Good afternoon, citizens. Are you eating your heart-healthy whole grains polyunsaturated fatty acids? Are you getting your 10,000 daily steps? Be careful not to risk heart attacks and strokes by consuming excessive saturated fat, do not risk damaging your kidneys with excessive animal protein, do not lift anything over 40 pounds without a partner, and above all else, do not consume disinformation. The following links have been carefully fact-checked by fact-checkers and verified to contain no disinformation.
The future is bright, citizens.
Fruits and vegetables are cultivated in community gardens. Artificial and carbon-neutral meat is consumed at barbecues. All software is open source and everybody can improve or change it. Its implementation is then decided by consensus. There are no companies, there is no profit-driven market, there are no billionaires, there are no third-world countries. We finally live in harmony with our surrounding world instead of destroying it. Solar and wind power have made coal and oil irrelevant a long time ago. Fusion power plants are a reality. The last war has been fought back in 2022. Barbaric times.
A white woman has correct opinions about what a Black man should be permitted to do with his body.
The NFL’s antiquated metric for wrongdoing – guilt in criminal court – ignores a documented problem with our criminal justice system where the burden of proof for criminal cases is often far too high for these cases to prevail. The organizations within the NFL ignored this and forged ahead, opening their wallets for a very controversial player because he isn’t guilty in criminal court. Both the NFL and the Browns are benefiting from a society that has yet to denounce violence against women and a legal system with significant barriers for victims seeking justice.
BERLIN — Germany began preparing for eventual shortages of natural gas on Wednesday, as the country’s economy minister pointed to growing concerns that Russia could cut off deliveries unless payments on existing contracts were made in rubles.
The Russians are spreading disinformation at the peace table.
“Ukrainian negotiators have essentially agreed to Russia’s principle security demands of rejecting NATO membership and regarding the presence of foreign military bases on its territory,” the Kremlin’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky has said. In the statement he noted further that Ukraine has “stated willingness to meet core Russian demands.” He said further while speaking to Rossiya-24 broadcaster on Wednesday:
Finally, someone is talking sense.
That’s especially true for Tony Fauci. A man in his 80s—he says, if you ask him, that he thinks he’s got another 10 years left at the helm, and what he really wants to do is solve HIV. He’s turned back to HIV already, and that’s where so many of the rest of the people that you meet in the film have returned, because they want to use what they’ve learned now to see what they can do about this intractable 40-, 50-year-old problem.
A Russian bot-farm is spreading disinformation about fact-checkers. Three pinnochios, lacks context.
Politics aside, fact-checkers fill a gap in the American system of government, which increasingly and for at least several decades now has looked nothing like the system described in high school civics classrooms and textbooks. Because the U.S. state now routinely exercises its power through administrative decrees, rather than through laws passed by the elected representatives of the people, it must rely on subcontracted nonofficials to enforce compliance with its dictates. This method of governance relieves policy makers of any obligation to build broad majorities that support their ideas.
So last August, when Natural Light released its own flavored vodka, it’s safe to say they weren’t looking to set the spirits’ world on fire. With three flavors inspired by the brand’s fruit beer line Naturadays — Lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade, and Black Cherry Lemonade — and a suggested $15 price tag, Natural Light Vodka was definitely aimed at the beer brand’s existing fan base. And now this 30 percent ABV vodka is doing what Natty Light does best: It’s become available nationwide.
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.
This concludes the links, citizens. Please proceed to your pods in in orderly fashion, consume a moderate amount of nutritional paste, and enjoy entertainment from your preferred streaming service.
Today’s music selection comes from some nice patriotic Ukraininan boys. Slava Ukraina!
“Fully automated luxury communism”
Sounds like Hell…eat a dick pinko.
Yeah, that “luxury” part is BS. The idea is to lower the standard of living for the haves and raise the standard for the have-nots. Only the first part will be enacted.
And enacted selectively.
So who exactly is supposed to do the stuff that needs doing, like build tracking implants and overseeing synthetic meat production?
The robots.
And since you’d need the Singularity to happen to make that work — you can’t blame the robots at all if their next consideration is: “What exactly do we need these meat bags for, again?”
By robots you mean slave workers in cardboard robot suits?
So… AWESOM-O instead of HK-47?
Yes. Enslaved AWESOME-O people who must also talk like robots or be whipped by their betters.
Look, it’ll all just happen naturally.
Diabolickal sabotaygee is sounding good right now.
One of the comments got it exactly right: even in a (completely impossible and mythical) post-scarcity world where this asshole’s pipedreams would theoretically be possible, humans would become miserable, empty vessels. Aristotle figured out that eudaimonia depends, among other things, on meaningful work. “Being freed up to work on my art!!!” is not sufficient to enrich the human soul.
So: impossible *and* depression-inducing.
Sure sounds like communism to me!
Germany began preparing for eventual shortages of natural gas on Wednesday
They did nazi that coming.
Tres Bonn.
We Cologne them some gas to make it through.
But they will be Prussian for more right after.
They will have no fuel to run the amBerlince.
Sorry, that was a bit of a stretch. But at least I tried.
On a completely different note, next week I get to interview a job applicant who is directly connected to two great classic songs: he is a former lumberjack, *and* from Montana.
Lumberjack part is promising. I bet he’s tired of the song. Ask all girls named Brandy or Rhiannon.
OTOH, I know a Montaigne thorn in my side…
Ask him if he’s OK and bonus points if he comes in wearing suspenders and a bra.
If this continues too long, they’ll have no food to put in their pots. Damn.
Germany got Hitler where it hurts.
Here, have my earworm. I am assured that it’s okay when it’s an older woman and a young man. ← No disinformation there, citizen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ArUpcngAQ
I keep expecting…
We finally live in harmony with our surrounding world instead of destroying it.
Where’s the fun in that?
Talk like that always reminds me of that campy Star Trek Apollo episode. Who wants to be part of a well tended flock?
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Mourns_for_Adonais%3F_(episode)?so=search
That just means a reduced standard of living for anyone who has anything more than a pot in which to piss.
How can I have power if there is no work being done by people that I could have power over.? I’m not like the others, I’m a supervisor. Being equal sucks, man.
And nothing ever improves beyond the end of history
They really give the game away here. The three corners of the left are Mathus, Roseau, and Marx. And this piece features all of them.
Double plus good links comrade. I will eat the bugs, and enjoy them!
“There is hope. As a teacher, I can attest that the new generations care more about each other than ever before. They care about the environment. They care about cities that are worth living in. Cities that aren’t built for cars, but for people. They care about their future. They are fighting for it, against all odds, and all ridicule from older generations. They are growing up in an age where all the information they need is just a click away. And they are the first to critically evaluate that information and take advantage of it. Because everyone who came before them has failed, they will have to change the world.”
Yup, were boned. /Bender voice
The 60’s called and wants their misplaced self-importance back.
“Everyone else was *stupid*… *we* know how things should be and there’s no reason why people did things in other ways for millenia!”
A true laugh line of I ever read one.
“As a teacher, I can attest they care about whatever I tell them to care about”
Any teacher that ever said that is lying, stupid, drunk or some combination. Ask any high school kid or teacher. High school was designed to keep kids out of the work force that would make union members look bad.
Because everyone who came before them has failed, they will have to change the world.
Every time I hear something like that, images of Pol Pot’s Cambodia come to mind.
The Russians are spreading disinformation at the peace table.
It is, how you say, difficult to hear from across such long table.
“there are no billionaires”
But are there narcistic sociopathic politicians who want power over everybody, or will some narcistic sociopathic politician propose that we kill them off for the greater good? They can’t possibly “live in harmony.”
There are bazilionaires, who own everything and graciously allow the serfs to use things like clothes and housing.
I don’t like the implications of that and prima nocta if all the serfs are trained to be gender fluid… (Teenaged girl’s “ewwwwww” here…)
Without the biology robot to check, how would you even know they were girls?
I’m not a robotics expert. How can I be expected to answer that question?
Here is the Great War by Sabaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mt4B5Z8uLA
I think kids would be better served by history lessons from metal bands than from government schools.
Old people are dumb, or at least, just didn’t know any better. Not like us. We’re smart and educated.
Gilmored.
If you didn’t think “Wind of Change” was bad enough, apparently did a version of it in concert over the weekend with new pro-Ukraine lyrics.
Heh. If someone here forms a syllabus, may I audit the class?
I am assured that it’s okay when it’s an older woman and a young man.
Russian bot-farm
Much better band name than Inflated Rubles or Sanctioned Ruskies.
“fact-checkers fill a gap in the American system of government”
MiniTrue?
Yeah, I struggled with that too. The next few sentences didn’t seem to have anything to do with it.
“Fill the hole” seems more appropriate. “Asshole” even more so.
BERLIN — Germany began preparing for eventual shortages of natural gas on Wednesday
So did they learn quickly enough to spin their nuke plants back up and tell their Greens to go pound sand?
Loving these Warty Wednesdays. And yes, I already lifted today.
No. Fuck off.
Then read this.
Yeah, I’ve been suffering from that disease for a couple of weeks now and it SUCKS.
I hate to imagine a world in which every Karen and Darren has to find things to do every hour of every day. I don’t want them engaging in their hobbies and interests, which is their fussing over my hobbies and interests.
Most people would just be drunk/stoned/whatever 24/7. Not sure that many people have rich internal lives to the level presupposed by the author.
Hmmm… And I wonder if suicides would increase due to lack of purpose, if birth rates would drop, etc. Wasn’t there some study on mice that showed what happens when they didn’t have to work?
Ah, Universe 25…
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/universe-25-the-mouse-utopia-experiment-that-turned-into-an-apocalypse/
Seems likely.
I think your referring to that ‘mouse paradise’? Not sure we can directly convey it into humans, but I imagine it’s like how some people don’t find much to do in retirement and either go back to work or die right away. Obviously many people are able to find fulfilling things to do.
Like tell kids to get off their lawn, and yell at clouds. 😉
Think of all the people you know whose ‘hobbies’ start with bringing TV and end with video games.
…’binging’ TV.
Yeah, one of the international broadcasters I listen to reran an interview with some idiot promoting the idea of “degrowth”. It was filled with enraging idiocy like people being free to chose “fulfilling” work, with he being one of the TOP MEN who would obviously know what sort of work is fulfilling for you and what isn’t, and thought this could all be paid for by just taxing people enough.
On the other hand, listening to last night’s English-language news program from Israel was interesting: news of another terror attack broke during the program, with reports of first one person injured, and then people critically injured, before they learned that multiple people were murdered.
Like I said above, every time I hear something like this, images of Pol Pot’s Cambodia come to mind. Increasingly, I’m convinced that, for them, that’s more feature than bug.
” I already lifted today.”
If it was over 40 lbs I hope you waited for P. Jimbo, as Warty recommends.
An amusing interaction I just had…
I hurt my neck a month ago, and was referred to physical therapy by my PCP. I had my screening session a couple of hours ago.
So I pop into the place with my paperwork all filled out.
The woman sitting at check in reaches with tongs to grab a surgical face mask and directs me to put it on. Then starts the hilarity. Her supervisor pops over to manage the process and interposed herself between the clerk and me, much like David Spade’s character in Coneheads. The reason for the interposition became clear to me at the very end of our interaction, the check in clerk was suffering from a cold and sneezing into her mask, and the manager was trying to eliminate interactions between the two of us.
The manager treated me as if I’d been rolling in the blood of Ebola sufferers. She put on gloves to handle my paperwork. She sanitized my ID and insurance card before scanning it, then again when she handed it back to me. I had to sign the credit card slip, and they sanitized the pen after I handed it back to her.
When she started to sanitize my cards before returning them to me, I’d had enough. “You really don’t need to do that for me.” I protested. “Oh yes I do!” she exclaimed, widening her eyes pretty dramatically. She then gave everything a very theatrical second pass. The cards were sopping wet and dripping when I got them back from her.
She then conveyed me to the room where my screening would take place. I followed her shaking the cards in an attempt to dry them off. It was easily the most officious performance I’ve seen in six months. She loudly asked random people where my therapist was. Made comments about rooms being “not clean” because things were out of place (for example a sheet that was not folder properly on a bed).
After she got me to my room, I could track her location by the sound of her commentary as she walked back to the front office.
The therapist was much, much saner.
Branch Covidians, gotta love em! 😛
The HR person at my workplace is the only one (which is a bit of a surprise, as I’d have guessed there would be more) who really engages in the idiocy, still wearing the mask. I could swear I’ve seen her in her car by herself with the mask on.
The other side of the office is getting remodeled, and since I’m the first person in I’ve gotten the duty of letting the head contractor in since they don’t let him keep his badge overnight. He had a couple of new electrician types with him today, and their commentary of having to do the temperature check with the alleged facial recognition was amusing. Pretty much none of them masked up either apart from coming in the first thing in the morning.
Oh good Lord. Sooo last year, if even that.
I wonder what effect the (Covid-inappropriate) focus on fomites has had on actual fomite-transmissible illnesses.
I remember reading a year ago that certain foodborne (or rather foodworker borne) illnesses were down in the UK.
…which is nice, I suppose.
That we still had foodborne illnesses despite food worker always double washing their hands proves that handwashing doesn’t work at all. That’s science.
Medical office front counter personnel are, in my experience, absolute morons. And they don’t care.
I was once given a release form to sign and to the surprise of Bovinia McCudchew at the counter I took the clipboard back to my seat and pretended to read it. Five minutes later I was back at the counter. The form was a release for an OB/GYN practice in an adjacent county; not the practice I was at. I made sure the entire waiting room knew what was going on. Let’s just say I got seen quickly that day. Curiously, the practice closed down a couple of months later.
Those free rectal exams are rarely worth it.
You know what they say; hire the handicapped, but don’t let them take your rectal temperature.
Oh good, so not just a localized problem. Doc Brown is a documentary?
Assuming that’s true, I wonder why.
“ Bovinia McCudchew ”
Stolen, thank you
Natty Light does best
Gets you toasty on a budget.
Natty Ice, or GTFO!
“Women are increasingly NFL fans, and this acquisition immediately after a grand jury’s failure to indict Watson signals to fans that the mere suspicion of violence against women is acceptable.”
I feel like I can’t read it she can’t write. The mere suspicion of violence against women is acceptable? Doesn’t it have to be, unless we’re just unpersoning everyone ever accused (credibly!) By anonymous sources or whatever.
Given that the grand jury didn’t indict, the case must be piss poor, no? Ham sandwich and all that.
‘Aimee Imlay is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, where she studies poverty and policy.’
Here’s to hoping she gets to study poverty at a personal level.
Thinks back to T Sowell asking why there is a such thing as poverty studies when that is the natural state of humans. Shouldn’t there be Wealth Studies instead?
Wait… I thought no one even knows what these nebulous “women” are…. except the biologists or something. Heretic!
Clearly we’re on the same wavelength.
The same cycle, would you say?
“Failure to indict”. That phrase kind of talks past the sale.
Yet, she was alright with Kareem Hunt being on the team.
The author beat me at a time when I was identifying as a woman. She should be fired and excised from all polite company.
And they are the first to critically evaluate that information
Stop it. You’re killing me.
“Because you are part of a psy-op.”
Biden gets his second COVID booster shot: “I’m not sure why I’m doing it on stage.”
Occasionally, he is almost lucid.
ROFL, see it is the best possible of all worlds.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/biden-to-get-4th-covid-vaccine-launch-government-website/
“ Biden says 4th COVID shot felt ‘wonderful’, launches gov website amid $22.5B plea”
He can take all of mine and he’ll feel twice as wonderful. Some people are easy to please.
Convid theatre is here to stay.
“Today, I’m announcing the launch of http://covid.gov,” President Biden says.
A one-stop shop where anyone in America can find what they need to navigate the virus. Free vaccines and boosters. Free at-home tests, high quality masks.”
“We’re also offering these great guides on closing a barn door when the horse is 40 miles away….”
That’s like starting a show dedicated to disco in 1987.
lol
I hope someone takes it down today.
Anonymous to the white curtesy modem, please.
yeah, speaking of CIA psyops…
I’m quitting the disco.
That’s great! Adding that band to my list of deviants.
“We still have Covid money to spend.”
For him it’s probably just a B-12 shot with some Ivermectin.
The first part of that is absolute bullshit. And these barriers you speak of…let me guess; you’re thinking about crazy antiquated ideas like “presumption of innocence” and “right to confront your accuser”.
I’m about halfway through Jocko’s interview with survivors of the USS Liberty.
Pretty intense. I knew nothing about this.
You know, I’m starting to think our government (and Israel’s) might not be on our side.
So my equilibrium is still fucked. Everything is constantly moving up & down. But I got off the ship on Sunday. I think it may be whatever scuzz & corruption I picked up that is screwing with my inner ear. I have no idea if it’s the ‘Vid, because Amazon delayed delivery of my home tests, and I think it may be too late by the time they get here. I’ve been pounding the Vit D & C and Zinc. My nose is slightly stuffy but no longer runny, and my throat is just a teeny itchy. No fever at any time.
But I find the list of my last few Amazon orders to be very amusing:
-Motion sickness patches
-Sunhat
-Sunscreen
-Theraflu
-COVID tests
Here’s one more thing for your list
Twice a day does wonders.
Done!
I agree, my sinus headaches have been drastically reduced by that stuff.
Those are a lifesaver. They do make you dribble a bit though.
Can confirm.
sounds crazy
Hit “post” too soon.
This sounds crazy, but it actually seems to work. YMMV
It works for me when I get dizzy spells, put a few drops on your hands, rub them together and then cup your nose and inhale a few times.
Done!
Hope it helps.
You need to find your land legs again. Really, though: mal de debarquement?
https://www.cruisecrazies.com/index.html/cruise-articles/unique-perspectives/why-motion-sickness-can-persist-even-after-your-cruise-r1675/
A week in a boat in Canada and I’d have the balance problem for a few days afterwards. Most notably in the shower, needed a handle to hold on.
Man, I do love me some Stoicism.
She does make it look more appealing than I do.
David France: Well, I immediately thought of it as being the next pandemic. So many of the people I know are still so injured from the previous one, and I recognize that my people, the survivors of the AIDS pandemic, were having special difficulties in coping with lockdown and this whole idea that once again we’re facing the prospect of death.
You know how I survived the AIDS pandemic? By realizing, early on, that if I wasn’t a promiscuous gay bottom or a junkie who shared needles, there weren’t enough zeroes on my Texas Instruments calculator to tabulate my chances of dying from AIDS. I wouldn’t have made a good smack addict anyway — Susan from ADPi wasn’t going to take me to formal if I was going to be nodding off, so it was best not to get hooked on heroin.
So I guess that makes two pandemics that I’ve survived in spite of not being a panicked ninny.
Susan from ADPi wasn’t going to take me to formal if I was going to be nodding off, so it was best not to get hooked on heroin.
So you got hooked on coke instead?
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUPHlAbAf2I
(Ted, will this be on TCM someday? I could imagine Up in Smoke late on a Friday night.)
Go to hell, you tyrannical garden gnome.
“I don’t want to use the word ‘lockdowns’ – That has a charged element to it, but I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we’re seeing with infections,” Fauci said during an interview with BBC.
Fauci said Americans should be prepared for more Covid restrictions if another variant emerges.
“Having said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along,” he said. “And then if things change and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot toward going back – at least temporarily to a more rigid type of restrictions such as requiring masks indoor.”
There will always be new variants, and new panics. It is only when people say “enough” that this will end.
That little demon would rather masks be permanent, but will settle for temporary. See, he’s compromising!
Have we tried human sacrifice yet? I’m willing to see if Fauci in a wicker man will end COVID once and for all.
We’ve sacrificed children. Isn’t that enough?
Make Aztecs Great Again?
So they have focus tested a replacement for lock downs then.
The world of tomorrow might look something like this: People are transported in fully automated taxis. Drones can deliver packages and groceries in a matter of minutes. In fully automated factories, robots manufacture robots. 3D printers are used to create houses, furniture, and electronics. While your AI assistant plans your next vacation and social gatherings, you can finally read all those classics you never had time for, write your own novels, design and create new things, be an educator, be a scientist, explore space, or, if you prefer, help coordinate and supervise the automated world.
Or you can just eat your own shit and masturbate 20 or 30 times a day like a monkey in a cage.
Or, you know, you could make/find time to do them now, if they’re important enough to you.
He’s a tescher so unfortunately doesn’t get a lot of time off.
Dude, you are slurring your words and its only afternoon!
Ya know, yer awful nishe. https://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/800/ILL.jpg
masturbate 20 or 30 times a day like a monkey in a cage.
My max is, like, ten.
Piker! Try harder!
Those are rookie numbers.
I was expecting this.
Pump those numbers up!
Hi I’m Troy McClure! You might remember me from such newsreels as “The World of Tomorrow Sounds a Lot Less Exciting than it Used to!”
I live in rural Alaska, 30 miles from the nearest town of any size. I wonder how any of that is going to work for me.
You’ll have to call Uber to take you to the nearest town with bus service that will take you to a fully automated taxi.
No Uber out here either. Maybe I’ll buy a horse.
Or, alternatively, the bozo advocating for this “world of tomorrow” can go fuck himself. I think I prefer Option Number B, thank you!
He’s suffering from the same myopia so many of these self-appointed “futurists” do: he honestly believes that everybody values the same things he does, and everybody lives the same way he does. ”Cities are where it’s at, man! Everyone thinks living in a pod is groovy! Get with the program!”
It’s a failure of imagination on his part, and painfully obvious to anyone who happens to have any different values of any kind at all. To the rest of us, he’s basically a space alien in his logic and assumptions.
Which I wouldn’t give a shit about, were it not for the plurality (at least) of those self-appointed cuntes who would be willing to force me to live the same way he does. In the name of “efficiency,” “humanity,” “social justice,” and so forth.
We’ve been here a year. A glorious year. If anyone wants to come now and drag Mrs. Animal and yr. obdt. back to a city, they’d damn well better come a-shootin’.
Heinlein had completely-automated taxis in Between Planets. And the police could override those and have you delivered to the police station if they wanted to talk to you.
“…or, if you prefer, help coordinate and supervise the automated world.”
You weren’t supposed to say that part out loud, fuckhead.
I could practice my long-range rifle shooting four or five times a week, and finally make a serious attempt at the PRS Gas Gun national championships!
Oh, wait… that’s off the table, huh? What a surprise…
Putin the Prepper is crazy and will kill us all.
New evidence has emerged Vladimir Putin and his highest ranking commanders are running the war in Ukraine from top secret nuclear bunkers.
Movements of planes used by top Kremlin officials show Putin may be in a hideaway near Surgut, in western Siberia, it has been claimed.
His defence minister Sergei Shoigu – who has been mysteriously absent for several weeks, sparking rumours about his health – is believed to be in a bunker near Ufa in the Urals, 725 miles east of Moscow, according to investigative journalist Christo Grozev.
This theory is backed up by his daughter Ksenia Shoigu, 31, visiting Ufa for an estimated three days from March 22, with mounting speculation the defence minister is suffering from heart problems.
She also abruptly barred public access to her Instagram where she had posed with her baby in the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine.
The suspected use of the high security nuclear bunkers is concerning as it leads to suggestions Putin may be prepared to deploy nuclear weapons, a move that would lead to inevitable reprisals.
“How dare he not wait for the first strike decapitation wave, as we ramp up the rhetoric, threaten him personally, and do everything we can do to avoid deescalating the situation?”
Yes, while our brave and totally not cowardly leaders will be following Joe Biden right to the front lines.
He’s doing us a favor by not making himself available for assassination attempts which would drastically escalate things.
This is bullshit. Putin was supposedly seen in person at the rally last week in Moscow.
Why would Putin be hiding in a bunker when hes “winning”?
I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t show.
The CEOs of three major oil companies have refused to testify in a hearing aimed at stabilizing U.S. gas prices amid the war in Ukraine, drawing the ire of Democrats. …
Due to their refusal to appear, the Democrat said, the hearing “will not go forward.”
“As rising gas prices started hurting Americans, fossil fuel industry trade groups and their allies in Congress wasted no time placing blame on the Biden administration and pushing for a drilling free-for-all. But when you look at oil companies’ record profits, these claims don’t add up,” Grijalva said in a statement.
“I invited these companies to come before the Committee and make their case, but apparently they don’t think it’s worth defending,” he added. “Their silence tells us all we need to know — that cries for more drilling and looser regulations are nothing more than another age-old attempt to line their own pockets.”
They can do what they want as long as mine are not emptied at the pump.
“I invited these companies to come before the Committee and make their case, but apparently they don’t think it’s worth defending,” he added.
No; they knew you were going to use the opportunity to be a grandstanding piece of shit.
OH MY GOD A DRILLING FREE-FOR-ALL!!!
So, if they are making record profits now why would they want to bring more oil to market? That would only lower their profits to sub record. Oil execs are really dumb.
Seems on topic.
https://morningconsult.com/tracking-trust-in-institutions/
There is none?
Less Than 2 in 5 Americans Trust Congress
Wow. Now if was a bit less than 40% I could believe that.
OTH 24 out of 60 sounds about right.
And yet they keep getting re-elected at a rate near 90%.
That’s like 9 out of 10!
I think it’s worse!
“Who are you going to believe, the Democratic Party’s new official-unofficial, public-private monopoly tech platform censorship brigade, or your misinformed, disinformed eyes?”
LOL
“Ukrainian negotiators have essentially agreed to Russia’s principle security demands of rejecting NATO membership and regarding the presence of foreign military bases on its territory,” the Kremlin’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky has said. In the statement he noted further that Ukraine has “stated willingness to meet core Russian demands.” He said further while speaking to Rossiya-24 broadcaster on Wednesday
In a sane world, this, if true, would be a cause for celebration. Of course, if our Deep State weren’t blowing smoke up the Ukrainians’ keisters, this (actually probably a more pro-Ukrainian version of this) could have been reached at the negotiating table absent any bloodshed.
It is good news. I fully expect the State Department to try to torpedo it, it maybe an ill timed chemical or biological attack might occur.
Honestly, I hate to say it about my own country, but I really do think our government is doing everything in its power to prevent the two sides from coming to some sort of reasonable accommodation. And this isn’t some sort of Iran-Iraq War thing where there’s no chance of us getting pulled in. This is something where we’re coming damned close to being a belligerent-in-all-name.
I came to that conclusion a while ago. Not sure exactly when, but I still wish I had seen it even earlier.
No, we are a belligerent. We have publicly proclaimed we are supporting Ukraine with war material. Russia (fortunately) has not acted upon it.
And by we, I mean the US government. This time we aren’t using cutouts, private parties, or any attempt at official deniability.
You’re not saying anything about your own country. You’re saying it about a bunch of overeducated Foggy Bottom cunts who don’t consider themselves ‘American’ beyond the fact that they happen to live here.
Why are you people believing russian lies?
Thread on Russian Ukraine strategy.
Big Arrow War—a primer. For all those scratching their heads in confusion, or dusting off their dress uniforms for the Ukrainian victory parade in Kiev, over the news about Russia’s “strategic shift”, you might want to re-familiarize yourself with basic military concepts.
Maneuver warfare is a good place to start. Understand Russia started its “special military operation” with a severe manpower deficit—200,000 attackers to some 600,000 defenders (or more). Classic attritional conflict was never an option. Russian victory required maneuver.
Shorter Scott Ritter — the war is going exactly according to the Russians original plan and is being executed brilliantly. Ignore the convoy’s stuck for days on the road, the attempted seizure of an airport early in the war that ended in disaster, and the maps that showed completely different plans than what Ritter is touting now.
Oh yeah, and where are the underage women at?
To be fair to Harvard, some of that is good advice.
Aside from ‘stay active’ and ‘olive oil’, what exactly?
Limit sugar, juice, and potatoes. Drink water. Olive oil.
Sorry, didn’t say I had time to quantify it.
Yeah, okay. That’s all fine.
Healthy protein must mean bacon and steak, right?
Yes!
It’s like 2 versions of AP
https://apnews.com/article/health-tennessee-nashville-bd88dd7af3e9122a4fac9c62aadb2238
https://apnews.com/article/health-homicide-tennessee-208900696fba7ec95b00b37ac1989dfb
In the second link we learned she was quite careless.
An expert witness for the state argued that Vaught violated the standard of care expected of nurses. In addition to grabbing the wrong medicine, she failed to read the name of the drug, did not notice a red warning on the top of the medication, and did not stay with the patient to check for an adverse reaction, said nurse legal consultant Donna Jones.
JFC…
It gets even worse. The medication she “thought” she gave (versed) comes in liquid form. The medication she gave, vecuronium, is a powder. You have to inject saline into the vial to reconstitute it before administering it. They also come in different colored vials. Vecuronium also says all over the vial “PARALYTIC”
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling we’re living through the first chapter of a dystopian novel, where they describe the events leading up to the dystopian part?
**HEAVY SIGH**
It’s not just you.
Very much so.
Are you trying to get me to order more ammo, CUZ I’LL DO IT!
A set of books I hate read, but are likely relevant, is the Calm Act series by Ginger Booth. I now think it may be the actual plan. We’re fucked.
I get the feeling that we’re going to get to see what Weimar Germany was like. Spoiler alert: the sequel sucked.
Yes, please
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/03/signed-as-law-utah-exempts-the-sale-of-goldbacks-from-state-sales-tax/
Apologies for the length of this post, but it’s paywalled at the Telegraph.
“ America must learn from our laziest woman”, by Mark Steyn, 2004.
Good article. Reminds me of a guy I called “Lazy Larry”.
He worked for my mom at a fried chicken/beer place. He would very carefully plan his work hours so he would not make enough to lose his government money.
He would also be consistently “sick” on Mondays and Fridays.
His wife was on disability and so were their 2 kids.
They were very excited when the 16yo girl became pregnant because that meant WIC and other benefits.
My mother did not allow me to speak to him.
That is sad about that family but kind of amusing about your mother’s prohibition. 🙂
The key quote from the essay to me is
I have a hard time believing that is not the goal of these programs, easily foreseeable consequences not being unintended and all.
Lazy Larry? More like Awesome Larry…I bet he had the best weed around too or prescription pills if that’s your preference.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-03-30/earendel-most-distant-star-seen-by-humans
Wednesday, 8 pm Eastern. You know the drill for zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
I’m liking this NutraSweet, Hugman 1-2 combo.
Makes a frustrating Wednesday less stupid.
Healthy protein must mean bacon and steak, right?
Soylent Green.
Does anyone find it ironic that 30 years of prosperity has Made fully automated luxury communism more popular than ever? Prosperity, technology and knowledge have finally solved the Hayekian knowledge problem and the Mises calculation problem they say. That and dismiss Hayek and Mises as a bunch of dead racist cishet priviliged White Men.
You know who else was Austrian?
(They could probably successfully use this to discredit Hayek and Mises in the eyes of Proggies)
There will always be a subset of people who would be perfectly happy being strapped to a gurney and fed a vitamin rich vanilla paste if it meant security and freedom from want. The people that matter don’t want that though.
He worked for my mom at a fried chicken/beer place. He would very carefully plan his work hours so he would not make enough to lose his government money.
My ex girlfriend told me a similar story about her daughter’s boyfriend’s mother. She was working a couple afternoons a week at a local grocery store, for fun money to supplement whatever she was getting from the government. The manager came to her and said, “You’re doing really well. We’d like to put you on full time.”
She said, “Fuck that.” I think she even quit altogether.
https://www.city-journal.org/truth-in-a-post-truth-world?wallit_nosession=1
I find this fascinating that it is now being acknowledged that the affluent educated urbanites are the modern barbarians.
And what about New York and London in the 19th century made them libertopias?
Huh. I think that’s Thomas Massie in the car next to me…
Is he slowin’ down to take a look at you?
Yeah, but that’s nothing new. I stop traffic quite a bit.
Did you check his plate? He’s shown his Tesla before, and his plate is something obvious.
This was an old, moderately beat-up blue Ford Expedition with US Congress plates (KY-4) and ‘Massie for Congress’ and ‘I Stand with Rand’ bumper stickers.
You know as a parent I want to know what is bugging my kid and I am glad to get him therapy but there is a parental urge to listen in on their telemedicine session
One reason for the current totalitarian moment is that we are seeing the results of the destruction of the mediating institutions of the West by the state over the last 100 years or so. Libertarians were generally on board with this since they felt those institutions were backwards and oppressive: they were bigoted puritanical fundie small-town racist nativist homophobic misogynists after all.
Turns out these institutions were weakened and destroyed but no new instituitions were built and it turns out the internet is not enough. I don’t think libertarians expected this to happen. Some of them obviously realized that the welfare and regulatory state was going to prevent these new institutions from forming but generally it was thought it was a good thing on the name of progress…
There’s a lot of bullshit tied up in that ‘generally’…
the destruction of the mediating institutions of the West
Name seven.
Seriously, I need examples because I have no idea what you are talking about.
https://www.aier.org/article/a-conversation-on-the-decline-of-american-civil-society/
https://www.aier.org/article/americans-bowling-alone-a-warning-for-civil-society/
https://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty
Or how HL Mencken loathed small-town America and the Rotarians?
Hey, who knows about goldbacks?
https://goldback.com/
There was talk of them at FreedomFest 2021.
I hear they are available in NH.
I don’t know much else about them.
Seems to be a more practical way to spend gold than coins would be.
I was looking into buying gold, but even 1/8 Oz coins are pretty big denominations.
“Gold is the coinage of kings, silver the coinage of princes, and copper the coinage of slaves.”
Fractional-ounce silver makes sense for smaller transactions, whilst gold coins are for “big-ticket” items.
I like the idea of these new goldbacks, and wish they would also consider making silverbacks as well.
Utah just made them legal tender.
I’m getting interested.
i figure we are now on yet another list!
But yes, it is interesting.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tgif-character-assassination/
Sheldon Derpman now realizes that he is the Girondin:
Also how many people on this very site expected things to go from “stop throwing gays in jail!” to “don’t say pregnant women!”
Thia is what Richman was saying 8 years ago:
https://reason.com/2014/03/02/we-can-oppose-bigotry-without-politician/
Worshipping some social mechanism because it furthers good goals when properly wielded makes no sense. Mechanisms of social interaction don’t matter. Any mechanism can be weaponized or demonized at any time to advance the cause of evil. Culture matters. Worldview matters.
Until 2020 most libertarians would have dismissed this as socon reactionary traditionalism.
You know the Kollege Kids would grow out of it.
My favorite was the complaining about the culture war. This was nonsense. You can’t remain neutral in the culture war because eventually they will come for you and once you complain about that you are culture warring. Also freedom of speech is now a culture war issue…
He said, asserting without evidence.
I mean, it’s not like “culture war” hasn’t been used by libertarian “thinkers” as a pejorative against anybody who isn’t on board with libertinism
or prog-fascism, in general
https://mobile.twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1507135469850660865?cxt=HHwWgsC4zbDuteopAAAA
Here we have Bryan Caplan admitting he was wrong on leftist school indoctrination…
https://www.aier.org/article/will-2020-prove-to-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-modernity/
Note how Boudreaux is saying that he didn’t realize the “the culture, and resulting institutions, of liberalism” were under serious threat until 2020. Meaning that he felt that the culture and institutions were generally in good shape before that point…
I switched off of Coinbase onto Exodus since it’s non-custodial. I just need to retrieve the actual private keys at some point (requires a desktop rather than a phone). Anybody else trying to migrate away from somebody else controlling their crypto private keys.
Alex Jones faces fines for skipping Sandy Hook deposition
HAHA. Anyone else would have a summary judgment for the Plaintiffs. Instead this Lefty judge is trying to help defendants with their agenda to question about everything they can think of outside this ridiculous civil case. So the judge is trying drag this case out. A long case would cost Alex Jones money too.
Alex Jones is clearly going to move all his assets so the defendants cant collect. He offered them a settlement and they refused to take it. The Lefties really think they can win when non-Lefties play the same games Lefties play. HAHAHA.
Caricature.
Warty brings the links that punch you in the face.
Is he Will Smith?
Warty would never be so pussy as to do a slap. Warty punches hard enough to stun Chuck Norris.
Holy shit!
This is moving faster than I thought.
The knives are out. See ya, Sunset.
President Harris, here we come! ?