Lebron now has more free time to read the first page of many books.
The Lakers are out of the NBA playoff race. Which is hilarious. Tiger is set to play in The Masters. Which is fantastic. Liverpool and Man City took control of their UCL quarterfinals ties, although one in much greater control than the other. They face off Sunday in a HUUUUUUUGE match in the PL. The other quarterfinals kick off today. And that’s sports.
Auctions are awesome. There’s no better way to determine the market value of something. Even if the value, like in this case, is based off cheating.
What amazing timing! It’s an amazing coincidence that all these wicked things are taken down when it’s politically expedient to do so. It’s almost as if they know everything about them and when/where/how they operate and simply don’t care until there’s political capital to gain by taking them down.
Weekend at Goonew’s”?
I fail to see the problem here. Was it his final show? Yes. Did the promoter say he’d be alive? No. Everybody wins.
You guys need to stick it out. Be “New York Strong” or whatever you claim you are. What you don’t want to do is give in. Because that might bring you here. And we don’t want that.
I’m sure it was just a coincidence. As is the incestuous relationship with the campaign and the FBI. Yeah, that’s it. Just a coincidence.
I don’t really care about this. Sure, it would be nice to have an edit function for a few minutes after hitting send. But I’d rather see all the banned accounts invited back.
Grifter
OK. Where’s the money? You can’t possibly burn through that much money responsibly. Hell, I’m not sure BLM could get through that much so fast.
They’re gonna make them double-illegal next! Or triple-illegal! Just kidding. They’re going to go after legal owners and make it impossible for (most of) them to be able to afford a weapon. But the wealthy will be fine.
Nothing by The Cars today. (What the hell was Banjos thinking?) I’m going a little further back in time today. What a great, if overplayed, song. So is this one. Even though it gets less play than it deserves.
Enjoy them both. And enjoy this Wednesday, dear friends.
whaddup doh’
Short Cans!
LeBron is not first.
Lebron is asshoe!
Geez, even A-Rog at least gets to the playoffs (where it is discovered that he has no shot)
Mornin’, reprobates. Great songs, Sloop. “Someday Never Comes” brings back unpleasant memories.
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
What about Alsace?
You’re not going to stop me from getting out of this shithole.
You’re welcome to leave, and maybe run over a few progtards on the way out. Just make sure you don’t bring any of them with you.
And on that note, Zillow estimates for my county went stoopid high last month. The tax bill next year is going to be awful.
My property estimate proposal is up 37 % for 2023.
Livin’ the High Life but yet everything looks the same
See we already tax unrealized wealth!
+ 1 Single Land Tax
^this is the real play for governments.
Last year property tax was up 11%, this year up another 11%.
Steel this Sunday.
Which club?
Saraspa. They’ve put most/all of their events on practiscore.
They’ve pushed the SCSA times way back, which I don’t like. I’m assume non-early risers are fine with it though.
As a still-recent emigre/escapee, I share the sentiment a little bit. Although, I wouldn’t really oppose, say, a testing regimen for any new arrivals – “What’s the difference between a gauge and a caliber?”, “What’s the difference between North Carolina barbecue and South Carolina barbecue?”, “Explain three ways in which the Biden administration is in violation of the limits of its constitutional authority.”, etc. If you pass, you get to stay. If not, back to New York with you.
The market is what the buyer is willing to spend. I had this discussion with the owner’s of my former place of employment when they wanted to sell off our testing division. We had a meeting to discuss capital purchases (not depreciated- “This costs us $xx,xxx!) and spreadsheets with “projected revenues” all designed to show they were taking a huge loss and I was getting over. Despite the fact that I ran said division for the prior 7 years. I said, “well, this is what its worth to me” which was about 60% less then their price.
We need legislation that forces people to sell to us at prices we want and buy from us at prices we want.
Indians/Middle Easterners hardest hit.
When did you become a corporate raider?
Since they moved to Las Vegas.
Bring back the old skool Raiders from Oakland.
Holland, an Australian-born businessman, has been beleaguered by bad PR in recent months. Most notably, an NPR exposé about him published in February, with allegations of owing employees at a previous company millions of dollars and exploiting Nigerian software engineers early in Fast’s development.
PR, that’s what it is.
Nigerian software engineers? Was the guy a prince?
Hey, Nigerians have branched out into hollywood* and hate crimes too.
*Including a rather prolific local film industry.
I assume it will be inevitable that my car’s warranty will be transferred to a Nigerian bank.
Call me nostalgic, but “Fortunate Son” always needs MOAR hueys.
/6th Cav veteran
More Huey noises although probably not a favorite artist/song in this crowd.
Apparently when he played that song on his USSR tour, the crowd freaked right the fuck out at the helicopter noises. They thought the theater was being raided.
RIP to Brian Peppers, he was a real one. Well, a real something.
I dead-threaded. Anyone else catch the Obama snub of Sleepy Joe? His triumphant return to power? The fact that he left the reception with Kamala at his side rather than the POTUS? The pathetic attempts to get Barack’s attention? The listless wandering about? “I don’t even wanna be here. Come on man!”
“Where’s my ice cream?”
I hope he has a total melt down. FJB and to hell with any tool who praises him.
It looked really bad. It would be sad if these weren’t evil people bent on leading us to ruin.
Fuck them all.
And it all started with Obama thanking Vice President Biden for inviting him.
I’m of the school of thought Obamas team wrote those quips because they know right wing will clamp onto it and they did.
It may have served two purposes; tweak the right and Biden.
Darknet markets have often been honeypots, some of them 100% run by the state. It’s bizarre that the most efficient drug dealing mechanism in human history is at least in part state-sponsored. Almost like they really don’t care about the drugs it’s just control. Also, free Ross Ulbricht.
The state has extensive experience in running criminal operations.
See also: child pr0n
Anybody up for pizza?
Do you prefer 7-11 slices or 13-15?
Cue up the ephebophilia vs. pedophilia argument.
Which eventually devolves into the ephebophobia versus pedophobia argument.
And the criminals.
And the bureaucracy. Oh wait, that’s redundant.
Isn’t that really what’s important?
“Just want to help the Bureau” – that should’ve raised red flags right there.
Ragtag band of heroes
Chris Smalls is president of the newly minted Amazon Labor Union.
It is the behemoth company’s first U.S. union, and was born on Friday after a dramatic and unexpected victory over Amazon by a ragtag grassroots movement.
At the heart of the campaign is Smalls who was fired from his job at the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 — the same day he had organized a walkout over safety conditions.
His co-star in the organizing drive is his friend Derrick Palmer, who currently works at the warehouse. Together, they will lead a union representing some 8,300 workers who work at the same warehouse.
Huzzah.
I’m torn between my hatred for Unions and my distrust of Amazon.
Where do I pay my dues? Said no one ever.
Oh, they just take them out of your paycheck these days.
NPR is just bizarre in their pro-Union efforts. Even more than their typical (D)- fluffing.
From the Wiki: “After his discharge from Amazon in 2020, Smalls founded The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a labor-activist group”
Well, since he’s a commie Im sure next he’s going to advocate for the rights of the chinese workers that provide most of Amazon’s products, right?
RIGHT ?
Service workers don’t LARP as real proletariat challenge (difficulty: impossible)
How long before that warehouse gets shut down?
So I’ve been walking the plank for a few weeks but knocking it out the park, work-wise. It’s not about buttering up for the next boss, more about personal pride. https://youtu.be/cmSbXsFE3l8
Oh and Anna Kendrick is a treasure.
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Yay! Today I suck less.
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If I can lead us to victory over Amazon, what’s stopping anybody in this country from organizing their workplace? Nothing. You know, people got to get out of that mentality of, Oh, let me just quit my job. Because when you quit your job, guess what? They hire somebody else. So you’re jumping from one fire into the next, and the system doesn’t get fixed by doing that.
Start your own business and run it as you wish, you fucking parasite.
He did, it sells nonsense to Amazon employees and impedes services to Amazon customers.
Nailed it.
They hire somebody else.
How dare they hire somebody who is willing to work on the terms provided. We must insert ourselves into that relationship.
They are parasites at this point. Lampreys, if you will.
Locusts. They eat and move on, leaving a weakened target that is more susceptible to disease and rot.
My sister started at Amazon at the beginning of the pandemic as her small business was shut down by the state. She still runs her small volume shop, but now on an appt only basis and still works for Amazon. She loves it. I’ve tried telling her she’s just being exploited and she won’t hear of it.
All the criticisms I’ve heard from employees have boiled down to “they make us focus on the job and make us work hard for the pay”. Maybe they overwork the warehouse folks. Maybe not. I do know that the white collar folks I know who work/worked for Amazon are all highly competent and tend to be less focused on random bullshit than their Google/Facebook/whatever peers.
The guys I know who joined up with Amazon in IT all have said the money is good, but you work your ass off.
Think of the horror for being paid for results and not just time served!
Most of my job seems to be arguing with the procurement people who prevent us from doing work by not buying what is needed.
Yes, we need to pay licensing and maintenance, because management picked that software and we’ve been running it for years. No we can’t keep using the failing hardware the vendor no longer supports.
I’ve tried telling her she’s just being exploited and she won’t hear of it.
Hmmm…. I don’t see you telling her that she is a victim of human trafficking forced into sex work.
Today in supply chain clusterfucks we have Honda’s small engine division.
Price for a GX50 engine from the master distributor is $221. But they don’t have any and won’t have any for at least half a year. Honda is so far behind that they won’t accept orders. OEMs get first delivery because Honda doesn’t want them to switch to another engine manufacturer.
Same engine from my OEM is $1,093. Take it or leave it.
I’ve taken to quoting battery powered engine replacements for equipment.
I work for a contract manufacturer. A big chunk of our business is making attachments for a major skid steer manufacturer. Due to various supply chain issues over the last two years, we are anywhere from a few months to as much as possibly two years behind on many orders. Even if we were to magically get all the parts we need, there just aren’t enough hours in the day, or people to build them, to get caught up anytime soon. It’s crazy.
Just-in-time becomes when-we-get-to-it.
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https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1511669678296514565?cxt=HHwWioC-iYbkw_opAAAA
Sounds expensive.
Blood and treasure? “What’s that?” cackled Hillary.
Meh. Gotta clear out the old models to make room for new inventory.
They were ICE models. Now they can buy all electric!
Why do you think they seized Chernobyl?
Pieces of equipment is so vague it could apply to shovels, empty magazines, or any of that nonsense. I know they’re implying things like artillery, but the actual statement doesn’t say that.
To be fair, following the link does provide a full detailed listing.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
We all know Russia’s military was excessive for its income. It’s gonna be hard and expensive to bring it back up to snuff.
It should be a demonstration of how determined Russia is to keep NATO out of Ukraine.
Russia blew it on that front when they invaded Ukraine the first time and voided Ukraine’s treaty obligations to not join NATO.
Why would they put any trust in that treaty after the “color revolution”?
AFAIK, the color revolution didn’t violate the treaty.
The invasion of Crimea did.
The coup didn’t violate the treaty, it voided it
Genuinely curious, kbo: How so? I admit I am not well versed in goings on in Ukraine, so did it result in the kind of complete change of government, not administration, that might void a treaty?
I can only speak to what I see to be Russia’s perception, but twice replacing “their guy” Kuchma (2004)/Yanukovich (2014) with “our guy” Yuschenko (2004)/Poroshenko (2014) in “color revolutions” leaves no confidence that promises will be kept. If Lukashenko were toppled similarly in Belarus, I’d expect them to see things quite similarly there.
From a Western perspective, I’d equate it to Carrie Lam’s administration in Hong Kong. She’s obviously against “us” and her actions throughout show that she was a loyal CCP agent all along. Anyone in Taiwan or the U.S. who trusted her was an idiot.
I just wish it would signal it’s time for the UN to go the way of the League of Nations. Unfortunately, there are way too many stripey-pants careers at stake for that to ever happen.
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available.
The problem is that Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense was hyping “kills” of Russian planes and even sharing the footage that turned out to be images from a video game. I’m not sure of any place that is providing credible information on numbers. Twitter is full of destroyed Russian equipment, although it seems like only afterwards when there are no Russians actually around. There was more live-action on the ground video during the Canadian Trucker protests, which is so strange.
I’ve been keeping up with the BBC war maps and their editorializing is out of control. In one sentence, they talk about Russia withdrawing troops around Kyiv to deploy in the South. In the next sentence, they talk about Ukraine counter-attacking these same areas (that Russia has withdrawn from) to seize control.
The same media that keeps posting pictures of destroyed Russian equipment also keeps posting pictures of Ukrainian troops visibly wearing Nazi emblems and then saying Ukraine doesn’t have a Nazi problem, so I wouldn’t trust any of it.
It’s only a nazi problem if you think nazis are a problem.
Nazi problems are fluid, like gender
Nazis are a problem when they aren’t actually nazis.
Similar with the war crimes videos. There’s been fakery in previous videos, how to know if the new ones are real. And it doesn’t make sense to kill people execution style every hundred feet or so like one of the videos. How would that work? But it’s been reran over and over unquestioningly.
Didn’t see any blood draining through the clothes or on the streets. Should be some, I would think. A gang banger always leaves his calling card on the street.
Check for a time stamp, those are very difficult to fake.
Indeed – https://youtu.be/ejiSCSafHxM
It’s all the rage these days.
I love it when the autocrats finally reveal their fangs. It’s almost cathartic.
What the hell was Banjos thinking?
That The Cars was a solid band with a number of great pop songs?
Sloopy was probably thinking that girls don’t fart but he’s been disavowed of that notion four times over.
Girls fart?
I’ve been married 27 years and have heard my wife fart twice, she was sleeping both times.
I have never seen or smelled any evidence that she has ever taken a dump.
You’ve lived a charmed life.
To be fair, Ron rarely goes into the kitchen, so it isn’t crazy that he has never heard his wife fart.
I go in the kitchen all the time.
Someone has to do quality checks while she is cooking.
I raised two daughters – I’ve seen some shit.
How dare they hire somebody who is willing to work on the terms provided. We must insert ourselves into that relationship.
“That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.”
Why is it great that Eldrick the Slut is playing? All the good players are going to get ignored so ESPN can push all Eldrick, all the time.
I hope his knee caves in. He’s an athlete, not a true golfer.
I read a chilling theory prompted by Obama’s public humiliation of Biden yesterday.
(1) Harris is removed as VP (by hook or by crook)*
(2) Obama as appointed as the new VP. Amid a hallelujah chorus from the Narrative machine – in these troubled and unprecedented times, we need a seasoned leader blah blah. Let’s face it, there is nobody in the current line of succession that is even remotely competent or palatable.
(3) Biden is removed (induced to resign) for “health reasons”. A few billion in Doktor Mrs. First Lady Biden’s bank account ought to cover it.
(4) Obama becomes President for the remainder of Biden’s term, because the Constitution only prohibits being elected more than twice. The limp dicks on SCOTUS will smooth over any Constitutional challenges (which, without really studying it, don’t seem very formidable).
*This is still the weak link to me, but the more I think about it, the more I think the true Powers Behind the Throne will get it done, even if it means crashing an airplane she is on and killing all on board.
Gah! Stop telling me scary stories right before bedtime!
Yeah, Joe is done.
Why go through all this when Michelle can just run in ’24?
Oh great. First it was the monster under the bed and then you have to mention the one in the closet?
I was trying to keep Stacy Abrams out of it.
Who tops and who gets left out? Harris won’t go quietly methinks.
Yeah, like Stacy would fit in any closet, short of a walk in.
Because Biden’s deterioration has been worse/faster than they expected.
Better to ask: Why stage a public humiliation of Biden and a triumphant return of Obama to the White House?
Or, how about this:
The Obama machine was returned to the White House when Biden took office. Maybe Biden’s deterioration hasn’t caused a change of plan. Maybe this was the plan all along.
Black-pilled now. It was my notion, too.
Because it lends credibility to Harris for when she’s installed as Fuhrer.
She’s bought and paid for by the Obama machine. That’s why Joe picked somebody who was in the “never gonna happen” tier of national politics. Super easy to go to a Kamala and say “congrats, you just won the lottery, but as with everything, strings are attached. We own you now.”
Because Biden’s deterioration has been worse/faster than they expected.
Irrelevant. He doesn’t run anything anyway. This is the country where Woodrow Wilson was his wife Edith’s handpuppet for a couple years. You may think TV and the Internet change that calculus, but I don’t. The masses are as credulous as ever.
Better to ask: Why stage a public humiliation of Biden and a triumphant return of Obama to the White House?
Confidence/morale boost. What you see as a “public humiliation of Biden” they see as an “invigoration of our progressive purpose” or some shit. I mean, to them, literally Jesus just showed up and reminded them they’re the good guys.
It was just so fucking pathetic, though.
It was just so fucking pathetic, though.
Worse than Kimmel/Colbert/Fallon?
Now I’m trying to decide whether kbo or I are more cynical.
I’m not trying to blackpill here. This is the absolute state of American governance (assuming I’m not wrong). These people are pathetic, their supporters are pathetic, their justifications are pathetic, but they can still be dangerous and competent when it suits them. The Constitution is long dead, the people are not going to rise up, and the conditions don’t yet exist to reverse any of this.
None of these things are beyond change, but they won’t be changed if ignored or denied.
This is the country where Woodrow Wilson was his wife Edith’s handpuppet for a couple years.
Here’s the difference. Wilson had a stroke and the administration was left with a power vacuum that was filled by good ol’ Edie. The power brokers in the Obama machine thrust Biden into the spotlight knowing full well that his brain was slowly rotting. The idea that there’s some sort of shaking out going on behind the scenes strikes me as unlikely. Much more likely is that they had a plan (or at least a general road map) in place in 2018 or so and have been executing on it as Biden’s decline accelerates.
Remember that Biden represents the old “respectable” Democrats. Obama’s machine represents the new prog-fascist sect. Biden served his purpose in 2008 by bridging the new to the old, and now he’s serving his purpose in 2020 by chasing their core constituencies across that bridge before blowing it up.
Yeah, I guess the only point of difference between you and me is that I think Biden will finish out his term (unless he dies), whereas it seems like you think Harris (and only Harris, not someone else) will replace him before then.
I’m neutral on the Biden issue. I don’t think it particularly matters to anybody except Kamala that Kamala could get 10 years in office. She’s one of thousands of easily bought leftists who could be elevated to the same position. The only thing that would push Kamala into office is Biden and his handlers trying a power grab, and I doubt he has many of his old pre-obama handlers with him still. Herr Doktor Jill may be the only one who can remember the old days.
You give them far too much credit for competence at devising a plan and executing it. The simpler explanation is the D party attracts narcissists and they can’t stop demonstrating it.
What often comes off as incompetence is often behind the scenes power wrangling. These people aren’t evil geniuses, but they’re also not bumbling idiots. They also tend to be master manipulators with a keen nose for power. They don’t scheme like Bond villains, but they do scheme, usually for personal and sectarian gain. What’s the biggest pot of gold in that sphere? An increasingly dictatorial executive position. I have no doubt that the Obama wing has been scheming to acquire and abuse that power since the Clinton machine swung its dick around in 2014/2015 to get Hillary on the ticket.
My grandfather was named after W.W. My great-grandparents are probably glad they didn’t live long enough to meet me.
Willard Whyte?
You’re grandfather is Lazarus Long?
Wendell Willkie?
Well that would be a tell that the jig is up and the republic is fully dead.
It would also be an invitation for organized and armed resistance.
There is no base of support for armed resistance simply because the Presidency changes hands, even if it does so in an obviously manipulated way. That’s not a cassus belli in a country without any significant armed forces that are independent of the government. The only armed resistance we might get is insurgency, and that requires a much more visible show of force on the part of the regime to instigate.
“Turn off the TV and start a garden” seems to be catching more momentum than “watering the tree of liberty” these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BofvfVPFbiM
If the D’s pull something that blatant, I can see a red state or two declaring independence. Whether or not that leads to a shooting war I don’t know. A lot of the twitterati would seem to be happy to let TX go. And why not? It’d give the D’s a better chance at a majority in the leg.
Maybe. A lot has to change between now and then structurally for a state to be in a position to secede. The national guard would have to be minimized or coopted, the SDF would have to be expanded and its loyalty ensured, the FBI branch office would have to be isolated and/or kept away from the state government, etc.
I’m not necessarily signing on to this idea but, if it were true, I don’t think “crashing an airplane she is on and killing all on board” would be necessary.
I assume that about 95% of the people in D.C. have records of corruption, sleaze, anti-social behavior that is outside the norm. If the protection around them goes away and that info makes it into the public realm, they could be forced out.
That was more an example of the lengths I think the Powers Behind the Throne would be willing to go to.
Without batting an eye.
The tricky part is, can you open Harris’ Pandora’s box of corruption without taking down others who still need to be protected?
I don’t want to talk about opening Kamala’s box.
For Fauci to have the gig he has, he must have more dirt than J. Edgar ever had.
Who cares how much sleaze there is? Since Slick Willy showed the world that as long as you don’t go voluntarily, there really is nothing they can do.
You get caught getting BJ’s in the Oval Office from someone who isn’t your wife? Before that, everyone would have just resigned and slinked off. Bill proved that if you are shameless, you are impervious.
To be fair, Bill had the advantage of charisma. Something that no Democrat since has possessed.
I dunno, Obama’s pant creases were known to create a sexual arousal response in journalismists.
If the whole media world, and the majority of the Democrat Party, had piled on, there may have been a different outcome.
-1 JFK
It would need a majority vote of both houses of Congress without a VP to break a tie in the Senate.
25A Section 2.
The 12A may also bar Obama from being VP:
He meets the eligibility requirements (natural born, over 35). He is term limited from being re-elected again.
/Roberts OFF
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of
Sciencethe penaltax?Romney, Snow, and Collins, at a minimum, would spread their buttcheeks (again) for Obama.
That vote requirement simply puts a deadline on getting this done before the election.
I have no doubt that Murkowski, Collins, and/or Romney would vote to confirm Obama.
It could be that Barry’s just a dick.
I know, I know… Porque no los dos?
This particular conspiracy theory provides an answer to: why Biden and Harris?
It also shares the weakness of all conspiracy theories – it presumes an unlikely degree of competence by the conspirators.
I think it’s a good theory, and I believe Harris will resign, Hillary becomes veep, Biden is 25th’d, etc. I’d guess whether to initiate the plan or not will depend on the 2022 election results and how desperate the deep state gets.
Two potential issues.
1) Doesn’t the VP have to be someone eligible to be elected president?
2) You would need at least one Republican defector in the Senate, as there wouldn’t be a VP to break any ties.
I can’t wait to see Brad Thor’s next novel.
(5) Trump cleans Obama’s clock in 2024, as 3 new wars, continued double digit inflation, and federal mask and vax mandates continue.
Won’t have to at wait until the end of next JAN since you can’t be POTUS for more than 10 years?
“won’t they”
Grummun-
Nice desk.
Question: does what you call the front rail carry through full length to the wall on one or both of those top surfaces, or do they just come together as an inside corner?
You’ll see details in Desk Part 2: This Time It’s Personal, but the short answer is the front rail on the short section is supported by leg assemblies at both ends. One of those assemblies is completely under the desktop, against the wall. The front rail on the long section tees into the short section, and is supported by a lot of steel.
“…even if it means crashing an airplane she is on and killing all on board.”
+1 Hale Boggs
Interestingly, Boggs was the only member of the Warren Commission to publicly question the Commission’s findings. Rep. Boggs and Rep. Nick Begich were on a flight over Alaska that disappeared in 1973. Guess who packed Boggs’ luggage for the trip, perhaps placing an explosive therein? Why, it was Bogg’s aid, a young William Jefferson Clinton.
Spicy info!
You have my numerals if you ever want to chat, I0b0t.
Thank you. Thank you very much. You and Judi are good folk and I’m proud to know you.
I had never heard that story, so I looked it up.
Found this under Personal Life:
We really do live under hereditary monarchy.
If the Obama daughters ran for Senate, does anyone think they would lose?
Apropos
I always liked that song.
When it came out, it amazed me that they compared Kennedy to Mussolini and Ghandi to Stalin.
Now, it makes complete sense.
Interesting. I never knew the Clinton angle to the disappearance.
*updates Clinton Body Count*
That’s just bonkers.
Let’s face it, there is nobody in the current line of succession that is even remotely competent or palatable.
Mayor Pete, in blackface, from the wings.
Liz Warren, riding in on a mustang stallion using buffalo head guy’s body as a skin-suit.
Mayor Pete, riding his trusty steed Chasten!
Shaka, when the walls fell.
That episode always bugged me. In order to communicate by allegory, you’d first need a language in which people would learn the stories being referenced. While it might be seen as speaking to the aliens like children, why didn’t they try using that foundational language to speak to the main cast instead of the “Just shout my language louder in hopes they understand” approach?
para-related, there is a guy here that practices the tin whistle in the stairwell as in “Lessons”
Auctions are awesome. There’s no better way to determine the market value of something.
You may have a bias otherwise, but this is only true if its Vickrey (or equivalent) auction.
No, an auction (subject to certain conditions) reveals the market value. A victory auction reveals the values of the individuals in addition to the market value.
Vickrey, not victory
An open auction reveals information of the value of the other participants. A vickery, being sealed, doesn’t — at least not to the other participants DURING the auction. However, it encourages each participant to bid their true value.
Both lead to a “market value”, but optimal strategy in a vickery is to bid your true value.
I believe a vickery and an english open auction are functionally equivalent, in that the 2nd place bidder will bid up to their true value and the winner will be one bidding unit more, which is still less than their true value.
What a vickery takes out is emotional reaction. The thrill of the chase, which can lead to overbidding. It makes no difference to Homo Economicus, except he would prefer to not deal with the emotional bidders. Also vickery is faster and thus more efficient. Stop wasting Homo Economicus’s time, it has value!
Yes, I understand. I don’t think you do. A first price sealed bid also yields the market value, and is fast, but doesn’t reveal the bidders’ true values. Revealed to the auctioneer. You said only a Vickrey yields market value – not true.
I did hedge with the “or equivalent” which would include an open auction. But, yeah, you are right on first price sealed bid also, as it does end up being revenue equivalent.
I was thinking one step short, thinking that everyone making true value bids best leads to market value, but game theory is more complicated than that.
Harris won’t go quietly methinks.
I think she could be a poster child for undeservedly high self-regard. It’s just those damn Biden staffers sabotaging everything she does. And her own lazy incompetent staff.
Don’t forget all the racist and misogynist Americans who won’t support her.
Democrats, my friend, Democrats.
Just think of the awesome for SF if it happens.
The time is now for all of us to SF the way we always time the things we economically do things for the SF.
How could you not have high self regard if you have the dizzying intellect to come up with this statement of pure genius?
It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Every day, it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.
I really want to print that out and post it in the office without attribution to see people’s opinions on it.
Damn it. Refresh, TH.
See, that is the significance of the passage of time.
Kamala Harris syndrome. KM for short.
At least her name will be remembered.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks. I really needed that!
Aaaaaaaw. That is super cute. I figured it would end with the reunion at the shelter, but when she got home to her whole “pack” of humans and dogs, it was even better!!
That was the part that made me smile too. Especially the boy hugging the dog.
Every kid should have a dog growing up. Nothing like barricading yourself in your room when you are a kid and the world is being unfair and hugging your dog who is the only thing in the world that Truly Loves Me.
Bases loaded home run, PJ
This right here is exhibit #1 in my argument on why dogs are more than just property.
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Today I formally go from Supervisor to Manager. It’s my current boss’ last day before the ‘coast into formal separation date’ burning of vacation leave. Plus I got my formal appointment letter that says I’ve been in the new title since march. So I’ve gone and updated my email signature. No one will notice.
WE notice!
I don’t send a lot of work emails to glibs.
Unles some of you started working for NYS.
O Frabjous Day!
Just don’t forget the little people.
I am still little people. And all my direct reports are in cubes within ten feet of mine.
Just enjoy it.
Well, that didn’t last long.
How many minions do you have?
You’re not my Supervisor!
I could be. We are hiring a consultant to be in my group.
Know anything about PeopleSoft?
Heck no.
I know tons about PeoleSoft; unfortunately it’s from a disgruntled user perspective, not an Oracle database administrator perspective.
I’ve used it in my previous 2 jobs and in my current one. Every company customizes the user interface, but the same crap underlies it all.
Oh, we do more than customize the front end. State HR processes are so non-standard compared to industry that we effectively wrote a whole custom application in PeopleSoft and bolted it onto the front. This is one of the big hurdles with the current HR consolidation project.
Stop fucking off here and start doing important Manager stuff like …
Approving time reports!
Performance Reviews!
Powerpoint decks for budget meeting!
Approving time reports! – This isn’t a pay week, they’re not due until next week.
Performance Reviews! – No goals have been set. (Don’t remind me that it’s my job to set the goals) Besides, I don’t know who to send the forms to.
Powerpoint decks for budget meeting! – Not my job. I only do weekly and monthly status reports that get rolled into a powerpoint deck for the steering committee.
It’s not due yet; no goals have been set yet; not my job; you ARE manager material!
Does is have the Great Seal of Her High Governorship Kathy Kochul? A
No, but her name’s on the letterhead.
Excelsior!
Nevertheless, Congratulations!
Thank you.
Wanton Wednesday sez “G’day M’lord!”
https://archive.ph/PEiYO
ATTN: Festus
Russia Tells the US “We Have Found Your Biological Weapons”
Always in the last place you look. China is getting into the act too – a bit weird considering what escaped from one of their labs (which we probably funded) – but understandable given the global economic war that we are in the process of losing badly.
It also shares the weakness of all conspiracy theories – it presumes an unlikely degree of competence by the conspirators.
If there really were puppetmasters (competent or otherwise), we never would have wound up with Biden/Harris.
You have to be able to take contrary evidence and spin it as proof of the conspiracy, like…
Of course they gave us Biden/Harris – the left just gets dumber for supporting them and the right is demoralized. The plan is working perfectly!
They are perfect puppets – ambitious and greedy enough to want the jobs, while too stupid and weak-willed to object to the being used. The ideological idiots (Sanders & Warren) were too likely to go off-script. A slightly brighter mainstream Dem like Klobuchar might expect to actually be in charge and try to prevent the economic disaster these people are causing.
All of the elite have no reason to fear an economic disaster, if anything the idiot proles will scream for govt to do more.
Nothing says conspirators have to be smart.
No, but the conspiracies they supposedly deploy do require a high degree of intelligence, competence, foresight, etc.
It helps to have tens of millions of people directly or indirectly employed to prop them up.
I remember a time when many NYers (city folk, I mean) said they never had to leave NYC because “we have the whole world right here”.
Chumps.
I’ve been to NYC. I’d rather not go back.
And from what I’ve seen of the world, most of it is not in NYC.
I get claustrophobic when I’m there. One of many reasons I visited NYC twice for pleasure in the 26 years I lived in NJ.
Living on the South end of Queens, I’ve been to Manhattan maybe twice since 2013. I rarely leave the peninsula, everything IS here – restaurants representing most every cuisine you could imagine, multiple supermarkets and bodegas, merchants vending most things coupled with (prior to pandemic) 2 hour delivery from Amazon, a citizenry who largely leave each other alone. The Rockaways is the only part of NYC I like. Still looking forward to getting white-slaved by WebDom, SP, and OMWC though.
I’m sure you’ll agree that Astoria is not Athens, and Chinatown is not Guangzhou. I’ve encountered NYers who have literally said “I don’t need to go to [Country] because [ethnic neighborhood] is right here in NY”
Yeah, I’m not up for another round of Region War.
Suffice it to say that no place is perfect for everybody.
What kind of attitude is that? Everyone must agree with me!
Kinky!
https://summit.news/2022/04/06/president-macron-says-he-is-opposed-to-self-defense-after-farmer-shoots-one-of-four-burglars-who-broke-into-his-home/
What is he? English? I thought Macron was supposed to be French.
Also, Farmer, you need to work on your follow-through. 3/4 of your targets got away.
He’s probably only allowed a single-shot 20 ga.
The gun laws in France (indeed, most of Europe) aren’t as restrictive as you might think. They certainly haven’t stopped Eric Grauffel from being the best pistol shooter in the world…
I’ll be the European lake bottoms are littered with grandpop’s old WWII guns taken by the Resistance or hidden by ex-Wehrmacht.
I know I shouldn’t be surprised by what any of these shitweasels say.
I can believe he thinks this, but not that he would say it out loud.
It’s France, the French don’t really care about it. You have to remember, they’ve had a lot of different govts over the centuries.
“Bend over and take it, serf”
People are certainly more comfortable expressing their base assholeishness, these days.
“Let them hire security.”
“Let them buy an electric car…”
Well, my corned beef is 5 hours away from being done in the sous vide (165F for 24 hours), but then I see this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wD-vxhM2iM&list=WL&index=3
I guess I’ll have wait until tomorrow to try these burgers.
One of our people here has a recipe that uses gelatine in the meat mix. I tried it and didn’t really notice a difference. Maybe I didn’t use enough gelatine.
I like the stock idea from the video!!
Possibly a goof on a recipe for meatloaf from America’s Test Kitchen, which was one of the best meatloaves I’ve ever had. The gelatin in the mix (plus some added moisture) is designed to mimic the veal in 1:1:1 ratio beef/pork/veal meatloaf recipe. Works really well, actually, although it’s not directly translatable to burgers (the resulting meat mixture “slumps” a bit too much, although that’s mostly a problem for grilling, not pan-frying).
Speaking of auctions- a property popped up on Zillow recently with a seriously below-likely-market price. The ad was mostly gibberish, but I think they were trying to recruit bidders for some sort of auction. I thought about calling the realtor, but didn’t.
it whispered “scam” to me.
We have houses in our area regularly post at about 2/3 market price, then sell for 120% what we thought market price was. Likely an attempt to generate a lot of interest and start a bidding war.
Why not? It’s how realtors pump properties throughout B.C.’s Lower Mainland.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/04/lets-brew-wednesday-1888-hancock-xx.html
Lets brew Wednesday…a 19th century dark mild, which is very early.
“But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,” said Macron.
If you really want to stave off that every man for himself apocalyptic nightmare, the best place to start is with enforcement of laws against violence and thievery.
hth
Macron, of course, has it backwards. Metro areas are Wild West because guns are outlawed (for the most part) and the outlaws have the guns. In more rural areas lots of people have guns and behavior tends to be more civil.
| You’re welcome to leave, and maybe run over a few progtards on the way out. Just make sure you don’t bring any of them with you.
And on that note, Zillow estimates for my county went stoopid high last month. The tax bill next year is going to be awful.
If you guys in the flyover states get lucky, enough of the Californians that move to your states could help your voters get motivated enough to pass your own Prop 13.
For all the brewers out there:
I would like to try to make Cherry Bounce.
I can’t find fresh sour cherries near me, but can get frozen ones delivered.
Would the frozen ones work or would the yeast be dead?
Can I add yeast?
If so what type?
Kinnath knows these things, he’s probably at work right now though.
robc is probably typing an answer right now
Kinnath would know better than me when it comes to fruit. But I think Neph got it right below.
Yeast can survive freezing (for some amount of time, and depending on the care). My guess is that the frozen ones may have been treated with preservatives (with the exception of Ascorbic Acid – Vitamin C) or pasteurized, which would kill the yeast. Can’t watch the video now, but if it was traditionally made with wild yeast, I would probably either try a wild ferment or get a lambic blend (which would approximate a wild culture blend).
Throw a dirty sponge into the fermenter!
Note: I don’t recommend this approach, but it has been done. I would be a yeast blend, like a lambic. Or just open ferment and hope for the best, if works for Cantillon!
Note 2 note: Cantillon has cats roaming around the fermentation room. I don’t know if that actually helps or hurts or makes no difference. I have hard no stats on the number of cats that have drowned from climbing into the coolships.
https://vinepair.com/articles/coolship-belgian-beer-brewing-techniques/
I would believe that the cats roaming are to help keep the mice and rats away. I mean… they aren’t making Guinness there.
Note: the rumor that Guinness used dead rats for flavoring has about the same level of truth that Corona/Bud/Miller/Coors is primarily urine.
Sooooo, both are true? ;-)
Thanks, I’ll give the lambic blend a try.
OK. Where’s the money?
I worked for a fin-tech start-up back in the cretaceous period – north of $100MM in funding, etc. (when that was a truly large amount of money)
Sadly, we didn’t get to keep that money when we closed the doors – we just gave it back to the VCs.
I’m still sitting in my Aeron from that job.
The aeron chair is the primary perk for working for a tech startup.
Truth.
I’m shocked, shocked I say to learn that the chairman of the Port Authority was a corrupt asshole – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEzaARxRQRs&list=WL&index=7
This being Yglesias… who knows what point he is trying to make.
61% of people have set foot on a college campus.
35% have achieved a bachelor’s degree or higher.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that at least 17% of people who have set foot on a college campus have no student loan debt.
If you look at people under thirty, the numbers are 66% and 37%
I assume he’s against taking money from the people who avoided debt for a worthless education and giving it to idiots who borrowed money and wasted it.
Eh, if you read the whole thread he says he would have supported it in fall 2020 for that sweet “stimulate the economy.”
Now he doesn’t support it because it won’t stimulate the economy. These are his arguments, not mine.
LOL
The fickleness of socialists
Feel free to “stimulate the economy” on your own dime, Matty.
Aren’t those advocating to cancel all student debt also admitting that much of higher education is a crock, that students sucked into going to college cannot get jobs that allow them to even pay off the cost of their college? Cancel debt? Hell, no. Instead, cancel any new student loans backed by the taxpayers. If Mom and Dad want to HELOC their house so you can study wyman/gender issues at Bryn Mawr, then let them do so.
I had a headline pop up in my newsfeed about someone who was 62, and still had over $260,000 of student loan debt. They were writing into a financial advise column since they had medical issues, and wanted to retire.
Imma call bullshit. College wasn’t that expensive when someone that age would have been there.
But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,
There’s always hope that this was some sort of mistranslation where Macron was trying to say that it shouldn’t have to be up to public to have to defend themselves. Otherwise, the obvious question is what the basis for the French state is. If the individual lacks the right to defend himself, he has no right to assign that right to the government as his agent to execute on his behalf. That, of course, concludes that the government does not have a legitimate right to employ force. Which makes it, effectively, a debating society.
Or you’re just property of the state and have no rights to assign.
It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West.
Yes, nothing is quite so clear and indisputable as the possibility that France turns into a fictional fantasy world.
The Wild West wasn’t even the Wild West.
I read an article about the “wild west” which noted that in the late 1870s you were more likely to be murdered in Baltimore than in Deadwood.
I guess nothing ever really changes.
I’d love to start punching in the face, and if he resists or calls security or whatever, tell him “Stop resisting. You have no right to self-defense.”
What he recognizes, I think, is that you cannot recognize a right to self-defense without also recognizing a right to the means of self-defense.
Hey, KK – 1965 Dodge 300 Custom with a Caveman camper.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-dodge-dodge-d300-chassis-w-caveman-camper/
She’s purty!!
What we’ll all be driving in a few years.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1960-lamborghini-1r-tractor-2/
My boss has this one at his farm.
https://thumbor-production-auction.hemmings.com/5848/0ab23764-74f5-4510-95c8-5c29fc8d7b6e.jpg
I was thinking us serfs (with +90% social creds) would be allowed something like these.
Wow! That looks similar to Clarkson’s P45 – https://youtu.be/aFdBcYN3sNw
Can it tow a Russian tank?
I grew up driving one of these.
I own one of its predecessors. (mine’s not that pretty)
Very cool.
PS. LOL!