Has he blamed Trump for the loss yet?
The US Men’s basketball team completely shit the bed at the end of the game and lost to France. I watched the last quarter and saw them run up a comfy lead with three minutes left and then proceed to chuck up three after three after three with guys open in the post. Nice coaching, Popovich, you fucking idiot. We’re racking up medals in swimming. Beach volleyball is also looking pretty good. And if you’ve never watched rugby sevens, find the olympic stuff and take a look. It’s been pretty fun so far, especially the end of the US match against Kenya. And in non-olympic sports news, this is absolutely freaking hilarious. I see a sweet payout coming to someone soon. And that’s sports.
Beckinsale getting a bit chilly.
Big birthdays today are insurrectionists Horatio Gates and George Clinton, playwright George Bernard Shaw, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, prophetic author Aldous Huxley, comedienne Gracie Allen, knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm, directing great Stanley Kubrick, rocker Mick Jagger, the lovely Helen Mirren, Queen’s Roger Taylor, ice skater Dorothy Hamill, weird dude Kevin Spacey, infielder Jody Reed, actress Sandra Bullock, action flick dude Jason Statham, and sexpot Kate Beckinsale.
That’s a decent list . Now let’s move on to…the links!
::reads headline:: Oh noes!!!! Whatever will people do? ::reads story:: Wait, the headline doesn’t really match what was written. Nice work, CNN. You presented two huge disappointments (to the right) as the worst thing since slavery.
Worse than fog.
Damn, this is awful. I’ve accidentally driven through a sandstorm once. It was a very small one and for thirty or so seconds, I was absolutely terrified and blind to what was around me. Be careful, people.
Gee, what took people so long to come around? Maybe someone will ask Psaki and she can circle back to them about how completely fucked up everything is becoming.
The media is not trying to create a narrative. Nope. Suggesting that they do insults journalists hard work. Fucking scumbags.
I feel bad for these people. And I’d very much like to see them defend themselves. But I don’t want to see us ever go back again.
Well, they should be. Also, do none of the people involved in lawmaking realize the solution is to simply stop making so many things illegal and to stop harassing people for minor shit and focus on actual crimes with actual victims?
Don’t drink the water. Or anything else that you’re not in complete control of from the time the bottle is opened.
This woman is dumber than shit.
Everything she touches turns to shit. So maybe its not misogyny, homophobia, or racism. Maybe she’s just an idiot, right?
Don’t ever apologize. Besides, they were all accurate.
I might have to take exception with the billionaire here. Lazy people take shortcuts, they don’t find an easier way to do things. At least that’s been my experience the last 30 or so years.But I’d like to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Here’s a solid, underplayed track. It starts slow, but gets rolling nicely. Enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great start to the week, friends!
suh’ fam
whaddup doh ?
Is whaddup doh the successor to Play Doh?
I think he just has a speech impediment.
Let us make sure that Mr. Gates’ domestic staff are all replaced by the lazy…
Well played Swiss
“Most Americans in major cities are more worried about crime than defunding the police – as poll shows 90% of Detroit residents want MORE cops”
What if they replace them with robots?
They could patrol in SUX6000’s.
What could possibly go wrong?
<3 this place.
Gah, you just reminded me of that remade Robocop scene.
NSFW/NSFL
I could have done without that this morning, lol.
NSFL?
Not Safe For LIfe
It is not safe and posting it was a dick move.
Only a prick would do that here.
Took some balls.
“picks up balls and goes home*
Got a bit more time at home today while waiting for my A/C to be repaired.
In terms of policing…the Giuliani/Broken Windows/Stop and Frisk had some downsides from what I’ve seen, but on the whole was far more effective than a lot of alternatives.
At this point – esp in Baltimore, Chicago, etc….what is (if anything?) a viable method or technique that would involve integration in the community and targeting criminals without being decried as racist or extreme, etc?
People that want to accuse you of racism to stop you from doing something don’t need you to do anything racist for them to feel OK leveling the accusation. Wasting time trying to figure out how to appease these people is stupid. The only proper way to deal with this is to tell these people to fuck off and stop being evil by accusing those trying to fix things from being the evil ones, and all because these accusers want the chaos and grift of these marxist tropes.
Well, stop and frisk was illegal. You don’t get to search anybody you want. When the cops break the law, all crime goes up. The best answer I have is to remove all of the bullshit laws from the books and let the cops focus only on real crimes. You shouldn’t be going to jail for stupid bullshit and you should be going to jail for serious stuff. The cops love busting people for stupid bullshit, because it’s really easy. The perps don’t know their rights, they never fight or run, they are easily tricked into admitting things. It’s like stealing candy from a baby. All criminals know this and they have reduced respect for the law because of it, as does anyone who lives in a high crime area. Busting Johns and weed smokers may seem fun to cops, but it’s a huge driver of far more serious crime. BTW, it’s not racism. It’s sorta classism, but not entirely.
That’s fine. It would have been better to strike it down sooner.
The big question is why it’s so difficult to find a middle ground between that and letting shoplifters walk out of a store with <$950 worth of merchandise.
I guess it's more than just policing – when you take into account the other social factors depending on the neighborhood, situation, etc.
But yeah, removing the drug laws/victimless crimes would remove a lot of criminal incentive (presumably) and let folks focus on other things.
It starts with traffic enforcement. The cops lie and cheat to take 500 buck from a single mom waitress who they stopped hoping to bust for drugs or something. Everyone exposed to that has reduced respect for the law. In the hood, it goes even further and kids get beat up and framed by cops all the time. It’s a factory for creating criminals. Every individual element of the system is self perpetuating. It needs an overhaul. Starting with the laws. There’s so much muddying that it has become like politics, half the people are saying, “hang ’em high!” and the other half want to acquit everyone. That’s because the whole system if AFU. We need to force all of it to become respectable. Then people will respect it and it will easy to identify and apprehend real criminals.
Agreed. And I think a good start would be to make police cars all look like police cars again rather than something from a Mad Max film, and put cops back in clean, crisp uniforms with ties and polished shoes instead of dressing them like they’re going on a combat mission.
Unmarked cars are really irritating – for traffic stuff on the interstate or in general. Gotta look for those Crown Vics or the extra headlamps….
But yeah…I guess I haven’t spent too much time in the cities recently. San Diego for a while this month, but didn’t wander around much – can’t compare to 2018 since I spent even less time downtown then.
As far as traffic enforcement, you’d think the bodycams would reduce that going forward, but I guess it’s hard to regain trust when you’ve been such a shitty public steward up till now.
Remember seeing this one last week – and then the update a day or two later.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/viral-video-accuses-police-officer-of-planting-evidence-then-chief-of-police-releases-officer-bodycam-footage
We should really get some famous designer to come up with these.
So much this. As someone who became an adult while they made the switch from obvious white and black crown vics with the big blue lights to nondescript black/dark blue SUVs that just made them so much scarier. I can only assume it was on purpose.
It’s amazing how they put out the footage right away when it’s perceived to make the cops look good, but stonewall and stonewall when it doesn’t.
I saw those “updates” as well. Good that he had a bodycam to counter that false narrative.
Now, if the cop could explain why he ordered all of the black passengers out of a vehicle for a traffic stop, that would be nice. It would also be nice if he could also show he does the same for passengers of all colors at all traffic stops.
I bet neither of those two things happen. Because the cop treats people differently based on the color of their skin. And that’s a serious problem.
^^^ this
If traffic stops are so dangerous, wearing conspicuous clothing and well marked cars would be a minimal standard.
The local sheriff’s office has three or four different vehicle paint schemes not including several different generations of unmarked cars. Other agencies have at least two because they’re constantly changing them. There’s no reason. It’s not a fashion show.
(Crown Vic Police Interceptor has been discontinued since 2011)
In terms of policing…the Giuliani/Broken Windows/Stop and Frisk had some downsides from what I’ve seen, but on the whole was far more effective than a lot of alternatives.
The downside being that stop/frisk is a gross violation of constitutional rights.
At this point – esp in Baltimore, Chicago, etc….what is (if anything?) a viable method or technique that would involve integration in the community and targeting criminals without being decried as racist or extreme, etc?
1. end the drug war
2. lower taxes and take down barriers to entry for people who want to peddle drugs
3. stop treating the cops like they’re effectively above the law and start taking settlements/judgments from their pension fund
That would be a good start.
#3 seems to me the only one that has realistic chance of happening in my lifetime.
I think we’ll get a version of #1. Sadly, I think that will cause the reverse of #2 and create a massive regulatory state that will make ending the drug war irrelevant as it relates to people who want to sell drugs.
Hell, California is dumping a shitload of money into programs to help (the few) people (they deemed worthy of a state license) to grow legal weed.
Yeah, that is kind of mind-blowing.
But they are simultaneously ramping up enforcement actions against tax cheats and illegal grows.
Yep. My #1 is worthless if the state goes full steam in the opposite direction of #2. Which they will, because they need that sweet, sweet tax revenue for their union pension schemes.
If states keep doing the “possession is decriminalized” part without removing the dealing or distribution is a crime part, you will continue to see problems with drugs on the street. And they all lead to minor property crimes that destroy the quality of life. Why? Because addicts still need to get supplied and they can’t go down the local Quicky Mart and buy a five pack of heroin syrettes or a bindle of blow. But they will get it, and there will be turf wars on who supplies them. They will still break into your car, smashing windows to get your spare change.
You can see this in SF and Portland and Seattle, I am sure that LA is the same way along with every other city that tries this.
The whole thing, kit and kaboodle, needs to be uprooted from the legal system or it will have zero effect.
And those few people are either politically connected and/or pumping money back into the right hands. The taxpayer gets looted some more.
Daniel Patrick Monyihan?
I have better plan. Don’t visit Mexico until it gets its shit together.
Don’t hold your breath.
You could say that about places like Baltimore, Chicago, Washington D.C., and of course Portland as well…
I spent yesterday in Chicago, it was fine. Like most cities – it depends on where you go in the city. River North is not exactly the same as Englewood.
This. Everyone thinks NYC is in John Carpenter territory. It’s not, and one feature of NYC is that it’s really easy to avoid the worst neighborhoods because you kind of have to go out of your way to get to them.
NYC is full of assholes. Been there and verified that.
Some cities have a quick transition from touristy to trouble (see Baltimore).
Two blocks at most in B’More
Or SF.
OMG the looks I used to get from a lot of tourists who were staying at my hotel after a day of sightseeing.
Vancouver is the same. Two blocks from multi-millions to slum and back again.
Or DC.
DC in the 80’s was a damn scary place.
I can’t ever go back to SF because the cops there want to arrest my ass for putting an asshole that tried to rob me in the hospital and then actually reporting to them I had disarmed the knife wielding asshat. Fuck that shizz.
Went to SF in the early ’00s with wife and child. Broken crack pipes and used condoms in the neighborhood park we tried to go to. After the Alcatraz tour, we were back at Fisherman’s wharf and I went to use the john and there was a junkie laying on the floor of the men’s room with a needle in his arm. It hasn’t gotten better from what I’ve heard, but you’d have a hard time convincing me to go back because of my previous experience, when it was still “nice”.
Much worse, from what I have heard. And I was there in the mid 90’s.
When that happens in NYC (well, at least in Manhattan) it makes the news over and over until the cops pile in and “clean it up”. We do NOT want to return to the “bad old days” despite the cries of hipsters and “activists” who grab all the attention.
Nobody seems to give a shit in SF.
Plenty of shits given all over SF.
Cherry Hill, NJ could weigh in. As would Hyde Park, Cincinnati.
Most people think this about Mexico, too, and they’re equally wrong.
Cancun is where the cartel bosses have their real estate holdings. They don’t put up with any nonsense there.
But really no place is safe to wander around blackout drunk.
Supposedly, Japanese public parks are.
I’ve watched enough J-horror to question that statement.
Hah!
Lets ask straff!
I’ve seen countless knee-walking drunk Japanese salarymen stumbling around and have never seen one get rolled.
The trouble with getting blackout drunk in Tokyo is the cost. Unless you want to buy all your booze out of a vending machine, it is going to cost you a pretty yen to get real drunk.
There’s a middle ground between hostess bars and vending machines!
*slips Kakubin back into shopping bag on park bench*
https://ibb.co/7JcfQYb
Ahh who doesn’t want to drink Cow Piss.
Hydrate or die!
I remember escaping my wife and in-laws in Kobe one afternoon. I bought a couple tall cans and retired to a nearby park to drink in peace.
While sitting on a park bench, I noticed a local ant colony going crazy. I think a couple new queens were getting pushed out of the colony to go start new ones. Whatever, the one ant hill was going crazy.
I was fascinated and spent a good hour watching them. My niece came to find me and burst into laughter because I looked like some crazy gaijin drinking beer in the park and staring at the ground. She said that it would probably be a week before the local mothers allowed their kids to come back to the park.
I won’t even venture into Richmond right now. Mexico is off the table completely. Though I did visit Cozumel as a part of a cruise about 7 years ago.
Men’s roller derby, that’s perfect.
That is pretty hilarious.
But seriously, nobody did a simple search online? That would need to be followed by a focused search for trademarks too, but in the brainstorming phase, Google would have told them to keep looking.
“Officials in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said Friday that Snow’s body was discovered stuck in the bathroom window of a hotel in the Benito Juarez district.”
Well, who among us hasn’t been there, amirite ?
Too much hunney.
Just like honey.
But all that sugar tastes so good.
Meg White- solid wood
Isn’t she about 1/4 size for you? Yeah, she’s kinda cute.
Exceptions can, and have, been made.
ex-Ms. Tres was around 125 lbs, and a boxer in her spare time when she wasnt teaching HS English.
Feelers go Sproing!
I once rode my bike through a huge sandstorm. It was in a valley up on the 395. The cops blocked traffic and escorted vehicles through about 5 at a time. On a motorcycle, you can ride through high winds, but there’s a minimum speed. Of course the cop brought us through at about half the minimum speed. And right through a wall of sand. The guy in the motorhome behind us was shocked by how messed up we got. We had to stagger, because the gusts would shove us from white line to shoulder, and the sand felt like a full auto bb gun. It was brutal.
Wind had to be pretty fast to pick up sand, yeah? I have been in dust storms in northern NV. The akali dust is so fine it barely takes more than a breeze to start reducing visibility. Several times driving I just had to stop and wait because I couldn’t see five feet outside my windows.
I was riding home once on the interstate and went directly into a summertime “pop-up” shower. Either it was tiny hail or big drops, but when I got home I looked at my chest. It was like Id been hit with an AirSoft® 12-gauge.
Bye, bye paint job and windshield
I was stationed at FT Irwin CA for 3 years.
I had a silver Nissan Hardbody that, when I drove east for the first time, immediately was covered with flash rust when it finally came in contact with humidity.
Up until that point, I knew that the sun and sand had ate the clear coat, but hat no idea that it had ate right to the metal in a number of places.
And when the sun hit the windshield at certain angles, you could barely see thru it.
Got some pics from Baghdad of a sandstorm coming in one time – just a wave on the horizon getting closer and closer till it dumps on you. Decent set of pics with a shitty digital camera.
Yeah…I have a couple of shots from Basra where it looks like we are on Mars.
BTW – your series starts Tuesday at 1100.
Yeah, I saw that – I was hoping they could be posted at the 1900/2000 evening series instead – I have no access/response capability while I’m in the office and I’d like to be able to respond to comments if possible.
Let me see what I can do.
…
OK, all three are 1900 Glibs time now.
Gracias.
Glibs have their own time zone? We are just special..
No love for blizzards and whiteouts?
I know you get blizzards at Dairy Queen. Are whiteouts the crappy McD’s ice cream products?
Worry about a resurgence of the virus is also apparent when looking at how concerned the public is about contracting the virus.
According to this ABC News/Ipsos poll, about 6 in 10 Americans are concerned — 20% very and 42% somewhat — that they or someone they know will become infected with the coronavirus; about 4 in 10 (39%) are not concerned about this.
Golly, I wonder what makes people so worried.
Could it be the incessant drumbeat of “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!11!!!” stories?
Those are actually encouraging stats. “Somewhat concerned” is not running around with your hair on fire.
I’m paranoid enough that I’m always “somewhat concerned” – when I drive, fly, walk down the street, go into a bar, etc.
They focus on the ‘vid bullshit, to distract from the fact that even the blue team cheerleaders know everything has gotten fucked up under sleepy joe and his handlers.
Worry about a resurgence of the virus
Cold/flu viruses never existed (and never were endemic, constantly mutating with thousands of variants…) before covid. It is known.
In the context of computer-y jobs, “lazy” means finding a repeatable solution instead of doing the same thing over and over. It’s not the conventional understanding of the term.
If I’m designing any process, I do it with lazy day-dreamers in mind. Dealing with a client who keeps asking for crazy work-arounds and exceptions to standard processes. They didn’t like it when I told them that the more of these you add on to hourly employees, the more errors you’ll get. Now they are mad about the errors.
Correctamundo.
I thought it meant to just stay in bed.
This is what I wanted to say about laziness.
I have taught myself several different languages/software packages to make life easier. For example, back when our startup hosted catalog sites for apparel wholesalers, I learned how to use Quark so I could automatically extract captions, descriptions and other information from the catalog files that our customers gave us. The guy who had done it for the previous 3 years, simply went through the catalog page by page, copy/pasting the information into our web forms.
Uffda. That was traditional laziness, willing to grind through mindless work rather than figure out how to streamline his work.
“”She began searching for him and was told that he had been found dead, possibly after falling between the walls of the resort next door, the outlet reported.
Officials in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said Friday that Snow’s body was discovered stuck in the bathroom window of a hotel in the Benito Juarez district.”
Fell between the walls and got stuck in a bathroom window?
“He was eaten by a Grue.”
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
There is a shitload of old Apple hardware in that video. Two Lisas stacked up, a bunch of Apple IIs.
Man, I love MC Frontalot.
He was beaten by a Grue?
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning to all the Glibs everywhere.
I’ve been in whiteout conditions and if the sandstorms are anything like that, it’s fucking scary. Awful story.
Kate is not awful. however.
Nor is the Fixx. I saw them when that album came out. Solid band.
I hope y’all have a great day!
Speaking of SCIENCE!-tific fearmongering
“At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said that a close contact was somebody that you’re indoors with unmasked for 15 minutes or more,” Dr. Celine Gounder, who served on President Joe Biden’s transition Covid-19 advisory board, said in an interview with STAT published Friday. “The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it’s one second.”
I’m going to need a stronger sock, and more nickels.
Totally serious people.
So by the time the rho variant hits, people will be infected within a nanosecond? Or would it be a femtosecond?
Instantaneous infection at any distance
*farts*
“Silent but deadly”.
It’s the Chuck Norris of variants.
The Rona will break relativity and infect you before you come in contact.
You will get it before it gets there using spooky quantum interaction…
Have you ever been in contact with a person who got infected? You ded now.
If there’s any survivors the sigma- or tau- variant will surely clean house.
Somebody should start looking for a talking monkey calling himself Caesar and demanding his people be freed….
This ends with some astronaut pounding sand in the surf calling humanity bastards while staring up at the head of the statue of liberty…
We’ll all be dead by the time we reach the gamma variant.
The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it’s one second.
*pulls data out of ass*
I have successfully replicated the research.
“The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it’s one second.”
So if the lockdowns, masks, and every other draconian measure had no demonstrable effect on the regular ‘Vid, what chance do they have against the Delta? Seems like “learn to live with it” is the only reasonable answer.
“Last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled an ambitious plan to narrow Chicago’s “safety gap” — the deep disparity among neighborhoods where some residents are 42 times more likely to be shot.
The plan, “Our City, Our Safety,” proposed flooding the 15 most violent community areas with resources — not just violence intervention programs but help with jobs and housing and health.”
How about prosecuting the criminals?
Every weekend I see numbers like 50-some shot in Chicago and I guess that’s just normal. Just checked, this past weekend was 69 shot, 10 dead. Pretty high, seems like it’s trending higher. I get super wary about pols like lori talking about any kind of gap because they seem to only close them by making things worse for everyone.
Those are like peak numbers in Afghanistan or Iraq a few years ago.
I was analyzing historic dismounted casualties on a contract for the army – not sure we ever saw those numbers for shooting (outside of a few weeks here or there during Fallujah, and similar ops etc) – including IEDs, you’d get that high, but NOT with just SAF.
69 shot, 10 dead
SP quote: “These people need more range time.”
Seeing as how gangbangers are unlikely to use suppressive fire tactically, yes.
An aside, the proportion of rounds that are fired in a firefight that results in a casualty/kill is below 1%. Most of the fire is intended to make the other guy think that firing back is a bad idea.
LOL but to be fair, most of them are either drive-bys or running on foot.
Even with a laser sight, guy can’t hit shit.
Nah, the criminals just need to he given more ” resources “.
She just wants to send the Gangbangers to the more Tony sections of the city and make them feel the pain.
violence intervention programs
Promoting self-defense and responsible law enforcement are off the table then.
“Romania an image of the fictional character Dracula.”
LOLOLOL
It should have been Count Chocula or such.
Yeah, I think that was some awesome trolling,s o they shouldn’t apologize.
Wonder what they put up for the USA.
I think due to popular culture there is a tendency for foreigners to think that all Americans are cowboys or New Yorkers.
A friend of a friend taught English in Nicaragua, and the students had a habit of calling all of America “New York.” One of them wrote her a letter saying, “Dear Grandpa, how are things in New York?” She actually had to get out a map one time and say, “This is New York, and this is America”.
“Yankees go home!”
I agree.
The greatest part of human progress has come through people looking for an easier way to do things. Don’t like lugging buckets of water uphill to your cabin? Find a way to pump it.
Right, I get that. But those were smart people who figured that out, not inherently lazy people.
You think Alexander Graham Bell was just lazy and said “telephone”? More likely that he was diligent and set his mind to work to devise a better way to tell his helper to come in the room.
He wanted a quick way to get his dealer to drop off the bitchez and blow is my guess…
We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
Are those giants buried feet-up?
“The internet was made for porn.”
+1 Avenue Q
There is an old saw in the military that there are four types of officers, smart and industrious, smart and lazy, stupid and lazy, and stupid and industrious. The most dangerous of these are the stupid and industrious, they will do nothing but manufacture problems wherever they go, the smart and lazy are going to be your innovators, the smart and industrious are going to be great staff officers, and the stupid and lazy are neither useful nor harmful.
Stupid and lazy are useful, because there are some jobs you have to do that you don’t really want to get done.
See most of your EEO reps for example.
“Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No, seriously. He famously said, “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.””
I don’t think he said it first. Wasn’t it one of those Murphy’s Law books?
I guess that it assumes the lazy person is otherwise committed to complete the task. Speaking from my own laziness, you need to engineer a scenario carefully to get that kind of productivity. Otherwise you just pay a lazy person to not do the hard job.
It just seems to me like he’s conflating “lazy” with “people who seek to simplify tasks through innovation/streamlining”. That’s not inherently lazy and I think it’s a bad word choice.
“Work smarter not harder” doesn’t correlate to “lazy people get shit done better”.
I’m with you. I’m not lazy, but if I can find a way to free up more time to, say, hang out on Glibs, I’ll do it.
I know so coworkers who are super motivated and will dive and do things the hard way without consideration. They get annoyed at me for insisting that the process be simplified and accurately reflected in the documentation and work management system.
I said it up above, but yeah there are people who will simply grind away at a tedious and repetitive problem. They will get the job done, but they will always take the same amount of time to get it done. There will never be any improvements to the process.
A lazy person will get sick of the grind and figure out how to automate the job. If they are smart, they will significantly reduce the amount of time that it takes to get the job done. If they are really smart, you won’t realize that they did that and will continue paying for 40 hours of work from them even though it now only takes 10 to get it done. So there is a point at which smart lazy people don’t help your bottom line.
I have this exact problem right now. I guess I’ll find out how smart/motivated/lazy I am in the coming few weeks.
That’s the problem with my whole fucking company right now. The “higher ups” have no concept of making work simpler or more efficient; they just hire more people. And when those people show up and realize what a ridiculous amount of work they have to do to accomplish this very simple task, they get sick of it and walk the fuck out.
I didn’t realize we work for the same company!
Yep. It’s not lazy to roll two tasks into one if you can. Why retrace your steps if you can do the job in one trip?
They have to be both lazy and smart.
I don’t remember who, but it was some Napoleonic-era general who said it – Officers should be lazy and smart, general staff should be industrious and smart, grunts should be lazy and stupid, and the industrious and stupid should be taken out and shot.
Allegedly Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.
“industrious and stupid” = politicians
The personality type to fail upwards.
Its attributed to all kinds of people, but the classic formula is something like:
Lazy and smart – field marshal.
Industrious and smart – general staff.
Lazy and stupid – guarding the motor pool.
Industrious and stupid – no use for these.
He’s ripping off Larry Wall.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
Everybody gets one.
-Spiderman voice
Some Monday humor
*eyes “best-of” in my iTunes*
They have a number of solid tunes. I dig this one.
Never realized they had such an obsession with WW1 imagery.
The best. The brightest.
“I think the intermittency problem is pretty serious and it’s not just that the sun goes down at night,” Dumas said.
In the case of solar power, output can be mixed depending on the location of infrastructure like solar farms.
“There’s huge variation with sunny days in winter and sunny days in the middle of summer so the intermittency takes on a very big seasonal aspect,” Dumas said.
“You can have vicious weather for a long time in the middle of December or January and lo and behold you wouldn’t want to be depending on solar power.”
That’s okay, we’ll have windmills for that.
After awhile we’ll have woodchippers.
What a dumbass.
Ya think?
Horseshit. Unless you hand-wave away the cost of inventing a solution to the problem noted above that doesn’t involve spending trillions on current technology, plus ramping it up.
I mean, once you factor in punitive ‘carbon’ taxes and green subsidies, he might even be right.
Right, easy peasy if you double the cost of coal and gas
If it is destined to be that cheap, there is no reason for any subsidies.
The Fixx has some good tunes and Kate made a deal with the devil. She’s nearly as old as I am.
Also see: Elizabeth Hurley.
The comments on the American Optimism article were predictable. Care to guess whose fault the decline belongs to?
Hoyt Wilhelm: I watched him pitch many times in his later days. Not always effective, but always entertaining. Dude was a complete goober.
I got to see Gaylord Perry pitch near the end of his career. The joke was that he’d have to readjust the bones in his elbow before every pitch. I think he got the W but I’d have to look it up. 43 years ago.
“‘Don’t listen to my dangerous mum… it’s her five minutes of fame’: Son of struck-off nurse being probed by police for comparing NHS medics to Nazis at anti-vaxxer rally reveals she accused HIM of being part of a global CIA plot
Mrs Shemirani, 54, who qualified as a nurse 35 years ago, is being investigated by police saying medics were like Nazi doctors complicit in genocide and should face ‘Nuremberg trials’, said vaccination teams should be renamed ‘death squads’ and referred to the NHS as the ‘new Auschwitz’ during a rally with Piers Corbyn on Saturday.
She was also removed from social media and struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council last month for spreading misinformation, claiming that symptoms of Covid-19 were caused by 5G and that vaccines were ‘rushed through’ because ‘they want to kill you’.
Shmirani’s social media accounts with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram have since been blocked, but it is alleged she continued to post similar content and feature on other people’s accounts on other social media sites such as Telegram, BitChute and Brighteon”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9825513/Son-struck-anti-vaxxer-nurse-says-dangerous-putting-lives-risk.html
MILF or don’t stick it in crazy?
Interesting, Corbyn’s brother is campaigning with her.
Is that like Rob Ford’s brother getting elected ?
Neither, but I’m not Methuselah like all ya’ll.
Her roots are blacker than Kunta Kinte’s.
/too much ?
7/10 Would bang
Lazy people take shortcuts, they don’t find an easier way to do things.
Something something that’s how we’ve always done it.
I’m all for innovation and streamlining. I just think Gates is likening creative-mindedness with laziness.
My philosophy has always been that I would find a way to automate any and all repeatable and annoying processes, especially those that involve a crap ton of manual bullshit, that I was made responsible for, because I was not willing to do a ton of hard work when smart work made it easier. Yeah, I have occasionally told people that was because I was too lazy to spend a week each month doing that crappy work and basically did a month of work to make it so I could click one button and have it done whenever it was needed.
I want to believe that was what Gates was peddling, but the guy is a smart moron and might actually not understand that distinction.
Florida Man was not successful in running from Florida to New York on the ocean.
He should start simpler and try to jump the English Channel.
That’s some hellacious planning there buddy.
“They stole my checklist, how was I supposed to know what else they stole after that?”
Just don’t mention the policies
After Georgia Republicans passed a restrictive voting law in March, Democrats here began doing the math.
The state’s new voter I.D. requirement for mail-in ballots could affect the more than 270,000 Georgians lacking identification. The provision cutting the number of ballot drop boxes could affect hundreds of thousands of voters who cast absentee ballots that way in 2020 — and that’s just in the populous Atlanta suburbs alone.
It didn’t take long before the implications became clear to party officials and voting rights activists. In a state that Joe Biden carried by fewer than 12,000 votes last year, the new law stood to wipe out many of the party’s hard-fought gains — and put them at a decisive disadvantage.
Democrats in other states where similarly restrictive voting laws have passed are coming to the same conclusion. Interviews with more than three dozen Democratic elected officials, party operatives and voting rights activists across the country reveal growing concern — bordering on alarm — about the potential impact in 2022 of the raft of new laws passed by Republican legislatures, particularly in some of the nation’s most competitive battleground states.
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“If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed,” said Nsé Ufot, CEO of the Stacey Abrams-founded New Georgia Project. “We are doing what we do to make sure that not only our constituents, our base, the people, the communities that we organize with, get it. We’re trying to make sure that our elected officials get it as well.”
Since Jan. 1, at least 18 states have passed laws that restrict access to the ballot, according to the Brennan Center’s voting laws tracker, ranging from voter I.D. requirements to provisions making early and absentee voting more difficult.
“I’m never gonna win this fight if the referee makes me take the horse shoe out of my glove.”
“270,000 Georgians lacking identification”
Who the hell are these people and how do they survive?
How did they count people without identifying them?
Probably went something like this.
Go to poorest town in backasswater Georgia, poll 200 people, find five without ID, extrapolate.
“Good Morning, Sir, I’m Joe Blow from [some organization you’ve never heard of]. Can I see your ID, please?”
“uh…Fuck off, pig”
“No, Sir, I’m not from the police, I’m from [some organization you’ve never heard of]. We’re doing a survey to try to understand why people like you don’t have ID”
“Fuck off.”
+1 person with no ID
I know, even illegals have ID, might not be their’s, but they have it.
It says 270,000 people, not 270,000 eligible voters. However if we’re going to take them at their word, that’s 270,000 people that are stripped of their right to acquire and bear arms. I’m sure the ACLU will get right on it.
(Spoiler alert: they just released a blurb on the racist origins and impact of gun rights, to justify infringement while ignoring the actual racist basis of gun control)
The “racist origins of gun rights?”
Slaves were not allowed guns, because an armed slave is likely to become an ex-slave. And when the slaves were freed, the acquired the right to own guns.
“It says 270,000 people, not 270,000 eligible voters” – Nice catch
*taps out*
Pay for them to get a free ID if they desire one. If they don’t even care enough to do even that screw ‘em.
“It didn’t take long before the implications became clear to party officials and voting rights activists. In a state that Joe Biden carried by fewer than 12,000 votes last year, the new law stood to wipe out many of the party’s hard-fought gains — and put them at a decisive disadvantage.”
So you are saying Trump won Georgia?
“Since Jan. 1, at least 18 states have passed laws that restrict access to
the ballotcheating““If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed”
Elaborate. Is it because you can’t cheat as easily?
a restrictive voting law
But is it?
Free up self-defense laws, allow some violence in defense of property, defund the police, in that order and not before
Free up all laws, except for real crimes. Defunding the police will come naturally after that. Hurt, steal from or kill somebody, the cops will catch you and you go to jail, smoke weed, sell loosies, drive 2 mph over the speed limit, jay walk, saw off your shot gun to 17″, etc. Nothing else should happen.
Etc. is massively expansive, BTW. Which is the whole problem.
You really have a rosy vision of human nature I am unable to share…
I have always seen police as the least shitty solution to humans being giant dicks. There will always be people that feel they can fuck others over that will need to be dealt with. Any system that pretends people will behave and that some will need to be dealt with, often times with force, is doomed.
What we need is a better process of picking qualified candidates that are not going into that profession just because they have a thing for lording it over others, and an understanding that people that deal with shit all day eventually will turn dark themselves. Police work, because of the nature of the work, should have term limits or some mechanism to clear out the people that become jaded and start abusing the system. Also, we should stop allowing government to create rackets to make money that they claim are for people’s safety, and making cops the shakedown artists for those rackets (see tickets for driving fast requiring police to endanger other drivers so the state can collect money).
Good points. On the one hand, you need a better pool of applicants – which is easier said than done in a lot of jurisdictions. Higher base salaries might work better (with less opportunities for ridiculous overtime, and mandatory retirement). Hell, the military got rid of the 20 year 50/50 retirement and they can still get folks to enlist.
And definitely scrub the pubsec unions.
“And definitely scrub the pubsec unions.”
So much this.. Not just for cops, but for teachers and anyone working for anything government related. These entities are enemies of the people and one of the main reasons so much of our system is broken today.
You can have a system that only works if staffed by superior human beings, or a system that works regardless of the morality. I don’t trust cops because they have proven untrustworthy. By virtue of their shadiness, they have undermined respect for the rule of law. They have worsened that which we hire them to lessen. The politicians have contributed to this too. When the cops spend 80-90 % of their resources chasing normal people around and shaking them down for no good reason, yet cannot solve the real crime problems we have, that’s not just because we aren’t training them enough. The incentives in place bring this about. If we don’t change the incentives, we’ll get more of the same and steady worsening, assuming the social climate continues as it has.
Cops, because they are incentivized to focus on the things that allow the broken system to make the state money over actually doing things that would benefit the people, seem to take the blame in most people’s minds. You are correct that nothing other than fixing that system – and good luck with that, because this is one of government’s big money making rackets and system of protection for the elite vs. the plebes – can cure the problem.
^Mostly this but you both have some good points. No system is going to be perfect of course but some are going to be more imperfect than others and what we have now sucks and I’m not sure if systemic reform can save it.
Hows this, speeding ticket money gets sent to the general coffers instead of getting kickbacks to the department, successful prosecutions of murderers = $1 million. Of course, then you have some pretty fucked up incentives to frame people too…
In the People’s Republic of CT, the money used to go directly to the precincts back in the late 80s and early 90s, and the state, which at the time had no state income tax, was literally a miasma of shitty speed traps run by the state cops for their funding and by large & small municipalities to fund theirs. All of this dangerous shit, for driver’s safety, of course…
After the state tax came into being and started funding these entities, they still did this for a while, but eventually it became a lot less frequent when the law was changed to move the money into a general fund. It came back when municipalities were again allowed to do their own traffic stops for money about a decade ago. I have regaled people here with how I fought that racket myself, and why I have not gotten or paid a speeding in forever.
They got me on a bullshit nonstop at a sign, but I moved right after so I didn’t fight it.
Five out of seven ain’t bad, but couldn’t Biden do better?
Lazy with a passion that aligns with company goals? Great employee. They will find innovative ways to make their jobs easier that actually help the company.
Lazy employees with no passion? Dead weight.
The Man Too Lazy To Fail
And-
The same people weeping and wailing about how our insatiable need for kkkapitalist economic expansion has destroyed the planet are completely unwilling or unable to recognize the practical effects of their quest for technologies which will require finding and refining vast quantities of rare earth elements.
My guess is that they figure they’ll just enslave the smart rich people and make them come up with the solutions.
Smart Rich People: “We have discovered the answer, and in order to implement it, you need to enslave all of the smart middle class people and place us in charge of them.”
Care to guess whose fault the decline belongs to?
BOOOOOSH?
Pulling into the McD’s drive through yesterday there was some poor unfortunate begging for change. Some asshole Cop pulled up beside him and started mocking him, blocking the lane. His partner in crime was laughing in the passenger seat like she was at a comedy club. That poor guy just kept his head down and the “spare change” sign held up. Cops are asshoe! Oh yeah, it was an unmarked unit so you know they are the worst of the worst. Cuntes.
I just started shaking my head at them so they finally finished with their fun. The next person coming through scattered some change on the pavement. I hate this fucking world.
The other day, while I was riding my bike, I was stopped at a red light that uses a sensor to switch. Cop rolls up next to me and asks how my day is going, and checks that I’m going forward. He says he pulled up just to trigger the light, and I thanked him. Light turns, I go forward, and the fucking cop does a right hand turn with no signal.
He didn’t appreciate your spandex. I’ve no use for them, at all.
Maybe the cop wanted to help put you in the hospital?
Seems to be some scuttlebutt that Powell may quit as Fed Chief. Perhaps he sees the brewing shitstorm and doesn’t want to be part of it.
In the battle between good and evil, the decisive factor is Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/EYOmh
“Thaaaaanks for the Maaamarrys!”
Meh, those girls are all to well endowed to be cheaters. IBTC is where all the action is, I hear.
Seems to be some scuttlebutt that Powell may quit as Fed Chief. Perhaps he sees the brewing shitstorm and doesn’t want to be part of it.
They probably asked him to step side so Biden can nominate Stephanie Kelton.
Mises had a brief piece on that recently:
https://mises.org/wire/fed-powell-continues-flail-could-mmt-fed-chair-be-next
Thanks, hadn’t seen that.
I’m all for Kelton. Let them blow it up sooner rather than later. The pain is coming, might as well get it over.
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1419340884148064260
OFFS!
I think it’s hilarious. Please do more of those.
El oh el.
The letter does hit a nugget of truth: donations to “charity” (aka: thinly veiled D election funds) and dipshit yard signs are empty virtue signaling. If they really believe that shit, they should have no problem enrolling their kid in XYZ State U instead of the Ivy League.
Fucking morons.
We’ll only truly have an “equitable” system when rich white kids go to prison and the inner city black kids then take their places at Ivy league schools. So will you commit to framing your children now? For justice?
Same for so many causes. You will know they take it seriously when they are willing to make sacrifices without government compulsion.
Am Lazy. Can confirm.
Also, wasn’t there some German guy that divided people along lazy/diligent and dumb/smart axes?
David Nolan wasn’t German.
… and the industrious and stupid should be taken out and shot.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
I found the perfect song for sharpshooter’s kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk18bFIgOS4
“Texas firefighter celebrating wedding anniversary found dead in Cancun”
I remain amazed as to why people go to Mexico for vacation at all. There are tons of great beaches in places where: 1. you won’t get sick by looking at the faucet sideways, 2. you stand far less chance of being killed by criminals or poison and 3. the language is English.
Mrs. Q and I have gone to the Caribbean on several occasions and it’s maybe 15% more expensive and worth every penny.
Natalee Holloway agrees.
“far less chance of being killed by criminals”
Not no chance.
I’m not young, female, or pretty. So I’ve got that going for me.
How hard is it to not fuck a subordinate?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/fbi-assistant-director-engaged-in-inappropriate-romantic-relationship-doj-watchdog_3917452.html
I’m a proponent of not dipping your pen in the company ink at all, but definitely not someone you supervise. Idiot.
Pretty easy. Attractive women don’t tend to go into State IT jobs.
Horny and sex deprived nerds would fuck a pile of rocks on the off chance there was a snake in there…
In the old days I had a client who moved all their manufacturing to China. They brought it all back after about 7 years. One of the reasons that the owner said they brought it back was because the engineers were finding all sorts of “flaws” in the manufacturing process that required them to fly over to fix it. In reality these nerds were going to China because of how much ass they were getting from the local girls (not all professional). These nerds were in hog heaven because they could go into any bar and get hit on by Chinese. girls looking to sucker one of them into marriage.
Once manufacturing was brought back, all these flaws in the process were gone. No need to send engineers to southern Minnesoda to fix them.
“But she was sooo hot!”
So, that department is going to lose it’s head over a piece of tail?
Did the Cleveland Guardians forget to check Google?
I, for one, am opposed to this erasure of native Americans from sports. But if we are going to do it we might as well do it right. I am sure the proggies involved would be perfectly ok with calling the team something along the lines of the Cleveland Mighty Anglo-Saxons.
Cleveland Betas.
Cleveland Crackers.
From Brockmire, the Cleveland Colonizers.
And since we are erasing native Americans pretty much everything in Virginia needs a name change. Even the rivers (Potomac/Pamunkey/Mattaponi/Rappahanock/James/etc.) are racist AF.
This is what I find amusing: how is erasing American Indians from history somehow empowering to them?
Redskins: I still don’t agree with the name change, but I can at least see why it would be genuinely offputting to some people. Same with the Chief Wahoo logo; but the name? WTF? Next it’ll be “Braves” (which is explicitly complimentary) and “Chiefs” (which, minus the arrowhead in the logo, doesn’t necessarily refer to any particular ethnic group).
We honor Native Americans by paying no tribute to them whatsoever and naming everything after Caucasian things.
genuinely offputting to some people
Only, as far as I can tell, well-off white people and paid activists.
We’ll have to rename about half our states as well….then bitch about how white and uninclusive the new names are.
Huh. It’s almost as if the whole purpose is to undermine society and put it in a shaky foundation of constantly changing norms.
Burn it all down!
DING DING DING DING DING!
Don’t forget the Great Lakes, as well as quite a bit of stuff here in Ohio. You think some Europeans came up with the name Cuyahoga?
Erie is still okay right? Because the Iroquois put paid to them, instead of the huwites.
Why should this be limited to North America? Outside of a few mountains in Patagonia named after British explorers, we’re gonna have to schwack almost every moniker from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego.
Because the Latinos still have some cajones?
“Romania an image of the fictional character Dracula”
Pie hardest hit.
Pie cares not. He’s tougher than nails about Vampire jokes.
He doesn’t seem to think they reflect poorly on him.
But doesn’t he have a stake in the outcome?
Are we supposed to be boycotting the Olympics for some reason? I’m not, they are too much fun. This weekend I saw a swimmer from Tunisia win a gold medal in men’s 400m Freestyle. He had just squeaked in as the 8th qualifier. The whole race the announcers were writing him off, saying he couldn’t keep up that pace. He did.
I’m not watching just because it’s depressing. I haven’t watch many, if any, sports without spectators this past year.
I’m enjoying the “woke folk” trip over their own dicks and clits thus far.
I’m snickering about the story concerning the German gymnastics team and the unitard outfits that are supposed to prevent hyper-sexualization of the competitors.
https://i.redd.it/w7fqpkkplfd71.jpg
No woman has ever wanted to be considered attractive. It is known.
That one on the right could use some female attributes. She’s reminiscent of the East German team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgZXL3tL1A
Well, you can’t spell “unitard” without . . . .
I kinda like it, but why are they wearing red, white, and blue instead of their own flag’s colors?
I heard the Korean Olympic news was the best.. Something about flashing some image to associate each nation with something. I heard when they introduced the Italians they showed an image of a pizza. I heard they got in real trouble when they introduced the Scotts with an image of a scared sheep running for their lives and the Rumanians with one of Dracula…..
We’ve watched quite a bit. Mostly obscure stuff and weird shit. Banjos is loving the dressage and I can’t get enough handball.
I do think we should replace judo and tae-kwon-do with MMA though.
Judo can be entertaining but the tae-kwon-do is just stupid and mind-numbingly boring to watch.
Not to mention tae-kwon-do is next to useless in an actual street fight. Leaping and spinning and using high kicks to fight is a good way to get your ass kicked. It looks pretty, but useless.
/former tae-kwon-do student
Let’s face off sideways and shuffle back and forth till somebody wins!
Sure, but not in the Olympics. All of the X games crap like skateboarding needs to go.
All the judged sports need to go because they aren’t sports.
Piss off
*twirls satin ribbon*
The cut line can start with rhythmic gymnastics.
Boxing isn’t a sport?
Granted, it’s horribly corrupt.
There is at least an attempt at some sort of objective scoring in boxing, plus you put your competitor on their ass more times than they put you on your ass is fairly clear, KOs as well.
If you KO your opponent in olympic boxing, don’t you get DQed for hitting too hard or something?
I have no idea what the rules are for Olympic Boxing, TBH.
Just need to bring it back to it’s greco-roman roots.
So, only naked gay men?
Naked gay men, covered in a light coat of olive oil.
FIFY
Manly naked gay men, covered in a light coat of olive oil.
Throw some pot into the mix and you’ve got the most libertarian sport ever. (Mexicans are already part of the deal, obviously)
I wrote a character who, in a previous life, had boxed, but got banned for throwing fights for cash, betting on his fights, and other such chicanery.
All the judged sports need to go because they aren’t sports.
We cruised through the broadcast just as Simone Biles was doing her floor routine in qualifying. She blew at least two landings, once going completely off the mat. They did not penalize her by the book, and gave her better execution scores than any other American gymnast, all of whom did better than her in terms of, well, not falling off the damn mat.
The announcers did their best to cover for the obvious rigging. And what’s really pathetic is, they didn’t even need to rig the scoring – she was going to qualify regardless, and none of these scores count for the medals.
I would encourage you to watch the Paralympics too. That happens a few weeks after the regular Olympics, in the same venues. They are supposed to have a lot of coverage this year.
Army supply officer just won gold in women’s skeet shoot.
No she isn’t. That’s her supposed branch but she’s part of AMU and the WCAP boondoggle.
WCAP should have been shut down years ago. Total bullshit. Either you’re a soldier or not. The Army isn’t there to finance your vacation apart from FTA.
Marksmanship unit? Yeah, most of that stuff is a waste of money. Probably not as much of a waste as the bands – thankfully they scrubbed most of those – this one at least has a little more practicality and they could be flexed for training, etc. Don’t think it’s full time either, but I haven’t talked to anyone about it for while.
There was a Guard CSM in my office at NGIC who had worked with that unit a few years back, he had some interesting stories (I can no longer recall).
Fun fact, the doctrinal job of a deployed division band is to provide local security for the Division TOC.
Cold War era doctrine?
https://www.armywcap.com/
I stopped watching a long time ago because I wanted to watch events. I don’t want to watch 5 minutes of action followed by 30 minutes of stories telling me the troubles the athletes had to overcome. I also want to watch more than the medal matches or the popular athletes. It was especially annoying when they jumped between events for tape delayed coverage.
???
12 minutes of backstory followed by 5 minutes of ads followed by two minutes of actual sports
If it was just the condensed sports part it’d be incredibly fun to watch.
It is particularly bad for minor team sports. They’ll show you a full match for major sports that get plenty of coverage outside the Olympics, but try to watch a full match of a minor sport. They will show the start, break away to show other stuff, check back occasionally, and then return for the finish.
No athletes ever led privileged lives? Even the white ones? Even the “sob stories” seem to have middle class or better parents who could financially indulge their kid in the kind of practice and mentoring activities needed to produce a world class athlete.
Karl became a world-class hurdler running through his neighborhood to avoid gang fights as he jumped over the homeless and their possessions blocking the sidewalk.
IPSC should be an olympic sport. And to make it more TV friendly, they should pack the scoring zones with reactive materials of different colors so people can know immediately how the shooter is doing.
Or I guess they could do the puck-enhancement thing.
I dislike the Olympics enough that I wouldn’t sully IPSC by association.
But the reactive material idea would be pretty cool. Even electronic targets with a video overlay would make practical shooting much more watchable.
Yeah, pretty sure they’re doing this with Fencing now.
If the fencers are wearing tannerite vests, I am definitely tuning in.
They need to replace the foil epee and modern saber with real combat swords. If it’s not able to take off a limb, it’s disqualified.
Except, technically fencing has always been pointed vice bladed.
Add a second event for actual dueling/swords.
reactive material as in “lights up” – not “lit up”
NYCers – legit or hipster nonsense?
http://queensnightmarket.com/
I see no masks.
SCIENCE!
“It’s outcompeting all other viruses because it just spreads so much more efficiently,” Crotty added.
Genomics expert Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California, noted that Delta infections have a shorter incubation period and a far higher amount of viral particles.
“That’s why the vaccines are going to be challenged. The people who are vaccinated have got to be especially careful. This is a tough one,” Topol said.
In the United States, the Delta variant has arrived as many Americans – vaccinated and not – have stopped wearing masks indoors.
“It’s a double whammy,” Topol said. “The last thing you want is to loosen restrictions when you’re confronting the most formidable version of the virus yet.”
Don’t stop wearing that mask.
We have no reason to believe it actually does anything, but it will make Big Nanny feel important and powerful.
The virus is doing what viruses need to do to survive. It becomes more infectious and less deadly. We are getting the wrong information.
Absolutely this and any health professional that doesn’t point this put is either incompetent or a goddamn liar and propagandist.
Take the vaccine! It is effective! But…”The people who are vaccinated have got to be especially careful”
It is as if we imported Bagdad Bob to do the messaging on this
As I’ve mentioned, the whole “You need to get the vaccine because vaccinated people are getting sick” pitch seems . . . poorly conceived.
Are we supposed to be boycotting the Olympics for some reason?
The IOC-as-vast-criminal-enterprise thing is kind of a turnoff for me.
Hockey is still alright as is ski and snowboard cross.
Snowboard cross is certainly fun.
The Guardians thing is almost as big a fuck up as when VW bought Rolls Royce out from underneath BMW. Turned out they got everything but the name (including pension and other debt liability) and BMW ended up buying the name for a song. VW did get the Bentley name, so they had that going for them.
DEMOCRACY!
State Democratic party leaders across the US said they felt inspired by the Texas legislators’ drastic action and that it showed what they could still do to resist the rise of rightwing power in red state America, despite being politically outgunned in their home states.
“I don’t think it’s an easy decision, but I think that the issue calls for this difficult action,” said Raquel Terán, the chairwoman of the Arizona Democratic party. “The lesson is that we are elected to fight for our communities to make sure that our stories are carried on in the state legislature, and we have to use our platform in any way, shape or form.”
Chris England, a state legislator who serves as chairman of the Alabama Democratic party, agreed that the Texas Democrats’ flight was “absolutely necessary”.
“When you don’t have the numbers, you’ve got to use whatever tools you have at your disposal to make sure that you’re fighting and protecting your constituency,” England said.
“We’ll never win an honest open vote. Our only option is to cheat.”
Now do Oregon Republican legislators…
The three appointees of former President Donald Trump have together sealed the Supreme Court’s conservatism for a generation, but they have revealed strikingly different methods. They diverge in their regard for practical consequences, their desire to lay down markers for future disputes and their show of internal rivalries.
And?
As President Joe Biden completed 100 days in office, the country was optimistic about the coming year, but now, just after hitting the six-month mark, Americans’ optimism about the direction of the country has plummeted nearly 20 points, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.
Most. Popular. Presidential. Administration. Evar.
something something replacing what works with what sounds good something
I stopped watching a long time ago because I wanted to watch events. I don’t want to watch 5 minutes of action followed by 30 minutes of stories telling me the troubles the athletes had to overcome. I also want to watch more than the medal matches or the popular athletes. It was especially annoying when they jumped between events for tape delayed coverage.
This.
85 minutes of shit I am completely uninterested in, on the off chance I might get to see Vasily Alekseyev break another record? fuck it.
For those that are interested, I put up one of the KF&G stages on the forums/range reports.
I hope to see SP and/or OMWC there next season. I’m assuming their new country will be less dickish about pistol permits than mine
Maybe we’ll get lucky, have SCOTUS strike down May Issue and New York won’t find some other way to dick with applicants to reject any non-connected people.
/continues daydreaming.
I might even make a purchase if that case goes really well, and before they can cook up something even more burdensome.
What corner of the PDRNY are you in?
Western district, Buffalo sector.
Reputedly, getting a CCW is a pro forma process in our new home. As soon as we get there, I’ll make a point of introducing myself to the local constabulary to make sure that they have only warm and fuzzy when my name comes up.
You showing up in your special van?
Now do Oregon Republican legislators…
I don’t remember the details on that one, but take your fucking lumps. Maybe you should do a better job of persuading your fellow lawmakers and your constituents.
Nearly a year into Lightfoot’s anti-violence plan, many of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods are doing worse
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
There was an airshow at the nearby airport this weekend. I didn’t know anything about it until four A-10s flew over the house on Saturday morning. I was too busy to head over, but they had some really cool aircraft there.
As I was out walking this morning, I saw this beauty leaving the airport. The sound of those old engines was incredible.
*boing*
I live 1.5 miles from a small airport. They used to have restored WWII aircraft one weekend a year. (This was discontinued due to a crash at some other airport).
I have had bombers fly right over my house, and once two Mustangs flying in formation flew right over me. It was awe-inspiring.
Saw the B-2 at an airshow at a base in the UP in the early 90s. The only plane with armed guards around it.
That’s because Francisco d’Anconia was one of the pilots. The armed guards were to keep him in, not to keep you out.
I think I’ve been on that plane. How many B-17s are still flying, anyway? Anyhoo, they are surprisingly small inside, especially considering how many crew they carried. The bomb bay was much smaller than I was expecting.
The case fatality rate of the delta variant is tracking at 0.1% (UK stats), which means the infection fatality rate is much lower.
PANIC!
But, but, but it is more transmissible!!!!
In a rational world, people would see a variant that is more transmissible but less deadly as a good thing. If those dirty anti-vaxxers won’t go get jabbed, doG will make them immune the old fashioned way.
Of course, every time someone gets immunity from catching the Rona, Big Pharma has a sad.
Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No, seriously. He famously said, “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
I don’t disagree, necessarily. But I work while at work, and I tend to be lazy at home. That said, everything that needs to get done around the house still gets done.
Although their flight to DC has attracted the most attention, Texas Democrats say that their decision to leave the state is only one part of a multi-tiered strategy to resist Republicans’ legislative agenda.
“It shows Texans that Democrats are fighting for them,” said Luke Warford, the chief strategy officer of the Texas Democratic Party. “When it comes to electoral outcomes, that is going to translate into voters going to the polls and voting for people who they think have their backs.”
In that sense, the Texas Democrats’ flight to DC fits into the party’s longer-term efforts to flip more state legislative seats and eventually take the majority, giving them the power to block proposals like the voting restrictions that pushed them to leave Austin.
Maybe they should ask the voters why they are having so much trouble “flipping” those seats.
I always hear that Texas will turn blue – any moment now – but these type of moves can’t be helping with moderates (gawd I hate that term)
Election statistics for Starr County (border county on the Rio Grande):
Year Republican Democratic Third parties
2020 47.1% 8,247 52.1% 9,123 0.9% 155
2016 18.9% 2,224 79.1% 9,289 1.9% 227
I thought all them Messicanz down south were in favor of illegal immigration! Trump must’ve brainwashed them with his Nazi mind control! Is there nothing he can’t do?!
Worth mentioning that the county is 96% (!) Hispanic.
The real question is where they come down on Drugs and Assecs
I can only picture the poor Latinix guy:
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! What do you think you are doing trying to put stuff in my butt? I said I like Aztecs, not assex.”
Today’s dose of the Happiest Channel on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-5NtPFqVTg
Work can’t ask our vaxx status…except when they are doing contact tracing. Looks like I will be going on a list very soon and probably 14 days at home.
So you are saying that you lied to Congress…
TAPPER: So, as a matter of policy going forward, given that the Chinese government won’t allow any real investigation, do you still think the U.S. government should collaborate with labs like Wuhan, especially on research that experts consider risky?
FAUCI: Well, you know, Jake, if you go back to when this research really started, and look at the scientific rationale for it, it was a peer- reviewed proposal that was peer-reviewed and given a very high rating for the importance of why it should be done, to be able to go and do a survey of what was going on among the bat population, because everyone in the world was trying to figure out what the original source of the original SARS-CoV-1 was.
And in that context, the research was done. It was very regulated. It was reviewed. It was given progress reports. It was published in the open literature.
TAPPER: Yes.
FAUCI: So, I think if you look at the ultimate backed rationale, why that was started, it was almost as if, you didn’t pursue that research, you would be negligent…
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Gain-of-function has exactly jack shit to do with determining the source of SARS-1.
If you look at our stated intentions, who could possibly guess we were on the road to hell?
Only thing to do is keep walking now. /Fauci
>> a peer- reviewed proposal that was peer-reviewed
it’s peer-reviewing all the way down
This comment was peer-reviewed.
I am unable to replicate the results of this comment.
Here’s $5 million of grant money with political strings attached for you to re-analyze your data.
We’ve found a possible refactoring of the data which might lead to reproducability, but need more funding to follow the line of inquiry.
#SCIENCE!
The tell is how careful Fauci is with his wording. He knows he is walking a razor’s edge when talking about this stuff.
People with nothing to hide would simply say, “No. We didn’t fund gain of function research”
The simplest way to fuck Fauci over would be for Trump to come out and publicly say that he believes in Fauci and fully supports everything he has said and done. The media jackals would be all over Fauci by the end of the day.
They have plenty to hide. The Obama admin granstanded and banned gain of function research in congress. That was done to show how woke they were. Then they were informed of what the real consequences of that stupid move was. So they outsourced the fucking work to China. And enemy nation, but one that was making them all rich, which made it OK for them to accept the CCP running the global order eventually, since they would keep their mandarinate. They knew China was weaponizing the research but didn’t much care, because the globalists figured they had nothing to worry or would stay safe if the shit hit the fan, since it would happen to the Chinese people and the CCP would deal brutally with the problem. Then, the people that have cut corners by stealing IP and tech from those that actually had to pay the costs of both the research and the dangers, let the thing out of the lab. But instead of locking down and having everyone get to work to contain, the CCP apparatus chose to lock down locally and spread the fucking thing globally, since they didn’t know what strain had escaped (they were likely experimenting with hundreds if not thousands of mutations). They were not willing to take it in the ass in China to protect the world.
The reason we saw governments across the globe lose their fucking mind and for the first time ever tell people they needed to lock down economies and do shit you would not believe was ever going to be done before the whole Kung Flu fiasco, was that everyone realized that this was an engineered bio agent that had gotten out of the lab, and also not knowing how dangerous and deadly the thing was, went into panic survival mode. However, within weeks, they knew that this strain, while highly contagious, was not one of the “Steven King’s ‘The Stand'” variety, and then opted to use the fucking shit they were doing to redress some of the big problems that the globalist cabal wanted. They got rid of Cheeto president, trained the fucking seal plebes to obey no matter how stupid the fucking circus stunt demands levied were, and identified the people that would be problematic and unwilling to just grab their ankles when told.
At this point they want/need the confusion, are trying to do damage control, because pieces of the truth keep coming out, and are playing lawyer language games, but have no doubt they are fucking us over. Yet again.
Then they were informed of what the real consequences of that stupid move was.
I think banning it was the right move. Outsourcing it to China was the worst of both worlds. Extra bonus stupidity: it resulted in our Pentagon funding the PLA’s bioweapons program.
Can You Define These Colonial-Era Slang Words and Phrases?
I only got “Macaroni”.
The whole purpose of slang is so that normies don’t understand what you’re saying. It’s a way of defining ingroup and outgroup. Normies from two centuries later have got no chance.
See also: double-talk
(or the british version- rhyming slang)
Some slang continues on – but most of it drops to the wayside. WWI slang, for example, is usually very obscure unless you’re in the trenches and hear it every day. Some, however, do join the popular vernacular.
I got 7/11, but yes, Macaroni is the only one I actually knew. The rest was complete guesswork.
I thought “Adam’s Ale” would have been hard cider because apples and all, but I guess “water” makes sense.
Cat’s Paw is still in use, though not commonly.
^this.
Really surprised to see that on the quiz.
The peasants are revolting
NSW Premier Gladys Berejkilian said she was “disgusted, disappointed and heartbroken” with the protesters, who had taken to the streets following four weeks of lockdown measures.
The NSW government has warned it will likely be forced to extend Sydney’s strict stay-at-home order past the stated July 30 end date. Asked whether the mass protest could lead to an extended lockdown, Berejkilian said, “I hope it won’t be a setback but it could be.”
“Events like that can cause super spreader events,” she added.
Prime Minister Morrison said on Sunday, “People understand there are frustrations with lockdowns. But that type of behavior doesn’t help anybody. Selfish behavior doesn’t help anybody.”
The plebs are such a disappointment. Great rulers truly deserve a better class of serf.
Is there one documented “Super Spreader” event?
Their excuse is always “there’s a lot about this virus that we don’t understand”.
The rest of the time though, they pretend to have complete understanding. And it’s almost entirely anecdotal, like “My friend’s grandma went to Thanksgiving anyway and she got COVID and died!!” (totally unrelated detail: She was in her 90s and on hospice care).
Sturgis…no wait. Disney world reopening…no, not that either. Super Bowl! Shit…um RNC! Hmmm…BLM/Antifa’s Summer of Mostly Peaceful Takings…nope not even there…The church in California…dammit!
Ill get back with something I promise if we are allowed to play fast and loose on what we think a ‘super spreader event’ is.
Plane full of Democrats?
If they happen, it is because we didn’t take their warning seriously. If they don’t happen it is because we took their warnings seriously.
Same shit with the masks. They don’t have to prove anything, just watch the figures go up and down because that’s what viruses do but claim instead “masks work!” or “mask harder!”
Exactly.
We can measure mask usage by the number of infections, according to the news.
I had a dream last night I was arguing with Nikki Sixx about the vaccine and I had a disappoint. Dude, you died twice from heroin overdose, you’re supposed to be sticking it to the man, and you have a song “We Will Not Go Quietly.”
I don’t know why this is upsetting me, but it is. Probably the “you can’t work if you’re not vaccinated” head this is all coming to.
Clearly they have no fear of needles or the contents thereof.
No lie.
Michael “Propofol” Jackson concurs posthumously.
It’s all just Dr. Feelgood theater.
*hears guitar riff in head*
Wasn’t that first big outbreak in Daegu, Korea caused by one person making the rounds of Korean churches?
The other superspreader event I remember hearing about is the choir in Washington state where everyone got the Rona. Not sure if that has been debunked, but our local health officials used that story as the pretext for shutting down churches in Minnesoda.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out now that both of those turned out to be false stories. I still remember them as true though which is all that The Man needs.
“disgusted, disappointed and heartbroken”
I feel the same way about tyrannical infringements on the rights of people and breeches of constitutional limits of the government in the US.
Why is it the most tyrannical of the female pols all look like unsexiest librarians?
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/6fac5420d260227174217fbdd042a204?width=1024
They want everyone else to be as unhappy as they are.
Jesus H. Koresh. That mandible- she has an underbite like my boxer.
Weird eye spacing no doubt.
yikes, she could scare the vid away.
Tar.
Feathers.
Repeat.
EF and I had the neighbors over for a pre-dinner hangout / games afternoon. Which was a mistake given the amount of bud and booze consumed before dinner.
EF ended up going upstairs at 7PM to lie down, while I staggered back to the neighbors house to eat pizza. And the skeeters were something terrible last night.
Weird thing: the girlfriend of my neighbor Steve wants to go on with me on my Estate Sales and Thrift store rounds. Yeahhhh… not feeling comfortable with that idea.
Just tell them you follow the Pence rule.
Always listen to that little voice in the back of your head.
He’s telling us this for a reason, you know. Heck, the way they switch accounts, it could be EF.
Im confused.
If you say so.
Montana man to @TuckerCarlson: “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.”
I was (drunkenly (hey- it was a bitch of a night, and Im off tonight, ok? Dont judge me!)) thinking about “natural immunity”. Tres Sr. is 82 and a total Covidian. Which I find as a juxtaposition since I remember him (drunkenly) telling me once that “I want to get to exposed to anything, and let my body do whats its supposed to, and make antibodies”. That had me thinking about vaccinations and I wondered “everyone gets a polio vaccine- but what if we had natural immunity”?
Apropos of nothing other than me waiting on the White Castles Im gonna eviscerate-
Naturally Acquired Immunity to Poliovirus: Historical Observations Have Been Ignored
I run my mouth that me & Jugsy had CoVID-SARS-Monkeypox-19 or w/e it is months before the national freakout. Both were sick as hell. Over the past 14 months Ive gone out of my way to contract the virus and get sick, including being around CoVID+ co -workers that got sick. Nada.
Im betting I have antibodies swimming in my 80-proof blood.
About time someone spoke up against polio vaccination. It’s just putting money into the pockets of Big Pharma. There wouldn’t even be a concern except TMITE stoked up poliohysteria for the past 100 years. You don’t need to vaccinate your kids. Let the power of Gaia and statistics protect them.
What I took from the article is that by performing inoculation at a later age, we’re circumventing the bodies natural response. In the case of polio, at a very young age.
And where would these infants be exposed if everyone else was immunized by early exposure? That paradigm clearly didn’t work before Salk and there’s no reason to think it would today, except by examine a subset in isolation.
This totally was not staged.
President Biden tracked me down in the North Fork Valley to talk about the Child Tax Credit.
Democratic Party apparatchiks are people just like you and me.
Oh give me a fucking break….
That’s pathetic.
Biden likes ice cream!
Yes, but have you seen his Mario cart skills?
I’ve only seen his Donkey Kong skills.
WTF are those brand-new, never-been-washed, pants?
I had no idea Sears still produced ToughSkins.
Heh.
Heh. That tractor hasn’t moved in years.
It’s people like Tracey Adams (@drgnfire3t) that are the real problem.
Either bullshit or a genuine “wut”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15681411/wife-another-man-slaps-bum/
If true…
Cuck, literally.
Just reading the URL I thought it was some sort of hobo fight or a lady that had a personal hobo that she let people slap around to satisfy a very odd kink.
Uh, dude, you are *also* letting it happen. Dumbfuck.
Jesus. Need some Zed-level advice for all involved.
Dude. You’re in a pool hall. There’s handy clubs lined on the wall. The solution to your problem is literally within arm’s reach.
Yeah a quick thwap on Mr. Handsy should score points but I am guessing we aren’t getting the full story that A: she wants her pool partner to sing a few balls of his own on her and B: he secretly gets a chubby out of it but is afraid to say so.
grrr…slumbrew’d it. Sink..not sing. Though it would add a whole new level to this
Yeah, I guess you could thwap her partner instead? Also?
I wasn’t really cheating since I only let him put the tip in….
Remy
Was just going to post this.
Not his best, be certainly amusing.
Revealed preference: Bill Gates never put someone like Wally from Dilbert in charge of anything important.
“Lazy” =/= “efficient”
On topic today.
@Swiss, Cods & Cuntes, now in paperback. Thanks for getting me off my ass to get that done.
Really?
I was truly hoping that C & C would be on the cover. So much for my “coffee table book”.
Sadly, C&C is not seductive to romance readers.
However it captivates Glibs.
#KnowYourAudience
I suspect she sells more books to people who read romances than to glibs.
She must. She named a book after me. Not exactly flattering description in the blurb, hopefully it gets better further in.
He a complete (heart of gold) asshole and the heroine adores him for it. A rat for every cat, as they say.
There a literally dozens of us.
We’re not the audience. We are just imaginary friends.
“Grimme”?
The preceding spelling of “Graham.”
Is it pronounced the way it looks (Grim) or closer to what it evolved into (Gram)?
More like GREM, but with my Midwestern pin-pen convergence, there’s no difference between Grem and Grim
Do you need us to track down this LYNN O’ROURKE character and get that 1 star changed? 😉
Odds that Lynn writes Romance novels?
Unlikely. There are rom readers who’ll never give a 5-star, but give a 1-star to express their displeasure. I got one for my pirate book (or several). This one stated that the heroine is half naked and cuts off a man’s head on the first page and the hero’s POV started with “some stream of consciousness thing”. Well, that review sold it to more people.
One dude on Goodreads gave it a 1-star, but he also gave Patrick O’Brien 1 star on his books, so I felt utterly flattered.
Jangly 12-string Rickenbacker goodness from one of the best; Martin Newell https://twitter.com/cleaners_venus1/status/1419608392637816840?s=21
For my latish-night guilty-pleasure vid watching, I have been alternating Milla Jovovich/Resident Evil and Kate Beckinsale/Underworld (I believe all of both series are available free, somewhere on the streaming services). Its kind of a Ginger/Mary Anne thing, but I believe I have a slight preference for Ms. Beckinsale. Flawless bone structure, perfectly proportioned body. More study is needed to reach a final conclusion, though.
Milla in Fifth Element is my guilty pleasure but hands down K. Beckensale is of stunning beauty and the only agreed upon fantasy between wife and I.
+1 19 year old Kate’s feature film debut in Much Ado About Nothing
My wife is more comfortable when I admire women from earlier films. It’s not like I will meet many celebrities. Maybe it is because I am close in age to Kate.