I need to be fairly quick, I am working for three immediate supervisors: my old boss who in the midst of a corporate merger was reassigned to a position higher in the food chain who is still assigning me work to tie up loose ends, my new boss who is still trying to gain access to systems, and a third guy who was assigned the role to “bridge the gap” but clearly spent the last month elsewhere.
Nowhere in this did they consider asking the Mexican guy,
Whatever here’s a few links:
There’s an lewd joke here somewhere.
Mexico holds mid-term elections and AMLO’s party didn’t lose a lot of seats, but still needs to build coalitions
You probably heard of President Harris’ visit to Latin America. Its gone quite well. It began with AF-2 having a “technical issue”. Then being snubbed by the Mexican senate. Followed by being met by BASED GUATEMALANS, whom she returned the friendly sentiment,“Do not come. Do NOT come.”
Recognizing they can only vaccinate the country so many times. Chile halts second vaccine doses, and raises the age minimum for the A-Z vaccine…to 45.
A human interest piece on Mezcal producers.
…Brazil has their own version of Gen. Mike Flynn?
How about some Pantera?
A Mexican on time?
Ay yay yay. Mucho problematico.
I figured its the only way I haven’t tried screwing with the first of firsting.
I don’t think I’ve seen him lately.
Oh no! I hope nothing horrible happened to him.
Okay, I can finally read the letting in your new avatar. That’s brilliant.
I think I sold the NFT to OMWC for a large pizza with two toppings (my choice), but it was on zoom so I don’t know if it will hold up in court.
Also I usually (but not always) set my handles link to go to a full size image of the avatar when I change it.
Lettering. Ugh.
So that’s why some handles display in bold text, because they’re links. Cool.
Mid-Terms are often messy for whoever’s the current face of the government.
My link was so popular just a few minutes ago I’ll post it again:
“TOKYO: A Japanese minister in charge of cybersecurity has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive….
“”Since the age of 25, I have instructed my employees and secretaries, so I don’t use computers myself,” he said in a response to an opposition question in a lower house session, local media reported.
“He also appeared confused by the question when asked about whether USB drives were in use at Japanese nuclear facilities.”
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1576246/japan-cyber-security-minister-admits-never-used-computer
He added, “really, when you think about it, sex robots are a type of computer…”
To be fair, one way to not fall victim to a cyber attack is to not use a computer. He could be on to something.
I bet he’s never been hacked.
He’s been hacked. He just doesn’t know since he never logs in.
See also – John Podesta
I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t have some senior WH advisors aged the same 68 or so who have never used a PC either.
I don’t even know if an older American official would be *expected* to know about computers. Different stereotypes.
He was given the position so Hanlon’s Razor could continue to have some validity.
Thank you for leading me to a very interesting Wikipedia entry.
Now I know the difference between Mexcal and Tequila!
TL/DR: Its the worm.
Just mind the gap, sharpshooter
“BASED GUATEMALANS”
*applauds in Spanish*
Good on the Guatemalans, who were obviously playing to a US audience with English-language signage.
Pro-Tip: Always go with a thick, sans-serif font such as the one used for the “Trump Won” sign for best readability fro a distance. The thin, spidery lines in the serif font used on the other two signs, not so much.
“Kamala, Go Home,” is a brilliant modern take on of the classic “Yankee(s), Go Home” slogan.
Speaking of Harris, this is spot on:
https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-enemies-list/
Let’s be fair to Hillary, she actually *married* a guy she dated.
I’m laughing at this because the fact that Kamala didn’t have to marry a philandering rapist probably chaps Hillary’s cottage cheese ass.
I see you’re trying to bring SugarFree Wednesday forward a bit… shudder….
Yeah, that was…gah!
Maybe we could send her a loofa sponge. Seventies television advertising assured me they would rub that nasty cellulite away.
Also, well-done Scruffy. Even I hurked a little.
*beams with a very strange sense of pride*
You caught me flat footed, Nerfman, didn’t know where to go for a definition, but after a more literal mental interpretation I was close to Tonio at the ship’s rail.
I think You People have given me natural immunity. I should be barfing.
“unsettling laughter”
Now there’s a euphemism.
Read “maniacal cackle.”
It’s like they learned how to laugh watching the Wizard of Oz.
They could’ve added; both, ‘despite their stated commitment to a more egalitarian society, have often displayed utter contempt for those of lower status as well as for legalities that they view as preventing them from their policy goals.’
Let them eat cake!
Like, with a cloth.
cookies, faceless cookies
Corrected for accuracy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1402310743870017544
I remember saying 6 years or so ago this wasn’t going to stop with the Confederate Battle Flag but that pissed off yokels so it was good…
You know who else used trucks and chains to send a racial message?
Riggs and Murtaugh?
“Do not come. Do NOT come.”
Isn’t that what she used to mumble around a mouthful of Willie Brown?
*standing ovation*
Narrows glaze?
She just might have…
And, yes, I have started drinking early today.
Narrow graze?
So you’re implying Kamala doesn’t shave her naughty bits?
The grass must grow awfully thick on that particular veld.
[jamaican golf clap]
See? I told you there was a lewd joke.
AAAAWWWON BUWWWW!
It’s like…you have heard that before. High five, player!
Pantera fan, hmm?
Why are libertarians so guilty of the normalcy bias? The last 50 years the woke University professors, watermelons and tyrannical public health officials were very open about what they were planning but libertarians either ignored them or assumed the Democrats would stop them or there would be a non-reactionary, non-populist and intellectual mass movement against them…
Snarky answer — who are these Libertarian strawmen you keep setting up, anyway?
More serious answer (I want to say thoughtful — but there are many folks here who think much deeper than I, and I’d hate to step on their toes) — Because Libertarians by nature believe humankind is self governable and capable of making rational decisions given decent data? (Because otherwise, the whole philosophy is pointless and you might as well devolve to Top Men if you assume you have to think for others, that’s how I see it anyway…).
And given the apparent irrationality of the whole “woke, watermelons and tyrannical public health officials”, the assumption is that a rational public would reject them when sufficiently aware of them (hence the whole — “Yeah, those nutty college kids… wait until they hit the real world and get a job!” effect).
:shrug: Anyway… that’s all I’ve got for today. Go away now!
Since Hihn passed away (RIP…BULLY!) Winston is gunning for his old title belt.
I haven’t been able to synthesize any kind of model of Winston based on its posts. Like, it never makes any statements that evince a consistent thesis. There’s no substance.
One note flute.
If it would just state out loud what it’s trying to convince anyone of–its thesis–it might have a chance.
who are these Libertarian strawmen you keep setting up, anyway?
…
hence the whole — “Yeah, those nutty college kids… wait until they hit the real world and get a job!” effect
As I said…
I think the real reason for normality bias is the belief in progress. Worrying about change and the future is the sign of a reactionary…
Because otherwise, the whole philosophy is pointless and you might as well devolve to Top Men if you assume you have to think for others, that’s how I see it anyway…
I agree but the problem you end arguing that we need institutions to support freedom but how do you do that? And what happens when they turn into situations?
Saying that we should trust the New York Times is another form of TOP MEN. But how do you prevent the NYT from having shit opinions and how would you find a replacement?
You don’t and you don’t. NYT is entitled to print whatever opinion it chooses and it’s not for me or anyone else to determine what they should be. I don’t need a “replacement.”
Normalcy bias is just another word for inductive reasoning. People remember what a stupid ass they were beck when they were a teenager/college student and assume that the next batch will follow a similar path as themselves and their friends. Did the students change, or was there something different in the situation that permitted them to not grow the fuck up?
NYT is entitled to print whatever opinion it chooses and it’s not for me or anyone else to determine what they should be. I don’t need a “replacement.”
Thing is in order for there to be a self-governing and rational people we need to have institutions to reflect this.
Who for example is there to say no when politicians propose liberty destroying policies? Newspaper were thought to be this but that is no longer the case it seems…
As the founders recognized, the only possible chance any society has is if you put as many procedural obstacles in the way of the inevitable drift to governmental abuse of innocent citizens as you possibly can.
Then you prepare the populace to fight it out physically when that fails.
Anarchism isn’t immune to this. Totalitarian command and control isn’t immune to this. It’s an innate characteristic of a hopelessly corrupted species.
97% of libertarians reject the label Canadian?
You can still tell by the flappy heads and beady eyes. And they are usually clutching a Tim Hortons coffee.
Damn. Now I want a box of Timbits. Joke misfire.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/matthew-lau-ontarios-default-position-is-now-government-control/wcm/839b5360-0c5d-401d-b31f-d72cab347ebd/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Last month, the BBC reported that Toronto has suffered the longest continuous lockdown of any major city in the world – possibly, of any city of any size. In earlier days, Ontario’s lockdown rules might have been described as excessive and arbitrary. They have long since proceeded to the preposterous and absurd.
Canadians like it good and hard…
I’m trying to resist the obvious joke here.
Until one of your shitty NHL teams gets a pass into the semi finals. They they can allow some travel.
They are exempt from quatantine rules…
That explains the lack of any equivalent to the Second Amendment.
**HEAVY SIGH**
Alberta moves to “Stage Two” of re-opening on Thursday, and supposedly complete re-opening by the end of June. IMNSHO, we’re being waaayyyyyyyyy too timid about it.
But Ontario’s just fucking whacko. (And just call them Ontarians — Ontario’s no more representative of all Canadians than LA or New York City is representative of all Americans…).
Of course, to the BBC, the plight of the mezcal producers is OK, because Gaia, and lack of regulation.
I wish we could sentence the Beeb writers to harvest agave for 3 summers in Guerrero state.
You can’t give them sharp gardening tools—they’re British.
Can we start with Chibnall? Please?
“Woke MSNBC analyst sparks fury after claiming she was ‘disturbed’ to see ‘dozens of American flags’ on pickup trucks during a recent trip to Long Island”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9664535/Woke-MSNBC-analyst-blasted-claiming-disturbed-American-flags-pickup-trucks.html
CWAA
Bonus: The discussion was about a MAX BOOT article.
Bio here:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mara-gay
She knows better. She either doubled down on saying something stupid or it was intentional. The thing is with her peers it probably gains her cred.
“US intelligence knew MAGA fans were planning Jan 6 ‘war’ for WEEKS but did nothing to protect Capitol cops: Senate releases riot report that claims three cops ‘lost their lives’, doesn’t mention Trump’s role or call it an insurrection
Capitol Police and intelligence agencies including the FBI knew Trump supporters were threatening to storm the Capitol and wanted to target Democrat lawmakers weeks before January 6, but didn’t act, a bipartisan Senate Report has revealed.
Law enforcement was aware of a plot to breach the Capitol, that maps of the building’s tunnel system had been shared online, and that supporters were planning to bring guns to D.C., but failed to act or share information with uniformed cops.
The report noted that Trump encouraged his supporters to go to the Capitol to protest and a copy of his speech was added to the report, but it did not mention if he had a direct role in the attack. It also did not refer to the riot as an insurrection.
The investigation also stated that seven people – including three police officers – ‘ultimately lost their lives’. Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes from a stroke and Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood killed themselves. The Senators also state that Sicknick was hit with ‘bear spray’, an allegation prosecutors have already dismissed and said it was pepper spray.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9663551/Senate-report-details-sweeping-failures-Jan-6-attack.html
It still seems weird to me that 2 cops committed suicide after this. Cops that faced riots in other cities saw far worse over the summer and I don’t remember reading about any of them committing suicide.
Would their suicide be useful in making trump look bad?
Do the suicides actually relate to the day’s events, or are they simply coincidental?
What did they know about the Clintons?
The goal has long been to turn the IC inward, this is just one of the justifications they’ll use when they do what they wanted to do anyway.
that maps of the building’s tunnel system had been shared online
Codename: Wannafud
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1402282564539207686
Man that modernity sure showed its strength…
Can a city be held legally responsible for permitting mob rule? We may find out…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9664153/Family-Secoriea-Turner-8-shot-dead-BLM-riots-sue-Atlanta.html
The city? Maybe — that they apparently cleared out the protestors that were stopping cars (and shooting into the one with the little girl) immediately afterwards does give them some kind of case.
But —
sure looks like “Who has the deepest pockets?” is in play. I don’t think Wendy’s International was all “Hey! Please burn down our restaurant and gun down little girls in the nearby streets!”
That type of fishing for settlement cash really reduces my sympathy.
They name Wendy’s to get a nuisance settlement and use that $ to fund the suit going forward.
/former asbestos defense lawyer off
+1 pleural thickening
This guy gets it.
What is their reasoning behind claiming Wendy’s and the property owner have any responsibility in the matter?
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I guess I asked the question imprecisely. What is their reasoning in arguing that those parties have responsibility?
I’d have to look at the complaint. But I will fetch a beer instead.
But you are right. If I were Wendy’s GC, I would go scorched earth.
They are (likely) insured and lack sovereign immunity.
$$
That wasn’t nice.
I only berate, belittle, and humiliate you because I deeply care about you as a human being and as a developing writer.
Portland is going to go bankrupt.
“Judge calls man, 27, who helped burn down Minneapolis police station in George Floyd riots a ‘good person who made a terrible mistake’ as he hands down four-year prison sentence and $12M fine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9665137/Fourth-person-burned-Minneapolis-police-building-George-Floyds-murder-sentenced-prison.html
Well, it’s not like he sat behind someone’s desk or anything.
$12M fine?
Eighth Amendment?
He’s a fine person.
I am in a quandary here…applaud, or narrow my gaze.
Howzabout we call it a draw?
Maybe just a one-eyed narrowed gaze.
So, a wink?
Or a dick pic.
Embrace the power of “and”.
Look, if the government wants the money, it should get the guy in touch with a good publisher and ghostwriter for his memoirs. Then promote the memoirs – maybe by denouncing him for trying to profit off his crimes. That would make headlines and boost sales. Then seize the royalties as they come in to make good the 12 mil.
This is strictly satire, of course. So far as I know.
you
please excuse my fiddlethumbs there; oy.
Very unlikely to apply. I assume the $12MM fine is actually restitution for the cost or rebuilding the station.
Yeah, that’s basically telling the guy he’s never going to have any kind of life. Now, you might say that someone who intentionally destroys another’s property should be liable for replacing it, or making the owner whole, and I’d be inclined to agree, but it is also essentially enslaving this man for the rest of his life. Perhaps he deserves it. He’s the one who made the decision to do what he did. Probably no way he’s ever going to earn 12 million clams in his life. Unless hyperinflation, of course.
That’s an interesting question: are fines like that adjusted over time for inflation, or are they simple numbers?
Can you declare bankruptcy with a legal fine hanging over your head?
I can’t imagine that would fly.
You can file for bankruptcy but criminal fines and restitution are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Do they send a letter to all his creditors that do hold dischargeable debts saying “Suck it, Suckers! NYAH NYAH NYAH!”
Maybe send them a bill, too?
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1402354485096243200
Thank goodness the globalists still support freedom of movement
So you support the coronavirus lockdowns.
“Hunter Biden used the n-word multiple times in conversation with his white, $845-per-hour lawyer, his texts messages reveal.
The shocking texts may prove embarrassing for his father President Joe Biden, who just last week gave a speech decrying racism on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, and has sought to portray racial justice as a top priority for his administration.
The president’s son joked in a January 2019 text to corporate attorney George Mesires about a ‘big penis’, and said to the lawyer: ‘I only love you because you’re black’ and ‘true dat n***a’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9661781/Hunter-Biden-used-n-word-multiple-times-casual-conversation-text-messages-show.html
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Like anyone in the US would ask about that.
His daddy is a Dem so the MSM will not care…
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Does that make Hunter a Libertarian?
Truly an intellectual giant among mere mortals.
Buy a painting?
I stick with the more approachable artists like George the Lesser.
Of course. Why else would someone pay him an extravagant amount of money to head up a business he knows nothing about, if not for his superior intellect?
I don’t get the joke.
From the text messages it looks like some sort of dick joke?
This will be what brings him down, not the massive corruption.
His heart’s in the right place though so it’ll be excused.
One sign simply stated, “Kamala, TRUMP WON,” another told the vice president that “Guatemala as pro-life,” and another want to her to “go home.”
Heh.
BILL AND MELINDA GATES’S EPIC DIVORCE SAGA ENTERS ITS NEXT PHASE
I’m calling BS. Nobody wants a Porsche in “golden brown”.
“I am so wealthy, I can afford to have atrocious taste.”
He wants to be flashy and boring as hell at the same time.
“He would also slip on a big fur coat and several thick gold chains.”
There’s someone with impeccable credibility.
?♂️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4LvJ2tdvk
I think Porsche prefers to call it Cashmere Beige Metallic.
Google says it’s a a Toyota color too. I’d believe somebody would buy a Toyota in that color.
Oh, Shit Brindle Brown…
Yeah, had a Maverick that color
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1976-porsche-911-16/
I can see Bill behind the wheel of this.
Kidding aside that’s what I was thinking if I were to own a Porsche in that kind of color.
It would fit perfectly. The same model year as he dropped out of Hahvahd…
Bill is a car guy. He got busted importing a 959.
I believe it was impounded for a couple years.
13 years
The last 50 years the woke University professors, watermelons and tyrannical public health officials were very open about what they were planning but libertarians either ignored them or assumed the Democrats would stop them or there would be a non-reactionary, non-populist and intellectual mass movement against them…
I think it’s a matter of libertarianism is a pretty broad spectrum of ideas. That’s why libertarians always seem to be fighting over the “one true libertarianism”. Really, all you have to believe to be a libertarian is that you shouldn’t coerce other people to your own ideas via the government. There’s a hell of a lot of different ideas about how people should live that fall under that banner. And a lot of libertarians seem to believe that those woke University professors, watermelons and tyrannical public health officials are basically right about how people should live. Yeah, the coercion isn’t something they like. But, absent the coercion, do you really think, say, ENB would really have much problem with a world that they want? At the same time, you have a lot of libertarians who aren’t culturally (on a personal level, not a political level) much different from conservatives. And a majority of them have been opposed to the rise of leftist authoritarianism. Maybe cynically, I think establishment libertarianism (e.g. the Kochtopus – Cato, the LP, Reason, etc.) has been inclined to want to nudge the dial toward the former. I think conservatism has generally tended to become more libertarian and a libertarian right is something the libertarian establishment really doesn’t want. So, they push for a more leftish orientation, even if many grass roots libertarians aren’t comfortable with that.
^^^^
A big part of it that the left is very good at demonizing their opponents. In the 90’s and 00’s you’d be called a crazy right wing conspiratorial kook if you called them out on this. And you still are to this day.
Last year I joked that the one true Libertarian is a polygamous pansexual vegan nudist who smokes a specific kind of pot.
There has always this conflict over what sort of lifestyle people who live freely must or should adopt. Culture does matter but what sort, what are the acceptable parameters, how to sustain this lifestyle and the how truly voluntary these lifestyle choices are is another issue.
The whole “pot, ass sex, and mexicans” meme came from the same sort of place. Does libertarianism allow for such things? Yes*. Is it a good look when those people are the loudest voices in the public sphere? Not at all.
*open borders debates notwithstanding
True, The one true libertarian is a sober yeoman farmer or small business owner with traditional morals. That is the person who doesn’t need a lot of government. And will create a stable prosperous society.
I think it’s more than not a good look. A bacchanalian lifestyle might be a lot of fun. But, it isn’t really that sustainable. You wind up either having to make a course correction or eating the seed corn. The libertarian answer for this is supposed to be well, yeah, a few people might eat their seed corn, but they’re going to wind up a pretty good example of what not to do. Then, people learn that that isn’t the way to go. The problem is that we have a system that replenishes the seed corn. In the absence of a feedback loop and behavioral controls (which libertarians don’t and shouldn’t want), what’s the incentive not to eat the seed corn? I don’t think there necessarily is one. And in the absence of one, I don’t see where libertarianism has a real response to demands for a bacchanalian orgy.
Well, I’ll be upfront with my biases and blind spots. I’m more one of those “culturally conservative” libertarians. Yeah, I did stupid things in my youth. But, they’re things I see (and saw at the time) as stupid. I don’t think the government should ban them and I don’t think the government should really be involved at all. But, I do think a nice, traditional, middle class life is probably the best way to live, long-term. And, ultimately, I think that would be the prevailing outlook in a genuinely libertarian society. Sure, you can do dumb things. But, those dumb things have a price. And if you’re the one footing the bill (or even some voluntary association is doing it for you) for doing your particular dumb things, you’re going to do a lot fewer of them. There’s an incentive to course-correct. To me, a big part of the problem is we’ve broken the feedback loop. You do dumb things, and Uncle Sugar is there to pick up the bill. In that world, not only is there not an incentive not to do dumb things, there’s an open advocacy of doing dumb things. And why shouldn’t there be. It’s not like you have to pay for it? And if Joe down the street has to pay for your dumb things, what reason is there for Jim to impose his close-minded demands that you not do dumb things. And libertarianism becomes twisted. Maybe, libertarianism is one of those things that doesn’t necessarily work piecemeal. Maybe letting people do whatever they want while society externalizes the cost doesn’t work.
I feel like I wrote an article that addressed this in the context of family…. did I ever actually put metaphorical pen to paper? I forget.
Your point is well made. We’re fish in water. We have no concept, without studying history closely, of what the unsubsidized consequences of many lifestyle choices are. Hardly anybody alive has known a single mother that wasn’t substantially subsidized by the state. Entire generations exist that don’t know the concept of “can’t afford to go to college this year” because of ubiquitous federal meddling. Hell, try to imagine an economy without inflation. Its a little bit mind boggling, but it was a regular thing pre 20th century.
There would be a massive reordering were the omnipotent state to recede. The people who would be best off are the ones who cling to the traditions, wisdom, and lifestyles of the olden days. That 24 year old blue hair nonbinary on hormone treatments and five types of anti-anxiety meds, with $150k in student debt, $50k of credit card debt, a loft in the expensive part of town, a premium subscription to grubhub, Hep C, and a gender studies degree would be fucked.
The entities that hold their notes would be fucked.
Seeing this happen would be roundly entertaining.
That 24 year old blue hair nonbinary on hormone treatments and five types of anti-anxiety meds, with $150k in student debt, $50k of credit card debt, a loft in the expensive part of town, a premium subscription to grubhub, Hep C, and a gender studies degree would be fucked.
Right. But, in a world where the government is saying that companies have to hire her as a diversity and inclusion consultant, is paying for her medical, requiring people to use her preferred pronouns, and looking at ways to cover her student loans, who’s to say she’s made the wrong decisions? The carpenter with a house in the suburbs and tax bills for the rest of his life? The middle aged businessman just meeting a payroll?
who’s to say she’s made the wrong decisions
Only the Gods of the Copybook Headings
The problem is the Gods of the Copybook Headings tend to visit their consequences pretty much across a society. Yeah, she’ll get her comeuppance. And maybe the carpenter will have the ability to avoid the worst of it. But, the middle aged businessman also winds up getting brought down.
the Gods of the Copybook Headings tend to visit their consequences pretty much across a society.
I believe that is the lesson.
The problem is the Gods of the Copybook Headings tend to visit their consequences pretty much across a society.
Hence the trope about the right winning elections just long enough to clean up the left’s messes, then falling out of favor when the next hotness comes along, losing to the left who make new messes, lather, rinse, repeat. (This is not to say the right can’t make messes of its own, everybody’s human).
But the only thing the blue-hair and I have in common anymore is we both speak English and we both grew up in the U.S. That used to mean a lot, to both of us, but it’s meaning less and less every day.
That used to mean a lot, to both of us, but it’s meaning less and less every day.
Yeah, I’m pretty much there myself. It’s sort of a memory of having once had something in common. At this point, I really do feel like they’re a different people.
There’s power and there’s money. Both flow to those who glorify power, and get cut off from those who don’t. The libertarian establishment is a captive of power, having fallen into a trap set up a long time ago for them and a thousand others. The force that moves them is like a lazy god; it is mostly disinterested, and unmotivated to directly intervene often, but that’s because it usually doesn’t even need to.
Arguments about ideas, or issues, are not immaterial to us, because they reflect our values. But they are immaterial to power, except insofar as they’re useful. Recognizing this is recognizing why the LP will always be a joke, why the two major parties aren’t really any better for protecting one’s values, and why this country may be better off disunited.
My brief experience with the Mises Caucus of the LP is demonstrating that there is some extreme vitriol towards the usurpers of the LP. I mean the “prags” like Sarwark literally hate Dave Smith et al…
It’s all about power. Even if they have a tiny little insignificant fiefdom, they seem to be willing to engage in any number of distasteful things in order to keep it.
Vitriol.
In the comments are links to the twitter threads of two the LPNH wokesters/anti-Mises Caucus folks who are previous Party Chairs resigning from the party over this.
“Wage slavery ”
And I’m out.
We’re just witnessing the skinsuiting of the LP in real time.
I think she made a deal with the devil (and I approve.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9663809/Elizabeth-Hurley-55-shows-incredible-frame-skimpy-gold-bikini-basks-sun.html
She looks good for 55, almost as pretty as her son and his name is Damian apparently. Maybe that was the bargain.
I’m not going to bet against you
Well, her son is named “Damian,” after all . . .
Refresh before posting, refresh before posting . . .
She just needs to do some cougar porn and get it over with.
See? That’s the kind of forward thinking this place needs.
She needs to make a selfless wish before it is too late.
https://twitter.com/heidegger79/status/1402334608256032770
SCIENCE!!!!!!!
L
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That’s got to be some guy just fucking around. Gotta be…
There are bunch of vids of people swimming with masks.
Some people are stupid.
Heidegger from the Hawthorne story, or Heidegger the Nazi philosopher?
The comment on Ontario above made me think they could have a “total state”-off with Melbourne / Victoria in Oz to see who is worse.
I need a crypto expert to evaluate this for me because the way I read it, it sounds like the fucking FBI ran the pipeline ransom scheme.
https://mobile.twitter.com/vinarmani/status/1402047844643573783?s=19
Sounds like they ran it to me.
Gf said as much to me when the news ran a blurb on it.
I’m skeptical.
They could have obtained the password through other means. I think it is the wallet that matters.
A Bitcoin wallet can be used by multiple people simultaneously, if each has access to the private key. It’s possible the FBI hoovered up a hard drive containing the private key, possibly through some unrelated action, didn’t know what they had at the time, and discovered after the fact that they had access to the same wallet the ransomware attackers were using. For example, the wallet could have been stolen from a legitimate user, had its private key shared around on the places where that sort of thing happens, the FBI monitored one of those sites and recorded some details, and the attackers picked it at random and figured it was a good place to hold the funds for a short while before moving them somewhere else.
This is all possible, but given the available info, purely hypothetical.
Okay, this makes sense. I know we’re pretty far gone, but” the FBI ran a ransom scheme “ is a bit much.
I can believe that they were aware of it and did nothing to stop it though.
(this is a simplification of how BTC actually works, but is accurate enough in the abstract)
A related article over at ZeroHedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/colonial-pipeline-hack-russians-fbis-ransom-grab-what-really-happened
Though the article is fairly readable I think, in lay terms: the attackers opened an account at a U.S. bank, and the DOJ simply identified and subpoenaed the bank before most of the funds were spent.
Pretty low-tech if accurate.
Low tech fits the FBI’s wheelhouse.
BTW, the twitter bits I read about the FBI burner phone sting this morning seemed to indicate that all the actual targets were outside the US (mostly Euros/Australia)- hence the FBI wasn’t playing that game domestically. But I haven’t read any complete articles yet.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/06/wisconsin-pharmacist-who-intentionally-destroyed-covid-vaccines-gets-prison-time.html
He deserves it, whether you agree with the vax or not it’s both destruction of property and a betrayal of trust.
Yes.
Three years though?
Meh, I could do that kinda time standing on my head.
“Border Crisis Solved: Immigrants Flee In Terror After Hearing Kamala Harris Cackle”
https://babylonbee.com/news/border-crisis-solved-immigrants-flee-in-terror-after-hearing-kamala-harris-cackle
Snopes rates this as True.
*Lights the Glib Signal*
So…junior homeowner here (been in this place just over a year). Just got the hard sell from a Frontline agent. Now…I didn’t see a ton of ants outside last year – more this year (I used ortho around the outside of the house last summer and again a couple weeks ago) – not a lot of ants inside…but I *did* have a bit of an outbreak during a cold snap a few months back when one of my lamp timers was apparently infested by way of the socket (seems to be cleared out and working normally now, but I plan to buy some socket blocker plugs later).
Anyhoo….is $99 for an intro offer (down from their standard $399 because – according to him – all my neighbors are going to get treated because there’s a lot of carpenter ants around, etc) and $139/quarter for the year reasonable given that I live in Northern Neck VA? Apparently will also include outside treatment for spiders/wasps and ticks in the yard. Need to let him know by tomorrow.
Don’t like the time pressure…but it doesn’t involve them coming inside from what he said.
This’ll last you years. All you need is one of those pump applicators and to read the instructions. I applied as a perimeter around the house 3 or 4 times per year in Nova, and it kept the bug issues to a minimum.
Used permethrin in the army. More concerned about the possibility of carpenter ants in the walls since apparently they wouldn’t have come up during a termite inspection. Also since all the neighbors are apparently concerned – haven’t really chatted with any of them since moving in due to everything else this year though…
DIY first would be my recommendation.
Well, I’ve done DIY before and I may again in the future.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough – my question was more along the lines of whether that pricing was decent given the circumstances – or pure extortion.
Dunno about pricing in your area. I’d call around to other pest control places to see what their pricing is. The initial fee seems high and the “limited time offer” seems more like what it should be. That it’s limited and throwing in the pressure on what neighbors are doing leads me to say they’re trying to funnel you into the hard sell direction before you consider alternatives.
I fired my pest control company and use Do My Own for supplies
https://www.domyown.com/
Something like Taurus SC for a termiticide and Demand SC for an all around perimeter insecticide (there’s some overlap between both). Get a small pump sprayer (1gal) from your local home improvement store and a decent tank wash (either from Do My Own/hardware store/feed and seed store). Watch YouTube video for proper triple rinse of spray containers. Easy peasy, lot less than a contract. Set a calendar remind for periodic reapplication.
Oh, you mentioned yard treatment. I don’t do that but there are yard sprays in there as well, like Talstar.
What’s the requirement for rinsing?
https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/51482/3771.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
This is for the pesticide container but it’s the same principle and steps for the sprayer itself. Triple rinse is effective at remove/reducing the product in the container. Keeps from cross contaminating and extends the life of the spray equipment.
I use this. Primarily for tick control.
https://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/bifen-it
The site is worth perusing. They have very good info.
^^ second these guys as well. Already have my main supplier above but I’ve used their website for figuring out stuff as well
Clear away any dead wood around your property.
Ah, the old “your neighbors are doing it” pitch.
I have a pest control service, it originally came with the house. When I’ve had problems, they came, great service. I don’t have frontline. I pay in NOVA about $450 a year, billed yearly. Yours would be more, so no. Mine come when I called about mice, when I called about bees, when I called about ants.
Thanks for the inputs. Prices seem slightly higher on the overall cost than the VA average – but convenience with the other things I’m dealing with right now might even it out. I’ll sleep on it.
Carpenter ants come in searching for water, wet wood in the walls/floor will really attract. I get a few in the spring every year as the accumulated snow melts off around the house. I once had a hose leak behind the washer, I couldn’t understand why there so many in the house, pulled out everything, saw the very slight water. Tightened the hose, dried out the water and after a couple days no ants.
Had some wet insulation in the cabin basement, carpenter ants ate the sills and floor joists before I discovered the problem. Had to jack up a wall, replace the sill and 2-3 joists. Took the fiberglass out of the walls and no more problem.
I have a few hills of them around the yard, a little gasoline will do a trick on them. An untreated deck on the ground is a perfect place for them to find wet wood.
I haven’t seen this around here.
Virus Free Zones will be about effective as Gun Free Zones.
So, if I’m vaxxed I MUST go inside?
Make sure to light up a cigarette when you go in. Then say, “well where am I supposed to go? talk about mixed messages!”
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/D9Vr0ohmQ9OEsY5NwPZDYg.OeLGgLnJCzFq6hd0bIGWYd
Why is Home Depot sending me lumber made in Sweden?
I want Murican made wood, damnit.
Because watermelons don’t let us cut enough American timber.
Those red bellied sonsabitches!
Yeah, right.
https://youtu.be/D3yAfF9bfjA
I just can’t take him seriously with that fallen headliner.
^^This^^ not to mention the sad state of his “beard”
Don’t let the methhead appearance fool you.
Your avatar continues to win the entire internet.
I’m really looking forward to the grand opening.
He’s got a video explaining his used car purchasing strategy. Basically he’s super cheap on the shit that doesn’t matter to him so he can have the freedom to do whatever the fuck he wants to in other places (including not feeling tied down).
I’d say “I thought tariffs were racist” but I’m not dumb enough to believe anyone is remotely susceptible to charges of hypocrisy anymore.
We couldn’t take potatoes across the border to Canada because of the tariffs on Canadian cedar shakes, according to a Canadian friend.
Tariffs always seem to have unintended consequences.
We don’t make wood anymore. We grow firestorms.
Trees are the #1 cause of forest fires.
Mr. Biden, cut down these trees!
“We don’t make wood anymore.”
Speak for yourself, old man.
“We don’t make…”
Mrs Fourscore concurs…
Alrighty then. Mezcal, soda and lime it is for Friday. I figure it is the least I can do, which is usually what I am down for.
Medical is the smoky one? I don’t like it. (I also don’t like scotch) smoke belongs on food, not drinks.
I hate autocorrect
*processing*
User intent was clearly “I LOVE Autocorrect”
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I haven’t drank Mezcal since that one summer (does math) 35 years ago and ya there was a worm involved. I think they have moved past that. Or maybe not, don’t care, I am committed now.
@Count Potato, so I was weirdly fascinated by that toothless wonder and dug a little deeper. Apparently, pregnancy did a number on her teeth (it’s a real thing—I didn’t know), so she ended up getting them all pulled so she could get snap-in dentures. Now, I personally would not flaunt my toothlessness all over the ‘net, but I don’t need that much attention. So then I felt bad about goggling at her.
Toothless woman? Darn, I always miss the hawt ones.
https://twitter.com/_munecamorenita/status/1401918519613272072?s=21
I don’t mess with demons.
I was more surprised by her makeover transformation.
Anyway, I wouldn’t feel bad.
Yo: updates for those still interested in the Flashman/ Humungus story line / character arc.
Work : promoted me (but that is still pending once we have a new green associate to be my henchman). Hobbies: starting guitar playing, supporting the Lord H with his new business venture. The heir : at camp this week (which somehow related to me smoking weed, go figure). The rest: moscow mules, weed delivery, art, music….. faaaaack.
Intrigued by your avatar. Who dey?
…and mazel tov re: the promotion!
Sounds like everything is going swimmingly!
? You two need to join a happy hour again.
+1
Someone needs to beat the shit out of whoever made those Ad Council anti bullying ads.
Should I check it out?
https://ibb.co/nCy0FHp
It’s a trap.
2:00-7:00? Sleep tutoring?