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“Inflation is taxation on working-class Americans.”
My husband and I are going to be attending this over the weekend; here’s a little bit of what you’ll be missing.
Friday Afternoon Links
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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.
Steam deck is exiting, particularly with the ability to install a different OS.
Yeah. I’m curious how it’s going to play out. Steam isn’t quite Google about abandoning things, but there’s been several Steam hardware attempts that have been dropped before.
Oh yeah is stadia still a thing?
Still limping along for now. Latest headline I’ve seen related to it was that Google released a new SDK to make porting games over to Stadia easier.
That squid looks nasty.
Looks like they lured the beast with something at the end of a rope.
Kraken. ITS THE KRAKEN.
Feh. It’s not even a true giant squid, as described in the url. Largish at best. Not that I’d want to tangle with it.
MINI KRAKEN
KRAKENETTE
“Largish at best.”
It’s not the size of your tentacles…
Marvel has tried and tried (and tried) to make Carol Danvers (CPT Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Binary, The Woke Knight, He-Woman…) a franchise bearing character…
Black Widow is much better.
As far as I can tell as an outside observer, Disney’s writers were afraid to write Carol Danvers as an actual person. Then having her played by a plank of wood didn’t help any.
Her tush looks like it got smacked hard by a plank of wood.
The comics had/has this same problem…
Robbie bringing the pain?
Froot Sooshi for the win.
OMG, the replies are just depressing.
“But, but Myanmar…”
Remember when the Rwandan genocide was coordinated by FM radio? And yet NPR still refuses to pay reparations!
“Seriously question. What’s your solution to dealing with misinformation that is making people less likely to get the covid vaccine, which is clearly a factor in the increasing number of covid cases, and deaths?”
My solution is to turn off the computer, and go for a walk outside.
The ‘experts’ have been lying their asses off from day one. If I thought they had a clue about what they are talking about I would say smacking them around a bit and getting them to tell they truth I would recommend that. The reality is I don’t think they could even tell you what a virus is under pain of death.
The “experts” know exactly what they’re doing and it ain’t about public health.
“increasing number of deaths”
Liar.
What’s your solution to dealing with misinformation that is making people less likely to get the covid vaccine
Attack it at the source – the regulatory and public health agencies that are still requiring masks for vaccinated people. Maybe not “misinformation”, as in its false, but its a massive own-goal if you are trying to convince people to get vaccinated.
The biggest source of information that makes people reluctant to get vaccinated is TMITE, which is constantly bleating about variants that the vax may not work on .
So much for the sensible moderate Biden.
The Dems aren’t even hiding their hostility to free speech. They say it’s about Covid now, but I bet they have the election audits in mind.
The elites have worldwide determined that the solution to populism is mass censorship.
They will say it’s because of [insert FEAR device here] and change to whatever they think the new [insert FEAR device here] will be.
Yup. We don’t want misinformation about the election audits to spark another insurrection, so we need to ban all those who discuss it.
YouTube took down the video of today’s AZ hearings on the AZ audit.
A video of a state Senate hearing. Banned by YouTube. Its possible they did it without prompting from the administration, but the administration has been boasting about getting Big Tech to do its bidding on blocking “misinformation”, so I’m betting this wasn’t entirely on YouTube’s own motion.
Is Robby growing a pair? Good for him. Let me know when he can change a flat tire.
Meh, if you scroll down he still also supports the opinion that Facebook is a private entity, whatareyougonnado position.
Not anymore it isn’t; not with Psaki directing their censoring efforts.
Build your own Parler.
However, there were some other folks in the comments section that suggested this squid was injured, and that that’s why it was hanging around the surface.
The cephalopod was just being affectionate. Why do you think they call them cuddlefish?
Boo!
No need to get up in arms about this Tonio.
I ink you don’t understand.
These joke aren’t getting much suction.
Stop baiting Swiss!
Why? It’s fun. Everyone just needs to get Krakken.
EWWWW
I think you left out a comma.
He’s a master at that
https://babylonbee.com/news/blm-changes-name-to-black-and-brown-lives-matter-unless-they-are-protesting-communism
BLM Changes Name To ‘Black And Brown Lives Matter Unless They Are Being Oppressed By Communists
I’d love to see Rob Manfred get an actual question from an actual reporter. “Mr Manfred, MLB has endorsed BLM over the past year. With so many Cuban exile players that have played in the league, do you have any comment on BLM’s praise for the communist dictatorship in Cuba?
Yeesh that’s a good point. One of my favorite artists is a 30ish year old guy from Cuba. He’s using all his social media to support the protests and his family back there. I don’t know if he’s gotten any backlash, but it’s no surprise that people who escaped Cuba tend to not like the Cuban government.
It is not a coincidence that the only people who support socialism are people who have never lived under it.
I don’t know, the people in charge of socialist countries look like they’re doing ok.
They’ve lived over socialism, not under it.
Yup. Nothing like someone who has experienced the joys of communism firsthand from hating it with a passion.
Damn, I despise Manfred.
The Bee hits the ten ring, yet again.
Excellent. Now I have an excuse for the next time my sons kick my ass at Super Smash Bros.
/refreshes tracking page for his copy of Skyward Sword HD
Tyler Childer, Billy Strings, Mandolin Orange… decent lineup at that fest.
It’s a weekend, and I’m around so I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/article shaming at 20:00 Eastern.
I should be around tomorrow as well, but I won’t be around next Friday.
Thanks. I’ll sub for you if that’s okay.
It’s fine with me. Meeting up with some friends downtown to grab some food and drink some overpriced beer.
What a day. I went down and signed all my part of the closing paperwork. Then, a message- My buyer’s bank is pulling some sort of delay-of-game bullshit. I don’t have all the details yet.
But a little while ago some guy appeared as if by magic and bought a set of wheels from me for two hunnert bucks. So I gots me a little walking around money.
Make sure to pay your fair share of taxes on that, Brooks.
So Brooksy owes The Man $300?
Gnarly!
Who ordered the double sausage and squid?
Right here, dude!
That’s calamari to you, paisano!
Our local pizza-pie parlor recently (last month) changed theirs from delicious rings and tentacle blossoms, to rings only. I’m very disappointed.
A true connoisseur! Mrs. Patzer will bogart all the tentacles when we go out; sneaking one is grounds for a narrow gaze or worse.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1415811611642761218
I’ve been what one would call a libertarian for decades. There were moments when we believed these ideas were the future. Now look around and we see absolute calamity. Figuring out what went wrong is a priority.
Personally I see the calamity is a combination of snobbery (why don’t the deplorables shut up?), complacency (libertarian moment!) and TOP MEN (why are people questioning the elites? Also Joe Biden will save us)
Make sure to pay your fair share of taxes on that, Brooks.
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I’ll just stick it all in an envelope. Joe Knows the best use for it.
I like the way Hunter uses it better, at least he doesn’t waste it. Same address.
Early response for the next “What are we reading” post, HT to one of my deranged co-workers.
https://ifunny.co/picture/kylie-jenner-can-you-guys-please-recommend-books-that-made-64GiWQfk7?s=cl
Is Joe Biden a fascist? I’m expecting the angry editorials anyway now…
Is the Pope Catholic? Wait, that doesn’t work any more…
Of course not. Facism, by definition, is Republican + power.
He is a sensible pillar of the establishment. No way that would make him a fascist.
I was talking about this with my neighbor a little while ago. She said we are headed toward communism. I reassured her that this is not the case. They won’t be nationalizing companies. What we will have instead is fascism.
Will have?
I was being generous.
It’s a good think antifa is out there preventing that from happening.
NPR headline:
Flood Deaths Are Rising In Germany, And Officials Blame Climate Change
All I need to know.
And if you disagree, it’s just misinformation and you should be kicked off the internet.
Every weather event is now climate change? OK.
Suthen, all your trees would be in fine shape were it not for climate change. It’s not like there were any storms down your way prior to 1970.
Oh FFS. surprised Wikipedia hasn’t memory holed this yet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods_in_Europe
Using a fairly common weather event hyped as ‘unprecedented’ to push the global warming narrative is a common tactic for these fucksticks.
Plus we have been monitoring the climate for what amounts to a nano-second. Lots of things are going to be unprecedented when you only have an infantesimal portion of the dataset.
We do have a biblical account featuring Noah, which tells the story of a great flood. The advanced technology responsible for the associated increase in CO2 is, unfortunately, lost to history.
Masks are back in Vegas
Officials advise wearing masks in Vegas as COVID cases rise
Vaccines will set us free!
OFFS.
In other words the vaccine is ineffective.
Well, depends. If you thought the vaccines would stop all new cases they sure didn’t work. If you are OK with vaccines seemingly helping to prevent deaths and severe cases, then I think you could say they helped.
I’ve noticed locally that they no longer report on hospitalizations. They still post deaths and those are super low.
My guess is that people still get the Rona, but they don’t need to go to the hospital or die as much anymore.
They’ve been pulling this “OMG! Cases are rising!” shit too long. I hope the general public is not going to listen to them anymore.
A lot of the normal people I deal with in meat space seem to have figured it out and have no intention of allowing another lockdown.
Pathogens tend to evolve towards being benign. This one is following the usual pattern. I am not sure the vaccines have anything to do with the lower numbers of fatalities. I think it is more likely that this thing just burned itself out.
^^^This. See influenza, for example. Every now and then a reality bad one, which then morphs into something lesser.
*Calls Jen Psaki*
Jen, looks like we are going to need a big order of pitchforks and torches sent to this Glibs site. These misinformation artists are spewing out dangerous info like a Mexican underwater gas pipeline.
I think the vaccines are effective. No, they don’t cause ‘Vid viruses to burst into flame on contact, but they do seem to keep people from getting really sick or dead, which is their purpose. They were never going to stop all new cases.
What we will never know is how much difference they really made. Vaccines are a way of getting to herd immunity. We have no idea how close we were anyway following the big winter spike, buy my guess is we were pretty close.
Now, even assuming the vaccines are effective is by no means the end of the discussion on who should get them, since (i) the risk from the ‘Vid varies wildly across various groups, (ii) they have known side effects, and (iii) no one has the faintest idea what the long-term side effects might be.
This kind of reasoned debate has no place on the internet. This is misinformation. You’re not a doctor. Shoot, when was the last time you were even near a hospital?
Which no one is following. Well, most no one. Still have masking people but so far they see it exactly as it should have been from the start. A recommendation with no teeth.
Defund the NSA, and privatize the search for internet misinformation?
The White House turned up the pressure on Silicon Valley to get a handle on vaccine misinformation Thursday, specifically singling out 12 people one group dubbed the “disinformation dozen,” saying they were responsible for a great deal of misinformation about Covid-19.
“There’s about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday.
That statistic is from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) which identified in a report published in March about a dozen people it said were super-spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation.
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
As long as Fauci is one of them, then sure – ban the lot of them.
“Center for Countering Digital Hate”
They have a really neat 2 minute video. I check it daily.
I see what you did there.
Did any reporter ask her if the flip flop on the origins of the Rona and the Wuhan lab gave her any pause when advocating for moar censorship?
“You guys really got the whole lab thing totes wrong. Why are you so sure this information you want banned is correct?”
SPLC has a sad that someone else is eating their lunch.
sure, in a Prudhoe Bay winter.
12 people?
https://youtu.be/_jI3BYCAGfs
https://www.aier.org/article/lets-not-pretend-we-defeated-lockdowns/
However, this is certainly not a time for a victory lap for proponents of freedom. We need to be very honest with ourselves, we were absolutely brutalized. Our leaders treaded on the idea of limited government with no remorse, they intervened in the most intimate of societal activities, they crushed livelihoods, and they blamed us for their failures. The only reason why American leaders are ending the lockdowns is because of the vaccine rollout, not because they were won over by intellectual arguments. They had their way and more
Spoke too soon…
Well, here in the UK we will be locking down for infinity, and the propaganda will stoke the fires of resentment against the unvaxxed. The anxiety of the terrors of the imminent “Freed Monday” is intense. I hate it. I’m told I’m selfish and stupid for not buying in wholesale to the whole godawful Covidian cult. Trump + covid has shown who the most deranged, hateful, cowardly people are. Those who would be the first to volunteer to be a Stasi informant. I have no sympathy for their condescension, their complete lack of moral self awareness, their arrogance. Fuck them. It didn’t take much for some people to show that they will abandon all good faith and trust in their own family and closest friends in favour of their new religion.
My dad is taking me on a cruise for my somethingth birthday in March. It’s not one of those wild ships with all the crazy activities.
Who has been on a cruise? Any pointers? It seems like a world all its own, with its own manners and etiquette.
For my avgeeks – there is an excursion on a yacht to Maho Bay. They anchor in the bay and announce when the flights are arriving. I told my dad the only way I’d do a warm-weather cruise was if it stopped in St. Maarten. (for those not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jW9wk_g9QY)
Oh, Maho Bay! There used to be an “eco resort” there, and Mrs. TOK and I stayed there once. It was basically wood and screen tree houses with a common bath house. Then a very long stairway to the beach. That place was absolute paradise. Clear, calm water, and great snorkeling/diving. Unfortunately the land owner decided to not renew the lease and the resort is no more.
PS If you listen to country music, Kenny Chesney wrote a whole album about St. John. “Old Blue Chair” mentions Cinnamon Bay. Then people started going there and trying to find him, and he bought his own island.
Nice!! The cruise stops at St. Thomas, with an excursion to St. John. I probably won’t do that, or many other excursions, because a) I am not a Tropics kinda gal and b) I like to sit by myself and read or watch Netflix and drink cocktails.
Obviously, I’ll do Maho Bay (BIG TIME bucket list item – probably top 5) and a river tubing thingamajig on that island that Ronnie Raygun invaded
I would like to take a cruise. Lie in the sun or laze in a pool all day long and eat all I want and sleep all I want while being rocked like in a hammock? Sign me up.
I’ve only been on two, and they were as different as night and day.
First was my honeymoon on a small Cunard liner. Exquisite, 10 days from Acapulco to Lauderdale, via Panama Canal. Formal wear required for Captain’s dinner, otherwise fairly casual. Everything top shelf. OTOH the average age on that cruise was about 75, one of the activities was “show pictures of your grandkids”. I did get to sing a Johnny Mathis tune to my beloved backed by a 10-piece Orchestra.
Then there was the Carnival cruise a few years later. If you’re looking for the ambiance of a frat party, there you have it. Never again.
I did get to sing a Johnny Mathis tune to my beloved backed by a 10-piece Orchestra.
This one, I presume?
Nope, this one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8
We’re going Holland America. My dad absolutely requires a casino, otherwise Viking Ocean would have been my first choice. They modeled their ocean business on their river business, so they’re very education-focused. They have a cruise from Oslo to Barcelona, following the Viking traders & raiders, and another from Oslo to Montreal, also following the Vikings.
But no casino.
No casino? Damn. On the aforementioned honeymoon cruise, my bride won a blackjack competition in which I had a very early exit. Embarrassing considering that I have made a few bucks counting cards over the years.
HA! Good for her!
My dad is a card counter, too. He’s been kicked out of many a casino. Although I think he just plays basic strategy these days, especially on a cruise where you have no other options. I just play basic strategy.
My real love, gambling-wise, is poker. But I hear tell poker is pretty rare on cruise ships.
I always hated the whole idea of cruising; the blow-boater’s disdain for large powered vessels is strong. My only knowledge of them was gleaned from The Love Boat and every pre-1950ish film featuring international travel. It’s a week in a hotel you can’t physically leave. Afterbeing forced to take one however, I changed my tune; it was tremendous fun despite being in a group of 21, half of whom being Hasidic.
Those were my thoughts as well. Then Youtube suddenly started recommending all these cruise videos (probably because I watch live cams on the Great Lakes shipping routes), and I watched one on these Viking ocean cruises, and I thought they really hit a sweet spot in the market.
If I enjoy the Holland America one (I don’t see why I wouldn’t – fulfilling a bucket list item alone is enough), I may save some scratch to try Viking.
Sorry to hear your (earlier) sad news, but glad to hear you’ve got something to look forward to. If you enjoy this, (and Europe ever opens again) maybe you can do the Invasion cruise, or just one of their Euro riverboat cruises.
I haven’t cruised Viking yet, though everything I’ve heard about them is uniformly excellent — both their river and ocean cruises. Holland America has a reputation as a line that caters to the geriatric set, but they’ve been trying to shed that for years. Let us know how your trip goes.
My favorite lines (so far) are:
Crystal
Oceania
Celebrity Aqua Class
We were going to cruise Silversea around Japan and Korea in April as an early 50th birthday celebration for the Bosslady, but, well… you know.
Also, if the cruise bug bites you, but you don’t care much about hitting a different city every day, consider a repositioning cruise. When they’re moving the boats from the Caribbean to the Med in spring (or vice versa in fall), the per-day rate is typically about half that of your standard Caribbean or Mediterranean cruise. Of course, for much of the trip, there’s nothing to do except onboard activities, drinking, and watching the ocean go by. Pro Tip: if you cruise westbound across the Atlantic, you get to sleep in an extra hour each day as you cross into a new time zone.
This one in particular caught my eye, but it’s during medical resident interview season, which pretty much nixes that.
Your linky requires registration, Shpip 🙁
Apologias. Lisbon to Ft. Lauderdale on Silversea, December 2022.
the blow-boater’s disdain for large powered vessels is strong.
Preach it!
(my dad is also a big time sailor – my parents sailed all over the Gulf & East coasts and down to Guatemala. He still loves cruises)
Aww, so sweet
Who has been on a cruise? Any pointers?
If drinks aren’t included in your fare, buy the drinks package.
Since you know where you’re going, it’s easy to arrange local excursions that are cheaper and of higher quality than what’s typically offered by the cruise line.
On a similar note, Maho has the famous Sunset Bar for plane watching, but you’ll pay less for the drinks and get better food at the Driftwood Boat Bar. It’s a blast (literally, on takeoff). You can hear and smell the brake pads screaming in pain when a heavy lands.
If you stay on board during shore days, you’ll usually get a deal on spa treatments and the like. What the hell, get the massage. You’re on vacation.
The missus and I typically use the onboard trivia contests to meet fellow passengers. Some of them will be delightful companions, full of good advice on cruise lines, destinations, and the like. Others will be Triple-C’s (confused and cranky codgers). Avoid the latter.
Be nice to your servers and bar staff. They work long hours and have to deal with the Triple-C’s. In fact, bring along a few $50 bills, put one each in different envelopes (the cruise lines Guest Services desk will have these), and give one each to your new bartender friends the night before disembarkation.
LOVE IT
Second the drinks package if not part of the fare.
We made a few friends on our 7-day cruise in a couple of the different bars, especially the smoking bar. That is where all the crew members would go apparently. I tried to convince one of the officers? that he should give me a tour of the ship’s electronics, radar systems and weather systems. It didn’t work sadly.
I’ve done precisely two cruises, both on Celebrity, one to the Eastern Caribbean, the other from Venice south through the Adriatic, around the “boot” of Italy and ending at Rome.
Both were excellent, and I met some really nice people.
Pointers? You won’t need any. Everything they actually expect of you will be spelled out clearly in their pre-boarding materials, which you’ll probably get many weeks in advance.
My favorite cruise is on my buddy’s party barge, bar-hopping up and down Lake of the Ozarks. Getting some real Redneck Yacht Club action.
As for their various “packages,” think carefully about them — the drinks package in particular is only valuable if you’re planning on being greased like a freight train most days/evenings; otherwise, most everything’s available by the glass. The one odd thing I found about Celebrity was that “the trough” (the all-day buffet on the Lido deck, I think it was) had unlimited “urn” coffee, but if you wanted specialty coffees you had to pay extra (whether you got someone to fetch it for you [bad idea — they’re slow] or go get ’em from the specialty coffee bar one deck down IIRC). I always got my specialty coffee first, and then moseyed on up to “the trough” a little later.
The Spousal Unit and I would have been seriously underwater financially if we’d gotten the drinks package. Ordering by the glass worked perfectly for us.
In general, I found the food to be very, very good, even at “the trough,” but the buffet servers there would assume that you had a huge appetite and tried to feed you accordingly; I always had to tell ’em to give me half of what they thought I wanted. There was a lot of food waste, sadly.
My dad says they never get a drinks package. The lounges have 2-for-1 specials and such, and I’m not a big drinker. I’d rather not be hungover in the tropics on a seagoing vessel.
I do have to admit that, the first night on the Caribbean cruise, I had a lot of fun with the bartender at the Martini Bar, getting him to make me a “James Bond martini” and then a “bog-standard NATO martini,” both of which caused much hilarity between him and I as well as a bunch of onlookers. The other members of my family were mostly nonplussed at this exchange.
Was on a Norwegian cruise from NYC to the Bahamas. Kids had fun, me—not so much. Was picturing a nice relaxing week in the sun, hanging by the pool or on the beach when docked.
There were way too many screaming children on the boat and the dj blasted music near the pool all day long.
We docked on an Island in the Bahamas and we were some of the last people to get off the boat and the only part of the beach where there was any room to lay out was an alcove where the garbage in the water collected.
I dont drink anymore so i couldnt even drink myself into a stupor to make it all tolerable. This is coming from someone who very rarely complains about anything. I pray your trip is much different and enjoyable than mine. Good luck.
Holland America, while they allow chilluns, doesn’t cater to them.
Another point in favor of Viking is it’s 18+.
How many people here actually thought that vaccines would prevent another lockdown?
When you have your answer give me the list. I have a bridge I am trying to get rid of for a steal.
If you lived in a Blue state with a tyrannical governor like CA, MI, etc. and think those fucksticks won’t seize on any excuse to lock up everyone again, you’d have a slow learning curve.
I’m cautiously optimistic that TX isn’t going back to masking and whatnot, but politicians will disappoint anyone damn fool enough to trust them further than you can spit.
I’m not too worried about PA, after Wolf got his taint slapped in Nov. Odds are more in our favor now.
Idk, they may as well force the vaccine instead of forcing another lockdown.
How about both? LA and Nevada are ramping that up…
Force it on government workers first, and make it a condition of getting welfare.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth that will follow will show what this is really about
I’ve never had much faith in the vaccine route, period. If anything will dig us out of this, it’ll be an unexpected pharmaceutical. At least, after the vaccine makers have gotten their blood out of the stone.
I hope you’ve taken your blood pressure medication because this story about the trials and tribulations of a local news woman who is gay will make you wonder how life can be so cruel.
The story goes on and on about how she grew up straight because gayz were icky, then she finally came out. The big harassment she had to endure was when a local celebrity gossip/media critic columnist called out the gay newswoman for wearing skinny jeans when covering a guy confessing to a notorious Minnesoda child abduction case. Can you imagine the pain?
There should be some sort of limit that is put on people claiming victimhood. Young gays, or shysters like Tahanisi Coates should be laughed at by George Takei and Tom Sowell.
I stand corrected, she could easily pass for a woman based on these photos.
Wow. Sappho Skeletor.
I like the whole women-in-men’s-suits thing. Good suits. It’s elegant in a different way from men wearing good suits.
I think she looks awesome. Natty, snazzy, whatever. The whole thing is a good look on her.
I’ll ignore the part about “authentic self.” Shut up and cross-dress.
She felt she had to conform to a certain look to keep her TV news gig, but now she’s free to wear the clothes that express her authentic self — a bog-standard lesbian uniform.
I have to wonder if jeans other than ‘skinny’ would have even fit her.
Yeah, I read something once where they were trying to make out that Serena (& possibly Venus) Williams faced such trials being black women on the tennis tour. Apparently, Althea Gibson has been memory holed.
Dilemma! You’re getting ready for work in the morning but you don’t know what you’re going to be reporting on that day. You call your producer but she doesn’t pick up. Do you go for the skinny jeans and balance it out with a blazer? Yeah, might as well risk it. What have you got to lose? Some walking personality disorder with nothing better to do tweets about your outfit? Heaven forfend!
Yeah. Gossip columnist — I’m a catty, terrible person. Sorry, it’s my job description!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/86883-booksellers-denounce-aba-promotion-of-anti-trans-book.html
But booksellers said the statement fell short, calling out the organization’s use of the passive voice in the opening sentence. They also demanded greater transparency about how the decision to include the book was initially made, and called for demonstrable steps to restore trust with trans book workers and authors. Some called on the ABA to offer promotions for trans authors’ books at no cost.
ABA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee member Luis Correa, who works as a bookseller at Avid Bookshop in Athens, Ga., was first made aware of the issue when fellow booksellers emailed him Morrissey’s tweet. Correa identifies as a queer, Latino, and fat-bodied person, and said he thought the apology was flawed.
“I’m disappointed with the use of the passive language at the beginning of the statement and the shift in blame. They really should say that ‘we included this book,’” Correa said. The DEI Committee is comprised of ABA member booksellers and does not consult on the selections for the white boxes.
“An anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members,” the ABA wrote. “This is a serious, violent incident…”
OFFS!
I am sick to farking death of whiny wokesters conflating mean words they don’t like as violence. The other day I saw some transactivist whinging as how misgendering was assault.
sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me . . . . .
learned as a child.
Were they complaining about people calling them out for wearing skinny jeans? Because that is totes horrible.
I don’t get it. I am a huge fan of cameltoe.
Reference to the story above. Gay newswoman here in Minneapolis talks about how traumatizing it was to have a newspaper columnist say it was tacky of her to wear skinny jeans while covering a tragic story.
lolFFS
Post 22 and 23…that is some serious argle bargle. I, and everyone else, could have gone all day without reading that. No offense to the posters. I get it, I just didnt want to.
Suthen you are a monster who doesn’t care about the literal murdering of brave, brave, brave women.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1416077830710906880
Looks like we need lockdowns to stop the illnesses caused by the previous lockdowns…
1.Crush private businesses.
2.Mass unemployment.
3.Pay people not to work (communism).
4. Bread lines.
5.Profit!
The perfect 5 year plan.
The Great Reset…
You vill own nussink und be happy.
I heard that we will eat it and like it whether we like it or not.
Ferguson is the dude who said COVID was going to kill 2.5 million in the U.S., right?
One of our idiot public health officials was saying the summer bump in RSV infections in children proves that masking works, since it coincides with kids not wearing masks any more.
I know, its far too much to expect him to say it is due to the damage done to their immune systems by the lockdowns over the last year.
That thread led to this, an open resignation letter from a member of the Irish ice hockey team due to the arbitrary laws being enforced by whim.
Tee hee – https://youtu.be/K18yV5NlKKE
Those Spitting Image folk make some fun puppets.
In these trying times, what the world needs is more Leo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKo9ok2829M
I think the vaccines are effective. No, they don’t cause ‘Vid viruses to burst into flame on contact, but they do seem to keep people from getting really sick or dead, which is their purpose. They were never going to stop all new cases.
Every now and then, somebody slips up and reports that vaccinated people who get infected are either asymptomatic or have extremely mild symptoms.
But for some reason, they still need to wear masks. And so do I.
One of our idiot public health officials was saying the summer bump in RSV infections in children proves that masking works, since it coincides with kids not wearing masks any more.
On any given day, how many people have hay fever, or a summer cold, or just some random dust-induced case of the sniffles?
Masks don’t work. 100+ years of studies prove that. Masks are about OBEY, nothing more.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/national/trump-showerhead-rule-to-increase-water-flow-is-being-dropped-by-biden/article_76277869-e7a5-5ff9-8c56-4c09c2288a00.html#1
They’re just assho!es.
Fuck them. I remove the chokes from my faucets, toilets and shower heads. If the choke is not removable I drill them out. Fuck them.
I think this happened on an episode of The Osbournes once.
Shorter AP: do what your betters tell you, stupid Trumpaloes.
Where the fuck is my water?
Consumer reports says you should be pleased by the amount coming out.
Thanks, Riven. Your music choice took Ol’ Fourscore back to 1957, when AFN played the Buck Owens version especially for me and my new friend. Like so many tragedies in life it was only the beginning of broken hearts for a country boy. Never heard that version before though. Good choice for some of us.
Now we know one person out of 12 that the Biden regime wanted to silence: Alex Berenson.
I expected he would be on that list…
They’re getting bold, bold to the point of dangerous. The chief executive of the nation demanding that private citizens be silenced and companies are eagerly complying. It’s unfuckingreal.
Encouraging people to snitch on their family and friends for wrongthink.
If only we had history books and testaments as to how this turns out.
As the world turn sadly. This will not end bloodless
That I could at least allow myself the illusion of it being a rogue employee tweeting that out or whatever but the demands for deplatforming and, let’s face it, unpersoning are coming explicitly from the top,
Of course they are getting bolder. Who is going to stop them?
I suppose we’ll see.
Who and what are you thinking of?
Please, I’m not going to speculate on specifics on a public forum, or a private one for that matter, but it’s not going to end well. Hopefully the courts will step in before it all goes over the cliff but I’m not going to hold my breath.
I see…
I’ve heard quite a bit of talk of something like that but yet to see any action but you never know…
Things will go along… until they don’t.
He’s not on the list in the report cited…
https://www.counterhate.com/disinformationdozen
The only one I’ve heard of is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Gotta love the irony of Biden calling for the censoring of RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. is the only Kennedy I can stand even if he is a little rattling to listen to.
Anyway these 12 are just the start.
Sure, deplatform the 12 “worst” and then the former 13-24 become the current twelve worst.
Yup.
Yeah. There will always be 12 people spreading the most disinformation. Lock those 12 up, and look! There’s still 12 people spreading the most disinformation.
RFK Jr. is the only person I know of on the list.
Yet another list I didn’t make
‘Peach forty-six!
I’ve lost count of his impeachable offenses at this point.
I’m with you on this. They should be investigating and impeaching every fucking day. The rules have changed and there’s no benefit to taking the high road. Do what they did to Trump, because they will be doing it to every team red idiot from now on. We’re better than that is just code for “we like losing.”
They’re just assho!es.
We’re ruled by angry envious children.
So is Biden officially worse then Trump? At least he bas nice tweets.
My son has unfortunately been brainwashed by the COVID-mongers. I’m hoping that it’s only a temporary way for him to revolt against his parents. In the space of about 2 minutes he told me that 100% of Covid hospitalizations in LA are people who are unvaccinated and that the unvaccinated are ruining it for everyone. I asked, “If the unvaccinated are the ones bearing the consequences of their decisions, why is it a problem for everyone else?” That was his queue to leave the room.
Whenever I wind up in these sorts of conversations, the goalposts just keep getting moved far and wide.
Then we need to keep both your son and mine apart. The propaganda on this issue was very sophisticated and aimed at a very specific subset of persons.
By the way I found the whole “mean tweets” argument rather absurd.
First is the implication that Biden is a Nice Guy. He is a liar, plagiarist and implemented terrible policies. What evidence is there?
Second is the implication that ideas and ideologies don’t matter it is all about the personality of the TOP MAN. Isn’t that essentially totalitarian?
Third is the implication that Nice Guys will always do things I like. I mean what evidence is there?
He is a liar, plagiarist and implemented terrible policies.
You left out “criminal”.
What are you referring to?
I guess the slippery slope is real.
The Pope banned the Latin Mass:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/07/16/Vatican-Pope-Francis-old-Latin-Mass-ban/4671626446963/
Mel Gibson’s going to be pissed.
Isn’t he a sedevacantist though?
That’s interesting. Will we see another schism?
Not sure, I’m not that familiar with Catholic inner workings, I just found it interesting myself. It seems to preferred by many of the more conservative Catholics though and that can’t be allowed, obviously.
It’s looking more and more likely (based on conversations with my still Catholic friends).
He’s trying to canonize this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélder_Câmara
As in fire him out of one, circus style?
My understanding of giant squid, and the distantly related collosal squid are that any of them encountered near the surface are basically dying and way out of their “home court” which is much deeper, down to the abyssal depths.
What about the Ginormous Squid?
Too heavy to float upwards.
I helped build a catwalk for an oil refinery today. My deplorable level is over 9,000.
I had to modify my welding hood so I could wear it over my hard hat. Got to do plenty of cutting, welding, and grinding. The day went by fast and I got plenty of exercise. Messed up a few vertical MIG welds, but that’s easy enough to fix.
The best part was when a more experienced guy told me to get a MIG gun and tack everything together. It was a bit nerve-wracking when they picked it up with a crane and I was wondering whether it would come apart. But it held together.
Oh yeah, same guy told me to make an M2 weld. I said: what? I’ve heard of 2F and 2G welds, but nothing with M. Then he explained that he wanted me to use the MIG gun to weld “M2” on it as a part label. So I did that. It was legible.
Honest work. Good on you.
You did your little welds on the catwalk. The catwalk.
That is awesome Derp and Welcome back!
The M2 weld is funny. I’m glad you had a good first day.
Derpy – the first job I remember my father having was as a welder. He worked at Electric Boat and welded on the submarines.
He used to say (repeatedly) that if you can weld you’ll always have a job – there will always be a need for welders.
I’ve done a little of it, but suck at it. It’s honest work that a body can be proud of at the end of a shift, IMO.
Personally I see the calamity is a combination of snobbery (why don’t the deplorables shut up?), complacency (libertarian moment!) and TOP MEN (why are people questioning the elites? Also Joe Biden will save us)
I’d suggest a more useful explanation might be found in the principal-agent problem or, more specifically, public choice theory. The “professional libertarian” establishment has pretty consistently pushed a more progressive libertarianism than grassroots libertarians have much of an appetite for – “liberaltarianism”, “thick libertarianism” (sorry, but it was always patently obvious what additional values its advocates wanted to include within libertarianism), cosmopolitan libertarianism, “bleeding heart libertarianism”. All while much of the right moved in a considerably more libertarian direction. I’d suggest that there, in fact, was a libertarian moment. It just happened to be amongst conservatives. The Tea Parties struck me as a lot of conservatives saying the equivalent of “You know, that Ron Paul guy might have had a point, no matter how much we trashed him.”. Hell, I remember during the time of the Tea Party movement, reading Alan West suggesting reading Frederic Bastiat. And instead of libertarians (well the libertarian establishment) pulling the conservatives in, getting them to make those few extra steps, they systematically trashed them and sucked up to the left (anyone remember TOS touting Jared Polis as a libertarian Democrat because he played video games? How’d that one work out?). Heck, they even played fast and loose with libertarian principle to get there. Why would they do this?
It’s tempting to say personal flaws. But, personal flaws are rarely systematic. Consider the interests of the libertarian establishment for a moment. They have a pretty good gig. They are regularly sought out as the voice of libertarianism. They have leadership positions, even if minor ones. As much as conservatism having a Paul on the Road to Damascus moment would be good for libertarianism, though, it probably wouldn’t be very good for them. If tomorrow morning space aliens were to fire some “libertarian ray” that turned all conservatives into libertarians, what would happen to the existing libertarian leadership. Well, Cato is a drop in the bucket compared to Heritage. Reason would be just another conservative/libertarian news outlet. All the leadership of the Libertarian party would be lucky to get positions at the state level in the now-libertarian GOP. It’s in their interests to keep the divide between the libertarian movement and conservatism as much a chasm as possible. If it is snobbery and complacency, it’s telling that that snobbery and complacency almost exactly coincides with their interests.
And for Tucker, of all people, to whine about this is pretty damned hypocritical. He was happily in the forefront of sacrificing libertarianism to his position within the libertarian movement.
Pretty spot on I would say. The chances to bend the Elephants over towards the libertarian dark side would be far, far easier than trying to do so with the Donks. Right now, Libertarian Inc. are the big fish in a small pond, they don’t necessarily want to be in the big lake.
Or worse, the dog doesn’t know what to do if he actually catches the car.
I am not sure what that retort was to but that was a decent rant. Well done!
There’s also the fact that the biggest enemies of liberty are the very same people the writers at Reason identify with: journalists, professors, bureaucrats, activists. It is in their interest to stay within the Overton window and stay to the left of it at that, but that’s because the mainstream left and institutional power are indistinguishable anymore, and so the leftish ideas that are agreeable to power get validated and rewarded. The snipe about cocktail parties if anything misses the point: you don’t spend your whole life at cocktail parties. Whereas, the influences upon Reason and Cato (and Heritage too, for that matter) are constant and pervasive throughout everything they do.
My husband and I are going to be attending this over the weekend;
That looks awesome! Concerts and bull riding FTW! You kids have fun.
In the space of about 2 minutes he told me that 100% of Covid hospitalizations in LA are people who are unvaccinated and that the unvaccinated are ruining it for everyone.
Murderers.
I still don’t comprehend the argument. Asymptomatic people spread the disease? How? Prove it.
Why get vaccinated when you get locked down anyway. As I see it, it’s a game of chicken. Politicians need to get elected, and I can ignore their demands that I get the Vaccine longer than they can ignore people calling for there removal.
I bet Newsome isn’t pleased with LA mask mandate.
Newsom can’t be happy with that at frigging all. That June 15 opening getting rolled back in the major city of the state can’t be good for his recall chances. Larry Elder just jumped in the race this week as well. If enough Dems get apathetic and don’t bother voting in September he could very well get tossed and someone who gets 12 percent of the vote could get elected Governor. Oh God please make that happen!!
Be careful what you wish for. Apathy is how we got Deblasio.
You know who else got elected from a small percentage of the vote…
I’ll be voting for Elder. Me and how ever many family members he can muster, plus a few others.
If 100% of the hospitalizations are unvaxxed, then why should any one care? They had the same chances to get jabbed and opted out. It’s only around 30%, so if 1% of them get sick, that’s .3 of a percent of the whole. Makes no fucking sense, but neither did any of this bullshit,
But it gives “right thinking” people a chance to wag their fingers and feel better about their beliefs!
The vax isn’t mandatory, but we are going to bitch at you, shun you, mock you and generally make you regret not following our dictates.
One upside, I have 10 days paid leave for quarantine after travelling to FLA. Only the unvaxxed get that. Whoo Hoo! I actually screwed up and took an extra day of VC to recuperate. Later, I learned about the quarantine. I could have skipped it.
Absolutely. I will be as well. This is really making me fucking mad. SF hasn’t caved yet for this bullshit new mandate, but I don’t doubt it possibly will. We really need to shitcan Newsom. I don’t want to go back to wearing a fucking mask.
Yeah, they keep saying the polls are with him. The fucking polls! Lol! The polls suck ass. They are run by and for team blue. Ask any stranger on street about Newsom. How are the polls unable to find all of these pissed off people?
plenty of cutting, welding, and grinding. The day went by fast and I got plenty of exercise.
Sleep well.
I’m on our third controller for the Switch.
The first wireless ones suffered from the problem mentioned in the link.
As did the second wired controller I bought, which was luckily only $20-ish new.
Here’s hoping the third one lasts another few months before replacement is needed.
I’m done with Nintendo. Not enough new games I want to play and they keep charging you again for the old games with every new console. Fuck that.
I’m a PC Gamer myself – Switch gets used by LH Jr every morning before we start the day.
Went to go register my sky. I hadn’t transferred it yet. Cost me 500.00 bucks for permission to use it. I stated that the purchase price was 2k. It costs 25% of your purchase price, just for permission, and that’s revocable if I don’t get it insured within 30 days, which will cost me about another a grand. What the fuck do poor people do for cars?
Did you buy a Skylark? I had a sweet 65 one when I was a teen.
Btw, that Oldsmobile dude from eBay shows up in my feed from them. He has been all over the place with pricing and his ALL CAPS rants. It’s been funny to watch.
No, Saturn Sky roadster. I still want his car, just don’t think I could resist punching him when I had to meet him face to face.
LISTEN! THIS IS HOW EBAY WORKS. IT’S WORKED THIS WAY FOR TWENTY YEARS. IT’S NOT FAIR TO THE FINE PEOPLE OF FRANCE TO SELL IT LOCALLY FOR CASH! YOU ARE PROTECTED BY EBAY FOR 50K. I HAVE SOLD AROUND A BRAZILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FINE LUXURY CARS INTERNATIONALLY AND NOBODY HAS EVER TRIED TO PAY CASH.
That may be an actual quote there
Wtf is a sky?
One of these. Mine’s triple black with the turbo and all the best options.
That looks fun. Enjoy the drives. You paid for them!
Turn the ignition and cross your fingers. At least, that’s how I remember it growing up.
Well, I just paid more for my sticker than I paid for my whole first car and about a dozen cars after that.
It costs 25% of your purchase price
Are you effing kidding me? If I buy a pretty ordinary new car for $40K, I have to fork up another $10K to take it out of my driveway (legally)?
What state are you in?
Commiefornia.
I’m not seeing a 25% vehicle registration fee in CA, after looking it up online. You might want to break out the line items on that $500 bill …
There’s a 10% tax on the purchase price, and then a long list of cryptic charges 67, 45, 15, 30 etc. Plus smog, it came out to 500.00 on a 2k purchase price. I’m always amazed by how much it costs to get the DMV off your back here.
Some COVID “predictions” from someone who hasn’t been vaccinated:
. Like last year, once summer winds down and cold weather returns, the number of cases will go up slightly. Lockdowns and mask mandates in some states – like Michigan! – will come again because the Karens are in fucking charge of the world right now.
. The hue and cry for the unvaxxed to be punished will rise to a fever pitch as they get the blame for “spreading” the disease. The Vax card will become a thing in some states to enter stores, etc. Biden (more like his handlers) will try to nationalize this.
. A great percentage of the population will resists because that’s what Americans like to do.
The first two, sure.
The last one? I have seen precious little resistance from a great percentage of the population so far, so I don’t think that’s what Americans like to do, at least not any more.
. Actual hospitalization and death rates will be completely ignored by the MSM.
Another prediction to add to yours:
As the vaxxed lose their “antibodies” they will become sick when exposed to the vid which will forever be with us from this point on and and get very sick and many will die just like all the animal trials for mrna vaxx studies in the past. It will be hidden at first but Big Pharm/Gubmint will push boosters and the vaxxed will be on perpetual boosters forever. It will be paid for with tax dollars and Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J stock will soar and we will become a pharmatyrannical state where the unvaxxed have to hide in the mtns.
WOLVERINES!
If 100% of the hospitalizations are unvaxxed, then why should any one care?
Because they are stealing hospital resources from those who deserve them. Like all the people who got locked out of care last winter. And the poor overworked nurses.
“Stealing” in the sense of “paying” for hospital visits. That’s like the Soviet zero-sum-game logic that you buying an extra load of bread on the black market is “stealing” it from your comrades, versus Democrats bitching about “food deserts” and obesity because the supply is so much bigger under (moderately) free markets.
Went to go register my sky.
Sky?
Did you give up on the Monza (or whatever)?
Yeah. I already had the sky, just hadn’t bent over for the DMV yet. I still want the car, but the guy is too loony to sell it to me. I think he wants to see if he can get it shipped to Europe to increase his street cred or something.
Hmm. Founder of Wikipedia thinks TMITE.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-is-now-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/
The people who are deadly obsessed with controlling The Narrative and censoring any wrongthink have skinsuited another alleged marketplace of ideas? Who could have seen that coming?
He’s right, but no doubt they’ll trot out the other guy (Jimmy Wales) at some point to “debunk” him.
From Macy’s to Ace Hardware, facial recognition is already everywhere
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/15/22577876/macys-ace-hardware-fight-for-the-future-facial-recognition-artificial-intelligence-stores
Well if Asians didn’t have those squinty eyes….
V;DR