Monday, eh? It feels like it… grey skies, cold, wet and windy. So you get semi-depressing links to reflect this.
- Damnatio Memoriae
- The poor dears
- I both believe and disbelieve this.
- Something hopeful
Comments away!
Monday Links of Mondayness
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Swiss Servator
Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational.
Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.
It is indeed dark, rainy, and windy. I had a hell of a time staying awake today. It would have been a great day to ditch work and sleep.
I almost nodded of at my desk a time or two. Thank goodness I am WFH.
I wish I had. We got another COVID email o’ doom from HR — this one was all about the “well, we’re probably all too close to being federal contractors because parts of the company are – so we better all comply” and didn’t even raise the testing option from the last one. At least it was honest and said flat out that “the federal requirement is intended to be broad and include as many people as possible”. Then called it federal law, of course.
Let’s go Brandon. :grumble:
Yeah, that’s the same stuff I’m getting. And they made it a point to stress that testing wasn’t an option under the Fed mandate.
I thought I was going to make it through, but it’s looking pretty well now like I’ll either lose my job, or submit to Big Daddy Sugar in order for him to deign to let me keep my livelihood.
Burn the building down. Fuck em.
The fed mandate that has yet to materialize?
No, this is the one for federal workers that they’ve weaseled into applying to any employee who works at a place with a single federal contract. Even though I’ll never be in contact with anyone at the fed, the claim is it applies to me too.
Yep. The OSHA mandate isn’t public yet.
From the Reopen NH telegram channel, UNH is going to comply with the Federal contractor mandate. Despite HB 220, which prohibits NH state government or subdivisions from enforcing a vaccine mandate, being law now. UNH is state owned.
We’ll see how it shakes out.
Just like local sanctuary laws, right?
The commies and their useful idiots are still treading lightly because (1) there is no federal power to mandate Americans get some medical treatment (2) there is currently no federal law even attempting to push the mandate on Americans.
They are hoping most Americans get the jab based on propaganda and that is not working.
They could care less if anyone gets jabbed with anything. What they care about is that the sheeples obey.
Young people demand action!
Too bad the action doesn’t involve people toning down pushing fear and panic.
It also doesn’t involve anything that would improve the environment.
I’ve seen some short-form documentaries about that.
Even more compelling than the Moms Demand Actuon docs out there.
And yes TOK, that would be far healthier.
I’m sure the Moms Demand Action and Young People Demand Action series will do some sort of crossover event at some point.
There seems to be a whole genre of stepsisters demand action, from what I hear.
I’m glad to see you’re OK and didn’t get caught up in this.
“Es wird schon schwierig, denn die Delinquenten waren vermummt.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Miguel, a 22-year-old in Scotland, feels the same. “I learnt about environmental problems at school but always understood it as something scientists would fix.”
Evidently he never learned about tradeoffs, though.
Ah, that traditional Scotch name, Miguel.
Where is he from?
Not from Scotchland, probably
He’s Black Scots.
So we should Watch them then?
GAH! Who will narrow gaze the narrow gazer!
Its a bit of a Rorschach test….
I couldn’t be plaid to do that.
Irish we would all calm down!
If anyone else had made that pun, Swissy would’ve kilt ’em.
I wouldn’t have pict him to do that.
Sometimes he’s does unexpected things, sporrantaneously.
Narrator: Don’t believe everything you learnt at school.
“Young people suffering from climate anxiety demand action”
I hope I wasn’t so naive (stupid) when I was young. Maybe? I don’t know…
I suffered a lack of money, booze and female companionship, I don’t think it was any deeper than that.
I’m sure I was that naive and stupid when I was that age. The difference is, I wasn’t allowed to let myvanxiety rule my life, and the lives of everyone around me.
vanxiety
Portmanteau of the year, if not the decade.
Gold, Jerry, pure gold.
Damn, a complete accident, too. I never dreamed that i would say this, but thanks OpenBoard!
When I was in high school, I used to think that government created wealth….so I was super naïve when I was young.
In my artsy group there was a lot of “Free Nelson Mandela” stuff. Some people were angry about it but we all saved our anxiety for the regular teen stuff.
The media pump out these stories to give the impression there’s some sort of groundswell here, when there isn’t.
Today’s youth are just as angsty about the classics as ever but that doesn’t generate clicks.
When I was a lad, it was nuclear power. And a bunch of my friends would get arrested and released every weekend down by the power plant. When I was a senior, Global Warming ™ was first talked about, after a childhood of nuclear winter and global cooling.
Seriously, you would think people would have caught the grift by now.
When I was a lad, it was all nuclear war, all the time. Same complaints, too — “the older generation’s betraying us!”
The clock is still ticking
https://www.defconlevel.com/doomsday-clock.php
I was a lad in the Vietnam era. Big push to get into college for that sweet draft deferment. I suspect that this was a major contributor to the morphing of a college education into a “necessity”.
My stupidity is evidenced by the fact that I am the only member of my HS graduating class who did not attend college following graduation. Being underage (just turned 17) played a role, but when I turned 18 I sweated out the draft lottery. By then I was too busy getting stoned and hanging on the beach to give a shit.
Today on Amazon I ordered some of those disposable paper pouches you use for loose tea. I looked at one of the “featured” ones and out of curiosity I wanted to see where they were made. It’s not in the product description, but the “most helpful” question was “Where is this made?” and the response was “China”. So I found another one, and it had the same top question – “Where is this made?” This one was made in Germany so I bought it. Amazon may not officially tell you where things are made, but apparently that’s important to a lot of people. I was happy about that.
I know it doesn’t matter for tea bags, but Grainger lists COO for its products.
Just putting that out there.
Beware – some of those answers are agregated across several products, so you might still get one made in china whereas the person who answered the question got one made in germany.
Same thing sometimes happens with a single product where the same order page might get you one from any of a number of places.
But yes, it is the first thing I check.
Yeah, that is often one of the top questions on any product. I’m surprised they don’t delete those.
“The city’s February termination notice for Trump’s Ferry Point contract, which still had 13 years to run, stated it was “because the Trump brand is now synonymous with an insurrection against the federal government” and can no longer attract tournaments.”
Because no Republicans play golf?
I’d be surprised if that was a valid reason for termination as spelled out in the contract, but I’m not some super-smart government type.
It’s in the FYTW Clause of the contract.
I’m not sure if there’s a more petty, spiteful politician in America right now. He is so full of hate.
who is wanted on 18 criminal charges including breaking a spying law
In what U.S. jurisdiction did Assange allegedly commit these crimes?
Doesn’t matter, They Spied on US!!!! Trotsky didn’t make it, neither will you!
Well, unlike the drone killings – where we don’t pretend U.S. law has any relevance, offenses under a criminal indictment really have to have a legitimate jurisdictional component.
Kim Dotcom would like to have a word with you about that supposition….
It’s a secret.
Why not a drone strike you chickenshit feds, right there in London.
Well now. A guy I was hanging out with at beer club last week tested positive on Saturday. So, he was most likely covid-positive at the club meeting.
He is fully vaccinated (triple vaccinated on the day after the club meeting) and has zero symptoms.
I am living in fear that the worst will befall me.
Or maybe not.
Can I have your stereo?
I’d rather have his beer and mead.
Mild fever, low grade headaches, tired, 3 days or so,
Or you die in a hospital,
We actually discharge most of our COVID patients alive.
You discharge them just before the heart stops beating right?
Get your fish tank cleaner and horse dewormer, fast.
I have my zinc and quinine already.
Meh.
Well, god damn it!
God damn it to heck!
To be clear, that wasn’t to denigrate Kinnaths health, but in regards to Brooksing myself, in mind if not in spirit.
We’re good
Just don’t take any symptoms for granted. I had allergy symptoms, so I didn’t even think I was sick. The Mrs. had it worse so when we got tested, they gave her pre-emptive antibiotics and steroids to prevent pneumonia.
I am fully vaccinated — Moderna which is holding up better than pfizer or j&j,
Because Moderna’s dose is three times bigger than Pfizer’s. They are otherwise mostly identical.
https://gfycat.com/breakableickyflicker
‘Cause you got roughly 3x the amount of mRNA compared for Pfizer.
Since you are being encouraged to mix and match you can join us over in the J&J / blood clot side.
It has been nice knowing you, kinnath.
Sorry about your impending demise.
I’ve always been less worried about the actual disease than the possibility of having to quarantine because someone near me failed a covid test.
The question is what obligation do I have to notify people that I may have been near an asymptomatic carrier of covid.
The question is actually real, because I spent the weekend with a large group of people. One of these people is recovering from some form of cancer that has wiped out her immune system. She is already triple vaccinated, but I may have to track her down and let her know that I might have been exposed.
Get yourself tested pronto.
This was the right answer… Easy and free… Should set their mind at ease. If you are PCR negative, you are not shedding enough virus to be contagious
Do you contact anyone when you have the flu after being around others?
No? That should be your answer for contact tracing with kungflu.
It’s all fun and games until your dick falls off.
o_O
Which one?
Did I not mention that side effect of the shot?
But kinnath. You are fully vaccinated. Same as the person with COVID…
My sister tested positive last week, 2X. 1st was the quick test, second was the pcr test to verify. Other than “G_d I feel like shit” and “Ive never slept this much in my life”, she’s recovering quietly at home. Lost taste/smell, and gets winded easily, but the bitch also smoked 2 packs a day.
I told her that based on media reports from the past 18 months, it’s unpossible she recovered on her own, so Im planning her funeral arrangements despite evidence to the contrary.
My 74 yo un-vaccinated Mom got it and was better in a week.
It only kills people who were dying of something else.
We’re all dying of something.
Unless you had the vaccine shot..then you don’t die.
Not from Covid, true. But you still have to watch out for Alec Baldwin.
Colin Powell* has questions…
*fits my narrative today
82-year-old MIL had it last year.
“What was it like?”
“A bad cold.”
” . . . oh.”
EF has has a client or two who were, unknown to them, positive COVID when she met them.
And two people – in her office of 8.
And she never tested positive.
I believe the transmission is highly variable. I wouldn’t even worry about it. And this is from an unvaxxed guy who has been at airports, stores, several record shows, estate sales, etc etc
We think my husband had it last February (2020). This past August he and I helped a friend with COVID, and I was around her for a good portion of 3 days, including taking her to the hospital. She’s still in a rehab facility. Anyway, My Dude has to test twice weekly per his work, and he spent a test on me a couple of days after I had taken her to the hospital. He and I both tested negative. If either of us have been asymptomatic carriers, we don’t know about it.
We know from the diamond princess cruise ship in january 2020 that death rate would be <1% and transmission in <10%. They breathed recycled ship air and not everyone contracted sars-covid19 on that boat.
Why does learning make me so tired? The good news is I am getting better at drafting. The bad news is I need to get that better job so I don’t have to do any more fucking drafting. What a week so far.
Don’t sign up for NASCAR if you don’t like drafting
+ rubbin’ is racin’ !
/noHomo
Sounds amazing!
Right?!
I was watching Bridget Phetasy’s Weekly Dumpster Fire on YouTube, and a request came in to upload a video for work. So I switched accounts to the work YouTube channel. When you do that, it will continue playing the video you had been watching on your other account.
So now the YouTube algorithm thinks [US Govt Agency] watches Bridget Phetasy.
?
Thanks. Was unaware of her.
I have that same problem with pr0nhub and MS-Office.
“De Blasio’s bid to rid NYC of Trump name could cost taxpayers over $30M”
It’s been said many times before… The election of Donald Trump broke the brains of untold millions. I think the damage may be permanent.
It’s a relief to know that we are so much more civilized and sophisticated than those primitive iconoclasts of centuries ago.
‘The American Psychological Association (APA) defines climate (or eco-) anxiety as a “chronic fear of environmental doom”. It is not a mental health disease but rather a rational response to deep-seated uncertainty and, in the most advanced cases, it can affect a person’s daily functioning.’
Yes, hysterically calling for policies that will continue to impoverish billions of people and increase human misery and suffering for countless millions more because you’re feeling anxious about the future of a planet that has survived god knows how many volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, meteor strikes, magnetic pole shifts, and solar cycles is a rational response.
I think what I hate most about these people is the “Fuck you, I got mine” attitude. Climate Justice is the ultimate First World Problem.
Right. How about government debt and budget deficit anxiety?
Those are just like, numbers, man. Nothing a handful of trillion dollar coins can’t fix.
I don’t remember all the numbers but isn’t the earth supposed to be 4.3 billion years old, the dinosaurs were around about 200 million years ago but yet in the last 50 years humans have done irrevocable damage to the planet unless we spend a lot of money and do what a consensus of politicians force us to do. Bring on Climate Change and turn down the AC as you walk by the thermostat, will ya?
It was never about the planet, just our ability to live in a perfect static world, where nothing ever changes, and all sing Kum Ba Ya around an evirmently friendly LED Campfire.
Rational response, my ass.
Everybody’s in a competition to see who can speedrun Conquest’s Laws the fastest.
something something nuclear was in the 1950s – 1980s
So work that narrative. So NYC and Portugal are just going to have to suck it up.
New York City Inches Toward Covid-19 Becoming Endemic
Huh. And here I thought it became endemic world wide over a year ago.
“EXCLUSIVE: Goodbye Moon! Bedtime goes woke as books like Antiracist Baby, Daddy & Dada and A is for Activist are dominating the shelves with transgender tales and scary stories of police brutality meant to ‘indoctrinate’ toddlers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10128499/Woke-childrens-books-dominating-shelves-titles-like-Antiracist-Baby.html
OFFS!!
Narcissistic drivel.
I laughed at “My First Book of Protest”
My Mom had a technique for solving child protests. It was quick and effective. We rarely protested the same thing again.
My Mother as well,
I passed it on to my kids, very effective, it only happens once, in my experience,
??
Please tell me that’s parody.
IDK, but this one is – https://youtu.be/R87ttgSSnDI
For the first time, I thought “I would like to become a grandpa, just so I can read them that book”
I wonder how the rest of the alphabet goes:
B is for Butthole.
C is for Cunte.
D is for Dickhead.
Like that?
My research shows that
I is for IslamJ is for JesusK is for KinkyL is for Lead US
and scary stories of police brutality meant to ‘indoctrinate’ toddlers”
While extreme for toddlers, I’m glad to see the needle shifting on the whole “police are good guys” culture/indoctrination. We’ve made it very clear to our children that police are not their friends.
The other topics are insane.
The Babylon Bee on point, as usual.
“Dominating the shelves”. I wonder whether they are dominating the sales, myself.
I seriously doubt it.
“While many women bankrupt themselves to have a baby SUZY WEISS meets the bright young millennials who have already decided they NEVER want children and taken the irrevocable step of sterilization”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10129087/Millennials-decide-NEVER-want-children-taken-irrevocable-step-sterilization.html
“A Russia woman has welcomed 21 surrogate babies in just over a year with her millionaire husband – and insists she’s still a ‘hands-on mother’ despite spending £67,700 every 12 months on 16 nannies.
Kristina Ozturk, 24, who is originally from Moscow, wants a staggering 105 biological children with her wealthy hotel owner husband Galip Ozturk, 57, who she met while holidaying in the coastal town of Batumi in Georgia.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10128323/Russian-woman-24-welcomed-TWENTY-ONE-surrogate-babies-just-year.html
The duality of man.
So counter to the thesis of Idiocracy?
Galip had a busy year, Damn!
“San Francisco residents are hiring private security to patrol their streets in bid to stay safe, amid crime spike that has left many fearful of going outside during the DAY”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10128485/San-Francisco-families-hiring-PRIVATE-SECURITY-patrol-streets-amid-crime-spike.html
“Two San Francisco prosecutors QUIT and join campaign to recall city’s ultra-woke DA Chesa Boudin for releasing dangerous criminals onto the streets – with deadly consequences – and ‘ignoring laws he doesn’t like‘”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10128821/San-Francisco-prosecutors-QUIT-jobs-woke-DA-Chesa-Boudins-office.html
Totally unrelated.
This is how I expect things to end up. Armed private security for the rich, payoff to the local gang boss for the poor.
The purge, without official sanction.
Well, the third part of that is ‘unaccountable police death squads, ala BOPE,’ so it might just be the Purge.
I think I mentioned it before to you but you may have missed it. There is a very good Brazilian movie about the BOPE called “Elite Squad” in English. Well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.
“Texas braces for the ‘mother of all caravans’: 1,000 state troopers and Texas Rangers deploy to the border as 3,000 migrants prepare to arrive in days
A unit of 1,000 state police officers and Texas Rangers assigned to monitor areas along the Lone Star State’s 1,241 miles of border with Mexico is readying to guard against the next surge of migrants looking to defy President Joe Biden’s administration.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10129323/Texas-troopers-Texas-Rangers-brace-thousands-migrants-days.html
Defy what now?
“The caravan consists of 3,000 nationals from Central America, South America, Africa and Haiti”
Africa? That’s quite a walk.
None of these people are walking for much of the trip.
Just the photo ops.
The next phase
More proof it’s the Mark, JFC!
That is NYC today but I don’t think the enforcement is all that sophisticated. Certainly not in my neck of the woods.
The question that occurred to me reading that was “When does a society become so oppressive that you no longer owe it a duty of loyalty?”
If I were that guy, I really don’t think I could imagine myself being willing to fight for Lithuania’s independence. For what? To be treated like a conquered people anyway?
“When does a society become so oppressive that you no longer owe it a duty of loyalty?”
Hard to pinpoint, but I would say, sometime earlier this year.
At what point do you start owing a society a duty of loyalty?
Birth, because before that you are an unperson.
Does that apply to any society I might happen to have been born into?
(BTW, I’m being uncharacteristically serious.)
A very interesting podcast episode by James Lindsay: Welcome to the Second Enlightenment
Basically he argues that we are in the opening stages of a revolution for information that is equivalent to what the original Enlightenment was to material wealth. He says that Enlgihtenment 1.0 didn’t create a marketplace of ideas so much as a feudalist system for information transmission. He says that the wokeists detected the vulnerability of the information aristocracy’s grip on power and took the lead in exploiting it, but that the wokists will have only a transitory dominance because their Marxism means that they are incapable of outcompeting other factions that have a better grip on reality.
I’m only 20 minutes into it, and am not yet converted, but think it’s a very interesting take.
Hi tarran LTNS (KK)
I’m not a fan of audio-only presentation, but I’ll give it a listen.
Thanks, tarran. It’s in the queue!
Fully in possession of his intellect he is.
Biden repeats debunked Amtrak story for fifth time during presidency
My uncle tells a singular story that has a nugget of truth (army days) but is otherwise made up…he has dementia.
He got lost today and wound up in NJ to share his bumbled thoughts.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/senile-biden-stumbles-bumbles-blunders-throughout-speech-about-infrastructure/
Tea leaves: Read into them whatever you want.
Democrats sue USPS over “egregious” delays that threaten to impact Virginia’s race for governor
The Virginia Democratic Party is suing the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly failing to deliver election-related voter materials on time, claiming that the lapse “threaten[s] to disenfranchise thousands of Virginia voters” just ahead of the state’s consequential gubernatorial election.
The suit, filed on Friday in a U.S. district court in Richmond, Virginia, cites a “significant delay in election mail” in Albemarle, Portsmouth, and James City, calling the dysfunction “particularly egregious.” The delayed mail reportedly represents a quarter of all ballots in these three jurisdictions.
The suit specifically names Gerald Roane, the USPS Virginia district manager, and Frank Veal, the USPS South Atlantic division director, and plaintiffs in the case.
“Thousands of ballots delivered to postal facilities by the general registrars weeks ago are still outstanding and, weeks later, have not yet even been scanned into USPS’s system. Even if these voters do eventually receive their ballots before Election Day, the slowdowns promise that they will not have sufficient time to send them back with assurance that they will arrive in time to be counted,” the two wrote.
If you can’t trust the USPS to fortify your election, who can you trust?
They’ll still be able to vote in person correct?
You want to kill people?
Just the old and sick.
That desire seems to be growing.
Life in prison ain’t the deterrent it used to be.
You want to kill people?
Somedays, very much so.
Election Day is in November, I dunno what they’re talking about.
I’m trying to stay pessimistic, but these are not the actions of a party that has the election in the can…
Democrats sue was enough for me. Whatever they are suing over, they are wrong and mendacious – until proven otherwise.
This.
It is clearly misdirection. Perhaps the goal is to obtain some sort of consent decree that advantages them. This was a major play in 2020, used to gain a number of huge (and exta-legal) concessions.
Yup. Democrats successfully used friendly settlements to change government policies that congress or state legislatures would not change.
Its straight up fraud and judges should be striking down all past/future settlements on election rules unless they have legislature approval.
I cannot fathom how any of that is legal. Somehow you can just change the law in a meeting with a DA and a DNC lawyer? I really don’t think DAs have that power.
But the incompetent folks over at the GOP did nothing…. So there is that…
Are you assuming that democrats (faux Marxists) care about what is legal? LOL. By whatever means it takes, bro.
Its NOT legal. The constitution specifically states that only state legislatures and Congress can change election rules. Not the judicial or executive branches of state or the federal govt.
The SCOTUS should have thrown out election 2020 and made the House vote for president under the constitution. Guarantee that democrats never try to pull that bullshit ever again.
So, I have a simple question for these young people so upset by fear of ecological disaster. What exactly are they willing to give up to achieve their demands? Are they willing to give up their social media accounts? Or maybe their time at university? Maybe they’d be willing to settle for a career of going to the mill every morning, rather than their desired career as a “social media influencer” (whatever the hell that is). The bottom line for these young people, what price are you willing to pay?
I don’t want to hear about what they’re willing to demand someone else give up. Most of them have demanding other people give things up for them for the majority of their young lives. Most of them have lived the bulk of their lives to date as kept men and women. Not that there’s anything wrong with providing support for children. But, that’s also part of the reason why we don’t place much weight on what they have to say. They’ve never had to worry about trade-offs. Mom and Dad (or the state) have borne the burden of that challenge for them.
So, I really don’t want to hear all that much about young people’s demands until they’re willing to name their price.
Tradeoffs? Don’t talk about—tradeoffs?! You kidding me? Tradeoffs?!
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” – Thomas MF’n Sowell
I ❤️ that guy.
What you did there, Jaime, I noticed.
But that is their price. Other people sacrificing for their benefit is the sine qua non of their moral narcissism. They are the most righteous to have ever lived, and so it is only right that the burden be borne by those who willfully destroyed the world (read: were born a few years earlier).
But isn’t that Leftism in a nutshell? From climate matters to economics, the Left always require those who they want to impose their worldview on some sort of sacrifice. Look at the rich and powerful who clamor for gun control. They either live in gated communities or hire personal security guards to protect them while us peons have to depend on the police to help us…..and if they don’t help us then tough titties.
“Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
G. Orwell knew what the fuck he was talking about.
Yes, you are probably right. There’s certainly a common theme from the French Revolution to Marx to the default-left youth (thanks to the education system).
How come none of these kids read Animal Farm?
Why read Animal Farm when you can read some Ta-Nehshi Coates?
It isn’t the how-to manual that 1984 is.
Orwell and Huxley Under-sold it by a wide margin.
I always thought it was hyperbolic…. Then it came to my world and I realize that they were giving a watered down version.
Conversation heard in my house.
Son: “My generation is so much greener than yours”.
Me: “Great. Turn off the fan in your room when you’re not there. You are wasting electricity and it’s not doing you any good if you are not there.”
Son: “Huh? But my room is too hot. Can we get a window air conditioners just for my room? It’s too hot when I sleep.”
Me: “Well take off the blanket and just sleep under the sheet.”
Son: “But I like the feeling of being under a blanket in a cold room.”
Me: “And stop taking such long showers. It’s wasting water. We’re in a drought.”
Son: “But I like long showers.”
I see we share some common ground….
Son: “But I like long showers.”
I was about to ask #2 son why he takes such long showers. Then I remembered the good old days and decided against it.
True.
lol
A typical yell from house OBE “finish it up, you aint a porn star!”
The granddaughter lecturing us about climate change has announced she’s going with her sorority friends to Cancun for Spring Break. To be fair, she’ll need to get away from not so Happy Valley after tPSU loses three more games after being ranked as high as #4.
I would run that schtick into the ground until the kid completely realized the error of their ways.
Cut off tissue (trees are dying so you can jerk off).
Cut off TP for same reason.
Limit their food intake to simple foods like beans in a can, bread and water.
Make them walk everywhere.
Sell off all their electronics to offset their carbon footprint.
….
Afghan refugees take on the illegals crossing the border
“They’re taking our jobs”
I must have missed something, wasn’t there 13-14-15-16 K Haitians in one group just a couple weeks ago?
It’s Australia so you think they are going to force her to take the second dose after she recovers?
Australian actress fighting for life after suffering a stroke caused by AstraZeneca Covid vaccine’s extremely rare blood-clotting side effect
They’re going to forcibly inject her while she’s undergoing treatment if the scheduled time comes along.
“extremely rare”
“only 8 have died”
and on and on and on
How does it compare to her chances of dying from the ‘vid? Hmmmm?
You should really lump the J&J reactions together with it. Essential they same theory of operation. Also Sputnik-V if you could get any kind of reliable information from countries that use it.
How much do you push this. Can you afford to say f off when the booster is mandate? Asking for a friend
I’m pretty well set that I will refuse the booster, even if it costs me my job.
A man’s got to have a line in the sand, and that one will do just fine.
Well said.
I can muddle though somehow. I’ve done it before.
Posted on the overnight thread that my son’s tenured CS Prof just got canned for not providing proof of vaccinaction (he may or may not be vaxxed, but refused to provide the proper papers on principle). I guess that was his line in the sand.
They revoked tenure?
Holy shit. I never thought I’d live long enough to see a University do it (or even admit that it could be done). They’ve crossed the Rubicon with that one, methinks.
Not quite final yet, but he is not permitted on campus as of today. The sprout is pissed, that’s currently his favorite Prof, and as a CS major he is in a pickle now.
Funny, that is quite the shield they use when some soy leftist egghead calls for the extermination of every single Republican in the country.
[INSERT BULLSHIT HERE]-Studies Prof: We need roving band to icky gun owners to exterminate anyone who voted for Donald Trump.
Reasonable People: Hey Watsamatta U administration, if this isn’t illegal, it sure is divisive and inflammatory.
Admin: Hey hey hey whoa there bucko. This professor has tenure, nothing we could do even if we wanted to!
For some reason I’m still sailing the high seas and watching Lower Decks. I will give them some credit, while there are moments of pure cringe, they have improved their storytelling.
You should go to the box and feel shame.
AFAICT, everything on Bravo is garbage, save Top Chef (mostly).
Lower Decks =/= Below Deck.
I’m going to have to agree, since I don’t even know what the second show is. I’m talking about the Animated Star Trek comedy.
*checks*
Ah, thank you.
UnCiv, I apologize – you may exit the penalty box.
LOL
My wife watches that.
Because I do like Top Chef I have more exposure to Bravo shows than I’d like.
Hot garbage, the lot of them.
(though the real-estate shows are compelling due to the real-estate porn)
I don’t think I’ve even seen ads for the channel in some time. I couldn’t tell you what their programming consists of.
After who knows how many seasons, I’m kind of Top Chef’ed out. Same with Project Runway – not sure if that is still on Bravo anymore. The creeping wokeness was getting to be too much.
Never heard of Below Deck.
Lower Decks was surprise hit for me.
While I predicted the reset button at the start of season 2, the demotion wasn’t necessary, aside from the occasional whine about people ignoring his rank, the character dynamic could have stayed largely unchanged.
Uh oh…looks like Manchin might be caving.
Every man has a price.
Hiya Swissy!
This is all I’ve got.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/massive-protest-biden-mandates-thousands-filmed-crossing-brooklyn-bridge-shocking-elites/
City workers protesting. ?
Nice. Of course, if some enterprising cost-cutter tried to cut their bennies the shit would really hit the fan.
???
I like it..but to stay on target, they shouldn’t block traffic.
It’s okay when I agree with the message. Climate change or police brutality?… run those assholes over.
Some person did run a car into the crowd.
The top level is pedestrians and bikes only.
This requires tanks. Tanks is always the answer. I thought the Biden admin was learning from China? Meh, bunch of lightweights and pussies.
It’s like a catwalk up there. Tanks would probably plunge through to the roadway below.
Well, sounds like the typical Biden move. I mean unless he was saving the bridge to give to the Taliban.
As not seen on network tv……
“Abbott’s vaccine order is just as oppressive as Biden’s. Neither politician is willing to tolerate deviation from the one business policy he thinks is best.”
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1450674140512329729
Drugs? Ass? This is still retarded.
It’s on Twitter, so by default, I assume some form of mental defect.
Yes, assdrugs. But, any way you slice it, reason is being idiotic on this. And they get pretty beat up in the article comments. Of course, there are the same “I am the only real libertarian here, and I think it is totally as bad” shitheads.
Unreason uses bots to keep the comments from being totally against the commie staff.
Assdrugs? How do you use those? And I mean, where do you get them?
this was on Alex Berenson’s Substack:
URGENT: Covid vaccines will keep you from acquiring full immunity EVEN IF YOU ARE INFECTED AND RECOVER
Grab your tin-foil, but I saw where someone posited that “this virus was a beta-test- the vaccine weakens the immune system, then they release the REAL virus”.
/makes a Reynolds Foil hat
But then only us Heathens will be left, what then?
Saw this last week. Disturbing.
I read the paper that substack article links, and it didn’t seem to support what he’s claiming.
Your a stronger man than me.
More here: https://moderndiscontent.substack.com/p/clarifying-the-uks-covid-19-vaccine
“The reason why people who acquire natural immunity gain antibodies against the N protein is because the irregularity that occurs with viral replication (compared to normal cellular replication) will cause a cascade of cellular events where our cells recognize that something is not right and illicit an immune response.
So if viral replication may be a requirement to notice certain proteins we can understand why vaccinated individuals may not be able to produce antibodies to the N protein.”
OK, in order to be infected with covid (infection, not merely a case of it being detected in the nasopharynx) viral replication must occur. Even more so for symptomatic infections. More infection, more chance to gain antibodies against the N protein. So if the vaccine works, it would reduce replication, and reduce the chance of gaining antibodies against the N protein. If the virus mutates to have a different spike protein, such that it prevents the vaccine from working, then it would not reduce replication, and therefore would not reduce the chance of gaining antibodies against the N protein.
There is going to be a quiz tomorrow, but it’s an open essay on why no one uses tetrodes.
I understand the claim was based on a single footnote. The rest of the article didn’t address it.
There’s more discussion here.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/original-antigenic-sin
Thanks, I’ll read that later.
Anyone seen Suthen around? Seems like he’s been MIA.
I was thinking the same thing last week. I haven’t seen him around.
COVID got him /not serious
Gotcha, thanks.
Blackjack is MIA as well.
I was also wondering where he was. I miss that guy.
His last comment was over two weeks ago, he must have gotten tires of our shit, can’t really blame him, many of you people can be insufferable.
Yes, we are truly deplorable.
But not as deplorable as he is. That’s why I love him so.
Don’t talk about yourself that way! it’s unbecoming of you,
Before Halloween, be proactive by addressing these issues in advance and use it as an educational opportunity to discuss stereotypes, bias and cultural appropriation. Many children and families don’t realize that their costume choices are potentially hurtful or offensive. For example, a child who may be interested in Native American stories and history wants to dress up as a Native American person. Consider it an opportunity to talk with them about how Native American dress is not a costume. Instead, it is an essential part of identity, unique to each different tribe with their own customs and ways of dress.”
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/halloween-when-the-goblins-ghosts-and-stereotypes-come-out
“Before Halloween, be proactive by taping open your parents eyelids, and forcing them to watch reruns of F-Troop.”
Oh noez! I might offend someone.
“Remember kids: Everything you do or say is problematic to somebody no matter how innocuous or innocent the intent so we’re going to just have to suck all the joy and fun out of your childhood.”
So my lab coat from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with the name tag of Sum Ting Wong is a no?
Lacist!
+ Hoh Lee Shit
Well, at least it’s not covered with Sum Yung Gai sauce.
Are the Go-Go Gophers ok?
Their lips are sealed.
reruns of F-Troop
The tribe as portrayed by (((the tribe))).
+1 Mel Brooks,
“yeesh, they darker than we are”
Ya’all are too uptight. Decidely un-funky.
For a booster shot, take this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsWAnZ3d64I
“Funk not only moves, it can re-move, dig?
The desired effect is what you get
When you improve your Interplanetary Funksmanship.”
With lyrics like that, I was kinda expecting Bootsy Collins.
He’s playing bass.
No, that ain’t Bootsie, he’s badass!
Oh shit, I thought it was going to be Mothership Connection. I feel the fool now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT3ecv01xDE&ab_channel=RomNYC
I pity the, oh never mind……
OK, that’s just funny!
I think I like it….
The Democrats always go for broke. And why not? It seems to be a winning strategy in the long run. They are apparently willing to be kings of a dung hill.
All Eyes on Virgina
So, ZEROcare redux.
And in ’22 they will not understand why they lost the house, but the R’s will fail to reel this shit in. Again.
Click says the ratchet. They will enjoy their perks and pretend they are in a different party. When the majority of the Cons say the cunt Cheney, Shit Swampney, and Screwsie Collins need to go, then I will say they are a different party. There is only one party, the Swamp party. Change my mind.
Is that you, Block Insane YoMamma?
*chuckles*
Nope. Never posted on TOS.
I generally avoid the name twizzling, but fake righty fucks just make me pissy, even more so than the lefty spewing progtards.
^ I don’t see any difference between McAuliffe and Youngkin. Two sides of the same coin.
The Democrats seem to see a great deal of difference.
‘Tis better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
It never fails to amaze me that passing a blowout spending bill works in Democrats’ favor during an election.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Right, and Gavin Newsome was a whisker away from being recalled.
I was setting up my new work laptop today and managed to forget the password. Oops. I recovered.
FRANCE 24 spoke to several young people suffering from climate anxiety about their fears and sentiments of betrayal, grief and a loss of hope.
Unless France 24 smacked them upside the head and said, “GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!”, France 24 wasted its time.
Last month, Yahoo News reported CIA officials had drawn up options for former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration for dealing with Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, including assassinating or kidnapping him.
I’d be surprised if the CIA didn’t have such plans.
“I’m going to make bright, banana yellow t-shirts that read “My hands are up. Please don’t shoot me.”
Who wants one?
8:05 AM · Dec 5, 2014″
https://twitter.com/AlecBaldwin/status/540854350177140738
Does that mean that if I’m wearing the yellow shirt and my hands aren’t up, someone can shoot me?
I’m so confused.
No, only if you’re wearing the Yellow Badge of the Unvaccinated. Then you’re fair game.
Here’s the part that bugs me. Why was that asshole pointing a weapon at someone if they weren’t shooting at the time? I mean he hit a person who was not an actor in the scene? Is he just a really bad shot or was he pointing a gun at just someone? If they were not shooting and he was just randomly pointing a gun at someone, what the fuck? I mean, do not point a fucking gun at me, whether or not you think it is loaded.
We know Alec is a fucking asshole, that is a known.
According to what I have read, he was practicing cross drawing his weapon and training it on the camera for an upcoming shot.
Also, probably he is a bad shot. I’d imagine that for dramatic purposes, the shot involved him drawing and firing directly at the camera. He probably missed the camera and hit the people adjacent to it.
I really do not like that. Obviously, that was a real gun, not a replica for films or whatever. Never point a gun at someone unless you plan to shoot them.
Did it magically ‘discharge’ on it’s own? Is he a cop?
I’m not excusing it, just saying what I’ve heard. From what I also have read, it is standard safety practice in the film industry not do allow pointing at people. As I wrote a few days ago, I think I remember the Matrix commentary included a discussion of how they got shots of people shooting at the camera, which involved, obviously, blanks as well as armor glass between the shooter and the camera and crew.
Yeah, I get it. The problem is the media. They report these stories and then the immediately get to work trying to spin it for their preferred political agenda, not the truth.
They obviously love Alec because he’s a gun grabber and I’m sure they wanted to turn this into a guns are bad, mmkay story.
Only an idiot assumes a gun is unloaded.
So he didn’t check his gun first, then cocked an SA, pointed it at something he didn’t want to shoot, then pulled the trigger.
I can assume the gun is unloaded, but I don’t get to point it at someone and pull the trigger to find out.
Yeah, that’s what I get, but he’s so sad and it’s totally not his fault.
Only an idiot assumes a gun is unloaded.
I had this discussion with my gun averse spouse. She did not get it.
“The gun guy (girl) said it was safe.”
“The gun guy (girl) said it was safe.”
Said what was safe? I’m confused.
I learned from the time I was a kid, 10 years old, and I was given my first gun, you NEVER point a gun at someone unless you are ready to shoot them.
I think I told this story here or on TOS. But.
I was hunting with a guy in IN, we were hunting small game, I think rabbits. We were walking through a woods and I was looking at the ground, maybe for mushrooms because I think we were looking for those as well. I look up and there is the business end of the barrel of a rifle, about 3 ft in front of me, pointed directly at my face. I took one and then 2 steps sideways to my left and said, actually yelled ‘Point that fucking gun at the fucking ground!’. Guy was walking with the gun over his shoulder pointed directly behind him. I never went anywhere with that asshole again, once is too much.
Lots of things were wrong with the chain of events that led to the fatal shooting.
The most jaw-droppingly awful link in that chain is that members of the crew took that very gun and went target shooting for fun.
Really? Was that allowed, or did they just do it because they wanted to? And then they commingled the live rounds with the blanks??
This seems to be more on the “armorer” than on the actor. But he has more money so he will be the primary target of the lawsuits.
Maybe train ultra stupid gun grabbing commies like Alec Baldwin, proper gun safety before allowing him to have one in his possession?
Well, he was also the Producer..i.e the Boss, so he has that going against him.
“Well, he was also the Producer..i.e the Boss, so he has that going against him.”
But he’s never been known to be an overly cocky aggressive asshole who thinks it’s OK to assault other people, so he has that going FOR him.
I was reading that White House spokesman Andrew Bates feigned ignorance of the “Fuck Joe Biden” and “Let’s Go Brandon!” phenomena.
He’s either lying or is truly that out of touch. I could see saying “I’m not going to dignify that with a response” but to pretend it’s not happening? Really? Come on, man!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-claims-ignorance-on-popular-lets-go-brandon-and-f-joe-biden-chants?itm_source=parsely-api&utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=op_ed
The Socialists in the white house are so inept, they can’t even stay ahead of the news cycle, rendering thier propaganda useless,
Fools,
Considering that handlers sought out a severely disabled person named Brandon to push out the Build Back Better plan…I would say they know.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/10/22/did-biden-just-try-to-flip-the-lets-go-brandon-meme-n461136
So…you decide.
Boa tarde, unwokesters, shitlords, and imaginary libertarian women.
Manchkin
Manchin is a piece of dung. Anyone who trusts that slimy weasel are in for a big disappointment. WV, primary that fucking asshole.
I just got back from the West Vagina… err, I mean West Virginer.
The first thing I did there, wife and I were in our hotel room and I looked out the window and across the street I see a bar. So I said to wifey ‘I would like to have a beer and there’s a bar across the street’.
So we went over.
Well, that was not a bar for that hotel. It was a local joint and there were only locals. Nothing but drunken hillbillies. We loved it. I think it scared my wife at first, but everyone was friendly and talked to her and then she really enjoyed it. The high point was that one of the young chicks behind the bar… I think the chunkier one with purple hair was serving me beers, and on the 2nd one, my wife says ‘What are you drinking?’. So I said ‘Heineken of course’. And she points at the bottle on the bar in front of me, so I looked at it. When I looked at it I see that it was 0 alcohol beer. And then wife says ‘I took a picture of that and sent to my niece and she said ‘What is wrong with your husband drinking beer with no alcohol in it, is he OK?”. So I called purple hair girl over and said ‘Did you look at that beer?’. And she says ‘What’s wrong with it?’. So I said ‘There’s not any alcohol in it’. She looked sort of shell shocked and says ‘OMG! OMG! I’m sorry, why did I do that!?’. Anyway, everyone near us were laughing their asses off. One guy says ‘Hey, all the imports are in the back’. So she seemed sort of pissed because they were teasing her and she says ‘I know that!’.
Anyway, I drank 1 and a half beers with zero alcohol in a totes redneck dive and I didn’t die. Do I get a prize?
Oh, I should just add this important statistic.
I was in Walmart, several other retail stores, a hotel, and several restaurants and bars.
Overall, the mask wearing ratio was about 80-90% not wearing. Some places, 100% not wearing. Of the overall 10-20% wearing, about 90-99% of those were under 30.
about 90-99% of those were under 30.
I keep hearing this from people and it interests me because I’m seeing the opposite. I’m seeing some masks on the 20-somethings, but most are on 40-55 year olds.
I’m seeing some increasingly paranoid behavior from people, in general. 10-20% masked at the arboretum, which is 100% outdoors. I even saw a couple probably around 50 wearing masks and nitrile gloves outside at the arboretum today. I saw a masked family come to our church’s trunk or treat last night fully masked and promptly turn around when they saw how packed it was with heathens enjoying the outdoors without masks. *sad trombone* That event was 10-20% masked, too, and 100% outdoors. These people are lunatics. Whether they’ve been driven insane or it’s finally socially acceptable to fly their nutter flags, I question the sanity of and the safety of my kids around people who mask outdoors.
To be honest, a pretty large percentage of the mask wearers were teens or tweens. I’d say about half.
But overall, in WV, no one is wearing a mask. People from MD would have immediate cardiac arrest upon seeing it. That might be WV’s only saving grace outside of building a wall to keep them out.
I watched ‘The Planets’. I’m still trying to decide if the voyages records/photos/etc was the most hopeful gesture humans have ever made, or the stupidest.
We will do more than that I hope, we are destined for the stars ultimately.
Regarding the record and player that went with Voyager, maybe a map to our house and a description of how tasty we are wasn’t such a good idea,
Even in a million years, it won’t have gone all that far. Even in a star trek style galaxy, teeming with interstellar travellers, nobody is ever finding that thing.
It doesn’t really matter. We are never meeting any other intelligent living beings, unless we achieve faster than light travel. And for now, that is science fiction.
The distances are unfathomable, pretty much beyond human comprehension.
It’s sort of depressing, maybe, but it’s reality as we know it.
We still need to get off of this rock and spread out, it’s what Humans do, C’mon! it’ll be fun…
Yes, we do, me, you, and Elon agree on that. But we are not going to other star systems with our current technology. And there’s no other habitable plants in this solar system.
Depends on your horizon. Mars is habitable in limited form with tech available this century or the next.
But Venus is the real long term first step…. Maybe a thousand or ten thousand years from now… Transforming the planet is possible, and there is enough gravity to hang on to an atmosphere.
In the mean time, a magnetic field generator and a few hundred redirected comets could have Mars in a livable state within a few hundred years.
Or we could fall to the vagaries of AOC style socialism and kill off civilization in the global war that follows the worldwide economic collapse…
Yeah, I sort of said not with our current technology. There’s no life on Venus, period. It’s hot enough on the surface to melt lead and the atmospheric pressure would crush humans flat.
Mars is colder than fuck. And it’s dry as fuck. There could be some simple life there, but even that is doubtful.
I still think we try to colonize the moon and mars asap.
My original point is that we are not toing to ever meet other intelligent life at our current level of technology.
Well… Not at their place…
I can’t seem to post a link anymore. Weird.
Yep. I’m now denied the ability to post links anywhere. Anyone amongst TPTB wanna weigh in on what I’m doing wrong (or who I’ve pissed off)?
Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?
Larf,
First thing I try.
Masks on a plane: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/stewardess-comedy-gold-ill-put-the-mask-on-when-im-done-eating/
Has this been posted already?
“Swharma”
Lots of things were wrong with the chain of events that led to the fatal shooting.
The most jaw-droppingly awful link in that chain is that members of the crew took that very gun and went target shooting for fun.
Really? Was that allowed, or did they just do it because they wanted to? And then they commingled the live rounds with the blanks??
This seems to be more on the “armorer” than on the actor. But he has more money so he will be the primary target of the lawsuits.
You know that it was a purposeful act of satanic worship, right?
*spooky eyes*
Anyone subscribe to ESPN+?
Works great on the tv but won’t stream on my laptop. WTF?
Never tried laptop…only from our Andriod TV.
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1452607195011452928
Or, a better view…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5o4DoOqjl8
Some officers of the RCMP have set up a website to object to vaccine mandates. I suspect it’ll be too little, too late, but good on ’em for trying.
Looks like the Raiderzzzzzzz is number one in the AFC. How about that? Kermie was dissected and roasted, what I heard.
Rittenhouse gets some good news: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/big-win-for-kyle-rittenhouse-in-final-pre-trail-hearing/
“ Schroeder also denied Prosecutor Binger’s request to bar the defense from referring to Rosenbaum, Huber and Grosskreutz as rioters, looters or arsonists. The judge said those terms would be allowed if the defense can produce evidence showing that’s what they were.”
“ “If more than one of them were engaged in arson, rioting, looting, I’m not going to tell the defense you can’t call them that,” the judge said. The judge also ruled that the two deceased men and the injured man could not be referred to as victims.
“The word ‘victim’ is a loaded, loaded word,” he said. “‘Alleged victim’ is a cousin to it.””
That conversation shows that this case never should have been brought, and never should go to a jury. A directed verdict of not guilt should be in the cards.
Barnes fired a warning shot in their live stream Sunday.
Said prosecutor was planning to suborn perjury…. And said people have been assuming that nobody could check.. But they have a big investigative team and they know they have been lying. “you will get caught and we will pursue it.”
Specifically.. A witness says he heard Rittenhouse saying things about wanting to shoot people… He implied that using FBI footage and evidence, they can prove that he was never within 100 yards of rittenhouse.
Also… Said prosecution has been lying in the media to taint the jury pool.
Also… Said prosecution was trying to use anonymous witnesses so they cannot investigate them.
Also.. Said prosecution tried to sandbag with a last second expert on use of force… So they could not vet them.. (Or it took that long to find a credentialed professional who would say that it is not self defense to shoot someone who is trying to kill you).
Alos… Implied that the guy who pulled a gun and got shot in the arm fired his gun to start the whole thing.. As a way to stir things up.
Also… Judge not allowing testimony about the extensive criminal background of the attackers nee victims.
Heh, watching Sunday Night Foozball, Sea Chickens and Saints. My initial opinion is that they both suck. What is a Gyna Smith? Also, who is playing the QB on the Saints?
I know, some of you might not want to watch this, I mean if you are a KC fan, you might be too busy crying.