What’s SPecial about this morning? I’m up. That’s all you need. And that’s almost all you get.
Birthdays:
Buddha (563); The Original Florida Man (1493); Mary Pickford (1892); Sonja Henie (1912); Catfish Hunter (1946); Steve Howe (1947); Robin Wright (1966)
OK, I’m in a bad mood. ‘Cause early morning. WTF.
This is why I am not the morning links human.
Here’s a tune from a Birthday Boy.
Have a great rest of your day, kids!
“Fuck.Off”
NEEDZ A GREEN NEW DEAL!
MARXISM WINS!
I don’t trust this “study” any more than the faked temperature “studies” they push.
Nor do I accept figures pulled out of their ass from “millions of years ago”.
Nor do I suspect those figures mean shit anyway.
They don’t.
More carbon dioxide is good.
I couldn’t tell.
“Skating away, skating awaaaay, on the the thin ice of a new Day”
Closing the border would reduce America’s carbon footprint.
Closing the border would reduce your Welfare footprint.
Carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been at any point in the last 3.6 million years
I’ve never gotten an answer to this question whenever “unprecedented” climate stuff happens…. If this same exact trend happened 2.4 million years ago and then promptly returned to normal, would the ice core samples show any sign of it?
It’s a dead serious question and betrays my skepticism of comparing ice core measurements to direct atmospheric measurements in an apples to apples manner.
Hold on hold on hold on.
“Normal” in between those time frams was… an Ice age.
Why would we want that?
The ice maker in my fridge is broken?
My fridge is on his last legs. I demand that everything stop so that I need to build a root-cellar and a springhouse to keep my food fresh. I’ll be smoking and salting any of the meat that I’m allowed to buy from here on out. For Gaia.
+1 Hard Tack
Here’s a guy who has a fridge for sale. Price is apparently firm.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2660275/woman-stabbed-death-facebook-seller-fridge-pennsylvania/
I hope my wife doesn’t see that. We just sold a bunch of stuff on FB marketplace.
She never meets the people though. That’s my job.
Did she also recently take out a very large insurance policy on you?
I have family who live in Geistown. It’s pretty tiny, so I wonder where he lives.
Just found it. It’s an old apartment building that used to be called a “hotel,” many years ago.
I call bullshit on this idiotic claim. These fucking liars have a history of “massaging” data to fit the narrative. My bet is that they did that again, either directly (as they usually do) or by choosing a specific time period that would allow them to peddle bullshit, because they want to scare the usual idiots into accepting more fucking abuse of power and money stealing by government entities with evil agendas.
Even with this idiotic claim, it put a lie to the evils of carbon dioxide because that puts the mideval warm period firmly in the low carbon span.
Though they fight to erase that inconvenient fact too.
We should start giving these watermelons helicopter rides.
See “A Disgrace to the Profession” boy Mark Stieyn
I’d be curious to see if there is some magical way they could see actual hurricane/typhoon sizes in the fossil records or in ice layers. I don’t see how they could pull something like that off, I’m a bit afraid to ask. It seems like too many of the ‘model’ creators are straight up pulling shit out of their ass and cashing their fat grant check while tweeting their plight about having to pay for their ridiculous college debt from the University lab.
Of course they are making shit up. Why do you think they hide their code and raw data?
I believe they derive those historical CO2 levels from air that has been trapped in for all that time — bubbles in amber, bubbles in ice, perhaps minerals.
Measuring historical hurricanes would be nigh impossible. But I’m sure they have a model that shows CO2 directly driving severe weather events.
My kind of model- https://youtu.be/0nbfU50N5M8?list=PLWOQ9uTA74Nld_puQZ_go-I2MR4EkUlK3 Your mileage will vary, Friend Tonio.
Look, man. Experts say that storms are worse and that is because of manmade
global warmingclimate change. Hurricanes never happened until humans started spewing co2 into the air. Don’t pay attention to the fact that there are active and not so active hurricane seasons and our actual record if extremely short in the geological time scale. It’s like you do not ///freakinlovescience.A ton of misconceptions happen because of people not understanding what an average is and what it does and does not tell you (e.g. people think that everyone in the Middle Ages died at age 35 because that was the average life expectancy, when it was actually a high infant mortality rate dumping a bunch of zeroes into the data set that knocked the average way down).
Whoops, that was supposed to be a comment to Muzzled Woodchipper down below.
Whaddayagonnado.
Life expectancy is a terribly misunderstood and useless metric.
Survive past five in the middle ages and you have a good shot at making it to 60.
I think most metrics and models are misunderstood, and that is used to great effect by politicians, advertisers, etc. They know that if you say the words “science”, “mathematical”, and “algorithm”, most people will unconditionally accept whatever number you throw out. Nobody wants to sit around reading math all day to figure out if the man on TV was bullshitting you or not.
I was a complete failure at math in school, but I’ve been reading a lot of books about it lately to try and understand it better with the goal of debunking some of this shit someday.
Look up “How to Lie with Statistics”
Haha yep. Read it.
The Tyranny of Metrics was another good one.
returned to normal
And that right there is where the whole business breaks down – defining normal (in geologic time). The screaming assholes can’t think past their own lifetimes at best, and probably not much beyond the last 10 minutes.
Why is everyone on that side so terrified of their own demise? We all gotta go someday. I’m an atheist but I can still admire the philosophical teachings of the wise people that came before me. It’s like they are completely untethered from any sort of deep thinking about the Human Condition. I see this whole Covid nonsense as a form of risk aversion, more akin to hiding under the blankets because there is a monster in the closet rather than real science.
I visited a nature reclamation area, where they are trying to return a creek head to the ‘ideal’…which apparently is the condition it was in 1960. Not sure how you determine that was the ‘ideal’. The whole idea that there was a static ‘ideal state’ at some point is a very juvenile understanding of a dynamic world.
Also, I’d like to know how long an ‘invasive species’ has to exist in an ecosystem for them to be considered and ‘endemic species’, as most animals did not evolve in the many places they now inhabit.
The time frame for both is usually based on the age of the person claiming the ideal. Surprisingly, it almost always coincides with the same time as the person speaking was in their early 20’s.
Using “normal” to reference temperature instead of the correct term is particularly dastardly.
There are median and mean temperatures. There are average temperatures. But there is no “normal” temperature.
When they say “normal” they mean average, because there is no normal. And because the average is, well, an average, it almost necessarily is different than the temperature on any given day. By calling the average temperature the normal temperature, they’ve created a built in mechanism to show differences, and hence problems, virtually every day.
It’s 8 degrees below normal today. Tomorrow will be 8 degrees above normal. You see? PWOOF! The world is ending.
I would love to ask one of these worshipers at the altar of Scientism, “What is the correct amount of atmospheric CO2?”
“0”
They must hate trees.
I like to ask them what is the “correct” average global temperature, and why?
Usually results in dodges and invective, but never any answers.
Oh you can’t let them off that easy. You need to keep digging that needle in and making them squirm. They need to run off screaming that you are SATAN himself.
I thought we were healing the planet by all staying home?
*Jets off to Davos*
Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane levels in the atmosphere continued to rise in 2020, with CO2 level reaching their highest point in 3.6 million years, according to calculations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The barrier was broken despite a reduction in expected emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why do I immediately assume this is complete and utter bullshit?
Because that’s what the model said you would say?
[golf clap]
“When the coronavirus arrived in New York City a year ago, it hit enclaves of undocumented immigrants with a fury, killing thousands and wiping out the service and construction jobs that kept many families afloat.”
No, the lockdowns wiped out the service and construction jobs.
Maybe it arrived with these undocumented immigrants. Oh, no, can’t suggest that.
This also tells me that the lockdowners aren’t really serious or they’d have focused on illegals as potential super-spreader communities.
“Maybe it arrived with these undocumented immigrants. Oh, no, can’t suggest that.”
Pretty sure it didn’t, the covid that hit NYC was mostly from Europe.
And it did hit poor people “with a fury”, because many of them live in overcrowded houses and can’t work from home.
The set of poor people includes “enclaves of undocumented immigrants”.
Ergo, America’s shame. Do better, America.
More, faster deportations would fix those enclaves. Are they advocating door-kicking to sweep for illegal aliens? Maybe we can mark them on the vaxports.
So “fraudulently documented immigrants “ then.
My understanding is that in NYC it’s mostly people who have overstayed their visas and then disappear into the immigrant communities which shield them.
With supply chains shut down, how do you build with no materials?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-tax-companies-analysis/analysis-white-house-u-s-companies-could-agree-on-25-tax-rate-officials-business-groups-say-idUSKBN2BU3EF
“That’s an awfully nice company you have there comrade. It’d be a shame if someone were to fortify it.”
That’s the new United States for ya that the left wants. It reminds me of the various banana republics my family was sent to and lived in for some time during my younger years, Can’t wait for the day someone takes away one of my neighbors (more likely to actually be me) for pointing out the government is a fucking evil and corrupt entity.
Yep, this place is really starting to give that fascist totalitarian vibe.
And we don’t even get designer uniforms.
I still clean up real nice, too!
“Based on our most recent estimates from CDC surveillance, the B.1.1.7 variant is now the most common lineage circulating in the United States,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a press briefing, referring to the variant.
According to CDC data, over 16,000 cases of the variant have been documented in the U.S., though experts warn that is likely an undercount. Studies have suggested that the variant is more transmissible and likely more deadly.
Fuck you and the computer model you rode in on.
likely more deadly
Based on what data, exactly? And why are we not seeing increased hospitalizations and deaths to go along with all of these cases?
” likely more deadly.”
not how viruses work but keep gaslighting people.
Also- nice editorial cartoon, U S News.
SCARY PANDEMIC IS SCARY.
“‘We could probably build Jurassic Park if we wanted to’: Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink claims it has the technology to create ‘super exotic species’ of DINOSAURS”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9448695/Neuralink-create-exotic-species-dinosaurs-founder-says.html
What could possibly go wrong?
They should build this park in Washington D.C. Use the capitol and the White House as hunting grounds for these new exotic dinosaurs please…
They’ve already got the fences.
You mean that isn’t what the 8 foot fence, razor wire, and 2 divisions of national guardsmen were for?
You mean “What could go right? So so so beautifully right.”
I’d pay good money to see T-Rex chomp somebody.
What could possibly go wrong?
There is an entire series of movies on this topic.
I’d watch a movie with a long opening shot of the Capitol in semi-ruins, partially reclaimed by the swamp … and the genetically engineered mega-T-rex stomps slowly into frame, pausing to rear it’s head back and roar, framed by the Capitol dome in the background.
Ideally, there will also be semi-feral congressional aides that are scraping a subsistence living, hiding from raptors in the swamp, but the idea that those fuckers survive more than a day after the return of the dinos is too much. You can only suspend so much disbelief.
Carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been at any point in the last 3.6 million years
Not likely considering it had been on the decline and approaching the point that it would not support plant life until relatively recently.
Actual data is racist, we need models to reveal to us the truthiness that supports authoritarianism.
THE HEAD OF THE CENTERS for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said that the highly transmissible coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K. has become the dominant strain circulating in the U.S.
And? This type of virus is 1) not new, 2) endemic and 3) not dangerous to 99% of people so we need to stop the virus theater and get on with our lives.
“‘Nobody would exist on Earth without intercourse… who cares?’ Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy shrugs off a third leaked sex tape – as stock in casino giant that owns a third of his media empire slides by 6%”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9446589/Barstool-Sports-boss-Dave-Portnoy-shrugs-sex-tape-stock-casino-company-slides-6.html
Those are rookie numbers.
“‘A stock is down because somebody has consensual sex? Are you f***ing kidding me?’ “
“Hazel.., HellA, United States, 13 hours ago
He must be leaking these himself, cause absolutely no one else on earth wants to see this man in the nude.”
This sort of meaningless shit that you see happen is done so that it drives down the stock, at which points the people behind the leaks buy a whole lot more of the stock at a bargain, then a month later, when this story is forgotten, whomever did this will own even more of the company stock at a higher valuation….
Meh. He’s not bad. Suits aren’t my thing but can be easily removed. Also, (((Portnoy))) so likely to have body hair.
If he was eating pizza too, it was definitely leaked by him.
+1 George Costanza
Man who likes to be on camera, likes being on camera during sex. News at 11.
OFFS
“Undocumented”. They are called illegal aliens and they should be deported for violating US immigration law. But go ahead and give them tax dollars and keep raising taxes on citizens to fund this bs. I am sure it will turn out fine. And “progressive shift”. Lol. Progressing to what? You cuntes do not dwell within reality.
“No human being is illegal.” Says so right on my neighbors’ signs. Also, science is real.
Kick in their door and redistribute their tv.
undocumented acquisition
I like the way you guys think.
You should get a sign that says “…but their status is!” and post it next to theirs.
I’m so surprised!
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-04-07/reports-biden-to-nominate-official-from-gun-control-group-to-lead-atf
“Twitter will NOT allow Donald Trump’s old tweets to be reposted to the site after his ban despite National Archives bid to preserve the account”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9447423/Twitter-not-allow-Trumps-tweets-reemerge-National-Archives-works-preserve-account.html
“After Twitter banned Trump’s account, CEO Jack Dorsey claimed he ‘did not celebrate’ removing the former Commander-in-Chief’s account.
‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?’ Dorsey tweeted,
‘I believe this was the right decision for Twitter. We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety. Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.'”
CWAA
Anyone able to square how Trump couldn’t block people from his account, but that it can be deleted? Serious question.
Are you looking for logical consistency?
“Public Forum” only goes one way, because reasons.
There was a lawsuit underway, but was denied cert because of a lack of standing (rightfully, I think), because when it got to the high court he was no longer president, and just a regular dude, and there was no real restitution sought.
Thomas, who concurred with denying cert, wrote a very good accompanying opinion addressing that very topic, however, and he was pretty clear that he thought it was absolutely fishy that Twitter could block the President (or any other politician’s) account in light of the ruling that stated Trump could not block people because his account was a de facto public forum. That if the President cannot block people from interacting with his Twitter account, Twitter certainly couldn’t block his account.
How this might have ended in court we’ll never know, but there are certainly those on the high court who saw right through Twitter’s bullshit.
He also addressed the “state actor” doctrine, which was also quite illuminating.
One imagines a physical public forum that is blocked, on a preferential basis, by a private company, and how that would be recieved by the Court.
When Trump does it, he’s acting as a part of the Government, which is limited by the 1st amendment. When Twitter does it, it is a private entity and the 1st doesn’t apply. Not saying it’s a good reason, but that’s the legal basis.
It’s also why we’re seeing more and more the Government using private entities to get around constitutional limits. I wonder if there’s a term for a marriage between the state and a few large businesses to control the populous.
Seems to me I’ve heard a word that describes it once upon a time.
I heard there were a bundle of them.
Why did Mussolinism never catch on?
Everywhere I look, I see exactly what I was looking for
As the Republican Party continues to figure out what it looks like — and what it believes — in the wake of four years of the most radical president in modern memory, new data suggests that the outlook is dire.
Gallup polling for the first three months of 2021 shows that 49% of the public identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaners, while just 40% call themselves Republicans or say they lean toward the GOP.
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But it’s not just the party ID gap that stands out in Gallup’s first-quarter polling. It’s this: Just 25% of the public calls themselves Republicans — close to the lowest (22%) that Gallup has ever measured since it started doing telephone-based polling. (Another 15% say they lean to Republicans.)
When you combine those two data points, you get this: Not many people want to be a Republican at the moment. The party’s brand is quite clearly damaged after four years of Donald Trump seeking to break every political norm possible.
Yes, yes, of course. Former President Cartoon Villain’s special brand of scary dirty-fingernail radicalism (and and the establishmentarian response to it) caused a lot of people to abandon the pretense that there is some sort of meaningful distinction between Democrats and Republicans.
“Why bother to call myself a Republican?” is not a necessarily a repudiation of Bad Orange Populist just because your mimosa drinking Sunday brunch companions say so.
There has been a party ID gap for as long as I’ve been aware of such polls. Usually the numbers are more like 45% Dem and 35% Rep.
And remember that there are an unknown, but presumably growing, group of people who will not participate in these surveys out of legitimate concerns for privacy and safety. And also the known phenomenon of people wanting to give the “right” answers or otherwise please the surveyors or researchers.
Not that it matters because it has become obvious that the elections are rigged.
They’re not even rigged anymore. A supreme court justice so eloquently summed it up, “installed.” Then they called in 25,000 troops to ‘witness’ the ‘inauguration’ performed by only the people that matter. Everyone else had to stay home or they might get the commie cough.
We have a textbook 80 year old dementia patient sitting in the oval office. That doesn’t happen from anything having to do with an election outside of a nursing home.
in the wake of four years of the most radical president in modern memory
Didn’t Biden say something about wanting to out-radical FDR?
“Powerpuff Girls FIRST LOOK: Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet and Yana Perrault don candy-hued dresses and fly on wires while filming hotly anticipated live-action reboot in Atlanta”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9447515/Powerpuff-Girls-stars-Dove-Cameron-Chloe-Bennet-Yana-Perrault-film-live-action-series.html
No
Atlanta? I thought we were supposed to boycott Georgia.
Georgia and Louisiana are in a hotly contested race to see who can throw the most tax-credits at the television/film industry (for which there is a vibrant resale industry). Those productions aren’t decamping without taking financial hits that make investors cross.
No, they’re filming while stuck in traffic trying to get out.
That’s not pervy at all.
I read somethwere that they are dropping “girls” from the title ’cause sexism.
Harvey Weinstein to produce?
What’s up with the chubby one? Does she drive the Powerpuff Van?
There just has to be a fat, danger-hair one, doesn’t there?
Body Shaming!!!!
Fuckin’ A, baby.
Dont’t expect your package anytime soon.
Aircraft are one of the big polluters in the world, and even during a pandemic, they are relied on heavily for deliveries. Just look at Amazon’s Air fleet expansion for proof of that. UPS, however, is going green by ordering vertical takeoff and landing electric (eVTOL) aircraft.
The aircraft UPS intends to use is the ALIA-250c manufactured by Beta Technologies. With a flying range of 250 miles and cargo volume of 200 cubic feet (1,400-pound capacity), these aircraft will be limited to carrying smaller loads. However, UPS views this as a positive as the aircraft will replace ground transport, which takes longer, and small feeder aircraft, which are environmentally unfriendly and require airports for takeoff and landing.
1) CO2 is not a pollutant.
2) That is pretty much useless for a cargo plane.
Those machines are filthier to manufacture than real planes and burning jet fuel.
1400 pounds of cargo is less than a local delivery truck load. This isn’t even a compeditor to ground transport. Hell, I’d bet I could fit 1400 pounds of cargo into my car.
You can fit 17 80-pound bags of cement into your car? I guess you’re not driving a compact.
I don’t fit in a compact.
I’d be most concerned about the suspension taking the weight rather than the volume.
A good sized pickup could do that… my Infiniti, on the other hand, really starts to suffer with 250+ pounds of paving stones, etc in the trunk. A weight distribution issue more than anything else since I can obviously have four passengers + a driver in the car.
My Tundra has a 1500lb payload capacity. I can tow another 11k.
Just to pick a car at random – a Nissan Altima has a curb weight of 3,200 pounds, and a GVWR of 4300 pounds. With a 200 pound driver, that’s rated cargo weight of 1,100 pounds. Rated weight definitely leaves a margin, so you could likely haul 1,400 pounds of cargo in one without much trouble. You’d have to watch your braking distance, and would be well advised to drive conservatively on decent roads.
I was watching a doc about the history of Felix the Cat. The first company to distribute that cartoon was Universal pictures, and I remembered hearing Universal had some connection to Oshkosh, then I found this tidbit of daily history:
That’s cool, Film-Geek Friend!
“Cardi B’s daughter Kulture, 2, poses with her new $4,212 Dior handbag and Chanel earrings after the star spent more than $26,600 on the tot during ‘crazy’ shopping spree”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9448995/Cardi-Bs-daughter-Kulture-2-poses-new-Dior-handbag-sweet-photos.html
WTF??
You’re working the derp mine a little to diligently.
He’s already on the Daily Fail for the widebody pics.
Crenellated areolas. That is all. *shudders*
So let me ask you Glibs a question that’s bothering me. Another CBS program, one supposedly – I am told – a paragon of news for decades, doctors another interview, obviously a homage to the recently honored Dan Rather, and the talk is that DeSantis was mean for exposing them as frauds again. Note this is not a unique incident. The last 5 or so years (and I suspect long before that, but we just didn’t have the conditions to see through the lies back when) has been total propaganda campaign mode for the democratic party propagandist machines, of which CBS was a major player, racked by news delivered with a specific spin element when there was some truth to it, and tons of pure made-up bullshit. Fuck these assholes spent 3 years lying about the president of the US being a Russian sleeper agent, knowing it was all false and to protect the previous president’s administration which they had helped commit so many fucking crimes and abuses of power, that Richard Nixon ends up coming off as a boy scout compared to Obama, and the morons they took for a ride, after finding out the truth, still pretend this was true, or that there was a good reason for them to ignore the lies (orange man is so bad!). How do you deal with people willing to accept such evil – and have no doubt that it is just that – because politics, but especially team blue politics, is now the new religion of that group of idiots.
Is there any way to recover when so many people are not just not mad at being played, but actually make excuses for it, or is the country doomed? Especially when we are getting a replay of the Obama years, on steroids, but with far more evil and stupid all at once again?
I’d argue the media’s grasp on the population is rapidly loosening. It’s hard to get upset about something you never watch. If I didn’t have so many slow days at work, I’d probably be a lot happier not seeing all of this political shit posting that has become mainstream news now.
This^^^
I never see the BS first-hand, always after some accounting of it elsewhere. However, there are still plenty of sheep dutifully consuming what they are told to consume and being obedient. I can’t do shit about that. So I’m not going to worry about, and when I’m retired I won’t be spending half the time online that I do now since I’m chained to a fucking desk for work.
This.
Not even Boomers watch 60 minutes anymore.
Only about 2% of Americans (18-49) watch 60 minutes in an average week, with about 5% watching on their absolute biggest night (when Trump was on last October).
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/60-minutes-season-53-ratings/
Their ratings average out to well below 1.0. since the inauguration, signaling that Americans aren’t all that interested in their bullshit. And this is in a season with viewership up 10% over the last year, a highly tendentious election year AND a year with people staying home because Covid. Last season, for instance was down 4.59%.
CBS is unlikely to cancel 60M because they’re so fucking proud of it, but the days with a significant plurality of Americans watching it are long gone.
Doomed.
the talk is that DeSantis was mean for exposing them as frauds again
I’d have a hard time not being brutal to somebody who said that to me.
I’m going to add some kerosene to this fire. This is one I found out yesterday from Scott Adams. This has to do with the Chauvin trial.
Yesterday CNN reported on testimony of the police trainer. They reported that he said that a knee on someone’s neck for 9 minutes would kill them. And that’s it. If you hear that, it sounds like a slam dunk for the prosecution.
But if you look at any of those legal blogs that are covering the trial, you’ll see there was more testimony. The guy said it didn’t look like his knee was on his neck the whole time, and that Chauvin was doing exactly what he was taught in training. That sounds like reasonable doubt.
So if he is acquitted, people who watch CNN are going to see no reason for that, because CNN is presenting the opposite of the truth. And they are going to be pissed, and they are going to riot.
It’s gone from being useless or one sided to being actively harmful.
So you are saying that CNN is inciting riots/insurrection.
Yes they are.
They are also in Georgia.
BOYCOTT!
No they’re not. They’re in Atlanta.
I been watching some of the trial live on YT. I’ve also been following the trial on the https://legalinsurrection.com/ site – a hat tip to whomever it was that posted the link previously. One thing that legal insurrection noted was that the prosecution has moved the goal posts in describing where Chauvin’s left knee was placed. The prosecutor and prosecution witness Jody Stiger are now referring to the placement of Chauvin’s knee as being in the “neck area” instead of “neck”. It seems there is video evidence that shows Chauvin’s knee being in the area of the shoulder blades, upper back and partially on the neck. The narrative before was that Chauvin left knee was placed directly on Floyd’s neck and no where else. I never knew fentanyl pills were found in the back of the police cruiser – I saw that during yesterdays testimony.
Instead of working I spent the past couple hours tallying up the number of times a Roman emperor is mentioned in the lyrics or title to a Metal song, according to what’s available in the Encyclopedia Metallum. Here’s the results. In include here only those mentioned more than 2x.
https://twitter.com/MetalClassicist/status/1379527496849354757
How often do they mention Caligula and his rocking parties?
As usual, Marcus Aurelius gets no love.
Are the counting the numerology theory that 666 is Nero?
What about little Ceasar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7PVpXO3az4
“Across the country, we are hearing reports of clusters of cases associated with day care centers and youth sports,” she added.
She said that the U.S. is averaging over 63,000 new infections per day and that “we need to continue to accelerate our vaccination efforts and to take the individual responsibility to get vaccinated when we can.”
A case is 24 cans.
In some entertaining news for today, Cincinnati is currently being tormented by MONKEYS!
That’s not some racist thing, is it?
Only Five?
That’s not terrorized.
Where is Ben Kingsley?
More importantly, where is Bruce Willis?
Charlton Heston?
That was a fun movie.
“Police tell FOX19 NOW they think they potentially escaped from a private collection at a home.”
CWAA
“Hey babe, want to go back to my place and check out my monkey collection?”
That seems like an extremely niche kink.
I know who is responsible.
So an MCU crossover?
The Army of the Five Monkeys?
I believe they are called midichlorians.
All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force.
Now, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature.
The findings come from research carried out at a laboratory near Chicago.
The four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.
For example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.
The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) said the result “provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force”.
But the results from the Muon g-2 experiment don’t add up to a conclusive discovery yet.
A statement so scientifically simplistic only a science journalist could have written it.
But they fucking love science
And don’t mind this sentence, which is painful.
Objects being wholly distinct from particles.
Well if you infer that objects equate to Newtonian/Einstine Classical Physics and particles as Quantum Mechanics and we have yet to establish a unified field theory, there is a distinction. But I am likely giving the author too much credit.
*Einsteinian
I love you a little right now, OBJ but not in the coital way.
I would describe it as classical mechanics emerges from quantum mechanics and is a subset of simplified rules as you approach the limits of the field equations.
And yes, you’re giving them too much credit.
*glues self to floor using gravity*
*falls out of chair, can’t arise. Theorem confirmed.
What about Dark Lives Matter?
Where does that fall into your categorization?
Isn’t the fifth fundamental force racism?
Nah, this (potential) force it really hard to detect.
But it does get blamed for everything.
Um, no, not really, you third grader.
Seriously though, Fermilab isn’t up to a 5-sigma detection on thi, but they are over four. Although since they used the same apparatus (though installed in a different locaiton) there is a higher than normal chance of some systematic error.
Who lets a little thing like a statistical margin of error get in the way of a good story?
Climate modelers nod approvingly.
JFC.
I’d be interested in reading exactly what hypothesis the experiment was designed to test. Were they looking for a particular effect or suspected force?
Seems like the experiment was designed to either get data to test existing theories at finer levels of precision than previously, or to test out a new experimental apparatus to ensure it corresponds to existing results. They found an unexpected effect or interaction. So now, a new hypothesis will need to be designed for testing.
Yeah, “prosaic” in the sense that it might actually be useful to describe what the force does?
I sure wish the popular media could write better science articles.
Once upon a time, I could pick up a copy of Scientific American and expect to be intellectually challenged.
Now I just expect to be enraged and disappointed.
AFAICT, the issue is that the muon’s g value is being experimentally confirmed as being sufficiently far outside the limits of calculation that it’s suggesting an unknown particle interaction. The electron’s g value is a stupidly exact match with QED theory. The muon is ~200x more massive than the electron, so if there is some unknown particle out there it has a ~40kx chance of interacting with it than the electron would.
Fermilab has a video on youtube about it, but PBS SpaceTime’s is better.
muon’s g value
This wokeness crap has gotten out of hand. Not only are they naming shit after half assed Disney woke princesses, but somehow their MPAA rating plays into it?
The muon has a g-spot? So it’s not a myth?
Tee hee… “New 1950 RINSO has Solium, the scientific sunlight ingredient!”
You think that’s over now? The girlfriend is watching some beauty product “education” (narrator: ads) and they include chemical formulas such as AO3. The A stands for AQUA!
Mornin’ SP! I remember my Brother really struggling to master that Steve Howe tune because he had tiny little talons instead of the two bunches of bananas that Howe was blessed with. He got there. Thanks for the links, Dear Lady.
Eeeeeeew.
She just wanted to avoid anyone asking her to do dishes or to go make them a sammich..
I was traveling yesterday, so I didn’t see anything here. I have a lot of stuff to do today for work. So I said to myself, “Self, you can’t go on Glibs right away this morning, you need to get started on the day.” Then I said to myself “Self, but yesterday was Wednesday! I have to read my Joemala.”
I feel like my grandmother, “I need to watch my stories, so go play in the other room.”
Listen to self.
I am sure we are all familiar with the (((diary))).
Though her life was tragically cut short, Anne Frank left behind a monumental legacy. The diary she kept while living in hiding from 1942 to 1944 is considered one of the most important accounts of the European Jewish experience during World War II. Her most intimate writings are still taught in classrooms today, but images of her are rare. The video below, shot in 1941, is believed to be the only surviving footage of Anne Frank in existence.
This short film, uploaded to YouTube by the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, was shot less than a year before the Frank family was forced into hiding to avoid Nazi persecution. It shows a bride and groom on their wedding day. The woman getting married lived at No. 37 Merwedeplein and the Franks lived next door at building No 39. At 0:09, you can see a preteen Frank leaning out of her second-story window to get a look at the festivities.
The video captures one of the last moments of normalcy before Frank’s life changed forever. In July 1942, her family moved into the attic apartment behind her father’s business. They remained hidden there until an anonymous source revealed their location to the Nazis, resulting in their arrest on August 4, 1944. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp less than a year later at age 15.
I think the interesting part is the apartment building construction. Surprisingly modern.
I used to wonder how anyone could turn in the Franks to the Nazis.
I don’t wonder anymore.
The Dutch had both the most active of collaborators (usually in the cities) and the fiercest resistance (usually rural based).
Hmmm, I see a pattern.
1,200 years takes its toll on a culture.
I’ve been meaning to read the unexpurgated edition for years.
You just want to read the horny teenaged romance parts. I will go sit in the box and feel shame, now.
I assume that’s most of what is missing, so I must concede.
Must… frame… everything… according…. to narrative…
NPR ran a story about how the super-powerful greenhouse gas methan SURGED last year.
They listed three (3) ways methane gets released into the atmosphere.
1. Fossil fuel production
2. Cattle ranching
3. Weapons.
Good thing Harris is banning gunz to save the planet!
Also, every get so anti-colonialist you inadvertently make fun of wokeness? https://xkcd.com/2439/
I must be missing your point with regards to your link.
I read it as mocking the whole “Mercator projection/centering Greenwich is racist” thing.
Mercator projections were useful for ships because they lay flat and maintain proper navigation lines.
Ships are the tools of colonial oppression!
Isn’t everything?
I read it as mocking maps of the 2016 Presidential Elections
It’s a spoof of the people who update the countries/continents in maps to “more accurately” show the importance of the areas.
Thankfully, I’ve not run into those people.
I had a lefty on Derpbook post one showing that Africa is larger than North America and Europe combined and has a larger population. I responded that Asia is even bigger than Africa and has an even bigger population, so what?
It didn’t get a response.
Related.
But what does it have to do with undocumented transgender children who admire Michelle Obama?
What about farting?
Counted among weapons?
At my age and level of beer consumption? Rarely used for a joke nowadays.
4. Racists flapping their gums.
Biden to target ‘ghost guns,’ stabilizing braces in new gun control actions
“The Justice Department will be given 60 days to issue a separate rule on stabilizing braces, which can turn a pistol into a more accurate weapon that fires like a rifle”
Stabilizing brace! We can’t have people firing a weapon accurately! We need them shooting wildly into neighbors houses!
Sic the ADA lawyers on them!
^^
+1 Spray and Pray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZQzd02UfI
Biden does prefer firing shotguns through doors.
I shouldve picked up another AR pistol while they were relatively cheap
Ships to your door. Add a stripped lower locally.
ATF will “request” sales records as soon as the new EO is in place.
This. Even if the sellers don’t roll over, the credit card processors will be standing in line to hand over transaction records. I haven’t ordered any shooting related kit online for a while now. If I can’t find it locally, I’ll have to do without.
Do the credit card processors actually have any useful information to turn over? I kinda doubt they do.
They have dates and dollar amounts.
But when the reseller also sells a wide array of other items, that makes it difficult to narrow down without the reseller’s cooperation.
I seem to recall reading that it was the credit card processors that gave names to the ATF when they decided that the Polymer80 built kit constituted a complete firearm. I don’t actually see that written in any articles in a quick search. However, Polymer80 claims they didn’t turn over any names, despite the ATF raid, and the Firearm Blog has photos of paperwork from a guy that claims his Polymer80 kit was seized.
If the ATF wants to go after “parts”, then I’d guess a purchase record from a place that sells mostly “parts” would be adequate to interest them.
Did they ever change their mind on those kits?
Did they ever change their mind on those kits?
This post:
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/12/15/polymer80-warrant-customer-records/
goes into more details about the ATF’s findings, and specifically mentions stamps.com and authorize.net as sources of information to the ATF.
The post just says at the bottom that they’ll make additional posts with any updates, and there aren’t any more recent posts with the tag ‘polymer80’. I’d guess since it’s only been ~four months, the various parties are still going through the legal process.
A big fear of mine is that if the government really wanted to crack down on guns, the Big Tech companies would willingly help them. Google could search chat and email records for frequent mentions of gun-related terms. Facebook could flag those belonging to 2A groups. YouTube could compile a list of everyone who is subscribed to a gun channel.
Conspiracy theory? Maybe. But after the COVID shit, I’m not very amenable to the argument “that’s just a conspiracy theory; it would never happen here“.
I’m seriously thinking about buying a 3D printer with cash and never speaking of it on any electronic means of communication.
Pretty much a bunch of limp-dicked handwaving.
Ironically, a rules clarification on the physical difference between stocks and stabilizing braces is something the gun industry has been begging for.
Muh legacy!
President Biden’s infrastructure train is leaving the station.
In remarks Wednesday pushing for his sweeping $2.3 trillion plan, Biden said he wants to meet with Republicans about it and hopes to negotiate in “good faith” — a political tenet that hasn’t been practiced much in Washington, D.C., in recent years.
But Biden is not waiting around.
“We will not be open to doing nothing,” the president said. “Inaction, simply, is not an option.”
Translation: Get on board or step aside.
——-
But Biden’s overall approach to legislating so far — on a big, bold agenda — is winning plaudits from political strategists, left and right.
“I am more impressed with Joe Biden than I ever thought I could be in the last few months,” said Jamal Simmons, a Democratic political analyst who worked as an adviser to the Democratic National Committee during Barack Obama’s first run for the White House and in the Clinton administration.
Nothing says DEMOCRACY! like treating a razor thin (and widely distrusted) majority as if it represents a unanimous consensus.
Once the votes have been counted, the President has unlimited dictatorial power to ram his personal pet projects down the country’s throat. That’s what made this nation great.
+1 FDR
Democratic strategist lauds Democratic president. Who coulda seen that coming?
from political strategists, left and right
Dude, everyone loves the guy. It says so right there.
That sounds like a particularly inapt metaphor. Why would you send your most important train out on a line that hasn’t been completed?
(yes, I know, they used trains to ship new construction materials to the end of lines under construction to extend them–don’t be pedantic.)
I’d prefer the infrastructure cock is about to be rammed up the taxpayer’s fiscal pooper whether you want it or not but I suppose they need to keep it G rated.
And someone is unfamiliar with the government’s boondoggle history concerning building train tracks.
There are a shit ton of planes between Minneapolis and Chicago every day. When I used to make that flight for business, it was about 3.5 hours door to door (50 minute flight, 45 min travel to/from airports, rest TSA nonsense). You can drive it in about 7 hours.
You’d think that a high speed rail route between the two would be easy and at least match the time of flying. Nope. We’ve spent millions on “studies” and it always comes back as unfeasible.
Mostly because to get permission to run at 100+mph would be a legal nightmare. And every small station along the route would be demanding that a stop be made and if you don’t it is because of racism.
That and the externalities of tresspassers. A 100mph passenger train runs fast and quiet. I can’t imagine how many people it would liquify per week or how many derailments would be caused by kids riding their ATV’s or pickups on and around the tracks.
Since the fatalities would be mostly in Wisconsin, that is a selling point.
You need to curd your enthusiasm for Sconnie tragedy.
db: You’re going to milk this one, aren’t you?
I just lactose personality traits that incline one to take pleasure in udders’ misfortune.
Just enclose it in a tube, and no pedestrians can get in!
/hyperloop
Minneapolis to Chicago has some pretty massive and sudden grade changes involved and the river grade is mostly taken up real estate. What a nightmare it would be to create a track you could actually run a train 100mph on consistently. The bridges would be some serious feats of engineering. The passes in and out of the Mississippi river basin would be pretty impressive too.
I imagine that everyone think they’d just upgrade the current infrastructure and cut massive checks to the class 1 railroads to just figure it out for them. But then you just wind up with the Amtraks you’re already running over freight rail around freight trains over some bridges that were built almost 100 years ago. That’s not even getting into the major right of ways that get flooded every few years or so or washed out because the the mighty Miss and her sisters.
So you’re saying it needs to be… an elevated monorail!
Once the votes have been counted, the President has unlimited dictatorial power to ram his personal pet projects down the country’s throat. That’s what made this nation great.
Only if he has a “D” after his name. If he has an “R” after his name simply enforcing the law and constitution as written makes him the worst tyrant since, well, you know who.
So you are saying that CNN is inciting riots/insurrection.
Nothing says “good faith” like “we will pass it without Republican support if necessary.
a political tenet that hasn’t been practiced much in Washington, D.C., in recent years.
Correct but not how you mean.
Copy/paste fail there. Dangit.
“Beloved doctor, 70, his wife and their two grandchildren are shot dead by ‘neighbor’ who also killed a workman at their home in tiny York County community of Rock Hill”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9448293/2-children-5-killed-South-Carolina-shooting.html
A Democrat is back in the White House.
The shooting happened last week? Must be some reason it wasn’t plastered all over the headlines…
Not the response that you were expecting, Dems.
However, as each panelist pointed out, HR 1 does the exact opposite of strengthening civil rights protections, with one panelist going as far as to dub the bill the “Screw the People Act.” …
Reverend C.L. Bryant, FreedomWorks’ Senior Fellow and host of the virtual gathering, began the seminar by pushing back against the fictional narrative the left Is attempting to create.
“When we look at HR 1,” said the reverend, “When we look at the lies that have been told about this particular bill … the most alarming thing to us, at this point in time, is the type of rhetoric and the type of definitions that they are presenting, not only to us but they’re presenting them to our young people. And the narrative of that rhetoric is so false, that it is blatant, and it must be challenged.” …
“These are people who have lived through that difficult times in this country,” said Rev. Bryant, speaking of the panelist’s personal experience with Jim Crow.
“And may I just say,” continued Bryant, “that the hypocrisy of Joe Biden to throw around the words, Jim Crow, as though he owns the black vote. I must say to us as black people, and I must say to us as Americans. When we look back over Joe Biden’s track record, we will see a mass deception that is going on” …
“I was born into systemic racism,” said Dr. Swain, “and I watched it collapsed. I watched it collapse with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 1965 Voting Rights Act. The 1968 open Housing Act. And I can tell you that I saw opportunities created for people like me, and America was moving forward.” …
“The idea of Jim Crow-ism that’s being brought into the public square,” said Pastor Broden, “is an attempt on [the president’s] part and the Democratic Party to evoke an emotional response on the part of the black community.”
I prefer the term “For the Democratic Party and Connected People Act”. It ads the part they left out.
Are you people going to get back on the plantation peacefully or do I need to drag you back in chains?
GET YOUR RAIN BARRELS READYO TO DIP YOUR STRAIGHT RAZORS IN.
Those hypothetical racists are almost as bad of dudes as Corn Pop.
Better bring a pool chain too, so you can swing it at non-conforming journalists who don’t report that every Dem party action is by definition “progressive.”
BTW, rapidly spreading cancer in the body is also “progressive” and it definitely “makes a difference.”
He ain’t black.
(Good to see you, Hayek.)
I wonder if the internal polls for the Dems are telling them that Trump made enough of an inroad into the black voting demographic that they can’t rely on them like they used to. So time to roll out the fraud bill so it doesn’t matter any more.
The graveyard black vote will now reliably vote 100% Democratic, so it doesn’t matter if actual black voters now only vote 80% Democrat.
Does it get any better than this?
ahm… yes? no?
Apparently “autoclave” is old and busted. The new hotness is “vertical steam sterilizer.”
How can you differentiate your product from the competition if you can’t give it a really long and unnecessary name?
Don’t forget the ™️
Some idiot probably thought it was pronounced auto-slave so it had to be cancelled.
https://twitter.com/danajiru/status/1379711171679318016
I once saw a chicken in a Walmart.
Did you choke it?
I too hate it when you can’t find an employee to help you reach something on the top shelf.
You just need to buy a “grabber”. Not saying that it needs to be a Monkey or an Orphan.
New Driveway art?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/naval-mine-washes-ashore-south-florida-beach
Not to be outdone by New York’s stupidity, New Jersey will soon be handing taxpayer funds to illegal immigrants. No details in the article about what would make lawmakers hate NJ taxpayers so much they would hand our money over to foreign strangers. Not as if they are running surpluses and have nothing to do with the cash.
The chump effect is in full swing.
Watching taxpayers bend over and take it while they’re getting their financial teeth kicked in is bewildering to say the least. It used to be that the mere suggestion of this by any pol would see him/her bounced out on their ass.
Who’s telling them about it? The local LP? I’ll bet the local media is editorializing that it’s a good compassionate deal, and the GOP is cowering because they don’t want to be seen as “mean-spirted.”
The GOP is powerless in NJ as the Dems have complete control of all branches of the state government. GOP state senators keep proposing a bill to limit Murphy’s emergency powers and the Dems won’t even let it come to the floor for a vote.
On the few political sites that I visit, I saw a few comments that the economy, once Covid is “over”, is going to take-off, giving the Democrats a big win in the 2022 mid-terms. Game over!
Of course predicting the future is a fool’s game, but historically – and only in a few cases is this the opposite – the party in power loses seats with the state of the economy having little to do with it.
So thats going to be the excuse they use when the democrats significantly outperform historical trends and opinion polls. At some point, they won’t even bother making excuses for their “fortified” “wins.”
You do have to admit that aside from the presidential election – all the rest of the fortification was a flop. They had promised a blue wave and they didn’t even get a ripple.
Yup. You only get more or what you fortify.
Convid is not intended to end. As we are told, the
gene therapyvaccine is not effective (unless it is when the talking point is needed…) so you need to keep wearing your mask and get your booster shot every six months,subjectcitizen.“This is a good thread about how some parts of the press collude with activists to badger people who have only the most tenuous connection to their agenda until they beg for relief.
This sort of thing was once considered disreputable but is now just the definition of politics.”
https://twitter.com/DanFosterType/status/1379855661102665728
some parts of the press collude with activists
I guess 98% is “some parts”.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-infrastructure-bill-aims-to-end-single-family-zoning/
*grumbles angrily*
and of course wealthy suburbs will just say “fuck you” to the feds and become even more like gated communities…
and god forbid if you get a lefty-dominated zoning board in your small town.
An opportunity for sheep to put on wolf’s clothing! These wealthy suburbs all voted strongly for Biden. Let’s pretend to support Biden and advocate that every vacant lot in said suburbs be rezoned for gigantic low cost apartment houses. See how fast the wealthy woke suburbanites decide that voting for socialism comes back to bite them in the ass.
I’m all for ending zoning, of every kind.
More (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-seeks-to-ease-housing-shortage-with-looser-zoning-rules-11617796817
Good old National Review. Now that they have no power to do anything, it’s time to go back to having principles.
You would think the Never Trump edition of the magazine in ’16 proved their lack of power/influence.
Of course they never purged VDH or KDW from their ranks, so I guess they’re not as monolithic about that as some might like to imagine.
Fair point.
Didn’t previous programs along those lines (section 8) just export the inner-city problems to previously nice suburbs?
You ask as if that’s not the goal.
Remember when everybody laughed at Trump for saying the Dems wanted to outlaw the suburbs?
When did the phrase “the right side of history” become popular?
It’s thrown around by the Left as received wisdom that is a noble goal in itself.
I don’t recall its use until Obama. Granted, he was/is overly obsessed with his own legacy and his “awards” (I think he wants to run the UN because to him, that’s the ultimate prize: President of Earthgov.
Or was the “right side of history” already a peer pressure thing pre Obama? It smacks of cancel culture / social credit threats…
At least, so far, and morally one hopes forever, the commies have landed on the wrong side of history.
It was originally popularized by Marxists.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/whos-right-side-history/
It’s also the title of a book by Ben Shapiro.
Marxism is teleological, which is pretty funny since the underlying Hegelian conceit is that synthesis is always unpredictable.
“YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors
In 2020, Florida took the lead in rejecting lockdowns. The effort was led by Governor Ron DeSantis, who in the course of the pandemic became a master of knowledge and erudition on matters of public health and the cell biological issues concerning immunity. In removing mandates and restrictions, he was under the influence of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration along with public health scholar Scott Atlas.
The efforts in Florida to protect the elderly while permitting the rest of society to function normally led to a success that has been celebrated the world over. It causes major disruption to the lockdown narrative that the only way to suppress a virus is to suppress rights and freedoms.
As a retrospective on the policy, the governor held a roundtable with all four scientists. Lasting an hour and a half, they covered all the major issues. The video itself came to serve as a tutorial in the relationship between public policy and virus mitigation.
With no warning, no announcement, and no explanation, YouTube on April 7, 2021, suddenly deleted the entire video from its platform.”
https://www.aier.org/article/youtube-censors-florida-governor-desantis-and-his-science-advisors/
If there were any doubt that Youtube/Google is carrying water for the DNC, this should dispel it.
The DNC is a bit player in this. They’re even further downstream than Alphabet.
The narrative must be maintained, comrade!
This Roundtable video with DeSantis is still live. Watch it while you can.
“Scientific” “American” wants to help you understand
For example, when we self-quarantine, we protect our physical health, but we also increase our social isolation, which augments our loneliness, foments negative emotions and limits access to crucial social support systems that buffer against depression. Parents who have protected their children from contracting or spreading COVID-19 by limiting playdates or homeschooling rightly worry about the unknown toll on their children’s socioemotional development of such absence of social interaction with peers. Young adults have missed monumental milestones including high school and college graduations—opportunities for collective processing and meaning making that have positive psychological and physical health benefits. Now these experiences represent a costly trade-off, leaving us wondering which side of our health we choose to protect.
This ever-present balancing act leaves us feeling that our physical and mental health are at odds, in a battle vying for attention: should you prioritize you and your family’s physical health, or your weakening mental health during this stressful and uncertain time? Yet, this calculus is even more complicated. Of course, we are not only concerned with our own physical or mental health, but with the well-being of the global human world as we balance our individual needs with that of our collective community.
You owe it to society to sacrifice logic and reason and self-ownership in the name of our conceptualization of the Greater Good.
Kneel before SCIENCE!
Greater goo is better
Grey goo is greatest goo?
The global human world and collective community, whatever the fuck those are, can take care of its own damn self. It always seems to escape these mouth breathers that the key to maximum collective well-being is individual well-being.
our collective community
No such community exists and to speak of one is communistic fantasy.
Hayek, I saw your post after last night’s thread was dead. I’m sorry about Mr. Splosives and what you’re going through.
If it helps at all, I had hallucinations while in the ICU. The sedatives can cause them and it took about 2 weeks for them to fully dissipate. I won’t clog up the AM thread with details, but send me a PM on the forum if you want to talk about it. One of the more fun ones was waking up at 2am and thinking my bed was a spaceship on a gameboard type universe but I had forgotten how to advance time and I would be stuck forever if I didn’t figure how to move my spaceship-bed. Not all were as pleasant. He’ll work through them and fuck any of the nurses that give you a hard time. The others are saints.
Uffda. I just saw it now as well.
I’m so sorry to hear about your family’s troubles Hayek. I don’t have any good advice for you. All I can do is offer my sympathy and send good vibes your way.
SP’s commentary on the links is the same as mine.
For quite a few years now I have made a personal pilgrimage to this spot on the Somme. For me the epitaph Mrs Walter chose for her son’s headstone is just word perfect.
https://twitter.com/DanHillHistory/status/1379920846773444610
*sends email to Facilities complaining about dust getting through the filters and into my eyes*
That is moving.
A few years ago we visited a US WW1 cemetery in northeastern France to track where the uncle of a family friends was buried. Except he’s not really buried there, because there was nothing left to bury, so his name is engraved on a wall. Despite the rain, there was a bit of dust in the air.
It’s on my bucket list to visit the Somme, Verdun, etc on the Western Front… but I’m still not sure why I want to visit all of these places to get angry.
This video about Vimy Ridge- skip ahead to – 1:55 – shows the shell holes, 100+ years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUTdwpucGU
jesus christ that was eye-opening
Verdun was fascinating. The way the land is deformed from all the craters is really something. It must have been a terrifying experience to be there.
Oh, what a delicious fight that is brewing in Minneapolis! Climate Change vs. Systemic Racism
Minneapolis bought an old warehouse as a new water management site, but now neighborhood busybodies want that scrubbed and instead it should be given to neighborhood residents as a community farm.
On one side:
On the other side:
Retard fight
As climate change exacerbates flooding and stresses sewers with every major storm – I have yet to see a single shred of quality evidence for increased flooding due to muh co2
– the city’s declaration of racism as a public health emergency, – this is retarded. and no more evidence based
during the civil unrest on Lake Street last summer. – who caused that civil unrest I wonder
o, actually grifter fight…
It is not even honest graft
Either way it will be burnt down next week after the Floyd trial concludes.
Slash and burn agriculture? Are you calling the neighborhood a bunch of primitives?
Asserted without evidence.
Don’t forget all the COVID wipes flushed into the sewers.
And irrelevant. The storm sewer design storm is 10yr intensity and does nothing for a 100yr intensity torrential downpour from a hurricane or strong thunderstorm.
We are not a serious country any more.
Sad!
Whatever happened to Greta? Did she ever take the OMWC butt-fuck challenge? Haven’t heard much from her, lately.
She had anal sex with a man that didn`t make fun of her disability.
I must have missed that!
She is slowly being red-pilled.
OK, I’m in a bad mood. ‘Cause early morning. WTF.
Did you have that nightmare where you are trapped in a bike lock factory again?
You`re weird.
you silver tongued devil!
When did the phrase “the right side of history” become popular?
I think it is a well established corollary to “The Winners Write the History Books.
Salty Mermaid Swimwear Fashion Show SS 2018 Miami Swim Week 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0x7pWZifAo
Finally free, after five months of quarantine, the swans of Bruges
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/163839/finally-free-after-five-months-of-quarantine-the-swans-of-bruges-canals-bird-flu-dirk-de-fauw-breeding-season/
https://www.boats.com/power-boats/1974-hatteras-yacht-fish-7260359/
Make Hatteras
Model Yacht Fish
Year 1974
Price US$105,000
Length 58 ft
I’mmmmmmmm SAILING AWAAAAAAY!!!!!
That seems like a great deal. Is it a great deal? I didn’t see any interior pictures.
never mind about the pics; they are there. A bit grainy, so who knows how old they are, but the interior looks decent.
It is a really good deal if you’re in the right stage of your life. As a liveaboard it’d be pretty sweet. Those 6-71’s are bullet proof too, really old school and efficient as long as you don’t run them wide open. My dream early retirement involves a setup like that.
I’d be willing to be you could low ball pretty hard on it too.
Other than hours and maintenance records, how do you tell if the engine/drive train is in good shape on a boat like that? I guess you’d get a third party mechanic to look it over if you didn’t know the systems well enough yourself.
For our commercial retrofit, we pulled the old Jimmys and installed Cummin KTA19’s. We had the transmissions gone through by a pro. If you’re savvy, it isn’t that expensive. You’d be REALLY surprised to see how many hours you can put on that equipment before you need to do a lot of work to them.
10, 15 or even 20,000 hours isn’t uncommon between major rebuilds.
That and what you want to do with it? If you’re going to stay mostly near shore in the gulf, it’s easy/cheaper to just keep towing insurance and do self maintenance. I don’t see it costing more than $10k to be fully safely operational.
If you’re going to do some serious sailing down to say Panama or across the Atlantic, you’re going to probably want everything gone through with a fine tooth comb by pro’s and that would probably be in the $25k to $75k range. most of that would be removal and transport to facilities where you have everything reconditioned. The equipment itself isn’t that expensive to find because most of it can’t be installed in new builds account of EPA.
There are some interior pictures if you click through the slides. It’s obviously all original 1974 decor with the expected wear and tear.
Eric Cartman hates you now.
I’m all for ending zoning, of every kind.
#METOO
If only that’s what they were proposing. Haven’t read the deets, but I’d bet my own money they boil down to “impose zoning requirements that X% has to be low-income housing”.
Something different
Lowered rear wheel drive five speed Wagoneer. I like it. Just the thing for those runs to Menard’s.
Really nice. I dig it, too.
https://www.rt.com/usa/520430-california-moves-transgender-inmates/
Sure, move male inmates into the women’s prison, what could possibly go wrong?
Moar Orphans!
It’s strange that the F to M ones don’t wish to transition to male cell blocks.
Now I’m thinking of the Johnny Bravo episode where a typo got his name as Joanie Bravo and he got sent to the women’s prison. None of them believed he was a man until he explained the purpose of the blue lines in hockey. At which point his appeal came through just as the women were getting ready to ravish him.
I’m pretty sure that entire cartoon is cancelled now.
Conquest’s Third Law (according to John Derbyshire):
I’m nearly cynical enough to take up arms about that. I also think that the “Iron Laws” should include “Don’t stick it in crazy”!
What could possibly go wrong?
I wonder how hard you have to work to comply with transgenerism?
Do you have to get dolled up in a dress and stuff? Or can you identify as a woman on the inside only? (Means you still get to look and act like a man on the outside).
If all I have to do is complain about my womanly insides during a few group sessions, I’d be totes signed up to do my time at a women’s prison.
Sometimes I get those cramps but maybe if I stopped being such a queen and acted the man for once they might just go away. I dunno, cut my tackle off and let’s see what happens next…
There is no answer to that because a large portion of the movement is the compulsion of unwilling compliance.
Once they perceive the compliance is voluntary, they will find a way to make it involuntary again.
“The pandemic forced us to stop hugging, shaking hands: That’s not necessarily a bad thing”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/04/05/covid-pandemic-canceled-hugs-handshakes-may-not-be-bad/4821982001/
The “footshake” really? How about we just sniff each other’s butts?
“Allo, Sailor!”
“Human smugglers are openly advertising their services on Facebook, falsely telling Central Americans interested in crossing illegally into the U.S. that they can promise a “100 percent” safe journey. ”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1379377365613154306
Well, why not? They allow pedophiles on Twitter.
Let’s not argue about ‘ooh raped ‘ooh along the way! This is an ‘appy occasion!
“Biden: “In prison the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is not what in fact the prison says it is.”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1176143963427704832
Old tweet. Determining the correct policy is difficult, but that isn’t it.
Total pandering
Biden was a consummate bullshitter of a politician.
Because nothing could possibly go wrong with housing XY trannies with the female population. Or vice versa.
“My name is Susan, I just got out prison.“
Dishonest cuntes like this are bad for my blood pressure. Read at your own risk.
Cohen said, “We just celebrated Passover. On Passover, Jewish people are instructed over two centuries to remember 2,000 years, over 2,000 years, to remember that we were in bondage, and we escaped. Remember that day, and to teach people about it. January 6th is a day like that. It’s a day that should be remembered in America because our democracy was at stake. It was under attack as much as Pearl Harbor was an attack on our country, for people to suggest that it wasn’t that big of a deal. It was just some folks who were demonstrating and protesting. Most of the people were good people, fine citizens going up to protest, malarkey. This was an attack on the United States Constitution. They wanted to upset the Electoral College and make Donald Trump the president, to eliminate people who stood in his way, which included his vice president and the speaker of the House. They wanted to intimidate the Congress.”
He added, “What Donald Trump said on that day, you won’t have a country if you don’t go up there and fight, fight hard. When he said you won’t have a country, he was saying the Blacks, the Jews, the minorities, the gays, they’ll be in charge and you, the white, straight, Evangelicals here with me today, your country will not be yours. You will not have a country. He was telling them to go take your country back from the Blacks, the Jews, the gays, the different people that they do not like. And that was a call from Trump, and it was racist as could be. And he was involved, in my opinion, with all these folks, Roger Stone was, the whole team was, they were trying to take over. He doesn’t give up. He didn’t want to give up power. He liked being president.”
Cohen has been in office since forever. He’s never held an actual job and is purely a party creature.
“My team stole the election fair and square.”
riiiight… Trump, the guy who had a rainbow flag flying over him during the run-up to the 2016 election.
“When he said you won’t have a country, he was saying the Blacks, the Jews, the minorities, the gays, they’ll be in charge and you, the white, straight, Evangelicals here with me today, your country will not be yours.”
Clearly, the James Galway of dog whistling.
Feck. Kinda shit-faced again and the world seems to be spinning away from all recognition. I’ve never seen the like. Best wishes to all of you. You keep me grounded and please know that you are always in my thoughts. I worry about your travails and celebrate every triumph. Hope that your day is better!
Signing off?
At least you still are typing straight.
Ryan Long: “It’s very complicated to be alive and all the opinions you pretend to have right now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRQTBvkrni0
“Pretend” is the kicker.
https://twitter.com/QriistReborn/status/1380060280248532992
CWAA
Larval Triggly-Puff.
Ah, Triggly-Puff.
A blast from a more-innocent past.
“That’s a s3xist (sic) movie. You shouldn’t watch it in front of me.”
Proper response:
“So leave already.”
now I can’t live here . . . .
And yet, she still hasn’t learned the correct lesson.
Didn’t you see the part ‘So now I can’t live here anymore.’
Lives at grandpa’s, tries to dictate his life. Takes petty action. #WINNING!
Reading a report commissioned by the Dresden fab comparing it to the one in Singapore. The date is “12-15-10,” which makes no goddamn sense for a euro-Asian production/
That’s not a date, that’s the author’s locker combination.
ISO 8601 or GTFO
You can get out. It’s okay. Don’t let some bureaucrats tell you how to do things.
Says the guy working for The Man.
I’d say it gives me the authority to say “Don’t listen to us, we don’t know what we’re talking about.”
I’m with ya, time-bro.
“Craziest campus story I’ve seen in a long time. A student asked a dean a question about microaggressions—he was mildly skeptical of the concept. He was branded an “aggressive threat” and banned from campus. (And no, there’s not much more to it than that.)”
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1379866519572742151
The student, right?
Decent comments at the other place.
The lunatics are running the asylum.
I listened to the audio and the guy is a bit agitated but sounds nervous to me. One of the Twitter replies was “listen to how fast he is speaking!” as if that is some kind of indictment.
Well, he is playing David to the med school’s Goliath.
Perhaps the West needs to die in order to be reborn, because we have serious faults in our current design.
After reading the Twitter replies about how terrible he was on the recording, I decided to listen to the recording. I don’t see anything wrong with his behavior except that he challenged the premise of microaggressions, which I guess is a macroaggression now.
Thot Thursday is the only thing that brings any meaning into your bleak and pointless existence.
https://archive.li/3bfbh
#1 looks oddly proportioned…
#2 – those eyebrows!
#3 – no problem here
#4 – Fish heads fish heads, roly poly fish heads
#5 – skiing jump nose
#6 – tattoo-topia
etc
I’m supposed to receive a delivery of guns later. I thought that brought meaning into my bleak and pointless existence?
Did this leave a mark?
No, the perps will be giving each other awards for doing this corrupt and criminal shit a decade from now. See Dan Rather.
Nice. That guy is the only one keeping the NY Post relatively sane and preventing the creeping socialists in the News division from turning the editorial page into another copy of the Times or the Daily News.
Jordan Peterson has some hilarious responses to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ making him Red Skull in the new Captain America comic book.
Yeah, I could see that being a problem.
Got the car back from the shop after the deer attack. I had them do the minimum, since I don’t have full coverage and the car only cost about $5000 to begin with. $270 bucks, no bad. Has a few dents. He said a full repair would run around $2400. If I want just the fender (where most of the remaining damage is, small dent in the hood and some cracking on the bumper besides) replaced with a used one that doesn’t have to be painted he figures he can do it for another $500. If it bothers me I should be able to swing that at some point later.
None of those are fun.
Stupid deer.
If you’re going to replace the bumper, go Mad Max with something heavy-duy welded out of pipe. Bolt it dorectly to the frame. Mrs. Dean has an after-market bumper made out of solid steel bolted to the frame that probably weighs 350 pounds, minimum.
Her motto: “Your car is my crush zone.”
It’s a Malibu, that would make it look to much like an Impala, which are ugly.
I hope you taught that deer a lesson.
Apparently, once I saw the damage in the daylight, the ass must have hit the fender by the side mirror, as there was some fecal matter there. The mechanic says, ‘You beat the shit out of him.’
I watched Part 1 of new HBO doc series called Exterminate All the Brutes by Raoul Peck. Peck doesn’t pull any punches – wippo are the devil.
” Bankrolled by HBO (where it premieres on April 7) …… the series is Peck’s attempt to unearth what he has called an “origin story” for white supremacy.”
Here is Time’s hot take: https://time.com/5952888/exterminate-all-brutes-review/
“Drawing heavily on the work of leftist academics, the series also incorporates scripted passages and animations that serve as guided meditations on human suffering more than as visual aids. It may well be the most politically radical and intellectually challenging work of nonfiction ever made for television.”
After viewing the first episode I am amazed that someone could describe this as “non-fiction”.
Scripted passages and animations that serve as guided meditations are non-fiction?
I miss the English language. I really do.
Well, if it’s not just a made up story–
Oh, wait.
Let me guess, there will be no mention of any “race” other than white that sought to enslave or eliminate other races/tribes/competitors/etc…
The others that did so were ‘culturally white’, the evils of colonialism et al.
Stuck in a safety risk management meeting….the facilitator is giving us training, that we all have, on how to conduct this. Luckily I am in a subject matter expert role and I get to drop off in a couple of hours.
And I have Glibs to draw my attention away as the facilitator randomly calls on people.
In order to manage risk, we must first understaaaaaand risk…