My word, I’m bored just thinking about golf
“Just this week, Doom Eternal received next-gen versions on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.”
It’s been a little while, but this song is stuck in my head. Now it’s in yours, too.
Friday Afternoon Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
“It is hard for enterprising individuals to compete with widespread, “free” government offerings.”
no shit?
“The latest example of this is in Chicago, where the city’s universal public pre-K program is destroying private child care businesses–many of which are owned by women and people of color.”
women and minorities hardest hit?
…and kiddos….
“The shortage of child care providers and skyrocketing costs will then add more ammunition to supporters of government-subsidized child care programs who will insist the government should step in to fix the “market failure” of child care, despite the government causing the problem in the first place.”
completely unintentional
Now those formerly exploited workers can have living wage government jobs with real benefits!
No small potatoes, there.
Whoa! Not so fast there… do they have an appropriate credentials and certifications? Just because they’ve been doing the work already doesn’t mean they’re qualified. Here’s an application, make to fill it out completely and correctly or it gets shitcanned. We’ll let you know in 6 to 20 weeks for the next step. Maybe.
And all the Victory Gin they can swill!
“Hey! We’ve got all these crutches ready to go. Let’s break some legs so people can thank us!”
Crap like this only reinforces my belief that our current government is beyond reform, and can only be replaced. The question is, how ugly will things get?
Well, we’re already seeing people yelling “kill everything white,” so…
I’m always amazed at the overt calls like that. Given that the country is still 72% white, you’d think you would keep your mouth shut until the numbers had evened out a bit more.
Yeah, you really have to wonder how these horse’s asses actually see this playing out. Because it probably wouldn’t actually happen like that.
Based on the video I’ve seen, I’m betting there’s a significant percentage of white females who are so effed up and stupid they would stand by and watch other white people (deplorables) get murdered for believing in such things as natural rights. There are also more than a few of those beta male pajama boys pining to touch those white females who will happily do their violent bidding. They are feral.
Point being 72% means nothing. Stupid is as stupid does.
On the plus side, the government is much more efficient at filling your children’s heads with mush.
I might care a bit about a good Spider-Man movie, but Far From Home was “Meh” to me (I think the whole Fury thing spun out of the Captain Marvel movie that I REALLY don’t care about probably influences that, plus the whole premise (Tony isn’t THAT stupid, and neither was Peter) didn’t work for me, and the “shocker” ending didn’t either). Combining that with my feeling that Endgame is a good place for the story to end and for the audience to walk away, I’m probably not going to worry about it very much.
I enjoyed the twist of the elemental villains (who would expect Hydro Man to be in a movie?) and it was a decent version of Mysterio. I really doubt that Tony Stark would give an autonomous drone army to a teenager with no manual or training though.
If the drone army is autonomous, how could it be given to anyone, and why would anyone need a manual or training for it? Wouldn’t the drone army run itself?
They were run by an AI that was controlled by a pair of glasses.
So, not autonomous. Sad!
I would put it in Captain Marvel’s butt.
I would thank you for doing so.
Appropriate for a Riven links: Dune delayed. Again.
Shit. I was looking forward to this.
So just postponing the disappointment.
I actually liked the new Blade Runner.
But then again, I liked Twin Peaks S3, so what do I know?
Actually so did I for Blade Runner.
I thought it was good also.
Who gives a shit about Dune?
The cool kids all want more info about Season 1 of Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime!
It’ll be woke.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Try to be strong.’ What Joe Biden told this 12-year-old Miami girl who was seen keeping a lone vigil for her missing physician father and uncle lost in the rubble of devastating condo collapse”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9746081/Try-strong-Joe-Biden-told-12-year-old-Miami-girl-missing-father-condo-collapse.html
Joe Biden and a 12-year-old girl. What could possibly go wrong?
“Conservatives slam Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberals and declining to hear appeal of Southern Baptist florist who refused to sell flowers to a gay couple for their wedding
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to hear an appeal by a florist fined by Washington state for refusing to make a flower arrangement for a same-sex wedding because of her Christian beliefs, dodging another major case pitting gay rights against religious liberty.
The justices turned away an appeal by Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in the city of Richland, after a lower court upheld Washington’s action.
The court offered no explanation of its decision but three of the court’s conservative judges – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch – said they would have heard the case.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9749843/U-S-Supreme-Court-rebuffs-appeal-florist-spurned-gay-couple.html
To me, that seems different than the cake thing.
I suspect that the Justices are being to get a glimmer that our Constitutionally guaranteed rights only work with a much more limited government than we have now. As things stand, there are inevitable, and multiplying, conflicts between the First Amendment (especially) and the multitude of government requirements.
If the feds were confined to their Constitutional scope, none of this shit would come up. As it is, though, the totipotent federal government, and the sub rosa conversion of negative rights to positive rignts (really, entitlements and privileges) makes the Constitutional scheme incoherent. The only way the Court can avoid facing this is to deny review of cases that make it obvious.
Yeah, it is ridiculous that selling flowers is a thing that the highest court of the land has to stick its dick into.
Well, other than to say “The regulations and agency guidance that purport to extend the prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity are ultra vires and of no force and effect. Costs awarded to the plaintiff.”
I certainly don’t expect them to say “Any federal law which requires a business to do business with someone over the objections of the owners are unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment guarantee of free association, and are hereby struck down”. Although that would be the correct ruling, IMO.
Although I think this is actually under Washington law, which may list sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. It got to SCOTUS because the florist argued that her First Amendment rights were violated.
Paging Q
From my understanding it is because the cake guy said he’ll bake tha cake just not write the message I believe.
Though, if I can be denied service for not wearing a mask and/or not divulge my medical history then…they should have heard the case.
And what right is being asserted that Gays (or any group that brings such a suit) have? A right to the coerced labor of others?
Notice the wording of rights and liberty.
I want my service from you not someone else!
And what right is being asserted that Gays (or any group that brings such a suit) have?
A “misreading” of the sex discrimination laws, which mention neither sexual preference nor gender identity. Amendments to include those categories have been proposed and failed.
But Our Masters in the agencies and courts have decreed that, regardless of what the actual statute says, they are protected classes.
Isn’t more that a business can’t discriminate against anyone? Public accommodation? Sure, night clubs and such can reject customers, but they seem to be an exception, and I don’t even know if that’s actually legal. A restaurant can have a dress code, but I don’t think they could turn you away because “we don’t like people from Arizona”.
Isn’t more that a business can’t discriminate against anyone?
I don’t know what Washington law says, but the federal anti-discirmination laws only apply to discrimination against people in protected classes, when the discrimination is because they are a member of a protected class. Now, some of those classes include everybody (in theory), such as “race”. But if you can’t point to a protected class, you have no claim.
Unless the arrangement conveyed a message. Did they want her to use flowers to spell something or create a pride flag out of flowers?
From Fox…so take it as written…
“…refusing to provide flowers for the same-sex wedding of a longtime customer.”
I think the key is longtime customer, though should not matter.
Shouldn’t matter and she should be able to refuse service for whatever reason. This isn’t an “emergency”.
Parlor had been a longtime customer of Amazon Web Services, but that didn’t seem to matter.
BAKE THE FUCKING CAKE CHRISTFAG
Kavanaugh doesn’t really surprise me. Always thought he was a bit of a squish. Coney Barrett is the one that surprises me.
What sucks is without the why, we are left to speculation.
Something something
easily foreseeableutterly inescapable consequences…Once upon a time, Friday Funbags. And they lived happily ever after.
https://archive.li/wjSiL
Interesting gallery.
#1’s instagram
NSFW subreddit dedicated to #2
#3 is Vera Dijkmans.
I stopped there.
I think this song was written for your #2.
Damn….
Heh
#2 needs someone to cook her a proper pizza. So close but the crust is to limp. My crust is as firm as an abusive father.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/30/investing/charlie-munger-china-berkshire-hathaway-warren-buffett/index.html
Munger said that China essentially “just called in Jack Ma” and told him “you aren’t gonna do it, sonny.”
“They said, ‘To hell with you,'” Munger added, noting that he thought Ma was looking to “wade into banking … and just do whatever he pleased.”
….
Munger also told CNBC’s Becky Quick that while “our own wonderful free enterprise economy is letting all these crazy people go to this gross excess,” the Chinese “step in preemptively to stop speculation.”
He also praised China’s approach to the current health crisis. As a totalitarian state, China had the luxury to “simply shut down the country for six weeks” in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“That turned out to be exactly the right thing to do. And they didn’t allow any contact,” he said. “When it was all over, they kind of went back to work. It happened they did it exactly right.”
Free trade will liberate China…
1) It takes a lefty titan of business to be gullible and stupid enough to believe anything China pumps out about it’s virus response.
2) The reason shitbirds like this scumbag are so enthusiastic about China is because they are so very certain that the jackboot will never, ever come down on their faces.
they are so very certain that the jackboot will never, ever come down on their faces.
Why is that? It has been happening since at least the English Civil War (John Lilburne anyone?) Yet it keeps happening…
All over? Someone who has paid absolutely no attention to current conditions. Sure, provincial size lockdowns aren’t being done, but small scale ones are and at any time without warning if a case is identified. Don’t forget to keep your phone handy and make sure your health code doesn’t turn red.
Focused on the big picture
The White House dove into damage control this week after reports of dysfunction and infighting in Vice President Kamala Harris’ office, with the administration trying to stop a drama-filled narrative from taking hold, according to five people who spoke to CNN about the dynamics within Harris’ office.
Two people close to Harris’ team said some individuals inside the vice president’s office are frustrated with what they see as a dysfunctional operation that has been at times waylaid by internal conflict. Some of that ire is directed squarely at Harris’ chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, those people said. Another source close to the staff said there were “challenges and struggles” and heard complaints about Flournoy from staff, but denied it amounted to dysfunction or that the tensions were directly Flournoy’s fault.
Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary to the vice president, told CNN in a statement that Harris’ focus remains on her work.
“The Vice President and her office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, to making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic,” Singh said.
I do not find any of that comforting. Or likely.
I try to piece together the insistence of being called the Biden-Harris admin but then the oppo hits on her.
My guess is the elites and DC critters want Jill as hier apparent.
If i want to be particularly conspiratorial…
/puts tin foil on
Jill is already running things. The reports that have been are just her way of putting VP “in her place” so to speak. Harris thought that by being VP she was assured to be the real power behind the throne, but is now in a struglle with Bidens handlers and his wife.
Probably can lose the ring foil on that one…
Exhibit A – the “prepping for the G-7” picture the White House twitter account put out as if Jill Biden had some kind of official role other than shaking hands and taking photos with people.
As dramatic as that sounds, there’s still a Hillary lurking (once she gets done offing Ghislaine), and a Michelle Obama.
I think the next couple years will be a DNC “Downton Abby”. Or at least what we get to see.
Nah Hillary is done. I think she has settled into her Elder role.
You mean Eldritch role?
Nuts. Beat me by that much.
Elder like Cthulhu?
Adaedu is probably the best description
VEEP always knew best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiqWrD17cC4&ab_channel=RyanCho
Ms. Singh has apparently perfected the art of making noises without actually communicating anything.
So, are you saying she’s another psaki of pshit?
Though, if I can be denied service for not wearing a mask and/or not divulge my medical history then…they should have heard the case.
Free association for some, FYTW for others.
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1410413958805270533
Note that he is replying to state run media post that is just a quote from Xi Jinping…
Trolling, but a lot of people won’t get it.
I’m among the ones who don’t get it. I’ve only ridden Maglev once to the Shanghai airport. The second international airport in Beijing was built in less than 5 years between 2014 and 2019–compare to BER. The bridge between the mainland/Macao and Hong Kong is truly impressive.
Well, I’m back in town and I understand that some of you lot still look forward to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Hangout which I’ll kick off at 20:00 Eastern. I may not be around tomorrow night, as my parents are doing a cookout in the afternoon.
/heads off to bike somewhere for dinner.
The question is…will I have eyebrows or not tonight
new gas grill?
Or are you binge-watching RuPaul’s “Drag Race” ?
Due to extremely blond hair and lighting, I appear to have no eyebrows.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E06/266498
Well… made it a couple miles into the ride, and pulled up the weather. Rain percentage had climbed from 20% to 70% as clouds blew in. Continued on a bit more, and the skies started spitting rain, and it got darker, so I made the decision to turn around and get home. Kept getting darker, so I grabbed some dinner. The drive home, the clouds had cleared and the promised rain didn’t show up.
Fucking weather.
OT: Thank you for the suggestions for the g-son’s birthday. ThinkFun circuits and rollercoasters are the selected winners.
“Canadian Government to Extend ‘Pride Month’ to the Whole Summer”
https://summit.news/2021/07/02/canadian-government-to-extend-pride-month-to-the-whole-summer/
Why not all year? Or all century?
How ’bout this: we shitcan all these (insert collective group here) pride/history/awareness month and treat people like individuals?
Crazy I know. But maybe just crazy enough to work.
But BIPOC only get one month? Canadians are such racists.
It’s reading headlines like this that do bring a smile of joy to me, because it highlights so much of the arrogance and audacity of government, and the shallowness of people in government.
“Oh yeah?! We’ll we’re so woke, we are going to extend the month to last ALL SUMMER!”.
I know that is not exactly their thought process, but the headline makes me think that’s what they think. “Extend Pride Month” to the whole summer.
I have a great idea too: “Canadian Government extends Christmas day to all of December”. You sense in the act that they really buy into their own power and think their decrees really impact things in reality.
But we just took the rainbow out of our logo. Now you’re telling us we have to put it back?
I didn’t read the article. But maybe it’s because gay pride events were not allowed in June because of lockdowns. Perhaps, Canada is relaxing the lockdown restrictions.
Well, my part of Canada has only the tiniest of restrictions left (mostly, if you use public transit, taxis etc., you have to wear a mask…). Pretty much everything else is open, though we’ll see how long that lasts with the new Delta variant. ?
CP has cleverly concealed a Bee link under something called “summit news”, whatever that is.
I fail to see the problem.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15469118/my-brother-lured-into-an-open-marriage/
Maybe he is the other half of the open marriage? Did not RTA
1) Boring brother finds hot adventurous girl with whom to have freaky sex
2) Disapproving sister disapproves
3) Nosy sister sticks her big fat nose into the situation
4) PROFIT!
Or!, shy brother is conned into paying for a loser chick to play bury the brisket with a raft of others.
You Be The Judge!
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1410339945915445250
Before lockdowns, I honestly thought our leaders at least tried to do the right thing. Now I see what Xi sees: the illusion of virtue and competence among our political class was simply conformity with easily-subvertible norms and institutions passed down from prior generations.
Dammit norms are supposed to be only subverted in ways that Hayek would like and institutions we like aren’t supposed to change.
The latest example of this is in Chicago, where the city’s universal public pre-K program is destroying private child care businesses–many of which are owned by women and people of color.
Feature, not bug in the mind of the government.
And when all the Prevert issues from Public Schools come to Pre-K programs, the Pre-K Unions won’t lift a finger to fix it.
Well, a lot of the preverts are union members, so the unions will most definitely lift a finger.
To make sure nothing is done.
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
Apropos of nothing other than the colossal movement by leftists in the last 4 years to obtain legal redress for imaginary grievances.
All I can think of is this.
That fits as well as reality for what we’ve seen. My apologies for going so off topic, but I’ve never played Mario Cart. Last I saw him, he was quite pixilated and attempting to rescue a princess.
I would put it in Captain Marvel’s butt.
????
Looks like Brooksie needs to go back to pre-school
Someone will repost it, I’m sure. But the kid playing Spider-man has a much better ass than the Marvel chick. Saying that as a Cis-het-ass-man. Brie needs to hit the gym, or they need to up her CGI.
The CGI would probably be much faster and produce better results. ”Computers make everything better!” ?
Brie Larson.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/07/02/maybe_were_too_ready_for_the_next_pandemic_783920.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
Here is where the author gives up the game: “The Biden administration believes that the federal government is a necessary leader in pandemic response, and will therefore be better positioned to coordinate state actions if Disease X arrives on its watch. But the ability of the government — any government — to handle a pandemic will be limited in a country where federalism and individualism are prized.”
So there we have the real problem: the Constitution and liberty generally.That was always the target. Thank you for the honesty.
Unpossible. Biden is a moderate nice guy and the Atlantic once published Ralph Waldo Emerson and H.L. Mencken.
Damn. Riven just made me look up Brown-Eyed Girl. It’s a shame I have no will of my own.
Another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hco9bCh7Nes
Fantastic!
For the science and skateboarding nerds…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRPhi0jhGc
I have a solution for your child care problems. Send three of them to every Nissan owner so that they can use their tiny hands to replace the spark plugs. Who the fuck engineers a car with the plugs running along the back of the engine? Obstructed by hoses and other fucking foofarah? Nissan does! San Francisco Cocksuckas! I need a magnet to extract the plugs when I finally get at them.
Where are your orphans?
Sold them for scrap. There is a manufacturing crisis happening right now! Not enough chips, not enough orphans!
Manufacturing crisis or manufactured crisis?
I cant buy a goddamned lawnmower. I am thinking of dragging the first pol I run across her and holding him at gunpoint and making him cut my grass with scissors.
?
What are you looking for? My local HD has 276 mowers in stock, for a small fee I’ll bring one down to you.
I bought the mower before last off of ebay. It was new and was from a lawn and tractor place halfway across the country.
Showed up on the curb a week later on the back of a truck, strapped to a pallet. A++++++ 100% Would do business again!!111!!
Just hope you aren’t the 1 in 30.
Just take the engine out and turn it around. Duh.
Don’t get me started bro. The sideways V6 is an abomination.
” I need a magnet to extract the plugs when I finally get at them.”
Try a piece of heater hose.
The Firebird 400 infamously need to have the engine lifted to get to the back two plugs.
Do you also have to remove a tire to change the battery?
Oskar Schindler makes Nissans?
In other bittersweet news:
Houston, we have a go for launch. Go for launch. Repeat, go for launch. Stage one ignited. We have liftoff! Spacecraft XX is away.
I’m just glad I wasn’t here for my wife to get all boo-hooey.
Congrats!
Thanks. I hope she succeeds. It’s only stage 1. We still got bills. That’s fine. At her age, the taxpayer was my mommy and daddy.
Boo Hooey is the worst kind of hooey.
Another view on the NH budget and what it does.
OH MY GOD! THE FREE STATERS ARE DISMANTLING NEW HAMPSHIRE!
I’m ten minutes in. Granite State Progress is unhinged.
Well, the Euros became boring this afternoon (sorry Rufus).
I was happy with the result of the later match.
Didn’t want to see something different?
I don’t like Belgium.
The whole country, or just the football team?
Just the team.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2u5USmvkDsA
?
They did it! They really did it!
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/07/voodoo-doughnut-fires-employees-who-walked-out-during-heat-wave-workers-say.html
The donuts are crap, but I have some new found respect for the business.
https://youtu.be/opk4x7jzRS4
Ohhhh, fuuuuuck you. I get the not being used to the heat, but ya know what? You get used to it!
Pussies.
+1 suck it up Buttercup.
Listen at you. Now I can understand why Murlanders is so afeared of you hillybillys over there in the West Virginers.
The only reason this is “news” is because of some ginned-up “union” trying to wet its beak. The walkouts were probably supporters of it & too stupid to realize that the fake union doesn’t actually represent them.
Yup. If you walk out the door, be prepared to never come back in again. I’d say at least the employees put their wages where their mouthes are and actually walked. And now they’re getting a free lesson in thinking through the next step rather than just going off half cocked.
I have to say the one time I went to Portland I enjoyed their doughnuts. Eating the cock and balls doughnut was definitely good for some laughs.
They voted down the union, but the union is still sticking its dick in. I have no idea what “legal action” they think they can take.
Concerted action is protected, even without a union.
https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/concerted-activity
OH MY GOD! THE FREE STATERS ARE DISMANTLING NEW HAMPSHIRE!
I’m ten minutes in. Granite State Progress is unhinged.
Carpetbagging bastards, trying to undo what the Massholes have worked so hard to build.
Them libertarians now have so much power!
Munger also told CNBC’s Becky Quick that while “our own wonderful free enterprise economy is letting all these crazy people go to this gross excess,” the Chinese “step in preemptively to stop speculation.”
Shorter Charlie Munger: “Screw you, buddy. I’ve got mine.”
If only the government had stepped in to preemptively stop speculation
Ooops, I didn’t mean to paste all those.
That wall of text is going to give Brooksy the carpal tunnel responding. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sollee.
*that last one was from my wife.
It is okay…cause I got read them off to my wife as we laughed at what was and what is.
I got to read them off
How about a Humble Brag warning?
Uffda, kept reading.
to my wife
That cancels out the Reading privilege doesn’t it?
Well I can’t type lately, so I will take the humble brag part
Not really sorry.
You know you have a kickass product when you can make Americans pronounce foreign words correctly.
Nike
Xerox
?
You missed one:
–Paul Krugman from 1998
Trumpified!
Sorry, Bukeyes, you now fully Trumpified! You turn orange yet? You will!
OFFS. Why can’t Ohio field some of those nice, respectable Republicans that do what we tell them?
/looks at Kasich and DeWine
We’ve had enough of those assholes.
1) Seems like a lot of RINO’s are trying to figure out exactly what those icky deplorables want so they can pretend to believe the exact same things.
2) The poor rubes in Ohio basically have no choice. The Dems have abandoned them because they are icky blue collar white workers and the GOP-Establishment has never wanted them.
3) Dems are worried that some actual real candidate for the GOP might pop up and totes screw them in Ohio
*Remember when Ohio only voted for the GOP in presidential elections because of crooked Dominion voting machines?
Example 1,001 that the MSM can’t do math
Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine works well against delta variant
The immune response lasts at least eight months, according to lab data released by the vaccine maker.
I’ve been reading this all day. OK – let’s jump to the actual J&J press release.
Positive New Data for Johnson & Johnson Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine on Activity Against Delta Variant and Long-lasting Durability of Response
In the lab on a blood sample with a sample size of 8. Yes, 8 samples. Mind you a week ago the talk was how all the J&J folk were going to need a booster.
/s guy who actually had the J&J vaccine and has no intention of getting a booster. I’ve ticked the damn box so I can go to work and not worry my family.
Math is racist.
So…remember that shitty Tolkien hating “conference” we were laughing about a week or so ago – looks like an impromptu alternative tomorrow – 10 AM EST, 7 AM PST.
https://societyoftolkien.org/schedule/ – you gotta register on the site (free) – and use zoom – so a no-go for me, but sounds like a lot of based, pro-tolkien fun.
Huh, sensible topics. That’s refreshing.
Actually analyzing the allegory? No way..should be about how gay Thorin was.
Thorin wasn’t gay! That was his brother Thorass that was gay!
* I was going to say Thoraxe was gay, but I didn’t think we had enough suthoners around to get that, so I dumbed the joke down.
Sure, that’s what you’d say, you Trans Exclusionary Radical Frodo.
The Suburban is now inside. it entered the shop under its own power. Tires, oil and trans fluid change, belts and hoses…
Trailer hitch (if it fits).
Back online it goes, hopefully. I gots stuff to haul and trailers to tow.
Wage inflation and minimum wage increases are going to fuck over a lot of people and businesses. Just talking to a colleague and mentioned Taco Bell was offering $14.25 on their sign. He apparently was unaware and said that was less than his wife was making working in a municipal job. Maybe she should look at applying over there, he said… I imagine similar conversations are happening for anyone who isn’t locked into their job or has the slightest mercenary streak.
My local McD’s has multiple help wanted signs offering $14 an hour. Everything on the menu has also gone up. The six months ago $1 sausage Mcmuffin is now $1.99. I am going to have 13 barbecues tomorrow and then use my savings to go get a sausage Mcmuffin.
*subtle clap*
As subtle as your eyebrows?
I will surprise tonight
The girlfriend is now making much less at the retail store she works at then she could make at literally any food service job/grocery store/chain retail job.
But she doesn’t want to make the jump…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfxB_SqWtc
That might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on youtube.
Man makes apartment into the side of a mountain. Seriously, check it out.
#OzyWasRight
Try doing that in America. ?
More stable than most Chinese construction. Or South Florida.
It’ll be uninhabitable within five years, good on him for putting in the effort but there is a reason we don’t live underground.
Most likely. Looks like sandstone and appears very moist around there but super cool anyways. His mortise and tenon joints? Respect.
Yeah, I’m going to need to see some permits. I also like the parts where he’s hard rock mining in sandals.
The sandals were the bit that I loved. Made me think that maybe I can do manly stuff like that after all.
Love it! The dood has some skills.
Shocking news. PPP fraud.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/sussex-county-man-admits-fraudulently-obtaining-56-million-loan-meant-help-small
I blame the bank. They approved what should have been 2.5 months of payroll on flimsy falsified data.
You don’t think mid-level bank loan manager got a bit of that $$$$?
$400 billion lost from the unemployment assistance. I wonder how much was lost from PPP?
“Dozens of Canadian Churches Vandalized & Burnt Down!?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PlAnd1ytk
WTF, Canada?
Apparently some bodies were found in unmarked graves on the grounds of schools for injun children run by the church. I think the injuns are pissed about having their children forceably taken away from them and in some cases horribly abused. In some cases even killed. I am gonna sit this one out.
Canadians are mindless sheep…
“”How likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election?”
Very or Somewhat Likely-
White – 51%
Black – 49%
Oth Non-White – 56%
Dem – 30%
Unaffil – 51%
GOP – 74%
All Voters – 51%”
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1410924418189217792
Well check out the based Oth Non-Whites…looks like they need to be propagandized harder.
Basically, only blacks (and that’s within the margin of error) and Dems aren’t majority “it was rigged”.
Confident prediction – those people who voted for the Dems in 2020 AND think they stole the election, will keep voting for Dems.
Sure, I had a Dem fellow at work, good guy, tell me the deep state won and he was perfectly fine with that. I suspect there are a lot of people out there like that as long as they get the desired outcome.
The cosmotarians ate fine with the Deep State as long as they keep getting invited to cocktail parties.
Well, its certainly encouraging that the months of gaslighting have apparently had no effect. I wonder if they have any longitudinal data from prior polls, because those number look higher to me that what I thought I had seen.
Question: do the 30% of Dems think the cheating was a good thing or a bad thing?
Well it’s Rasmussen so the numbers are likely, but not necessarily, skewed in Trump’s favor a little bit.
Or do the 30% of Dems think that the cheating cost them House and/or Senate seats?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/02/dan-crenshaw-troops-fort-bliss-forced-wear-ids-race-social-class-during-diversity-training
Huh. Wonder how true. Pretty much the military is the last bastion to skin-suit and seems that is happening.
They’re going to have to reinstitute the draft if they keep this up. Those Midwest and southern boys that’ve been a deep well of recruits aren’t going to sign on the dotted line for this.
And then they can get the soyboys and xer girls in, as well. Make the armed forces representative of America!
My teen is at that age where he is digesting a whole lot of information and he is spouting that the military only recruits the poor. A good talk about how to find the sources that actually show the numbers and demographics opened his eyes a bit on how people push a narrative to fit their needs.
I served with a lot of guys (white and black) who came from shitty economic circumstances and saw the military as a way to get out.
If you wanted to stretch definitions, I could have been one of them. My parents were pretty solidly middle class, but had told me that once I was 18, I was on my own. I started college and realized I had no idea what to do. So I dropped out and joined Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children because I wanted to see the world and make some money doing it.
Sure if things had gone real bad, I could have moved back home, but the military looked much better to me. A lot of guys I served with didn’t have that fallback option. The poorest two humans I ever knew were a pair of brothers from east LA. They thought boot camp was pretty great because they got three meals and new clothes.
I was scared shitless about being drafted to go to VietNam. I had a college deferment but was flunking out due to having to work three jobs. I wanted to join the Navy but the recruiter was taking a nap on the couch and said, “Come back later, kid.” The Air Force guy next door was quite willing to take my application.
I found out later that the recruiter called my mom to tell her that I had scored the highest marks on the AFRT that had ever been recorded.
So true.
I’m getting sick of every excessive story about the ended heat wave as a harbinger of climate change. Yes, it set temperature records. Records that stretch back all of about 150 years, often less.
One story had worthless city parasites crowing on about how we need to plan for different road materials, not just for now, but for 20-50 years down the road. Zero sense of proportion and zero cognitive ability from the scribbler, such as… how often do roads gets repaved? Hint: it’s less than 50, unless you waste all of your money on climate bullshit, tearing up and rebuilding perfectly functional crosswalks, and grabbing traffic lanes for bike parkways (and fucking up signal synchronization in the process).
Politicians are exploiting something that allows them to increase their power. Shocking.
If it makes you feel better, I’m sure Texas pols are using last winter’s cold wave to grab more power and spend money with their cronies to prevent another power outage.
“BLM Activist Took Credit For Taking Care Of Cambridge Cats He Lured, Tortured, And Killed, Got State Rep To Blame Police For Racially Profiling Him”
https://tbdailynews.com/blm-activist-took-credit-for-taking-care-of-cambridge-cats-he-lured-tortured-and-killed-got-state-rep-to-blame-police-for-racially-profiling-him/
Never heard of this site…..
Please tell me they were at least calico cats. I can’t even imagine the triggering that would go on if he was doing that to cats with white fur.
“Black Activist Lures, Tortures, Kills White Pussy”
“Tonight, City council unanimously approved our #GunViolence reduction initiatives, which included two first-of-their-kind proposals: mandatory gun insurance, and mandatory gun ownership fees. (1/3)
The City council agreed that while the Second Amendment protects the rights of Americans to own guns, it doesn’t require taxpayers to subsidize gun ownership. This is a landmark decision for taking action against gun violence. (2/3)”
https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1410089236850634752
CWAA
Countdown to this being shot down in the courts in 3…2…1…
Plus, I don’t think 99 percent of the gun violencers are going to bother with the insurance or the fees.
You mean, countdown to being upheld by the courts, right?
That is a bit hyperbolic. It won’t be upheld, the SC will just refuse to review the cases.
I meant at the district and 9th Circus. Of course, the supremes will punt.
I noticed in the discussion here about “arrange muh flowers!”, both cavenaugh and comity Barrett came up but nothing about CJ Penaltax. He’s the David Souter of the modern court.
Which will lead to a boom in “Uninsured shooter” riders in all the life insurance policies being sold in San Jose.
When I lived in TN, there was no requirement to carry insurance so everybody had an uninsured motorist ride in their coverage so you didn’t have to deal with being in an accident with a guy with no insurance.
Do they really want to go down this road?
Come on, it’s just a penaltax. We know those are alright already!
If I lived there, I’d immediately ask how much insurance for a heavy machine gun cost. Because they agreed I had the right to own it, all I had to do was pay the insurance premium.
Also would be a great chance to start a “NeverPay” gun insurance company.
Well, drat. That trailer hitch isn’t just “kinda” wrong. it’s so far off it would be easier to just build one from scratch.
Win some, lose some.
Ooops, I didn’t mean to paste all those.
That wall of text is going to give Brooksy the carpal tunnel responding. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sollee.
They were all good.
Predictions are hard, especially about the future.
Fortune tellers hardest hit. Budget committees roll on.
Time for a beer.