Fashionable choice?
I really have nothing today. Well, some links, sure. But the world seems to be plodding along in a dull, frustrating and bloody shamble. You know, like normal for the past 10,000 years. So here a few bits of it:
- Why you always gotta drag Switzerland into things?!
- I don’t want to hear how tough fans are in Philly or Oakland or some such, until they can top this.
- Shika Dalmia hardest hit.
- Everybody gets a kick in the nuts in Ukraine.
Bah. The comments are all yours.
Doom again? Yikes!!!!
whaddup doh’
Rocking the crocs and sock at work.
professionalism? maybe not
comfort? definitely!
Ive often wondered if those things are actually comfortable, or if the wearers are just masochists.
#I_Wear_Boots
They’re very comfortable. I’ve had a pair for 15 years and they’re the perfect house shoe in my opinion.
If I could get them in steel-toed, I would wear them all the time.
I gave in to my inner lesbian and bought Birkenstocks.
Where have they been all my life??
My wife loves hers, but she drew a line when I suggested a Subaru.
Well, we all have our red lines.
I have been preaching the gospel of Birkenstock for 9 years, since it cured my debilitating plantar fasciitis that nothing else could cure.
Their Mary Janes are actually quite feminine and pretty. I have them in black, tan, and silver.
Same awesome arch support.
https://www.birkenstock.com/us/june-natural-leather/june-originalkids-naturalleather-0-rubber-g_2882.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiA95aRBhCsARIsAC2xvfxgRs1cwt2CF622Mf82NSwoRoSgbiMqFw-0w1IPm0w7xdeayoolKa4aAkTCEALw_wcB
Just one sock? Dare I ask? Are you some kind of retro fan of the Chili Peppers?
The other one is…being used – well, nevermind.
Rocking the sock? Are you 15?
“If this sock’s a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’”
The NYP rarely disappoints.
Kabaeva is one of the most decorated gymnasts in rhythmic gymnastic history, with two Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals and 21 European Championship medals.
She was dubbed “Russia’s most flexible woman” and once posed nude, while wrapped in animal fur, for a men’s magazine.
Technically, she wasn’t nude.
Thanks for doing the leg work on that and saving me from doing that tedious and ultimately disappointing research.
Under all these clothes we’re all nude.
Technically, I’m nude under my underwear.
You don’t have body paint clothing underneath?
It’s flesh-toned to hide the bruises and varicose veins.
I really hope you’re referring to this.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/2/27/2x01_The_One_Where_Michael_Leaves_%28087%29.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20121126025752
Since they didn’t run that pic, I think this is one of their rare disappointments.
They did provide supporting material for the “most flexible” claim, however.
Is it possible to hate someone for being an evil authoritarian mass-murdering monster and still want to give them a giant high-five?
Being kinda hard on Ted’s’ arent you?
Not hard enough.
I’m more than hard enough. Don’t you worry about that.
rhythmic gymnastic(s) ain’t gymnastics.
Nude, you say?
Obligatory
“While Putin carries out his assault on the Ukraine, attacking innocent citizens and causing a refugee crisis, his family is holed up in a very private and very secure chalet somewhere in Switzerland — for now, at least,” a source told us.
I canton imagine what they must be going through.
That is not some kind of sick Bern is it?
You could check the Basel temperature to be sure.
Probably zu rich for my budget.
Ya’all gonna cheese Swissy off.
You Geneva nother joke , that one is pretty stale.
Hard to believe this insight is from 1919 and not 2019.
Good article.
We are back in 1914. Again.
I don’t think so. Putin is effectively in the same position as Saddam was. They are protesting this idiot in Ankara FFS. He will be dead soon because he mistakenly fucked the wrong hole.
You talk purdy. Do you have any illustrations that could go along with this scenario? Asking for a friend. (It’s SugarFree).
If you were a billionaire and some moron got your assets frozen, would you just sit on your ass?
Only this time with nukes!
TL;DR?
The Treaty of Versailles was not well thought out.
My 8th grade history teacher used to say that WW3 would be started by either WW1 or by WW2. In other words either the whole world jumps into war because of a small spark due to a bunch of perceived treaty obligations, or because countries are too reluctant to act early to stop a Hitler type dictator. The war mongers seem to think they are fighting HItler, but I’m more worried about the perceived treaty obligations.
According to my mom’s hairdresser, Kabaeva was spotted in Valday not Switzerland. Though not recently. Right now it doesn’t make sense for Putin’s children and lovers to stay in the West.
Please sir, may I have some oil?
President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Back to pretending like the Sauds aren’t comparably evil to Putin I see. Bold tactic. Yemen? What’s happening in Yemen? Sounds like a conspiracy theory from a Trump/Putin (since they are the same person) supporter.
They aren’t invading other countries with their own military.
Technically the Saudis are using their own military. Just everything they’re using happens to be stamped with a “Made in the USA” sticker.
“Technically”, is a weasel word.
If only there was another country with oil.
I would posit that if derangement syndrome (stretching back to Clinton) is the opiate of the losing masses; then Trump Derangement Syndrome is the fentanyl.
Well, destructive to their chances of not losing the next Congress and Presidency, at least.
*whispers to Ukraine* Take the deal.
Russia claims it will stop the war immediately if Ukraine agrees to:
– cease military action
– change constitution to enshrine neutrality
– recognize Crimea as Russian territory
– recognize the Russian-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states
Please don’t make me hurt you anymore.
I’m not really seeing the downside to taking this. Bonus proposition. If they give us Putin to be punished for his crimes against humanity by invading sovereign nations and attempting to install a controlled puppet government to secure his interests in the region, we’ll give them Bush and Obama for doing literally the exact same things (with a death toll many magnitudes larger than Putin.) Sorry, progressives. I forgot, it’s different when our guys do it. They won a popularity contest!!!
I struggle with that being the sum total of Russia’s war aims. That’s basically the status quo ante, only with less shelling of Donetsk and Luhansk. I just don’t see why Putin would invade Ukraine if all he wanted was . . . what he already has.
I just don’t see why Putin would invade Ukraine if all he wanted was . . . what he already has.
Because he thought he could more with an easy invasion but now wants to exit with a victory?
I still don’t really see what he wanted in the first place either. Since I don’t trust our corporate media OR our foreign policy establishment as far as I can through them, it would not surprise me one bit to find out that we had secretly been placing missile batteries or something similar in Ukraine and/or had secret talks about them joining NATO and Putin got wind of it. He seemed content with it being a sort of neutral zone for this long, what else would have changed to have him take this kind of insane risk knowing the probable consequences. I mean, I get that he’s a massive asshole, but he seems to have survived and thrived this long by being a pretty smart and calculating asshole.
Because he’s trying to save face maybe? Declare victory and get the fuck out?
The constitutional amendment to keep a piece of his border unaligned (at least by treaty) with the West seems like his actual goal all along.
Maybe.
Those have been his declared goals since the beginning. Maybe he’ll actually settle for them now that his military has been humiliated?
Here’s the problem I have with what you’re arguing. It’s essentially trying to read Vladimir Putin’s mind. It’s saying that the Russians were lying when they told us for years that that was what they wanted and it was all a ruse to mask their secret ambitions of global European conquest. Putin’s been in power for over twenty years. In that time, has he ever initiated a fight with a country not in his back yard?
I said before all this broke out, all the evidence I’ve seen is that Putin and the Russians basically want the Ukraine to not be a headache for them. If they could get that in writing this entire fiasco could have been avoided. The Russians offered this up before the war. Years before the war. We should have been encouraging the Ukrainians to take it. Instead, ever since the Russians responded to the 2014 coup by annexing the Crimea and destabilizing the Donbas, both the West and the Ukrainians have been responding to them that the only acceptable solution is Ukraine with pre-2014 borders in Western orbit. And they told us years before that that that would never be acceptable to them.
???
the Russians basically want the Ukraine to not be a headache for them
I think they want more than that. After all, they keep biting off chunks of Ukraine, which is kind of a funny thing to do if all you want is Ukraine not to be a headache for you.
The chunks they’ve been biting off are the same ones (Crimea and the Donbas) that they’ve been biting off since 2014. They just took the war deeper into the Ukraine.
OK, so why did they take the war deeper into Ukraine?
The Crimea, sure, but “historical claims” have been the pretext for a whole bunch of wars of aggression.
The breakaway provinces are just Russia sticking its nose into another country’s territory, because of “ethnic solidarity”. Also the pretext for a whole bunch of wars of aggression.
I have a hard time buying the idea that Russia’s demands are somehow justified.
We’re not going to know unless we or our puppet Zelensky negotiates. And to date, the US refuses to involve itself in any discussions, and Zelensky has been delaying the inevitable at our urging and to the detriment of his people. Eastern Ukraine is gone from Ukraine proper, the two areas hate each other and cannot peacefully coexist, particularly after this war.
Russia’s initial demands weren’t unreasonable, particularly in light of the war crimes Ukraine was committing in the separatist regions. Why wouldn’t we even acknowledge them and why were we funding groups like the ones in the article below?
From 2014:
https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604
Zelensky and Ukraine are going to learn just what a fickle ally we are. As soon as DC believes there is an offer on the table that they can live with – it will be shoved down Ukrainian throats.
Crimea has been under Russian control since 1783. It’s presence as part of Ukraine is just a political artifact from the Soviet Union. The Crimeans hate the Western Ukrainians.
Russia keep Crimea and gives up Königsberg. As long as we’re doing historical claims.
Restore the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!
A bit more than historical in this case. Sevastopol is a strategic military holding. Russia wasn’t going to give that up any more than we would give up San Diego or Norfolk.
Hell, we won’t even give up Gitmo.
Their claim to Königsberg is just as historical (1946) as Ukraine’s claim to Crimea (1954).
Post invasion, will Ukraine be more or less worried about Russia deciding to unilaterally take military action against them, regardless of any treaties Russia has signed? Remember that Russia signed a treaty with Ukraine, promising both not to attack it and recognizing what is now their pre-2014 borders. What exactly does Ukraine get out of this other than waiting for a shoe to drop again?
What exactly does Ukraine get out of this other than waiting for a shoe to drop again?
Their cities not leveled?
Now or later?
Yes.
“What exactly does Ukraine get out of this other than waiting for a shoe to drop again?
They get to trade a U.S. puppet for a Russian one, and get to finance Russian oligarchs instead of grifters from America’s ruling families.
I think you’re right. For years, Putin stated repeatedly out loud exactly what he wouldn’t put up with. And the U.S. State Department’s geopolitical geniuses plus the CIA have been constructing precisely what Putin said he wouldn’t put up with. They have an astounding incapacity to see things from someone else’s viewpoint. Then they’re surprised and offended when somebody kicks back at their meddling.
Of course, what can you expect from the people who whooped up gay pride month or whatever it was at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, just before handing the place to the Taliban.
So stop contesting the battlefield and what exactly does Russia promise? Given they’ve broken their previous treaty of friendship, twice now? Ukraine is a fool if it trusts Russia anymore than trusting the west.
It’s a good deal. They’d be wise to take it. They could claim victory because that evil Putin didn’t take over their country.
No chance of happening plan
Russia and Ukraine immediately cease hostilities, with Russian forces to return to Russian soil on a schedule
Ukraine stays independent on scheme similar to cold war Austria
Internationally supervised elections in Donetsk and Luhansk
If choose independence, then neutrality and independence provisions of Ukraine also apply to those two states
Russia pays damages to Ukraine for Crimea, loss of Ukrainian Navy, and for the current invasion, reaffirms the treaty of friendship and admits to breaking the treaty
Inside or outside of NATO, Russia just made a permanent enemy out of Ukraine, even more so than the Crimea seizure or meddling in eastern Ukraine.
Putin is a dead man walking. He’s not getting out of this. Even the Russians are protesting this. Thousands have been arrested for it. Putin is a dead man and he knows it.
Thousands protested the Iraq war. W didn’t end up on a lamppost.
Hillary cackled about Gaddafhi before Kamala ever opened her mouth (without clamping it around something). I guess that Hague Tribunal will be any day now.
President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
Send Kamala, and be sure she packs her knee pads.
Kamala: At least these guys are circumcised. Willie Brown lived through Free Love SanFran and I managed that.
It’s a shame there’s nothing else we could do, so we’re stuck begging the worst human rights violating countries to sell us oil for a discount. Oh well, guess it can’t be helped.
“I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected,” he once said. “I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.”
Not a bad idea.
I’m seeing a lot of “You’re boycotting Russia but you did business with China” bellyaching, but doesn’t that go both ways? Weren’t you criticizing the NBA and Disney just weeks ago? Is it just hypocrisy all the way down? And while I’m poking the bee’s nest (and Judge Napping) – how many people that are appalled today that companies are punishing the Russian people for the actions of their government were daydreaming about truckers cutting off/stopping deliveries to blue cities not too long ago?
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…daydreaming about truckers cutting off/stopping deliveries to blue cities not too long ago?
Because it was our fight, too. Can you not see the difference?
People in the US are going to feel real pain shortly. Frankly I don’t give a fuck what companies virtue signal. I care more about who is going to end up controlling the resources that make my standard of living possible. I feel bad for the people of Ukraine, Russia and China, but I can’t do much for them. My responsibility is to me and mine.
Those big corporate truckers flaunting their power.
I’m looking for my Jimmy Carter sweater, I’ve been practicing turning my thermostat down, gonna learn to ride a bike again this summer. I want to save planet earth for my grandchildren. I hope they appreciate my efforts.
Now I feel guilty for all those Sunday afternoon car trips I enjoyed when my kids were small.
I got to admit that you lost me there Fourscore (and Tundra up yonder) maybe explain it to me like either I’m a five year old or that you are Kamala Harris.
You had to be there. They made the kids do the siphoning. I can still taste the gas.
Since I’m a glass half full kinda guy, I see an upside to the real pain you’re referring to coming soon. It should be the death of wokism. That’s only been allowed to fester because we’ve had it so good for so long. At least as far as academia and the overpaid laptop warriors that actually buy into it are concerned. They’ll finally learn what the pain, suffering and struggling that every human being went through before we finally reached their level of wide-spread decadence for the first time ever is like. Suddenly microagressions will seem as trivial to them as they do to everyone else. The authoritarians that will be attempting to seize power during the coming depression won’t need it as a smoke screen since they’ll be far more transparent about their intentions to control everyone and everything. You know, since they’ll be the only ones who can save us from the situation that they caused.
I know. I’m just a big ol’ ray of sunshine.
Maybe climate change alarmism will be met with pointing and laughter as well.
Jesus, I said glass half full. That’s literally flowing with optimism. You sound like a lunatic.
I think you are both on to something. We have been having these stupid fights at least in part because things have been so comfortable for so many for so long. What’s coming is very likely to change that.
At The World Health Summit…
A Management Board Member At Bayer & Head of The Pharmaceuticals Division Said This…
To say nothing of the price of lead.
The price of gold has soared to its highest level since the height of the pandemic as investors flock to the safe-haven asset amid war in Europe.
Gold was punching above $2,000 on Monday morning as the war in Ukraine continues into its second week. The prices of gold and other precious metals have been rising steadily as the region becomes more entrenched in the conflict. Gold was trading at about $1,795 at the start of the month, representing an 11.4% increase.
And the Dow took another 800-point crap today. Let’s go Brandon.
A little too much “mod” and not enough “resto” for me. Especially the speed holes in the cage. However, I’ve always wanted to do a Mustang II restomod with modern motor, brakes and suspension, but a mostly stock interior. I could likely live with no back seat and a cage for the rigidity, but not such a big cage.
Help Me Resist Buying This Ford Mustang II SEMA Build That I Can’t Believe I Like
I love a classic Mustang as much as the next guy, but I’m going to be honest. That thing is pretty rad. I’ll bet you could get all sorts of incredibly flexible Russian gymnast p$%@$ with that even if you didn’t have a military. You’d be the only invading force she needs.
Mountains aren’t just funny. They’re hill areas.
Peak pun. Finally.
The trip to get there was kinda rocky but we did it.
I was going to say summit witty but I can’t think of anything.
I have an avalanche of puns if you want them (unless you find that sort of thing repelling).
Sierrausly?
Were mountains ever supposed to be funny?
The Mountains Win Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4OTDztS_iA
Fire on the Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMWbZj-gWg
Coming Down From the Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJwROxZK8U
Coming Down the Mountain
Winner.
Comin’ down the mountain
Also in motion down a mountain.
I’d help, but I can’t get past the the giant fucking popup.
Mustang II fastbacks are actually not bad looking.
Didn’t even notice with the adblocker I’ve got running. I picked that article because there are lots of pictures.
They are truly the second generation Camero of Mustangs.
The Constitution is just a piece of paper.
You don’t see this very often in federal court, but one of the January 6 (J6) Defendants, Lucas Denney, is being held illegally. He was arrested in Texas on December 13, 2021, and brought before a federal magistrate, who ordered him detained without bond on a criminal Complaint. It then took six weeks to transfer him to DC, where he is currently being held. He has not appeared before a federal judge in DC since his arrival, although that will change Monday afternoon as a result of his lawyer seeking his release.
Denney’s case involves two distinct, major screwups. The first is that he was not afforded a Preliminary Hearing, to which he is entitled under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Constitution. The second is that he has not been indicted by a grand jury within 30 days of his arrest, as required by the federal Speedy Trial Act. Consequently, Denney’s detention has been unlawful since at least late January 2022.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that Denney participated in the riot on January 6, 2021, in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It charged Denney with five felonies: assaults, civil disorder, and obstructions of an official proceeding, and with seven trespassing misdemeanors. An arrest warrant was issued for him in December 2021 based on a criminal Complaint sworn out by a law enforcement officer, not on an indictment returned by a grand jury.
But this guy is a violence terrorist; he totally deserves it.
Yeah! What if we let him speak and he’s able to weasel out of his punishment just because of some silly technicalities like lack of evidence or prosecutorial malfeasance? Are we really going to be expected to prove that every terrorist really is a terrorist? Do you have any idea how long that would take and how much it would cost tax payers? (Flips switch controlling concern about gov’t fiscal responsibility back to default off position.) Better that 10,000 innocents get imprisoned indefinitely without charges than even one icky suspected Trump supporter go free. Also, down with fascism!
Gitmo!
US law doesn’t apply there!
Crack chicken in the oven. I kinda sorta followed a recipe I found somewhere.
“Crack Chicken”? Is it coated in parmesan cheese?
Extra sharp cheddar and cream cheese. It’s very midwestern pedestrian, which is my favorite kind.
Cocaine and baking soda.
I will have 7 to go. Oh yeah, hold the baking soda and the chicken please.
Go to a garage sale/thrift store/FB marketplace and get yourself an old Presto stove-top pressure cooker.
I make the crack chicken in mine and it takes all of 15-20 minutes.
Naw, bruh. Don’t need more appliances in my house.
Im a luddite. Its a pot with a clamp-on lid, vent and a weight. No cords, no displays, no microprocessing shit like that faggy “InstantPot”.
You put stuff in, add heat, and deliciousness awaits.
After all, Real Men™ know their steam tables.
Those are a lot of curves for a real man, but I’m into it.
When I look into the mirror I try to reassure myself that somewhere I’m someone’s fetish.
That’s a good way to look at the world. There’s a fetishist around every corner just waiting to pounce! It does make life more exciting.
I KNEW ALL YOU GLIBS WERE FUCKING TERRORISTS.
It’s good, but I can’t eat much of it. I’m sooooo happy I can once again eat meat without getting sick.
There’s a joke there soooo ripe for picking, but that fruit hangs low. Even I’ll pass.
I haz disappoint.
I have more respect for the redhead in a dress, on a motorcycle, in the snow.
I know I can do better work.
It was a yellow dress. With a white eyelet petticoat.
You don’t get to mention low hanging fruit and act like you didn’t already make the joke.
Right?!
Right! It’s like saying “It goes without saying…”.
Or, “with all due respect…”.
Make them wear some sort of identifier too.
There are reports on social media of restaurants around the world banning Russians.
This discrimination has no place in a civilized society.
Random civilians should not be blamed for their government’s wars.
There’s a cafe in Somerville that has had a sign on its door since at least last summer or spring saying that they don’t serve anyone who likes Putin. I took it as a sign of rusophobia.
At the very least, Vladamiritis.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy considers state action against Russia-linked Lukoil gas stations
Sure, sure these are franchise owned – But we need to make a point here.
I swear the Democrats are making a sprint to prove they can be more retarded than the Republicans were in the run up to the Iraq War. Except a good amount of this has the explicit participation of governments.
+ 1 Freedom Fries.
What did you expect with how the Dems brought all the Lincoln Project degenerates in with open arms? They happily let in the Neo-cons despite a perfectly clear history of scorching the earth around everything they touch and they continue their 3-plus decade stranglehold on American foreign policy. This is why I have a WWBKD (what would Bill Kristol do?) bracelet. A reminder to know exactly what NOT to do in any foreign entanglement.
Bills of Attainder? “The constitution is above my pay grade!”
– Phil Murphy
“Now Russian LASHES are cancelled: Beauty salons rename popular fake eyelash treatment first developed by a St Petersburg therapist calling them ‘busty’ and ‘volume’ instead – as war in Ukraine intensifies”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10585979/Beauty-salons-rename-Russian-eyelash-treatment-volume-busty-war-Ukraine-intensifies.html
This is getting silly.
Do Reuben’s now use liberty dressing?
Thousand Island in a pinch.
G-d I hope not.
“Liberty” dressing = ranch.
Freedom Vodka!
Ranch should be a condiment.
…and a floor polish
Getting silly?
They’ve banned Russian cats from the international cat circuit. You have the global chess authorities “investigating” one of the major Russian players because he supports Putin. Major tech companies, financial services companies, etc. are discontinuing service to Russia.
And, internationally, it’s even more stupid. You’ve got the Canadians seizing airplanes without even the accusation of a crime. Because the passengers were Russian, a country they’re not even at war with. Ditto for the Germans with Russian yachts. You’ve got universities cancelling Dostoevsky because he’s Russian.
I guess now that COVID is over the frothing lunatics need some new moral panic to virtue signal their insanity over. Let’s just hope this one doesn’t get us all killed.
We’re just proving Putin correct in his assessment of us. We’re religious lunatics even more so than he is.
Can Freedom Blue cats still compete if they were bred domestically?
If by silly he means idiotic to the point of being a bit worrisome he’s dead on.
Hundreds of international students, most from India or the African continent, have been trapped in the Ukrainian university town of Sumy, located about 50 kilometres from the Russian border, since the war there began.
Someone tell the Ukraine that Diversity Is Their Strength. They’ll draft the students in no time. Students get to be productive, and Ukraine is no longer weak. Win-win.
Rogue state
The Florida Department of Health will recommend against Covid-19 vaccinations for healthy children, the state’s top public health official said Monday, putting the state at odds with the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC recommended children get vaccinated in November when the shot became available to most kids. Since then, about 22 million children have become fully vaccinated, including 1.1 million Florida kids.
But Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said the state is going to issue separate guidance urging parents not to vaccinate their kids. Ladapo did not say when that guidance would become official and provided few additional details.
Florida would become the first state to break from the CDC on vaccines for children.
Crimes against humanity!
Gas is now $4.39 a gallon. I don’t remember it ever being that high in my lifetime. I do remember it being $0.89 right before 9/11.
You’re getting ripped off! Where I am I have the privilege to pay $5.50.
I still see some $3.99 locations in the area. It must be the culturally inferior domestic gas.
I’m only seeing $4.19, up from $3.59 literally yesterday. I’m almost positive this is the most expensive I’ve ever seen by a good margin.
I paid $3.69 this morning, passed the same station on the way home and they were $3.89. They were $3.49 Friday.
I just filled up for 3.49 a gallon. For corn liquor (E85). The premium was 6.20, so the mpg difference is finally going to be worthwhile. It’s about 25% worse gas mileage with the E85, and pretty much that was the price difference until just now. Now that it’s close to half the price, it’ll finally pay off.
Elon Mail is about to achieve Bruce Wayne status. Or is it Tony Stark?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600?s=20&t=zIpszBpIbcEFH1L18srbgQ
Why the shit do I even still use autocorrect?
Elon Musk ! Not mail.
They’ve banned Russian cats from the international cat circuit. You have the global chess authorities “investigating” one of the major Russian players because he supports Putin. Major tech companies, financial services companies, etc. are discontinuing service to Russia.
I’m so old I remember when segregation and apartheid were considered bad.
The announcement from Ladapo came at the end of a 90-minute discussion between some of the medical community’s most vocal skeptics of pandemic mitigation measures. The event, hosted by Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, was harshly critical of the CDC and governments that took steps to slow the spread of the virus through mask mandates and shutdown measures.
Several of the doctors and scientists on DeSantis’ panel shared unproven concerns about the safety of the vaccine for kids.
I love how they assert with no evidence that those “mitigation efforts” are completely effective and reasonable.
Only a lunatic would object.
It’s not even that he’s against mitigation efforts. I think FL does mitigation efforts targeted at old people, but they are against mask theater.
Pay no attention to the multiple studies and the multiple agencies recommending against kid-stabs behind the curtain.
Not to mention other countries’ behavior re vaxing kids.
Hmm, so it looks like Everton IS in a relegation battle.
Paid $4.09 for regular gas today. Across the street it was $4.29. Price is up $1.00/gallon in 2 weeks. The really wierd thing is the pump shut off at exactly $80 and my truck wasn’t full yet. Rationing?
I think it’s how much your payment card gets approved for. Typically a certain amount gets reserved on the card when you swipe it. When prices go up like this the default reserve amount isn’t enough.
Probably so, but I’ve been buying gas for 35 years and I don’t ever remember it happening.
Now it’s getting serious.
Adidas stops sales in Russia.
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/nike-puma-und-nun-adidas-konzern-schliesst-laeden-in-russland,SzQ5j2V
WTT: Adidas track suits for 7n6 spam cans.
Thaaaaat’s not good. It’s one thing to annoy Putin, but you don’t wanna fuck with the gopniks.
Adidas stops sales in Russia.
Does that include “track suits” or whatever they’re called?
That’s really going to hit them where it hurts.
Kamala Harris is a special sort of stupid isn’t she?
Special, as in…?
Like she might need to wear a helmet for her own safety.
I previously thought she was average intelligence but cutthroat ambitious. Now I realize she is Forrest Gump stupid without the good nature.
Or the insight.
But she checks so many boxes on the Dems’ diversity bingo card.
https://twitter.com/FLSenateDems/status/1500865436614893571
GAY
Wrong label. Your George Takei tweet is the next one.
“Americans: We can endure higher prices for food and gas if it means putting the screws to Putin. Consider it a patriotic donation in the fight for freedom over tyranny.”
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1499883863555858444
CWAA
Look at all the nationalistic imagery in the responses. With that one tweet I officially declare the complete swapping of D and R positions that’s been occurring over the last few years is complete.
Also, daily reminder for George Takei to reset his “days without a fucking retarded take” counter to zero. Obviously, that’s a joke. It doesn’t even have another number on it.
He is a reliable barometer for “what is the left wing of the Democratic Party thinking today”, isn’t he.
How about that guy go sit on a chainsaw?
Geez, save the sexy talk for Wednesday. I can’t get hot and bothered every time I come into these comments.
Two years next to Chekhov 50 years ago and he’s still carrying a grudge.
Chekhov always had the better lines!
This is so unhinged from reality I don’t even know what to say.
We really need a national divorce. I don’t want lunatics like this to have any say over my life.
I think we’re gonna get it, one way or another.
And many of the comments are even dumber than the post.
It’s not even that he’s against mitigation efforts. I think FL does mitigation efforts targeted at old people, but they are against mask theater.
If you question anything, you’re a baying-at-the-moon granny-murdering SCIENCE! denier.
I’m glad I made my little safari to Twin Falls when I did, before gas jumped 60 cents. That’s a difference you can feel, even in the Honda.
Well, I know I’m not the only one to figure it all out. A long time ago. UKraine is the new Covid. Zelensky is the new Dr Foochi, your savior. The media can go fuck themselves right up the ass hard with a chainsaw, add some salt and vinegar, and piranhas.
Change management ticket not approved and no one wants to massage it through. Wondering if it’s better to keep tilting at windmills or do an “oops, my bad. Btw, it’s done.”
Busty babes aplenty on Mammary Monday.
https://www.barnorama.com/65-hot-busty-girls/
Archive doesn’t wanna work…
I sure do miss seeing little Miss Demi Rose around these parts.
Awww.
Here you go.
Stunningly beautiful.
She’s been working out.
She Thicc, yeah?
She definitely has the English teeth.
HEY!
Blinken: Polish jets are a go!
Poland: Nah.
If only Biden would have picked a black woman for the job.
Maybe the Poles would be more impressed by the [trans] Admiral of the public health service?
Oh they have for all sorts of middle management at the State Department.
I’ve got a Buddy who sells and installs communications equipment to them. He says State has changed dramatically and that it’s not unusual to see orange high tops or other what we’ll call “non-diplomacy appropriate” attire now.
He also says the level of competence has gone to hell. They take four times as long to execute a contract than they did and they defer everything to subordinates.
KK has said similar.
Back in the eighties, my wife tried to work for Philly City Hall.
She was hired, but was immediately reprimanded for answering the phone when it rang. Doing anything productive made the bureaucracy queens look bad, so they punished it.
I have been in that position. It’s miserable on the best days. Throw in some ADHD, not being allowed to do anything personal, and I felt like I was in hell. I was summarily dismissed before the probationary period was over.
But the bureaucracy queens were happy to firebomb MOVE.
Yet last week Poland was supposedly going to do just that and it was only the personal efforts of Stoltenberg that prevented it.
I’ll polish YOUR jet, if you know what I mean…
Heyo
Oh yeah…
You just can’t beat a finely polished jet.
Music for this thread.
Didn’t get to it until this afternoon:
7 8
5 6
Is this like the mysterious Russian number stations?
85
37
is this #42?
cuz if so:
3 7
6 5
(I did fuck it up yesterday though since I couldn’t find the right starting consonant even though I had the rest, very annoying)
This made me laugh.
Bullshit job?
“I make stuff.”
I make stuff up.
I write stuff.
I really dislike this meme. My job is every bit as valuable as any other job that pays the same. That could change but for now it’s the truth. I don’t look down on “I catch fish” guy and I don’t like him looking down on me.
I just bought $130 worth of canned goods, dried goods, pantry staples and 20lbs of salt.
Walked outta the store with half a cart ….damn
That’s uhh…big fan of salt are you?
Giant slugs.
Well…cured meats require lots of salt. Also, you know….might need it to trade when we bomb the shit out of each other
Make sure it has iodine. Not only does it prevent goiters, it does wonders for blocking I-131 as well. Then again, if you don’t want to envy the dead don’t bother.
Nah it’s all kosher salt. We keep a small amount of iodine separate and get it from veggies instead.
I dropped a grand in one day just before the superbowl.
We are pretty well stocked up on canned goods and the freezer is pretty full.
I lived through the 70s once. I don’t want to do it again.
In re: plastic footwear,
– There’s a guy at my club that enjoys competitively in crocs.
– I need advice on waterproof hiking boots. The last two days have demonstrated that I need to buy a pair. My hiking boots are suboptimal when there is 3″ of melt water on the trail, and my Muck boots left me with bloody calves after only three miles.
Competitive enjoyment sounds like something I could get behind!
I generally don’t bother with waterproof hiking boots for real hiking, as they don’t really work for shit. Better to look for good drainage and bring extra socks.
However, for walks in the winter, Keen makes some nice ones. The other thing you can try are GoreTex socks with your normal boots.
Bread bags and wool socks
Other than that, drown your boots in beeswax or a silicone repellent as well using seam sealant.
And use liner socks under the wool. It makes a huge difference.
My best advice on waterproof hiking boots is, don’t. You can have boots that breathe, or you can have boots that keep your feetsies dry, you can’t have both. Wear wool socks and keep an extra pair in your pack in a ziplock bag.
No advice on hiking boot but I can tell you that if I want to keep my work boots (Red Wings) waterproof if I have to clean and treat them every week or two, get lazy for a month or two and no amount of silicon spray is going to get them back to waterproof. Seems once the seal is broken (so to speak) there is no going back.
I waterproof all my leather boots and shoes with beeswax based conditioner. I don’t hike far but in the Northeast I’m stepping in frozen slop nearly everyday in the winter. Feet stay dry.
https://www.obenaufs.com/heavy-duty-lp-p/leather-preservative-paste.htm
Tundra, ES, and SN are correct.
I like SmartWool for socks, and I wear silk sock liners. There are different sock thicknesses, so you need to know what total thickness of sock layers you want to wear before you buy. Always size for shoe purchases in the afternoon when your feet are pumped up to their largest.
Yes, just bag for fording. There are waterproof bags, but I can’t imagine having the space or the weight in my pack for that.
If you want to waterproof fabric easily (I don’t know about the other solutions), try NikWax tent sealant. There are so many versions I can’t say which might be good for you.
I switched to DarnTough, but yes. Good wool socks are critical.
I second the Darn Tough hiker socks. I also wear the thin socks when riding my motorcycle. They help pull moisture out of the top of the goretex boot in the summer better than cotton and don’t get funky too quick.
I forgot: that test rock at REI is a good idea for figuring out how much toe room you need for descending….much more than in a dress shoe.
I used to do lots of hiking, and we used Sno-Seal. But those were used for all day/multi-day outings
This application will be a few hours a day. Situations like now or after one of the frequent rains we get here. Take the dog out for a few miles, bring her home, hoSe her and the boots off, but have them dry enough to wear the next day.
I didn’t get any good picks of her running through the streams. Also, something up here leaves scat like a horse.
Could it be a horse?
See my comment above. I used snow seal for many years, but the Obenaufs LP is much easier to apply. It also makes them easier to clean off mud dirt and salt. If leather is not your shoe of choice, then it won’t be ideal.
I have waterproof Keens…cold weather. They are breathable too at least for me.
I’ve enjoyed my Columbia boots. Newton ridge model. The original wear better but ii still is good
My experience of hiking all over lots of new York and the rest of the country is that they can keep your feet dry. Still need wool socks as others have said.
I can literally stand in a running stream with no ill effects. They’re great.