Actually, that should be pointing down.
1:50pm Glibs Time… *ding* Wha? Oh…Links reminder. #$%^ it! It didn’t help I had an online call/meeting set for the full hour before links post. So you are getting a quite hastily assembled set of links here. Not that you could really tell from any other Monday.
- It happens everywhere. The ants always find the sugar.
- A fight that I hope both sides lose. No, seriously.
- Current events provide rich material for SugarFree.
- I guess he was taking the only honorable path away from his involvement.
Share and enjoy.
A high-ranking official for the Japanese Olympic Committee jumped in front of a train in an apparent suicide on Monday in Tokyo, according to local reports.
I dunno. Seppuku works just as well, and doesn’t inconvenience thousands of commuters. Most inconsiderate, official-san.
But this is much more spectacular.
Maybe he had some dirt on Hillary.
A guy I used to drink with in Sacramento did this. He owned an imported Irish goods shop, and I guess that business wasn’t too good, he was divorced, and so on.
Whole thing sucks, no matter which way you look at it.
“KER-SPLAT!!”
-Don Martin
面目ない。
The Amtrak and NJTransit “code” for this is “trespasser incident” . It means suicide by train. And It happens several times a year and delays my commute by hours. Similar to many Japanese my sympathy for these people is low even accounting for the mental illness.
I’ve read somewhere if you have more than a 20 plus year career as an engineer you have a fairly high probability that you will be driving a train that runs somebody down.
I used this as a plot point in one of my books. One character was pushed, but they didn’t go over. Another (minor) character jumped, but not far enough. Jumping is one thing. Missing is an entirely different thing.
My only ride on TGV from Paris to Avignon was delayed and partially rerouted (where it wasn’t a TGV) because of it.
VRE uses the same code. See May 13. You should be able identify the train involved.
I had this happen on a train I was on going from DC to Baltimore.
But it wasn’t a suicide.
Somebody murdered someone and dumped the body on the track.
It was seen and reported before we actually would have hit it, but we sat on the train for 3 hours, waiting for the police to clear the scene.
Missed my flight out of BWI.
“The Swiss authorities are stepping up checks of possible abuse of a short working hours scheme introduced last year to help soften the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the job market.”
Maybe not calling it a “scheme” might help.
They could probably learn a few things from our Unemployment Hustle.
Geez Louise. The Olympic Games aren’t even worth picking up the TV remote for, let alone offing oneself.
Poor guy.
What, you don’t want to watch coverage flooded with human interest stories about how [insert name] overcame stigma and whatever-ism to be here today most of the time with only some athletic events, most you don’t give a shit about, only appearing on occasion?
Mrs. TOK thinks the person with the biggest sob story is more likely to win an event.
I just watch the Super G for the wrecks ‘cuz I’m a misanthrope at heart.
Or the Skeleton.
This has got to take the prize for the funniest first paragraph of a business story:
If you hire based on skin color instead of ability to do the job, then the people discriminated against by that racism are by definition not being treated equally.
Probably not what they meant “treated equally”, tho.
The Horror of Teaching Critical Race Theory to Kids
“EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian real estate tycoon to overturn his bribery conviction through a massive propaganda campaign with help from VP Joe’s government connections and former FBI director Louis Freeh”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9646127/Hunter-Biden-hired-Romanian-tycoon-help-overturn-bribery-conviction.html
I’m sure Adam Schiff will get right on that.
Aha! Now we know why Freeh donated $100k to the Biden grandkid trust.
All that’s missing is how Freeh collected on his services for the campaign.
“‘This is how state TV functions’: Glenn Greenwald rips CNN’s Brian Stelter for ‘fawning’ over White House’s Jen Psaki in ‘one of the most sycophantic interviews of a state official you’ll ever see'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9660655/Glenn-Greenwald-rips-CNNs-Brian-Stelter-fawning-Jen-Psaki-interview.html
I don’t share Glenn’s optimism.
“…prompting conservative journalist Glenn Greenwald…
Seriously, Daily Mail? Seriously?
He doesn’t buy the official line, therefore he is conservative.
It’s like when I see people post “That guy isn’t politically left. He did a bad thing, therefore he can’t be on the left.”
If one believes that being a liberal means towing the lion, truth be damned, and further believes everyone else is a conservative, and anyone who has actual conservative values is a far-right fascist evil Nazi …
then Glenn Greenwald would be considered a conservative and a doubleplusungood crimethinker by such a person.
He’s almost as distasteful as conservative YouTube guy Jimmy Dore.
So true. Lol.
Along those lines:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-white-house-briefing-room-forum-for-propaganda-2021-6
“I also have a responsibility not to allow the briefing room to become a forum for propaganda or a forum for pushing forward falsehoods or inaccurate information.”
Um, that’s kind of your job, and that of every press secretary before you. Oh, wait, you meant…
MiniTrue, good citizen. Just down the street from MiniPax.
You do support President Clarke ^W Biden from the disruptive parts of our society seeking to weaken us, right citizen?
Join us to help be on guard… a night watch, if you will…
Isn’t there someone out there that refers to Brian Seltzer as “potato head’?
If there isn’t, there should be.
Townhall.com’s Kurt Schlichter
He’s known for making up names for a lot of folks.
Yeah – he generally refers to Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, as “Felonia Milhous Von Pantsuit.” Shows a distinct lack of respect for Her Imperial Majesty, if you ask me.
I bet that stings, since Stelter had taken to calling Fox and other right-wing media “State Media” when Trump was in office.
I like to think he was pushing it in an opposition to “corporate media” which has become more popular in anti establishment circles.
Im not sure what’s great about Switzerland, but their flag is a big plus.
They’re just very positive.
Here we go with the cheesy puns.
I Camembert the last time we did this.
You don’t want to cross the Swiss.
We are going to get a big alp-ing hand of narrowed gazes for this
Emmental you, we’re in for it.
And just to add to things, they will commute your sentence if you distribute…
I think it’s cool that large amounts of military hardware is observed going into tunnels in the mountains but not out.
The Swiss will be ready for a fight if anyone is silly enough to invade them.
Considering their army knife has a corkscrew, they seem pretty optimistic.
They are drawing on the experience of the great William Claude Dukenfield:
You can usually push the cork inside the bottle.
But why would you?
If you really want to drink wine but have no corkscrew.
That if clause isn’t going to trip.
One of my ads.
Okay. That’s a clever ad for a product for which the usage is of an unpleasant nature. But the implication is there, just like the extradimensional, tentacly things lurking in the wings of a SugarFree production.
Blue load.
*narrows gaze*
“President Biden knows Erdogan very well, the two men have spent a good amount of time together and they’re both, I think, looking forward to the opportunity, to really have a business like opportunity to review the full breadth of the relationship,” Sullivan said.
Biden sniffed Erdogan’s hair?
Push-up contest will be simulcast around the world.
Better than the Olympics!
Or spent too much time in a Turkish Prison.
Which is coincidental since Im watching Airplane !
Seems to me Midnight Express is more of a Monday afternoon film.
Did you get any help for that drinking problem?
Somehow I foresee a Turkish bath scene in our next installment from SF.
Pre-emptively empties stomach.
DEBUNKED
I tapped out after a minute.
I tapped out pretty quickly as I’ve seen it before.
Those guys are behaving like teenage girls gushing over the latest boy band.
“Don’t be hasty.”
/some talking tree guy
I thought it was a shell programmer tree warden — you know, a CLI-Ent.
Et tu?
*narrows gaze*
I was not aware of that. Ent that a shame.
Yet another piece of evidence that COVID-19 is probably genetically engineered:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/06/07/cgg-cgg/
What’s the over/under on how long before we get into a shooting war with China?
I better call a Vault-Tec rep.
Congratulations! You have been selected for a place in a vault. Residents have been selected from the most varied cross section of society possible. Free stimms and armaments provided in ample quantities.
As long as I get tactical nukes
You’ll get one of the weirder experimental vaults, more likely.
Gary?
Vault 34?
More likely Vault 11 knowing us and our love of politics here… 😉
https://youtu.be/yU2qoKn-n3Y
Colonialista
June 7, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Fauci did not kill himself!
The love affair is over.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/557100-progressive-rep-joe-manchin-has-become-the-new-mitch-mcconnell
Until Romney ‘bravely’ ties it back up again.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9660469/Demi-Rose-shows-jaw-dropping-cleavage-poses-range-plunging-summer-dresses.html
Thunk.
Thark.
Right Movie, wrong character.
Nope. Flawless visage.
“Yusen Zhou, a Chinese military scientist, reportedly filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine long before the novel coronavirus was declared to be a global pandemic.
Zhou, who was employed by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), filed the paperwork for the patent on behalf of the Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA on February 24, 2020, only five weeks after China confirmed that COVID-19 could be transmitted between humans.
Zhou also reportedly “worked closely” with other scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). One of his alleged collaborators was Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of the WIV — who also researched coronaviruses in bats.
Zhou died in mysterious circumstances in May 2020, less than three months after filing for the patent. “Despite being an award-winning military scientist, there were no reports or tributes, with him just listed as ‘deceased’ in a Chinese media report in July and a December scientific paper,” according to The New York Post…..”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/chinese-military-scientist-filed-for-covid-vaccine-patent-before-pandemic
An awful lot of Chinese scientists knew something about the Clintons.
Is that the vaccine that’s shit at providing immunity, working less than 50% of the time?
How long till they change the name on the patents?
Bears are not expected to show up inside 495. And this one made it all the way to the shore.
‘Boo Boo’ the bear spotted in Scituate; latest stop in travels
Probably looking for Yogi, who at last report was out looking for pick-a-nick baskets and sharpening up his Art Carney impression.
Are you sure it’s not a picnic basket insteads of a mate?
So there’s a situation in Scituate.
I’m not sure you pronounce Scituate correctly.
Being Massachusetts, it’s probably pronounced Psmith.
PSTEVE PSMITH IS NOT AMUSED.
“The woke industrial complex at its finest:
Mark Zuckerberg (Big Tech) effectively teams up with Dr. Fauci (Big Government) to decide what counts as “misinformation.”
They effectively covered up the Chinese lab leak last year: Fauci dismissed it, Facebook censored it.”
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1402000294720851970
It seems to indicate that Zuckerberg is a dope that bought into the government line.
He probably hoped he was buying goodwill that would be returned. Idiot.
He should’ve spent the money on a hair stylist. The bowl should be retired after your worth is 8 figures or so.
+1 Mark Davis
UCS: If you’re reading, how’s that pain in your left leg doing? Where is the pain? You mentioned being concerned about a DVT the other day.
It was this morning. I slept in one position through the night. Right now, I appear to be better. It had been up the outside of the leg where the pressure had been during the night. It shrank down the leg to the toes and has been worked out through additional motion.
Funny that even in a country where corruption is perceived as being very low, that there would be such cashing in on a government program.
The best country on the list – New Zealand, had such low corruption, they didn’t even include it on their map.
Lots of dubious rankings, but Somalia is dead last! Muh roadz!
“Anthony Weiner may sell his infamous crotch shot as an NFT”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/anthony-weiner-may-sell-his-infamous-crotch-shot-as-an-nft/
Sounds like a dick move.
The whole thing is tainted.
I hope noone gets shafted.
I wonder if Veep based Selina Meyer’s husband on Weiner. The actor looks a lot like him.
Ugh.
90F and 60%+ humidity for the foreseeable future. Maybe the thunderstorms will take the edge off when they get here, but I’m already having trouble with hydration. These fans don’t feel like they’re helping because nothing will evaporate.
92 here and 65% humidity. I turned the AC on again at 10am.
The actual weather has been consistently 5 to 10 units worse in both temp and humidity than the forecasts lately so I programmed my portable AC to be on when I got home from the office.
Soooo glad I did.
I can’t even cool the bedroom, which has the advantage of a northern exposure. The living room is a solar oven.
I thought you have at least a portable AC, yes? If not, I am so sorry.
I do. But it struggles to bring down the bedroom by 10 degrees. I still have to change the drip bucket regularly
Yikes. I have a window unit in my bedroom. That thing cranks.
I can’t put one in my living room because it would “block the fire escape”. When I pointed out to the landlord that it did not, in fact, block the fire escape, they weren’t impressed.
I’ve decided to try and see if my window unit can be coaxed to cool again. It’s in the window now. I reconfigured the fans to try to help. It’s now very noisy, I don’t know how I’ll manage meetings with the noise.
IIRC, didn’t you say your window unit is only in your bedroom because you don’t have AC vents in there?
A modern AC should be able to pump 50 degrees lower than outside temperature.
If I had been to the office today and no one else was home, it would be 95 in here right now, lol. We have a dumb thermostat and the cheap ass owners of this community ain’t spending a dime on anything that still works. My wife told them that it’s a museum. Every time they see her coming, they run, lol.
*revels in central air privilege*
Central air, good insulation, and offstreet parking are the features I wish I had.
I was prescient and planned accordingly.
I have central air and a portable in the bedroom. I don’t have zones.?
Can you adjust the vents?
I also have poor insulation. If I cool the bedroom via central air, the basement TV room is freezing. Better to use the portable.
11% humidity (dew point 18F). It’s so dry that my sinuses hurt.
I’m pretty sure I’m in love, again.
Holy Smokes
I made it half way through. She was doing pretty good.
I’m not sure what she said, lol, but I loved it! No really, I got it, she’s great in more than one way.
lolwut
Xerox – “yeah, that’s we did”.
Kodak – “me too!”
-1 economy of Rochester
Huh. Someone should tell Amazon & Google.
OFFS I had no idea that states had to renumber all their highway exits.
LOL it’s the new “dig a hole and fill it in”.
NJ parkway just adds letters.
I wonder what the conversion from “letters” to “miles” is.
WTF kind of inbred cousin fuckers aren’t using mileage (really milepost, which should be the same thing) based exit numbers already?
Anyone sane.
It’s not the 25th exit, it’s the 5th.
It’s the exit at MP25, not at MP5.
No one knows the miles. And it’s the fifth exit.
::builds new exit between first one and second one::
Exit 1b, got it.
Exit 1b, got it.
Sorry, naming convention is already used for interchanges with multiple exits.
I’m afraid those are N, W, E and S.
Exit 1b, got it.
Not 1A?
Note that when you’re going on the Thruway, the order of exits is 21, 21B, 21A, 22.
You would know if your exits were properly numbered.
Do you at least use Arabic numbers, or are you guys still wedded to using Roman ones on the highways?
My exit XXXI got renumbered!
What do you mean, no one knows the miles? Don’t you have mile markers? Around here, they’re every 0.2 mile. Exits are numbered according to the nearest mile marker.
*shrug* who knows. Unless you’ve crashed, it’s useless information.
It is so in all of the civilized parts of the country.
Not to me. When I’m roadtripping, depend on the mile markers to tell me how far I’ve gone in the state I’m currently i or how far I’ve yet to go to get to the next state.
I also depend on them to navigate to … badum tsss … the correct exit.
@ Western – ‘civilized’ is a terrible thing to be. Degenerate, weak, collectivist.
@ Mo – If you know some identifier for the exit, it doesn’t matter what mile it’s at, unless they’ve decided to not put signs on the exits themselves.
No one knows the miles
The miles absolutely matter. If I’m at exit 73 and I need to exit at 136, I know that I have 63 miles to go and can plan a gas stop accordingly.
If its pure numeric order I don’t know if exit 73 to exit 136 is 40 miles or 200 miles.
Apparently logic like that is Degenerate, weak, collectivist. Perhaps “civilized” was a poor choice of words, I should have said logical. That is how we all plan travels in places we have not been before.
If it’s under half, fill the tank. Unless you’re looking at the bigger states, then fill at every station.
The mileage comes from measurements on the map. To be honest, I don’t even know the exit numbers when planning trips. And ‘we all’ sounds pretty collectivist.
So, question: Have you ever roadtripped where the next exit is just shy of a full tank of gas?
I’ve never gotten to the states empty enough to have to worry about the next station being 400 miles from the last. When I get further out west, that might be an issue.
At that point, might want to make a note to pay attention to mile markers and know how far your next exit is, per trashy’s explanation above.
That’s mostly Nevada. I once filled a quart gatorade bottle, just in case. I stopped at the last gas “station” and it was closed. I had exactly enough gas to get to the next one, so I left it out in the middle of the driveway in case the next guy needed it. There’s stretches of almost 200 miles with no gas out there.
Milepost markers men that you don’t have to re-number the entire system when you add another exit to the highway.
As everybody already said, above.
See what comes of not reading the comments?
That might be an issue elsewhere, but we’re not going to have that problem.
/peoplefleeNY
Most of the eastern half of the US in my experience.
I RTFA’d. Must be an east coast thing.
No one should be using the metric system.
Just when I memorized all the relevant exit numbers by heart…
I can hear the cicadas here at home, but they’re not nearly as loud here as outside my office, which is right by a large wooded area. Haven’t seen any at home either. Just hope they don’t invade Tranquility Base.
We have a treeline pretty close to our development. They loud out there.
The sound reminds me of childhood. We don’t have them in NYC.
The pepper plants are being lil bitches. They’re not taking the hardening off process very well.
I have the same problem here in Edmonton with my tomatoes, tomatilloes and basil. We’re back to cool temperatures, unstable air and thunderstorms producing hail. I started those babies at the end of March and I’m not sure they’re gonna make it through the summer.
https://twitter.com/jwt6577/status/1402024272416083969?s=21
?
Back in the old days, the instructions were on The Beach Boys LPs. And we had to buy those ourselves.
Charlie found some instructions in an album. Specifically instructing white people.
And it was the soft racism of low (?) expectations.
Except for the murdering rich people part, it’s not far off from what we’re seeing now. Actually including the murdering rich people part. It’s just the hiding in a cave until it’s all over part that’s different.
Found this infographic while perusing the comments. I know it has been discussed before, but damn… we’re headed toward shitville on an express train if any significant number of people believe that shit.
I don’t think that many people really do, it’s just the ones that buy that nonsense are LOUD and committed and they have the support of a cadre of powerful people for some reason.
I think that’s from the Smithsonian, and was taken down.
Yeah, I remember this story circulating a couple months ago – and they rightly caught a lot of shit for it.
It’s possible we aren’t swirling down the drain as fast as it sometimes seems.
“Man punches Albuquerque mayoral candidate after taunting him with flying dildo ”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/02/man-punches-albuquerque-mayoral-candidate-after-taunting-him-with-flying-dildo/
Sounds like a dick move.
Sounds like he got a little too cocky.
Such a dick move.
Was it detachable?
That takes some balls.
https://twitter.com/_MunecaMorenita/status/1401918519613272072
woah
Honestly…really not looking forward to any upcoming flicks – between the selection and the theater options – and my new location. A couple that have my interest piqued though – Edgar Wright’s new one looks pretty tight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB9WUIv9KH8 (he’s also got a documentary opening in a week or so – “old guy music” that doesn’t ring any bells with me – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUsIYESOpM).
Another ***PANT! PANT!*** hour ***WHEEZE!!*** on the ***GASP!!!*** treadmill!!!
::collapses::
Need water?
Are you good to at least sit up?
““Of the 1,500 university educators listed as Native American at the time, said Bill Cross, who helped found the American Indian/Alaska Native Professors Association, ‘we’re looking realistically at one-third of those being Indians.’””
https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1401639911506198530
+1 Elizabeth Warren
I have one question.
OFFS!
destorying muh democracy!
The fact anyone can believe anything these fuckheads say is in itself almost unbelievable. They can’t even get new material. Now everything that goes against leftist one party rule is ‘destroying our democracy!’. I got news for you, I don’t want anything to do with your ‘democracy’. Go take a fucking leap.
Great googly moogly the B’s pulled Rask.
From a tweet whose link isn’t available for sharing:
Yeah. My 17yo is an oppressor. ?
A: people worth more will find work more in line with their worth after a while.
B: Not everyone there is worth what they’re being paid.
C: if you destroy opportunities for unproven people, you just get people who can’t find work to get established.
D: making the best economic decision for oneself is not ‘oppression’ at the bottom rung of the job market.
No argument here.
Yeah, you know that its true socialism once the anger and hate towards the working class starts boiling out.