Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing year it always is! I hope your next year will be even more wonderful than the last.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book sealed by court
Wildfires raze at least 600 homes, a shopping mall and a hotel to the ground in Boulder, Colorado
Dems Reportedly Give Up Dream of ‘Insane’ Tax on Ultra Wealthy
Deadspin Publishes Bizarre Attack On Sage Steele, Claims Candace Owens Isn’t Black
Colorado governor reduces 110-year sentence for truck driver in crash to 10 years
Amazon’s Alexa tries to kill 10 year old.
That’s all I got for the year. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Well, I’ve been thrown off. I just got an email from a guy who shares a first name with one of my direct reports and a last name with another, so I was unsure of why someone from my team was sending me this almost random sounding email about a process we don’t monitor. Took my a while to realize it was someone from another agency entirely.
Ha.
There is a guy at my company who shares my first name and four out of the six letters in my last name.
I only know this because I get occasional emails from boss-boss forwarded from him.
Thankfully I have a very unusual last name.
When I was young, we had a phone number that had two numbers flipped from one of the local print shops. We got a ton of wrong-number calls.
Once the local off-brand phone directory misprinted the number of a pizza place with my number.
That was a bad year.
The Green Pages?
Or the Beige Pages or something. I’m repressing the memory as hard as I can.
Hahahaha – when we were in San Diego there had just been an area code split and our number in the new area code (858) was the number for a pizza place in the old 619. A year? No, we got calls for pizza for many years.
My phone number in Jr year in college was one digit off from the Secret Service
Who was President?
George H W Bush
“Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book sealed by court”
This is my shocked face.
I am at a loss as to what legitimate purpose this could possibly serve.
“Justice” was never the purpose of this exercise.
On the other hand, they could just be names in your address book with no foul intentions intended. I think we all keep contacts of folks who aren’t involved in the foul businesses we orphan-enslaving, Zardoz- worshipping Glibs get up to.
Yeah, I would expect the addresses and phone numbers in any address book to be redacted.
And I would also expect that a social climber like this would have the names and numbers of every rich person who is involved in philanthropy.
Of much more interest is the flight manifest, particular particularly for flights headed to the private island.
It’s probably not true. Where’s the link to the court order?
I’m sure it is true, the pilot logs were entered as evidence with massive redactions.
Happy New Years Eve y’all.
Next year will be better, right?
Well, I’m hoping covid will be over.
It was over two years ago.
Well, I just had it in December and despite that, my ass is clenched waiting to see if the Supreme Court decides in January I should be vaccinated anyway (or tested?) for something that wasn’t pleasant but I did kick.
Thats both of us. If I knew today that I had to endure another 2 weeks like that, I may re-think my position on a vaccination that reduces the symptoms. However, since none of them have convinced me, Ill stick with whatever natural immunity my body has put together.
You only endured two weeks like that because the official government stance is to withhold treatment for the illness.
^ This.
If you had become gravely ill, they would have put you in a hospital, watched you die, and blamed it on your lack of vaccine or booster shots.
My employer has been pretty good about not forcing it on us. There was the hilarious two week period in June or July where they did do the bracelet thing, report your vaccination and get a bracelet that allows you to not wear a mask. Of course, it was short-lived and now everyone wears a mask when not at their desks (because, well who knows).
They still haven’t said anything about the possibility of it going into effect in January.
Someone linked an article last night that mentioned Deblasio’s mandate for all private employees that supposedly took effect several days ago. Amusingly, it has not been mentioned in the local press that I have seen since the original announcement. I have a feeling that it isn’t going anywhere – unlike Deblasio who retires in fifteen hours and twenty-eight minutes.
Add me to that list, except the covid part. According to work memo it will be Feb 20th if SCOTUS doesn’t do the correct thing. According to my direct boss, we are in a satellite depot with 5 people, one of us will have to be certified to test or go to a testing site. Will have to see how onerous the testing will be and how much they will enforce the mask BS. Told my direct that I wouldn’t wear a mask, he said then I would have to write ya up. Well, do what ya gotta do, (callin’ it you’re job ole hoss sure don’t make it right) this is my line in the sand.
Mine is boosters. Will not take. I’ll wear a mask if you pay me enough, and that’s it (the sole exception being to fly to visit my parents, and if my plans for detaching from the office work out, not even that).
Just got an email from my employer. They are gearing up to fire the unvaxxed like me the minute the Supremes give them the go-ahead. The fact that they are down to skeleton crews in some departments due to vaccinated people getting covid while I’ve never taken a sick day doesn’t seem to matter.
Their bankruptcy will come as a surprise to everyone.
Another casualty of COVID!
“US records more than 512,500 daily COVID cases and breaks world record for SECOND day in a row: Viral hurricane threatens to paralyze nation with flight delays, supermarket closures and hours-long lines for testing holding up daily life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10357685/US-records-512-500-daily-COVID-cases-breaks-world-record-second-day-row.html
Viral Hurricane is the name of my new mathcore project.
It’s not holding up my daily life.
Is viral hurricane just a really bad cytokine storm ?
I thought it was the new Carpenter Brut single.
Is Carpenter Brut on top of the world?
I think it’s I. B. McGinty wears.
Those vaccines are working great!
Kudos to Joe for shutting down the virus.
Look, just imagine how much worse it would have been if people didn’t get vaxxed!
It really does seem that now is when we’re getting the spread that everyone was predicting back in March 2020. My niece (vaxxed), just popped positive for ‘vid.
Happy New Year!
Next year better be better.
“The sports publication, which was impressive once upon a time”
Citation needed.
There are many ways to impress.
Once upon a time it was easier to impress with stupidity, for example.
They did have a sizeable reader base. It will be interesting to see how long Defector actually lasts.
Global warming; there’s nothing it cannot do.
It can’t make people smarter nor honest.
Oh, I think certain groups/people are very honest with each other about how much money its netting them.
That Deadspin article might as well be written in cuneiform.
It can’t make people smarter nor honest.
It’s a fair cop.
My “studies” Degree belies that fact!
Formergeneral spouts vapid nonsense
I’m a huge fan of Secretary [of Defense Lloyd] Austin, a huge fan of the team that he has put together and the uniformed military under General Milley. They’re just superb. And I am confident that the best men and women in the U.S. and in our military will be outstanding. I just don’t want the doubt that has compromised or infected the greater population of the United States to infect our military.
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I had a conversation with somebody about my age and we were talking about civics lessons, liberal arts education, and the development of the philosophical underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution. And I believe that bears a re-teach to make sure that each and every 18-year-old American truly understands the Constitution of the United States, how we got there, how we developed it and what our forefathers wanted us to understand years down the road. That’s an important bit of education that I think that we need to re-address.
I believe that we need to wargame the possibility of a problem and what we are going to do. The fact that we were caught completely unprepared – militarily, and from a policing function – on January 6, is incomprehensible to me. Civilian control of the military is sacrosanct in the U.S. and that is a position that we need to reinforce.
Are civics lessons ‘weak tea’ to stave off an insurrection?
A component of that – unsaid – is that we all know each other very well. And if there is any doubt in the loyalty and the willingness to follow the Oath of the United States, the support and defend part of the U.S. Constitution, then those folks need to be identified and addressed in some capacity. When you talk to a squad leader, a staff sergeant, a nine man Rifle Squad, he knows his men and women very, very well.
We just need more loyalty oaths. And fewer Republicans.
I like how he alludes to a liberal arts education as a means to instill a uniform understanding of what America should be. I guess we threw that old “How to think, not what to think” canard over the side long ago.
^^^ see above comment.
And… I’m out.
Apparently the Afghanistan withdrawal (and lack of any consequence to the upper brass for it) is consigned to the memory bin now if he can make that statement.
TL;DR — superb, my ass.
Civilian control of the military is sacrosanct in the U.S. and that is a position that we need to reinforce.
And yet everybody in the Beltway Class celebrated when the generals hid the truth from Trump about the number of people in Syria.
And apparently they don’t have a problem with the executive branch conducting a political purge of the military.
And he thinks a different part should be defended than those he speaks of, which makes him correct and them DOODEY HEADS!
Enjoyed your Power-point, Friend!
CPRM does a great job entertaining some of the most discriminating people in the world. Certainly I discriminate as much as I can to whoever needs it the most.
How’s the hip 4/20? Getting around?
Every general is a political officer – meaning, he’s a political beast as much as an officer, since his advancement depends on Congressional sponsorship. Every star just makes them more political and less officer.
As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.
The generals – Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba and Steven Anderson – made their case in a recent Washington Post Op-Ed. “In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time,” they wrote.
Paul Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets, spoke with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly earlier this week.
Believe him.
He has looked into the heart of America’s Fighting Man, and what he has seen terrifies him.
So am I. The last one almost gave us Hillary.
Is it just me or has she been resurfacing again in the media? Just go away already Hillary.
She still believes.
Yes, she’s hilariously trying to put the brakes on the Dem’s self-destruction.
Listen to meeeeee! After all, I’m the person responsible for Donald Trump winning the presidency!
The funny part is that she has a point.
Right?
DeSantis could win in 2024, and Biden’s generals will instigate the coup?
THERE IS NO DESANTIS, ONLY TRUMP
That’s what I was thinking.
#methree
That is exactly what they are setting up. Repub President = coup. And the military has a sacred duty to install the Democrat, I mean, duly elected, President.
DeSantis is pretty neocon on foreign policy. I’d bet they could find a way to coopt/tolerate him.
Now a Rand Paul/Thomas Massie would not fly at all.
Well, our rulers have just removed any doubt that they are untouchable. I think we can safely conclude that Epstein and Maxwell were running an international trafficking and pedophilia operation. The one thing you’d think couldn’t be covered up. They had numbers of clients. Not a single one of whom will be prosecuted. Or even exposed to public shame.
The entire thing has been buried. Epstein’s files “lost”. Maxwell’s files sealed by the court. All to no public outcry. Large chunks of our ruling class colluded in this. This and the treatment of the January 6 protestors are their proof of concept for their two tier society of untouchable global elites and disposable serfs.
Plan accordingly.
Sometimes I’m glad that I got old and never had children of my own. Right now is one of those times.
They are so confident in their corruption they don’t even try to hide it.
Yep, that’s part of what sparked a series of fiction I’ve got going for here. The idea that open corruption must be tolerated because there is no institution that will stand against it.
No reasonable prosecutor…
And the jail guards getting cut loose. I think it not impossible that they were told someone was coming into the jail that night, and that they needed to make themselves scarce (this may not in truth have been a great deviation from their typical behavior). They got assurances of a perfunctory investigation with no chance of actual prison time, and paid something for the trouble.
GENOCIDE
South Africa lifted a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew on movement with immediate effect as it believes the country has passed the peak of its fourth Covid-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant, a cabinet statement said on Thursday.
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“While the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, there has been lower rates of hospitalisation than in previous waves. This means that the country has a spare capacity for admission of patients even for routine health services,” the cabinet said.
I’m not gonna lie. South Africa is not a country I would previously have thought of as an example of sane and rational public policy.
What’s a few necklaces between those of us that agree to disagree?
And The Covid comes in the Niiiiiiggght!
Estonian health officials believe the island of Saaremaa has reached herd immunity
South Africa has a kick ass medical system. That’s where the first heart transplant was done.
They had one. Do they still? No idea.
Still? That happened long before the ANC took over. I’d assume the medical system went downhill, along with everything else.
We should amend the Iron Laws with two new ones – “Never get comfortable, someone is always after your crumb no matter how paltry and insignificant!” and “No matter how wise you imagine yourself to be, there is always someone just a little more cunning than you!”
Thanks for the links, Banjos! Banjos gifs are the finest gifs but I’ll put Sloop’s hula-hoop girl right up there as well. Happy new year’s eve!
Have you seen Rachel Lust? She is amazing – https://youtu.be/EGuvNtS5kb8
That’s insane. I’ll be in my bunk.
Thanks, Buddy! I sorta needed that! Someone linked a hula hoop hippie girl a few months ago and I just kept watching it over and over and not for prurient reasons (although she was mighty pretty) but more for the joyful expressiveness.
Here she is! The music and background really make the scene https://youtu.be/3NFWgG4_6NI
Truth to tell, I could go to any Country Fest 30 miles out of town and witness the same thing. Same (mostly) polite crowd, same music, same atmosphere. At least that used to be the way things were. Now we’re locked down tighter than a long-tailed cat’s asshole in a room full of rocking chairs.
Jest wartched it agin! Don’t judge! Yesterday was a very bad day.
Just got an email from my employer. They are gearing up to fire the unvaxxed like me the minute the Supremes give them the go-ahead. The fact that they are down to skeleton crews in some departments due to vaccinated people getting covid while I’ve never taken a sick day doesn’t seem to matter.
Don’t try to muddy the water with facts. The narrative has been carved in stone.
“Transgender Antifa rioter has federal case for assaulting Portland cops dropped after she completed just 30 hours community service”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10356143/Portland-Antifa-rioter-federal-case-assaulting-cops-dropped.html
OFFS!!
Faake, portland doesn’t have any police left.
I’ve noticed some transgenders try harder than others.
Was she at least held in solitary confinement without bail or trial for a year?
Mornin’ all. The world is still crazy, I see; thanks for the updates, Banjos. I’ll be “celebrating” the New Year at home while my wife and kids are partying it up at the Jersey Shore. Fuck covid, and fuck the CDC/Big Pharma. As invisible finger pointed out “You only endured two weeks like that because the official government stance is to withhold treatment for the illness.” Official government stance, backed by force as always.
Yeah. The black pill is trending strong with your Canadastani friend this morning. Sorry for your troubles.
Meanwhile, down on the plantation
The “Madden NFL” video game franchise promoted by legendary NFL coach John Madden “dehumanized black athletes” and helped create a digital “plantation,” a college professor claimed this week.
Andrew McGregor, who teaches history at Dallas College in Texas, further claimed that Madden “profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game.”
Since posting the comments Tuesday, the same day Madden died at age 85, the professor, who is White, has locked his Twitter account, the Washington Examiner reported.
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But several of the posts were saved by social media users, some of whom reacted to the remarks.
“I have a lot of opinions on John Madden,” McGregor wrote in one post. “The creation of the Madden video game was not a great development for the U.S. It further glamorized violence and dehumanized black athletes, helping to establish plantation cosplay that has grown worse in the era of fantasy football.”
Not fair. We hold the rights to plantation cosplay and exploitation of black people foe political and financial gain.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1808598163.6345/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750×1000,f8f8f8.jpg
Imagine living hand to mouth off the crumbs of the owners like these poor exploited laborers, it’s appalling. I should start a GoFundMe. Who’s in?
*Looks up from scrubbing their toilet bowl*
Andrew McGregor sounds like an actual no shit racist.
Some of the comments above have coalesced in my head thusly:
Ghislane Maxwell was chosen to be the sin eater. Her soul has been sacrificed. Now the book can be closed.
That’s good!
Ya reckon the National Endowment for the Arts will award a grant for THAT painting or sculpture?
Life imitates Caddyshack
A $51 million superyacht, Utopia IV — owned by multimillionaire JR Ridinger —rear-ended and sunk a gas tanker in the Bahamas on Christmas Eve.
That was no yacht, ’twas SEA SMITH.
You sink a ship and don’t even pick up the survivors?
What an asshole.
“Icky people on my yacht? Never! “
Serious law of the sea violation.
They might have to explain their underaged sex slaves aboard.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Dude’s kid Tony is dating Mr. Increadible’s daughter…. He has a lot on his mind…
Big hitter, the Utopia.
Mockery and scant regard
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) backtracked on a few more facets of COVID-19-related guidance this week, leaving the agency open to more social media mockery.
This week the CDC admitted its initial estimates about the prevalence of the omicron variant were way off. A few days earlier, the agency also revealed it was shortening the length of quarantine for COVID patients from 10 days to five if they were asymptomatic at that time.
Those walk backs followed a series of other confusing announcements from the CDC, including fluctuating guidance on masks. The agency initially said only unvaccinated individuals should wear face coverings, until July, when the CDC changed course to say vaccinated individuals should resume wearing masks in certain situations.
The zigzagging nature of the CDC’s COVID guidance prompted Twitter users to share some of what they believed to be the CDC’s next “recommendations.”
“The CDC recommends you put pineapple on your pizza,” Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., press secretary Abigail Marone tweeted in jest.
“The CDC now recommends liquor before beer, you’re in the clear,” GOP senior producer Lindsay Wigo offered.
The CDC is such a fucking clown show. How can any rational person take them seriously?
We are a tiny minority, P. Brooks. We’re the ones that mutter under our our breath “and yet it still moves”.
Ain’t that the sad truth.
I have never been a fan of sheeple, but goddamn, what else can you call people with that kind of herd mentality?
Which Glibbroad is Abigail Marone??
Some people can’t handle the truth
Right-wing commentator John Cardillo tweeted, “Dan, Remember when you and your producer fabricated memos to derail Bush 43’s presidency, but you were caught, fired, and shamed off air? Remember that truth?”
LOLOLOL
You sink a ship and don’t even pick up the survivors?
Let them get their own yachts if they want to keep their feet dry.
Just send the bouncing bubbles ala The Prisoner.
This really brightened my day – The History Guy talks about the Great Boston Mooninite Panic.
We should get the DC area Glibs to do something similar with Hat and Hair stuff cum Jan 6.
To borrow from Brooks, How can any rational person take them seriously?
That is priceless. Amazing how easy it is to gin up a panic. “Boston Strong” indeed.
Boston Chicken
I remember that.
People were seriously thinking that the Moonite device could have brought I-93 down.
I went to see “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” after the incident. Had I had the time to do so, I would have gone down to Boston to watch it.
That made me laugh
https://mobile.twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1476750780883365888
Gen x wisdom.
I hate the trend of Twitter users retweeting TikTok videos.
I hate the trend of not executing people associated with TikTok.
Even the “And why aren’t you in uniform!” girls? It was funny and cute the first couple of times. TikTok is cancer.
Certain death
“We are going to see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically, we are going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, told MSNBC.
“The next month is going to be a viral blizzard,” he said. “All of society is going to be pressured by this.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, on Wednesday said cases will likely rise throughout January, a warning echoed by the governor of Louisiana, where hospitalizations have more than tripled in the past two weeks.
“We are still at the very beginning of this current surge,” John Bel Edwards told a news conference on Thursday. “January is going to be very, very challenging.”
U.S. health officials have said early data show Omicron appears less severe but have continued to push vaccinations, masks and physical distancing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also issued new guidelines shortening isolation and quarantine periods, which have been criticized by some disease experts
There will be so many bodies piled in the streets we’ll have to use low yield tactical nuclear weapons to dispose of them.
Sounds like another Shovel Ready infrastructure project.
Sounds like a blizzard of testing, not a blizzard of actual illness.
I love the headline. Not an ounce of skepticism about the covid experts.
https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/50-cal-mounted.jpg
I have questions.
Yeah, why is the gunner’s seat so poorly situated? Shouldn’t the gunner have better support?
Also, wouldn’t the gunner be kicking the driver in the head?
The gunner is the driver. The vehicle is propelled by the 50 cal. It’s designed for tactical retreats.
I like almond milk. I take offense at being called a soy boy; I am clearly an almond boy.
Almond milk is a lil bland. I prefer the coconut almond milk blend. Unsweetened, of course.
I don’t like the texture of cashew almond milk.
Is cashew almond milk actually cashew milk? There are so many options for almond milk. I go with roasted unsweetened. Unroasted might be bland in comparison ?♂️
Almond milk is great. I like it better than cow milk.
Stability when the gun is at 90 degrees to the car leaps to mind. Especially when recoil then kicks in.
Don’t need to worry about that, the gunner won’t be able to reposition to that angle of attack, you have to reposition the vehicle.
Like “Where can I get one?”
Yeah, why is the gunner’s seat so poorly situated? Shouldn’t the gunner have better support?
Irrelevant. That Isetta will flip over as soon as the trigger is pulled.
Turn the weapon 180 and drive in reverse?
Annual PSA: Please get home early tonight, or at least be very careful on the roads. Lots of people will be drinking to excess and letting their wives drive.
Been there. Lived that. She only totalled one car. We don’t get out much, anymoooore…
“This is why there are no Libertarian women” ™
? count me as one of those
Amateur Night
“Fauci says many kids are actually hospitalized “with” Covid, not “from” Covid, so child Covid hospitalization numbers are inflated.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1476712288719626243
No shit.
Mid-terms a-comin’!
Political realities are interfering with his agenda.
This could get interesting.
Dems are like your older sibling when a prank went wrong, Mom and Dad will be home soon and they need to hide the scorched part of the carpet and quickly apply some cover-up for your black eye. Nothing to see here, nothing at all!
Same applies for adults, Dr. Farici.
Yeah, that was my first thought. “Now do the ‘deaths’ statistic over the past couple of years, you abhorrent gnome…”
“NY State Department of Health warns they don’t have enough Paxlovid or Monoclonal Antibody Treatment and white people need not apply.”
https://twitter.com/karol/status/1476735058824339457
It doesn’t actually say that, but it does say “Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor”.
Don’t worry. Their governor just canceled all elective surgeries. If anyone knows what they are doing, it’s her. ?
Sage Steele is HAWT.
And a no-nonsense woman. Deadspin is for losers.
Disinfo
The majority of children hospitalized in recent weeks with serious cases of COVID-19 at one major New York City pediatric center had underlying conditions or were adolescents, a doctor told The Post.
Most younger children admitted to Northwell Health’s pediatric ICU amid a wave of Omicron were immunosuppressed, had cancer or other preexisting problems, said Dr. Matthew Harris, who specializes in pediatric emergency medicine.
“The majority of kids we’re seeing in the ICU had preexisting health conditions or are adolescents with symptoms much like adults,” he said. “We are seeing very few young children under 5 and infants in the ICU. Their cases are overwhelmingly more mild.”
Get your healthy child triple-vaxxed or s/he will DIE!
Just got an email from one of my local hospital chains.
Apparently the ERs are overrun with people seeking testing and they’re telling people who aren’t actually physically ill to GTFO.
What sort of people with no symptoms are going to the ER?
I don’t want to deal with anyone unless I’m in pain, or bleeding, or otherwise got a problem I know I can’t deal with on my own.
The uninsured, the neurotic, and now, most of the country because of two-years of propaganda.
Also, people who spent $400 for a New Years Eve party ticket and just found out they need proof of vax+booster or a negative test to have the ticket honored.
Show up, kill the bouncer, kill the managers who decided on the policy, party anyway.
?
Then there’s some of us who bought tickets to an event only to have the event cancelled. Thankfully, there are other options in the area.
The corporation I work for will give employees up to 5 days paid ‘ronacation for positive tests. If you’re out sick and get a negative result, you’ve gotta use your sick time or the time out is unpaid. Incentives.
People who were only exposed and have been taught to freak the fuck out.
Yep. Also heard a rumor that many doctors are turning away people from their offices if they are sick and having them go to clinics/ERs. I take that as “I don’t want to deal with your craziness, go there, they will placate you”.
This was all over the local news reports this morning.
That’s happening here. There are a lot of doctors offices closed due to illness, but even without that, if you need a Covid test they only do that at an urgent care or ER. I was in urgent care yesterday and luckily got there during a lull. When I left the waiting room was full and more people were walking in. My SIL works at an urgent care and she said all of them were like that.
After a year, my brokerage account… has lost $250 from where it started (not adjusted for inflation)
Wait a second, you lost money in a stock investment account from Dec 2020 to Dec 2021? Is that possible?
I bought CDPR the day before Cyberpunk 2077 released.
I’m holding onto it until they recover.
Two of the funds underperformed.
Oh, and GW decided to piss off the fanbase while launching a joke of a streaming service.
Pretty much one mutual fund is doing most of the offsetting for the losses. My one share of Pepsico is doing all right, but that’s only one share.
Ok, so self managed, I didn’t know if you should fire your broker. For what it is worth I have done well by Betterment. I gave them half my money and invested the other half myself in a mix of ETF’s and individual stocks and both accounts are basically tracking similar. In October I got spooked and sold half my stocks and moved them into bonds as I thought we were about to see a market crash. That, of course, hasn’t happened yet.
Yeah; my account (mutual funds/ETFs; about 70-30 stocks/bonds) rose about 12% this year.
You’re a lucky guy, sell, take a loss and write it off on your taxes. Silver lining.
Do it quick, last day to lose money this year.
No.
I’m going to hold onto it until I get my money back. If I tried to claim the loss on my taxes, it would hurt me more than just carrying the shares.
Besides, the brokerage is already closed for the year. Any trades now will happen next year.
Plus the loses can only be used to offset capital gains, not as a general deduction.
You could have sold, taken a loss, bought the stock back again after the first of the year.
Gotta wait at least 30 days.
https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/wash-sales-rules-tax
Celebrate the end of 2021 with two of your closest friends: Friday Funbags!
https://archive.md/e3DuY
#2 is close to ideal.
Damn! where did they all come from?
4 U.
https://archive.md/wwwhL
Oh #5…to be young again with the knowledge I have now..
The best advice I ever got in high school was from my older cousin (a womanizer or truly epic proportions): embrace rejection and always approach the hottest girl in the room. Bedding hot girls is a numbers game in which your rejection to success ratio will always be high and you have to learn to let that roll off your back or you’ll never get anywhere, and the hottest girl in the room often doesn’t get approached frequently because people are intimidated. Further, if she rejects you, her not-quite-as-hot-but-still-attractive friends will be available and flattered that you’d “lower” yourself to them.
Where might we find these stone tablets, O Wise One? Always punch above your class. This is known! If it worked for broke-assed, middling me it can work for damn near everyone. Attitude is the key, fear is the enemy. Don’t approach a woman like she is the tiger. Approach her as as another human and interact as such. No games, no bullshit. Honesty is the best policy and humor is your friend. If you get shot down, so what? Nearly 4 billion other ones out there that might take a liking to you.
The women who take a liking to me are always older and married.
Since “unattached” is one of my main criteria, that’s a problem.
Thanks for the sundresses yesterday, Friend Q!
4 U.
https://archive.md/QWxDE
Stop! I can only get so erect!
Q — think I found your theme music.
Better than this, obviously. That’s for some of your Daily Mail links.
Face diaper for the opener invalidates the whole gallery.
? Happy New Year!
You too Straff. Now go kick some babies
That sounds like something I may have said but forgot about.
Is January 1st a big deal in Nippon? I honestly don’t know.
Sure. It’s a party. Places were packed. Everybody masked up, but normal otherwise.
Can you buy teenage girl’s used face masks from vending machines? Asking for a friend.
Same to you. What’s 2022 like so far? Is it worth getting out of bed for?
Depends who’s in there with ya.
Don’t forget to put your kadomatsu out on the stoop.
Worth reading: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/ron-unz/american-pravda-aids-and-the-revival-of-the-duesberg-hypothesis/
A warning, it challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of HIV. But in light of everything currently going on, I’m certainly more open to the idea that they’ve been lying about other things as well.
There’s also a tidbit in there about the era in which Reason would challenge the orthodoxy on truly sensitive topics. An era long since gone.
Heard RFK on Tom Woods last week. I’m gonna save this article for when I’m sober. How deep, I dunno, but there certainly is some nasty corruption in Fauci’s past.
At the very least, his long tenure at NIH and the unit he runs has the same corruption problem that J Edgar’s similar reign did at the FBI and for the same reasons.
The question I would ask, was there anyone who had AIDS who wasn’t HIV positive?
I don’t know, but when the guy who discovered the virus says it’s not the cause and the guy who developed the test for it says it’s not the cause, it’s probably worth investigating further.
The point that they make is that much like COVID, those who challenged the narrative were not debated, they were silenced and/or destroyed.
“I AM JUNK SCIENCE!!”
“The point that they make is that much like COVID, those who challenged the narrative were not debated, they were silenced and/or destroyed.”
I don’t think it’s the guy who invented the test for it, but I agree with that part.
Just for the record, I have always been pro-Vax. I think the PDP-11 was an historically important piece of technology.
/ubernerd
The next question you should ask, would everyone be HIV positive if enough PCR test cycles are run?
That was Mullis’ issue with Fauci: Correlation does not prove causation.
I don’t think they use PCR for HIV. Pretty sure it’s still ELISA, then Western-Blot. Not that’s foolproof either. I once got a false positive.
ELISA is a PCR test
How unfortunate for the fact that I was compelled to use condoms during my wasted youth.
While I wouldn’t jump to “HIV is harmless”, I would consider the possibility that the drugs made it much worse given what Fauci et. al. have done the past two years. It would also account for HIV/AIDS becoming largely a non-issue as drugs have improved.
However, I would need to see lots of solid evidence to support this.
It’s worth noting that AIDs deaths in the US were practically nonexistent until AZT was introduced in 1985 and then climbed linearly for a decade until the treatment schedules were changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Prevalence_of_HIV_infections_in_the_United_States_and_total_AIDS_deaths.svg
That is an extremely strong signal that something doesn’t add up.
Dammit…. I wrote a long and detailed reply to this, and I got logged out while typing and lost the whole thing.
Ok, short version:. This is nonsense.
I was there. Aids was a death sentence at the beginning. 2 years, max. And an ugly death. Gay men were dropping like flies
I worked at the Yerkes Primate Center at the time, so I knew people researching the virus. It is well understood and the mechanisms of how it attacks the body are well understood.
There was a prominent researcher at the time who kept claiming that drug abuse was the cause of AIDS and not HIV. What was excusable inquiry in 1984 became completely nutty by 1988.
AZT allowed some people to survive a few years longer. It was nasty with side effects… But life expectancy went up. The cocktails that followed turned it into a chronic infection that you can live with instead of a death sentence.
But don’t get it twisted. HIV will kill you dead… Pretty close to certainty, with a case fatality rate over 90% for untreated HIV. And it does exactly this in large numbers in Africa today.
Fair enough, I’m not making judgements.
I’m making the point that nothing in regards to public health under Fauci should be taken for granted now. If luminaries like Duesberg and Montagnier have doubts, then it’s definitely worth re-examining and not accepting the party line as gospel. My guess is that the truth is somewhere in between and more complicated than the simple explanations provided.
Have you stumbled across the “poppers (inhaling *nitrites) causes AIDS” theory folk yet? They’re fun.
So, I just went down a short but odd rabbit hole on Google.
Who has the most Facebook followers?
Barak Obama. 130 million. Leads by a wide margin. Only politician.
Hmm.
How many fake accounts follow Barak Obama?
This crossed me over to Twitter. It also came up with a bunch of articles headlining how Trump has fake followers. Buried in there are numbers from 40-50+% of Obama followers are fake.
And an announcement that the Barak Obama account is managed by somethingorother for progress .. his nonprofit front.
And then….
A message on the account… “Archbishop Desmund Tutu was my mentor and my friend”…
What an odd thing for an account run by a political organization to tweet out. A message of personal friendship with a deceased world leader… Written by what is probably a millennial marketing major who doesn’t know either Tutu or Obama.
And that is where I jumped out of the rabbit hole, with more questions than answers… Like, how is Justin Bieber number 2 behind Obama?
Beiber-Bits
“40-50+% of Obama followers are fake”
Not surprising in the slightest. The irony of course being that TEH YOOTZ (the ones you’d try to impress with those numbers) are largely dropping Facebook, and to a lesser extent Twitter, for TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram*.
*research done anecdotally by talking to the early and mid 20-something new hires at my office. To wit: “old people use Facebook and Twitter, my friends and I have accounts but never go there.”
The article snippets published under the Google search results seemed to indicate that about 40% fake is a normal number for political Facebook pages
Even so, why would 50 or 80 million people be following Barack Obama? I mean, I suppose that it could just be inertia. I guess you have to unfollow someone to stop following them. But really, even hardcore Democrats shouldn’t be following Obama or Clinton. That isn’t where the action is. If you were hyperpolitical, I would assume you would be following AOC or some journalist.
You’re not limited to following one person. Like a lot of celebrities, it’s easy to click follow and ignore pretty much everything else.
Yeah, it has always been my impression that “following” someone is 100% meaningless.
So…. Inertia.
Makes perfect sense that they’re choosing the three platforms inarguably worse than Facebook and Twitter.
I have a 9th grader.
Absolutely zero of them are on Twitter or Facebook. They Snapchat and TikTok. They don’t even Instagram.
They watch YouTube and twitch.
They even set up twitch streams just so they can virtually hang out and play video games together. So you will see some kid streaming a game on twitch, and 3 people following, all talking on facetime…. Just like you would do in the den on the couch taking turns playing some FPS on XBox.
TikTok is other Chinese virus.
I have a facebook account (made like 12 years ago) but it is mostly fake. I assumed most facebook users would do the same since so many MySpace accounts were fake, but I underestimated how naiive people are.
Today in
assuming the conclusionstupid: The Japanese are racist because they learned it from whites.ultimately whiteness is tied to global imperialism and power
I HAZ A HAMMER!!!
This late 16th century Japanese monument made from Korean ears and noses says otherwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimizuka
Those morons need to understand that people can be terrible regardless of skin color or national origin.
Well, they could figure that out by just looking in a mirror.
Let me know when that happens.
Fact checking: Japan’s Axis partners were white.
Result: Mostly true.
Whelp, I’ve been trying to drink myself into a stupor but apparently I can even fail at that venture. I’ll persevere for awhile. About 25 below American here. After a couple of weeks you just get used to it. Sure have been burning up the gasoline budget, though. Fresh snow, locked into 4×4 and slick intersections. Weather is getting colder and the news just keeps getting worserer.
we are at 25+ today, just warm enough to turn the roads to snot, I think I’ll just stay home
I’m glad that you found a new gig, Bob! It’s needful to be needed!
NEED MOAR HOUUURZ
EL OH EL!!!!
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-lets-go-brandon-coin-to-be-lead-sponsor-for-nascar-driver-brandon-brown/
What?
How?
I… Uh…..
Nascar sponsorships are crazy expensive. Who is dropping that kind of cash on a fake cryptocurrency with a name like LGBcoin? Are people really going to start investing because you memed it?
Best case scenario this is a pyramid scheme, right?
Who has millions to throw behind that?
The Franklin Mint?
People with FU money in hopes that all the true NASCAR fans see the car and drop a few pennies into it? Plus look at all the free publicity they are getting.
Did Australia cancel the Sydney Harbor Bridge fireworks show?
Abundance of caution, eh wot?
He must be gay.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17114724/boyfriend-wont-have-sex-nails-done/
I have it on very good authority that any straight man would never, ever turn down sex for such a stupid reason.
Yeah that is nowhere near my list of ‘get out now!’.
These letters are so dumb that I suspect they are as fake as the Penthouse Forum.
Any time spent observing humans should quell the notion that these are fakes.
They could be a fictionalized version of a real letter…. I have known enough people in these scenarios to know, you ain’t getting a pithy 2 paragraph question out of anybody. A 20 page diatribe is far more likely.
There is a Reddit for this…. And they do indeed look like these letters at the core (although they are long screeds, not punchy summaries). They all have a format of “spouse/partner is doing thing that loudly says they are not committed”…. “What should I do?”.
It is usually clear that they are looking for confirmation of their desire to leave the relationship or their suspicion that their partner wants to leave.
How do I know? Reddit correctly guessed that I would click on a suggestion and follow the rabbit down the hole. What a waste of time. Curse you, computer algorithms that know how to generate additional interaction and adhesion!!!
Take it back! I can’t hear you. La la la la la.
Eh, no weirder than someone with a shoe fetish. Might actually have the same root cause.
It is the last day in which your age + year of birth equals the current year. Except for Straff, cause he is already in the future.
You’re assuming no one here was born on 1/1.
Oh and thank you Timeloose…cause I will be buried in Elite Dangerous now.
59 + 62 = 121, not 2021.
I didn’t expect to have to repeat myself so soon.
Ahem…
complete year…you people
“Polar researchers in remote Antarctica have fallen victim to Covid, despite taking strict health precautions, being fully vaccinated, and miles from civilization.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1476941578602221573
I’d think I’d want more than just a tent.
Humanity deserves to lose to Gaia
The point that they make is that much like COVID, those who challenged the narrative were not debated, they were silenced and/or destroyed.
That’s how SCIENCE! works. Also, all research is proprietary, and may be withheld from scrutiny.
Unless it becomes politically inconvenient, otherwise, it is time to quietly agree with all the “misinformation peddlers” and “conspiracy theorists” of the past two years.
Cloth masks don’t do squat
Counting COVID cases as ‘because of’ rather than ‘with’
6′ rule was arbitrary
PCR testing isn’t what it is all cracked up to be
Ivermectin is extremely safe
The vaccines are nothing more than therapeutics
and on and on.
Who pays for porn?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/motorsport/renee-gracie-motorsport-porn-star-25816652
I surely don’t. I just “remora” onto Q and Deg’s spicier links. Safe enough to post, safe enough for me. Truth be told, I don’t give a shit about that stuff anymore except in a purely aesthetic sense.
The Marshall Fire now holds the grim record for destroying more homes than any other in Colorado’s recent history.
Ouch. This is not good.
Climate change.
I found out yesterday that I know at least five people that currently have the Vid. They are all vaxxed, two of them are vaxxxed. The two that are boosted are my brother’s brother and sister in law. They are the most Vid scared people I know of our generation. The wife is laptop class and has worked from home the whole plandemic. They gave him an immense amount of shit last year for refusing the jab. When my brother got the Vid mid year they increased their derision of him and his ignorant Vid denying ways. So it was almost too perfect when my brother was over at their house two days before Xmas and the wife was on the couch when they arrived and my brother noticed she was congested. “No, it’s just allergies, I got the booster three weeks ago and I got tested two days ago.” “Maybe the test was wrong,” my brother told her. She, of course, had a home test and told him she’d take another test to prove it to him. It came back positive within five minutes. My brother is actually good friends with her husband but has been peeved about all the shit he was taking from them, so he couldn’t wait to tell me the story yesterday.
The vindication is pretty sweet. Could be the story of 2022 for many of us.
What percentage of people who got jabbed and got sick after harassing others will admit to their mistake?
Based on the people I know who got vaxxed and vaxxxed, the percentage will be between 1 and 0.
They will slowly begin to come around to the fact that the tests are shit, but it will be years (if ever) before they admit the vax was..
I don’t think that the Vid hysteria crowd will ever admit to their mistakes, but I am fine with silent vindication. If the narrative switches to one that we here have known since the beginning of this shitshow I will be obviously extremely pleased. There are both signs it may soon do so and signs it may not. My biggest two worries now are that the screw will turn harder to try and get me to vax my kids and that they will try and force the booster for participation in everyday life. Hoping the narrative starts to crumble before then.
I don’t think that the Vid hysteria crowd will ever admit to their mistakes, but I am fine with silent vindication.
#metoo
They will either quietly pretend like nothing happened, or crank up the “KULAKS AND WRECKERS!!!1!1!1!” aka “the dirty unvaxxed are to blame” bit.
I’m afraid the US Govt will cozy up with North Korea before admitting any wrongdoing.
Of all the groups that will admit being fundamentally wrong about the major aspects of these last two years, I expect the US government to be the absolute last one. The best we could hope for is that Rand is speaking the truth when he said yesterday that if Team Elephant takes over next year that they will investigate the Guv health bureaucracy’s response to the Vid, and force Health Gnome out. That would be fantastic and is actually something that could possibly happen.
Where was that?
Thanks for the Covid free links, Banjos.
Frankly after two straight years I’m bored to tears with the subject.
Covid Free Friday should be a thing in my opinion.
Sometimes xkcd writes one aimed directly at me.
https://xkcd.com/2562/
The alt-text is on point as well.
ISO8601 FTW!
Never leave off the century digits.
Seriously, people.
I’m reminded of something from the FAQ of the Perl compiler I downloaded back the day.
Q: Is Perl Y2K-compliant?
A: That’s like asking if your pencil is Y2K-compliant. Of course it is, but you can still use it to write scripts that aren’t compliant.
Wait, Perl existed in the 20th century?
Goes back to 1988, although the compiler download would have been around 2001. It was obviously a question that hadn’t been removed from the FAQ.
Happy 1-Jan-2022, slumbrew!
As a recovering engineer,I can appreciate this.
And I’ve always been a big-endian guy myself.
/humblebrag
Abso-frickin-lutely.
Aside from being unambiguous, ISO8601 also sorts correctly. It is a good thing.
Happy 2021-12-31, all. Hope you have a great 2022-01-01 and beyond.
?. This guy has worked with a database before.
Yeah…. I wonder why we don’t use that format?
Also… Screw you to every secretary that helpfully compiles information in a spreadsheet (worse if it is in a table in word) using inconsistent date formatting in a text field.
A distant second to people from banks who sent me text fields in comma delimited files without handling the commas in the text fields, but annoying nonetheless.
I hate the latter. That’s why you don’t create CSV files by hand, people, no matter how simple the format is. Whatever you’re using has a CSV library. Use it.
Databases at least know how to sort a variety of dates. Files with timestamps is where ISO8601 really shines (especially when the file metadata is off for whatever reason).
What happened to the “let’s go Brandon” phone-in man? Is he being held without trial?
No but I assume his life is being slowly destroyed anyway.
They outed the wife, kids, employers and schools. I am sure this was simply so that friends and neighbors could extend a hand of friendship.
He’s getting consecutive blowies from the ASU cheer squad.
My “only” $100 over list price Nvidia RTX 3080 card arrived this week.
In a perfectly Glib appropriate manner I’m stress testing it mining Ethereum. Sounds like an airplane taking off. It’s the first time I’ve tried to do anything Crypto related. Took me at least two hours of research to create a wallet, attach it to a mining pool and finally get a mining program running.
Issue is that my card is a “gamer” card with the hash rate restricted. No surprise, folks have managed to hack around that and get the rate back up to about 70% of what it should be able to do if it wasn’t restricted.
I can’t imagine doing this for real however. Wear and tear and electricity costs are not something I want to deal with.
Taliban is more permissive about how my face should look like than the western governments.
Taliban:
Goddammit. I drink so much in real life that I can’t even get really drunk anymore (hard liquor excepted). I wanted to really tie one on but that appears to be a non starter. Judi cooked me a ham that seems delectable but how the hell do I eat six pounds of ham in three days. I have no sense of taste or smell. When I eat it is to fuel the furnace, nothing more. Everything is awful, everything is dreadful. I feel like I’m climbing a cliff and just reached an overhanging rock spur. I can’t deal with this shit no more.
“how the hell do I eat six pounds of ham in three days”
I’d help out if I were closer. I love ham. I think I could do 2 lbs/day.
Sorry you’ve got the black dog chewing on your ass, Festus. At least you’ve got someone who loves you enough to make you a ham. My (((wife))), not so much.
“Eternity is two people and a ham.” (Dorothy Parker?)
Hugs, F.
Only four more hours left to hang Gov Shitstain in effigy, along with the rest of the political “leadership” of this state. Tomorrow, merely displaying a noose becomes a crime. Fucking snowflakes.