Musical linky.
Brutal Exterminator outfit updated for the Twenty First century. (h/t KK)
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FTC, an org that doesn’t need to exist, approves something that shouldn’t need approval in the first place.
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There is some creepy cult stuff going on, but it’s not the refuseniks.
Media Karen compares vax skeptics to “Russian propagandists,” and then with stunning lack of self-awareness calls for their deprogramming; totally not the same thing as the Soviets declaring anti-government dissidents insane and locking them mental hospitals until they embraced the government. Thanks for proving, yet again, that TMITE, Mika. Oh, and what is it with you media people and your obsession with deprogramming people with whom you disagree?
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This cowboy popped the balloon. And we all know what that means.
Now, for something not nut-punchy, with some cowgirl pix in the linked article: The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association Hit or Miss competition.
Hit or miss is a skill event where shooters ride their horse around a pre-determined course using blue and white balloons as targets. The course changed after each stage (there are four stages in all). All shooters used two .45 Colt revolvers in part of event regulations. Contestants had to shoot white balloons first before proceeding to shoot the blue balloons to end their course. The goal is to shoot all balloons while riding their horse as quickly as possible.
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Even though FAA Commercial Astronaut Wings “do not carry any legal significance or other privileges,” FAA revises the standards for awarding them anyway, conveniently including future Virgin Galactic crewmembers but excluding future Blue Origins crewmembers. Scumbag congresscritter Earl Blumenauer (Evil, OR) jealous that he has to go through cumbersome legislative process to meddle with space travel.
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Look familiar? Yeah, that’s why SpaceX is eating your lunch, dinosaurs.
Boeing’s second Starliner crew ferry spacecraft rolled out of its factory early Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for mounting on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket set for liftoff July 30 on a redo of a problem-plagued unpiloted test flight in 2019.
The human-rated spaceship, which has yet to be cleared to fly astronauts, emerged from Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility near NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building before dawn Saturday, riding a spacecraft transporter for the several-mile journey to ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility at the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Womp, womp. Meanwhile, SpaceX has already launched cargo and crews to the ISS. Which as a tax dollar boondoggle shouldn’t exist in the first place, but still…
“The statement follows an executive order from President Joe Biden that asked the FTC to review new regulations that would empower customers. ”
So he did something good?
No. Every requirement the government institutes distorts the market in negative ways. We used to could choose to buy the easily repairable devices and the others would alter their designs to meet what we demanded. This is going to force some companies to spend more on development and increase their prices. If you didn’t really care about repairing, but loved the product, you’re now paying more. The repairing industry will make bank and hire lawyers to sue over every small breach, causing even more price increases. Before this, certain products held advantage by being repairable. That’s gone, so now it’ll be more expensive for them to produce product, resulting in.. higher prices. Lose/lose.
Unless you do care about repairing, then it might cost you less. The root of the problem is all the ways government distorts the market in the first place.
The order also requires those crew members to have demonstrated “activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”
So all the crew down in the second deck of the Space Shuttle get their astronaut status retroactively revoked? Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth…
They were government astronauts, Shpip. Everything they do is for the greater good of humanity.
I love the government!
There is no way I would go to space without assurances that I get a pin from the FAA.
But that firehose of falsehoods has been spewing propaganda and lies for well over a year
But enough about CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/ect.
It’s time to deprogram the cult leaders. It’s time we do whatever we can to save their lives.
“We have to enslave you for your own good.”
I’m pretty sure getting someone to unquestioningly believe things that certain people say is the opposite of deprogramming.
^This^
It projection day seven days per week with these evil people.
Mika’s father would be spinning in his grave if he wasn’t a sack of shit too. At least he hated the commies though.
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I’m dragging this over from the previous (I’m not dead yet) thread :
I’m a lot more reluctant to say, “That could never happen” than I used to be.
Do I think they intentionally released the virus to get Trump out of the White House? I do not. I don’t think they’re that smart.
However, I think they knew/know goddam good and well the virus escaped from that lab, and that’s why they went so completely apeshit over it. They were afraid it might really be the Big One. All the larper wet dreams of saving the world from wholesale death and destruction were brought out of the closet.
Later, as they began to realize what they could get away with in the name of “an abundance of caution”…
The well placed knew and know it’s not that dangerous but saw an opportunity to reshape the political, social, and economic landscape and acted accordingly (and effectively).
I am with Brooks. I am strongly suspicious it was released as a weapon against Trump. After watching in awe the insanity of the last 5 years there is nothing I would put past them. We have been using the term ‘King of Ashes’ for years. It is not hyperbole.
That would be hard to keep secret but, if it was definitely discovered to be the case someday, I wouldn’t be surprised at all either. We’re dealing with people that are capable of some terrible things.
This. If you look back at the initial response from Dems, it wasn’t that big of a deal in their eyes. But, once they saw that they could use it to pry Trump out of office, they went whole hog with the response. And, that still wasn’t enough to put them in the white house, which is the whole panic over the election polling, and the results.
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I’ve been thinking about this lately, too. If they knew it escaped from a weapons lab, that would explain the initial panic, and the “we don’t know what we’re dealing with” attitude. So honestly I can forgive the initial freak out. As things became more clear, they kicked into “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. But still, it was lies the entire time.
As things became more clear
Which happened very quickly, after the cruise ships and the outbreak in Italy. They knew, no later than last April, what they were dealing with, and made the conscious decision to foment panic.
^^
C’mon, man! There’s clearly nothing to see, uh-uh-uh, you thing.
In a communications backdoor reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s infamous private server, President Biden used a personal email account during the Obama years to send information he was getting from the State Department as vice president to his globetrotting, foreign-deal-making son Hunter Biden.
Messages, sometimes signed “Dad,” from the email account robinware456@gmail.com were found on a Hunter Biden laptop seized by the FBI in December 2019 from a Delaware computer shop owner.
Some of the messages from the vice president to his son obtained by Just the News were deeply personal, others were political in nature, and still others clearly addressed business matters, often forwarding information coming from senior officials in the White House, the State Department and other government agencies.
For instance, in late November 2014 the U.S. embassy in Istanbul sent an email to the State Department that was then forwarded to senior advisers to Joe Biden, including national security expert Michael Carpenter, providing an early alert that an American named Martin O’Connor was about to be released from detention in Turkey.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Prediction: Nothing will be done about this.
This is bad. But why did Hunter Biden even have the emails on his laptop. I don’t store my emails on my hard drive, why would he? I have a pet theory that Hunter really just wanted to get back at the big guy for all the times he told him the wrong son died.
Desktop Outlook? My guess would be that Hunter’s email wasn’t Gmail.
I feel bad for him in a way but only just barely.
Insurance policy? Or a more insidious idea, maybe he wanted all this to leak out to damage The Big Guy.
Just stupid.
/crumples up tinfoil hat and stomps away
Don’t let me get in the way of a good tinfoil hat opportunity.
He’s a crackhead. Crackheads don’t make smart decisions.
I’d wager using using Apple Mail as his client; it’ll keep copies locally.
Nixon only wished he could’ve been so corrupt.
We live in a post-illusion-of-integrity era. Even through the first term of Obama, it was possible to ignore the undercurrents and pretend there was some level of integrity in national governance. Now? Even fools can recognize the stink of bald faced corruption.
Amazing isn’t it? If the Russians and the Chinese don’t have those emails it’s because of of their own inefficacy. Talk about being open to blackmail.
Odds that the Russians and Chinese don’t have a copy of Hunter’s hard drive?
I’d say it’s next to nil.
Same odds they don’t have copies of Hilary’s private server emails?
If it turned out that the Russians didn’t actually have Hillary’s private server emails, I hope Putin authorized the responsible GRU officers to set up a new cyber-spying center in sunny Magadan.
Trump was literally impeached for less.
What was Trump impeached for? they never did specify, did they?
First was technically (1) abuse of power, and (2) obstruction of Congress. The second was incitement of insurrection.
Well he was on the phone with a Ukrainian official and then *muffled noises into arm sleeve*
As I recall all of the Dem’s witnesses, excepting none, when pointedly asked if they were aware of any crimes or Russian collusion or aware of any evidence of either answered “No”, definitively. That was the first time.
The second time no amount of video, and there is much of it, of Trump urging people to be peaceful was taken into account in the second farce.
CNN will report on this: “Joe Biden elated that he isn’t actually Hunter Bidens father”
As seen on the Bee within 48 hours
you know* the* thing….
Dangit. ///WhatIsProofreading?
Sounds like that should have been classified, and it was provided to someone who could not possibly have held a security clearance.
Welp, add it to the articles of impeachment.
I am sure the R’s will get right on that after they repeal Obamacare.
I see two problems with impeaching Biden at the moment, mind you those problems could drop to one with the midterms.
(the statement above on no way is an expression of expectations of any sort)
So he’s eskimo brothers with his own kid?
That Mika- she’s a piece of work.
In a just world, she’d be cleaning the shitter in a fifty cent whorehouse.
Isn’t that kind of what she’s doing?
Excellent point.
“Off-grid man is rescued by Coast Guard who spotted ‘SOS’ scrawled on the roof of his remote shack after he was attacked and besieged for DAYS by bear”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9814619/Grizzly-bear-terrorized-man-Alaska-wilderness-days-rescued-helicopter-crew.html
Don’t look at me. That’s way the hell away from here.
“Authorities said the man, in his late 50s or early 60s, only had two rounds left in his pistol”
I think I see the problem.
What kind of Alaskaman just has a pistol and limited ammo?
I have a Marlin 45-70 guide gun, nice short barrel and lever action, 1895 model. That would be the perfect gun for that situation. How did he not have at least something comparable?
I have the same rifle. It’s a thumper. Originally bought it for hunting elk in dark timber, but it would be a great bear and moose gun here.
I call it the Bullwhacker.
A 12-gauge with SIS (sabot) rounds or deer slugs. Those’ll turn a bear inside out.
Having actually shot a bear with a sabot round from a 12 gauge, can confirm. Dropped like a sack of potatos.
I know a guy who uses sabot rounds in his 12-gauge to dispatch bears that come a-grazin’ on his blueberry farm. Yeah, they work all right.
Maybe he just had the wrong pistol
(I wouldn’t want to actually fire any of those)
I had a three inch 629 S&W. It wasn’t much worse than my 6.5″ model 29, except for the fireball.
I recall seeing a photo of a man sporting his single shot 22 Jet (357 magnum case necked down to .223) with one of his feet planted on one of the two grizzlies he had killed. Personally I would not try that, but hey…
Hell, I can’t believe anyone would hunt for grizzlies and brown bears with a bow and freaking arrow. But they do.
“Look, there’s a 500 pound grizzly over there. Let’s poke him with a sharp stick!”
Legit lol
Yeah, that made me snort.
It is more the bullet than the gun. A hard cast, flat nose bullet is best. Use gas checks and a moderate amount of Accurate #5. You can moderate the fireball and recoil and still have an effective bullet, even on a grizzly.
The fancy jacketed hollow points you buy in the store are soft as butter and will flatten out and. stop before it gets through the bear’s fat layer.
“‘Don’t shove it down my throat’: Louisiana COVID-19 patient says he would rather be hospitalized again than get vaccinated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9815189/Louisiana-man-says-hospitalized-vaccinated-against-COVID-19.html
Well, if he already had it, why would he need a vaccine?
Penance for not having got it earlier. Compliance. To make their numbers look better. FYTW.
The vaccine is really for SARS-CoV-3. That virus will be released in the near future.
I raised this issue as we were talking about making the vax mandatory for employees.
“Does that include employees who have recovered from COVID? Because I think they’re immune, aren’t they.”
Blah blah blah, can’t detect antibodies, blah blah.
“Can they detect antibodies indefinitely for everything you are immune to?”
Silence.
At that point, I’d pushed my luck enough, and shut up.
Do not question the authority of people who wear white coats.
The people in white coats keep trying to putting me into a strait jacket.
Go to hell, you tyrannical cunte.
“The CDC in the first place made the right decision when it comes to the science, but they didn’t take into account human behavior,” she continued. “And I think there is … one thing the Biden administration could be doing right now that would change the equation when it comes to incentives, and that’s to use proof of vaccination. If they could say, get the vaccine, you have a proof of vaccination, you can take off your mask. That would be really key. And I also think vaccine mandates are something that will have to come.”
That Leana Wen is consistently awful. These people really haven’t gotten any meaningful pushback. They really ought to.
That is the only way to deal with bullies.
Anybody else notice that it’s the women who are most shrill and demanding on this issue?
I’ve noticed that they tend to be the most outspoken on both sides of the issue.
Not sure if that’s just because we’re in a cultural period where men are just shutting the hell up, or whether that’s indicative of something else, but women are much more likely to provide their unsolicited vaccination opinion than men, IME.
Short version: It’s the way women are designed to interact and fight versus the way men are.
Picture the tribe/village context that really sets all our relational patterns: In a normal cultural engagement, the men are the first line against potential threats. Most potentials never turn real. So like 98% of the potential hostility men see goes away one way or another. And they’re made to deal with that and be OK with it. If a threat makes it through the first ring of protection – the men – it’s way past “potential” already, and there are NO other lines between there and the homes/children. So 100% off the threats the women see are life-and-death issues. And they’re made to deal with that. Every female fight is to the death. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Evolutionists make the same argument but attribute it to a bunch of accidents.
Well. That and Don Lemon, but your point stands.
*contemplates ammo purchase*
Forced vaccinations of children is going to get some people vaccinated with lead. They think the resisters are angry now?
That’s a bright line for me. I will go to jail before letting my kids get the shot.
Same
If they could say, get the vaccine, you have a proof of vaccination, you can take off your mask.
They kinda said that before, and now they are trying to rescind that. Many people got the vax just so they could lose the mask; they trusted the government on this.
They fucked up.
“Hey! You fucked up! You trusted us!”
I know of one in particular who is livid about it. She’s 40 and gave in to pressure from her mother and so she could drop the mask. Now they’re telling her she has to wear it in NY.
And she’s a liberal.
Went down to Anchorage last night, late, to pick up Mrs. Animal and two of our kids who came up to visit. The airport there seems to have some kind of unspoken truce with the TSA arseholes – the TSA makes you mask up when you go through security or are in the secure zone, but as soon as anyone leaves, the face diapers come off. Almost nobody outside the TSA access-controlled area was masked.
And, frankly, it’s been months since you saw a mask outside of Anchorage, and nowadays, you see damn few in Anchorage. Governor Dunleavy pretty much shitcanned all that stuff, and now even Anchorage has a Republican mayor. Sanity has returned to the Great Land.
Joe Biden mandated masks in all public transportation until Sept.13th.
Outside the security zone, as I understand it, the City of Anchorage is in charge.
Nope. Inside the airport but outside of security is still covered by the CDC order (which issued it, not DOT or DHS/TSA)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/face-masks-public-transportation.html
But like everything else, not the TSA’s job outside of security so they’re not going to touch it. It’s up to the airport (and the state DOT&PF) to enforce.
That’s as may be, but obviously the airport and the state DOT don’t give a fuck.
One of the things I have always found quite striking about masking, mandates, and all that, is there are rest stops just to the south of Portland, one of the most liberal cities in the country, as everyone here knows. The number of masks I saw during the whole “pandemic” was about 1 in 10 there. And that told me everything I needed to know about masking and people’s feelings about it.
Social distancing is easier when your neighbor is 5 miles away.
The only time I wore a mask at airports was when I was going through security and only after Biden was installed in DC. And even then not every single time. I don’t wear a mask in the secure zone. Nobody ever approached me in the airport about not wearing a mask. Some airport lounges might insist on masks–but not all. But in a regular terminal after security–never.
And she’s a liberal.
Something, something “and they call it bad luck”
And she’s a liberal.
Prepare to watch the Dunning-Krueger Effect in action. She has just seen what the left (there aren’t any “liberals” who matter any more) is all about, and she will immediately forget it and keep voting for them.
This. Plenty of them are bitching but they invariably shut up when I mumble “You are getting what you voted for, good and hard.”
I wonder where. There is no new mandate in NYC. Deblasio even specifically said there won’t be. Well, until they change their mind.
“Virtual reality (VR) headsets could soon help jurors piece together a crime scene during a court trial by transporting them to the car accident or murder site.
Research at the University of South Australia (UniSA) unveiled a system that simulates the crime scene using laser scans, allowing jurors to move around the area and see specific evidence related to the crime.
To test the innovation, the team showed one group of mock jurors photographs of the crime scene and another used the 3D headset to investigate the same site.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9815365/Jurors-using-VR-headsets-crime-scene-87-likely-agree-verdict.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Here, watch this movie we made and then tell us if you think he’s guilty!
You bastards – no, not the 15 year old boys.
They will lose. You cant play soccer with a raging boner.
LOL
The “FAA revises criteria for commercial astronaut wings” article is both ridiculous and infuriating on multiple levels. Starting with its existence in the first place…
The Left and the Government are really losing their shit over space tourism, and the eventuality of private colonies.
They will come up with some pretense for extending their jurisdictions. They cant tolerate the idea of people who are not under their control.
+ 1 Geo Orbital Reentry Ordnance Device
Dammit!
Geo Orbital Device Reentry Ordnance Delivery
They just can’t leave Brett alone.
Seven Democratic senators on Thursday said that newly released materials show the FBI failed to fully investigate sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the court in 2018.
The senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse and Chris Coons, said a letter they received from the FBI last month shows the agency gathered over 4,500 tips relating to Kavanaugh without any apparent further action by investigators. …
“If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all,” the Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray sent on Wednesday night, which they released to the public on Thursday. …
The FBI completed its probe after speaking with 10 people, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Potentially key witnesses, including Ford and Kavanaugh, were never interviewed as part of the investigation, and Democratic lawmakers have long said the probe was a sham.
Democrats have also alleged that the Justice Department, which the FBI is part of, was politicized under Trump and sought to advance the former president’s interests. …
Ford’s lawyers, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, said in a statement that the new revelations show the FBI investigation was of limited value.
“Because the FBI and Trump’s White House Counsel hid the ball on this, we do not know how many of those 4,500 tips were consequential, how many of those tips supported Dr. Ford’s testimony, or how many showed that Kavanaugh perjured himself during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” the lawyers said.
Democrats would never politicize a supposedly non-partisan government entity…
It just goes to show that there will be no hurdle that you can get past in order to escape persecution in the coming years. They intend to weaponize everything and to use it.
“If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line,”
Lest we forget, we had women storming Congress (before it was a Capitol offense), and Avenatti pushing a rape train theory. I can only imagine what “tips” the FBI was getting.
Hey, there’s another avenue. McCarthy should be telling Nancy that as soon as they gain control, they’re going to begin an inquisition to determine which Democrats aided and abetted those protesters in disrupting committee hearings (including merely passing on times and dates) and will begin expulsion proceedings for three Dems for every R she goes after. And Liz Cheney because fuck that bitch.
That’s fucking Hi-lar-ious! There’s really not a bottom to this stuff, is there?
The crazy part is that Kavanaugh is an establishment guy through and through, but yet because Trump nominated him, he has to pay.
They are laying the groundwork to impeach and remove him from SCOTUS.
The FBI didn’t do shit on the tip line because they never investigate anything about nominees before a certain age (not sure what it is, but it definitely rules out investigating what someone is accused of in high school).
So the thinking is that you can flood the tip line with thousands of bullshit leads, and unless the FBI chases down every single one, the investigation isn’t complete? Gee, can’t think of any perverse incentives there.
Joe Biden touched my peepee.
Did he sniff your hair? The curly ones? The FBI needs to investigate.
Apparently TDS is much like Herpes.
Continuing from the last article, if the GOP gains control of Congress in the mid term, they’d not just impeach Biden, but also Kamala, the entire cabinet, and start on every political appointee including judges particularly the Hawaiian ones. And in addition to anything else, charge them with high treason. When it fails, rinse lather and repeat. They impeached Trump twice, impeach Biden and crew four times or until they start crying uncle.
https://youtu.be/cjOPLTTjnwc
Of course the pussies won’t do that.
I don’t know if it’s because they are pussies, or they’re idiots. Either way, it’s not even debatable that they should have had articles drawn before he was sworn in and repeatedly tried to introduce them every day since.
From the dead thread:
“I actually think AZ could be turning true blue (although perhaps not as fast as the “election results” would indicate), because AZ is urbanizing.”
Very few cities in the country over, say, 200k population that aren’t Blue, often overwhelmingly so. The only Republican majority big-ish cities I could find, and population rounded to nearest 100k:
Plano, TX 300k
Tulsa, OK 400k
Fort Worth, TX 900k
Colorado Springs, CO 500k
Oklahoma City, OK 600k
Bakersfield, CA 400k
Fort Wayne, IN 300k
I’ve been saying for some time now, the ongoing cultural conflict is not geographical, like the War of the Northern Aggression was. It’s cultural – rural v. urban, with the suburbs kind of in the middle.
the suburbs kind of in the middle
This is the battleground. This is why all the suburban planning issues and suburban CRT issues are so important. The left is waging war on the traditional 2.5 kid family in a 2500 sqft single family home on a quarter acre with nice schools and a community atmosphere.
They’re pushing high density. They’re pushing activist teachers. They’re pushing urban zoning choices. They’re pushing everything they can to get single moms, immigrant enclaves, subsidized multi-family rentals, and row after row of the ugliest little townhomes stood up in the suburbs. The goal? To take that 60/40 or 70/30 GOP suburb and make it a toss up by exporting a number of their reliably blue urban voters to the burbs.
Trashy, you are absolutely right that the burbs are a battleground. The school board election in my town was a clear indication of that because over the years, the Left has slowly sink their claws into the school board. A couple of months ago, a couple of Conservative backed candidates ran and won because this whole COVID theatre made people aware of how much the teacher union backed board members where trying to radically change the school district. The school board is split evenly between the Left and Right which means that the worst impulses of both sides will be kept in check.
The question is, are they actually blue, or are they the ripe target for cheating. Anecdotally, most of the people I talk to are not blue team friendly, here in Los Angeles, by a wide margin. The cheating in elections is obvious and blatant. So, is it cheating that causes this outcome, or do people in urban areas just trend that way? I have a hard time imagining the people of Bakersfield fully supporting the lefties. Maybe it’s just my biases showing, dunno.
“Anecdotally, most of the people I talk to”
Nobody talks to a representative cross section of the populace, so who you talk to isn’t a reliable indicator.
2016: “How the fuck did Trump win? Nobody I know voted for him! Nobody!”
I really have a hard time giving the Dems enough credit to cheat in every single city with a triple-digit population.
California has always had the second largest city. It has not always been blue. If we are going by iron laws, there’s a problem.
I think that cities inevitably encourage the rise of activist government, for the simply reason that hell is other people so when you are surrounded with other people you are more likely to want something done about them.
Much of the not-left simply doesn’t vote in blue districts, because they perceive it to be a waste of their time.
I think you’re right, but I will also note that part of the reason Texas is still Red is because it has a lot more 200k+ cities that are Red or lean that way. In addition to Plano and Fort Worth, there’s also Lubbock and Waco, with some other cities being competitive.
Yep. There are so many small and mid-sized cities in Texas that it’s hard for the urban machine to overtake it. It’s coming though. Plano won’t be red forever. The urban blue culture is expanding out from Dallas. My old district (which includes some parts of Plano) flipped blue in 2016. Even the next ring of suburbs has a distinctly more “purple” feel to it now than Plano did 5 years ago. It’s part of the reason we’re planning on getting the hell out of here in 18 months or so. These northern Dallas suburbs are unrecognizable compared to the same suburbs back when my wife grew up here.
WTF Canadia?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-day-truth-reconciliation-canada-passes-senate-1.6054847
Yeah, remember the residential schools next time some smug Canadian talks about US racism.
The bill creates a statutory holiday for employees in the federal government and federally regulated workplaces.
Uh-huh.
The bill creates a statutory holiday for employees in the federal government and federally regulated workplaces.
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING. I believe I’ve discovered the actual reason that this bill got passed. Never let it be said that the Liberals ever miss an opportunity to ingratiate themselves to the bureaucracy of the Deep State.
Plus, the Quebecois who’s pushing all this shit (Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault) is himself a tyrannical asshole.
I’m so glad we get to have another “most transparent administration evar.”
“It’s been a couple of days since we talked about the breakthrough case on the campus here and that you acknowledge there were additional breakthrough cases,” a reporter said during the press briefing. “Can you give us now the number of breakthrough cases that have occurred during the Biden presidency?”
“Well, I would say first that our medical experts, our health experts, have been conveying from the beginning, as have we, that there would be cases of individuals who are vaccinated who tested positive for COVID,” Psaki responded. “There are 2,000 people who work on the campus. And of course, that means that just statistically speaking, there will be people who are vaccinated individuals who get COVID on the campus.”
“What I announced yesterday or conveyed yesterday was what our policy would be moving forward,” she added. “But no, I don’t think you can expect that we’re going to be providing numbers of breakthrough cases now.”
Took her a while to get to the “No” on that one.
I think a large part of this is that by leaning on the vaccine issue hard, they’ve exposed themselves to seriously bad outcomes if people decide that the vaccine causes actual harm or doesn’t work over the long term.
I’m not talking losses in the House, I’m talking pols and bureaucrats hanging from lampposts.
So it makes sense that they would obfuscating and lying on any news that gives the vaccines a bad image. You can safely assume that if they admit to anything, it’s actually ten times worse.
“would be obfuscating”
Good on the right to repair. I am shocked really. The only trouble is that any right a government doesn’t violate, said government can later change its mind.
Deprogramming. It is always projection with those evil fucks. At the risk of repeating for the 1000th time – This won’t end well.
We should send Earl Blumenauer into space.
I doubt that I will see it but at some point in the future, if we can get rid of the commie fucks, technology may advance enough that my dream spaceship can be built.
Right to repair is great. But not as an executive order.
This. The gummint shouldn’t have any say in this.
Looked like agency action to me, as directed by an executive order.
Which is really how all executive orders work. Trump’s order on DACA was intentionally sabotaged by Deep Staters writing a defective regulatory change.
If you think the government mandating a right to repair something is going to turn out good, well, just look at everything else the government mandates. It won’t.
It’s nice to know that management at my workplace has their priorities straight. They said we need to turn our cameras on in meetings.
Tackling the big issues, each & every day.
+1 Toobin
Relevant phrases to start using:
“camera fatigue”
“presentation anxiety”
You can flip the emotive bullshit from HR to make them roll back mandatory camera policies.
Trying to think of ways to engage in malicious compliance. Not brushing my hair and generally looking like a homeless bum will probably get me Brian Aitken’ed, so that’s out.
I think I’ll pick my ugliest blouse & wear it for every single meeting.
Worst lighting ever. Super dark foreground with a light directly behind you in the background. Bonus points if the light is from a window.
IOW, light like certain people do on the zooms.
Mirrored ball rotating and a smoke machine. Yeah, that’s just how I keep my living room, bitches!
Clashing colors that may actually cause retinal damage a plus. ?
If you could throw in a bright light strobing at around 3 to 5Hz, that’d be the cherry on top.
small stripes, for maximum annoying moiré
YES
I’m thinking purple & red. I have a very ugly purple blouse. I need a bright red blazer, though.
Purple and green.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-06-07
One of my favorites from the days 240p.
There’s always the classic “up-the-nose close-up”.
But I like trshy’s lighting idea the best.
Trump t shirt and MAGA hat
I can’t even imagine why companies do that other than for spite.
Mine “encourages” it but only at “town halls” which is like 3 or 4 times a year. Regular meetings? No one gives a fuck.
Two thoughts, link specific. One, if a company holds all the cards regarding repairs (ie, no right to repair) then they should be held liable if there is any, and I mean any, issue with it. Because that is what it means to own something, a-holes! Second thought, the only thing cooler with the mounted shooting competition would be if someone did the whole thing with a lit cigarette hanging out of their mouth. Send the Karens into complete tizzies!
UK propaganda: Maybe they all have the same brother?
They are both they’re brother’s keeper.
If the brother died and he has be vaccinated what will the doctor tell the family? It’s not like she can hug them and then tell them to go get vaccinated.
That story came up at work today.
I didn’t point out that it was highly unlikely she had more than a couple of her patients die from COVID in the last 3 months. I had already pushed my luck on ‘Vid issues.
Vax cringe
At least she’s letting any possible partners know she’s batshit.
CNN Airs Hour-Long PSA On Warning Signs Of Dementia
To Get Kids Interested In The Vaccine, Biden Holds Photo Op With Teen Pop Sensation Hanson
The Rolling Stones would have been better joke.
8 Domestic Terror Plots That Were Actually Orchestrated By The FBI
To Improve Olympic Chances, US Women’s Soccer Team Replaced By 15-Year-Old Boys Team In Wigs
Thot Thursday doesn’t expect you to talk, it expects you to die.
https://archive.li/nfNnc
* relieved it’s not all pictures of Goldfinger in a bikini *
Per aspera ad astra!
Pretty good.
Tonio, your taste in brutal slayers is impeccable.
Regarding reparable items, tangentially, I LOATHE printer makers who make it so if you use generic ink, it destroys the printer. But that’s all of them now.
Agree. Government is not the answer, though.
I’m genuinely curious … how do you feel about those “right to repair” lawsuits? Or suits against brands like, say, Kuerig?
I think that companies make the decisions they want, and we are free to buy products or not. The fact that a company makes their products less repairable than others is of no legal consequence. There is no end to the bickering which can happen about how easy something should be to repair. If people get pissed about something not being easy enough to repair, somebody else will make one that is and take all of their business. I like freedom for this.
It’s not ink, but I do use generic toner (from Costco!) in my HP Laserjet, and it works brilliantly for about one-fifth the cost of the OEM stuff:
https://www.costco.ca/moustache-compatible-hp-80a-black-toner-cartridge-(cf280a)-2-pack.product.100342699.html
Mebbe they make inkjet replacements?
I should point out that I have used other toner clones that were utter crap. The “Moustache” stuff’s been a revelation. Actually makes laser printers worth operating.
I don’t print often enough to do inkjet. I was getting less than 5 print jobs out of the cartridges before they dried out.
Bought once and cried once, getting a color laser printer. 7 years later, it’s still working as well as day one. Had to replace the black (half sized) toner cart a year ago (with a generic) , but other than that, I’m still chugging along on the original (half sized) carts.
There are inkjet replacements and I have used these successfullyin an old printer whose rollers just finally wore out.
I used them unsuccessfully in a newer printer and got 1500 copies out of it before the print head died. I am not SURE it happened because of the cheapie cartridges, but it COULD be.
I have a new printer that doesn’t have any cheapie cartridges on the market for it, but it came with lots of ink, so we shall see. I don’t think I will dare to use non-brand cartridges.
The Epoch Times has an article on deaths after receiving the vax.
And here’s where their change in the rules from “died from” to “died with” to pump up the ‘Vid numbers bites them in the ass. It turns out overcounting COVID deaths makes it harder to convince people to take the vax, since they are now overcounting COVID deaths of vaccinated people.
I expect they’ll change the reimbursement rate structure soon to discourage wrong-reporting.
This chick is no bitchass like Fabio
https://www.ktvu.com/news/girl-smacked-in-face-by-seagull-on-ride-in-wildwood
Saw Wildwood and wasn’t sure if that was going to be in NJ or not.
I’ve been to that particular park, although it has been decades.
Bonus – Mesmerizing Motels of the Atomic Age
Essentially nobody could afford to tear them down and build new places that would meet code and zoning restrictions. Having grown up at the Jersey shore there are plenty of other seashore towns with the same issues and architecture.
Heh we used to stay at the “Hotel Caribe” in Atlantic City in the 70’s that was just like these.
I’m late, naturally, but thanks to PIE for the post on Romanian food.
I want to travel to Romania just to eat.
“Jen Psaki says Hunter Biden won’t be talking to ANYONE about selling his $500K paintings and deals will be left to the gallerist as she defends his right to pursue a profession like ‘any child of a president'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9815453/Jen-Psaki-says-Hunter-Biden-wont-talking-selling-500K-paintings.html
Yeah, sure, imagine if one of Trump’s kids was doing that.
So I suppose being on the Burisma board was just “his right to pursue a profession like ‘any child of a vice president’”.
While it’s true that politicians kids should be free to pursue a profession, we should also recognize that kids can be a vector for corruption, and Hunter clearly has crossed some lines. Maybe not clearly, as in we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, but it clearly stinks. I don’t necessarily blame Psaki for her comment. She’s defending her boss. I do blame the media for looking the other way.
I don’t blame her at all really, she’s a paid liar and she’s got a job to do: morally sleazy but someone’s going to do it. The blame lies with senior Biden, junior Biden, and the media who prey on the ignorance of the American people to bury stories.
Maybe not clearly, as in we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, but it clearly stinks.
Oh, I think an honest prosecutor backed up with subpoenas and search warrants would have an excellent shot at it. 10% to the big guy? There’s a money trail there that can’t be hidden. Somebody just has to want to look for it.
Breaking: Federal Prosecutor Found Dead From Suicide
So the usual Twidiots are mocking Jeff Bezos for… wearing a cowboy hat after his space jaunt.
A bald guy, in the west Texas sun, at midday.
I’d say that a cowboy hat is a small price toupée when avoiding a sunburned scalp.
Oh, man. I’m not sure whether to applaud or wait quietly for when Swissy gets to that one.
He combs the comments for this stuff .
Maybe he’ll brush this one off?
It does seem like a fringe case at best. But Swiss is conditioned to root out puns, so he may knot stand for it.
That’s something for him to mullet over.
**Backs out of room quietly so no one hairs**
It’s Twitter, they wig out about anything.
Probably within a hair’s breadth of getting a cat butt with this one.
*Narrows Gaze*
Remember, he’s not just the president of the gaze narrowing club for men, he’s also a client!
So, is it cheating that causes this outcome, or do people in urban areas just trend that way?
Yes. Urban areas trend blue. So, even an honest count would mostly favor the Dems. But there is cheating for the most part. As a result, the urban left can run more left-wing candidates than they would otherwise and still reliably win. In clean elections a hard-left candidate would get beaten. So, the Dems would run Ed Rendells or such running on a platform of tolerably competent government that keeps the gravy train running and doesn’t make too many waves. But, if they know they’re going to win anyway, the moderates’ threat of loss in the general election is essentially hollow and various Dem constituencies have an incentive to shoot for the stars.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/07/muffins-recall-throw-out-these-26-products-right-now-cdc-says.html
Those carbs might kill you.
Hydrogen-powered ICEs* are the future of large commercial vehicles?
Can engineering glibs weigh in on that? I saw a video on Harry’s Garage about what JCB are doing with hydrogen-fuelled ICEs and it looked interesting.
*No, smarty pants, not hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen itself as the fuel
Isn’t there an energy density issue with hydrogen? IIRC, it requires cryo or insane pressures to store a useful amount of hydrogen on a mobile platform.
Hydrogen requires about 3 times the pressure per unit volume to reach the same energy density as natural gas.
For reference, natural gas tanks on trucks are pressurized to thousands of pounds. The steel vessels actually swell by an inch or so and are a half inch thick.
Ours run at 3000 and 3600 psi. Cng, that is. Lng runs way lower.
3600 psi? Jesus Christ, that’s a bomb.
Never seen one pop. They cost about 10-15 grand and are only good for 12-15 years. If they have any damage, they are trash. I had one where they used too long of a bolt on a bracket and dug a hole in it. Trashed the tank. Tanks get routinely replaced in vehicles that are barely worth a couple of grand. I don’t see the logic, but that’s not my job.
So an equivalent amount of energy in hydrogen for the same volume would require about 10,000 psi
Not particularly attractive from an engineering and safety viewpoint
All of which dodges the issue of their comparative energy density of those two fuels compared to gasoline. Ultimately, for the user, that translates to cost.
Wealth and purchasing power gives people options, thus the incentive for lunatic lefties to create poverty. The better to get my boot on your neck dear.
Also transporting pressurised H in large quantities to all ends of the earth on public highways sounds a mite dangerous. I know it can be and is done safely already. You would be looking at increasing the amount and therefore the risk. Remember Anne Teefa were trying to blow up tanks of propane for social justice or whatever? Imagine those creeps trying that with a semi-load of H.
If you want to blow up an LP tank, you need to know what you’re doing. The most likely outcome is venting with flame.
But actual BLEVEs are quite spectacular.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/world/man-with-coronavirus-disguises-as-wife-on-indonesian-flight/article_5cac6157-f625-5b34-8be0-1f9706d298d9.html#1
Is Kristen okay? Where’s Kristen?
Comment 29, she changed her avatar and handle.
*freaks out for 4 seconds*
Yeah okay I’ve recalibrated, thanks.
Re: Right to repair. Is it actually illegal to tinker with your own shit, or are people upset that it voids warranties, or that the producer wont give free schematics, software updates, and whatnot. Or are they upset with business models where you don’t actually “own” the stuff you buy. If it’s the first case, yeah that shouldn’t be illegal, as for the other options, tough shit, no one has to make it easy for you to fix their shitty products and if you didn’t read the terms of service, or contract, or whatever then that’s on you. Or is their some other option I’m not seeing?
Your John Deere tractor throws an emissions code and stops dead in the middle of your field. John Deere refuses to sell parts or the diagnostic equipment to reset the tractor to independent mechanics.
So who really owns the tractor that you paid for in cash?
There is literally no end to the quibbling that can be done about “repairability” How much is enough? How many John Deere tractors are going to have to die before people stop buying them and Jane Deere starts making repairable versions. Government is not the answer, ever.
In many cases it’s a government solution to a government created problem controlled by an industry oligopoly protected and entrenched by government.
Exactly. They are not in a position to fix anything.
That, thank you. I was having trouble organizing my feelz.
Why would you buy as tractor that would do that?
John Deer would claim that’s the only way they could meet emissions requirements.
It’s BS, but they have deep pockets.
There’s lot’s of that problem floating around. In Cali, the CARB has a list of approved catalytic converters. You can only buy from the list. Not used, not adapting alternatives, only from the list. They cost triple what other states pay. The problem is the government. Businesses will always try and please the consumer, unless the government makes it pay better to do elsewise.
Also, is it illegal to make your own/buy off market replacement parts and work end arounds for the software/diagnostic issues, or just is it just hard/impossible*?
*Impossible at this time I would add.
Companies have been sued for disassembling code and selling third party diagnostic equipment. You can claim you did it “clean” but they are usually protected and breaking the protection can run you afoul of various “hacking” laws.
If there’s a patent on the part, you can’t make it. But the bigger problem is that the software is probably protected by IP and anti-hacking laws. Companies are abusing their IP privileges to prevent consumers from repairing products they own.
You can make most patented parts, just not for commercial purposes. Probably the farmer could be sued because he uses his to make money, maybe. I can make an exact copy and if I don’t sell it, I’m fine. Now, a teenager giving songs away free on the internet? Well, that’s different. Off with her head.
You can make most patented parts, just not for commercial purposes.
Practically, yes. Legally, no. I’m not gonna sue my customer for infringing my patent unless they’re making a dent in our revenues multiple times more than their business is worth to us. Suing some farmer for fabbing a part in their shop? I’d literally piss away more money drinking a coffee while getting laughed out of our head IP litigator’s office than we could possibly get from that suit.
Now, a teenager giving songs away free on the internet?
Funny story… My wife is one of those teenagers who got caught up in Napster issues back in the day. Somehow she ended up marrying an IP attorney.
It’s the difference between licensing a product versus owning it.
No, you don’t need a Kuerig. You have options, like … a saucepan.
A farmer needs farm equipment. He has to take whathe can get.
The next iteration of MS Office is going to go to a subscription model. My irritation about the ink cartridges is minor compared to being forced to go to a subscription to ply my trade. It won’t happen soon, but it’s inevitable. Then again, maybe not. I’m still running a second-hand Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 6 or something ridonkulus.
How about Libre Office and the other open source stuff?
Won’t work for my purposes. I format ebooks to a certain specification, which is that it HAS to be MS Word. People who use Open Office or Libre or LaTeX send their stuff to me because the ebook distributor won’t take the off brands.
OO Writer allows you to save in MS format. Is there something wrong with it?
It’s not a matter of what OO can do or what MS Word will open. It’s a matter of what the ebook distributor (Smashwords) will take. It will NOT take a “DOC” created by OO. The “under the hood” code is not compatible with the conversion engine. I’m not even sure Kindle will take a DOC created by OO, but I only upload EPUBs to Kindle.
I’d be very interested in taking a peek under the hood of those conversion software packages. Im curious what they’re choking on. Formatted XML is formatted XML, I can’t imagine it’s something that couldn’t be fixed with a simple script.
/had to write a macro to strip our docx files of all dynamic content to get them to play nice eith USPTO systems
Addendum: I really love the word processor Atlantis. Can’t use it for that purpose.
I was under the impression that another retail version is coming in late 2021.
Just looked it up. You’re right. (Thank heavens!) I thought they were going to force Office 365 on the world imminently.
Not sure how interested you are but I’ve been watching this guy’s (owns a computer edevice repair shop in NYC) crusade for right to repair, among other things, for years:
https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
He‘s been pushing on this for a while and he has many good, and some bad, points.
Is it actually illegal to tinker with your own shit, or are people upset that it voids warranties, or that the producer wont give free schematics, software updates, and whatnot.
I’ve seen 2 levels of this. There’s the “licensed/rented device” model and the “breaking this seal voids the warranty” model.
The former model leads to maintenance lock-in, which is awesome when you’re a bean counter but generally shitty for everybody else involved. You also get fun stuff like DRM and subscription software out of this line of thinking. IMO, the question always comes down to cost. Would you pay multiple times the price for an unlocked version of product X with a minimal warranty and have to pay a substantial sum for future fixes and updates, or would you rather be locked into using their maintenance and support services and pay a much cheaper price? Generally, the public votes for the latter in overwhelming agreement.
The latter model (voiding the warranty) is a bit more defensible. “let us fix any issues or we don’t warranty the product anymore” seems reasonable, if a bit heavy handed.
As long as they are contractually arrived at, either is fine. Of course, there has to be enough freedom for a competing company to fill in the gaps, also. Even assuming the regulatory environment prohibits competition, it’s still better to let it be. that way consumer ire is directed at the real problem.
For sure. My paycheck is funded not in small part by people being locked into my company’s support model.
I think something is lost when devices are designed to not be wrenched on (literally or figuratively) by the owner.
Grr. Premature submission.
I was gonna say that convenience usually suffocates a lot of what makes [insert industry here] interesting. Car culture is example A.
Meh, people find a way. Except in my state, where there’s so many laws, only the rich can afford to skirt them. I know a guy who has a smog legal version of his car and gets his certificate with that, while the plates go on his car. I’d be worried about a VIN check, but he doesn’t seem to care. There’s also a bunch of dudes who “have a guy” Not sure how that shakes out.
I’m point not so much to the regulatory burden as the design choices started in the 90s, give or take, to make cars difficult to maintain without a lift and an impact wrench.
People are still wrenching on mediocre family cars from the 70s. How many people are spending every weekend playing with the engine of their 1997 Chevy Cavalier for the fun of it? Who is putting performance exhaust on their 2004 Ford Taurus or 2007 Nissan Altima?
You do realize that almost all of those choices are driven by mandates? Cafe standards and emissions foremost, but safety and liability concerns too. I would love to see the cars we could have in a free world.
The government made most cars boring and that’s why most people are no longer interested in them.
You do realize that almost all of those choices are driven by mandates?
Of course. Regulatory environment and right to repair are highly entangled.
https://unherd.com/2021/07/the-loneliness-of-nightclubs/
It’s a note-perfect representation, in other words, for the way an individualistic society seems to combine the pursuit of freedom with a drift toward authoritarian governance. Perhaps unsurprisingly, studies suggest the generation that came of age after me — just as clubbing went mainstream — is the most authoritarian generation alive in Britain today. One 2019 report showed 35% of under-35s supported having the army run the country, compared to just 15% of over-65s. And just 75% thought democracy was a good way to run a nation, down from 93% of over-65s.
I find it fascinating that the social and cultural trends of the last few decades: an urban, secular, consumerist, internet-savvy hedonism has had the exact opposite effect that the libertarians expected. Rather than creating a society of happy strong-willed individualists who strongly defend their inalienable rights and laissez-faire economics we have a society of miserable weak-willed conformists who support authoritarianism and socialism. Whoops.
Reason Magazine libertarianism.
There should be ‘less than’ and ‘greater than’ symbols between those two.
Yeah, we need tough people like the greatest generation, who would never support socialism *coughnewdealcough* or authoritarianism *coughFDRcough*.
Well quite a few of their parents voted for FDR and Wilson too for that matter…
Anyway the point isn’t some generational warfare but that it was assumed that libertarians won the culture war when it is increasingly obvious that they did not…
Who assumed this? Never has been a whole lot of libertarian representation in those who drive culture.
What do you think was meant by the complaints about Republicans culture warring and the religious right? The assumption was that the culture was already on our side.
I don’t understand what you said.
Or maybe our assumptions are wildly different. The religious right has been warring with culture since the 60s and losing,
Not to mention why do you think libertarians went so hard for Weed, Mexicans and Ass-Sex? They clearly assumed that those three things becoming accepted would be the harbinger of a libertarian culture.
I don’t think many people think in terms of “libertarian.” Liberty is a hard sell and each side has its authoritarian streak. The right’s authoritarianism is currently out of favor.
Or they weren’t concerned about harbingers of one thing or the other , they just believed that smoking week, letting Mexicans gambol, and buggering, are things that free people should be allowed to do.
Maybe because those are policy positions compatible with Libertarianism’s core belief set?
The strawmen inside Winston’s head assumed it.
“…it was assumed that libertarians won the culture war,” by whom, exactly?
Technically, I think the support for the New Deal was from the Lost Generation and earlier. Although the older sub segment of the Greatest Generation would be old enough too.
They certainly “honored” the legacy, though.
Sure. But they were pretty tough themselves. Point being, lots of
urban, secular, consumerist, internet-savvy hedonismrural, non-secular, anti-consumerist, pre-information-age stoic people also supported socialism and authoritarianism. It’s almost like you have to be eternally vigilant against this stuff, or something.It’s almost like you have to be eternally vigilant against this stuff
But that would acknowledging that History is Not Over and that Bad Changes can happen.
Done. The first line is too much already.
Well there is something to be said about atomized individualism and how it seems to lead to authoritarianism.
*rummages around in the archives looking for my Radical Individualism is a Blight on Libertarianism article from a couple years back*
Ah, here it is
That is always a difficult question. Creating a group of individualists who basically agree on everything and behave in certain ways.
You can just go ahead and say ‘Individualism is for fags,’ Winston. There’s no need to beat around the bush; Richard Spencer has already paved the way for you.
Who do you think I am, a Biden supporter?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-votes-joe-biden-hell-libertarian-ideology-1544572%3famp=1
Also you are aware that atomized individualism is a real issue among libertarians and not some racist dogwhistle?
Winston, no individualist voted for Biden. Hell, not that many collectivists did. Also, white supremacy is collectivist. Individualism is by definition not authoritarian. Nobody wants to force you to be yourself. It’s about the cessation of efforts to force people to be what another entity wants them to be. Simple.
‘Atomized individualism’ is a problem only among the more strident totalitarians in the woke and the racialist brigades. And I don’t think that you’re on the woke side.
https://mises.org/library/myth-and-truth-about-libertarianism
Rothbard explicitly attacked it back in the 1970s. He clearly realized that it was bad for these reasons and didn’t like that he was accused of having supported it.
Tonio, I’d never read your bio before. I didn’t know this was you.
“It’s de Monet! de Monet!”
Oh piss boy!
My Ma used to randomly yell out “piss boy!”.
I miss my Ma. She was such a hoot. I aim to be a tenth as entertaining as she was. Not sure I’ve made that goal.
I totally get it. I miss my dad
“House Democrats Block COVID Origins Declassification Bill”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-democrats-block-covid-origins-declassification-bill
Hmmm….
“The bill failed in the House by a vote of 216 – 207.
The COVID-19 Origin Act was introduced in the Senate by Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mike Braun (R-IN), and was passed unanimously in May, according to Townhall. Then, it was brought to the House floor by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) along with Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Darin LaHood (R-IL).”
I wonder what happened?
Trying to salvage Fauci. Apparently he’s still useful.
Don’t look at me.
/Xi
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1418000816917594118
I know people who don’t speak English who can speak clearer English.
Oops.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/woman-death-bungee-jumping-accident
And, the last thing that went through her head was?
Her shinbone?
No that’s not how bungee jumping works.
I don’t think this particular bungee jump really worked as intended anyway.
Her ass.
Isn’t there an energy density issue with hydrogen? IIRC, it requires cryo or insane pressures to store a useful amount of hydrogen on a mobile platform.
I saw something not long ago about hydrogen in a liquid carrier (ammonia?) which would presumably be stable and practical.
I have no idea if it was true.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1418259002929164302
8 years people, just eight years of glorious progress.
And when your John Deere harvester “throws a code” and shuts down when you have ten thousand bushels of wheat in the field, and the dealer tells you he can squeeze you in in six weeks, maybe…
…you’ll learn to tear all of the “smart” aspects of the machine off before you ever plow a line and replace it all with dumb ‘ole reliable parts. Or, you’ll pay a third party to do that. Enough of that and John Deere will adjust their design.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware
Why would any farmer sign that? Why is there not another competing business making similar machines? Only the government could screw up an industry that bad. Deere is just as bad for allowing it. Fuck them all. What a clusterfuck. If you can’t make enough money selling tractors to farmers, you deserve to be out of business. Shaking them down in ways that obviously cannot stand and pointing to the contract to make your point would have gotten you and everyone that works for you shot on sight not very many decades ago.
https://mobile.twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1418009990393221124
What do we call this: implement a terrible policy and then claim the only solution is another terrible policy?
Bureaucracy
Take a look at the restaurant owner’s face. A perfect “WTF is he talking about” expression.
But he’s better than Trump, Amirite.
No more mean tweets!
If given the choice between an uneducated redneck mises caucuser and an openly stalinist erudite ivy leaguer I wonder how many cosmotarians would chose the latter…
Not a cosmotarian. I’ll take the former
I’m-a book a fishing charter for when my birthday cruise next year stops in St. Thomas. I don’t think there will be enough time for an offshore trip (6+ hours), unfortunately. I’ve only been fishing in tropical waters once – in the Bahamas my Pa & I went on the inflatable dinghy & my Pa stuck his face in the water & &would signal for me to stop if we were over a school of fish. That was fun. I remember catching a sea bream.
Ooh, maybe they’ll cook it for you
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/pa-rep-margo-davidson-charged-with-misuse-of-campaign-funds-says-shell-resign.html
Lock her up.
After they get busted doing all manner of shady assed shit, they always have the same attitude on their way out the door. “We made history and I served ya’ll in an honorable way, and I’ll be back one day to finish what we have started here, blah, blah, blah.” You’re a fucking crook and you got caught. Just say, thanks for not putting me in jail and I’ll see my way out.
The sad part is it was petty corruption. The equivalent of falsifying expense reports and the such
How stupid do you have to be to get caught doing something illegal that literally thousands of other crooked politicians get away with?
Not stupid; just no longer politically acceptable to the powers that be.
Oh, and, thanks Tonio for that picture. Mreow!
Right?!
Y’all ain’t gonna complain about his fingers being on the triggers?
…
*turns, walks away slowly*
He’s fixin to shoot whatever is just off camera on the ground, obvs!
Fingers? Triggers?
Yeah, not what I was looking at.
Ya, pretty sure that is not true. The vax has not stopped numerous people from dying from the vid and if you, like I, thought the numbers were fucked the past 18 months you aint seen nothing yet. Hide and seek with true data will go to new levels.
Here’s hoping SSBobby is doing well and can join us for a zoom again some weekend. Always enjoy hearing what he has to say. Same to dbleagle – join us on a zoom! At this point, the Chinese aren’t scarier than our own government.
Energy Density of various fuels.
https://lnkd.in/egt_HrP
https://i1.wp.com/electrifyingourworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Electrify8Synfuels.013.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1
Hope this link works.
The paywall was too dense to penetrate.
Electric planes are even stupider than electric cars. Planes need to be reliable and have long range. If your battery shorts and whatever backup you have can’t make a safe place to land, you die. There’s no reason to take that chance. Conventional planes do not have this risk and the only downside is fuel costs. Saving Gaia by risking your life is just stupid.
Gaia can take care of herself.
Speaking of farm tractors… there was an article a while back which I linked here, about prices of “dumb” tractors in good shape from the olden days like the 1980s going completely crazy at auctions. Because you can fix them.