I got a call from my lawyer last night. I was excited because he never calls me, I always call him. He says he needed a hand from me, so I said…
…okay I’ll take care of it. I got the links today.
What? What did you think happened? Freaks.
You know why so many nurses are cunts? You can fire them all you want and they’ll find work the next day, but you’ll be short a few cunts.
Correctly? What do you know Vice!
Lets not forget the real victims.
I’m not sure who is the bigger retard here.
Its in revelations people!
We get to see proof of concept in real time!
They’re out to get the black guy.
I’ll say it now, Vlad is dreamy.
Yeah yeah yeah, we’re reliving the 70’s, except the music sucks ass and bush is only a fetish.
>>You can fire them all you want and they’ll find work the next days.
Impose vaxx mandates – right in the middle of a worker shortage. Now that’s brilliant thinking. And yes this includes every fucking company that does this.
Why come you want worker’s grandparents to die?
I still have two living nonagenarian grandparents. Covid is fucking pathetic.
No. Covid-19 is so strong it reached through time killing my grandparents decades ago.
We are supposed to have something like 6500 technicians, but are way short of that with a lot set to retire and have just been holding on for shits and giggles…I suspect the FAA will be down technicians here in the near future. Here in the lower 48, pretty easy to get the work done. All the crazy bastards up in Alaska? Yeah, lose them and you are not replacing them quickly.
Unvaxxed glibs need to start gathering up their acorns if they don’t want to be forced into taking the jab. The mandate is coming to a company near you in the next few weeks.
Hopefully, the recently offered retention bonus means corporate is scared of losing us so they won’t try.
My company said they’re at 33% vaxxed. And Tesla is moving into town. I’d be a bit surprised if they decide to mandate it.
Unvaxxed glibs. I read that as unwaxxed glibs and went running for my soapbox so I could tell you that personal grooming is totes private and I don’t care what your mandates says.
I prefer my mandates be unwaxed
I see what you did there.
I have few acorns and will not only refuse the jab, I will not put another mask on. For those who are not indoctrinated into covid insanity, it has been proven neither protects you and I will not comply.
(I need to talk to you or another crypto acorn glib on the sideline one of these days. I need to figure out how to use that forum thingy)
Yup, there’s a shortage at my company too. (((They))) don’t appear all that interested in medical experimentation, thank G-d.
I love it how they are having trouble getting nurses to vax up. That should tell people something…
It’s probably a minority of nurses though. It could also be nurses who already had covid.
Medical workers know the propaganda coming the commies in media are lies.
My sister runs a hospital lab. She is participating in a study to measure covid antibodies spikes and duration of immunization effectiveness.
Some 1200 medical staff in her part of the hospital chain are refusing the vaccine. The govt is even threatening to withhold medicare payments if staff dont get vaccinated.
I think we are finding the real reasons that OnlyFans banned pr0n…can’t have those nurses quitting and making more money now can we
Oh, we went way beyond that. They gave huge cash incentives to retire early. Like a year’s salary, right now as a bonus. Then, they froze all hiring and transfers, technically, still frozen after a year and a half. Then, they prohibited overtime.Now, they are instituting vax mandates with the very threat of firing.
“Let me be clear: The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began,” he said. “It would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now.”
Hard and painful if it started a month ago? Color me skeptical of Biden’s claim.
Counter factual. Non-falsifiable. Bullshit.
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has opened an investigation into gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder’s financial disclosure, an FPPC spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
“Fuck, he’s going to kick Newsome’s ass! Quick, find something incriminating!”
If Elder is found in violation of not improper campaign financial disclosure, each penalty costs a maximum of $5,000, according to the Times, which cited the FPPC.
That’s it? I mean, five large is some serious beer money, sure, but I feel like that’s a pittance for a statewide gubernatorial campaign.
Its the process that they are hoping to sink him with. He can dole out $5K no problem.
Like David Koresh? He could’ve easily paid $25.
It’s more about getting uninformed people to read a headline that conveniently leaves out essential information and then assuming he’s shady, not the fines themselves.
Yeah. I’m sure every candidate in history has a half dozen at least of these infractions. Only when the opponent is very powerful do they get enforced, and in the scheme of things 20-25g’s is nothing. It’s the headlines that make the dent in support that they are looking for.
“Larry Elder under investigation for campaign improprieties!!!!” That’s the money shot, a few weeks before the election.
Each penalty, They’re looking for about a thousand of these. And anything that even looks out of place gets tagged as a separate violation.
If all the campaign finance laws were enforced no one could hold office.
Go on.
Fun fact, commies in media are scared shitless that Larry elder will win and Feinstein will die. Elder would get to appoint the next CA US senator.
This is one of their many fears about elder winning but picking a us senator cannot be stopped by a commifornia legislature.
Two months after firing unvaccinated hospital staff, Houston Methodist is one of several area hospitals experiencing a severe shortage of medical personnel. Media reports say hospitals have “reached a breaking point” because of a flood of COVID-19 cases.
I expect this will happen with Dartmouth-Hitchcock in NH which is planning to require vaccines and fire those that don’t get the vaccine.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is already preparing. They’re advertising that they’re hiring nurses. They will run into the same trouble Houston Methodist is running into.
Same here, only on a massive scale.
I’ve already seen places try it with phlebotomists and lab techs. The companies get told to fuck right off, the fired employees find better paying jobs in a week, and it takes forever to fill those positions.
The media here is already running scare stories that if you’re fired for not getting vaxxed, you may not qualify for unemployment.
Hell, make it a condition of federal student loans just like selective service registration.
Why not also for food stamps, SBA loans, SSI, Medicare/caid, etc. Go for the gusto on this one FedGov! Don’t be pussies!
Have you applied for a job as director in the Dept of FYTW?
Yup, wouldn’t shock me. They think they’re gonna cow the unvaxxed with this apartheid bullshit. I’m hoping they have another thing coming.
And no one will bat an eye at the selective services they will punish either. Then again, we have mused that one of the triggers for a populace to move from disgruntled to action is threaten their livelihood and it seems they are hellbent on doing just that.
Huh. Free market trounces fascism.
“Vlad is dreamy.”
There’s worse to be found out there, that’s for sure. Whatever happened to good old refugee camps?
Won’t anyone think of the poor Somali refugees?
Once the Afghanis show up, the Somalis won’t even be the chic refugee group. They might fall so far out of favor with the hip woke people that they actually begin to be prosecuted for their crimes.
Of course, I would love to watch Omar get unseated by a crooked Afghani refugee.
More Americans Now Correctly Believe UFOs Could Be Alien Craft From Outer Space
I rolled my eyes.
STEVE SMITH BELIEVE IN UFOs. RAPED A FEW ALIENS IN MY TIME.
ALIENS NO DO BUTT STUFF TO STEVE SMITH, STEVE SMITH DO BUTT STUFF TO ALIENS.
WTF is up with all the UFO babble lately? Are people really that out to lunch over the last year and a half?
::covers body in aluminum foil::
say what now?
Isn’t it obvious? It’s the End of Days™!
Our world is doomed! DOOOOOOOOMED!!!
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Nd6LU4ImQ
Distraction from the evil and incompetence of the administration.
Boom. Was about to post something to that effect but gave up because it would have been a longer meandering thought. What was the deal with those “declassified” videos released by the Pentagon back in Trumptime? Just a little blip on a screen that a civ like me can’t make head nor tail of but “whoooo aliens”.
Ufos dont mean aliens. It means something is unidentified and its airborne and an object.
It seems to just sweep through as filler pieces by “news” websites every so often.
*Ancient Aliens meme*
What if we humans on Earth were dropped here by our distant relative aliens as punishment for something. Like being stupid.
Stupidity does seem to run thru the genes of many humans.
At least Cuomo didn’t have his ex-dog shot to stop the ‘vid.
That Australian story was kind of crazy. I mean, the action makes sense if the disease is so dangerous as to require an entire country to lock down over and over again ad infinitum, so it is consistent with the rest of their behavior, but it seems rather heartless if you realize the disease, while dangerous, is not an existential threat.
“Vladimir Putin says he’s not allowing Afghan refugees into Russia”
Omar scared that the Afghans will be invited to MN, disenfranchisement to all the Somalis living the high life. The Somalis will all be moving on up to East Side, displacing the Asian immigrants that have moved to the suburbs already.
The Mexican/Central Americans are going to have to find a new place to live.
Hah! Great minds think alike Fourscore.
I’m not sure the Somalis will move on up. I think they will just be tossed to the curb by the hipsters.
It could be interesting times watching the Afghani and Somali refugee gangs duke it out.
Biden says employers should require the vaccine
President Joe Biden on Monday pressed businesses and public leaders to implement vaccine mandates after the federal government issued its first full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine.
The Food and Drug Administration early Monday approved Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine for people 16 and older, a step beyond the emergency-use authorization under which the shot has been available since late 2020.
“I’m calling on more companies in the private sector to step up with vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “If you’re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that — require it. It only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of Covid-19.”
And with this comes the strong implication that things will happen to the business if they don’t. This is what governmental cooption of private business decisions looks like. You can’t even tell which businesses actually agree with the policy or not because of fear of speaking out.
Mussolini nods.
Good thing the fascist was fortified out of office.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope
Make me, asshole.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107002/mediaviewer/rm2287418368/
Already lost my job over so, Nope
I need to hire a mechanic. Might be a good time to start advertising “no vax required.”
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Normally, for a saturday release, GW delivers to the local game store on wednesday.
Apparently for the Kill Team release this coming saturday, they delivered early.
It was such a popular preorder that the local game store was running out of room and had boxes in public areas, so the owner decided to release the preorders early. I doubt GW would approve, but I got my Kill Team box today.
About to open it.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9919195/Demi-Rose-racy-outfits-BTS-footage-PrettyLittleThing-video-faces-OnlyFans-ban.html
Nope. Taut abs and impressive underboob.
“A Covid test worker has been sacked after filming himself urinating in a soap dispenser at a primary school used as a test centre before posting the video on Snapchat.
Disgusting footage shows the agency staffer urinating into the nearly empty soap bottle in a sink at John Paul II Primary School on Whiterock Road in Belfast.
A still photo then shows the bottle after being filled with urine and left for the next bathroom user to deal with.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9919227/Covid-worker-sacked-filming-URINATING-soap-dispenser.html
So you’re saying he was drunk?
Why oh why would you put that on social media?
Wait, other people don’t do that? There’s no sign prohibiting it.
“Taliban are ‘flogging’ people in the streets for wearing western clothing as the price of burqas in Kabul doubles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9918925/Taliban-flogging-people-streets-wearing-western-clothing.html
Tools of the burqa-industrial complex.
They haven’t been in control for barely a week and they’re already shilling for Big Burka.
Damn your nimble fingers.
Big Burqa is price gouging.
I want to open a discount store called Burqa Burqa, home of the 2-for-1 special.
What about a reversible burqa? I bet those would sell well.
Black on one side, and Black on the other?
“price of burqas in Kabul doubles”
The market works!
Mmm, fondue. Care for some immediately grated nutmeg?
Now that is how you do euphemisms.
Vot euphemisms? La muscade is funny to you?
Make America grate again?
Hope the Aussie cops don’t decide to summarily execute this poor shelter doge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A39npGK59f4
You’re worse than Sarah McLachlan.
https://media.giphy.com/media/NDIiWKEQEgr3VA7aqM/giphy.gif
Titania McGrath has some new competition. Billie Veline, RN is a parody twitter account that normies can’t figure out, because Poe’s Law.
Here’s an example (reminder: great satire inches right up to the line of truth, and this is horrifyingly close to how colleges are operating these days).
The comments are gold. Not sure if this is a parody account? Holy shit.
“Fury as thousands of Extinction Rebellion activists bring London’s West End to a standstill for hours… before Met finally step in to make mass arrests after group chained themselves together under vans
Police finally began making mass arrests on Monday evening after London’s West End was paralysed for hours by Extinction Rebellion protesters who had erected a giant pink table in the middle of the road.
Officers moved in after demonstrators ignored repeated demands – made by loudspeaker – for them to leave the area.
Until they began making mass arrests at 8pm, the Metropolitan police had detained just eight people, despite the fact that the protest began at midday today.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9918587/Hundreds-Extinction-Rebellion-activists-flock-Trafalgar-Square-march-Pall-Mall.html
The only good thing about them is their name.
I saw Extinction Rebellion back in 1988, back with the original singer. Definitely better back then, before they sold out to the man!
All that group needs is one psycho dude and they’ll be bombing and/or drinking the special kool-aid.
These people are like a metastasized version of Greta Thunberg, right?
BlackGreen blocThem first
What? What did you think happened? Freaks.
Given the accompanying picture, I was reminded of this scene: Do you fondue?
So the West is now no-shit fascist?
“now”? It has been unabashedly fascist for a century. oh, you mean late-stage fascist… yup. I guess we are.
We’ll be fascist enough to catch up with the Chinese communists before too long if we continue at this rate.
People have been pointing out fascistic elements in the West for quite some time but there was a reluctance among the “sensible” people to admit that we are actually in a tyranny.
It’s the third way between communist and lazier-faire economies. You don’t want either one of those do you?
Actually…
Who doesn’t like a 3-way?
Devil’s 3-way or the good kind with 2 ladies?
All reasonably people are centrists, after all.
Dead skunks and yellow stripes.
Just saved a victim live on the air (no DVR functions unfortunately)
https://www.twitch.tv/scammerpayback
What was that? I don’t get it?
Candace Owens is pretty! Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_wmixXBdE
Today in Science!:
If that were true, the guy who won the contest would have retroactively died before the buzzer even went off.
Thankfully its’ the last 35 minutes. You get a tasty meal and you wont be sucking oxygen through a tube on your death bed for as long, it’s a win-win.
*paraphrased/stolen from some comedian who said it better, maybe Carlin or Stephen Wright I can’t recall.
Who eats that slow?
Yesterday my subdivision had a neighborhood cook out put with a great turn out. No one wore masks so chances are we will be responsible for the deaths of half the village.
a SUPER SPREADER event! Just like the block party I went to… and the record conventions. And the airport. etc etc etc
Land prices going down in your area?
That’s too bad. It’s been nice commenting with you. Let us know when you kick the bucket so we can have a toast in your honor.
You can toast him all you want, I’m heading to his house to nab all his orphans.
We get to see proof of concept in real time!
While crypto can be a useful store of value, it seems to, as of now, have limited utility in the main purpose of currency: acting as a medium of exchange. Not only is it not accepted most places, but from what I’ve read the fact that everything is logged means there’s a limit on how many exchanges can happen per day, drastically limiting its usefulness. Perhaps there are some cryptos that overcome that technical problem, or perhaps if crypto gets more popular there will be crypto “banks” that bundle lots of little transactions together into fewer, bigger transactions to make it work, but as things stand now (at least from what I’ve read), crypto seems to be more akin to gold than to dollars.
No intrinsic value
*looks quizzically at green sheets of paper with portraits on them*
Bitcoin doesn’t have a military that can protect the most repressive regime in the Middle East yet.
This could be an ad for buying more bitcoin.
The biggest limitations I’ve noticed are along the same lines as what you see.
1) the aforementioned limited usefulness due to most places not accepting them and/or not paying in cryptos
2) the aforementioned technical limitations on transaction volume (some currencies are attempting to fix this)
3) no clear winner/set of winners to gravitate to. Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed at scale, Ethereum isn’t popular enough to start clearing competitors out of the market.
4) even when the transaction volume issue is fixed, the transaction latency issue still exists at some level.
5) the value is all over the place, making it entirely too risky to hold on to in appreciable volume (even with fiat being inflated)
I don’t see how anyone that is considering prepping a valid option can also consider Bitcoin a valid store of value. It’s wholly dependent on technology to work.
I’d see them as hedging both bets.
Yep, that’s a very good point, too. Cash money works when the power is off.
This lecture shifted my views on currency quite a bit
https://youtu.be/AIjgt5xsDOA
Kruggerands.
Obligatory.
I don’t know, I am for the most part completely ignorant in these things but I listen to people. I have listened to people who have made bitcoin their sole source of spending money through the use of transfers to gift cards. Are they full of shit? I don’t know.
Turns out it doesn’t matter which way you put the recall ballot in.
The hole is worse because that’s visible in normal conditions and most people will refold the ballot the way it’s creased but yeah, they certainly went out of their way to be able to count them before opening.
I’m not turning mine in early, because I know – at the very least – these jerks will count up all the “YES” votes ahead of time to make sure they have the counters for them. Cheating weasels.
Yeah, I believe you should have to actually walk into a polling place if you’re not out of the state for a good reason. Like military or obvious travelling. There’s no reason it won’t work as good as it ever did. People can collect these mail-ins and just burn the yes votes. The tracking doesn’t really tell anyone anything. “Your vote was counted”, really? OK then.
https://mobile.twitter.com/walterkirn/status/1429900399612350475
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-23/china-crushed-covid-again-with-containment-on-steroids
Paywalled but how gullible can you be to believe that headline.
Threat to “democracy?”
That’s different. It’s not “our democracy”. It’s your democracy. “Our democracy” is threatened. Yours is not.
https://amp.9news.com.au/article/8d6732e0-7e77-4d77-9eac-e05d31e75df8?__twitter_impression=true
Fifth freest country in the world!
WE’RE 17TH!!!!! YAY!
Hell of a funny country once. Wish I’d overcome the fares and distance.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7r3r5e
Intinded S1 Eppisode 1. Eh, sod it.
Afghanistan and China are freer.
JFC
They really are determined to copy the Chinese.
Looks like it’s time to start *redacted* down under. The authorities have lost their goddamn minds.
Are Vax mandates and passports proof of rising social liberalism?
No. Rising authoritarianism. But you knew that.
Well that implies that social liberalism involves leaving people alone…
It always starts out that way when they’re deconstructing the pre-existing ethical foundations, but, invariably, the masses stare into the abyss, get scared, and start building authoritarian structures to keep the inevitable chaos from overtaking them.
Since I screwed up the link in the last thread…
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1428382828794978311
Two CA women caught on camera stealing recall ballots from a mailbox.
Keep it up ladies. Push us right into institutional failure. I’m sure that’s going to work out great for you.
Yep. And they just found a dude not far from me with over 300 in his car.
Second-most secure election in history, everyone.
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Social liberals have always been pretty authoritarian:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_theatre_closure_1642
Winston strawmans without assertion first that there were any social liberals in England in 1652, and secondly that it was said social liberals who ordered the closure of the theaters.
Were the parliamentary side social conservatives? What with their anti-absolutist, anti-aristocratic and anti-church mindset?
Also who are these “social liberals”? If we define them as those who want to leave people alone then that describes very few people, including most “social liberals”.
George McGovern for example was perfectly willing to interfere in people’s lives: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Nutrition_and_Human_Needs#:~:text=Titled%20Dietary%20Goals%20for%20the,more%20complex%20carbohydrates%20and%20fiber..
“Rogue” is actually a couple of steps above my opinion of actors.
At the time of the English Civil War, Actors were rated in the same social class as Prostitutes.
I’d say they have had too much status for centuries.
Yeah yeah yeah, we’re reliving the 70’s, except the music sucks ass and bush is only a fetish.
I may have a fetish then. While grooming is fine, the shave-it-all fad strikes me as weird and is a bit off-putting.
Don’t feel bad, I have a bit of a hair thing myself but then I came of age in the ‘80s. I’ll even take pit hair if it’s not ridiculous.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/report-taliban-sentences-to-death-brother-of-afghan-translator-who-helped-u-s-to-death/
Not even a little surprised. Some amnesty, eh?
Good news! Babs doesn’t have cancer.
Yay.
Though I fear I missed the concerning announcement that Babs might have cancer.
Who are we discussing?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BABS
My dog. That definition might fit her
YAY for Doggo! and you as well, 😉
Ah, thank you.
Still glad no cancer.
Ah. I thought you meant Barbara Streisand, and I was conflicted.
That is good news!
YES!!! HUZZAH!
Yay.
Hooray! Good doggie!
Woo hoooo!
Excellent.
Huzzah!
Worse, she has covid.
That is the best thing I’ve read today!
I’m happy for you Tulip!
O Frabjous Day!
Dogs deserve to be healthy. Great news!
Thank you all! I know she’s a dog, not a person, but she’s good company and I love her. I want her to be happy and it’s been hard seeing her not feeling well this summer. Finally she’s better, then this. The vet had me text pictures, were all “you need to come in, we can get her in today” which is never good.
More good news! My jalapeno hot sauces are starting to ferment. I see a few bubbles and I can smell them. One bubbled over a little and I got some of the brine on my hands – yowza! Got some heat.
Mmmm…hot sauce…
I’ll make a habanero one this weekend. I’ll add carrots, onions, red jalapenos, Anaheims and garlic. My habaneros are a bright red this year. And HOT!!!!!!
Wholesome (sorry, preverts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y01ti_VbDQ
Rule 34 implies that wholesomeness a fetish for some people.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1429870532221030411
Plague crosses are making a comeback…
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/modern-collectivist-trends-and-how-to-resist-them/
Another apt comparison to lockdowns is that the damage was wrought by the establishment themselves not some populist outsider. Woodrow Wilson for example was a Princeton Professor and Governor of New Jersey.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-trouble-with-virus-eliminationism/
Funny how that keeps happening. Enlightened Technocracy always ends up ignoring the science and engaging in old-fashioned despotism.
“Enlightened Technocracy” I have yet to see that in History, examples?
Didn’t Hayek do that proof back in the 1930s?
The United Federation of Planets. Yes, I blame all this on Star Trek.
OK, That one I’ll accept,
LOL!
And the UFP was nothing but a very idealized take 1960s liberal internationalism…
Roddenberry had the Socialism thing down
With for all purposes unlimited energy like they have in the show it’d be something that might be workable but with limitations it’s always a disaster. Even if we discovered workable fusion tomorrow I think the moral and ideological busybodies would fuck it up for all of us though.
Enjoy this gem from the Tesla forum on Reddit.
There is no reason why I should have to exit Disney+ to open the glovebox. There needs to be a glovebox option under controls in the app.
Mind you I’m very much of mixed mind about the electronic only latch on the glovebox. It’s cool and always self secures as much as any plastic latched glovebox can be. OTH, if or when it breaks it’s going to be a PITA to open and repair. Plus it requires two presses of the touchscreen to open.
It does, however, accurately describe the current generation of texting and driving and automobiles as appliances generation of drivers. An entire generation that has little understanding of anything mechanical, durable and essentially lasts forever. A great example is antique steam engines that still work to this day centuries later. Crap today is explicitly designed with a finite life. But let’s all be green buying a new electric car every three years.
There’s no reason you should be watching Disney+.
I feel dumber for having read the comments.
I really want off. I’m through.
Reddit is for porn.
I always think of the Chinese, when I hear this kind of shit. They must laugh so hard at the fact that the government doesn’t think we are responsible enough to open the fucking glovebox!
Remember when those retards set themselves on fire dousing the campfire with Blitz cans and then sued and won? The government mandated those spring loaded gas cans after that. I had to buy one of the first ones and I remember when it stopped dispensing gas the second time I used it, thinking about how lucky the Chinese are to get their own simple gas can which actually allows the gas back out when they want it. I had to get out my drill and use a super long bit to get the fucking gas back out. Insult to injury, it cost three times as much as a normal can.
The gym has the NUC evening news on. Nothing but people gleefully talking about new vaccine mandates.
But comrad don’t you want to do your part for the motherland?
Went to grocery store. Spent $25 for a half full plastic bag. Bought, a lemon, garlic, one onion, 6 limes, store brand block cheddar, store brand popcorn kernels and a $7 hunk of parmesan. Yikes
It’s insane isn’t it?
Not consumer related but I got another price increase from one of my steel suppliers. 18 fucking percent.
Looks like I get to piss my customers off again.
On the bright side, my $4.50/lb tri-tip experiment was a huge success! Tasty and tender. Cheaper than chicken.
Where are you buying chicken for over $4.50/lb, someone’s cornered the market. Around here it’s $1.99 at most and that’s for the overpriced breast meat, the good thigh meat is even cheaper.
It’s almost like different places have different costs of living.
Where I’m at, chicken is mid-3 bucks/pound. Sure, cheaper than $4.50/lb, but way more than what you are paying.
Okay, fair point, but what is beef where you are at? Maybe there is someplace where it’s cheaper to raise cattle than poultry but I doubt it.
Where I’m at? A lot more than chicken.
Funny, I bought some chuck roast for a chili last Friday, but I am drawing a blank on the price per pound beyond that it was more than the chicken I bought on the same trip.
Checking the base prices (no sales) at the mid-range grocery store here in Cleveland:
80/20 ground beef:
Choice – $5/lb
Chuck – $4.50/lb
Whole chicken:
Young Fryer – $1.90/lb
All Natural – $2.50/lb
Roasting Chicken – $1.70/lb
Beef:
Roasts – $8/lb (for at least three different cuts)
Strip Steaks/Bone in Ribeye – $16/lb
T-Bone/Porterhouse – $15/lb
sounds like what I see around here too.
The implication that normal people can figure out is that Tundra got tri-tip, probably on sale, for $4.50/lb, which is less than he’d normally pay for chicken.
Obstreperous people looking to pick a fight will deliberately not draw that conclusion.
Or, alternately people who never see chicken for anywhere near $4.50 /lb may wonder why chicken is so expensive where Tundra is buying his inexpensiove beef.
There was a big chicken die off and the prices went through the roof.
The ‘VID got ’em?
I think it was a virus.
Is there anything the ‘Rona can’t do?
Chickens have a virus (HPAI) that has a mortality rate of 100% if the chickens are unvaccinated.
Its been said that because vaccinated chickens can still pass the virus along, the virus has mutated to a more deadly form than it originally was. Ooops.
Science.
I’m getting organic free range chicken (I think the difference in taste is stark and worth it) for $3.50/lb.
Are they less laden with water? I try some of my grandma’s recipes and they all come out ‘watery’ and my sister and I can only think that its due to all the water they are pumped with
Yes. Also just taste more ‘chickeny’. More like the ones we raised.
Where are you, Tulip?
Hyp is partially right – I’m buying organic for my wife. I don’t eat much chicken or pork, so I don’t pay as much attention to prices.
All I know is that select strips were $7.99/lb, now they are $11.99/lb.
Ah that makes sense…you are buying premium pre-butchered pieces.
I’m in DC area.
Groceries for a week for me are now routinely over $100.
That did not happen pre-Lil Rona Insanity.
I eat crappier food to keep the bills down, lights off, don’t drive far, etc.
As I’ve pointed out before, prices have probably risen an average of 30% since March 2020 where I live, but what’s really odd is the way they bounce around from week-to-week: one week I can buy a roasting chicken, around 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs.), for about $7, and the next week you can’t walk out of the store with the same chicken for under $17.
It’s just bizarre.
Yes. I stocked up on my preferred coffee at 0.28/oz. It’s now 0.34/oz. But I’m watching sales. Quality has deteriorated as well. Celery was not good last time and I didn’t buy.
Quality is the noticeable thing we see in common across the nation.
We’re buying a lot more frozen veg to try and get around the quality drop problem.
I’m planting more for fall. We can do that here.
Good news! Couple more cantaloupes ripening
A little something to lift up the mood a bit, in these stupid times: Bokanté – Nou Tout Sé Yonn. It starts interesting but a little slow, and then gets really interesting starting around the 1:00 mark; by 2:30, it’s on, baby!
Hella Yes! Thanks!
Excellent.
more, they are great,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaRpmVqNl0U
Try this one: Dobet Gnahoré – “Yakané” —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE16OIHTqww
There were no effects on that song, the different guitars, Basses and Percussion, all well produced, provided the Timbre’ needed, wow,
RIP Don
Oh crap, I SFed the link. Try this.
Cool link, bro.
According to the threading, my nimble fingers beat you to the punch.
That was absolutely wonderful! That steel player was amazing, the vocals were perfect, percussion was insane and the white boys on guitar got it done. I sent it to my percussionist kids with a reminder to do better 😉
Thank you!
Agreed, I passed it along to my Cali collaborator,
/Music not War
CKUA keeps delivering, baby. God Bless Alberta.
I sent it to my percussionist kids with a reminder to do better
“Some days the old man really chaps my ass.” ?
In other good news, the animated Tick show is streaming all episodes on Hulu (even the ones that weren’t released to VHS or DVD).
Spoon!
Lovely
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histriomastix
Funny reading how much the Puritans hated theatre and Christmas.
And said writings sometimes got them into serious legal trouble:
John Lilburne by the way first made a name for himself when he got punished for publishing one of Prynne’s books. Prynne and Lilburne later had a falling out during the Civil War but both of them turned against Cromwell.
Henri has arrived late in southern NH.
Fucking French are always late.
But they usually bring decent wine, so I’m okay with my French rellies.
We had just over 24 hours of rain here. Parts of Greene County got eight inches of rain.
Yeah that thing mostly passed us by only to circle around us for a day and a half. And left another damn heat wave in its wake.
We’ve been driving side by side with Henri from western Connecticut to Boston. At times I couldn’t see anything in front of me on a highway.
The ultimate Glib revolver?
$1000 for a SMLE Mk V? Wow. The market has changed. I think I paid about $2000 for mine.
And yet another:
KutiMangoes – A Snake Is Just a String
I like this one, way jazzy, but a Groove, ooh and Synths!
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-public-schools-ctu-talks-covid-20210818-undjeyeu3ndl7mf7whajsipzq4-story.html
“Sharkey said the state should consider allowing remote learning for everyone, especially in the wake of the delta variant. Some schools around the country have opened their doors for in-person learning only to quickly close them again because of coronavirus outbreaks.
“The district isn’t willing to commit to the things that we think we need. We’re not willing to sign an agreement that doesn’t have those commitments in it,” Sharkey said. “So at this point what I think I would have to say is, that if we go back in and there’s a dangerous surge, we would count on the mayor and the district to do the right thing. And if they don’t, we’ll take matters into our own hands.”
If I was Lightfoot, my retort would be that the teachers either show up on the 30th of August on time or else their union will be decertified and mass firings would begin. The more you give these fucking hacks, the more they want and the crazy part is that CPS released their budget the other day ( a yuge increase from the previous year’s budget) and CTU basically said that it wasn’t enough. I don’t understand how parents and politicians don’t see that the teacher unions really hate children.
Deblasio claims out of one side of his mouth that the schools will be fully open and out of the other he creates a two-tier society where the unclean are not fit to participate in everyday activities.
Parents would have to be crazy to expect open schools at this rate.
I’m not terribly familiar with all the details of Chicago politics, but how dependent is Lightfoot on support from the teachers’ unions? My guess is that they’re pretty powerful. Didn’t Rahm Emanuel get taken to the cleaners by them?
Nope, Rahm got an Ambassador job, Japan or some shit.
The teacher union hate Lightfoot and endorsed her opponent in the last mayoral race, but for whatever reason she keeps on caving to them despite them constantly telling her to go fuck herself even when she gives them what they want.
And they are politically powerful but the shanagans they pulled this year soured a lot of people on them. If Lightfoot was half competent at her job, she could have gone toe to toe with their leadership and gotten the voters on board.
“Pentagon To Mandate Covid Vaccine For All Service Members; One-Third Have Refused Jab”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pentagon-mandate-covid-vaccine-all-service-members-one-third-refuse-jab
Dismissal of the of the refusers sounds like a good way to to get rid of those who would refuse to follow unsound orders. Probably a lot of overlap in those Venn diagrams.
Here’s a pretty good take from City Journal, of all places, on the hyping of COVID. One of the things that has bothered me for the last year is that not only is our political leadership utterly corrupt, it’s also pretty damned incompetent at its corruption. I think, if I were a Top Man trying to institute a technocracy of Top Men, I’d give the current crop a D-, at best. I don’t think they realize that a major element of maintaining a technocracy is maintaining that technocracy’s credibility. But, the current technocrats have squandered it. Censoring and smearing is a blunt, talentless means of maintaining order. It validates criticism as occult knowledge that you have to suppress. A talented and competent technocracy wouldn’t have sought to bully and silence dissenters. It would have arrived with plausible responses. It would have made a pretense of incorporating them into the process and thinking. The last thing it would do is personalize it and treat the dissent as a threat.
As I said upthread, show me a Technocracy that ever worked, Like rock stars, never believe your own hype,
Well, I think that depends on your definition of “worked”. If you’re defining working as getting optimal results in the world from your policies, as you say, virtually none. If you define work as maintaining your technocracy’s control with a minimum of fuss or muss, I’d say countless civil administrations over the years. What’s genuinely striking is how poorly our existing technocracy is at even doing that.
Agreed, but I see it as just a long proggresion of failed Ideas, and the technocracy just evolved with the times, Just Say’n
If a technocracy makes decisions based on politics they’re going to go into the ditch even faster than if they make decisions based on hubris and bad science. What we see now is a reflection of that. It’s not so much a technocracy as it’s a false veneer of supposedly science driven decision making covering for pure authoritarianism.
Yes! this sums it up well, thanks!
Yeah, Tierney’s been pretty good on this stuff.
But you’ll notice that this doesn’t matter. The IFLS crowd has firm control of every institution that matters. They are running the show with no serious opposition. They don’t need to be credible.
When you have lost the trust of people like me, long believers in real scientific inquiry, then you have a problem, and we have guns,
They don’t need to be credible.
In the short run, yes. In the long run, I’m not so sure. For a very long time, science was seen, rightly or wrongly, as sacrosanct and above the fray. Having a large part of the population seeing it as just another racket might not bode well for its future.
Oh sure, the long run gets ugly if people don’t wake up and fast.
But in the meantime the current elites have enough time to extract vast sums of wealth from the rest of us with no care for the future because why would they.
Wealth means nothing when cash and stocks are worthless. The rich will die in their mansions like the idiots who live in cities. Starvation is a bitch.
It will be those with the most weapons and ability to survive that win.
When we no longer agree on language and simple facts, the gap is way too big to bridge anymore. Each side decides what it’s own truth is until the sides are so far apart, they have no choice to split apart. 2+2 will never equal 5 for me.
got dang lil feller
Piece of Cake! We are just jealous of the agility
Forget Afghanistan, we should be sanctioning Australia.
Kind of hard to seem serious when we have Portland.