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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
I’m just not willing to pony up an extra $30 for the scant N64 and Genesis games on offer for the upgraded Switch Online.
Yes! I really am not either. Especially since the emergence of RetroPie. I will gladly give Nintendo dollars for new content. But that recurring price for some N64 games? Which in my opinion were not so great anyway? Fie!
My retro setup is on pi3 and N64 games don’t work very well.
I’ve had trouble with a couple ROMS.
Pi4 is good. Or even better, get a new RG552 from Anbernic (It’s available now) All kinds of interesting developments are going on with emulation. Here’s a link to the aforementioned product in a preview from a site you may also find interesting.
https://obscurehandhelds.com/2021/12/what-we-know-about-the-anbernic-rg552/#more-8851
I really should get back into emulation. Somewhere kicking around on an old CD/DVD (which is probably DED now) I had the full ROM set for MAME at the time, as well as MAME on it.
Of course, there’s lots of things I should do before that…
I’ve been using Dolphin, the Wii emulator, for several years now. I like it. Actual Wii controllers and accessories work flawlessly with it.
Check out the Project 64 emulator. I finally broke down after waiting for a modern version of Ogre Battle.
Now I just need GOG to hurry up with Gangsters 2.
I dropped Nintendo – got tired of paying them over and over again for the same content while waiting for them to squeeze out anything new worth playing.
This pretty much sums up my relationship with Nintendo.
After the Wii U I said “I think this will be my last Nintendo console”, and now we have four Switches in the house.
I liked the Wii – when they dropped it, I dropped them.
No shit, Shirley
A U.S. judge in Texas on Friday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing an executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
The ruling marks the latest setback for President Joe Biden, whose efforts to boost U.S. vaccination rates through sweeping workplace safety rules have been repeatedly stymied in the courts.
Judge Jeffrey Brown, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in a 20-page ruling that Biden’s executive order “amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs.”
But the President has absolute authority over the land and everyone in it!
That what DEMOCRACY! means.
I’m still not clear on how anyone can mandate consent.
“workplace safety rules”
Never change, the media.
OMG, I wonder if I still have my 45 RPM single of that.
A surprise or a Reprise? Man, I listened to that on the radio, loved it.
Ya, if I lose an engine I’m flying it all the way to the crash site. Or, you know, restart it and carry on.
*looks at gaping hole where engine used to be*
What if we ‘lost’ as in ‘misplaced’?
You “lose” an engine that way, you’re going to have a serious weight and balance problem.
So you’ll fly it until you crash?
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style.
The term of art is you fly it all of the way to the crash. With the idea that a plane (now a glider) comes in under control, that it will be at a minimum speed, and gives you the maximum survivability. What you don’t want to do is give up control, stall or spin that plane and it is going to hurt.
Was going to say that, but Dr. Mossy Lawn got there first.
As he always will, as his airplane is faster than mine.
https://i.redd.it/27lwdiog5ko51.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
I’m just gonna report all three of you to Flight Standards.
I have failed to complete every legend of zelda game I’ve attempted to play… all two of them (The original on NES and twilight princess on Wii). For one simple reason – I am awful at them.
I hate gaming platforms.
Last gaming platform I played with any frequency?
Panasonic 3DO and Sega Genesis.
I am mostly a PC player, but some switch-exclusive games mean I have one of those under my left hand monitor.
My grand-daughter has a Switch. I don’t care for it, but I like to mess with her while she tries to play it.
Zombies Ate my Neighbors?
You won’t do it, but you should have played Link to the Past and O’Carina of Time.
O’Carina of Time
That’s the one set in Ireland?
Yes, with the Toyota
I thought O Canada.
Ha, well for some reason I never thought much about it and always put the apostrophe in. Whoops.
Yeah, Link to the Past is a classic. I got very close to the end in that one.
L2TP is the shiznit.
I don’t think I’ve completed more than a half-dozen games, total.
For this style game, it’s mostly because I suck at boss battles. And I have a very low tolerance for repetition.
Do not play Cuphead then. You will destroy your entire place in frustration.
Is that the thirties cartoon one? It’s on my wish list. … Hah, I see the first tag on Steam is “Difficult”. I have learned that that is usually no joke.
Cuphead is pretty brutal. But it is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever seen. Son is getting the hang of it; he’s far better at it than I am.
That game is getting a cartoon show. And I agree, I hate boss battles and the entire game is boss battles. A festival of suck for me. Beautiful though.
Jackpot.
And then, we get this:
Asked about Brown’s ruling later Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted that a “remarkable” 98% of federal workers are already vaccinated.
“We are confident in our legal authority here,” Psaki said.
She pukes up that monstrous non sequitur, and the credulous nitwits in the steno pool just copy it down.
So then what need for a mandate is there?
To keep the last 2% from getting and spreading it to…
That is a fucking lie.
96% of the force is ‘in compliance’, meaning they have either gotten at least one shot, or they have applied for an exception on medical, moral or religious reasons. At least 4% have done neither and are the ones pushing the issue.
Everything they say is a lie.
I believe actual 1 shot == vaccine compliance is somewhere around 85%.
Just saw an email here that we are missing confirmed second shots on around 8% of our workforce, and we’ve been under a company mandate since October. I’d bet a good chunk of that 8% got the first shot right when the mandate was imposed, and have been hoping nobody would notice.
If people actually walk, we are going to be in serious trouble in some critical departments.
If people actually walk, we are going to be in serious trouble in some critical departments.
If that happens, I expect the usual suspects will say that “The changes are only on the margin and don’t matter. If people would just get vaccinated and wear masks, we’d stop having Covid cases! And besides, if they won’t get vaccinated they’re antivaxx. We don’t want science deniers in healthcare.”
That’s what the usual suspects are saying in NH when people ask about hospitals being overwhelmed but firing staff because the staff won’t get vaccinated.
And two minutes later “compliance” becomes 2, 3, 4, or wherever the fuck they are jabs.
Right now its a race between Omicron burning itself out and the Branch Covidians getting “fully vaccinated” re-defined to include boosters.
Too close to call, I think.
Including “and” and “the”.
Also he figure is sort of not “amazing” when you literally forced everyone to do it 2 months ago or lose their cushy government gigs.
Fauci said 50% was good enough to avoid future spikes (in June).
That number includes people that stopped at #1 shot. Fuck them
17 New Games Activision Just Announced
They ignored the fact that Microsoft also owns Bethesda? Think of the synergies in day one bugs!
I didn’t wait a quarter century for a new Zork game only to have my anticipation be mocked. Don’t punch down Bee. I need you to do better!!!
I like Zork.
On the Infocom note:
4. Bill Gates’ Divorce Simulator – Also basically just Excel.
Infocom did branch out from games into business software with a database.
Planetfall FTW
That was a good one too.
I feel like this should have been linked to the Epstein Island games since I strongly suspect that is actually playing a massive part in the divorce. I think Melinda is keeping her mouth shut to make sure she doesn’t become “besties” with Hilary….
Ya, if I lose an engine I’m flying it all the way to the crash site.
Live forever, or die trying.
The idiot who intentionally crashed his plane is a textbook case of an article for Gell-Man amnesia. It is just so wrong, the number of factual errors that would have been easily cleaned up by an aviation editor. The Kobe Bryant coverage also suffered from this.
Only read articles on technical subjects from industry sources. Also don’t believe them outside of their area of expertise. An Aviation magazine will get economics wrong, but not piloting.
What was his altitude when he bailed?
I’m assuming he’s claiming he was at minimum altitude for a parachute, but a Taylorcraft should have a very nice glide slope ratio which would get him to a landing strip of some kind. Hell, that thing probably stalls around 40 mph. He could easily find somewhere to land.
In any case, the FAA is going to be all over his ass. He’ll be lucky if California doesn’t come after him for risking a wildfire as well.
He was many thousands of feet above the ground, acted in a way that was inconsistent with an actual emergency. Just happened to be wearing his full skydiving rig (other videos show that this was not the norm) selfie stick at the ready!. Glides, not towards safety, but towards the failing plane, retrieves his go-pro cameras.
The FAA will pretty much just take his licenses most of their remedies are civil… it will be up the the forrest service to charge for the damage, risk and trash removal.
there were plenty of places in gliding distance for a Taylocraft to stop in… they need only a couple of hundred feet of landing space.
I read the aircraft maintenance was far from current and it needed lots of work to be current.
Seems like a way to fix that issue as well. If it was insured and he claimed it could become criminal…
Yeah, stunt.
Completely irresponsible and negligent. I’d be inclined to give him prison time if the law allowed it.
So, I was looking to see if it’s possible to get Hydrox cookies–I found their web site, which has a link to Amazon, but they seem to be unavailable there. Any ideas?
I thought Hydrox cookies were discontinued some years back.
Ah, I see there’s apparently been a reboot.
It’s the name. It sounds like a cleaning product.
It’s a cure for COVID.
Well, it can’t be less effective than the jab right?
They got yanked after Trump claimed they cured Covid.
Excellent.
*trombone dive*
great minds…
Good luck. Better than Oreos.
There’s a brand called “Generic” that I buy
Some of the grocers in Chinatown have flavors for the Asian market; the egg-custard version and green tea flavors were quite good. I remember an NPR story a decade or more ago that talked about Oreo trying to move into China and all the flavor changes Nabisco had to make to get the Chinee to buy them. IIRC, there are 145 “flavor points” in the cookie and 120 something had to be tweaked for China. They eliminated the roasted chocolate notes from the cookies and made them significantly sweeter.
Gross
Interesting as many Asian desserts and sweets are actually much less sweet than those here.
Red bean desserts.
Asian market here has Korean Oreos, and are superior. They are also not quite as sweet. Particularly don’t have that cloying sweetness that US cookies have.
A pilot and professional YouTuber has run into some trouble after he crashed his plane in the California mountains last month, only to be accused of doing the whole thing on purpose to grab some page views. Now he’s being investigated by the feds.
“What wuz you arrested for, Kid?”
“Litterin’.”
Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!
Littering and, littering and, littering and…
Thank you.
That was a total fake, a setup, he’s lucky he didn’t fall off a fucking cliff after landing,
Idiots gonna idiot.
Side-eye at the links…
She caught me perving her.
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta wave, individuals who had previously contracted COVID-19 had more protection against the virus than those who had been vaccinated.
‘Bout time. Won’t matter though.
Hopefully! Stan, for his part, got to live through a penis-having fantasy which most people with penises probably aren’t even aware they have: to have their penis voiced by Jason Mantzoukas.
I’ve never had such a fantasy and I doubt I ever will.
*scrolls up*
Why, looky there. She does have eyes.
Speaking of crazy pilots – I’m just impressed: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1484000818344955906?cxt=HHwWhMC4_ba4nZgpAAAA
Lot’s of spare time and Gas money I guess,
impressive,
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/576202926949040128
I see’d that one, an interesting artform, I love it, how about FJB?
Student mocks adults over Lil Rona Panic restrictions.
Wow! Chicago it seems like.
Need to introduce my son to her.
re: Hydrox
As I recall, Hydrox are not as sweet as Oreos (which makes them better, in my opinion).
I sometimes buy store brand Oreo-style cookies, which, being less sweet, are pretty good. Good As Hydrox? I couldn’t say.
Yes, that is the main reason they’re better.
Famous Wafers! No cloying white schmutz. I don’t know why they’re so expensive.
Plus originally the only kosher alternative.
Hydrox, the original kosher sandwich cookie, is accusing Oreo of sabotage
It’s Friday, the sun is out, the snow is covering the yards, and there will be the usual Zoom/Happy Hour/Bull Session kicking off at 20:00 Eastern.
Thanks Neph. I got some serious shit to say.
Weren’t Hydrox a Keebler product?
Yes, my googling finger is sprained.
Yup. And Oreos are a knock off of them.
The better knock off IMO,
/Doublestuffed Oreos and milk, mmmmmmmmm!
I’ll be honest. I can eat an entire box of either in about one sitting. That’s why I never buy them.
Occasionally for work I work on new plant commissionings and startups. When I do that I typically have a pack of Oreos, which I will eat rapidly. Usually I’ll go through a box or two a week.
Oreo changed their recipe in recent years and it tastes wrong now.
The vanilla ones are like a more addictive crack to me.
Mega-Stuff Golden Oreos are my Kryptonite. Particularly when paired with strong, black coffee for dippin’.
man that’s yummy
except too much Stuf
Them Peanut Butter Fudge ones were pretty good.
I’ve went Keto and had to give such things up.
But as of yesterday, I’ve lost 30 pounds.
Congrats.
Congratulations for the weight loss!
I dislike the Double Stuf Oreos–too much Stuf, not enough Cookie.
Scott Atlas on the Tom Woods show.
They start talking about vaccines and vaccine passports, then go into masks on kids.
The blurb for the episode says they’ll talk about his book. I read his book. It’s good yet infuriating. Atlas has a good chapter in there summarizing science of lockdowns, masks, and other related things.
The stock market looks like it took a pretty good beating this week.
Everybody’s worried about the next election being illegitimate now that those racist senators killed democracy.
My sandwich had appreciated in value.
Just follow Pelosi’s lead.
It always rebounds. I hope.
My grocery store carries ‘chorizo strips’ which is basically a slab of chorizo sliced like bacon. It works really well wrapping beef.
Or you could just use bacon, commie.
variety is the spice of life.
Beside the chorizo has been in my fridge longer than the bacon.
Use it or lose it, Chorizo is fine anyway, screw the haters,
Just kidding. Why not both, in fact?
Yes!
As usual the CDC has decided to be absolutely unclear.
CDC Not Changing ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Definition To Include Booster — But People Won’t Be ‘Up To Date’ On Shots Without One
So will places, here’s looking at you NYC, now force gatekeepers to not only check vaccination status, but now do the mental calculation for booster eligibility? That’s going to end well…
whatever
My issue is that it now gives the state one more way to beat the population. Which they will cheerfully do until the people comply.
I will not comply.
That’s where I am until it comes down to feeding my family.
I don’t need to set foot in a restaurant.
Yeah if it hits food shopping, things get interesting.
I can pass on the rest.
^^^^^ THIS!
They can’t say it includes them because then the FedGov and FedCon mandates would have to be updated and another round of forcing compliance.
Local post office pulled the plastic separators today. I asked about it. The worker said he’s already had the virus and therefore…
Seems about right
Perfect.
/s Austria
Front lines update:
Just over 1/3 of our ‘Vid patients are vaccinated. This has been trending up. I believe the vax rate here is around 60 – 65%. We don’t track “incidental” v. “because of”, on account of it really doesn’t change anything we would do. Which is my new thing – asking about every piece of data or report that we generate “will this really affect any decisions we make?” That one gets lots of blank stares.
The case fatality rate for the county is 1.6%. For the state its 1.5%. That’s for the whole pandemic.
Interesting.
I’m not sure if you saw this, but I’m guessing your aren’t turfing your tough decisions to TX.
Court Battle Over a Ventilator Takes a Patient From Minnesota to Texas
a Taylorcraft should have a very nice glide slope ratio which would get him to a landing strip of some kind. Hell, that thing probably stalls around 40 mph. He could easily find somewhere to land.
This reminds me of the airshow I saw long long ago at the Rhinebeck (NY) Aerodrome. One of the performers was a guy in a Piper Cub, probably, who took off, got not-very high in the air, and then cut the engine and coasted around for about twenty minutes before landing.
Well, it looks like my cunning
procrastinationwaiting will save me time and money. Local bike shop has started up the winter discounts on parts and tune ups, as well as the free pickup and delivery service.Both the bikes need to go in for some work.
Mine did not pay off. My Obermeyer down jacket has some holes & is leaking feathers. Went to the Obermeyer website to get a new one and they’re sold out of just about everything. Maybe I should try Amazon or REI or Ski Chalet or something
Any chance of holding out until spring/summer?
She’s molting, I’m not sure there will be enough time
Duct tape.
In this case Duck tape would be appropriate.
Mega-Stuff Golden Oreos are my Kryptonite. Particularly when paired with strong, black coffee for dippin’.
Golden with coffee, chocolate with milk. That’s why I buy the “variety pak”.
A victory of sorts at work;
The company just announced that they were putting the plan to force those who didn’t disclose being vaxxed to be tested weekly for COVID on hold. They cited the fact that vaxxed and unvaxxed were getting COVID at similar rates.
There are a number of us who have been pushing for evidence based policy as opposed to blindly following the government’s policy of cracking down on
typhus-spreading Jews who are stabbing Germany in the backCOVID-spreading anti-vaxxers who are stabbing America in the back. Our resistance has been disorganized and very much lone-wolves sending comments to HR asking for clarification on policy announcements. This, coupled with the excellent reporting system we have for COVID related business impacts, meant that when Omicron started its rampage, they had no real world excuse to treat the unvaccinated as being inherently a bigger risk to the coworkers than the vaxxinated.Our head of HR is very much a Branch Covidian, so this is a very welcome retreat from imposing her cult’s religious purity laws.
Naturally, they claim that if the OSHA ETS is upheld that they will do the testing. So this could be a temporary halt in their advance rather than the beginning of their withdrawal. But I am hopeful; we insure devices like Covid testing kits, and our life-sciences division has a blanket policy of not insuring Covid testing kits themselves because they are so unreliable and many of the manufacturers have a poor track record of significant product liability claims.
If the ETS goes into force, there won’t be enough testing kits in the manufacturing pipeline to supply the mandated demand. My guess is that a lot of businesses will be so fed up that they will stop complying. Just as logistics doomed Germany’s invasion of Russia, logistics will doom the Branch Covidians plans to grind us under-foot. We just need to hold out for another twelve months.
A couple of points I didn’t express clearly in the above:
The answers to our questions were logged in a system that is discoverable in employment lawsuits. They had to change the policy or it would look like they lied to people about the rationale the policy was based on. Essentially we got them to commit to ideals that are now forcing them to retreat. Also, some of the people in HR do have a conscience and were going along with the Branch Covidians because they didn’t know any better, and those people are not on board with the blistering illogic coming out of the White House and CDC.
Also, the company won’t source its testing kits from fly by night manufacturers. They will go with the most reliable producers. Those producers will be locked into providing kits to much bigger companies. As a result, I think our company will have a tough time getting COVID kits, and then they will have to deal with the mayhem wreaked by false positives and false negatives on our bottom line. Our CEO, for all his sins, will not tolerate that.
And that is why I believe the house of cards will fall like dominoes. Checkmate, Branch Covidians!
Good luck
This is good news.
Eureka!
President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening research and development and manufacturing for supply chains to address global semiconductor shortages.
Semiconductor shortages have been a persistent thorn in the Biden administration’s side. The shortage of the chips — which are essential for the production of smart phones, medical equipment, cars and a number of household appliances — has hamstrung the administration’s economic recovery effort from the Covid-19 pandemic and contributed most notably to an increase in automobile prices, which account for one-third of the annual price increases in the core consumer price index.
“Let’s get another historic piece of bipartisan legislation done,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “Let’s do it for the sake of our economic competitiveness and our national security. Let’s do it for the cities and towns all across America working to get their piece of the global economic package.”
Let’s make shortages illegal. That Trump guy never would have thought of this.
They can’t be that stupid. Can they?
Why yes, yes they can.
Watch any corporate news “economic expert” talking head and compare it to what you know about the most basic fundamentals of economics that you could learn in high school. It’s not that they’re stupid, they just live in a world in which basic honesty, straight forward thinking, transparency and actual productivity are so foreign that this actually makes sense. Remember, their incentives do not lie in solving problems as that would put them out of their jobs. Politics breaks brains.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmfwklFM-M
Supply Chain Problems…
Ten days to pick up the box?
Speaking of supply chain problems I’m finally getting my RTX 3080… just in time for 4080 to come out… Granted it won’t be available for the peasantry for another 2 years after release.
I’ve got a couple but only because I used the app that in stock notifies you and I get up in the middle of the night sometimes.
Humble brag that you can drop 4k in the middle of the night
It’s multiple different events over the years. Not all at once.
could be, but most likely the label was created but the package wasn’t handed over to Fedex until the second date. I’ve seen and done it myself.
I know.
I’m just kvetching.
I’m finding the USPS to be completely FUBAR right now. It’s taking weeks for stuff to get to/from me. I had a letter take five weeks to get to me, and it was from someone in my own city.
I got my dental appointment reminder card in the mail today. For an appointment on 1/12.
Good thing you can travel through time.
All my med/dental appts use texts/emails/calls as reminders…seems weird to rely on mail for timing things like that.
It would be nice if Amazon just admitted that someone stole my package so I wouldn’t have to sit around waiting for days.
Stolen twice in one day.
Maybe they’re hoping to steal it back?
3:00 – Package stolen by thieves
7:00 – Package recovered by secret Amazon Pinkerton brigade
Well, at least we get the corporate military forces part of the cyberpunk dystopia.
7 pm – empty package now sitting by the rail road tracks, item on ebay
The power of propaganda
In Summit County, more than 100 Park City High School students walked out of their classes Thursday morning to protest legislative efforts to override their county’s mask mandate, the Park Record reported.
“I don’t want to choose between the health and safety of my family and coming to school,” Chris Henry, a junior at Park City High School, said to the crowd. “People are going to die as a result of this bill.”
Defund the schools.
That also took place at a couple of high schools in my city. When I was in high school it never occurred to me to act as a toady for pussy, milquetoast authority figures.
Organized by their teachers, no doubt.
Czech says we ain’t gonna do the vaccine mandate, Britain says we are done, Ireland sorta says they are done. However, the cynical me in me says they are pulling back a bit and when infections happen, as they will, they will come back harder and blame any person, not on shot 100 with “We tried! It didn’t work and we must place this boot on your neck.”
For your own good, of course.
They’re all gearing up for a land war with Russia.
It is looking like that now isn’t it.
That’s like occupation forces might retreat from your town but they can come back any time they want.
They can’t print money like we can.
I think these stick.
Good point to consider as we continue to slide into banana republic territory.
The history of time travel, let’s see if they get it right,
Jon Titor approved?
https://www.amazon.com/s/browse?filterId=OFFER_FILTER%3DPRIME&node=2858778011&ref_=nav_em__aiv_piv_0_2_2_3
::uses post’s music link as cheap, tawdry excuse to link to favorite MM, covering Smokey::
I need something mellow tonight. It was long short work week.
My work week isn’t over until after tomorrow 🙁
I still have to make some marinades. I’ve been sorting the options. I have two oils – a bottle of canola that’s ma year past the best by date, and a fresh bottle of peanut oil. I’ve got five acids – lemon juice, lime juice, and three vinegars (white, apple cider, red wine) I also have a bunch of herbs and spices for flavorants.
What’s a good ratio of oil:acid:sweetener?
“Psychology student, 21, is arrested after spitting on Jewish boy, 8, and telling him and his two siblings that ‘Hitler should have killed you all’ in Brooklyn”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10428375/Psychology-student-21-arrested-hate-crime-charges-spitting-Jewish-boy-Brooklyn.html
She seems nice.
That’s a tough-looking 21.
“No injuries were reported to police.”
I guess there were no parents around.
Ilsa, the Bitch of Belsen. One could probably fill out a whole roster of concentration camp guards by trolling the nation’s psychology classrooms.
The psychology department, ground zero for batshit crazy
I’m sorry. ? But you have next week off, right? And you get to go pound on hot metal again! ?
I’m afraid I don’t know nuffin ’bout makin’ marinades, I have an idiot simple recipe I’ve used for olive oil & red wine vinegar salad dressing, but that’s as adventurous as I’ve gotten. (Which is to say, not at all.)
It MUST have been a long week. Brooksed reply to UCS, Oh, the shame!
It happens.
Get some rest. It sounds like you need it.
“Can Japan’s Monkey Queen have it all? Yakei violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become first female leader in 70 years but now a messy mating season love triangle could bring her down
Japan’s Monkey Queen who violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in 70 years could lose her title during mating season, experts say.
Yakei is a female Japanese macaque, and the alpha female leader of a troop of 677 monkeys in Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden, Oita, southern Japan.
In 2021, the reserve reported that nine-year-old Yakei had taken the top spot of the troop after fighting her own mother and seeing off three high-ranking males.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10427547/Japans-Monkey-Queen-lose-title-amid-mating-season-experts-say.html
EXCUSE ME, IT’S MA’AM!
Pretty sure I saw Monkey Queen open for L7 at Lallapalooza once.
Dopey woman infected with fashionable guilt starts conscious real estate business…
https://www.westword.com/arts/small-business-spotlight-conscious-real-estate-combines-selling-houses-with-philanthropy-13255830
“I’m trying to be more aware of my privilege, and in the past, I had some idea of being a white savior.”
“I’m different from a lot of people in my industry. I don’t go for this “false professionalism,” which determines things that are considered professional that are rooted in colonial, patriarchal idealism: what car you drive, how you dress.”
Spoiler: “I started in real estate in 2012, then opened my business in 2015. I had been in academia for a long time, and I was ready for something else.”
Catholics have nothing on these people.
Dad owned/built dozens of airplanes over the years but I have to say that my favorite was his Taylorcraft.
The “gas gauge” was a cork with a nail in it sticking through the gas cap. We had gone a bit further than he planned and the nail had stopped bobbing a few miles from the field. We made it to the runway but when the angle changed from dropping to the tail wheel, we ran out of gas. Had to push it back to the hangar.
It begins.
The first pepper has sprouted.
https://www.superhotchiles.com/product/apocalypse-scorpion-chile-seeds/?v=7516fd43adaa
I’ve done the chocolates in the past.
The pic alone is puckering my bung hole.
“”When in the course of human history has the side that’s doing the censoring and trying to shut people up and make them show papers and marginalize a part of the community ever been [the correct side]?” Rodgers said Thursday. “We’re censoring dissenting opinions? What are we trying to do? Save people from being able to determine the validity on their own or to listen and to think about things and come to their own conclusion? Freedom of speech is dangerous now if it doesn’t align with the mainstream narrative? That’s, I think first and foremost, what I wanted people to understand, and what people should understand is that there’s censorship in this country going on right now.
“Are they censoring terrorists or pedophiles? Criminals who have Twitter profiles? No, they’re censoring people, and they’re shadow-banning people who have dissenting opinions about vaccines. Why is that? Is that because Pfizer cleared $33 billion last year and Big Pharma has more lobbyists in Washington than senators and representatives combined? Why is the reason? Either way, if you want to be an open-minded person, you should hear both sides, which is why I listen to people like Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough. I have people on the other side as well. I read stuff on the vaccine-hesitancy side, and I read stuff on the vaccines-are-the-greatest-thing-in-the-world side.
“When you censor and make pariahs out of anybody who questions what you believe in or what the mainstream narrative is, that doesn’t make any sense.””
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33088151/the-unfiltered-year-aaron-rodgers
Free speech is like a trolley. When you get to your stop, you get off.
That headline screams “shut your fucking trap”.
Or, maybe, most of the way there.
I love that song.
So, therefore, I love you and SF, Riven.
Have a great weekend, freaks!
A bit of potential good news from The People’s Republic of New Mexico
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/new-mexico-may-limit-or-scrap-tax-on-social-security-income/6365818/?cat=500
Back of the envelope says that this could save me about $2k in taxes per year.
They won’t tax you on the money they forcibly took from you but are now giving partially back.
… that was taxed first time around when it was earned.
https://twitter.com/AnnastaciaMP/status/1484057651424395266
No eagles, or a skull or anything? They should have hired Hugo Boss.
Surely some politico’s kid is a fashion designer.
That is so creepy.
“Wellcamp”?! Is that what I think it is?
It’s to help you focus on things.
quarantine commissioner
Oh it’s in the title which I missed duh
“Did we say wellcamps? We meant happy camps!”
“ Welcome to Wellcamp’s newly appointed Quarantine Commissioner”
Reboot of Hogan’s Heroes?
Because of course they did.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4512129/china-anal-swabs-covid-mandatory-winter-olympics/
Do not give US Branch Covidians any ideas.
Sure, Jan.
Policing in action
https://kval.com/news/local/eugene-police-40-year-old-man-arrested-after-caller-reported-him-coming-onto-property
So really, the only charge out of the incident was resisting arrest. Which since there were no other charges, it’s an unlawful arrest so resisting it was valid. The police had no knowledge of the outstanding warrant at the time of their actions, so that’s irrelevant. In a more just world, the officers involved would be charged with assault, kidnapping, unlawful use of force, and a variety of lesser charges.
“Staton refused to listen to commands and took his shirt off,” EPD said.
That makes sense.
Music link reminds me of playing pool in a certain smoke filled bar with sticky carpet.
You like sticky carpet?
Only if it matches the drapes.
I once asked a woman, “so…does the carpet match the drapes?”
She said, “yeah but not the upholstery”
I was very confused.
Underarm hair?
People are dunking on Meatloaf for being anti vax mandate then dying from Covid. “Should’ve joined the Red Guard and you wouldn’t have starved to death.”
I’d want to see a coroner’s autopsy report before I believe that.
And even then I would have my doubts.