Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:18 am
Congrats. You’ve just secured a consulting contract with XYZ Corp. Your point of contact will be Joe Schmoe in middle management who will make certain all of your recommendations are implemented and provide reporting to the executive suite on the success of it.
We are certain that Joe will accept this punishment appointment with joy in his heart.
Trigger Hippie
on December 30, 2021 at 11:19 am
“Buffalo heads can’t melt steel beams”
*nods sagely*
ron73440
on December 30, 2021 at 11:20 am
Biden used the pandemic to get money for Big Pharma. That should have been Donald.
I liked that one, although the ever worsening spelling made my eyeball twitch.
Timeloose
on December 30, 2021 at 11:27 am
slide transitions usually indicate an attempt of style over substance. Good call there, the hat is all about style. Nice bike image on the last slide.
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 11:31 am
About as meaningful as the powerpoints I routinely see in the day job.
Gender Traitor
on December 30, 2021 at 11:46 am
::suffers flashback to prepping huge PPT presentations, complete with links to other presentations, for all-staff meetings at huge engineering center in the ’90s. Old facial tic comes back::
You should see what gets churned out when technical types resort to visios.
Gender Traitor
on December 30, 2021 at 12:30 pm
I maintained that engineering center’s org chart with Visio, IIRC. If printed in a standard 12 pt font, its dimensions would have rivalled the AIDS Quilt.
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 12:16 pm
No, no – just give us a whiteboard and we’re fine. It’s fucking management that can’t present an idea without PPT.
That only works if you’re in the same country as the people you’re trying to talk to. Or if you set up a camera. Or have a fancy web-enabled whiteboard.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:23 pm
Hey! As a member of management, I, er, never mind. Carry on.
Fatty Bolger
on December 30, 2021 at 12:32 pm
lol. I remember you could almost hear the inward groans around the conference table, when somebody started setting up a PPT presentation.
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 11:38 am
So, OT, already. Interesting read on inflation, and the quote below on the psychology of money.
“The fact is, [bankers] made the loans,” Hoenig said. “They made them in an environment of incredible optimism in terms of asset values.” By “optimism,” Hoenig was referring to something called “inflation expectations.” The bankers expected asset prices would continue rising indefinitely, and that very expectation fueled demand for loans, which in turn caused the price to rise. “And that, really, was in part the fault of a decade of too-accommodative monetary policy.”
Oh yeah, he’s talking about the 70s era inflation above.
Hoenig believed that there would likely be no going back if the Fed unleashed quantitative easing in late 2008. Just like the 1970s, the Fed might end up keeping money too easy for too long as it tried to juice the job market, chasing short-term gains as it piled up long-term risks.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:42 am
The amount of mal-investment is huge.
What cannot continue forever, will not continue forever.
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 11:44 am
* looks at housing prices*
Nothing to see here.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:46 am
Part of that is supply. Between labor, materials, and the sluggish response of localities (inspectors and zoning boards), construction has been slowed way down.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a bubble, but it’s not like 2007.
This time around, the bubble is the currency. And that’s really bad news.
Jerms
on December 30, 2021 at 12:06 pm
My wife and I have been thinking about investing in a rental property in North Carolina sometime next year. Do you guys think its not the ideal time to buy right now?
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 12:51 pm
We just got our mortgage at 2.875 – that’s hard to beat. We also got a pretty good price on the property – which I think is the key. If you can find a somewhat under-valued area. The VA stretch of the Blue Ridge was more attractive than the NC side (unless you get really far from freeway access).
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 1:28 pm
That’s a damn good rate. Who did you deal with?
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Rocket – relatively painless.
Fatty Bolger
on December 30, 2021 at 1:39 pm
If you’re talking about annual rentals to somebody who lives there, consider very carefully before you do it. All public sentiment is for the renter, and none for the owner. Can you afford to be without income on the property for a long time? Can you afford to rehabilitate the property if somebody trashes it?
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 12:07 pm
You’re absolutely right, but it’s still hard to tell how much is currency vs. lockdown vs. Materials vs. bubble.
All I know is the prices can’t keep rising like this, unless the currency completely craps out.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 11:48 am
The slip from “asset values” to “asset prices” is . . . unfortunate.
Not mentioned: interest rates are higher than inflation rates when loans are made. Interest rates take into account both default risk and inflation risk. So those bankers were probably less excited about inflationary growth of asset prices, than they were the whopping interest rates they were charging.
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 11:41 am
Everyone needs to go read KSuellington’s news report on Jerms in the A.M. links. Hilarious.
Jerms
on December 30, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Yes. Yes it was.
Not Adahn
on December 30, 2021 at 11:47 am
My former Boss’ boss’s boss used to write her emails in purple comic sans. Apparently in Taiwan there is no stigma to the font.
She was also extremely fond of animated sparkle effects in her .ppts
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:48 am
oh good god
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 11:50 am
*makes note to add animated sparkle effect to my next .ppt*
I can see it now:
New Developments in Federal Fraud and Abuse Laws *sparkle*
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 11:58 am
Sounds like it’d make a dry topic more interesting.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 11:50 am
No unicorns?
Nephilium
on December 30, 2021 at 11:51 am
Several of my overseas coworkers use colored fonts and backgrounds. It’s still not as bad as the guy who would host conference calls with Christmas music playing in the background year round.
I’ve been tempted of late to see what reaction I’d get if I just let my music play during a technical bridge. I was specifically leaning towards Tukayyid or Rylanor’s Last Stand to see if anyone got either reference.
If it’s illegible, I get it. But, not knowing what that font was, I opened Word and looked at it. It’s… not really illegible, although it’s a bit odd.
Now the weird colors and effects, yeah, that’s well to the left of annoying.
Not Adahn
on December 30, 2021 at 12:24 pm
See also: Eternal September
Rat on a train
on December 30, 2021 at 12:11 pm
Fraktur?
MikeS
on December 30, 2021 at 1:27 pm
Nein!
Not Adahn
on December 30, 2021 at 12:19 pm
Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It is a non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in informal documents and children’s materials.[1]
The typeface’s widespread use, often in situations for which it was not intended, has been the subject of criticism and mockery.[3]
According to surveillance footage as described by officials, Abel exited his father’s pickup truck and opened the door to the convenience store, firing his gun several times and striking the victims. He got back in the truck, which then fled “at a high rate of speed,” GPD said in a press release.
Ghostpatzer
on December 30, 2021 at 11:56 am
Cain was unavailable for comment.
slumbrew
on December 30, 2021 at 12:48 pm
There’s certainly a problem with children being raised without fathers.
Sometimes that would be an improvement.
rhywun
on December 30, 2021 at 12:52 pm
JFC.
Rat on a train
on December 30, 2021 at 11:52 am
Looking through some 2022 changes:
California death certificates will offer a choice of “nonbinary” in marking the deceased person’s gender.
Voters in all statewide elections, regardless of whether they signed up for absentee voting, will receive a ballot in the mail. Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.
The first could reduce dead voting but the second makes up for it.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:02 pm
The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.
Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.
This assumes they ever received the junk mail ballot. This is real-life disenfranchisement in action. If you don’t get one (for whatever reason, wink wink), you don’t get to vote.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 12:03 pm
This assumes they ever received the junk mail ballot. This is real-life disenfranchisement in action. If you don’t get one (for whatever reason, wink wink), you don’t get to vote.
???
Rat on a train
on December 30, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Our records show you already voted by mail. Too bad. Maybe next year.
Rat on a train
on December 30, 2021 at 12:09 pm
The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.
Like California verifies voter rolls or identification.
Pope Jimbo
on December 30, 2021 at 2:55 pm
Bullshit. “You” get to vote. Just not yourself.
You being defined as whoever stole your ballot from the post office*.
*Of course they will steal it at the source, no way they would be ambitious enough to walk the postman’s route and steal directly from the mailboxes.
rhywun
on December 30, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Even NY defeated vote-by-mail. Not that Kathy isn’t looking for an end-run around the voters.
Brochettaward
on December 30, 2021 at 11:54 am
DIsliked. The Bro-ffensive has begun.
Ghostpatzer
on December 30, 2021 at 11:55 am
“Bild back suckier”. So, JOOOOZ!!?11!
Thanks for the yuks.
However, he said, his hospital has seen a lot of kids test positive for Covid without necessarily showing symptoms or getting sick.
“We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason to see whether or not they have Covid, and we’re definitely seeing an increase in cases. However, we’re really not seeing an increase in children who are hospitalized for Covid or in the intensive care unit for Covid,” Offit said.
[bold added]
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:58 am
LIES!!!!
LIES!!!!
Rebel Scum
on December 30, 2021 at 12:08 pm
We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason
Gotta maintain that casedemic, baby.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 11:56 am
The government wants to control you and your choices, part eleventy.
A Minnesota family physician who is being investigated for the fifth time in the past 17 months by the state medical board for statements related to COVID-19, says the board is now requesting to see medical records of his patients who were prescribed ivermectin.
I’m sure that the fact that the doctor is running for governor has nothing to do with it.
Rebel Scum
on December 30, 2021 at 12:09 pm
Doctor-patient confidentiality must have gone away with the concept of getting a second opinion.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:19 pm
Medical boards have always been able to get patient records to investigate a doctor. Kind of hard to, without them.
Medical board investigations are always, or nearly always, triggered by a patient complaint regarding their own treatment. I wonder who complained about this guy? Not one of his patients, I bet. I guess the medical board can start an investigation on its own motion, so to speak, but I’ve never heard of it.
In any event, an investigation based on public statements strikes me as way outside their remit, and a blatant 1A violation.
Who are these medical boards and how often are they violently purged of ideologues?
Pope Jimbo
on December 30, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Well this crazy doc actually is running for governor. If he wins, maybe you will get your wish.
The statists on those medical boards better hope to doG that he doesn’t get elected. I’d love to see the purges of medical boards by the Dept of Health.
DEG
on December 30, 2021 at 12:31 pm
He was also involved in some of the pushback against Lil Rona Panic Restrictions.
Jerms
on December 30, 2021 at 12:01 pm
Thanks CPRM. Funny stuff. Just tested positive for the vid so Im gonna be stuck in my room for a while. Anyone have any recommendations for something to watch on Tv/Netflix. I like a lot of the true crime type of stuff. Thanks in advance.
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 12:04 pm
True crime? I see you really are getting what you deserve. 😛
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:05 pm
If you can find it on a streaming service, I like “American Greed”, which is about con men. Interesting scams, and interesting perps, most of whom are quite intelligent and could have done just as well without being criminals.
This. It’s not so much that I love con artists, who don’t tend to care who their victims are, it’s that some of their victims deserve what they get and watching them get their comeuppance is great fun. The Sting, for instance, Leverage, and so on.
Gender Traitor
on December 30, 2021 at 12:47 pm
::thinks of elderly CU members conned out of life’s savings by fraudsters. Decides to believe in Hell::
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 12:56 pm
If you’ve never seen House of Games, I think you’d enjoy it.
slumbrew
on December 30, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Seconded.
I dig Mamet.
I’ll also recommend “Heist” and “The Spanish Prisoner”.
And, shit – TIL he wrote “The Edge”, which is a great movie.
kinnath
on December 30, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Squid Games
Arcane
Ghostpatzer
on December 30, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Good luck, fellow reprobate.
Watching Grantchester on Amazon, British vicar partners with detective to solve murders in a small village. Pretty cool. Also there is a Leverage reboot, also on Amazon. No Timothy Hutton but mildly amusing. For comic relief there is always cable news
Nephilium
on December 30, 2021 at 12:17 pm
Technically the Leverage Redemption is on IMDB’s streaming service, which is integrated into the Amazon streaming service. The IMDB service also (last time I checked) had Fringe available, which is a really good sci-fi series featuring pulp science.
Timeloose
on December 30, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Did you ever see the documentary on the game show win loose or draw? The story focuses on a guy who figured out the pattern for the game and exploited it greatly.
Jerms
on December 30, 2021 at 12:38 pm
Ive heard the story, but havent seen the documentary. Press your Luck I think.
The one with “No Whammys!”
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump could declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election.
The revelation is the latest indication that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.
The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.
1) Fear the Drumpfler Nazi!
2) “handily” is a funny term for “by 50,000 votes across five states that all had irregularities galore.”
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on December 30, 2021 at 12:11 pm
Remember, when “their guy” won, all that mattered was popular vote, not Electoral College votes.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:26 pm
2) “handily” is a funny term for “by 50,000 votes across five states that all had irregularities galore.”
Yuge red flag.
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 1:03 pm
What was the vote total in ’16 in the key states that put Trump over the top? Around 75,000 in 3 states.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 1:14 pm
Trump reached another 10.1 million voters in 2020.
He had the highest share non-white votes for a Republican candidate in 60 years.
GTFO out of here with the leaky pipes and suitcase ballots.
If gun show demographics are any kind of barometer, Dems have a serious issue coming up.
juris imprudent
on December 30, 2021 at 1:50 pm
There was definitely sketchy shit in 2020, but it was also close – as was his victory in ’16 (which when he expected to lose he had prepared to blame on it being rigged).
The partisan bullshit, on both sides, about winning handily, mandates, rigging and collusion make me want to permanently stop voting and bitchslapping the shit out of anyone trying to shame me about it.
l0b0t
on December 30, 2021 at 2:43 pm
“The partisan bullshit, on both sides… make me want to permanently stop voting and bitchslapping the shit out of anyone trying to shame me about it.”
Welcome to the party, pal.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on December 30, 2021 at 12:10 pm
Two days ago (the last day for which COVID data was available), Alberta shattered all records for daily positivity test rate for COVID, at 29.88%.
The essay by Jeff Goodell, titled “‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All,” states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass “could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years.”
The West Antarctic ice sheet “is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth’s climate system,” Goodell asserts. “If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea.”
“If there is going to be a climate catastrophe, it’s probably going to start at Thwaites,” Goodell writes, citing Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat.
The climate catastrophe is always just a few years away.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on December 30, 2021 at 12:17 pm
I can hardly wait. It’s -28° Celsius (-18° Fahrenheit) on the back porch right now.
Ghostpatzer
on December 30, 2021 at 12:23 pm
If you get to -40 you don’t need to specify the scale.
If I was a midget/dwarf/little person I’d be shouting from the rooftop about how demeaning the “get boosted” slogan is to me and “my community”.
Not because I’d believe a word of it, but just as a lark to see if I could get them to take me seriously.
* I’d also be pushing them to start using “Little Persxn” for my community
Pope Jimbo
on December 30, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, but I was catching up on the ded morning lynx and saw some of you commenting on the old tradition of the VP being the loser of the presidential election.
You so called people went on and on about the entertainment value of Trump being Biden’s VP, but none of you even thought about the fact that if Hillary had been Trump’s VP there is no way he would have made it to 2020.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:31 pm
Never accept a Big Mac from Hillary.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on December 30, 2021 at 12:34 pm
Never accept a Big YUUGE Mac from Hillary.
FTFY.
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 12:36 pm
Oof, think of all the ties he’d be breaking in the Senate, just in the other direction. Damn.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 12:38 pm
Since the White House exists mainly to provide comedic relief from the machinations of our rulers, I think Hillary being Trump’s VP would have been just perfect. As would Trump being Biden’s VP. Romney as Obama’s VP would have just been sad.
Duke’s is definitely creamier. It doesn’t perch gelatinously on the knife blade, like Hellmann’s does. A plus. Duke’s is definitely yellower, a more suspect color than Hellmann’s vanilla-white. A minus. Taste yielded indefinite results, so out came the blindfolds, and noses were put to the test. I didn’t even allow the subjects to hold the respective jars under their own noses, because the shapes differ. No cheating. And the main difference, very simply, lies in the aroma. Duke’s is tarter, with a more distinctive, almost vinegary, smell. Hellmann’s is more neutral.
rhywun
on December 30, 2021 at 1:25 pm
It doesn’t perch gelatinously on the knife blade, like Hellmann’s does. A plus minus.
Agreed. If it slides off the knife or dribbles off, as the case may be, it’s more difficult to apply where it’s needed when making sandwiches.
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 1:25 pm
Did she get a bunch of mayo on her lips?
Drake
on December 30, 2021 at 12:57 pm
Just got off a call with hospital lab director. Lab is barely running because so many (fully vaccinated) employees have covid. Meanwhile there is a line around the parking lot of people waiting to be tested for covid.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 1:03 pm
*facepalm*
Rebel Scum
on December 30, 2021 at 1:06 pm
If only critical thinking was still a thing.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 1:15 pm
*derp*
Fatty Bolger
on December 30, 2021 at 1:49 pm
Can we start putting quotes around “vaccine” and “vaccinated” now?
Only 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The government originally estimated that its ban, which toook effect on May 1, 2020, would apply to 90,000 to 105,000 firearms in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has long promised to create a buyback program for the weapons.
slumbrew
on December 30, 2021 at 1:01 pm
In a just world, they’d put “buyback” in scare-quotes every time. Alas.
Not Adahn
on December 30, 2021 at 1:02 pm
Tee hee.
Rebel Scum
on December 30, 2021 at 1:05 pm
“Making it mandatory for owners to sell banned assault weapons back to the government for destruction, or have them rendered inoperable at the government’s expense,” is second on a list of seven gun-related priorities for Mendicino.
“I will happily sell to the government any firearms I purchased from the government, eh.”
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on December 30, 2021 at 1:22 pm
My long gun isn’t on the banned list, but I’ve found it quite vexing to be in public fora in Canada with dumbasses loudly proclaiming “Ha! My rifle, which is a {fill in specifics of make/model here} isn’t on the list! Suck it, losers!,” only to have someone else with more sense point out that the braggart should STOP PROVIDING TPTB WITH MORE INFORMATION THAT THEY CAN USE TO BAN THEIR RIFLE, TOO.
If I bribe someone and the value is over xx dollars should I send them a 1099?
Lackadaisical
on December 30, 2021 at 1:35 pm
More importantly, is that a deductible business expense?
Pope Jimbo
on December 30, 2021 at 1:40 pm
I was talking with someone who had a mother who did taxes and she had a client who was embezzling $$$ from their employer. Her client reported the embezzled money on their taxes because they didn’t want to have a beef with the IRS too if they ever got caught.
My mom did taxes too, but she never had a client like that. Probably because she was married to a probation officer.
slumbrew
on December 30, 2021 at 1:42 pm
I think maybe it’s Tres Cool who said he knows of a drug dealer who declares all his income (he’s a “contractor”) in order to avoid IRS troubles.
Brown announced a sponsorship for his car from LGBCoin, a cryptocurrency with “no intrinsic value” that’s attempting to profit off of the slogan.
No currency currently in circulation anywhere in the world has “intrinsic” value.
Love the “LGBCoin”. I wonder how many wokesters will buy it, thinking LGB stands for, you know, the thing.
Gender Traitor
on December 30, 2021 at 2:40 pm
The NBC reporter interviewing Brown on the track apparently thought the fans were chanting “Let’s go Brandon”…
She knew exactly what they were saying.
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 2:43 pm
I don’t blame her a bit. She was just trying to save the interview and cover the profane chanting in the background. I actually had the TV on the race at that moment; I couldn’t hear well enough to know what they were actually chanting, so I thought it really was “Let’s Go Brandon” – it was his first win and all, and I think he might have been kind of local(?).
rhywun
on December 30, 2021 at 2:45 pm
Now, it’s nearly impossible to have any sympathy for Brown after his delayed embrace of the meme.
Yeah OK whatever, Yahoo. ?
MikeS
on December 30, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Yeah, that whole paragraph had me rolling my eyes:
Now, it’s nearly impossible to have any sympathy for Brown after his delayed embrace of the meme. He can’t both be the victim of circumstance while also attempting to capitalize on those circumstances. And by taking his sponsorship, he’s clearly choosing to capitalize on the slogan before it fades away.
Why the hell not? He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme) and he needs money to pay for the car. Twenty bucks is twenty bucks.
Sean
on December 30, 2021 at 2:55 pm
I completely respect him for trying to play it cool.
Him fully embracing it as a giant middle finger to the people who tried to cancel him? Fucking epic.
Toxteth O'Grady
on December 30, 2021 at 3:03 pm
“Why don’t you go fuck yourself, Tommy?”
(@ author, not subject)
R C Dean
on December 30, 2021 at 3:13 pm
He was completely a 100% innocent bystander. Literally. And his career is being wrecked for it, by assholes like the people who wrote that article.
He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme)
Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind that’s why his sponsorships “mysteriously” dried up.
What’s he supposed to do? Just say, “Welp, I guess there goes my dream of being a big time race car driver”? This was literally the only option left to him. Assholes (like the people who wrote that article) drove him to it, and its his fault?
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Brown announced a sponsorship for his car from LGBCoin, a cryptocurrency with “no intrinsic value” that’s attempting to profit off of the slogan.
Oh, that’s going to piss off a certain set of activists.
*chuckle*
MikeS
on December 30, 2021 at 2:53 pm
Yup. The Ts and Qs are gonna be pissed they got left off.
Handwaved away is that this asshole keeps reintroducing the bill every year, as thought it’s on some sort of auto renewal plan rather than he (or his staff) is doing it. Also handwaved away is how this “fact check” is being pushed through outlet after outlet. The version I saw was attributed to the AP. Judging by the reaction, it’s seems quite possible this was going to be used as a vehicle for what the conspiracy nut jobs were claiming it was for but got nipped in the bud.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on December 30, 2021 at 2:55 pm
I believe that authoritarian POS just got nominated for an ambassadorship.
Pope Jimbo
on December 30, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Dude, that poor bill is never going to make it to the floor for a vote if you people keep paying attention to it.
Just trust us fact checkers and stop getting so nosy and looking at actual bills in the hopper.
I no longer find any of this interesting. The best I can muster at this point is boilerplate comments designed to go along to get along with people I mostly like. I’m not displaying any intellectual courage here. Yeah, we agree that a small, legally constrained government via a heavily armed public will curtail the consolidation of central power…good fucking luck with that.
As the old saying goes: Money and Power will always find each other.
What’s the overreaching point of this post? Fuck me if I know. I lost any will to to tie this comment into a coherent thought five minutes ago.
The random PP slide transitions are the classiest.
Excellent
The mid-90’s Geocities vibe is the height of classy
The spelling errors! I’m sure you had to work hard to make it look like someone didn’t work hard.
And “Click Here to Add Text”
??
That was my favorite 🙂
#metoo
“Buffalo heads can’t melt steel beams”
🙂
Have you not met the psychic buffalo?!
Prolonged LOL
Shut up and take my money!
Lols.
Congrats. You’ve just secured a consulting contract with XYZ Corp. Your point of contact will be Joe Schmoe in middle management who will make certain all of your recommendations are implemented and provide reporting to the executive suite on the success of it.
We are certain that Joe will accept this
punishmentappointment with joy in his heart.“Buffalo heads can’t melt steel beams”
*nods sagely*
I liked that one, although the ever worsening spelling made my eyeball twitch.
slide transitions usually indicate an attempt of style over substance. Good call there, the hat is all about style. Nice bike image on the last slide.
About as meaningful as the powerpoints I routinely see in the day job.
::suffers flashback to prepping huge PPT presentations, complete with links to other presentations, for all-staff meetings at huge engineering center in the ’90s. Old facial tic comes back::
Powerpoint Poisoning is a tragedy, folks.
I use PowerPoint when I’m giving a presentation… *sad trombone*
I became convinced engineers were unable to communicate without them.
You should see what gets churned out when technical types resort to visios.
I maintained that engineering center’s org chart with Visio, IIRC. If printed in a standard 12 pt font, its dimensions would have rivalled the AIDS Quilt.
No, no – just give us a whiteboard and we’re fine. It’s fucking management that can’t present an idea without PPT.
That only works if you’re in the same country as the people you’re trying to talk to. Or if you set up a camera. Or have a fancy web-enabled whiteboard.
Hey! As a member of management, I, er, never mind. Carry on.
lol. I remember you could almost hear the inward groans around the conference table, when somebody started setting up a PPT presentation.
So, OT, already. Interesting read on inflation, and the quote below on the psychology of money.
Oh yeah, he’s talking about the 70s era inflation above.
The amount of mal-investment is huge.
What cannot continue forever, will not continue forever.
* looks at housing prices*
Nothing to see here.
Part of that is supply. Between labor, materials, and the sluggish response of localities (inspectors and zoning boards), construction has been slowed way down.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a bubble, but it’s not like 2007.
This time around, the bubble is the currency. And that’s really bad news.
My wife and I have been thinking about investing in a rental property in North Carolina sometime next year. Do you guys think its not the ideal time to buy right now?
We just got our mortgage at 2.875 – that’s hard to beat. We also got a pretty good price on the property – which I think is the key. If you can find a somewhat under-valued area. The VA stretch of the Blue Ridge was more attractive than the NC side (unless you get really far from freeway access).
That’s a damn good rate. Who did you deal with?
Rocket – relatively painless.
If you’re talking about annual rentals to somebody who lives there, consider very carefully before you do it. All public sentiment is for the renter, and none for the owner. Can you afford to be without income on the property for a long time? Can you afford to rehabilitate the property if somebody trashes it?
You’re absolutely right, but it’s still hard to tell how much is currency vs. lockdown vs. Materials vs. bubble.
All I know is the prices can’t keep rising like this, unless the currency completely craps out.
The slip from “asset values” to “asset prices” is . . . unfortunate.
Not mentioned: interest rates are higher than inflation rates when loans are made. Interest rates take into account both default risk and inflation risk. So those bankers were probably less excited about inflationary growth of asset prices, than they were the whopping interest rates they were charging.
Everyone needs to go read KSuellington’s news report on Jerms in the A.M. links. Hilarious.
Yes. Yes it was.
My former Boss’ boss’s boss used to write her emails in purple comic sans. Apparently in Taiwan there is no stigma to the font.
She was also extremely fond of animated sparkle effects in her .ppts
oh good god
*makes note to add animated sparkle effect to my next .ppt*
I can see it now:
New Developments in Federal Fraud and Abuse Laws *sparkle*
Sounds like it’d make a dry topic more interesting.
No unicorns?
Several of my overseas coworkers use colored fonts and backgrounds. It’s still not as bad as the guy who would host conference calls with Christmas music playing in the background year round.
I’ve been tempted of late to see what reaction I’d get if I just let my music play during a technical bridge. I was specifically leaning towards Tukayyid or Rylanor’s Last Stand to see if anyone got either reference.
Colored fonts as baseline text and animated sparkles?
She should have been banned from touching a computer ever again.
Wait – how can there be a stigma to a font?
It’s because of the types of users it got associated with during the early days.
Seems kind of, well, petty.
Not if you worked for an engineering firm and had to read technical documents in stupid, unreadable fonts.
+1 Wingdings
(Sütterlin?)
If it’s illegible, I get it. But, not knowing what that font was, I opened Word and looked at it. It’s… not really illegible, although it’s a bit odd.
Now the weird colors and effects, yeah, that’s well to the left of annoying.
See also: Eternal September
Fraktur?
Nein!
https://linktr.ee/bancomicsans
This has bothered me for years. It’s not a pediatric practice or daycare.
https://ibb.co/BgXzP5z
It looks like a sign in front of some 8 year-olds who are playing fireman.
AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!
W T absolute F???
Cain was unavailable for comment.
There’s certainly a problem with children being raised without fathers.
Sometimes that would be an improvement.
JFC.
Looking through some 2022 changes:
California death certificates will offer a choice of “nonbinary” in marking the deceased person’s gender.
Voters in all statewide elections, regardless of whether they signed up for absentee voting, will receive a ballot in the mail. Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.
The first could reduce dead voting but the second makes up for it.
The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.
Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.
This assumes they ever received the junk mail ballot. This is real-life disenfranchisement in action. If you don’t get one (for whatever reason, wink wink), you don’t get to vote.
???
Our records show you already voted by mail. Too bad. Maybe next year.
The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.
Like California verifies voter rolls or identification.
Bullshit. “You” get to vote. Just not yourself.
You being defined as whoever stole your ballot from the post office*.
*Of course they will steal it at the source, no way they would be ambitious enough to walk the postman’s route and steal directly from the mailboxes.
Even NY defeated vote-by-mail. Not that Kathy isn’t looking for an end-run around the voters.
DIsliked. The Bro-ffensive has begun.
“Bild back suckier”. So, JOOOOZ!!?11!
Thanks for the yuks.
No; it means we get tabloid journalism.
Well, this is interesting.
[bold added]
LIES!!!!
LIES!!!!
We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason
Gotta maintain that casedemic, baby.
The government wants to control you and your choices, part eleventy.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mn-board-of-medical-practice-requesting-files-of-patients-prescribed-ivermectin-doctor_4184636.html
I’m sure that the fact that the doctor is running for governor has nothing to do with it.
Doctor-patient confidentiality must have gone away with the concept of getting a second opinion.
Medical boards have always been able to get patient records to investigate a doctor. Kind of hard to, without them.
Medical board investigations are always, or nearly always, triggered by a patient complaint regarding their own treatment. I wonder who complained about this guy? Not one of his patients, I bet. I guess the medical board can start an investigation on its own motion, so to speak, but I’ve never heard of it.
In any event, an investigation based on public statements strikes me as way outside their remit, and a blatant 1A violation.
Who are these medical boards and how often are they violently purged of ideologues?
Well this crazy doc actually is running for governor. If he wins, maybe you will get your wish.
The statists on those medical boards better hope to doG that he doesn’t get elected. I’d love to see the purges of medical boards by the Dept of Health.
He was also involved in some of the pushback against Lil Rona Panic Restrictions.
Thanks CPRM. Funny stuff. Just tested positive for the vid so Im gonna be stuck in my room for a while. Anyone have any recommendations for something to watch on Tv/Netflix. I like a lot of the true crime type of stuff. Thanks in advance.
True crime? I see you really are getting what you deserve. 😛
If you can find it on a streaming service, I like “American Greed”, which is about con men. Interesting scams, and interesting perps, most of whom are quite intelligent and could have done just as well without being criminals.
Might have to check this out. I love a good con.
Con men are up there with pickpockets in the class of criminals for whom there is no punishment too panful or adequite for their crimes.
Most long cons require the mark to want to get something for nothing, and then resort to the sunk cost fallacy to keep it going.
I have a special hate for liars.
Just because you can’t con an honest man, it doesn’t mean I hate them less.
There is the Polka King. Sort of a pyramid scheme/con. Great movie as well as the documentary.
Jack Black in the role he was meant for.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5539052/
Here is the documentary.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1313047/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_1
This. It’s not so much that I love con artists, who don’t tend to care who their victims are, it’s that some of their victims deserve what they get and watching them get their comeuppance is great fun. The Sting, for instance, Leverage, and so on.
::thinks of elderly CU members conned out of life’s savings by fraudsters. Decides to believe in Hell::
If you’ve never seen House of Games, I think you’d enjoy it.
Seconded.
I dig Mamet.
I’ll also recommend “Heist” and “The Spanish Prisoner”.
And, shit – TIL he wrote “The Edge”, which is a great movie.
Squid Games
Arcane
Good luck, fellow reprobate.
Watching Grantchester on Amazon, British vicar partners with detective to solve murders in a small village. Pretty cool. Also there is a Leverage reboot, also on Amazon. No Timothy Hutton but mildly amusing. For comic relief there is always cable news
Technically the Leverage Redemption is on IMDB’s streaming service, which is integrated into the Amazon streaming service. The IMDB service also (last time I checked) had Fringe available, which is a really good sci-fi series featuring pulp science.
Did you ever see the documentary on the game show win loose or draw? The story focuses on a guy who figured out the pattern for the game and exploited it greatly.
Ive heard the story, but havent seen the documentary. Press your Luck I think.
The one with “No Whammys!”
Resident Alien was pretty funny.
A second season is coming out end of January. Too bad you will be just another corpse in a giant pile of Rona victims.
Tacoma FD.
If you haven’t yet seen it, The Seven Five, a doc about the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn and the most corrupt cop in NYPD history*.
*I tend to think there are far worse actors out there, but Mike Dowd got caught; hilariously, it was Nassau County cops who busted him.
10 Rillington Place seems to be available for free on Amazon if you have a Prime membership.
In other fake power point news.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump could declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election.
The revelation is the latest indication that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.
The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.
1) Fear the Drumpfler Nazi!
2) “handily” is a funny term for “by 50,000 votes across five states that all had irregularities galore.”
Remember, when “their guy” won, all that mattered was popular vote, not Electoral College votes.
Yuge red flag.
What was the vote total in ’16 in the key states that put Trump over the top? Around 75,000 in 3 states.
Trump reached another 10.1 million voters in 2020.
He had the highest share non-white votes for a Republican candidate in 60 years.
GTFO out of here with the leaky pipes and suitcase ballots.
If gun show demographics are any kind of barometer, Dems have a serious issue coming up.
There was definitely sketchy shit in 2020, but it was also close – as was his victory in ’16 (which when he expected to lose he had prepared to blame on it being rigged).
The partisan bullshit, on both sides, about winning handily, mandates, rigging and collusion make me want to permanently stop voting and bitchslapping the shit out of anyone trying to shame me about it.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Two days ago (the last day for which COVID data was available), Alberta shattered all records for daily positivity test rate for COVID, at 29.88%.
We got this. Totes under control.
Just gotta lockdown a little harder.
We’re all going to
freezeburndrown.The essay by Jeff Goodell, titled “‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All,” states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass “could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years.”
The West Antarctic ice sheet “is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth’s climate system,” Goodell asserts. “If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea.”
“If there is going to be a climate catastrophe, it’s probably going to start at Thwaites,” Goodell writes, citing Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat.
The climate catastrophe is always just a few years away.
I can hardly wait. It’s -28° Celsius (-18° Fahrenheit) on the back porch right now.
If you get to -40 you don’t need to specify the scale.
You got to -40 Kelvin? I’m impressed. How did you get the atoms to slow down after they’d stopped?
Science, I heard it from Fauci.
Gave them a govt job?
^ This guy gets it – a govt job sucks all energy not just from the person with the job, but from everyone they interact with.
Well go to your front porch then!
Good God. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/get-boosted-now-message-hits-22588135 (comments allowed)
Needs more Robocop.
Why couldn’t we have gotten one of the cool technodystopias?
Because we’re not that lucky.
(in a whisper) Hoors!
I’d settle for soma and feelies.
If I was a midget/dwarf/little person I’d be shouting from the rooftop about how demeaning the “get boosted” slogan is to me and “my community”.
Not because I’d believe a word of it, but just as a lark to see if I could get them to take me seriously.
* I’d also be pushing them to start using “Little Persxn” for my community
Sorry, but I was catching up on the ded morning lynx and saw some of you commenting on the old tradition of the VP being the loser of the presidential election.
You so called people went on and on about the entertainment value of Trump being Biden’s VP, but none of you even thought about the fact that if Hillary had been Trump’s VP there is no way he would have made it to 2020.
Never accept a Big Mac from Hillary.
Never accept a
BigYUUGE Mac from Hillary.FTFY.
Oof, think of all the ties he’d be breaking in the Senate, just in the other direction. Damn.
Since the White House exists mainly to provide comedic relief from the machinations of our rulers, I think Hillary being Trump’s VP would have been just perfect. As would Trump being Biden’s VP. Romney as Obama’s VP would have just been sad.
Gayer than bathhouse sex.
Video of Obama and Romney being abused by the Deep State
That would have been even sadder/meaner than when Trump had Romney over for dinner and then didn’t give him a cabinet position.
Why does Romney get kicked around so much? He has all the right opinions.
Who wants to tell him?
#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans “You can’t handle the truth.”
If you reply to him with “go forge some more documents Kenneth,” do you get autobanned?
(As if testimonies were ever as dramatic as that movie! Maybe RDJ Jr during his breakdown.)
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to me. Can’t handle the truth about what?
Nothing’s going on. Why am I even at work?
Oh, right, saving vacation days.
I’m the only one in my office. Finally. Thank God.
The holiday week(s) are when I try to burn down my backlog of bullshit. This year, for some reason, everybody has been in a frenzy until today.
The problem is I don’t want to do any of the backlog of bullshit. I think I’ll goof off for a few more hours and then wrap it up.
Obligatory.
Sigh, I dragged myself to the work laptop for a scheduled 2pm and nobody showed up.
My 9AM cancelled at 8:58.
Western, whole packer brisket is still 4.99/lb. It’s choice but wrapped in a prime bag.
The hot sideline reporter at the SC/NC game eating mayo from the jar is strangely arousing.
Duke’s FTW!
First I’ve heard of it – how does it compare to Hellmann’s?
I have enacted my own labor (sort of):
https://www.ourstate.com/mayonnaise/
FTFY
Agreed. If it slides off the knife or dribbles off, as the case may be, it’s more difficult to apply where it’s needed when making sandwiches.
Did she get a bunch of mayo on her lips?
Just got off a call with hospital lab director. Lab is barely running because so many (fully vaccinated) employees have covid. Meanwhile there is a line around the parking lot of people waiting to be tested for covid.
*facepalm*
If only critical thinking was still a thing.
*derp*
Can we start putting quotes around “vaccine” and “vaccinated” now?
Good.
Only 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The government originally estimated that its ban, which toook effect on May 1, 2020, would apply to 90,000 to 105,000 firearms in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has long promised to create a buyback program for the weapons.
In a just world, they’d put “buyback” in scare-quotes every time. Alas.
Tee hee.
“Making it mandatory for owners to sell banned assault weapons back to the government for destruction, or have them rendered inoperable at the government’s expense,” is second on a list of seven gun-related priorities for Mendicino.
“I will happily sell to the government any firearms I purchased from the government, eh.”
My long gun isn’t on the banned list, but I’ve found it quite vexing to be in public fora in Canada with dumbasses loudly proclaiming “Ha! My rifle, which is a {fill in specifics of make/model here} isn’t on the list! Suck it, losers!,” only to have someone else with more sense point out that the braggart should STOP PROVIDING TPTB WITH MORE INFORMATION THAT THEY CAN USE TO BAN THEIR RIFLE, TOO.
Damn idiots.
News you can use!
If we all kidnap each other’s orphans on July 1st, we are in for big tax deductions.
-1 Red Chief
They stole my idea about taxing stolen goods.
I demand 10%.
Too late.
And don’t think about trying to bribe your way out of it. The auditor doesn’t want to be in a higher tax bracket
If I bribe someone and the value is over xx dollars should I send them a 1099?
More importantly, is that a deductible business expense?
I was talking with someone who had a mother who did taxes and she had a client who was embezzling $$$ from their employer. Her client reported the embezzled money on their taxes because they didn’t want to have a beef with the IRS too if they ever got caught.
My mom did taxes too, but she never had a client like that. Probably because she was married to a probation officer.
I think maybe it’s Tres Cool who said he knows of a drug dealer who declares all his income (he’s a “contractor”) in order to avoid IRS troubles.
Good idea.
/Al Capone
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, JOE BIDEN?
Sounds like a party to me.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17124686/husband-drank-so-much-wet-bed/
Been there
I haven’t. Yet.
We’ll see what Father Time has to say about it in the years ahead.
If she doesn’t like it, she shouldn’t have married a government spokesman.
THOTS ON PARADE
https://archive.md/OWKB7
Needs moar phontz!
Now waiting to see the SC coach get doused by mayo
Fighting Game BuCockkes!
Mayo covered Cocks
Oof, the mayo bath was rough to even watch.
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1476642221575348232
lol
They clocked him in the back of the head pretty good.
Why does he have a hat on? The whole point of a mayo bath is to get your hair nice and shiny.
Two ladies trying to hoist that mayo tub need to LIFT MOAR!
OT. I’ve got an article that should be good to go whenever works b
Scheduled. Tuesday 1/4/22 at 1100 Glibs time.
Thx!
Ugh mayo is not supposed to “pour” ?
They mentioned it was watered down to make it more pour-able.
Ah OK. Carry on
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Awesome.
No currency currently in circulation anywhere in the world has “intrinsic” value.
Love the “LGBCoin”. I wonder how many wokesters will buy it, thinking LGB stands for, you know, the thing.
She knew exactly what they were saying.
I don’t blame her a bit. She was just trying to save the interview and cover the profane chanting in the background. I actually had the TV on the race at that moment; I couldn’t hear well enough to know what they were actually chanting, so I thought it really was “Let’s Go Brandon” – it was his first win and all, and I think he might have been kind of local(?).
Yeah OK whatever, Yahoo. ?
Yeah, that whole paragraph had me rolling my eyes:
Why the hell not? He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme) and he needs money to pay for the car. Twenty bucks is twenty bucks.
I completely respect him for trying to play it cool.
Him fully embracing it as a giant middle finger to the people who tried to cancel him? Fucking epic.
“Why don’t you go fuck yourself, Tommy?”
(@ author, not subject)
He was completely a 100% innocent bystander. Literally. And his career is being wrecked for it, by assholes like the people who wrote that article.
He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme)
Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind that’s why his sponsorships “mysteriously” dried up.
What’s he supposed to do? Just say, “Welp, I guess there goes my dream of being a big time race car driver”? This was literally the only option left to him. Assholes (like the people who wrote that article) drove him to it, and its his fault?
Oh, that’s going to piss off a certain set of activists.
*chuckle*
Yup. The Ts and Qs are gonna be pissed they got left off.
WA Democrats’ bill says it’s ‘racial equity’ to go easy on drive-by murderers
We need more white drive-by shootings out here in clown world.
Cool link, bro!
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-new-york-bill/fact-check-new-york-state-assembly-is-not-voting-on-a-bill-on-jan-5-2022-to-indefinitely-detain-unvaccinated-people-idUSL1N2T61WR
Handwaved away is that this asshole keeps reintroducing the bill every year, as thought it’s on some sort of auto renewal plan rather than he (or his staff) is doing it. Also handwaved away is how this “fact check” is being pushed through outlet after outlet. The version I saw was attributed to the AP. Judging by the reaction, it’s seems quite possible this was going to be used as a vehicle for what the conspiracy nut jobs were claiming it was for but got nipped in the bud.
I believe that authoritarian POS just got nominated for an ambassadorship.
Dude, that poor bill is never going to make it to the floor for a vote if you people keep paying attention to it.
Just trust us fact checkers and stop getting so nosy and looking at actual bills in the hopper.
#fail
L O L
I think the first post was better. :-p
How did you get a completely blank comment through? Kudos.
Really impressive, in its own way.
OT: Self Indulgence/Rant/Raging Douchebag/….who cares.
I no longer find any of this interesting. The best I can muster at this point is boilerplate comments designed to go along to get along with people I mostly like. I’m not displaying any intellectual courage here. Yeah, we agree that a small, legally constrained government via a heavily armed public will curtail the consolidation of central power…good fucking luck with that.
As the old saying goes: Money and Power will always find each other.
What’s the overreaching point of this post? Fuck me if I know. I lost any will to to tie this comment into a coherent thought five minutes ago.