Taking a knee to crush Penn State’s dreams.
After playing like ass for two games in a row, the Astros bats came to life yesterday and forced the WS back to Houston for (at least) a Game 6. Let’s see if they can pull a miracle off against what’s starting to look like a very depleted Atlanta pitching staff. Ohio State overcame a game Penn State team (and a lot of missed holding penalties) to win again. TTUN shit the bed in the fourth quarter as Little Brother embarrassed them once again. Iowa completely shit the bed. And in the big boy league, the freaking Cowboys inexplicably keep winning games, the Browns embarrassed themselves against the Stillers. And the officials embarrassed the entire league at the end of the Bungles-Jets game. And that’s sports.
Valenzuela in LA
Big birthdays today include early baseball great Bid McPhee, novelist Stephen Crane, sportswriter Grantland Rice, polar researcher Alfred Wegener, pitcher Larry French, auto racer Ken Miles, “The Black Knight” Gary Player, businessman and philanthropist Charles Koch, magazine publisher Larry Flynt, country rocker Kinky Freedman, wrestling manager Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, computer guy Tim Cook, rocker Anthony Kiedis, hockey goon Tie Domi, and outfielder Coco Crisp.
That was a sports-heavy list. Anyway, on to…the links!
This is hilariously retarded. My how quick the left has shifted on the “shut up and dribble” debate.
Photographed: VA Young Dems
We’ll know if this is accurate soon enough. I still believe the Dems will hold on to both NJ and VA, although I’m hopeful the GOP win in the latter. Especially after the VA Dems pulled that racist bullshit the other day. Or was it the Lincoln Project? Or both. Whoever it was, it’s disgusting.
But she’s double (or maybe even triple!) vaxxed. Damn unvaccinated people must have gotten to her.
I’m curious to see how this plays out. One thing’s for sure: they’re going to get blamed for any failure of service that occurs. And it will be repeated nonstop by a partisan media.
Dumbshit
Dude, shut the fuck up. This is an insult to every person who was enslaved, and should be treated as such.
I wonder if he even knows what the poll numbers are. The entire admin is shitting the bed. Metaphorically speaking. Yeah, metaphorically.
I’m a bit torn on this one. If she assessed the surroundings and knew what was behind her target, why would this be a crime?
Why didn’t somebody shoot the crazy sonafa…oh yeah, never mind. That would have been illegal.
Sorry, Elon. But you’re wrong. It will immediately target them, not eventually.
Let’s start the week off with something fun. Hope you enjoy it. I know I will.
Now get out there and have a great Monday, friends!
“Sorry, Elon. But you’re wrong. It will immediately target them, not eventually.”
You can fuck over every rich person in this country and maybe fund the bloated fuck machine we have for a year. To keep it going you need to fuck the middleclass and rip them off though.
By “maybe a year”, I assume you mean “maybe a month or two”.
I was pretending they could take the 3-4 trillion from the rich, then not spend it all as fast as they are spending it right now, and come close to a year, but your estimate is likely to be far more accurate…
When you believe government should pick winners & losers, expect it eventually to feel that it should control all the money flow to make sure the winners win and the wants they want to loose stay losers.
Maybe more like a week or two.
Not to mention the fact that if you take all the capital that “the rich” own and confiscate it, you still have to liquidate it in order to use it to fund government operations. Much of that capital, at root, is tied up in businesses, which may be in many forms.
I don’t have to go into it for this audience, but if you say “so and so has six billion dollars in wealth” or that “the rich have enough wealth to fund the government for so many months,” you’re assuming they have a big swimming pool full of cash that can be spent immediately. I’d imagine that billionaires aren’t keeping large fractions of their wealth sitting around in cash, or even in rapidly liquid investments.
What the wealth taxation thing does is place the onus on the individual billionaire to liquidate his or her own assets to pay the tax. But they’ll have the same problem. Who will buy all that wealth for the cash that is needed to pay for government operations? Plus, if you do this, the value of the non liquid assets will decrease because they are not as productive as they once were.
Who will buy all that wealth for the cash that is needed to pay for government operations?
Politicians or their friends? They will buy at a discount due to the forced nature of the sale.
Nobody has giant pools of cash unless it’s allocated for a large and immediate purchase. I think they’re just trying to rely on the fact that most people don’t really understand how wealthy people operate on some fundamental level.
Sort of related, I loved the Elon versus the UN on solving world hunger tweets. Really highlights the disconnect.
You give them way too much credit. Just look at the idiocy coming out of AOC’s marxist pie hole, and she is supposedly the beneficent of an economics degree from a school nobody should send their kids to anymore after she showed us what she “lurned” there.
They are evil fucks and just appealing to the basest of emotions – jealousy and envy – in order to gain support for punishing success under the guise that the only way people are successful is by being evil. For those that don’t understand the phenomenon, it is called progjection for a reason.
Nobody has giant pools of cash
Every rich person is just like Scrooge McDuck, with a swimming pool full of gold coins. DUH!
I remember a YouTube video during the Obama years about this. A guy ran the numbers with the assumption that the rich’s money could be converted into cash without loss. He didn’t get enough money to run the government for the whole year.
It was IowaHawk in 2011, I really like how simple he keeps it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ
That’s the one. Thanks!
Did you guys already talk about the UN tweet that said 2% of Elon Music’s fortune could end world hunger?
Musk called them out, tweeting that if they could explain how that would work, and have open source accounting that would demonstrate where every penny would go, he would sell $6 billion of tasks stock and make it happen.
End world hunger for $6 billion. What a joke. How many hundreds of billions have we already sunk into that?
8.4 billion last year alone. It’s a good conversation.
The war on drugs is a stupid thing, but the war on poverty makes that look like a major victory. So much time & money flushed down the toilet and all we got was more people that vote for a living… Who would have thunk that’s how things would go, huh?
“This is hilariously retarded. My how quick the left has shifted on the “shut up and dribble” debate.”
They spent 4 years acting like Trump was their anti-christ (which maybe he was considering team blue is a fucking evil marxist cult, and anyone that tells them to go suck donkey dicks would be their anti-christ) and now want people to not just be silenced for pointing out they stole an election, but they did it for a guy they all made fun of as the dumbest team blue asshat for 50 years.
Dissent is no longer patriotic.
This confuses me so much. It always has. At one time I thought it was cynical… That people knew how dishonest they were being. Back when Bill Clinton was getting questioned about his draft status, the story completely changed every 2 weeks. They would say “he never got a draft notice”.. then in a week or two, someone produces the draft notice.. And immediately they would say ” we have always known this. This is old news. But he never got a second draft notice…if that had hapoened.. Well, that would be really bad..”
Two weeks later, someone produced the second draft notice. “we have always known…”
It really surprised me that nobody noticed.
But now? It is everything, all the time.
But people really seem to believe it. With passion.
For me one of the best examples was Trump asking the Ukrainian government to look into corruption by the prior US administration. Corruption that had been admitted to, BTW. And the left said this was an impeachable offense.
It was so bizarre. “We must elect this guy who takes bribes via family members because the current guy dared try to expose his bribe-taking”.
Whichever side you take, that is an insane position to hold. Yet I really don’t n think a single person for the left even notices the contradiction.
There really does seem to be something broken about the way the human mind works in large groups. Group cohesion seems to work in ways that actually rewrite cognition such that these things seem perfectly logical.
In the words of Orwell, they truly love Big Brother. They really do see five lights.
And if that isn’t reason enough to fight harder for a truly libertarian society, I don’t know what is.
Not even just large groups – and consider what that says even about libertarians. Maybe, we only work as an out-group?
I think a fairly normal person wants comfort, mentally speaking, over coherence; kind of a don’t make me think hard thoughts view of the world.
*fist bumps JI*
I think we said the same thing from different perspectives; our answers are very complementary.
I’m dealing with someone right now that is mentally incapable of facing hard truths and has instead chosen to lash out, accuse, and blame.
It’s a reptilian state of being.
There really does seem to be something broken about the way the human mind works in large groups. Group cohesion seems to work in ways that actually rewrite cognition such that these things seem perfectly logical.
It’s not a cognition issue, IMO. It’s a corruption of faith issue. Faith allows you to overcome doubt, which is good when your faith is in Truth. It’s very destructive when your faith is in a demonic evil culture bent on purging Truth from polite conversation.
People, in general, do not want to have discussions or explanations of things – form the horribly complex to the idiotically simple – that uses logic and analytics, if that event leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want their heroes to worship and villains to hate. You can do the most thorough of analysis, using some of the most intelligent logic you could imagine, to explain something, only to have them ignore it all and freak the fuck out because your argument opponent says something totally idiotic and false but emotionally appealing.
Sports is a healthy outlet for that, politics is not. It should be little wonder that people for whom politics is paramount [read that LEFTIES] express so much disdain for sportsball. Conversely, idiot sports fans will hock a whole municipality to get a team!
While I appreciate the fist-bump, I’m not sure we’re as close as you think. It is indeed misplaced faith, and it is also the reliance on faith over reason. Reason is never passionate or blind, and faith can be one or both. If we can’t overcome our reliance on faith, we’ll always be susceptible to misplacing it.
I think all of these meta-cognition examples are simply metaphors we use to describe deeply wired algorithms in the human brain.
It isn’t like people are deciding to have faith over fact… I think faith is the label we put on this in-group cognition problem. It works as a descriptor… But I think it is far more basic and far more wide-ranging than this.
It is the same thing that the Asch conformity experiments demonstrated. If you put someone in a group and ask them to pick “which line is shorter”, they will usually go with the group… Even though the group are paid actors lying about which is longer.
On interview, many reported actually believing the shorter line was longer. It happens below the level of conscious thought.
Here is a real world example:
The gay bar story. That is literally right down the street. We considered putting n our kid in that school. We know teachers who work there.
The wife flipped out over the story… Much more than I did. My take was more ” why did you think this was a good idea” than anything else. The wife was all-in. Why would you take them to a bar at all?? Why to a gay bar?
Then, CNN weighed in. After 2 days, they put out a story… “Right wing media” made up a controversy, this was done for years, it is a field trip to learn about running a business, they had special menus to choose from, they learned about running a restaurant, ….
She is a regular at CNN. They are her friends. Within a few minutes, she completely changed her mind. In fact, she never believed any of the other stuff. I was stupid to listen to Fox News….
Now, it was a tweet from a school board member, not a news story. And someone else tweeted the menu and the restaurant’s motto in response. There was no news story involved at all….
But with a single 5 minute (or less) blurb on CNN, history was rewritten. It was only a fox news lie. And she never really had a problem with it…
This is how 90% of people operate.
We are the weirdos. We a
Remember what they said last week. Most people dont.
This is why “lets go Brandon” is enough for the left media to call for a pilot to lose his job as being inappropriate in the workplace… But using a publicly visible job as a platform for attacks on trump or kneeling for the national anthem are beyond reproach.
It isn’t cynical. Most people are incapable of seeing it. Not unwilling. Their wiring makes them completely blind to the entire notion. It just simply doesn’t exist at all.
All of which is much scarier to me. I like to think of us as rational animals. But I am fairly certain that I am wrong about that. It seems pretty clear that a vast swath of our actions are driven by instinct, not by rationality.
As a way of understanding the world, it does bring some clarity to the proposition that people would work together to herd people into gas chambers, or starve tens of millions in the Soviet Union or Mao’s China. they were not won over by some argument or coersion… They were herd animals, believing that they were doing right because the herd was doing it.
We are not.
We can’t easily operate out of a set number of people (150? 200?) because we become overwhelmed with information and opinions, and thus, we form tribes. My church has congregations (wards) split up into about 200-300 people each, and that’s about as many as can be accommodated in the brainworks of any given bishop.
And then you have the dominant personality, which, if you have more than two, create drama.
All your time and brainspace is taken up with surviving and drama in your tribe. You really don’t have time or brainspace for outside information.
Congresscritters and presidents and supreme courts are so far outside our tribe that it’s like imagining a billion dollars. It’s surreal and not part of one’s daily life. That’s why gas prices and inflation can be a flashpoint. It’s the one thing that directly affects our daily lives, and has someone definitive to whom blame can be affixed. LET’S GO BRANDON! isn’t a rallying cry for change. It’s a cry for help and/or a cry for TPTB (who are, remember, totally surreal to most people) to stop deliberately making surviving harder.
The point about operating in groups is important. Current evolutionary biology theory is that our big brains evolved, not for gathering food or out smarting predators, but for dealing with group dynamics… Politics.
A felony charge? GTFO.
That’s when Sampson Carney allegedly fired a single shot using a 9mm handgun that struck the ground behind the SUV as it took off.
A single shot? That’s remarkable restraint for a cop. This story is kind of wild. Apparently it struck the ground too.
The idea that three men will just approach you and carjack you in a big box store parking lot is also alarming. That’s the kind of stuff that’s only supposed to happen in South Africa or something.
She was probably shooting at a tire to disable the vehicle.
She was probably
shooting at a tire to disable the vehicledrawing her weapon and ND’d./cynic
If she was, that makes her more negligent rather than less. Shooting tires out is 99% Hollywood bullshit.
Yeah, well, I’m just suggesting what might be the least negligent thing she could have been doing in shooting at a car driving away from her.
Yeah, I guess that’s fair.
Definitely a poor decision compared to, say, calling the cops and having them trigger the LoJack. Or say, doing nothing, and waiting for the truck to get out of range of the key fob.
Oh that’s a pretty good advantage of keyless ignitions I hadn’t though of.
Not sure, but I think the car will continue running indefinitely even if the fob is out of range. It may shut off if the transmission is placed into “park” (not sure what happens with a proper transmission), or not start if shut off manually, but I don’t think it’d just quit when out of range.
I can think of several reasons this might be the case–it’d be a bad design to disable the car while in motion because the control software has no way to know whether the car is in a driveway or a public street and it could create a hazard for others. It’s not a great design to let it keep running and allow the driver to go far enough to be potentially miles away from the fob, but the worse of the two options would be to disable the car in a road.
Another reason would be that there might be safety reasons to allow the car to keep running–imagine a situation where a driver is attempting to use the car as a refuge or escape–if they dropped the key out of stress or had it taken away from them by a criminal, you might reason that they should be able to get away to a safe distance without the key.
Systems like this that I have seen generally allow the car to be started remotely but won’t let you engage the transmission if the fob hasn’t been detected. So, I’d guess that once you’ve got the transmission in a driving mode, the system won’t disable it until you do on purpose.
It doesn’t work. You can steal a car by pushing start and driving away if the fob is close enough. I know of cases where the car was in the driveway (unlocked) and the fob was inside the house by the front door and… gone. Lock your car ppl!
Damn, good to know.
This is correct. The only company I know of that added proximity to their fob detection is Dodge/Ram. Unless that fob is in the car it will not respond to drive aways. I don’t know if other American brands have done this. Store your fobs in a metal box if you want them fully deactivated at home. My tinfoil hat is a size 7 1/8.
It can be inconvenient at times, but I like that my car locks itself as I walk away.
They should have waited until the groceries were loaded.
You mean to start the ignition? Yeah. I don’t start my car until after loading I wonder why they did differently.
They wanted to heat up their seats?
I don’t get how people living in shitshow cities where car jacking happens all the time never seem to understand that when you make it easy for the people doing the jacking the idiot is you…
No. The thieves. Groceries bills are up.
Savage.
You laugh but that is exactly what some of our commie friends in Congress will say.
“They did it to feed their starving children!”
“I’m curious to see how this plays out. One thing’s for sure: they’re going to get blamed for any failure of service that occurs. And it will be repeated nonstop by a partisan media.”
They will be blamed, and team blue lemmings will just accept that as truth, but the majority of people not part of the evil cabal or the stupid club will know the play. And guess which community will be hardest hit because a majority of them don’t want to be forced to take a vaccine from the government…
There’s no way the administration isn’t aware of the poll numbers and general unpopularity of, well, everything. Biden may not be aware himself. Something about him telling a story about an obscure baseball pitcher to the pope last week seems to epitomize it for me.
You can get real fucking evil and cocky when you think you can “fortify” elections, and they feel they can do it again in enough places to stay relevant..
It’s reminiscent of Chernenko, who was a walking corpse when he became General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Just a few short years from that and the collapse.
Or maybe the chumps are starting to smarten up
Those worried about soft support among Black voters identified several challenges, including Democrats’ failure to push through key campaign promises, particularly on voting rights.
“With young voters of color, you can’t just say, ‘we’re Democrats, show up,’ when you’re not fulfilling or doing anything you said you’d do to earn their votes,” said Michael, the Working Families Party strategist, who singled out voting rights as an area of major concern.
Still others identified “voter fatigue” following the Donald Trump era. Jarvis Houston, director of organizing and political operations at Sister District, a progressive group focused on flipping state legislative seats, said he’s talked with Black voters who said “we can sit back now” that Trump is out of office.
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That rippling effect on the midterms also raises concerns among Democratic activists, focused on mobilizing voters of color, that the party isn’t treating them with the same attention and resources as non-white voters, even as they remain a core part of the coalition.
“We were raising red flags around support level and enthusiasm this summer,” said Shropshire, the BlackPAC director. “But there’s this sense with Black voters, this continuing characterization as just turnout voters, that you can wait until the last minute to talk to them.
“The idea that we can wait until the last three weeks, dump a bunch of money and surrogates on them to get them to show up, is a relic of some other political era,” she continued. “The kinds of engagement, the kinds of resources that needed to move should’ve happened months ago.”
“he’s talked with Black voters who said “we can sit back now” that Trump is out of office.”
I wonder if he has talked to any black people who think they were better off with the Bad Orange Racist in the Oval Office.
‘“The idea that we can wait until the last three weeks, dump a bunch of money and surrogates on them to get them to show up, is a relic of some other political era,” she continued. ‘
I like admission that the (D) strategy has always been to promise the world then not deliver and expect black voters to vote for them anyway.
Can you really argue with what works?
I assume this is related to that obviously wrong call on the head-butts.
I look at it this way: In Piers Anthony’s wonderful “Robot Adept” series, there is a bit where our hero plays a sort-of virtual reality football game. The computer opponent is known to insert at least one obviously wrong call in every game, because that’s just how it is. You just roll with it.
The Vikes were only able to pull ahead late in the game because of two very questionable unsportsmanlike conduct calls. The “roughing” on Cousins was ultra-lame.
I don’t feel that bad because the Cowboys big play on the winning drive was a very fluky catch that bounced off the Vikes d-back first.
My hope for this year is that Zimmer gets fired before the end of the year and Cousins is let go.
I can’t recall what I had for lunch 7 days ago, but I distinctly remember that bit. He was playing “The Rifleman”, as I recall.
Those were my first “adult” Piers Anthony books after I exhausted the (then available) Xanth books. ISTR those books are very horny. In fact, ISTR all of his non-YA books are quite horny.
You should see some of his short stories.
I read a _lot_ of Anthony and much of it is weird and horny. E.g., Chthon
You left out the very best sports news — MSU triumphed over UoM for the second year in a row, knocking UoM out of the undefeated category while maintaining their own place in that group. Also handed the coach the first ever consecutive victories over those poseurs.
I didn’t know who to root for, so I went golfing…
I’m sorry for missing that, I guess.
*notes sloopy’s restraint, nods in approval*
It’s not all Detroit you know, Sloop
TTUN shit the bed in the fourth quarter as Little Brother embarrassed them once again.
You expect MSU fans to speak Ohio-ese?
Does this mean Don nails his own ass to the wall of shame this week?
Southwest Airlines does not approve of employees expressing political sentiments other than slavish devotion and fealty to the Biden administration.
The idea that three men will just approach you and carjack you in a big box store parking lot is also alarming. That’s the kind of stuff that’s only supposed to happen in South Africa or something.
It’s just a car. Besides, they have insurance.
Probably. Maybe.
Reparations. I know she’s not white, but she works for the white supremacist government.
So is he admitting that he ran to install an administration that would do the bidding of the hard left and the corporate sponsors of his campaign, regardless of the opinion of the voters?
NPR was gushing about how insightful the slave auction/combine comparison was. They interviewed the actor playing Kapernick in his hagiography who said he never followed sports, but that Kap was a role model for him, how he “sacrificed everything.”
That’s insanely stupid even for NPR. I’m impressed.
And our taxes are helping to pay for that dreck.
NPR really pushes the envelope on stupid these days. I say this as a long term listener, about 30 minutes per day M-F for the past 12 or so years. I wouldn’t say I’ve changed, but they have. I used to think NPR was somewhat decent at reporting news. Now they inject editorial scare words into every story and bang the climate change drum every time they can shoehorn it in. I don’t think it’s that I didn’t notice it before, it has really changed into “the voice of the party”.
Ultimately I think it makes NPR more interesting for us amateur kremlinologists.
Trashmstr wrote an article here about Bracketing, the NPR practice of putting two “experts” on who were supposed opposite ends of political opinion on a topic. EJ Dione and David Brooks were the two, fostering the opinion that that is the acceptable range of thought on any given subject.
It totally removed a good 3/5’s of people’s thoughts in the country. Fucking insidious.
They are the masters of the Overton Window and exactly what Chomsky was talking about in Manufacturing Consent.
When I used to listen to Pacifica Radio, they were hilariously hamhanded in that technique. Usually, they’d have three “experts” so they can give their preferred side double the speaking time. But twice I can remember when they had two:
1. Issue: Does Clinton’s bombing of Kosovo constitute a war crime?
1a. Expert 1 – Yes, and he should be tried in the Hague by the ICC.
1b. Expert 2 – Yes, but he should be tried by the people of Albania whom he has wronged.
2. Issue: Mugabe’s seizure of white-owned farmland and the resultant dispossession of the farmers and their families.
2a. Expert 1 – It’s morally correct to kick white people off of their land, but it’s otherwise wrong to rib, rape, or kill them.
2b. Expert 2 – It’s morally correct to kick white people off of their land, and reports of rapes and murders of the dispossessed are exaggerated, unimportant in the greater scheme of things, and are being used as a tactic by reactionaries to derail Mugabe’s anticolonial agenda so any media outlet that reports on them should be ashamed of themselves.
Pretty egregious. For modern examples, they always preface every statement about election integrity by how every reform measure is based off “false claims” or “without evidence”. The opinion parts don’t bother me as much as the opinions injected into “news” sections.
Heh. My son was music director for his college radio station, and he used to bitch up a storm about Pacifica radio. But you would always get one guy at least who insisted that they have it, for “balance”. No one outside the Poly Sci dept. gave a shit.
If I wanted to listen to someone talk about nefarious business practices of the NFL, I’d want to listen to Duante Culpepper.
Looking at how long other washed up QB’s were able to hang on, Duante should have lasted about another 5 years easy. His sin was to fire his agent. He said at the time that the NFL bargaining with the players’ union was such that there really wasn’t any wiggle room, so why pay an agent a giant commission?
After that contract was up, he never got another offer. He says it was because he was blackballed (not literally, because that isn’t even controversial) because agents told teams that anyone who signed him was not going to get access to their agents.
The teams don’t give a shit how the checks get carved up between agents and players.
Duante might not have lived up to his potential or been the brightest cat, but his grievances are way more legit than Kapernick’s.
What’s the over and under that news like this results in social media censoring soonish?
Federal law that determines what is acceptable in state and local elections? Hmm. Not defending McAuliffe of course, but that law seems dubious to me.
He’s continuing the Clintonian tradition, just with fewer bodies.
TTUN shit the bed in the fourth quarter as Little Brother embarrassed them once again. – I blame the refs myself
Also the links are early.
You only need to suffer for another week.
This is basic math. Spending is the real problem. https://usdebtclock.org” @elonmusk tweeted on Oct. 28.
All together, class. One, two, three:
FUCK YOU, CUT SPENDING
We just aren’t willing to pay for the things we don’t want.
Do better, America.
To which the appropriate response is “lower your expectations.”
But as the UN said, governments are out of money and there is nothing to cut.
Spurs sacked Nuno this morning.
Oh wow. I guess they wanted to win the Conte sweepstakes before ManUre wises up.
I would’ve thought Norwich’s manager would be gone by now, but I suppose they fear they won’t be able to find a replacement.
So is he admitting that he ran to install an administration that would do the bidding of the hard left and the corporate sponsors of his campaign, regardless of the opinion of the voters?
Let them eat cake.
Gordon Ramsay’s Bacon Cheesy Toast in Under 10 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZxMNXBwHfQ
Normally I like Gordon but no. ewww. gross. disgusting. wrong. bleah
Does he use FromUnda” cheese?
fuck is that?
ok urbandictionaried it.
Are you kidding? That looks delicious.
how on earth does something containing cauliflower look delicious?
Up early, nothing to do until later, listening to the new Mastodon
Pushing the Tides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT5ars6RXc&ab_channel=Mastodon
Committee, the radical 23.8 percent tax rate for long-term capital gains on tradable assets would be targeted at those making a billion dollars or more in annual income or $100 million or more for three consecutive years. This puts around 700 Americans in the bracket whose wealth is mostly concentrated in stocks.
This will be followed by an inexplicable and completely unanticipated long term collapse of the equity markets.
This will be followed by an inexplicable and completely unanticipated long term collapse of the equity markets.
Otherwise known as “bad luck”.
Stale Fortune Cookie say:
Autocomplete strikes again.
Existing laws prevent the government from taxing “unrealized” gains or unsold stocks.
It’s a loophole big enough to drive a Brinks truck through.
CLOSE IT.
If it’s unrealized, there is nothing to tax.
Scare quoting unrealized, like it has no meaning. Someone needs to be shot.
Someone needs to be “shot”. In “minecraft”.
So then “unrealized” stock losses can be deducted from taxes, right?
HAH!
Sure, lets go with that…
They can penaltax people for not realizing gains.
I am gonna bet this guy is a fan of the recent political agenda from the left. His rights are being infringed on! I wonder what his pronouns are…
Mormons take their Halloween seriously, the most dedicated to the holiday of any culture on Earth. They will throw the book at him in Provo.
And his ass tastes just like strawberry ice cream
President Joe Biden’s ambitions to lead the world in slowing the planet’s warming will be tested on two continents this week as he travels to Scotland for the most important climate talks in years, while back home lawmakers come closer to making his visions a reality.
It is a pivotal moment, not only for the President but for a world with little time to spare in resolving a climate crisis that is right now wreaking havoc.
Already, Biden has been hampered somewhat by infighting among Democrats and entrenched fossil fuel interests, which have forced him to scale back some of the most audacious aspects of his climate agenda. Deep differences between world leaders also persist over money, national interests and responsibility.
One man’s messianic salvationism is another man’s megalomaniacal delusion, I guess.
Just imagine how CNN world would have reacted to a Trump proposal to put the world under his thumb.
Hahahaha – talk about not reading the room. He’s not there because he doesn’t give a shit about you idiots or your opinions. Fuck me that you make me actually respect that fucker for that.
Yep. China has no intention of fucking itself by adopting the economy-hobbling policies that are sure to result from any “global climate agreement.” They’ve also just apparently decided to stop even pretending to care anymore. Take that, Greta.
They did some vague “carbon neutral by 2060” proclamation. It’s ultimately meaningless. One thing is sure, China will do what is best for China. They have no reason to play the silly G20 song and dance.
This Climate Change shit was one of the guarantees that the rich country globalist cabal gave the other countries to onboard them: they would destroy their own economies, destroying their middle classes in the process, to help the poorer countries raise the standards of their own. This in turn was supposed to help the rich globalist cabal’s plan to create a one world government more acceptable to the poorer countries. Then China happened…
If you’re right and China is the one thing keeping us from one-world totalitarian control then I might have to rethink how I feel about the middle kingdom. I don’t have to like China. But I don’t have to like our governments either.
Chine ISNT’T keeping us from that. It has just decided that it will fuck the globalist cabal’s plans over and install its CCP leaders at the top of the new world order. So what you have is one master wannabe playing the original cabal’s ideocracts, and those ideocrats still unsure if they should keep sucking CCP dick in the hopes they cooperate or understand China is an existential enemy to their agenda.
China’s having issues with keeping the power on, they’re not going to willingly hobble themselves further.
Also, China absolutely has to be loving this wonderful opportunity to sit back and not interfere with the US fucking itself. Don’t ever interrupt your opponent when they’re hurting themselves.
Very much seems like the don’t interrupt your enemy while he is making mistakes playbook. Invading Taiwan might shake us out of punching ourselves in the dick, so I hope they just…don’t.
It is a pivotal moment, not only for the President but for a world with little time to spare in resolving a climate crisis that is right now wreaking havoc.
We’ve been hearing this for 30 years now, so since we’ve already passed the multiple tipping points of no return they previously warned us about it doesn’t matter one way or the other now. Unless they’ve been lying, in which case it doesn’t matter what they say so they should be ignored anyway.
60+ years.
1960s really ramped it up.
It was the end of the threat of nuclear winter.
I meant the “global warming” nonsense specifically, but yeah, I certainly remember all of the “coming ice age” crap from the 1970s.
If you start to look at this shit, it goes waaaaay back, much further than the sixties.
Malthus, 1800. That fucker started this whole thing. And every time he is disproven, the weasels pop up with something new.
OFFS that is nauseatingly sycophantic.
CNN’s just laying the ground for calling everyone that complains about ten bucks a gallon gasoline right wing nut jobs.
#275 – Cool Mom! | The Tim Dillon Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wTp_GW7Y3w
tim has some of the best cold opens in podcasting
I listen to his show at work every Monday. Good stuff. I like how he says some terrible truly awful shit with this beautiful fat guy sincerity. Hearty chuckles abound.
Anybody who doesn’t agree with me is a murderous lunatic
The late conservative icon Barry Goldwater famously said “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” but last Monday the limits of that — and American political speech in general — were severely tested at an event hosted by the young right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk. A man from the audience took the mic, launched into familiar Trump-fried grievance over a stolen election (it wasn’t) and the “medical tyranny” of vaccine mandates (it isn’t) before posing his real question to both Kirk and his Idaho gathering.
“When do we get to use the guns?,” he asked. Many who’ve watched the viral video of this moment gasped, but more than a few at Kirk’s Turning Point USA event cheered or clapped, as the man quickly added “that’s not a joke. … How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” (Kirk, for his part, said he “rejected” the man’s idea — not for its rank immorality but for giving the left an excuse to crack down on their movement.)
The question’s tragic answer — well, one of them, anyway — had come on that same day in that same state of Idaho, in a Boise mall. A 27-year-old man with a history of gun rights extremism as well as online hate speech toward Latinos and other groups had entered the state’s largest mall on Monday and gunned down seven people, killing two of them — an immigrant from Mexico, Roberto Padilla Arguelles, and a mall security guard, Jo Acker, who was part of the transgender community. David Neiwert, a veteran journalist on the right-wing extremism beat, reported that the gunman — who was killed on the scene by police — had recently attended a political event where he brought a pistol and menaced anti-fascist protesters.
Why can’t we silence and imprison our political enemies? They’re all crazy.
Yeah, that’s a Fed.
It most likely was, but with the “victors” refusing to hand over evidence, it’s a moot point now.
It is.
We got ourselves a glowie right here.
Mall shootings are bad, mmkay? But shooting a Mexican and a Trans person? That is totes unacceptable!!!!
Oh, those other 5 victims are fine people I’m sure, but ….
Vax declared Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59089596
Awesome.
Damn, that’s good
Yes. But where is the third one, Curie?
Never released from the vault.
Heh, I guess that’s an option but you would miss out on her lovely voice.
I don;t know what movie/videogame/anime/etc that represents
Two girls, one cola
Fallout 4. They did a fantastic job there.
You keep that up, we’ll have a falling out.
They got the face wrong for Piper.
Indeed, the relevant question — not just for Idaho but for America — isn’t so much when do we get to use the guns, but how are we going to make it stop? The events in Idaho called attention (or should have … both were woefully undercovered by the media) to a U.S. political right that — little more than nine months after the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill that left five people dead — is increasingly celebrating violence. This lethal notion is blooming in a hothouse of ginned-up bogus conspiracy theories — that the 2020 election was stolen from the movement’s leader, Donald Trump, or that COVID-19 is a plot to take your liberty.
In 2021, the post-and-possibly-pre-Trump American right has taken on many trappings of a violent cult — from the bullying, intimidating style of base conservatives who’ve screamed at or physically threatened local election officials or small-town school board members and even their families, to the Virginia crowd that seem to venerate a Trump flag from the Capitol on Jan. 6 shockingly similar to the Nazis’ worship of a “blood flag” from Hitler’s 1923 “beer hall putsch,” to the Trump-led effort to turn Ashli Babbitt — a Jan. 6 insurrectionist shot and killed by law enforcement as she attempted to lead the mob into the inner sanctums of Congress — into a worshiped martyr.
Vilify. Slander. Dehumanize.
After that, the mass graves seem like a perfectly reasonable solution.
I have some ideas on how you can make it stop…
inner sanctums of Congress
Speaking of worshipfulness. [pukes]
?It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://archive.md/0Gh4N
Interesting,
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91
Good read. Thanks.
sounds like something the government should fix
This is what happened AFTER California “fixed” it.
“I’ve waited up to 8 hours just to get into the port”
Protecting us from TERRERIZM!
The cost of a tractor-trailer rig is not cheap, but a container crane is orders of magnitude higher and the land orders beyond that.
The answer is to keep them running 24/7 with trucks constantly shuttling freight.
OK, you get to the end and realize the guy is a Teamster who wants everybody to run hourly wages. And he thinks that will cure everything. But, he doesn’t seem to realize that a lot of the truckers are independent operators, and nothing will change that over to operating on a union frame (in fact, it is the union’s biggest complaint, the little guy stealing work) and it doesn’t incentivize anyone. If you get paid to sit around, you will sit around. Drove me nuts when I was bossing Teamsters, but give me people paid by the package/load/mile and they work extra hard, as for them, time is money.
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Driving down the highway, you often see trailers with advertisements on the back, for instance:
Join Us! We’re the Best
Owner/Operators $0.XX per mile
Employees: $0.YY per mile
Where XX is usually at least 2x YY. It’s obvious why–the cost of ownership of the vehicle is on the O/O, as well as other things I’m probably not thinking of.
How much of a premium is it, when all costs are considered, to be an Owner/Operator rather than driving the company’s equipment? I’d hope there’s a significant profit involved. Or is it more a quality of life thing?
Strawberry Shortcake has the plague. I hope she breezes through it and gets right back to work.
Some enterprising journalist can ask her if the panicdemic has been oversold.
“I heard you were dead.”
Of course she will breeze right through. When was the last time you heard of an active government official (not just employee, but official) who died of the ‘vid?
They have the power to insist on and receive competent treatment in a way that the rest of us do not.
“The entire admin is shitting the bed. Metaphorically speaking. Yeah, metaphorically.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnG0POEDt6g
Glib Lawyers – how do you read contract language without zoning out?
I assume a portion is pattern-recognition. Recognize the boiler plate sections, scan thru them to make sure nothing is awry, and then read the interesting sections only.
Yes and no. Every piece of boilerplate is a little different, and can be exploited differently. Take this example from patents.
“The pizza has at least one of pepperoni, mushrooms, and onion slices.”
Does that mean at minimum it has a pepperoni, a mushroom, and an onion slice? Or that it has a pepperoni or a mushroom or an onion slice?
Of course, a good lawyer defines that problem away in the document. In every patent I write, I have boilerplate that redefines the words “or” and “and” to both mean “and/or”.
I hate reading patents.
It’s the worst. I intentionally write mine to suck 80% less than the average patent. Turns out that people can actually read and comprehend it if you write in plain language.
Im also not in the “make the patent cover everything in the world” camp, so I’m not constantly balancing between readability and fear of giving up some irrelevant scope.
Of course, I left out the punchline. That quoted pizza example changes very quickly if you change the wording slightly.
“The pizza has at least one of pepperoni, mushrooms, or onion slices.”
“The pizza has
at least one ofpepperoni, mushrooms, or onion slices.”“The pizza has
at least one ofpepperoni, mushrooms, and onion slices.”How do you live with yourself, consigning readers to death in an infinite recursion?
Work with examiners from the USPTO for a few years and you’ll understand. It’s the more compassionate way.
“He died doing what he loved.”
Smoking and shouting?
Depends on why I’m reading it. But in general I ask first “how would I break this contract”.
By that I don’t mean void it, I mean “what could I do to screw over the other side while still
being in compliance with the terms”. That helps me spot the places where it fails to protect
my client.
I also look for missing parts, that is things that aren’t specified. “Party A shall
pay $1000 to party B”. Ok, but how? Cash, certified funds, wampum? We may want to spell
that out. Or we may not want to spell that out if I’m looking to give my client flexibility. I like
to make sure I’ve thought about all the question words and that they are either answered, or
I am happy that they’re not.
So I guess the answer is that it’s a pretty active sort of reading because I’m not just reading
it because I ran out of other stuff to read, I’m reading it with a goal in mind. What the goal
is depends on what the client wants.
If I am reading it for myself then it’s generally more of an “am I willing to sign this as is,
or do I need to negotiate”, but the process is about the same.
We’re reviewing contract language in a vendor negotiation, and I run into the problem where my brain stops registering the words on the page even as my eyes continue to move and the page scrolls.
How does one not fall into a similar disconnected state?
How does one not fall into a similar disconnected state?
Practice. 90% of the real value of law school is forcing you to discipline yourself to actively read boring text. After 3+ years of that, you can mostly avoid that kind of “eyes glazed over” mentality. (you can also learn to pick out the relevant parts and skim the rest, which I’m very guilty of)
I still find myself having to take breaks and do something else after a couple hours.
Ah, finally we find out where those extra 16 billable hours per day come from.
“Such attacks are relatively rare in Japan, but Sunday’s incident was the second knife assault on a train in recent months.”
I guess when you lock people in their houses for a year, force them into performing intricate (and pointless) pandemic theater, threaten their livelihood and ram experimental medicine down their throat, a certain number of individuals who were already on the edge will teeter over it.
I predict a large uptick in incidents like this worldwide.
When you deprive them Japanese of their train pr0n adventures because of Kung Flu lockdowns, some of those people are gonna want a different medium to do their Bukkake shit. Know what I am saying?
second knife assault on a train
Are the trains OK? I can’t believe that a maniac with a knife can do much damage to the shinkansen as it thunders by.
I guess when you lock people in their houses for a year, force them into performing intricate (and pointless) pandemic theater, threaten their livelihood and ram experimental medicine down their throat, a certain number of individuals who were already on the edge will teeter over it.
Don’t forget the psychological torture of the ongoing insistence that 2+2=5.
The war on objective reality has just about been won.
Before the pandemic, through the pandemic, and really for the whole history of the freight industry at all levels, owners make their money by having low labor costs — that is, low wages and bare minimum staffing. Many supply chain workers are paid minimum wages, no benefits, and there’s a high rate of turnover because the physical conditions can be brutal (there aren’t even bathrooms for truckers waiting hours at ports because the port owners won’t pay for them. The truckers aren’t port employees and port owners are only legally required to pay for bathroom facilities for their employees. This is a nationwide problem). For the whole supply chain to function efficiently every point has to be working at an equal capacity. Any point that fails bottlenecks the whole system. Right now, it’s ALL failing spectacularly TOGETHER, but fixing one piece won’t do anything. It ALL needs to be fixed, and at the same time.
How do you convince truckers to work when their pay isn’t guaranteed, even to the point where they lose money?
Nationalize. Unionize.
I never saw that coming.
Yeah, a strong the owners/corporations are evil vibe in there, I also don’t get how there is no incentive to move more frieght if moving freight is how you make money.
Regardless, the author does a pretty good job of describing the issues. It’s like Bernie, he can identify the problems but his solutions are for shit.
I find this generally true of progressives. They can identify real problems, their solutions are just awful.
The right wing, on the other hand, either doesn’t recognize problems or identifies things that aren’t really problems. But their solutions to real problems are at least tolerable.
The left only identifies problems because they throw everything at the wall and runs with what sticks.
If you assembled a comprehensive list of progressive-identified social ills, 90%+ would be marxist gobbledygook.
This is correct.
The left believes government should be used to solve problems and pick life’s winners & losers because of fairness or some other bullshit. Others see the fact that the left wants to use government to pick winners & losers and that the left is crazy for thinking people that went into politics or public service are interested in solving a problem that provides them employment.
They are each in their own way controlled opposition. The visible left’s job is to agitate; the visible right’s job is to codify. Neither wields actual power, and neither ever seems to achieve its stated objectives. They will vigorously argue about whatever they are told to in the present day, leaving behind yesterday’s allegedly important battles unwon and forgotten.
The federal government, the state governments, the major corporations, the big labor unions, and many other organizations besides, are all organs of the same being. People keep looking for solutions using 19th century solutions but the world of the 19th century doesn’t exist any more. Nationalize what, exactly? Every piece of the supply chain is already internationalized, what good would merely nationalizing it do? Is Joe Biden suddenly going to turn into Huey Long? Unionize into the loving arms of the AFL-CIO, SEIU, or Teamsters? That’s just brilliant; better yet, why don’t you skip the middleman, and just give 5% of your earnings straight to millionaires’ college and retirement funds. You’ll get the same result with less pretense.
are all organs of the same being
Care to elaborate on that?
Sure.
Take a simple if contrived example. The Teamsters could come out today and say “we are a whites-only organization, any non-whites will be expelled”.
Your first reaction is probably “they’d never do that” and you’re right. Your next reaction may well be something like “the response from practically everyone would be immensely negative” and you’d still be right. We can argue that the second is the reason for the first, and mostly, that’s not wrong. We can easily conjure up an immense number of adjectives to describe what they’d be doing: racist, whtie supremacist, fascist, bigoted, regressive, etc. They (the Teamsters) and we swim in the water that is the overculture; the limits are set external to them and us. Though there’s nothing political per se about this example, we can refer to the Overton Window and see that a visible and explicitly whites-only organization is well outside of it. Who sets the Overton Window? I didn’t set it; I don’t think you set it; the Teamsters didn’t set it. But somebody (or many somebodies) did or at least influenced it. Whoever they are, they govern and we follow. Take a number of issues where the “other” side would be “controversial” (at least) and a similar pattern emerges.
The next exercise is to take the leadership of say, a union or a corporation, and look at how their kids are raised, what schools they will go to, who they themselves hang out with, etc. Obama’s “lol what’s COVID-19” birthday bash was a who’s-who of media, politics, business, unions, etc. Partying together does not mean that they’re strategizing together, but honestly they don’t have to. They already all think alike. They travel to the same destinations, they socialize in the same circles, they have the same fashions, they attend each others’ parties, etc. This is common across a broad swath of (facially) unrelated organizations. The admin assistant and the web developer attend the official Christmas Party; the board members show up there but then attend more exclusive parties elsewhere. For the former, this is a major event and it’s not like they’ve got 18 different employers to pick the best party to attend. For the latter, the official party is perfunctory while the unofficial parties are sincerely attended. The leadership and the workers are not in the same class. In the same way that white collar workers have class signals to distinguish themselves from blue collar workers, so too do the leadership class have signals to distinguish themselves from the regular working rabble.
But as I said a party is not a strategy meeting. That’s not to say nobody in this environment ever conspires, it’s simply to say that, if the labor unions are going to pick between A and B, the class of their leaders is going to influence the decision, and that the broadness of that class across business, labor, government, etc. boundaries results in a more-consistent-than-not leaning. This is getting long in the tooth so I’ll clip it off here, but the next step is to examine where this class gets its signals from in the first place.
Who sets the Overton Window?
Deux Ex Machina. Both the artifact, and the creator. Aren’t we libertarians (and yes, for this purpose, I will include anarchists, with differences duly noted) big on emerging order? In which case, there is no such thing as an Overton Window, it is a figment of our imagination, or alternatively a just-so story applied retrospectively.
I don’t think that what the two of you are saying is in the least bit incompatible.
Emergent order exists in general but is weak against imposed order, especially when that imposed order is made by people who control incentive structures. The Internet was a place of emergent order until the mid-2010s. Now it is not. This did not happen by accident, and the new order did not simply emerge from below to replace the old one. No one mind conceived of the new order, though some minds did connive of it, and many more did conspire to make it happen. The firing of Brendan Eich is an important landmark in this transition. The Mozilla Foundation of 2004 would not have cared; the Mozilla Foundation of 2014 hesitated but still ultimately fired him; the Mozilla Foundation of 2021 says even that isn’t enough. If this order is emergent it seems awfully unlike Brownian motion and a lot more like a shift to the same direction consistently.
And yes, emergent order still exists on the Internet, but it is stifled wherever it starts becoming visible again. The Internet used to be for, of, and by nerds. Now it is at least for and of normies; who is it by is a more complex question to answer (obviously, nerds are still around to fix the bugs but do they wield power anymore?). And, of course, nerd does not mean what it used to, anyway. The price of mainstream success, you may say, but why does mainstream success dictate political positions?
Why does Cthulhu always swim left?
“Weakly organized” and “strongly organized” are probably better ways of thinking about this than strictly “emergent” versus “imposed”
The delivery guy just dropped off 240 lbs of Iowa wildflower honey.
That will keep me busy for a little while.
Sweet.
And a little sticky
Comb overs are unattractive.
We must Mead up sometime….
are you going to put drugs in it and give it to the kids?
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What is Fourscore going to say? Do you also tell your wife about the floozies you pick up down at the bar on Saturday night?
If 4score would sell me his entire annual production, I would take it.
Uffda. Looks like a jail break on the plantation.
Look you let them get away with opposing The Narrative on Defund the Police today and tomorrow they will be voting for Republicans! Look at those faithless black people in Va!
Now that’s how you diversify your investment portfolio.
Strangest description I’ve ever heard of a lingerie store.
To reuse the punchline to an old joke…
“The thong is over, but he malady lingers on”
There used to be a place in Houston that sold carpets and tropical fish.
The Associated Press, which had a reporter on board the flight, first reported that a pilot of a Friday flight from Houston to Albuquerque ended his typical greeting to passengers with the phrase “Let’s go Brandon,” which has become right-wing code for “F**k Joe Biden.” The AP report said passengers responded with audible gasps.
Oh. I didn’t know the report came from the AP. Completely, totally trustworthy source.
“We are going to send a shockwave across this country,” Youngkin said over the weekend, “and there’s not going to be a Democrat in any seat anywhere in this nation who’s going to think that his or her seat is safe.”
LET’S GO BRANDON!
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that she had tested positive for COVID-19, days after pulling out of the president’s overseas trip due to a family emergency. Psaki is vaccinated, and said she is only experiencing mild symptoms.
That vaccine works wonders, doesn’t it?
Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL’s draft process to a slave auction in his new Netflix special — with black “athletes” in shackles and their white “owners” whipping them.
Fuck off.
A knife-wielding man rampaged through a Tokyo metro train on Sunday, setting a fire and injuring at least 17 passengers as commuters headed into the city center for Halloween festivities, Japan’s NHK public television reported. Police have made an arrest.
See, Japan’s strict gun control is working. The criminal had to use a knife. Now Japan just needs strict knife control.
Perhaps the UK could give them some pointers on loicencing.
Maybe, like NYC, what they need more is crazy homeless person control.
Funny how Strawberry Shortcut was nowhere to be found during the weekend Afghanistan debacle a short time ago, yet she’s getting up from her sick bed to let her reporter friends know she’s ok.
We all know what’s really to blame for the knife attack- sick Hollywood movies. It’s time to hold Hollywood accountable for their filth!
/Republican establishment
Fuck Elon Musk and his stupid Starlink!!!!
This story would be funny if it wasn’t such a perfect illustration of our problem as a society. Normal people would think “huh, that is good. The problem of getting high speed internet access to the boonies seems to be solved.” The bureaucrats are outraged/scared because this could mean an end to their phony baloney jobs. Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars running fiber out to the jack pine savages if they could get similar service from Elon?
It’s almost like the elites are out-of-touch or something.
Oh, no they are completely in touch with what is going on.
Right now, they have a huge budget to supposedly get broadband to the sticks. Since hundreds of millions have already been dumped down that rat hole with almost no results expectations are super low. Exactly what a grifter/bureaucrat wants: $$ with no accountability.
If this Starlink thing works out, next thing you know these bureaucrats are going to have to go back to working farm extension services. How can they be expected to go back to having a budget of only a few thousand to help the hicks plant more sugarbeets?
Since hundreds of millions have already been dumped down that rat hole with almost no results expectations are super low.
Bullshit.
Exactly what a grifter/bureaucrat wants: $$ with no accountability.
Hence why Starlink and similar are trying to horn in the FCC money.
What is bullshit? Frontier and Century Link got $789M in Phase 2 funding and have yet to meet any of the goals in those contracts.
Minnesoda has its own Border to Border plan that has dumped a shitload of money into rural broadband:
That number increased by $70M this last legislative session.
I’d say that $126M to wire up 60K homes is pretty poor results.
broadband deployment quota
Care to contemplate how intelligent the govt was in setting that quota?
[from the first link, about CenturyLink & Frontier wrt FCC effort]
$2k, gross vis grant, per home is downright cheap.
To say there has been almost no results from the previous money dumps is bullshit. Disagree with the results of it, fine, there’s a lot to be unhappy with it. But it’s not been near zero. Even without reading the link about two mismanaged companies that couldn’t deploy an airbag in a frontal crash, I doubt they haven’t done a single project but just haven’t met whatever threshold or interim deadline they were supposed to.
Perhaps they can locate another essential service that needs
to have money thrown at ita public option.“They can shake their fist at the sky”
-Elon 2021
But muh graft! How can I graft without much fiber optics!
a proposal on Tuesday’s ballot to replace the city’s police department — and a required minimum number of officers — with a new Department of Public Safety.
Who doesn’t want public safety?
Don’t be ridiculous.
This story would be funny if it wasn’t such a perfect illustration of our problem as a society. Normal people would think “huh, that is good. The problem of getting high speed internet access to the boonies seems to be solved.” The bureaucrats are outraged/scared because this could mean an end to their phony baloney jobs. Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars running fiber out to the jack pine savages if they could get similar service from Elon?
And this reminds me of a bunch of stories from the ’90s(?) about how eastern Europe leapfrogged straight into cellphone service because their shitty commie infrastructure never even made it into the copper wire age.
A lot of places can’t install copper because the locals keep stealing the wires.
Copper thieves can’t differentiate between copper or fiber cable either. Hack it off and then figure out what you have later.
The solution in parts of africa was to do tower to tower wireless relay to a station with sat uplink. The individual towers were easier to protect than the cable lines. (Though I’m sure some towers were stolen too)
Heh. A bunch of copper thieves tried to steal a roll of copper cable of the dock of the local power company in Sacramento, ended up having to leave their truck, with plates!, as they rolled it off the dock into the bed and blew out the back shocks, tires and fucked up the axel.
Funny part is when they started burying fiber optics some of the thieves dug it up thinking it was copper and ruined it for no reason
South Korea wired up their entire country with fiber back in the early ’00s. Even my mother-in-laws hovel had blazing fast internet access. Of course their country is very small and even in the country they have pretty good population density.
Maybe people who live way out in the sticks might have to accept some sort of tradeoffs? I’d make the point that they don’t have access to bus routes out there on the prairie, but that might give them ideas.
Been saying that decades as I watch my tax dollars fund all kinds of shit for them. My first phone bills 30+ years ago had that shit on it. And ho yeah, public transportation is big one. Most agencies already run service out to the far suburbs at the expense of city service. See also: “light rail”.
And surely brain cancer rates in Eastern Europe skyrocketed.
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Right?
Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory.
Real resume: 0% success
Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate
Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood, etc
https://twitter.com/Coding_Career/status/1454293034179317764
I mean one would expect automatic screeners to search for buzzwors
Although giving herpes to 60% of the interns is an achievement
https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/
The original thread is even more depressing.
When I left my previous company I meant to take a copy of the worst resume ever with me, but I couldn’t find it when cleaning out my desk.
It was a buzzword filled piece of bullshit. It didn’t even list companies the guy had worked for, in the experience section it listed companies with a generic description, like he had an NDA that prevented him from naming where he had worked or something.
During the interview, he named the companies and they magically were ones that were relevant to our field.
And he was obviously googling answers to questions.
When the resume came across my desk, I asked my boss if it was some sort of hazing ritual, it was so bad. I thought they were testing me to see if I was paying any attention.
Many years ago, I actually had someone send me my own resume. Not exactly, of course, but when I was in college, part of our required technical writing course for engineers was writing a resume. The faculty liked my resume so much that they asked if they could use it, anonymized, of course, as an example for the course in the future. I said sure.
Years later, I got that resume sent to me by an applicant–same formatting, same fonts, same language, just the company names were changed. Even the accomplishments were cribbed from my resume. I used to have a copy of it, but I lost it at some point.
I have an honest resume. I am also underemployed. I wonder how much that hurts me. I have a job interview this afternoon. If my current job had any reasonable amount of PTO I might not even be looking for other work. Instead they gave me 3 days per year of PTO and from the outset I had decided that I would use all my PTO for job interviews.
I guess if I am getting interviews for positions I am interested in, the resume is not the issue. Once you get the interview, it’s on the candidate to be the person described by the resume. That’s probably why I have such a high interview to job offer conversion rate, no resume puffery or lying. Getting interviews is the tricky part with this strategy, I think.
Yeah, mine is honest too. What the hell is wrong with people?
If you want to get the job you need to be able to sell yourself, but if you oversell, that can really hurt your job prospects period. If you wanted me to stop wanting to consider you for a position in my interviewing days, it was to claim you could do X on a resume, then show up and not know shit about X.
I saw one once that was multiple pages of “including everything”. We are looking for IT professionals. We don’t care about your Microsoft Word skills or your athletic accomplishments.
So, the White House Press Secretary’s got the ‘vid even after being double- (at least) vaxxed?
Eugyppius weighs in with what the problem might be.
Short, good read.
The Associated Press, which had a reporter on board the flight, first reported that a pilot of a Friday flight from Houston to Albuquerque ended his typical greeting to passengers with the phrase “Let’s go Brandon,” which has become right-wing code for “F**k Joe Biden.” The AP report said passengers responded with audible gasps.
It can easily be modified to “Fuck CNN.” ///LetsGoBrandon
Mixed gender MMA bout in Poland
The referee for the MMA-VIP event in Poland was forced to end the bout as the woman suffered a series of blows as the crowd shouted and cheered.
Viewers have described the scenes as ‘horrific’ and ‘absurd’.
The fight on October 29 in Czestochowa starred Ula Siekacz, a female arm wrestler and well-built fitness instructor who has shown off her muscle on social media.
In the octagon however she was no match for Piotrek Muaboy – a mixed martial artist and self-described ‘185cm of pure sex’.
I assume she wanted to do it.
It wasn’t that brutal anyway, I’ve seen far worse.
I wonder if the chick was allowed one brass knuckle how that would change
Especially after the VA Dems pulled that racist bullshit the other day.
“Hello fellow white-supremes. Aren’t we all in for Youngkin? We shall do some insurrection if we do not win.”
Eh, they were probably from out of state and would have said Youngling.
Damn unvaccinated people must have gotten to her.
She doesn’t have a soul. Of course the vid got her.
Meta-analysis: Overall, men are less worried about COVID-19 than women
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1454769609568047104
“We show that backlash against mask refusal—rather than mask refusal itself—was the primary way that masks took on political significance in the American public sphere.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1454314845701120002
“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” says Kaepernick, a former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.
“Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respect. No dignity left intact.”
You’re an athlete. You are expected to have certain skills and abilities in order to play to win. CWAA.
This is an insult to every person who was enslaved
We are all descendent from slaves and salve-owners.
Why, its almost as if they are paying millions of dollars for the small incremental differences that define the line between winning or losing.
salve-owners
I’m going to aloe your lotion, but this had better being going somewhere counselor.
I was trying to find a good way to make that pun, but couldn’t.
Rub it in, why don’t you?
You probably live somewhere with balmy weather where you can still enjoy outside activities. Here in Minnesoda there is nothing to do except work on puns.
*sigh*
What is “proof-reading” anyway?
More than 2,000 New York City firefighters have taken medical leave in the past week as unvaccinated municipal workers face the start of sanctions Monday.
Good. Make DeBolshevik feel the burn.
Let the garbage pile up like cordwood, adding fuel to the fire.
And buy the mayor a fiddle?
Good morning, Glibland!
Good God, Sloopy, that’s a lotta lynx! Luckily I went music first to get the blood going and the synapses firing.
So do you think Biden actually shit himself at the Vatican?
Biden tries to shrug off his dismal 42% approval rating as he deals with soaring inflation, border crisis and Afghan withdrawal debacle: More than 7 in 10 Americans say he is leading country in wrong direction
And that’s with Dem skewed polling. ///Let’sGoBrandon
“Let’s Go Brandon” has become the MAGA version of “Sieg Heil.”
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1454801643824979969
Bless his heart.
Do they even realize how stupid they sound?
Particularly after four years of “Fuck Trump”?
The truth is, they really do see five lights.
“We’re losing the culture on this one… Time to trot out the Nazis again”
So if 70%+ think the country is going in the wrong direction and 42% approve of Biden, there must be some non-negligible number of people who think we’re going in the wrong direction but still approve of Biden. Maybe they understand that Biden is not really in charge and so it’s not his fault.
Why didn’t somebody shoot the crazy sonafa…oh yeah, never mind.
What we need is commonsense katana control.
you dont need weapons when everyone knows karate
Steve Buscemi, dressed as his own meme, hands out candy in Park Slope
https://nypost.com/2021/10/31/steve-buscemi-hands-out-candy-in-park-slope-dressed-as-his-own-meme/
I sure like him, even if he is a funny looking guy.
Funny looking how?
Lindsay Graham is assho.
There could have been dozens of Ashli Babbitts. On January 6 Lindsey Graham called for law enforcement to shoot the rioters. He yelled at them, “Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns, use them. We give you guns for a reason. Use them!”. They didn’t, except once.
Jesus, don’t read the replies.
There, justifiably, should’ve been more. That positing the question of what if they… says it all?
One thing – look at the footage of her for the minute before she climbed through that window. She asked for it. The others near the shooting became orderly real quick. footage man
She shouldn’t have been wearing that revealing outfit if she didn’t want to be raped…
And I’m sure shooting a few of the antifa characters who keep trying to burn down the Fed courthouse in Washington would do wonders for civil discourse too.
I’m pretty sure the reaction would be different.
The others near the shooting became orderly real quick.
Especially all the cops in the hall. None of them got out of line and started clubbing, pepperspraying or shooting people.
I’d be willing to bet that every single one of those cops knew that a terrible mistake had been made.
The reactions of the cops in the hall go from fairly relaxed to “WTF!” in a heartbeat. I’m not expert, but I’m pretty sure firing at someone when there are a bunch of friendlies right behind them is bad.
Man dies during bull-running event in Spanish city of Onda
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59103659
I mean if someone does not die once in a while, there would be little glory in doing the thing
Oh, his thigh. That makes more sense. On the radio, I thought they said he died from a ruptured artery after being gored in the eye.
Gored in the eye? Oh the poor man will be blind!
Sure sucks to be caught Onda horns of a dilemma.
Well, getting the jab is dangerous. No bull.
^^^
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Canukistan: Unvaccinated won’t be allowed to board planes, trains, ferries in Canada
I mean since you are unvaxxed you have no where to go anyways.,
But now they can’t even escape to Florida.
Terry doesn’t know who he is running against.
Kendi deleted this tweet after a bunch of people pointed out it undermines his whole worldview that the US is an incredibly racist country where the system is rigged exclusively for White people.
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1454231411599282178
Kendi’s responses are even better. First, after being confronted w the contradiction, he insists white applicants are all only imagining any advantage in marking minority status on applications. Then he obviously declares mocking him for this whole affair is racist and violent.
They are doing it with good reason. As I have detailed before… My nephew who scored a perfect score on the SAT and on 8 different AP exams and graduated at the top of his class at an elite school of math and science did not get accepted at any of his 8 top schools.
His classmates and friends.. Who all finished below him in class rank and in test scores… got accepted to all of them. A couple were girls , a couple minority kids… all got accepted to the same schools. But the white guy at the top of the class? Nope.
Ya think maybe there is some actual justification?
Eerily similar to my youngest, was accepted everywhere except Princeton (which was about 5th on his list anyhow). It’s not just about minority status, he checks the Hispanic box, they are looking for “leadership” in the form of volunteering/interning with the correct organizations. Fuck ’em.
Anecdotally, from what I hear, the issue of volunteering, etc. is at least as important as race & gender. Colleges increasingly look for people who want to “make a difference,” etc.
The “activist” incentives aggravate the hell out of me.
Everything is about changing the world instead of improving oneself first.
My buddy describes Ivy students as “relentless apple polishers”. That summer your parents paid for you to go dig wells (read: sit around and watch people drill wells) in Africa is way more important than your perfect test scores.
With apologies to the Ivy-grad Glibs – I’m sure you’re all proper shitlords who just got good grades.
I don’t know how things have changed, but my school basically put your HS grades and SAT score into a formula and accepted based on that. The (white) guy in my freshman class with the perfect SAT scores and the 4.0 HS GPA was on a free ride. There was some bias based on in-state/out-of-state, being a state school and all, but I am okay with that. It also meant the in-staters were taking up the bottom chunk of every class, keeping us out-of-staters at the top.
I am sure there was some racial/sex balancing going on, they were desperate to get the female numbers up, being an engineering school and all. There was a “joke” about taking Econ as an elective if you wanted to meet women.
Funny story involving bias and discrimination and judging a book by its cover, etc, related to him.
At freshman orientation I was in line to get my dorm room for the few days (it was mid-summer before school started in September, July I think). They were assigning roommates based on order in line, unless you were there with someone. There were a couple of guys in front of me who were together, so I was either going to be paired with someone up in front of me who I couldn’t see, or the guy behind me, who looked, to my assessment, look a dumb GA farm boy. Really didn’t seem like someone I would get along with. You know, this was based on looks and just conversation I overheard with his parents. I was hoping for the random unseen guy.
So, yep, I ended up paired with the guy behind me. He was a dumb GA farm boy, except for the dumb part, what with the 1600 SAT score. Cool guy, we became good friends, and I realized I am an idiot at judging people. Learning that has helped out in the intervening 30 odd years.
One of my colleagues in the Lab at Emory University was a guy from the Georgia mountains with a masters degree.
He was humble and very introverted. And distinctly, stereotypically, southern.
His lab talks and journal club presentations were hilariously anachronistic. He would stand, shoulders hunched, looking at the floor in an aw-shucks kind of way and with a heavy southern drawl say “whut I thought I’d like tuh talk tuh y’all about today is the transmembrane subunit of the major his to compatibility complex and how specific retinoic acid derivatives impact transmembrane ion transport….”
This year the top schools all explicitly dumped test scores as a criteria at all. Racist. His school dumped class rank… Might make people feel bad.
His extracurricular? Working in a quantum computing lab.
All of that “volunteering” nonsense is cover. This has been tested by Asian students applying to ivy league schools. The admissions office simple subjectively grades them low on leadership and interpersonal skills .. And magically they are not accepted, while the rich black kid scores extra high on leadership… So he is in, despite worse grades.
When I get resumes from people in college, or right out of college, I find these days that they are heavy on the volunteer/extracurricular activities, so heavy as to be implausible sometimes. That works against them though, because unless they volunteered in a field related to the work I’m hiring for, or their extracurriculars were in technical clubs or similar, I gloss right over that shit.
Well hopefully the proggies in Congress can keep up their promise not to vote on the spendapalooza bill unless they get exactly what they want. I’d like this to go on as long as possible. Let’s go Brandon!
Appeal to Heaven.
And more importantly just refuse to participate in the convid tyranny.
Holy shit…. Soave over at reason…
https://reason.com/2021/11/01/conservatives-wrongly-portrayed-the-loudoun-county-sexual-assault-as-a-transgender-bathroom-issue/?comments=true#comment-9186649
He is maybe the only thing worth reading over there…. But this is some grade-A horse manure right here…
I thought the issue was the rape.
1) Boy is given license to go into girls bathroom because he’s wearing a skirt
2) Boy rapes girl in girls bathroom
3) School covers up the rape because it portrays the trans bathroom issue in a negative light
4) “Republicans pounce”?? Fuck that.
Maybe ENB gave him some preggie sex and he changed his ways.
Heh: The Biden Family
You are free to do as you are told.
“We show that backlash against mask refusal—rather than mask refusal itself—was the primary way that masks took on political significance in the American public sphere.”
Calling people murderers pisses them off?
Don’t be such a snowflake.
So if 70%+ think the country is going in the wrong direction and 42% approve of Biden, there must be some non-negligible number of people who think we’re going in the wrong direction but still approve of Biden. Maybe they understand that Biden is not really in charge and so it’s not his fault.
“He’s not swerving left hard enough!”