Hooray!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! What a great day for US Soccer. The men beat Mexico at the death to win the CONCACAF Gold Cup in a raucous Las Vegas, and the women lost to Canada in the Olympic semifinals. It just doesn’t get any better than that. Some American chick still won the floor. Our men’s volleyball team should be better than they are. And in case you didn’t catch it, the Cubs got rid go half their team at the trade deadline. It’s been a crazy couple of days, and I’m not really even bringing up the Valtteri Bottas “accident” from yesterday, where he “missed his braking zone” and managed to take out both Red Bull cars. Yeah, that was a bunch of bullshit. And that’s sports.
Not too shabby.
French architect who designed a shithole Pierre L’Enfant, was born on this day. He shares it with such luminaries as Statue of Liberty sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Greek King Constantine I, actress Myrna Loy, Israeli politician Shimon Peres, novelist/playwright James Baldwin, actor Carroll O’Connor, actor and weird dude Peter O’Toole, sports exec Lamar Hunt, filmmaker Wes Craven, jurist Lance Ito, actress and MILF Mary-Louise Parker, knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, filmmaker Kevin Smith, and wrestler Devey Boy Smith Jr.
Not exactly a great list. Oh well, on to…the links!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. These fuckers are just scared of the competition.
This pussy ain’t gonna do shit.
I know it’s just a tweet, but I gotta put this in here. Methinks Sadbeard isn’t envisioning himself in the “someone” role here.
I can think of an alternate headline. How about “Dems point fingers at each other to do something illegal.” You know, because what they’re hoping to do is freaking illegal and undermines basically all contract law and private property rights.
This, my friends, is gonna be a pork-filled shitshow. Thankfully it’s about 1/5th the size of the pork-filled shitshow it could have been. But it’s still just pissing “money” away that we don’t have.
Damn, dude, just get an annulment. I mean…damn, dude.
I hope they have a hell of a party. Because I myself will be flaunting the CDC guidance and because I love seeing hypocrisy from our political “elites”. I especially like it when so many other people see it for what it is. Although that number is still too low.
This is certainly an interesting legal argument. But I’m not sure how “yeah, we owe it to him, but we really want to keep it because we can’t control our spending” is gonna sell with the judge. But wait, it’s Chicago, so this is basically a toss-up.
Free this woman!
This is some crazy ass shit. It’s also what happens all the time under communist/socialist regimes and has been for over half a century at sporting events where they’re allowed to leave and spend some time in a free country. I hope she manages to get sanctuary somewhere.
Anybody still taking a cruise should expect this. I mean…you’re packing yourselves on a boat like sardines. What do you think os gonna happen?
I bet a lot of you were oblivious to how good a song this is. Well, thankfully you’re not anymore. Enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, dear friends!
New Zealand’s tranny weightlifter is out of the Olympics after failing to complete a single snatch.
Physical or spiritual failure?
He doesn’t have a snatch to complete.
?
Something, something, mental health issues, something, they were already a winner.
In rod we trust. Here I am on a Monday hoping for a housing market crash with few survivors.
*bides time*
Can it wait until our house in Colorado is sold?
Yeah. I’ve got 3-6 months. But realistically I expect you to be one of the few survivors.
If the eviction “crisis” kicks it off, I’d expect the market to precipitously dip in January or February. It takes a while for the market signals to accumulate into a coherent message.
“The defeated and disgraced ex-President…”
OMG, they just can’t help themselves. It’s like an obsession with these people.
This guy must be the cause of that rent moratorium thing, cause he sure as hell lives rent free in their heads…
Now if he could collect that rent, he’d be richer than the Count of Monte Cristo.
I don’t think so. We’re not talking prime real estate here.
He’ll do it on VOLUME! Or something…
It really is incredible. It’s like they broke up with him and they can’t get over it.
I saw a super lefty friend on Saturday. Whenever I said anything about the current administration he would respond “b-b-b-Trump!” I would, each time, patiently remind him Trump hasn’t been president for over half a year. They really don’t have anything to say beyond Trump bad.
I had a couple of interactions with lefties as well, and they are still consumed by the fact that some people refuse to bend the knee to the left and say it is because Trump refused to do so himself. There is no logic to the way these people feel towards or see Trump. He is both a moronic Cheeto asshole that can’t even wipe his own butt and a super evil genius able to play 55-D chess. I pointed out that all the blabbering about Trump sure as hell felt like a desperate attempt to avoid having to analyze the fact that Trump, despite all his faults and basically working in the most hostile environment ever managed to do shit we always have the political and bureaucratic classes talking down to us rubes about not being possible to do (see Obama’s idiot statements like “You can’t drill yourself out of an energy problem”), running circles around the left and it’s marxist bureaucracy, compared to the way they are fucking things up now constantly, because they made themselves the anti-Trumpers.
It’s fundamentally a religious crisis for them.
I tried to give that CNN article a go but holy crap they are delusional.
They’ve gone completely insane.
I don’t even know what else to say about them. They’re obsessed.
The fucking dirty masses refuse to bend the knee, even under threat of being labeled domestic terrorists for anything they do, and the people that believe they are smarter and should call the shots in the media simply have had enough of these fucking serfs acting up instead of doing what they are told! There is a fucking agenda to be met for the globalist movement, and the damned rubes are holding it up!
I lasted exactly two sentences before closing the tab.
It’s really not an exaggeration to say they are completely deranged at this point.
Those first few sentences were insane, I just closed it. I can’t imagine thinking like that 24/7, it must be exhausting.
Future school children will read this article in civics classes when learning how to spot propaganda. Stop laughing!
Sadbeard gets the prick every week just to show how virtuous he is.
Vaccine macht frei.
Grudging lol.
I’m imagining sadbeard going into the neighborhoods with the lowest vaccination rates, aka the ghettos, and holding down black people while they get injected.
If the GOP doesn’t run with this imagery, they’re fools.
In other words, the GOP is a bunch of fools.
If and when they do, it’s always twisted and turned against them, and the Narrative is set.
My attention was drawn to the similarities in how synths were printed between Fallout 4 and Westworld, and I had been wondering if both were cribbing from some earlier work, or if Westworld copied Fallout.
But while I was still mulling over the matter, I stumbled onto another instance of bioprinting This time in real life. It is from 2020, so five years after Fallout 4 came out.
I think fallout 4 copied westworld, if anything. But synths like that have been a solid scifi trope since at least the 70s.
Westworld came out a year after Fallout 4. That’s some awfully preemptive copying.
There was nothing like the synth printing in the 70s original, which used electromechanical androids.
Westworld was made in the 70s and starred Yul Brenner.
But like I said, used mechanical androids instead of Biological synths. The similarity I’m talking about is the actual printing of the organism, not the concept.
You do realize it’s all fake, right?
Its a discussion of art and artistic expression.
We’re still a ways from bioprinting a whole synthetic person for reals.
“We’re still a ways from bioprinting a whole synthetic person for reals.”
Oh yeah? Then explain this
We’re still a ways from bioprinting a whole synthetic person for reals.
Oh yeah? Then explain the Hillary Clintonbot 2016 edition.
That one was a failed prototype.
Plus Zuckerberg is the beta release.
Leeloo was effectively printed into being in The Fifth Element — logically, the Ilia-probe in Star Trek: The Motionless Picture must have been since she/it was biomechanical with synthetics mimicking organic processes at the sub-cellular level, so I’d argue that as long as we’ve understood the concept of 3D printing (which has certainly been since the 70s if not earlier), “printing” your androids to improve bio-mimicry is the logical next step.
And since you brought it up — if every damned Type 3 synth in Fallout 4 leaves a “synth component” when killed, just how in the world is it so danged impossible to have a biological / medical test that distinguishes synth vs. human? Did the Institute leave nano programming in place that reverts to mech in some places on catastrophic shutdown? Why would anyone ever do that? All the Institute garbage (and ludicrous main plot) and the idiocy of the post-Lyons Pride Brotherhood really make that game less enjoyable — which is probably why I avoid the mainline quests for as long as possible. And try to dodge Mr. “Another Settlement Needs Our Help”… OUR? I never see your butt out walking the wastes, Preston. General apparently means “Sucker” to the Minutemen…
I think the tech exists to detect the plastic in the synth’s head, but the expertise to read the scan doesn’t.
I underestimated how hard it was to read a CT scan until I looked through the images from mine. so it’s probably possible to detect a synth through medical imaging, but there’s no one who can do it.
As for Preston, you don’t have to help him. Leave him in Concord. You can just wander around until you find Diamond City and Valentine’s office.
I smile every time I encounter a Minuteman patrol.
I’ve never seen one.
Huh.
I’ve seen them randomly in the commonwealth and they also cruise through my settlements.
They will acknowledge me as their general too. They often have a doggie with them.
It’s probably because Garvey annoyed me so much that I never developed any settlements beyond my habitual base of operations at the truck stop. No people, just robots and a wall of turrets.
I understand the words in this comment. But I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Cool link though. I can’t wait for the synthetic wombs, just to see how pro-abortion people react.
I can’t wait for the synthetic wombs – you just want 1000 children admit it
I could go for two or three more, yes.
Is it unreasonable to want as many children as you can clothe and feed?
yes. the world is overpopulated and no one needs more than 2 kids.
Me watching every Ridley Scott movie ever:
“So who’s the robot?”
Meg Mucklebones
I think it was the unicorn, since IIRC it made an appearance in one of the pointless re-edits of Blade Runner.
Sources close the unicorn have said that it is not the same unicorn, but my position is still valid somehow.
Donald Trump now has a $100 million weapon to wield against US democracy.
Wut?
*peruses article*
That article is one steaming pile of bullshit.
good fertilizer is hard to come by these days
It is labeled “ANAL-ysis”
But I’m not sure how “yeah, we owe it to him, but we really want to keep it because we can’t control our spending” is gonna sell with the judge. – I am sure the judge wilkl find it in his heart to help the poor chiildrunz of Chicago who’s education was mercilessly de-funded by the evil rethuglicans
Monday morning white pill from sadbeard:
He went on Rogan to promote his book and was hated by basically every listener. It’s good to hear his book flopped.
The lesson he will take from this experience isn’t that he is a fucking moron with a stupid book, but that everyone else is stupid for not giving him money for the stupid book…
I’m not a Star Trek fan, but I’m fascinated by the trainwreck that is the Alex Kurtzman universe. It has seemingly been a dismal failure mostly loathed by fans attracting small audiences with its hamfisted social justice agenda. But there CBS is…re-upping Kurtzman and crew for another 5 years and green lighting like 3 or 4 more shows for him to helm.
I’m wondering if the ability of streaming service officers to decouple the content from the finances on the income side is facilitating these sorts of ideological moves. People are paying to watch the back catalog and the shows that are cancelled after two seasons, but the companies are using the money to make garbage no one wants.
How are the viewership numbers relative to other new series on streaming services? I bet they’re only renewing them because the numbers are solid. Hollywood, at the end of the day, is still all about making money.
They don’t release those numbers.
And as I mentioned, the failure of a show to draw viewers doesn’t impact the money stream if there is something else bundled with it that people are paying for.
It is the same model used for cable packages where people would end up subsidising the crap they didn’t watch.
So, the debut episode last year for their new season of Stark Trek Discovery drew in 1.7 million viewers for a .2 rating. The streaming model is different, but those numbers would easily get a show cancelled on network. And that’s the debut episode.
As UMC said, they don’t release the streaming numbers. The only numbers available are from when Star Trek Discovery’s first season was aired on CBS. It did awful.
The model is broken, and eventually there has to be a reckoning. As streaming services focus on producing more woke bullshit people don’t want to watch while canceling the stuff they do, membership will su8ffer as people decide their money is being wasted.
My cable company 6 weeks ago offered me a 25% discount to my monthly bill, while not changing my services, AND free Netflix indefinitely, when I called to tell them all I wanted to keep was my business internet, security, land line, and basic TV services cause the sports and entertainment packages were pure marxist shit I simply could do without. I saw the desperation from the service person that had as a priority to keep me engaged at any cost (they have been losing membership so fast that anyone that owns stock in this company should be worried) and decided to keep the package at the new drastically reduced cost because the savings from dropping the other stuff would have been about 30% of my current cost anyway, and they gave me a guarantee this was not a promotional rate but permanent.
The model is collapsing, but I suspect it has not gotten bad enough yet for them to stop producing bullshit, especially since I see a movement to getting government to finance the production of propaganda it wants to peddle anyway..
Hey l0bot-
“Manumua will be accompanied to Tokyo by Ben Hwa, an assistant coach who has been working with her for years. Weighing about 240 pounds, she will be the smallest in her competition, and snatches more than her body weight: 110 kilos — or 242 pounds. ”
I have the weirdest erection right now.
Oh, shit….she’s Mormon, too.
Are you saying you want a brood of coffee eschewing children that can lift you over their head?
IKR, also, an Austrian, and a Brit are quite fetching. The Chinese lady, Li Wenwen, is just unstoppable though.
Balls.
First thing I thought too…
In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and other Democratic leaders said the move was a “moral imperative” that the administration needed to act on immediately to stave off the effects of the resurgence of the coronavirus.
It is a “moral imperative” to ensure that the property owners cannot pay their own bills related to said properties I guess.
Supposedly they get paid too. ?
I mean, it’s not like the federal government taking control over one-third of the nation’s housing market is anything to be concerned about.
The secret annex to the constitution grants exceptions for moral imperatives.
[golf clap]
And they accused people pointing out mega corps were swooping in to gobble up the properties of the small renters and this looked like some sort of move to turn everyone into renters of being the crazy ones…
The totalitarians are self-identifying. I think I’m going to start making a list.
Grady Sizemore is the #2 baseball birthday, so yeah, not a great day.
ourang-outang and sunglasses
https://twitter.com/TiredActor/status/1422010079650402307
Dicks out.
It was probably easier to defect in the good old days before the world started cozying up to that region’s dictators.
Our fucking government reluctantly put out some words telling the Cuban people not to be ungrateful for the prosperity their marxist masters have given them. That’s cause the people in charge of the bureaucracy after dancing with the Chinese CCP devil thinking they would teach them about the nobility and goodness of freedom, ended up with a boner about CCP totalitarian beliefs. I wouldn’t be surprised that we will see people from the Western world seeking asylum in some third world countries sooner than later to avoid the globalism machine.
Absent politics my policy would be you either get jabbed voluntarily within the next X weeks and get $50 or else you get jabbed later while someone holds you down and you get $0.
Anyone who tries will find him/herself in danger of dying from lead poisoning.
It’s their money.
If they get away with that this once it will open the door to other municipalities capping refunds to ppl they don’t like for similar reasons. They are openly attacking rule of law on so many fronts.
Bill of attainder.
Pretty sure we have som hypothetical protections against that…
Welcome to true “democracy”, AKA mob rule.
One of the big pillars of totalitarian systems is that the law applies differently to the masters and the special than it does to the serfs, with the law being a beast against those that oppose the powerful.
That whole album is really good. The kid was like 18 when he made it.
“1 year of incarceration causes a reduction in the likelihood of being reincarcerated within 3, 5, & 8 years from sentencing by 44%, 29%, & 21%. … budget-neutral reductions in sentence length combined with increases in incarceration rates” are net wins
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1421968641453707269
That’s not surprising. One year is enough to scare someone straight. Five years is enough to train them to be a career criminal.
That said, we shouldn’t be locking people up for a lot of the things we’re locking them up for. And at the same time, we’re undersentencing a lot of people who commit violent crimes with actual victims.
A guy I grew up with got sent to prison (dealing drugs) – I think he did about 3 years of 10 year sentence. Dude went completely straight arrow (no booze or drugs) when he got out and has remained so to this day – it’s been close to 20 years since he got out. Prison had an effect on him and he has no desire to risk ever going back.
One night was enough for me.
In Bangcock?
I’ve heard it makes a hard man humble.
Close, Arapahoe County Jail.
Chess is a gritty sport.
(what you did there, was observed)
I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, suction.
Fuck the authors of that article.
People are still going on cruise ships?
And they’re mad at the unvaccinated for spreading disease?
I thought the CDC said to stop testing fully vaxxed people. Did I imagine that?
It has to stop. It has to stop for sporting events/leagues as well. We need to go back to a model of illness that actually involves symptoms. If the goal was to weed out “asymptomatics” in order to halt the spread, well then it’s pretty clear that hasn’t worked and will continue not to work.
At this point all we’re doing is annihilating what would otherwise be productive activities. And we can’t afford to hamstring productivity any longer.
well then it’s pretty clear that hasn’t worked and will continue not to work
We need to DOUBLE DOWN because we haven’t done it hard enough! /progs
I like how they just casually slip in how they refused to act while he was president with no further explanation. It couldn’t possibly have been for political reasons, right? Right…?
Are the Dems really wanting to bring Kant into the discussion? Because I dont think that works out well for them.
they kant help themselves?
Regarding donations to the Glibertarians Foundation: what information on donors is received through PayPal? What is retained by the Foundation?
PayPal logs the transaction for the recipient the same as the sender. So just as you can see who it went to in your transaction history, so can the foundation’s treasurer on this end. Although I doubt he goes to see who sent us money.
Don’t worry, if you win the fragrant panties they’ll contact you to confirm where you want them shipped.
Dangnabbit — I knew I should have done the #squirrel tag to try to dodge the Wilson’s Mom giveaway. What do I look like — Japan?
Double dangnabbit. Meant Winston of course. What, I’m worried about soiled underwear from the mother of one of the worst presidents? Must need more coffee….
Tim Allen’s neighbor is where my head went.
I don’t know what that says about me.
Eeewwwwww /14yo girl
Weak. I was hoping for some Sloopy bathwater.
How about a STEVE SMITH original painting?
I really do not want to see his brush technique.
I assumed it was more of a splatter technique. Eats a lot of the appropriate color Skittles first, and thinks of hikers…
I believe Pricasso was inspired by STEVE SMITH.
Pollack.
Unfortunately, I don’t know Hyperbole’s address.
Burke’s former law firm Klafter & Burke had won more than $14 million in tax breaks for Trump over a dozen years, but the alderman ended the relationship in 2018, citing “irreconcilable differences” between the Chicago Democrat who represents a predominantly Hispanic 14th Ward, where residents objected to many of the Republican president’s policies.
And that has what, exactly, to do with the tax code? ///rhetorical
Being happy the women lost is sexist, racist and homophobic. It is inherently transphobic also as there are no trans women in the women’s team. Would it have killed one of the fellas to identify as a woman for a couple of hours and help the gals out?
You mean they should’ve taken the Bee’s advice? Sorry Pie, you were WAYYYYY slow to roll that one out.
Gonna tell my kids this was their grandparents
https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/1422058651792011268
nsfw maybe? I dunno I work from home
Dolf ! He went to my own post grad Alma mater.
Mechanical engineer, if memory serves. (I was electrical)
Chemical
Dolph is a badass.
I stand (lie down) corrected.
TY.
Chemical engineer, I think.
I don’t get the joke, though.
the grandparents thing is a meme that had a run a while back…. I posted it mostly for the photo
I think it’s just about what amazing physical specimens they were.
I don’t think she was actually that much shorter than he though…
5’8 vs 6’5 in americanese
Wow. 5’8”? I wouldn’t have guessed it.
She had a “tall” persona.
I worked on his bike back in the nineties. He came in and said his softail wouldn’t go over 50 in second gear. I was like. No softail has ever gone over 50 in second gear. He said you will see when the bike gets here. Turns out, he bought it in Austria. The speedo was in kilometers.
God, I sincerely pray to you that that White Rus Olympic runner is safely entered into the United States.
Here in San Diego she would experience the joy of being Rus without the centuries of corrupt evil fucks.
Obama defies CDC guidance by inviting 500 people to his celebrity-studded 60th birthday party at his $12m mansion on Martha’s Vineyard: Pearl Jam will perform and guests including Steven Spielberg will be served by 200 staff
What a lavish super-spreader event.
Time to close Cape Cod, too much spreading going on there.
Mental image forms of Michelle and spreading and [collapses with blood spurting from eyes]
You’re just jealous that she is packing more “heat” than you are.
The covid narrative collapse is really something else. Even the most basic bitch normies have to notice at this point.
Ah an optimist
^^^
My formerly apolitical wife is red-pilled on about all of the covid horse crap. Only 99,999,999 to go.
Four vaccinated adults and two unvaccinated minors tested positive for the coronavirus during routine end-of-trip screening Thursday on Royal Caribbean International’s Adventure of the Seas.
“Tested positive” means absolutely nothing.
There will come a point where the economic viability of the entire travel and hospitality business will depend on the future of COVID restrictions. Up to now, they’ve played along with the government because of bailouts and hope, but that can’t last forever.
If the government pushes much harder, I think the businesses will turn on them in order to survive.
The Hebrew number/letter vav looks like a line with a flag at the top. Three in a row looks kind of like a UPC bar code.
You’ve given me something new to ponder and research.
Thank you.
So…. you’re pondering what he’s pondering?
(I think so, Brain… but where would we get lederhosen at this time of the morning on the West Coast?)
Have fun, it’s quite the rabbit hole.
Had to stop when it got to Monster Energy Drinks.
His name is Toby.
The unwavering premium women place on financial resources in men is increasingly causing supply shortages in the mating market.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1421688074296233986
Which partner traits motivate people to continue a romantic relationship? Neither “Fun to be with”, “Gives me sexual satisfaction” nor “looks” were positive predictors
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1421357178540236802
Come on man that is so sexist. Women would never behave like that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6kf1oGXks5g
500,000 years of evolutionary biology/psychology versus a little better than 50 years of social conditioning?
*cough* hypergamy *cough* *cough*
https://twitter.com/pauliegtweets/status/1421693511796240387
This is a thing?
Not in Romania? I have not been to any hen parties though… That sounds British
The inverse of the sexy French maid, maybe?
You just reminded me of all the 1980’s Cinemax after dark movie selections.
+1 what might be scrambled boobs
I SAW ONE!
Here is their new line—ive heard it from two different “experts” on TV. “Not getting the vaccine is equal to driving while intoxicated.”
This push to get the vax into everyone is like nothing ive ever seen.
But then they tell us to mask up and social distance even if you’re vaccinated!!
So which is it? The vaxx will save humanity or the vaxx is utterly useless?
Asking for about 2 billion friends…
Not getting the Covid vaccine is the equivalent to not getting the flu vaccine.
Bingo.
Not getting the vaccine is equal to driving while intoxicated.
No, it is not.
They would have you self-immolate in order to keep them warm.
Li Wenwen just set another O record, 180kg in the clean & jerk. She’s 21 years old and an amazing lifter. GB takes Silver, and USA Bronze.
What channel is this on ? I have a TV someplace that I havent fallen into yet.
Enhanced by the same tech being used to invigorate PLA supersoldiers?
I mean they all are I assume… Just some have better tech
And soccer players.
memes come to life
https://twitter.com/Reach4ACopsGun/status/1421896988614791168
So what you are saying is that we will, in fact, go back to pre-plandemic reality…unless the convid tyrants continue to get their way.
“We are never going back to a pre-pandemic reality”
@meganranney explains why COVID-19 will stick around, but become less dangerous. #InsidePoliticsSunday
The delta variant is already less “dangerous” compared to the variants that already had a 99.9% survival rate. Doesn’t make a difference.
Yeah, that’s what annoys me about all the current hysteria reporting. All going on about “cases are up!” — zero about actual symptoms (I don’t care about positive tests if people don’t notice they have it — there are enough false positive issues with these tests I don’t really trust them anyway), much less severe cases / hospitalizations or deaths. If there’s a more contagious version of the sniffles that doesn’t really bother those who had the other variants last year, that says to me we ought to be *happy* it is out there and hopefully driving natural immunity for the next few variants until it mutates enough to be noticed again.
But then, I’m sure I’m not the First to be bothered by that….
The fact that they are hyperventilating about case numbers and not death numbers tells me that the press is deliberately trying to keep the proles frightened and that I do not need to be concerned about the virus.
A vaccine so safe and effective you have to be forced to get it, against a disease so harmful you have to be tested to know you have it.
Sounds legit.
Im going to steal that if you dont mind.
+1
How can you ignore extra super long COVID?
… way too easy so I am going to pass
Of course “We are never going back to a pre-pandemic reality”. Once tyrants gain power, they will never give it up.
What if you get stuck to the fridge ? (Or anything else)
Scientists develop male contraceptive that uses magnets, nanoparticle injections.
pass
38 goddamn degrees. Did my walk at 6 AM this morning and was still warm. Went to the gym at 11ish and the AC was doing it’s job but not as usual. I think I drank almost half of US gallon of water. This is probably a top 5 heatwave in my adult life…
my bottle says 2.2L / 73 oz on it and probably drank two thirds so not that much…
38 degrees is freezing cold, and no metric-using eurotrash is ever gonna tell me otherwise.
Get to the moon with your units of measure, and maybe then will we take it seriously.
Get to the moon – sounds like a pointless waste of tax money to me
Spoken like somebody whose nation has never been to the moon.
to be fair no nation has been to the moon
Germany?
Relevant.
The undead are bothered by anything above the morgue drawer, apparently.
And really shouldn’t be out in the sunshine.
Nice — though I was expecting this.
75 (24) is forecast to be high today. 65 (18) right now.
(24) (18)
Dude, don’t encourage him.
you Texans could not handle the Bucharest heat
Deshaun Watson would ask his masseuses to “go inside” of him. He’d implore them don’t be afraid to go inside.
Is it still sexual assault if you are the one being penetrated?
I foresee a special guest appearance on Joemala.
Made me think of this:
Legit LOL. I hadn’t seen that before.
Never gets old…
I thought deshaun batted for the other team.
He’s as flamboyant as Liberace.
There are no gays in Ireland. https://youtu.be/d0ByxyIAWrQ
A sizable minority of Britons would support *permanent* restrictions, regardless of Covid-19.
“The average man doesn’t want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” ~H.L. Mencken
https://twitter.com/BvddyCorleone/status/1421852891330064388
Paging Samuel Adams — Samuel Adams to the Quotation Courtesy Phone…
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!“
—Samuel Adams
“It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.” – Samuel Adams
“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams
If only we would have listened to that one…
I think Burr had the right idea.
TBF, even the authors of the Constitution had trouble sticking to it.
Dude looks like a lady but can’t lift like one.
New Zealand transexual weightlifter Laurel Hubbard failed to record a single successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday morning, crashing out of the competition in the process.
A failed attempt to lift 120kg and two failed efforts at 125kg in the snatch meant Hubbard had his Olympics ended early.
This amuses me.
There will be no gold medal chance for the U.S. women’s soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics after they went down to Canada early Monday morning.
The 1-0 victory was the first by the Canadians against their U.S. neighbour since 2001. …
The U.S. had an uncharacteristically uneven tournament, starting with a 3-0 loss to Sweden that snapped a 44-game unbeaten streak, and a scoreless draw with Australia in the group stage.
this proves transgenders have no advantage or something
I know Megan whatshername looks like a man, but she was born a woman.
Oh, you mean the dude from New Zealand who couldn’t hack it in either category.
Wasn’t he like twice the age of all the gals? A significant disadvantage that some future stunning and brave man will obviate.
Yeah, 43 versus 21 and 22. I know someone will do it. But women’s sports are safe for now.
Not at the HS level, and therefore soon college and eventually pro level.
That’s like saying Bobby Riggs loss to Billie Jean King proves men have no advantage over women.
How did it even qualify for the Olympics?
Because “Progress!”
By lifting heavy things better than his kiwi fempetitors.
*juvenile giggle*
I’m just happy Churchill’s not alive to see this.
And misthread, gonna be one of those days.
I dunno . That “misthread” applies to all of present reality.
It’s supposed to rain today. We could use it.
The cities could really use a rain.
There’s a storm coming…
I know.
(bum-bum-bum-ba-bum-bum…)
Being a doctor does not preclude you from being an insane hypochondriac.
It happened. Just tested positive for COVID.
Spent all pandemic being cautious:
Got swabbed often.
Got 2 doses of the Pfizer vaccine as soon as I had the chance.
Continued to mask afterwards.
Wore PPE with each patient encounter.
And it STILL happened. I am so fckng tired.
— Ayla B., MD (@DrAylaSays)
Prescribe yourself some Xanax and shut the hell up please.
Not that’s some great stuff.
And unless you are old and/or infirm you have a 99.9% chance of surviving. If that isn’t good enough, you could always just end it now.
What are the odds?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1421917208226185221/photo/1
This also happened with: recycling ER photos from various cities, the recent doc down in LA? that made the claims of all his unvaxxed patients dying, and on and on. It is propaganda.
I thought it was usually the opposite problem with physicians making terrible patients…
Yeah I was happy when I went to bed last night with the victory over Mexico, waking up to the sanctimonious squad losing was icing on the cake.
this kind off reaction only proves them right.
They had the opportunity to have the exact same pay structure as the men. They continue to argue it isn’t fair because FIFA pays more on the men’s side. Oh wait, that’s right, you can’t sue FIFA for that in a U.S. court. Pound sand.
why do you hate fairness and justice?
Because they got redefined to mean the opposite of what they used to.
I like your answer better. I was gonna say they are just as much bullshit as equity and equality.
^^^ goddamned right
Any list with Myrna Loy on it is a great list.
[insert precode gif here]
One of my favorite lines from the underrated movie The Rocketeer was when the hero foolishly belittles his girlfriend’s movie debut as “You stood behind Myrna Loy holding a bowl of grapes!!”
Stories like this blow me away.
Heavy Gusts Of Wind Reported In Handan, Hebei Province.
Heh.
Trump mocks Shifty Schiff’s fake tears
Good Samaritans Smash Truck Windows of Driver Who Passed Out
Curious that a mallet couldn’t break the side window.
Good people should have the news of the day. Okay, I will get back to the real world.
You know who else thought it was a bad idea to overly alarm the public?
Top Biden officials note that breakthrough infections among the vaccinated are exceedingly rare, unlikely to be severe, and more likely to occur in crowded indoor settings. They’ve been openly frustrated by what they see as overly alarmed coverage of these cases.
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Inside the administration, the emergence of the Delta variant has caused friction, leading to behind-the-scenes finger-pointing and weeks-long tensions between the CDC and the White House. Two senior Biden officials familiar with the matter said the administration is still trying to balance messaging in a way that underscores the severity of the Delta variant while simultaneously reiterating that vaccinated individuals are overwhelmingly not at risk.
“We thought we were going to move past this,” one senior administration official said. “It’s just like, here we go again.”
The revised mask mandate in particular has proved thorny. Officials in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services questioned whether recommending Americans wear masks again would help with the pandemic fight, with some officials in meetings over the last week arguing that reversing guidelines could confuse people and spark political backlash.
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Federal officials who spoke to POLITICO emphasized that the Biden team always knew that they would have to alter their approach as the Covid fight changed and new variants emerged. A senior administration official noted that analyzing real time data on the trajectory of an ever-evolving virus, then developing appropriate public health recommendations for over 330 million people, is not an easy task.
While officials conceded that there had been internal tensions, they also portrayed it as a once-in-a-generation pandemic and said that Americans expected and deserved a government that led with data and science. The White House has been heartened this past week by the uptick in vaccination rates among the unvaccinated (it was the nation’s strongest in first-shot vaccinations since early June), believing that their messaging is breaking through. More progress may soon come as businesses and the federal government implement mandates or quasi-mandates for their workforces to get vaccinated.
Maybe you shouldn’t let a bunch of risk averse quacks drive policy.
The panicdemic served your political needs at the time, but now you can’t figure out how to jump off the tiger without being eaten yourself.
“The panicdemic served your political needs at the time, but now you can’t figure out how to jump off the tiger without being eaten yourself.”
Exactly this
developing appropriate public health recommendations for over 330 million people, is not an easy task.
I’m fine with recommendations, but they’re going way beyond that now.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/federal-government-issued-783-5m-in-stimulus-checks-for-prisoners/
Double “huh”.
I can tell you for a fact that every state prisoner in PA has gotten every stimulus check. The DOC is sending out warnings to be aware of “hits” being put out with the money.
Wow.
I’m going to bet that there was a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons at one time that they couldn’t turn over inmate funds due to custodial obligations or prisoners’ inability to defend against such action.
Americans expected and deserved a government that led with data and science.
But we got Foochy, Osterholm and the rest of the Health Expert Retard Revue, instead.
Oh data and science, like back in the days of Buck v. Bell?
One would think the Krauts would understand the poor optics here.
Berlin, this cop is hitting a little boy in the head for worrying about his mom.
Just a return to form.
I’ve been following women’s volleyball this Olympics. They lost one more player to injury but won against Italy to become the first seed in quarter finals. I’m having a lot of fun watching.
Just got a “back to school” letter from my kid’s school. All in person, no option for e-learning, masks optional. They still have assigned seats for contact tracing, but other than that it’s back to normal.
Here it is in-person opt-out, masks opt-out. Karens are complaining that we aren’t listening to SCIENCE.
Nevada unfortunately is beholden to an ineffective legislature and has consigned all necessary and just powers to the emergency orders.
Fredericksburg-area schools continue to grapple with whether to require masking
Close enough for government work.
Swedish
ArmedWoke Forces.Hello world outside of Sweden! This is an add from the swedish defence force saying ”A flag worth defending”. Guess which one is a satire.
…
The Swedish Armed Forces: A flag worth defending. We defend human rights, everyone’s equal value and our right to live as we choose.
We’ll get those votes the old fashioned way- by buying them
To retake control of the House of Representatives, Republicans need to pick up just five seats in the 2022 midterm elections. It’s Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen.
The New York Democrat and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told NPR that the party is hopeful an ambitious, multitrillion-dollar economic agenda trumpeted by the Biden administration will resonate with voters when it’s time to head to the polls next fall.
“We’re making a bet on substance,” Maloney says, before adding a colorful adage: “What’s the old saying — any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one. It’s harder to build it than to kick it down. And so we’re the party that’s going to build the future.”
That future includes proposals to combat climate change; overhaul immigration laws; massively invest in traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges and expanded access to broadband, along with investments in affordable childcare, early childhood education; and provide an expanded child tax credit with payments that top out at $3,600 a year per child.
Tens of millions of American families are already starting to receive those direct cash payments.
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The influx of government aid is projected to cut poverty nearly in half in 2021, according to a new analysis from The Urban Institute first reported in The New York Times.
“No Democratic majority, no Democratic president, has made this much progress in a long time,” Maloney says.
A chicken in every pot. A pony in every driveway.
NPR is as delusional as CNN but I guess they have to throw a hopeful bone to their moron readers.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Thanks for the meaty lynx. You are coming out of the chute strong this week!
I bet a lot of you were oblivious to how good a song this is.
Hah! I guessed it. And you are correct – it’s really goddamn good!
Have a wonderful day, peeps!
awesome links
Peter O’Toole would have played the leading role in my widescreen biography.
I think my two favorite roles from him were both parts where he played someone in the movie business: My Favorite Year and The Stunt Man.
I liked him as Henry II x 2.
Won’t get the coverage it deserves, but someone has noticed CNN’s culpability.
“This deck is already stacked, because they’ve been gerrymandering these districts,” Maloney says. “And now they’re trying to do even more of it and add to that with these Jim Crow-style voter suppression laws throughout the country.”
He maintains efforts among Republican-led state legislatures to enact more voting restrictions show the party has a losing policy hand for the midterm elections.
“If they’re going to try to rely on rigging this game, because they don’t have a plan for the future and they can’t talk to the voters about their ideas and their vision, well, I think that makes me proud to be a Democrat.”
If there’s any election-rigging to be done, we want to be the ones doing it.
If the Republicans don’t have a plan for the future which involves bringing the country to its knees, that might not be a bad thing.
They are preparing the soundbites in case the GOP retakes the Senate and House.
^
What happens when all the trees have been burned?
The devastating fire seasons plaguing California’s Sierra Nevada may be a thing of the past after 2030, and that has scientists worried.
Their main concern? The area might not have enough trees left by the next decade.
A study published this past week in the journal Ecosphere suggests that dry mountain forests in California and other Western states will likely see ever-worsening fires for the next decade, followed by a period of fewer fires with less intensity.
Between now and then, wildfires turbocharged by climate change are expected to dramatically alter the landscape, leaving less fuel for blazes just 10 years from now, according to the study.
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Every forest and landscape tells its own story, Kennedy said, but there were certain broad conclusions that could be drawn from the research in California.
One such conclusion: The effects of climate change and decades of fire suppression efforts are linked. Climate change has caused the drought, higher heat and more volatile atmosphere that created the conditions for massive blazes. But fire suppression methods that left more fuel in place for the next blaze have also created problems.
“There’s a theory that if you remove fire, it homogenizes the landscape, and reduces variability, which gives you large patches of dead trees” that fuel firestorms, Kennedy said. “Whereas historically, you had a matrix of different landscapes” in a “more mixed” forest.
There’s a theory. No shit, Shirley?
Global warming. There’s nothing it cannot be blamed for.
Place has wildfires since, well, ever. People move to area en masse. People try to prevent wildfires. Prevention causes more, stronger wildfires. People blame other people for angering the fire gods.
There is nothing new under the sun, despite how much they try to cloak it in modernity.
We are on a grand inquisition to prove we can be better than Nature at nature and we will all die quicker and in horrible fashion because of it.
We’re naïve enough, and so self-important, to think we can control nature.
To take from one of George Carlin’s bits- “Save the planet? We havent even figured out how to take care of each other. The planets been for over 4 billion years. Its seen way worse shit than us.”
Citation
Idiots can’t even distinguish between the role fire plays in the brush eco-system of California versus the forest eco-system?
That’s not entirely the cause, or even mostly. There are drought cycles and surprise, more wildfire in dry years.
And can add reforestation. Look at pictures of a 100-150 years ago, and the lack of trees is noticeable.
Fuck you Arbor Day.
It’s like forest management is a thing.
But the study also suggests a solution for policymakers, Kennedy said. In the dry forests, “the best way to deal with our fire problem is fire itself,” by following the example of the Indigenous peoples of California who intentionally burned millions of acres a year.
Today, Kennedy said, the best method is what’s known as mechanical fuel treatments — cutting down small trees and brush — followed by fire to clean out the tree debris.
“If we can conduct mechanical treatments and controlled burns, and create a patchy landscape, then even with climate change,” there’s a chance to save the forest, Kennedy said.
That’s the equivalent of treating the “natural forests” as some sort of agricultural resource. It’s tree farming.
You can’t do that!
Oh holy and noble Indigenous people – who lived in harmony with nature, that we, modern man have corrupted. Dig up Rousseau’s corpse and shove it up your ass.
Relevant: Sitting Bull meets Colonel Miles
Mojeaux brought up Ted Lasso. Wife and I thought it was funny. Another of there shows we laughed with is Mythic Quest.
My wife just let me know this gem was in the infrastructure catch all pork festival.
Gonna laugh when Uber/Lyft vehicles can’t move cause of the passenger(s) alcohol stench is overwhelming the sensors.
This is horrible. Our safety culture is monstrously evil.
It has NOTHING to do with safety and everything to do with CONTROL.
Thanks for vindicating my decision to rebuild my old car.
Oh for the love of God… yet another reason to keep my 2003 Chevy working. None of this nanny crap, though I’m sure the auto insurance state-enforced monopoly will keep trying to get me to “volunteer” for tracking-via-cell-phone and not having this data trail.
ACA neuvo: Automotive Care Act requires insurance companies to require its clients to GPS track and keep a year’s data on file for NHTSA and LEO agencies as needed coming to a formal liberal republic near you.
also the Punk His Junk Act forces you to crush your 2003 Chevy for a $382 debit good at the home center store of your choice
a real kick in the nuts
Peter O’Toole
…just having a rest between bars…
Also O’Toole
Best of Old Hollywood Drinking Stories & Buddies (O’Toole, Harris, Caine, Reed, Moon)
Bottas: why would you wreck a billion dollar car when your main guy is already the best, is on the pole, has the best car, and the course is notoriously difficult to pass at?
Cubs: suddenly I don’t watch baseball any more, but as a fourth generation STL fan I must say that I liked the Cubs as a cousin rival and hates seeing most of those moves.
I don’t honestly think he did it on purpose (sorry Sloopy). He clearly locked up (and given braking on the inters on that first corner was a bit of guess work, especially with the hubbub ahead), and knowing all the angles for what Norris would do after he slammed into him in order to take out the Red Bulls seems unlikely. Plus — if you’re going to take out the Red Bulls, you aim for Max first, not Perez — he’s certainly not as lousy as Albon, but he’s not the threat to Merc this season.
Plus, with the cost cap crap this season, throwing the team’s finances into a tizzy rebuilding his car with Wolff already looking at Russel isn’t in Bottas’s self interest at all, I highly doubt that it was a team order after all.
As a White Sox fan, despite hating the Cubs even I was taken aback by the sudden fire sale. Granted we got something out of it but still, it was bonkers.
And last week the U.S. House passed the INVEST in America Act, the $715 billion infrastructure bill, which includes the HALT Act provisions. The technology-neutral rule-making could mean that soon all new vehicles will have:
Soon we will perfect society.
Praise SCIENCE!
I have the radio on while I make supper. I know I dont like Brian Killmeade. But I cant articulate why.
Hannity lite ?
Statist to the core
That, and his eyes are too close together.
Thick as a brick douchebag so, yeah, Hannity lite.
Mammary Monday is the One True Being.
https://archive.li/NepMK
Suck that thumb, good and hard
After more than 18 months of a pandemic, with 1 of every 545 Americans already killed by COVID-19, a substantial chunk of the population continues to assert their own individual liberties over the common good.
This great divide — spilling into workplaces, schools, supermarkets and voting booths — has split the nation at a historic juncture when partisan factionalism and social media already are achieving similar ends.
It is a phenomenon that perplexes sociologists, legal scholars, public health experts and philosophers, causing them to wonder:
At what point should individual rights yield to the public interest? If coronavirus kills 1 in 100, will that be enough to change some minds? Or 1 in 10?
Today, millions of U.S. residents shun vaccines that have proven highly effective, and resist masks that ward off infection, fiercely opposing government restrictions.
Others clamor for regulation, arguing that those who take no precautions are violating their rights – threatening the freedom to live of everyone they expose.
The horror.
The HORROR.
“1 of every 545 Americans already killed by COVID-19”
SRSLY?
*Adds Clare to The List*
Citation most definitely f-ing needed. Died with COVID-19? Maybe. Killed by — there’s a big trust issue there caused by all the folks caught fudging the numbers over the past 1.5 years.
It was an effective way to crush debate, transparency and trust by muddling the numbers. People taking a rational route are boxed out of the conversation and all that is left is the rabid either/or crowd and that was used as an effective tool.
See also: “asymptomatic spread”.
If you do nonsensical math you can actually get there.
US Covide Deaths per top Google hit 610k
US Population 330M
= 0.001848485
1/545 = 0.001834862
It’s BS for a number of reasons, but one of my favorites is if somebody got hit by a bus, but had a positive COVID test that was counted as a COVID death.
Even with the fudging cases/deaths and cherry-picking data, they still can’t make their numbers stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever.
Hmm, things that make you go.
The thing with those deaths is that a not insignificant percentage would have died from something else even if COVID didn’t exist.
There is a reason why people specialize in various statistical math specialities across fields and industries.
But this is the way that folks lie with statistics.
a substantial chunk of the population continues to assert their own individual liberties over the common good
That’s kindof the point of individual liberty…you commie cunte.
At what point should individual rights yield to the public interest?
Never. See the BoR.
millions of U.S. residents shun vaccines that have proven highly effective
Assumes facts not in evidence. And there is only one jab that is technically a “vaccine”.
arguing that those who take no precautions are violating their rights
If the vax works, then who’s rights are threatened?
” ward off infection” And there it is, a Religion…..
In an online dialogue about the friction between liberty and the greater good, Clare Palmer, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, agreed that exercising a freedom to go mask-less creates “catastrophic threats to the well-being of others.
“How much should government constrain citizens’ otherwise-rightful activities to lower the risk?” she asked. “We may be entering a period… when countries will need to reassess their willingness to use the law to protect the most vulnerable and to advance the common good.”
Don’t worry. We only want the GOOD kind of totalitarianism.
It’s only because they think they will be in charge. Philosopher Kings, one and all.
Monday Motivation from the Iron Sheik
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1422210696213901346
Tipton co-authored the book “The Good Society,” describing how America’s institutions have fallen from grace. He is among many who trace this viral distrust a half-century back to President Ronald Reagan’s quote: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
A good bogeyman never goes out of style.
He is among many who trace this viral distrust a half-century back to President Ronald Reagan’s….
I believe that distrust is a bit deeper and longer than that.
Trust no one over 30!
Reagan’s quote reflects a sentiment that had long been in place already and we need more of that.
Yes, it isn’t that those words resonated for a reason; it was all just fabrication of those who refuse to worship the power of the
dark side, er I mean state, the power of the state.My HS history teacher was a Reaganite through and through. However, he made sure to teach us not to trust the power of the state. He was a rare teacher.
A fascist is as a fascist does.
In a shocking experiment, random beachgoers in San Diego, California are asked if they’ll sign a petition supporting the arrest and detention of all unvaccinated adults until they agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_wE0fdlGE
But, in the absence of authority or fortitude to impose public health policies, federal leaders have largely deferred to state and local government. The result: a bewildering and inconsistent panoply of policies that vary from one jurisdiction to the next, and may change overnight.
“There’s just been such tremendous inconsistency in communications about this,” said Corey Basch, chair of the public health department at William Paterson University in New Jersey. “I can understand why there are pockets of the population who really don’t want this mandated, and (they) feel distrust.”
We need an iron-fisted dictator in these difficult times.
Otherwise, those bad people out there will not do what I think they should.
맥주 한 잔 주세요. 빨리!
if somebody got hit by a bus, but had a positive COVID test that was counted as a COVID death.
If he had not had impaired respiratory function from the plague, he could have outrun the bus.
Fact check: True.
That USA Toady article is an impressive chunk of high grade refined derp.
Just more prep work laying the ethical foundation for holding people down and shooting them up if they think it’s needed. Remember, when Huxley fails you get Orwell.
Re: the idea people will get red-pilled or white-pilled or whatever and change their minds on the way politics works. Some sobering thoughts from KMW in the latest edition of TOS’s magazine:
“There is a temptation among certain types of ideologues—I count myself among them—to assume that once things get bad enough, the political classes or the general public will have a collective eureka moment, at which point everyone adopts the ideologue’s worldview, policy prescriptions, and cultural preferences.
The appeal of this notion is obvious. Perhaps the suffering imposed by our messy politics will be worth it, we think, if it means triumph in the end…
…All of these are stories of darkness and danger, and they do not signal a new morning. This has been a year of heightened contradictions, but things are not going as Marx predicted and Lenin urged. Pushing a broken system to its limits doesn’t fix the problems; it exacerbates them and entrenches them.
A variant of the “darkest before the dawn” theory is the idea that when a party is voted out, its leaders will go into the wilderness and emerge enlightened. Again, the person floating this theory typically believes that enlightenment will take the form of agreeing with his own views.
This does not seem to happen very often, if ever, in real life. When things are worse, or perceived as worse, people grow less tolerant, less empathetic, less open to compromise, and they offer each other less leeway. A sense of scarcity or impending scarcity fosters a zero-sum mindset.”
Full piece here: https://reason.com/2021/07/06/darkness-at-dawn/
This stuff, like wizzleteats above, makes me the of the “if there is hope it lies in the proles” line.
Don’t worry, things will soon get worse.
Prior to the Reagan Presidency, Americans uniformly loved and trusted the government, but they are such a bunch of empty-headed dupes all it took was nine words to send the nation careening toward anarchy and ruination.
I don’t think you’re giving Nixon enough credit
The Republic was nice while it lasted.
At least we will get gladiator fights and public baths in the imperial period.
I already have my “I’m not vaccinated” card and holder.
A variant of the “darkest before the dawn” theory is the idea that when a party is voted out, its leaders will go into the wilderness and emerge enlightened. Again, the person floating this theory typically believes that enlightenment will take the form of agreeing with his own views.
This does not seem to happen very often, if ever, in real life. When things are worse, or perceived as worse, people grow less tolerant, less empathetic, less open to compromise, and they offer each other less leeway. A sense of scarcity or impending scarcity fosters a zero-sum mindset.”
That’s surprisingly rational, considering the source.
I agree. People will retreat into their core defensive posture rather than consider alternatives.
In too local news – unless you are a complete cheapskate or utter masochist – do not fly Spirit Airlines.
Spirit Airlines passengers stranded at Orlando airport after 33 flights canceled
Honestly, they make Ryanair seem luxurious.
This is how you get stranded: https://www.postindependent.com/news/last-motorists-caught-in-glenwood-canyon-after-mudslides-evacuated-from-bair-ranch/
FTA: “The flows left a total of 108 motorists and their passengers stranded in the canyon. Of which, 29 sought refuge in the Hanging Lake Tunnels area around 9 p.m. Thursday.”
That is probably my favorite stretch of the interstate system. What a nightmare to clear.
Pamela Hieronymi, a UCLA professor who specializes in moral philosophy, said COVID-19 has revealed the “trickiness of freedoms” She described various schools of ethical thought, noting that If someone asked four philosophy professors whether vaccines and masks should be mandated there likely would be four different answers.
Then she mentioned a book – “Assholes: A Theory” – by colleague Aaron James, which argues that American culture is producing a swarm of annoying, self-righteous people who behave as if they are so special that normal rules do not apply.
More than a lack of civility, Hieronymi said, “We’ve lost sight of the common good.”
Also assholes who believe they are so special the entire universe should defer to their paranoia and hypochondria.
the more we loose sight of common goo the better
And if 51% decide it’s for the common good that she should be burnt at the stake?
Actually, I might be on board with that. Where do I vote?
I was thinking more along the lines of confiscating all her assets and putting her and possibly her family in a “work” camp for the benefit of the rest of us.
Wouldn’t that lead to a “greater good” for the rest of the US? We’d all be incrementally better off albeit at her expense.
The worst atrocities in history has been done under the guise of the common good.
Brother in-law’s family would agree…being Japanese decent and living on the west coast 80 some odd years ago.
“We’ve lost sight of the common good.”
Fuuuuuuuuuuck you.
People shouldn’t have to give up their freedoms to make other’s feel comfortable.
Indeed. Although I suspect we have different ideas about who the annoying, self-righteous people are.
The left goes totalitarian and gaslights the rest of the country into thinking they’re the ones who’ve changed.
Just more prep work laying the ethical foundation for holding people down and shooting them up if they think it’s needed. Remember, when Huxley fails you get Orwell.
The Constitution may have made sense, in its time, but society has evolved.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
I don’t know how you can call yourself a “communications professional” and not know how to create an accessible Word doc, and import that into an accessible PDF. I think it would be part & parcel of a “profession” to know how to use the tools of that “profession”.
I got a word doc the other day for an equipment survey that was created using the picture tools. No way to input anything digitally. Needless to say they will not be getting information from me.
This document I got was a hot mess. No headings or paragraphs assigned to the text, graphs inserted as images when they should be embedded from the data source (Excel, whatever). It looked like something from someone who has literally never used Word before. If you’re a fucking “communicator” in the USG, you need to know about ACCESSIBILITY. For fuck’s sake. How could you not know that? It’s, like, Communications 101.
Now I have to spend an hour explaining to a “communications professional” how to do his fucking job.
If we’re doing pet peeves, howsabout people who use Excel to create lists?
My rule: if its not doing math, you shouldn’t use a spreadsheet.
I don’t fully agree with that because sometimes people don’t have access to the proper tools and they improvise.
They all have access to Word. In fact, I wonder if anyone, anywhere, has access to Excel but not Word.
Does sorting count as math? Because I use Excel to makes lists all the time when I need to sort on various columns.
You can sort in a Word table, too.
Huh, interesting. I’ve never had need of that but I’ll try it sometime.
I think tables are better in excel, then pasted into word. I like having the ability to do fun table operations and index(match())
Meanwhile, back on the plantation
The winner of a special House election in northeast Ohio is almost certain to be one of two Black women. But the Congressional Black Caucus is intervening with an unusual goal: playing favorites between them.
Shontel Brown — the chosen candidate of the caucus — would honor “the rich history” of the group, not be someone who fights against it while “trying to make a name for themselves,” CBC Chairwoman Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said while campaigning in the district Saturday with other top Black lawmakers. Brown wouldn’t be “a single solitary know-it-all,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). She wouldn’t “come in and try to break up that unity,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) added. She demonstrates “basic, good respect,” House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) concluded.
Left unsaid but implied with all the subtlety of a fire alarm: Nina Turner, Brown’s opponent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, would be her opposite.
Turner earned the ire of senior CBC members by, among other things, comparing voting for Joe Biden to eating a bowl of excrement and saying that Clyburn hasn’t gone far enough to cash in on his early endorsement of the president to get policy wins.
Somebody needs a whippin”.
“Ize the overseeah and Ize gets to decide who gets to be congressperson.”
While Brown, the chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, has the backing of nearly every senior member of the CBC, Turner has been endorsed by the biggest progressive names in Washington, including Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). In a perfect split screen, the CBC leaders stumped in the district the same weekend that Sanders appeared for Turner.
“My record in public life is one that is singularly focused on the issues, and more importantly, the people the Caucus was created to serve,” Turner said of the CBC’s involvement in the race. “However, people are free to jump in and endorse anyone they want. I don’t begrudge them for that. This is not a monarchy. I don’t own any seat that I’ve ever had.”
In some ways, this primary is another iteration of a feud between liberal insurgents and longtime Black lawmakers that has been brewing for years. It grew particularly contentious in 2020 when Justice Democrats, a progressive group known for targeting incumbents, backed challengers to Beatty and Rep. Lacy Clay, a son of a founding member of the CBC.
At least she’s not a Republikkkin.
Rep. Lacy Clay, a son of a founding member of the CBC
I’d support a Constitutional amendment barring the immediate family of any elected federal official from elected or appointed office, for life.
If we’re doing pet peeves, howsabout people who use Excel to create lists?
My guess is they do that for the quick and dirty column format.
Undoubtedly. Those three mouseclicks they save are critical to their efficiency.
Using Excel as a database makes my eye twitch. I mean, Access is a PITA but still.
Importing the contents of Excel documents into a database is a core part of my job.
Ask me how I feel about that.
We have a tool that abstracts most of the pain away but still. My favorite moment was discovering that the process can be broken if you changed your computer’s date formatting from the Windows default.
There are ways around it but date formatting was easily the biggest headache of mine whenever I had to do anything with time series data.
Yeah, I rewrote that section to handle dates in any format. Some idiot converted it to a string first.
I ran into problems with data from systems that mandated a valid value for fields that could be unknown. I had to deal with data streams where most people had 11 November as their date of birth or half the population was born on the 1st of the month. At least all the people named FNU MNU LNU were easy to clean up.
I did some work automating parsing spreadsheets for incorporation into a database. It was a daily report that they couldn’t keep stable. They regularly changed column names and order, cell formats, and the like. When we complained, they asked why it was a problem since a human can read it.
All of those solutions make me wince.
My PM is “all Excel, all the time” kinda guy. After 10+ years working together, I still have to explain how I can’t just “give him a CSV” of some relational data – there is no sane option to express one-to-many or many-to-many relationships in a CSV. Still doesn’t stop him (“enjoy your variable number of columns”).