Everybody loved this guy.
Messi is officially off to Paris. Peyton is in the Hall Of Fame. The USA won the most olympic medals, and some Chinese media talking heads learned a valuable lesson in when to start chanting “Scoreboard! Scoreboard!”. Bobby Bowden has passed away. And that’s the abbreviated sports section for today.
Yes, you.
Big birthdays today are composer Johann Michael Bach (never heard any of his stuff), Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro, Mexican revolutionary and president Vicente Guerrero, dentist who first used ether William Morton, catcher Ralph Houk, basketball great Bob Cousy, acting great Robert Shaw, tennis legend Rod Laver, pitcher Paul Lindblad, boxer Ken Norton, actor Sam Elliott, actress Melanie Griffith, singer and human vacuum Whitney Houston, hockey player Brett Hull, football great Deion Sanders, actor Eric Bana, and adorable actress Anna Kendrick.
Right-o, now on to…the links!
Rights? What rights?
You do not, in fact, have a right to a speedy and public trial. At least you don’t if your name is R Kelly. Oh, and you’ve got to rot in a cell for two years before you even get to trial, apparently. Listen, dude is a creep. But everybody has rights.
We’re all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!! Well, that’s true, I suppose. But these people need to go back to what the UN does best: setting up rape gangs for their cronies in third world countries.
But these people fleeing an actual oppressive shithole regime aren’t welcome. Maybe if they voted the right way once they got here, they would be, right Psaki?
Like rats from a sinking ship. OK, I was wrong about him resigning over the weekend, but I think its inevitable now. He’s toast either by resigning or by impeachment.
The party was electric!
“They’re not like you rubes. They’re better than you.” At least this asshole is honest about how she feels. Also, she and the partygoers are generally a bunch of fucking hypocrites. And that, not the party itself, is what’s pissed so many people off.
Chicago is mourning the murder of one, and possibly two, cops. And what does the mayor say? Well, seeing as she’s an idiot, she blames the inanimate object.
::SMDH:: Women drivers. Luckily nobody was hurt by this menace. Not even herself.
Yes. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! They can’t stay away from their jobs forever. Or can they? I hear Portugal is nice this time of year.
Here’s a classic. Go enjoy it.
And get your week off to a great start, friends!
They’ll end up having to physically drag him from the office. He’s too spoiled to go quietly.
They will, now that it’s politically expedient.
Cuomo dragged kicking and screaming out of office is proof we live in the best of all possible worlds.
I’ll believe it when it actually happens. Governor blackface managed to hang on.
Had the long knives within the party come out for him? I don’t recall
In his case, I think the party told him they would save him, but he was going to do everything they wanted, no questions asked.
They came out. Then they realized the next in line was Lieutenant Governor MeToo (D). He was added to the calls to resign. Then they realized next was Attorney General Blackface (D). Then the pressure melted away because next was Speaker of the House of Delegates (R).
We really do have some shitty pols in Virginia.
We really do have some shitty pols.
in Virginia.FTFY
The difference between the two is the will be a D in NY if Cuomo is pulled. Not so much in VA.
All this only matters if they hold on to power.
Virginia will likely get McAweful the Clinton Crime Inc veteran.
I hope he takes down all his crooked pals on his way out.
But I still think it’s more likely he will get any impeachment effort dragged out long enough for him to win his next election in a landslide.
As Blagojivich why he didn’t do that despite the fact that they sent him to prison and fucked him in the ass when he had been doing Obama’s dirty work for em….
Crime syndicate, yo…
They will Clinton his ass.
Maybe if Coumo is impeached, he could pull a Leandra English and show up claiming to still be Governor for months.
The hospital where I worked had a CEO that was fired. He refused to leave. When he finally did leave it was in handcuffs with a police escort. The hospital at that time was the size of a small town and when he left you could hear a huge collective sigh of relief.
Who’s gaslighting whom, now?
Yes.
+1 Aretha
‘Spooked’ woman drives off California cliff after stranger opens car door
BWAHAHAHA. I love California!
Climate change articles showing pictures of wildfires are so hilariously over-the-top disingenuous. Fuck it, burn everything. Good morning! I saw a localesque band, Catbite yesterday at my hyper local free music festival. It was fun. Spread across the event there are tens of thousands there at any given time. Probably going to see 1-1.5 million visitors over the 10 days. Outdoors and 95%+ unmasked. I was walking across a pedestrian bridge and laughed a bit watching a young man with a mask on stop to put on another mask. It was 86 degrees and decently humid. Sheesh. Consistent with most other observations, the younger people are more likely to mask than older. No gen X or boomers wore masks. Some millennials, and slightly more zoomers. It’s weird seeing parents out with their zoomer kids and the kids are masked. The kids are not all right.
Live music is still cool and good.
Before I even clicked I was thinking, I bet there is a CA wildfire photo.
The argument being made is that forest fires don’t happen because California abandoned basic forest management and let things grow wild, yo! They happen because of CLIMATE CHANGE!!
/morons
It’s literally illegal to spend money maintaining power transmission lines here. All of these fire are caused by down power lines. Then, they mandate a certain amount of power come from “renewable” and we’ll never reach the numbers they insist on, so they adjust the rule to exclude imported power from other states. Now, there’s even more power coming across long distance power lines which run right through the middle of the fucking forest. On hundred year old power poles that haven’t been looked at by a human in over two decades.
I agree, went to see Cheap Trick this weekend and the Boomers and X’ers were less masked than the Millennials and Z’s. Guess it’s true, mommy’s alright, daddy’s alright, but their kids are a little weird.
Live music is good.
Gov. Greg Abbott did what he said he would do, and called for another special session on Thursday.
There’s an old saying among investment types: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
Addendum for Texas dems: The legislature can stay in session longer than you can stay on the run.
Still wondering: if the DNC or whomever is footing the bill for the wayward lawmakers’ living expenses while they’re in DC or Europe, does the IRS consider that income for tax purposes?
He did suspend their pay, right? That probably doesn’t matter all that much as they aren’t full-time.
Cuba is seeing a surge in unauthorized migration to the United States, fueled by an economic crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, increased U.S. sanctions and cutbacks in aid from its also-crisis-wracked Venezuelan ally. That has led to shortages in many goods and a series of protests that shook the island on July 11.
Those people are crazy, turning their backs on Paradise.
It only we’d stop our embargo, those stupid fucks would be in socialist heaven!
-the media and Democrats
It’s always absolutely grating for me to listen to some tankie explaining how it’s the US’ actions (i.e. a trade embargo) that is causing the failure of the poor socialist shithole in __________. And they can’t even hear themselves – they can’t even consider the implications of that statement – that country X is a welfare state if it’s economy falls apart because it doesn’t have trade with the US. Never, ever have I seen someone called out by the media on what is facially an idiotic statement. It gets repeated by politicians breathlessly (as if it’s somehow proof of the US’ fault!), reported mindlessly by the Media, and swallowed by the tankies and the morons.
Well, you know what they say:
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. . . [and so on ad infinitum]
“Speedy Trial”?
There are people who have been in solitary confinement for 7 months in DC awaiting their trespassing trials. And no, members of Congress can’t visit or inquire about their welfare.
That is for the safety of the members of Congress. Those insurrectionists would kill them. It is known.
I’ve remarked on how evil that is more than a few times here.
The court system is using covid as an excuse for Kelly, and the judge in DC is declaring those people guilty before trial in order to punish them.
The entire justice system has become a joke.
And the real problem is that at least half the country is just fine with it.
We’re officially living in a police state.
During the Cold War we didn’t have political prisoners because that’s what the commie bad guys did.
Yep. We’ve become what we said we weren’t.
Putin must be laughing his ass off.
When he isn’t laughing at the geriatric con-man dementia patient we supposedly elected President.
Eh, we had the McCarthy hearings and literally blacklisted anyone suspected of having communist sympathies.
Our government’s hands aren’t exactly squeaky clean when it comes to not punishing political foes.
In fairness to McCarthy, there actually was a communist plot and it’s reaching the end stages now. Not that it excuses the shitty manner in which those hearings/purges were conducted.
No, and I’m really fucking sick of suckers for the international communist conspiracy as described the Prophet Gramsci. There is no plot just like there is no right side of history. There are factions of humans competing for power – that’s a given. But not all that is wrong in the world is the result of some fucking plot. This is the same fallacy that drives the believers in climate change – just different villains.
Our decadence is not the result of some foreign evil. We’ve largely done this to ourselves. Deal with that.
All one has to do is look at modern academia and it’s clear that they are plotting to implement communism. The media, the schools, the unions, and one of the two major political parties are all working together to lie, cheat and scam the less informed into allowing them to convert us into a communist system. It really doesn’t even seem debatable.
As far as I can see modern academics can’t even run a university let alone plot the demise of western civilization.
This society has created a willing and obedient slurry to feed into that factory and enabled it to be in loco parentis. Absolves us of our own parental responsibility. After all, we might have to face up to our own failure – and who wants to do that?
“As far as I can see modern academics can’t even run a university let alone plot the demise of western civilization.”
Why the fuck do you think they want communism? They believe it is a system where they can not just avoid accountability, but punish the people that are successful and make money in the private sector while their genius is underappreciated by a world that doesn’t see their brilliance….
You really shouldn’t equate lust for power with communism. The former is an absolute constant in humanity, the latter was a passing fad.
There is no plot just like there is no right side of history. There are factions of humans competing for power – that’s a given. But not all that is wrong in the world is the result of some fucking plot.
I’m in the middle on this one. Is there some illuminati style top-down conspiracy? No. Is there widespread coordination between groups to align with a central push to accumulate power for people pushing a noxious set of views mostly overlapping with Marx? Absolutely. I’ve gotten a few short glimpses under the hood of that conglomeration and it’s scary as hell. You don’t need everybody to be in on it to guide a large number of groups in a certain direction. In fact, the more implanted you are in a culture, the less control you actually need to exert in your own rank and file.
there is no right side of history
IMO, this is exactly what cultural Marxism wants you to believe. They want their useful idiots to emote their way to a feeling of moral superiority. They want their demoralized opponents to embrace just this sort of nihilism. You can’t effectively address the evils of Marxism/fascism/totalitarianism from a foundation of “I don’t like your way of governance because it doesn’t make me feel good.”
So the ironic thing is, just as the institutions are captured by a corrupt elite, they lose all credibility. Now for all the screaming and stamping of feet – that isn’t how they re-establish any degree of credibility; shorn of credibility, the institution teeters on the brink of irrelevance. I think that’s kind of lovely, except of course that when the institutions crash it is going to be very messy until new institutions arise that can operate with requisite credibility.
If they’re all working towards the same goal, does it really matter whether they’re actively coordinating their efforts?
Blacklists were from the HUAC hearings several years before McCarthy. The Hollywood commies can suck it. Useful idiots or intentional fifth columnists.
This is what
democracya police state looks like!Of course, it is also what a Democracy looks like.
The main bills the Texas Democrats are against would add new identification requirements for mail-in voting, ban or restrict many early voting options, and create new criminal penalties for breaking the election code while empowering partisan poll watchers.
Just amend the bill to include a proof-of-vaccination requirement. They’ll come back in a heartbeat.
I don’t get what’s so fucking hard about this. Up here, everyone has government issued ID. You go to the polling place, some old dear checks to make sure who you are, crosses your name off the list and hands you a paper ballot. Normally takes less than ten minutes.
Same here.
The whole “black people are too stupid to obtain one” thing is a lie aimed at gullible wypipo.
You have to wonder why more black people aren’t pissed off at being described that way.
Normally takes less than
tenone minutes.At least, everywhere I’ve voted in Canada.
Turns out the most “vaccine hesitant” groups include PhDs. I wonder if that’s because they know how much bullshit gets pumped out of the academic system. Or maybe it’s because they can read a scientific paper and recognize that the media can’t and the authorities lie.
https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy
The researchers partnered with the Delphi Group at CMU, which runs an ongoing national COVID-19 survey in collaboration with the Facebook Data for Good group.
Data is not for good or for bad. It’s merely data. It can be used for good or bad. So I’d be hesitant to trust a group whose name implies they’re seeking out preconceived results. Also, I’d distrust anything from FB based on their track record of being absolute shit.
Probably for the same reason that so many here are hesitant or outright rebellious. Glibs are smarter than the average bear.
We am?
Well, maybe not me but you get the gist.
Look around. It is a low bar.
It is, nevertheless, a bar. Gimme a double!
So low you need a metal detector and a shovel to find it.
I push back on the implication that PhDs are broadly more intelligent than the masses. The PhDs I’ve encountered are 1) not that smart, but so damned proud of their humanities PhD and the power it bestows on them to dictate social interaction; 2) savants who don’t seem to understand that their expertise has subject matter bounds; or 3) humble folks who understand that a PhD doesn’t confer moral superiority over the proles.
Disturbingly few are in group 3.
Nothing short of a global communist dictatorship will save us
The climate crisis is as much a rural problem as an urban one. It is both economic and human, domestic and international. This means transformation is required at every level of society: individuals, employers, institutions and international partners will need to work together to understand the trade-offs, agree compromises and seize opportunities. And just as scientists are pooling insights from diverse fields of expertise, policymakers will need to work in new ways, sharing ideas across disciplines to plot a clear path from here to net zero. This is a whole systems challenge. Tackling it will require a systemic approach.
Big Ideas require a big hammer and sickle. We cannot permit deviation from the Plan.
Net zero?
Lol, these fuckheads live in a fantasy world.
China laughs.
I’m sure the five-year-plan has already been written.
“individuals, employers, institutions and international partners will need to work together”
said no one that ever tried to work with me
::Shouts:: “WE DON’T CARE”
This again?
Because of course he is.
I’m baffled that PSG hasn’t run afoul of FFP given the galaxy of superstars that pass through there.
They do the same thing Man City does: sign the players for less salary and then the ownership groups from the Middle East pay them massive endorsements that aren’t counted against FFP rules.
Ah, that makes sense. And explains why the salary quoted in this article was MUCH less than what was quoted in another article I saw as what he was going to command at Barça.
Huh, apparently Ligue 1 started already. Massive league.
Messi, Ramos, Donnarumma, Wijnaldum all added for free this year.
Meh, UEFA whitewashed Man City’s fiscal chicanery because EPL money.
We’re all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!! – what is dead can never die as old George said
The sobering report found it “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” – well this, plus the heatwave in Romania, changes everything. I now support wrecking the economy for something that can not really be validated.
Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are “unprecedented” in thousands — and in some cases, hundreds of thousands — of years, according to a blistering report released by the United Nations on Monday. – good thing we have those 100k year old weather stations to know how things are changing
The report also found that climate change is intensifying, occurring at an accelerated pace and is already affecting every region of the planet. – certainly where I live
The IPCC, established in the late 1980s, consists of thousands of scientists across 195 member governments who pore over the most recent published and peer-reviewed research on global warming – I mean except the one that does not support the narrative
unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land
I eagerly await the proof showing that it’s not simply a natural warming cycle following the end of the Little ice Age.
Yep. They’ll have to prove out, in excruciating detail, how humans contributing 4% of annual CO2 emissions, which is within normal annual variability, somehow causes this runaway heating scenario.
Aren’t there like three volcanos burping and farting up a storm right now?
Volcanic activity tends to result in cooling due to the particulates thrown into the atmosphere. The Mt. Pinatubo cooling was an example of this.
Shouldn’t wildfire smoke do the same thing?
“Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are “unprecedented”
Complete, undiluted bullshit and easily disprovable.
Carlin had a nice rant about it-
https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?t=105
That’s the problem with these fucking stupid smart people: they want excuses to cull the human race but lack the guts to admit they want everyone else killed or forced to live in caves so they never have to give up their standard of living.
And-
Working back from 2050, it is clear that reaching net zero requires a renewed emphasis on science and innovation. First, we need to assess the technologies already available, identify those we need at scale by the middle of the century and deploy them as fast as possible. Second, we need to rigorously monitor progress against intermediate targets to make sure we are on track. Third, we need to identify areas where practical answers don’t yet exist – where research and innovation is still required to answer specific challenges – and invest accordingly; done well, these investments can seed the industries of the future. Across all this, we need to think globally, ensuring climate innovations are affordable and that their benefits are shared equally.
SCIENCE! will save us.
Just as long as it doesn’t involve nuclear power generation. Or GMO foodstuffs.
Throughout history humans have done better during warm periods. Why would we want to keep things cooler?
Because they hate humans.
Duh.
It all adds up when you add that postulate in.
^^ this.
Well, they hate all humans that aren’t entitled like them.
They hate all humans that aren’t them.
Speaking of global warming, I payed 70 americanis dollars for electricity last month. On non AC months it is 15. You Americans and your SUVs need to stop running up my electricity bill. Poor Romanians have to pay your profligacy
Who’s subsidizing you? That’s damn cheap.
In civilized places electricity is reasonably priced
So someone is subsidizing you. Got it.
Just tell me it’s not me. I pay for enough giveaways.
oh you don’t even notice you account being drained we are that tricky
an no electricity is not generally subsidised
Meh. In Jugsy’s absence (fat broads dont brook heat), I keep the thermostat @ 78º americanheit. Despite having an antiquated, wholly-inefficient a/c unit, and a poorly insulated 2X-wide, my bill last month was somewhere around $180. And I can guarantee its much warmer here than in Vapiresylvannia.
nonsense we get two months of days with highs between 90 an d 100 sillydegrees you Americans don’t even know
more problematic is when the lows are above 70 SD
The weather here in my part of Virginia will be in the 90s all week with high humidity. Richmond has a higher average summer high with higher humidity than Bucharest.
70? That’s below my cheap months. 300 is what we pay in the summer. Granted, I’m locked into a provider, so I don’t get to shop by price.
It wouldn’t surprise at all if Romania is less corrupt in the power sector than the US.
My bill for last month was $360.
I like it cool.
62$ no A/C
I normally range from about $90 to $180.
Hawaii has one of the most pricey electric systems in the US. With no AC I was paying ~$200/month. Since I put up my solar system I pay the $26/month hook up fee even with AC etc.
We are one of the few places in the US with a decent ROI for solar.
That girl from your music link is as cute as a button!
Anna Kendrick, too.
DeRosa was mentioned 187 times in the 168-page investigative report by Attorney General Letitia James into 11 sexual assault accusations against the three-term governor, which confirmed Cuomo has engaged in “unwanted groping, kissing, hugging and making inappropriate comments,” James said.
The report describes how DeRosa — whom Cuomo himself reportedly affectionately referred to as one of his “mean girls” — took an active role in dismissing the accusations from current and former aides against the governor.
I had no inkling of any such things. I’m Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
I hate Cuomo, but accusations are just accusations if there isn’t any evidence to back them up. I hope they will show us actual evidence that these accusations are true.
FINGERBANG!
FINGERBANG!
Yup!
Either way, it is clear to me that this is a political hit job by a corrupt and politically motivated attorney general.
On one level… Don’t care. Dude should have been run out of town on a rail for murdering 15,000 people in nursing homes.
On the other level… Watching how much crossover there is with politics and police/prosecution/judges and corrupt actors taking out political rivals is pretty disturbing.
OK, I was wrong about him resigning over the weekend, but I think its inevitable now. He’s toast either by resigning or by impeachment.
I’m not so sure. Ralph Northam survived. And, while the charges against him weren’t as severe, he also didn’t have the level of influence Cuomo has managed to acquire over the decade he’s been in office.
I think if Cuomo takes a “I’m not going down alone” stance (and what reason is there to think anything in his personality wouldn’t be inclined toward this), I think he can probably survive. He has a lot of knowledge of a lot of people’s shabby deals. He appointed a significant number of the judges who’re going to be part of his jury. And he’s not as friendless as one might think. His own brother has a cable news show and he’s not the only media figure Cuomo has a chummy relationship with. And a lot of the wheels that provide the graft for NY politics probably prefer Cuomo, as corrupt as he is, to the NYC true believer progressive alternative.
The only way he’s going down is if the machine wants it to happen. If the impeachment looks like it’s going nowhere fast in the next couple weeks, that will be a sign that he’s not going anywhere.
I think he is smart to hang on.
He was counting on R vs D to save him… But this is a DNC establishment hit job…. Probably at the direction of Team Harris clearing the field.
That is something that could evaporate if facts on the ground change (like Harris screws the pooch and her supporters evaporate).
The sobering assessment also found that some changes that are already playing out, such as warming oceans and rising sea levels, are “irreversible for centuries to millennia.”
It will change naturally as it always has.
The sobering report found it “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.”
If only saying it would make it so.
The report also found that climate change is intensifying, occurring at an accelerated pace and is already affecting every region of the planet.
That explains the lackluster Atlantic hurricane season we have seen so far this year…
It’s estimated that human-caused climate change is responsible for approximately 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming since 1850-1900, the earliest period with reliable measurements of global surface temperatures, the authors wrote.
*chuckles* Yeah, sure.
What? No love for the end of the little ice age?
Global warming is good, actually.
lackluster Atlantic hurricane season – eh it aint even peak season yet
Our alleged “experts” have been saying activity would be abnormally high this year – season opened June 1… still waiting for the parade of CAT5’s to land.
Has there been a single season in the last 20 years where they predicted a slow season? I feel like I’ve seen the same regurgitated article every year of my adult life.
They’ll get it right one day, kind of like the Austrian economists and the predictions of hyper inflation.
Monetary inflation has been high for years (not hyper). Who cares about price inflation? No one knows how to measure it anyway.
I’m (mostly) joking but I think they have been a little bit alarmist on that to the unfortunate detriment of their credibility.
Oh, you mean hurricanes. Just scrolling past, my mind went “Network cables?”
still waiting for the parade of CAT5’s to land. – why do you hate Florida people?
Have you been to Florida?
off course not silly I don’t have a visa
They take Diner’s Club down there, too.
I love how they claim “unequivocal” and then throw in “estimated”. If it’s unequivocal then you should be able to get an exact measurement, and back that measurement up with “unequivocal” proof.
Otherwise it’s just a load of bullshit and speculation.
OMG, not 1.1 degrees Celsius. Truly apocalypse times are upon us.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1424701157172199430?s=21
I had to post that because the accompanying picture looks like the worst photoshop ever…but it’s real!
So his head exploded?
Clearly the tanning bed only covered the torso.
Actually, at these competitions, they paint the compeditors a uniform color so that the skin tone doesn’t interfere with the definition.
They cover themselves in brown oil. ?
Let’s go oil up these beefcakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQmgEbrOHeg
it looks like bodybuilders look on stage
I’ll note that a lot of juicing bodybuilders from the 1970s are still around.
You can even train – if you have the $$$ – with Frank Zane, who is now 79.
Frank at 72: http://frankzaneblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/frank-zane-at-almost-72.html
Cuomo departing the governor’s mansion in handcuffs with a bag over his head makes for a nice little fantasy, but I suspect he’ll run out the clock and decide not to run for re-election. It would be nice for him to spend more time with the family.
People like him have no willpower when it comes to giving up power…
As others pointed out: he will be gone if the machine decided he must go (and they might have considering how many people he screwed over), because otherwise this is all Kabuki shit and he will in the end not only not leave, but the left will use that to tell you how good he is that he survived being canceled.
Happy Nagasaki Day, Japanoglibs. Although in Japan I think that it’s already yesterday.
Every time it comes up, I am reminded of back in college. The school handed out planners to incoming students. On certain calender days were no-context bits of trivia. Flipping through and seeing the line “Fat Man Destroys Nagasaki” made me think of a kaiju-type incident.
IIRC the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a big influence on the kaiju “genre”. Gojira was born out of a lizard embiggened after being exposed to radiation from a nookular test, member.
The most important question on #BookLoversDay: how do Brits organise their bookshelves?
No organisation – 43%
By genre – 23%
By size – 21%
Alphabetically, by author – 11%
If read or not – 8%
Alphabetically, by title – 3%
By colour – 2%
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1424659504218705921
By cover model is the correct method.
Fabio goes here and Sabatini goes here…..
Subject, broadly
Nobody gave “by wokeness”?
week off to a great start? Im off tonight, so its kinda my Friday.
Im off Wednesday night, so that’s my Saturday.
Festus and l0b0t understand.
Morning drinking FTW!
“Morning” ? I heard that line from Jugsy when I started overnights- “Tres, are you really drinking a beer @ 6:15 am?”
“Hell yeah- 5 pm in my head.”
Good morning, Sloopy!
Thanks for the lynx.
I gotta say, Sturgis looks like a lot more fun than Obama’s bash. Not as ‘sophisticated’, but still. They think (know?) we are stupid.
Great song! AI was an underrated band.
Have a great day, peeps!
You too, Friend.
Obama’s party would be an entirely predictable fly-on-wall: all covidian nonsense ignored because that’s just for the non-specials, fantastically unwoke things said “between friends” because that’s just for scolding the clingers and deplorables, and dad dancing.
I could swear that I’ve read this comment before. *tin foil rustles in the breeze*
I am not a party guy but were I to attend I would only bring my Saiga to one of those.
I hate Cuomo, but accusations are just accusations if there isn’t any evidence to back them up. I hope they will show us actual evidence that these accusations are true.
The very notion that these “recovered memories” of creepy hands can take him down, when his autocratic disdain for everyone else in the world and plain incompetence couldn’t, speaks not well of the state of the nation.
This. The man is probably the most crooked governor in history and has the biggest body count to boot.
A tourist has recorded the ninth alleged sighting of the Loch Ness Monster so far this year. One in seven Brits (14%) believe Nessie exists, with the figure rising to 24% among Scots
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1424649960692277254
One in seven…is STEVE SMITH one of them?
STEVE SMITH MISS NESSIE.
HIM HAVE GOOD TIMES.
Is that SPACE SMITH in that saucer coming over to visit?
SPACE SMITH!
What’s funny is that the person who created the Loch Mess story admitted it’s a hoax and it’s not scientifically possible for a creature or that size to live in that small ecosystem.
“…individuals, employers, institutions and international partners will need to work together to understand..”
Well, fuck. We just need to work together.
I love how they claim “unequivocal” and then throw in “estimated”. If it’s unequivocal then you should be able to get an exact measurement, and back that measurement up with “unequivocal” proof.
Otherwise it’s just a load of bullshit and speculation.
See, also: masks
Masks will save you. You must wear one.
*We think, maybe, there is some sort of a beneficial effect to wearing them, possibly under certain highly nonspecific circumstances.
Our man, Rand.
I didn’t vote for him
There is a large portion of Twitter that simply seems to be people shitposting replies to the famous that they don’t like, thereby elevating their own status in the process.
It really is a shithole.
Sociopaths. Can’t comprehend and explain the point if view of those they try to shout down and argue against. They can’t be reasoned with. It’s all just horrifically miserable bad faith harassment and goading. Twitter gives them a means to get some traction with this. Remember there is literally no way to reason with a sociopath. There are still too many people who naively try to engage them in good faith.
I thought “Don’t read the replies.” was always implied on Twitter.
Don’t read the replies.
No, it’s “Don’t read Twitter”.
It loaded right under it. No scrolling required then it was too late.
Aaaarrrgh the comments.
It seriously like a society-wide Westboro Baptist Church at this point. You’ll need a lot more helicopters.
There is also a photo of Rand receiving a vaccine 6 years ago that tries to DESTROY him.
?♂️
So tediously stupid
Society-wide Westboro Baptist has a certain ring to it. Anyone wearing a mask outside belongs to this cult.
I’d add the masked youngsters driving around alone to that pile. Never enough forehead slaps.
Excellent.
Food bloggers call for word ‘curry’ to be cancelled over claims it is rooted in British colonialism
Food influencer Chaheti Bansal, 27, says: “Curry shouldn’t be all you think about when you think about South Asian food.”
https://news.sky.com/story/food-bloggers-call-for-word-curry-to-be-cancelled-over-claims-it-is-rooted-in-british-colonialism-12376985
Curry certainly is not all I think about South Asian food
If it wasn’t for British colonialism there wouldn’t be Jamaican curry.
Now I want fried plantains.
You bastard!
I generally think of tandoori.
Hot take: Indian food is the worst asian cuisine.
Probably not literally true, but of those with common American restaurants, it is easily the worst.
Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese…all far superior.
I like Japanese the best, but it’s $$$$
Yes, that too.
+1 unagi donburi
Non-Americanized ramen and udon are also delicious.
Too much cumin. Doesn’t agree with me.
*Beavis & Butt-head laugh*
Eh. If we’re talking typical middle-american quality, I’d put Indian over Chinese and probably Korean. Not Vietnamese or Thai.
But really good Indian food is *really* good. There’s this one Indian place down in Williamsburg that’s just amazing.
*Me, looking at Indian restaurant menu – sees ‘Cilantro everything’*
“I’ll have a coke”
The samosas from 5-Star Buffet in Long Island City, Queens are positively orgasmic. Then, you dip it the tamarind sauce… oh, baby, that tamarind sauce.
He’s probably never been to an IT department potluck lunch. Hot damn, their wives can cook.
Not universally true.
Every example of indian food I’ve had has been at best disappointing.
That’s too bad. There’s so much great Indian food here.
Oh heck yes. My office is close to “Curry Hill”.
There was one place round the corner that I loved, that I’m sure COVID has closed. No set lunch menu, you walked in they asked vegetarian or not and after that you got what you got.
Never had a bad meal there.
Bad Indian food is orders of magnitude worse than bad other Asian cuisines, in my experience, but good Indian food is up there with the best of ’em.
“Indian” restaurants here in the UK are usually run by people of Bangladeshi, or Pakistani descent. That’s no reflection on the quality of the food, but I just thought I’d mention it. I recall only one genuinely Indian restaurant that was specifically Punjabi, although they did a few other dishes. That place was really good.
The exception to the rule is a Laksa that is literally just a bowl of coconut oil with the ingredients floating in it. Malaysian chefs weep in abject disappointment that someone would destroy the dish like that.
I dated a lady from India once. Regional biases are huge with that crowd. Calling anything made by a Pakistani “Indian food” might get you punched in the throat.
South Indian, north Indian, Kashmiri, Pakistani….. Don’t ever make the mistake of conflating them. They consider themselves more different than Irish and Chinese.
It was fun, she was hot, and she made really good roti. But definitely somewhere in the wrong end of the hot/crazy matrix.
Another Yanny or Laurel?
Cancel hiss ass anyway, no point in taking chances
R. Kelly: What can be done to him can be done to me. More people need to realize that.
‘This has really been overblown, they’re following all the safety precautions, people are going to sporting events that are bigger than this, this is going to be safe, this is a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd and this is just about optics it’s not about safety,’ Karni stated.
Us and them.
Were they ALL vaccinated? Maybe but I highly doubt it but I wouldn’t give a damn if the people who are so shrill about condemning the unvaxed weren’t the ones giving this a complete pass.
this is just about optics it’s not about safety
So, she admits that the Covid “safety” bullshit is just theater?
Yes
Anyone doubt that this was the problem from the getgo? The whole Kung Flu thing was politicized and people have chosen sides, not for logical reasons, but because of team, and team blue is not about to give up on the panic theatre after it allowed them to fortify an election and 2022 looks like without massive fortification it will fuck team blue in the ass so bad it will make them roadkill.
You really think that? Certainly the Left have gone all in on this because of the media and Fauci demanding it. But people who have chosen the other side have done so either because they oppose a mandate or are opposed to the vaccine itself. Both of the latter are logical reasons.
I disagree. One of the best arguments I have heard about why Ai is not that dangerous (or will be horrible dangerous) is that people, despite what they tell themselves, love to pretend they are being logical when reality is that they back into “logical reasons” for their opinions after some emotional trigger gets them, an ability that has been instrumental in allowing man to make incredible leaps in learning, and computers can’t do that. You may want to think people used logic to back into opposing the vaccine (but somehow not wanting it), I myself had the Kung Flu and was nearly entirely asymptomatic, but that is as illogical as it gets.
I decided to take the vaccine, not because I feared the Kung Flu and certainly not because government demanded it or my team did or didn’t, but because my kid wanted to take it for personal reasons, despite the fact that he had had issues with vaccines before. I decided to go through it with him, a decision that was totally emotional, but in the end rationalized reason for me. It certainly was not because government or some guy playing doctor on TeeVee told me to do it, but my choice. In hindsight, and so far, it looks like it was the right choice FOR ME. I am worried about people that think they are the ones that knows what is best based on a decision that needs to be made by an individual for themselves.
I have no clue what you’re trying to say here. Not wanting to be required to take a vaccine is a logical position. There are many on the Right who chose to take vaccine but still don’t want it mandated.
There are also those who are opposed to taking the vaccine, whether voluntary or not, because there are still many unknowns. That is also logical.
Both of the above are about individuals making decisions for themselves. There is only one side that is trying to force a decision on everyone.
My point was that you made the statement that not wanting to take the vaccine was logical and the alternative was not. I pointed out humans think they are logical but are not. We make a decision, more often than not based on emotional things, then back into a logic argument for it. But more importantly, my point was that one could make a logical decision to take the vaccine as well, one that had absolutely nothing to do with being required to take it, despite the fact that the majority of people that took it took it because of politics.
I am not saying they are opposed to others taking it.
My point is that Side A wants everyone to get vaccines, either forcibly or coerced by removal of their jobs and access to basic goods. People on Side B do not want mandates. Some on Team B have had the vaccine but don’t want that decision forced on others and others oppose getting it themselves. I have not heard any call from Side B to restrict adults from getting the vaccine who want it.
People that DEMAND others do what they want are fucking idiots and evil…
“Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro”
He does number amongst the greats.
Should have had a less fruity name
That’s why he’s significant to three places. Generally.
He is a constant reminder of HS Chemistry
Ok, who hacked Switzy’s account?
So a good (and public) piece from Taibbi.
This is about more than Cuomo, though he ties in very neatly, and the whole article seems quite appropriate given many of the comments (on more than one subject) this morning.
When Cuomo meets his maker I seriously doubt more than a handful of these episodes will make the first draft of what assuredly will otherwise be a lengthy case for hell. – there are many versions of Chinese hell according to an old movie
When Bennet first made her accusations, the Executive Chamber made “changes in staffing” so that “they would avoid situations where the Governor might be seen as being in a compromising situation with any woman.” But DeRosa and Mogul apparently described the change as “really more for the Governor’s protection.”
According to the report, DeRosa was enraged with Cuomo following the Bennett accusation, saying “I can’t believe that this happened. I can’t believe you put yourself in a situation where you would be having any version of this conversation,” DeRosa apparently told him, before getting out when the car stopped at a traffic light.
Wasn’t there some guy who said he had a rule to never be alone in a room with a woman not his wife? That got a lot of laughs from the Democrat sophisticates, as I recall.
I think it was that guy from the cartoon. He had a son and an exotic sex slave.
“Baseball spectator is accused of screaming ‘N*****’ at top of his voice as black Miami Marlins player Lewis Brinson takes the plate at Denver game – but spectators later claim he may have been calling out for Rockies’ mascot DINGER”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9875285/Racist-spectator-screams-N-black-Miami-Marlins-player-takes-plate.html
Finally some proof of real racism in modern America.
“THE SHERIFF IS NEAR!”
Remy is a treasure.
So are Bragg(s) and Heaton.
DA FUQ?
Love those guys!
“‘There IS a problem with children and COVID’: Fauci says ‘considerable number’ of infected young people are seriously ill – and school kids SHOULD wear masks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874191/Fauci-hoping-FDA-COVID-vaccine-approval-end-August-50-got-vaccinated.html
“One law for bikers, another for Obama: Fury as Fauci scolds Sturgis rally as a potential super-spreader event but says NOTHING about ex-President’s birthday bash”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874677/Hundreds-thousands-bikers-gather-day-Sturgis-Motorcycle-Rally-despite-COVID-surge.html
“Fauci flip-flops yet again! White House COVID tsar warns booster shots for the elderly are now on the horizon less than a month after saying fully vaccinated Americans wouldn’t need them”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874825/Fauci-says-booster-shots-elderly-horizon.html
I’m so tired of this ass clown.
So leas than an average flu year?
How many of those children are dying , what’s his definition of seriously ill, and missing a coupla days or a week of class because of symptoms doesn’t cut it.
They had the sniffles, a cough, a sore throat and a fever AT THE SAME TIME. We have never seen anything like this before!
“Puffed out! Canada’s legalized weed business flops with rush to grow the drug resulting in a 1.1 BILLION gram marijuana mountain that can’t be sold as HALF of all cannabis is still bought illegally
Canadian marijuana manufacturers are sitting on 1.1 billion grams (2.4 million pounds) of the drug that they can’t sell as the country’s legalized weed industry runs out of puff.
Last October, Canadian cannabis firms had around 1.1 billion grams of harvested or processed cannabis sitting in storage. Around 95 per cent of that weed is considered ‘largely unsaleable’ because it has been spoiled by time, and because there’s just too much existing supply to try and sell it.
The low quality of the products as well as the slow process by which the provinces allowed for licensed stores to sell the cannabis in the years since legalization is being blamed for the destroyed stockpiles. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874785/Canadas-legalized-weed-business-flops-1-1-BILLION-gram-marijuana-mountain-sold.html
WTF, Canada?
What, you really expected soviet canukistan to say “go forth and frolic, sell free, potheads.”? Of course they’re going to pull a Commifornia and lose money selling drugs.
HEH. One time my leftie buddy was telling me how excited he was that finally the government would inspecting his weed and making sure it safe. I asked him if he ever got any weed that wasn’t safe and he said well no. Then I asked him if he ever heard of anyone getting unsafe weed and he said no. then I told him that when i was a kid there was a huge run of tainted weed that was sickening people. It was laced with paraquat. It still never sank in.
Well, since the gov’t poisoned Americans with denaturing agents during alcohol prohibition- its in their playbook.
And let’s not forget acetaminophen in opiate pain relivers to make sure “overuse” will destroy your liver.
Always a good tidbit of info to keep in reserve when discussing the public health industry
Public:Health::Public:Bathroom
Public:Health::Public:Servant
Public:Health::Public:Education
It’s amazing how that works.
Ask your friend if he’s aware of the ligma outbreak from tainted weed in the 60s that led to a federal crackdown in the upper Midwest.
I thought that was mostly contained to the Sugondese community?
“During the late 1970s, a controversial program sponsored by the US government sprayed paraquat on cannabis fields in Mexico.”
destroyed stockpiles
Up in smoke, amirite?
I have to got see my doctor, who I expect to scold me for not being vaxxed. At least he doesn’t have the power to force me to take it, the way my boss, the government, does.
No put he can prescribe a colonoscopy…
Not for another three years. They gave me a five year reprieve after the last one.
I got 10 I was so clean!
10 years or 10 colonoscopies?
10 years from his doctor, 10 colonoscopies from his interior decorator.
*but
butt
Actual baseball birthdays: HoFer Ted Simmons, Claude Osteen, active player Jason Heyward.
Heyward is already at 39.5 WAR.
Houk had 0.1 career WAR. #42 on todays birthday list.
Heyward is at 39.5 WAR. And falling. He may be at 37 WAR before his Cubs contract is over.
Not everybody loved Bowden. He was a cheater.
But he couldn’t bend a goalpost when he needed to.
Chinese propaganda has ‘all but stopped claiming’ COVID-19 has a natural origin
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chinese-propaganda-has-all-but-stopped-claiming-covid19-has-a-natural-origin/video/261d39006700a1a21a75dc7c8e799bb8
Wow, racist. I’m sick of these CCP Sinophobes trying to make China look bad.
then again maybe not
https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1424687085986922498
ALMOST NAKEY 4K Fashion Runway Show 2021 by DCSW @ SLS Hotel | Miami Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puh1rHmeMTs
People who have recovered from COVID-19 retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, according to a new study.
Findings of the study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so far, have implications for expanding understanding about human immune memory as well as future vaccine development for coronaviruses.
For the longitudinal study in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers looked at 254 patients with mostly mild to moderate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection over a period of more than eight months (250 days) and found that their immune response to the virus remained durable and strong.
The findings are reassuring, especially given early reports during the pandemic that protective neutralizing antibodies didn’t last in COVID-19 patients, said Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory University Vaccine Center and a lead author of the paper.
“The study serves as a framework to define and predict long-lived immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection. We also saw indications in this phase that natural immunity could continue to persist,” Ahmed said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-survivors-have-broad-longer-term-immunity_3928732.html
I am not sure that site is a reliable source though
The study was published in a reliable journal.
And it agrees with the results out of Israel.
Interesting, these findings comport with what’s been known about infectious diseases and the immune system for a century at least. I’m not knocking it though, it’s a lesson out health community apparently needs to relearn.
IT DOES NOT MATCH OUR MODELS!!!! /harrumphing public health harpies
I think the vast majority of people either don’t understand or underestimate malthusianism. There are a lot of malthusians out there and they are very dedicated to the idea. Of course misanthropes cant present straightforwardly so they have to do so by stealth. Call me a tin foil hatter if you want but there are too many red flags popping up for me. The first of which was liability being revoked for drug companies regarding the vaccines. I know a rat when I smell one.
In defense of malthusianism, if the plebs would just die a bit faster there would be fewer tourists bothering the upper class when they want to travel the world
Isn’t Faucci one of them from way back?
Why yes, he is. He used to pal around with magaret mead, that dude that has a 100% record of incorrect predictions and some others I cant remember. He would build mountains of skulls if he could.
Paul Ehrlich…that is his name, it just came to me.
Deaths for the Death Cult!
After decades of trying to get one approved, they said, “Hey, lets just take this one we’ve been rejecting and stop rejecting it” brilliant! Now, it’s mandatory and you don’t get to sue if it harms you. And it’s to protect you from a disease that only kills less than a quarter of a percent of people.
You think Malthusians are real? Like Georgia guidestone real? Why would they kill the vaccinated and leave the unfaithful? I do agree that things are weird right now and the credibility of all institutions is shot to hell. I do find it hard to believe that powerful people would seriously be considering applying malthusian pressure to cull humanity. I find it easier to believe they just want a fuckton of power and money.
One assumes an effective top-down controlled plan being executed in (semi-)secret, the other assumes public choice theory is accurate.
One has evidence, the other, not so much.
I occasionally become a malthusian myself…for instance when I am stuck in traffic or a long line at the checkout.
I think you underestimate the dedication of the true believer.
I think I correctly estimate the number of true believers.
Public Choice Theory FTW!
Georgia Guidestones bro…
And you’re also correct although I’m not so sure about the vaccine stuff but I suppose we’ll see.
I know the modern connotation of “Malthusian”, but if you ever actually read Malthus’ essay on population you’d understand he was a lot closer to Adam Smith than any ZPGer like Erlich.
Also, drug companies have been absolved of liability for vaccines since the 1980’s. The game now is getting experimental drugs and procedures defined as “vaccines”.
The problem isn’t with Malthus himself, it is with the conclusions that misanthropes draw from his work.
I pretty much ignored the Olympics but was mightily pleased to see our girls and one token boy win the gold in Soccer. Fuck that woke shit and fuck that homely guy with the pink hair that plays for your side.
I am totally ok with a chick who says she’s a dude playing girls soccer though. it’s the reverse that’s a problem.
I hear he was also austere and scholarly.
It’s no surprise, really, considering the fact that, as the perspicacious Stephen Kruiser noted Thursday, the New York Times is no longer a news source, but “one big hyperventilating leftist Opinion section.” Still, to see the Times refer to Osama bin Laden as a “devoted family man” was startling, and even the Times’ editorial politburo seemed to agree: after an outcry, they changed the title of their article (a review of Peter Bergen’s book about bin Laden) from “Osama bin Laden, the Fanatical Terrorist and the Devoted Family Man” to “A Fuller Picture of Osama Bin Laden’s Life.” Remember back in school how they’d tell us always to go with our first answer, because it was most likely to be correct? So now, the Times should have stuck it out with its first headline, because it reflects more accurately what Times editors really think.
WAAS UP GLIBRONIS??
The Iron Sheik
@the_ironsheik
JIFFY POP BUBBA YOU ARE THE REAL. ORIVILLE RED BOCKER OR WHATEVER THE FUCK YOUR NAME IS YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A NO GOOD POPCORN MATCH SON OF A BITCH. YOU CAN TAKE A FUCKING WALK JABRONI
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^ a national treasure
You are the government and you need to do your job.
Twenty-two Texas House Democrats sued some of the state’s top Republican leaders in federal court in Austin late Friday, alleging that GOP officials’ efforts to bring them home for a special legislative session infringed on their constitutional rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The lawsuit was filed on the final day of the first special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott — and on the eve of a second specially called legislative session — and names as defendants Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan and State Rep. James White.
Just hold the vote without them and let the courts sort it out.
This. Wait until just before the next election then Duuuuuew It!
Make them eat their own shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ALySsPXt0
Filed suit in absentia?
Yeah, that seems weird to me because if it was filed in TX then they’ve submitted themselves to the court’s jurisdiction, which could order and require them to appear in person.
STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER. HIM THINK THEM FILE “SPECIAL APPEARANCE”.
O Learned Colleague and Rapesquatch Extraordinaire! I wondered if they would do that, but the article links to the complaint – and so far as I can tell, they didn’t do any of what would be required to avoid submitting themselves to the court’s jurisdiction. And I don’t know if you could a “special appearance” in a state court in which you are a legal resident. That’s a little too much work/research for me at the moment.
Compare and contrast with the way the Democrats govern in Virginia.
They roundly ignore anything and everything the GOP has to say if they don’t outright accuse it of being racist before dismissing it.
Then they pass legislation with no discussion and immediately after a fundraiser with the connected.
Anyone who thinks that even for a second that the Democrats will govern in Texas in a compromising manner is a fool.
Run right over them. Compromise is dead.
She knows what’s important
DeRosa often defended Cuomo when he faced public criticism. In March, she told lawmakers that Cuomo’s administration didn’t turn over nursing home death data to legislators last August because of worries the information would be used against them by President Donald Trump’s administration.
They’re just a bunch of dead old nobodies, until Trump starts talking about them on Twitter.
As if Cuomo was the only team blue guy whose priority was to hurt Cheeto President over doing what was right for the country and the people….
Good morning Glibs and Gliberinas! This weekend I watched the USA Women’s Volleyball team take the gold medal for the first time ever, and it got as dusty in my house as it was in that arena. I think this Olympics was a huge success, I only watched some, not in prime time and often recorded; viewership was down; and the big “woke” stories seemed to fizzle.
Looking forward to the Paralympics on the 24th.
Speaking of the paralympics, I got sick of the swimmer commercial about the 4 billionth time I saw it.
I think that’s a fantastic commercial. But I agree, way overplayed. They couldn’t film more than one?
Tarsem Singh is expensive.
Saw some of the closing ceremonies. Less than half the athletes seemed to show up. Those that did seemed to be more interested in talking with each other than watching the Japanese performances which the NBC talking heads were gushing about. I wonder if Olympics still have the same “party” atmosphere? I once worked with a guy whose Uncle was on one of the u.S. bobsled teams at Innsbruck in 1964. Uncle claimed it was a “score” every night, and they had an orgy with the Norwegian woman’s ski team after getting plastered in some beer hall.
They wouldnt hand out the 100k condoms they had ordered, so maybe not as much as normal.
The closing ceremony is always that way. Opening is a ceremony, closing is a party.
I expect mass resignations.
Denver’s top public safety leader says he is prepared to discipline police officers, sheriff’s deputies and firefighters who don’t follow the mandate that all city employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, The Denver Post reports Saturday.
A public health order issued by the city health department Monday requires all city employees to receive their second vaccine dose by Sept. 15.
I expect mass resignations. – I doubt anyone payed by the government would resign over this
You’re supposed to require an on the record revealing of vax status coupled with an office mask mandate for the unvaxed and then carry out firings for lying and/or insubordination. This guy isn’t doing it right at all.
We all know the Biden-Harris administration is committed to transparency.
Merrick Garland, @JoeBiden’s nominee for attorney general, won’t explicitly commit to releasing John Durham’s report into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
He’ll decide after he reads it I guess.
Nothingburger: Immediate release
Damning: Buried deeper than the deepest salt mine
After they get to get Durham to rewrite it to make Cheeto Prez the bad guy instead of the US Mandarinate bureaucracy dancing to the command of their CCP masters….
Preorders For This Electromagnetic Rifle Are Being Taken For $3,775
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41872/preorders-for-this-electromagnetic-rifle-are-being-taken-for-3775
The company says the weapon is “capable of accelerating any ferromagnetic projectile (under 1/2″ in diameter) to 200+ fps [feet per second]” and can produce up to 100 Joules of force, or 75 foot-pounds, similar to the muzzle energy of some .22 rifles, making it the “most powerful coilgun ever sold to the public, and also (very likely) the most powerful handheld coilgun ever built.”
Arcflash’s rifle measures 38 inches in length with a barrel length of 26 inches, weighs 20 pounds, and is powered by a 25.2-volt lithium-ion polymer battery (LiPoly) battery. From the images on the company’s website, the rifle’s stock appears to be 3D printed with some acrylic plastic sections bolted on.
Although I assume this was linked before knowing this place
Seems like a really expensive low-powered air rifle.
It’s neat and certainly has potential but I’ll stick with regular firearms until some considerable development of the device occurs.
So, how’s the bootyhole? Still tight? ‘Cause it looks like some drugs might have fallen out…
Once upon a time I could throw a rock faster than that. That thing is useless except as a toy.
It’s a proof of concept. As capacitors get better, so will this thing’s performance.
I feel like the people champing at the bit to buy this glorified toy are also the people who think rifles are kind of scary. Don’t get me wrong, this coil gun thingy is neat, but it’s not a practical weapon.
I’d rather try to build one than pay a price tag like that.
I wonder if it’s practical to make the power pack wearable instead of having a 20 pound handheld. Or does the cable distance make it not work right?
A backpack power supply would be ok. Cable length would add inductance but the coils have far more inductance. There’d be some ohmic losses too, but just add some energy capacity to compensate.
100 joules in kinetic energy is lame though. No thanks.
Given that 20 joules and up can kill you if you take it across the heart (electrically), seems a lot of risk for the gee whiz factor.
Also, if the switching sequence malfunctions, the projectile will come out the breech end instead of the muzzle end. Yikes.
Thanks.
How difficult is it to get the timing for the switching sequence reliable? (Bear in mind I’m an IT guy, my electrical engineering experience is limited to “have used a soldering iron before”)
It’s almost like you have experience with this…
So hawt. This little joule thief has taken my heart….
People who cycle in the country should be encouraged to ride 2, 3 and 4 abreast like this. For the following reasons:
1. It calms the traffic behind them
2. It makes it less easy for bad drivers to attempt dangerous passes
3. It is more pleasant and sociable for them.
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1424288814181359621
Yeah, when I’m stuck behind a bunch of twats riding two or three-up at 18mph in a 50mph zone, it definitely calms me right down…
I am a big believer in 25- and 55+ as the only speed limits. Bikes 3 wide are fine in the former and shouldnt be on the road in the latter.
I generally think that 200# vehicles with a 20mph top speed should not be sharing channels with 4000# vehicles with a 75mph+ top speed.
But I would see that as a fairly reasonable compromise.
Also, when a faster vehicle wants to pass, pull over and let them pass. I don’t care if you’re a car, a bike, or a fucking pogo stick.
Whoever wrote that just wants more bicyclists to die.
So back a few years ago some asshole was riding right in the middle on one of those windy, mountain roads backing up traffic for miles since no one could pass. Finally one of the drivers snapped and deliberately ran the biker over, killing him. I don’t condone it at all but that’s definitely a “play stupid games” moment for the late cyclist.
Yeah, y’all do that.
I hate cyclasses.
When I used to ride a motorcycle I joined a pack of these assholes one time that were holding up traffic and proceeded to screw with them.
They weren’t happy with me…
Anothter yidbit from that NPR story:
Cuomo’s attorneys have centered his defense on attacking the credibility and motives of his accusers. Glavin has also blasted the investigation overseen by Attorney General Letitia James for not providing its findings and transcripts to Cuomo lawyers ahead of time, and for not including more material favorable to Cuomo in the report.
“It was shoddy. It was biased. It omits evidence, and it was an ambush,” Glavin said.
It’s okay when she does it to Trump, though. He’s a bad guy.
? that’s uncalled for
I like to keep my yidbits freshly trimmed for the ladies.
are you shilling for manscaped.com like many a youtuber?
Mountainous mounds of monumental magnificence on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/d5ZW0
They’ve stopped numbering the photos 🙁 but #4 is a rare combination of GlibFit and stacked.
I never click on these links because the photos are in a format that my computer cant see. What is wrong with .jpgs?
What browser are you using?
I dunno…
Oh…Mac Mojave 10 something.
I know the modern connotation of “Malthusian”, but if you ever actually read Malthus’ essay on population you’d understand he was a lot closer to Adam Smith than any ZPGer like Erlich.
My recollection of Malthus is not that he actively wanted to kill off the “excess” population. That was Jonathan Swift.
https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1424474175989854211
OFFS!
It is not Malthus, it is the murderers who use his work as a premise for their misanthropic fantasies.
In the modern meaning, Malthus wasn’t a malthusian.
I heard the same about Keynes and the fact that he would prolly be furious at the people that took what he espoused to mean government spending was totes the thing to do for economic growth….
I don’t really care about sports, but Bobby Bowden was a regular customer at a restaurant where I was employed. He was a very nice fellow, a good tipper, and he was gracious enough to entertain the constant stream of people wanting to get a picture or autograph while he was trying to eat his lunch. Fair winds and following seas to Coach Bowden and Markie Post.
What is the official glibertarian view on gazpacho? I just made a batch.
Its fine. I have no strong feelings.
Which is about as unglibertarian as possible.
I love cold soup in general.
Why bother? If you’re gonna have cold tomato juice, just make a Bloody Mary.
I generally like it. It’s great with grilled cheese
I haven’t had grilled cheese in a while.
Dammit, first fried plantains now grilled cheese. This morning’s links are full of food reminders I can’t satisfy from my cubicle.
They’re making you sit in a cubicle with the DELTA SUPER PLUS VARIANT running rampant?
I am the only person on this floor of the office building.
Such a thing doesn’t exist. That’s why we never win elections.
AM I BEING DETAINED?!?
DO YOU HAVE A WARRANT ?
Gazpacho is the Matt Gillespie of soups.
/Nick Gillespie
/Gets another beer
It’s better with pineapple.
A Tonkin Gulf Incident in the Gulf of Oman?
Well, naturally. We’re leaving Afghanistan so we need a war somewhere. China is too dangerous.
Give our troops a break. Invade a nice country this time.
For some reason I read that as “Gulf of Onan”. Sitting in the sun does strange things to your mind.
Man they’ve gotta keep that propaganda machine turning.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15816994/anti-vaxx-mum-dad-brother-die-covid/
The manipulation is one thing, but I’m convinced that these “woe is me! if only I had gotten the shot I wouldn’t be dying and leaving my wife and 13 children behind to be fed to the dogs!” stories are complete horseshit. All the actual, for real data that I’ve seen suggests that MUH DELTUH VARYUNT is significantly less deadly than the previous iterations and the chances of someone under 60 with no preexisting conditions dying of it are on par with the common cold (ie: 0%).
And besides, since the right-wing, Trump-supporting, anti-vax science-deniers are enemy of the state subhuman cockroaches, shouldn’t the enlightened and educated cultural elites be happy to see their inferior genes cleansed?
I’ve seen composite twitter feeds of identical, word-for-word anecdotes. This is another propaganda campaign. Fuck them all. This is absolute bullshit that we need to fight.
^^^THIS^^^
There were claims that it was just right-wing trolls doing the copying to discredit the anecdote. Which I think is a reverse psyop-psyop. From my estimation there are 4chan trolls doing some copypasta but they are way outnumbered by the botnets flooding the responses to posts with certain keywords.
I had that conversation recently.
“If I catch it, then I catch it. If I die from it, then I die from it. You should be glad, you will be rid of me.”
Of course that is not what they really want. They want you to bend the knee so that person did not know how to respond.
The stories have all of the veracity of Kuwaiti children being taken out of incubators and being tossed in the street. If it sounds like a propagandist’s wet dream it’s probably nonsense.
If I got the ‘vid, that would be be accident. It seems like the odds of getting it are not huge and the odds of it being a big deal are tiny. If I got vaxxed and it went awry, that would be intentional. I have to accept the risk of what might happen when I choose the shot. There’s a huge difference to me in accidentally encountering a mild disease and intentionally injecting an unknown gene modifier into my body. Considering there’s a 99.8% chance I won’t die if I do nothing, it seems safer to me. Of course the fact that all of the people trying to force me to get it are lying, cheating scumbags makes it even harder to trust the safety of the jab, so there’s that too.
It’s actually far greater than 99.8%, because I’m not really old or really fat and sick. Besides, I have had multiple instances where I have been exposed to people who have gotten the vid and not gotten it myself, which leads me to speculate that I probably already had it and recovered.
As I said before: I’ve been in 6 airports, a block party, an outdoor BBQ, three record conventions, multiple restaurants, stores, and whatnot. and estate sales. Often crammed together with strangers. Yet I haven’t come down with anything in the past 1.5 years except for two colds, one of them after going to the doctor for a physical.
I’m assuming I’ve already had it, or I’m immune for whatever reason, or I’m just lucky. (or COVID just isn’t as easy to transmit as the fearmongers say)
I haven’t had a cold in years. The last time I got the flu was when I got a flu shot.
I haven’t had a flu since 1996-ish. But, at least once a year, I’ll get a cold.
It certainly beats my childhood where it seemed like I was sick 6-8x a year with colds, ear infections, flus, etc
One of the things we will find out in a far away future if sanity prevails and the marxist globalists are beaten down, will be how many people were Kung Flu asymptomatic. I only found out I had had the Chinese Death was when the Red Cross called me a week after a donation and told me to please come back as soon as my 8 weeks was over cause they wanted the COVID-19 antibodies I had. My kid had cold symptoms for a day. And we had it in late January (my kid), and early February (me), within 5 days of each other, in 2020, long before the news came out that the thing was doing the rounds.
I can’t believe we are the only people that had no real complications. There had to be a lot more people like this, and we will soon have to reevaluate how bad this thing really was. I also want to know how many people panicked and went to a hospital as soon as they had a cough, which were categorized as “hospital visits”.
I got the panic and lockdown when they discovered the thing had escaped a biolab doing gain-of-function and bio warfare work (and have no doubt that the world knew this and that it is why everyone for the first time in history chose to do a lockdown), but as soon as they found out it was not as deadly as they feared, they chose to politicize this to abuse the people in the name of the globalist agenda. And that’s something we shouldn’t forgive these people for…
Tedious procedural niceties
The FDA is currently “working around the clock” on approval of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to Dr. Paul Offit, a prominent member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
“I think from the standpoint of the public, it really shouldn’t matter,” Offit said. “It’s been given to half of the American population. We have more than 300 million doses out there. This is far from experimental. We have a tremendous safety and efficacy portfolio on these vaccines — I mean, it’s more than most licensed products that are out there now.”
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Full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine could also make workplace mandates easier. Many unvaccinated people would face a financial reason to get one; they’ll need it to keep their jobs.
“FDA approval alone is not going to make many individuals run out and get it now, but you’re going to start seeing health systems and employers feel more emboldened to require them,” Wolf said. “There’s precedent for mandatory vaccinations and immunizations.”
It really doesn’t matter what you want, or what you believe. Big Nanny has a nice treat for you. Now bend over.
*Josef Mengele cackles maniacally from the depths of hell*
“This is far from experimental.”
SCIENCE!
By-the-by, there are oodles of compounds that only manifest problems in the long term and not immediately. Just because you’ve given it to a lot of people does not imply it isn’t experimental.
Well, they have the largest trial group ever. And the manufacturers/suppliers are immune from liability. I’m not sure how the gov’t can issue such an edict, other than they’re the ones paying for all the ‘free’ vaccines.
I didnt know that sovereign immunity could be passed from the King to his contractors.
You can thank Scalia for that gem of a decision. The underlying case was a Marine CH-53D helo pilot who died when it crashed into the water. The accident investigation revealed what everyone in the community already knew: he was trapped inside because his door didn’t work as it was supposed to. Family sued and won and Scalia invented “government contractor immunity.”
Anyone else wonder if they’re just debating the most plausible time frame before they can come out and say “we finally were able to approve it”?
Clearly. There has never been the slightest doubt it would be fully approved. The only question has been when.
After thalidomide gets approved for use by pregnant women.
I’m not sure why the FDA is delaying.
The inside rumor is that big pharma keeps sending data and as a result they need to review it.
That said “alea iacta est”. The stamp of rubber will be firmly affixed to all required documents.
OK, I admit. I laughed.
What they don’t have is any double blind studies. Or reliable baseline data. Or a virus that isn’t clearly mutating itself away from the vaccine.
Remember when it was taking longer than expected for the initial trial to wrap up because the control group, the one without the vaccine, stubbornly refused to get sick?
And by “working around the clock” we mean lunches and lattes are brought in; vacations still proceed, and “workers” are doing what they normally do in a large bureaucracy.
and “workers” are doing what they normally do in a large bureaucracy.
Watch porn on the job?
And besides, since the right-wing, Trump-supporting, anti-vax science-deniers are enemy of the state subhuman cockroaches, shouldn’t the enlightened and educated cultural elites be happy to see their inferior genes cleansed?
No no no, it’s like Jesus’ lost sheep. They must be returned to the flock. By force, if necessary. They must acknowledge their sins and transgressions against God and all that is Holy. They must be REDEEMED.
They must be REDEEMED.
Nope. Redemption is not part of their plan. It’s more like repent and you won’t be killed first.
There is a frequent Amazon commercial about “climate change” with a bunch of snotty kids lecturing us to “do better” in that snotty tone they have. I want to hurl a heavy object at the TV right now.
HOW DARE YOU!!!
No, she’s too far away to throw at the TV, takes too much effort.
‘Doing better’ would include ‘not having kids’, right?
When I had a kid, the screaming and crying didn’t bother me all that much.
Now that it has been a few years, small kids who are sobbing away cuts into my brain like a knife.
One of the reasons I don’t go to the neighborhood pool as much – all the crying little kids.
Funny. Actually having a child made it possible for me to be able to tune out crying children.
^^ this. My brain has developed a “not mine” filter.
“Not my monkeys . . . .”
Same here. It’s background noise, unless it’s an actual “I’m really hurt” cry. Those give me a jolt of adrenalin, even if it’s not my kid.
I wanted to buy a fuck you SUV out of pure spite. I watch TV to escape from the daily grind of life, not to get lectured by snotty kids.
One of the reasons I bought a big ol’ Buick Roadmaster V8 powered machine was because of Obama & Co trying to push little cars on us.
On a side note, we’re thinking about getting a bigger car because we have a second little one coming in October and holy fuck, even the used car market is expensive. On second though , it’s probably because my wife wants heated fucking seats and navigation as part of the package.
The used car market here is also insane – to the point where I decided to solider on with my 13yo Infiniti for a while longer.
The old M35x is big, comfortable, gets horrible gas mileage but has been very, very reliable. Only a rear brake line has busted in the past 2 years. Only a little spot of rust in the rear quarter; surface stuff I can scrap away with a fingertip.
We have a 2014 Hyundai with 113k miles and love it. But my wife complains that with two kids, we need a much bigger car which she is of course right about. It’s just I don’t want another car note and we already have a Hyundai Tuscon.
Used Mercedes S class 😉
Be sure to find one with wiring that is both attractive rodents AND breaks down with heat and age!
https://www.benzworld.org/threads/soybean-biodegradable-engine-wire-harness-on-91-94-models.1595667/
Is that part and parcel with modern German cars? Designed to break right after the warranty ends.
They do drive nicely though
I took my Tacoma in for the 55k service over the weekend. The dealer said that he could probably give me more for it as a trade-in than I paid for it new. I have to admit, I was a little tempted.
It’s kinda like the housing market: I can make a $140k profit on my house, a place I’ve only owned for 6 years (!)
But where would I move to?
We did get a screaming good trade-in on the Mustang, pretty much only $2k less than we paid for it three years after we bought it. But it is – three months later – still sitting on the dealer’s lot. Not a lot of people want a stick shift, RWD car in Michigan; unless it’s a summer only vehicle or bought by *experienced winter drivers.
*I’ve driven multiple RWD cars in the worst that Michigan has to offer. It’s amazing what a set of winter tires will do.
Just wait till your new car comes with a breathalyzer and always-on tracking.
Ford Excursion 7.4L diesel makes me hard.
Chevy motor in a Ford car?
Oh, I agree with you on that one. The very essence of the commercial is “I have no idea how to get what I want. That’s your responsibility to figure out. Because my purpose in life is to make demands that you have to meet.”
Alpha AF?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/stephen-bear-shares-explicit-sex-24717670
Erik Nisbet, the Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis & Communication and director of the Center for Communication & Public Policy in the School of Communication at Northwestern University, agreed.
“If you ever want to get beyond 70% threshold of people who have gotten a vaccination so far, you need to have carrots and you have to have sticks,” Nisbet said. “The only way to do that is the mandate. Authorization takes out one of the impediments to more widespread mandates.”
Naked authoritarianism, That’s what this country needs.
People respond better when forced to do so.
And slaves do better work when you beat them more.
“…you need to have carrots and you have to have sticks…”
These POS are all about the stick.
BDSM….
Just because you’ve given it to a lot of people does not imply it isn’t experimental.
It hasn’t killed them… yet. Stop being such a Negative Nellie, you SCIENCE! denier.
“It is kind of awkward when you’re the leader of a group that claims to be devoted to helping female victims of sexual harassment, only to get caught plotting with a prominent male Democratic politician on how to discredit and smear his sexual harassment and assault accusers.
Now that the head of Time’s Up has resigned after getting caught plotting with Cuomo, the question is how long can @AlphonsoDavid — the President of @HRC, the lavishly funded DNC group masquerading as an LGBT advocacy group — hold on to his position?”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1424738181958754306
Cuomo is gonna bring down some folks with him, and it’s tasty AF
Gordon Ramsay Cooks the Ultimate Lobster BLT in Maine |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EYIYXlc3IY
Madam, the *beep* fish is *beep* cold!!! /Hell’s Kitchen flashback
there is way to much going on there
Gah! I was right with him right up until the ‘…the avocado…’
What the hell?
Man, that’s some hate there Suthen…
What did the avocado (or someone with an avocado) do to you brah?
I like avocado but I think it is excessive in this case. Too much fat and I want to taste the lobster
Led Zeppelin nods
California strikes again!
Demolition of all monetary theorists – be they Chicago school or MMT.
All the talk of inflation is based on the amount of the money supply, which in turn assumes something about the velocity of money. For the Friedmanites, this was an assumption along the lines of e=mc2; that has been blown to hell by our own experience/observation. Velocity is anything but constant (otherwise we’d be debating how large a wheelbarrow you need to buy a loaf of bread tomorrow).
Excess capacity or lack thereof matters too.
Full court press
As vaccination rates lag and the new delta variant surges, Covid infection rates among kids have risen and children’s hospitals are seeing a spike in medical care needs among the young patients.
The Covid surge is also stacking upon an unseasonable spike in respiratory illnesses among children typically seen only in winter. That has shrunk the bed space further in children’s hospitals and expanded on the unrelenting demand on doctors and nurses.
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Multiple doctors in the half-dozen children’s hospitals NBC News reached out to said they have seen children infected because a member of their household, often a parent, brings the coronavirus home. Oftentimes, it is because an adult in the home is unvaccinated.
Vaccine hesitancy. It’s not just murdering Granny anymore.
Actually vaccine hesitancy has gone down following the delta surge. And like 90% of old fat people have had it now.
What the issue? We are doing fine.
>>Oftentimes
but not always?
Yeah. “Oftentimes” is quite the peer-reviewed data point.
Cases….
what about deaths? What does hospitalizations mean? Visits to emergency rooms or admissions?
Liars lie.
Re hospitalizations: are people with symptoms, no matter how mild, now rushing to hospitals and being admitted whereas back a year or more ago only severe cases were being admitted? Maybe “being in the hospital” is now a “thing” for narcissistic types?
Doubtful. Its hard for a hospital to get paid unless the patient needs to be hospitalized. We’re still sending people home if they aren’t really sick.
What we’re not doing is telling them to try the low-risk “treatments” – quinine, zinc, etc.
And there is the problem.
It’s go home and get sicker until it becomes difficult to treat and then come back.
Even stepping outside of narcissism as explanation, I’d be much more likely now to head to the ER if my cold starts migrating into my chest and gets moderately bad. 2 years ago, I’d wait that sort of thing out until it was clear I was teetering on the brink of pneumonia.
are people with symptoms, no matter how mild, now rushing to hospitals and being admitted
I doubt it.
The hospital my doc is associated with has standards for admitting folks who have the ‘Rona. Blood oxygen has to be below a certain level or they won’t admit you.
Oftentimes, it is because an adult in the home is unvaccinated.
Now, square that with “Vaccinated people have to wear masks because they can still spread the virus.”
I feel like there’s an “asserted without evidence” tag that needs to go on that excerpt.
I’ve been watching these ruined / abandoned building explorers: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheProperPeople
Some of the places they visit are only 15 or so years old, but look like hell. As far as I can tell, anything with a flat roof that isn’t properly maintained will look like an apocalyptic movie set in only a few years.
And the hospitals & asylums are the creepiest. But so are old homes.
That’s a great channel. I love that kind of stuff. Exploring With Josh is another one (a little goofier but still acceptable).
To Beat Tesla, Volkswagen Bets on Making Its Own EV Batteries
Let’s see. Tesla had a ton of early issues with actually producing enough batteries. GM and Hyundai currently replacing a crazy amount of battery packs that LG made that are bursting into flames both here and in Europe respectively.
The modern automobile industry has been “McKinnsy’d” and now outsources large portions of R&D and manufacturing to Tier 1 suppliers. Because Tesla was shunned by pressuring the Tier 1 suppliers not to provide it with parts it makes far more inhouse than most with the notable exception of Toyota.
But about 18 months ago the C-Suite proclaimed they were going to be battery experts.
money.
That said, I’d bet on VW to acutally have one of the better chances of being one of the largest electric vehicle manufacturers.
Will they be using African near-slave labor for their mining?
It’s actually far greater than 99.8%, because I’m not really old or really fat and sick. Besides, I have had multiple instances where I have been exposed to people who have gotten the vid and not gotten it myself, which leads me to speculate that I probably already had it and recovered.
This is one of the great lies they have perpetrated in the past year and a half. They have completely done away with the notion of natural immunity.
Why didn’t every single sailor on the USS Theodore Roosevelt not merely contract the virus, but die of it? They were all packed together on that ship, marinating in The Most Contagious and Lethal Virus Ever to Appear on Earth. It was the perfect petrie dish experiment. Why aren’t they all dead?
The TR is my favorite response to COVID hysterics – they just shut up and that’s all I can ask for.
Don’t forget the cruise ship(s). Similar results there, with a more vulnerable population. The majority never got sick at all. Even people sharing the same cabin didn’t all get sick. We have had a great deal of information about this thing that has been buried because it contradicts the Narrative.
Yep, no one wants real information, they want confirmation of their biases (and reassurance that someone can control it all).
The fact that so many people demand and expect perfect, from government of all entities today, is a sign of how low we have fallen as a people that once understood risk management because of our adherence to freedom & rights…
EF has had three different people in her office test as COVID positive. She’s been in her room there, unmasked, gone and talked to these people during the course of the work day, etc Each time her boss asked that she test; and each time the test showed as negative.
???
They all are dead; it has been covered up. The excess of SWO have been used to fill in the staffing gaps!
Nice callback ?
I’ve been enjoying that series.
So mental illnesses are in fact transmissible.
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1424020835392647177
Obligatory fuck off to tall Tulpas out there.
I’m 5′ 7″
Too short, you can stay.
Wouldn’t that make social media the vector?
Absolutely.
Social media is a sum negative for the world.
You know how, when you mix a bunch of colors of paint together, they make brown?
Society is brown.
I will say that I am grateful for the identification of mental illnesses and the pharmaceuticals to help with same. But I do try to take responsibility for my choices no matter what was going on in my head. When it comes right down to it, I’m just not very wise.
I think having an internal locus of control makes someone nearly invulnerable to transmissible mental illness. All of the crazies seem predicated around the idea of wanting some way to absolve yourself of responsibility for your own emotions, reactions, or failures. If you accept responsibility for yourself the demons don’t get in. Simple as.
Speaking of COVID, my friend is not doing any better. She’s on 40 liters high-flow oxygen and has been that way for a few days now. It’s confusing. How long does this thing take to get better?
Gilmore’d. Fuck a duck.
Ugh. Are they treating her with any therapeutics or are they just doing the “wait and see” approach?
It varies a lot, unfortunately. Some people are hospitalized for a few days, some for weeks.
Sorry
🙁
wut
Took the word right out of my mouth.
Huh, I didn’t know what “tulpa” actually meant until now. An incredibly apposite handle for someone who ran a bunch of sockpuppets.
I’m learning more than I ever wanted to know about biological weapons.
Does the U.S. Want the Lab-Leak Truth?
Huh? How would they have made that kind of assessment of genetic similarity prior to the gene-sequencing technology we’ve only recently developed?
There are deep links in the article to the sources. They are technical and I know nothing of the legitimacy of the publications so I didn’t read them.
Yeah and with WSJ’s paywall, I won’t be digging into them either. Just strikes me as a bit odd – almost like retconning.
That’s supposed to be a free link that I can send. Did it work?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bioe301/public_html/kortum/class/students/hw/Palese%20review.pdf
And heaven forbid I put in THREE links in one post!
https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Escaped-Viruses-final-2-17-14-copy.pdf
So it was! That’s what I get for assuming.
Our betters in the epidemiology and virology world fuck up all the time.
God knows what their death count is.
This is a meta-response to several threads above:
After all the calls for “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” blah blah blah, I’m still seeing very little actual FUCKING science.
I mean _HOW_ does COVID propagate? What are the real – long and short – term threats to the varying age groups? Chance of death by age group?
Why are some people seemingly immune? Does Vitamin D, Melatonin, Zinc, etc make a difference?
Why the breakthrough infections? Is a long-term vaccine actually plausible given the mutations? It is like chasing a cold vaccine with forever “boosters?”
Does the social and financial cost of lockdowns outweigh not doing them? Why does Florida seem to defy the “OMG they’re going to DIE predictions?”
….
I don’t have any answers for this, but nor have I seen any calm rational explanation from the powers-that-be. Instead it’s horror predictions that never seem to come true.
The powers that be sense our weakness. We have become accustomed to long life and a relative lack of existential threats.
And they’re using that weakness against us.
^^^THIS!!!
+1 MUH KLYMUTT KATASTROFEE
I was going to mention that too. It’s much like the Climate “Change” er Warming alarmists. Armageddon is always just around the corner.
And their models are garbage too. “No more snow in England!”
“After all the calls for “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” blah blah blah, I’m still seeing very little actual FUCKING science.”
That’s because nobody in that group was doing any real science. People that understand science and the scientific principle know that the most dangerous thing about science is that humans have agendas and are fucking fragile. The scientific process exists to take care of man’s fallacies. Anytime I hear some asshole claim they have the high ground because of scientific consensus and/or because they need to stop fake science and must censor criticism, I know I am not dealing with people that care about science as much as they care about abusing it for power.
After all the calls for “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” blah blah blah, I’m still seeing very little actual FUCKING science.
Wait- appeals to raw emotionalism and fearmongering are not SCIENCE1?
Those appeals identify as science. Who are you to question their lived experience?
Thanks. I seriously feel ill now.
I wonder how many people died from the common cold before it evolved into a mere nuisance?
The common cold comes from both coronaviruses and rhinoviruses. Apparently, the “Russian Flu” in the late 19th century may have been the ancestor of the coronavirus common cold. It killed around a million people (accuracy of this estimate, who knows?) out of a population of 1.5 billion. The Russian Flu may have been caused by an influenza virus, apparently there is some controversy.
Does the social and financial cost of lockdowns outweigh not doing them?
We can ask the antipodeans, in a few years.
Resetting with trashie: They want their demoralized opponents to embrace just this sort of nihilism.
I beg your pardon? Refusing to accept the legitimacy of teleology does not make one demoralized.
History, like the humanity it chronicles, is a teeming mess from which we tease out coherent lessons about our past. Like art, most of history is shit, and the good stuff is what we filter over time. That is a far cry from the rhetorical device about the arc, or side, of history – which presumes to point to a specific (and “better”) future.
I’ll try to describe my thought more precisely. I think the teleologic rhetoric we see from the prog-fascists serves two purposes. First, it emboldens the largely pagan rank and file leftists to abandon the liberal toleration they embraced as recently as 20 years ago and replace it with puritanical moralism. It’s not enough to believe [insert leftist beliefs here]. It’s not enough to evangelize to the unbelievers. It’s time to burn some witches.
Second, it puts those who accept liberal toleration into a defensive posture when critiquing the excesses of the prog-fascists. A debate that was previously of preferences, of politics, and of living and letting live has turned into a debate centered on inherent morality, and those who are still living and letting live are ill equipped to counter this shift. Even those who have previously argued on the basis of morality are having a hard time adjusting to the rapid change in rules. That’s what I’m getting at. The conversation around politics was thoroughly stripped of moral consideration (demoralization) because of our embrace of pluralism, so now we’re unable to effectively combat this “right side of history” crap because we can’t convincingly call the left’s bullshit religion for what it is. We’re still on the utilitarian playing field even though the left jumped to the moral playing field.
It’s time to burn some witches.
Excellent choice of analogy, which goes to my point that this isn’t all about COMMUNISM (boogabooga!!!). I doubt that a single fucking intellectual you point to today has actually read Marx; at best instead having read about him from some intermediary mediocrity (of which there is a plethora).
call the left’s bullshit religion for what it is
Spot on, the liberal (in the classic sense) fondness for freedom of religion has an inherent problem when confronted with a militant religion.
this isn’t all about COMMUNISM (boogabooga!!!)
Yes and no. I agree that the totalitarians would be pushing for totalitarianism even if Marx and Engels were smothered in their respective cribs. I think, however, that Marxism was particularly effective in capturing the feeling of many disaffecteds post industrial revolution, and the fire has been easily stoked ever since. I’m not convinced that some other authoritarian pseudo religious theory of governance would have been as popular in the absence of Marxism.
As an aside: in my mind there isn’t much difference between Marxism and (classic El Duchi) Fascism.
Mostly just that in Mussolini’s formulation the ‘private’ companies were allowed to exist, so long as they ultimately obeyed the state.
I know it’s been stated before, but China’s current ‘communism’ is far closer to that than anything Marx or Mao ever wrote.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Marxism is a banner and has about as much meaning as any other banner. That said, humans rally to banners, so as to know who is with us and who we are set against.
A couple of observations:
We have been “demoralizing” our society for quite some time now. Legal positivism was about stripping morality from the law, which fit nicely with Marxism when it arrived, as Marxism is concerned with destroying “traditional” morality to replace it with whatever moral code will help the Marxists achieve power. Positivism + Marxism = Critical Legal Theory. Critical Race Theory is just a bastard child of Critical Legal Theory, cooked up by a disaaffected grad student (who I assume was getting crappy grades in law school).
Pluralism begets mutliculturalism begets nihilism, or at least moral relativism. Marxism, as a fundamentally revolutionary ideology, cannot have a fixed moral code because it is in constant need of enemies. A “fluid” moral code is a perpetual motion machine for manufacturing new enemies. Look at the SJWs tying themselves into knots trying to stay on top of the stack – someone is always getting dragged down for insufficient purity. That’s what a revolutionary society looks like, dating all the way back to the French Revolution.
G.K. Chesterton
Random thought – maybe the young ‘uns are more likely to wear masks because of their inordinate amounts of screen time and having so much of their social interaction not actual face-to-face. Maybe they are so used to not seeing people’s actual, live faces that they just don’t see the value in it.
That’s certainly part of it. They don’t look people in the eye because we don’t insist on it anymore.
I think they’re a bunch of scaredy-cats. They never got to explore their neighborhoods or maybe even not walk to school.
In comparison, my childhood seems like Tom Sawyer.
I lived in a boring suburb but I could go most of the day without seeing my parents. There were places to explore, things to do with friends, and adventures to be had. We would bicycle three miles to the store. I once skied over to my friend’s house – a mile or so away – after a huge blizzard shut everything down for a few days.
Any my own parents – when I was old enough – would just leave me at home for the weekend while they went off to the cottage. So I had my friends over to play Dungeons and Dragons, and, later, to drink and smoke pot. I had a huge amount of freedom when I was young, but I also learned that comes with responsibility (not to be caught) and to be home at a reasonable hour at night.
I think it’s mostly because they’re more susceptible to Authority™. They haven’t lived long enough to be properly skeptical or cynical.
Speaking of COVID, my friend is not doing any better. She’s on 40 liters high-flow oxygen and has been that way for a few days now. It’s confusing. How long does this thing take to get better?
Is she on therapeutics or are they doing the malpractice thing where it’s only “wait and see”?
No idea. I asked if she was getting Remdesivir and she didn’t know. The vibe is she’s so busy trying to breathe she’s not paying any attention to anything else.
She needs an advocate in there. Some of the hospitals won’t do a damn thing with therapeutics because the NIH hasn’t recommended anything. And remdesivir is worthless.
This is a good starting point. The sooner the better.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-Alliance-MATHplus-Protocol-ENGLISH.pdf
Is it too late for monoclonal antibodies or is that a needs to be early thing?
I don’t know the answer to that one.
I don’t think we do monoclonal antibodies for inpatients. We use them on an outpatient basis, to try to keep people out of the hospital. Not 100% sure about that, though.
It would make sense. The antibodies fight off the initial infection, but the killer is hyperinflammation that comes later. Antibodies aren’t going to do anything for that.
I am not allowed in the hospital because I have been exposed to her. She has no one to advocate for her.
If you can find a sympathetic doctor or nurse outside the hospital they may be able to help. I’m fortunate enough to have made friends with some that I could call on if I needed to get past the system.
RC may have some advice here. Professional hospital patient advocates do exist.
Your ability to advocate for a patient is limited if you aren’t designated as a decisionmaker or at least, per HIPAA, “someone involved in their care”. They’re not even supposed to tell you any of the patient’s medical information if you aren’t on that short list.
Ask if the hospital has patient advocates – that might be one way to get some attention. But I suspect the hospital probably has a protocol for COVID patients that more or less is what it is, and deviations are unlikely.
You absolutely must have someone knowledgeable in the hospital looking out for you. Even if it is just keeping an eye out for things being overlooked.
In another life my ex wife had a placental abruption and preeclampsia. Her blood pressure was like 245/185 (this for a D1 athlete with a resting heart rate in the 50s). The doctor ordered medications and vitals every 15 minutes.
There was never a nurse there at the appointed time, not once. I stayed up for 4 days straight, watching the clock. I didn’t move until the 15 minutes had passed… Then I walked down the hall and tracked down the nurse. From Monday morning until Thursday night I didn’t sleep a minute…
When my current wife and I had our first kid, the OB nurse told us that it was my job to find the anesthesiologist. “Drag him back if you have to”. Apparently they tend to be a little lackadaisical with timelines, and if you deliver quick, it might be too late for the epidural.
So I always visit family and friends frequently and I always ask a lot of questions, not only to know what might be needed, but also to lay down a marker that someone is paying attention.
In another life my ex wife had a placental abruption and preeclampsia.
Yeesh. That’s a one-two punch if there ever was one. Wife was preeclamptic for trashbaby #2, and it made for a miserable experience. Her sister’s first kiddo came with a flourish when a placental abruption resulted in a bloody trip to the ER and emergency surgery. She has #2 due any day now, and I’m surprised they decided to even try for another one given that it was touch and go for a couple days with #1.
I’ve seen some studies where Melatonin seems to help. Also zinc and Vitamin D.
Hydroxychloroquine – panic mongering aside – is another possibility.
Oxygen saturation is the number you are looking for, it should be at 97% or more, Wendy’s was down below 80% with 100% O2 on the ventilator. But if you cant absorb it it doesnt matter how much you pump into the lungs
My MIL spent about a week in the hospital with COVID last year. No visitors allowed. For a while she was doing terribly, and we thought we’d lose her. One day a bunch of us drove to the hospital, called her room, and had her look out the window while we waved and held up signs. We also took a package of cards and letters that they delivered to her room. After that she improved quickly and now she’s doing well, though I think she has some lingering effects. But do everything you can to keep your friend’s spirits up. Being scared and sick is bad enough, but being in isolation with everyone who contacts you in HAZMAT suits is worse.
In South Florida I did not personally see too many people succumb in the first wave. My family is elsewhere, and a good chunk of my cohort are imports as well.
This go around I know several people who are having it rough… 40s and 50s. Most are overweight. On 59 year old acquaintance died yesterday.. they called in the family the day before. Multiple organ failure.
Several teachers at the local Christian school are out. One of them has a son who is about 6’3″ 190 and plays football. He has been in the hospital for a couple of days… Blood oxygen was like 88%.
We have another 50 year old friend who has been feverish for a week and the finger oxygen monitor I gave her dropped below 85 last night. She still won’t go in.
As a mid-50s guy, I have to admit that this round is more threatening despite the much lower overall mortality numbers.
My doc commented that she is seeing a lot of ‘Rona patients this go around with bacterial pneumonia infections on top of the ‘Rona.
If my blood oxygen was below 90% I would go in. That’s dangerous. I used to do some ski touring and light mountaineering and I would get leery of my blood oxygen dipping below 94%.
I have no easy way of determining my O2 saturation. What method do you use?
The little finger HR monitor thingy. I got it maybe a decade ago from amazon. I only ever touch it when I’m either feeling sick or at high elevation. At sea level it’s pegged at 99% for me.
Hrmm…
But then I’d have to take my gloves off.
Moments ago I purchased a ‘fingertip pulse oximeter’ online, for just that purpose. This discussion reminded me I wanted one.
I will also add that there is a concentration of problems among our conservative christian Trump group… A couple of whole are into Qanon.
So I am getting it from both sides. NBC and CNN keep telling my wife that everyone needs to get vaccinated or you are a Trump conspiracy theorist, so she wants to vaccinate the kids even though they had the stupid Rona 6 months ago. All risk, no reward.
And then these nutty conservative types who are too dumb to understand the risk reward curve refusing to get the shot even though they are over 50 and have 3 co-morbidities. Sure, you are 160lbs overweight, get no exercise, smoke and have diabetes. No, definitely don’t get vaccinated. What could happen? (Smash it to a closeup of a ventilator working away in the dark…)
Politics is so stupid, and I place almost all the blame on our public health officials who are too busy trying to triangulate what they say to try to push people into doing what they want…. And not concerned enough about being truthful, accurate or thorough.
Wanna know why they don’t trust you? That is your reason….
It’s all foreseeable given all the calling wolf that’s happening. TPTB know, at least subconsciously, that calling wolf has outlasted its usefulness. Now they’re calling werewolf. Predictably, some of the skeptics are responding with “there’s no wolf in the first place”, the true believers are calling people idiots for not buying silver bullets, and the few thinking people are quizzically looking at one another asking “are you eeing a mangy coyote over there, too?”
After all the calls for “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” blah blah blah, I’m still seeing very little actual FUCKING science.
I think “The Science”(tm) was always a marketing gimmick. It was intended to flatter a certain segment of the population into compliance. Basically, they convinced a large portion of the population that, if you complied, it was a sign you were smart, educated and enlightened. Obviously, those who didn’t were the troglodytes, the bad people. And I think the political class was stunned by just how effective this flattery really was. Not only did it bring compliance, it brought eager compliance that could be directed across things that had little or nothing to do with science. It got a significant portion of the population to utterly adulate them. Again, based on pretty much nothing. Because people want to think they’re special. They want to think they’re superior to their neighbor. And politicians have discovered just how far they’ll go for that fix.
Reading some old books – Cosmos, The Ascent of Man, etc – from the 1970s/early 80s, and there was a healthy belief that science, along with Western Civ, was the cure for the Dark Ages of yore. Now it seems that “science” is used as a stick to beat the “dullards” with.
If you have an hour free, I recommend this interview with Jacob Bronowski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgnGUL78MU
and compare and contrast to today.
Bronowski is great.
Science is a process, a means of inquiry.
Applying the name of the method to blind belief in the diktats of priests doesn’t make it science.
But, but, my glorious cloak of authority!
Would it be terribly self-serving of me to ask what happened to the mid-morning post?
A bear ate it.
*golf claps*
Looks to be nothing on the calendar.
That’s an observation and not a complaint.
I noticed the open slots, kind of odd
Needz moar content submissions (from some of these slackers – you do your part) + χάος as Tonio said
Say wut?
“chaos”
I sent them something friday. I don’t think anyone’s had the time to look at it.
Like Tonio said, again, there’s chaos among the admin side of the house. Lots of folks with lots of real-life stuff to deal with, unfortunately.
I’m afraid I can’t read greek. The original post makes me think he puked up some math and wandered off.
I think real life got in everybody’s way. There may be stuff in pending not scheduled yet.
Well, TPTB, if I can help in any way, let me know.
Malicious understatement of the week.
Speaking of Cuba – Yoel & Mari have a new video coming our tonight. They have been absent from YouTube for a few weeks, doing activism stuff, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQVTOuAYxhc
Cool. I should check out the channel.
The Andy Ngo post from the other day was interesting.
There were a ton of “denier” responses… It was fake, staged, just actors cosplaying for fake outrage.
Another group proclaimed it fake for a different reason… ” You can’t prove that it was antifa”
But the disturbing group was the ” this is a lie because really they deserved to get assaulted” group.
Lead by what is apparently a local pastor who proclaimed it “not a prayer meeting” but rather a political rally by a CA politician, these folks have variations of “they were asking for it”. The mild form was “they are not a prayer group, they are proud boys”
The more aggressive version was that the proud boys only held their rally to provoke antifa, so they are the violent thugs and deserved what they get. (Some espousing this also said the antifa elements were simply peaceful protesters and they were in fact attacked).
It is all a weird milleu, but that last group is the scary one, and it also seemed the largest. I really worry about the sort of person who can hold “this is all a lie, it never happened, that isn’t antifa, they are not Christians-they are proud boys Nazis, the proud boys provoked the whole thing, they got what they deserve” all in their head at the same time without a single problem. Those people are really scary….
See above discussion of Twitter/online responses, sociopaths, etc
The problem is that it has become a lot like the “moderate Muslim” phenomena of years past where a lot of “moderate progressives” are willing to look the other way to make sure the infidel gets punished.
I have been using the wife as a bellwether for this stuff. She seems to have her finger on the pulse of everyman. Or rather, every woman.
Last year I showed her the reporting of Nancy Rommelman about Antifa tactics.. picking reporters, using umbrellas to block unauthorized photos, attacking people then covering the pushback…
I showed her the video, framed as “did you see this covered in the news?”
She focussed in on the umbrellas, saying they looked silly and implying that there is no real threat. I reminded her of the Rommelman reporting on tactics and the clubs and pepper spray in use.
The wife did not remember any of the Rommelman stuff and definitely was incredulous about the reason for the umbrellas.
There is your every woman take.
That doesn’t end well. It ends really, really badly.
There’s two ways conservatives can possibly respond to this. They can accept it and be bullied into silence. I’m sure that’s what the “moderate progressives” are ultimately hoping for. The problem, of course, is that conservatives get a say on that. And they can choose to respond in kind. They can start looking the other way while their not-so-nice guys start attacking progressives. And in that world, it’s the bad guys from both sides who wind up holding sway.
It sounds great to have the Devil on a leash. But, eventually you find out who’s on the leash and who’s holding the leash.
But then I’d have to take my gloves off.
Maybe they make oxygen sensing gloves. That would be a helpful addition to the digital wardrobe.
I place almost all the blame on our public health officials who are too busy trying to triangulate what they say to try to push people into doing what they want…. And not concerned enough about being truthful, accurate or thorough.
Wanna know why they don’t trust you? That is your reason….
This.