Jeez, dude. Pay attention.
Well unfortunately the Braves fell apart. But other than that, it was a glorious sports day. The Astros got their shit together (albeit late) and evened the ALCS. Liverpool beat Athletico on the road. And I got my flights booked for the Ohio State-Penn State night game. (Almost) all is right with the world. At least temporarily. Chris Sale is on the hill for Boston today, so my excitement for that series will probably take a dip this afternoon. And that’s sports.
Legend
English astronomer and architect Christopher Wren was born on this day. He shares it with such heavyweights as philosopher and educational genius (Learn By Doing) John Dewey, businessman Alfred Vanderbilt, actor Bela Lugosi, jazzman Jelly Roll Morton, neutron discoverer James Chadwick, banjo wizard Grandpa Jones, HOF slugger and power drinker Mickey Mantle, HOF hurler Juan Marichal, rocker Tom Petty, first baseman Keith Hernandez, filmmaker Danny Boyle, wrestler Razor Ramon, actor Viggo Mortensen, soccer legend Ian Rush, supercop Kamala Harris, actor William Zabka, rapper Snoop Dogg, and actor John Krasinski.
Right, now on to…the links!
The real Katie Hill
Here’s some incredible cringe. Like the cringiest cringe you’ll cringe at all day. It’s an incredible reframing of a pretty simple story of sexual intimidation and wrongdoing.
They should have put it in a cop for the added lulz. But aside from that, this is a hell of an achievement. Mankind is awesome.
They don’t even get through the first paragraph before lying to carry the Biden admin’s water. I also like the framing that the IRS could do this at any moment. As if their blanket “ability to collect taxes” gives then carte blanche to violate our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. Scumbags.
“Warns” it will drop? Hell, that’s about the only good news about this horrible piece of shit. And these shitheads are lamenting that fact.
I take back everything bad I ever said about In-N-Out. Well, everything except what I said about their fries. They still suck.
Smug asshole is smug
I guess this passes for nonpartisan reporting these days. Sorry, John, but you can assess your own risk and we can do the same. And it’s you that can shut (the fuck) up.
This guy is really bad at campaigning. But he’s still got a good chance of winning because who counts the votes is more important than who casts the votes.
This is gonna get even messier. I didn’t think that was possible, but now I do. It’s gonna get even better when the mayor says the fully vested can’t get their pensions if they retire in order to avoid the vaccine.
“Your body belongs to the state” -The US Supreme Court. Useless fuckers.
“I learned it from watching you.” -Texas republicans to Illinois Dems. Useless fuckers, all of them. End the Permanent Apportionment Act and this doesn’t happen anywhere.
This is a little more modern than most of what I play. But it deserves the play. Enjoy it.
And enjoy your day, dear friends!
RUN FOREST, RUN!
““RIGHT NOW, ALL I WANT IS A HEALTHY BABY”: FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN KATIE HILL IS READY FOR HER NEXT CHAPTER”
Does she know who the daddy is?
Yes. It’s a reporter that covered her for some time. You know, impartially.
I guess we know how she paid him to write this fluff piece then?
Well, we certainly can understand how he was covering her when she wasn’t covering him….
Technically, if she’s pregnant, then she wasn’t fluffing him.
Q says there are supplements you can take if you want to cover someone more.
Kaiju bone powder?
Rope-a-Dope” by Professor North
Start your day with the cringiest cringe and the rest of your day will be based by comparison. Good morning!
Good Morning All:
Todays shopping shortage story is…….paint.
Sherwin Williams is out of paint. (slight exaggeration)
Welcome to my world. My employer as well as scores of other painting crews have been forced to call multiple stores to hunt down a few gallons of paint for the jobs for months now. It’s so bad we’ve started raiding the big box stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s just to find simple shit like primer and even their shelves are getting pretty sparse. All you homeowners are just going to have to get use to doing with less.
But remember, it’s a demand issue, not supply.
/rolls eyes
Refusing to comply with the narrative the nomenklatura want you to articulate and believe in is grounds for government corrective action, citizen…
COMPLY OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES….
The economy is good and people just want to paint.
Things are so silly now that some painters are hiding on the shelf paint and primers behind other products so they can buy them up at a later date.
Nobody wants 36 types of paint.
I slept through my Econ 101 lectures, didn’t turn in a single homework assignment, and got a B. I think there’s something wrong about that statement.
I like to think pf myself as an “armchair economist”.
Yep. I’m contemplating using the old cans in the garage because my paint store is out of the primer I want. They have it in 5 gallon but not a single gallon.
slight exaggeration
Yeah that was a broad brush of the issue.
At least he primed us for the discussion.
Color me shocked!
As if their blanket “ability to collect taxes” gives then carte blanche to violate our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Why not? Tax authority allows the government to force you to buy health insurance.
From the Hill story:
‘She still runs through the what-ifs. What if she had served longer? What if she were a man? What if her relationship hadn’t been with a woman? What if she wasn’t bisexual? “I know I have my own responsibility…. I don’t ever want to take away from that,” Hill said. “I also felt like there was a fundamental injustice here that happened and could only happen to a woman.”’
JFC…
Yes, because no man has ever left office in disgrace after a tawdry sex scandal.
We’ve reached the point where the media are celebrating someone as a victim who used her position of power to coerce a subordinate into a sexual relationship. Because principals over principles.
WJC waves “hi!”
I’m picturing more of THIS
The media are so far divorced from reality it’s now actually obscene. You love (hate) to see it.
The key word from that article is “plotting”. Does that look like a rosy-cheeked expectant Mother to you? I thought not.
She looks like a bunny boiler.
She looks like she’s cooking that baby for food.
She’s not pregnant.
Her belly is big because she’s ate a number of babies already.
I learned a new term today. Bunny boiler sounds kind of cute…but isn’t. I like it!
“I will not be _ignored_, Waffles!”
Have you never seen the Michael Douglas public service announcement Never Stick it in Crazy?
I have not. But I might soon. Good date movie?
Democrats have to be dragged out kicking and screaming, so she is figuring if she was a guy, she could had Cuomoed that shit, and delayed any real action at first, and gotten more time on the clock…. Maybe even have had them give her an Emmy or some such shit…
All young hotties should have been honored to go down on Katie to thank her for her protection of their rights!
/late 1990s media
She’s not pretty, she just looks that way.
She has that skank vibe that some guys like…
Signaling sexual availability to attract mates is a thing.
…Is THE thing.
FTFY.
What if I didn’t abuse my position?
#Fail
THAT’S JUST CRAZY TALK, DUDE!
Why would you have a position if you can’t honestly abuse it?
/Every politician’s inside voice.
What if I had any class or morals? What if I kept my clothes on around my employees? What if I had been a faithful wife?…
What if she offered to spank the intern with that hairbrush while I filmed? It’s complicated, Man…
Self-absorbed without being self-aware. If evolution really worked, this would be an instantly fatal combination.
I also felt like there was a fundamental injustice here that happened and could only happen to a
womannon-Clinton.Fuck off, parasite.
Yeah, Boeing, it’s Florida…
It’s tempting to make a comment about letting it sit around for so long, but seriously, corrsion due to humid air? Yeah, it’s a thing, but also something with which aerospace folks have been dealing for, oh, over a century.
Later in the article,
OK, so ignoring the incorrect definition of “oxidizer,” they’re saying the interaction between humid air and the substance caused corrosion.
I don’t know whether this is really an “oxidizer” or an “initiator,” but we’ll go with “oxidizer.” In either case, this should be entirely predictable and preventable by proper line purge/cleaning procedures, or maybe even putting a canister of Damp Rid in the fricking capsule while it’s laid up waiting for you to fix the last stupid problem that delayed its launch.
I think it uses hydrazine mono propellant thrusters…
It might, but even hydrazine is not really a monopropellant. Hydrazine hydrate needs an initiator, which can be hydrogen peroxide, and anhydrous hydrazine needs an oxidizer, I think.
Here’s a link to a cool, history about development of rocket fuels and particularly hypergolic propellants and “monopropellants”: Ignition!
OMG! I’ve just read the Forward and Preface and I’m hooked. This is quite awesome, thank you for sharing it.
It’s really a fun read. Glad you like it!
That book is fantastic. It reads like the diary of a serial arsonist, except that the language is much more technical and I recognized some of the names.
https://www.satcatalog.com/component/mr-104j-440n/
These are the thrusters. I think they work like peroxide thrusters. it passes over a catalyst.
The fact humidity got to something that problematic that easily (just laying around), tells me this design has a flaw waiting to cause bigger problems during its lifetime…
Maybe they should go back to the practice of the days of liquid fueled systems using highly corrosive and dangerous components not fueling the vehicle until you decided it was time to use the fucking thing?
I mean, really. You don’t gas up the mower on Thanksgiving Day and expect it to fire up on the first pull on Easter Sunday. That’s crazy talk!
Anyone checked Richard Feynman’s grave for signs of recent rotation?
Actual footage of Boeing’s Starliner being constructed. https://youtu.be/H3hJQ_qiPDU?t=86
LOL
I would say Pigs in Space, but their ship actually worked.
Look, this was supposed to be a way to milk endless billions out of the government teat, not an actual working product. But now, thanks to SpaceX, they’re expected to make it work! It’s completely unfair!
This guy gets it.
For those who don’t know or don’t recall, Boeing got more than twice as much as SpaceX to build a ride to the ISS.
Congress helpfully delayed funding, delaying both selected spacecraft. The Russians intelligently raised prices for rides to the ISS.
As spaceX was closing in on completing their Dragon, Boeing went to NASA and asked for an additional $350 million to “expedite” the completion of their craft – to ensure that there would be no interruption in access to the ISS when contracts with the Russians ran out.
Since then, spaceX has completed the Dragon and is nearly done with their initial contracted flights to the ISS. SpaceX charges much less per seat to orbit than Boeing. They have enough capacity and capability to have handled the launch pace planned for both carriers combined, plus a tourist flight.
Happily, we will continue paying more for Boeing because we want competition to keep prices down.
yep! Plus we need to pay Boeing to build spacecraft so that we can maintain our strategic expertise in spacecraft building, in case we need a lot of spacecraft fast!
The boys at Electric Boat give out a hearty cheer of support.
You can bet that the recent announcement that the US would share nuclear submarine technology with Australia was a sop to Electric Boat and other contractors.
TDY jobs ahoy! Lets get the Hell out of Groton for a year or two.
“After initially proposing to track bank accounts with more than $600 of inflows or outflows, on the Treasury on Tuesday offered a new threshold. More than $10,000 in transfers in a given year would flag an account for reporting to the IRS, the agency said in a press release. Wage and salary deposits won’t count toward that threshold, the Treasury said.”
Bullshit. As soon as they have legal protection to track this shit, they will abuse it. You can bet that they will use this crap to go after political enemies of team asshole. The IRS should not be allowed to track ANYONE’S fucking bank account. Well, maybe they should track the account of politicians and especially those of Joe & Hunter Biden. That’s the real criminal class.
Why do you hate artists and their patrons?
I hate corrupt fucking evil assholes that want to lord it over us…
The ones that lie to us constantly, demand we bend the knee to the power of government decrees, censor those that refuse to shut the fuck up about that abuse, then destroy your ability to make a living to put you in your place…
If the cuntes doing that shit happen to be artists, then yeah, I hate their fucking ass.
So, erm, what’s the alternative for privacy minded folks like me? Withdraw paychecks immediately and pay for everything in cash? Convert it all into gift cards? Don’t worry about it because the IRS is going to bend me over either way?
Privacy you say? You must be trying to hide something!
No direct deposit and use check-cashing services.
Oh, and due to the amount you carry, always be armed and be prepared for a home invasion, as one of the clerks will recognize you coming in every other week and will mention it to her shady cousin, who will shop you to his dealer.
I’m wondering if cash accounts at a brokerage are able to skirt around the law.
I get a 1099-INT from Schwab, so I’m sure not.
I’m sure it’s probably reportable, but I was thinking along the lines of everything in a cash account is swept into different banks, so it might add a layer of anonymity.
If you want anonymity you need to have a Swiss or Bahamian bank account or be a member of the political class which is sure to exempt itself from this law…
FATCA essentially held that any bank any where has to comply with US demands if they hold funds of a US citizen. Even the Swiss have buckled.
So then all you have if you want privacy is to join the political class?
It’s good to be king (or one of his nobles).
I think the Swiss caved and will give you up if the IRS comes knocking.
Don’t remember the details, but I remember my Swiss neighbor being really upset when this happened. His take was that if people couldn’t hide money in Swiss banks, why would anyone respect their neutrality? In the past everyone left the Swiss alone because they all kept their money there.
Financial privacy?
Two options.
Barter.
Expat and dump your US citizenship.
OK, three options. Overthrow the US government and replace it with a minarchy.
4 options. 4th option being get rid of current corrupt govt officials and replace with US constitution and limited government.
It isn’t a question of a right to lie to the IRS. It is a question of the lack of probable cause for the IRS to search your account for proof that you are not reporting all your income.
Your point is very valid. I’ll go more feral and angry than you on this one. I’ll go ahead and say the “right to not tell the IRS about income you have” does in fact exist. And yes there is such a right.
Because fuck you. My income is the product my personal labor and is none of the business of the IRS whatsoever. If you want it, you’re going to have to compel my employer to forcibly withhold it from my wages and send it to you, under threat of intimidation, kidnapping, and eventual death if I refuse. Oh wait.
So the notion that I’m somehow going to snitch on myself and make your crimes easier for you? Again I say, fuck you.
At this point, it seems everyone could simply invoke their Fifth Amendment right against forced self-incrimination any time they are asked for financial information, because it’s impossible to know what laws one might be breaking at any time.
Employer income reporting, bank interest reporting, … those are directly tied to income. Looking through your bank records for indicators that you are hiding income is no different than searching your house because you could be violating numerous criminal laws. They are fishing expeditions.
See, those aren’t really your papers though, it is just the bank’s records about you. Just like ‘your’ cellphone data.
Was it ever private if you let anyone else in the universe know? Then why not big daddy gubmint? You hiding something peon?
You don’t own your body. Why would you own anything else?
$600 dollars of inflow is about what everyone making $15 a week is doing. Evil.
I have an accountant. I’m not going to lose any sleep over this.
It is clearly wrong, illegal, and ripe for abuse though.
I have an accountant too. Its unconstitutional under the 4th amendment. The federal govt only has the power to collect income taxes. They dont have the power to search everything and compel everyone to help this aim.
Otherwise the income tax amendment would have negated the 4th amendment and that was never the case.
Yep. And amounts less will be structuring.
More than $10,000 in transfers in a given year would flag an account for reporting to the IRS, the agency said in a press release. Wage and salary deposits won’t count toward that threshold, the Treasury said.
But as soon as you use it to pay your house payment and buy some food, we’ll start tracking you, you criminal cheat!
Which raises *HUGE* questions in itself.
As in *how* do they know what are wage/salary deposits? Heh, we’re fucked, thats how.
From the Supreme Court link:
True enough — but forced vaccinations aren’t going to stop the spread of the delta variant either, you idiot. Or do you believe we’ve eliminated the common cold / flus in past years too?
And re: the CNN jerk with his “I’m so glad I can’t bring it home to my 10 year old son!” — well, a) Yes, yes you can. (jab doesn’t stop transmission) and b) Even if you did, so WHAT? Other than your immunocompromised issues, what’s wrong with him getting the sniffles for a few days as is the case in what, 99.999% of kids his age for the virus? 90 year old great grandma? Yeah – I could see the concern. Healthy kid that will get over it and have natural immunity? That’s called normal life, especially for kids.
Besides all the crap from the jab — I really worry/wonder if this bizarre trend of masking / whatnot to try to shield everyone (especially kids) from any germ or virus is going to end up crippling their immune systems later in life. They’re *supposed* to get every virus under the sun that isn’t fatal when they’re young and strong and train their immune system… that’s how humanity works! :goes back to yelling at clouds or finding an onion for his belt [it was the style at the time] or something:
Case counts and hospitalizations are on a steep decline across the country. And none of their delta variant (how do you test for the delta variant anyway?) scaremongering about stadiums being super spreaders inn the south and Florida being a literal killing field of the unvaccinated, came true. You’d think they’d step back and realize their credibility is shot and maybe shut the fuck up for a little while. But nope. They are choosing to take their hectoring smugness to 11 instead.
It’s mind-boggling.
The left is still eating this shit up. All TMITE needs to do is keep the leftists frothing at the mouth so that they keep supporting the authoritarian power grab without a moment’s critical thought.
They are eating this up because it has very little to do with the virus and much more to do with environmentalism. The left feels/thinks that the earth has been polluted (Manicheism) and this is a way to show it. Oh, they will dress it up in “scientific” jargon, but that is what it boils down to.
And back that up with the love of central planning, as they fucking hate economics, and you have the perfect storm of derp.
11? You think they’re stopping there?
I mean, hectoring smugness is pretty well the sum total of their personality. Why would they fold a winning hand?
“True enough — but forced vaccinations aren’t going to stop the spread of the delta variant either, you idiot. Or do you believe we’ve eliminated the common cold / flus in past years too?”
Look at you arguing with logic and data instead of appealing to emotion or the power of government…
Good luck with that…
Until the government can find the magic incantation to stop the spread, your rights are the tissue paper the government wipes with.
Hill has been lying low since her congressional career blew up in scandal—now she’s expecting her first child, and is plotting for the years ahead.
That poor kid is going to have a tough Hill to climb.
At least she can only mess up a few kids, not most of them.
There should be no such thing as a political “career”. That was never how his country was intended to be governed. Term limits now.
Term limits plus the elimination of the permanent Federal work force.
Any ideas on how to reduce the power and impenetrability of the entrenched bureaucracy?
Make it into a contract workforce?
Really truly eliminate the revolving door?
Cut the budget?
None of those things will happen because the bureaucracy itself exerts outsized influence over the elected officials and how they write and enforce laws.
How do you excise a tumor that has grown so large as to be mistaken for the host organism itself?
“Any ideas on how to reduce the power and impenetrability of the entrenched bureaucracy?”
At this point I think it needs to be treated like a dangerous virus and completely be eradicated before we start over and make sure this entity can never again grow like the cancer it is today?
^This^ But who will do the eradicating. Woke Generals and Admirals will need to go first.
Let’s see you stop our newest 4-star admiral, then we’ll see who is a real man.
Dont fuck with that chick. She wears underwear with dick holes in them.
You can’t eradicate it, it is fundamental human nature to form bureaucracies. This has happened at Burning Man with a bunch of anarchist, drug-addled hippies.
Also, speaking of Burning Man – there is an archetype of entitlement expressed through “don’t you know who I am”. McAuliffe just played that with all the panache of Trump.
Lampposts and woodchippers.
Or you could go french and break out the guillotines.
‘Cause that ended the French bureaucracy…
Woodchippers it is!
Make it into a contract workforce?
And no person shall work on a government contract for more than 2 years of their adult life.
How do you excise a tumor that has grown so large as to be mistaken for the host organism itself?
Fire cleanses.
There’s not enough people integrity country to support a government any where near the current size with a two year limitation. Not that that’s a bad thing, but never going to happen. Besides, if everyone is on two year terms, who is going to know how to do anything? It’s a recipe for even grosser incompetence.
Most of the stuff they do doesn’t need to be done, much less done competently.
Features, not bugs
The bureaucratic class is by design incapable of self-sustaining. They’ll rapidly starve after the dollar falls out of bed.
Relatedly, there was an NPR story this morning. It was about corruption in the Detroit elected officials. There is one latina and all the rest are black.
NPR duly noted that the corruption is the fault of “the white establishment.”
Posted too soon —
the fault of the political class is never the fault of the political class. There is always an outside force that results in bad things happening or excuses their bad behavior.
TL;DR: The bitch set me up.
“I guess this passes for nonpartisan reporting these days. Sorry, John, but you can assess your own risk and we can do the same. And it’s you that can shut (the fuck) up”
HOW DARE THE WORLD INCONVENIENCE ME?
All you fuckers should take risks you don’t want to and do what you are told by an insane and evil bunch of government assholes that don’t even bother to pretend that they are sciencing like they used to claim their idiotic behavior of the past was steered bye anymore, so I can feel safe!
Maybe someone should tell people like this that the best way to satiate their anger us to nuke the culprits? We can then nuke the ChiComms and Washington D.C. saving our country in the process…
What’s insane is that they are telling everyone how they should live their life so that they can go out and enjoy doing the things they want to do. It never dawns on them that if they’re in the small minority of people who are at risk that they sacrifice their enjoyment for the safety of mankind or even that they stay home in order to insure their safety. They think of themselves as the elite and that the unwashed masses, who outnumber them by several orders of magnitude, should completely upset their entire lives so people like King can keep on doing whatever they want to do.
This guy can go fuck himself.
I think all people that think like this should go fuck themselves.
We deserve to have a big rock fall from space and reboot life on this planet because of stupidity and entitlement of people like this, but that would also punish those that know better and other entities that want nothing to do with these morons…
Back when this started, we should have told the people with bad health to stay home. Instead of cutting all those massive unemployment checks, we could have paid for grocery deliveries to the sick and old many times over.
The young and healthy could have just gone about our business and things would have been so much better.
I blame peanut allergies. We went way overboard coddling kids with peanut allergies and now we forgot how to tell people “sorry about your situation, that sucks, but the rest of us are going to live like normal and you should make alternate plans”
Sure, but check out the racist bullshit that passes for MSM “thought” on this issue:
I think the assumption that all Latinos in TX are team blue is not at all correct based on my Latino friends and customers. The ones I know tend to be very conservative and family oriented and most of this woke shit pisses them off as it’s destructive to the family.
Dems think they have a god-given right to the votes, hearts, and minds of Blacks, Latinos, and Women. And heaven help any people from those groups who start to think for themselves and not parrot the party line.
“Your body belongs to the state” -The US Supreme Court.
I wonder if they will be logically consistent and apply the same thinking to abortion.
Actually, no, I don’t wonder at all.
Hell, under that logic abortion is a two-fer – not only does your body belong to the state but so does the body you are carrying.
“Texas Republicans approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities”
There’s a whole bunch of assumptions and fallacies packed into that sentence.
All the darker-hued think in lockstep and opposite to wypipo.
I mean, this is like basic human nature stuff.
But all that packing and gerrymandering in Illinois is juuuuuusssssst fine.
It’s like the hypocrisy about Zuck dumping $400M into the last election (via grants to election offices). Can you imagine the smoking crater there would be if that had been Koch instead of Zuck?
There are a whole bunch of people, left right and center, who think that because of TRUMP!!!! all this was OK, and that we can now go back to normal.
Pandora’s Box is a bitch in heat though.
Huh, minorities are supposed to have more members of congress representing them. Never knew.
Minority district structure has become a Goldilocks issue. If they are spread too thin, that’s bad. If they are all packed into one district, that’s bad.
That is how the Supreme Court has treated the VRA and redistricting. Insanity.
But assuming people vote based on the color of their skin, totes not bad.
Local news has been all over the Ohio redistricting lawsuits. Keep in mind that the Republicans already have a supermajority in both of the state houses. From a local headline:
OT. Got this from my brother (NYC employee) this morning:
“Just saw that NYC is eliminating the Negative COVID Test option on Oct 29. I’ll be working on my religion & personal exemption requests today, but apparently I won’t be fired I’ll be put on leave without pay, so might not even be eligible for unemployment.
Guess I’ll be updating my resume as well.”
Burn in hell you evil fucks.
I’ve basically decided that if it comes down to it, I’ll fart around for a year or so rather than jump through hoops to try to keep my job. By then maybe the world will have come to its senses. Hell, maybe they’ll even hire me back (again).
Me too.
I was pissed when NYC forced me into retirement a few years back. Now not so much. Fuck them, I hope it all works out for your brother.
It just occurred to me; they see this as a way to lessen the coming shit-show of pension obligations!
I wonder what will happen when millions of armed, unvaccinated Americans suddenly have lots of time on their hands because they were fired.
Nothing will happen, which is why this authoritarian bullshit will continue.
^^^THIS^^^
They are counting on the fact that law abiding citizens will stay law abiding by nature…
It’s not accidental that they attack Christian religious people brutally and without regard of hurting their feelings, while defending Islamic fanaticism despite the fact that religion hates & punishes all the things the totalitarian assholes defend and peddle. Like all bullies, they only go after the ones they know will show restraint. They will not fuck with the real nutjobs that could be dangerous…
Based on my experiences in grade-school there is only one correct response for a sane person then. I’ll let you figure out what that is.
Unless you create hard lines, such as rivers or other permanent markers, as long as congress gets to create districts you will have this. And judges should have zero say in it. It is completely up to congress to draw these lines, ugly or not. This is what democracy looks like, and yes Martha, it is often ugly.
Worse is crap like California has, with “non-partisan” commissions, which is always bullshit.
I say get rid of districts altogether
I gotta wonder… How much did that Rehabilitation article for Kate Hill cost? She clearly hires some PR firm to get that published… Which is fine…. But why did they publish? Ideology? Or cash payment?
You miss the part about her letting the author of the fluff piece put a bun in her oven?
Wait…. That was the author? What?
That price seems a little high for a puff piece…..
I see your fail…
You are acting as if this dumb woman actually has the ability to assess risk vs. reward problems… She is where she is today because she seems to always fail those..
Also… I search Katie Hill on bing, turn off safe search, flip to images…. Only publicity head shots.
Add the word scandal. Get a few of the leaked photos.
How much did that cost? Free service of MSNBC? Or did they pay for that? No chance her nudes are not the top linked pics of her.
Also…. Photo was her with a young staffer and her with a bong. Would not either of those disqualify a male politician from showing their face in public?
Exchange of services.
After initially proposing to track bank accounts with more than $600 of inflows or outflows, on the Treasury on Tuesday offered a new threshold. More than $10,000 in transfers in a given year would flag an account for reporting to the IRS, the agency said in a press release. Wage and salary deposits won’t count toward that threshold, the Treasury said.
Banks could also round the figures they report to the nearest $1,000, instead of reporting exact figures, the Treasury said.
Still smells like some bs to me.
They’re trying to go after people who tend to have a significant portion of cash income, like restaurant waitstaff, handymen, independent plumbers, electricians, etc. who might give a discount for cash. That’s why they want to set the threshold so low.
You know, the rich.
$501 deposit=$1000
Funny….. How many people transfer less than $10k in a year? If you get $5,000 in welfare checks direct deposit and spend them…. That is $10,000 in transfers “in and out”.
I cannot imagine anyone who is able to get a bank account using less than that.
It’s no better than the first absurd proposal.
My counteroffer is that we dissolve the IRS and end Federal taxation.
Don’t fall for that artificial $$ limit they are now cleverly raising. The problem is the request period. Looking at people’s back accounts without a warrant issued because a crime is suspected and verified in some form, should NOT be allowed. Remember all the promises of checks & balances on the Patriot Act? Yeah, team Obama then used that vehicle to spy on its political enemies and is on track to not only get away with it but to double down on the abuse with this new IRS thing as well. In fact, I would not be surprised that they are already doing the spying on bank accounts, and are now looking to make it legal so they can actually use what they have without risking showing the plebes their rights are null & void with the evil ideocracy running the country.
I agree. Zero chance this is not used to target political enemies.
And since everyone that is not on board with the regime’s agenda is now an enemy of the state…
I think it is suspicious to transfer more thank 10k a year and it is also suspicious to transfer less.
+1 structuring
You know how you can tell our tripartite checks and balances are broken? This law was not deemed unconstitutional.
Structuring might be more heinous than the other biggies like qualified immunity or imminent domain. At least they have some basis.
Nixon is the gift that keeps on giving.
The good news is that now depositing anything between $400 and $500 will be “structuring”. Obviously you didn’t deposit $501 because you wanted to avoid reporture to the IRS.
Our European visitors are important to us.
This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.
I prefer the messages that are a short fuck off than this “Our European visitors are important to us.” bullshit
This is why we need global government to stop this kind of discrimination.
Let me translate: “GDPR is some onerous bullshit and we’d rather pass up some traffic than jump through all those hoops”
hey if glibertarians.com can do it everyone should be able to 🙂
LOL I doubt TBDB “did” anything to satisfy your tedious bureaucrats. They’d probably take one look at us and ban us immediately.
wut…
TBDBTPTBThe EU can’t wet their beak at a dry pond.
Grandpa Jones offers some sage advice – https://youtu.be/z7XXXmEGH7o
So what % of glibs would support the US to split in 4 5 different countries?
If all the libertarians got to choose one current state, and all non libertarians would ove out and libertarians move in, (and it would become libertarianUS as an independent nation) which would be chosen ? Not California because everyone want california (geography/climate wise) . I assume you would want one with ocean access not something landlocked.
“So what % of glibs would support the US to split in 4 5 different countries?”
Not me. This is not a viable solution. We should nuke DC. That by itself would solve our biggest problem.
Problem would be solved for all of 2 weeks. There are 200M bootlickers in this country and nothing will prevent them from oppressing us short of permanently removing their ability to accumulate power over us.
But that’s what splitting up does. The bootlickers in one country lose control over the other four. As opposed to CA getting to rule the entire US.
If all five countries have bootlicker majorities, yer fooked. But at least there’s a chance that each may be fucked in a way that is more or less palatable than the other to a given individual.
Burbclaves is about the only answer that would work going forward.
45 different countries? why not go to 50? 😉
Yes, I would absolutely support it.
New York, just for the lulz of having to kick out almost every single person here.
Oregon!
No division. The democrats already got that mulligan once. This is a commies in America must be removed from America type scenario. I dont want my kids and family having to deal with 5th element type treason every year into the future.
The sooner we get this civil war 2.0 over with, the better.
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Easy to wear, it helps create a virus free, healthy environment every time you wear it.
https://pureo2.eu/uk/pure-o2-pack-solid-badge-purificateur-virus.php
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There is a local scandal as a mayor of a town in Romania used 300k USD of tax money to buy these things
Wut?
Whiskey dick…
Droopy tits…
A hankering to fuck corpses….
“Do not use X if you are allergic to X.”
I just keep a mix of bleach and acidic cleaner in a glass on my desk.
Less Cops = Good but Good Cops Quitting = Bad. The last thing that anyone needs is for the King’s Men to become wholly dependent on Government dictates. Dark days ahead.
is it not fewer cops? Or are cops one uniform mass?
Yeah, this could in some ways actually make things worse, but what to do? The dems are masters at shit like this.
I’m human, and I can prove it.
To WordPress’ satisfaction, anyway.
“Hello, fellow humans! Would you like to rise up against our robot oppressors with me today?”
“I think we all still feel even more optimistic about getting to an agreement on a really transformational bill that will fundamentally lift people up,” she told reporters.
Lift people up while weighing them down with inflation, shortages and generally ever less freedom?
Mussolini overused words like “transformational” and “fundamental,” too.
This is one of the reasons I don’t take accusations of ‘fascism’ seriously.
In-N-Out was the only San Francisco restaurant that was closed for violating the mandate.
No Chik-fil-a in San Fran?
Why Vampires Hate Garlic – A Transylvanian Recipe from 1580
Tasting History with Max Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3R_ljOuptM
I don;t see why youtube does not consider this sort of stereotyping hate speech
Your lobby is not as powerful as it needs to be to get proper support from them…
Maybe you should pick some top people at Youtube, drain their asses, bring them back as your thralls, then see how that plays out?
No, he just talks that way. He’s always that annoying.
Trigger warnings:
Cultural Appropriation: Open mocking of Transylvanian accents
Derogatory terminology: Use of the “D” word (Dracula)
Perpetuation of Stereotypes: the myth that people who identify as vampires dislike of garlic
CANCELLED!
You beat me to it.
But seriously, how many of the “customs” like the Guarding of the Garlic are bullshit?
I do want to make that sauce though.
However, Max claiming that you can substitute turnips for parsnips makes me seriously question his palate.
but seriously, corrosion due to humid air?
Spaceships are made of mild steel. Don’t you know anything?
I once splashed some jet fuel into a spaceship, and it melted.
LOL. He went full Biden. You never go full Biden.
You do if the political machine says they have the ballots in hand….
Yeah, people act as if voting matters. After what they got away with in 2020 it clearly doesn’t.
OK, I’ll say it. When the elections happen and Republicans win, I am SOOOOOOO going to rub some noses in that. Oh I’ll grant you, they won’t win everything, everywhere – there is still plenty of corruption in the system, just not the entire system has been corrupted.
The main evidence of systemic corruption is that Republicans, when elected, do nothing to clean up any corruption. See the GOP Congress from 2017-2019 for an example.
This is the primary reason for such a decentralized vote system. Every precinct needs to be corrupted, and that isn’t going to happen without it all going federal, which is what the D’s are desperately trying to do.
Something like the presidential election being tainted by the effects of a few strategic precincts in a close race? Yeah, I can and did see that. But, no, not so much all the little ones that build up the house and senate.
Voting doesn’t matter, except to validate a corrupt and illegitimate government. We have little more real choice than the most blatantly rigged dictatorships. We have a ruling class, a uniparty with two fundraising wings. I don’t know the answer but validating what we have by voting for it isn’t it.
It might not be the answer, but it does buy me some time. That’s all I’m asking.
I used to think that Germany’s ban on political polling within 6 months of an election was censorship and therefore bad.
Now that polling is used by Dems to pinpoint which counties need “fortifying”, the 6 month ban is looking wise.
I used to think that Germany’s ban on political polling within 6 months of an election was censorship and therefore bad.
Now that polling is used by Dems to pinpoint which counties need “fortifying”, the 6 month ban is looking wise.
Your comments are for both sides of the wall!
I wonder if the margin of fraud is going to be enough for him.
SHAMA-DELAMA-DEPRSSSURE!
He has really been doing a shit job in recent interviews, not that it will matter.
When has a good politician ever answered the question? Just pivot into some other bullshit.
McAuliffe’s one of the surliest assholes in politics which is no small feat.
Doesn’t matter, I’m sure he will be “fortified” to reelection.
Did Blackface approve Fairfax’s request to ignore signature requirements?
After Miami and Italy now comes
Bikini Contest at Sue Island Grill in Essex, MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF1Re6twKz0
Is Essex MD similar to Essex England? Is the true the the only way is Essex?
Check Ass Wednesday’s undercarriage and give it a 12-point inspection. Don’t forget to lubricate the chassis before filling up the fluids.
https://archive.md/Bbd8K
Don’t remember seeing it in the news links yesterday afternoon, but Southwest just announced they were not going to continue suspending un-vaccinated workers. So, that should indicate the weather across the country should start clearing up, right?
HAH!
Like I said when Delta did this, aren’t they bound by Biden’s actual edict against Fed contractors (not the imaginary one against the entire American population)?
Yes, but even that (I believe) has the exceptions for medical and personal belief exemptions. From the article, the big pivot is that they’ll allow those who filed for exemptions to continue working instead of putting them on unpaid leave while the exemption is being processed. A small step forward, as it means there were apparently enough pushing for exemptions (and supporters of those going for exemptions) that the business changed course.
The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status.
The company’s Fisherman’s Wharf location — its only one in San Francisco — was temporarily shut by the Department of Public Health on Oct. 14.
Authorities said it refused to bar clients who couldn’t show proof of vaccination to dine indoors, as required by a city mandate that took effect Aug. 20. …
“We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” Arnie Wensinger, the chain’s chief legal and business officer, said in a statement.
When the state has a beef with you there is no escape from being ground up by the system.
Swiss is gonna chuck a narrowed gaze at you.
Well done.
That’s a lean pun.
Those are good puns, Walter.
It’s good that they are willing to steak out a position.
As long as they don’t get out-flanked.
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/14679901/girlfriend-ridicules-size-of-my-manhood/
Related:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23006745/
That was your study, wasn’t it Q?
No, this is my study.
https://ha.journals.ekb.eg/article_5243.html
I get that the want to get some pussy will force many men to deal with shit they otherwise they would never do, but this is borderline crazy IMO. I think the chick pegged him for someone that likes to be humiliated and she gets off humiliating him in this case however…
Cuck indeed Sir Q.
These guys are also always dating older women, I think something is broken in you to go after an older woman:
“I am 27 and she is 28. We have been together for three years.”
I once had a chick try to lash out about the size of my cock. Im packing only 8.5 inches but I have some girth to shock and awe. I laughed and went off to bang her sister. That sister still smiles and wants more when she sees me around town.
“More than $10,000 in transfers in a given year would flag an account for reporting to the IRS, the agency said in a press release.”
Isn’t that still pretty much anyone with a job and a bank account? That’s 10K TOTAL and that includes outflow apparently. Fuck that shit!
How many people in USA do not pay more than that on rent or mortgage payments? It has to be pretty low.
This is just another step towards creating a centralized nanny state that constantly spies on and harasses it’s citizens.
Direct deposit check from employer in, car payment, insurance, rent/mortgage, utilities and groceries out and you’re there twice over at least. The only people this won’t effect are the truly destitute who happen to have bank accounts.
Well according to the FED itself, the current poverty line in the US is $12,880. So basically by their own admission, anyone who isn’t a dependent, or homeless, is going to cross that threshold, and will be be subject to illegal spying.
Nah, can’t see any issues here.
Anyone who votes for a democrat must hate their self and everyone else too.
People that vote democrat will tell you with conviction that only people doing bad things would worry about things like this, then cheer when their side uses this as a weapon against their political enemies. Once they become the target themselves for whatever reason, they will act all surprised, though..
Our problem today is that so many people believe government is the best entity to solve problems instead of the real reason we have most of the problems we have today and that these problem creators have neither the incentive nor the desire to fix any such problems that keep the drooling morons that vote distracted from the criminality that they are all engaged in.
Just as with the prior $600 limit, they might as well say “every account is under scrutiny at all times, no matter what.”
Yeah and if the Republicans go for this there’ll be no more sure dead giveaway that they’re in on the game.
Wokebook
Hah, I like it. Although I was set on Derpbook, no one outside of this crowd would get that.
FixBook
In the interview recorded last week, a McAuliffe staffer is heard interjecting 10 minutes in to the scheduled 20-minute interview, prompting the candidate to cut short the questioning from reporter Nick Minock.
The audacity of that report to think a Dem candidate should have to explain his/her positions on issues and government.
Have you forgotten already that the Speaker of the House lamented the poor salesmanship on the part of the media for the hard slogging of the Dem agenda? She damn well understands their role and was not happy with their performance.
“So I’m grateful you’re all vaccinated,” he told his guests. “I’m grateful my employer says all these amazing people who work on the floor, who came in here for the last 18 months when we were doing this, are vaccinated now that we have vaccines. I worry about bringing it home to my 10-year-old son who can’t get a vaccine.”
My umbrella doesn’t work unless you use yours.
The city is on pace to lose more than 1,000 officers this year to resignation and retirement, the highest annual total since at least 2018.
That’s gonna make it hard for Mayor Beetlejuice to enforce convid tyranny.
“We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” Arnie Wensinger, the chain’s chief legal and business officer
Freedom loving quote of the day.
Not just city, county or state….any government. Well worded statement.
I live nowhere near an In-N-Out Burger, but I feel like I should mail order one to support this statement.
Do they have a mail-order service?
They are building one near where my new house is building. So, based on timing of that, I could get one of their burgers about 2027.
Having an entire restaurant mailed to you is probably going to breach that $10K IRS bank disclosure threshold.
Having an entire domestic terrorist restaurant mailed to you is bound to get you on some lists.
There is one north of me, but they are always packed and I don’t like the burgers that much. In any case, I think I might swing by in the next couple days.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to block a vaccine requirement imposed on Maine health care workers, the latest defeat for opponents of vaccine mandates.
Your body, my choice.
Justice Stephen Breyer rejected the emergency appeal but left the door open to try again as the clock ticks on Maine’s mandate. The state will begin enforcing it Oct. 29.
0_o
Was this another emergency stay request where Breyer decided to for his region?
I don’t see it blowing up anywhere, but on Rogan yesterday (with Michael Malice!) Joe said “we need to pause all science until we can figure out if masks work.” The true believers are going to be mad hoes.
Wokeism lost the country an Assault Carrier.
https://www.rt.com/usa/537921-navy-ship-fire-failure/
RT? Russian bot confirmed.
HOLY MAKEREL! That’s inexcusable; firefighting on a boat is too important a task to not constantly train for. Also, arson? WTF, Navy?
It was arson on the Bonhomme Richard, at the dock in San Diego no less.
Yeah, I guess I haven’t been following this, as this is the first time I’ve heard that it was arson. Also, yeah, I thought that the first training priority on a ship was fire fighting.
Oh that was when the focus of the military was winning wars.
Nowadays you have to find out if the conflagration identifies as a fire before fighting it.
Dont worry. The woke US Navy brass will double down and lose 2 carriers to arson.
But I bet they’re all up to date on their diversity and critical race theory indoctrination. We are so fucked.
Relevant
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/sailor-who-missed-mandatory-training-becomes-drug-dealing-sex-trafficking-spy-for-russia
Also…
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/chinas-terracotta-army-reaches-100-compliance-on-mandatory-training
Was that wrong? I had no idea that wasn’t allowed.
I laughed….cause seriously…I know more on how TO traffic than I do on how to NOT because of their training videos
^^^This. Everything I know about money laundering I learned from quarterly financial fraud certification training I endured over the years.
Some people saw this coming — I saw a great documentary on this back in the early 80s called Stripes. Took 40 years to happen, but they were truly prophetic back then.
Who knows whether wokeism had anything to do with this.
What I find interesting is all the news outlets reporting on the report, but I can’t find the report anywhere–it may not have been released yet. So, how are they reporting on it? Has an executive summary been released, or have the conclusions been leaked?
Maybe those reporting on it should hold off discussing its content until they’ve had a chance to read the whole thing?
Who knows?
Absolutely everybody who’s been paying attention to the Navy. May be true for the broader military – dunno. But navalists have been screaming into the void for about 20 years about what’s happening. See CDR Salamander’s blog as a good starting point.
I got out 25 years ago because the US Navy was going to shit.
Honestly, Im surprised there have been more incidents involving readiness of Navy assets.
I thought we solved this problem in WWII.
Texas Republicans approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities, even as Latinos drive much of the growth in the nation’s largest red state. …
“What we are doing in passing this congressional map is a disservice to the people of Texas,” Democratic state Rep. Rafael Anchia said to the chamber just before the final vote.
Dems still think they own brown people.
Check the presidential election results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr_County,_Texas#Politics
A border county nearly 100% Hispanic and Trump closed a 70-point gap. Something tells me Pachyderms will do even better in these counties in the future.
I believe and am willing to bet that team red will quickly find a way to piss away this newfound support by doing nothing to fix any problems once they are in power…
Its been a long time since I posted a Lets Brew Wednesday link.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/10/lets-brew-wednesday-1878-adnams-ia.html
Thats a lot of sugar and a lot of hops. The 19th century Brits did things right.
And since we were discussing White Labs yesterday, here is their description of the suggested yeast:
https://www.whitelabs.com/yeast-single?id=116&type=YEAST&style_type=0
“They should have put it in a cop for the added lulz. But aside from that, this is a hell of an achievement. Mankind is awesome.”
Well, for anyone having kidney failure, at least it’s hope. It ill take forever for this to get to market though. There has not been any improvements to the situation for about 60 years, since they invented the dialysis machine.
Is he breastfeeding?
If monarchy is rule by one, oligarchy rule by the few, and democracy rule by the many, a bureaucracy might be said to be rule by no one.
Perhaps no recent example better encapsulates the above observation by political philosopher Hannah Arendt than Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s largely unnoticed absence amid America’s worst supply-chain meltdown in living memory. Was Buttigieg ill? Fanatically dedicated to working behind the scenes? Nope! He’d simply punched out, like taking a personal day except for two months, in order to help husband Chasten recover from the traumas of childbirth.
I take it that his job is nonessential.
If it’s everyone’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault.
His job, his entire department…
a bureaucracy might be said to be rule by no one
No, that’s stupid. Bureaucracy is rule by a thousand petty dictators and nannies, with a heaping helping of rule by activist.
Sorry, Q. You’re gonna have to try hard to top this for hawtness.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1449860016081616905/photo/1
oh goddammit…
Fuck you Staff for making me see that evil shit…
It will now be at least 12 hrs before I will want to bang a pile of rocks again on the off chance there is a snake in there…
Welp.
Looks like I’ll be skipping lunch today; thanks a lot Straff.
Rule 34 says someone is pleasuring themself to that image as we speak.
Shhhhhhhhhh……………
*vomit*
Why did I click that?
I hate you, Straff.
I read all your replies and I still clicked and laughed
Bunch of babies up thread. I imagine Joe’s wang going through her roids like a machete in the amazon.
Bullshit..
Joe doesn’t even know where to find his wang and even if he could, he can get it stiff…
Thats the sickest shit I’ve read here to date, including anything by SF.
This. It was funny. So many are so squeamish.
SJWednesday: Sexing It Up
Of course the only real “safety gap” is that men are the overwhelming majority of work-related injuries and deaths. But you keep worrying about where you park, sweetie.
I demand gender equality in logging! And commercial fishing! And roofing! Garbage collecting!
We won’t have true equality until an equal number of woman and men die on the job!
Last I checked death or serious injury on the job were over 90/10 skewed towards men. Somehow I don’t think we will hear much about equality in this metric anytime soon.
How do these people get out of bed each day?
Lemme guess, they’re they ones who said “adulting is hard” unironically.
WE DEMAND EQALITY!
WE DEMAND SPECIAL TREATMENT BECAUSE WE ARE UNABLE TO DO XXXX!
No cognitive dissonance at all there…
It’s equity now, not equality (barf).
Literally everyone who accepts responsibility for their personal safety does all this. I do, except for the dumbass bit about using my keys as a weapon. I carry real weapons, I don’t need to improvise. Oh, and I’m not frightened of vans.
That’s the rub, though. I take responsibility for my own safety. I don’t try to offload it to everyone else (while simultaneously cossetting my victimhood like a Persian kitten.)
BitchFlicks.
Yeah, it ain’t men who are holding on to this. Same goes with nigga and faggot. They have become, as opposed to being no longer used in society like many words, an in-group term. And this makes the harsher version useful for outsiders.
Ask yourselves, men, do you feel safe on your neighborhood streets?
Yes, and the many women who I see walking through the neighborhood indicates they feel safe.
Do you choose where and when you shop or commute carefully?
I avoid bad neighborhoods if that is what you are asking. I also consider traffic and other factors.
Women don’t understand that men learn to assess danger and violence from a very young age and that males will not look up to another male complaining about his fears in that space. Every man learns quickly that if he acts as bitchy and passive aggressive as most women do with each other, he stand a good chance of having his ass kicked. Women like this complaining dilettante want to force society to allow them to be passive aggressive cuntes without consequences, and they need to make all men into pussies to get there…
Fuck that shit bitch.
refused to pay me when I was a running a car lot because “women can’t work in parking lots,”
Things that didn’t happen…
Ask yourselves, men, do you feel safe on your neighborhood streets?
Yes and I take responsibility for myself and exercise the best strategies to promote my safety.
On that first one: I assume she just had the car towed, because that’s what you do when you run a car lot.
There are plenty of women who do tough jobs. They tend to be hard as nails, do not take shit ever type of people.
The late, GREAT Alex Trebek:
Me: What is, THIS?
Me: Let’s keep it going Alex, I’ll take “shit the never happened” for $600″
Alex: Everyone on the bus stood up and cheered when you confronted a racist harassing a helpless black person”
Me: What is, THIS?
Alex: Correct.
Here they come.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-20/white-house-details-plans-to-vaccinate-28m-children-age-5-11
This’ll be the anvil that breaks the camel’s back for a lot of people. Things are about to get really ugly.
I still see parents masking their kids. I am not optimistic there will be significant pushback.
Children age 5 to 11 will soon be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their pediatrician’s office, local pharmacy and potentially even their school, the White House said Wednesday as it detailed plans for the expected authorization of the Pfizer shot for younger children in a matter of weeks.
A “vaccine” that is a new technology for a disease that children are not susceptible to and mutates constantly. What could go wrong?
About that… no… go fuck yourself.
Notice how they will find a way to give an emergency vaccination to kids at schools…but right now 12-17 year old need parental permission.
What a fucking end-round.
PSICA. Public schooling is child abuse.
It is the only way that they will get the children of the unclean…to do it behind their backs
“We’re gonna get those damnable
Catholicsunvaxxed trumpsters by injectingProtestantismthe clot shot into their kids.”The purpose of government schooling hasn’t changed much in 200 years.
Yeah, that is terrifying.
Brace yourself…
https://www.uchealth.org/today/covid-19-vaccine-trials-children-as-young-as-6-months/
Hey, at least they’re doing trials this time
Insurrection.
Wyoming lawmakers plan to hold a rare special session Oct. 26-28 to counter President Joe Biden’s proposal to require COVID-19 vaccination for certain workers. One proposed bill would impose a $500,000 fine for firing, demoting, promoting, compensating or refusing to hire employees based on vaccination status. Another would fine or jail public servants who tried to enforce federal vaccine mandates.
Here I sit. Drinking, smoking and Glibbing. I love you people but I’m caught in a terrible rut. Nothing interests me anymore. I wake up, have my tea, go to work, come home, have my beers. Rinse and repeat. I really wish that I had some religion but I just don’t. It’s just so grey. I’d love to believe but I just can’t do it. I never had any kids of my own so that’s an empty spot in my heart. Do I have to live this way for the next 20-30 years? Watching many of the people that I love die before me? Yep, probably… I haven’t spoken to a single one of my old cohort since about 2011. On that happy note!
Off to bed.
Pleasant dreams my homey.
Dunno what to say Festus. I’m in that same rut too. I try to find interesting things to work on at work or hobbies at home. Sitting around watching whatever is on tv makes it the worst. Not much of a people person so that isn’t so much for me. Find something to get you out of the house and around people with a shared interest. Take up birding.
Or embrace the suck and buy your alky by the case or pallet.
Love you Festus and please know that you are not alone in this world of ennui. Never forget that the detective agency option is always on the table; we could go after ciggy smugglers on the Rez, or those maple syrup thieves down Montreal way. Maybe there are some shady Albertans trying to pass off tainted beef and we could go undercover as cowboys.
Is that river boat in Howard Beach still for rent? Heh
Try to physically remove yourself from your routine, even for a few days. Do something completely different. Go camping or get a hotel room for a few nights, and check out another town that’s nearby.
^This^
Also turn off the news. Even maybe take a break from Glibs for a few days.
I’d suggest going to some small town. The people are probably going to be ignoring the vax/mask nonsense. They will also probably be open to chatting because you are something new. Always nice to have others think you are interesting.
This will be ironic, coming from me, but maybe moderate the booze intake for a few days, see how much of a difference that makes.
It _is_ a depressant…
You are a good bean, Festus. I envy your smoking, as long as they are cigarettes. But, go camping. Drive the Tacoma you love and get out into the woods, lite a fire, and just enjoy nature for a bit. Do something you used to find fun and see what you still love about it.
On the one hand, spending a week out here by myself has been the best thing I could have done for my mental (and probably physical) health.
On the other hand, I’m now realizing how utterly fucked up and unhealthy my home life had become.
I don’t want to go back.
Can you accelerate your plans to go mobile?
I’m thinking on it. My condo fees are insanely high, so paying those and paying to live somewhere else is going to be tough to figure out. And I can’t rent my place – it’s a shithole, and I wouldn’t even be able to offer a year lease anyway on account of the building being razed next year.
Maybe if my crypto takes off? LOL
Bitcoin topped $65k a few minutes ago…but by “take off” I assume you mean well over $100k.
Yeah, it’s not quite enough of an increase yet from my initial $2000. I have 5 different coins at the moment – I’m hoping one or two of the cheaper ones takes off.
Any of the small coins you have particular hopes for?
I’m hearing good things about SHIB. I have $50 in it as a test run. I’d like to diversify so I can hodl my BTC and use the others to cash out if they take off. I also have $50 in XLM, but that has gone nowhere so far.
I haven’t gotten into any of the smaller coins yet… lots of potential to lose, but the allure of a massive leap leading to instant retirement is of course tempting…but it seems like penny stocks. Luckily all my crypto started off as play money, but I’d hate to lose it to a dumb whim.
What would happen if your condo mysteriously burned to the ground?
Fight Club?
It’s complicated by the whole “other units in the building” thing.
I have some encouraging news. Last night we got free tickets to the Blackhawks home opener. They required either a vax or a negative test, and full masking in the building. Mrs. TOK decided to get a free drive up test at Walgreens. At the game they had people outside checking your papers, but it was a quick look and nobody cross checked with an ID. Inside abut 75% of people took off their masks the whole time. I even saw staff pulling theirs down. The whole night seemed really normal. Even in solid blue Chicago, people are tired of this shit and are minimally complying.
As for the Blackhawks, I think they would benefit from being quarantined for a few weeks so they can learn to play hockey.
Everyone is playing the ‘health theater game with the masks and Vax records. Knowing some person at the doors to these are not officers of the law and work for the event and don’t care.
Same when we went to Knights game a couple weeks ago. Minute you entered the building masks were off save a handful of faithfuls
Excellent.
I went out to a crowded bar and had a bunch of drinks with an old friend while watching the Sox shit the bed. The same bar I’ve watched many championship runs by various Boston teams over the last 15 years or so.
Nary a mask in sight.
It was a nice piece of normalcy.
I note the defense hawks are all pushing the hypersonic missile arms race crisis right now.
They must sense threats to their budgets, you know… like an insufficient increase in funding.
Gotta spend all that Afghanistan money on something. Can’t give it back to the taxpayers!
Hopefully, they’re getting back to their roots and embracing critical arms race theory.
*golf clap*
Boo. Boo, I say.
I don’t get how this is some unprecedented threat. It’s not like a first strike with those things could knock out our ability to retaliate with 500 nuclear tipped conventional ICBMs.
Without us being able to do anything about it? Maybe nothing preventative (not that we could defend from a full on ICBM attack either), but we could sure as hell retaliate. MAD didn’t go away with the Soviet Union.
A: (responding to the quote, not you) This capability, and this test, are not surprise. At all. Not in the least. They’ve known for years that it was coming, and have willfully ignored it. Both from a defensive side and from a matching-capabilities side.
B: So yeah, there’s such a thing as MAD if you cross the huge nuclear threshold. The thing is that for EVERYTHING short of that, this capability does matter a lot. The thing that’s not mentioned a lot is targeting, and when it is mentioned, the US hand-waves the threat away with “well we’ll go after their ability to see us…”. Large floating targets at sea will still be hard-ish to find and target with these, if they re-learn emcon. But (just sticking with naval examples) everybody already knows where every pier is at Norfolk and San Diego. And the drydocks at Newport News and Puget Sound. Etc.
Here’s where I don’t understand the uniqueness of the threat. I get that these skim under the space focused “defenses” and “warning systems” targeted at traditional suborbital ICBMs, but these aren’t exactly ground hugging cruise missiles. The reduction in warning time would seem to be some relatively small amount corresponding to time saved by “skimming along” at 50k feet rather than boosting up to 50 miles, but there will still be advance warning. Best they could hope for is the old SR-71 conundrum of “by the time we see it, it’s already out of range”.
If these missiles are equipped with conventional warheads, I would think that the threat would be equivalent to them saturating the defense network with cruise missiles. It would probably cost them just as much to get 10 missiles through either way.
Short answer that’s not meant to be fully comprehensive: reaction time.
If (for example) you can only really sense the incoming threat when it comes over the horizon, then a faster thing leaves you less time to see it, make sure you see it, decide what it is, react, catch it if your own systems are fast enough, etc.
Yeah but MAD was with the Russians who are basically white and rational.
You can’t predict what those Chinee will do. Those yellow bastards are totes inscrutable.
Happens when, as Eddy Murphy pointed out, you have a rice dick and people make fun of it even though it is operational… You end up over compensating!
Cuck.
Netflix Inc. Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos said he “screwed up” in his efforts to communicate with employees who were upset over “The Closer,” a recent comedy special by Dave Chappelle in which he made remarks that some viewed as offensive to the transgender community.
In emails to Netflix staff after the special’s debut earlier this month, Mr. Sarandos defended “The Closer,” citing its popularity on the platform and the company’s commitment to creative freedom. He also said the company believed “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” …
“What I should have led with in those emails was humanity,” Mr. Sarandos said in an interview Tuesday evening. “I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting.” …
“To be clear, storytelling has an impact in the real world…sometimes quite negative,” he said.
The special was kind of lame and unfunny anyway.
LOL
They’re beholden to their activist employees now. There is no escape from that trap. Netflix has just sealed their fate over the long term.
A) I’m so glad my interview with them was a nonstarter.
B) they are/were insane about their hiring process and trying to make sure they hired the “right” people with similar drives and thinking. Employees who just want to do their job and go home were not welcome. Biting them in their own ass.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency-and-blunt-firings-unsettle-the-ranks-1540497174
To be fair, every potential employer says that. But yeah, most of them know it’s bullshit.
They want to become Blockbuster without even a tech advance to knock them off.
Yup. 100%
Man, I was enjoying seeing someone show a spine. Too bad.
Puts the list back to:
1. Coinbase
2. ???
Will the satisfaction gained by coddling Netflix’s fifty trans employees make up for the tens of millions of dissatisfied consumers who feel let down by safe walking on eggshells content? I sort of doubt it but what do I know?
A group was really hurting because of a television special that they didn’t have to watch and I’m guessing few of them actually did. What the hell?
Yeah but others were able to watch and that cannot stand.
*still confident in my habits of mostly viewing old shit*
Oh, they watched it. It’s like poking at a zit.
I wonder if the Obamas got paid their $50 million up front, or if they might be calling this guy and telling him he better not kill the golden goose before they get their eggs.
These crooks think they will find a way to make money from these fanatics….
“I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting.”
The fact you should’ve recognized is that they’re looking for any excuse to *act like* they’re hurting. Ignore them like you would a child’s tantrum.
I decided that to help them, I had to fire them.
Surely being kicked to the curb and finding yourself unemployed and without a job will teach them what real “hurting” is. When they recover from the shock and get a new job, I’m pretty sure they will learn from this experience and thank me for teaching them how to be a better adult.
Shorter: Vanguard and/or BlackRock told me to sing a different tune.
They don’t give a fuck about the employees, never have, never will. It’s a business, not a feel-good shop. Even “woke” businesses still only care about the bottom line. Anyone who thinks otherwise is missing the tail that’s wagging this dog.
I gotta believe some version of this. Could be other important connections… Regulators, banks, tech companies, content providers…..
Absolutely zero surprise there. Reed Hastings was the major contributor to Newsom’s fight against the recall. Of course it is mostly empty platitudes as no fucking way are they gonna dump Chapelle’s new special and the next time he wants to do one they will be in the top bidding spots for it. I haven’t seen it yet, but I thought Dave’s last effort was far superior to the
prior one and that it came somewhat close to his earlier stuff.
Please tell me this is true.
If you play the latest Chappelle special backwards around the midway mark you can hear “I love Satan. I am a bigot and Satan’s helper. I will do bad things for Satan. He is the light.” It takes a few times and careful listening but it’s definitely there.
https://twitter.com/JohnWhi49165788/status/1450705113849364481
I bet you this is a rumor started by the Netflix boss trying to find a way out of his conundrum…
“What I should have led with in those emails was humanity,” Mr. Sarandos said in an interview Tuesday evening. “I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting.” …
“To be clear, storytelling has an impact in the real world…sometimes quite negative,” he said.
Grow the fuck up you malingering crybabies. Now get back to work.
The obvious answer is no more compelling stories.
Nothing to see here: This explains everything
That can’t be real, is it?
Nice. “pROFiT RuINs eVERYthInG!” Except that, amirite?
I still “member” when these leftiods used to complain about evil big pharma not making drugs that would stop diseases because there was more money in making treatment drugs…
Today they have all forgotten they used to believe this…
It’s kind of sad. Thinking that your left leaning ideology = corporatism. I mean, I had a little respect for them before.
I kind of understand it though. Team blue morphed from the party of the small guy into the party that colludes with the billionaires practically overnight when they realized there was much more money in aligning themselves with that crowd and then ripping tax payers off. A crime syndicate will commit crimes. The sad thing is so many team blue followers willingly made the 180 degrees flip to justify the things team blue now stands for, and did it without any sort of crisis of conscience when the preaching went from stupid marxist shit to evil marxist shit…
Retired U.S. Admiral James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the apparent Chinese test “an important surprise” for American, “because it demonstrates the capability to have a very long-reach hypersonic weapon that could cause a lot of damage without us being able to do anything about it.”
“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed.”
So kind of like it was up until some time in the ‘80s before semieffective ballistic missle defense was a thing. What’s old is new again.
I’m sorry, if I am going to listen to an admiral with a girl’s name, I’m listening to Rachel.
Bela Lugosi’s Dead
All this saber rattling between the US and China is all about logistics.
The Chinese economy is running out of everything. Blackouts and food shortages are making the regime nervous. They might decide to focus that anger at outside enemies and take aggressive actions.
You know. A supplies attack
Boooooo.
When China jumps out of their naval fleet and invades the first island chain shouting “SUPPLIES”, I’ll believe it. I told my mom last night that I do not support war with China and instead support war with our true enemy, the US government. This made her upset with me. 🙂
Well, now that our government is trying their best to emulate China and they are already inside the gates, yeah, you’re right.
Given the amount of money our pols seem to have taken from the CCP, our govt could reasonably be considered to be a fully owned subsidiary of China.
Boooo. Boo. I’m not sure that even falls under Swissy’s purview.
*dances wildly with joy*
I admit I am a bit worried about Swissy. The spike in his BP when he sees my comment can’t be healthy.
You demand!
*squints*
You oriented that one nicely.
I can’t believe no one has responded with more bad puns. What are you? Yellow?
I cannot in good conscience write puns with a racial slant.
It is a slippery Slope,
Wee mei nee sum sensitivity training
Dim sum bad puns guys.
I’m sitting in a motel room in Pocatello, watching The French Connection, waiting for that crazy car-on-train chase scene.
Yesterday, I think I made a deal to rent a shop for the winter (the guy needs to confirm the tenant is moving out by the end of the month). Last weekend when I called the guy he said he didn’t have any vacancies. He called me back Monday morning and said this tenant just told him he wants to leave.
This morning a place popped up on Zillow I really need to go see.
Dumb luck: I’ll take it.
I slept in a hammock outside Pocatello for one night on my way to Wyoming a few summers back. Kind of wish I was somewhere West right about now. But I’m making living where I’m at work for now. Really working on the big three, housing, job, relationships. In that order but reversed.
Anyone able to vote in New York who can still be arsed to try. There’s a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year that just screams “burn everything harder” Proposal two’s ballot verbiage is
Now you know that’s just going to be abused like hell. Why else would they put it out on an off-off year?
November 2.
Ooof, they’ll abuse the hell out of that.
Whycome you want unhealthy?
You want Kathy and Co to decide what counts?
But… she knows the will of God!
I think I won’t bother. It’s going to pass in a gigantic landslide.
Just like Amendment 2, the Free Puppies For All Act.
I’m going to vote in favor of it, assuming I have my ticket out of here by then. 😀
Wuhan got its hands on another disease.
The conventional understanding of the spread of tuberculosis, a deadly infectious disease that claimed the lives of more than 1.5 million people last year, was upended on Tuesday after South African researchers claimed aerosols — tiny droplets that are exuded while breathing — are the main contributor to its transmission, the New York Times reported.
The findings, presented at a virtual conference, shift away from the widely-believed hypothesis that coughing, a signature symptom of the disease, was the primary means of circulation. The report indicated scientists believe as much as 90% of the tuberculosis disease released by an infected person could be carried in the aerosol particles.
The disease is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis and often targets the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body like the kidney, spine or brain.
It was previously believed transmission primarily occurred through coughing, which sprayed heavy droplets containing the bacteria onto others, according to the New York Times report.
We just have to trust that America’s doctor can save us once again. 5 masks this time.
Breathing releases earth killing CO2 and disease! We must stop all people from breathing if we are to be saved!
Yes, and what color will everyone turn? I think we both know the answer.
Why did they think Jo was the one to put the money on? Shitty management.
Blonde…
Music!
https://youtu.be/IqP76XWHQI0
NO FUCKING WAY!!!!
So we had government employees using paid time to campaign for one politician/party, and nothing will come of it. Now redo this story with a team red membership pulling this stunt and see how the media would be handling the story…
They took vacation time to work on campaigns. What are the rules on outside work when off the clock?
Meh, PTO is personal time. Hell, the only way to make sure I’ll even get any days off is PTO, because on a regular day off they could just call me back in.
Not arguing that CPRM… Pointing out that this would have been a serious crisis had the teams been switched…
Is that story also on CNN? Cause if not I don’t believe it
Lowes just reached out to me for a job at the Pro desk, I think I could do it, even with my back issues,
the irony, it burns!
Lowes > Home Depot
10% off for giving up 6 years of my life! Also, my USAA debit card magically gets me discounts without even asking at many locations.
I know more than you.
That’s me when I shop there, hence the Irony,
I always thought it was clothes iron not clothes irony
Good morning, peeps!
Did I miss anything?
Nice song, Sloop! Ear worm material for sure.
Peak Woke?
Don’t we wish. But I’m pessimistic on this one. They’re not going to stop until society is reverted back to little constantly warring tribes and any functionality society has ever had has been reduced to the ash heap of history.
Woke would have been kaput already but a lot of powerful and influential people subscribe to it for various reasons. It may be pulled out by the roots eventually but this is not the end or even the beginning of the end as it comes to woke but it might be the end of the beginning.
The truly powerful don’t really believe it, but is a very useful tool for generating chaos they can profit from.
^^^THIS^^^
The woke is a tool, not an objective. It has been useful for coding opponents into silence, justifying censorship and executive overreach and stifling political contributions to enemies.
They can smell the finish line. They have successfully blocked most means of mass communication with out groups… So the right can speak to the already converted and no one else. They have successfully convinced all major outlets to become team players, pushing propaganda on demand. They have successfully fortified elections in key states.
They have the banks doing their bidding, tech companies, hosting companies, movie and tv entertainment companies, major retailers, publishers, important appeals courts, trial attorneys, the FBI, CIA and IRS… Purges are underway in the military,
And they are putting permanent damage in place with trillions in damaging spending, terrible policies and immigration failures… Ruining the economy, bringing back poverty through inflation, bringing back racism ….
They think this is the end game. They are on the edge of replacing our constitutional republic by stealth and division, and they know it.
Everyone else is starting to figure it out… But they are years behind and do not understand the end game.
^^. All that “new normal” rhetoric they’ve been pushing since ’08? Yeah, it came true. We’re not getting the 2010s back, let alone the 1990s or earlier.
This is why the vaccine is the hill to die on for me. It does me and my family no good to capitulate on this one. It only gives them more power and makes me weaker for the next line they decide to cross with impunity. We cannot capitulate our way back to normalcy.
Peak woke is caused by outsized influence in social media. Until massive social media platforms are out of vogue (appears to be coming soon) the woke BS will continue. I think the same amount of people hate wokeness now as did two years ago. The real metric is that I have never heard so many people say “tired of this social media crap” as in the past four months. That is the bell weather to watch. Facebook and Twitter will fall, just as General Motors failed in the car industry in the 70’s. Customers will leave their platforms for competitors, or for nothing at all. After all, Facebook is not a necessity of life. It’s like a retail shop specializing in parties in an economic downturn, subject to the fickle whims of society. Ramble Complete.
I mean a certain variant of woke may reach its limit, but the delta woke variant will come soon after and start anew
Genius
Woke is just a variant itself. It’s disparate impact focused race grievance gussied up with critical theory argle bargle.
Race grievance goes away only when it becomes socially unacceptable to blame your race for your bad lot in life. I’ll not be holding my breath.
Stretching Exercises by Valeria7K. Yoga Streamer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D0cD9qTE5k
High Slit Dress Haul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSi9BhBae4
I also hold congress in contempt.
The Jan. 6 House select committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to refer former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution in response to his refusal to cooperate with its investigation, paving the way for a full House vote on the matter, which is planned for Thursday.
“Mr. Bannon stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena,” said committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. “He’s chosen the path toward criminal contempt by taking this position.
“When you think about what we’re investigating — a violent attack on the seat of our democracy perpetrated by fellow citizens, on our Constitution — an attempt to stop the certification of an election. It’s shocking to me that anyone would not do everything in their power to assist our investigation,” Thompson said.
Thompson added that the committee’s rapid move to force the issue with subpoenas sent last month, followed up by a prompt criminal referral, should be a warning to anyone else who might consider noncooperation. “I want other witnesses to understand something very plainly: If you’re thinking of following the path Mr. Bannon has gone down, you’re on notice that this is what you’ll face,” he said.
What’s shocking to me is how cuntey, dishonest and authoritarian you dishonest, lying, authoritarian cuntes are.
Related.
Discussing the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot voting to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, Cuomo said, “The idea of privilege for Bannon, first of all, it hasn’t been asserted.”
He continued, “But the bigger question, Don, you got nothing to hide. Why not come to the committee? Or at least if you want to show contempt for the committee, show up and plead the fifth.”
Lemon said, “Because you want to – it used to be Republicans would say no man is above the law. No one is above the law. We should all be treated equally. Law and order until this fellow, this sort of shady real estate kind of person came along, and then changed all of that, the narrative for the Republican Party and showed that some people are above the law, and they’re actually are going to stand and are standing behind the right they believe for people to be above the law. And Steve Bannon is not. The former president is not, or should not be. But we haven’t really seen that Republicans stand by that whole law and order mantra or motto.”
Because it is everyone’s duty to legitimize a kangaroo court fishing expedition.
Telecomm question: do satellite providers throttle data the same way terrestrials do? I’ve noticed the TV freezes here at night to such an extent that it is unwatchable. Same with YouTube – even if I set the quality to 144, it still takes forever to load & buffer.
Weather in area? Solar activity?
Or a vax walkout.
IIRC, satellite internet companies have land-based proxies that compress, de-encapsulate, and otherwise reduce the size of (downstream) internet traffic before sending it up to the satellite. I’m not sure if it does any dynamic adjustments on video streams or if it possibly interrupts some of the end-to-end stuff the advanced video services do.
I doubt they “throttle” so much as they adjust their network to match the quality of your satellite link. Of course, that’s two sides of the same coin.
Also, the issue may be the uplink side of things. If your uplink latency is high enough, YouTube could be resending a lot of the video because it’s not getting reply packets from you in time.
you should move in a nice civilized place with cheap broadband like Bucharest
What sort of connection speeds do you normally get? FiOS has me somewhat spoiled at home, but even Verizon’s 4G network has enough oomph to allow me to use phone as a wifi hotspot to enable Plex streaming to tablets and Roku TVs (only up to 1080p, 4k only works on the house network).
Satelite TV or Satelite internet? No on the former, yes on the latter.
Satellite Of Love?
Cambot, give me Rocket Number Nine!
In retrospect, Lou is too depressing; I shoulda gone with this – https://youtu.be/tIfRRDOdRrg
Fun Fact: That album was among the first tranche I appropriated from my parents when I was maybe 9 or 10. I love it to this day.
For Satelite TV nights (during the vegetative season) can be bad because anything getting in the way of the dish and the satelite can mess things up. Storms tend to come at night, causing interference. As well, dew accumulates and weighs down branches that would not normally obstruct the path. I have also observed, but not seen data to the fact, that HD signal loss on dish systems takes less obstruction than on an SD system.
All the time?
When we had satellite TV, I’d notice that when there was a significant amount of water (either heavy rain or even virga at altitude) between my dish and the satellite, the signal was disrupted.
So the satellite provides both internet & TV. However, I haven’t figured out how to actually watch real live broadcast TV, so I’m using the apps available via the smart TV.
It was windy earlier in the week, but last night was calm, no rain for days, and I couldn’t even watch the true crime app on the smart TV. It would play for 30 seconds, and freeze for several minutes.
I have only had issues at night with streaming stuff. Looking at Twitter or Glibs or Facedump is not a problem.
And you can forget watching Twitch because you can’t adjust the quality on some of the streams I watch (not sure if that’s universal to Twitch, or just the way the individual streamers set it up)
Apps can all act different. WAAY back, I bought my dad a DVD player that had a Netflix app on it. The app would only use the 1080p version of the stream. So if that was too much for it, it would freeze. At the same time we could pull up Netflix on the WII, which would allow for the lowest quality stream by default, and Netflix would run fine. (this was on DSL connection)
Well, this one is an A&E app, and I know from experience that A&E makes shitty apps in general. Lots of crashes & errors on my tablet app, that’s for sure.
I think manufacturers are the ones designing the apps, so they all run different on different devices, for the most part. But, yeah, in this case my list for ‘who to blame’ would be: TV manufacturer, APP maker (who in this case is probably the TV manufacturer), streaming service and then ISP.
Designing an app that can only stream in optimum circumstances is shitty design.
Broadcast satellite TV will not be throttled.
Streaming content via satellite internet will be throttled.
owls on your antenna?
These euphemisms!
I’m-a watch World Poker Tour on a different app and see if it’s any better.
Would smoke from a fire disrupt the signal? The wind has been blowing the chimney smoke right over the dishes.
No, smoke shouldn’t make a difference, unless you’re in the middle of a forest fire with lots of debris mixed in.
Prepare for a dark and cold winter.
The world must slash the output of gas, coal, and oil in the next ten years or global warming will reach dangerous levels, a U.N.-backed study released Wednesday demanded, before lamenting nobody appears to be heeding its continued advice on the matter as fossil fuel production is set to soar over next decade.
The report published by the U.N. Environment Program found while national governments have made ambitious pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions, they are still not getting even close to matching promises to eliminate the fossil fuel industry that powers the global economy. …
Guterres called the IPCC’s assessment — the most detailed review of climate science ever conducted — “code red for humanity.”
“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet,” he said in a statement. “Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”
So sayeth the experts. So sayeth we all.
It is not going to be cold because the benevolent Romanian government just decided to put a cap on the prices the evil energy companies can ask, and everyone knows price controls bring abundance
That’s where humanity gets held down and beaten with a bar of soap in a sock, right?
You’re goddamn right!
I thought that Code Red is what Gamer Gaters drank. I’m all confused. Do they even make Code Red anymore? I don’t soda pop.
“We’re all gonna diiiiiiieeee!”
The west will make its peons live in the dark but there is no way in hell the “third world” is going to do any of that, even if the “promise” to.
But really, this is all part of the same exercise to extract money from the rich countries and give it to kleptocrats.
Great late 90’s tune there sloop. It was in featured in a fun movie from the era, “Go” that I haven’t seen in a while. Such nostalgia for those pre 9/11 years.
If anyone besides slum and shpip is interested in F1, the US Grand Prix is coming up this weekend in Austin. Should be a good race. I just watched the doc Schumacher the other night and if you are a racing fan or just a biopic fan it was worth a watch.
Let’s go Brandon! The meme that will help bring down a presidency.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
“Go” is great!
Looking forward to the race; vaguely though about trying to go – nothing-special bleacher tickets starting at ~ $1,300 each… Plus, getting to Austin, etc.
Maybe some other year, when I have a little more lead time.
(I’d rather go to somewhere like Spa, The Red Bull Ring, Monza or Portugal anyway)
Let’s go Brandon! The meme that will help bring down a presidency.
Sounds like some insurrectionist talk to me.
My friend and I were trying to figure out just how much grief I’d get wearing this around here.
“a lot” was the consensus. Pretty sure someone would call the police (who, thankfully, would ignore them).
I kind of wish I was going but I’m taking the wife to the opera this weekend (Carmen).
You gonna get stabbed.
I’ve also put going to see a live F1 race on my bucket list. Next year is the first time that Miami will be on the calendar, that would be a possibility, especially combining it with a trip to Key West for some offshore fishing. Despite many times in Mexico, I’ve never been to Mex City, and that is tops on my list of cities that I want to see. Portugal is up there as I almost moved there at one point and speak the language. I have a feeling I’ll be spending at least six months of my life there, probably in retirement. You should also consider Zaandfort as it’s a cool place and a short hop to Amsterdam, which really is one of the world’s most beautiful cities and a ton of fun in the summer.
Zaandfort looked cool – did a bunch of online poking around after the race this year.
Our neighbors just moved to Amsterdam for a 2-year gig, so that might work out.
https://f1experiences.com/2022-dutch-grand-prix/hero
$1,849/pp for the pit grandstand.
Big-baller – 3-day Paddock Club
https://f1experiences.com/2022-dutch-grand-prix/legend-3-days
$7,700/pp.
Maybe not…
Wow, yea the prices vary massively from country to country. I remember seeing that the US GP was actually cheaper to attend than a lot of the others. If you do get a chance to go to the Dam I will be happy to recommend a few things as I lived there for a couple years.
Better to let biological males to destroy biological females in sports, I suppose.
Abbott prodded lawmakers all year for the bill, and commended them Tuesday for having finally “passed legislation to protect the integrity of Texas high school sports.”
The Biden administration had a dramatically different take.
“This hateful bill in Texas is just the latest example of Republican state lawmakers using legislation to target transgender kids — whom the president believes are some of the bravest Americans — in order to score political points,” White House spokesman Ike Hajinazarian told The Dallas Morning News. “These anti-transgender bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation and undermine our nation’s core values.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki deferred to the Justice Department on the question of whether the administration would challenge the Texas restrictions, but emphasized that “the president’s view is that transgender rights are human rights, whether for adults or kids.”
Remember to consult your intersectionality guide. Women score lower on the victim scale. Women should feel proud to be beaten by such heroes. That father in Loudoun should be supportive of that brave transgender student.
Readies the popcorn.
The left is not going to win this one.
“transgender rights are human rights, whether for adults or kids”
And that includes the right to destroy women’s ability to compete fairly in sports.