What in the Wide, Wide World of Links is going on around here?
Being a holiday and all, I haven’t been too active today. However, the Links must go. Let us look around and see what we can find…
- Oops. He forgot to be discreet about being able to gad about.
- This little story contains a French oddity – look at the next to last paragraph…what a strange requirement.
- “No ticket for you, comrade.”
- Hahahahaha! How, my dear? They have you by the throat, energy-wise, and the Bundeswehr couldn’t win a water balloon fight with a pack of grade schoolers.
OK, so it is still a stupid world out there. Hang in there, COVID suffering Glibs, snow bound Glibs and the rest of the lot of ye.
This little story contains a French oddity – look at the next to last paragraph…what a strange requirement.
Can’t let just anyone join the club.
Pelosi just read that and said we should do that!
The establishment of both major parties would probably like a threshold high enough to keep non-establishment candidates out but not so high that the other party could block an establishment candidate.
Don’t give her ideas!
That can’t be right. Must be a French Mistake
“Sounds like steam escaping”
I know there’s a laundry list of reasons why Brooks could never make that movie today. But how well would Dom DeLuise counting off and saying “watch me faggots” go over?
Is there supposed to be a link for the 4th line?
There was a time when the Swiss prided themselves on craftsmanship.
I have no idea what you two are talking about…
*mops brow*
Timing is everything.
Don’t get him wound up.
See, this is what happens when you churn out product without regard to quality. You wind up with a few holes in the process.
Maybe their trains didnt run on time, but those watches are awesome.
“Like all candidates in the race, Zemmour needs to muster 500 endorsements from elected figures around the country by the middle of March in order to have his name on the ballot for the two rounds of voting in April.”
Superdelegates?
That is true. We let anyone that wants to run, run. We move our gatekeepers into the caucuses.
Many places in the US require nominating petitions with a certain number of signatures (varies by office), but those can be signed by any eligible voter so very different from getting the approval of the entrenched political class.
Indeed. There’s always around three dozen people who run for president, the gatekeeping here is more down to merit than favoritism.
“People don’t buy tickets in China. It’s all free.”
“All free? Free, my ass! What are you, a Commie? I don’t allow not Commies in my car.”
OFFS does anybody really believe this? I suppose the locals are required to “believe” it or else but… come on.
That’s just a perfect storm,checks all the boxes for current Chinese propaganda, it seems.
I’m sure there are some people at the NYT that do.
I bet he didn’t even let the mail sit in the garage for three days first.
I posted this late in the previous thread…
Nick Rekieta ranting about the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8AhitYDoZg
Good stuff. Would be nice if it resonated with more than .001% of the population.
The more the grip is tightened, the more these voices will be heard. Seems we need to go through a period of State oppression first.
Come, on we’re a solid 0.5%, at least!
“The organizers expect that these spectators will strictly abide by the COVID-19 countermeasures before, during and after each event as pre-conditions for the safe and sound delivery of the Games.”
In other words — “You don’t want to have the door to your apartment welded shut with you and your family inside, do you?”
“Just because you make it to the games, doesn’t mean you’ll make it back.”
When in doubt, double down.
Hoo Boy… It’s one thing to *read* that Nikki Fried compared Ron DeSantis to Hitler; completely another to blow by several offramps en route to that comparison. Will media cover?
Telling localities not to oppress the people is exactly what Hitler would do.
What scapegoating did Desantis do, compared to say, the vaxxholes who blame the unjabbed for the rona?
“Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer tried to get workers to declare they never saw Bill Clinton on private island ahead of 2016 election
Clinton appeared as a passenger on Epstein’s flight logs at least 26 times in 2002 and 2003. Epstein’s plane was known then as the “Lolita Express.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/jeffrey-epsteins-lawyer-tried-to-get-workers-to-declare-they-never-saw-bill-clinton-on-private-island-ahead-of-2016-election
Nothing to see here.
I find myself not wanting to believe THAT MANY people in power are into little kids. I mean, is this a more common kink than people think? Has this always been this way?
My supposition is that it’s not the kids per se, but doing something otherwise forbidden to which they are drawn. “I’m special and no one can touch me” being what they’re attracted to.
Just as rape is not about sex, but power, so, too for pedophilia. At least in many, many cases.
How young were the youngest of Epstein’s “Lolitas”? I got the impression they were most or all teenage girls, which is still wrong IMO, but not quite in the same icky league as “little kids” in my mind.
^this.
There is a strong preference, genetically, for men to prefer young women. It is just that society has started to define women as older than in the past…*
*I still think it is icky because they’re kind of dumb, but hard to deny that once all the secondary sex characteristics are present there is no attraction there on a primal level.
One of my Marines got arrested for statutory rape, she was 14, he was 21.
They were DATING, and he tried to pretend he didn’t know, but I kept wondering what would they be able to talk about.
I know she wasn’t talking about her job or anything adult like. I never saw the girl, maybe she looked older, but his friends all said they were skeeved out when they met her, so I’m pretty sure he knew.
People gonna do what people gonna do I guess.
She could talk non-stop about all these mean girls in high school.
A SSGT in my section had a 21 year-old wife and a 7 year-old son. Counting gestation, they were doing the dirty when she was 13. My guess at this late date was that he was about 7 years older than his wife, so he was 20 when she was 13.
Not so much little kids, but teenage girls? I can easily believe that. These are all people who believe they are untouchable.
I thought Epstein and Maxwell recruited teenagers? In which case, not little kids and I can see more people into them than there are pedophiles.
/looks at timestamps
Almost a triple jinx.
Well, they aren’t little kids. Boys find High School girls attractive. There plenty of underage fashion models. Only a century ago it was acceptable for teenage girls to get married. It’s just that having sex with a 16-year-old is creepy, illegal, and wrong, if the man is a married, middle-aged man who is President of the United States.
I don’t want to believe it either, but it seems that Marc Dutroux had a bit of help from higher ups in Belgium. And intelligence services have motivation to get compromising material.
The weird thing for me was how many of the #MeToo abusers were guys who just beat off in front of women.
What’s the payoff in that?
Can’t be charged for rape?
…yet.
Civilized tyranny.
“Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere,” the editorial board wrote. …
“Government officials, mostly but not exclusively Republicans, were apparently determined not to be caught governing in the face of this challenge. Any move or recommendation to mask up or, when safe and effective vaccines became available, to make vaccination a requirement of admission to public places and society in general was shouted down as an unwarranted imposition on individual freedoms,” it wrote. “Cox and so many others have not carried the courage of their convictions. Cox, state legislative leaders, our congressional delegation and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes have so proudly stood against the kind of vaccine mandates that civilized society has used for generations to effectively wipe out everything from polio to diphtheria to the measles.” …
“President Joe Biden tried to pull a couple of useful levers by ordering vaccine mandates for health care workers and vaccine-or-test rules for workplaces of more than 100 employees. The U.S. Supreme Court this week upheld the former while quashing the latter, foolishly holding that a communicable disease is not a workplace hazard,” the editorial board wrote. “Not that Biden is blameless in all this. Seeing the obvious reluctance of so many people to get, or to require, vaccinations has only now moved him to push to make tests and the most effective kind of masks available to everyone. It’s the right thing to do, but months late.”
Nothing says civilized as putting the boots on the necks of fellow citizens. Fuck off.
Nothing says civilized as putting the boots on the necks of fellow citizens.
“Remember George Floyd!”
Somebody posted here about the polio vax. “If I got three polio shots in a year and got polio afterwards, I wouldn’t call the vax effective.”
I am so tired of the BS. I am at a point where I push back every time on the vax and I straight up call it a failed vaccine. Then I ask how many times in the past we required people to take snake oil or lose their jobs.
I’m with you.
Over the last year I have gotten fairly frontal about this crap. No more Minnesoda Nice. Politeness is how we got these stupid lockdowns and mandates. Too many of us didn’t think it was worth screaming when everyone was scairt.
Anytime someone talks about getting their kids vaxxed, I call them child abusers.
Totally agree. I’ve even changed my mask habits. For awhile I would only refuse corporate chains’ requests (Costco, HD, etc.) Mom and pop places, if asked I would accommodate. Not anymore. If you want my money you gotta look at my pretty face.
So far I’ve only had to leave two places.
Exactly. Even if you think it is marginally beneficial like the flu vax, we still don’t mandate that.
And it has the advantage of being safe and not an experimental drug.
“If I got three polio shots in a year and got polio afterwards, I wouldn’t call the vax effective.”
Let’s talk about vaccine derived poliovirus next…
There a lot of popular beliefs about the efficacy and lack of side effects or other issues about existing vaccines that are quite mistaken, along with the risk then and now for many vaccine available diseases.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25316835/
Vaccine efficacy as low as 59% for 1-3 doses and 77% for 4 or more doses.
In my online meetings, I have been quietly watching others realize this in their own. Covid has run through entire departments of dully vaxxed employees. I just listen on mute as they have the WTF? conversation.
Is drugs falling out of asses civilized?
Of course it is. All of the swells are doing it
Eventually the O ring gives out
Burn the Tribune down.
Literally.
China decides not to sell tickets to public for Winter Olympics in Beijing
This will spare them much embarrassment, since there are not many people who would spend actual money on tickets. I’m sure NBC’s ratings will set some kind of record, although they’ll have a tough time surpassing CNN’s recent performance.
Mammary Monday titties certified face-diaper free!
https://archive.fo/aWES6
Dropped on the last thread as it began pining for the fjords.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/gen-mark-milley-tests-positive-for-covid-19-amid-omicron-surge/
Three jabs can’t protect 4-stars.
That’s not what she said…
If suggesting “Second Amendment Rights Should Be Used Against Democrats” doesn’t immediately compel @GOPLeader to take disciplinary action, I suggest Congress take action against both of them. This madness must be addressed or violence will ensue.
…but it is curious that you made the association.
That’s not what she said
dog whistles, trust us
Hey, that is my Congressman!
Finally getting out from under Omar.
He’s a bottom?
The stupid son of a family that made its huge fortune distilling the cheapest booze possible.
In Minnesoda liquor stores the Phillips brand is the cheapest/worst version of any category of booze.
At least he is actually helping the poor. I can’t afford to get drunk in Manhattan. Draft piss is $6.00/glass during Happy Hour in many downtown establishments.
He didn’t brew one pint of rotgut himself. His ancestors did.
The hangovers I’ve suffered from Phillips brand rotgut still haunt me. Poor people would be better off if they learned how to filter sterno through some bread.
It was all about quantity, not quality. OneScore gratefully remembers
I feel for you. I was once gerrymandered to Elijah Cummings.
^her actual quote, alleged.
What else is the point of the 2nd amendment. This should not be a controversial thing to say. It is a necessary an right thing- just read any of the founders, Mr. FBI agent.
Glad we all agree.
On Monday, Pang said that the local case was traced to a piece of international mail the patient had received from Canada which had traveled to China through the United States and Hong Kong, state media reported.
That’s our IncrediblyContagiousOmicron, leaving a swath of death and destruction in its wake.
Resistance is futile.
Germany says Russia will pay price if it moves on Ukraine
They never had the tie breaker last century.
Hell with the Russians, we just won’t burn any of their gas and stay warm. We’ve got our own…What, what, there is no coal? When did that happen? We used to have lots of coal, when they other guys were running the country.
Credit Suisse chairman António Horta-Osório has resigned following claims that he violated COVID-19 protocols on multiple occasions, including by attending Wimbledon last year, the Swiss bank announced Monday.
Clown world.
The court fined him 10,000 euros ($11,400) in daily instalments of 100 euros over 100 days. He could be jailed if he fails to pay the sum.
So there is a chance he’ll imitate Lyndon LaRouche?
Weird how the Western Europeans and Americans still talk to Russia like it’s 1992 and we could kick their asses. The roles have completely reversed.
The ideological roles are reversed too. They used to try to export communism, now we are exporting the bizarre woke crap our elites preach. The Russians (and most eastern Euros) don’t want it.
The Russian forces still are not that good. BUT, and it’s a big but, the Russians still train their military to fight and don’t give a damn about causing civilian casualties. Those two factors will be large in any potential conflict. The Bundeswehr is a totally hollow shell after Afghanistan and the government is paralyzed by the idea of the German military actually killing people or breaking things. To kill Russians in the Ukraine? Forget about it. The Poles would love to kill some Russians but aren’t going to jump in unless Hans, Guisseppe, Pierre and Rupert are clearly in for the fight. Nobody, but nobody, thinks Brandon will fight. So the Poles and Baltic States will sit tight.
The issue remains that the fight would be on Russia’s front step and far from NATO. If the Ukraine were plopped onto the US it would cover TX, NM, and part of OK. Poland sits in AZ’s spot and the fighting would be along Texas’s east border and by Corpus Christie. While 100,000+ Russian troops are not chopped liver they are nowhere near enough to take the Ukraine. Could they force an overland connection between the Crimea and Russia while further seizing the two provinces they are already partially controlling through proxies? That they probably can do.
What the Russians have proved themselves capable of is using drone swarms in targeting and attacking. That and not just not caring about civilian casualties, but actively seeking them to achieve effects is in their favor. Putin and his pals have been reminding the West that they embrace battlefield nukes, and they possess them. Militarily a limited Ukraine seizure is probably within their capabilities, it won’t be easy, but they can probably pull it off. Whatever sanctions the West imposes will be used by Putin to internally build support. Putin knows he controls Western Europe’s major energy source and it is winter.
None of this discussion is about “Should the West fight?”, this is comparing boys, toys, and will.
The Baltics would be ready for action. The problem isn’t just the kinetic forces, but as you pointed out – the drone activities – or as we’re seeing right now, the cyber attacks and psyops actions. (similar to what they did in Estonia, etc a decade ago and again before the first Ukraine attack). They keep those capabilities stacked so that even if folks were inclined act, they could slow a lot of things down (no doubt prestaged in other NATO forces as well).
Good point. Kiev reported multiple cyber-attacks on government systems late last week.
Even if Brandon’s handlers decided to fight, we can’t get combat power to Western Europe, much less to the eastern parts of the Ukraine in a month.
During the Cold War the POMCUS sites had over a corps worth of equipment standing by. Those are all gone. Before da Vid the Army bragged about getting a brigade from Hamburg to Poland in 6 weeks. That six weeks didn’t include marshalling at home station, movement to the ports, loading, and crossing the Atlantic. And that 6 weeks was uncontested, in peacetime, no cyber threat, and supported by Germany and Poland.
The Russians have a good integrated air and missile defense system. Plus they have something NATO doesn’t, they have air defense missiles that can engage our aircraft 100’s of miles before they leave friendly skies. Our air defense is point protection only.
Logistics, how do they work. Empty shelves exist.
Please stop. We could roll up Russia in a land war in a month.
How could we possibly have a land war with a nuclear power?
There is no money in nuclear war.
Very doubtful with the forces that are on the ground in Europe – even after the test runs the past 5 yrs, it would still take well over a month to mobilize enough heavy assets just to the continent, much less across western europe by rail.
Fine. 3 months. 1 of actual fighting. And yes I’m ignoring nukes. The original comment implied Russia would kick our ass in a war and that’s a crock of shit if you mean conventional warfare.
So are you Napoleon, or Hitler?
Projection.
“[T]he same people who are stopping this, they’re stopping Build Back Better. And the child tax credit that we need in place now is in Build Back Better. Affordable housing that we need for people who lost their houses and lost their wealth is now — has got less than half the wealth that white people have, we need the affordable housing bill. That’s in a Build Back Better,” Clyburn outlined. “And so people who are stopping Build Back Better, stopping voting, they are trying to go to the heart of what’s needed in the African American community in order for us to maintain this pursuit of perspective that we have been on for a long, long time.”
“These people are supporting autocracy over democracy, and that’s the big issue here,” he added. “It would have come earlier if the president had put this out there earlier.
…”we need the affordable housing bill”…
Well, we have affordable housing in the Bronx, Chicago, etc, etc but they always seems to get run down ’cause the government or cheap ass landlords won’t take care of them. How can we expect to Build Back Better if no one wants to fix things?
“the child tax credit that we need in place now is in Build Back Better”
We dont need it, but if you really want it, pull it out of BBB and run it through as a stand alone bill. It probably passes easily.
What?
Those bits about dissolution of power from DC were terrifying.
“What everybody better understand is this democracy is at stake. These domestic terrorists are organizing. The president is helping them in the way he speaks to them, the way that he encourages them. And so, we’re in for it.”
Waters added, “People are better understand that democracy is being damaged and undermined. I believe that they would like to see a civil war in this country. I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me but don’t forget I talked about this president long ago when he was first inaugurated. I said that he was going to be dangerous, he was going to be troublesome, and he was going to be undermining the democracy as he aligned himself with Putin and others who are dictators. That is what he wants to be.”
I can only hope the GOP takes the House and that piece of shit is the first to be stripped from all her committee assignments. She called for the public to assail Trump supporters back in 2017. She has a long history of calling for violence against those who do not agree with her.
Not a chance. They’re petrified about being labeled as racist and that’s her entire schtick. She immediately calls anyone who opposes her bigots and closeted Klansmen. Republicans don’t have the spine.
Gumbo or jambalaya? I’m game for either. Proteins will be andouille and shrimp for either. May pick up some oysters too
Get the ingredients for both, and enjoy easy dinner for the next several days?
Pretty much the same ingredients….
Wife has spoken, gumbo it is. Now to work on the roux I guess.
Ok. You can send the jambalaya my way.
File powder. None of that okra shit.
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file gumbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE
I find myself not wanting to believe THAT MANY people in power are into little kids. I mean, is this a more common kink than people think? Has this always been this way?
I try to keep out of these discussions, but are we talking about 8 year olds? I don’t think so.
I honestly don’t know what ages we’re talking about here.
Powerful men wanting young girls? Never heard of it…except all of history.
I think 15 is the youngest I’ve read about.
IIRC, just a few years ago the age for marriage in Louisiana was 13(!). I have this vision of a threesome; the guy, the girl and her Raggedy Ann doll. Naaah…
Well shit. San Jose is spanking the Kings. 3-0 15 minutes into the game
Well make that 4-0…..what a joke.
Wild and Avs tied in the third.
And of course ESPN+ won’t let me watch. Fuckers.
Timo Meyer is picking the Kings apart. 5 damn goals against us. 6 goals total on 13 shots? Terrible
First Shark in history to do so, I believe.
On my hike today we saw a family with two small kids walking six feet off the trail and all masked up. I can’t even.
Oh well. Less competition for Glib kids.
Wife and I took the kids along the San Bruno Mountain summit trail last weekend. There were a number of people wearing masks while hiking. It amused me how scared some of them looked when they saw my semi feral children bounding down the trail towards them. Right now about 80% of people walking outside in SF have fucking masks on. It’s ludicrous.
What amazes me is these are “follow the SCIENCE!” folks. Okay, they are follow their masters folk.
I wonder how long it is going to take for the CDC guidance that cloth masks aren’t effective to make its way from their high alter to the state health bureaucrats and the progitariat. I imagine when it finally does instead of taking the logical step of ditching mask mandates they will double down and try to dictate the types of masks people are obliged to wear. Hopefully the narrative will fall completely apart by then.
That’s the only reason they are now admitting cloth masks do nothing.
Not because the N95 ones will do anything either, but it’s another click of the ratchet.
Yep it’s never oh we were wrong! It’s, ‘science has changed, you need to do this now!’
I haven’t seen any in the mountains and only a few on the walking paths. Only oldsters and asians.
There generally aren’t too many maskers where I am. I see a lot when I visit my mom, but she’s closer to Berkeley, so it’s expected. The Peninsula and SF must be loaded with them.
“All free? Free, my ass! What are you, a Commie? I don’t allow not Commies in my car.”
No Christians, neither.
Thanks for that
The Germans will totally kick ass in Stalingrad, this time.
This time, it will be Volgograd, comrade!
They’re going to get lost looking for Leningrad. At least Moscow is still where it was.
That’s not what she said
It doesn’t matter what was said, only what was heard.
I honestly don’t know what ages we’re talking about here.
Mission accomplished.
Good cover of Machine Messiah
It occurred to me yesterday that my wife, who is normally socially adept, suffers from a situational social autism. She blindly defers to the authority of inanimate objects, namely signs.
Yesterday, we were entering a restaurant in Waco TX, with a sign on the door saying masks were required. She puts one on, I didn’t. We go into the packed restaurant, and she is literally the only person wearing. Not the customers, not the employees, not the people in line to be seated.
I said, “No one is wearing a mask. You don’t have to.”
Her: “It’s what the owners want.”
Me: (tamping down the urge to tell her to read the room): “It’s what some bureaucrat wants. The owner and employees aren’t wearing.”
I’m a ‘rule follower’ when the rules make sense. I am also not one to make waves.
That is why me not giving Biden and Mayor Pete the satisfaction of breaking me is against my nature.
Any thoughts about getting canceled for wearing this hat? Or would people just think the wearer was a little weird?
threading fail.
But also, the Eastern Diamondback center cut hat band option is sweet.
Charlie don’t surf.
Shades of Fort Hood, 7th Air Cav , 1972. An old 7th Guy might have a complaint but not me, I wasn’t one of them
The Army’s CAV units still wear these and spurs. Both are not in the uniform reg but are permitted for unit pride.
The frontier Army cavalry and infantry were some fighters, but the best units were not the 7th CAV.
“Owner of the @warriors
Basketball says he doesn’t care about the Uyghurs.
The conversation goes downhill from there.”
https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/1483105641656897540
At least he’s being honest I guess?
“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.”
Have you asked the Uyghurs?
The Chinese have informed us that they are not real people.
Uyghur, please.
Majority of Americans believe US democracy is at risk of extinction and just 54% think Biden won the presidential election, new poll shows
Well, which is it?
Who knew that 46% of Americans were domestic terrorists?
Shorter Maxine Waters: They’re asking for for it, and I think there should be Republican blood in the streets.
Finally getting out from under Omar.
Ewwwwww!
Blood is thicker than water…
Relevant
Omar comin’ yo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMm1Wih0kug
“responsible flamethrower ownership”
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1409199758720307200
A friend of mine got a flamethrower, looks like the same model as the video, for her birthday last summer…after she shot it, I was the first (and only) one she let try it out. It was pretty sweet.
I think that happened at a past PorcFest based on the background and the “welcome to New Hampshire”.
That is why me not giving Biden and Mayor Pete the satisfaction of breaking me is against my nature.
This bumps up against things said in that “Refuseniks in the Mist” article from CNN I linked yesterday. A recurring refrain was, “[i/He] used to be studiously apolitical, but things have become so completely intolerable that political activism has become inescapable. It’s time to get up on our hind legs, because soon it will be too late (if it isn’t already).”
I was thinking about that during my sleep mode malfunction at ~4:22 this morning, and I was suddenly reminded of this old thing:
“First they came for the [X], but I was not [X], so I said nothing. Then they came for the [Y]…. und so weiter.
Maybe. Just maybe, people have begun to take that message to heart.
the Bundeswehr couldn’t win a water balloon fight with a pack of grade schoolers
In fairness, water balloon fight isn’t one of the events for the GAFPB.
Hey a pack of grade schoolers in a Russian winter are pretty dangerous with their
waterice balloons.The automatic stoppage of play when a goalie loses his helmet is silly. Play the game you pussies.
“Hey @Delta, your improperly masked staff insisted I put a surgical mask over a closed vent respirator when everyone around me is in cloth masks.
Even your pilots aren’t wearing acceptable masks.
You might as well be recommending wrapping condoms in cheesecloth Face with rolling eyes”
https://twitter.com/dianaberrent/status/1482036659424272386
“I just got pulled off the plane by @Delta security and am being held for TWEETING!!!!
By the way, ask the people involved…. Wearing surgical masks. And I videoed it.
Will upload in next tweet.”
https://twitter.com/dianaberrent/status/1482084312627433473
Holy shit this broad is nuts.
She is nuts but even crazies can help break the safety narrative. It’s compliance.
What about divorcing her husband because he took “her” kids out to eat indoors?
Is that her?
Yeah, batshit crazy and destined for a house full of cats and empty Chardonnay bottles.
Surely she’d take out the recycling.
Five bucks says she was never asked to do that and is making that shit up.
I dunno. I bet DL has a list of “approved” mask types and half face N100 respirators aren’t on it.
I suppose it could be a sticking point over the exhale valve.
Yes.
I have a vague memory of receiving an e-mail from Delta that the company changed its mask requirements to prohibit masks with valves.
That’s exactly what it is. They do not allow any mask with an exhale valve. It’s the whole confusion about who the mask is meant to protect. I can’t even keep up anymore.
It protects the bureaucrats who think they need to “do something”.
Warrior Princess. Covid Disrupter.
None of this discussion is about “Should the West fight?”, this is comparing boys, toys, and will.
Most important of all is will.
I do not believe the West has the will to do anything if push comes to shove. Bluster and dudgeon, and sternly worded admonishments are what’s in the arsenal.
I can’t wait for the maskers’ civil war over what is and is not “SCIENCE-tistically effective” mask.
Masker on masker fisticuffs.
Cage matches.
First one to suffocate the other
winsloses.Please. Slap-fight at best.
Things overheard at the dog park today:
“Not all of Siberia is really that cold.”
They do have hot springs.
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/siberian-hot-springs/80492853/
Was it in the context of what we’re going to do after conquering Russia?
Soviet emigre being teased about being comfortable with the current weather.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/01/lawsuit-expected-against-amazon-after-6-illinois-warehouse-workers-die-in-tornado.html
I’ll be amazed if Amazon doesn’t get hosed on this one.
Headline I just saw:
“BMW is Developing a New Generation of Internal Combustion Engines”
My response: Do Not Want.
The “I do cars” guy did a disassembly of one of the BMW “hot vee” V8s. Cylinder heads are swapped so that the exhaust ports are in the vee, and the intake ports are on the outer side of the motor. Why? So they could stuff two turbochargers in there. Why? Don’t ask me.
What a fucking nightmare. Complexity for its own sake never ends well. The wiring harness for the motor must weigh thirty pounds.
Tis the German way. Mr. Kalashnikov took an over-engineered firearm and retro designed it to be simple enough for Soviet manufacturing and operation by illiterate peasant fighters.
BMW is particularly clueless, the first amongst equals. Daimler isn’t bad (I”m not crazy about their truck division, though), and Volkswagen is totally competent in a Ford-of-Europe sort of way. A6 had some prototyping problems but ultimately produced a solid car.
True story: Z3 (E36/7 for those of you who spraeche BMW) had a center stack HVAC, typical to small cars, with bowden cable controls (typical up until 1980); one okay thing is that the control head and cables could be mounted, the cables tuned, and all shipped as module…that’s the best way to execute that dated concept. Then: Z8 was a Bond car at thrice the price of a Z3, and Muenchen diktated servos actuate the doors (totes reasonable), but there wasn’t any room under the tight dash for the servos………………….sooooooooooooooo, the servos were remotely mounted and actuated the doors……….drum roll please……… via bowden cables.
Ugh. I’m forever fixing the damn Bowden cable assemblies on the wife’s Toyota Sienna.
We had a BMW once, only once.
Duh, they obviously want more turbocharging!
Simplicity is the essence of good design.
The Germans haven’t understood that for quite a while.
The Cadillac flathead V8 was arranged similarly. This was to prevent the exhaust being routed through the water jacket like the Ford flathead. Intakes were also in the vee in that design.
Hey folks. Thanks for all the comments on Part 2 of North Country. I normally do try to respond to at least a few comments (and read all of them), but we had to go to Anchorage today and then we were seduced by the siren song of a burger at the Palmer Ale House, so were out most of the day.
Asking for some theoretical, completely theoretical, advice. Say I had a chance, theoretically, to share an episode of The Hat and The Hair cartoon with one of my voice acting heroes…which one to share, theoretically? (Keeping in mind that I would want to choose one that can’t really be construed as pro or anti Trump, but just fun, theoretically?)
Send the library. Funny as hell.
Theoretically, I think my first choice might be the Too Many Hats clip show.
I’d go with this one.
And, theoretically, my second choice would be Save The Whales, because it’s more recent, doesn’t have Donald, and is The Hat at his most Hat.
But don’t throw them away, they still tell people you’re on the right team
“Loosely woven cloth products provide the least protection, layered finely woven products offer more protection, well-fitting disposable surgical masks and KN95s offer even more protection, and well-fitting NIOSH-approved respirators (including N95s) offer the highest level of protection,” the CDC states.
It comes after health experts have increasingly called on people to upgrade their face masks in light of the highly infectious Omicron variant. Some have gone so far as to say that cloth masks are not good enough.
This question has been a topic of debate throughout the pandemic. With the emergence of new variants, many scientists are saying cloth masks do not work very well.
“Cloth masks are not going to cut it with Omicron,” Linsey Marr, a researcher at Virginia Tech who studies how viruses transmit in the air, told news agency NPR in December.
Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, told CNN that same month: “Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There’s no place for them in light of Omicron.”
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In any case, the CDC, despite its updated guidance, stresses that “any mask is better than no mask” and states that people should wear cloth masks with a proper fit, a nose wire, and multiple layers of tightly woven breathable fabric that block light when held up to a light source.
Of course they do.
“Works better” is not necessarily the same as “works”.
Had a doc appointment today. They made me take off the cloth mask I wore in to put on a paper mask.
So idiotic.
So now we have to pretend that the masks surgeons wear so that they don’t spit in our guts work against respiratory viruses.
More protection doesn’t mean sufficient protection.
Linen pants offer more protection than shorts but that difference is negligible in a motorcycle accident.
…make it impossible to breathe and turn the fucking thing soggy in two minutes but obey
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders recently called on the federal government to provide N95 masks to all U.S. citizens.
Will they match our leg irons?
And will they be made from fabric that’s spread out all over utterly filthy floors in Chinese sweatshops like we saw in Youtube videos a year-and-a-half ago?
Ooooooh, sign me up!
Give better blow jobs and he’ll pay up.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17351969/parnter-million-quid-never-see-any/
It sucks to be a whore.
It’s pretty simple. She wants to tap that asset.
ABC news is on over in the corner. They had a MLK segment, but no mention of that colorblind “content of your character” silliness.
Earlier, they had a clip of his 13 year old granddaughter, sounding for all the world like a petulant footstamping child, having a say at some public event.