Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
Colonial pipeline aims to restore service by end of the week.
Michigan attorney alleges 1,061 “phantom ballots” found in Antrim County 2020 election.
Why Democrats are panicked about the Maricopa county audit.
Nearly half of all US counties are second amendment sanctuaries.
Newson trying to bribe voters into not throwing him out.
Man sentence to serve 12 years in federal prison claims government erased evidence.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Who knew the UK was lacist?
*shrug*
Well, they don’t have a large African American population there.
They exported that to the colonies.
Then they got better and ended the mid-Atlantic slave trade, invited all of their Colonies back to the bosom of the Regium and here we are.
“Nearly half of all US counties are second amendment sanctuaries.”
The link on that tweet doesn’t work, so I’m not sure exactly what that map means by “second amendment sanctuaries”.
Illegal Aliens can buy guns without being deported?
/snark
Link working now. I had trouble with the RedState link earlier but it fixed itself.
Note that Alaska doesn’t have counties, but since we’re a Second Amendment sanctuary state, in effect, we’re all green, baby.
So no local sheriffs?
Nope. Nearest law enforcement to us is the Alaska State Police barracks at Wasilla, about thirty miles away. Palmer, Wasilla and Houston have city police forces. Nothing in Willow.
From here:
“Segments of our pipeline are being brought back online in a stepwise fashion, in compliance with relevant federal regulations and in close consultation with the Department of Energy, which is leading and coordinating the Federal Government’s response,” the company said in a statement.
So what you’re saying is it could be years before the system is fully operational?
It’s a trap!
Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational gas pipeline?
/preps dry ice and water bombs
“RAMPAGE!”
They will find a way to blame Trump…
Already happening. NPR claims Trump gutted DHS’s cybersecurity department.
He fired that one asshole that was lying about the Russia Collusion shit and these assholes claim he gutted it? Why am I not surprised?
“In the latest act of liberal Hollywood cannibalism
How about literal Hollywood cannibalism? Instead of all this woke nonsense, wouldn’t it be fun if there was an article about Seth Rogen ate Matt Damon?
“The decision comes after this year’s Globes broadcast experienced a catastrophic drop in ratings, with viewership down more than 60 percent from the previous year.”
OK, so that’s the real reason.
“Following this year’s broadcast, the HFPA promised to institute reforms such as diversifying its membership and hiring a chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.”
Then they cooked and ate that person?
The ratings drop is because we’re not playing the woke card hard enough!
The funny part is that the foreign press probably is not on board with the woke train. They’re far more into the old-fashioned pay-to-play schemes.
You may joke, but based on how these people respond to the failures of every one of their fucking dumb ideas, the answer is always that there was not enough of the fucking evil the dumb idea was doing.
It’s not like everyone didn’t already know that the Globes’ sole purpose of existence was to provide foreign reporters with a way to schmooze and canoodle as well as buy their way into the Hollywood elite.
How else are you gonna get a blowey from Gwynnath Paltrow?
Offer her the lead actress role in Shakespeare in Love like Harvey did?
Great, great, great musical selection today. Thanks Banjos.
Agreed.
A criminal group criminal group known as DarkSide was responsible for the attack, the FBI confirmed.
The FBI has a great many things to explain.
Wooooo, Russia!
DarkSide.
You mean DC Thanos?
Darkseid predates Thanos by at least two years, debuting in 1971 (with a cameo bak in 1970) to Marvels purple dude in 1973
Those guys have got an evil destroyer of the universe. We need an evil destroyer of the universe!
We cannot allow an evil destroyer of the universe gap!
My daughter watches some DC cartoon show where the heroes and villains are all high schoolers. It makes me very, very happy to see that Big Barda is a main character (with a conflicted loyalty story arc), and Granny Goodness has made a couple of appearances.
I’ve said it before, the DC animated offerings have far surpassed any of their live-action fare.
Did they tone down Granny Goodness for TV, or is she allowed to be as evil as she is supposed to be?
All of the characters have been rendered palatable for the target audience of (current year) girls, aged 3 – 14. Never mind that the source material was already written for kids.
I knew that but whatever.
Geez. As if stealing the 2016 election wasn’t enough.
I read that as “Dark-Seed” and figured HM was behind the entire caper.
Not enough resources, rinse, repeat.
Darkside? Gary Larson’s alternate strip?
I love the coverage of the election fraud, but it ain’t gonna help. The mainstream republicans are ever so happy they get to go back to begging for an opportunity to lick the dems boots. They dove back into that role with such relish. All they want to do is keep losing and keep bitching about how evil the dems are. “Yes, he beats me, but it’s only because he loves me!”
“There better be cold ones in the fridge when I get home!”
Is it just me or does the ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ thing come across as an empty promise? I suppose the sentiment is great and all, but I will wait to see these Sheriff’s Departments start arresting ATF agents for raiding a home because the homeowner has a piece of plastic in an unauthorized shape and I will be conviced.
Penumbras and emanations coming from the other side of the aisle. They don’t give one shit about this because they are lame-assed cop-suckers. They’ll fold like origami just like they always do.
I mean, there are never going to be door-to-door confiscations in this country just because the logistics are impossible. So 2A sanctuarys are an empty promise in that respect, because they’re a promise of protection against something that won’t happen.
It’s a nice thought and a positive cultural signifier, though. The culture war is the one that the 2A side really needs to win.
It is positive, I agree. But, I still think that when it comes down to it the local cops will come down on the side of the feds.
I mean how do most gun crimes really happen? someone is pulled over or arrested by cops for something else. this is why gun crime laws are really about punishing black people.
if they choose to ignore it, it could make a difference in theory but only in places that actually have crime.
Gun control measures were enacted to keep freed slaves from enacting retribution on their former masters.
I think expecting the local sheriff to arrest ATF agents is extreme. That would probably kickoff the great National Divorce.
But that doesn’t mean 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries aren’t beneficial. The biggest benefit if that you won’t be arrested and charged when the local cops pull you over for speeding and find an illegal 30 rd pmag with your unregistered AR. That’s huge and the most impactful to me. I’m not worried about the ATF kicking down my door. I am much more concerned about Barney Fife seeing an outlawed pmag on something unrelated and getting stacked weapons charges that would result in my immediate termination at work.
exactly
Point taken. I am just concerned that it is mostly empty virtue signaling.
Is it just me or does the ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ thing come across as an empty promise?
It’s not just you. Until I see action, this is all talk and therefore bullshit.
I must have missed the part where San Francisco or Seattle PD got into a shootout with ICE agents.
Whatever you do, don’t give it back to the people you stole it from, Robin Hood
A year after slashing spending to fill a record-breaking deficit spurred by the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a massive surplus and hopes to send out a second, larger round of stimulus checks to residents.
“It’s a remarkable, remarkable turnaround,” Newsom said in an interview with All Things Considered Monday.
California’s progressive tax structure means the state budget suffered early in the pandemic but quickly rebounded, bolstered by capital gains taxes and high-income earners who’ve seen their wealth grow over the past year.
Newsom, who will likely face a recall election later this year, announced a plan to send billions of dollars back to taxpayers. If approved, the state would give $600 checks to workers who earn up to $75,000 annually, with $500 bonuses for tax filers with dependents and undocumented families.
Newsom said 80% of the state’s workers and two-thirds of all residents would benefit from the plan.
I thought vote buying was frowned upon.
That’s the second biggest link I’ve ever seen.
*EDIT FAIRY AGREES*
“Tax filers with dependents and undocumented families.”
JHTFC.
What documents do I need to provide for the undocumented family at my address?
Pictures of the pens you keep them in at night?
You build pens? Surplus conexes are much cheaper.
I wanted to provide them with the same services they got used to from Obama/Biden immigration policies that only were bad when the orange man could falsely be blamed for them, Animal…
After all, I care!
Amazing what a pile of fedbux as a reward for voting the right way can do.
“Why Democrats are panicked about the Maricopa county audit.
I don’t know, but the fact that after 4 years of peddling the Russia Collusion and hoax shit, they suddenly decided to censor anyone that dared to point out the 2020 election had some real serious problems (with people that say there was fraud outright canceled), I think this isn’t anything new. People that have logic, facts, and truth on their side will never feel obligated to cancel and shut up anyone that questions them. In fact, they would welcome transparency, discussion, and the chance to put the fucking people peddling a lie in their place by beating them with the truth over their head…
It’s not accidental that it has all been the exact opposite behavior by the people that fortified the election that you would expect from those that had the truth on their side…
Contrast that with 3 1/2 years of lies – by the same people now trying to shut down the ones calling the lack of transparency and the very serious shenanigan’s – and how the other side never tried to silence them but called them out on the lying…
^This. If everything was really legit, and there were only minor incidents that didn’t effect the outcome, why so desperate to prevent any examination of evidence and silence anyone who raises questions?
It looks like I and my fumbly fingers are off to a good start.
“‘White Privilege’: Libs Erupt as Tebow Gets Second NFL Chance While Kaepernick Remains Sidelined”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/05/10/white-privilege-libs-erupt-tebow-gets-second-nfl-chance-while-kaepernick-remains-sidelined/
Typical, just typical.
One guy is going to boost ticket sales and the other is going to put a dent in them. It’s a real mystery why one is getting a look and the other isn’t.
I don’t dispute your point, but I’m wondering what percentage of revenue is made up of ticket sales compared to everything else (licensed merch, tv deals, etc)
Tebow could also potentially improve ratings.
Absolutely, given that viewership losses are probably highest among the conservative religious.
Either way, Tebow will garner both. Especially in Jacksonville where he’s a local hero.
I don’t dispute your point, but I’m wondering what percentage of revenue is made up of ticket sales compared to everything else (licensed merch, tv deals, etc)
I have a friend who is both a Patriots fan and a Tebow fan who went out and bought a Patriots Tebow jersey during the two seconds he played for that team. I’m betting he can still move some merch.
Tebow: a player that is a great athlete, seems like a pretty good teammate, will play any position
Kaepernick: a guy who is a mediocre talent, would require that you rebuild your offense to be useful, is a smug shithead, and comes with a PR circus
Gee, it is just a mystery.
Kaepernick: Pisses off and alienates most of NFL’s typical fan base.
Tebow: Liked and admired by most of NFL’s typical fan base.
Yup, it sure is a mystery.
Yep. And if Tebow gets a fair try-out and doesn’t make the team, he’ll shake everyone’s hand and thank them.
Superrrrrrr spreaderrrrrrrrrr!!!!!1!!
Actually, I am not entirely convinced that Colin Kaepernick wants to play, he is raking in the white/corporate guilt money without having to play a down. If he were to get signed, he wouldn’t be able to cry victim and would have to put up or shut up.
It’s the fact that he turned down contracts previously (Seattle) and let his girlfriend call Ray Lewis a House Negro when he was in dicussions with the Ravens makes all of this moot.
Yep. It pretty much demonstrates that it is all theater.
He also opted out in the first place.
The funny thing is as far as adjusting the offense to fit him, Kaepernick as a backup is a pretty good fit. Russell Willson’s playstyle is similar (but much better) than that of Kaepernick.
Selling shoes made by Chinese slaves is waaay more lucrative.
I would rather they give Michael Vick a job than Kaepernick. Vick at least didn’t suck as bad as Kaepernick.
Vick had the fastest first step in football.
Vick just ran a 4.72 40 at the age of 40.
Christ, that is just silly.
A dog was chasing him.
*snort*
Woof!
Hey, maybe if Kaep’s college coach gets an NFL head coaching gig…
I wonder how they will use him? I’d guess he would be a wildcat QB ala Taysom Hill. The Saints have used Hill to good effect, the only thing is that guys like Hill and Tebow play every down like it was their last and enjoy contact, which translates into at least an injury or two a season.
According to ESPN, Tebow is being signed as a TE.
As long as they don’t try to make him a wide receiver after that….
Kaepernick is just a whiny bitch that needs to go away, maybe to Cuba.
Michael Bennett and Richard Sherman were both pretty vocal about taking a knee and BLM at the same time as Colin and neither had trouble finding work.
People in Southeastern states have taken to Twitter to share pictures and videos of long lines at gas stations, with some reportedly running out of gas entirely.
E’rbody be panicking. Fill up all your gas cans.
But in seriousness maybe I should fill up my 1 and 2 gal cans so I can at least be able to continue cutting/trimming the yard. . .But also I have enough for the next couple weeks and Colonial is supposed to be back up and running by the weekend.
I’ve got nowhere to be for a while. I want wait and see if the price goes down.
Stop laughing.
I have refueling stations at my business locations. I’ve instructed all my drivers to refuel at commercial stations elsewhere so that we maintain a reserve in the case it gets really bad.
Our fuel suppliers have already notified us that rationing is in process.
More than a thousand “phantom ballots” were discovered in Antrim County, Michigan, according to a local attorney in a 2020 election lawsuit alleging fraud in the contest six months after it took place.
So you are saying that there is no standing because it can’t change anything now.
Laches, biches…
Well, based on how hard they are trying to hide the corruption, I suspect that the fear isn’t about losing the WH as much as it is about losing credibility, and the ability to fast track their totalitarian desires to permanently consolidate power in their globalist, CCP-owned, hereditary, credentialed aristocracy and elect a new people that knows their plans are what they should want.
Citizens and taxpayers should always have inherent standing to sue the government, particularly over elections.
This. I can see keeping local elections lawsuits local, but not the presidential, as it is the one national election. But standing has become such a FUTY get out of a righteous lawsuit card as to be a joke.
Speaking of Tebow, he was briefly on the Patriots (I think just during a preseason), but the amount of Tebow merch I saw in Boston was insane. But nobody was buying any. That is, until it was announced he was cut, then the merch started flying off the shelves. I bought one Tebow shirt as a joke. I like to wear it to family gatherings because it annoys the wife.
I made a mint from Denver Tebow shirts I sold in his Mile High Heyday. (Then the stuff got pulled for using his “likeness” even though I never used his name or image)
The total of those two vote dumps (2,098,619) exceeded the official results total of Maricopa County votes cast (2,089,563) by more than 9,000 votes.
Biden received more votes in those two vote dumps (1,161,582) than the official vote tally (1,040,774) in Maricopa County.
Is that within the margin of victory? I recall it being pretty close.
I believe the margin was 11,000 votes.
I think Arizona was one of the last states to certify, but when it did, it didn’t matter as Biden had been certified in enough of the other close states
In an effort to prevent and deter voter fraud on the scale of the last U.S. presidential election, a photo ID will now be required to vote in UK general elections, a proposal to be included in the Queen’s Speech to Parliament on Tuesday.
Totally racist. And I didn’t realize the Brits are all Qanon conspiracy theorists.
Q is short for Queen.
That would be something.
Leftists in the UK have been trying to force US race politics in for a while now, it is kind of bizarre. The history of race in the UK is very different than it is here, so their narratives are just confusing and do not fit any of the fact patterns in Britain.
Although to be fair, the left’s narratives don’t really fit fact patterns in the US, either.
No, but they did kinda, sorta fit at one point in our history. It is just is absurd in the UK.
Someone should tell that to Lewis Hamilton.
So even though the British government believes there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, no American should be allowed to say something might not be completely legit, at least according to the media.
Everyone outside the US knows the election was stolen. More than half of the people in the US do too. But the people that stole it and are in power think that as long as they prevent the usual idiots that believe them no matter how often they get caught lying from hearing this, they can keep power indefenitely and rig the system in a way no outsider can ever threaten their hold power again.
They cut the Golden Globes because nobody cares about awards shows anymore. Vile creatures from a scummy pond.
Stupid rednecks, always politicizing everything
The COVID-19 vaccination operation at the Flathead County fairgrounds in northwestern Montana can dole out 1,000 doses in seven hours. But demand has plummeted recently, down to fewer than 70 requests for the shots a day. So, the county dropped its mass vaccination offerings as May began — from three clinics a week to two. Though most of those eligible in the county haven’t yet gotten the jab, the takers are few.
“It’s a trickle,” says Flathead City-County Health Officer Joe Russell. “Not enough people will get vaccinated to reach herd immunity — not in Flathead County and maybe not in Montana.”
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Public health experts worry about reservoirs of the virus fueling outbreaks. That possibility further strains year-old tensions in places such as Flathead County, where strangers and family members alike can be split on whether the virus is a threat and the decision to wear a mask marks where people stand. COVID-19 vaccines are the latest phase of that divide.
Cameron Gibbons, who lives outside Kalispell, has worried about how COVID-19 could affect her 13-year-old son. He’s had coughs turn into lung infections that landed him in the emergency room for trouble breathing, so the family has played it safe during the pandemic.
“We haven’t seen family in a long time because they haven’t chosen to be careful — which is OK, as long as when we get back to normal we can all set our differences aside,” Gibbons says. “Now there’s this judgment of ‘Oh, you got the vaccine.'”
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It’s not surprising that the vaccinations aren’t universally accepted yet in this divided county. Flathead’s board of health deadlocked over mask rules and crowd size limits amid the area’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. Two top county health officials resigned in the past year. Thousands of people have signed dueling petitions to remove or keep one board of health member who had stirred doubt over COVID-19 cases and opposed mask rules. repeated false claims on the Senate floor last month that COVID-19 vaccines might contain microchips to track people. Regier said in an interview he was “offering caution in how we progress with this vaccination.”
Meanwhile, Whitefish, roughly a 20-minute drive from Kalispell, has maintained a mask ordinance that has outlasted the statewide mandate. Banners downtown show local leaders asking people to mask up so people can pray together and keep schools open. Even so, the rule isn’t always followed there.
At a recent Flathead county vaccination event, John Calhoun, 67, undid his pearl snap shirt to get his second shot and joked with the nurse, “I’m doing this so Joe Biden doesn’t throw me in jail.”
Calhoun says he hopes being vaccinated will help him ease tensions the next time someone tells him to wear a mask. He believes COVID-19 is real but doesn’t think it’s as serious as health officials claim, even though he has diabetes, a risk factor for complications from COVID-19.
Bow down before the mighty priesthood of our doomsday cult, nonbelievers!
Local news has been lamenting the drop in demand for the vaccine here. Last couple of headlines were how the state declined 80% of the vaccine allotment from the last batch due to this unprecedented drop in demand.
Coincidence that the FDA cleared it for 12 to 15 year olds last night?
I think not.
^^ This.
Pretty much everyone who wants it has probably gotten it by now. (unless expressly prevented by bureaucracy)
Funny how they never talk about what the RESULTS are in any of that.
“Not enough people will get vaccinated to reach herd immunity — not in Flathead County and maybe not in Montana.”
Herd immunity doesn’t solely depend on vaccinations. And for the vast majority of people, the commie cough isn’t dangerous enough to warrant receiving a novel mRNA vaccine under an emergency use authorization.
Herd immunity should not matter anyway. Soon as everyone who wants one has had a chance to get the vaccine this thing is clearly over.
That is why the WHO made a big propaganda push and changed their views on herd immunity a few months back to basically state that its achieved vastly from vaccines. It is a money laundering scheme at this point to pay out the vax makers, in my opinion.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
Nearly Half of All U.S. Counties Are Now Second Amendment Sanctuaries
I see bitter clingers everywhere I go, everywhere I go…
I posted the Nicholas Wade article on the origins of COVID to my Facederp account a week ago after someone linked to it here.
This morning I got a notice that it had been factchecked and was missing “context that might mislead people.” Not errors, not lies, not any disputing of the facts as presented, just “a lack of context” that makes Fauci look like an lying weasel.
I don’t suppose that has anything to do with the fact that it hit broader conservative media over the weekend. It’s almost like the “factcheckers” are watching Tucker Carlson and seeking to undercut anything he promotes.
By contrast, I could probably post a hundred NPR articles with hundreds of lies of omission and there would never be a “factcheck” notice.
I also like the accusation of “lacking context” on an article that’s over 11,000 words.
Same here. I also love how in Wade’s article he stresses that there are two reasonable conjectures with neither having conclusive proof. But “fact checkers” think that is misleading. They don’t need a mask to slip – the mask itself is the lie.
I think he went way out of his way to give credence to the natural origins theory when there is almost zero evidence for it.
This all boils down to the Chinese not releasing their records from the lab, which is something that they will never do if it incriminates them. If their lab records indicated that it was natural in origin, they would have released them months ago.
Rab Reek.
Que?
Sorry. Lab leak. These little black haired people are rubbing off on me.
GO GODZILLA! IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY! FUCK IT ALL UP!
/Ijustloveyourpic
Neitzchezilla. If it’s falling, push it over.
“This morning I got a notice that it had been factchecked and was missing “context that might mislead people.””
That’s totalitarian censorship for “It contains information that would reflect negatively on and exposes the ineptitude of the credentialed expert class, and we will have none of that unless it reflects negatively on the people not currently in power”….
Basically, you will eat our misinformation, and shut the fuck up, and stay in your place plebe!
The New York Times
@nytimes
Hugging and kissing in England could be government-approved starting next Monday, after a year of nodding, waving and bumping fists and elbows.
How nice of them.
Rotherham celebrates.
Who needs junkies, anyway?
Washington state health officials say preliminary data shows more people died of drug overdoses in 2020 in the state than any year in at least the past decade.
Authorities say the effects of the pandemic likely led to a surge in drug use.
The spike mirrors national trends.
In December the Centers for Disease Control had reported more than 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in May 2020 — the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period.
According to published reports, fatal drug overdoses in Washington state increased by more than 30% last year compared to 2019.
We’re only interested in saving the lives of people we can use for political gain.
[Link fixed by Edit Fairy]
That’s a lot of people who had evidence that would lead to the conviction of Hillary Clinton.
The crime syndicate was always going to protect its own. Especially since Hillary made it obvious to Obama that if she went down, he would go down with her.
Technically you could count those as COVID deaths.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
You’re on a roll!
Anybody have a good keyboard recommendation?
Yeah, box it and the computer up and ship it back since you seem not to get how to use it…
Just kidding.
If not for the cost, I’d try out a Moonlander
Dunno why it ended up here…
Everything’s in the wrong place.
Dvorak?
Gesundheit.
AZERTY?
Now you’re just makin’ shit up.
I had a split keyboard a long time ago. I didn’t notice any advantage.
The split part doesn’t really impact my interest as much as the tenting feature. You can pry my Microsoft ergo keyboard from my carpal tunnel free hands! If they made the Microsoft keyboard with mechanical keys, a few thumb keys, and adjustable tenting, it’d be perfect. Of course, I just described the ergodox, which the moonlander is based on.
I just want the Cordless Trackman FX to come back. I’ve been using mine since 2004 and it is getting long in the tooth. Replacements are astronomical if they can be found. A perfect product done away with thanks to bullshit IP law nuisance suits.
The Model M
^This.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/
They’ll last longer than you.
I wonder if I can save money if I pick up as I drive by it in June?
I have been without since I got tired of finding new connectors for my last one. The change to USB and moving caused it to go away.
Old school IBM clicky keyboards.
Or see the two links above me.
Mechanical keyboards for the win. I’ve got a gaming one, and a Das Keyboard (originally became popular because they were mechanical, and you could get them with blank key caps).
I, personally like the older Dell keyboards
Big fat buttons that make me less likely to fat finger keys, mechanical clunk that lets you know you pressed the button and a soft feel.
I didn’t like that form factor. Trimming out the frame just made the interaction feel wrong.
I liked it with a wristpad.
I suppose that might work.
We had that model in the office for a while. No wristpads.
#metoo
Hammond SKX
https://hammondorganco.com/products/portable-organs/skx-2/skx/
No physical tone wheels?
Bah.
Roland or GTFO.
No. Fuck off.
“At what point can we stop wearing masks outside? At what point, if vaccinated people get together, do you take the masks off?” NBC News’ Chuck Todd asked. “But is the mask going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?”
“You know, I think that’s quite possible. People have gotten used to wearing masks. Clearly, if you look at the data, [a mask] diminishes respiratory diseases,” Fauci replied. “We’ve had practically a non-existent flu season this year merely because people were doing the kinds of public health things that were directed predominantly against COVID-19.” …
“So it is conceivable that as we go on, a year or two or more from now, that during certain seasonal periods when you have respiratory-borne viruses like the flu, people might actually elect to wear masks to diminish the likelihood that you’ll spread these respiratory-borne diseases,” Fauci explained.
Or maybe doctors stopped diagnosing the flu because the bogus pcr test were returning all respiratory illness (present or not) as convid.
The insanity has nothing to do with the Kung Flu. Three months into this debacle they knew that the fear the weaponized virus would kill too many people off was misplaced, so the agenda switched to seeing how effective their strategy to give insane orders to a population that both looked wrong and caused harm would be taken. It’s been about figuring out how far they could push before the sheep would say enough ass rape already…
They knew at the very beginning. All the numbers were actually released in Feb. 2020. It’s been a political scam from the start. Now, a year later, a quarter of one percent of Americans have died ( assuming the numbers aren’t as jacked up as they truly are) from it. We wrecked the world for this bullshit.
Flu diagnoses were rolled into Covid for a number of reasons and anyone that doesn’t realize that is either being mendacious or a fool.
Not according to Foochy. Flu was non-existent this year because of mask wearing. Behold the power of the mask!
It’s also possible for diseases to supplant each other. I’ve read that it is natural for other, similarly spread diseases to take a nose-dive when there’s a pandemic of a similar kind rolling around.
I wonder what the mechanism is for that and how broadly it reaches.
Is the mechanism some limited antibody crossover that would impact similar viruses (i.e. covid causing other coronaviruses to go away)?
Is the mechanism some improved general effectiveness of the immune system due to being exposed to the virus (i.e. people fight the flu more effectively because they’ve been exposed to covid)?
Is it a statistical representation of the virus being a culling event (i.e. people who would’ve otherwise died of the flu are dying of covid)?
I wonder that too, but my guess would be some combination of all those factors you mentioned.
Mentioned in the dead thread – I had trouble breathing at 65 degrees American yesterday. We didn’t get mask mandates until the Fall. What the fuck happens when it gets hot out? Just drop on the ground like that poor sprinter girl from the other day? Maybe I’ll just stop going to work altogether and collect fat checks from the rest of us.
Tom Woods had a guy on (maybe episode 1878 Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya) who said that when a new variant comes around it does displace older variants, and that even Sweden was not seeing a bad flu season. Also said that in a previous year (40’s?) a new flu variant came around and displaced the old flu variant.
I should probably research that more. But gotta paint some today
That lying little f*ckhead Foochy can’t go away soon enough – if only he could choke to death on his own mask.
Chuck Toad also remarked to Foochy during the same interview : “Anyone who trusts you, trusts the Govt, trusts us in the media has gotten a vaccine. I think it’s safe to assume those who haven’t gotten vaccinated have trust issues with the medical experts, with Govt, with us in the media.”
No shit Captain Obvious. Now ask yourself why that might be.
The bigger question is what it will take for the people still trusting these fucking idiots to get that trust is misplaced…
They become gay frogs with flippers?
Never happen. There is a large segment of the population who have been indoctrinated to believe that any issue they face in their lives is the responsibility of the Govt to solve. And no matter how much the Govt fucks up or fucks them over they never lose the faith. I honestly believe most are unreachable.
Why ask the question when they already know the answer?
It’s because the rubes hate SCIENCE!, are white supremacists who ignore EXPERTS and the media prophets who only seek to put truth above all, and irrationally hate all of the downtrodden, under appreciated, selfless government patriots for no reason anyone rational can possibly think of.
I mean, duh!
“Court filing: Prosecutors knew government erased evidence in convicted fundraiser’s case”
Absolute immunity (which prosecutors get), bitches!!
*insert picture of lamppost here*
I also like the accusation of “lacking context” on an article that’s over 11,000 words.
tl;dr
That’s too long to fit in a two minute major media news slot. It would just confuse and frustrate people.
*Insert Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer*
Neat.
The #IronDome is truly a life saver! This is the Iron Dome in action tonight, as rockets are fired at southern #Israel from #Gaza!
The Palestinians just want peace.
I think they want a Roman Peace.
The CBC mentioned the original Hamas bombardment and then went on to report the deaths of “perhaps nine children in Gaza” without context. TMITE.
We started setting those up in Iraq and Afghanistan. IIRC, they are radar-guided 7.62 NATO miniguns (M134, maybe), like the point defense systems on ships.
Good morning, Banjos!
Mmmm. Buzzcocks.
One more.
Have a great day, people!
You wake up one morning and the world is suddenly split into the 19 countries of the G20, and the map now looks like this.
Which country falls into chaos first? Which country is the most harmonious?
https://twitter.com/btharris93/status/1391805323959283717
Easy. The India/Pakistan merger goes nuclear within days.
Australia/New Zealand is the most “harmonious” as it welds its own people into their apartments.
India and Saudis Arabia would be full on war
African countries would have some fighting
Russia would face resistance in various countries
While everyone is distracted the United States will invade Canada to obtain what is rightfully ours!
Saudi*
Well, as far as leadership I would take Joemela over the airhead ski instructor up north. And that is saying something.
The India merger would be a friggin mess. Afghanistan is (and has been) hardly a unified country, it is a tribe, village, valley well before country type of place. Bangladesh and Pakistan have blood feuds with India, it would be like the Eastern Front circa 1942, only with nukes.
The one combining Greece and Turkey (etc.) looks kinda ticklish, too.
Which country is the most harmonious?
The American one. It’s just the USA + the Caribbean. I’m sure the Caribbean nations would be quite happy with the extra government aid (see how much the US spends on Puerto Rico) and with the extra tourism from no-passport travel. Plus the Cubans would be liberated from their dictatorship.
Warning shots are overrated.
“Earlier today, a large group of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy … fastboats conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers and failed to exercise due regard for the safety of U.S. forces as required under international law, while operating in close proximity to U.S. naval vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Monday.
A total of 13 Iranian fast in-shore attack craft were involved in a high-speed approach of the U.S. ships, the Navy said in a news release Monday. Two of the Iranian vessels separated from their own group and emerged behind Maui and patrol coastal ship Squall at “a high rate of speed (in excess of 32 knots) with their weapons uncovered and manned,” according to the Navy.
The Iranian vessels ignored verbal and acoustic warnings from the U.S. ships, along with five blasts of the ship’s horn, according to the 5th Fleet.
Kirby said that the warning shots came in two separate intervals — one when the Iranian vessels were roughly 300 yards from the U.S. vessels and another at 150 yards — using a .50-caliber machine gun. The two Iranian vessels didn’t back off until after the second round of warning shots.
They have intruded into the exclusion zone around the ships – shoot to kill.
The Bay of Tonkin except not a ruse? Jesus Chrisco, Dems love them some War!
Warning shots are always a bad idea.
The Russians seem to understand that.
With Zhou Bi Den in office they smell weakness.
Sounds like they’re begging for Operation Praying Mantis, Part II.
Big fucking deal
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins described the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid vaccine for kids aged 12 to 15 as “a big deal” in America’s push to reopen.
“This is exciting news,” said Collins. “We know that a million-and-a-half adolescents have been infected with Covid-19 since this pandemic started, and not all of them have fared as well as most. And some of them have ended up with this long Covid where they’re not better, even weeks or months after getting ill, so we really want to protect adolescents.”
When did SCIENCE! become a quest to eliminate all risk from daily life?
When Fauci and Collins turned this entire effort into a coverup for their massive fuckup in Wuhan.
They’re hoping that by the time it all comes out that their crusade to immunize everyone will buy them some goodwill. That of course depends on there not being any long term side effects from the vaccines.
This is dark but if I were Faucci I would have blown the top of my own head off about a year and a half ago. Right about the time that my greed got overshadowed by the harm that I caused. Two million deaths. That’s Pol Pot numbers. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. How many AIDS deaths does he wear around his neck?
If you have a colossal sense of self-righteousness that overshadows any conscience, then it would be pretty sweet to be in his shoes. He’s become a world-famous media darling who is adored by the government, about half the country obeys him with religious fervor, and he’s probably going to have some books ghostwritten and make shitloads of money (assuming he’s not already taking direct payoffs from Big Pharma).
From under my tinfoil hat, it looks like the two million number is complete bullshit. EVERYTHING about the ‘vid is bullshit. The only reason all of this happened was to give the left the edge they needed to kill off Trump’s presidency. The fact that they also get to wield immense power in the aftermath is just gravy. And, those other countries have the exact same motivations. Once the freest place on earth turned into a fascist hellhole, what’s the big deal if an already tyrannical place got a wee bit worse? None. Biggest scam in the history of humans, that’s the ‘vid.
It’s not tin-foily at all to think that.
When someone has a multiple health conditions and then gets COVID and dies, how do you determine what THE one and only cause of death was? In some cases, it’s a toss-up. Given that the vast majority of deaths occur in people who are elderly with severe pre-existing conditions, it’s possible that a huge number of “COVID deaths” don’t belong in that category. I don’t claim to know what the number should be, I’m just pointing out that there’s no way we have anything close to accurate data on this. There would need to be a massive retrospective audit of the numbers (which will probably never be done). If someone has severe health conditions, I’m inclined to say that they should count as a fraction of a death depending on how many conditions they already had and how serious they were. If they were already “actively dying” and on hospice care, they probably shouldn’t be counted at all.
Then of course, there are the people in the mix who:
– Died of gunshot wounds or car accidents while having COVID
– Tested positive, recovered, and died months later from something else
I took the Pfizer but I don’t see making my 12 year old daughter get it. Every adult around her is vaccinated and she’s not at risk.
So it appears the that the Virginia GOP nomination for governor is a Romney clone.
Why am I not surprised?
At least you can be assured that he’ll lose with grace and dignity.
And his wife is hot!
This is how stupid the Virginia GOP is.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/25/woke-capital-gop-candidate-ex-ceo-once-urged-employees-to-donate-to-the-splc/
Now whether or not Youngkin actually supported that effort or if his name was just included on the letter by HR is moot. If you want to depress Republican turnout in the election, put a guy up that has his name on fundraising documents for the SPLC.
Well, he was probably going to lose anyway since it is widely suspected that Chase will run as an independent. I think we’ll get good Republican turnout because of her.
That SPLC thing is Kryptonite.
Scruffy, Snyder was the Romney man. Youngkin, who is now the presumptive Republican nominee is a Trumper.
You’re probably more in tune with it than I am. So I defer to your take. I’m just put off by the SPLC fundraising scandal.
Wait, what? Linky?
See just above.
Crap, I was wrong. Snyder “chaired Mitt Romney’s (R) 2012 presidential campaign in Virginia,” which I confused with him being a Romney supporter.
I wonder, at what point does the Loyal Opposition shtick stop paying the bills?
It was slightly more complicated than that. The party leadership were crapping themselves over the possibility of a Chase nomination which is why they did the whole convention thing with a bizarro rank-order choice ballot, instead of a straight-up primary as the Dems are doing. Virginia is an open primary state which means that any registered voter can vote in a primary; Virginia voters do not register a party affilitation. Had they gone with a primary many Dems would have voted for Chase because they felt they could have defeated her in the general; that could well have backfired on them.
Interesting. I noticed a shitload of ‘Pete Snyder – Conservative for Governor’ signs on my way back from Three Ridges yesterday. The language would seem to point to an independent run.
“Murder suspect owner of Bengal tiger is arrested BUT big cat remains at large after it was spotted roaming Houston neighborhood”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9565733/Murder-suspect-fled-Houston-home-Bengal-tiger-captured-animal-loose.html
WTF?
There are more Bengal Tigers in the United States than in their original habitat.
WTF?
The exotic pet trade and captive breeding has resulted in a circumstance where the habitat of the Bengal Tiger as a species is suburban north american artificial enclosures. The numbers left in the wild are marginal compared to the population over here.
Now that cat gets to take some of his nine lives.
Hmmm, Strait of Hormuz and Coast Guard. Is that our Atlantic coast or our Pacific coast?
I was gonna make a joke about eating pussy but there’s no need.
Wokeheuser-Busch
Another all-American brand, Anheuser-Busch, has jumped on the woke train. The maker of Budweiser, among other brands with a robust craft beer collaboration line, has partnered with radical professors in education and humanities at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop and implement a 15-module training program called “To Be Welcoming.” It is based on critical race and gender theory. According to a whistleblower who spoke with PJ Media, an e-mail from “Chief People Officer” Lindsay King announced the program on March 24, 2021.
In the letter, King uses typical language about an inclusive workplace and how diversity brings better ideas. This new curriculum follows “Psychological Safety” training for company leaders designed to “foster environments where our teams and perspectives can thrive.” The overall goal is “maintaining an inclusive work environment, one where every individual feels respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work every day.”
Anheuser-Busch under Busch family leadership would never have done this.
So they decided to launch a program separate from the Pink Boots Society?
Just this past year the oldest of the women ran breweries closed down (Stoudt’s in PA) after over 30 years in business.
Ah, that sucks – I drank lots of Scarlett Lady back when I was drinking beer regularly.
It was a frequent stop for food when going from CLE to Philly.
Seeing so many companies go off the rails for an ideology who would gladly put every employee they have from middle management on up against the wall has been interesting to say the least.
They hung a BLM poster on the bulletin board at work. Apparently a couple of dozen Black people have been killed by cops over the last decade. No information, no explanation. Canada has 35 or so million people. Of that I’d suppose that less than 1/2 a million identify as “Black”.
If Anheuser-Busch really cares about social justice, they should make their entire product offering free of charge to people of color and the gender dysphoric. I mean, talk is cheap. If they really believe they’ve thrived in a racist, transphobic, blah, blah blah society, they have a moral and ethical obligation to make amends by giving their products away to the victims. Until they do that, all they’re doing is playing the role of the cis-white-hetero-normative savior.
I think you could say the same for Nike, Ben & Jerry’s and all the other woke corporate players.
They should just start piping it over to East St. Louis like drinking water.
RACIST! You want to make minorities into obese alcoholic diabetics with ugly shoes!
I don’t know. Who’s the one here imposing cis-white-hetero-normative standards favoring fitness, sobriety and health on people of color and the trans community? So, I see your RACIST! and raise you a TRANSPHOBE!
And they also should only produce 40 ouncers….
“‘If a thief robs a jewelry store, the diamonds must be returned’: Donald Trump stokes anticipation among his supporters over a ‘bombshell’ Michigan election fraud case”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9564939/Trump-stokes-anticipation-supporters-bombshell-Michigan-election-fraud-case.html
I’m sure Trump knows nothing will happen, so is it just red meat for his base?
I think the real value will be that they will deligitimize the current admin. And unlike the left’s attempt to deligitimize his with that fake Russia collusion bullshit, this one will be for real. The psyops value of this being hammered into the dense skulls of idiots that keep following the crime syndicate regardless of evidence of how evil it is is the real value here IMO. But anyone believing they will vacate the WH and give it back to the guy that really won is just as dumb as the team blue idiots that believe the Russia Collusion or the 2020 election was legit lies.
Plus strengthening voter laws is being considered everywhere.
Plus i really do want to know. it’s important.
The sentient pickle gets it! We need to know.
I’m not sure that all those bases belong to him, now! People are agitated and the more this continues, the better it will be be for those of us that are targeted by the wokesters. Middle-aged white fellers with a bullseye on their forehead.
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Hey F, re your inconvenient breathing habit, does Minimally Compliant Masks ship to Canadia?
Mine are pretty thin. It always seems to be about the humidity rather than the heat. Thanks for asking!
Ah well. Grow gills then. 😉
Rolled eyes meant to be regarding the BLM poster. Or just now, the suggestion of raised fist emojis when I type BLM — in Kenyan black, mink, and café au lait shades.
I know the media are allegedly masters of spin and obfuscation, but try as they might they can’t spin “let’s audit questionable election results just to make sure” into something bad. Now they are flat out trying to shut down anyone who supports an audit, and it looks even worse.
Never mind the Democrats handed Jill Stein a pallet of cash to do recounts after Hillary lost.
It could be and don’t laugh at me for saying this, but it could be the groundwork for an impeachment that would actually go somewhere.
One of the reasons the Nixon impeachment worked (sort of) was building a groundswell of opinion against him, so much that his own party could read the writing on the wall. And this is why the two attempts of doing this to Trump failed. They had already destroyed the MSM, couldn’t prove anything with the Meuller investigation, and most importantly they didn’t win over enough R’s to make the case. And you can see this in the rearview mirror with Cheney being challenged tomorrow, Romney getting booed, and most importantly, Dems losing ground in the house. The R’s need a slow build to make this work, and one thing you don’t see is anyone talking about Biden’s cognitive failures. They are just letting that sit in everyone’s mind and the D’s cannot make a claim against it as that would open up the conversation.
This is also the real reason behind the pants-shitting the left is doing in AZ. They need to nip this in the bud, but only if they do it on the DL. But they can’t do that without causing a stink on its own. They only have the option of censorship at this point, which is a heavy-handed method that doesn’t work long term.
They kinda fucked themselves.
Great. They impeach the “weekend at Bernie’s” stunt double and who do we then get saddled with?
In all honesty, they shouldn’t impeach him unless they have proof of involvement in a major crime, or dig up proof of substantial election fraud that would have changed the results. And if the latter is the case, they have full justification to impeach both the President and Vice President simultaneously, thus installing the Speaker of the House. As impeachment could only happen if the Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, they would get to choose the Speaker, and thus, the President. Constitutionally speaking, the Speaker does not have to be a member of Congress, the House can elect anyone (who would be eligible to be President) as the Speaker. They could literally replace Biden with Trump, if they had the justification to do so.
I’m sure Trump knows nothing will happen, so is it just red meat for his base?
Vindication. Trump has a massive ego, so the opportunity to say “I told you so” is reason enough.
“San Francisco schools are slammed for fake ‘re-open’ plan that would see students back in class just ONE day before end of school year so the district can get $12million in state money”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9565453/San-Francisco-schools-open-just-ONE-day-district-12million-funding.html
It’s already May. How long before Summer vacation anyway?
“Vacation?” *diabolical laugh and steepled fingers*
Don’t even get me started. My kid goes to school for two hours and sits in front of a zoom screen there, instead of here. My wife gets to do some minor amount of work, but nowhere near enough. She works from home. Imagine the people who work out in the world.
Va. GOP picks someone to lose gracefully to Terry McCunteface.
Glenn Youngkin, a former CEO of the Carlyle Group, secured the Republican nomination for this year’s Virginia governor’s race Monday night, beating out six other candidates in a ranked-choice voting process that required six rounds of ballot-counting.
Youngkin took the lead in earlier rounds, but because the ranked-choice method required a candidate to reach 50 percent of the vote, eliminating every candidate up until the final round — in which Youngkin faced off with runner-up Pete Snyder — was necessary before Youngkin was able to clinch a victory.
The Republican Party of Virginia’s (RPV) nominating process was unprecedented this year, occurring as an “unassembled” convention on Saturday at polling locations across the state to determine the Republican governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general nominees. The votes were weighted based on number of ballots cast at localities and how those localities voted in 2020. About 30,000 ballots were cast this year.
Just skip the election and install the carpetbagging douchebag already.
Isn’t he a never Trumper and affiliated with the Lincoln Project?
For the life of me, I can’t understand why they keep doing this sort of thing. Virginia should be winnable. It’s hardly like their current leadership is immensely popular.
It’s hardly like their current leadership is immensely popular.
*eyes glaze over thinking about mile after mile of government drone and associated hangers on packed into row after row of the cutest little half million dollar townhouses in the DC metro area*
On the one hand, we make fun of the GOP for their desire to give a gracious, statesmanlike concession speech.
On the other hand, we deride the GOP base, and the politicians that pander to said base, as a bunch of slack-jawed yokels.
The Dems don’t have this problem with the woke freakshow. It’s party uber alles, get on the bus or get run over by it.
a bunch of slack-jawed yokels.
On the other hand, so what? The fact of the matter is that the pop culture sneering about slack-jawed yokels isn’t going to vote GOP no matter what they do. The Republicans could invite a combination of Emily Post and Richard Feynman and the pop culture elitists still wouldn’t vote for them. Because pop culture elitism is ultimately friendly to technocratic dominance, which is something the Democrats are always going to be more reflective of because they are more thoroughly the government party. But, politically, for the GOP, at least, slack-jawed local doesn’t always play too badly in general elections.
A lot of the sneering that I’m seeing, is coming from my smart conservative friends. They seem to have trouble making common cause with people who work in the trades and make less than 150k per year. The left doesn’t seem to have a similar problem, despite equivalent or greater cultural divides.
Virginia is a company town now, and that company is DC. So, you will only get swap R’s there until the swap changes color.
Thanks again, Edit Fairy.
I’ll try to do better.
I’m starting to think that you’re not here to hunt bears at all, P.
In this case it was Fairies. Someone else fixed your top post.
Nice euphemism.
Draws concern? It should be one massive red flag for everyone. Do these people not get the concept that as soon as you try to conceal information or try to ban discussion, you all but confirm something is rotten?
They halted the J&J vaccine after a dozen deaths.
There are almost 4,000 deaths on record after the mRNA vaccines.
I heard that the real dislike of the J&J vaccine was that they remained adamant that it was one and done…
The other vaccines all require 2 shots and are now talking about an annual booster…
When you can make government and insurance fork over tons of cash, on a schedule, losing that racket is going to make you not feel bad about doing whatever it takes to cock block the opposition….
The VAERS system is a joke. There is speculation that it captures as few as 10% of the injuries/deaths.
Alex is right. Can’t talk about it? It’s true.
Am I going to have to waste my “comeback” on this? Sigh. Okay.
VAERS is worthless. For a couple of reasons.
1. There’s absolutely nothing that even checks entry to see if the incident happened or if the person even exists. There are entries about how vaccines turned recipients into the Incredible Hulk. One of the alleged deaths due to the COVID vaccine involved a 1 year old committing suicide with a shotgun.
2. Even where the incident actually happened there’s nothing to imply causation. People are going to die. After taking a vaccine. But the “death rate” per VAERS, even if you consider unreported deaths, isn’t any different than the “background” death rate.
Fine.
But why halt the J&J after so few reported deaths and not address the multitude for the mRNA?
If VAERS is worthless for determining the risk value for one then it should also be for the other as well.
And I say this knowing of someone who died from blood clotting one week after receiving the Pfizer vaccine and he had no history of blood clots.
Honestly, I don’t trust self reporting stuff like this, either. It’s the long term effects (i.e. cancer) that is what worries me and we won’t know that for a long time.
Not known:
Do the mRNA vaccines cross the blood/brain barrier? (There is grounded suspicion that they may be able to)
Do they cross the placenta?
What is the safety/risk benefit analysis for pregnant women?
What are the long term risks? (This is fundamentally unknowable as the data does not exist yet)
Is the vaccine causing clotting because it generates the S-protein, which the Salk Institute has determined is at fault in at least some of the vascular damage?
How are those who have received the narrowly tailored mRNA vaccines going to respond to variants as they arise? Will they have worse immune reactions than they would have had otherwise? Previous studies with the SARs vaccines suggests it is a distinct possibility.
Beyond my understanding, but you’re probably right. Evidently they used domesticated rats for the testing which means they are more likely to have more robust cell replacement ability. You can check out Brett Weinstein’s latest podcast if you wanna have a better description. Point is, there is no proof the mRNA vaccines won’t cause massive problems in the future.
I’ll second the DarkHorse episode. Fascinating discussion.
IT TURNS THE FROGS GAY!
JB is correct that the number of people dying isn’t more than the background numbers, and they way they report is so inaccurate as to be worthless. If some old asshat with a serious condition and a few months/weeks to live gets it and then dies from those other causes, it is being blamed of the vaccine. Are some people going to have adverse effects? Certainly. Are some going to die. Can’t say no. But is there value to a vaccine? Pretending that there isn’t makes you just as dumb as the people claiming we all need to get it and keep wearing masks and staying locked up.
That having been said, I am far more concerned about people being irrational about vaccines. The fact we all used to know was that some people would have adverse effects. Some would also potentially die. Vaccines are never going to be 100% safe/effective, but the reason we have them was that the risk was always outweighed by the reward.
At this point I tell people that virtue signal about getting the vaccine or that demand everyone go get one to shut the fuck up already with their stupid. But I will also tell people that claim the vaccine is killing people, going to mutate them into gay frogs, or have the mark of the beats in them to please fuck off as well cause they are not helping one bit.
Here is some advice: assess your personal situation. Talk to your MD if you have one you trust., THEN, if you feel the reward from it is better than the risk, get it. If not, don’t. If we all just worried about what was best for ourselves and our loved ones, and left others to their own devices, I think this would just be another nothing burger.
But I will also tell people that claim the vaccine is killing people, going to mutate them into gay frogs, or have the mark of the beats in them to please fuck off as well cause they are not helping one bit.
One of these is not like the others. The vaccine is most certainly killing people. The question is if the risk of serious adverse effects (SAEs), including death, from the vaccine is worth the benefit.
For older individuals, the benefits of the vaccine is probably worth the risk.
For younger indiviuals, the benefit of the vaccine is non-existent (7 out of 20,000 unvaccinated people died from Covid in the J&J trial), so any risk of SAE probably outweighs the benefit of the vaccine.
I know I’m not supposed to do this type analogy, but I don’t care. The yellow star itself didn’t cause any deaths. What it represented did. This might not be the most egregious example of totalitarianism (more corporate fascism), but the egregious examples will come sooner rather than later if what is happening doesn’t get slapped down hard.
The totalitarian shit is a different discussion Straff. My concern is people conflating the potential usefulness of the vaccine with the totalitarian demands around it. I don’t like the totalitarianism one bit. Hence my advice to do what is best for yourself. But the talk about the vaccine killing people based on this absolutely dubious data smacks to me of the same stupid we get from the AWG cultists about their shit.
If someday we get real data, with controls and the ability to be replicated, I will be willing to accept whatever it tells me. For now, it is all noise and people freaking out. On both sides. Do your thing. That’s YOUR right.
Of course, I agree that people should do what they determine is best for themselves. The bigger point, however, is that you won’t ever get real data with so much money and power sloshing around govt and warping the entire system.
It’s been that way for over the past year. Embrace of absolute garbage because it confirms pre arrived positions. And neither “side” is clean. There is no honest truth seeking, just desire to be “right”. Principles are dead, team uber alles.
It’s a risk analysis that each person has to make for themselves and their family. I don’t fault anyone for taking the vaccine. I do think it’s stupid to force it on their younger family members.
However, my vocal opposition is more about the impending de facto requirement to receive the vaccine than anything else. Universities are requiring it. Airlines are going to be required to enforce it. How long till primary education facilities are forced into requiring it? They intend to remove informed consent by making it almost impossible to conduct normal life without the vaccine.
The FDA just approved an experimental medical treatment for 12 to 15 year olds who face almost zero risk from the disease itself. And they have fought low-cost therapeutics at every step of the process. I have zero trust in the system as it exists currently.
Fuck the totalitarians. If you have a teen at high risk, or not at all, make your choice accordingly.
The problem is that every data source is suspect at this point. There’s literally none we can trust.
Yet the lockdowns and subsequent bullshit were based on super suspect data sources. Where do we turn for any useful information?
They lied to us for our own good, so we should trust the experts now. Unless of course they are lying to us again for our own good. *Scratches forehead*
The one lesson we all should take from this whole Kung Flue mess is that the cult-like trust in experts is a serious mistake. But I am not holding my breath until people will figure this shit out.
Yeah, we really need to put a damper on the whole thing.
It’s a lot of hot air.
Yes. This. VAERS is kinda useless.
To Sean’s point about finding good data: You don’t. I mean, I like Tom Woods’ graphs which use official data sources so some Covid Crazies will get put on the spot, or enter cognitive dissonance, but there is no good data. The public health folks have quite effectively pissed and shat in the pool.
There were some folks in Minnesoda calling for an audit of death certificates in order to clean up death data. I don’t know if it went anywhere.
Titty Tuesday sez BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE
https://archive.li/TOumS
What about Oxidane or Hydrogen Hydroxide?
Or Deuterium? (probably already banned)
I guess Biden has fixed Former President Cartoon Villain’s multiple huge diplomacy fuckups in the Middle East.
That’s good to know.
This is what it looks like when an “adult” is in charge.
Mornin Banjos.
People in Southeastern states have taken to Twitter to share pictures and videos of long lines at gas stations, with some reportedly running out of gas entirely.
A friend of mine is thinking we’re going to see 70s style gas lines again across the whole country. I think he’s wrong, but given other trends I worry he might be right at some point.
Matthew DePerno, who is representing Antrim County resident William Bailey, said a recount in December tallied 15,962 ballots, but only 14,901 votes were shown in the Michigan secretary of state’s database, meaning 1,061 don’t exist on voter rolls.
Wait a minute, I thought the Dead had the right to vote?
Mayor Daly approves this message.
The Shell station down the street is already out of diesel.
“Whole country”.
The Cemetary vote has long been a staunch bulwark of the establishment.
I’d be perfectly happy giving the dead the right to vote — as long as they shamble into the polling places under their own power.
Will science survive politics?
Whether something is politically convenient or not doesn’t affect its truth
https://unherd.com/2021/05/will-science-survive-politics/
The Coming War over Intelligence
https://lawliberty.org/the-coming-war-over-intelligence/
not a particular impressive piece of writing but something surprised me
” Deontological libertarianism, meanwhile (never popular outside the US, to be fair), also struggles in the face of the reality of human inequality.
“Many contemporary libertarians who draw their inspiration from Locke,” Herrnstein and Murray note, “are hostile to the possibility of genetic differences in intelligence because of their conviction that equal rights only apply if in fact people at birth are tabulae rasae.” ”
As a deontological libertarian myself, this seems awful silly. equal rights have nothing to do with people at birth being tabulae rasae, and I never thought all people are biologically equal and cannot think non leftists thinking this. Cannot speak for all libertarians though.
No. Being pro-liberty means that you think that everyone should have the freedom to make the best of whatever abilities you have.
Tabula Rasa is not Lockean, it springs from the place that all bad philosophy springs from, France, it comes from Russo, to be specific. This is the social constructivist philosophy that allows the left to overlook problems in any given community just by declaring that. “They are a victim of the circumstances of their birth,” etc. and thus ignore individual agency.
I got it from Grandmaster Flash.
Why would equality before the law be predicated on biological equality? This argument smells of race-realist hucksterism.
Pie, is this really what your cops look like? If so, sign me up for the George Floyd treatment.
https://ibb.co/6YmcjtX
Someone hasn’t been watching the video for Mr Saxobeat.
vanishingly rare. More often like this
https://www.ziardecluj.ro/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/2019/09/politisti_locali_grasi_0.jpg?itok=eiWXOXdo
Oink, Oink.
hawt
Contra, Italian cops
I don’t think I can argue with that take.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I love the circular reasoning of people who claim vote fraud is sooper rare/NBD:
“We don’t need to prosecute voter fraud because look at how few prosecutions there are!”
they just decolonized their thought as you should
Forget, it’s done. Welcome your new Ant Overlords!
Hey y’all. I’m back. Kinda.
I’m not going to apologize for anything I’ve said in the past. But I do miss this place.
I have the social memory of a goldfish. If you hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t have remembered.
Fuck off Tulpa!
Welcome back!
Welcome back JB
“ I’m not going to apologize for anything I’ve said in the past.”
If you did, THAT would get you banned from this place. /jk
Welcome back, bro.
Nobody holds a grudge around these here parts, Tulpa. Welcome back!
You are missed also, JB.
Wait a sec… Topnotchtoledo goes all bahn mi last week… and then JB just waltzes right in?… this is Wuhan lab level coinky-dink.
Welcome back JB. Apology accepted
*golf clap*
Welcome back you magnificent waifu.
Did you say something actually bad, or were you just an asshole?
Either way, welcome back.
Welcome back!
We probably bowed out for opposite reasons, funny that we both pop back in on the same thread. I miss this place as well. My life needs more autists, although it definitely does not need more political discussion.
I can’t keep track of this many people.
My dunbar number is 0.
*sits in the corner, holding sides of head*
Well, FWIW, I missed you.
Wait a minute, Jarflax reappears too? My tin foil can’t keep up with this.
(Also glad you are back)
*whispers*
“They might be feds.”
I am only temporarily/sporadically back. I am attempting to exclude politics from my life as much as possible for the time being, because walking around muttering “The United States has approximately 30,000,000 street lights, I say we use them all” is regarded as unhealthy.
Clearly. What is needed is an infrastructure project to add street lighting to underserved neighborhoods.
Glad you’re back, Jarf, since we have a wager going… ?
Even if I am not actively playing in this sandbox I recall my obligations 🙂 (Ok, I recall that I bet that Biden would not resign/be removed and that the payoff is to go to the Glibertarian Foundation, I forget how much, was it $100?)
Welcome back 🙂
I don’t remember. What did I miss?
Welcome back, and you have nothing to apologize for, every single one of these assholes deserve what you said about them, whatever it was.
Hey y’all. I’m back. Kinda.
Hey.
Just got a text from some co-workers (it’s a group text) labeled “I find this very scary” with a link to an article about Jim Jordan (R-OH)’s hometown of Urbana supporting him.
I fucking hate politics at work. Stop assuming that everyone is fucking blue-pilled.
I really like the people I work with, too. I don’t even consider their politics as a part of the relationship.
Yep. Hate the fact that I despise my friends’ political beliefs and just have to bite my tongue. One day Imma jump on the soapbox and start going nuts…
Replay all: “Bringing politics into the workplace is inappropriate and offensive.”
Up here the local news is shocked (SHOCKED!) that the state GOP censored Gonzalez (who happens to be my rep) for voting to impeach Trump.
if I were Faucci I would have blown the top of my own head off about a year and a half ago.
You’re a better person than he is. Self-awareness, introspection and a capacity for guilt are traits which have been bred out of our modern mandarinate.
Will science survive politics?
That ship left the barn quite a while ago.
Interesting study linked to on cafehayek.
Apparently being at home was more dangerous covid-wise than being at work.
Well, assuming mitigation (termperature checks, etc). Pre-mitigation, work was more likely to spread covid. Post-mitigation, work was safer than home.
I have zero risk at home.
I have zero risk at work.
Prior to the lockdowns, I caught Wuhan Coronavirus from some vendor reps.
I recovered.
I said that a year ago, when it became obvious in my city that all the usual suspects the media prattles on about being “hardest hit” are the same folks who tend to pack large families into tiny apartments, and the all whiteys in Manhattan (many of whom live alone) weren’t catching it.
Sex differences in perceived workplace harassment are larger in more gender egalitarian countries.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1390929516625907712
So if I go to Dubai that means that I can grab ass at will?
“Many contemporary libertarians who draw their inspiration from Locke,” Herrnstein and Murray note, “are hostile to the possibility of genetic differences in intelligence because of their conviction that equal rights only apply if in fact people at birth are tabulae rasae.” ”
Funny. That statement decodes as a random collection of clicking and whirring sounds. Maybe my space-alien-to-pidgin-english translator needs a new set of batteries.
their conviction that equal rights only apply if in fact people at birth are tabulae rasae
This is stupid in multiple ways.
First, libertarianism doesn’t require an ex nihilo explanation of equality. The author is criticizing secular humanism, if anything.
Second, equality of intelligence isn’t required for equality of dignity. Author seems to be trying to critique disparate impact analysis, but somehow link it to libertarians.
Idiocy.
See my comment above, Tabula Rasa is not a Lockean concept, we can blame Russo for this particular nonsense.
psst: Rousseau (Rousseauvian, adj.). Leave poor René out of this.
Close enough. *Blows Raspberry*
there was, if I recall correctly, a Lockean Tabula Rasa but it mean knowledge wise, as in humans are not born with ideas/knowledge/culture. It had nothing to do with intelligence, personality traits, human nature etc.
I suppose that falls more in line with Locke (as I understand it)
After a look at the googles, you are correct. I was misremembering.
The author just took a dump in his right hand and threw it against the wall. He doesn’t know what Libertarianism is and to be honest, I’ve been working on it for quite some time. Once I discover TRUE libertarianism I’ll be sure to let you in on it, for a fee.
Her you sexist pig
Pie! Look what Youtube suggested to me, from your fair land. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNZtHW_VnuE
ehm… right…
Are you a cow hater or an accordion hater? Which is it?
depends on the context for both
Pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQA6wtlg0Wc
I maintain my pronoun privilege.
There are no downsides to trading your freedom for security. *Even if there were, it would still be worth it. **Even if it isn’t worth it, it’s worth it because I’m scared.
This is very close to the way a lot of the people that travel in my girlfriend’s circle think… You must know some of them…
People are afraid. People are more afraid for some reason, lately. I fear intense pain. I fear shaming myself in front of my peers. I don’t fear death. I fear heights because I suffer from vertigo. I’d like to say that I don’t fear being socially ostracized but that’s not true. If I lost the Glibs, I would lose the only real connection to the rest of the world that I can actually relate to.
They should be afraid. Problem is: They are afraid of the wrong fucking thing.
Between public school and the 24-hour news cycle, most people have a severely damaged ability to assess risk.
Second, equality of intelligence isn’t required for equality of dignity. Author seems to be trying to critique disparate impact analysis, but somehow link it to libertarians.
There are plenty of preposterous claims about libertarianism, but the notion that libertarianism in some way requires one to deny the obvious and completely natural differences between individuals is a prize winner.
The whole point of libertarianism is NOT believing in some spurious communal uniformity.
???
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-india-cows/indian-doctors-warn-against-cow-dung-as-covid-cure-idUSKBN2CS05N
LOL
People will do real dumb shit if they are uninformed/misinformed and desperate. Someone should tell them they should instead fuck the cows…
India was going to import tons of manure from neighboring Bangladesh to meet demand, but it turns out that there’s a rather draconian tariff involved.
The doody duty means that that shit’s expensive.
To keep my perfect record of randomly being drug tested on a yearly basis, today I piss. I shall piss clean.
Depends upon the poison. I’d have to take a three-week pledge if it were beer-related.
Eat more asparagus.
British justice
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1391831578607865862
I can never trust accounts like this to give accurate info, but do they fake screenshots is the question?
My friends, the time has come: Man’s World Issue 2, ‘The Sea! The Sea!’. The best men’s mag just got even better. Bronze Age Pervert, Doonvorcannon, Zero HP Lovecraft, Ernst Junger, myself and so so much more.
https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1391007476112314372
is it just me or does the cover look ever so slightly… well… gay ?
Ummmmm….I think it just turned me gay. Nice nips.
“A year after slashing spending to fill a record-breaking deficit spurred by the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a massive surplus and hopes to send out a second, larger round of stimulus checks to residents.”
I work on all sorts of properties, from hoarders’ hovels and drug dens to houses that sell for eight figures. Yesterday I was working on one that was on the market for 4 million. The agent said that the owners moved to Florida and put it on the market as soon as the idea of a wealth tax started getting floated here a few months back. This guy deals with all high end real estate and according to him they were not the only ones packing up as a result of just the mere talk of a wealth tax. These ejits running the gubmint show think they can throttle the golden goose as long as they want, eventually reality will intrude. Especially as now more than ever before the rich can remain connected to their work remotely.
Our betters aren’t even trying to hide the redistribution of wealth anymore and flat out just handing out gold from the treasuries.
The NRO Radio Free California podcast mentioned this last week. Apparently if they have a surplus over the existing spending budget, they MUST give the money back to the actual taxpayers. Some 70s state constitution resolution that the proggies are trying to get rid of right now.
Same episode also has a great interview with a Libertarian guy talking about his book about The Water Wars in CA.
Hmmm didn’t know that. I’m sure Newsom ain’t gonna mention that at all.
Yeah, Charles Cooke didn’t mention that in his new corner post either. Guess we’ll see if it gets fleshed out in more detail elsewhere.
I’m not sure about that. I do know that this round of stimulus is only going to those who make less than 74k and illegals. In CA, most of the taxes are paid by those who are excluded from this. It’s not really a rebate of any kind.
Returning to taxpayers is good; deciding who will get the handouts freely is bad.
I bet this event was workplace violence….
I want to cry….
@Yusef, from dedthred
I was going to let it go because it’s just not that deep for me, but Yusef, you were an asshole last night for no reason I can comprehend. Tulip called you on it. You apologized. She didn’t respond (which I infer means she let it go). Then you got mad that she didn’t respond to your apology and you doubled down. Then I called you on THAT. Then you went for broke and you’re STILL going for broke. You’ve been begging us to make you feel better for your outburst and you KEEP begging us and insulting us in the same breath.
Yeah, we were offended. You apologized. You should have stopped there instead of getting pissy about not being recognized for your magnanimity in apologizing and telling us to fuck off.
Why not? You don’t seem to mind saying anything else, especially when we aren’t responding to you.
Second, equality of intelligence isn’t required for equality of dignity.
I was going to comment much the same thing. Most intelligent people grow out of “intellectual positivism” in their early twenties. Intelligence is a good, not the good. Hell, anyone who doesn’t understand that should take a night and screen Forrest Gump.
Moreover, the original author’s claim ignores libertarian recognition of the information problem (which is pretty dominant in libertarian thinking). The entire point (and I see it recurrent in libertarian thinking) is that no person, no matter how intelligent, has perfect knowledge. Even the world’s greatest genius has huge gaps in his knowledge that an uneducated person with a low IQ would be shocked isn’t common knowledge. It’s not that intelligence differences don’t exist, it’s that intelligence is always necessarily limited.
Intelligence is a good, not the good. Hell, anyone who doesn’t understand that should take a night and screen Forrest Gump.
Personally, I would have a hard time classifying someone who didn’t understand this as intelligent. At best, I would classify them as an idiot-savant.
There are strong social forces pushing against understanding that.
When you spend the first 22 years of your life being critiqued solely on your ability to absorb, retain, and regurgitate information, intelligence is the your end all be all. I know more than a few geniuses who hit a wall when they finished schooling and dipped their toe in the real world. “You mean being smart doesn’t guarantee happiness and success?”
Don’t I know it.
Happiness and success are very personal. I’ve had lots of both but on a very limited scale.
Ducklings and a puppy..
That’s all..
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1391872275364958211
Hey, Mojeax!
Mötley Reeves & the Crüellas – Ten Seconds to Run
Curse these clumsy digits! Mojeaux… I meant Mojeaux.
Hey Friend! Heading off to the land of Nod, now.
THAT. IS. AWESOME.
And now I will return the favor: 500 miles and I’ll Be Watching You mashup.
Works musically and thematically.
Yes. It works on all levels, which is why I think it’s totally brilliant.
Wonderful
https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke-equity-calculus/
People wait until Grade 12 to take Calculus?
I took it as a junior, admittedly, I was the only junior in the class, so my comment above is a joke.
My high school didn’t even offer it. Algebra II was the most advanced math at that particular Florida HS in the 1980s.
I didn’t take calculus. My school was very small and only one person took calculus because he was the only person allowed to take it (considered advanced enough) and he took it as a senior.
My 10th grade math teacher (we had a weird integrated Algebra I/II/Geometry over 8th-10th grade. 10th was basically Algebra II with advanced Geometry mixed in) recommended at the first Parent/Teacher conference that I skip Trig/Pre-Calc and go straight into Calculus the next year.
She was mostly right, but I did struggle some in college with some of the trig identities I had skipped over. Nothing that I couldn’t figure out.
I was fortunate enough to get a ‘new math’ geometry/algebra course which was just group math and that hindered the heck out of me. I had to learn it all on my own.
We don;t really have different classes / advanced placement in Romania. All study similar things in a highschool. I had calculus in 11th and 12th grades, with maybe a touch/introduction in the 10th.
The separation is mostly the high school you go to with to main categories “profil real” meaning sciency stuff and “profil uman” meaning non sciency stuff. At least that was in my day not so sure now but believe it is similar. Though some high schools can have both tracks. But students all form classes in 9th grade and all study the same thing. It was never study X with some people or Y with others.
It was always weird for us watching US highschoolers in movies saying stuff like you were in my English class. We took all classes with the same people. We had classmates which were constant unless someone transferred to a different highschool.
I had literally not one single choice of class in either k-12 or 5 years of university
Same in Germany. You sit in one room all day and the teachers move around.
Calculus without physics is nonsense.
Physics without calculus is handicapped.
They were made for each other (literally)
I took physics as a junior and chemistry as a senior.
I took chemistry as a sophomore, physics (noncalc) as a junior, calc as a senior.
I retook both physics and calc in college at the same time and they made a lot more sense in context with each other.
I found your assertion interesting and pithy, but since I never took calculus, I couldn’t say.
Calculus was invented to describe newtonian physics because the available math at the time wasn’t up to the task.
You mean leibnitzian physics?
*throws gravity apple at robc*
Agreed on physics. I took non-calculus physics as a junior. Same time I took calculus, but I was only one in class taking calculus.
Physics needs calculus for equations to make sense.
Start with a=a and integrate to get v and s equations. No memorization necessary.
Randroid confirmed
Some do, just depending how they are doing in math. I believe high school only requires geometry and algebra II and if you want Trig/Calculus or statistics.
I was surprised my kids’ school offered statistics. I mean…why?
Useful? I would rather have had that option than calc, which I remember little about.
I honestly don’t know anything about stats, so I wouldn’t know why it’s useful. If the school’s offering it, it must have some value.
If the school’s offering it, it must have some value.
[CITATION NEEDED]
*trots off to Wikipedia*
9 out of 5 schizophrenics agree with this reasoning.
On one hand, it would be a good thing if people were more aware of the statistical trickery that gets used to create false perceptions.
But on the other hand, when our K-12 system undertakes to “teach” something, that usually results in the students hating it and avoiding it like the plague for the rest of their lives.
Lies, damnable lies, yada yada. Most satisfying to see through massaged data!
Obviously we here don’t loathe every single subject we were taught.
Yeah. I struggled with math in school, not so much with actual math, but the roteness and not seeing a connection to what it was. Then struggling further without a solid foundation because of fucking off.
Later I took more “practical” math classes and enjoyed the hell out of them along with being able to see practical applications to what I was doing at work.
Oh yea, math is very interesting if you come to it in your own way. I bombed math every year of K-12. Somehow out of the blue, I decided I want to conquer math and not have to loathe it anymore. I did a few courses on Khan Academy and even bought a few books about the philosophy and theory of math, which are very interesting. I’m also trying to get in the habit of reading and fully understanding one of the propositions from Euclid’s Elements every day.
I find geometry particularly fascinating because of how important it was for reasoning and science in ancient and medieval times, and also because it helps me with my woodworking.
They’re hurting the black/hispanic students who really want to fucking excel by doing this.
For our Mormon glibs: I have a reason to hate Joseph Smith now. Someone named that used my address to attempt some bank fraud. Yesterday we received 8 pieces of mail for him, 6 of them were SunTrust banking canceling account for suspected fraud (all different acct numbers) and 2 credit cards he had ordered.
I am not sure what the scam was, but I guess it involved opening lots of accounts and getting credit and moving money about, but whatever. Still annoying he used our address for his scam.
Aw man, that bites.
For about a week, I was getting calls. “Hey, someone here called me.” Um, no. My number’s being used to spoof people.
If it makes you feel any better, generally it’s not targeted, just randomly generating the last four digits of the outbound number so that the first six match the target.
I was inexplicably getting mail forwarded from a weirdo from Indiana. Had a nice chat with the postal inspectors.
BBC is reporting on a school shooting in Russia. They are calling the weapon both a shotgun and a “legally registered automatic weapon.” Putin is calling for a “review of private gun ownership.”
Odds that Vlad is going to be hailed as a dignified and effective stateman if he bans gunz?
I really snoozed on those (once cheap) Saiga rifles. I regret not picking a couple up before the import bans.
So, should I fish my Saiga .308 out of the Hudson and bring it down when I visit? I don’t remember exactly, but knowing my firearms budget at the time, I think got it for about $200 or so.
I’d shoot that.
Note: I don’t stock .308
🙁 I only have 24 rounds of .308
I need more, but I can’t have ammo shipped to me.
*sigh* I don’t wanna venture outside.
I really snoozed on those (once cheap) [fill in just about any random firearm now more expensive or unobtainable]. I regret not picking a couple up before [they became unobtainium or price rose considerably]
My experience with unpurchased guns.
Fukuoka canceled the local outdoor public Olympic torch relay in favor of a private event on a stage:
https://youtu.be/lGXZ_pTWF48
Is that pronounced “fuck you OK”?
Going to get a dog license today. On the one had, fuck that shit. On the other hand, I don’t want Lily to get autoeuthanized if she figures out a way to escape my yard. Apparently I’m completely willing to discard my principles if an adorable fluffball is involved.
What about just a microchip?
It’s dumb, but a lot of the time they won’t bother to scan the microchip.
My wife does cat rescue and we’ve had more than one case where she picked up a cat from the county shelter, took it to a vet and they scanned and found a chip.
She’s chipped, I’m just worried about what the local po-po policy is re: untagged dogs.
ID tag too, I assume?
Yup. Just got her rabies tag today. Now her collar will jingle and she won’t be able to sneak up on me as easily.
Agh, that would drive me nuts. Good thing they make silencers for the standard shapes of DIY tags you find at Petco.
*jangle**jangle**jangle*
Speaking of music and silencers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJC_cuAL1us
Was expecting this.
We put bells on the cats to warn the birds, but one cat is a long-hair so if it jingles, it’s muffled and we can’t hear it. The other one gives no fucks and could catch birds if he were outfitted with a dozen bells.
Does NY require rabies shots to be given by vets? That’s the law in VA, and then vets are required to report every rabies shot to the local county or city. So the State knows who doesn’t have tags.
I found that out when I got a threatening letter from the county for one of my dogs when I had to use a new vet who participated in that bullshit. I paid for one year and then found a new vet that keeps the rabies shots between us.
I buy all the other shots from the farm store and give them myself, along with liquid ivermectin for heartworm instead of the absurdly marked up rx-only pills. You can order the rabies shot online to give yourself, but the state of VA will not recognize it as valid.
Dogs don’t get COVID.
“…now we’re just haggling over the price. “
I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; If I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Bernardo de la Paz
Great quote that. Thanks.
I just got the series Are You Being Served, Australia?, the third spinoff of Are You Being Served?, in which Mr. Humphries takes a sales position at Bone Brothers Department Store. It’s bloody terrible. It’s not so much a spinoff as a direct remake, episode by episode, of the original. Now I just have to find the 1979 Garry Marshall adaptation for the US market, Beane’s Of Boston.
Does Oz even have the same social classes for the premise of that show to work?
Donno, but I hate the episode by episode remakes.
just show the original if you’re going to do that.
I’m still thankful that the US version of Fawlty Towers didn’t quite get off the ground. We dodged a bullet with that one.
Bea Arthur or John Larroquette?
Yes.
And I thought the retirement farm version was bad enough.
Dracula’s Castle in Romania Is Now Offering Free Vaccinations to Visitors
https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/dracula-bran-castle-romania-offering-free-vaccinations-to-visitors
They are just using the needles to draw blood.
Who needs a vaccine when you can have immortality!? Well with a minor allergy to sunlight, garlic and stakes to the heart…
To be fair, I’d suspect that most humans have an allergy to stakes to the heart.
I’d 100% get the vaccine there.
OT: The siblings and I were discussing a charitable donation in our mom’s name for Mother’s Day (she’s getting on in years and doesn’t seem interested in acquiring more physical stuff, so we usually do that for her and she seems to like it).
My brother went ahead without asking and gave it to the “Good Food Institute”, which claims to be creating plant-based meat and seafood substitutes. Why is this a charity?? First off, they’re using a “charitable” organization to develop something that is already being developed by the free market. Second, the donation could have been given to a charity that helps people who are actually starving. This hyper-expensive lab-grown meat substitute is definitely not of any use to them right now. It seems like the only people it helps are the owners (financially) and affluent Westerners who want to claim the moral high ground of vegetarianism without having to actually sacrifice foods that they enjoy. Third, I don’t buy that raising meat is actually bad for the environment as their website repeatedly says. In some regions of the world, livestock is the only way to produce food. Chadians and Mongolians don’t raise meat because they’re stupid – they’ve just figured out that that’s the only kind of nutrition that can be extracted from the land they live on.
The whole thing stinks of a for-profit operation dressed up as a charity. Haha oh well, glad I didn’t actually throw in any money for that yet. Might just make a separate donation.
“Charity” has been so diluted that it doesn’t mean much anymore. Everything is activism these days.
Same with “volunteerism” and “pro bono”. All are so thoroughly corrupted by activism (primarily leftist) that its quite hard to find opportunities where you just help people.
“The Human Fund – Money for People”
You’re right, what a racket.
The whole thing stinks of a for-profit operation dressed up as a charity.
psst, every charitable non-profit is really a for-profit operation. The profits are just consumed by the organization instead of being distributed to investors. I still remember the CFO of a famously heart-strings tugging non-profit tell me that “the only difference between non-profit and a for-profit is that one pays taxes and the other doesn’t.”
Sounds like a charity scam there. We donate to St Jude’s, I think they seem pretty good at getting most of the money to helping out sick kids.
Is raising meat bad for environment? Well, it is if you believe the b.s. An ad I saw claimed it took 95 gallons of water to raise one pound of beef.
So, freaking, what? Most of that came from natural rain and all of the water, less what is retained in 1 lb. of beef (and is damn sure less than 1 gallon) was pissed or sweated back into nature by the cow and eventually turned back into water. But the claim is scary as hell and accepted by the ignorant.
Can’t get yall behind the paywall, but here’s some unabashed fascism:
44 AGs Urge Facebook To Scrap Plan for ‘Instagram Kids’
I even agree wholeheartedly with the AGs’ fears regarding privacy of minors, but this is creeping authoritarianism right here.
Agreed. Though I’ll cut and paste the article.
Law360 (May 10, 2021, 8:39 PM EDT) — A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from more than three dozen states and territories including New York, California and Texas on Monday urged Facebook to shut down potential plans to roll out a version of Instagram for children under 13, slamming the social media giant for “historically failing” to protect the privacy and safety of kids online.
Facebook-owned Instagram confirmed in March that it was “exploring” the idea of developing a version of the popular photo-sharing platform that would enable children under 13 “to safely use Instagram for the first time.”
The National Association of Attorneys General called on Facebook to “abandon” those plans Monday, with 44 state and territory attorneys general sending a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg voicing concerns over a host of social, emotional, safety and privacy issues that they said “Instagram Kids” would create.
“Facebook has historically failed to protect the welfare of children on its platforms,” they wrote in their letter. “The attorneys general have an interest in protecting our youngest citizens, and Facebook’s plans to create a platform where kids under the age of 13 are encouraged to share content online is contrary to that interest.”
The attorneys general criticized Facebook’s privacy and safety track record, saying that while the social media giant has long claimed that its products are safe and have strict privacy controls built in, it hasn’t always lived up to those promises.
The letter specifically pointed to reports from 2019 that showed that Facebook’s Messenger Kids App, intended for kids between the ages of 6 and 12, contained “a significant design flaw” that allowed children to circumvent restrictions on online interactions and join group chats with strangers that the children’s parents hadn’t approved.
Additionally, a recent “mistake” with Instagram’s algorithm led to diet content being promoted to users with eating disorders, the attorneys general noted.
“These alarming failures cast doubt on Facebook’s ability to protect children on their proposed Instagram platform and comply with relevant privacy laws such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,” the attorneys general wrote.
The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act restricts companies’ ability to collect personal information from this age group without parental consent, and both Facebook and Instagram currently require users to be at least 13 to join.
The attorneys general said young children “are not equipped to handle the range of challenges that come with having an Instagram account,” because they don’t yet have “a developed understanding of privacy” or the maturity to navigate serious threats they may encounter online, including child predators and cyberbullying.
On the privacy front, children “may not be able to fully appreciate what content is appropriate for them to share with others, the permanency of content they post on an online platform, and who has access to what they share online,” according to the attorneys general.
Rolling out Instagram Kids is also likely to expose children under 13 to inappropriate content and situations that can be harmful to their physical, emotional, and mental well-being, the attorneys general argued.
The letter cited several reports that have linking young people’s use of social media to a general increase in mental distress, self-injurious behavior and suicidality, including one conducted by an online monitoring company that found that “Instagram was frequently flagged for suicidal ideation, depression and body image concerns.”
With children spending even more time online during the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cyberbullying has also risen to “alarming rates,” presenting “a dire problem that a new Instagram platform could very well exacerbate,” according to the letter. The attorneys general cited a 2017 survey that found that 42% of young Instagram users had experienced cyberbullying on the platform, the highest percentage of any platform measured.
“It appears that Facebook is not responding to a need, but instead creating one, as this platform appeals primarily to children who otherwise do not or would not have an Instagram account,” the attorneys general said.
The letter echoes one sent to Zuckerberg last month by an international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups urging the company to shut down its Instagram Kids plan.
“While collecting valuable family data and cultivating a new generation of Instagram users may be good for Facebook’s bottom line, it will likely increase the use of Instagram by young children who are particularly vulnerable to the platform’s manipulative and exploitative features,” the groups, led by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in Boston, said in their letter.
Monday’s letter was signed by the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Nebraska, Vermont, Tennessee, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
Leaves out CO, ND, WV, and which others?
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania
NE yes. Interesting alphabetizing they got going there.
IN
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Yup, same exact situation for me, except I’ve only been waiting since early March.
I remember Scruffy has been waiting forever.
I filed for an extension. I figure, since I probably won’t get it quickly, no need to rush getting them done.
I owe 5 figures this year. That was on over 6 figures of extra freelance income in 2020.
This year I’ll be lucky to hit 1/5th of that in extra income. Thankfully I have a day job.
This is also why nationalizing AB5 would be really bad for a lot of people.
But how else am I supposed to keep my child safe from wrong think on social media? Tell my 10 year-old he can’t have an account. I don’t want to be the bad guy. I want to be a friend. If government saves me from being the bad guy, I’m in. Also, make me pay more taxes to support causes I like.
“You are not your child’s friend, you are their parent. That responsibility often requires use of the word ‘No’.”
Thissssssssssssss.