Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
Airline CEOs ask Biden to drop mask mandate
Did The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him?
States pocketed millions in COVID-relief cash for pet projects
Apple makes Arizona first state to add IDs, drivers license to devices
The cost of lithium is up nearly 500% since last year.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
And what a lovely day it always is!
Meh.
Morning? Banjos.
I can barely hold my eyes open, but the day is full of meetings. And they expect me to participate instead of sleeping.
The others will think you are in deep concentration. You’ll get the promotion you’ve earned, UCS.
Good luck on the day
HR is slow walking the paperwork and it’s pissing me off.
Really? I thought you were a government-sector worker.
It seems like he goes out of his way to convince us he is not the typical government worker.
It’s puzzling to see a government employee with a work ethic.
HEY!!
Oh, wait; strictly speaking, I’m still a contractor, even though I have a “dot gov” email address now.
It’s pretty cushy right now (plenty of “work from home” days) but when the hardware starts rolling in, it’s gonna get nuts, and the test site isn’t exactly the lap of luxury.*
*After a couple of decades of working at various military proving grounds, it’s kinda a welcome routine. Ah, the scent and new blue water of a freshly serviced and disinfected port-a-potty.
Lively music to awaken you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxkVz7wtm8
The board of directors for advocacy group Airlines for America sent a letter to President Biden on Wednesday calling for the end of the transportation mask mandate and pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements for international flights.
There used to be this thing in America called “defiance”.
I’ve been having to wear the fucking face burka for two whole years at work. I applaud any effort to prod the ‘tard administration to roll back at least this one piece of idiocy. As of right now, it’s in effect until Apr. 18th, when they are most likely going to extend it, based on past performance. Hell, even the supremely evil LAUSD finally let my kid stop wearing his just yesterday. I’m in the only group left in America that’s still mandated for masks.
How have you not stabbed people yet?
I never participated in the theater, even after more than one email about how *someone* in the building was making people “uncomfortable” because said person was not masking up. I think I was the only person refusing.
“Those masked ninnies can grow up. The world does not exist to make tehm comfortable.”
We got an email awhile back from the store manager that was probably about me, because he mentioned being disappointed that even store leadership wasn’t masking properly (I refused to wear mine when off the clock)
You’re so vain.
I bet you think this email’s about you.
Only time I wear it is in the hospital or airport, letting my nose hang out.
I did get reprimanded by a TSA agent so I pulled it up and asked him if he felt safer.
He said every little bit helps and said the masks keep him safe.
I laughed and said you people are funny.
After I was screened, I told him to stay safe and not breathe too much air.
I hate security theater.
“Wow, you must be one hell of a narcissist to think that I give a single fuck about your safety…”
Fun, but maybe not smart.
“Well, I wasn’t going to examine your butthole, peasant!”
I got to
My wife was there and said I shouldn’t antagonize them.
I found that if I don’t, I get infuriated at the whole process and am in danger of loosing my cool, and that would cause more issues.
ES, do you have an optic on your C2? If so, which one? I’ve got no experience with optics on carry pistols.
Remember, when you gaze into my butthole, my butthole gazes back into you…
db – Ima start a new thread, see below.
Before or after you had to pull off the mask so he could compare your face to your ID?
This was as I was putting my boots back on and waiting for my laptop.
I was told by a TSA supervisor once that if I said another word, I was going to jail.
It was in San Diego. I had opted out of the Rapiscan for the pat down. I was telling the guy doing the pat down (very loudly) that if he got a job as a garbage man he’d have the same pay and benefits, but he’d have more dignity.
Got several laughs/snickers from other travelers which prompted the supervisor to issue his warning. I shut up like a wussie.
I came very close in SF one time. I was returning from China, got hung up in customs for two hours, missed my connecting flight, and was in danger of missing my backup option when the TSA decided to put me through the process.
Specifically, the guy in front of me had not removed his shoes. I asked the agent if I had to remove mine and was pleased when he said no. After the scan they took me aside for a full patdown and luggage check. I asked why and he said “Because you didn’t remove your shoes.”
There may have been some impolite words coming out of my mouth at that point.
SFO is CAS, not TSA.
The first time I got really pissed off was in Baltimore after my unit came back from Iraq in 2004.
We had been travelling for 20 some hours and hadn’t showered for a couple days.
I don’t remember why, but we had to go through security when we changed planes. I was already pissed because I hated the stupidity of it.
The TSA agents were joking to each other about how bad our feet smelled and I was IRATE.
I didn’t say anything, but my Marines knew I was pissed.
I remember hoping that they wouldn’t touch me, because I knew I would punch him and really didn’t want to go to jail.
I flashback to that mentality every time I have to go through a metal detector.
I hate security theater.
Aren’t you a mechanic? Seems like people in healthcare/elder care would be the only ones still mandated (not that they should be imo)
They need to be boosted, in some states. Not sure about masking.
Yeah, and we’ve only really been exposed to each other this whole time. Almost all of the others have gotten the ‘vid despite being vaxxed. We also have had enforced distancing to an absurd level.
On a side note, they finally caught up to me fornot doing the mandated testing. They have yet to grant or deny my exemption and recently rolled back the biweekly testing required of exemption applicants to once weekly. The website they use for testing is stupid unreliable. Until the last two weeks, i couldn’taccess it, even with help from IT they finally got me im and i have tested negative for the last two weeks. They threatened me with a Skelly hearing to get me to do it.
God damn, California truly is an authoritarian hellscape.
Austria reinstated its mask mandate today.
That’s some strong science they’ve got there.
Yeah, I think we’re all pussies for using the cover of the Ukraine invasion to quietly roll back obviously useless Covid restrictions. It allows lefty Karens to not have to admit they were ever wrong.
The only reason they are lifting the restrictions is because they worked.
That seems to be what they are going with.
Morning ron. OT question. My son’s friend’s mother is Japanese. However, because America, nobody in the house speaks Japanese although the father lived there two years and speaks more Japanese than the children.
The one exception is the greetings – https://cotoacademy.com/ittekimasu/ – Ittekimasu, Itterasshai, Tadaima and Okaerinasai
Was curious what happened in your house.
Am I being detained?
I lived in Japan for 7 years and was pretty good at Japanese by the time I rejoined the Marines.
Our first child speaks Japanese and moved back to Okinawa as an adult and has an Okinawan husband.
Middle kid speaks a little, but can understand most of it.
Youngest kid understands my wife’s Japanese, but doesn’t speak it at all, wish we would have done more to encourage him learning.
Interesting! Thanks. My kid’s friend’s mother and I have spoken a few times and she is also a bit disappointed with herself that she didn’t do more to get both her kids able to speak Japanese.
So do you generally use the coming and going greetings? Seems like most Japanese people seem compelled to use “ittekimasu” and the like.
My wife used to, but she has dropped it in the last few years.
Sometimes it comes in handy though.
Once we came home with her parents and her younger brother was in his bedroom having very loud sex with his girlfriend (they were both 18, but he still lived there).
Luckily for him, my wife and I were first, it’s a small house and you could hear everything in the entrance.
My wife froze and didn’t know what to do.
I yelled “Tadiama!” and the noise stopped.
I have never seen a more embarrassed girl then her when they came out. The father wanted her to stay for dinner with us, but I think the poor girl would have died by the end if she had.
Legit LOL!
Quick thinking.
“Ooooohkaeri!”
My wife speaks Tagalog, Cebuano and Surigaonon. She speaks Surigaonon with her family but not with our kids. She had this idea that it would confuse the children if she spoke Surigaonon to them while I spoke English. Now they are older and only know some phrases which they pronounce with an American accent.
My middle kid still says “fridgealator” and “bideo”.
My wife still misgenders people because she is unfamiliar with gendering people. Filipinx is going to go over well in the Philippines.
My Japanese friend mixes masculine and feminine pronouns all the time.
Since we both try to improve each other’s respective languages my response is always to correct the pronoun back.
“Oh, HE likes steak!”. Works well and keeps the conversation flowing
That is as infuriating as the restrictions were.
You could put a gun to their heads and they wouldn’t admit they were wrong.
“Defiance” is for people who want to live completely off the grid, because “they” can squeeze you out of it quite effectively. Moreso the corporations that live or die by regulation.
There used to be this thing in America called “defiance”.
Yep. Airlines went along with the requirements way too happily.
Hey all, I’m collecting can lids for SP.
1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.
2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me know what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.
3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.
Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.
I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.
NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)
NOTE2: If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, let me know on here.
Haven’t heard from you, but if you want to send me the addy on the forums, that would work too.
My response got eaten. I’ll send it direct.
NOTE2: If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, let me know on here.
I sent a mail after I got back from PA. I’m not sure if you got it.
I got the unrelated one. I don’t think I got a can lid one from you. I’ll send you the address.
States across America pocketed COVID-19 relief cash to use on pet projects.
*shocked face*
I don’t trust my Iphone.
Question: Should I update the OS? I’m still on 13.3.1.
You should upgrade to noOS. It’s what the original Bell phones ran on.
Racist!
Will I still be able to get telemarketers?
/Lonely in the woods
Awwwww….
*waves*
So you’re that old fart always in front of me in line at the VA when I pick-up prescriptions?
It never fails that Im behind the 1 remaining Civil War vet that hasn’t had any social contact in a month, and wants to talk to the pharmacist about EVERY damn thing.
[sends STEVE SMITH to northern Minnesota]
‘e’s already got one.
https://www.pineconepresscitizen.com/Content/Local-News/Local-News/Article/Remer-s-third-annual-Bigfoot-Days-July-6-and-7/2/27/4670
Remer? I hardly even know her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGdLNbIc2ZA
Aw heck, meant for elsewhere. ? Lonely in your nightmare, let me in.
Sean: 13.6.1 ?
I would guess a cuddle session with STEVE SMITH is nightmare fuel.
Don’t trust it to what?
Be secure, not get hacked, spy on me, etc.
Do you carry it on you all day? I only carry mine at work, or running errands if I think I may need to call Mrs. Dean (or vice versa).
People are shocked that I don’t feel this irresistible compulsion to immediately answer every text or take every call. It’s a micro-computer – I use it when I want to do microcomputer shit, which isn’t 24/7.
My cell phone is a desk phone. It often sits on my desk even when I leave the house.
It’s within 40 feet of me at almost all times. Yes, as a matter of fact, it is about 40 feet from my home office to my bedroom.
Usually I set it up on my desk to play music/podcasts/YouTube while I’m working. Also to sneak onto glibs during boring meetings or when I need a break.
I use mine to text the few friends I have left, and make phone calls and thats about it. If Im stuck waiting someplace like a doctor’s office Ill use the browser to kill some time, but I generally take a book or crossword with me.
If I phone someone from here at the Palatial 2X-Wide™ I still have a landline, which is entertaining when Im drunk and get a telemarketer.
Me too. Lots of them. They’re all on my phone.
Assume every smart phone is not as secure as you would like and proceed accordingly. ?♂️
“Assume every smart phone is
not as secure as you would likeactively spying on you and proceed accordingly.”*ponders going back to a dumb phone that I can remove the battery from*
OT nick – A federal jury found an ex-Boeing pilot not guilty of deceiving air-safety regulators about a 737 MAX flight-control system later blamed for two fatal crashes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB00313298635692823461204588437211062890192?st=ip45cjj2g0kmgop&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Invest in a Faraday bag, and/or leave your phone at home when you’re out doing shady deals.
That is why I absolutely do not have apps for banking on either of our phones. I can at least actually manage a PC, you can’t do that with a smart phone – it would detract from the “convenience” they want to deliver to you.
Probably smart. I downloaded mine’s just so I could deposit checks at home but I haven’t received a check in years now.
Depositing checks is all I use my mobile bank app for. I don’t have a brick and mortar bank, it’s an Internet bank. So, either send the check via US Mail, which is slow and has resulted in lost checks, or use the mobile app.
Rest in piss, Madeline Albright
Some people pay extra for that.
She was so brave. Who says women can’t be tough?
Janis Joplin?
James Brown ?
Lady Death?
Appropriate for Banjos lynx
https://twitter.com/i/status/1506320916501831687
Who hasn’t had that happen?
I’m still able to post, so me?
lulz
Citing someone’s record is just conspiracy theories, man.
She’s going to end up on the Supreme Court. So the only thing they could do now is publicly flog this intelligent, capable, qualified black woman to the best of their ability with every single crazy QAnon conspiracy they can come up with. They are going to use her to express their bigotry about trans-rights. They are going to use her to express their crazy QAnon conspiracies and anti-Muslim sentiments. The reason this is so problematic is because it won’t change anybody’s votes. She’s going to get on regardless”
I keep hearing about this QAnon group yet Im not certain who/what they are.
Perhaps they have a pamphlet or newsletter I could subscribe to ?
It’s published at fbi.gov
Pretty sure all the material is written by the FBI too. The whole thing reeks of controlled opposition.
I thought they were only criticizing her because they want to date her.
Ew. You’d be safer entering Chernobyl or Fukashima than that angry vag.
Fetishizing black women is racist. Not wanting to date black women is racist.
Meh. Its all pink inside. I’ve checked.
They could find someone to make an obviously phony rape allegation like the Democrats did to Kavanaugh.
Somewhere long ago she dead named and misgendered someone.
I am glad they have her on record as not being able to define what a woman is (yet somehow she’ll the first black *woman* on the SC), doesn’t know when life begins (though she’ll likely judge abortion cases), and doesn’t know what CRT is (despite her having said she considers CRT in deciding cases in a speech at a law school).
She’ll get in on party lines. She’s a leftist, that’s the only “excuse” the opposition needs to vote neigh.
Just like you and me: Pelosi: “I Like To Eat At 5:30…Like A Peasant”
“A refuge for senility”
Heh. I dropped into Tres Sr’s Palatial (gated) Estate the other morning shortly before 11 am.
He was eating lunch. Supper is usually around 1600h.
After the dook I just dropped, I was expecting something else.
Man’s shocking find in toilet: ‘Looked back up at me’
Also, I submit for Name of the Year “Wanit Changsawang” which may be superior to my ZA pr0n name, “Tres Van der Vleiss”
I thought SF posted yesterday. Thanks.
“Fortunately the snake did not hurt anybody and it wasn’t injured….”
Fortunately.
Was the snake self-identifying as dookie?
I have a trip coming up in a few weeks; hopefully this silliness will be concluded by then.
I’m going to FreedomFest again this year.
I’m going to drive regardless of what happens with the airline mask order.
In this case, I’d prefer to fly myself, but I have to meet two other colleagues and I need to be there at a particular time. Otherwise, I’m going to be trying to avoid commercial flying as much as the weather will allow.
So this is interesting, if a bit naive (particularly about Zuck’s bucks and what they were ‘buying’). How many of us though remember the Help America Vote Act? [I didn’t.] It’s like every time the federal govt “helps” us, it fucks things up worse than they were.
Republicans show up on Election Day. Democrats vote whenever and wherever they feel like it.
This isn’t rocket surgery.
I still think there’s fraud, though.
Yeah, because the laws that encourage voting “access”, dating back to that 2002 one for example.
I can’t even come up with a snarky comment about this. There are too many opportunities, too many directions this could have flowed.
/looks at all the unemployment fraud from the past two years
I’d bet a sizeable amount went to paving companies to install curbs and bollards to direct cars through drive-through testing lanes in public building parking lots. Paving companies always get to wet their beak.
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8 7
I didn’t do so well today. one guess left, two words to go. Mistake.
Tough day.
8 7
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Tougher day… one letter from pulling it off.
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nice
Forget it. There’s no fucking way I’ll link my single, easily misplaced device to literally everything necesary to facilitate theft of my identity.
But enough about your wallet . . . .
ha ha, good one, but that’s carefully curated as well.
Besides, I’d actually have to lose my wallet for that to work. I’m not sure it’s as vulnerable to remote attacks as my online accounts where, for instance, a SSO provider can be compromised without any help from me.
Speaking of that…
‘Two Months Is Too Long’: Tenable CEO Slams Okta’s Breach Response
Fun.
Guess who we just finished switching to?
Yeah, us too.
I’m surprised the client that mandates Okta hasn’t flipped out about this hack yet. They’re usually the ones asking us to check on years out of support applications for every Apache vulnerability that comes out.
My wallet chain is vanadium steel with a cubic boron nitride layer to prevent cutting.
If they’re going to cut, you’re not going after the chain, they’ll cut the flesh first, then the cloth, if they really want to take the wallet along and not merely empty it on the spot.
That’s what CCW is for–sounds like a threat of imminent bodily harm or death to me.
I’m just sayin – NA spent too much on accessories.
Did I mention the capacitor bank attached to it?
Okay, Sparky.
“Did I mention the capacitor bank attached to it?”
No wonder you find the price of groceries (lowers glasses)…..shocking
I am fine with the license that fits in my wallet.
White-supreme secessionists.
This effort to create a new Buckhead City (since there’s a town called Buckhead near Lake Oconee) has earned its own special nickname: “Buckxit.”
The website for the Buckhead City Movement claims, “The City of Atlanta has displayed a pattern of neglect and disrespect towards our community which has caused crime to increase at an alarming rate, our infrastructure to crumble, and many residents to flee the area.”
The Buckhead City Committee seeks a new city that includes “a police force that is respected, properly staffed, appropriately trained, and fully funded,” “emergency response times that are as fast as possible,” “city services commensurate with taxes paid,” and “a well-maintained infrastructure,” along with more direct control and responsive leadership.
A well regulated infrastructure, being necessary to Interstate Commerce of a free state, the right of the people to keep and drive on roadz shall not be infringed
They were talking about that 30 years ago when I was in school in Atlanta.
This is why NATO existed of course, because the UN like any other international institution is doomed to fail. It’s funny how few people seem to notice how NATO was and is a contradiction of the reason for the UN.
International law is to law like reheating frozen dinners is to cooking. The UN is a debating society full of everything bad from trolls to bullies with corruption throughout.
It’s like this moron doesn’t realize who was on opposing sides of the cold war for 40 years.
Yea, but the UN prevented all wars back then.
Biden is sending soldiers to Germany, Poland, and Romania, because obviously a few thousand people will stop Putin if he decides to invade another country, which there is no evidence to indicate will happen.
Yeah, I think he’s stuck in Ukraine for awhile. Eventually, I expect he will win there (if he isn’t deposed first). But, at that point, with three successful invasions under his belt, who’s to say there won’t be a fourth?
Perhaps in the future when he or another Russian leader expresses a very serious concern and requests a negotiated solution, our fucking idiots at State will take it seriously instead of antagonizing them? Or maybe they always want war with a bogeyman.
I’m not convinced we didn’t give a green light to this to provide a distraction from our president’s disasters at home and abroad.
Gropey Joe was asking for a limited incursion,.
Because there is a difference between invading a country where a big chunk of the people think of themselves as Russian and attacking a NATO ally where they don’t?
Maybe they’ll get out on the links and play a few rounds of gulf. Perhaps they’ll just sit around Tonkin.
I believe they’re Maine’ly there for show.
A Franz Ferdinand show.
give everybody Sumter see
which there is no evidence to indicate will happen.
Despite Putin’s stated goals in Ukraine we all know he really wants to try to steamroll Europe and start WWIII because he is a madman. We can trust the western media and leadership on this, obviously.
Cue the “10 frightening predictions from the Tom Clancy novel, ‘Red Storm Rising’.”
What if he actually is? History is replete with madmen and women doing exactly that. I’m currently reading a book (written well before the current situation) with an entire section about Catherine the Great’s march through the exact same areas for almost the same reasons. Even if we don’t believe Putin is that crazy, it can be useful to try and think about what appropriate actions would be if he were. After all, State clearly didn’t think Putin was mad enough to invade Ukraine over joining NATO, or whatever it is people are arguing about. Maybe if they had considered it, they would have taken a different approach.
Maybe if they had considered it, they would have taken a different approach.
Well that’s just crazy talk. We our the God-Empire of this planet and if we say to not do something (even or especially if that is something we get to do) then by god, these little countries just better tow our lion!
are/our – my kingdom for an edit button
No, he’s sending troops there so that Vlad knows if one of our soldiers is killed by one of his, Joe and his handlers will have cause to let slip the dogs of war.
RE: last night’s post.
Thanks for the comments (sparse as they were). Part 2 is in final edit, it is a bit longer than part 1 and introduces some new characters (although the main 2 in part 2 have already been mentioned). Some people made guesses, some interesting, and some maybe even somewhat correct. More will be clear in future parts, by about part 3 or 4 all should be revealed.
Well, not all, but the major questions.
Whatever happened to the US trucker convoy?
Last I heard it reached the outskirts of DC but won’t make a concerted incursion past the beltway.
They’ve caused some traffic around DC, but have been denied a permit to protest downtown.
Aaaaaaand, there you have it
Ah, nobody wants to be tossed in the DC dungeons, I see.
They should arrest any of the Police who try to arrest them.
Sting is a sanctimonious prick, but I don’t think that justifies arrest.
Copeland, though….
As usual, no one even remembers Summers.
US truckers are more afraid of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland than Canadian truckers were afraid of Justin Castreau.
What is happening to the January 6 “rioters” may have something to do with that.
+1 indefinite detention
And for good reason
Ukraine
First hit on Google. They’re running out of money.
Want to see a magic trick?
https://youtube.com/shorts/SYe1ZC8D7Gs?feature=share
So….just like people ?
Astonishingly so.
I wonder if the little dude has been trained to react. Do monkeys do stuff like this to each other?
Do these people hear themselves?
Sara Haines declared it “made sense” to discriminate against Justice Amy Coney Barrett based on her religion “purely because” the pro-life movement is “dividing this country.”And she decried Sen. Lindsey Graham “trolling” Jackson with his question about religion.
Cognitive dissonance is a myth.
Who?
Yes, Leftists are asshole.
Remember when TOS was good? Seems long ago and far away.
Dave Smith’s latest podcast tears apart this Reason article.
The article is the usual conflation of analyzing and excusing with some junior high level snark.
It quotes Ron Paul talking about Tech censorship and says he seems to care more about that then war crimes.
The whole thing is an example of how reason thinks they are smarter and more sophisticated than people like us.
Bless their hearts. When I am reminded of the place, I am continually surprised by all the names I remember.
Woods talks about the concept of subsidiarity a lot. Our problems are right here at home, not in the Ukraine.
The Reason staff, like every other group of woke assholes, seems to be more interested in preserving their outrage at the designated “enemy” than in saving what little remains of our liberal institutions.
I wonder what tiny fraction of every American squawking about “the Russian military’s attack on hospitals and apartments” actually gives two shits about it in any way other than using it as a political football.
I doubt 5% could tell you what happened at Kunduz.
The Germans set up a pirate radio station that played lots of Eurobeat and electronic music…we used to call it Radio Frei Konduz.
Oh, you meant the bad stuff…
I thought you might be suggesting that an AC-130 attack on a Eurobeat radio station would be justified.
I’d probably agree.
I have no idea, so you can probably revise that down to 1%.
Or this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
Obviously the media didn’t show the devastation of civilian infrastructure in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in the same sympathetic way, and also a lot of it is “I support the current thing” NPC lemming behavior. But I wonder to what extent lefties are just more motivated to care about harm that comes to white people.
What the reason writer here is failing to see is how tech censorship directly ties in to the bullshit outage about Russian war crimes, and how censorship like that can help enable shitty foreign and domestic policy that is more damaging to America than anything that could happen in Ukraine short of nuclear disaster.
Also, accusing Ron Paul of not caring about war? That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
More damaging*** not ‘not damaging’
*FIXED*
Woohoo, thank you edit fairy. Never seen this one before.
She apparently doesn’t get let out of the dungeon very often.
I’m thinking there might be a surprise under that codpiece.
They’re the correct kind of libertarian: angst-y and (falsely) anti-government. Just like the liberals of the 60s. But with Fruit Sushi and cocktail parties.
If there were ever a monarchy reinstated, Robbie would be the 1st to slob anyone’s knob to get a seat on the Royal Court.
Holy fuck. I hope Greenhut is getting a check from the Council on Foreign Relations or something, because otherwise there is no excuse for such dreck.
Dishonest and bad writing. You can’t just quote someone with an R after their name and have that be proof of their Nationalism. And obviously, saying Zelensky is a thug is not a “glowing” description of Putin. In fact, it seems to be a description of Zelensky.
False choices abound.
I’ve yet to encounter real glowing praise of Putin beyond ‘at least he cares about national priorities ‘ which is a pretty low bar and says more about our choices at home rather than the virtues of neo Hitler.
HOLY JEEBUS!! The comments… the horror…
Damn, I love all y’all and I’m quite happy this place exists.
Jesus Christ, Reason is embarrassing.
We had the chance to do it right, and of course we didn’t.
For a “non-interventionist” she sure liked sticking our dick in shithole countries tho’.
Raimondo nailed it in describing Rothbard’s split with the Buckleyites.
Did we win, or did Soviet Russia lose?
I have an idea that the USSR would have collapsed many years prior had our own government not propped it up. I have no evidence for this idea, though.
I’ve maintained that the US squandered a massive opportunity to welcome Russia into the fold of (as Kirkpatrick says) the “normal countries” and develop an amiable relationship based on trade and mutually beneficial discourse. But instead we started buying our own bullshit of being some kind of holy crusader to enlighten all dark corners of the globe. It’s sure worked out well.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it was intentional.
The MIC and the neocons both need a boogeyman but for different reasons. While we view the 90’s as a welcome respite from the constant fear of annihilation, they viewed it as a collapse of the narrative required to justify their existence. They thought they had the answer in the Islamofascists, but it was insufficient enough to last. They’re privately celebrating (sometimes not so privately) about these developments in the Ukraine.
My Dad went to Russia twice on mission trips, back in the 90’s. They talked to the old Russian soldiers, who had fought in WW2. The soldiers had very favorable views of Americans, because our soldiers shared food and stuff with them, and were friendly to the Russians. Anecdotal, perhaps, but possibly an indication that regular Americans might have managed the collapse of the soviet republics better than their “betters”.
This should still happen. There’s not a reason in the world (outside of Washington DC, weapons manufacturers and maybe people who want to sell Germany natural gas from US fields) why we shouldn’t be friends with Russia. The next presidential candidate should run on it. The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back.
Yeah, I’d rather have them on our side than China’s, which seems to be what we’re pushing.
paging Winston and the one-note China policy
Musically it’s such a simple song, but it remains one of my favorites. Especially the back story for the lyrics.
Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ Turns 50
https://www.wsj.com/articles/machine-head-smoke-on-the-water-deep-purple-ritchie-blackmore-ian-gillian-roger-glover-montreux-jazz-festival-woodstock-11648067662?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Love that song, and the backstory is legend for us Zappa aficionados. Article is paywalled, unfortunately.
Really. I’m supposed to be able to provide a link with my sub. Let me try again.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/machine-head-smoke-on-the-water-deep-purple-ritchie-blackmore-ian-gillian-roger-glover-montreux-jazz-festival-woodstock-11648067662?st=hoch2n02tbrw48z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Thot Thursday bringin’ da titties.
https://archive.ph/x6E1L
60+ Hot Busty Girls? I like MILFs as much as the next guy, but GILFs are a bridge too far.
Wait till you’re my age. I was always into “older women” but no there isnt any.
“Did The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him?”
Yes.
Just think of NYT as a government agency and it all makes sense.
One of the media organs of the DNC.
I’d say the CIA has more influence.
I didn’t vote for them!
I thought the government was an agency of the NY Times? Works either way.
Agreed, they don’t send anything out without instructions from above. They’re the mouthpiece of the party. Like Pravda.
“States pocketed millions in COVID-relief cash for pet projects”
Not to go all pelosi on everyone, but it’s right there in the bill. You can pretty much use the money for whatever. I plan to use a bunch in my new job, thanks taxpayers.
I finally woke up.
I don’t know why I was so damn tired.
OK, Mr. Durden
Working too much, and/or you got the Rona.
Oh, come on, just because the after hours work wrapped up at quarter to one in the morning doesn’t mean anything.
Narcolepsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm_OyAcF8BA
I was pretty sure narcoleptics didn’t know they were falling asleep.
Extra pixels are expensive!
https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/nyc-photographer-blasted-for-charging-100-more-to-shoot-plus-size-models/
It’s the wide angle lenses.
He has chronic back pain, and these heavier photos aren’t helping.
Victim fight!
I do it for free. They need to HMU.
Cant fault the guy on his marketing angle tho’.
I could see how it’s harder work making a whale look beautiful.
Or maybe he just finds it less enjoyable than looking at actual models.
Oops. [Airplane doing nosedive was not captured on video]
There is another long distance picture from the nearby mining operations security camera that I believe was genuine.
“Outrageous” and “just nuts” is how Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., described some of the expenditures, which she said were an affront to responsible government.
“Our hospitals were overwhelmed because of the pandemic, and somebody now has a hotel somewhere?” she added.
Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said the states and localities “need to give us an accounting.”
Crocodile tears from these two.
Apple announced Wednesday that most iPhone and Apple Watch users with Arizona state documents are now able to upload digital copies in the same manner as credit or debit cards, making it the first state to do so.
What could possibly go wrong?
And by “ accounting”, he means, “kickback”.
I hope to see more tears from her when she loses reelection in a district she won’t live in.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
db –
I have a Holosun HE508T-RD X2 on my Staccato C2. I loves it. I like Holosun optics in general, I have 507Ts on my Carry Optics guns as well. I use the open 32MOA circle reticle for everything, even shooting at 25+ yards.
In general:
– Bigger dots are better
– The typical lifespan of an open-emmitter mRDO is about 10,000 rounds of minor ammo. I buy a new optic and drop it on my primary game gun a month before Nationals/Area 8. The old one goes on my practice gun.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Do you have the tall sights or the compact ones on the C2 to go with the 508?
I’m surprised that the open circle works that way.
Also, why the 508 vs the 507, which is slightly lower?
The 508 is 1.08″ high vs 0.95″, and the dots are 0.63″ and 0.55″ above the mount, respectively.
I have the tall sights on mine. I have a second C2 on order, I may try the carry height sights for that one just to see if there’s a big difference.
I went with the 508 because it’s a little bit tougher mechanically. Of course, I’ve only ever had a 507 fly off my gun, and it was none the worse for wear, so I wouldn’t say it’s a huge deal.
I’ve maintained that the US squandered a massive opportunity to welcome Russia into the fold of (as Kirkpatrick says) the “normal countries” and develop an amiable relationship based on trade and mutually beneficial discourse.
*scans the horizon for rapidly approaching Winston*
He has hypersonic capabilities now. You won’t even see it coming.
Well, you’ll see him but not hear him, mercifully.
OK, audio/techy Glibs, I’m looking for a recommendation for wireless earbuds for listening to my SiriusXM app when I go to the Y a couple of times a week in my seemingly vain quest to get GlibFit. Don’t want to spend too much, and I think the style with the cord that goes behind your neck would come in handy if a bud falls out of my ear while I’m on the treadmill. Any ideas?
I’ve had good luck with these ones:
https://www.amazon.com/FRESHeBUDS-Wireless-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Black/dp/B0131DYDAU?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1
I run and they do pretty good at staying in my ears.
I’ve replaced them a few times because I’ve washed them more times than I would like to admit.
All of that style have crapped out on me, but maybe I am too frugal. Budget?
These are semi-disposable and sound OK:
https://www.amazon.com/Otium-Headphones-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Cancelling/dp/B0734S1YBS/
Can’t beat the price.
Seconded, although I only use mine for audiobooks while I’m walking, I don’t really know how they sound with music.
I have a spare set of Power Beats Pro that aren’t being used. Remind me and Ill drop em off. Try em out and if you like them, give me what you think they’re worth.
The set I use at work are WAY better than my AirPods when I listen to Coast-to-Coast AM all night at work.
Thanks, homey! ?
I have a set of JLab earbuds that have held up pretty well.
Well shoot. I was going to recommend the Soundcore Spirit, but it seems Anker owns them now and they’re just doing earbuds without a wire between the two.
Jaybird for me. I have the Vistas (cordless), but I’ve had others.
I’ve got a pair similar to this, which work well enough. They also have a microphone if you want to take calls with it.
JBL Endurance Jump earpods have been great for me. The do not shake out. Also water proof and $50 at Amazon, less if you want an unpopular color like teal.
Rainbow on Rainbow violence (tw: TOS, Froot Sooshi)
Lauren Hough is the author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, a memoir and collection of essays about her life. Hough, who is gay, grew up in a Christian doomsday cult and later joined the military while “don’t ask, don’t tell” was still in effect.
The Lambda Literary Foundation, an organization for LGBTQ writers and readers, recently informed Hough that her book was a finalist for a “Lammy” Award. She was thrilled.
“The Lambda Prize exists because when someone like me, which is to say, a queer person, manages to publish a book with queer themes, those books are often ignored by mainstream prize committees,” she wrote on Substack. “Prizes get media attention. Prizes create name recognition and bring in new readers. Prizes sell books. Prizes like the Lambda also come with a check.”
Alas, it was not to be. Lambda informed Hough that it had decided to withdraw her nomination due to “the Twitter disputes last week.”
I can’t fathom why any reasonably alert person would use Twatter any more. It is nothing more than a path to ruin.
Fetish porn, mostly.
“The Twitter disputes, according to Hough, refer to her defense of Sandra Newman*, a novelist whose new book, The Men, concerns a dystopia where everyone with a Y chromosome vanishes from the earth. Newman had the audacity to describe her book as follows: “The book is about women who can’t let go of the men they’ve lost, and devote their lives to getting them back.”
This premise ran afoul of certain transgender Twitter activists, since “everyone with a Y chromosome” is a category that includes not just men but also transgender women, and the people left behind would be not just women but also transgender men. Indeed, one such activist described Newman’s plotting as “transphobia and transmisogyny.””
Typical, just typical.
So a book version of Y: The Last Man?
The TV show had a large subplot about transgendered people, which was not in the graphic novels.
“States pocketed millions in COVID-relief cash for pet projects”
That’s how helicopter money works.
In general:
– Bigger dots are better
I shot a friend’s gun which had a big fat green fiber optic front sight. Holy cow, what a difference.
All my carry and competition guns have had fiber sights (with tritium sources) for years, but I’m for the first time considering an optic.
The reason is a little different with electronics, but yeah. A fat high-visibility front sight makes a huge difference in shootability.
What’s wrong with a brass bead on the barrel and a notch on the hammer nose? Kids these days. Next you’ll be wanting self-contained cartridges. Powder measure and round lead balls not good enough for you.
I beg
to differ
Didn’t someone with both fruit salad and scrambled eggs pinky-swear this was never going to happen?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-really-proud-were-moving-forward-u-s-armys-new-fitness-test-boasts-different-standards-for-men-and-women
“Although the test is not ostensibly not meant to prepare soldiers for combat, it still retains combat in it’s name”
As a commo guy, I was often reminded that the radio remote unit (AN/GRA-39) had a working distance of 2 miles and 16″ using WD-1 wire. The 16″ was the length of the handset cord to the unit. At the time, the run part of the PT test was 2 miles. That was by design.
Still letting chicks off easy when we know they’re just as good as men?
Just look at that swimmer, Lia!
“Now is the time for the Administration to sunset federal transportation travel restrictions — including the international pre-departure testing requirement and the federal mask mandate.”
They’re too limp dicked to just say, “This is what’s happening. Don’t pretend to be surprised. If Foochy whines about it, we’ll shove him out a window.”
One Froggy Evening is on right now! Free Beer! ? ?
re: the bilingual household thread.
Has anyone heard an update on the family that was raising their kid in a bilingual English-Klingon household? The Mother was speaking only English to the kid, the Father only Klingon. I think this was late 90s so I figured if it ended in murder we would have heard of it.
My sister and her husband make and eat a lot of pizza. They have a pizza cutter that resembles a Klingon blade. I pointed this out and she said, “oh yes, that’s our bat’leth.”
That’s the last I heard of it. Some quick TV spots and silence.
I’m looking for a recommendation for wireless earbuds
Do they have to work under water?
No. As much as I love to swim, it was getting too rough on my ridiculously expensive (but worth it to me!!) hair color.
Wonderful.
Russia White Phosphorous Video Emerges, NATO Plans Chemical War Response
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-phosphorous-nato-chemical-weapons-biden-nato-1691293
“The Convention on Conventional Weapons bans incendiary weapons although this does not include white phosphorous.”
But we need to escalate this PDQ!
Does that include napalm?
https://youtu.be/9tUPO_fPyNE
*cough*
https://youtu.be/s4OdAr6-qro
Doesn’t count when we do it. No one else is allowed to.
White Russian Phosphorus? So that’s Kahlua, cream, vodka and a match?
Careful Man. There’s A Beverage Here!
It is National Cocktails Day. If anyone has a recipie for a Flaming White Russian, now is the time…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10647121/Demi-Rose-bares-strips-NAKED-soaking-sun-St-Lucia-getaway.html
This is, of course, the only logical solution.
A new bill proposed by three Democrats – Reps. Mike Thompson of California, John Larson of Connecticut and Lauren Underwood of Illinois – could be worth $300 each month to some families if the price of a gallon stays above $4.
‘Americans are feeling the impact at the pump of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and right now we must work together on commonsense policy solutions to ease the financial burden that my constituents are feeling,’ Thompson said in a news release.
‘The Putin Price Hike is putting strain on our economy, and I am proud to be working with Reps. Larson and Underwood to introduce this legislation to provide middle-class Americans with monthly payments to ease the financial burden of this global crises.’
Their plan follows the model of COVID economic impact payments – offering $100 for single filers earning less than $75,000, plus $100 for each dependent.
Governors of some states including California and Pennsylvania have petitioned Biden to “pause” the federal gas tax to ease prices at the pump. Tom Wolf of PA has presided over (and proudly owned) increases in our state’s gas tax to be one of, if not the highest in the nation during his terms in office.
Their constituents are getting pissed off and they want Uncle Sugar to come save their sorry asses (Wolf’s not up for reelection because of term limits but it could end in disaster for the Dems in PA if his successor loses), but they won’t consider reducing the state tax. Why? Because they are so bad at budgeting and spending that the gas taxes, which are supposed to go to road infrastructure spending, are propping up the general fund.
The chickens are coming home to roost, and Tom Wolf is looking around to see where he can steal some feed.
Tom Wolf of PA has presided over (and proudly owned) increases in our state’s gas tax to be one of, if not the highest in the nation during his terms in office.
It was the highest. I think it is the third now.
(Wolf’s not up for reelection because of term limits
Wolf could run in 2026, but I think he’ll have moved on by then.
but it could end in disaster for the Dems in PA if his successor loses)
The thought of Shapiro, or whoever else might run for the Dems, makes me smile.
Err….
The thought of Shapiro, or whoever else might run for the Dems, losing the election makes me smile.
But pausing the gas tax will not benefit the people they want. They want the direct cash to people making less than $75,000 since they could get an extension of the increased refundable child tax credit.
Oh, and those POSs can Fuck Right Off with the “Putin Price Hike” bullshit.
Totally deserving of a royal bitch-slap.
Does this work?
I’m open to edits to make it funnier and/or more foreceful…
Very good!
We need more helicopters to combat inflation.
These people are such fucking morons.
But so are the Americans who are convinced by being bribed selectively with their own money.
Won’t gas stations just raise prices?
Fuck, and now we’re calling them the “Putin Price Hike”? Bullshit, Even if it were a large factor, it’s our response to Putin’s invasion that is problematic.
Putin is responsible for all the ills of the world, it is known.
I probably said that wrong too.
Even if you favor sanctions and think they’re “worth it”, you can’t claim that our sanctions aren’t a restriction on fuel supply.
It makes no sense. If you want to choose to suffer higher prices for what you consider a just cause, fine. But don’t claim that the other guy caused them. That’s batshit logic.
Won’t gas stations just raise prices?
If it’s cash that could be used anywhere, there shouldn’t be any effect on gas prices. Cash in fungible.
If it’s some kind of gas card that could only be used at gas stations, possibly, but I still doubt it. If you gave every child a school voucher for $10k and none of it was refundable, then the baseline price for school would effectively be set at $10k. Make it refundable and the competition would drop prices below $10k across schools. Even if a gas card isn’t refundable, it’s not a one time use deal so competition for your money would still exist between gas stations.
Putin ate my homework.
“REVEALED: Privileged life of NYC events coordinator, 26, charged with fatally shoving 87-year-old vocal coach: Socialite is the daughter of a Long Island cesspool mogul and enjoyed high-society parties but was known as a ‘bully with a short temper'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10646251/The-cesspool-scion-socialite-charged-fatally-shoving-NYC-grandmother.html
cesspool mogul?
Saw that this morning and my first thought was “Long Island cesspool? Could they be more specific? Like, Islip, or Rockville Center, or…?”
May The Lord bless you and keep you, Daily Mail.
Geez, all that’s missing is a coupon to clip out.
Forget it, Jake?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpNmYeooQE
Aww yeah, goin’ all Kavanaugh on this bitch.
Reliable sources say that when she was an infant she once pooped herself.
“She’s a terrible person and a bully, here’s some bikini pics.”
Ah Britain, don’t ever change.
Yep. Anna Sorokin 2.0.
“Former Olympic decathlete and gold medal-winner Caitlyn Jenner declared that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was not the rightful winner of the women’s NCAA Championships, instead naming second place Emma Weyant as the true victor.
Thomas, who competed for three years as a male collegiate swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania before beginning hormone therapy in 2019, stormed to the 500-yard freestyle title on Thursday with a time of 4:33:24 – more than a second-and-a-half ahead of Weyant.
Jenner last night said that recognizing University of Virginia swimmer and Olympian Weyant, 20, as the true winner was just ‘common sense’, after previously hitting out at the NCAA’s decision to let Thomas, 22, compete against biological females.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10647445/Caitlyn-Jenner-says-Lia-Thomas-not-rightful-winner-NCAA-swimming-championships.html
The elephant in the room is that no one gives a shit about women’s sports. If Jenner was a female athlete, no one would know who she was.
Jackie Joyner-Kirsey has a sad.
Women’s tennis seems to be fairly popular and, uh, well never mind then.
It was until Serena went and had a kid and another meltdown or two.
Now the American media are desperate for the next Serena, more so than even the resurrection of Federer.
Gymnasts and figure skaters, once every 4 years.
Bruce Jenner was a huge celebrity. People would still remember him, from 1976, even without transitioning or the Kardasian stuff.
If this situation was something that was fucking up high school football, people would a thousand times more outraged.
That’s a brutal point, it doesn’t outrage more people because of how few care about swimming in general and women’s swimming in particular.
I think this will be only the tip of the iceberg. One guy taking the top spot is one thing, if all three places on the podium were boys?
It’s also more apparent in individual events. Team sports largely loses the individuals.
I know I’m an asshole, but I don’t remember Caitlyn being on the Wheaties box when I was a kid.
Tangentially related, while watching Battle Bots a couple weeks ago, they were talking about the captain of the Witchdoctor robot, who is a woman, and they described her as “one of the top female robot builders” I told my wife, that’s not correct, she is one of the top builders, period.
On the other hand when female athletes are talked about as one of the best hockey players ever, they don’t mention the woman part. That is also wrong, is this woman anywhere close to the level of Gretzky, Jágr, Lemieux, so on and so forth?
It has to be intentional; to insert it where it is unnecessary and leave it off where it is a definite part of the description.
People change their name, whatever. If he wants to be called Caitlyn instead of Bruce, I am cool with it. But he is still he.
Also, why is Deirdre McCloskey not a celebrated hero of the trans movement?
Okay, just kidding, I know exactly why.
Is there an awards ceremony for plastic surgeons? And did Blaire White’s chest win it?
no one gives a shit about women’s sports
Women’t beach volleyball? Where is that GIF?
Lia won fair and square. Caitlyn can suck her dick if she doesn’t like it.
Pure gold
There’s another explanation, though. It’s that Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class. After being used to win an election, he’s now making it impossible for them to credibly foist on Americans the idea that his party could win another one with him on their masthead. The donkey is showing through the lion skin, and so they need a new donkey.
Maybe Joe turned out to not be the empty-suit middle of the road ventriloquist’s dummy they thought he was. His viselike embrace of panicdemic theater and all-in push on mortally wounding the energy sector, combined with his general pandering to the craziest fringe elements of the Democratic Party cannot be what they had in mind when they propped him up in the captain’s chair.
It’s a damn shame they’ll have to replace him with someone who has a nails on a chalkboard voice, demeanor, and overall personality then.
I’m more concerned that they want a “limited” war with Russia and Biden is standing in the way of it.
Could be that but it’s probably motivated by not wanting to put a senile old man who was kinda stupid in his prime up for reelection but I expect the war hawks to make the most of this opportunity if given the chance too.
I still don’t think Joe has any show in this. He is an automaton who does what he is told (and not well).
The reason the Donks are going to dump him is because his controls are infected with crazy progressive malware that. It will be easier to wipe the entire office clean and start over than to try to get rid of all the viruses that are currently infecting this administration.
You mean it turns out not-Trump isn’t enough of a qualification? Whodathunkit?
Maybe there is even more shit on that laptop, and the Democrats are projecting that Republicans will impeach after they take back the House.
That stuff was all pre-election. So impeachment wouldn’t work. The second he was out of office (unless he pardons himself) he could get rung up on all sorts of stuff.
Wait, there are limitations on what is impeachable now? Fitness for holding office and beholden to foreign powers, even if the original events happened before office, aren’t unreasonable impeachment reasons even without that. Or course, someone with a sense of personal honor would have resigned when those came to light.
Impeachment is kinda dumb.
I know it’s all fashionable for libertarians to say we should do it more, but in order for it to actually remove somebody you’d basically need both parties to agree to it.
That’s only going to happen with a president that goes seriously and batshit off the fucking rails. (so probably never).
Politicians do dumb things all the time.
His viselike embrace of panicdemic theater and all-in push on mortally wounding the energy sector, combined with his general pandering to the craziest fringe elements of the Democratic Party cannot be what they had in mind when they propped him up in the captain’s chair.
Really? I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what they wanted. They just wanted someone who was going to do it a little more subtly and cleverly. They wanted precisely this policy mix. They just wanted it doled out with the grandfatherliness of mediocrity mistaken for moderation. Instead they got a senile coot.
A new bill proposed by three Democrats – Reps. Mike Thompson of California, John Larson of Connecticut and Lauren Underwood of Illinois – could be worth $300 each month to some families if the price of a gallon stays above $4.
And when the magic trick was performed, the monkeys gaped in awe and somersaulted gleefully.
Good morning, Banjos!
So what countries produce most of the lithium? I wonder if that will present a little problem for our greensters?
Great upbeat song! Perfect for a sunny morning!
Lithium production, both mining and refining, is something our greensters want to happen somewhere else, so they can live with the environmental damage (in poorer countries).
Until they decide to curtail it on those same grounds. Bait and switch.
No, they REALLY don’t care about someone else’s environment, just the one they are most likely to see (or live in).
Just like NY and natural gas.
I thought it was Seattle?
Been waiting for this link all morning, thanks.
Australia and Chile followed by China.
Chile actually has the most extraction potential.
Actually China’s lithium potential isn’t real much more than ours, but they are more willing to extract it (sound familiar?).
I still don’t think Joe has any show in this. He is an automaton who does what he is told (and not well).
I don’t buy it, and I’m certainly not going to let him off the hook by falling for that “just a puppet” crap.
He is senile and was never that bright to begin with – how much of this is Pudding Cup’s own ideas?
Underrated observation.
But last week Biden released his law school records showing he had graduated 76th in a law school class of 85. The law school transcript also showed he made little progress in class standing through the three-year course, ranking 80 out of 100 in the first semester of the first year, and 79th out of 87 the second semester of his second year.
https://apnews.com/article/cd977f7ff301993f7976974ba07c5495
You know what they call the worst student in medical school after he graduates?
“Doctor.”
I saw a thing a while back about a big lithium mining project in Chile, as I recall. It’s rather a messy process.
Old data, but here are the largest lithium mining companies.
The Chinese have been busy.
Obligatory.
But the workers are remarkably happy and well adjusted.
We don’t care about those brown people way over on the other side of the world. They can ruin their own environment, use child labor, and all die of cancer, and it’s all worth it if we can drive around smugly in our electric cars.
no one gives a shit about women’s sports.
Women’s World Cup skiers are pretty goddam awesome.
‘At Dan Pazienza Cesspool Service we pride ourselves on being Suffolk County’s most advanced cesspool service. We have been serving Suffolk County for over 3 generations,’ the website boasts.
“Your shit is our bread and butter.”
Septic company around here has “Yesterday’s meals on wheels” on the back of their pump truck.
When I was a kid, we had our septic tank pumped.
My dad couldn’t stop laughing at the slogan on the truck.
YOU SHIT’EM, WE GIT’EM
Shittake Septic?
Are we doing mushroom puns again today?
Don’t ruin our fun guy.
The guy that pumped our septic when I was a kid had this slogan on his truck:
“#1 IN THE #2 BUSINESS!”
The ever-changing slogans of the Sewage Septic Sucking Service on the “Red Green Show” was one of my favorite recurring bits on that show.
“If your eyes are stingin’, my phone should be ringin’.”
“If the neighbors are complainin’, better start drainin’.”
Winston Rothschild was the owners name.
https://redgreen.fandom.com/wiki/Rothschild%27s_Sewage_and_Septic_Sucking_Services
He is senile and was never that bright to begin with – how much of this is Pudding Cup’s own ideas?
He’s the same narcissistic sociopath he always was.
Who had to borrow from other’s political speeches because he couldn’t come up with original material.
Mojeaux,
Since you are here, I am wondering if you had a chance to peruse my post from last night. I am interested if you have any comments.
UCS commented on the thread. Sorry if I have missed any of our other authors, your comments appreciated too.
I’m not an author, but I enjoyed it and am looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Me too!
I have about 4 different arcs plotted out, but not sure exactly how they resolve yet. Or even if they do. Or how or if they tie together.
I imagine it would cost a lot to have Dame Judi Dench so the voice acting.
That is pretty much the voice I was going for, thanks!
Hey! I had to read it twice to get the relationships down and court politics are always a bitch to write, get straight, and make sure the reader gets it, so you did a good job setting it up cold like that.
So, is this the beginning of something bigger or a character study? If it’s something bigger, I suggest creating a relationship graphic.
It is something bigger. Let me get a few episodes in and I will create a chart.
I don’t know if anyone quite caught it, but the inheritance is male-only matrilineal. There is a name for that, but can’t remember it off the top of my head. It creates some interesting situations, a few of which are explored in part 2.
That also leads to some of the confusion. I tried to get it across with the opening bit.
I caught it, but didn’t think of it in those precise terms. I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting.” (That’s a compliment.)
One of the interesting bits is that an important individual, say a Duke or King, needs to marry well if he wants his firstborn son to inherit a title of value.
If the Duke mentioned in part 1 had married a commoner, his son would inherit no title by birthright. But since the Duke married into the Imperial matrilineal line, his first son Thomas is the Emperor’s heir. The Father’s title didn’t matter at all — the current Emperor’s Father was a Creek Lord (cricklord being the insulting and minor swear version).
Oh, and as Rat pointed out below (and Annelise mentioned in Part 1), marriage isn’t really required. You know who the Mother is, marriage or not. The Mom could be screwing around on the side and the kid still inherits, the Dad has nothing to do with it.
So, the first step of the honeymoon is to kill all her children and lock her in a tower?
Worked for The Hair That Walks Like a Man.
I caught the male-only-ness; the matrilineal part did scratch at the back of my head but is clear-ish now that you’ve stated it.
I don’t know if anyone quite caught it, but the inheritance is male-only matrilineal.
I didn’t catch that. Mother to son inheritance?
I think a chart of relationships will help. I struggled a bit with that in the story.
I think I will include a chart for Part 2.
I don’t have a good picture to go with it anyway.
I believe it is male enatic succession. There were societies that practiced it because who is the mother is more certain.
I had same reaction. I remember giving up on “Game of Thrones” because I couldn’t keep all the relationships, unfamiliar geography, and court goings-on straight.
I hereby promise not to kill off every major character as soon as you get to like them.
Death happens and all, but I am not that cynical.
Hey, subverting people’s expectations is tight!
Saving the Empire will be super-easy, barely an inconvenience.
never that bright to begin with
Low animal cunning.
When he debated Thomas Sowell on affirmative action, he was too dumb to realize how badly he was outclassed.
Hey, but he was confident he had the better of it!
I don’t think Biden’s making the decisions, but he’s evil enough to go happily along with them and issue the necessary orders. Exactly what (((they))) wanted in him.
That last sentence is supposed to be sarcastic, right? Cause if not, you should describe exactly what you mean when you say (((they))) and hope for mercy.
When he debated Thomas Sowell on affirmative action, he was too dumb to realize how badly he was outclassed.
How many elections has that Sowell guy won? Huh?
Appeals to emotion are dumb, but quite often much more successful than dispassionate rationality. Joe doesn’t give a fuck about anything but his own political position and power, and never has. Just like everybody else in government.
I know, but I remember that as being one of the building blocks convincing me that uor system is not really fixable.
I know, but I remember that as being one of the building blocks convincing me that uor system is not really fixable.
That’s the problem, isn’t it? The only people who WANT to work in government are the very last people who should be allowed anywhere near that sort of power. And our “elected officials” are for the most part people whose single greatest demonstrable skill is winning elections, not understanding complex problems.
Regarding bombing the Chinese embassy:
‘President Bill Clinton apologized for the bombing, stating it was an accident.[3][4][5] Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet testified before a congressional committee that the bombing was the only one in the campaign organized and directed by his agency,[6’
Yeah, we definitely did it on purpose.
how much of this is Pudding Cup’s own ideas?
I believe him hen he says he thinks global warming is the single greatest threat to mankind. Just because he’s stupid doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous.
I doubt anyone other than a few tree-huggers actually believes any of it. Certainly not anyone in power.
Highly recommended for film people. Pancreatic cancer took Satoshi Kon at just 46. He does an excellent job of using anime for the purpose of story instead of just presenting a story that happens to be animated.
https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/events/the-legacy-of-satoshi-kon.html
Four of his best works are streaming for free for roughly two weeks.
How about another conspiracy theory?
Behold!
Oh. Not a conspiracy theory. Just another nail in the coffin of liberty.
“central bank”
No thanks.
It’s coming. They have been working on it for years. The attacks on BTC and others mean it’s close to roll-out.
Not sure how, but this idea needs to die.
Waiting for BTC and ETH people to launch Project Burr,
YAY ONLINE SAFE HANDLING OF GLASSWARE TRAINING
“How you handle your glassware is important.
…
Always use two hands.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU
Hmm, let’s see what’s in the online learning queue…
Workplace Diversity, Inclusion and Sensitivity
Promoting a Culture of Respect
What the actual fuck?
You can’t have my kids, you fucking monsters.
Tundra, I thought you’d be in a better mood after the Wild got Fleury, but the links you posted today are very depressing.
Flower is a great addition to the team, but it’s definitely challenging to stay positive.
I’ll do better!
I wish the Pens would have kept him instead of Murray, he is one of the best.
Well, even Vegas had to ditch him for salary cap. We’ll see how he does for 37!