Another Saturday where I ask myself, “How does the Old Man get up at 4am to give you links fresher than the bagels at that place he says sucks. And I’m all, “Meh, he just hated everything here.” Except that one place…well not anymore.
Infamous birthdays for today include: a personal hero to Hillary. A guy famous for allowing “The Gamecock” to kick some ass. The OG return to monke. A damn yankee even I can respect. A member of the top three libertarian’s favorite author club. Not a guy that had ribs surgically removed so he could suck his own dick. That fucking guy. We got that fucking guy over here! See? Nobody cares. Kyyyyyyyyyleeeeeeeeer! Finally, a conspiratorial sex-addict.
Now for some real links!
After the metaphorical “Chinese Chernobyl” they go for the real thing.
Wait, the Third Amendment?
Imagine going through life as this asshole.
To my knowledge, drugs did not fall from his ass.
Actually, this might be the least bad decision she’s made to date.
Get out while you still can.
I assume this benefits just enough congress critters.
Don’t know if this qualifies as old guy music, but here it is.
I akshually expected Hillary’s hero to be Sen Robert Byrd.
whaddup doh
Yoh! Homey! Neph is making noise about heading down this direction in a couple of weeks, so I just started a Forum topic to see if we can round up some more Dayton-area Glibs for a meet-up at Spinoza’s over at Fairfield Commons. Here’s a linky. Any chance you could make a late afternoon meet-up, and might the lovely and talented Jugsy be home again?
“Get out while you still can” — are you suggesting Britney Spears leave the Catholic Church?
Isn’t pulling out sorta their thing?
+1 Onanism
I don’t think Britney is the one pulling out.
Anti-pegger confirmed
After lot of long-winded meandering, he finally gets there:
Democratic policymaking requires debate, demands compromise and involves critical thinking. It entails considering different viewpoints, anticipating the future, and composing thoughtful legislation.
What’s a fast, easy and simple alternative to this political process? It’s not difficult to imagine an infantile society being attracted to authoritarian rule.
Unfortunately, our social institutions and technological devices seem to erode hallmarks of maturity: patience, empathy, solidarity, humility and commitment to a project greater than oneself.
All are qualities that have traditionally been considered essential for both healthy adulthood and for the proper functioning of democracy.
Surrender yourself to the collective, Citizen. Throw away your childish obsession with pernicious individualism. Be of The Body.
The premise wasn’t that bad. I’m sympathetic to the point that society is intentionally developing emotionally stunted adults. Then goes flying way off the reservation with his commie claptrap.
No mention of personal responsibility. No mention of individual freedom. No mention of clinging to government like a binky.
Fred Flintstone used to sell cigarettes, and Kermit the Frog should for coffee. This guy is decades late to the party.
Shilled, that is.
So Joe Camel was not a real, living hybrid man-camel?
It’s a stupid example that he decided to focus on. As if animation is inherently and unequivocally childish. Of course the poor choice of example foreshadows the ass backwards view that this is some flaw of selfish governance (aka capitalism) .
That said, this is a perfect example of the tendency for leftists to take a nugget of truth, coat it in a cubic mile of bullshit, and end up on the dumbest “solution” possible.
It’s the Rousseau approach.
Wait, the Third Amendment?
Anthony Mitchell v. City of Henderson NV
Third Amendment Lawyers Association
They need to sue to force recognition of the thorn.
Late, with sidebar.
I’d like to speak with a manager.
please hold.
Ugh, we got a Karen here.
Cool sidebar, bro!
why don;t you go back to reason if you love them so much?
Everyone is a critic.
I still love you MS.
Imagine going through life as this asshole. – sociology profs have a great liife. they make good money and they don’t produce a damn thing of any worth
and I mean not 100% wrong
Serious SCIENCE!
Health officials are fearful that cases will continue to soar if more Americans don’t embrace the vaccine.
“Our models show that if we don’t (vaccinate people), we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to our surge in early January,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said on CNN this week.
We went out back and threw the bones, and this is what they told us.
Fifty bazillion people every ten seconds! Like WILDFIRE! EVERYONE WILL DIE!
No way out. No way out.
‘Our models show’
Considering how atrociously wrong the models have been on this issue every single fucking time why should I give a shit what your model says?
My trust in models has dropped with the move toward plus-size and other modeling trends.
“EXCUSE ME, IT’S MA’AM!”
Good. If everybody gets infected, we’ll get herd immunity.
^Yeah this, it’s mostly what we should have done in the first place but that ship has sailed. And they keep pimping the cases, which is a clear as crystal tell by the way, but what’s the death rate?
See the usatoday link below.
If that doesn’t scare the shit out of you, I don’t know what to say.
Everything was all right; the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Pharma.
What? Fresh Hell!
What fresh? Hell!
What fresh Hell?
https://youtu.be/TwhFCFl3PZc
The premise wasn’t that bad. I’m sympathetic to the point that society is intentionally developing emotionally stunted adults. Then goes flying way off the reservation with his commie claptrap.
Exactly. I was with him for much of the way. But then…
What could be more infantilizing than having Joe Biden tell you to just put your faith in Leviathan Almighty? No put your shoulder to the wheel.
Some put your shoulder to the wheel.
A filling substitute. Old Man’s shoes are no small size to fill.
he does have many small shoes in his closet
+1 M
NOW put your shoulder to the wheel.
Put my head on your shoulder.
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1423648801538125827?s=19
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xmQkhwzRk
Turtles love popsicles.
Yet China leads global MSR research, according to the World Nuclear Association, and it’s no surprise that the country is forging ahead faster, Forsberg says. The country’s talent pool in nuclear engineering, he says, is quite substantial. “You put a lot of talented people on a project, and it works,” he says. “They’ll be successful even if it takes them a while.”
Something something thorium reactor gap!
Spears is sort of a tragic figure, rich as hell and America’s darling when she was younger but aging out and surrounded by greedy and controlling psychopaths. I’m no big fan of the Catholic Church but if she manages to find something there that helps her out then more power to her. If the stern Baptists weren’t able to straighten her out I’m not sure the Catholics will though.
Does she need straightening out?
She certainly did at one time but you’re right, she might not now. It’s impossible to tell though.
It’s ridiculous that she’s not in charge of her own life.
“Actually, this might be the least bad decision she’s made to date.
Get out while you still can.”
Same link.
Corrected.
Joe Biden, All-American Boy
On Thursday, he zipped around the White House driveway in Jeep’s new plug-in hybrid Wrangler that delivers 375 horsepower.
Flanked by electrified American icons Wrangler and Bronco, he quipped that GM CEO Mary Barra had promised him a test drive of the first electric model of his all-time favorite, the Chevrolet Corvette.
“When they make the first electric Corvette, I get to drive it. Right, Mary? You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding,” he said.
The White House event took place just a week after another American automaker showed just how fast electric cars can be. On a drag strip in Florida, Tesla’s Model S Plaid utterly smoked a Porsche Taycan Turbo S, which is said to be the one of the world’s fastest production cars.
“I’ve driven fast cars before, but this one I could really feel,” the Tesla driver said. “Not everybody can handle this.”
But Tesla was notably absent from Biden’s celebration of American-made electric muscle cars, and the snub did not go unnoticed by CEO Elon Musk.
“Seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” he tweeted.
As it turned out, the main reason comes down to one thing President Biden prizes above speed or style: unions. Tesla is famously anti-union; Detroit’s Big Three are on a shrinking list of major employers who use organized labor.
When asked whether is was indeed the case that Tesla’s stance on unions was the reason for its exclusion, White House press secretary Jenn Psaki said, “I’ll let you draw your own conclusion.”
Who’s in thrall to the unions? Not Joe. He just couldn’t remember Elon’s phone number.
They couldn’t invite Musk when the nation is still grievously mourning Trumka. It’d be a slap in the face to that fine man.
Unless and until most power in the US is nuclear, EVs are just another empty status symbol for David Brooks’ BoBos.
DIvisive, all the time.
Right now, 2% of the cars sold are electric. Biden mandated that 50% of new cars be electric. The only places where that has happened are places with the highest gas prices in the world and the least amount of driving. This might explain why his other decisions are causing the rise in gas prices, but you can’t transform America into a place where we need to drive less. And, you can’t make people decide to buy the crappy electric cars. They’re only good for people who don’t use them to go very many places. Cars are useful only to travel with. Electric cars are only able to travel in limited ways. It’s not rocket surgery.
50% will mean seeing cars on the shoulders of the roads like in the good ol’ days. Gasoline cars have gotten so reliable that you rarely see that anymore. The advent of EV will mean a lot of them running out of charge mid-trip.
Nobody will ever buy that many EVs in America. They will hoard used cars. Only the rich will be able to drive.
Silicone Saturday, whaddya get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
https://archive.li/XCJ9F
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5513121001
“As soon as the Food and Drug Administration issues a full approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, there will be “a flood” of vaccine mandates at businesses and schools across the nation, Dr. Anthony Fauci told USA TODAY’s editorial board on Friday. ”
Go fuck yourselves.
Can they be sued after full approval? I’m guessing that all liability for adverse side effects will be waived by the gov offering it for free.
Moderna at least has an extended liability waiver to include after approval for a period of time. I’m not sure about the others but I’d guess yes.
They are cutting every corner they can to get full approval. The FDA is pretending that 18 months is a normal period to achieve approval. By using the term ” we strive to approve everything within 18 months.” They don’t mention that it always takes 10 years, anyway.
For reference, see this.
1 in 5,000 drugs end up approved and it takes around 12 years. They have been tinkering with the technology of MNRA vaccines for a really long time, but this is the first time they’ve been used on people. Outside of highly limited studies, anyway. If they fully approve this technology right away, it will be based on lies and purely political. There’s no other way. Either they were lying about every other drug they approved or they’re lying this time.
All of this is just one long string of trial balloons:
– How far will “health emergencies” get us?
– How much control of the economy can we seize?
– How much “free money” can we dole out?
– How can we force citizens into accepting medical procedures against their will?
Kung Flu has been the biggest wet dream for authoritarians in generations.
You left out fortifying elections.
Huh, Fauci’s taken a page from Apple and has gone full it’s for the children. The sad fact is that it just might work.
Lack of FDA approval doesn’t seem to be stopping anybody now.
No kidding. Every hospital system in Columbus (Ohio Health, Ohio State University Hospital, Mt. Carmel, Nationwide Childrens) announced mandates within a week of each other.
Just in time for it to be totally useless in stopping the spread.
Now it’s the equivalent of forcing you to take your vitamins.
Could someone please turn off the sidebar?
I won’t link it, but-
There is a “fact check” from politifact about some guy’s tweet about Sweden. They accuse him of “cherry-picking” his numbers and making deceptive claims about the relative effectiveness of Sweden’s response to the panicdemic.
But- speaking of cherry-picking, they make not the slightest effort to consider the secondary or tertiary adverse effects of lockdowns or masks or any of the rest of the plague theater. They stick to their narrow focus on the numbers they like, and ignore everything.
Rated: duplicitous propagandistic bullshit.
In remarks after his test drive, Biden expressed support for a plan that would provide purchase incentives totaling $10,000 for consumers to buy American-made clean vehicles, including Teslas.
Still, that plan offers an additional $2,500 if that American-made clean vehicle is from a union shop, like Ford, GM, or Stellantis.
In short, Biden loves a fast, American-made muscle car, especially if it’s electric.
But he loves unions more.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
But remember, “renewables” are cheaper than fossil fuels now. The science has spoken.
Biden can fuck himself.
I did tell one of my colleagues who went all-in on Tesla stock that if the market were truly free, I’d share his enthusiasm because Tesla makes a great product that its users love.
But the market isn’t free and Detroit donors are going to extract their pound of flesh for all the decades of loyal donorship they’ve made.
Elon’s greatest crimes have been 1) to stay mostly apolitical publicly, and 2) to call the Covid hysteria as the society killing overreaction that it is.
“US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to target Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan who are advancing towards three key cities.
The Cold War-era strategic bomber first flew in the 1950s but is still used due to its 70,000lb payload and range of more than 8,000 miles.
They are being supported by the AC-130 Spectre gunships which are armed with a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm M102 cannon – which can provide pinpoint accurate fire from the air. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9871453/US-sends-B-52-bombers-Spectre-gunships-halt-advance-Taliban.html
Looks like it’s time to relearn the lesson that a war can’t be won from the air. It might delay the eventual implosion but the Afghan government is toast.
“but is still used due to its 70,000lb payload ”
So…thicc ?
Honest, baby. I pulled out, I swear.
“German coach is kicked out of the Olympics for PUNCHING horse who refused to cooperate with leading athlete – leaving her in tears and ruining her chances of gold in modern pentathlon”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9871405/German-modern-pentathlete-coach-kicked-Tokyo-Olympics-PUNCHING-horse.html
It doesn’t look like much of a punch.
MONGO KNOW HOW PUNCH HORSE
It’s not clear whether the punishment is for “punching” the horse or for the coach getting involved.
Either way, horses are assholes. It had it coming.
Bummer. Modern Pentathlon is one of the bare handful of Olympic sports that’s actually interesting.
It would be more interesting if they swapped the air pistol for Steel Challenge and the epee for saber (or even better, Polaris or similar WHMA fencing).
Argh. No like news this morning. The only good I got from it was another test of my theory regarding political affiliation in news articles: If the elected official in trouble is a Democrat, the political affiliation will not be printed.
Where are SP and the Old Man moving?
Away from you.
Western NY state, IIRC.
Ireland
Who knows better than doctors what’s good for you? Listen to the experts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI
A new monster peeking out of the closet?
A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean that helps control temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and has implications for the entire planet’s weather systems is showing signs of instability due to human-made climate change, scientists say.
Its collapse would have dire consequences for our weather and life on Earth.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) — which the Gulf Stream is a major part of — helps maintain the energy balance in the Atlantic Ocean. It is often described as a “conveyor belt” that takes warm surface water from the tropics and distributes it to the north Atlantic. The colder, saltier water then sinks and flows south.
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Global weather patterns are critically linked to the circulation and its transport of heat and nutrients around the planet. A collapse of this system would result in significant and abrupt changes, including fast sea level rise, more extreme winters in Western Europe and disruptions to monsoon systems in the tropics.
It could also have a cascading effect and destabilize other components of the Earth’s climate system, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the Amazon rainforest.
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Boers recognizes in his study that he and other scientists still don’t know if and when the current might collapse, but he called on the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “as much and as quickly as possible.”
“Every gram of extra greenhouse gas in the atmosphere will increase to the probability of an AMOC collapse in the future, so emitting as little as possible, both on individual but of course also on collective and international level, is the key.”
The study comes ahead of a major report by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change on Monday, which has been years in the making and is expected to provide the most conclusive look yet at the extent of human-made climate change. It will also likely paint a picture of what the future could look like, depending on what action the world takes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Phew. It’s just more of the same toxic effects of the human infestation killing the planet with their horrible insatiable need to improve their lives. we’re destroying the planet in so many ways with our greenhouse gasses.
It’s always greenhouse gasses. Greenhouse gasses will be the death of us all.
Can’t they at least come up with some new disaster scenarios?
“every gram etc”
Bull.
Shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
Vikings must have been burning a lot of fossil fuels back in the day. Or maybe the Gulf Stream is constantly shifting? Nah, that can’t be it.
While the name Greenland was largely propaganda to entice new immigrants to the region it wasn’t a complete lie. I also seem to recall reading passages from Roman historians about southern Britannia having some of the best grapes and vineyards in the empire. England…wine country.
The world wasn’t in a stasis box before the invention of the combustion engine.
Horseshit.
‘The study comes ahead of a major report by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change on Monday, which has been years in the making and is expected to provide the most conclusive look yet at the extent of human-made climate change. It will also likely paint a picture of what the future could look like, depending on what action the world takes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.’
*Considering how atrociously wrong the models have been on this issue every single fucking time why should I give a shit what your model says?
*copypasta
I’m a one note song this morning.
/bleary eyes and Hair of the Dog
UN: “We need a doomsday study by next Tuesday.”
Flacks: “OK, boss.”
UN: *taps fingers together* “Excellent.”
“years in the making”
I don’t doubt this at all. The end result being hundreds of millions of dead brown people in poor countries.
Brace yourself for Climate Lockdowns.
For the Greater Good (TM)
/Ellsworth Toohey becomes aroused
Birthdays include no love for Nick Gillespie.
Nick Gillespie’s birthday is the Nick Gillespie of birthdays.
Jackets are made not born.
“More than 60 cases of new ‘Delta Plus’ variant of COVID are detected in San Francisco which experts fear is MORE transmissible than current strain”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9870597/More-60-cases-new-Delta-Plus-variant-COVID-detected-San-Francisco.html
“Virus experts blast ‘fear-mongering’ predictions of a ‘doomsday’ COVID variant worse than Delta and vaccine resistant”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9870499/Virus-experts-blast-fear-mongering-article-warning-doomsday-Covid-variant.html
Delta plus?
It’s a Business Class virus.
If only it was a political class virus…
Dawn of the Delta?
Delta with a superscript number, indicating exponential increase of lethality.
Grueling slog
The Senate is bracing for a days-long infrastructure slog that is expected to spill into early next week, after hopes of getting a quick deal unraveled.
Senators, under the chamber’s schedule, should be starting their weeks-long August recess, leaving town until mid-September. Instead, they’ll return Saturday for the start of a lengthy, two-part infrastructure fight.
Unless all 100 senators agree to speed up the process, the debate could keep the Senate in session well into next week as it tries to pass a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, and as Democrats seek to pass a $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
“I am planning on being here through Wednesday,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), while adding “never estimate” summer jet fumes.
Tempers flared late Thursday night as leadership tried to set up a marathon of votes on anywhere between 16 to 25 potential changes to the bill, followed by a vote to pass the bipartisan legislation and send it to the House.
It proved impossible to get all senators to agree to a process, a setback that left some supporters of the bill visibly frustrated.
It’s hard work, spending a trillion dollars’ worth of stolen money.
Stolen? Hell, it’s pulled out of thin air at this point. They may as well do away with taxes, right?
Never. It is too good of a cudgel with which to beat the masses into submission.
From Daily Mail llink:
‘It’s going to be very difficult to stop it from happening with masks and social distancing at this point,’ Malani said.
Since the masks do fuck-all, we’ll rate this true.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/why-student-loan-debt-is-trapping-more-americans-than-ever/
One of the better write-ups I’ve seen on student loans.
“When schools — or banks — put their own money at risk, they are more careful with it, and less likely to extend loans at amounts that will be impossible for borrowers to pay off.”
/racism/bigotry/inequality/inequity/discrimination
A return on investment is evil!
…Did I do that right?
A return on private investment is evil!
Returns on Investments in infrastructure, affordable housing, shovel-ready jobs and the like are perfectly OK. Also nonexistent, but the right kinds of investment can’t be measured by returns.
Is water wet? I don’t know how many times I’ve stood up in a government meeting and remarked how “Easy it is to carelessly spend other people’s money” only to be met with blank stares or “well, this government program is necessary because people won’t or can’t be expected to do it on their own.”
We have a friend whose daughter is at NYU majoring in journalism. The fret that she will never be e able to pay off her six figure loans. I suggested that maybe she shouldn’t attend such an expensive school, but I guess that’s inconceivable.
I’ve seen some other arrangements where the university discounts/pays tuition in return for a certain percentage of income for some number of years after graduation.
At least that sort of thing aligns the “career prep” stated goal with financial incentives.
Modern Pentathlon is one of the bare handful of Olympic sports that’s actually interesting.
Leaving aside my burning hatred of the IOC and everything it stands for, for a moment- the olympics should go back to being about niche amateur sports, instead of attempting to pander to the mass (teevee) market.
Stolen? Hell, it’s pulled out of thin air at this point. They may as well do away with taxes, right?
True.
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025495042/dixie-fire-california-wildfire-greenville
Odd how the church marquee was left amid the destruction.
3rd largest fire. Yikes.
My niece’s new mother in law had her house burned to the ground in this fire.
Btw, Newsom got caught recently lying about how he increased the fire suppression budget drastically. It turned out he drastically decreased it instead. I hope the recall candidates “pounce” on that fact.
“When schools — or banks — put their own money at risk, they are more careful with it, and less likely to extend loans at amounts that will be impossible for borrowers to pay off.”
That can’t be right.
That had never even occurred to me; honest injun
As New York’s lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state’s 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
Now, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo facing possible impeachment over sexual harassment allegations, her next stop may be the state Capitol of Albany.
Hochul would become the state’s first woman governor if Cuomo were removed from office.
A centrist Democrat from western New York, she has worked deep in Cuomo’s shadow for her two terms in office, but this week joined the chorus of politicians denouncing the governor after an independent investigation concluded he had sexually harassed 11 women while in office.
“I believe these brave women,” Hochul wrote, calling Cuomo’s behavior “repulsive and unlawful” in a statement Tuesday.
She also acknowledged what has been simmering for months: The possibility she will become governor.
“Because lieutenant governors stand next in the line of succession, it would not be appropriate to comment further on the process at this moment,” she wrote.
“Li’l ol’ meee?? Guvnuh? Awww shucks.”
I have seen this person on the teevee. She did not impress me as being the brightest candle in the menorah.
Maybe she is a consummate political theoretician-slash-back-stabber, and merely hides it well.
Perhaps she’ll gracefully abdicate her position so Tish can have it.
” far-flung coffee shops”
She’s a regular anthropologist.
Just because-
Many people, for what I believe are totally legitimate reasons, badmouth the FDA and the drug testing/approval process. I believe people should be allowed to KNOWINGLY opt for experimental treatments. If the FDA wants to fast-track the vaccines for use by willing volunteers, I’m okay with it.
I’m not okay with political manipulation of the process in order to allow compulsory wholesale vaccinations.
Not okay at all.
The FDA is evil in both directions. They prevent people from trying drugs they need, merely to satisfy bureaucratic bullshit on the one hand, then massively streamline the process for purely political reasons on the other. It’s like their goal is to always get it wrong. I oppose both mandating and prohibiting. The FDA enthusiastically does both in the worst ways they can conjure up.
???
Newsom got caught recently lying about how he increased the fire suppression budget drastically. It turned out he drastically decreased it instead. I hope the recall candidates “pounce” on that fact.
This chocolate is so delicious, half as much is plenty.
Look what we were talking about a month ago. 690% is not enough to quibble over in any widely viewed media, right? And, nobody is even mentioning the fact that our state mandates a certain (crazy high) % of our energy comes from “renewable” sources and this leads to the major energy companies drastically scaling back maintenance of the existing power transmission lines, because that money is going to dirty old sources. Fucking evil, these people.
Even worse, in order to meet the percentages, they absolutely have to import a bunch of energy form other states. Imported energy doesn’t count towards the number. All of this energy has to travel on existing power transmission lines through long stretches in highly forested areas. We are sending a huge amount of electricity across lines that we are mandating do not get regular repairs. the latest fire was caused by this, as was most of the others. Retarded watermelon tactics are literally killing people and burning the state down. TMITE doesn’t seem worked up enough about this to bother reporting any of it.
Totalitarian countries have little electricity, lots of scheduled blackouts etc.
This is one exception to the rule ‘never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence’. Once total power is achieved the populace must be made weak and helpless so that no one can take that total power away. One good way to do that is to make energy unavailable.
Destroying energy production and distribution is a calculated move.
https://prepareforpowerdown.com/
Safe! That sounds nice.
It’s caused by climate change, the exact same way all of this suffering is caused by covid.
Morning, peeps. Is it too early for a Bloody Mary?
Too early for a Bloody Mary?
I recognize all the words, but the sentence doesn’t make any sense…
What I mean is, will someone go make one for me?
Sure! I’ll drop it off at the FedEx store after lunch!
Like when the Slovakian had his father’s ashes shipped to him?
Are you going to make the sammiches?
Is it too early for a Bloody Mary?
Easy on the horseradish, ’til lunchtime.
The rabbit of the sky’: flocks of Canada geese plague New Zealand countryside
Canada geese in New Zealand
The birds exist in a pest-control grey area, with no agency taking the lead, allowing the population to boom
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/07/the-rabbit-of-the-sky-flocks-of-canada-geese-plague-new-zealand-countryside
How do they taste? Rabbits are cute but delicious if properly prepared but nobody would miss those surly honkers.
Like poutine?
I hope they are masked and in quarantine?
I dont see any booming there.
Canadian geese are the nearly the 747’s of the bird world. They can travel incredible distances. That they showed up in New Zealand is no surprise.
Canada Geese. The evil fuckers ain’t Canadian.
“Apple distributed an internal memo today which referred to pushback against its new content surveillance measures as “the screeching voices of the minority.” I have nothing to add.”
https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1423738825369604106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1423738825369604106%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Well screw you Apple with the caveat that I just bought an iPad which I’ll use until it croaks but no new stuff. What a disappointment.
That pretty much describes the entirety of the left’s attitude towards dissent.
Yep, they’re getting no more money from me.
Now for every other platform to add a police department of their own.
Speaking of this latest. Why does a private org maintain a growing collection of child porn images? Isn’t mere possession grounds for felony prison sentences? And how long before our esteemed courts rule that hashes of those illicit images on your phone are themselves illicit and throws the book at some poor targeted sob?
They probably don’t.
I imagine that they have allowed the FBI to create those hashes for them. So if I were the FBI and I wanted to track down dissenters, I might add a few images to that library that suit my purposes. Who’s going to double-check me? Nobody wants to do that job and will readily cede it to my authority.
It’s coming from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Not that the FBI maintaining a kiddie porn stash is any better.
At least there’s that.
I still think this is the drug dog of software.
Screeching minorities shouldn’t ask questions. Shut up and follow what iCop tells you.
Ms. Rodrigues honestly believes that having a noble cause means she can no wrong in pursuing it.
On a related note, is anyone here familiar with GrapheneOS? It’s an open source Android alternative:
https://grapheneos.org/features
I wonder if whether I’ll end up with a relatively private phone or a three hundred dollar bricked doorstop.
I’m intrigued. If it gains any traction look for the usual suspects to start spreading propaganda about how it’s “highly compromised” and “ripe for exploitation”, and maybe some stuff about “the dark web” and “sex trafficking”.
Yeah, that’s standard SOP at this point.
The dude with the article on the infantilization of America isn’t wrong. I don’t know how we went from latchkey kids and riding in the back of a pickup truck to participation trophies and Mom calling your boss because you got your feewings hurt, but here we are and the 20sometuings are calling words “actual violence.”
I feel weird turning my kid loose out into the world at 18. Nobody else does that anymore.
He’s sort of not wrong but it plays as a scold or an analysis by a humorless schoolmarm. Then again, I’m middle aged and a Spongebob and Simpsons fan so maybe I’m a tad biased.
Piss poor selection of an example on his part. There are many better examples out there of true infantilization ripe for the picking. Animation isn’t inherently childish.
I feel weird turning my kid loose out into the world at 18. Nobody else does that anymore.
Parenting traditionally is weird these days. We have to be very careful threatening spanks because more than a few parents will recoil in horror at the prospect. I could go down a list of things that we do or let our kids do that gets people really nervous these days, but was bog standard 30 years ago.
That’s usually the point where I offer to spank the mom, right there.
I moved out of my folks’ house the morning I turned 18.
I used to go camping with friends when I was 13. Just4 13 yr old girls. Parents dropped us off, came back 3 or 4 days later. No cell phones.
I am Romanian I lived with my parent till 27
@Hayek, the church had nothing to do with my taste for bodice rippers and bad-ass heroines having great adventures of derring-do. ?
Does this look right to you?
yes
It doesn’t make your ass look big, if that’s your real question.
limey
It looks weird man but you need to stop picking at it.
My right or your right?
It’s everybody’s right, dude.
When left is gone, then right is all that’s left, right?
re: Gustave’s “power down” link
That’s exactly what you want, is the goddam electric company shutting off the power to your well pump just when you need it most.
I have said many times, I need a 220v generator, because that’s what the well pump runs on, for exactly that eventuality (or loss of power in the winter). Still don’t have one.
I had a mechanical interlock & and generator inlet put in when we replaced the main panel. Didn’t get around to buying a generator for several years but it’s saved my bacon several times since.
It’s not just turning off the well pump, or even your A/C and fridge/freezer, but it’s turning off all of the cable and telephone company’s field equipment and remote huts as well. Internet is toast pretty much immediately. POTS lingers on (if the batteries were maintained) for a half day and then there’s no telephone either. Same with cell towers (assuming you had service to begin with, which is a big if) if they don’t have generators. Good luck knowing if a fire starts and you need to evacuate. Or if you have an ordinary life or death medical emergency. Or the sheriff…
And these fuckers are congratulating themselves for their public safety power outages. They’re not eliminating risk, they’re just shuffling it off into other risks but ones they won’t be directly liable for so NBD.
I’ve seen some other arrangements where the university discounts/pays tuition in return for a certain percentage of income for some number of years after graduation.
At least that sort of thing aligns the “career prep” stated goal with financial incentives.
OMG indentured servitude!
Not cool, man.
Huh, Missouri keeps a tally of Covid diagnoses and age as well as death and age. Looks like zero deaths up to age 18 and minuscule numbers until age 35:
https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/data/public-health/demographics.php
Kudos to their health department for providing easily decipherable graphs with relevant information.
Undoubtedly “fake news,” “unproven,” “lies,” “far right wing conspiracy nonsense,” or something of the like. Only stats from Blue states are “true facts.”
After checking the obligatory GLOBAL WARMZ box, we get… gunz!
More than three weeks after it ignited in a remote canyon, the monster Dixie fire continued to break records Friday, leapfrogging Oregon’s Bootleg fire to become the largest burning in the U.S. and the third largest in recorded California history.
As the effects of climate change are felt more intensely worldwide, this singular blaze was raging in four counties — Butte, Lassen, Plumas and Tehama — and had scorched 679 square miles, an area considerably larger than the city of Los Angeles.
Stoked by extreme drought, dry vegetation and gusty winds, it was burning more rapidly and behaving more erratically than even veteran firefighters could recall ever seeing.
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Greg Hagwood, a Plumas County supervisor, said that in the last 72 hours, as fire has swept through or threatened small mountain towns including Greenville, the evacuations have grown tense — in some cases, residents have met law enforcement with weapons.
“They are met with people who have guns and [are] saying, ‘Get off my property and you are not telling me to leave,’” he said.
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On Thursday, authorities arrested three people who stayed behind in an evacuation zone in the Lassen County town of Westwood. All three were taken to jail, cited and released — two on suspicion of entering or remaining in an evacuation area, and one on suspicion of loitering on private property, said Lisa Bernard, public information officer with the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office.
“When we ask people to leave their homes, we take our duty to protect their property very seriously,” Bernard wrote in an email. Those who do stay behind are required to shelter in place inside their homes, and those who are found roaming the streets risk arrest, she said.
Hagwood said that as the former sheriff of Plumas County and a resident of Quincy, its historic heart, he has been on both sides of evacuation orders — issuing them and being subject to them.
A few years ago during the Minerva fire, he was forced to issue an order that covered his own home, as well as his parents’ up the street. Hagwood said the emotional intensity of evacuations on law enforcement and residents can’t be overestimated, especially in rural areas where everybody seems to know one another.
“You are talking about people’s homes, their property, everything they have worked for for their entire lives and sometimes generations,” Hagwood said. “Having the government, whether it’s local, state or federal, coming in and telling you you have to walk away from it is going to be met with some pushback.
Pushback, you say? What’s wrong with those squalling infantile deplorables? Why won’t they listen to the nice gubmint men?
Do they grown up thing, and stop resisting.
Wait a sec, I thought you just said people staying on their own property are not subject to arrest?
You know who else issued forcible removal orders on their citizenry?
General Custer?
Technically, most Indians were not US citizens until 1924.
And these fuckers are congratulating themselves for their public safety power outages. They’re not eliminating risk, they’re just shuffling it off into other risks but ones they won’t be directly liable for so NBD.
We have decided to render you helpless, for
your enhanced safety.