¡Buenos diás Gliberinos!
I’m filling in for Sloopy this morning. We will returned to your regular scheduled programming next week. You have enough Mexican links for one week so we’ll just look at regular old stuff…
Panama approves Bitcoin for payments. The catch? They will NOT levy a capital gains tax on 
Bitcoin. They are the second country this week to approve cryptocurrency as a form of payment after the President of the Central African Republic declared the Coin of Bits to be an approved form of payment. He was quickly corrected that it was called Bitcoin where he then replied, “thank you but I prefer it my way.”
Its chilling! Bing chilling? No just regular old chilling.
If you stop giving so many of them away, you don’t have to worry about running out.
You can’t just like…unseat our puppets and replace them with yours, man.
This was a month ago? Somehow I missed it until it just showed up at Wal-Mart.
I told my family if I ever get this bad to just leave me by myself in a forest with a knife.
I’m old enough to remember the former Surgeon Admiral telling me to stop buying masks.
I’m also old enough to forget this was Mudvayne.
“Didn’t think you’d see me?”
No.
Sharpsy in the Morning Lynx?
NO ONE EXPECTS THE MEXICAN IN QUESTION
Squeeeee!!!!!
That is a grade A piece of meat
Grade A boner-popping meat…
Need more context for that gif
Best GIF ever.
I found the video it is from. A Dutch “Best Ass” contest.
? Link?
That is my favorite first gif.
FTFY
The rest don’t count.
“Panama approves Bitcoin for payments. ”
Here comes another war against Panama..
Sup Glibronis!
I love war with Panama. I reach down, between my legs, eas the seat back…
Panama!
Panama!
What have you done to my Pat Boone?
Erases the “Love Letters in the Sand” that I spent all morning writing.
And I’m not buying that crap you’re hawking on TV, Pat, so there!
Haha! That album is gloriously horrible.
My “favorite” is Holy Diver.
Ear Bleach
????
I hate that fuckin song.
It is an interesting development since their currency is tied to ours.
It’s international monetary strategery. They’re back-door pegging the US dollar to Bitcoin through the Panamanian dollar to stabilize the USD.
-.-
Playing L4D last night. Zoey says “get in the caboose.”
::snickers::
I think that’s where it goes
/kinda unsure of the concept
Give past history in Panama and the new wokeness, will US Forces blast Neil Young on speakers until their govt officials come stumbling out of their bunkers?
Why would we waste America Lacks Talent “winners”?
Because pointing and laughing is the new cool!
I think I’ll stick with actual meat instead of imitation meat substitute.
The plan is that the people in power will do that. Not the serfs. You will be made to eat shit while they dine on the good stuff. Socialists systems rely on their leaders being able to show how they are the powerful because they get to do, get to eat & drink, get to fuck, and get to kill and torture, anyone else that isn’t part of the power cabal.
*racks AK*
*passes loaded bandolier to Sean*
What if everyone wanted to eat meat? How long would the supply last?
And there you have the reason they want the serfs to stop eating meat…
So they can make sure they don’t need to stop eating it.
How good is your aim?
Soylent Green is still technically meat.
I think that is veiled Trans Hate?
Since the veils tend to catch fire and drestroy the engine, of course I hate them.
The target market for jerky eaters would seem to be pretty specific*. I can’t imagine they are demanding this stuff.
*Not a marketer.
my girlfriend’s cat likes it.
Locally, a vegan cocktail bar/restaurant opened up, which is fine (no honey, no egg whites, etc.). There’s known substitutes for most of these things. What irritates me is their food and snack menu, which continues to be vegan but has in the past included things like Pork Rinds (which were deep fried rice paper), and current has Deviled Eggs (Two eggs made from tofu, apples & cashews, red potato puree, herbs, roasted nori chestnut). Those are not pork rinds, nor are they deviled eggs.
I have said before about vegetarian and vegan food is that the most annoying thing is the tendency to try to pretend to be regular omnivore food rather than embracing being its own thing. It’s as if they’re admitting “no, we can’t compete with meat” while trying to pretend to be on some moral high ground.
Just be your own thing.
This. Just eat a bag of baby carrots and dip it in hummus if you don’t want meat.
There was a trend some years back of using a vegetable peeler to make carrot strips and pickling them in a brine with liquid smoke. They were then used to make vegan Montreal smoked meat sandwiches. They were remarkable tasty.
Are you still a vegan/vegetarian if you do oral?
Are you swallowing?
A-freaking-men!
I have multiple vegetarian and vegan cookbooks, and most of the recipes don’t try to recreate meat dishes. They’re delicious anyway! For omnivores like us, adding some chicken or beef to the recipe takes it up yet another notch.
*dusts off Veganomicon and starts looking for recipe for dinner tomorrow*
I could happily be a vegetarian if I lived in India.
I love every* rice based cuisine except Indian. And I realize there is no such thing as a single “Indian” cuisine, but if restaurants are going to label themselves that way, so am I. I don’t know what it is, but there is a smell to Indian food that makes me ill.
*you know, that I have tried in some sort of Americanized way.
The homemade Indian food from work pot-lucks was slightly more palatable.
I hate it when I agree with you.
*though the home made food was no more appetizing.
I really love Indian food but its’s a 50-50 shot whether it goes straight through me. I have to be close to home when I eat it.
India is where they got this idea of telling us serfs to eat the bugs….. The really powerful and rich I guarantee you were not vegans or vegetarians…
Isn’t it the opposite? Only Brahmins are required to vegetarian iirc.
Are you a fan of Taco Hell?
Haven’t had it in more than a decade, but I remember it being less good than Taco Mayo, but better than Taco Bueno.
There a lots of vegetarian dishes that are delicious, but many can be perfected by topping them with bacon.
I can understand the “not wanting to harm animals” thing, but eating honey and eggs doesn’t harm any animals. Vegans are akin to the “every sperm is scared” types.
There it is, the typo of the week.
I probably would’ve missed it and read as intended if you hadn’t pointed it out.
Except that most vegans I know are also staunch supporters of abortion rights. So they are actually worse than the every sperm is sacred types.
As silly as they are they still don’t quite live up to the Jain.
“Jain monks, nuns and some followers avoid root vegetables such as potatoes, onions, and garlic because tiny organisms are injured when the plant is pulled up, and because a bulb or tuber’s ability to sprout is seen as characteristic of a higher living being”
Also, no sex, but hey, they get to fly the swastika.
*Singing
“Every tator tot’s sacred,
Every tot is great!
If a tator tot is wasted,
God gets quite irate!”
I actually heard a professional vegan chef claim that using eggs was killing baby chickens.
Apparently she had no clue that fertilized eggs do not make it into the food supply and are instead incubated to hatch new chickens. The eggs we cook with are closer to hen menstruations, which are going to be liad regardless of whether there’s a rooster around to fertilize them first.
If she’s instead complained about conditions at battery farms there might be more grounds for debate, but as it stood she was flaunting her ignorance.
Objection to the sad fate of male chicks, probably. (See scene in the documentary Baraka [kind of a Koyaanisqatsi sequel]; shudder.)
I can’t log in on my iPad (preferred device over iPhone).
No, in context, she was really talking as though each egg used was an egg that would otherwise have hatched.
Well, if we weren’t enslaving the hens, then they’d have access to roosters, so each egg produced might very well have been hatched.
If we didn’t raise them for food, there would be almost no Red Junglefowl around at all.
The vegans I’ve known are focused on the “factory farming” conditions for the laying hens. That’s a fine thing to oppose, IMO, but there are plenty of companies selling eggs from pastured chickens.
I’m not really sure the objection to honey. Maybe because harvesting invariably kills a bee or three?
For honey, it’s a debate amongst the vegans as to if you are enslaving the bees or harming them by taking their winter food.
For eggs, it’s more entertaining as the same people are usually very pro-abortion.
If you’re a professional apiarist (apist?) you can provide the bees with enough nectar to make enough sugar bee vomit for their winter needs and a surplus for sale. The bees are going to make as much honey as they can regardless of human intervention. That and caring for bee larvae are literally all the workers are capable of.
The ridiculous part about protesting honey is that as long as agriculture is a thing, it will probably be economic to use honeybees as pollinators. Trees like peaches and almonds and others require pollination to set fruit, and the farmers will actually pay beekeepers to put their bee boxes in the orchards at the appropriate time. I’m assuming plant-eating vegans are sane enough to be pro-agriculture.
“Stop enslaving those fruit trees!”
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzHH85WIwg
if you are enslaving the bees
Yeah, okay. ??
or harming them by taking their winter food
Seems like the same problem as the eggs. Finding a responsible beekeeper solves the problem.
Hey Fourscore, have you ever looked into the horizontal hive concept? It caught my attention because it seems to be more aligned with the bees’ natural habitats and behaviors.
Oh… I don’t agree with the enslavement thing. But PETA vegans be crazy. I used to work with a whole group of them. One of them had a sign up in their cubicle that said, “What part of a chicken is the nugget?”
She did not like when I said, “Part of the breast or thigh.”
I donno, some are made from the mechanically separated meat taken from the carcass after the high value cuts are removed on the assembly line. Ie, the hog dog scraps of the chicken.
My girlfriend, which won’t eat lamb, rabbits, ducks, deer, or any other animal she saw in some Disney skit about, tried the whole “I want us to be vegetarians or at least not eat the cute animals” thing on me. I told her if she didn’t want to be my ex-girlfriend she would not try to force me to give up stuff that’s tasty just cause she was weak enough to be manipulated into giving it up. The funny thing is that she won’t even try it because she is worried that if she likes it she suddenly will go back on her mental disorder about eating these things.
That’s as dumb as asking what part of a cow is the hamburger?
@Alex – my biggest problem with rabbit when I had it was finding bird shot still in the meat. I get it, the pellets are tiny, but I still don’t want them in my dinner.
The funny thing is that she won’t even try it because she is worried that if she likes it she suddenly will go back on her mental disorder about eating these things
I had a girlfriend in college who was an ethical vegetarian until she drank enough, then she would eat chicken wings.
Much better than my ethical vegan friend who used to make sad noises when he didn’t approve of our meal choices. As a result, there was a period of time where we’d order an extra hamburger and throw it in the trash, just to piss him off. I also pretended to worship plants as my gods and acted offended when he ate anything that wasn’t a seed, fruit, or nut. I was a bit less nice back then…
I hear that UCS. I used to hunt turkey back when too, and nothing ruined that after I brined that meat and fried it good like finding shot in there when eating it. Lead should not be part of our diet.
@Trashy – I’m appalled that you threw away perfectly good beef.
I’m not appalled that you returned the judgemental attitude. That is really where the friction arises most of the time.
Posers are the worst trashy.
perfectly good beef
This was high school and college. The beef was anything but “perfectly good”.
The tasty part.
Possum burgers?
Not familiar with the horizontal. Bees in the wild are still using the vertical but they are old school, it’ll take a while for them to catch up.
The bee lifespan is 6-8 weeks, they work themselves to death. I found a dead skunk in my woodshed, out in the open. No apparent cause of death, no skunk smell at all. Natural causes? He/she is being recycled the way nature intended.
From my understanding, the big takeaways from the horizontal hives are that the walls are thicker, thus regulating the temperature better, the horizontal layout allows the use of European dimension frames, which are supposedly more “optimally shaped”, and the frames are designed to seal up since the bees don’t have to go up and down, so going frame by frame doesn’t disrupt the whole hive as much.
I don’t know enough to evaluate the assertions made, but it was interesting to me if only from the perspective of not having to haul around 70lb supers.
What are you doing to them to make them scared?
He only has Lena Dunham in his bank.
I believe the thinking behind the prohibition against eggs is the way laying chickens are treated on the big farms.
Honey? No clue.
Devil’d Aigs?
No honey? Honey comes from flowers.
“If you stop giving so many of them away, you don’t have to worry about running out.”
If we can’t stay out of it, we should at least get money for them.
Kickstarter program, putting America back to work.
Make things, destroy them, rinse and repeat.
I for one liked that about Trump. “Look at all the jobs we created, by selling F-35’s to UAE!”
The president is planning to visit a Lockheed Martin facility in Alabama that makes Javelins next Tuesday. Having a ready supply of such potent and proven weapons is seen as vital not only to Ukraine but to ensuring Taiwan is prepared for a potential Chinese invasion.
Two questions — a) do the Chinese even have the sealift capability to put a bunch of tanks in Taiwan without most of them becoming ersatz artificial reefs in the strait, and ii) if the Taiwanese are so worried, why don’t they just buy all they want from Lockheed-Martin?
I doubt the PLA Navy (yes their navy is a subordinate part of their army) has the capacity to sustain an invasion of Taiwan.
I’d have to go read up on it — they’ve been trying to build up a blue navy for some years now (didn’t they launch their first supercarrier a year back — and I mean actual, not a refit Varga or design derivant thereof..). Between that, all the artificial islands and the Taiwan situation — I can’t believe they’d be neglecting getting enough sealift for at least the South China Sea and all.
Not saying they’ve got the kinks out — but they’ve been pretty clear on their intentions for some time. Claim everything near them as “historically China”, artificial islands as air / missile / further territory, lots of focus on subs and anti ship missiles to take down the carrier battle groups in the area, anti-sats to take out surveillance and command/control in the theater, and then get the sea lift going when there isn’t anything appreciable left to make them artificial reefs. Anti-ship from Taiwan would be all that’s left at that point, assuming there’s enough targeting left (since anti-radar / anti-electronic against Taiwan should be concurrent with the anti-ship launches against the naval targets). But hell, I’m just an armchair idiot back in the States, never served — talking out my derriere… Dictator of Chumptown… what do I know…
When the Germans invaded Poland their western ‘front’ was essentially unguarded, the French could’ve rolled right in. The generals expected that, but Hitler didn’t – he had read the French (and British) political class correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised that Xi, and China, are something similar – a lot of bluster, that on their actual home ground they could probably back up. But getting those bodies anywhere else?
There is also the tendency of commuist regimes to create paper tigers that seem like they have all the requisite training, numbers, and equipment but their effectiveness breaks down upon first contact with the enemy to a degree that shocks the analysts.
War in Korea where they could keep throwing bodies at the problem and order them to march when the vehicles break down, probably still able to be effective.
The last real war they fought was in 1979, against Vietnam, and they lost. (To be fair, Vietnam has a good track record of defending its parcel of Indochina)
Last analysis I saw said that Chicoms could probably get a division or two ashore in Taiwan – which is nowhere near enough as Tiawan is armed to the teeth. Assuming neither of them go nuclear.
They are quickly building up hardware to help them do this. While their navy is hard at work trying to become a carrier capable navy, with serious guided missile support platforms to protect it and give it a bigger strike capability, the expansion of their amphibious assets is what will be needed to conduct a naval landing campaign. and they are cranking out these ships with help from our leaders whom have made themselves rich giving our money to the CCP.
The one thing that still makes an invasion of Taiwan a dubious enterprise for the CCP maniacs isn’t lack of hardware, but the fact that these operations require very skilled personnel to conduct, and like Russia, the Chinese military might be composed of a lot of hard men as they don’t their society is far less concerned with wokefied douchery, but lacks the experience and skills. Seeing the Russian military flounder and suffer embarrassing problems with things as simple as bad logistics and bad hardware – like tank designs that result in catastrophic destruction from hits that shouldn’t be able to do that – to how a powerful air defense cruiser was sunk by a couple of missile hits, hopefully this all is making the CCP think hard about how disastrous such a landing would be without an absolutely professional and capable force.
Yup — after I posted the above, I started thinking — what’s to stop them, really? And I could only come up with two real factors:
1) Lack of doctrinal knowledge (lots of hardware, manpower – but not a lot of actual experience as you note)
and
2) Ballistic subs and the will to use them.
And honestly, I think (2) is the only credible threat to an invasion soon. For all they’ve stolen tech wise, I expect a boomer sneaking close enough into the South China Sea and just sitting there for months silent so they can’t find it, and an administration that promises to use it if they cross the line and *means it* would be about the only thing they’d have to pay attention to. All the attack subs they build can take down carrier groups, but if they can’t find the boomer, they can’t stop it. And ABM systems would have a hard time with a launch just offshore and MIRV-ing and all, I would expect.
Obviously, we don’t have half of (2) right now — and that’s why if I were Taiwan and Japan, I damned well would have started building nukes on the QT last year. Probably South Korea too — who knows if it ever actually flares up just what that mess would turn into.
Kind of funny that SEATO (the one that actually dissolved) would be so much more relevant today than NATO has been for 30 flipping years and all.
“All the attack subs they build can take down carrier groups, but if they can’t find the boomer, they can’t stop it.”
Their anti carrier denial philosophy (A2/AD) today is centered on saturating the carrier’s air defense escorts and the carrier itself with heavy barrages of land based ballistic glide vehicles backed up with their latest ship launched ballistic ASM capability more than the use of noisy submarines. Despite stealing Ip on silencing subs from us, they have yet to field anything seriously quiet yet.
“Obviously, we don’t have half of (2) right now — and that’s why if I were Taiwan and Japan, I damned well would have started building nukes on the QT last year. Probably South Korea too — who knows if it ever actually flares up just what that mess would turn into.”
Japan has a dormant program that can produce a nuke in less than 2 weeks and various delivery mechanisms. China knows this, so they keep a weary eye on them. Taiwan and South Korea should at a minimum do the same. In fact, if I was Taiwan, I would create shore based nuclear tipped anti-ship capabilities as well as their own ballistic nuke subs to make sure the CCP understands that it won’t be the US coming in on the side of Taiwan that causes the most risk to them.
“Kind of funny that SEATO (the one that actually dissolved) would be so much more relevant today than NATO has been for 30 flipping years and all.
Isn’t it? The people selling us out to the CCP dissolved the one entity that would make it harder on the CCP to do something bad while they kept NATO around even though it was not needed.
I think Taiwan needs two things to make an all out invasion unlikely to occur, much less succeed:
Antiship missiles, and lots of them.
Anti air missiles, and lots of them.
Anti missile defense would also come in handy, as would a crapload of cruise missiles to take down the ports and airfields the attacks would be launched from.
Third question: does American foreign policy consist solely of sticking our dick in every hornets nest we see or is there more to it?
I’d have to say there’s also “Exploit the shit out of anywhere we can to wet the beaks of DC and the contractors”. Might require the hornet nest tango to get there, but we do it in places we haven’t had to actually have carnal relations with as well.
There’s also the part where politicians’ kids get to get rich through bribery.
“If you stop giving so many of them away, you don’t have to worry about running out.”
How else can they panic and convince you to let them give oodles of money to defense industry companies for more?
Also, that meat isn’t going to grind itself.
Also,
that meatthose worms and bugs aren’t going to grind themselves.FTFY
Good Morning Glibs!
No, no it really wasn’t. Quordle today can meet a rusty bloody chainsaw — I’d say “I couldn’t do worse” — but okay, yeah I could have done a *little* worse.
Still, Triple Chump is probably a new record here. All Hail Chumptown Dictator For Life, Me.
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I think I’ve chumped every day this week.
You only reported three times (unless I missed it) , and got a 26 on Sunday.
Didn’t make the reporting deadline on a couple days, just plain busy.
you can report late it will still go toward the weekly numbers.
Did you see my idea for an
improvedmore arcane but automatible scoring system?Did you see my response?
You need more mercury in your diet until your Aspie level improves.
No thank you.
I have an uncle who figured he could feed himself through fishing and ended up giving himself mercury poisoning. He survived but not he looks downright ancient, especially for his age.
Yes, I am contemplating it, might add it as a secondary system.
Updater: I will not be doing that, I will note the scrabble score of each days solution to see if that is a good metric for difficulty.
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Hey, look on the bright side; you got one word. Go you!
Wait, there are FIVE options for upper-right? I only thought of four. .
At least — I’d share with you my letters-that-were-wrong, but that would be spoilers.
It would be a spoiler on top of a spoiler
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This was a month ago?
*rhythmic dry heave sounds*
Good. I was hankering for a breakfast burrito.
Is that something like a Rusty Trombone, Dirty Sanchez, or Cleveland Steamer?
Well, it does involve a meat tube going into a mouth and coming out an ass.
There are feckin’ instructions???
Sorry this should have been NSFW.
In that case I’ll look.
Had a nice homemade machaca burrito myself.
I made my wife a breakfast burrito. (not a euphemism) It wasn’t as good as what we have delivered, but she liked it.
Vegetarian breakfast burritos (huevos, papas, frijoles y queso con salsa verde) are delish.
It wasn’t until I moved here I learned that “papa” isn’t standard Spanish.
There is some shenanigans going on here. For some reason, it won’t let me post a particular story. It keeps lying and saying it’s an Internal Server Error.
Minitruth has begun testing its algorithms.
One of the TPTB should look into it.
You can always send it to me and I can see if I can put it up and hopefully you’ll be able to edit it.
WordPress is doing some strange things, recently. SugarFree SugarFreed a link on Wednesday and it took both Swiss and I several editing attempts before we could get the fix to take.
There are only a couple of people with site admin privileges and they are otherwise occupied at the moment.
Thanks, but I don’t mean a Glibs article, I mean here in the comments. I tried yesterday, and it wouldn’t let me post the link or quotes from the article. Tried again this morning and got the same thing. It seems oddly specific. So I’m thinking that means there is some WordPress/Cloudflare/etc. algorithm that can filter what we can post here. Which is concerning.
Same happened to me yesterday.
FREE THE ALGORITHMS!
I had the same problem about two weeks ago, and then one time in the meanwhile.
I posted to the forum about it and got no response.
It’s a small world after all.
What is his favorite color?
Do the “good guys” normally talk like terrorists?
Also, big tell:
“Quietly assisted” like the election was “fortified by a shadow campaign”?
… he asks in a country who’s government is spinning up a Department of Misinformation headed by someone working with the IC to spread misinformation….
And even that is only the most visible of many actions our wonderful overlords have taken.
This boggles the mind, but does explain a couple of things – about how deeply embedded the dollar is in international trade, and probably has to do with why inflation isn’t as bad as it should be (per monetary theory).
stupid frikkin link
“The Bank [of Japan] will establish a new facility in which it lends Japanese government securities (JGSs) to financial institutions against their current account balances with the Bank so that these JGSs can be pledged as collateral for the U.S. Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations.”
It’s going to take me a while to figure out exactly what that means. At first glance, it looks like a fiscal circle jerk.
You already figured it out..
Shades of CDOs here. The vehicles get more and more complex until nobody understands WTF is going on anymore.
Ah! There she is! *settles into his bed of crusty socks*
Green-painted muchacha? Wonder how that choreographed soccer song goes.
Yes indeedy-do! She resembles my ex whom I still harbor the odd hard-on for.
Never change, NPR.
It emerged from the swamp, slapped a mama on her butt, and took off in a stolen pick-up, headed for Vegas.
Never changeDIAF, NPR. I assume that’s what you really meant.Guilty as charged.
What people don’t realize is that mandates are the reason why you can swim safely in a public swimming pool. They’re why we can eat safely in restaurants without fear that the person preparing our food hasn’t washed their hands.
What are those mandates?
Magic, apparently.
Mandatory swimming lessons might actually be useful.
I thought that one was more about chlorine and sanitation.
I was creating my own mandate around public swimming.
My freshman class was the first one without Drownproofing as a required class at Georgia Tech.
https://www.isye.gatech.edu/news/surviving-drownproofing-101#:~:text=From%201940%20until%201987%2C%20drownproofing,the%20world%20at%20that%20time.
That sounds like a little preview of Hell.
Or a major lawsuit waiting to happen.
Or a major lawsuit waiting to happen.
One of the original tests, that I think they removed in the 60s or 70s, was to swim two laps of the pool underwater or PASS OUT TRYING.
I’m sorry, what’s the degree in that requires this level of aquatic proficiency?
Underwater Basket Weaving
Duh…
STEM, something STEM.
Every school has their bizarre requirement or two. For 50 years, GT’s was drownproofing.
It might still be a requirement if the pool hadn’t got condemned. The temporary reprieve gave the opportunity to remove it from the mandatory classes. It was replaced with a more generic PE requirement.
I met my university PE requirement with Fencing and Archery.
I’m actually a pretty fair shot with a bow (both recurve and compound)
It’s been a while since I’ve been in a swordfight though.
Do you at least have cool scars from it?
No, ‘fraid not.
Downproofing sounds like the scourge of polyester-fill pillows.
Similar here. Dad showed up there in ’61, though, so he had, it, and so I was required to learn it as a child. And so were my kids.
You were a year or two behind me, is that right? I started in fall of 1987, got out in 1991.
89-93, yeah
No, those aren’t mandates, that’s indoor plumbing.
The lack of mandates is why no Jew has been able to find kosher food in America.
I’ve talked about Mr. Melvin, who’s a rideshare driver who I met, who had a double-lung transplant.
If you’ve had a transplant (and thus are chock full of immunosuppressant drugs), maybe spending hours a day in a small enclosed space with strangers isn’t the wisest career choice. But hey — I’m not your supervisor. Just don’t have men with guns force me to wear a useless talismask around you to make you feel “safer.”
Pfft. We must re-arrange human society to be safe for double-lung transplant people.
Emerged…from someone’s anus.
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Central African Republic
This name is very imaginative.
So what you’re saying is, you’re not a CAR Guy?
/Cathy Newman
Just about as imaginative as a union of sovereign states on the American continent, honestly. 😉
It tells you what you need to know. I assume it is not a republic either.
Gran Colombia runs from the room crying.
Former dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself emperor and changed the name of the country to the Central African Empire.
Was this a payoff to the Taliban from the idiots that thought these people with barbarian beliefs could remain civilized and would keep their promises to not fuck over the women, the country, and restrain from going back to fucking the goats & camelz?
Honestly, I don’t think so. I think they were just so damned adamant to do everything 180-degrees away from how the Trump admin would have done it, that they screwed the pooch royally. And just don’t care.
Or shorter: There’s plenty of malice in DC, but I think this was just incompetence.
This. I strongly believe Biden’s team came in with the belief that EVERYTHING Trump did was bad, so they should just do the opposite and everything will be great. Instead of thinking things through they fell victim to their own bullshit.
Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by mere incompetence.
I raise your Hanlon’s razor by one Hanlon’s blunt instrument: never ascribe to malice or incompetence alone what is better explained by both.
Great piece about the cars and road and shit, Tonio. I shared it.
Shouldn’t you be at work?
/Homer scream. Runs off in underwear. Crashes into wall.
These days I assume both.
I hear that Tonio, but at a minimum I would have ordered my people to disable the high end shit (like the Apaches we left them, in perfect working condition, with plenty of spares and ammo, giving Afghanistan a capability larger than ay NATO nation). Blowing shit up is easy. Forget letting the Taliban use these, I would make sure every hull was burned into a husk before I left to make sure the Taliban didn’t give them to Russia and China. Especially the later, which despite stealing IP, has not reverse engineered a comparable platform (a problem quickly given a higher chance to be solved if they get a bunch of real ones they can disassemble and learn from). That our personnel never did this (or even tried to) tells me they were ordered not to do that.
A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers
The Clintons are back in business!
Racism in my lily-white suburb! Alarm and fear when a new black resident moves in. Plans are being made to force the new black resident out of town.
*Journalos, it would be nice if you maybe mentioned a neighborhood or street where this happened. (My suburb is pretty large)
It was a grizzly scene, with the trap on its leg giving it a boo-boo.
You just know that trouble’s a-bruin.
Don’t be ursinine.
In what could be seen as a blatant panda to Swiss, I shall refrain from further wordplay.
Bear with me on this.
*narrows gaze*
The local paper reported today there’s a cow loose in my municipality, but the address isn’t in my municipality.
At least I can still find some amusement in Bureaucratic incompetence.
Early april I got the official appointment letter to my new job title. Wednesday, the pay raise appeared in my check (we’re on lag pay, so it was covering the appropriate pay period). This morning, HR acknowledged receipt of my paperwork applying for this job that I am already getting paid to do.
California to end world hunger:
California Expects Record $68 Billion Surplus From Tax Surge
Although they didn’t do it last year for some reason.
“Expects”
I Expect future headlines about a budget crisis as tax windfall fails to materialize.
The revenue will probably arrive, but they will have spent twice that by the time it does.
They have a surplus now (and from last year). But yes, they will overspend it.
Surpluses yesterday, surpluses today, surpluses forever!
Easy come, easy go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRuodiIR18
Daily Ray of Hope
*I hope this catches on and Fourscore ends up being booked every single weekend in June.
At least we aren’t fat shaming him though
*Five years or so, a guy I knew ended up shooting a 300+ black bear that had been living in his corn field. It was so fat that the .243 he shot it with didn’t penetrate the three shots he put into its body. He killed it when he shot it in the head.
Uffda. This was supposed to be a reply to my comment at #20.
But at least you aren’t fat shaming Fourscore either…
Is 300 lbs. that big for a bear? The NFL has guys bigger than that.
Depends on the sex for that species.
Black Bears are on the smaller side.
Also, time of year.
I don’t hunt bears. I think black bears are 230# or so?
The guy telling me the story was pretty excited about how big the bear was. I remember it as 300+. Maybe it was more?
You have to hunt something to know how big it is?
I’d imaging carrying home the carcass will inform you right quick.
The point is, if you asked Jimbo how much dogs weigh, would his answer be, “I don’t know, I don’t hunt dogs.”
It’s the sort of vocabulary hair-splitting that I assumed you’d be all for.
Are we talking pomeranian or saint bernard?
I might not be able to tell you how big a dog is, but I can tell you how much my wife pays per pound for dog at the Korean market.
*not really. She thinks eating dog is bad. Only old men do that.
My father in law ate dog when he was a kid.
They were dirt poor in Okinawa in the ’50’s, and he had a pet dog for a while.
One day he was told the dog ran away and they had meat instead of fish that night.
He didn’t put it together until years later.
Sort of? I have too many important things to care about as it is. I can’t be wasting brain cells on things like how big black bears are!
My brain knows that they aren’t that big. My adrenaline glands have never gotten that memo so they pump gallons when I run across a black bear in the woods by accident.
Ask Tres…
I think he might be able to explain that chubby chix thing to ya.
I think 300lbs. is around average.
That’s a pretty big black bear.
Cabin is open, folks are welcome.
/Looks at blank booking list
Nice!
Lawmakers fret over dwindling Javelin supply
Stop sending them to an unwinnable proxy war.
For a laugh, send these.
All this time and those Mexican chicks are still hot.
What’s the update on SP if I may ask?
https://www.glibertarians.com/2022/04/sp-update-for-april-14/
Ok so that’s where the updates will be? I wasn’t sure.
Has this been covered?
https://www.bet.com/article/a0anew/washington-state-lawmakers-remove-the-word-marijuana-from-local-laws-calling-it-racist
Yes, but it’s so stupid it’s worth repeating.
I trust the brass here isn’t too fond of the Ukraine war propaganda correct?
But, I thought the Truth Was Out There.
“Plans for a new government and new constitution are being developed by Russian officials and so-called ‘separatists,'” according to a transcript of Carpenter’s remarks. “This planning includes a moratorium disallowing legitimate Ukrainian leaders and those supporting Ukraine’s legitimate government from any leadership positions.”
You keep using that word…
so-called ‘separatists,’
Even if Donetsk and Luhansk just wanted to pull a Texas, wouldn’t an American who’s theoretically well versed in history and foreign affairs understand how that works?
Consent of the governed matters until it doesn’t.
Even a deal with the devil isn’t as iron-clad as that social contract (you never signed).
Self determination only applies to Kosovo, East Timor, or other approved places.
?
Pretty much…but I hear Swissy is a NATO fan boi. ?
Damn that was supposed to be a reply to Rufus above
Hmm… seems Swiss is implying he’s NOTA NATO…
Local proggie news site is not happy that Mpls/St. Paul authorities failed to act on complaints about the vax mandates not being enforced
would
RIP Guy Lafleur. It must be said. I’ve stopped watching sports because the politics and woke is too fucking retarded but #10 was really a good guy.
I first saw Lafleur in ’78 during the Habs 70s dynasty run. In ’80 my father took me to see the Habs play the Colorado Rockies – getting tickets at the Old Montreal Forum was very difficult. Montreal won 2-1 and Lafleur scored the winning goal. My father refused to buy me a mini-Stanley Cup. The end.
Was he as badass as these fellas?
No, but he could defend himself! He was fearless!
Greatest sports movie ever made.
Yup. We hated him but we always wished that he played for our team. Those 70’s Canadiens teams were incroyable!
Calling this move “straight out of Russia’s playbook,” he also cited the Kremlin’s plans to “stage a sham referenda” in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine “in a futile attempt to legitimize its illegal invasion and assert control over these areas.”
Haw many countries has the US used Putin’s Playbook in?
“It’s okay when we do it”, Orange and Maidan Revolutions Edition
Let’s count the purple thumbs, shall we?
CF Industries: Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Shipments, Delaying Deliveries and Preventing New Rail Orders from Being Taken
This is a few weeks old but seems significant, and likely to lead to a reduction in farming output. But I can’t figure out why Union Pacific issued the mandate. I just see vague references to “bottlenecks”. Are they regulatory? Labor shortages? Sabotage?
from here: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/3-ways-reduce-pressure-fertilizer-logistics
What kind of business strategy impacts your biggest customers first?
One that’s subsidized by the government
My guess is that they need the rail cars to transport the soybean crop of “Kip’s Ma” from Louisianna.
/gratuitous Atlas Shrugged reference.
It would not surprise me if there’s regulatory limit of how much ammonium nitrate (or other explosive/oxidizer) they can ship on one train.
Why does my crypto tank every time a new country announces it will become legal tender?
Fears of new regulation or audits?
There was also that shrinking economy news.
crypto tank
Javelins?
NFT Javelins?
Because you touch yourself at night?
Friday Funbags’ polls just keep going up!
https://archive.ph/ABSgf
All are working to go to law school.
These days its STEM fields Rufus….
They are all coding to learn *giggle*
Two stories from the same day. Try to square the circle:
Solar Farm! Yaaaaay!
Brother Keith suing solar companies for deceptive business practices
Sure, sure, the solar farm is big govt project and the guys Brother Keith is going after are sleazy capitalists. Still, Ellison is saying that people should be held responsible for wild claims about the cost and benefits of solar.
Totally makes sense – Brother Keith doesn’t want that distributed system, he wants to make sure we are all dependent on the grid.
Easier to control.
He can do what the assholes in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” did to make solar something I would never get: make it illegal for you to store your own energy so you could go off grid by making that illegal and demanding you feed any excess power back to the grid for a credit to your bill they will decide to size.
It’s rather perplexing.
Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was mystified why Americans would blame Democrats for their gas prices and inflation crises, during her press conference on gas prices on 4/28/2022.
The real fucked up shit here is that se feels she can get away with doing something this blatantly bullshit. She is either counting on people being to dumb/uniformed to know what they did to cripple the energy self sufficiency the US had achieved, and that the media will help cover for her lies, or she is insane. Well, maybe it is both.
How does one lose a toaster?
They needed the bread?
Then get a job in the bakery!!!
At the 1 minute mark: Mr. T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vpnsYtsiY
One of the best / worst 80’s movies for one liners.
A slice at a time.
Don'[t worry, sometimes they come back.
Heh… should have expected that (and nice job) — but my brain went this way instead.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.’ GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler’s hand on his crotch as new ethics complaint claims the congressman gave him thousands of dollars in loans and gifts,”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10764209/GOP-Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-caught-video-male-staff-members-hand-crotch.html
Gay?
Sounds like people are assuming the gender of that scheduler.
What did he do that they are so intent on throwing this much heat at him all at once? If he had said something racist, they would have gone with that instead.
My guess is that this lends some sort of credence to his claim that he was invited to a DC orgy. Not that he’s not probably also a louse. But, like you said, this amount of smear all at once makes me think he’s made some sort of powerful enemy.
This is all dirt that his political enemies had or an alphabet agency gave all because he said there are cocaine orgies. I would bet it’s all Republicans dishing the dirt too
Unless those cocaine orgies also have underage prostitutes, they’d barely rate 0.2 Epsteins.
I wouldn’t have given all that much credence to his accusations – but the heat that is going his way tells me he may not have been lying/exaggerating.
^^^THIS^^^
I assumed his original comments of being invite to orgies was hyperbole, but at this point, the response leads me to conclude that he had to be over the target to warrant this much flack.
If you wanted to control Congress, wouldn’t you make certain that they all get invited to orgies and obtain footage of them snorting blow off a hooker’s ass? I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI and CIA sponsor the events.
I work from the presumption that the TLAs have dirt on everyone in DC and it’s just infighting among the agencies that keeps anything in check.
CIA sponsor the events
Where do you think the blow comes from?
Yep. He broke the code of silence. Now he must pay.
My theory is it’s just a seat the Dems want to flip & he seems to be an easy target.
I lean towards this one, especially that Maddie is an easy target. He does not seem to have an overabundance of impulse control, or common sense.
In fact, he reminds me a little of…me.
How many Staccati have you had confiscated?
Who wouldn’t like to see a naked body beneath their hands?
Depends upon circumstances and whose body.
Depends upon the body. And the reaction.
Depends on the body….
Some bodies are better than others..
If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
I would ask what you’re doing snoopong around my house. The corpse freezer is off limits!
Andrea Dworkin
GAH!
In other news, the little girl from the Addams Family movie is 42 now.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10765383/Christina-Ricci-gives-Wednesday-Addams-role-credit-shaping-life-promoting-new-thriller.html
Is she now dressing for the role of Morticia?
I bet she is bat shit crazy but she doesn’t look too bad…
Now I really feel old.
That reads to me that yes — she may precisely be dressing as Morticia for a reason. If I were a showrunner for a teenage Wednesday show and could get her in the cast, I damned well would make the in-joke of casting her as Morticia.
Her face is too round to play Morticia.
Jenna Ortega is adorable!
I’ll just pretend that says “the girl from Buffalo ’66” instead.
This cunte is still talking?
Discussing the upcoming hearing of the House investigation into the Capitol riot, Schiff said, “It will be presented in the context that there were multiple lines of effort involving multiple levels at the government to overturn the election. Some involved the production of bogus certificates of an elector. Some involved decapitating the Justice Department, some of them involved going to courtrooms around the country and making claims they knew were false. Some involved getting Kevin McCarthy to try to get House Republicans to vote to overturn the election without a basis. And others involved the pressure campaign of the vice president. So we want to, in this series of hearings, layout these multiple lines of effort. January 6th was the violent culmination of these efforts, but there were many of them, and I think as Judge Carter in California illustrated, in some of these lines of effort, there is ample evidence of criminality, including criminality of the former president.”
I’ll bet he’s seen the evidence, for real this time!
there were multiple lines of effort involving multiple levels
“I have evidence that there were 2,348 conspiracies in play at the 1/6 Insurrection! I promise that I will bring all 2,348 insurrectionists to justice”
It would seem to me that if there was a conspiracy that there would be one line of effort.
You know Adam, I remember all the bullshit you spewed about Trump and you never delivered a fucking thing.
That’s your problem. The morons that believe him still think he was right and will sooner than later deliver…
No I don’t think so. They don’t expect him to deliver, but they still think he’s right despite that. Faith is a motherfucker.
Well, she did kill a guy — but then she had that whole redemption arc on Angel, so I think you’re being a little harsh….
Ummmm…. someone point out to me where there’s a crime here even if the accusation is true.
“making claims they knew were false.”
That encompasses just about every politician’s campaign for office ever. Arrest them all!!
BAN THE VIOLENCER!
The United States has “information that Russia’s planning for its further invasion of Ukraine includes a forced capitulation of Ukraine’s democratically elected government,
Ummm….Isn’t that just calling for the other side to surrender? And isn’t that pretty much what every belligerent in every war wanted from the other side?
And isn’t that what they said they would do a few weeks back?
I seem to recall that the goals were laid out at the outset of the invasion.
Our WW2 mythos relies on the supposition that democracies never go to war except defensively, even though Hitler and Mussolini were originally elected and there was a Prime Minister of Japan.
Hitler was never elected to anything.
The NSDAP won the most seats in the final election of the Weimar Republic. Hitler gained his office through internal politics (getting all the non-leftists to support him) rather than external politics (he never ran for a seat himself), but that preceded a general election which essentially ratified his position. The Reichstag Fire helped, of course.
Your point is technically correct but, I think, immaterial. The Chancellor of Weimar Germany did not have to be drawn from the Reichstag and Hitler was not even the first to be so chosen. The President who appointed him won an election (against him no less), his non-party supporters in the Reichstag won elections, and his party itself won an election (as much as any could in that political environment). It was democratic politics that put him in power, even though he used that power to secure an end to said politics.
Yeah, but this time it’s really scary and sinister and with an intimidating accent. Kind of like the (fake) Russian bounties story. That was framed as the most outrageous thing ever done to our nation. However, the US giving data to the Ukrainians that allows them to shoot down a plane full of actual live Russian troops is just American Awesomeness.
It’s almost like we’re at war with Russia or something.
Indirectly. And
Lord Vader’s Lloyd Austin’s recent rhetoric was reckless and concerning.Strike should end after Vader…
Well, he is a renown strikebreaker.
Though productivity will be impaired by shortage of workers after his intervention.
Pretty much. I just flat don’t believe that Putin went into this with limited aims. It just doesn’t fit the initial campaign, or the continued push along the coast. Even his initial claim of limited aims amounts to a thinly veiled euphemism for the conquest and “integration” of Ukraine.
I continue to struggle with what the US response should be. I just can’t get there on nearly anything on the continuum from “Let Russia have its way with Ukraine” to “Stuff Ukraine full of weapons”. The only options off the table for me involve any US military crossing the border into (or over) Ukraine.
“My aims are limited – I’m not taking Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as well.”
I just flat don’t believe that Putin went into this with limited aims
Yeah, he may have bitten off more than his army can chew this time around. The previous acts of belligerence were more tightly constrained. Plus Ukraine has had time to prepare since 2014, which no doubt the U.S. was helping with even before the first NPC put a blue and yellow flag in his Twitter handle.
John McCain and Lindsay Graham went there in 2016 and said some pretty wildly inflammatory stuff in a speech to their armed forces.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-senators-praise-ukrainian-marines-slam-vladimir-putin-russia-john-mccain-lindsey-graham/
I’m telling you, this whole thing is about Putin Man Bad.
Everything we are seeing is aimed at destroying him.
I wonder if they have given any thought to who might replace him.
Yes. I’ve been searching for ways to articulate this in detail, but your succinctness is better.
It’s like they have lost their minds about Putin and/or Russia itself. I think it goes to, as I said elsewhere here, that the US has taken the place of Britain as Russia’s rival in central Asia. It’s like the Great Game all over again (minus the threat to India), shifted slightly west–for some reason, Europe (and the world, apparently) can’t tolerate the idea of Russia having unfettered access/sway over the Black Sea and easy access to the Mediterranean. And Russia as an entity is paranoid about its neighbors (for reasons stretching back centuries, if not millenia), and can’t tolerate *not* having easy access to the Med.
Lost in all of this is the idea that the people/residents of an area have any agency or power to decide their own sovereignty. It’s drifting back to pre-Westphalian concepts of what states can do against each other, and near-feudal disregard for the local populations.
According to Wikipedia, NATO regularly trained and did joint exercises with the Ukraine military.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division train Ukrainian Soldiers on trigger squeeze during a 2016 drill.
I helped train them in 2003, at Yavoriv Training Area outside Lviv. Ostensibly certifying them (and a whole bunch of other countries) to do UN Peacekeeping missions…ha!
Honestly, I don’t know what Putin’s aims are and aren’t. I know that the Russians’ demands going into this whole fiasco were limited. And I know that the response they got from the Ukrainians and, yes, from the United States (what the hell the U.S. has to do with a dispute between Russia and the Ukraine if the Ukraine weren’t a de facto colony is beyond me) was to essentially to tell them to go pound sand. My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that the Russians came to the conclusion that a limited solution was only ever going to delay the headache, that the West would start trying to screw with them just as soon as the limited aims had been achieved. And, really, I’m not convinced he would have been wrong in that assessment.
I’ve seen some claims that Putin’s health may be deteriorating. I don’t know what happened to Medvedev, haven’t heard much about him lately, but it looks an awful lot like Putin has not found/designated a capable successor.
That’s the problem with being a ruthless dictator. Capable underlings are a threat and pose a coup risk.
The US has taken over Britain’s role as Russia’s chief rival in Central-West Asia. After reading The Great Game I’m convinced of it.
Will we get as clever a name as “Perfidious Albion”?
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What’s interesting about “Perfidious Albion” is that *everyone* was lying about their aims during the great game, and everyone else misinterpreted intentions. The Tsars and their diplomats continuously disavowed any intent to expand throughout Central Asia, while the field officers pushed further and further. Britain did similarly.
Peter the Great was said to have charged his heirs from his deathbed with continuously expanding Russia’s boundaries to fill Asia, and for centuries, Britain and Russia’s other rivals acted as if they believed this rumor, and Russia has continuously acted like it was true, with the exception of the very early days of the Soviet Union.
Sorry, that blank quote was supposed to read something like “Treacherous Columbia.”
The Great Satan is chopped liver?
Hmm, that does come close. Doesn’t hit quite the same way to me, though.
Ordered, thanks.
That is a fantastic book.
“(what the hell the U.S. has to do with a dispute between Russia and the Ukraine if the Ukraine weren’t a de facto colony is beyond me)”
When we talked the Ukraine into giving up their nukes back when, we guaranteed to be their protector. It was stupid of Ukraine to give up their nukes, and even stupider of us to put ourselves in that role. But our leaders saw a grift they could run, is my guess.
“Thanks, Clinton!”
Chicken Kiev
Putin’s problem is he didn’t have anyone to play the role of Neville Chamberlain who could divide a country he had no control of to satisfy a dictator he didn’t want to confront.
You fucked up. You trusted us!
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/a-recap-of-the-war-in-ukraine-by-gonzalo-lira.html
Ukraine’s democratically elected government
The same democratically elected government that banned opposition parties?
Was Lincoln then a war criminal for insisting the Confederate states’ (all democratically elected – except for women and black voters) surrender? [I know, I know, the answer will be “Yes.”]
The irony that Lincoln was the moderate amongst the Republicans back then.
As the supply increased and science emerged showing masks were effective in stopping the spread of the virus, Adams encouraged the use of masks.
Seriously? When did that happen?
The minute enough connected people had bought stock in companies making and/or importing all those masks.
They should start dumping their 3M shares
I was wondering that myself.
All I ever saw were weasel words, poorly done studies, and ones where the margin of error was higher than the reported effectiveness.
Did you not see Fauci come down from mountain with the tablets containing the laws of SCIENCE?
I think the second SCIENCE Commandment was “Thou shalt not question the efficacy of masks”
The first SCIENCE Commandment was “Remember not the words of the prophet, for they shall change and you shall obey them without question whatever they are”.
IIRC, there was one bullshit “study” that would have been laughed out of any real laboratory and they pinned all their “recommendations” on that.
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-research-confirms-critical-role-of-masks-in-preventing-covid-19-infection/
Probably this one. It used smooth plastic mannequins, and managed to confirm the effectiveness of both masking and physical distancing.
The proper reaction to lab results like this that don’t agree with empirical field results is to try to figure out why your lab experiment was shit, not continue to tout it like it means something other than you’re a shitty scientist.
The one I remember had something to do with comparing “results” between two adjacent school districts or something like that.
Just complete BS “science”.
The one I remember (in South Carolina?) had no controls.
In North Carolina, they determined masks in schools work because of the low COVID rates of the kids.
Didn’t compare rates with unmasked schools for some reason.
The “evidence” as I’ve seen it:
1. Laboratory-conditions study of the mask material’s ability to stop water droplets — two fatal flaws: not real-world use of an actual mask, assumes primary method of transmission is droplets and not aerosols
2. Computer model version of (1) — same two fatal flaws plus not even a real experiment (a model, no matter how fancy, is just an hypothesis)
3. State-level and county-level comparisons of disease spread vs. mask-wearing rates — but the correlations that were found turned out to only hold over some time frames, and were not present or even reversed over other time frames
In category three, every one of those comparisons has been over very narrow, very cherry-picked time frames.
Yes, and the actual explanation boils down to the fact that the disease did not spread at the same rate everywhere at the same time. So a high-mask area where the disease was on the decline and a low-mask area where the disease was on the rise turned out to be apples-to-oranges, because the spread of the disease had nothing to do with the masks or lack thereof. Those same two areas would then later see the trend completely reversed: the disease would decline of its own accord in the low-mask area and rise again of its own accord in the high-mask area.
Of course, the narrative then shifted to the masks not stopping the spreading of the disease, but merely “reducing” it. That too turned out to be false, as comparisons between peak height in similarly dense high-mask versus low-mask areas showed.
This same sleight-of-hand was later pulled with the “vaccines” and the results were similar: “favorable” correlations were spurious and long-term data showed little discernible effect on either the spread or severity of the disease (especially once the gaming of the definition of “unvaccinated” was exposed).
The abuse of statistics has been epic in scale. It’s rather difficult to keep up with the constant gaming.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics….
I will tell you the one conclusion I have come to about all these “studies” about if masks work or not: none of them are worth the paper they are written on as their data, assumptions, methodology, and politization has made the results basically bullshit.
It didn’t happen. It emerged.
Emerge is such a weasel word and has no place in a news article. At least not the way it’s used.
Good morning! I didn’t expect to see those, er, you, this early. It’s a pleasant surprise.
In Favorite Future Food Shortage news, local florist discovers highest and best use for kale: https://www.oberers.com/kale-is-magic/
Well, that’s okay, Kale isn’t food.
Shame too, it’s what grew best in my wife’s garden.
The gift that keeps on giving?
I make a great version of southern style greens with kale and a lot of bacon. Other than that, you are correct about kale.
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At least around here, it’s easier to find kale than collard greens.
Kale and corn is good.
Raw kale in a salad, along with fresh cauliflower and broccoli and other edibles, like cukes and tomatoes . mmmm-ummm.
Summertime
My wife made kale once, maybe didn’t cook it right, but it tasted like lawn clippings smell.
Kale is disgusting. We used to use it as decoration on the ice and steam tables at the student union food concessions. It’s unfit for human consumption.
Deep fried and with bacon is about the only way to eat it
Fresh, in a salad, the younger leaves and not the crinkly variety, although after one gets accustomed to the texture that is good too.
Kale like most greens needs to be prepared well to taste good. For example, southern greens made with garlic, onions, a chunk of meat (hamhock, bacon, etc) and Chinese greens made with short rib, garlic and onions. They all have too much fiber, but a load of nutrients. Like most “poor people” food it needs to be cooked for a long time to make it enjoyable.
I love greens made by the methods above, but the obsession with eating raw or just wilted kale and collards would ruin my day.
So that “Libs of TikTok” lady is still at it, as strong as ever.
Race obsessed tiktoker films herself walking around “not moving out of the way for white people” as a form of “reparations.”
Thoughts:
1. Would. Smash.
2. Rude cunt destroys legit sympathy. Imagine if some Jew went to Germany and began deliberately behaving boorishly, and thought adults would applaud this behavior.
3. Bless her heart.
An East German (actual East German, not reunited East German) did this to me once. Muttered “schweinhund” as I moved out of the way because he was obviously looking for a fight with an American.
It’s just juvenile bullshit elevated to social heroism. Just think, she probably has a university degree that taught her how to fight the system like this.
The best response (which I am probably unable to pull off) would have been a cheerful “Why thank you,”
I smiled ridiculously and gave him a double thumbs up like a Mentos commercial.
It’s a thing I learned from working in an amusement park when people would flick their cigarette butts in front of me and my broom and dustpan and wait for my reaction.
I absolutely hate when I’m in my wheelchair and someone just stops in front of me. It’s even worse if Mrs. TOK is pushing me. This person is asking for an ankle injury if she gets in front of someone who’s on wheels.
You should add some James Bond shit to your chair.*
*IANAL
Martini dispensor?
Speed Racer stuff.
I knew I liked you for a reason Swiss.
Why go high tech when you can go overkill? or massive overkill…
Ok, the second one should be Rand Paul’s Father’s Day present from his wife. See what his stupid-ass neighbor thinks *then*.
There are plenty of assholes like that. We had a racist bitch at work that would play that game. My solution was to simply stop moving. You can run into me if you like. Let’s see how it goes.
Alright, I’m out. You guys are too much, too fast. See ya tomorrow.
See ya!
Can’t wait for our buddy Jen to lament about Russia’s digital tracking just days after she said she didn’t see why anyone would object to a Ministry of Disinformation.
“Wow. In January, Nina Jankowicz, head of the Biden administration’s new “Disinformation Governance Board,” said that she left @SubstackInc because the company was “platforming… extremists and purveyors of disinformation”.”
https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1519740025411452928
“Men “burst violently into your mentions and your life like the Kool-aid man, demanding your attention, hawking opinions that they believe are unarguably, manifestly correct and indispensable.”
A taxonomy of trolls, excerpted from #HowToBeAWomanOnline:”
https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1518554643193896965
BFH
Troll to them is just a synonym of “unattractive man”.
She seems to be an expert at spotting disinformation.
She might be one of the few bureaucrats that are good at their jobs.
All she needs is a mirror.
Will the Republicans eliminate this Board when they next assume power?
They will double down on the fucking stupid. This board is here to protect the deep state, and with a few exceptions, most old time republicans – and especially the Trump haters – are part of the cabal that have left us with all the current problems.
*Insert Bender laughing gif*
“Oh wait, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder!”
Bryn Mawr grad, figures…
extremists and purveyors of disinformation
Aka “people that disagree with me”.
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1519743132132380672
What a load of shit.
Democrats have always supported gay marriage and breast removal for little kids.
“Pew Research”
I find their claims dubious but I don’t care enough to look up the methodology. I guarandamntee you the people pushing those results didn’t bother either.
I don’t even see gay marriage as a left position.
Not anymore, that’s my point. Gay marriage was to the left of the Dems just twenty years ago. Now it’s accepted on both sides of the aisle.
I disagree. It has been turned into a landmine of vitriol so everyone is afraid of pointing out that it is still not marriage.
Or, they just changed the definition of “conservative” because I’m pretty sure the current crop of losers are not to the right of Calvin Coolidge.
Science!
The debunking also is showing something altogether different. The two claims are not related.
LOL below that:
My four-year-old (if I had one) is better at constructing an argument than that turd.
Conservatives censored Kaepernick? 0_o
Cartoon vs. squiggly lines
Yo, anyone still around? It has been…um. An odd day. Had a partial seizure. Yay. Didn’t lose consciousness. My brain was just “Off.” No hallucinations, but some weird combo of fear and anxiety stormed over me. It was very odd. Not sure how long it lasted. I don’t remember this morning, but I remember the Awake Parts of it. So, grain of salt.
Lady came and helped me for a bit. I wasn’t gone, just Off. I feel completely back to normal now. That was very strange. Hayek knows what I’m talking about. No hospital. Just rest and hydration.
And yesterday was my birthday! I continue to add to the Evan. What a strange world I currently occupy. Another chapter to my book added, though I doubt I’ll ever get around to putting all of my stories together. Well. Happy birthday to me.
Too bad there’s no easy way to collate all of your posts in order. It would make a decent journal of your life.
Happy late birthday.
Keep on keeping on, that brain being “off” sounds rough.
@Atanarjuat: I’ve got hundreds dairy pages, some of them starting with The Incident on Sept 22, 2019. Daily notes and thoughts. Some of them are FUCKED. Rereading them is fun but challenging. I can tell when my brain was not working and reading my thoughts as they were happening can be rough. Certainly interesting! Sometimes I was just BYE BYE. Kinda fun. It’s definitely a project that can be turned into something, just have to have the dedication to putting it all together. I hope I do someday.
@Ron: Thanks! “Off” is the best way I can express it. Something was just not working right. I didn’t have that “fire and brimstone” hallucination, either. But my brain was CONVINCED that SOMETHING was very scary. And then you go around and realize that there is absolutely no danger and you’re alone in the apartment. “So you’re not in any danger? YAY! Oh, you’re pretty borderline insane! Yaa—oh. Wait. That’s bad. Have a lovely day!” The “fear/anxiety” Off feeling stayed for a few hours, at least.
But, it’s gone. I feel just fine. A weird ending to a frightening day.
I write a journal to track things as well as to vomit my cluttered head out, but the problem is a) I don’t like reading them again because it’s cringe and b) I need an index to find what I REALLY need to find when I need to find it.
Details of the additional $33 Billion requested for Ukrainian “aid”.
We and our kids will be paying taxes to fund the interest on this borrowed money from now until the economic collapse of the U.S. to fund this corruption.
Aid packages like this will just assure the country is entirely gobbled up rather than just the eastern parts. Looks like Ukrainians are going to be the new Kurds/Hmong/whoever else we’ve sold down the river for dubious foreign policy goals.
I don’t need any details on what the bulk of that money is for: grifts for the people currently inconvenienced that the Russian invasion of Ukraine killed their lucrative grifts.
“Ten percent for the Big Guy”.
$3.3Bn from a mystery source is going to look interesting on Joe’s next tax return.
Numbered acounts, shell companies, and intermediary trusts.
It’s like you don’t kleptocrat.
I was playing on a recent story that Joe did in fact report millions earned from a mystery source.
Well, he never was very bright.
Couldn’t that solve world hunger 5 times over?
Only Elon Musk’s money, that the government spends, can solve world hunger.
from now until the economic collapse
Would you feel better if that is actually not such a long time?
I honestly don’t think we make it out of this decade intact.
The question, as always, is whether we get a few rocks tumbling down the economic slope, or if the entire side of the mountain lets go.
It seems to me that there is much more indication pointing toward an imminent deep recession than it being some sort of hiccup. That said, the economy has been acting weird since 2008. I would’ve thought that we would’ve seen a recession in 2018 or 2019. I would’ve thought that the Covid bullshit would push us into a depression. I would’ve thought that the supply chain stuff would catch up with us already. The economy is a strange beast.
By my reckoning, we’ve been in a recession. Mind you I base that on the consumer mood and bare shelves index these days rather than the abstract and easily gamed GDP nonsense. The mere fact that GDP includes government spending means that all of the furious check writing is making the numbers look like we’re not in a recession.
Oh FFS, STUPID PARTY
(I know, I know… way too many are very very comfortable as the controlled house pets^W^W opposition…)
Dems will get everything they want anyway.
But they are doing this to save democracy!
The only real solution is to nuke the agencies and permanently remove the power they have.
If only, good Nerfherder… if only. Sigh.
And here’s where I say Reagan should be burning in Hell for his traitorous turn on the DOEd.
And draft registration. Not just broke his word, but his administration prosecuted resisters.
Hahahaha – oh you really expected a Republican to cut government? Sure, sure, they say that all the time, but have you ever seen one you know – actually do it?
I remember when Boehner was Speaker and in some interview said “Don’t judge us on what we get passed, judge us on what we get repealed”.
There is only the fading legend of a man named Coolidge. No one has seen his like since the 1930s.
Problematic
“I think many people are attracted to climate solutions because they promise not just less carbon, but also a more equitable, democratic and just society. The fact that the greatest electric car manufacturer in the world is a libertarian edgelord billionaire rather than, say, a worker owned co-op, flies in the face of that,” said Jamie Henn, a veteran climate activist and communications consultant.
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And while many on the left see capitalism and consumerism as the root causes of climate change, Musk is an Ayn Randian industrialist who makes cars that foreground their features, not their eco-friendliness. The Model S selling points are its 200 mph top speed and ability to fit golf clubs or a bike in the back — not the unused fossil fuels.
Complexity? Nuance? We’ll have none of that, please.
Turns out that a “worker owned co-op” can’t innovate and can’t compete. They hate Musk because his path is the only way to deliver what they claim to want. Of course, for many, the real purpose was to set impossible goals and have them fail to materialize leaving everyone but the most connected worse off. So that’s an extra reason to hate it: it wasn’t supposed to be possible in the first place.
I don’t trust Musk.
I trust that he can’t do anything to me, so beyond that, I don’t care all that much.
I’ve got no reason to trust him either. I’m only noting that he pulled off what they claim to want and yet still they hate him for it.
I burst out laughing when I got to that.
The over-usage of that word has gotten ridiculous.
It has become a synonym for meddlesome.
People don’t like to be meddled with.
Kids love family democracy, parents not so much
less carbon
Why do you hate trees?
more equitable, democratic and just society.
This concept is assho.
“He’s made very consumerist products in a way that offends the sensibility of a lot of climate activists who think we need to be tightening our belts,” Trembath said. “He wants everyone to have a high-consumerist lifestyle and a low-carbon one, and it just creates so much friction.”
It’s supposed to be about ostentatious sacrifice, not adaptation. Religious fervor is best demonstrated through suffering (or the appearance thereof).
Ah, the modern day hair shirts and self-flagellation. Unless it pains you it’s bad even if it’s good so everyone’s got to be screwed
As with all good religions — they intend to be the priests who take a cut of the sacrifices that the flocks will be forced to make. (Yeah… Zeus demands barbecue… yeah, that’s the ticket! Oh… and Zeus also likes those sweet date rolls your wife makes… oh, and your daughter..)
I seem to recall one of the ‘Mortals tricking gods’ stories being about the priests (possibly some named hero) wrapping the meat in the hide and the bones in the fat then letting Zeus choose which he got for the sacrifice. Zeus mistook the fat-wrapped parcel for the bett share, and so the congregants got to eat the meat of the sacrificed animals.
In most animal sacrifice scenarios, the meat does get shared out amongst those present, and those making the offering use it as a way of buying goodwill from their fellow citizens. Both as a show of piety and ‘hey, free food’.
Discworld had a bit about that:
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They are the enlightened ones. They have degrees! Why don’t you listen to them and not the guy who is giving the market what it wants?
Mises really nailed the intellectuals’ hate of capitalism.
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR YOURSELF – YOU NEED US TO TELL YOU!!!
“Those icky people are too stupid to live.”
Climate activists who think “we need to be tightening our belts” have not learned the lesson that it is best to look for ways to get the wrong people to do the right things for possibly wrong reasons. They don’t care if people buy electric cars and reduce their carbon footprint so much as they care that people are made to wear hairshirts and wail piteously for their sins.
who think we need to be tightening our belts
You’ll be doing a lot of belt tightening when you have no food.
I think belts may be tightened around other parts of the anatomy if someone thinks they can really deprive me of food to suit their politics.
“The deeper problem may be just that [buying Twitter] distracts him from the actually useful work he might otherwise accomplish,” said Bill McKibben, the writer and climate activist who founded the group 350.org. “Imagine dividing your time between the clean energy revolution and monitoring food fights in the junior high cafeteria.”
Speaking of mendacious preening douchebags.
“What happens to prices when you constrict supply and subsidize demand? And then what happens when you additionally subsidize demand through student loan “relief”?”
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1519764598789836800
Revealing chart. Although cars are heavily regulated.
I watched a movie the other night (3/4 of it, anyway), called “Knight of Cups” I think. What a mistake that was. “It sucked” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
No story, no plot, precious little dialog of any coherence; just imagery. Lots and lots of (what some people might call) rich imagery. Treacly rich. Beautiful people in beautiful places. Swimming pools. Beaches. Grand architectural spaces. A couple of dogs. It was like watching some “cinematographer” jacking off all over the silver screen. What was happening to the people? What was happening to the dogs? I’ll be damned if I know. Actually, at one point, the dogs were diving after dog toys in a swimming pool. That was probably a metaphor for consumerism, or something.
Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend was a vastly superior use of time.
…outspoken progressives see a white nationalist-sympathizing, tax-dodging, anti-union, anti-free speech, “dystopian neo-colonialist” plutocrat tainted by his family’s background in apartheid South Africa, where Musk was born in 1971.
Musk left South Africa for Canada at age 17 to dodge mandatory military service, saying in an interview that he wanted to avoid “spending two years suppressing Black people.” He moved to California at 24 on a temporary worker visa and was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
Racism takes on many forms. It’s sneaky, that way.
“Outspoken progressives” only see what they want to see. Their subjective world is steeped in racism and inequity.
They certainly love to play buzzword bingo.
outspoken progressives
Is there any other kind?
Yes, the ones that burn shit down and kill, and then tell you it was mostly peaceful.
So Turley has this interesting article. It seems Musk’s move to deny them the use of Twitter to censor and propagandize has basically left them with no option but to actually move from government hiding behind corporate power to direct government censorship. And they are either so desperate to do this or simply don’t care how bad this looks, because they keep acting like books that warned of dystopian abuses by government like “1984” are “How To” manuals.
It has spooked them so much that I have to believe their crimes of censorship and conspiracy are far worse than we imagined.
It is an interesting statement on our current situation that private ownership is more alarming to them than public ownership. It is at least a little bewildering that one set of eyes and hands is harder to control than many.
^ This
I think Musk will need to split twitter.
TwitterFreeSpeech is the US version and can see everything.
TwitterEU and TwitterChina (nothing else matters) will follow their respective laws. And if Europeans or Chinese want to violate the law and login to the US version, that is their problem.
Twitter is banned in China, IIRC.
Good find Alex, thanks!
Good morning, MS!
Thanks for the lynx!
Poor Sunset is really beclowning himself. And shame on the staffer who chose that word for the promter.
I do really enjoy when he just says fuck it and gives up. That was funny.
The Malice tweet you linked about it yesterday cracked me up.
Aside from the security guards who are always here, I haven’t seen a soul in the office all day.
Of course not — you work for the state, right? So surrounded by soulless bureaucrats sounds exactly right… 😉
There is one person, many rows down.
Yeah, back when I went to the office for a few weeks last summer, I went in one Friday and I was the only one there other than the poor receptionist. In an office of a couple hundred.
Sounds like heaven.
I still haven’t finished last night’s Glib Flick (I’ll do that after my work meeting), but the actress playing the reporter is not the porn actress I thought.