Good morning from the moldy, condensation dripping home of your favorite furry green muppet! I’m pinch hitting, well, because SP threatened to sharpen my trash can lid and I don’t need sharp metal objects laying around while Mrs. trshmnstr is lamenting my avoidance of the snip snip surgery. She may get…ideas. *shudder*
Just thinking about it makes my felt retract within itself. My pal Kermit used to be a baritone until Miss Piggy got ahold of the tadpoles, if you get my drift. Speaking of Miss Piggy, how ’bout the links?
I’m sure it’s somebody’s birthday today, but I don’t care about that trash.
Sports… Hockey is coming up on the Stanley Cup, right? The Stanley Cup looks like a giant trash can, so i approve. Horses race each other and some are injected with trash, so I approve. Indy 500 is coming up, and they release a bunch of balloons that turn into trash, so I approve. Pro disc golf has the week off, but the baskets look kinda like trash cans, so I approve. Pro basketball is trash, but not the good kind, so I disapprove. The trash family is going to a baseball game on Sunday, where I expect to eat trash and throw trash on the ground, so I approve. Soccer is for Eurotrash, so I approve.
Now, let me rummage through the ol’ can here and see what I can scare up…
| One man’s treasure is another man’s trash. |
| Dr. Jekyll may be nice, but Hyde will spit on you and call you trash. |
| Mushrooms to help clean up this trash? |
| Guess who ended up in my trash. |
| People don’t want it, so throw the extras in the trash. |
*looks out window at fresh snow*
I had to run my AC for the first time this year so I could get some sleep last night.
I’m trying to avoid turning on the AC, thankfully it only got into the low 80’s in the house. Today we have our second day bumping up against 90 though.
I have trouble cooling the house because of the poor layout of the windows/interior doors
I may have to crank up the A/C. The pup spends most of her indoor time sitting on the vent. She is definitely a cold weather doggo.
Oddly enough, I take her down into the basement and she doesn’t lay down on the nice cool concrete. Either it’s too cold, or she’s too busy looking for items to steal.
Late May? How barbaric… something like this would not happen in civilized Europe
The weather guy here said up to two feet of snow in MT.
The weather guy has been given way too big of a time block to fill.
High 80s-low 90s here for the foreseeable future.
People don’t want it, so throw the extras in the trash. – just load the vaccine in a dart gun and randomly shoot people on the street
Stop giving them ideas.
Genius! And we can do the same for the HPV vaccine, PrEP, and Paxilon hydrochlorate!
WE NEED NO VACCCINE ZONES!
Sensible Vaccine Dart Control??
PrEP is a daily oral medication.
Only because the reich-wing bigots in congress blocked sufficient funding available to make it a dart-delivered vaccine.
I’m looking forward to your TED talks.
What can we call these roving bands of vaccination specialists?
Maybe “Roving External Application Vaccination Emergency Response Specialists?” might need a shorter name
Be nice if they’d wait until we had even some Firefly class vessels around so we could get away from their little Alliance for a while…
Could you please stop this signal?
BLEACH DARTS.
TRUMP 2024!
I’m not surprised you read the Times Union. That rag is trash.
No, nobody does.
What if we add some glitter to it?
Festooned with glued-on macaroni !
Glue a bird on it!
Oh, nice avatar!
You finally noticed! Straffy did alright!
I didn’t know your hair was that short.
It will be non-hair tomorrow. Clippers go Bzzzzz.
Hoarders making excuses for hoarding…
^This. There are various “buy nothing” groups on my social media feeds. Transparent excuse for hoarding behavior and virtue-signalling about it.
I had considered starting a “removal” service where I’d charge the spouses of the hoarders a reasonable fee to have someone express interest in taking that infant potty which is now old enough to vote.
They never suggest government buy nothing.
Or, a generation inculcated from birth with the delusion that they were special and super important. So, of course their garbage is important.
We’re turning a generation of spoiled brats into hoarders. Great.
Meh. Pursuing a degree in the hard sciences will turn you into a hoarder because you never know when you’ll want a piece of equipment that you can’t afford or doesn’t actually exist yet.
How many sheds full of crap are on your property? 🙂
Well, my next-door nosy gossipy neighbor’s sheds are possibly on my property, and they are also full of… components for her to build her fairy gardens. She says that the developer gave her the land, but that’s not what my survey indicates.
This morning there was a purple tricycle and purple church pew in her yard that weren’t there yesterday, along with some gazing balls and giant ceramic frogs.
Unfortunately, she seems to have acquired some sort of fast-developing senility in the last few months, so I don’t know how much longer she’s going to be my neighbor.
Or fortunately she may not be your neighbor much longer.
Landscape decoration, what’s not to like?
Purple pew?
Purple is a royal color, would you deny that to the house of god?
Baseball birthdays:
HoFer Earl Averill, Kent Hrbek, Fred Dunlap, Josh Hamilton, and Matt Weiters.
Went to HS with Earl’s grandson, who apparently had a similar spinal condition that ended his ballplaying days pretty early.
“It actually ends up costing Goodwill rather than helping them,” said David Courard-Hauri, a professor of environmental science and sustainability at Drake University.
America’s finest minds.
Isn’t Goodwill at least semi-scammy? As in a large percentage of their revenue ends up being paid to the Founder and members of his family?
It looks like about 85% of Goodwill revenue goes to charity, so maybe not so bad (depending on what all is included in that). That doesn’t mean the execs aren’t still overpaid, but for some reason I thought Goodwill was worse than that.
Same here, I had something snarky typed up, but looked for some supporting links first.
Maybe they reformed their act in recent years? Only article I could find quickly was a HuffPost piece about how your clothes donated to Goodwill may wind up at a *gasp* textile recycling center or the *faints* landfill.
I found a horrible article that was at least reasonable on some numbers. It is possible both the 15% and 85% are correct, in that it is 15% of the profit from their sales that goes to charity, BUT, its 85% if you include all of the government grants they also get.
So, 15% of direct profits + whatever grants they get.
Word to the wise. If you ever find yourself buying used clothing from a thrift store, no matter how powerful your washing machine is, boil them first. Signed, Former and probably future poor guy. Funky old clothes are funky.
Dry cleaner re my new-to-me jacket: “Ooh, this nice. But, you have to wash.”
When i worked for Indiana Department of Transportation, we bought unsold goodwill shirts for rags. I’m sure we overpaid. But that is a good use for the ones that don’t make the cut.
And I see contradictory stuff too, under 15%.
Something like $57MM in bonuses to execs a few years back, so that part seems to be right.
And even that number depends on who was getting the bonuses, if it includes managers of all 3000 locations, then it suddenly isn’t so bad, is it? If it is just the corporate HQ, more questionable.
There was a charity I used to donate to that had some low numbers. It was because they spent a lot on fundraising. HQ was two employees, the Pres who made $100k and his secretary who made about $40k, IIRC. This was late 90s numbers, but still very reasonable. He was obviously not trying to get rich off the charity, it was a passion.
Up here it’s a scam. They take the best and toss the rest.
One of their % as charity issues is part of their mission is hiring and training the people they are helping. I’m not sure that gets counted as charity.
They are a very large operation. In addition to their thrift stores, they also run cleaning services for commercial buildings. They get a lot of federal government contracts for that, probably state govts as well.
The other charities hate them. Executive compensation seems to be the only legitimate gripe those people have.
Fucking goodwill only wants high quality donations. There’s really no end to the things modern society will snivel about.
I always felt weird about wearing some dead guy’s clothes back when we were really poor. That’s what you’re getting when you thrift store. Dead guy’s clothes.
“Probly shoulda washed it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
Eh, not always. As long as nobody died inside them.
Nobody has put this up yet?
That’s probably more true for Men’s clothes, since we’re less likely to part with things that are just “out of style”
But women who change wardrobes frequently like my wife are in a constant buy-donate cycle. I guess it’s better than buying new, but I still don’t have any clue why she needs any more clothes.
“Churn”, the hoarding pros call it.
Nothing is dumber than fucking intelligentsia in the non-hard science fields. These people don’t get that notoriety and attention they desperately need unless they come up with some insane idea and sell it as socially just. They then circle jerk each other and call it peer reviewed. Then when it fails and bodies pile up, they say the failure was that what they were proponents of was simply not done hard enough. Rinse, repeat, higher pile of bodies, and same disclaimer that it was not done hard enough, followed by the rinse, repeat……
Nature fesses up, on behalf of Science, to a history of racism.
Can you trust the Science when Science tells you not to trust Science?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01312-4
You can believe in science when it has been thoroughly decolonized.
The cube root of 27 is 3, doesn’t require trust.
well a south african shaman may disagree, what then?
Nothing, then.
I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It didn’t say anything about making stupid people smart.
You just need to believe.
The true root of all numbers is racist colonialism. Stop white washing it with your artificial, whiteness dictated geometric conformism. Cubes rigidly enforce a soul crushing conformity on all 6 sides!
Maybe I’m cynical, by I think specifically what they want you to believe is the only socially acceptable opinion is that the only reason to believe that the cube root of 27 is 3 is because of your inherent racism and moral guilt. Not that they want you to stop thinking that. Because that would be suicidal. But, they want you to accept guilt for acknowledging the fact. Then your very act of survival is an indictment against you to demand “accountability”.
If they’re waiting for me to feel guilty, I hope they brought something to read…
Gravity’s Rainbow would be appropriate.
Related.
The Child Soldiers of Portland
The reed bends with the wind
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the White House, said that it’s conceivable for middle schools and high schools to be completely mask-free in the fall.
“If the children get vaccinated, it is conceivable that that would actually wind up being a recommendation. We’ll just have to wait and see,” said Fauci.
What happened, Foochy? Did your parade change its route while you weren’t looking? Better scramble if you want to get back to the front.
At obedience class last night, the decision was made to ditch the masks. However, one of the owners brought her little girl with her and made her keep her mask on. Said owner did not object to everyone else unmasking though.
That is pathetic. I hope the pendulum swings and “maskers” will become the target of derision and scorn. I’m so fucking done with this charade.
Eh, I attribute it to a general bent towards rule-following as opposed to covidianism. I mean, it is an obedience class after all.
Sit. Mask. Heel.
I have mixed emotions about that. Those people will hopefully be a very small minority. The real problem is the Karens who blindly followed what the government told them both for masking up and unmasking. These people, and I hate to use the term, but “sheep” fits, made life miserable for the rest of us.
Making other people miserable is what Karens live for.
“Just thinking about it makes my felt retract within itself.”
Cute and clever opening, trashy! Thanks.
*bows deeply*
That was a nice touch!
“Cancel culture” is a semantically loaded phrase intended to minimize the ethical issues that inspire the social reaction. A fairer and more accurate phrase would be “accountability culture.” People are being held socially accountable for their behavior. Is that wrong?
https://twitter.com/gerryconway/status/1395497005988782081
Ceaușescu was also all about accountability culture
If you don’t agree with my ever-shifting beliefs and views you will be held accountable by being canceled.
Why should I be accountable, for anything, to a bunch of slavering idiots on Twitter?
Colin Kaepernick was just being held accountable.
I sincerely hope the proponents share his fate
Fauci told host Shepard Smith that he believes the U.S. will reach President Joe Biden’s goal of having 70% of U.S. adults receive at least one dose of a Covid vaccine by July 4. In turn, Fauci said that it would be unlikely for the country to experience a Covid-19 surge in the fall if people continue to get vaccinated.
“It’s within our power. We can stop it or prevent it merely by vaccination, and I guess that’s the thing that’s so frustrating about when people don’t want to get vaccinated,” Fauci said. “We all want to be back to normal…There’s an easy pathway to that, and that is just get vaccinated.”
Why won’t you naughty children do as you’re told?
Why won’t you naughty children do as you’re told? – especially since you all love the guy
“And we have Dr. Fauci here which is — who doesn’t love Dr. Fauci?” the first lady added. “I think everybody in America loves Dr. Fauci.”
We are being conned. Full stop.
“who doesn’t love Dr. Fauci?”
/raises hand briskly, “Call on me,call on me”
Indiana’s vax rates re low and new vaccinations have dropped tremendously. i.e. everyone who wanted it got one.
But I’m lucky that they can use my tax dollars to run constant ads about how I need one and how awful I am that I haven’t done it already.
TRUMPALUMAZINE!
That spells happy Friday Gliberati.
Sounds like an anti-nausea med.
https://thereload.com/manufacturers-say-ammo-shortage-will-stretch-out-for-years/
*frowny face*
Are the new prices for Rooskie stuff simply because they retailers are able to demand that, or were the previous prices for it artificially low? I want my $0.13/round ammo back so I can shoot a case a month again.
I have an email from January 2020 from SGammo:
900 Round Spam Can – 9mm Luger 115 grain FMJ Steel Case Red Army Standard Ammo – AM3267 $129.80 + $16.00 Shipping
I have to guess the answer is probably somewhere in the middle.
I can’t find Hornady ELD-M bullets anywhere in .30 cal
Been looking for a plasma rifle in the 40 watt range forever here…
I’ve told you, we’re limited by law to 10 watts.
You need to be terminated….
I’m actually giving serious thought to taking a year or two off from gun gaming.
Nooope. I’m completely addicted to that altered state of consciousness that kicks in as the sight picture forms on the first target.
However, I may be abandoning any idea of getting good at it after my last classifier.
Me too. I’ll never give up shooting, but I might take a break from USPSA. I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately.
Going from 2000 rounds per month, to 300, would help stretch out the ammo stash a little…
Maybe that should justify some capital expenditure to increase production?
Not quite that simple. The article goes into some of the low points.
Tofu manufactures never make such similes.
Probably because they never see so much demand.
My sporting clay trips have been cut back dramaticaclly. You just can’t find cheap shotgun ammo. I’d love to be a reloader, but my time is already spread far too thin.
Ceaușescu was also all about accountability culture
We’re all accountable when the death squads come.
Shrooms in spaaaaaace!
My fave Muppet Show sketch.
Sometimes the shrooms can even take you to space!
Could a highly intelligent, sign-language-capable gorilla meaningfully consent to sex with a human?
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1395547535670878208
as always asking the important questions
Gives new meaning to the “what do you give an 800 pound gorilla” joke.
Or to the “gorilla my dreams” joke.
+1 Don Martin’s National Gorilla Suit Day
Citation: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/gorilla-suit-day/
Da FUQ?
I had to make sure this was not the kid I knew that told me the hairier and smellier a woman was, the hornier it got him.
Where are Jay & Silent Bob to opine on this subject?
STAY OFF MY PR0NHUB CHANNEL !
“Josephine: Arriving home soon. Don’t wash. –Napoleon B.” Or something along those lines.
Just as important as “Can a Diva Swine get a frog to get a vasectomy?” apparently… Who knew?
Can’t find the “You’ve got the hots for a gorilla!” clip from Fierce Creatures. 🙁
STEVE SMITH TRUE MASTER OF INTER-SPECIES … LOVEMAKING, NO LIKE GORILLA HORNING IN ON MY GIG!
STEVE SMITH HORN IN ON GORILLA, IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN…
For all you fans of beer and ammo: yesterday we took a tour of the recently opened Cartridge Brewing brewery/restaurant that is located in the former Peters Cartridge manufacturing facility. It was interesting to learn the history of the facility, see how they converted the building and taste a bunch of their beers (good food too). They have given their beers such triggering names as Hollow Point, Leaded and Sabot.
I know breweries like to pick cool names, but the last 2 are off-putting. “This one’s poisonous, and that one tastes like a shoe.”
Drink like a roman?
what kind of Roman? Falernian or posca ?
Whichever kind used lead as a seasoning for wine.
“Sugar of lead” is a real thing.
Yes, I know.
Butter of antimony? It does NOT substitute well for dairy butter in baking.
Also, never attempt to deep fry using Oil of Vitriol.
…unless you livestream the attempt.
I first read that as cartilage…eeewwwww.
Don’t look up isinglass (a traditional fining agent used in wine and beer).
Genetically engineered fungi in space? I’ve played that game — Juffo-Wup was not complete.
Music link wise, I was expecting this, though I suppose it (or any Garbage) was too obvious….
Goddamnit the people in this city have a fetish for honking the damn car horns all the damn time
So Civilized, Much communal.
Neighborly, friendly folks.
You moved to Chicago?
I mean I get it when trying to avoid an accident. But in gridlock trafic what is the point? You see a cars in front of you waiting. Where the fuck are they gonna go if you honk?
I long for those days.
Now it’s car horns, drag-racing, and exploding mufflers. All day, every day.
Hat tip to Sean in the prior (Thu Afternoon) link set for https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/california-county-requires-businesses-submit-covid-19-vaccination-status-employees/
Technically, my corporate desk is based out of Santa Clara — wonder when/if I’m going to be pestered about this? They’ve kept us out since last year, of course — but previously I hardly ever went in anyway, so I’m fine being a second class citizen if I must….
Be interesting when this CA law meets HIPPA.
We’ve already been told we cannot ask employees or students about their vaccination status.
I’ve seen legal analysis that indicates it’s more than likely perfectly legal to ask. They’re crossing their t’s and dotting their i’s before rolling it all out.
HIPPA is more about disclosing health information to third parties. You can ask your employees about health conditions related to work, even in Kaliforneeuh.
Know what else Sta Clara Co. gave us? Corporate personhood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Co.
Goodwill stores have a message: Please stop donating trash
That reminds me that I have some clothes I need to donate.
Two tone underwear?
Yellow in the front, brown in the rear! (patent pending)
turn em around, then inside-out, and you can use the same pair all week !
You know, if you just changed them daily, you wouldn’t have that skin condition you needed three prescriptions for.
Fried egg in the front, strip of bacon in the back.
If they made brown underwear common, skidmarks would be a problem of the past.
My stepson needs brown underwear and to learn to do his own laundry.
The Army issues brown underwear, for tactical reasons.
Don’t forget to take the tax deduction for your used underwear.
Re: pending surgery
The anesthesia didn’t work on me.
They did the little numbing shots in the 2 locations and waited the right amount of time, then started. I guess each incision is like 0.375″ or so. Anyway, it was immediately evident that the nerves were still turned up to 11, but I didn’t want to sound like a wuss. Just breathed did the mental-compartmentalization thing and sweated a little, and told them afterwards.
So be on lookout for that!
hard core, dude, hope it was otherwise successful
Should have asked for a bottle of bourbon and a piece of rubber to bite on. Get well though.
EEK.
Gah!
Another phrase among many from this shitty year that sets my teeth on edge.
Shots in the arms! And you’re to blame! You give public health a bad name!
And you just made it a thousand times worse. Well done.
J’esse
Someone yesterday mentioned “Jabs”. Yeah I hate that.
yeah, getting punched in the face just isn’t my cup of tea, even if it is a quick punch.
That and “jab” can go DIAF.
SCIENCE! by sob story
When Bridget Wiedenmeyer learned Texas was banning mask mandates in public schools, she immediately worried about her 11-year-old daughter — who has a chronic lung condition but is too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
“There’s a large contingent of people who are like, ‘Well, only this teeny tiny percent of kids …. die of Covid.’ And I have an issue with that,” said the Austin mother, whose daughter frequently suffers from pneumonia.
“This notion that only a few kids will die — therefore we won’t make the rest wear a piece of cloth on their face — is mind-boggling to me.”
Obviously, your children mean nothing to her.
import “picard.face.palm” as sigh
sigh.repeat()
Type mismatch error in line 1
Because a dirty cloth over your child’s face (or someone else’s face) is going to save her. . .
So keep your rugrat at home. It’s isn’t that hard, karens.
She even address her desire that the masses must protect her one child. No sweat heart that is your duty.
THAT 70s Show star Danny Masterson allegedly hit and spat on a woman who fought back while he raped her – before calling her “white trash”, a trial heard.
A woman identified only as Christina B. testified in court on Wednesday that she and Masterson had been dating for five years when she woke up to Masterson having sex with her as she slept, which often occurred.
I never liked Hyde.
Yeah, but after this many years, it sounds like someone seeking attention by claiming victimhood. When victimhood pays, everyone now wants to be victims. While if this is true, it is something sickening, I would not be surprised to find out -probably much later, and then only as a page 60 correction way later – that they both had agreed they liked this roleplaying shit and did this often. With Victimhood now getting you props, she decided that claiming it was rape in today’s world would get her some wanted attention/pay out…
While I get the argument of trauma and needing the courage to come forward, I have to wonder what evidence can be brought many years later…
I’ve been hearing similar about this guy for more than a decade.
Did he ever say he admired Bill Cosby? That could be the give away…
Probably safe to hate everyone involved.
Yep. It is as it usually is, shitheads all the way down.
I hate everyone in that story.
bequest?
Wifey is keeping tabs on this. Supposedly, Scientology help keep the secret, which is why it took so long. From what I know about them, that sounds like it’s probably true. But, I’d be uncomfortable convicting anyone based on witness testimony from that long ago. Memories change. I’m sure he’s a creep, but I doubt I could convict based on the tidbits I’ve heard.
Well look, I have a pretty good memory, recall events from 75 years ago, etc. The problem may be I recall them as I remember may not be the same as they actually happened.
I preface many of the stories with, “As I recall it”. Since few pay little attention most of the stories are time fillers or BS, take your choice.
Memories are made of this and mostly are harmless but criminal testimony should have a statute of limitations.
For this reason, engineers, designers, and satellite manufacturers are looking for ways to redesign their satellites. Enter Max Justice, a cybersecurity expert, former Marine, and “Cyber Farmer” who spent many years working in the space industry. Currently, he is working towards a new type of satellite that is made out of mycelium fibers. This tough, heat-resistant, and environmentally friendly material could trigger a revolution in the booming satellite industry.
China isAliens are going to eat our lunch.No… aliens are apparently going to eat our satellites. With pepperoni. On their pizzas.
+1 VGER
How is it that Max Justice isn’t the head of BLM, or at least the Superfriends?
Austrian army practicing to fight underground..with armour.
https://twitter.com/mupper2/status/1395627714661556224
I did not know Austria had an army
They gotta train to clear out the CHUDS.
It is comprised of genetically and mechanically enhanced kangaroos and koalas. Their riverine warfare unit is enhanced crocks.
Does Australia know Austria is snitching their marsupials? 😉
It’s all the mislabelled zoo transfers.
Besides, they need someone to guard the border with Lichtenstein.
Your one of those who fell for the “their’s really such a thing as Austria” gag? I bet you also think that Minnesota and Wisconsin are two different states.
*they’re’s
Oh, oh, lights Ted’S’ signal
Well, they did have a fairly well known corporal in it at one point…. (“You know who else…”).
He joined the Bavarian Army not the Austrian.
How else are they going to take back Hungary?
I really wonder who these 353 small business owners were…
Small businesses weighed in on a $15 minimum wage. Here’s what they said.
And if you support it, as the business owner, there’s no reason you don’t move your workers up to a minimum of $15/hour.
Well no because then others undercut your prices. All must move in lockstep, that is how true free market competition works. It is not a free market if some owner cheat by not paying a living wage.
So what you’re saying is, we need to embargo China for their undercutting of labor costs?
that would be racist
They also want the government to force them to pay higher taxes.
Bullshit.
Cleveland.com?
Will. Not. Read.
That’s Doktor Professor Fantasist, to you
Leaders at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said Thursday that the tenure application for New York Times Magazine journalist and The 1619 Project lead author Nikole Hannah-Jones was terminated because she did not come from a “traditional academic-type background.”
The Associated Press reported Thursday that the trustee who heads the subcommittee that oversees tenure applications, Charles Duckett, decided to postpone the review of Hannah-Jones’s tenure submission in January because of her background.
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The journalism school announced Hannah-Jones’s hire last month, revealing that the acclaimed New York Times journalist would be joining the university as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism in July.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that Hannah-Jones was denied tenure, allegedly after conservative groups complained about her hire at the school because of her work on The 1619 Project, which examines the role slavery played in the U.S. founding.
The project has been criticized by conservatives as being skewed and inaccurate, and some states have sought to ban it from classrooms.
Made up history deserves made up faculty.
The project has been criticized by actual historians, not just conservatives…
“…The 1619 Project, which examines the role slavery played in the U.S. founding.”
Uh…that is not what it does. Not what it does at all.
Kansas City council approves ordinances that reallocates $44 million from KCPD budget
“The Kansas City city council approved two ordinances Thursday that reallocates about $44 million in the police department’s funding to a new Community Services and Prevention Fund.”
I wonder how many Democrat donors will get their hands on this community services funding.
44? 22? Could it be 4?
I feel like every city ought to have an independently financed group to examine all city/county contracts and basically come up with a network diagram or directed graph of the relationships involved, and update it as frequently as possible.
That’s a really good idea. Unfortunately, it would change nothing. And they’d just anonymize through layers of shell corporations and subcontractors.
The rise in crime won’t hit the neighborhoods where the council lives.
The rise in crime has already been happening, it’s only going to get worse. They have a chance to make meaningful changes to law enforcement instead they’re just going to take money and redistribute it to worthless programs.
One might think that’s been their goal all along.
This dishonest cunte is still talking?
Schiff said, “The ideal outcome here would be a bipartisan commission that has the kind of stature that the 9/11 commission did because its recommendations have brought about significant reforms. That’s what we’re aiming for here. That was a time in 2001 and 2002 when there was a much greater willingness of the parties to work together. Here Democrats are working in good faith, and indeed some Republicans are working in good faith, but that doesn’t get very far with Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell.”
He added, “If they’re unwilling to establish what would be in the best public interest, we are not going to let the events go uninvestigated. So there are other alternatives. They are not as ideal as a bipartisan commission. So we’ll make every effort to get that done, but we are going to insist on getting answers one way or the other.”
The myth of January 6, 2021 must persist.
Wait… hold on a second — weren’t a lot of the “reforms” of the 9/11 commission breaking down barriers between the intel agencies and increasing foreign and domestic surveillance?
Which doubtlessly increased the probability we’d have the out of control Deep State intel apparatus we have currently?
And that’s supposed to be an endorsement of the idea? (Yeah, yeah — of course it is to someone who thinks the Security Apparatchiks will never target them, da comrade?)
I do look forward to the day when nothing comes out of Schiff’s mouth but a final gasp of breath.
Fuck. Off.
The White House is hoping that the urge to merge will motivate more Americans to get vaccinated, teaming up with nine of the largest dating sites to offer badges and other perks to those who have gotten their COVID-19 shot.
Why it matters: The White House has an ambitious goal to get 70 percent of American adults to have had at least their first vaccine shot by July 4.
Details: Different sites are offering various types of premium content such as boosts, super likes and super swipes to those who get vaccinated as well as ways for people to share their vaccination status in their profile.
There are several other diseases one should be more concerned with while dating.
toxoplasmosis?
What you did there…
Joke’s on them, I’d rather die alone than use a dating website.
Worst case is when your wife finds out or you find your wife using the same dating service…
If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, then it works out fine.
Here’s an old timey NSFW pic
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1395452402501832704
Clip from a relatively unknown Invisible Man monster film…..
Claude Rains had boner ?
Hides Dad’s porn stash back in the secret place…
Worst. Coup attempt. Ever.
@AOC on the Capitol riot: “This was an all-out attempted coup … 60 seconds could have meant potentially the difference between what we have right now and a martial state. And we don’t want to acknowledge that that’s how close we got.”
Have you seen the capitol recently?
She’s just a pretend histrionic liar, no way she believes this.
When exactly were those fabled 60 seconds when the photo op crowd could impose a martial state on the US.
I admire politicians for their ability to say this shit with a straight face.
I don’t. I worked in a mental hospital for 10 years and this is indistinguishable from the crap that mentally ill compulsive liars spewed no on a daily basis.
So the difference between Congress and a mental hospital is that in the former the inmates are in charge.
^This guy gets it.
I think I read here that someone posted “all politicians are self-interested sociopaths”.
I use that line as often as I can.
*”almost all”, I thought.
They won when that cop broke the crowd by murdering that girl. Quick, give him a medal.
I immediately read that as “marital state”.
I think the beer kicked in.
What… Excalibur is hidden in a secret compartment behind the Speaker’s podium or something and if Buffalo Head Guy had only known to grab it, he could have dictated the government to the rest of the country?
Maybe she really believes the whole “Temple of the People” shtick and there’s a Holy Tabernacle in there that grants divine power to whoever holds the building.
Come to think of it… maybe they finally found the Ark in that warehouse and moved it after all…. Don’t look at it, Senator Paul!
Issue a small fine to those involved for trespassing, move on.
What’s so hard about all of this?
In the 17th century, “puppy water” was considered one of the best anti ageing treatment available. It really was made from puppies & then rubbed on the face. This recipe comes from Mary Evelyn’s “The Ladies Dressing Room Unlock’d” (1690)]
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1394352469572993028
Bored upper-class women have always been a menace.
I suspect dogs were expendable back then. See Houndsditch.
https://spectator.org/john-brennan-radicalism/
No one is more authoritarian than a triumphant liberal. Liberalism decries “authoritarian” institutions, such as the Catholic Church or the military, until it runs them. Once in power, liberals then make the authoritarians they displaced look like pikers. Converting conservative institutions into instruments of liberal power has long been the goal of the Left, and liberals wield that power, once secured, with dogmatic tenacity.
I suppose that is the right place to attempt to “explain” a retarded and objectively false idea like that.
Universities are right-wing institutions. I explain in @TeenVogue
How much does Teen Vogue pay?
They pay in anal sex lessons
STEVE SMITH REPORT TO PAYROLL OFFICE!
Teen Vogue is one of the most bizarre instances of a publication going woke. I mean, from a Marxist position, it makes sense. It is still weird that a magazine that was about makeup, silly quizzes, and teen heartthrobs, is all social justice all the time.
Other than hate reading, who reads that gibberish?
I seems that distribution experienced a steep decline in circa 2015. Hmm, I wonder what caused that?
It will forever be a mystery.
Most of their tweets have something like 2 retweets and 10 likes so almost no one. Probably hate reading outpaces the normal kind
Always with the ‘up is down’ nonsense with the left.
They’re always going to envision themselves as the underdogs; the little guys engaged in a grassroots struggle against a behemoth system that is bent on destroying them. Doesn’t matter if they largely control the federal government, K-12, universities, entertainment, news media, and countless other institutions. Someone actually told me “the Supreme Court has just totally caved to the religious right in these past few years“.
There could be a Leftist dictatorship where speaking favorably about Trump will get you hauled off to prison – they’d still be acting like the country is in the iron grip of a far-right white supremacist juggernaught.
TLDR: because corporations?
We need a lot more of this…
Fuck. You guys are really trying to erode my new-found “nice guy” persona. I’ve been trying so very hard…
Shut up Tulpa!
So much for the ceasefire.
Breaking: Palestinian protestors throw explosive device at Jewish Americans working at New York’s diamond district in Manhattan.
They just shifted their battlefield…
The ceasefire only applied to Gaza?
Fact Check: Mostly peaceful, so the ceasefire can’t be broken….
Are we going to find the last American politician who said something bad about the Israeli government and place 100% of the blame on them for “inciting” it? Because that’s basically what was done to Drumpf.
“The incident she recalled occurred in November 2001.”
I know we’re not supposed to ask such things, but if the experience was so horrific, why did she wait ~20 years to bring it up?
PS: Is there not a statute of limitations on this?
¡Trauma!! Deep-seeded trauma, you insensitive pig.
There used to be…?
scientology
If I remember correctly, California extended the statute of limitations for rape during all of the pound me too stuff.
Cute links format. My contribution, as seen on Beavis and BH: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYXRDAsL7o
So who is surprised to find out that Trump didn’t fire that asshole Wray because the deep state protected him?
Revelations like this is why I know Clinton, Obama, and all the criminals that assisted them in the illegal activities that were the SOP of the Obama administration as well as all the people that then railroaded Trump and Flynn, will get away scot free. I never plan to accept the US legal system’s verdict on me. If I end up having to go to court against the government, I will go down fighting before I let these crime syndicate people take me in.
I still find it darkly amusing that libertarian optimism about the future is pretty much entirely due to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. The vaunted libertarian moment and liberal world order lasted from November 1994 to September 2001. Impressive.
I saw Kacey Musgraves at Red Rocks. She’s awesome.
Meh… she should never have been promoted after getting Voyager stuck in the Delta Quadrant. 😉
You’re thinking of the captain from Miami Vice.
I keep getting spam on my work email from something called Bluescape. How the fuck did they get my work email? Who leaked it? Some unethical US company I would think.
“Usually I’d insert something witty here to catch your attention, but I’m not in the business of wasting people’s time, and neither is Bluescape. As a creative professional, I know how difficult it can be to do creative, collaborative work virtually – that’s why Bluescape is the go-to solution for creative, remote and/or hybrid teams. However, I’m aware that seeing is believing, so I wanted to give you a chance to experience the difference yourself with a 30-day Bluescape trial.
You’re probably asking, “What is Bluescape, anyway?” Bluescape provides a single, virtual location for all your tools, apps and work all side-by-side with real-time, documented communication and it is used by creatives at the likes of Netflix, Ford, Levi’s, Disney, Amazon and many more”
No, I am not asking what it is.
You Americans all know each other right? What can you tell me about this Charles Summers character?
You mean Cyclops? Or the guy with the cane?
Now I am tempted to buy a MAGA hat just because.
The documents, obtained under the Maryland Public Information Act, reveal that students of “Maryland’s Largest School District” who attended Thomas Pyle Middle School’s social justice class were taught that the phrase “Make America Great Again” was an example of “covert white supremacy.” The phrase is ranked on a pyramid just below “lynching,” “hate crimes,” “the N-word” and “racial slurs.” They were also taught that “white privilege” means being favored by school authorities and having a positive relationship with the police.
Additionally, the documents show that Montgomery County Public Schools allocated over $454,000 for an “Anti-racist system audit” by The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, a company that claims that their “expertise in using intersectionality as part of its theory of change makes us uniquely positioned to conduct the Anti-Racist Audit and mitigate the root causes of systemic barriers.”
In Thomas Pyle Middle School’s “social justice” class course curriculum, there is a slide titled “What is systemic racism?” in which students are shown a pyramid slide depicting “Differences between overt and covert hateful white supremacy.” According to the pyramid, “Make America Great Again” is an example of “covert white supremacy.” The phrase is ranked on a pyramid just below “racial slurs.”
Examples of other unacceptable covert “white supremacy” include thinking “but we’re just one human family,” “colorblindness,” “cultural appropriation,” “celebration of Columbus Day,” “police murdering POC [people of color],” and “bootstrap theory.”
Judging people by the content of their character, embracing other cultures, and hard work / self-reliance and accountability are white-supremacy. Got it.
If you want to destroy a functional society, this is a pretty good way to do it.
Your children may be better educated than those in Monkey County, but they will be made to serve the state just like scientists were in the Soviet Union.
…Montgomery County Public Schools allocated over $454,000 for an “Anti-racist system audit” by The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
The people with the “useless” degrees figured out how to get out of Starbucks and into a Mercedes. PT Barnum would be in awe.
What a fucking scam, 454k?
Grifters…..
It’s an entire industry now. And it’s all paid for with our tax money.
Bountiful bounciness for your Friday Funbags.
https://archive.li/XAqB0
Why has no one thought of this before?
Leaders around the world welcomed news of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas early Friday after days of hostilities killed altogether at least 250 people, including some 70 children.
After 11 days of the worst fighting in the region since 2014, global leaders called for both sides to resolve the decades-long conflict and to build a lasting, peaceful and stable future.
*smacks forehead*
So does anyone have any suggestion on how this peace can be achieved?
When the Palestinians love their children more than they hate Israel?
The Romans understood how to fix the problem with Cartage after 2 previous problematic tussles… I think that’s the only solution here as well unfortunately, because one side will not accept they will not get their way.
Delenda Est: good name for a metal band.
They can always make more children.
Things continue as they have for long enough that Israel and the American right actually decide that if they are going to be treated as genocidal villains they might as well solve the problem. 5 million hangings in Israel and 35 million here and peace is achieved.
Overthrow the mullocracy in Iran.
Miss Grand Prix – Basso Feltrino-Segusino 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTWrwnTAMX8
Today’s youtube recommend
Hmm… looks like she can hug the corners just fine, but I suspect like Formula 1, that Grand Prix is too pricey for most.
That French actor, Jussie Smollet, nods in approval
It’s always a hoax.
That’s my default assumption these days. I don’t think a single one of these ever turned out to be true.
Trash! Don’t pick it up. https://youtu.be/x9d5csMFAfE
On the boulevard,
There’s too much trash in the way https://youtu.be/rA-0SQTW20k
Covid panic aside, I still get my long weekend. I haven’t had three days off in a row forever. Two years, maybe three?
Time for a masturbation-a-thon?
Don’t be a jerk
Do we need to circle back on that?
What? You don’t think he can pull it off?
I mean, Festus tugged at our heartstrings with his story and then Q comes in with a crass comment. What do you think?
Me? What do I think?
I think I’ll have another shot of bourbon.
Hope this story doesn’t go pubic.
I love this site!
Nice! Opportunity to relax and detox. Sit in the sun, read a book, get a public enema in the town square, you know, the good things in life.
man, autocorrect really didn’t like “jeer at public enemies exposed in the town square”
LOL, it read better the first time anyway.
No shit!
Happy Victoria Day (early). Hope you can join the Zoom, even I can’t.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/vaccine-passports-could-be-useful-only-government-gets-out-way
Looks like Stato institute was quite an accurate jibe.
Who coined that?
Rothbard I thought?
Passports do not exist without government.
Idea: The Navy’s actual goal should be putting the best people in the best roles to optimize combat readiness and execution.
The Navy is conducting a series of internal reviews, as well as adopting policies, to ensure that it is meeting its goals for “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The Department of Defense released a memo signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker directing Chief Diversity Officer Catherine Kessmeier to conduct a series of reviews of the Navy’s makeup in line with its diversity goals. Kessmeier, acting assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, will also craft and push further diversity policies on the military branch.
“Equal opportunity is the bedrock of our democracy and diversity is one of our greatest strengths; both are critical to the readiness of our Navy and Marine Corps team and, ultimately, to our mission success,” Harker wrote in the May 3 memo. “Aligned with these guiding principles, it is the policy of the Department of the Navy (DON) to continue making transformative and meaningful steps that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our policies, programs, and operations across the enterprise.”
Fuck that! The military is now nothing other than a woke make-work program…
Nationalism and fighting to protect your citizenry is so colonialist 20th century thinking…
Fighting for a nation? Based on ideals?
Fuck that, let’s all go back to fighting the neighboring tribe and selling them into slavery when we win!
Alex the real reason that the wokesters love them some military now is that the service members don’t have the same rights to tell the wokesters to go fuck themselves like citizens in the private sector do. They gave up some of their rights when they volunteered for the service and that makes them lab rats for the policies that the wokesters want to yoke the rest of us with.
Ah yes, the woke yoke.
Maybe our military should be tasked with figuring out how to do its core job, you know, winning wars, and doing it in such a way that multiple generations of soldiers/sailors/marines/etc. aren’t fighting the same war?
DoD, like every other entity subject to the iron law of bureaucracy, cares more about sustaining the entity than having the entity perform its mission. Congress is more than happy to treat DoD like any other jobs program.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but you just think that’s it’s core job. It’s a lot like the well-meaning friends who really think the public school system’s core job is to provide a good education to children.
The military’s core jobs, based on the actions of those who fund and lead it, are:
– a platform where they can truly force woke-ism into reality
– pork delivery
– after-retirement jobs program for its members
– stirring up stupid stuff around the world to create the need for more of itself
– tacitly threatening the American yokels
Yeah, that “close with and destroy the enemy by overwhelming fire, maneuver and shock effect” is so twentieth-century.
You don’t get increased funding by winning
Can’t wait to see how much more money they’ll need to implement all this.
And in things that annoyed me today, my stupid gym does not have dumbbells between 32 and 36 kilograms, I had to make a 4kg jump which is too much.
Just think of it as a miniscule 4 thousandths of a metric ton.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/554694-amazon-closing-connecticut-site-after-another-noose-found
What they should have done is find the employees mistaking these things for nooses and fired them. Preferrably from a cannon.
But I suspect there was another motivation at play. Probably an unfavorable internal forecast that showed stopping now to be the least costly option.
Hanging a noose is the new version of pulling a fire alarm.
*Kiffsigh*
Ilhan Omar and I agree on a bill in Congress!
But for completely different reasons
Apparently members of The Squad voted “present” instead of opposing, so it would appear they were opposing it while still allowing the bill to pass.
They wanted to give Pelosi’s balls a gentle squeeze.
threats of organized and violent white supremacy
Doesn’t exist. But then again, they have a pretty expansive definition of “white-supremacy” and a seemingly limited one of “violence” (a la “mostly peaceful” protests…).
radicalization and disinformation
But enough about msm/leftist propaganda.
Owning guns or rental property is violence. Burning down a Foot Locker is the justified cry of the oppressed masses.
The bit got me is that she is mad that they are going to spend more on soldiers than on counseling for people who were there on 1/6.
I’m assuming she means counseling for Congress people and not the insurrectionists.
That is only fair. Everyone knows how powerless and helpless members of Congress feel. They need help.
I bet this asshole is glad he isn’t going on trial in today’s courts.
Do they specify races if a black cop beats up a white guy? Because if not, that’s some mighty fine race baiting. I don’t understand how people don’t see through the media’s agenda at this point. They’re barely even hiding it.
The same reason you don’t pull on the bottom corner piece in Jenga.
That’s literally always my first move.
It’s gotten me out of a lot of Jenga games…
Optimally, the game should go until there is a single stack of perpendicular wooden blocks with no ability to remove anything other than the topmost block.
I know the more stability conscious will want to keep the outer pair, but that limits your height to half maximum.
That’s the optimum condition if you like playing Jenga (or if you dislike knocking things over.)
I should warn you If I ever have a jenga set again, I’m seriously thinking of gluing it into the starting setup.
who is Black …
who’s white
Oh…because that’s relevant. And why no capitalized “w”?
What sucks is the focus of the race component and not the overall shitiness of the cop that is backed as a Kingsman.
The article should just read straight but then again, I should be able to stop balding.
Where have all the predatory lenders run off to?
Carlette Duffy’s tidy, three-bedroom home is in a historic Black neighborhood in Indianapolis. It has been completely renovated and sits across the street from a park and lush greenspace. She bought it four years ago for $100,000.
“My house is my forever home,” Duffy said. “I love my neighborhood. I love my home.”
With a hot housing market and low interest rates, Duffy wanted to refinance her mortgage to help fix up her late grandmother’s home right around the corner.
“It was more so about my family and carrying this legacy on in my family,” Duffy said, “and hopefully rehab that house to then pass down to my daughter and my grandbaby.”
The first appraisal came back at $125,000 and she was shocked. After an independent market analysis estimated her home at $187,000, she tried again.
Blah blah blah racists won’t let me go up to my neck in debt. Not FAIR!
1) She’s pissed it only appreciated 25% in four years?
2) What’s its assessed value for property tax purposes?
It is in Indianapolis fer cryin’ out loud.
The noose was taken to a lab for testing, according to FOX61 News.
“They got ’em workin’ in shifts.”
“We’ll send this to the boys at the lab so they can determine if this is a local rock.” – Barney Fife
Idea: The Navy’s actual goal should be putting the best people in the best roles to optimize combat readiness and execution.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NaviGoBoom/status/1395518098367787011?s=09
I really shouldn’t follow twitter links, since my policy is against them. But they need to change the design so that there isn’t this unsightly divot where the hammer goes. I know it’s there to allow for cocking the hammer manually. But it just doesn’t look right.
Ehh. Function, form, yadda yadda yadda.
I like the magazine forward of trigger setup, since it means the grip can be made a comfortable design without having to worry about things like changing the magazine well to accept wider magazines. Though putting the weight forward may cause fatigue issues.
I’m only speculating off of this single prototype.
Neat.
There we go.
Hopefully no.
Glock magazines are super high quality, well designed, and ubiquitous. What’s not to like?
ubiquitous.
Artisanal magazines for UCS, then.
When you can only load 7 rounds at a time, you want the classiest mags available. Handmade by Swiss gunsmiths.
Steel cased ammo sticks in them.
That’s a problem with steel-cased ammo.
(Not being entirely farcical here. Steel-cased ammo hangs up in a lot of magazines, often worse than Glock mags.)
Goes through my berreta no problemo.
Anguished hard core deadenders clamor for attention
Duchin said both vaccinated and unvaccinated people are probably safe outdoors without masks, but that’s not the case inside.
“Now the risk of Covid-19 spread is increased in crowded indoor spaces with unvaccinated people and especially with poor ventilation,” Duchin said. While the CDC’s scientific basis for the change “is solid,” Duchin said ending the indoor mask mandate “could lead to increased risk in public spaces and workplaces with preventable Covid-19 spread primarily among the unvaccinated.”
Vaccination rates vary across the country, and the majority of those vaccinated are older adults. Large subgroups, such as younger adults, remain unvaccinated.
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“If I knew that we were seeing really remarkable declines in hospitalization and symptomatic illness that was related possibly to Covid, and had a very high immunization rate, then I would probably be fine going without a mask, but I don’t see that happening anytime real soon,” she said.
While almost half of all people in the U.S., 160.2 million, have received at least one shot, Marrazzo said only 4.6% of the world’s population has done the same.
“People need to pay attention about what’s going on and pay attention to vaccination rates, pay attention to the involvement of these new variants and think about being prepared to sort of ramp things back up again,” Marrazzo warned.
The reins are slipping from their grasp. How traumatic for them.
Keep that mask handy, America!
Looked at the numbers here in Texas this morning. I am vaccinated, but if I wasn’t I couldn’t get COVID if I tried.
It’s like 15,000 cases out of 30 million people.
I still find it odd that we seem to have collectively forgotten everything about flu/cold viruses just because a new one showed up and tyrants in the government and elsewhere decided to use it to gain power.
It is very simple: Reject the propaganda, ignore the tyrants and get on with your life.
Morning trashy!
Gee, thanks for that sciency insight.
Fucking vaccine.
Do. Not. Want.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-populism-problem
I wouldn’t mind these attacks on populism if I understood the alternatives exactly. We should trust our betters? Or the incrdibleft hypocrisy of someone clutching pearls about attacks on the elites and “us vs. Them” thinking when classical liberalism was all about attacking the elites and the other. Serious they were pretty damn open about their dislike of the priests, the aristocrats and the peasants.
Populism is bad when it’s badthinkers rising up. Populism is good when it’s the proletariat rising up (LOL) against the bourgeoisie.
Populism, like democracy, is value neutral in and of itself. The practicalities of what actually happens under those systems are invariably negative, but that’s because lowest common denominator ideas suck.
Populism is good when it’s the proletariat rising up (LOL) against the bourgeoisie.
Now that is a very bitter pill to swallow, LOL.
The country wasn’t founded on populist principles, or with necessarily popular support. Make of that what you will. If libertarians (or Cato-ites) are skeptical of government in general, it makes sense to be skeptical of popular govt.
I don’t traffic in NRx thought all that much but I will say one of the things that I think Yarvin/Moldbug gets right is that democracy is a short-lived force. Monarchy and oligarchy are the forms of government that exist for more than fleeting moments, and when the current one grows sclerotic and unresponsive the best use of democracy is to change it. Populism is just a derisive name for that periodic rising of democratic energy against a monarchic or oligarchic government that has gone too far up its own ass.
What we get out of the process is not guaranteed, but what we get without the process is clear: things get more worse than better. The Cato/Reason model of influencing government to change for the (alleged) better has backfired spectacularly, in that whatever influence the former have had upon the latter has been outweighed to the point of irrelevance by how much the inside-the-beltway controlled-opposition faux-dissidents employed therein have been captured by the clique of acceptable thought. “Cocktail parties” doesn’t begin to describe the degree to which the Cato/Reason set are beholden to the Cathedral’s narrative.
Uffda. Looks like Minnesoda’s IT department has outdone itself again.
MinnCare = complete shitshow, MNLars = shitshow (spent over $100M for custom development before installing commercially available software for less than $50M), now we can add the new RentHelpMN.com site. The site is supposed to help get money from the gov into the hands of landlords so they don’t evict people who can’t pay because of Rona lockdowns.
The site started operations on April 20th and not a single check has been sent out?
Being a shitlord, I am pretty sure after seeing the picture of Jennifer Ho that she was hired because of all the intersectional boxes she checked rather than because of any demonstrated competence at running a govt agency.
I identify as a middle aged white guy.
Get a rope!
Idea: The Navy’s actual goal should be putting the best people in the best roles to optimize combat readiness and execution.
The U.S. is going to lose a war. Maybe not in the immediate future, since our military has generations of build-up to draw upon. But, I wouldn’t be surprised if it did come sooner rather than latter. And the most likely theater for a major-power war is the Navy, the service that seems to be most down the road of woke incompetence.
Hopefully when it attempts to pacify the
unwokeracist separatist extremist terrorists.You misspelled “counterrevolutionaries”.
Further balkinization will only aid the expansion of maxist claptrap.
We kicked ass in Grenada! Even had an Airborne movement.
Grenadians? Grenadiers?
Cuban “construction workers”.
“The U.S. is going to lose a war.”
Are you not aware that is exactly what the people forcing these changes want?
Perhaps. But, I don’t think they’ve thought that one all the way through.
These are the same people that think defunding the police is a viable way to reform law enforcement.
Cmdr: Corporal, we have incoming. Deploy countermeasures.
Cprl: Um, exqueeze me? You just misgendered me.
Cmdr: What?
Cprl: I’m, like, not deploying anything until you check your privilege and fix this toxic work environment.
Cmdr: Now, corporal!
Cprl: Ugh! I can’t deal with this. Where’s my soy latte?!
*ship is hit by missile*
Cmdr: Goddamit! Report our position our position to the USS Kamala Harris and request assistance!
Cprl: Now we on fire and listing to the left. See what happens when you don’t respect my pronouns?
Trust people? That’s the dumbest idea ever heard!
The CDC issued that guidance last week, and restaurateurs, who have struggled to stay above water and protect workers since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, were surprised and confused, says Larry Lynch, senior vice president of science and industry at the National Restaurant Association. As states and local governments lift or amend their mask mandates, businesses like restaurants and bars have been left to make and enforce their own rules.
That tension has sparked criticism that the guidance will essentially require businesses to act as “vaccination police,” ensuring that those who are unmasked have really been vaccinated.
The National Restaurant Association’s advice to members about the CDC guidance is to operate on trust, Lynch says. The group, the largest food-service trade association, representing nearly 500,000 establishments, is removing a suggestion from its operating guidance that patrons wear masks indoors. It is also suggesting that restaurants put up signs asking that diners who are unvaccinated remain masked unless they’re eating.
What if the restaurants install lie detectors at the door? That would be SCIENCE!-tistic.
I guess we’re still all-in on asymptomatic transmission. One whiff of the virus will kill everyone in a five mile radius!
I talked with a couple people I work with (both Japanese) who seem to believe 1) that it’s possible to catch this virus just walking down the street and 2) don’t seem to understand the difference between a virus and bacteria.
businesses like restaurants and bars have been left to make and enforce their own rules
Horrible freedom.
That tension has sparked criticism that the guidance will essentially require businesses to act as “vaccination police,” ensuring that those who are unmasked have really been vaccinated.
If they enjoyed making sure people wore masks, why don’t they enjoy making sure people are vaccinated?
I’m assuming she means counseling for Congress people and not the insurrectionists.
That is only fair. Everyone knows how powerless and helpless members of Congress feel. They need help.
Simpletons are people, too. Sort of.
I think what we’re doing is a little bit of trust. What we’ve asked restaurants to do is to put signage up and ask people to respect those who have been vaccinated and those who have not by wearing face masks until they dine if they have not yet been vaccinated.
What a giant steaming load of incoherent nonsense.
How do these people manage to survive?
Because shoveling food into your mouth keeps the ‘vid from escaping it.
Science!
Wasn’t there a lot of outrage earlier in the year when shop keepers put up signs that said “If you aren’t wearing a mask, we will assume that you have a medical condition that precludes you from wearing one”?
Now it is OK to trust people?
ask people to respect
Nah.
I’m getting fed up with the “Engineering” team. If your job is to build and configure servers all day, you should A: at least install the software that is listed on the paperwork, and B: not be less knowledgable about the most common pieces of software than the people requesting it.
Seriously, each time I’ve asked for a serr, I’ve gotten less back. If you’re not going to give me root, you’re going to have to install apache AND the modules I asked for.
If you had root access why would you need them?
#RootPrivilege
Way worse than white privilege.
I once hired a guy away from a Minnesoda govt dept. He said it took 9 months from when the request went in before the server was racked, provisioned and available. Do you have that sort of lead time over in your neck of the woods?
That depends. Are we counting the time for bid and procurement?
If we’re just spinning up VMs, well that also depends. Back when I worked for [Agency Redacted] I saw that the OFT turnaround for a linux VM was seven days. I was appalled because we could get a new one stood up in seven minutes. Nowadays the wait time is seven weeks.
If it involves spending money, well, that’s going to take a fuckton longer. The state HATES to spend money on us. that takes money away from their graft and vote-buying schemes.
/strikes up a Yorkshire accent
Nine months! What luxury! I’ve seen gov’t bureaucracy let warranties expire on servers when they’re still in the original boxes.
Nice try, but much too intelligible for a Yorkshire accent.
Take a big bite of Yorkshire pudding, don’t swallow it, then try saying that again.
Though I have heard of some places who go on a buying spree to justify their budget and have storerroms of hardware they never even unpack and end up decommissioning unused years later.
They guy I was talking about above said that because of the lag times, they would request as many servers as possible each month. They had no idea what they’d be used for, but it was better to have them and not use them than to not be able to do some project because there was no hardware for it.
Also, according to him, the state had a fatwah on VM’s for some reason so you couldn’t even go that route.
We have a heavily virtualized infrastructure. It’s much easier to do, well pretty much most of what I need to.
“Naan muunths!”
lol. One of the data centers I used to use had a pallet of nice new Dell servers in a locked receiving room for almost a year. When I asked about them, I was told that they belonged to a govt (Fed) agency that had racks in the data center. They just sat there collecting dust forever while we were running our crap on third hand Compaq pieces of shit.
Support has already expired so you can’t use it for production. It has happened to me.
Shaving the pate and the entire face later today. I’ve been rocking the Frank for twenty years. Time for a change and if it looks hideous I can always hide behind the mask. Wish me luck, fellows, I’m going in!
Oh come on, Straff’s drawing doesn’t make you look that hideous.
Shaving the pate
I don’t know what kind of Canadian slang that is, but I’m going to assume it means scrotum.
I’m more concerned about the apparent Canadian euphemism “rocking the Frank.”
…and that’s a long time to have been doing it. Aren’t your arms tired?
Oh, I missed that one.?
Well, he is going for an enema in the town square later.
So I read!
Aw, I like the ‘stache.
Yeah! ‘Staches are awesome! Fun fact: I’ve never seen TT without his magnificent moustache. I’m afraid I might not recognize him without it.
“Kissing a man without a moustache is like eating an egg without salt.” – Some Wise Woman
And now it’s gone! You girls could have spoke up a little sooner… At least it ain’t a foreskin, I can always grow this part back.
Fuck all y’all! Judi seems to like it, I like it and that’s what matters to me! I appreciate the jibes. Much hilarity, many chuckles.
I’ma call you Babyface now!
…and if you sheared the pate too, I’d say YOU’RE “Babyhead” now!
“? Oh, Finster babee?” http://looneytunescaps.blogspot.com/2020/12/baby-buggy-bunny.html?m=1
Noted.
When you get back to work, tell your coworker that the Facide exposure killed your face and you needed to get a transplant over the weekend.
We didn’t get much notice.
Eh, it’s your mug, and somewhat hers.
Judi likes it. Apparently she can see my dimples when I smile now. Good enough for me. Feels pretty naked, though. Muh soup strainer!
As part of my general hosting services migration I put in the request to switch registrars away from GoDaddy. (finally severing the last of my ties to them). The process says it can take up to five days for the registrar switch. I know that was originally a fudge factor for processing, but it looks like GoDaddy is deliberately stalling. The moment I got the auth code they sent me all sorts of pleas to not switch and said “It’s real easy to change your mind, just log in and do anything and we’ll regard the transfer as cancelled.” And now 110 minutes shy of five days from when I put in the initial request, it’s still not processed. They’re trying to run out the clock to avoid letting me leave.
Luckily at this point all I need do is wait some more. I’ve already jumped through enough of their goddamn hoops. Good riddance. Go away, godaddy.
I’ve heard all kinds of shady stuff about them but it was so long ago I don’t remember what any of it was. But yeah, I’ve been with a different one forever.
I realized the only things I need are the domain name and a mail server.
Switching registrars and letting protonmail handle the mail server costs me less per year, and I don’t have to deal with them anymore.
Only my domain names are with GoDaddy and I don’t see a need to switch any of them.
Huh. Do you mind if you ask why you are moving? And who is your new registrar?
I moved to hover.
I’m moving because they’re putting their mail services on Office 365 (along with an ‘appropriate’ surcharge for the client and access)
I’ll have to look into that. I have a bunch of domains on GoDaddy. Only one is using mail, but I haven’t heard any rumors that they will be trying to charge for that.
Was it a monthly fee? Or was it just rolled into the registration fees?
*sorry for making you enact labor for me.
I got a notice on 5/13 that it was moving on 6/12. They did not mention the fees, but I saw it when I went to cancel my unneeded services. It was set to renew some six months from now and it looked like $36 or $36.50. That might have been an annual price on top of everything else they were charging me for. I’m not logging in to see, since I don’t want to give them an excuse to cancel my domain move.
MASK YOUR CHICKEN! (unless it is fully vaccinated).
Thank doG for the CDC! Without them we’d never know how to safely raise chickens. We need their guidance on this super new activity.
By the way this new pandemic affected 163 people in 43 states.
163 single issue voters.
Can I still fuck a duck?
So Biden wants to add 87,000 IRS workers. We have an IRS center here in KC. I could go get a job there and have all those cushy gummint bennies.
That also means I would have to get clothes and gas more than once every 2 months… *decisions decisions*
What sort of clothes are you buying that wear out after only two months? 😉
I realized what I had done as soon as I hit POST.
Well, they don’t make the elastic for bras & thongs like they used to.
I thought they used to use whalebone and cast iron.
::shudders:: Yeah – eternally grateful I wasn’t alive then. The bra is bad enough. It gets shed as soon as I get home – amirite ladies?
What is this word “bra”, please?
A replacement for the bodices after they all got ripped.
Yeeeee, no, not the bodice. The bodice is the outerwear, not the underwear.
Ah, so you do know something about this bra thing.
I can pedant too, yanno!
Familiarity breeds contempt.
So Biden wants to add 87,000 IRS workers.
They’ll pay for themselves. We can’t afford not to!
Good day, good Friends. I’m off to the land of nod. Clean-shaven and horny as a heathen. Wish me luck!
Good luck with your enema!
That was uncalled for, Miss O’Grady.
Hey, I didn’t start it!
? Here goes Festus out into the world
He shaved his balls and is looking for a girl
Will he convince Judi with eyes that gleam
Or will he find that it’s all a dream??
I believe all women and all that shit, but you’re supposed to have the luxury of having your accuser named. I think Danny probably knows who it is though, so ‘eff ’em.
I have no real skin in the game either way, but I’m a big fan of brother chris masterson, the brother from Malcolm in the Middle. Probably the most underrated TV show since Arrested Development.