Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Rumble offers Joe Rogan $100 million to join platform
Frontier is buying Spirit Airlines in $3B deal
Report shows largest cities debt grows despite COVID-relief funds
Governors in Democrat states announce plans to end school mask mandates as their polling falls
Four Republican AGs will investigate GoFundMe following removal of Canadian trucker fundraiser
Kevin McCarthy: This Is What the GOP Will Investigate After Retaking House
Suspected Human Trafficker’s Full On Zombieland-Level Freak Out Caught On Camera
VIDEO: Nevada High School Girl Relentlessly Punches Female Classmate
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’
Never seen Zombieland.
I think I tried to watch it and wandered away within the first half hour.
It’s entertaining, with one of the best cameos ever. The original pitch was for a television show, which leads to some strange artifacts in the show (such as the kill of the week).
I really enjoyed it, and I’m not into the whole zombie thing at all. The sequel was pretty good, too.
Morning, Banjos.
I’m sure they’ll investigate how to get the maximum political advantage without threatening their incomes.
The Nevada news lady… that has to be Q’s main source of news.
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Those evil Canadian truckers and their evil supporters.
Rachel Willson heard that the truckers liked cake, so she spent the entire weekend baking.
“Fringe elements…”
All they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
We’ve yet to see the whirling dervish end of things.
So, you are saying Canadians are retarded?
/quarter Canadian, all retard.
She’s a veritable Marie Antoinette.
Did someone leave it out in the rain?
Gov. Rached (NY-Wicked Witch) says “not so fast”. She’s planning to extend it.
If she were to suffer sudden myocardia due to mRNA injection complications, who takes office?
I don’t know, but we probably won’t like it.
The farther down the ladder you go in NY politics, the crazier they get.
“Cheer up, it could be worse, so I cheered up and sure enough, it got worse”
/Stolen
On the bright side, the indoor jab-or-muzzle mandate for non-children is supposed to expire Thursday and she said she will “probably let it expire” but will “make a decision” by tomorrow.
I dislike squishy responses like that.
Someone’s probably whispering that it’s a bad idea to keep it, but she dearly wants to.
Announced today that even Progtopia Oregon (ie Portland) is ending the mandate “no later than 3/31”
This shit is polling lower than the Titanic.
Gee, after they went to the trouble of instituting permanent mask mandates in spite of overwhelming testimony against. The State Pediatrician needs to DIAF.
Rumble offers Joe Rogan $100 million to join platform
Odysee offered 100 gazillion..
I demand escrow before I sign.
Is that them claiming Rumble doesn’t actually have $100M to offer and they’re just making a cheap PR move?
That’s how I took it.
Rumble probably doesn’t have it, but if they score Rogan, they may grab others and would certainly increase their membership, so maybe they made a projection and figured they could afford the $100MM if the business plan works out.
It isn’t Rumble, but it’s backers. Rogan would be enough of a PR coup that they could swing it.
And it would FUCK Spotify.
Isn’t it Rumble that is working with Orange Man Bad? That’s plenty of clout.
Frontier is buying Spirit Airlines in $3B deal
That’s one way to expand the flight manifest…destiny.
Sounds more like they plan on cornering the market, making their airline the final… frontier.
Sounds like a good enterprise.
Mornin’ Banjos! Finally got the new payroll app installed. It only took about four days of misdirection from the corp and me having to reset four passwords to sync my devices. The greater good. Turns out that they’ve been winging it since December 11th because of the Kronos hack. All that OT. Paystubs were not forthcoming to those of us that worked long hours.
Four Republican AGs will investigate GoFundMe following removal of Canadian trucker fundraiser
Give. Send. Go.
Up here all the usual mouth-breathers are bleating about foreign interference.
These would be the same mouth-breathers that called themselves “globalists” just a few weeks ago.
Russian truckers? The horror… the horror.
Nah, Russians run the point-to-point courier biz, Punjabis and Sikhs run trucking now.
Not up here. It’s Sikhs all the way up and down. Ask me how I know.
Do you wear a pahgri?
Yo Glibronis! Hope you all well and will have a great day.
I am off to court, where I plan to make them all sit and wait for 15-20 minutes before telling them that I guess my lawyer isn’t coming and I will go ahead and pay that $200 speeding ticket they gave me in 2019. I figure if they spend that time (and a huge chunk of change) to collect my $200 it leaves me still ahead of this exchange. The last time I did this was almost 20 years ago (I did it 3 times in a row then), and since that time I had not gotten a ticket when stopped until this one I am going in for. I have a cool Sci-Fi book on my iPad to read and will enjoy the whole event knowing how I will be shafting them.
*Narrator: Alex was arrested for contempt and was never heard from again.*
That and — call me paranoid, but maybe if you’re planning to mess with lawyers and a court you shouldn’t say so publicly before you do so? 😉
*sensible chuckle*
Plus costs and interest?
$200 speeding ticket they gave me in 2019 – In your defense you were high
Try to ignore the lawyers and judges getting all chummy between cases and cutting deals left and right. They don’t understand that these decisions result in life or death decisions for the peons and they certainly could not give a steaming pile of shit. I was shocked by their behavior the first time I watched the “justice sausage” being made.
Ol’ Fourscore remembers divorce proceedings, but it was worth it.
Family court is the worst. Absolutely skin-suited and molded to fit the Marxist hatred of men and family.
I read another one of those articles yesterday about a father’s son being taken away from him so his mom, the medical establishment, and the court system can turn him into a girl.
It’s enraging but have a go if you dare.
Nope.
They don’t understand that these decisions result in life or death decisions for the peons and they certainly could not give a steaming pile of shit.
Your interaction with the law is a momentous occasion in your life. Your lawyer’s interaction with the law on your behalf is their Tuesday 10am slot, and probably isn’t even the most important case that week.
At least their incentives are aligned with yours, unlike when you hire a buyer’s agent in a real estate transaction.
My case was minor and I wasn’t the one on trial. It sickened me to watch “officers of the court” discuss such matters like they were talking about their hockey pool. Deals, deals, deals. “Let’s get outta here and get some lunch!”
Deals, deals, deals
*nods knowingly*
For civil trials, a vast majority of conflicts settle in pre-litigation. Of those few that make it to the complaint phase >95% settle out of court. I’m sure the criminal trials have different proportions, but a solid majority still settle out of court.
Trial lawyers are primarily settlement negotiators who occasionally have to go to trial.
buyer’s agent in a real estate transaction
I need to know how much you are preapproved so I can maximize my commission.
My father (probation officer) used to say that the trial in the court room was just for show. Almost all the real work got done in the judges chambers.
Judge would get everyone back there and tell them to cut some deal and stop wasting time.
Too late based on the time stamp, but in my area they have a deferred mitigation where you pay the ticket but they don’t tell the insurance company, unless you get another one in 7 years – in which case they report both.
Shitty scam that does nothing to promote traffic safety but keeps the insurance guy off your back.
You must not be in a state where you can demand a jury trial for traffic tickets.
In Georgia, we have felonies and misdemeanors. No infractions. So you can demand a jury trial for a misdemeanor traffic ticket. Never demand a bench trial as the judge will find you guilty and assess a penalty fine for fighting it. They drop the case every time when you demand a jury trial.
Appearing on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised a slew of investigations if/when the GOP takes back the House in the midterms.
“Fascist GOP goes after political opponents” – future headline
Meh… like calling everything “racist” — if they’re going to call you it regardless of what you do, might as well just do what you need to do in the first place.
This. At this point, I basically consider any claims of racism to be abject bullshit. Fascism is in the same bucket.
Now, it’s all like “OK, I am a fascist racist. Now what?”
Report shows largest cities debt grows despite COVID-relief funds
The federal government dumped money on these municipalities. This is a time of fiscal nuttiness. What happens when the spigot is turned off?
Depends, did we wall them in first?
A crash that makes ’08 feel like happy times
That seems to be in the cards, a crash is likely a matter of when and not if. NPR paints the rosy picture but everywhere else is telling me doom.
I was talking with my dad about this last night. He made the point that we’re not necessarily going to see a bubble pop resulting in prices crashing in various markets (housing, cars, etc). We could just as easily see it even out via price inflation. The problem, however, is that wages tend to lag in that scenario, which will really suck.
Stagflation my friend. Welcome to the ’70s minus the key parties.
I’ve aged out of that demographic but I remember stagflation very well.
I tend to agree with your Dad. I don’t see a huge pop coming in the real estate market, even here where absolutely insane prices are being paid for houses still. Yes, despite SF becoming worse and worse the housing is only going up. That absolutely doesn’t mean it won’t go down, but I don’t see something like 08 happening again anytime soon.
For funsies yesterday I looked at AK real estate. Even remote areas had big city prices (compared to MN)
Yup, I constantly scour real estate listing across the country, looking for possibilities. There are not a lot of great deals happening where I want to live in the US (mountain West). Portugal or Mexico are looking better and better as retirement destinations.
A friend of mine’s parents bought one of the Victorians off Haight back in the early seventies when no one really wanted one. But, sadly, by the mid-eighties, the city had become so shitty (one of many times) they sold it and moved to Atascadero.
When interest rates go up, real-estate will crash.
All about the monthly payment.
States with an Income Tax will bump up the rates so the deplorables can help out.
“We’re all in this together”
That won’t go over well, but more likely than not they will just take it. Rising debt plus rising interest rates makes for interesting times that’s for sure.
Most states don’t automatically index their brackets to inflation, so it’s even easier to confiscate more money.
Deblasio was spraying money like one of those cartoon characters holding a firehose and flying around in circles.
The fall is going to be epic.
And of course, Morning Banjos! I assume you had to share the front page image because that particular server squirrel was just tu-tu cute?
Frontier is buying Spirit Airlines in $3B deal
In 20 years al restaurants will be taco bell and all airlines ryan air
G’Way! Batin!
wrong movie reference
Maybe Festus just has a thing for Sandra Bullock. She was quite the phenomenon after all….
You’re right. I get my Idiot movies mixed up a little nowadays.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Please don’t eat rats.
never ask what is in a burger you buy at a shack
While it would be good for the species as a whole, I’m hoping we go the “adorable household pet” route rather than “foodstuff.”
But muh-science!
Virginia’s Supreme Court rejected a challenge from Chesapeake parents against Glenn Youngkin’s executive order to allow parents to opt-out of their children wearing masks in school in a move Attorney General Jason Miyares called “a win for Virginia families.”
Miyares issued a written statement following the ruling.
“Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia rejected a challenge out of the City of Chesapeake to Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order Number 2. The Governor and I are pleased with today’s ruling. At the beginning of this pandemic, Governor Northam used his broad emergency powers to close places of worship, private businesses, and schools and impose a statewide mask mandate,” Miyares wrote.
A small victory but a never the less, a satisfying one. We’ll take them all.
While this is good, this is only one of the several jurisdictions challenging the masks-optional mandate, and SCOVA issued a very narrow and technical ruling:
I saw over the last few days a bunch of people saying they no longer identify as libertarians. I never fully identified as libertarian but used the label for convenience / simplicity. I differed in several ways from many libertarians, but we cannot have a million labels. I need a better one though because saying libertarian these days then you still need to explain most your views. Many mainstream e.g. visible libertarians are morons and most left/right don’t really understand what libertarianism broadly means, just the strawmen their side created.
CPRM was a hipster in this way, with his own labeling from the start. I am unsure what to use though.
Independent Party of One?
Along with the rest of us, I hear you, Pie
I call myself an economic conservative. No other qualifiers and no further explanation needed. Anyone who can’t understand what an economic conservative is ought to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
I have to confess my guilt of not inconveniencing myself to fight the state over last two years worth of tyranny. But I am vaguely black pilled and think there is no hope of it, at least in Romania.
At a point I was thinking minarchist plus as in slightly more than full on night watchman state
Libertarianism the philosophy seems to me to just be an American flavor of monarchism. I think a lot of libertarians (not necessarily party members) are starting to see that the small government we yearn for of our founding days is either a myth or inevitably leads to the tyranny we have now. Also, the Libertarian party is a joke, thinking they can suck up to the regime, though the Mises Caucus seems to have some fight in them.
I’m hesitant to call myself an anarchist, but on the monarchy to anarchy scale, I’m a lot closer to anarchy than I was a few years ago.
*minarchism, not monarchism. Stupid auto correct
I’m not. It’s fun to see the normies get all discombobulated when a staid, quiet, employed, gray-haired engineer tells them he thinks all government is illegitimate.
I’m not going to see anarchism in my lifetime, but I’m willing to plant a seed and water the tree as long as I can.
I’m the same, I love calling myself an anarchist around normies because “anarchist” draws up a mental image that looks nothing like me. But in my head, there’s a few things I’m not sure anarchism has suitable answers for
I was called an anarchist at a town board meeting by one of the elected officials. He didn’t really understand what he thought he was saying, I had to remind him of the first definition.
I’m sure your grandkids will remember you fondly as they serve House Bezos against their hated enemy in House Zuckerberg.
My family was wiped out in the great purging of House Musk.
I am a monarchist provided I am the monarch.
Libertarianism the philosophy seems to me to just be an American flavor of monarchism”
God, I wish.
The problem is far too many Libertarians are either way too extreme or just assume their “leave me alone” attitude holds true without actually fighting for it. Far too often those fights need to be half-measures back towards liberty in the short term but they sabotage the whole undertaking by demanding total victory or nothing now.
The founders were classical liberals and had successful small govt for decades.
Libertarians are their decedents minus the slavery tolerance.
just the strawmen their side created.
Somalia is a libertarian paradise. It is known.
Scott Horton talks alot about this but he makes the point that after their civil war, none of the factions had the will or means to prop up a government and they had one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Until the US decided to bomb the shit out of them 20 years ago
It was always preferable, I believe, to be in the anarchic part of Somalia than in the government one
Liberaltarians? The were never for limited government. They loved libertarian views on drugs and equal protection for homosexuals. Now that those are pretty well on course they see that libertarians also support other liberties that they oppose. They either have to skin suit or leave.
The libertines took over the party and turned it into a dumpster fire.
Instead of promoting the NAP, they wanted to promote moral relativism.
The party was a dumpster fire before the libertines took over. Maybe that made it easier to take over.
The party has managed to lose 1/2 its members at least once per decade since it was created.
Imagine how large it would be without the schisms?
Just go with “fascist” or “racist”. It simplifies many discussions.
I’m just a liberal actually. But not a socialist whackjob like the American Democrat who commandeered the term.
The problem is that our “elites” who run the country are so completely corrupt that no amount of political reform, new laws, and even non-rigged elections will make a bit of difference to them. They can casually ignore it all. Until they are replaced, nothing changes.
RC Dean last night: Politics. Who gives a shit, really, about the horrible people in DC being horrible to each other? And that’s basically what the political “news” covers. I’ve mostly stopped caring; they are little more than the penguin shit on the tip of the iceberg of our Ruling Borg, which includes the administrative state, the major media and entertainment, academia, Big Tech, and their fellow travelers in the managerial class.
The Federal government has become completely detached from the states and The People. Smug comments from The Jacket or Matt Welch are irrelevant.
You and Dean nailed it. What normies think of as “politics” is like professional wrestling. It’s all performative and fake and the “referees” are in on it. The problems go so much deeper than the performers in the ring, the real fights take place backstage by the men in suits. The crowd doesn’t even know their names, but they call all the shots while they pick the empty vessels we’re meant to cheer on as heroes and villains while they laugh and count our money. Until they’re gone nothing changes. They used your money to buy lots of guns, security cameras, goons and locked fortresses to make sure no one ever gets close to them. If they run out of your money, they just “legitimately” print more.
I just finished my bottle of black pills. Does anyone have any spares I can have?
No.
Take some white pills.
Probably a good idea. I need Michael Malice to finish his white pilled book. I like the cut of his Glib.
Libertarian is my ideal. But I feel, like socialism, it all eventually devolves into fascism as power corrupts absolutely. I quite like some of the northern European systems of government. And having dealt with the monstrosity that is our health care system, I’m really beginning to think single payer healthcare, reduced military spending, reduced regulation, increased freedom, is actually achievable. The reality it that no libertarian solution will ever solve our healthcare crisis because no libertarian solution will ever be realized without a benevolent despot,
As much as I don’t like the idea of government run healthcare. The current spiderweb of regulatory and private oversight is beyond repair. We’re paying more than if we just had a single payer system. We’re probably paying double…. But then I come back to the reality that unless this was designed by a truly benevolent and intelligent group of people, it would be an even bigger nightmare than it is already…
Guess I’ll just continue to buy brass.
The example I always use: Yes, we may be paying double, but if you cut off your hand anywhere in the world, DEMAND they fly you to Louisville (you know, after they stop the imminent death). For some reason, the best hand surgeons in the world aren’t in a single payer country.
Never seen Zombieland.
It’s not even the worst zombie movie I ever watched. It’s actually not bad.
if you ignore the fat shaming
I was more annoyed by Jesse Eisenberg but maybe that’s just me.
Rule 1.
It’s not bad at all.
I watched this over the weekend. It was pretty bad.
Zombieland was fun.
That vampire one was unwatchable.
It’s a comedy, but it’s zombies are actually a lot scarier than many “scary” zombies. Mainly because they run fast instead of shambling along slower than Granny with her walker
Avoid the sequel.
“Governors in Democrat states announce plans to end school mask mandates as their polling falls”
Our kids school district announced on Feb 18th masks will optional. Apparently that’s the day COVID goes into hiding? Why not end the mandate immediately?
And yet the Boy-King up here is doubling down.
Governor Landwhale (D-comorbidity) is not ending anything. Every surrounding state continues to poiint and laugh.
Why not end the mandate immediately?
Because SCIENCE!
Noted scientists Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter are thinking about magnanimously lifting the vax passports in Minneapolis and St. Paul early.
Refusing to answer questions is how you know it is real SCIENCE.
Honest question: If they need to coordinate this BS with each other, they probably need to coordinate everything. So why have two Mayors?
Those two aren’t talking to each other. I don’t think there is any love lost between them. Both of them look in a mirror and see the next Progressive Hero.
They are lifting the bans independently of each other. Cases are plummeting and there is at least one court case out there where restaurant owners are suing Minneapolis saying that the mayor has no power to enact vax passports.
I’m sure now that the rules are lifted the court case will get tossed and Frey will be free to clamp down again in the future.
This whole “we rescinded the illegal rule so the court will find the case moot and not make a decision against us” tactic needs to be stopped, like, yesterday.
Yep! In terms of government actions, there should be no moot clause. The government took action that affected livelihoods and caused real harm. To just say “Hey! We ended it all, so we good?” and the courts rolling with that is an affront to liberty and justice.
https://twitter.com/kiansimone44/status/1490897246262800384?cxt=HHwWgMDRga_J3bApAAAA
More farmers arrive at Coutts.
Construction workers have large equipment.
The Freedom Convoy Isn’t Playing Around Anymore
The geese know.
Mad as hell with Justin Trudeau, the birds have joined the Freedom Convoy
Honk!
Oof, I got sidetracked in some related thread. They’re going to cheer on the repression when it happens. The amount of unadulterated evil and joy espressed in the suffering of opponents is depressing.
Maybe, just maybe, people who can operate and maintain heavy machinery have some practical advantages over people who need a TikTok instructional to microwave a frozen burrito…
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And yet the Boy-King up here is doubling down.
Is he wandering the parapet muttering “Something is rotten in Denmark”?
One could only wish that he was belittling his advisors and drinking from a poisoned chalice. I hated that guy before but now I need to loathe him.
He’s saying “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome electorate?”
If only some real patriotic Canadians would start killing the deplorables Brandeau could start ruling via Divine Mandate like he was destined to.
Zombified
I randomly remembered that in a linx thread a while ago I posted a stupid though experiment. Then after a while repeated it. I wonder if the past two years changed any minds towards doing it… I will re-repost here for fun.
Stupid thought experiment time:
Let’s say there was a Stargate like device that would lead to planets just like earth, gravity climate same flora and fauna – I mean exactly earth plants and animals, not analogs – just no humans, and nothing human made. You can transport for each opening of the gate, maximum 50 thousand people of the same ideology with a largest semi-trailer of stuff per person. Everything needs to be built and everything not brought from earth needs to be made. Although you could use the trailer as temporary/permanent housing. The stargate opens every 10 years for a trip each way, so if you stay on the planet you need to stay there 10 years. If you go back to earth it takes 10 years to return to the planet. People could talk in advance to form groups among people willing to go have a mix of doctor engineers farmers men women etc. You have many such planets for various groups. How many people would do it? I assume various religious sects would take the opportunity. Would any libertarians? Would 50k libertarians be willing to be isolated from earth in this way to attempt libertopia? Would they get enough women to come with? Would after 10 years another 50k be willing to go if the first built some stuff? Would the first 50k expect special privilege for pioneering, thus no longer being libertopia? Or would they selflessly trailblaze.
Would it change if 100k people could go at a time? If you could take two semi trailers per person? Is it moral to take kids with you?
I was thinking would I go? or what political changes to the world would drive me to go? I am closer than last time…
I will probably repost this in two years time 🙂
If we are still around.
Hell yes I’d do it if I could. And it is very moral to disperse the species across the stars to avoid extinction events, so yes it is moral to take kids.
My big problem would be justifying my participation with the type of folks you’d need to start up a good colony, being a desk jockey and all.
I mean maybe getting enough people would be enough of a challenge so if reasonably healthy probably all takers would be in
I’d go. I got skillz.
You bring smoked salmon, I’ll bring a chain saw.
Almost certainly.
You could certainly find enough women among the world’s population looking for an improvement. And, it’s “libertarian,” so if you had a deficit, you could always pay some women to come along.
Probably, but the artificial restriction of only one trip in 10 years restricts news of success. Do you mean one trip every 10 years per person or only one trip every 10 years per planet?
Who knows how they would change in 10 years, but there’s no reason to expect any more privilege than the amazing advantage of a 10 year head start…
I wouldn’t expect it would change much.
I think the more interesting question is “Would the “colony” be more successful if the 50,000 got together and collaborated on everything they thought they would need ahead of time rigidly, or if each were free to bring what they wanted, thinking about what they personally would need, what tools they would need to start a trade or business, what emergency supplies they would need…
The important thing to remember is that no one can survive 10 years on a truckload of stuff, but 50,000 people could survive on 50,000 trucks worth of tools and equipment if they understand specialization of labor, free trade, and libertarian ideas, which are inherently respectful of the amazing value of cooperation.
I think the centrally pre-planned option, even if it were not an authoritarian setup, is more likely to result in either complete failure or low grade subsistence. The completely free option would be more likely to result in major success for some, utter poverty for others.
I think a hybrid approach of freedom with freely-arrived-at mutual help organizations (preferably defined ahead of time) would be the most robust.
People have been taking their children with them on pioneering trips throughout history. If there’s a morailty concern, it’s moot.
I am thinking the gate opens once every 10 years for some days…
Continuous travel but once every 10 years only for a given person is also a possibility I did not think of…
I guess both work for my idea that you would have to commit some time, not just change your mind a few months later…
If you have that option, you reserve between 1000 and 10,000 people at the beginning, then have them make their trips in sequence over the next 10 years to bring any supplies needed, and any trade goods back that could be sold or traded. Each person who elects to go back from the new planet to Earth would have the option to either go back permanently, or to be entitled to a fraction of a common investment fund, the value based on the economic progress that occurred during their absence–to encourage people to go back for trade purposes without missing out on what they could have accomplished during that 10 years, to be paid on their return.
After 10 years, the colony would either have failed or become wildly successful.
The round-robin travel would allow for trade, resupply, and even advertising new opportunities to any who might be able to make the trip but had missed out in the initial group.
I think the more interesting question is “Would the “colony” be more successful if the 50,000 got together and collaborated on everything they thought they would need ahead of time rigidly, or if each were free to bring what they wanted, – I would go for a hybrid bring some stuff I want but maybe talk to some other people and save some space… I mean no point in everyone bringing an anvil
I wounder if a bunch of socialists would go to their own planet make real socialism
I’d love to see them try that in a closed system. What an epic lesson that would be if they couldn’t force other people into paying tribute to support their structure as it collapses around them.
Go through, then destroy the gate
But how would you get new people in?
The old fashioned way?
I guess your parents never sat you down for “the talk”…
Fucking?
I wouldn’t go. I hate moving.
I got another thought: what if going you get a pill bringing your body back to age 25 if you are above (your knowledge stays the same)
Uh fuck yeah.
No. You’d eventually get bored with that, too. It can’t be Christmas every day. Who wants to live an orgasm every waking second of their life?
Unless there were millions of such planets, this would set off a war for access to the planets as a means of getting the pill.
Would I go? Unlikely, as I’m getting along in years. Much depends on how much a shitshow this planet is, though. And whether I would be allowed to join any group that I would want to go with. If this is just a total free-for-all, the first 50K to sign up go with no organization ahead of time, I think its pretty much guaranteed to fail.
As I said last time, nothing manmade means no brussels sprouts so that’s a hard no.
Also although not exactly the same, the “Donovan” books by W Michael Bear kind of carry out that thought experiment. There is no stargate but the space travel they have is unreliable so a mining colony gets stranded on a planet, and it’s hostile not just like earth. They create a libertarian-ish society, every once and a while a spaceship will manage to get there or back, although almost always way off schedule. I know I sound like someone commenting on a recipe and changing every ingredient but the books do explore how people cut off from earth with just the basic essentials would organize a libertarian society, and they are pretty good Sci-fi action adventure novels IMO.
you could bring brussel sprouts from earth. You get a semi truck of stuff. or two.
I’m ignoring that rather obvious solution to joke about how much I like Brussel Sprouts.
The same concept was also explored in quite a few of Heinlein’s books. Off the top of my head, Farmer in the Sky and Tunnel in the Sky both dealt with people getting stranded (one a colony, the other a survival class to get approval to go to a colony), and the gates to other worlds were in one of the later Lazarus books (Time Enough for Love, IIRC).
When I was 20, I’d have been down for that in a heartbeat. Now, not so much. I’m pretty content to stay where I am. The kids have been informed, the only way Dad is leaving this place is in a box.
Muh-racisms.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court halts lower court ruling forcing Alabama to redraw its congressional map for diluting Black voters. Chief Justice John Roberts joined liberal justices in dissent.
Ohio still doesn’t have a legislative map. The state supreme court just knocked down the redistricting committees second attempt.
“A voter is a voter is a voter, using racial information to draw or challenge maps violates equal protection.”
Elections are a fraud unless I end up represented by somebody who looks like me. BTW, why aren’t there any Zoroastrians on the Supreme Court?
Some conservative pundits are saying this ultimately bodes poorly for Democrats.
Hah! They still report these stories as if Roberts weren’t as far to the Left as Breyer. Trump got two out of three not bad.
The only way this kind of stuff will ever end will be to randomly assign voters to districts instead of doing it geographically. It could be based on your SSN modulo the number of districts, or something like that.
No districts, single transferrable vote.
Alabama would elect 6? representatives or whatever. No districts needed. If the black voters of Alabama want to list black people at the top of the ballot, then good for them. I think they have a large enough population to guarantee a rep or two.
Not as much fun as CA would be, with less than 2% needed to elect a rep.
poly marriage ring
https://twitter.com/__eater__/status/1490787305023488007
That seems somewhat cumbersome, but I guess it has a self-defense purpose also.
Goddamit the french accents annoy me in webex conferences almost as much as the indian
Ugh. First “teams” meeting today. Did not like.
Wait, you got it to work? That shit never works for me.
As we discussed before, it is most likely because of the shitty government Windows builds you and I both run that makes Teams trash. Works great on my phone.
Webex annoys me regardless of accent.
My junior engineers are adorable.
JE: “HALP! I did a PM and now it won’t turn on!”
NA: “Ok, you can accidentally reverse the switch connection. Let me come down.”
*two minutes later*
NA: “Ah, never mind about the switch, there’s your problem. See the little green light telling you your power supply is working?”
JE: “No.”
NA: “Exactly.”
My son talking to me.
Me. “What green light”?
There are four lights!
Don’t be silly, there are 256 lights in multiple dense clusters.
Paranoid? Us?
POLITICO reviewed a draft report titled “Sergeant at Arms Insider Threat Risks,” dated Dec. 30, 2021, and produced by the House’s Office of the Inspector General. The slim document suggested that the House Sergeant at Arms’ office — which leads security for the chamber — start a comprehensive “insider threat” program, which it currently lacks.
National security officials use the term “insider threats” to describe people who deliberately harm their workplaces and employers. The best-known example is Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked an extensive amount of classified government material to journalists.
Comprehensive insider threat programs are widely used in the executive branch, particularly in national security agencies, to try to prevent Snowden-style leaks and other security compromises. The programs generally assess typical employee behavior — the average number of pages printed per week, for instance — in an effort to gauge if someone’s online activity has become aberrant. The degrees of scrutiny that these programs level can vary substantially from agency to agency.
Some of the most robust programs track every keystroke that employees make on their work computers.
“Without a program, the House may be vulnerable to insider threats,” the draft inspector general’s office report reads. It then recommends that the Sergeant at Arms “work with House leadership to consider establishing a comprehensive insider threat program.”
Just make everybody sign a loyalty oath. To Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.
Brought to you by the folks who ignore Fang Fang, the drivers, IT “contractors”, etc…. but yeah, I’d be very willing to bet “GOP staffer” is the target here.
Having witnessed “the best-known example” in practice, let me say that this is a jobs program. It works in three ways.
The first way is that you hire people to “research” the threat, “create policy” to address the threat, “implement the recommendations”, etc. Lots of white-collar professional-managerial class jobs.
The second way is that you grind real work to a halt. Instead of a couple of engineers doing a good-enough job, you now have a dozen engineers doing a much worse job. Since no one has the power or ability to accomplish anything on his own, everything becomes a “team effort”, and since it’s the government, the best performers (who are mostly mediocre by industry standards) are dragged down by the rest (who would not even get hired in private industry to begin with). The only solution anyone recognize is hiring yet more people. This is a basic mistake identified in The Mythical Man-Month but the incentive structure leads to no other possible outcome.
The final way is that you now have to essentially stand up an entire parallel agency to handle monitoring the primary agency. “Some of the most robust programs track every keystroke that employees make on their work computers” <– people who say this have no idea how much data this creates nor how to make any sense of that data. Massive opportunity for bureaucratic fiefdom creation, contract management, etc.
THIS SOUNDS FUN!
Yup.
I’ve been involved in standing up these kind of projects in the private sector, always against my advice. Without exception, they turn into giant white elephants within thirty days of being spun up, then they get cancelled at the 1-year renewal.
And I pocket another three grand, and dust off the medium-polite ‘Next time I tell you not to do something, pay attention’ email template…
Circling the wagons.
And just like that, Manning goes down the memory hole.
You mean, like Chinese spy chauffers for Senators, and sketchy IT guys shielded by House leadership? Those kind of insider threats?
How dare you! Manning was stunning and brave. Xhe should never be compared to that monstrous traitor Snowden. I don’t care that xhe did exactly the same thing with far less discretion. The moment xhe decided to cut xer junk off, xhe became immune from any moral or political judgement because stunning and brave.
Verbal Rotators Aren’t Wordcels
Why High Verbal skills does not mean you’re a Wordcel.
https://shakoist.substack.com/p/verbal-rotators-arent-wordcels
This seems reminiscent of some Mencius Moldbug musings.
I had no idea this was a raging debate.
I searched the comments and on this site and did not find Wordcel so I thought I would bring it in
If we’re slapping labels on each other now, then our resident wordcel would have to be Heroic Mulatto.
wut
More things are discovered by shitposters on the Internet than in all of academia.
Not all of these things are useful, of course.
But enough about academia……
You’re overcomplicating things, Pie. Each settler gets two pairs of sturdy shoes, a smooth rock, and a sharp stick.
Ready, set, go.
nicks handmade boots?
The cops are not your friend.
Elderly man pulled over by #Ottawa police for HONKING gets arrested for not complying to show his ID for wrongful stop.
nicks handmade boots?
Whatever you can afford.
There is actually nothing wrong with this position in and of itself.
President Joe Biden reminisced of the days when you could have lunch with segregationists and still “respect” each other, during his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on 2/3/2022.
But no respect shall be had for those that dissent from the current regime.
I seem to recall Joe was himself one of those segregationists. Kinda makes the statement worthless.
He could be talking about his relationship with other leftist totalitarians and how they respect no one who disagrees even the slightest on anything.
What? No endless articles about ‘both sides’? Huh.
This is why I never did blind dates.
I always preferred dating blind women. They were handsier than sighted chicks.
Plus they didn’t recoil in horror upon first meeting me.
I used to live right by the blind school when I was a teen. Thinking back, I missed some opprotunities to get with decent looking girls who couldnt judge me for my looks. Or possibly, knowing me only by my personality wouldn’t work to my benefit. Upon further reflection, I was fucked either way.
Actually, that settler scenario gives me a thought:
Each person in the group (without being told) is given a component of a larger tool or device which, if assembled co-operatively, will make life easier and more efficient.
But the people have to seek out the other necessary components and establish a working relationship with those who control them.
If you don’t want your country to be seen as an authoritarian dystopia, maybe don’t host a global alpine sporting event in a location which looks exactly like something from authoritarian dystopian fiction.
https://twitter.com/mr_james_c/status/1491028359929012225
Beijing Olympics vs. Fyre Festival: who did it better?
https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1491024954543906816
What exactly is hte white thing in the upper right container?
And that doesn’t look like nearly enough calories for an olympic athlete.
If it wasn’t so small, it looks like a raw, whole chicken
Why do I doubt that the Chinese athletes are being fed so poorly? And being confined in such miserable conditions?
So far, I have no watched a single second. And I am pretty confident this will be the first Olympics in my life that I don’t.
This is what I remember about China just outside of the cities.
East Germany was more picturesque.
I actually thought that was cool as fuck.
Also China really knows how to create a first person shooter level.
The zoomed in or zoomed out picture?
https://summit.news/2022/02/08/austrians-being-stopped-randomly-by-authorities-and-forced-to-prove-they-are-vaccinated/
JFC.
This is a bit too close to home to do the whole “you know who else?” thing.
It’s insane. Literally.
I feel like I have taken my last trip to Europe.
I was going to scoff, but then I remembered being pulled over by Border Patrol in Texas a few years ago and them demanding that we tell them if we are citizens or not.
I guess we are better because than those fucks because they didn’t require us to show papers?
After that stop, I told my dad (who is so dark skinned the locals always thought he was Mexican) and my wife (Korean) that the only reason they weren’t arrested was because of my White Privilege.
Used to have to endure that every time I was coming back to Holloman AFB, with two sleeping toddlers after a 15 hour drive. They used to keep a Statie there too who would do the ‘questioning’. Fucking assholes.
Probably the only reason you were stopped is they looked at you and then your companions and immediately thought “trafficker.”
That is what the wife and father said.
My reply was that if I was trafficking them, I was the brokest, raggedy-assed human trafficker ever. They should have just locked me up now because I was never going to make it peddling such inferior goods.
heh heh heh
A heaping helping of T&A brought to you by Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.md/hVD4L
Great collection.
The report does not explicitly say which groups of people working on the Capitol Campus should be included in the proposed insider threat program.
I think we can guess.
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17574333/walked-on-wife-having-sex-ex-husband-our-bed/
I’m surprised the advise isn’t “Next time, try sitting in the corner and masturbating. You might learn you enjoy this sort of thing. Especially if her ex husband is far more endowed than you. Maybe you can even get your wife to let you help her please him”
China is pressuring Intel to give up its IP, forcing Apple to release pro-China TV shows, building up its semiconductor industry, cementing key alliances, and forging regional trade blocs in Asia while we sit on our hands.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1491026525944049664
China is pressuring Intel to give up its IP
This seems silly to worry about. Intel hasn’t produced anything novel since the Core 2 in 2006. What is there to steal?
The good news about our China alliance is that we are so inextricably linked that we are unlikely to go to war.
The bad news? Their influence gets to come our way.
Good morning, Banjos!
Man, I cannot even imagine how bad a Frontier/Spirit mash-up will be. Individually, they are terrible. Together they may break the industry once and for all.
I haven’t flow on Frontier since my old company sold them (Republic Airways), but I never had a bad experience on them. And usually they had no idea I was a coworker (I was a corporate office guy). Did they get worse, or did I just have some of the few good experiences? For reference, I probably last flew them around 2012.
I flew Frontier once. Cramped tiny seats, a seatback tray that was smaller then a Kindle (so not enough room to set even a compact laptop down), and after adding in the cost of baggage checks and additional fees, not that much cheaper then Southwest.
They went low cost after that. I used to fly them in the early oughts and they were fine.
My few flights on them sucked. Planes were not particularly clean, seats were worn and in need of a recover, that sort of thing.
My ideal airline: no overhead bins, check everything that doesn’t fit under the seat. No food, water and coffee only upon request.
I haven’t flown Frontier, but Spirit was given a life time ban by me back when I was flying for business all the time.
It wasn’t that the planes were cheap and dirty (they were), or the way they inflated cheap tickets with add on fees (tons of them), the thing that incensed me was my fellow travelers.
Spirit is the choice of hillbillies who have never flown before. They come for the cheap fares and then clog up the system as they try to figure out how to get on/off the plane. It really isn’t their fault that they’ve never flown and don’t understand the etiquette, but I don’t need to be there as they learn.
Walker said in a statement that his team is rolling out “a strictly voluntary insider threat awareness and risk mitigation training opportunity” for employees.
The training’s goal, Walker continued, is to “make them aware of the potential costs associated with talking about Member and or staff scheduling, travel, meetings, etcetera” with people who might not need that information.
“The goal is to equip employees with the knowledge to help prevent carelessness so they do not accidentally, mistakenly or unwittingly share seemingly trivial or thought to be insignificant information with anyone not having a need to know,” he added.
Of the people, by the people, and for the people.
It’s getting on towards guillotine time.
Guys, it might be time for a little humility. You just shot a completely innocent man, maybe now isn’t the time to be making demands.
Kudos to the GOP for allying themselves with the most unpopular group of goons in the state. That will help turn districts red for sure.
How the fuck does the Minnesota GOP side with the police after what happened in Minneapolis in 2020?
There’s a level of derangement here that boggles the mind. “Sure the cops will turn on us at a minute’s notice from their paymasters, but we might get them to vote for us one more time before then, so let’s do what they want!”
SLD: make the cops buy their own cameras
Copsuckers gonna copsuck.
Because they think that Crime is going to be huge next election.
They live in a binary world. No way you can be against crime AND against cops running roughshod over deplorables.
The only thing that will save them is that the Dems will still be for defunding ALL cops. That is more delusional than thinking cops are always good guys. The limited experiment in defunding cops has not gone well here.
If the GOP was smart enough to say “Crime is out of control. We need cops. We need cops to be accountable too and their union is going to have to accept that.” they would win bigly.
Can’t have someone in government actually trying to *fix* a problem they’ve caused….
There’s a certain amount of traditionalist bias here. Gun owners do the same thing.
I think police bodycams should be on 100% of the time and livestreamed to a site like C-SPAN.
Stolen from Michael Malice: the cops cracked down harder on businesses that tried to stay open than they did on people that burned them down.
Peloton is in the news, and it reminds me of something I saw a long time ago. In a panel discussion teevee show about the auto industry, one of the participants asked, “What happens when everybody who wants a Hummer has one?”
Same applies here, methinks. If you’re in a niche market, don’t scale yourself up too much.
If I buy my wife one of those, will she turn into the hot chick from the commercial?
Yes, but she will be flirting with the hot dude in the commercial.
No, but you could hook the bike up and run your buttplug with it.
That’s why Peloton also has the subscription model going for it as well.
Yup. Nobody sells things anymore. They sell subscriptions.
Sounds like Sci-fi and Fantasy novels. My Kingdom for a stand-alone fucking story!
Hey! I try to make my stories work as standalone.
My Kingdom for a stand-alone fucking story!
/sorry Hype, the truck stop glory hole joke from the other day was front of mind
Too bad no one wants organic subscription level revenue and instead wants endless YoY growth.
Huh… not really one of my more favorite stories (either one), no idea why it would be cropping up in the news now….
Barcelona, Spotify agree sponsorship deal worth 280 mln euros – report
Unrelated to everything going on with Rogan I am sure.
There’s video?
What are you asking, on Spotify?
Camp Spotify has a ridiculous ring to it.
Spotify Field at the Nou Camp.
Well dammit. Got lazy and used autoremove on my nextcloud server. Now I’ve got to unfuck it.
oh boy.
I think it’s just one module, but unfortunately it’s the redis cache.
Fixed, yay.
Note to self, never use autoremove on a running server.
People don’t use the word “unfuck” nearly as often as the word deserves. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who does so regularly. Thanks.
I’m telling you, invest in N95 masks for chickens and turkeys!
Masks worked so well for us humans, I bet they would work just as well for poultry.
Hope those masks come in a large size
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2021/12/01/deer-are-catching-the-covid19-virus-what-does-that-mean-for-humans
That explains some of those weird looking duck masks I’ve been seeing.
NPR explains it
For the most part, most mainstream economists these days are dead set against reinstating a sprawling system of price controls and rationing. They argue it would result in a lot of costly bureaucracy. It would destroy market incentives that boost production of goods and services and could lead to shortages. It would lead to black markets and skimpflation and other forms of hidden inflation.
That said, there are some progressive economists now arguing that some strategic price controls might make sense. Isabella Weber, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, contends that price controls could help prevent corporations from profiteering from supply chain bottlenecks during the pandemic, and help lower prices for consumers. But even these economists aren’t suggesting that we resurrect something as beefed up as World War II price controls.
The whole thing is worth reading. tl;dr- they meant well.
We just need the right Top Men.
Let’s sharpen our pencils and make America fair.
We can’t have tariffs, but we can have price controls.
“most mainstream economists think our preferred policy is retarded, but here’s one economist we found that will agree with us for 15 minutes of fame. Let’s hear her argument at the exclusion of others”
They are platforming fringe opinions, which is ok as long as they like the fringe.
Nothing says “progressive” like pushing decades-old policy proposals that have already been tried and rejected.
It sounds like the best place to keep Preet Bharara’s new new children’s book is in a woodchipper.
OMFG.
+1
Wonder if there is a chapter on how he valiantly donned a cape and went after people who side mean and sarcastic things to him.
A foreigner with few real skills laments that the U.S. is so racist it gave him some of its most important jobs and made him a millionaire.
Many such cases.
This made me laugh
https://twitter.com/SirWhaleMan/status/1490869429579952128
Well, the car saw its final day of use yesterday. Car, gone. Job probably gone soon as well and it’s completely my fault. I failed at life. I’m so ashamed of myself it makes me sick. I’m so tired of struggling when none of it means a damn thing.
*boss’s car pulls up to pick me up, limply shuffles down the stairs*
Hang in there man! We are here if you need.
Anyway you can scrub this post? It’s embarrassing. The morning links are no place for my self pity party.
I’m sorry.
Don’t apologize.
Everyone goes through shit. It helps to know that there are people out there who care.
When my father passed away last summer the love I got from Glibs helped a lot.
Like Jimbo says, everybody has their down times. This place can help get you through.
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
–Neil Peart
What Swissy says, we’s be here brother!
Buck up! I know it sucks now, but keep picking them up and putting them down. Things will get better.
Like the others are saying, let us know what we can do.
Damn. Stay in touch and don’t let it get you.
I’m not going to try to blow smoke up your rear about how it’s always darkest before the dawn. I will say hang in there and know we’re in your corner.
Not to fear, TH, the glibs are here.
Things will get better. Spring is on it’s way.
I can say that this site and the glibs have been a real blessing to me recently. Pope Jimbo, Tundra, PO Nick and several others reached out in some dark moments when I needed it. OMWC and SP made me laugh when it hurt the worst.
You are me right now, TH. It’s been much worse before and it may get worse later. Know what? You are going to be just fine. People care about you, I care about you and broken cars and broken relationships are not the end of the fucking world! I’m the loserest and dumbest Glib but I still keep coming back. Ya know why? Because the people here really care about one another. That’s important, Friend.
Can we just finally come out and say we are done?
https://twitter.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1491065696335560708
Wonder how true this is.
The Capitol Police answer only to Congress, so who exactly would hold them accountable?
What I was thinking. They could zero out their budget after the next election. Would take nothing except guts.
No one in Congress has had any guts since Preston Brooks.
This is Pelosi and McConnell.
Yeah, I guess my broader point is, whom does he go to? The Capitol Police are not an executive agency, so there’s no separation of powers concern. I suppose the courts could still get involved, but they are loathe to regulate the legislature’s internal conduct. He’d have to get at least his own party on board, which as you point out could be difficult when some are complicit.
He’s got two options – the courts and public opinion (which requires media)
I’ve got no confidence in either.
Interesting. the comments are totally not getting it. He even stated near the top of his thead which Clause this violates, and commenters are saying stupid shit like “the police don’t have to tell you they are investigating you” and “this is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Twitter is sooooo stupid.
Although it’s questionable what constitutes “Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same;” and whether the investigation might be relying on the “except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest ” part. Nothing in that Section says anything about search and seizure.
You know they are relying on the part you highlighted. Dem strategists have come straight out and have invoked the 14th Amendment, Section 3 to be brought to bear on their political enemies.
I hope Jesse is wrong.
But this doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
If written about some truckers in Brazil or Argentina we wouldn’t call that far-fetched. The fact we are discussing it in supposed free countries scares the shit out of me. I don’t see some Dr. Evil plan but definitely a power struggle and countries with elected officials, that believe they are choosing their own paths are realizing that it was all a big fucking lie.
Examples like Brazil and Argentina were just the proving ground. For example, it is little known that the social media companies were already engaged in manipulative censorship abroad (especially in other languages) well before they started doing it visibly in the Anglosphere.
Not far-fetched at all.
Trudeau is not going to concede anything. He wants to be his daddy and is stupid enough to force a physical confrontation.
The Ottawa Police Chief – hard to imagine more of a globalist who would gladly crack redneck heads.
– Immigrated to Canada
– Partner at Deloitte
– BA in Sociology
– Graduate of the FBI National Academy
– Two tours of duty in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo
Yup, him and Chief Wiggum have already stated as much.
They’ve now taking to threatening Americans that donated to the Convoy.
lulz
Saw that. Good luck, hoosier.
No, hoosiers are America’s gun runners.
I just made another donation. Gag on my ass, Trudeau.
It doesn’t seem far-fetched at all, but there are some implementation issues. First up, is that the Truckers Convoy seems to have internalized the idea of, “When you draw your sword against the King, you throw away the scabbard.”
Cop-counterproposal: Body cam footage streams live.
Note: I realize some potential problems with that, but it could be on a 20 minute delay like the stock market, or whatever.
As I suggested above: do a C-SPAN-like internet stream of every bodycam 100% of the time.
In court, all issues of fact should be construed against the cop for any period of time where the body cam is not functioning or the footage is lost.
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
The form for outlining the requested qualifications for an IT hire has not been updated since 2006. Anything from the sixteen years since then is missing as an available qualification.
It doesn’t even have VMWare or virtual machines. The newest windows version listed is XP. It doesn’t have VoIP. The only reason it has some of my group’s tech is because it’s fucking ancient.
“Must be able to diagnose Winsock 32 errors and fully conversant with the workings of Clippy.”
Melinda admitted to and apologized for being behind the team who brought us Clippy.
I think a bigger apology is needed for Microsoft Bob.
“Fuck you, I did my time, I got my billions. I don’t have to apologize for anything. Or give my money away. I’m still a philanthropist and go to the cocktail parties.”
That’s ok. Not much has changed in IT since then.
Time to dust off my COBOL skills?
Yes!
Hampden Maine, Jul 22-24. A good time/place to be outside or no?
I’ve been invited to work a match there.
I understand why, but it breaks my heart to see that it’s faster to go south through MA than to cut across VT and NH.
I still take VT 9. I did the turnpike once, and it was boring as all hell to drive. Worth the one hour difference for the scenery.
Yeah, that would also be my plan. VT roads are slow, windy, but very pretty.
I was mainely worried that the location would be a fly-infested swamp.
Only really faster in MA if the Mass Pike isn’t backed up – seems to be a rare occurrence.
Bring your bug spray.
^This is the kind of information I was looking for.
If it doesn’t conflict with my upgrade/install I’d like to do it if for no other reason than I haven’t worn my NROI jerseys in over a year.
In addition: MA gun laws.
Cut through VT and NH.
Full disclosure: I have smuggled guns through MA. I drove very carefully. The gun was locked in the trunk. I advise caution if you decide to go through MA anyways.
Oh yeah, when I drove to FL I did the guns in locked hard cases, ammo in locked ammo cans, gun cases in suitcases, suitcases locked in trunk…
And I stated out of NJ. I don’t think I dodged MA though.
But like I mentioned earlier, I’d go through NT/NH just for the mountain driving.
The form for outlining the requested qualifications for an IT hire has not been updated since 2006. Anything from the sixteen years since then is missing as an available qualification.
Ask the applicants what’s missing.
I’ve worked here for 15 years. I saw a capital expenditure budget for my department for the first time this morning.
/off to buy a new toy
W00t – no more meetings today
*Checks calendar* I envy you
Take a break from bad stuff: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMCR53gfA0
Very nice. Thanks!
Thanks, I needed that.
Babs was happy to go up stairs, it was going down that was a problem.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/trudeau-government-threatens-criminally-target-americans-donated-freedom-convoy-2022/
LOL, get a load of these commie rat fuckers.
This is the uneasy feeling I think Trashy had…cause you know the FBI will gladly get into bed with this one. Especially if you have vocal support for your local school board or didn’t demand J6 people to be executed.
Meh. It’s juvenile bluster from a dude getting cucked by a country that hates him.
Yup. I have a feeling it’s gonna be like Napster. They’ll take down the big donors, but they’ll also take down some bit players at random to put the fear of
Godgovernment in us. Wifey has first hand experience with that and doesn’t want to deal with it again.What would they take you down for though? Donating money to a cause isn’t illegal in any way.
Cause that has stopped our police/Feds? Carrying cash around isn’t illegal either but here we are…
Funding terrorists is.
So, everyone who’s paid taxes is guilty?
It’s clearly long past time to prosecute the FBI for crimes against this country.
Nuke it from orbit…except for the X-Files division. I hear they’re doing good work.
I want to believe.
I only want to believe the first two or three seasons, from what I remember.
I was unaware that I am subject to Canadian law. I guess this means I’m supposed to pay Canadian taxes, too? Register my guns in Canada? Anything else?
Turnabout is fair play when the US thinks the rest of the world is subject to its laws.
Let’s go Brandeau!
Truck Fudeau!
“Truck Fudeau” is brilliant — it could be the next “Let’s Go Brandon”.
Here’s some appropriate gear.
Japan’s 11-member Nambu family shows allure of frugality, limits of stimulus
FactCheck – False. No Japanese family has 9 kids. Kidding aside –
Welcome to one of the many differences between Japan and the US.
I know! Let’s ratchet the consumption tax up another couple of percentage points! That’ll do it.
But we will give you occasional reductions!
Plus this absolute gem:
Japan’s hometown tax donation program is called ふるさと納税 = furusato nozei.
Damn, fecund and sensible… good for them.
Oh hey, look at that.
But yeah, it’s all about health.
No no no, they’re saints. The Scrooge McDuckian piles of money have nothing to do with it.
It’s classic bootleggers and Baptists.
Chevy Bolt owners say, “Ha!”
Hyundai and Kia to owners of almost 485,000 recalled vehicles: Park them outside due to fire risk
I had an EV snark, but meh.
Also, I hate Kia’s logo change. I keep asking “What car company is KN?”
This.
They’re just setting up the release of their new Model 95.
Smug EV owners deserve all the crap they get.
My issue is regular old ICE cars catch fire all the time. There are much better things to bash EV owners with.