I mean, don’t we all have a giant painting of ourselves in our home office? And several smaller pictures? C’mon. I know you all do.
Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade
A group of physicists recently placed a microscopic animal known as a tardigrade onto a superconducting qubit, in an attempt to mingle the realms of quantum and classical mechanics. The researchers argue that the tardigrade was entangled at a quantum level, but some scientists say the team’s claims go beyond what they actually achieved.
The results aren’t published in a journal but are currently hosted on the preprint server arXiv.
“I think it’s very cool to start thinking about interfacing quantum things and biology. But with the right claim,” said Claire Aiello, a quantum engineer at UCLA, in a phone call. “I don’t think the experiment qualifies as quantum biology.” On Twitter, physicist Ben Brubaker had similar criticisms.
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of two or more particles defining the properties of each other. Quantumly entangled particles are interdependent—knowing something about one particle tells you something about the other—and that would remain true even if the particles were separated by billions of miles. Entanglement happens naturally, but for humans to observe it and better understand quantum mechanics, it must be induced in lab settings.
1. Tardigrade is just a dumb name. Does it hug people too hard? Does it miss all its development benchmarks? Does it scream when its headphones get accidentally get knocked off?
2. Look at these things:
They look like the result of Baron Harkonnen fucking a sandworm.
3. Quantumly-entangled tards are not the future I was promised.
Felony charges are 1st in Tesla crash involving Autopilot
California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019.
The defendant appears to be the first person to be charged with a felony in the United States for a fatal crash involving a motorist who was using a partially automated driving system. Los Angeles County prosecutors filed the charges in October, but they came to light only last week.
The driver, Kevin George Aziz Riad, 27, has pleaded not guilty. Riad, a limousine service driver, is free on bail while the case is pending.
The misuse of Autopilot, which can control steering, speed and braking, has occurred on numerous occasions and is the subject of investigations by two federal agencies. The filing of charges in the California crash could serve notice to drivers who use systems like Autopilot that they cannot rely on them to control vehicles.
Still think you’re going to get in a self-driving car shitass drunk and have it take you home?
I’ve had this song in my head for days.
“I mean, don’t we all have a giant painting of ourselves in our home office? And several smaller pictures?”
Is that real?
I’m more surprised by the lack of alt-text.
Narcissistic psychopath, probably real
Looks like a faded Leroy Neiman painting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_8O5pAyes
The picture is also the picture on his computer screen.
I presume this is so he can masturbate to videos of himself masturbating to videos of himself masturbating to videos of himself masturbating….
Do 80-year-olds even masturbate?
They do. And it sounds like a dog eating dry Corn Flakes.
They do masturbate (I’ve heard) but not very successfully (I’ve heard).
Every time I hear of a Tony Quinn fathering a child at 80 I want to take a look at the pool boy.
The mind is willing but the flesh is weak.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=memories+are+made+of+this+youtube&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNS2k43NJycE
Paging Fourscore to the white courtesy phone….
Jokes on you, that’s not his age but rather the weight of his huge testicles.
I was thinking of Norman Rockwell’s Triple Self-Portrait.
official soundtrack
Bonus points if you know where the samples are from.
Real or fake, considering the subject matter it is barftastic.
Quantumly-entangled tards are the future we’re going to get.
“and that would remain true even if the particles were separated by billions of miles”
Sounds like bullshit to me.
Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade
Sounds like the plot of a cheesy 80s movie.
I watched way too many episodes of The Fall Guy over the weekend and have had the theme song stuck in my head all week.
When I have a roll in the hay it’s only Hay……..Hey Hey,
Cuz I’m the unknown stuntman / Who makes Eastwood look so fine
Dammit!
They are also called water bears. Although the cryptobiotic species are terrestrial.
Quantumly-entangled tards are not the future I was promised.
They want cake. They all want cake.
C’mon. I know you all do.
Mine are all of Winston’s mom. But I suppose Fauci needs fuel for when people tell him to go fuck himself.
My father left me a photo of myself as a teenager in the office when I took it over. I told him “I don’t want this thing in here. That’s a little weird.”
He responded “You think it was normal for me?”
I have a big picture of Mrs F and myself, in my “office”. We’re at some famous TX BBQ eating. Picture taken by the Traces of Texas guy.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=traces+of+texas+website&atb=v198-1&ia=web
“Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade”
This is the part of the movie where everyone thinks it failed, they turn off the lights and go home, and then in the quiet darkness of the lab the tardigrades multiply and take over the world.
Or the tardigrade can now travel through time within its own lifetime, trying to improve the world, hoping each leap… is the leap home.
Resounding applause!
See #14
Oh boy!
“Still think you’re going to get in a self-driving car shitass drunk and have it take you home?”
I’ve done it in a non-self-driving car. Don’t drink and drive, kids.
More than once but not for 40 years
Me too.
Meanwhile, back at the loony bin
On Friday, we witnessed an unusually ugly spectacle at the US Supreme Court. Neil Gorsuch sat on the bench maskless (as he also has on other occasions), while his colleague Sonia Sotomayor — who as a diabetic is at higher risk of severe disease if she contracts Covid-19 — participated remotely from her chambers.
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There’s a very gendered nature to the debate about masking. While plenty of women don’t wear masks or support public masking, a study in the academic journal Politics & Gender found an association between masculinity and an aversion to mask wearing, which suggests that men are less likely to wear masks. Women, on the other hand, tend to be more risk averse on matters related to our health, according to a study published in the journal Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Stanford researchers also recently found that men who refuse to comply with Covid rules such as mask wearing are also more likely to commit sexual harassment and have sexist views. This makes perfect sense, since they’re all outrageous displays of entitlement.
Now, with Youngkin’s decision, Virginia schoolchildren will be taught a lesson that it’s okay to forgo masks like Gorsuch. The decision by the male governor to make schools less safe for children is likely, of course, to make many parents feel uncomfortable sending their kids to school at all. I, for one, would never send my daughters to a school where people were not all wearing masks at a time of surging Covid cases.
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And it isn’t just about schools. People who don’t wear masks in public places like supermarkets show shocking disregard for the welfare of children under age 2, who are too young to wear masks themselves. Because masks aren’t mandated in my local supermarket, I don’t feel safe bringing my baby inside to pick up groceries. Therefore, like many moms of little ones, when I’m not at work, I practically live under house arrest these days.
The behavior of people who refuse to mask up belies a very masculine-oriented, individualistic understanding of “freedom.” The mentality that it is OK to make women feel massively uncomfortable in public settings — so much so that they exit them altogether — to avoid burdening men with the slightest inconvenience of putting on masks helps explain why we live in such an unequal society today. This attitude is undoubtedly part of the reason there aren’t more women in positions of power, from corporations (where less than 9% of Fortune 500 chief executives are women) to politics (24% of Senate seats and less than 28% of House seats are held by women). And it’s unconscionable
Seriously, lady. Seek professional help.
Good. That’s the life you deserve.
points at Sean’s avatar
What Sheldon ↖ said.
of course, to make many parents feel uncomfortable sending their kids to school at all.
Unfortunately you are still allowed to abuse your kid with a cloth face covering.
when I’m not at work, I practically live under house arrest these days.
Because you choose irrational fear.
The behavior of people who refuse to mask up belies a very masculine-oriented, individualistic understanding of “freedom.”
I’d wager this person is pro abortion up to, during and possibly after the infant passes the birth canal.
Allowed to? It’s mandated here.
“People who don’t wear masks in public places like supermarkets show shocking disregard for the welfare of children under age 2, who are too young to wear masks themselves.”
That’s some Grade A Sciencing right there.
That is exactly what I seek out when I go to the market. I creep up on the under 2 kids and breath on them. You can call me Biden.
I make a point to say “look out! Covid is under the cheese!” as I am leaving the store.
Kara Alaimo, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and author of Pitch, Tweet or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication. She is a former communicator at the United Nations and in the Obama administration.
Best and the brightest.
I feel like a good communicator would have trimmed that book title a little. What a mouthful.
She seems to demand to always have her PhD in Communications appended to her name.
As we all know, PhD stands for Piled High and Deep. A PhD in Communications must be higher and deeper.
I’M A DOCTOR!
I am a Doktor! Take off your shirt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJYgcufUt9w
https://youtu.be/PTGP4op0KL8
He’s the doctor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4
The way to stop the spread of covid is known.
That woman can go fuck herself.
One thing I noticed during the masking insanity is that there were far more reports of people hassling women for not wearing masks than people hassling men for not wearing masks. I think it’s because those who hassle others for not wearing a mask are cowards worried about getting punched in the face.
So… when do I get my research grant?
Women are more comfortable harassing other women?
Ssshhh… I want that grant!!!
On a more serious note, the women reporting harassment for not wearing masks reported being harassed by men and by women.
Or men. I’ve noticed all the mask nags have been women.
My wife and her sister have many stories of being harassed about not wearing masks while I’m not around. In one case, I was the next aisle over and when I came around the corner to drop something in the cart, a woman who was attempting to give my wife a piece of her mind stopped mid-sentence and hightailed it to the other end of the store.
I generally get left alone or respond with “no thank you” when someone offers and that’s the end of it.
You must look like a real alpha shitlord. Good job.
It’s the necklace of orphan ears that does it.
Mustang at the supermarket
https://youtu.be/bOrZStlOJxw
Neck tattoos are scary!
Mustang, pictured
I thought he would look more like this:
https://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100225051602/itsalwayssunny/images/thumb/f/f8/Luther.png/500px-Luther.png
I’m the most vanilla, milquetoast white guy ever, which is terrifying for a lot of people from what I’ve heard recently.
I LOL’d.
It was always odd to go from seeing him on Sunny to Bosch.
So, literally Hitler? No wonder.
Same. Although I did walk out of a store the other day when the owner was being dickish.
individualistic understanding of “freedom”
Why yes, yes it is.
“Because masks aren’t mandated in my local supermarket, I don’t feel safe bringing my baby inside to pick up groceries”
That which isn’t mandated, I cannot do….I don’t recommend it, but put a mask on your kid then you fucking twat.
Probably just leaves the kid in the car.
Hot enough to fry an egg, hot enough to fry a…
FML the last 20 minutes of my work day today was some meeting attendants bitching about the unclean on airplanes and a chorus of “SMDH” from everyone else.
I submit that those of us who believe that the public is over this shit are seriously deluding themselves. They are not only not over it, they’re demanding more of it.
They can’t cope with the thought that just maybe they’ve wasted the last two years of their lives and destroyed the economy for nothing.
Exactly.
I think it would help if more people spoke out against it. They need the illusion that everyone is for all these BS restrictions. Its the same problem with DIE and other leftists causes foisted on the public.
Cowardly bitches don’t get to tell me what is and is not an ‘inconvenience’. You can ruin your own enjoyment of life, but you don’t get to spoil mine.
Next you’ll tell me that DeSantis and Trump do not hate each other.
Statement by Justice Sotomayor and Justice Gorsuch:
Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends.
Sgt. Slaughter and Hulk Hogan are still enemies, right?
I believe this like I believe in the tooth fairy.
Democrats Warn That Republicans Plan To Steal Election By Blocking Democrat Efforts To Steal Election
Perfect.
The problem is, the Bee isn’t even being satirical…
Enough is enough. We as a society have to demand that men stop using their positions of power to keep women from exercising our own power and participating fully in our society. This starts by calling out behavior like going maskless in public places for what it really is: a display of staggering entitlement that should leave people of all genders outraged.
Women are so strong and wise they must be protected like hothouse flowers from the slightest upset or discomfort, lest they wilt and rot away on the spot.
And she wants to keep men from exercising their own power and participating fully in society, such as by being able to evaluate the facial expressions of the people to whom one is talking.
As usual, the projection is strong here.
a display of staggering entitlement
I am entitled to breathe without a bacteria incubator on my face.
Is it me, or is Biden’s presser speaking pace unnaturally fast?
Too much speed in his press event cocktail, which I have always imagined glows a hideous green like Predator blood.
Re-animator was a documentary.
Barbara Crampton was so 80s hot.
Check out her outfit in From Beyond (also based on Lovecraft).
“3. Quantumly-entangled tards are not the future I was promised.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYmn3Gwn3oI
dangit! should’ve read the thread.
Fuck. That’s such a good song.
Still think you’re going to get in a self-driving car shitass drunk and have it take you home?
No. Why is it so difficult to just Uber home?
Because the Uber and Lyft prices have gone up to be more expensive then a cab here, and the waits have gotten longer and longer.
Yup. Whats the deal with that? I guess they got sick of losing money. :/
I can’t figure how
(1) Uber can lose money when its drivers provide capital, maintenance, operating costs and labor while Uber just runs an app and payment system,
(2) Driving for Uber makes economic sense for anyone.
There is nothing that anthropogenic climate change can’t do.
CBS’s Nate Burleson ties the underwater volcanic eruption and 50-foot-high tsunami in Tonga to climate change: “We talk about climate change quite a bit. These stories are a harsh reality of what we’re going through and we have to do our part because these are more frequent.”
50 feet? The pictures I saw were about 3 feet at best.
Well, they were 50 feet but 47 feet of them were underwater so you couldn’t see them. I’m only 5 feet tall when I’m in the kiddy pool.
The Earth never had volcanic activity before you selfish assholes bought SUVs and started heating your houses.
What possible mechanism do these people think “climate change” uses to cause seismic activity and volcanoes?
We’ve angered Gaia, and thus she’s cranky?
Unbelievably stupid.
Hey, Nate: the volcano launched more “greenhouse gases” into the air in 5 minutes than what 100 years of driving cars has done.
That’s how we know you are a science denier. Because otherwise you’d know that climate change can do anything!
That’s Nate Burleson the former NFL wide receiver who left his gig on Good Morning Football to move to CBS. Why would you question his sciencing bonafides?
Wait, the football player? This Nate Burleson?
He wears glasses now, so he must be smart.
“We talk about climate change quite a bit.”
You sure the fuck do.
“Quite a bit” more than you should.
How did CNN corner the market in mental defectives?
It would make an interesting Harvard Business Review article.
Positioning.
Air Traffic manager to me: Um, who is responsible to clean the consoles around the equipment?
Me: Your employees, clean up after yourselves you slobs.
Air Traffic manager: They claim in isn’t in their scopes of duties
Me: You are new at this aren’t you? “As other duties assigned…” is all you need my friend. I ain’t picking up their bagel crumbs and coffee.
They claim in isn’t in their scopes of duties
I hate this more than any other workplace whines.
I thought my local counterparts would be the whiners, but they aren’t. They are all cool and have been cleaning for their own safety (never mind their personal space hygiene) with no issues. It is my remote towers that are thinking we should be up there, Clorox wipe in hand, anytime they need to change positions.
“Scopes of duties”
Sure he wasn’t telling you a dad joke?
If you have ever toured a tracon or ATC…you would know it isn’t a joke. At all.
Just the tower at KMWH, but they also run an approach/departure, so they have scopes.
The one we always hear at hospitals is “that’s not in my job description”.
“Not my job” at my office usually requires at least a line arguing who’s job it is, even if you’re wrong. The ‘fun’ meetings are when there’s a whole round of ‘not my job’ claims.
Heh. When I used to boss teamsters, they had a new contract, and most didn’t realize a line like that was in it; as other duties, or sumsuch.. I stopped doing performance counseling and would just write them up referencing that line in the contract. When the inevitably through a fit, I would just shrug and say “you wanted someone to represent you. It is now out of my hands.”
staggering entitlement that should leave people of all genders outraged.
People of all genders.
Look, hon, that was uncalled for. We already know you’re a credulous simpleton.
Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies automated vehicles, said this is the first U.S. case to his knowledge in which serious criminal charges were filed in a fatal crash involving a partially automated driver-assist system. Tesla, he said, could be “criminally, civilly or morally culpable” if it is found to have put a dangerous technology on the road.
Since Elon has been a bit vocal against certain things, I expect that will motivate some folks to use this to go after him.
Czech yourself before you wreck yourself.
JUST IN – Vaccination against COVID will not become mandatory in the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said today at a press conference.
“We do not want to deepen the rifts in society,” Fiala added.
I like it, but the wording should be “There is no vaccination against COVID, so we will not mandate medical procedures”. Still…I like it.
Agreed.
In these times, I’ll take the wins I can get.
I had to cancel a trip to Prague last year. Maybe I can go this year!
That is what I am thinking!
Until then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBv2GEnXlc
Wow. I had no idea it was filmed there. So cool!
Wish I’d made it there. I understand one can ask Matt Welch about it. ?
Yes.
I recognize the King Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, Vltava River, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square.
A picture I took of the King Charles Bridge from the south tower of St. Vitus Cathedral.
I can recommend this brewpub. Unfortunately, the Prague Beer Festival appears to be kaput.
Jaimie is correct: Go in the off season.
Also watch for pickpockets.
Great pic! I definitely want to go.
A beautiful place. Can’t wait to go back and spend more than two days there.
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
Seriously though, try to go in the off-season, because it really is too crowded with tourists.
It was nice in late September. Still crowded in the historic center but I guess it could have been worse.
I was there in late September in 2019 and it was crowded then too. I spent a lot of time there in the 90s before it got too crowded. It’s where I’d go to stock up on Mexican food at the Kmart. I probably hung out with Matt Welch and didn’t even know about it. It’s still beautiful, but it seems like just about any other large European city now.
My late September in Prague was in 2019 too.
“We do not want to deepen the rifts in society,” Fiala added.
Some may call it all out tribalist warfare. We call it unity and healing.
Curious how people keep trying to make not-meat taste like meat. It’s like we are supposed to eat real meat or something.
KFC is the latest fast-food giant to claim that “plant-based” chicken can taste as good as the real thing — but the chain picked the wrong faux fowl to make its case.
The chain’s supposedly long-awaited Beyond Nuggets (six for $7.99) are beyond awful — worse than KFC’s near-flavorless real-meat chicken tenders.
The fake chicken from within KFC’s new offerings come from Beyond Meat, a rival to Impossible Foods, which created the famous Impossible Burger. The idea behind offering artificial chicken at KFC is to “democratize plant-based protein,” according to Beyond Meat founder Ethan Brown.
But this bogus bird would not fool a 7-month-old experiencing solid food for the first time.
Luckily people already vote with their wallets.
We’ll just need to fortify how you vote with your wallet.
Instead of making not-meat taste like meat, they should make it taste better. I don’t ever plan on becoming a vegetarian, but I don’t mind seeing recipes for making vegetables tasty like someone here used to do.
Roast your vegetables with bacon on top.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Jh5noUEZT9WbrMiUZ32cxw._q409GK6hhd14-JWpQ6Ujg
Now this Bee has some sting.
Oh, man, they really used “chomping” and not “champing” at the bit?
I haz a disappoint.
Neigh!
Preach!
It’s funny because it’s true.
I argue with my wife over this one. I don’t want Trump back.
“A veterinarian, a dentist and a podcast host? Majority of ‘270 doctors’ who signed letter demanding Spotify take action against Joe Rogan are not medical doctors”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10418589/Most-270-signed-anti-Joe-Rogan-letter-demanding-Spotify-action-not-actually-doctors.html
Yeah read that a few days ago. Liars lie go figure.
So Jill Biden signed the letter?
I figure Jill Biden would gleefully sign his death warrant.
Someone has to cover for Joe when his granddaughter is cleaning…
The same principle probably applies to all of those “100 doctors/lawyers/psychologists… sign a letter” stories.
With 5 minutes of stoppage, Leicester City was winning 2-1 with 94:39 on the clock and a goal kick.
They lost 3-2. Soccer is hardly boring.
Does not compute.
I fell asleep reading that.
Ugh against fucking Hotspur. Puke.
Mistake by Schmiechel on the 3rd goal.
I read that as either Schlemiel or Schlimazel.
I need a nap.
Hasenpfeffer, Incorporated.
Tielemans is the real loser. He takes the kickoff and passes it right back to Spurs.
Yeah, that was awful. I watched the highlights a few times and couldn’t figure out who he trying to pass it to.
Hey! This game is all I have.
The Klan is much more diverse these days.
Ali Alexander is being sued by eight cops in DC alleging that he is responsible for their alleged injuries on Jan 6. The police are using the KKK Act as their basis to sue. Alexander is a black conservative. …
Alexander was raised by his single mother in section 8 housing. He overcame many hurdles while making his way to a Bible college. He eventually got into politics and where he in the projects and rallies and raising awareness for a variety of candidates and issues, including advising the Trump Administration on criminal justice reform.
Understandable. The Klan’s FBI agents are held to diversity-inclusion-and equity rules. So they have to bring in more BIPOC people into the Klan while performing their undercover duties.
Don’t give up the ship
“Our main message continues to be that any mask is better than no mask,” CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said in a statement.
Right. It’s your hill. Die on it.
So when we joked about garlic and onions on our belts, it wasn’t a joke.
What about pockets full of posies?
Ashes.
Dr. Paul Marik testifying on ivermectin and HB 1022 at the NH House Health and Human Services committee hearing.
His wiki page.
HB 1022 does a little more than what the video description says. The current text of the bill also gets the state medical board, state pharmacy board, and state nursing board off of those professionals using, dispensing, and prescribing ivermectin.
In other NH news, Conway Board of Selectmen shot down a mask ordinance. The Nashua Board of Health voted today to recommend that the Nashua Board of Aldermen extend the mask ordinance through Feb. 25th. See, the Nashua Board of Health’s models were wrong about when the omicron peak would be. I expect the Nashua Board of Aldermen will vote to extend the ordinance and not hold the Board of Health responsible for either their failed models or their lies that the ordinance would only be in place through the end of January. I know, I’m going out on a limb here.
When in doubt,
doubletriple down.In the school district’s latest move defying Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive orders banning “inherently divisive concepts” from public education curriculum, Oakton High School, which is part of Fairfax County Public Schools, asked students to participate in a “privilege bingo.”
The exercise titled “identifying your privilege” is littered with bingo spaces accusing students who are a “military kid,” “white,” “male,” “cisgender,” “Christian,” and more of being privileged.
According to a report in The Daily Wire, Assistant Superintendent Douglas A. Tyson told concerned parents that the screenshot in question originated from “an approved FCPS English Curriculum lesson that is centered around students selecting a ‘choice’ test and examining in detail the author’s perspective on a wide-range [sic] of issues.”
The exercise, Tyson continued, was designed for students to determine whether authors have “privilege that may or may not be present in the work” and then reflect on their own biases based on their race as well as economic and educational status.
“CRT is not even taught in Virginia.” – some asshole
Technically correct. CRT is not taught, it’s the basis for what is being taught.
Military kid? I suspect these people must not have a lot of experience growing up in the military because there’s nothing privileged about upending a kid’s life every 2-3 years, starting them over at a new school, and generally not establishing lasting friendships or roots anywhere.
I speak from extensive experience.
What is even better is their normal narrative is that the military is targetting poor blacks and browns…but in this instance, they must be all white.
Ha, hadn’t considered that.
In this case, when entering the local school system, those military kids are unfairly advantaged, because they can read and write.
Fucking cheaters.
Not fun for those left behind either. Sorry to keep playing this tiny violin.
When I think of military kids, I think of The Great Santini, sports fans. They sure seemed privileged.
Underrated movie.
Same here. I went to 9 different schools from K-12, so I was almost always the new kid.
2. Look at these things:
Macy’s Parade or Trump Baby? You decide.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/587924983
Magnificent.
I’m so tired with this “voting rights” talk. All adult citizens already have the right to vote. The end.
we have significantly beefed up the number of enforcers in the justice department…to challenge efforts by Republicans to stack the election and subvert the outcome…”
JFC…
adult citizens
I can’t even with this narrow bigoted view. How dare you deny immigrant minors their rights. Haven’t they suffraged enough?
Quantumly-entangled tards are not the future I was promised.
Then you just weren’t paying attention when they were handing out promises.
…the wording should be “There is no vaccination against COVID, so we will not mandate medical procedures”.
You’re right, of course. Liberty should be the paramount value here. But, I won’t say the point about rifts in society is wrong. Mandates do seem to have an effect of dividing society into castes. For the “right people” the mandates amount to general suggestions and for the plebes, the mandates are viciously enforced.
Just when I bought a new summer wardrobe
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590454-researchers-say-earths-core-may-be-cooling-more-rapidly-than
I heard it was 10 years.
If that is the case…there is nothing that man, woman, xe could do…it is just.
AGW will solve that.
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Hahahahahahahah @LawCrimeNetwork
just sent me a Cease and Desist!
ROFL.
Guess what tonight’s stream is going to be about?
This is gonna be good. Cease and desist from using their publically available stream to stream on his show…
Supreme Court keeps travel mask mandate in place.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal mask mandate for air travel rejecting without comment an emergency application to block the policy.
The mandate, put in place via executive order by President Joe Biden when he took office last January, was scheduled to expire Tuesday. However, it was extended through March due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
The court’s decision was based on an emergency application filed by a father on behalf of himself and his autistic son, alleging that he was unable to wear masks for extended periods of time.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, the only Supreme Court justice who refuses to wear a mask during court proceedings, referred the case to the full court. The high court declined to hear the case (Wall, Lucas, ET AL. V. TSA) and made no comment.
Weird its against the TSA….
At least his son gets a good lesson on “authoritarianism” – and there’ll be another one on “mob rule” in March when the public freaks out over the possibility of not having to wear a mask on airplanes.
March?
The order will get extended.
Oh, of course it will.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/coronavirus/starbucks-throws-out-vaccine-mandate-after-supreme-court-ruling/
In Tuesday’s memo, Culver said the company continues to strongly encourage vaccinations and booster shots.
Education campaigns should be the furthest this goes.
Work has gone quiet on the vax front after an initial full-court press about needing to disclose your status.
I still haven’t – I got the vax but that’s none of their business – and haven’t heard a peep from them in weeks.
To be fair, it seems like they’re trying to walk a tightrope & do the bare-minimum while still dealing with the fact we’re a federal contractor.
I’m in IT but you’d have to squint really hard to say I support people who work on our fed contracts. I mean, I guess everyone does use DNS…
I’m in the same situation except I’m an actual contractor for the Navy.
The HR lady was supposed to get back to me after the holiday break, but I’ve heard nothing yet.
One depressing thing? The email she sent out as a reminder to provide proof was only addressed to 4 people. I guess everyone else showed proof right away.
Similar. Attestation was several months ago, but deadline for uploading proof or having an approved accommodation has passed with little mention.
Eventually.
The accident took place in 2019. They only rolled out “Full Self Driving BETA” late last year.
This guy must have had it on adaptive cruise control and steering assist (to keep within your lane). I don’t even think they had the traffic light recognition until 2020.
So this guy was supposed to have his hands on the wheel and be ready to take control of the car at any moment. And he had to have known that because the car prompts you to provide a little resistance to the steering wheel every so often to make sure your watching.
This guy is guilty as hell .
Anyone else remember all the ‘what ifs’ about self driving cars, i.e. Would they plow in to a crowd of children or drive into a concrete barrier and sacrifice the driver/occupants of the car? loved that. A world where it’s crosswalk or concrete barrier, that’s it there are no other options.
I have to make that choice daily.
When I was stationed at Ft. Hood around 1990, Id been tasked with collecting a buddy from the airport in Austin. At the time, I-35 was under construction with barriers and lane restrictions for miles, often leaving me only 8′ to navigate my 77′ Olds Cutlass through. I wasnt toilet-hugging drunk, but But by no means should I have been behind the wheel. Mission was accomplished with nary a scratch- 90 minutes or so either way. I’m not proud of that story- dont drink and drive, kids.
/Kinda proud
When is I-35 not under construction?
Before 1956?
I hear certain models hate Christmas parades.
I had a team at one of truck OEM about six years ago showing off our “parks-itself” software. They bring back the VP of Engineering from lunch, hit some buttons to sent it to its slot in the lot, and it promptly goes out and rams itself into said VP’s car.
I was (meant to be) giving a lecture on refrigerant compressors an hour later when I was told what happened…..explains why there was no one in the auditorium.
Also explains why I’ve never been able to get back into the OEM. oh well
Product demos are always treacherous territory.
*shivers*
Yes.
This year marks the 100th anniversary, when a democratic majority of voters approved a referendum to prohibit private or parochial schools here. Later overturned by a unanimous decision of SCOTUS
Legislation that was being pushed by the Democrats and their KKK allies against those dirty papists. Fuck you assholes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters
It’s Wednesday, it’s Glibs zoom. 8pm Eastern, yadda, yards yadda.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
Are you lonesome tonight?
There’s a GlibZoom tonight
You’ll be sorry if you do not show
Does your mind back away, hide on Joemala Day,
When the Old Ones arrive; cold winds blow
Are you lonesome tonight?
Is your kitchen a sight?
Is your wardrobe all rundown and bare?
Is your lipstick all smeared?
Are your stockings not sheer?
Do they make your legs show all your hair?
Do the tears on your pillow roll down as you turn?
Do they short out the blanket and make the sheets burn?
Is your heart filled with pain?
Will you come back again?
Shop at Macy’s and love me tonight!
I need a distraction from my travel anxiety, which is on Defcon 1 due to the weather forecast
Stopped to fuel up the GTI this evening. There were three partially scraped off Biden “I did tbat” stickers on the pump.
Nice. ‘Round here, people might see a few “Let’s Go, Brandon” stickers on pumps at certain gas stations…
An odd idea occurred to me this afternoon. Yesterday, I’d gotten in an online conversation about the tensions between Russia and the Ukraine. My take was that it isn’t our fight and not our problem. And one of the points I’d made was that, the western powers have been basically pushing him into a fight that those same powers have all but announced they have all but announced they have no appetite to fight. And I pointed out that, while Putin is undoubtedly a bad guy, he has offered up diplomatic solutions to the dispute.
But, today I ran across this Jordan Peterson video, where he references this speech by Putin. And the strange thing is that his comments sound like a reasonable, intelligent guy that I’d probably reference. And the question occurred to me, how exactly is it that I know that Putin really is a bad guy? Mostly, I’m taking the word of people who have been telling me that Donald Trump is a secret Nazi or that the U.S. is inundated with white supremacists, that I should blindly accept government authority with regard to COVID, and a host of other things I’d have to be a moron to believe. So, again, how exactly is it I know Putin is a bad guy. I’m not saying he’s not. But, I am saying I don’t know beyond what I’ve been told that he is. By people I otherwise know not to trust.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I have a thought.
Take nothing Western governments say at face value, and definitely not anything that comes from the USA.
Putin is most assuredly a corrupt kleptocrat. I honestly don’t see how that makes him any worse than what we have in the White House and Congress right now.
So, not qualitatively worse than our own leaders. But, at least capable of saying rational, reasonable things.
He’s definitely more rational than our government. I would assume that comes from a cultural knowledge of the potential suffering at stake. Our leaders work from the precept that war will never come to us.
Eh, all the bad things that happen to his political opponents seem like more than coincidence… I’d say he’s a bad person yes.
Well, yeah…
Still doesn’t make him an irrational opponent.
it isn’t our fight and not our problem
If the EU cares, they can charge their brigades light and otherwise right on over there. Good luck.
But I really approve of your critical thinking. I’m no expert, so I wait on others’ notes.
Ukraine deserves as much independence as they will fight for: no great country came to be without tremendous sacrifice. They need to go full Chechen or VC: convince the world that there are hundreds of thousands within who would rather die than consign their grandchildren to live under oppression, that invaders can rest assured that they will stalked, their possessions bombed and burned, their persons assassinated and their families with them until the last pitchfork is too bent to stab with.
That or just learn to write with them backards letters and stand in bread lines all day….suit yourself!
Agreed. But, like I said, he has offered up diplomatic solutions. He’s suggested Finlandization of the Ukraine. He’s suggested a federal solution with significant regional autonomy for the Donbas. If he’s offering those suggestions in good faith, it’s hard for me to believe that he’s even out to oppress the Ukraine. Really, to me, it looks mostly like he wants to keep the things that the Russians have placed a priority on in the region since the tsarist days (a buffer zone against hostile powers, access to the Black Sea, etc.)
Ukraine is divided internally, with Western Ukrainians being Catholic and leaning westward, and Eastern Ukrainians being Orthodox and leaning Eastward to Russia. There are also plenty of ethnic Russians still living there and speaking Russian instead of Ukrainian.
Some of the West Ukraine leaders are complete authoritarian anti Semitic assholes. It doesn’t mean they deserve to have their borders invaded and the Eastern portion of their country annexed, but it’s always been complicated.
Germany has pretty much announced that they aren’t going to intervene. Lots of European countries are very dependent on those natural gas and oil pipelines from Russia…
Putin gets a bump in popularity in Russia every time he flexes his muscles on the international stage, so it’s hard to tell if this is a show or if they’re really going to invade.
Most Ukrainians speak Russian among themselves whether they call themselves ethnically Ukrainian or Russian.
They went through a lot of angst and soul-searching when they were deciding whether to publish in Ukrainian (which was banned for a while) or Russian. Some folks were passionate about establishing a distinct Ukrainian national identity but it was somewhat forced, and was not universal.
This book was a good intro to the history and resulting complicated relationship between Ukraine and Russia.
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Sergio Plokhy
It doesn’t mean they deserve to have their borders invaded and the Eastern portion of their country annexed
But, that’s kind of a problem, isn’t it? I mean, if the people in the Eastern portion of the country are all saying “Yay Russia! We want to be Russian!!” why should it be the West Ukrainians’ territory or border, regardless of whether they’re authoritarian anti Semitic assholes or terrific guys?
Psst. Ukrainians use the same alphabet as Russians with a couple minor differences.
of course
Off topic: Don, did you see I referenced you in my article yesterday?
I’ll look
He’s a corrupt authoritarian, but by the standard of previous Russian rulers he’s not that bad.
Putin was a KGB officer, colonel I believe. For that reason alone I wouldn’t trust him, about anything.
The problem in DC is that no American foreign policy wonk can ever actually understand the perspective of the country in question – be it China, Russia or hell, even Mexico or Canada. All sovereign countries have their own legitimate interests, but I defy you to find an American (in political/policy circles) that grasps that.
Putin was a KGB officer, colonel I believe. For that reason alone I wouldn’t trust him, about anything.
Juris beat me to it.
Though wiki sez Lieutenant Colonel.
He spent a significant amount of time in East Germany.
“He spent a significant amount of time in East Germany.”
so did Merkel, coincidence? a childhood romance?
It starts with they don’t believe their own country has legitimate interests.
So many Russian bots on today. I wonder what trigger phrase activated you all.
So I’m a Russian bot for agreeing with them? WTF?
Miles to go before I sleep.
Telefon
The pearl is in the river.
Manchuria
Judging the value of what he says in a particular instance based upon his past or what you believe about him in general is illogical. He has certainly done bad things and he is no friend of US liberty; however what he says here makes sense. The fact that what he says here makes sense is independent of what kind of person he is in general IMO.
Just like how I think Obama is an empty-headed, race-hustling fraud, but I agreed with his statement of Black fatherlessness being a real problem in the inner cities.
Just like how I think Obama is an empty-headed, race-hustling fraud, but I agreed with his statement of Black fatherlessness being a real problem in the inner cities
Blind pigs, acorns.
REPORTER: “Why do you suppose such large segments of the American electorate have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness?”
BIDEN: “I have no idea.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1483930751586521096
LOL
Well. He told the truth.
Just got around to this week’s Jomala. Always fun to pick the best line but today? More great lines than the Blues Brothers!
SF is on a mission from gawd.
Ass Wednesday brining the junk in the trunk.
https://archive.md/qtvu8
I love brined junk…….
Babylon Bee, again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/entire-medical-establishment-threatened-by-mma-enthusiast-comedian-who-gets-high-and-talks-about-aliens-and-stuff
The whole “article” is well worth the read.
Also the Bee. Murderer Undecided On Whether He’ll Follow New Gun Laws
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L138n7AXCD8