wadded up panties as their own PPE?
Yeah, the Karens seem to be the root of the problem.
Other cultures are as loaded with nosy busybodies as ours is. Not sure how that came about or how to end it, but there it is.
*
arearen’tDo you think these people are going to stop at voluntary?
Yeah, but for some reason America doesn’t do “voluntary” any more.
BECUZ YOU WON’T VOLUNTEER TO DO WHAT I WANT!!!
The sight of masked people is disgusting per se. I will always think less of people wearing masks. And I will discriminate against them for the rest of my life as much as I can. They will always remind me of people who forced me to put on a mask.
Why stop with winters? Piker.
Tan lines?
Where do people get this idea? Wearing a mask is only going to help in any way if the wearer has the flu. If you have the flu, you should stay home. Thinking that you can go out with the flu and not worry about infecting others because you have a mask is insanity.
And likely counterproductive. Its pretty well documented that a lot of “safety” measures actually move the needle the wrong way, because they make people complacent.
Seat belts and air bags.
Although I think it is overstated. I think those both make us safer, there is just an offsetting complacency that re-ups the danger level. So they help…marginally. But they do allow us to travel faster, so we save time.
So we travel slightly safer and slightly faster due to safety devices. Win-win.
Illinois just reported its highest highway death count in the last 13 years.
This is true.
All the most hardcore Branch Covidians I know are pretty much doing whatever they want (travelling all over the place, visiting elderly relatives, etc.) because they have some T-shirt material strapped to their face.
I’ve seen the “masks have totes stopped the flu” as a response to why during the Rona Days there have been zero flu deaths.
The panic mongers don’t want to admit that the numbers are juked, so they claim that everyone wearing a mask has stopped the flu right in its tracks.
That explanation is usually followed up with the experts blaming the spike in cases/deaths in early winter as being caused by too many people not wearing masks.
If I didn’t know that Public Health Experts weren’t the best among us with pure and noble intentions, I might suspect that they were pulling shit out of their asses.
Masks stopped nothing. Flu numbers dropped because convid is the flu now.
I still advocate for promoting plastic bags with duct tape around the neck as the best solution. That way the problem becomes self-solving, the gene pool needs some chlorine anyhow.
Sounds like Smith has a large investment in a PPE company.
I expect to wear a mask every winter for the rest of my life.
Feel free, but do not expect me to participate in your delusions.
The world will soon be divided between the Mask Facey Sneetches and the Free Facey Sneetches.
^^^That. Mine’s coming off.
Bidding on a huge Genset/generator! Auctions are so exciting!
Electric powered backhoes. Huh.
Interesting, the town I grew up in made Case backhoes (insert your mom joke here) I wonder if they are doing any of this. Last I knew the union (UAW) was an enormous pain in the ass, they may have left for greener pastures.
‘…capable of supporting most common eight-hour workdays…‘
So you are saying it is inferior to the existing technology?
I expect to wear a mask every winter for the rest of my life.
Fuck off.
Just hang yourself. With barbed wire.
Jesus, follow the Science! Joe and his EO on masks…the FAA has deemed it meant even outside, on federal property, with one around…you are to wear it. I have to give two techs some training next week in a conference room and I have to wear it the whole time…well, thats what I said I would do.
The UPS guy just delivered here – maskless.
As I was standing next to a coworker – maskless.
Sometimes I get Amazon fresh and sometimes the delivery people are super anal about virus theatre such that they insist we be separated by the storm door.
has deemed it meant even outside
I was wondering if this was going to include national parks. No way in hell am I wearing one hiking. Not that I participate any other time either*.
*The adorable “masks are mandatory in common areas of this building” signs at the office are about as effective as “gun free zone” signs it seems.
Voluntary mask wearing during flu season is pretty common in some cultures. If someone wants to adopt it here, I dont see the problem.
Of course you don’t.
“Just wear the
maskswastika!” Prove you’re one of us.Or else. Not wearing a mask is tantamount to willful murder.
Auctions are so exciting!
I hate auctions. Wait around half a day, just so you can watch a couple of idiots bid what you want up to some completely absurd price…
And likely counterproductive. Its pretty well documented that a lot of “safety” measures actually move the needle the wrong way, because they make people complacent.
Embrace your fear. Stay home.
I am hooked on this Flight Simulator now. I think today I will ‘fly’ from KHND to ‘Star Wars Canyon’
Is this the new MS FS?
Yeah. Gigantic download and I don’t have the good flight controls, so its controller.
Cool. I have heard good things about the visuals, but not so much about the flight realism. I have a bunch of money tied up in various aircraft I have bought for X-Plane 11, so I don’t want to change over unless there are actual good flight models. I use my sim at home to practice instrument approaches when I can’t or don’t have time to fly for real (it’s not a certified sim, so I can’t log the time or approaches, but it really helps with proficiency, if not legal currency). Having a realistic flight model is important for that because you want to practice the way you really fly. It is disconcerting, for example, when you’re expecting a certain set of parameters (manifold pressure, flap position, gear configuration, etc.) to result in specific performance or attitudes when the sim gets it wrong. For instance, in the Mooney, dropping the gear, setting approach flaps, and setting a particular manifold pressure should start you down the glide slope pretty reliably, but some models don’t work out right.
Since I am not a pilot I could not tell you the realism. I just enjoy the satellite visuals.
Just as an FYI, most of the visuals aren’t satellite, but procedurally generated based on the satellite maps (at least based on several articles I’ve read about it). I’ll stick to my Wing Commander style “space sims” with pew-pew.
“Just like Cuomo, we knew this for almost a year, why now?”
Not surprised they tried to hide this for a year, just surprised they are talking now. I don’t get it, party in fighting I guess.
Some people are just too broken to fix.
PS. I wonder how much a BigMac costs in Denmark.
That’ll set you back at least three sacked English Monasteries.
Maury: Lie detector says… that’s a lie
$22 an hour feels good even when it is still $10 an hour after taxes.
I wouldn’t know what to do with 6 weeks paid vacation.
BIG ASS project of some sort?
Lol, leave it to AOC to pick a country with no minimum wage.
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Speaking of SpaceX, I recently restarted playing Kerbal Space Program. I forgot how much fun that game is. If you are into sandbox games with a light dash of flight sim, I highly recommend it. There is something in it for sadists too, you can find new and creative ways to kill your Kerbalnauts.
Designing unusual craft and ways to kill crews is part of the fun. I wish there was a better way to plan missions.