¡Buenos tardes! Hopefully everyone had an enjoyable holiday weekend in which there were neither traffic fatalities or arrest warrants signed…in multiple states.
What? You mean to tell me you don’t party like its New Years on Easter? Okay…
Here are a few links!
Oh man…that may sound stupid; this is even stupider. Protectionism is a helluva drug.
Just wait until they find out everyone in Mexico is equally racist, as it is defined here, they just like your money.
Cool discovery. Just so we’re clear, just because White people didn’t do it, doesn’t mean it was aliens.
Holy shit, somebody still fields the Huey? Aliens are probably helping them stay airworthy.
We’ll find out soon enough.
As long as the rest of the world loses their shit every time Brazil wants to utilize the resources within the 2/3 of their country the rest of the world loses their shit over, they will always be Brazil.
Mediocre songwriting, but they make up for it with a high-quality riff.
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
Fingers pumping and thumping in time
The green light flashes, the flags go up
Churning and burning, they yearn for the First
They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank
Fuel burning fast on an empty tank
Reckless and wild, they pour through the turns
Their prowess is potent and secretly stern
As they speed through the finish, the flags go down
The fans get up and they get out of town
The arena is empty except for one man
Still driving and striving as fast as he can
Because he’s racing and pacing and plotting the course
He’s fighting and biting and riding on his horse
He’s going the distance
No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine
He’s haunted by something he cannot define
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force
In his mind, he’s still driving, still making the First
*applause*
What’s shakin’, Bro?
You only changed like one word.
He would have taken longer, but he was going for speed.
Swiss Servator, to the red courtesy phone.
The irony of using that song for a First is quite rich.
I’m no hipster. I don’t First ironically. You just don’t get my art.
Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was clever. But I guess you didn’t mean that.
Broch, I hate to encourage you. But I like this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8
Loved it. Ignore the haters.
I’ll wait for Short First, Long Jacket.
Mediocre songwriting, but they make up for it with a high-quality riff.
QFT.
Thanks, MS!
There are a lot of songs like that. 😉 (Looking at you, “Somebody Told Me”)
I can’t stand the guy, but this riff is money.
I don’t like Bowie’s “Modern Love” all that much compared to his other stuff, but that riff is ?
Nothing mediocre about it, damn near a perfect power puck song.
This can be solved with money.
Of course it can.
Always.
To repeat a posting of the Great SugarFree from a few years ago:
Money will heal them. Ground money packed under money bandages. Liquid money injected into veins. Powdered money rubbed into bleeding gums and dusted on sore feet. Money tampons. A money hat and jacket to shelter them from climate change. A big money salad to help them magically lose weight.
And if that doesn’t work, the only prescription is more money.
thats a fun song, thanks MS!
/hi ho hi ho,
Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to ‘Black and white lives’?
I see that “white” doesn’t get to be capitalized.
Yes, that is the first question that comes to mind when I think about Ukraine.
They left off Asian, Australian, Samoan, etc. Betrays what they really care about.
One might ask how much aid typically flows into Africa every year versus “white” countries.
Does food aid go equally to ‘Black and white lives’?
Well, no. More goes to black lives.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-47r
Good work, Fatty!
Bullshit racial politics aside, this is the big unspoken of the war, particularly on the heels of two years of COVID stupidity that already pushed millions into hunger and/or starvation. If the West truly gave a shit about the “poor,” they would have been pushing for a negotiated peace.
Revealed versus stated intentions rule yet again.
For some reason I feel like an old school lefty when I say this, but people in the West don’t give a shit about poor people in other countries. As long as they can feel smug and virtue signal, slavery, child labor, environmental destruction, and pollution in other places are fine.
That doesn’t make you a lefty. It makes you a consistent and thoughtful person.
An anti-lefty, if you will.
It’s like Europeans who send money into African countries to lobby for laws against industrialized farming and for organic only. One might think they wanted them to remain poor and hungry.
It’s because they don’t want to see a country such as Nigeria become a world power.
Yes, exactly this. Same thing with GMO crops. There are some that literally keep kids from going blind, but the Karens in the US want them all banned.
+1 Golden Rice.
Speaking for targeted food relief in Ukraine, reminds me of those commercials to feed Jews in Russia, now moved over to Ukraine.
Send them Taco Bell.
Moving from Famine to Pestilence?
They’ve already got War and Death, why not go for the quadfecta?
I noticed that too.
There’s something creepy about that lady.
Colombian presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro pledged on Monday that he will not expropriate private property if he wins the nation’s presidency this year as critics in the South American country accuse the leftist candidate of wanting to make radical changes to the country’s economy.
So he’s going to go Mugabe on Colombia?
Narrator: El Maximum Presidente Petro will, in fact, expropriate private property.
SANTIAGO, Chile—Bell’s UH-1 Huey, the iconic helicopter of the Vietnam War era, operates in almost all Latin American countries across their air forces, armies and navies.
Note to Chilean military: you can fit more commies in a Black Hawk, a helluva lot more in a Super Stallion.
You realize the communists are now in power there?
Shpip probably meant “useful idiots.” Which is much the same thing, really.
They need to get rid of rivals.
For now. Chileans had to find out the hard way after Allende. Time will tell if they’re slow learners.
(NARRATOR: They’re slow learners.)
A lot of Chileans seem to have some pretty legit grievances with the govt and the ruling elite. Sadly, the only people willing to address that there is the left.
When commies are in power is when the numbers getting dropped really start to soar.
See Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al.
There’s a dilemma:
If commies are giving other commies helicopter rides, should we protest? celebrate? I’m so confused.
Yes.
Quietly enjoy the show. We already warned them what would happen.
“Just so we’re clear, just because White people didn’t do it, doesn’t mean it was aliens.”
Nonetheless, it was probably aliens.
Nonsense, it was Oompa Loompas.
What does Robert Reich have to do with it?
Dude, he’s even short in Guatemala.
His economic advice would turn us into Guatemala.
Given a couple of generations he would be a giant.
I am paranoid but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It sure looks like somebody would like for us to have a nice famine.
Fertilizer company complains about railroad shipment limits
This came up in either the Saturday or Sunday a.m. links. It appears to be connected to a jump in rail traffic which means UP is having to control private rail cars on their lines.
And from what I gather, UP is taking the heat in the media, but all the RRs are doing it to some extent. In the article I read they mentioned BNSF in passing doing the exact same, albeit at a smaller percentage.
In this particular case, I’m going to attribute it to general bureaucratic incompetence. I’m not yet ready to go full tinfoil.
I wonder what type of freight gets priority.
Whichever one pays the best.
Twattermob, assemble!
Delta Airlines has updated its announcement about the end of the federal mask mandate after igniting a firestorm of criticism from public health experts who said it used inaccurate and misleading language to describe COVID-19.
“We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 has transitioned to an ordinary seasonal virus,” the airline said in the original version of its Monday statement.
Passengers, medical experts and public health leaders promptly turned to social media to dispute the claim and call out the lack of scientific evidence behind it. Delta updated its statement at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, with a spokesperson telling NPR over email that it had done so “for clarity and accuracy” and declining to comment further.
“Call out the lack of scientific evidence” indeed.
What a bunch of hysterical buffoons.
As with all things, it is the thought that counts.
Andy Levy apologizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxPl9ftWGvY
Shouldn’t they call out scientific evidence in favor of masks instead?
Because “ordinary seasonal virus” is a scientific statement that can be evaluated against widely accepted scientific standards.
“Holy shit, somebody still fields the Huey? Aliens are probably helping them stay airworthy.”
Are you seriously questioning the diligent PMCS work of Cpt. Murdock and SFC. Baracus?
Who needs PMCS? The CO can just circle X and all is good.
When an inspection comes along, you must [pencil] whip it! [Pencil] whip it good!
Why isn’t there a song with those lyrics on YouTube??
Seems to have been the Russian solution.
I would never question Murdock.
Source Confirms Obama Has Been Running Biden White House From Inside Bunny Costume The Entire Time
Liberals Raise Concerns About Account That’s Making Them Look Bad By Just Sharing Their Actual Words
https://youtu.be/Pd-MpXCMcIs?t=142
The Bee should pick a lane. The first story about Obama is satire. The second story about Tik Tok is straight reporting.
Titty Tuesday: brought to you by Ass Pro Shops and Sportsman’s Whorehouse.
https://archive.ph/NJSjN
#1 and done.
Fully 3:3 sheets to the wind, and I have to work tonight.
Im going to bed.
Public health experts and passengers took to Twitter to fact-check the claim and express their disappointment.
“I don’t care what you think about masking, but Delta’s comment that #SARSCOV2 has transitioned to become an ‘ordinary seasonal virus’ is just bonkers, has no basis in science and is outright misinformation misleading their customers (of which I am one!),” wrote Yale epidemiologist and global health activist Gregg Gonsalves.
Many pointed out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made no such assessment of COVID-19, which has killed more than 980,000 Americans in two years, continues to infect thousands of people daily and is surging again in parts of the country. Critics also emphasized that the federal mandate was ended by a judge’s ruling rather than any new medical or scientific developments.
Others said Delta’s claim disrespects those who lost their lives to the virus and noted many people — especially those who are immunocompromised and otherwise vulnerable — still remain at risk.
It’s like a butthurt serenade.
Spoiler alert: I couldn’t give a fuck less what those quacks at the CDC think.
In other words, he’s a bullshit artist.
I’ve come to the conclusion that epidemiology is a total scam. The field appears to be completely populated by paranoid lunatics and conmen.
“Others said Delta’s claim disrespects those who lost their lives to the virus…”
We must be forever masked in their honor.
This may be the dumbest expression of sunk cost I’ve ever read.
Whatever happened to direct food aid which is slightly more difficult to appropriate and convert into money?
Whatever happened to direct food aid which is slightly more difficult to appropriate and convert into money?
Black Hawk Down
Too depressing, lets go with this reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYt0khR_ej0
The Big Guy didn’t want that much corn?
Why? Doesn’t Metamucil work then?
Can’t vouch for their accuracy, but I found this.
This reminds of the more gooder days of the past. The pure and betterer days. Remember the day the whole world rocked? Ah, what happened to the generosity of Live Aid. Remember? I remember. *sigh*
RE: Black Expats
Good for them. But don’t move to Mexico expecting it to somehow be better than the “racist” USA.
Yeah, but the racists will be speaking another language, so it won’t be so noticeable.
Yeah. I mean, what is Spanish for black again? I forget.
Negro, please.
Sure, but what is it for Black?
Pardon me, Miss – I speak Jive.
+1 Beaver’s mom
https://rumble.com/v11mk7j-izzy-wants-to-watch-leave-it-to-beaver.html
“Ward, I think you went a bit hard on the Beaver last night….”
I liked all the stuff about being “intentional”. Because I move to other countries unintentionally.
You laugh, but some days I see so many goddam CA plates I wonder if I moved to CA unintentionally.
And with the ongoing border collapse, I may well move to Mexico unintentionally.
No CA plates around here. They can’t take the winters.
Hey, I am polite to you lost slowpokes on the road.
“Bless their hearts, they’re from Arizona.” /ducking
‘We’ll find out soon enough’
Heh, I like where they get to the point. ‘send us cash, preferably in non sequential, unmarked bills.’
I suppose you also want your revolutionary comrades in arms from various prisons around the world released? Such as the Asian Dawn?
‘West Africa is also in a very dangerous state. Right now 27 million people are going hungry in countries such as Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Mali. But Kitchen points to a prediction by a consortium of aid organizations that by June, 11 million more people will fall into that status.’
Except they’re always fucking up. This is the difference between helping a guy down on his luck and someone you know isn’t ever going to turn things around and you’re just enabling him.
“West Africa is also in a very dangerous state”
Almost as dangerous as West Baltimore.
Good-bye Gypsy Moth, hello Spongy Moth.
https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-04-18/a-common-moth-pest-had-a-slur-in-its-name-now-its-getting-a-makeover
They went from a cool name to a very lame one.
HUZZAH!!! This began in 1982 as a prank by one of my heroes, Joey Skaggs. https://joeyskaggs.com/works/gypsies-against-stereotypical-propaganda/
So a long con.
Are Black ants still a thing?
They will always be gypsy moths to me.
Pikey Moths
I fuckin’ hate Pikeys!
Tinker Moths
Monarch butterflies perpetuate colonialism.
I hereby propose that all slurs used in formal names of places/things be replaced with the word “Irish”.
“critics in the South American country accuse the leftist candidate of wanting to make radical changes to the country’s economy.”
Why? Why would anyone suspcect that a leftist would want to do racial things? It’s never happened before…
How many times do they have to tell you? True socialism has NEVER been tried!
Whatever happened to direct food aid which is slightly more difficult to appropriate and convert into money?
I saw an interesting and surprisingly sensible take on that, not long ago. Direct food aid hurts local farmers. Why buy food produced locally when the UN or some NGO is handing it out for free?
This does not, however, mean I have any trust whatsoever in the organizations advocating for cash handouts.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18305829/before-sex-check-hiding-wardrobe-no-one/
“She said she’d end it with me but he insisted that he wanted to humiliate me, so they set me up.”
Has to be bullshit.
You know who else toured the country getting women pregnant?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/serial-sperm-donor-kyle-gordy-26748781
Johnny Rapeseed?
I larfed
Antonio Cromartie?
STEVE SMITH!
Wilt Chamberlain?
The Red Army circa 1944-45?
“The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education. Speaking and listening are increasingly valued as forms of expression that are vital to personal and professional success . . . It behooves our profession, as stewards of the communication arts, to confront and challenge the tacit and implicit ways in which print media is valorized above the full range of literacy competencies students should master.”
/National Council of Teachers of English
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/04/the-english-teachers-who-dont-like-books
“The time has come to decenter number and equations as the pinnacles of mathematics education”
Yeeeeessss… keep delegitimizing public education… let the hate flow through you…
I’m sorry, I stopped reading after 200 characters.
Committing words to paper leaves you so much more open to criticism. Emoting loudly in the public square is far better.
What is the full range? If it’s not understanding what you’ve read and being able to communicate through writing, what is it?
Emojis?
Memes?
Gifs?
The “debate” champions from a couple years ago?
Yeah, they kind of accidentally hit on a valid point there.
“Speaking” does need more attention for a lot of people.
Cause there’ve never been theater or forensics clubs…
Um… isn’t “literacy” a print media sort of by definition?
print media is valorized above the full range of literacy competencies students should master
And here I thought the only literacy competencies were reading and writing. You are “literate” when you can read, after all, not when you learn to speak.
Precisely. People who can’t read are “illiterate”. That doesn’t mean they can’t speak.
“Huffman, photographed here in civilian clothes, was a fierce defender of the people she loved, her mother said on Facebook. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is looking into her death”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10731537/Three-Navy-sailors-dead-unrelated-incidents-USS-George-Washington.html
I’m glad Special Agent Gibbs is on it.
Looking at Facebook is some pulitzer prize winning journalisming.
“Netflix has lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers for the first time in more than a decade – and forecasts a gloomy outlook for the near future.
The streaming giant shed 200,000 subscribers in its first quarter, falling well short of its modest predictions that it would add 2.5million.
Its decision in early March to suspend service in Russia after it invaded Ukraine resulted in the loss of 700,000 members.
It comes as the company’s stock plunged by 23 per cent in after-market trading on Tuesday afternoon.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10732977/Netflix-lost-200-000-global-subscribers-quarter.html
Stay classy, Netflix.
I still watch it like a big ol’ sucker.
I think I’m finally ready to just dump it. I went and checked the other day and the last thing in my continue watching list is from February. I can’t think of one show that I’m looking forward to another season of.
Still have Netflix, but the wife agreed to dump Disney+ when our current prepaid plan ends in August.
There wasn’t even a hiccup when we cancelled Netflix.
Prime was a bit of a jolt, but I can only think of one Amazon-only show we truly have missed, and it’s a kids show.
Disney is next, and it’s going to be a bigger change. I’ve been acquiring physical media versions of some movies and shows to ease the transition.
Then all we will have is the free HBO max that comes with AT&T internet.
I’ve been acquiring physical media versions of some movies and shows to ease the transition.
Might be worth checking out VUDU if you haven’t already. We’ve built up a collection of ~200 movies over the years, including a lot of kids movies, and it’s been great to no longer fool with DVDs. They rotate most movies through their $5 sales.
I was initially concerned about losing everything if VUDU folded, but that same concern kept me away from Steam for years before finally caving. Plus Walmart taking ownership provides some stability.
I’m eventually gonna rip everything and put it on local network storage. Then I’ll shove the disks up in the attic or something in case I ever need the physical media again.
I’m done with all the cloud services. I will trade convenience for privacy, control, and ownership. My key, my crypto. My disk, my movie. My drive, my data.
I will again proselytize for Plex Media Server. I’m up to about 6400 films, 1100 TV series, and 5000 albums from 700 artists, all on a series of 7 external hard drives. You can stream all of your media to anywhere on Earth with wi-fi or cell service.
Plex is dope. Mine isn’t nearly as extensive as yours, but I like it.
Ripped all my CDs to FLAC a while back, ripped my DVDs and a few BluRays.
Runs entirely on my Diskstation and streams to my TV and Sonos.
I have a massive Vudu collection. FYI, Walmart sold it to Fandango last year, so they no longer own it and that does throw the stability into question.
Vudu has a program called Disc to Digital. If you scan the barcode of a Blu-ray disc, you get a digital copy for $2. I’ve heard from unsavory characters that all you have to do is google the UPC of said disc and take a picture of that and magically you have yourself a huge library of movies you own on the cheap.
I myself have never exploited this loophole as it would be incredibly unethical.
A lot of these tech companies still aren’t truly profitable, have lots of deadweight, and are dependent on unrealistic growth rates forever. The crash is going to be bad. Even mundane businesses have bought into that idiocy.
Even the profitable ones are succeeding on the back of easy money. It all goes away when the economy slows down and interest rates go up.
??
How many companies pay dividends to their owners every quarter?
What’s a “Netflix”?
“Biden’s Education Department will immediately wipe out out student loan debt for 40,000 borrowers by promising to fix ‘longstanding failures’ in forgiveness scheme that hit low-income students
Roughly 41 million Americans collectively own about $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, larger than the total sum of the country’s credit card and auto loan debt.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10732755/Biden-Education-Department-improvements-immediately-wipe-student-loan-debt-40-000-borrowers.html
I’m not sure exactly what that means but it sounds illegal.
I’m actually not opposed to them fixing PSLF. As currently instituted, it’s a scam. “You devote 10 years to public service and I’ll consider forgiving your loans”. Program shouldn’t exist, but a functional program is better than a predatory scam.
There are a ton of hoops to jump through, but I don’t know that I’d call it a scam. More like typical government incompetence combined with the inability of people to follow complex instructions. I would rate the directions about on par with reading the contract when buying a car. I was floored when the Finance manager said I’m the only person he’s ever had actually do this. Same when I read the contract for leasing an apartment. I’m guessing a similar proportion of people are actually reading the complex PSLF rules and that’s the main contributor to the sky-high rejection rate.
Reddit has a helpful PSLF thread. The posters are very careful, document everything, and are usually successful in the end. The process definitely needs to be improved though. It took me several hours just to figure out how to submit my initial application for eligibility*, which ended up needing to be faxed.
*SLD that PSLF shouldn’t exist. But it does and I’ll try to claw back anything I can from the government. The paltry amount pales in comparison to the money stolen from my paychecks for social security, Medicare, and federal income tax.
Interesting! I’ve only heard horror stories about PSLF rejections, and the impression I had was that it was rather arbitrary. If it’s mostly a function of people not spending the time to read the rules and follow them, despite 5 to 6 figures of money at the end of the rainbow, my sympathy for them drops significantly.
I’ve probably sunk 25-30 hours so far into reading the program rules and getting my initial application set up which involved a progression of steps at 4 different companies/gov departments (no exaggeration). It’s set up now so that you can submit your application when you start so you know if you’re eligible and then submit every year to document how many payments you have made that count towards the 120 needed. It used to be that you just submitted at the end and hoped for the best, but that changed to the above process several years ago. I’m guessing most people still just wait until the very end though and just hope for the best.
But in the end who knows. Maybe in 10 years I’ll be one of the horror stories you hear about.
It used to be that you just submitted at the end and hoped for the best
It has been a few years since I’ve engaged with the issue, so all the horror stories I heard were under the old system. Working for 10 years at a relatively low paying job before you could submit an application with a 2% approval chance felt quite scammy. The new system sounds much better.
“Black Lives Matter is blamed for 32% spike in murders of African-Americans in wake of George Floyd’s killing as experts claim protests scared-off cops and worsened crime spiral”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10732119/Black-Lives-Matter-blamed-cops-pulling-causing-spike-murders-African-Americans.html
For eight years they refused to have any policy at all, then they figured out a way to make the problem worse so they could grift more, with “Defund The Police”.
Much like people starving because of the proxy war in Ukraine, nobody cares.
The signaling is all that matters.
https://abc7chicago.com/federal-judge-mask-mandate-cdc-face-airlines-florida/11767929/
“Governor JB Pritzker amended Illinois’ public transit mask mandate to align with the ruling made by a Florida judge striking down the federal mask mandate Monday. In a statement, Pritzker’s office said the order has been revised “to align with the ending of the enforcement of the federal mask mandate on public transportation.” As a result, the state will no longer require masks to be worn on public transit, in public transit hubs or in airports.”
The cries of a dozen of Covidians from Northwest Illinois will indeed give me strength.
*Northern Illinois
Governor Hochul (D-Accident) missing in action as usual, while the city is threatening to resume child-muzzling in schools.
A sheriff’s press release confirming every stereotype about both Florida Woman and the serious professionals of the TSA.
I’ve said before, if you want a government job but don’t have what it takes to be a meter maid or elementary school lunch lady, TSA is there for you.
More proof of how being on time is white supremacy.
These fools get a gift and they still want to double down. If there is a spike they can blame the judge and team red. But not if they successfully appeal.
“While the Justice Department will ultimately be responsible for deciding whether to appeal the judge’s decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra suggested on Tuesday that such a move is likely.
“We are right now in the process of deciding, and we likely will appeal that ruling. Stay tuned,” Becerra said at a news conference with Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/white-house-mask-mandate-travel-changes/index.html
They would actually be idiots to appeal. It had become very unpopular.
6:30pm EDT – WH announces it will appeal the mask mandate smackdown.
I want to shove masks down their throats until they choke.
I dunno. It’s funny to watch the dumbest administration of all time some times. But I’ll admit I don’t fly that often.
Weird, it seems like that’s what they want to do to us.
We need to find a picture of a sea turtle choking on a mask. Then they will have not choice but to stop masking. Save the turtles! Though I guess they could then mandate paper masks.
Sounds like a great elementary school science project.
“Every day, Americans use and discard 500 million masks into the environment.” (some 5th grader)
OMG another grind of 8 hours of training. And I didn’t finish an hour early this time. ?
And I spent all day grumbling at the unbelievable stupidity of many of my co-workers in the class (none of whom I work directly with, I might add) and carefully making sure I was muted so I didn’t get caught out being mean.
It was always the same two people. Asking questions that were directly answered in the instructions on the page. Like the instructions say “add two outputs”. … “Do I need to add two outputs?”
Well do you?
It depends on your lived experiences. All answers are correct!
manysomeTo be fair, most were silent. I don’t know if that means they were actually following along or not.
I respect someone who keeps their mouth shut and tries to figure it out later on their own time than someone who’s willing to ask stupid and redundant questions right in front of everyone. If you’re an idiot, at least be smart enough to keep that to yourself. Fake it til you make it like a &$%*ing adult.
You sound like me. “STFU and listen instead of interrupting. If your question isn’t answered afterwards, then maybe ask it”
It wasn’t even interrupting – this was during the “hands-on” exercises. It was them reading sentences on the page and then asking the instructor to confirm what they just read on the page.
Ah, you have better cotrainees than I’ve had.
Please stay home.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1516238560684216322
Case closed!
Joe Halloran
@jhall251
Replying to
@ASlavitt
fwiw my very careful daughter flew to DC from CA over the holidays, N95 in place, never took it off, was seated next to an oaf with a token mask, tested positive a few days later.
Yet somehow the lesson this idiot takes from this is that masks . . . work?
That whole Twitter thread is a treasure trove of stupid.
You didn’t know they only work in one direction, did you.
From comments in the NYT:
My vaccine doesn’t work unless you wear your mask.
“Just continue to wear a mask, like I did, so you don’t get COVID, like I did.”
Am I understanding this person correctly? Good grief.
78 and perfect. I’m going for a walk.
Perfect? Now you’re just an old guy bragging.
Just trying to keep up with Fourscore.
“The video Taylor Lorenz is describing is of a self-described “magical pleasure worker” who runs “Sexy Summer Camp” for children in rural Kentucky.”
https://twitter.com/JohnHirschauer/status/1516440701000728576
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1516521343784783886
OFFS! Taylor Lorenz is in no position to complain about anything.
And of course WaPo is lying about it.
https://twitter.com/kriscoratti/status/1516528357013393410
Lying is what they do.
That’s a blatant lie. Law suit.
Repay the dox with a similarly detailed dox of every single WaPo cretin with their fingerprints on this article. They published this lady’s professional license, including her home address? Fine, here’s the home addresses of these WaPo goons. Would be a shame if they started getting a bunch of letters in their mailbox every day explaining in flowery language how dangerous doxxing people can be.
social media will block it
Alt media won’t
“Hope it’s not lost on people that woman behind Libs of TikTok previously boosted election fraud conspiracies and claims she was inside the barrier at the Capitol at the Jan 6th insurrection
One of the leading anti-LGBTQ influencers online publicly claims to be an insurrectionist and at the Capitol on Jan 6th”
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1516456382127435777
What a hateful cow.
Does she even editorialize the reposts?
Lorenz made a living ruining the careers of nobodies who post stupid comments to the internet. I seem to recall some woman on a flight back from Africa a few years back who said something dumb.
She often adds short descriptions, but mostly what the account does is bring lefty tik-toks to a wider audience. So while she is guilty of cherry-picking — like every other source of information — the content isn’t anti-LGBTQ, it’s LGBTQ tik-tokkers making themselves look bad.
I saw one where she said something was pretty wrong so that could be called an editorialization I guess. I mean I agree with her but…
Is that part true?
“conspiracies”
Sure, Jan.
“When they saw that doxxing me wasn’t ruining my credibility, they resorted to creating and doctoring tweets. This tweet is completely fake and is verifiable in the wayback machine. A sad and pathetic attempt to undermine me.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1516511553062944768
“Taylor Lorenz harassed an account yesterday with a similar name. In a desperate attempt to fish for information, she threatened the account that they will be implicated as “starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people” if they don’t respond to her”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1516468103982596101
“Interestingly enough, the religion part is both the most obvious and the most relevant to the news of her account.
She never tweets/posts on Shabbos. That’s actually useful information in the public interest that explains her silence (and her upcoming 48-hour silence).”
https://twitter.com/yesh222/status/1516435158454386688
WTF?
“The WaPo dropping this story during Passover is no coincidence. It’s part of the harassment. The Washington Post could have held this story a week. They choose to drop it when it was the most difficult for @libsoftiktokto fight back. Disgraceful.”
https://twitter.com/Izengabe_/status/1516440001302646792
Shomer Shabbos, Donny!
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(Got’amn l0b0t edition)
#85
Champ(s)
l0b0t 13
Not Adahn 15
Rat on a train 18
whiz 19
Grumbletarian 21
Scruffy Nerfherder 21
Sean 21
Ghostpatzer 22
grrizzly 22
Grummun 22
kinnath 22
Name’s BEAM, James BEAM 22
Raven Nation 22
Ted S. 22
db 23
SDF-7 23
The Hyperbole 23
Bobarian LMD 24
Dr, Fronkensteen 26
MikeS 26
Tundra 26
Chump(s)
trshmnstr the terrible 116
TARDis 121
I’m calling it now, If l0b0t can avoid chumping he’s got the week wrapped up.
23 players, a nice round 30 point average, 14 players at or above the Tundra line, that’s a pretty solid day. Let’s not fuck it up tomorrow people.
Don’t tell me what to do.
I humbly accept my chumpness. It is my destiny to lead you all to something greater. Join me in Chumpdomᵀᴹ. There you will be at peace and never have to worry about who was best… or… first… or…whatever.
The public be damned
When asked if the White House is concerned whether the administration being out of step with the American public’s perception of Covid-19, Psaki told reporters on Tuesday, “(W)e don’t make these decisions based on politics or based on the political whims on a plane or even in a poll.”
She argued that “there are still a lot of people in this country who still want to have masks in place,” pointing to immunocompromised individuals and parents with young children.
We pay no attention whatsoever to what people think, unless they agree with us.
They can wear a mask then, no one is stopping them. What we’re they doing before COVID?
They all died.
Ceaușescu didnt care what the public thought either.
Interesting tidbit from the front lines:
Today, the level of mask discipline is down pretty noticably. Technically, we haven’t changed our requirements (pretty much CDC/CMS “guidance” for hospitals – if you’re not by yourself in your office, wear a mask). About a month ago, we did say you didn’t need to wear a mask if you’re not in the actual hospital building itself.
Anyhoo, what with the highly publicized lifting of the mask requirement for air travel, I’m seeing a more people without masks – in meeting rooms, walking across our office area, etc. The change for air travel seems to have given people permission? emboldened people? to stop wearing the damn things so much if they don’t want to. Maybe not as many people were broken by the relentless fearmongering as I had thought.
COVID is still over, BTW – we are holding steady at around 5 – 7 patients (compared to our all-time peak of 200, and our Omicron peak of 100).
It was nice last night to walk into an urgent care clinic and only see a single mask (on the triage nurse). 6 months ago, everybody was masked or kicked to the curb. People are moving slowly on this stuff because they’re not plugged in on it. They absorbed the fear like a sponge, and it took a while to evaporate back out.
I was surprised at how quickly the unmasking began following the air travel decision.
How’s your hoof? I must have missed the tale of injury, if there was one.
One broken toe. Feels fine so long as I stay off of it.
The story isn’t particularly interesting. I was rushing to get on a call and stubbed my toes on the corner of the couch in my office. I figured I had maybe sprained it or deeply bruised it, but by dinner time it was still swollen and I was struggling to walk on it.
I did that a few years ago, but doorbell and metal bed frame. As long as you have the other 11 left. ?
Motherfucker!!!!
Another flat tire. ??
Fucking potholes.
Aw, you too? potholes, that is.
(Sorry, didn’t mean to sound callous. I am always in fear of needing a tire or axle repair. Thinking about buying mini cones for road “decoration”.)
I always like to throw a handful of caltrops out the window to warn people of debris and potholes.
If you can dodge a caltrop, you can dodge a pothole.
Didn’t sound callous. I’ve had a string of bad luck since those road construction jerks began their 4 year nightmare.
DOJ’s going to appeal the mask mandate rejection: https://www.foxnews.com/us/doj-appealing-federal-judges-ruling-eliminating-covid-masks-public-transportation
lol idiots
Of course they are. It would be evil not to.
can they not read the room? so stupid. there’s video everywhere of people celebrating
They may be concerned that they’ll lose the last twenty percent who still approve of the restrictions. It may be all they have left.
Well, the room they are in, with the nice padded walls…
I hope they do. You’ve seen the reactions of travelers. The airlines are on record as opposing the mask mandates. Let’s assume they find a tame judge and get it reinstated – the backlash will be, I suspect, considerable.
The juxtaposition videos of the joyous travelers and airline staff removing their masks with the stern announcements will be perfect.
DOJ’s going to appeal the mask mandate rejection
That’s funny. I was just reading a thing saying they shouldn’t appeal, because if they lose the appeal they likely won’t be able to just pull a new mandate out of their ass in the fall.
I have a sinking feeling they will win any appeal. All they have to do is find the right judge.
For OwnBestEnemy, Pistoffnick, KK, and other aviators/avgeeks:
https://vansairforce.net/IMG/2022/VAFDR_10%20Apr.%2019%2016.20.jpg
Wow! It’s like a scene from Timescape.
So, you’re saying don’t vomit on the instrument panels?
Good to know.
That wouldn’t have been a problem if the mask mandate was still in place.
LOL
Project Veritas: AstraZeneca CEO on monoclonal antibodies.
Maybe I should take the T to the airport tomorrow. I haven’t used my Charlie card in more than 2 years.
Mass. officials: Masks will no longer be required on the MBTA or at airports
Hilarious, LA Dog Trainer is running a series of tweets oh-noing about Cantonese losing out to Mandarin. Hokkien, Shanghainese, and a dozen more all laugh at the single minded focus.
Losing out where?
Pfffftttt….
When I was in Shanghai, the guys from Beijing couldn’t understand a word of what the locals were saying.
All of them are very different from each other. As different from each other as the Romance languages are in Europe.