Chaotic, musical screaming.
GLIBS HQ in CHAOS: Screaming, madness, the well-intentioned gift of a toenail refused, WordPress being pissy about this week’s Daily Stoic. It’s almost enough to make me apply for that job opening at TOS. But enough introspection and whining, you people are here to be entertained, and entertainment shall you have.
BREAKING: Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed, 53-47.
MEAN TWEETER: Beth Pritchard Geer thought her confirmation hearing for a cushy spot on the TVA was a cinch. Turns out she forgot about that mean tweet she made about the appearance Sen Joni Ernst who is on the committee confirming Geer’s nomination. Geer then digs herself in deeper by saying “I apologize if I offended you…” Of course, the TVA shouldn’t even exist in the first place.
ANOTHER FDR LEGACY: Army Corps of Engineers shits on SpaceX expansion plans. US Fish and Wildlife service jealous they didn’t get there first. An independent Republic of Texas would come with a turnkey space program. Just saying…
BIDEN PHONES: Biden administration confirms giving free phones to immigrants. Oh, how we will miss our beloved Strawberry.
INVASION OF THE FACT-CHECKERS: Chafed dropped this excellent non-fitness link on Sunday. I’m re-linking for folks who don’t read GlibFit. Thanks, also, to the unknown commenter who originally provided this; take a bow.
RUN AWAY: NYT makes emphasizes that Twitter use is optional for their reporters dem-ops with bylines, claiming fear of “online harrassment.” IOW, they’re afraid of being called out on their bullshit. I wonder if a certain recent sea change in the Twitter boardroom has anything to do with that.
I come here to post my mean tweets. Fuck twatter.
Thank you for typing “whining” and not “whinging”.
After all, that parrot isn’t “pinging for the fjords.”
Ha! And because of my background I read that as “pinging” with a hard “g,” which is a thing one does in network testing and troubleshooting.
One ping only!
I’ll take “Whore Ads”, Alex.
Anglophobe!
Bugger off.
You sod off, you git.
That’s a whingy complaint.
You’re a right boffin.
???
Oh, Jen. She has the attitude and tone of voice to sound like she’s making a great counter-point. But if you listen at all to her words, she’s got absolutely nothing to work with.
I just watch the body language with the audio off.
It’s clear that she doesn’t want to be there listening to “stupid” questions.
It’s why I loved Kayleigh. She relished the fight and was ready for it.
Nobody was more fun than Sarah Huckabee.
I’ll take either. If one of them manages to make it back in via a win from the fake oppo party, I hope their intro music for the daily briefing is something like this.
So… it was mandatory before? That’s a no from me, dawg.
I would hope that “Everything you write must be of service to the Democrat Party” would have been the deal breaker.
It’s never been mandatory.
Okay, I fixed that. They emphasized that it was optional. Thanks for keeping me honest, folks.
I’m still trying to figure out Geer’s qualifications to run the TVA other than finding ManBearPig’s cock for him for years.
Same qualifications as Pete Bootyjudge and probably everyone else in these positions.
I saw the Stoic post was had the Submit for Review button still lit up.
I just figured I forgot to release it, so I did.
Anything I need to do differently?
No, you’re fine. Riven had put up a placeholder to save the spot for you because I suck at scheduling. Eventually, Sug and Neph figured it out. Swiss normally does the lion’s share of scheduling but is taking a well-deserved vacay.
Thanks again for writing this for us.
“I apologize if I offended you…”
At least she didn’t go with a passive non-apology.
Sorry about that Senator. I was drunk at the time. Who hasn’t posted something they regret after half a bottle of Chardonnay? And who can get through the state of union without drinking?
I was thinking “I apologize if you took offense.”
I was just thinking what an honest answer might look like.
“Please don’t take it the wrong way, I meant it as I said it”
“I’m sorry you feel that way…”
“I’m sorry you’re so thin-skinned”.
As with everything else….. it’s the thought that counts.
‘ANOTHER FDR LEGACY’
404 is from FDR?
But seriously, going to move it to Florida to avoid wetlands? Best of luck, can’t escape the corps, not in the US anyway.
Wait until the EPA finds a way to enforce their definition of “waters of the United States”.
You: *cleaning gutters*
EPA: I noticed your gutters are wet, please stop destroying that habitat. Or else.
*ka-chunk of racking shotgun*
not in the US anyway.
I wonder how elon’s oil platform launchpads are coming.
I’m a little puzzled why SpaceX is expanding onto the 0.00001% of Texas that is wetlands.
Coastline, he should’ve gone a mile offshore and built an island.
Possibly stupid question:
Why do launch facilities need to be on coastlines?
Fuck-ups? I’d rather have the rocket crash in the ocean than in my backyard.
This plus the noise factor. Even if the rocket doesn’t crash, I don’t want it launching from my backyard.
50% less chance of not killing a bunch of people?
As above, you want to have ocean to your east to avoid possible casualties. But mainly you want to be near the equator to take advantage of the increased rotational speed.
Biden administration confirms giving free phones to immigrants.
“Free.”
They’re so the government can keep in touch with them and keep track of them.
Because an illegal alien who didn’t want to be tracked would definitely keep that phone and not sell it off or dump it at the first opportunity.
Indeed. TANSTAAFL. We paid for it.
The Pfizer kickbacks starting to peter out? Is Verizon or AT&T their new sugar daddy?
Remember when the government providing free phones to citizens was controversial?
Slippery slopes don’t exist, or so I’m told.
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido*
*some damn fine lyricsmithing – other potential words that could rhyme with mullato: potato, tomato, Clamato, torpedo, tuxedo, magneto, placebo, gazebo, bonito, burrito…
That’s another song:
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.
+1 spontaneously combustible drummer
+1 Stonehenge in danger of being crushed by a dwarf
Sing distinctly… we don’t wanna! Buy our album… we’re Nirvana!
“We take these attacks extremely seriously, and we know just how much this abuse affects our colleagues’ well-being, sense of safety and ability to do their jobs.”
Evidently, mean tweets are now violence. And any type of disagreement, is, ipso facto, mean.
Yes, I call this the “kindness” trap.
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed, 53-47.
I suppose the “sensible” R’s voted in favor. I also suppose that Bug-eyed Sparticus gets to keep his happy or whatever he was blabbering about the other day.
Spartacus is such a poseur. MILES GLORIOSUS is the role model we need in these troubled times.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgOrvsA9tw
Miles Gloriosus? Booker is Gluteus Maximus.
Wait, the Tennessee Valley Authority is still a thing?
of course
Is there a government program that has ever gone away?
The Spanish American war tax on telecom!
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In 2006.
Trump got rid of the federal committee on the Y2K “threat.”
In 2017.
Well, we will surely be caught unaware now for Y3K.
Y2038 – 32-bit integer rollover
Amusingly, our 2009 Honda has a Y2K22 problem (which should fix itself in August).
Still running all the dams and power stations that got built.
they’re afraid of being called out on their bullshi
Challenging the narrative is treason.
“The rule also limited the scope to only those that will impact water quality. It excluded other considerations, such as air quality or “energy policy.” ”
Madness! A clean water requirement doesn’t result in getting a veto ‘just cause’? No fair.
So if the NYT is fleeing Twitter, where are they going to go?
They’ve practically built Twitter into their business model as a means of promoting articles and firing up the controversy.
Elon must have called up and explained what the future looks like.
Admittedly, Musk in control of Twitter is far more important than Bezos in charge of the WaPo.
I wonder what Jeffrey is going to buy in response.
Meta? Or just Facebook?
Wow, LA county officials are banned from saying gay in Florida both by Florida and by LA county.
Los Angeles County bans official travel to Texas, Florida over anti-LGBT policies
Well, bye….
That’s strange. Why are they rewarding Florida and Texas for policies they say they disagree with?
Took them long enough.
Now if CA would ban the locals from moving to those two awful places it would be win-win for TX and FL anyway
Yay!
UK to Build 8 Nuclear Power Plants, Expand Offshore Oil Production in Energy Security Push
I did not see that one coming. Wow.
I need to check and see if I’m still holding a position in uranium mining.
They had recently signed some deal to get a nuke plant up and going, so it’s not entirely out of left field.
Bradwell B.
Damn, the watermelons just got thrown under the bus. Good.
Things must be worse than they let on.
I look forward to our country following their lead 50 years from now.
The 1970s circle around again in another way.
Hopefully we can get Doctor Who episodes set in a nuclear reactor again. (Eldrad *must* live!)
She was such a cutie.
And back when Doctor Who was good.
Sanity? Wow.
You should worry about the Chechens.
Athletes from Russia and Belarus previously accepted to compete in this year’s Boston Marathon who are currently residing in either country will no longer be allowed to participate, the Boston Marathon Association announced Wednesday.
The exclusion from the world’s oldest annual marathon also extends to athletes previously accepted into the B.A.A.’s 5K event. However, it doesn’t affect Russian or Belarusian athletes registered for the events who are not residents of the countries. They will be allowed to compete but won’t be able to run under their country’s flag.
“Like so many around the world, we are horrified and outraged by what we have seen and learned from the reporting in Ukraine,” B.A.A. president and CEO Tom Grilk said in a statement. “We believe that running is a global sport, and as such, we must do what we can to show our support to the people of Ukraine.”
That’ll show Putin.
See, those athletes will get on the phone and call Putin and tell him how mad they are and how they’re not going to vote for him next time.
Apparently leftists think that Twatter cancel tactics work on unhinged dictators.
To be fair, that has worked just about every time they tried it here.
INVASION OF THE FACT-CHECKERS: Chafed dropped this excellent non-fitness link on Sunday. I’m re-linking for folks who don’t read GlibFit. Thanks, also, to the unknown commenter who originally provided this; take a bow.
Ahem.
COVID?
Thanks, Warty!
Ok, groomer.
Brian Stelter Claims That Conservatives Are Mad Because Disney Wants Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Maybe they just want to date Disney.
He looks the part.
Is Stelter’s show the flip side of the Colbert Report? Is he satirizing a clueless woke elite media and he’s just so good at it that no one realizes it’s a joke?
And? DEI is a euphemism for the racist claptrap that millions of average Americans are watching their HR departments push. Try again, Brian.
^^ thisssssss
Because Brian Stelter isn’t such a hack that a freshman journalism student makes him look like an idiot or anything…
Have no fear, a little more schooling will beat any independent thought out of those students before they’re let loose.
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed, 53-47.
Can we call her Justice Jungle Fever?
Idk, man. I’m not a psychologist.
Why would we do that?
Even if we would, isn’t that Clarence Thomas?
The expansion would have been built on about 17 acres including
wetlands and mud flatsotherwise useless land.You wouldn’t be so flippant about it if you were a flamingo that had to move a few blocks over from your favorite mudhole. Those birds will be traumatized from the minor inconvenience for the rest of their lives.
It is kind of weird to walk around a museum and see items which were top secret when I was in the Air Force. The National Museam of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque was worth the 8 dollars (Vet) and 2 hours of wondering around. I never thought I would see and touch a PAL controller again. (Used to lock/unlock the later weapons)
First lunch?
At @TheAtlantic’s #Disinfo2022 student Christopher Phillips confronted @BrianStelter about how CNN is a “purveyor of disinformation” and “all the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.” Stelter quipped: “Time for lunch”
Then he provided a master class in not answering the question.
“HOW DARE YOU SAY THE EMPEROR IS NAKED?!”
It’s always time for lunch with Humpty.
Is this some variation on a Levirate marriage?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18184263/wife-gave-up-sex-life-secretly-sleeping-sister/
Would have been more fun if his wife hadn’t given up on sex, he could have still been banging sis-in-law on the side.
+1 Marty Brodeur
Awful American Consumers
You don’t need more than one kind of stuff, you’re killing mama Gaia and hurting prog feewlings.
You have to give credit to the socialist being honest for once. At least this time they’re telling you that there’s going to be A LOT less to go around when they’re done taking over.
After 100 years, they’ve at least figured out that their pipe dreams don’t bring prosperity. Not that that would ever stop them from forcing those pipe dreams on everyone…
They all believe they’ll be high ranking apparatchiks. Unfortunately there are always far fewer seats on the central planning committee than there are true believers to fill them. And the ones that get them are very good at thinning the opposition.
“They all believe they’ll be high ranking apparatchiks.”
That’s always the way it is, right up until they are up against that wall with their shocked faces.
I remember back a couple of years ago someone was interviewing this kid on Youtube and they asked him some question about the ‘elites’ and he says ‘I am one of the elites!’, and turns out the kid worked at a Mr. Tire fixing flat tires. But that’s how delutional they are, they think having the same opinion as everyone else on the left, suddenly turns you into an elite, instead of a useful idiot who will be quickly disposed of when their usefulness is no longer needed.
Suthenboy‘s ruminations on “useful idiots” as cockroaches being dumped on a coveted neighbour’s property to get rid of the neighbour is an excellent modern-day parable.
The other day, I listened to an interview with a member of the Irish parliament about the current inflation. The guy made an enraging comment about people of his parents’ and grandparents’ generation avoiding food waste and repairing/mending stuff showing a concern for the environment.
For God’s sake no! They did it because they were desperately poor, and this guy wants us (but not him, presumably) to go back to being desperately poor.
Good answer, Ted S’. Because his parents did it he can now live a little nicer life without wearing old clothes, unless he want’s to be trendy.
Who is ‘we’, bitch? You don’t speak for me. STFU
It would be great if if people/corporations/bureaucracies/organizations were not allowed to speak for individuals. I don’t think that is a violation of free speech.
Thot Thursday fact check: mostly true.
https://archive.ph/yEcKc
There is very little about any of that that isn’t fake.
Tesla Texas opened today officially
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mqyiU6KjwI
Really big show
They’re killing Gaia with those electric cars.
So this is a long read. For those of you with children, girls especially, an important one. Social media is far more toxic than we thought.
“Social media is far more toxic than we thought.”
Unpossible.
“otherwise known as “FtM”.”
How exactly is that pronounced?
“female to male”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPiTi6eZLY
I think we have a winner…
How exactly is that pronounced?
Futa
That is a long article and I intend to read it but her pictures are telling the story.
The whole article, I kept thinking about how the issues are deeper than she recognizes. Tumblr didn’t do this to her. Teenage insecurity didn’t do this to her. There’s something deeper and more fundamental here. The lion catches the weakest gazelle, but disease wipes out the whole herd.
Tumbler is a lion. School psychologists are lions. Planned Parenthood is a lion. What is the disease making the entire herd so sick that the lions can pick them off at will?
The exciting prospect of fancy new genitals isn’t enough explanation for you? I don’t know about you, but I’m bored to the tears I masterbate with of my worn out little ol’ penis. Now a fancy new vagina complete with heated interior and auto-lubrication……
Doomcooch of doom?
No, you’re confusing that with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY0suOoCYOA
Intersectional bs and elevating victimhood. These girls are mostly white and not poor. So they only get points for womanhood and even then they are privileged by an army of young men competing for their attention. So the trans thing gives them instant victim cred.
Intersectional bs and elevating victimhood.
Symptoms more than causes? My analogy may start to fall apart here, but I don’t think Intersectionality and victimhood worship would gain traction in a healthy culture.
I don’t pretend to have the answer, but I don’t think it’s as simple as pointing a layer or two deeper in the Critical Marxism rot. Shitty ideas are as omnipresent as bad bacteria. It’s only when the host is weak that the disease begins.
One possible component, IMO, is the increased acceptance of adolescence as a portion of childhood rather than as the start of adulthood. Kids don’t work, they don’t interact with many adults. They’re cloistered off and fiercely protected from any character building because “they’re just children”. Adolescence has turned into the character/moral fiber/self-confidence equivalent of masking and social distancing.
/Just a theory
I can’t help but think the internet is big part of rotting kids’ brains.
I mean, what is the one thing that kids have today, that kids my age did not? And not only do they have it, they spend enormous amounts of time there reading all kinds of crap that we could not even have thought of.
I mean, what is the one thing that kids have today, that kids my age did not?
There are a lot of people your age and mine who completely bought into this bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. Maybe the internet rotted everybody’s brains, but I’m hesitant to accept that explanation. We didn’t have similar descents into madness when other ways of improved communication were invented.
Symptoms more than causes?
I don’t think so. I think the personal struggles that all adolescents (and again, girls more than boys it seems) go through are no longer supported by the family and institutions that we assume are there to do so. Instead they get a virtual community.
The whole story just reminds me so much of how cults work in the physical world – except here it doesn’t require as much trolling.
To be clear, I don’t think she would never have gone down the physical rabbit hole, if she hadn’t been swallowed by the virtual one first. Sadly everyone [professional*] in the physical world worked to support the delusion she developed from the online influence.
* I’m reminded of Denzel Washington’s dialogue in Man on Fire about “I’m a professional”.
I made an appointment at a Planned Parenthood
If they can’t murder your baby, they’ll just rot your genitals out so you become infertile.
What do you mean that PP was explicitly founded for the purpose of practicing eugenics? CONSPIRACY THEORIST!!! GRAB HIM!!!
Where Are My Children (1916 movie)
Nice. I’ve heard of this, but I’ll try to give the whole thing a watch. It’s funny that we discuss how bad the media has gotten at covering up the fact that they are outright propaganda. Then you read the opening title card for this and realize they’ve always been terrible and the public has always been incredibly credulous.
This whole thing is going to be looked back upon like the satanic panic ritual abuse craze of the 1980s, right?
It will be associated with the decline of an empire and the collapse of a civilization.
https://i.redd.it/93mr60qejql61.jpg
Yes. (Which I remember well.)
If there’s any cosmic justice, Tooky Amirault will be waiting for Martha Coakley in the afterlife.
Damn, that is a long read but worth it. Thanks for posting it. I’ve sent it to the wife.
I’m hoping our 2 homeschooled girls will be well inoculated from this shit by their teenage years, but it doesn’t hurt to be aware.
Mine will be actively warded away from this shit. Equal helpings of disdain for this kind of thinking, confidence building, and regular interaction with people who aren’t [insert same age] girls
I have young kids to and while this is definitely a concern, I was listening to Curtis Yarvin on a podcast and thought he offered a good strategy for child rearing. He pointed out that children are naturally going to want to rebel against institutions that try and enforce rigid ideology and structure. In most cases that can be either the parents or the teachers. By making the teachers seem like the ideological prison guards and making yourself seem less rigid and open, you can turn their own propaganda against them. He said it worked on his kids.
Before that, I was listening to a different podcast with Gene Epstein where he said both of his daughters are mega-prog despite his best efforts to steer them away. As someone who rebelled against my parents religion, economics and conservatism as a knee-jerk when I was a kid, it made me think Yarvin might be onto something. Food for thought.
He pointed out that children are naturally going to want to rebel against institutions that try and enforce rigid ideology and structure.
I think this gets way overplayed, to be honest. 90% of the “rebellion” in our lifetime wasn’t rebellion at all, it was tension between cultural and familial expectations. Culture says X, family says Y, kid chooses X. It’s a path of least resistance mentality, not a rebellious one.
Not to say that rebellion isn’t a real concern, but it’s funny how the Amish don’t really struggle with mass rebellion, but “rebellion” has become a rite of passage for the mainstream culture. Of course, that “rebellion” has become the civic religion over the past 60 years, blasted into kids’ brains from all sides. Gender dysphoria, transition drugs, and Tumblr are merely the third or fourth iteration of “sex, drugs, and rock & roll”.
Call it what you will, but it’s a phenomenon you’ll most likely have to deal with. I think the strategy could yield two positives. 1) Less chance of spending the last few years that you get to have your kids around where they see you as the enemy and fight with you. You might even be their ally against the establishment. 2) They organically learn from a young age that the state is not their friend.
I’m not saying it works. I’m just making sure I’m going to be malleable in my parenting strategy and have options because no matter how much planning I do, they’re going to make sure all the planning was for nothing.
By making the teachers seem like the ideological prison guards and making yourself seem less rigid and open, you can turn their own propaganda against them. He said it worked on his kids.
I mean I get what’re you saying here and it certainly seems like a worthwhile approach for parents with no other choice to set one’ self up as a foil… but there’s an alternative option that doesn’t involve putting my children under the care of psychotic prison guards in the first place.
You have me thinking… I may amend my “fight, withdraw, submit, those are your only options”. Undermine is an option. It’s a form of fight, but perhaps different enough to justify its own category.
That said, I’m in SSD’s camp. Why paddle upstream for the next 20 years, hoping to be able to undo the damage this profoundly broken culture is causing when I can simply change the way we interact with that culture such that it’s not the overwhelming influence on my children’s worldviews?
That fits well with today’s article from Bryan Caplan on his BetOnIt blog: https://betonit.substack.com/p/lgbt-explosion?s=r
Dang. Thanks, ji.
T
Very perceptive for a youngster. Great essay.
The people that do this to kids deserve the boats.
The people that do this to kids deserve the
boatswoodchippers.FTFY.
Tundra is right.
Too slow and uncertain for my tastes.
Good find, Juris. Too bad it won’t get the circulation that society needs it to!!
Ha! tundra and I seized on the same paragraph.
Plenty of insight in that essay.
It’s crazy how bad the counselors and psychologists were about aiding and abetting the pro-trans without question. Aren’t there any psychologists and psychiatrists whose only agenda is to heal their patients anymore?
A little while ago, when I went past the airport, there was an ultralight sitting outside a hangar. Probably a good day for it. A little chilly, but blue sky and no wind.
I have always been fascinated by gyrocopters, but I’d have to have a better understanding of the dynamics before I’d go up in one. That “pushing the fan through the air makes lift” business sounds a little too much like, “If I plug this power inverter into the cigarette lighter of my car, I can use it to run a battery charger and charge the car’s battery. I’ll have free unlimited power.”
I watch Watchjrgo on YouTube. He just bought a scrap gyrocopter from a scrap yard and is working on trying to get the engine started. Based on his description of the operation of gyrocopters, you’d have to be certifiably insane to leave the ground in one. Basically it sounds like you drive the gyrocopter really fast until it takes off and then you hope the rotor doesn’t stop spinning – no drive power to the rotor.. No thanks. The one that Watchjrgo bought doesn’t have a rotor so he has no plans to fly it.
Or aerate a bucket of minnows and keep them alive ’til you got to the lake and changed water.
Relevant
I love the idea of an ultralight and have considered it.
My wife equates the idea with instant heart attacks (because she’d be so worried), on the other hand….
Why is it different from a standard wing?.. the rotor’s plane is inclined against the direction of travel. The rotor is a rotating airfoil, you just sum up all of the vectors and if they result in positive lift, then you go up.
For a regular airfoil, you start with a glider.. it descends but also goes forward at a good ratio. Then you add a forward thrust vector and generate enough power to overcome the drag.
Unpowered rotating wings also do not fall out of the sky, they translate their vertical (perpendicular to the disc) energy into the disc and therefore generate some vertical lift (autorotate). The angle is steep, but like the glider, they are light. You add a horizontal power source, and tilt the plane, and you get lift. They aren’t relatively fast due to the drag but they work and can land without power.
Speaking of the inverter to charger, My friend bought a Truck camper that had just such a system on it, where the 30A shore power could be attached to the Inverter. There are reasons that amateurs shouldn’t do power work, I took all of that out and put in a proper automatic transfer switch so that all interior AC could run off of the inverter, except for the battery charger, which would only work off of true shore power.
I’m upon my capstone for my class and we successfully went through the whole class NOT discussing any DE&I. Imagine people who are professionals acting like professionals.
One point I said “seasoned employee” and someone just asked clarification and we moved on.
“seasoned employee””
Lunch break?
below 20% moisture content
Cumin? Paprika?
Might I suggest the fava beans and chianti?
Baquet said it will be purely optional for Times journalists to use Twitter moving forward, and the organization’s leadership will take steps to support anyone who decides to stop using the platform.
“If you do choose to stay on, we encourage you to meaningfully reduce how much time you’re spending on the platform, tweeting or scrolling, in relation to other parts of your job,” he wrote.
GET TO WORK.
In a bit of good news, after a pretty bad accident a year and a half ago, Tiger Woods is playing professional golf again and is doing fairly well.
Something something stick it in crazy something…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/onlyfans-star-stabbed-boyfriend-death-26662386
I’m not going to read that. I’m just going to assume it was a pegging accident.
Still would.
She looks kinda like she’s still de-transitioning, frankly.
I didn’t see this one posted anywhere:
Scientific research suggests mushrooms might be communicating with each other
“…incorporation of dense amphibole fibers ensure survival in environmental extremes…”
Dammit… SF’d the link.
There is a interesting show I think on Netflix that said that too.
I thought “Here we go again, another article about Ed majors”
I read that book.
It was weird.
When will this masking and public transportation theater end? No, don’t tell me. I know it is never.
Last call for Quordle #73 entries, lookin’ at you Ted’S
Hype’s
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DQR and WDQR goes live in 10 minute
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Wash your hands
Several Kinder chocolate products, including the popular Kinder Eggs, are being recalled across Europe and Canada due to a salmonella outbreak across several European countries.
At least 134 cases have been reported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, mainly among children under 10 years old. The first case was identified in the United Kingdom in early January.
You’d think there might be less of this, what with our newly gained cultural germophobia, but apparently not.
Do they still offer the Spring Surprise and Crunchy Frog?
134? Out of millions.
Cool. Now do the “vaccines”.
Well it’s a good thing they’re banned here.
They were selling these huge effing Kinder Easter eggs at Costco Business the other day. Soooooo tempting . . .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WbsDPbr8qoM
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RwDnZI7Tw
*chefs kiss*
Yep. That was brilliant.
Thanks, Sean!
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We want cheap stuff fast and don’t care who it hurts.
That “cheap Chinese craaaaap” is conjured up out of thin air. There is no compensating exchange.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP
#73
Men’s Division
Champ(s)
l0b0t 18
Sean 22
Tundra 22
Ted’S 22
JG43 23
MikeS 23
Rat on a train 23
TARDis 23
Bobarian LMD 24
grrizzly 24
Ghostpatzer 24
Grummun 25
The Hyperbole 25
Grumbletarian 27
Chump(s)
kinnath 1,000,018
Raven Nation 1,000,020
Women’s Division
Champ(s)
No entries.
Will I0b0t get the first 3 peat? will anyone identify as female to take the abandoned WDQR championship? tune in tomorrow, same Quordle time* same Quordle station to find out.
*Not really, I’m just going to post it when I get a chance.
Damn you, whoever started this. I didn’t even have my first cup of coffee before I fired it up this morning.
I used to do the crossword every day, but this is way more fun.
Champs could be kind and post their starting word.
Not a champ.
However, since there is no prize money (and I cribbed it from someone else):
TRADE
SPOIL
MUNCH
I don’t know if a three word start will ever win (outside of a lucky coincidence) but I haven’t failed one since I started.
I’ve been concentrating on vowels, but maybe common consonants would be better for the second round.
My constant 1st and 2nd were completely useless today. Mr. Quordle has a knack lately for choosing words that don’t contain very many common letters.
I started with DAILY and that worked well. These three words provide more consistent results.
I use (as the spirit moves me) one or more of the following as my “start” words:
RHEUM
HOTEL
AUDIO
They’ve generally worked pretty well. I haven’t been skunked yet with them.
I’ve been using REACH or TEACH, ROBIN, FLUID, HEART… I’ve trying to knock out vowels first.
Words I should use, but havent:
VOICE
FAULT
YAWNS
You stopped doing the crossword? Why not both? as the saying goes.
Good question.
I’ll go with lazy.
Well slap my ass and call me Lia. I’ll join the women’s division. New champion!!!
What about people who identify as animals division?
Furries still need to identify as the gender of their chosen fursona.
God I hope they actually use the word fursona. Is it wrong to be so entertained by mental illness?
Fursona is 100% a word regularly used in those circles. I hear.
Will you be My Fursona.
O Fursona
They do and color me naïve but I think Furries are like cosplayers and other Larpers and they know they are just plying make-believe, not necessarily nut-jobs.
I agree. How are they any different from the Goths or suburban punks?
Furries are not necessarily therians/otherkin.
relevant
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Eh?
Gc
FWIW I did mine at 4:30pm again and did not chump out this time. I even did better than one person on your list.
Too busy to do this today. Took SU to the airport to go see her Mom in the Lower Mainland. Now the pup and I have five days’ worth of steaks, roasted chickens and beers to consume.
Next time you are confronted with a “white supremacist” charge, you might want to point out that 100% of the Democrats in the Senate just confirmed a Supreme Justice who doesn’t know if Black people have natural rights.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/6nj0JeflT2SdlfIm7YPbLQ.NPgDDir8UoPjwsnXoylH9f
Door flowers be sprouting.
I see no handguns at all.
Are you feeling okay?
Had one holstered when I snapped the pic. ?
Nice!
https://en.as.com/latest_news/will-smith-admitted-to-a-luxury-rehab-clinic-after-chris-rock-oscars-slap-n/
JFC. 2003 called and wants it’s bullshit PR stunt back.
LOL!
Related.
LOL!
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1512008280327041024
Social change is always good.
Also there were people at the time who were offended by Monty Python but those were old fogies. That was then, this is now.
It’s all a matter of generational difference – what was old is now new.
Yet it’s assumed that this generational difference will not affect acceptance of laiisez-faire economics.
Assumed by whom?
People who believe in inevitable progress?
Ah fools it is then.
You’ll notice they never show Love Thy Neighbor or Curry & Chips at all anymore and there is growing row over It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.
“Hot mum” is undoubtedly a brit ypornhub category.
https://www.econlib.org/is-there-a-carbon-tax-in-our-future/
Wow, modern “tolerant societies” are still intolerant to those things they don’t like. Really need an economist tell me that.
Yes, future people will regard me as a reactionary Neanderthal but don’t worry they will always love Free Trade and Laissez-Faire and not dismiss those views as one of my reactionary Neanderthal mindset.
One or two more generations and Americans will be disgusted that people of the 2020s wore their shoes indoors.
Whattaya mean “one or two more generations,” Kemosabe? You don’t take your shoes off at my door and I tell you to take a hike. I have to clean and vacuum those floors.
I haven’t allowed people to enter a house of mine with shoes on in at least 30 years, no freaking way. And smoking? Forget about it, not in my cars either.
^^THIS.
When my son still smoked, he came to stay with me for a couple of months and I told him before he came, no smoking. He said in the house?, I said not on the premises and in this community, smoking is banned in public areas, which means pretty much everywhere inside the gates except for on the road. So he’d go out to the road, but it rains a lot here in the summer and I think that made him miserable enough that he just quit. It’s not just the smoke, smokers have nasty habits such as believing that the entire world is an ashtray.
You don’t let people wear shoes in your car?
Context, what is that?
“Another example is spitting on sidewalks, which used to be common.”
Now in totally progressive utopias like San Fransisco, they just shit on them and leave dirty needles all over them.
PROGRESS! UTOPIA IS UPON US!
This assumes that
Dammit posted too fast:
https://www.econlib.org/three-meanings-of-liberal-democracy/
This assumes that “all individuals can agree on general or constitutional rules of state action”. What if that is not the case?
And when did this virtual bargaining occur? And what if he changes his mind.
Why do you ask a question that is answered in either the preceding paragraph or the following one?
crowdsourcing a t-shirt.
https://www.ownaj.com/products/nuts-tee
(flork of cows is a great twitter follow)
**HEAVY SIGH**
I don’t get it. I need more steak and beer. So does my pup.
STEAK GOOD
STEAK GOOD
Two out of two squirrels agree.
What’s tonight’s movie? Because I really really really want to know, what’s going on?
I’ve been bummed for months that Robinson Crusoe on Mars hasn’t been in the line-up.
For you, I will add it.
Night of the Wampus Cat?
Class of Nuke’em high! With drunk RJ.
Awesome!!
I’m not drunk …. yet.
DRINK FASTER!
And more.
Monty Python is re-running on British TV (not BBC). I can’t decide whether the accompanying warning is for real, or part of the satire: “This programme reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive.”
Just wait ’til they get to Dennis Moore, Highwayman.
“STAND AND DELIVER. Your lupins, or your life.”
Here is some screaming music for you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXubSPklLTk
Wut?
The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a Secret Service agent assigned to first lady Jill Biden, according to an affidavit.
Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali allegedly provided “rent-free apartments” estimated to cost more than $40,000 annually each to a DHS employee and members of the US Secret Service, all while impersonating federal agents, the affidavit said.
As of Monday, four Secret Service agents were placed on administrative leave pending investigations.
The affidavit details substantial gifts the two defendants allegedly gave federal agents.
According to the document, Taherzadeh allegedly provided a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the White House complex a “rent-free penthouse apartment” for one year at a cost of about $40,200.
Don’t call it a swamp.
“Wut?,” indeed.
There’s a crime here (other than impersonating a Fed, I guess . . . )?
on twitter yesterday – feds, USPS, etc raiding an apt in Navy Yard area. Definitely compromised at least a handful of SS agents (if they weren’t previously from Colombia, etc). Accepting “free” luxury apts, etc – good grief.
So they were being (for lack of a better term) “groomed” for some potential future op where they’d be used to attack something/someone the USSS normally protects?
I must be very dense this evening.