Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderfully amazing day it always is!
Durham unmasks alliance between media, Democrat dirt diggers that triggered false Russia story (and for those of you in the peanut gallery who have been following Spygate for the last few years, the point of posting these stories is that they are finally coming out in public legal documents which is a huge fucking deal, so save your retarded “old news” type comments, we all know it’s “old news” that’s not the point of these news stories, you obnoxious cunts)
Abbott approves $495M transfer from state agencies to fund border initiative
House GOP introduces bill to terminate Biden’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’
All employees at every company needs to come together and use this excuse
Green Energy Industry Is In For A Rude Awakening
Disney’s chief critic of Florida’s ‘anti-grooming’ law leaves company after just 3 months
Forensics Expert: 2,000 Bloodthirsty Serial Killers May Be Living in U.S.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Durham unmasks alliance between media, Democrat dirt diggers that triggered false Russia story (and for those of you in the peanut gallery who have been following Spygate for the last few years, the point of posting these stories is that they are finally coming out in public legal documents which is a huge fucking deal, so save your retarded “old news” type comments, we all know it’s “old news” that’s not the point of the news stories, you obnoxious cunts)”
Why do you think Mayorkas announced that “disinformation” government agency last week, huh? They plan to shut this thing down with “government approved facts” ASAP.
Its about programming.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/01/cnn-guest-gives-the-game-away-in-deranged-rant-on-controlling-speech-n558631
It’s about programming people to believe the lies they need the lemmings to believe. The fact people have the ability to circumvent the lies they tell us through the legacy media is a big problem for these crooks, which is why they are doing this Orwellian shit.
And now that this shit has drastically backfire on them? Well, lie out of your ass and pretend this was an orange man’s bad idea. I am serious, these people are fucking stupid on a level that is shameful, and they are angry they have to work hard to hide it from people they look down upon.
Instead of trying to avoid or do things to make problems less problematic, they now are 150% focused on controlling what you believe of their ineptitude, with the goal to make you think they are not the cause of all our problems..
HTML FAIL!
HEPL EDIT FEARIE!
So you want your own DGB to cover up your inability to code HTML?
DOES NOT COMPUTE!
[Edit Faerie enacts labor for HTML-challenged commenter]
As usual Tonio, you show your class and composure, especially in light of Ted S’ attempt to undermine your value to us HTML screwer-uppers!
Thanks!
Damn… I was kind of looking forward to just what horror would be spawned by summoning an Edit Fearie.
*YOU RANG?*
Oh SHIZZ!
I still don’t know how you guys managed to get a camera in my bathroom.
OMG Is that who I think it is?
Psaki said, “This is also work, um, that is helping to, uh, address unauthorized terrorism, other threats, and see how disinformation and misinformation is being pushed to lead, uh, to increase those.”
We only allow authorized terrorism.
Freudian slip
Whycome you hate the CIA and FREEDOM?
She’s having trouble getting the words out because it’s too much bullshit for even her.
“House Republicans demand answers from CBO after it ‘miscalculated’ student loan program budget by $500B”
Soon you’re talking real money.
Well, it was real money before the government used covid as an excuse to inflate the money supply.
Exactly. Now when I hear that the government is proposing to spend eleventy gazillion dollars on something stupid I think “well, it’s just useless $USD”.
My world hunger talking points.
This travesty is another criminal activity by the aristocracy to help forgive their ilk of part of their financial obligations by making the people that were smart enough to avoid the college loan racket in the first place, or worse, the people that paid off their obligation in the first place, pay for the stupid fucks that got worthless degrees.
Forensics Expert: 2,000 Bloodthirsty Serial Killers May Be Living in U.S.
Or there may not be that many.
Like, 545 of them?
great minds think similarly
I think he meant 535.
add a president, vice president, and some others
NIH, FDA, CDC, EPA, etc.
Well over 2,000
Which is why I said 535: it’s a number everyone gets.
I shoulda said 546–I forgot the VP
Congress
Senate
Prez
Vice-a-prez
Supremes
Probably “More or Less”
There probably are, but they’ve all gravitated towards law enforcement, so problem gets overlooked.
There are exactly 57 serial killers in the US.
One for each state?
Swiss for President!
One for every Obama state.
Need to refresh moar often.
“Abbott approves $495M transfer from state agencies to fund border initiative”
The federal government should pay for that.
The problem right now isn’t the paying, it’s the doing.
Morning, Banjos.
whaddup doh’
My dick.
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Don’t worry Chumptown — I’m still your Dictator. Just out in the suburbs for a change of pace…
Viva la Waffle!
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Spicy commentary on link #1.
It’s not free of sugar at all.
So, it’s nutria sweat?
Yeah, I liked it.
When you click through, there is an autoplay video with a female newsreader who needs to file suit against her plastic surgeon. She looks normal, attractive even, from the front and like some kind of inhuman monster from the side. Between that and mutilating the genitals of confused children, plastic surgeons may be one of the most malevolent forces in today’s society.
They have school loans to pay, so they need the money!
Wasn’t this addressed in the movie, “Rango”?
https://ktla.com/news/the-water-is-not-there-drought-forces-las-vegas-to-draw-from-deeper-within-lake-mead/
Wait till the Nile is turned into a creek by the dam the Chinese are building in Ethiopia.
https://scitechdaily.com/a-grand-new-dam-on-the-nile-the-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam/
I seem to recall that Egypt has sworn that they will go to war if anyone upstream dams the Nile. After all, the Nile is Egypt. Without it, there is naught but desert.
Are they in De Nile?
I think that turned out to be a pyramid scheme.
You mean I shouldn’t have invested in Giza Tech?
This is just a plot to take down the My Pillow guy and his Egyptian cotton sheets.
Doubleplusshoulderpinch
Armpit, not shoulder
GHEE-ZUH! (Rhymes with CHI-NUH!)
LOL
There are some interesting points in there, surprisingly. Not the racial crap, but maybe the age stuff and the location stuff. I don’t get around as easily as I used to – why should I massively inconvenience myself to haul my ass to the office when I can contribute just as well sitting on my ass at home?
Especially since I can watch porn at home on my own computer. Something they frown upon at work?
And this is a bad thing? Think of the savings in health insurance costs alone!
How does that balance out with these young people wasting between 50% and 90% of the time on frivolous bullshit instead of work?
You mean in office or at home? I hardly get anything done when we all go in office.
Anywhere. I have a whole bunch of younger people that always have work-life, or work networking obligations that keep them from delivering work in a month that takes me about a day to complete…
work networking obligations
Ah yes, when HR gets to pull resources from all departments whenever and however they want.
It still amazes me that I’m apparently in the minority of my age cohort for wanting to work hard and get my tasks done, and then shut my laptop and go live my life. I’m not interested in social hour or playing team-building games or ERGs or donating my time to leftist charities.
These days working hard gets punished. I had one of these youngsters tell me that not “volunteering” when you are “voluntold”, especially because of work obligations, make you despised by the others…
Proof that whoever’s doing the voluntelling needs to be fired as they clearly don’t have a purpose within the business’ core competency.
Not only despised by the others, but it’s a not-so-optional requirement for some positions. Thankfully, covid threw a wrench in that one, but pro bono will start coming up in my performance reviews again sometime this year, I’m sure.
The networking stuff is expected, too. They frame it as career development, but it’s all about putting the company out there as a leader in the space.
To be clear, I’m happy to networking or volunteering on company time so long as I get paid, I get a commensurate reduction in actual work, and I get to refuse “opportunities” that are thinly veiled prog-fascist activism.
I have gotten to the point where I no longer do any of that shit. After being asked to do some Innovation jamming shit and coming up with Ai the fucking company patented only to tell me they would put other people in charge of making it real, I decided they could kiss my ass. I get “asked” to participate in all these things constantly, and ignore them all.
Pay me, and I work.
“Things started to go south for Disney and Morrell in early March when the company decided to uncharacteristically take a public stance on a piece of legislation passed in Florida—HB 1557 which is meant to prevent activist teachers from introducing gender identity to grade-school students.
The law, which was signed into law by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in March, makes it illegal for public schools to teach on issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender therapy, and other similar topics under grade 3 unless they are “age appropriate.”
Proponents of the law say HB 1557 protects children from being prematurely exposed to explicit materials or concepts. Critics claim that the law prevents teachers from discussing important subjects with students that don’t feel comfortable discussing them with their parents.”
Disney couldn’t figure that opposing that was a bad move from a company whose main business is entertainment for children?
It is not a teacher’s job to “discuss[..] important subjects with students [who] don’t feel comfortable discussing them with their parents.”
That right there was one heck of a lie on their part. These teachers are well aware that these kids, especially the really young they want to groom, have no idea about any of this shit to go ask in the first place. What’s going on is that they were keeping a promise they made a while back (on social media of all places) about how they would go after people’s kids & groom them, and the parents wouldn’t even know until it was too late.
Disney couldn’t figure that opposing that was a bad move from a company whose main business is entertainment for children?
That was the success of strawmanning and demogoguing the bill as “Don’t Say Gay.” It got gay Disney employees and their “allies” to make noise about an issue that didn’t effect them at all, and Corporate gave in to the employees’ tantrum, to their detriment.
Now Disney has until July 1, 2023 to either (a) get their shit together and go back to the legislature, hat in hand, asking for their special district to be re-approved, or (b) lose their special status and watch the $150M per year they paid to the Reedy Creek Improvement District turn into, say $750M / year to Orange and Osceola counties in property tax.
Choose wisely, Disney.
They thought they had…
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the people that took this stance helped them move their agenda to make banging kids leagal.
One of the massive problems that the left has right now is the inability to even remotely listen to anything that could be considered as coming from a conservative position, so they, at this point, have no way to back down. Far too many of their internal resources, executives to line workers, are on board with this and think it will work out in their favor, as no one is telling them the long-term downsides.
you obnoxious cunts
Banjos is a little sparky this morning.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, told Just the News on Friday that Durham is showing just how closely the media, the Democratic establishment and some rogue elements in U.S intelligence
“Some rogue elements” is a strange way to spell “all the senior leadership.”
Yeah — I thought she got Winston’s Mom to pinch hit on the links there for a minute.
I wouldn’t dare say it is that limited. Seriously past time to shut down all the Three Letter Agencies in DC. I don’t give a crap what it does to our “international intelligence operations” at this point — they’ve proven to do much more harm than good over the past several decades.
I’ll have to make sure I avoid driving through Dallas anytime soon now, of course…
Those rogue elements will always stab you in the back.
No, it was just that one Strzok guy with the demonic eyes.
“used the media” – poor, helpless media
Yeah, the real scandal here is not what the campaign tried to get away with, it’s that the media chose to be in bed with them. If the Trump campaign had come to the media with some fabricated sketchy crap they would have rediscovered their ability for skepticism.
Gaaa! What happened to Banjos?
Somebody impolitely remarked on the timelessness of a link too often?
The thing is, women are subtle. They hide how they truly feel. They fake laughter and orgasms. You have to just appreciate when they are being real. Plus, are we so thin skinned you can’t call us obnoxious cunts?
I’ve been called worse things.
Some of you lot have even falsely accused me of being libertarian.
That’s because of you driving gloves, brah…
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A woman can’t always be sunshine and butterflies. I blame it on the government.
I thought it was their superpower, like never having to fart.
My “Buttle Twins” story has turned out to be prophetic.
Someone’s been mentally abusing that kid.
I’m sure it is way more than one. Poor kid.
The damage we are doing to these kids with this shit is unforgivable. We are purposefully creating idiots that are angst driven by meaningless shit so they have no time to focus on how evil and bad the people in charge are.
If Welch is trying to virtue signal about how he’s filled his prepubescent child’s head with the most bizarre gender nonsense though up by commie political activists, he’s a monster. If he’s pointing out that he just noticed that his child’s teachers are doing so and he is expediting homeschooling options, I’ll allow it.
I actually read it as “my 7-yo is trying to be dry and satirical”, but I don’t keep up with Welch so not sure if he (…..) does stuff like that.
As a regular Fifth Column listener, I’ll say it’s more the latter – in that, he’s not filling his kids heads with that but they’re getting it from school. He’s mentions it regularly.
Living in Brooklyn is clearly more important than having your kids free from insane indoctrination.
And this is the problem I have with Reason libertarians. They are still clinging to the idea that the government we have is in any way acceptable, that we are not already at war with those who seek to rule us in Hell. They want to preserve their existing relationships with their college friends than they want to stick to a set of principles that would make them undesirables.
I’m not sure Welsh ever self-identified as a libertarian.
Brooklyn ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s woke as hell
noice
Poor Matt… someday he’ll get it, but by then it will be far too late.
Tonio, since you’re around, I submitted five articles over the weekend – the remainder of “Blood on the Bricks” and the entirety of another story “Saving Face”.
Thanks. We know they’re there, and got your timeslot request. Swiss does the scheduling.
Okay. Just wanted to be sure.
Saving Face is up next two Thursdays 1100.
I will have to see about the longer one.
Thank you, sir.
I know it’s going to bug me if I don’t ask, is the issue content or just finding the right spot? I know that one is less family friendly…
NPR had a long segment on a bar in Portland (OR) that only shows women’s sports, only serves drinks from woman owned breweries and distilleries…
The word “lesbian” is never mentioned.
Do they require the owner to be actively involved in the operation, or is it like the NY contractor regs where they can have a figurehead who’s listed as the owner on paper, but doesn’t meddle in the actual work?
It’s NPR, they just repeat what they’re told to.
Did they define “women”?
What do you think they are, Supreme Court nominees?
Boom.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ug38kn/a_caterpillar_that_takes_the_form_of_a_snake_when/
Nature is weird.
Huh… what about the caterpillar’s brother that becomes various (useless) types of water when threatened.
Someone’s rolling old school.
“Form of: Wonder Woman’s bath water!”
Okay, that’s badass,
Batesian mimicry is a thing, although I’ve never seen it to that degree in caterpillars.
Probably the most common examples in North America are the various harmless flies that resemble wasps, or the scarlet king snake, which upon first glance can be mistaken for a venomous coral snake.
Word
I was going to ask about the viceroy butterfly but that’s apparently a different kind of mimicry.
Green energy = Shit in one hand, wishes in the other
“‘The Supply Chain Does Not Exist’: Green Energy Industry Is In For A Rude Awakening”
Things we already know, another typical Spring morning, over cast and no wind.
Green energy = Shit in one hand, wishes in the other
So, Amber Heard?
I thought that was called “The Amber Turd”…
The ONLY viable green energy techs are “nukuelar”, which is 100% carbon free and the only tech at this time able to meet the energy demands of today and tomorrow, and if we ever get enough of a space based technology & presence, massive space based solar collectors. Everything else is a grift and things pushed by marxists trying their best to make sure the serfs don’t rise up to challenge their hereditary aristocracies considering how inept they are and how even more inbred and stupid their children are.
Florida House
Crackhead architect?
Don’t let Mojeaux see that.
At least it’s affordable.
I unironically love it and would live there in a heartbeat. The price is insane, but central Florida homes have just about doubled in the last 10 years (accelerating during Covid as people fled NY and CA).
It’s a beautiful house, I agree.
We’ve been looking at condos / homes in the Sarasota area for a couple of month as investment properties. The prices are going up so fast, the rents can’t justify them as a purely investment opportunity. That will have to change, one way or another.
Everything’s wonky. There are no straight lines. Just looking at the pictures leaves me on edge.
Reminds me of an airport lounge.
It needs one of these.
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
Look what they’ve taken from us.
That’s where my mind went, too. I picture one of them walking into the room saying, “Oh, ROB!”
80’s coke-dealer retro.
It’s a midcentury modern nightmare in curves and pastels.
That’s the kind of place you host orgies at.
Help! The sixties threw up all over my land.
I love it.
That sort of fifties retro-kitsch is presently popular among a certain segment of the buying public. The house will be snapped up in a week or two, despite the price.
Built in 1971, according to the listing.
I’m a fan of old movies, but I’ve always been turned off by the sterility of the retro-kitsch and the attempt to recreate the Kennedy era-as-Camelot bullshit.
There is a neighborhood in…I can’t remember, exactly…New Port ARI hey, maybe?
Ugliest houses I ever saw. Expensive, ugly, 1969s or 70s style houses. The schtick of the neighborhood was that everyone owned a private prop job, so each house had a hangar in the yard. The planes had right-of-way in the neighborhood.
New port richey
Stop trying to help, spellcheck
Ritchie indeed
I have visited a similar neighborhood near Ocala, FL. The runways and hangars were on the rear of the home, so they looked normal from the street, which planes did not go on.
That’s Jumbolair, north of Ocala. John Travolta is its most well-known resident, as he used to keep his 707 there. He tried to give that plane to QANTAS some years ago as a static display / museum, but there were some snags. JT recently upped his ATC to become type-certified in the 737, so I assume that will take its place at his house sometime soon.
Jumbolair also received some notoriety years back when it became the scene of Florida’s Darwin Award of the Decade.
Looks like a Fallout prequel.
That is a LifeStyle house. And by that I mean it will be bought at a primium by someone who will decorate in Atomic Googie style, dress in Atomic Googie style, and so on. Jetsons style, not poodle skirt style. But same vibe. I have had more than a few clients who would go nuts for that.
Hey, since I was not around yesterday, I wondered if you Glibronis had a moment of silence for the over 120 million murdered and 3 billion forced to live under the yoke of evil due to socialism (but especially marxism) in the last 100 years plus on May Day…
Wait, it’s May now?
Shit.
No, we celebrated the return of outdoor fucking instead.
Is that like the sport fucking vacations some idiot I know tried to recruit me for? Apparently there is a whole industry of pervs going to third world countries to do illegal shit with minors or women that won’t (read that as can’t) say no. I am not into that. But banging in public could be interesting. At least if we are talking about adults that don’t make you scream and run away when seen nekked…
Courtesy of pistoffnick. Enjoy
Someone actually sent me this at work last year. SMH
That sounds really creepy.
Also a perfect opportunity to collect blackmail material.
Nice.
Has anyone watched Outer Range?
I watched the first episode yesterday and thought it has potential. But it could easily be one of those shows that climbs up its own asshole and dies.
I’ve watched 3 or 4 episodes. It’s okay mainly because James Brolin is carrying it.
I don’t know if it’s well thought out, so I don’t know if little details are supposed to be clues or not.
Like when Mysterious Hippie Chick is plucking a pheasant. Am I supposed to notice that she never asked permission to hunt on that land, ask how she got it, or that Brolin is totally ok with this? Or wonder why a hippie poet chick from Boulder is eating meat in the first place?
Euphemisms? Like “Eating a pheasant” means swallowing a sword?
One of the main features of that character is to encourage older male fantasies of attracting college chicks. She totally gropes the greybeard dude before shoving him into an endless abyss.
I think Brolin’s character has no idea how to deal with her. She’s a wildcard in his ordered life.
OK, but she doesn’t turn out to be a sorceress or something?
I don’t know, She seems to be the kind of crazy hot that guys around here would be tempted to stick it in despite the consequences.
Can confirm.
I have a feeling she’s Josh Brolin’s mother or something.
She’s Barbra Streisand?
“Disney’s chief critic of Florida’s ‘anti-grooming’ law leaves company after just 3 months”
That’s as close as anyone’s ever going to get to Disney admitting it was wrong.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out these people running Disney still think they were right to do what they did. With the vast majority of the people running that company, I bet this guy was punished for not succeeding at what they wanted. Not because they feel what he did was wrong.
He’ll have lots of parting gifts and will fail upwards like these people tend to do.
“The cost of our product is increasing, so we’re losing money”.
Of course inflation and supply chain issues are affecting all sectors but it kind of seems like the distortions in the green energy market are going away and we’re seeing the real economics of it.
Wait until you have to pay through the nose to dispose of the toxic shit left over when this crap stops working….
You won’t even notice it because there’ll be a government program to subsidize the
recyclinglandfilling operations buried in your 50% income tax.I hear they’re the target of a hostile takeover attempt by Cabrini Green Energy Technology.
Chicago, Chicago, that toddilin’ town and home of Cabrini Green Tech
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Why would you go to a restaurant to choose to complain about something you didn’t like there? Me, I just make it a note to not go back after I – nicely – communicated an issue to the management and it was not well received (and this wouldn’t be an issue I would feel any decent human being would feel compelled to communicate). But I guess the thing to do is to try and ruin a business to show them how big of a dick you are…
Wonderful. The pic of the little guy with his paycheck made my day.
Thanks, Holiness!
Gives me hope
I couldn’t watch with the audio on, but had the CC. Heartwarming!
Mammary Monday gives you two reasons to love this week.
https://archive.ph/j8bps
That Florida house is sweet. I’d live there (If it had a 3500 sq ft mid century modern garage out back). Did any of you happen to notice the “views” and “saves” numbers?
I predict Boebert’s bill will be left high and dry by the majority of the regime Republicans.
Meanwhile, other bills are being proposed to end Western civilization, or maybe humanity as a species, which will probably receive bilateral support:
Is there anything worse than a desperate, sell-out Republican?
I think I’d take AOC over him.
You’re just jealous because you want to date Kinzinger.
Sadly yes. Just last week she voted against the The Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act. Granted she has no problem seizing assets in theory, just that it violates due process.
Talked with the embassy today. They cannot help me with legal shit, but they can assist in their own way. I have to fill out some paperwork for “Repatriation.” If I do things right, and everyone else plays by the rules, that means I get a flight (on OUR taxpayer money!…something that taxpayer money actually SHOULD be spent on, so THANK YOU/US) back home and a couple hundred bucks or so for a hotel and transportation to Indy.
I recorded it all! It was stressful. Not like the interrogation, but it was emotional. Ev is actually asking the government for help? Meh. Protecting your citizens abroad is ABSOLUTELY a legit function of government. This is what they are here for. It should be focused upon. Ask me how I know.
It was hard. Another chapter gets added to the novel. It constantly gets 1 Evan longer.
Lady just came back with the printed document: “AUTHORIZATION FOR THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT.”
It goes on. I’ll take care of it.
(I need a fucking break.)
Here’s hoping everything goes well.
I have no pull with the Korean authorities, so all I can do is provide moral support.
Thank you. Everything counts.
The embassy says that I, indeed, CANNOT leave the country until May 10th. I have to file this paperwork and, oh shit, do I have to go to Seoul to file it? I mean, meh, it’s only and hour-or-so away, but that is quite an errand. I might be able to just give to immigration here in Daejeon. I’ll listen to the call again and read further. I’d rather not go up north til I get to Incheon and can fly away.
I would not say that this is “scary.” (Though it is, a bit, but that’s not where my mind is.) I think I nailed it: I’m in Purgatory. Patience, ev. Stay calm, ev. Have some fun, ev. Soon, your lark will fly away towards brighter shores.
Last desperate rearguard action at Twitter?
It will be interesting to see if Musk can get that nut reinstated.
It seems to me that the lefties must have the same problem with businesses the righties have with entertainment. It must twist the lefties up when they really like a product (My Pillow or Tesla) but are horrified by the people who run those companies. The same way righties can love watching movies or listening to music only to be horrified by the actors/musicians who are performing.
It just pisses me off that your nutcase was banned but all the fucking Russia Collusion liars still get Tatter’s seal of approval. The most telling and convincing reason for believing the election was stolen, was the desperate need to punish and silence anyone that questioned them. if the election had been legit, I would have welcomed any and all questions about it so I could actually make the people claiming it was stolen look ridiculous with proof they were wrong. Silencing them however tells the opposite story….
9/11 Trutherism was pretty effectively dealt with by having more people chime in to show why the Truthers were nuts. They didn’t ban the Truthers (not that Twitter or most other social media was around then).
I would bet that 99% of the people are pretty sure now that 9/11 was not an inside job because they dealt with the conspiracy theories with more speech.
I will also go out on a limb and say that 20 years from now a lot of us geezers who are still around will still be arguing that the 2020 election was rigged.
I am pretty sure once it doesn’t matter anymore that people know they stole the election, they will just shrug and tell ya too late. That is, unless they manage to fortify another election, and need to keep that racket going longer…
But as I tell anyone that says you are nuts for thinking elections can be stolen: why would a system, specifically designed to be both hard to audit and opaque in its ability to show every vote was legit eventually not become coopted & corrupted by the people that believe cheating to win is worth the rewards? You can’t both have the political class wanting the system to become even harder to audit and have confidence in, for whatever reason, and rewards that are so high that people will feel getting caught cheating is worth the risk, and pretend your elections are not going to be rigged.
How long did it take to admit to the fraud in the 1960 election?
Have they done that yet? Cause I hear them not complaining when people point that out, but that’s not the same as admitting it…
Twitter is very selective on enforcing “ban evasion”.
Yeah, a very common post in libertarian twitter is a new account that looks almost exactly like the old one saying “help me find my frens”, ie retweet so my followers will notice I’m back. However I tried to create a new account after being banned and was sniffed out immediately by twitter security.
I want to sign up for Twitter just so I can be “permanently suspended for making the baseless claim that former President Trump won the 2020 election” too.
But I have better things to do with my time.
“you obnoxious cunts”
*big eyes*
Speaking of banjos…
https://youtu.be/85mDyWCgHy0
““Freedom of speech” has become a paramount concern of the techno-moral universe.
But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution”
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1520093808758861824
“Elon Musk and the Tech Bro Obsession With ‘Free Speech’ …
The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation…
Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of the world because most trained as engineers, not as writers or readers, and a lack of a humanities education might make them less attuned to the social and political nuances of speech.”
https://time.com/6171183/elon-musk-free-speech-tech-bro/
Retardation, a celebration.
Buy that author some cake.
Don’t read the comments. You’ll need to buy Sara Lee.
Note the use of the word “bro” and the assertion that goes along with it that things stereotypically male are somehow automatically wrong and bad.
The cheapest 9mm on targetsportsusa.com is made by “Sumbro.” I am a bit hesitant to try it.
Huh.
Which Macedon? The independant nation or the province of Greece?
If it was good enough for Alexander, it’s good enough for me!
Since I’ve got their prime membership, I’ll buy one box instead of a case.
Hey, with a name like that…
Her father is Jonathan Alter, who may be one of the dumbest commentators on the Left. No surprises that he turned out a little wannabe administrator of a bureau to correct “philosophical intoxication.”
This a pure appeal to envy. Those successful engineers and businessmen just don’t understand things the way we do, even though we don’t get properly rewarded for our deeper understanding. We should be in charge.
It’s a fair point, actually. Engineers tend to support big government, because they like the idea of a technocracy (they get to be in charge!) and a mind of gears and objective answers means if we just put the Top Men in charge and give them unlimited power, we will live in utopia.
Engineers also tend to overlook messy human factors a lot.
I don’t disagree, but she isn’t inclined towards a non-technocracy, just a technocracy ruled by her and her ilk.
lack of a humanities education
I recall taking a communications course in college along with a couple other non-journalism majors. All the journalism majors were upset with us because the professor graded on a curve.
“Broadcast disinformation to millions of people…”
Huh. That’s an interesting take.
In other news, John Durham.
And she completely glosses over the fact if Musk owns it, he gets to do what he wants with it.
They obviously view Twitter as a regulated utility and not a private enterprise.
Before Musk’s offer to buy Twitter, the left was all “Build your own platform”. Now they want the government to control the platforms….
They knew they could make sure nobody could build their own platform, because they were the gatekeepers for that as well. Musk’s move wrecked the carefully put together monopoly in one fell swoop. And these people are desperate to get back to having full control of the things people are programmed to believe, because without that their hereditary aristocracy of the credentialed moronic will have little chance of surviving in the long run.
Build your own messaging service, also servers, domain registrar, payment processor, … and we will still demand the government shut you down.
Twitter was supposed to be the gatekeep for the people that are worried that the old model – where people were programmed to believe whatever the deep state wanted them to by the legacy media – was failing because too many people checked out. The censorship and bullshit of the last 5 years was not about fixing anything, but about giving the narrative setters the ability to combat the uppity serfs whom had found a way to let others know the people in charge are playing them all for fools. Musk taking that key gate keeping tool away is not going to just be accepted by the inept and failing corruptocracy. I expect that now that their “Ministry of Truth” was met with the outright derision and shaming it deserved, that they will have to implement it behind the scenes, and rely more on going back to looking for a way to throw the US legal system at Musk (like they are desperately trying with the orange guy).
No, they view Twatter as a hammer, a hammer that only they get to use.
“House Republicans demand answers from CBO after it ‘miscalculated’ student loan program budget by $500B”
Pretty good odds that the stupid party will explain that if they were in charge this kind of miscalculation wouldn’t happen; instead of pointing out that this kind of incompetence is baked into any kind of centralized program and is a good example of why the feds shouldn’t be doing things like this.
“New disinformation czar was campaigning in March 2020 for ad platforms to refuse ads for masks. Maybe the “disinformation” frame is actually bad!”
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1520136207845396480
“This is good. Now hope the rest of the adtech industry stops placing ads for masks and worse (straight up disinfo!) on articles and info about coronavirus.
8:48 AM · Mar 4, 2020”
https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1235200450179354624
a lack of a humanities education
I guarantee that the typical engineer takes more humanities than the typical writer takes math/science.
I was required to take 18 hrs of humanities and 18 hrs of social science classes.
How many “writers” took 18 hrs of math and 18 hrs of science?
I knew a number of students who did 3/2 programs with a liberal arts school and Georgia Tech. For most, it was a 3/3, but that is beside the point. They ended up with a dual degree, a liberal arts degree from their first school and an engineering degree from GT.
I did.
Nevermind that I got a technical degree, I am more a writer than an engineer these days.
There are lots of writers with technical degrees. Hence the quotes around writers.
I can’t remember how to solve DiffEqs, since I’ve never used it.
Come to think of it, aside from the Shell Scripting elective, I’ve not used most of my college education. I use my criminal justice minor to argue on the internet, and for some reason I can still remember what Phase Modulation is, but really the big thing I learned is that most people don’t belong in college. Especially the bulk of professors and staff.
I think you would agree with the premise of Bryan Caplan’s “The Case Against Education.”
I didn’t “get” differential equations until I got to the parts of the ChE curriculum that required them. Then I could do them quite well. For me, the practical application was a necessary part of my understanding.
It was the same for me with Calc and Physics. I could do the abstract calc problems, but they really clicked and made sense when applying them to Newtonian motion.
The underlying elements of DiffEqs popped back into my head at the oddest time with an epiphany – while trying to manually land a craft on the Mun in Kerbal Space Program. (Having to constantly adjust thrust to steadily reduce velocity while the mass was dropping from the burned fuel to avoid either lifting back off again or slamming into the ground at too high a velocity.)
“How many “writers” took 18 hrs of math and 18 hrs of science?”
Why are you so racist?
My breakdown, since no one cares:
Humanities: 6 hours of required English composition. 3 hours of American Lit. 3 hours of “Imagining the American West”, a more specific AmLit class. 6* hours of linguistics.
SS: 3 hrs required US history. 3 hrs required PolySci. 6 hours Econ. 3 hours Psych (ugh!), 3 hours philosophy (Symbolic Logic).
*I actually took 9 hours of linguistics, the the 3rd class was as an elective, not to fulfill a requirement.
I AP’d out of most of that. Tech accepted AP for humanities, but not (of course) for math and science. I think I was left having to take 1 Lit class (did some kind of early American poetry), 1 German (had it in HS too), Psychology, and an Architecture class. But I’m an Architecture buff anyway so that was fine.
My HS humanities class was taught by UofLouisville profs for college credit. GT refused to accept it as a transfer, which says all you need to know about UofL (although their engineering school is decent). GT did accept my Calc1 credit from Bellarmine (also taught at my HS), as well as the Bellermine accounting classes I took one summer during HS.
So accounting filled most of my free electives.
I thought engineers took 24 hrs of math (2 * 4 * 3 = 24)
I don’t understand this joke.
Where I went, we were required to take the equivalent of four courses each in hard sciences, humanities, and social “science”, or each one-ninth the number of required classes to graduate. However, you could test out of part of the requirement if you did well enough on your AP courses.
They really need to decide what college is for. If it’s a glorified trade school, the humanities part doesn’t matter for an engineering degree. If it’s a horizon expanding experience for the elites, the vast majority of college students don’t belong there.
This mish mash approach doesn’t work.
This.
Oh, they know exactly what it is for; cash cow and indoctrination center for the left.
I was accepted to a small school that did a 2/3 program with Pitt for chemical engineering that would have resulted in the dual degree thing, but I chose to go to Penn State because of the better ChE department there. It’s interesting to think how different my life would be now had I gone that route.
Every fall semester in every university, the week before the final drop date how many freshmen engineering majors suddenly switch to some humanities major? How many humanities majors switch to engineering majors*?
Every fall all the kids go wild and party, party, party. The engineering majors discover that they are in a hole that cannot be escaped. The humanities majors find themselves mostly on level ground (unless they partied extra hard).
* Trick question. It is not zero because I switched from Journalism to Elec Engineering when I decided to get married.
GT didn’t have humanities majors, but I did see a graph once showing the transfer between colleges.
The engineering to management arrow was super think, almost as wide as it was long. The management to engineering arrow was almost impossible to see, it was so thin. But it did exist.
The college of architecture sat off in a corner ignored. There were some transfers out, but very few in. I don’t know if its the same elsewhere, but Arch students were basically vampires, living a reverse schedule from everyone else. They slept all day and got up in the late afternoon to head to class, then to the Arch building for working all night. There was the old story, probably apocryphal, that pilots flying a night flight into ATL used the Arch building to line up for landing, as the lights were always on.
And weird projects assembled out of cardboard – like full-sized recliners and stuff.
Thought about being an Architecture major, but career-wise it’s smarter to just be an ME with a bunch of Architecture books.
A friend who was an industrial design major hated his Arch courses, specifically the cardboard projects. He bitched for years about getting a bad grade over his hyper-functional cardboard chair while Archs had chairs that collapsed but got good grades because they were pretty.
In the assignment document, was aesthetics a grading parameter?
I’ve mentioned before that my undergraduate finance program as composed roughly of 1/3rd failed engineers.
I went to a big engineering school.
The good news for us is while they kicked ass in the actual quantitative based classes they struggled with anything that involved irrational human decision making.
I don’t remember precisely what the requirements were in International Relations, but I remember that I got out of a math requirement by having taken calculus in high school. I do remember that the course catalog helpfully designated which science classes were designed for non-science majors. I took two semesters of non-science major astronomy and two semesters of a UVA classic, Physics: How Things Work, the physics without math class. It was actually a really fascinating class – the instructor would disassemble various appliances and machines and tell you how they worked.
My calculus professor in college was not able to get tenure and was pissed. He was required to use the department-created final exam, and told us the faculty intentionally made it as difficult as possible to fail students. So at the beginning of the final, he went the through the exam and announced the answers to questions he thought were unfair (about every third question)… “Question 3 is “B”, Question 5 is “C”, and so on.
My physics professor had tenure but thought teaching Intro to Physics was beneath him. He made the tests incredibly difficult but then rounded up based on the curve. I remember getting a 38 on the first physics exam. That was later rounded up to a 95.
Tenure is a terrible idea.
You had a multiple choice Calculus exam? Damn… Never thought that would be something I would hear/see…
Scantron for everything except labwork. Even my organic chemistry exams were scantron and those exams were created by whatever is the national society for OChem.
So… how do you show your work?
After school activity with the teacher?
You don’t. Which makes it even more difficult because there is no partial credit.
A good friend of mine in college managed to fulfill his science requirements by taking Rocks for Jocks (geology course) and Football Physics.
The Football Physics was especially stupid. My buddy asked me for help on his homework and I discovered that there were no numbers because math wasn’t expected from non-science majors. So the homework would be “Consider the equation for force being a product of mass times acceleration: f = m x a, what would happen to the force if the mass increased?”
Then the multiple choice options were all some variation of F = m x a, but with different sizes of variables. F = M x a being what they were looking for. But it wasn’t just capitalization, the actual letters were very big.
That’s middle school level material. End the football program if you’re not going to hold them to collegiate academic standards from an era before the marxist takeover.
It was Memphis State. Graduates from there could take a test to get out of subjects when they enrolled later at a decent middle school.
Penny Hardaway went from Prop 48 student to Dean’s List student in one semester. Which sort of took the shine off all my selections to the Dean’s List.
Most at our 4 year state college – 2 yrs of math, science, social studies, and English, unless your AP scores got you credits.
“House GOP introduces bill to terminate Biden’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board”
It’s dead in the water because it would take at least a couple of democrat votes and there won’t be any as there are no democrats who don’t love state propaganda and the killing of the first amendment.
It would be good if they could get it out of committee and force a vote, but that’s not going to happen.
They at least need to get all the Democrats on record as voting for the ministry of truth.
This. Everyone knows it is going to fail, but the R’s look good to their own voters, D’s look like shit in a media environment no one controls. Of course it is going to fail, but it is politicswins all around for the right.
The Biden Administration has some ‘splaining to do!
No tater tot hotdish? YOU BLEW IT ALL UP!!!!!!!
*gorilla soldiers drag away Pope Jimbo*
C’mon man! That has to be racist, right?
Couldn’t they just shred real potatoes with a food processor? If they left the skin on, it would be more nutritious.
It’s a school kitchen, what makes you think they have any appliances other than “make frozen sysco food hot” hardware?
No, they have real industrial kitchen appliances, in a central location covered in dust.
I hate this sort of claptrap. It is your fucking kid, your first priority to to feed him/her. An extra $5 a week should not be a deal breaker. In fact anyone who is so poor that $5/week is an actual deal breaker already qualifies for free lunch.
Before I feel sorry for anyone for going hungry, I would want to see the financials. My sneaking suspicion is all these hungry kids have their own cell phones. But of course everyone in the McPoor family needs a phone and unlimited data plan. Expecting them to forego that in order to feed kids would be inhumane.
And cable and all the streaming services and a late model SUV and a lift kit on the pickup and a vacation to Disneyworld every year and, and, and…
Frugality is a lost art.
Sigh. I remember a period in my life where I didn’t even own a TV. I had to go to the “rich” kid’s apartment to watch TV if there was something important on.
My first TV was one I found out on the curb and brought it home and got it working with my dad’s awesome set of tools.
You still own a TV?
Same arguments surround public transportation, because really only poor people are expected to use it despite all the pious claims to the contrary.
Only poor people eat school lunch so it has to be priced so a homeless person collecting cans can afford it.
Then people wonder why the product is so shitty.
students will pay $1 more for lunch than they paid in 2019, before it was free. That’s a 30% increase.
Ignoring the actual issue, but I refer to the writers not taking math classes comments up above. How the fuck is $0 to $1 a 30% increase?
From that sentence I believe it was $x in 2019, $0 in 2020/1 and now $x+1
So is was $3.33 last year? I would think the $0 to $3.33 increase would have been the big deal.
UCS speaks/understands gibberish.
Well it doesn’t even matter because Minnesoda has passed all sorts of laws recently to prevent “shaming” of kids that haven’t paid their lunch accounts.
I get that it sucks for a kid to get the basic slop lunch when their parents fail to pay for a fancy elective lunch, but removing the shame from the equation doesn’t help either.
Of course, why would I expect shame to work on a parent who doesn’t care if his kid eats or not?
Not to get too dramatic, but my first priority and duty every day for the last 15 years has been to ensure that my offspring had a roof over their heads, food in their belly, and clothes on their back. Any parent that can’t do that is in the wrong line of work.
I’m guessing these students have single parent households, and the parent’s job consists of collecting entitlements from the government.
And the school’s job consists of turning a profit on federal school lunch/breakfast/snack subsidies.
Chump effect. You may think that being responsible for your children is the responsible thing to do, but they will make you feel like a chump for doing it.
I would posit that kids who are fickle enough to skip lunches aren’t really all that hungry to begin with.
Having spent a shitload of money on feeding therapy for my daughter, that is not necessarily the case.
The funny thing is, after all of that, we ended up with a 6 year old who will eat most anything.
Hold on there a second buddy!
Are you really going to come into a libertarian chat room and try to tell us that there might be exceptions to broad generalizations?!
Well I for one am not going to sit around while you bad mouth the United States of America!
Considering the high percentage of autists in these chat room, the fact that one of them might have textural issues shouldn’t come as a surprise. She was 2.5 and still eating stage 2 baby food. She wouldn’t eat anything with solid chunks at all.
She was going thru 15+ jars per day, she was going to bankrupt us on baby food alone. It turns out, Walmart and Meijer will cut you a deal if you buy baby food by the case.
Sometimes you have to grub for roots for dear leader.
Gaslighting 101
Conservatives maintain they have been subject to “censorship” by social-media companies for years, either by the imposition of terms of service they complain are unfairly punitive to the right or by bans imposed on particular users. There is ample evidence though, that social-media networks consistently exempt conservative outlets from their own rules to avoid political backlash, a fear seldom displayed when it comes to throttling left-wing content. And despite the right-wing perception of liberal bias on Twitter, an internal audit found that the site’s algorithms “amplify right-leaning political content more than left-leaning content.” The evidence suggests that for all their outrage, conservatives consistently receive preferential treatment from social-media platforms, but are so cavalier about disregarding the terms of service that sometimes they get banned anyway.
Nevertheless, it shouldn’t be surprising that many conservatives still complain that they are being censored even as these platforms’ algorithms continue to favor right-wing content. Indeed, the success of these complaints explains their persistence—if conservatives stopped complaining, the favorable treatment might cease. Musk is a sympathetic audience, even if that does not necessarily determine the direction Twitter will take under his ownership.
Well, that’s all I need to hear.
The projection is strong here.
Not projection which is an unconscious process. These people know exactly what they’re doing.
OFFS!!!
That narrative came out last week that the socials were right wing havens
Translated: No matter how hard we try, some dissenters still manage to find an audience.
Getting some link hijacking from front page to here.
State of California, after 13 years of me living in Las Vegas STILL sending me ballots. But it’s the most secure elections ever and as my brother would tell me…it’s only a handful…
Worked all weekend supporting my techs on a major outage…no days off for me but lots of comp time pocketed.
For economic reasons, wouldn’t it help residents of other states to wish California to fall into further socialist decay?
Kinda like the main reason the US did well economically after WWII was half the planet embracing socialism, ruining their economies.
The problem is, Commiefornia keeps exporting its ideas and its voters to wreak havoc on the other states.
The problem is Location, Location, Location. CA has the west coast ports tied up, both litereally and figuratively. Trying to get imports of thing that the rest of the company needs is much hard if the stuff is coming from Asia/Australia/India. And as CA falls further and further down the hill, the people flee, which spreads that disease further and further.
It’s a lose/lose situation.
Good morning, Banos!
Thanks for the lynx! And for the sensible chuckle at your commentary.
No fucking shit. Tell me again why one of the most mineral rich countries in the world is bending over for tyrants?
Oh, that’s right – we’re retarded.
The people running the country are both retarded and evil. The vast majority of us see the problem and the simple solutions, and who is preventing them as well. Sooner than later I hope the correction occurs.
There is plenty of nickel to be mined just south of the Boundary Waters. Every attempt to get a mining operation going there has been stymied by greenies.
The greenies livestreaming their protests on their cell phones.
NIMBY is alive and well. Any local meeting that has mining on the agenda will be well attended by hired guns of the lake property owners associations .
The law of supply and demand is a myth. It’s all in your head. Like vaccine injuries and deaths.
Doctor: Ready for your 4th booster Darren?
Darren (thumbs up)
Darren: I don’t feel so good.
Runt tests.
Doctor: Gee, seems like you got myocarditis and a number of other issues. Hm.
Darren: Is it the vaccine?
Doctor: Oh heavens no. I think, not sure, but I think it may be gremlins living in your body. Will have to run some tests.
Darren (two thumbs up. Slide mask back on).
The doctor is a quack. Clearly Darren’s humours are unbalanced. He needs some bloodletting and a diet of worms with garlic to rebalance them.
Damn your nimble fingers.
That’s exactly what popped into my head.
Me too
Unbalanced? Or were Darren’s humors bewitched?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnK3ffANGc
Since the humors could all be interchanged, bloodletting was only used because it was convenient on the surgeon and the Church frowned on other means of expelling fluid from the body.
I am anxiously awaiting for the day when genetically altered leeches are used to slow release the vax into people’s bloodstreams.
Masks will be old and busted. The new hotness will be vax leeches attached to your neck. People without a leech hanging off them will not be allowed in public places and will be shamed.
Anyone mentioning chonic anemia or the history of leeches in medicine will be banned from all social media platforms.
I am anxiously awaiting for the day when genetically altered leeches are used to slow release the vax into people’s bloodstreams.
Genetically-altered mosquitos are in the pipeline.
Already released in Florida:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6
The people against controlling mosquitoes are nuts. It’s been estimated that, since the year 200,000 B.C., mosquitoes have killed roughly half the total human population (54 Billion!), many in infancy.
The mosquito is also unique amongst known insects in that researchers cannot find an ecological “niche” in which the mosquito is vital and should therefore be protected because the knock-on effects of wiping ’em out would damage or destroy other insects/animals that we’d like to keep around. Worldwide, there are still between two and three million people per year (again, mostly infants) who die of mosquito-borne malaria.
Kill ’em all, and let God sort ’em out. Deus vult! ☠️
I thought mosquitoes were a large part of a bat’s diet. Or do we not need bats and they are only here to eat mosquitoes?
Yeah, we have a fair number of mosquitos near our ponds and, consequently, a sizeable bat population. I’d hate to see them go away.
Yup. I’m for reducing skeeters, but I don’t want to end up with a bunch of bats attacking me to suck the blood out of my neck because they are hungry.
Bats are fearsome.
adorbs
I think that bat’s needle-felted, but it’s not like there aren’t a zillion baby bat rescue videos on YouTube. I would hug them and squeeze them and call them George.
Bats, and some birds, I believe.
I would expect the larvae are also fish chow.
Vital? Since I’m not sure what that even means in an ecosystem, I couldn’t say. I’m pretty sure any list of non-vital species on the planet is going to include us, though.
Are you kidding, RC, Human-made spaces provide habitat and food sources for a vast array of species that would be devastated if we vanished.
In fact, the marine ecosystem off the coast of Tokyo is entirely dependent on the runoff from that city and has been for centuries. It is wholly unique as far as marine ecosystems go. That’s not even counting the species that would literally die off mostly or completely should we stop keeping them around.
Maybe. I guess I’m not really counting domesticated animals. I suspect what you would see would be a rearrangement back to whatever existed before – more of some, less of others, maybe in different places. I doubt entirely new species evolved in Tokyo’s runoff; it merely favored some over others to create a new balance.
So how would you then define an essential species, because by what I’m reading, nothing is essential because the rebalancing will take place if they’re removed. Some just have bigger footprints than others.
So how would you then define an essential species
I’m not sure if God exists or not. Sure, it seems like there had to be somebody responsible for all this splendor, but then why did he or she also create mosquitos, black flies, and cancer?
Contrast?
Seeing where this thread went. My work is done.
Self-described libertarian neocon (wrap your brain around that) Cathy Young’s extended apologia for a Ministry of Truth.
https://www.thebulwark.com/biden-dhs-disinformation-board-an-unserious-solution-to-a-serious-problem/
TLDR: Good idea, they just did it wrong.
Anyone that thinks horrible shit like this is great because right now it benefits the team they cheer for, but fails to realize eventually this tool will be used against anyone and everyone that threatens the people in power, deserves to have life fuck them into the ground.
If I take Young at her word (which I don’t), she is the dumbest SOB on the planet. There is no way, no possibility that an entity of that nature would remain apolitical even if it was explicitly designed to be so. That would last all of three minutes.
I find it amazing that the party which buys into postmodernism is so wedded to the idea of “truth” anyway. They don’t believe in objectivity, as evidenced by Spartacus during the Kavanaugh hearings and his little speech about “her truth.”
As I pointed out just last week w/r/t the public health response to COVID, it wasn’t “politicized”, it was inherently political from day one because it was the government doing it. Believing anything the government does isn’t inherently political is a category error.
No. End of story.
None of the word salad that comes after is in any way convincing. She of all people should be aware of what’s really going on.
She is aware. She doesn’t care.
Who’s going to tell her that “countering disinformation” is the END of “liberal democracy”?
She is completely deranged by Trumputin. Any tendency she had towards actual liberty shriveled away years ago.
Whatever happened to “The answer to bad speech is more speech?”
It died in darkness.
That’s, like, hard work, man! We can just censor them because they’re, like, totes wrong.
That is almost certainly the main motivation.
our democracy survived decades of Soviet disinformation ops, including the canard that the Rosenbergs were innocent.
IF Bulwark THEN not worth the electrons it’s printed with.
Corporate consolidation has made the Republican Party’s turn to authoritarianism much easier. Liberals focusing on how Musk’s acquisition of Twitter might affect their experience on the platform should look at the bigger picture. Corporate America has filled the void in civil society left by the weakness of organized labor, leaving a tiny number of extremely wealthy people with outside influence. All the right-wing “populist” rhetoric in America is geared not toward weakening this influence but toward harnessing it.
Say what you will about the Mob, they knew how o throw a May Day picnic.
TPTB- I know I have a truck article scheduled for the 5th, but I will be in Florida for work and unable to comment. I leave on the 4th and come back on the 6th.
It’s not a big deal, but I would appreciate it if it could be pushed back a week.
I will see what I can come up with.
UPDATE: Done, back one week. The Other Kevin, you are up Tuesday at 1100.
Thank you
Shit, I thought it was Ukraine!
The daytime one I saw was worse, with zombies hunched over shuffling around everywhere. This one just looks like some folks enjoying some nice weather at night in comparison.
Yeah that was my thought as well
Looks like Boston when I was there last month. Drove past a whole line of druggies and then a train stooped and a whole bunch came out of the station.
Saw one guy staggering so bad, I didn’t think he was going to go very far.
Went to a Dunkin’ Donuts about a half mile away to get my wife a coffee, and as we were leaving, the staggerer stumbled into the parking lot.
Not sure how, but he made it.
Huh, whereabouts? Outside of Methadone Mile, normally don’t see anything quite that bad.
I don’t know, it wasn’t too far from the North Shore.
Ah, yeah, if you were up in Chelsea or something, that might be more Philly-like.
Im guessing the Kensington section of Philly.
There is a prison gang in PA state prisons made up almost entirely of Kensington residents. Anyone want to guess what activity they mostly engage in?
Actually now that I actually watched it, its not that bad. I agree that alot of it just looks like a bunch of people enjoying being outside. Here is some pretty bad video of Kensington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqQ6-ANjL4
DISINFORMATION!!!!
If Mondale was truly an Important Person, he would have had a memorial service back when he died. All the other Important People would have shown up and attended while not wearing masks.
George Floyd > Walter Mondale.
Wow, diss.
LOL even some cop who’s ticker went out got to rest in state at the Capitol.
“other dignitaries”
LOL
If I take Young at her word (which I don’t), she is the dumbest SOB on the planet. There is no way, no possibility that an entity of that nature would remain apolitical even if it was explicitly designed to be so. That would last all of three minutes.
The Department of Agriculture is not apolitical. The Department of Education is not apolitical. The Army Corps of Engineers is not apolitical. What on earth makes Cathy Young think a department specifically created to control information would be apolitical?
What a credulous dupe.
All employees at every company needs to come together and use this excuse
Okay. I think I need to check for dogs and cats living together. I find myself mostly in agreement with the woke brigades. Actually, reading their letter, it actually sounded pretty reasonable. Given that, I have to assume the woke is just a smokescreen.
Actually, reading their letter, it actually sounded pretty reasonable.
I don’t know that its reasonable to organize a company, or society, around the demands of a fragile small minority.
200 people signed it, RC! 200!
AP is pushing this story (and headline) hard. Couldn’t be because of the recent Durham developments.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/evidence-mounts-of-gop-involvement-in-trump-election-schemes/
AP and Reuters are a joke. They were skinsuited a while ago.
They are, but their propaganda continues to be ran far and wide by compliant outlets.
That’s an interesting way of re-phrasing “were let in by capitol police”.
Trump and his henchmen are totes insurrectionists for discussing various ways they could play out the legal end game to the 2020 election. Why? I guess because they were supposed to know that it was illegal, illegal, illegal to do anything like that.
Biden publicly says that he doesn’t think he has the legal authority to forgive college loans, then proceeds to talk about doing so. Also orders OSHA to issue completely illegal mandate order. Biden Administration decides to challenge Federal judge’s ruling that CDC has no authority to require masks on planes. The list of illegal orders from Biden and his administration goes on and on (and all administrations do this).
But I guess holding Congressional hearings about some bullshitting in texts it completely justified and ignoring real actions from powerful Federal bureaucracies is just evidence of just how biased toward the right wing social media and the MSM are.
Trump used his tricknology to convince a bunch of dupes that the glaring irregularities everyone saw were real. OMG THE HORROR.
Shouldn’t the GOP be involved in getting Trump elected?
For the Glib Zoomers, I realized that db looks a lot like Zlatan, and now I can’t get that out of my head.
That man has a looong neck.
Looooooooong neck.
You need to start talking about yourself in the third-person, to make the Zlatan impression complete.
It would also help to be an arrogant asshole, assuming db is not one already.
That’s where the resemblance falls apart – db is not an arrogant douchebag.
I keep hearing about how crazy this chick is, but I don’t see it.
She’s spot on.
I’m reminded of a state rep that I knew. He had buried three successful companies. before entering politics.
I’m starting to understand why the evil ones hate her.
Why are we dropping the “e” from “cunte” now? Huh? Do you people not like me anymore? Did the meme die? I feel so forgotten! *runs from room crying*
We are male pigs that want to dump ye olde cunte for a younger version?
Et Tu your Holiness?
Hey, now look. When I was a younger writer, I would never have used the word “cunt”, much less had the audacity to add an “e” to it. I’ve gotten bolder in my old age.
Maybe cunte kinta seems racist to us dyslexics?
Some eye-candy for Tres Cool – https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1520780081874018305
Sorry for the Twatter link, Swiss.
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And yet I clicked.
*claws at eyes*
I WILL NUKE THE MOON!!!
The Doomsday Clock does not move.
“Russia Threatens to Nuke Britain, France, and Germany”
So, nothing important will be lost? Wait!…., oh that’s right, I don’t drink beer anymore.
Patrick Lancaster continues to amaze with his reporting. The Battle of Maripol so he decides to drive to the Donbas, comes across a village getting shelled and decides to stop and interview people while shells are flying overhead.
Very interesting. If true, it certainly puts the conflict in a whole different perspective.
I mean I’ve read the reports that Kiev has been killing citizens in the Donbas for years prior to this, but it’s different seeing and hearing it first hand from the residents themselves.
There has been sporadic fighting in and around Donbas for years, since the separatists took control. People get killed in civil wars, so I assumed there was an ongoing death toll.
I swear there is at least one Star Trek movie and maybe an episode or two about some rogue admiral or other dragging the Federation into someone else’s civil war. Will we ever learn?
This isn’t separatists fighting… it’s the Ukrainian government shelling villages full of civilians with no military value. And has been doing so for years.
8 years to be exact. Started shortly after that little coup we sponsored.
it’s the Ukrainian government shelling villages full of civilians with no military value
I’m willing to believe this; its the kind of thing that happens in civil wars. Any war, really – the Russians have also been shelling apartment buildings with no military value, and I would bet the Ukrainians have, too.
At this point, we are so far down the tit-for-tat chain that I think its pointless to try to assign fault to who really set off this whole chain of events. Although I still fail to see anything that would justify the Russian invasion(s) of Ukraine, but really, that’s irrelevant. The only real question here is how do we get to a resolution, which in turn begs the question of what resolution is acceptable to those who need to accept it.
I believe there’s some blame to be assigned. And I don’t think DC has any intention of allowing a resolution because peace is not their goal.
Worth a read: https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/15/michael-brenner-american-dissent-on-ukraine-is-dying-in-darkness/
Why do we need to get a resolution? It’s not our problem.
It may not justify Russia’s invasion, but it does upend the whole notion of this innocent country being invaded by a bad actor. If China invaded North Korea, would be talking about how evil China is and how North Koreans need to rise up to defend the regime of Kim Jong-un? Send military aid to North Korea to use against China?
What is the legitimacy of the North Korean government? What is the legitimacy of a Ukrainian government that slaughters the civilians in its own villages?
It’s not a civil war; it’s Ukraine being wicked because the western Permanent States like them.
Three separate documented instances of propaganda and lies by Western media reattributing Ukrainian attacks on civilians as Russian in origin.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/no-its-not-fake-news-its-nazi-propaganda
The media is wholly in the pocket of the governments at this point.
I just kicked a hornets nest. At one of our sites we utilize a kirk key interlock system on our transmitters. They have been modified for years to operate in a way that is not how they should be used. It was always a “it’s how we have always done it” thing. Issue is they way they are set up puts a big metal plate millimeters away from a 40 Amp breaker that you cannot get to either bare handed or with proper gloves.
We are the only site that has this kooky set up. All the others have their interlocks installed correctly. It will require a whole rework of the power panel but I ain’t giving a shit. Fix it or I will start calling every safety hotline there is. I don’t need maimed techs and just cause we haven’t been bit doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. It takes one time for that breaker to fail and bam!
So, if I’m reading right, you need to activate the interlock are required to be millimeters away from an exposed conductor?
Normally they are installed perpendicular to the breaker but this was modified to be inclined with the brakes and a brass plate welded to the interlock to “push” the breaker open with the key turn. It’s nuts
+1 UL Approved.
Clearly you need someone with smaller hands.
Indeed – have you looked into Child labor?
*looks at own hands with <1 octave span*
Uffda. I actually tried to DuckDuckGo what that ‘<1' emoticon meant.
My kids have made me stupider via their texting.
You have made me chuckle on an already good day.
So what is it, because I thought you were saying you had a span less than one octave.
It is that my span is less than an octave. His Holiness thought it was an emoticon and went looking for something I didn’t say.
Girls with small hands are great for the ego.
What sort of a question is that for a Glib? We all have a few disposable orphans on hand.
We are looking for a new tech. I can check out the carny scene
I’m flashing back to the first Marine Air Traffic Control radar set that you had to test out on (UPN-44?). To check the power, you had to flip over a cabinet lid and reach over it to test the power on the big power tubes. Good chance to fuck up and cause all sorts of fun.
Good on you. Accidents happen from accepting unnecessary hazards. They can ignore it or deprioritize it, but can’t say no one said anything about it.
Hey! Look at that! Another hornets nest in which to stick our collective dicks.
What the fuck are these idiots thinking?
The fact that people are reporting on it means our dick is already firmly lodged there.
But wait a minute – I thought Belarusians have already been cancelled? That’s what I see on yellow sportsball TV.
Elections only get stolen in places the globalists hate.
“All employees at every company needs to come together and use this excuse”
Already used. We have to save the planet by keeping dirty automobiles off the roads! /worked
One of the writers at Powerline used the term “raycis” in a story talking about the NYT’s hit piece on Tucker Carlson. I couldn’t decide if that was on purpose or a typo.
I like it though. It makes sure to let readers know that the offender is a racist cis-het shitlord. So you don’t accidentally lump in white gay guys into the 2 minutes of hate.
Bad news since the woke funded money printer at Netflix broke.
Netflix cancels Meghan Markle animated series Pearl
*sad trombone*
Society will never recover from that.
Society will recover. That bonnie prince living in her house is another matter.
At a minimum he will have to keep out of public until the black eyes and bruises go away.
No mention about how she will hate fuck him with a strap on to make him feel her pain?
I don’t know if Netflix is failing so much from “woke” decisions as just bad decisions in general and strong competition.
But I really hope “The Witcher” doesn’t get canceled in this spate of cancelations. I like that one.
Putting “Cuties” aside it seems like they much prefer to give money to progressive to fund pet projects.
They’ve given the Obamas untold millions and I’m not sure what actual programming of any actual viewership they got out of it. I’m sure they got something else out of it, however.
It was payback for promising net neutrality.
Woke wasn’t the core issue for us, but it was a convenient excuse to walk away. The core issue was the lack of decent content. We hadn’t watched Netflix in months.
Just play Witcher 3, where at least you don’t have to watch the entire series, just 75 hours of it. Oh wait, I guess that IS the entire series, but at least there is a couple of hours of game in there.
I already did
I guess I could go back to *France* and clear out all the little map icons…
That reminds me, hardest fight I ran into in that game was the mob brawl with the village that opened up access to that DLC – because I’d stumbled onto it way below level and was in no way prepared. (I still managed to tough it out and win… eventually)
Least interesting fight – anything involing the main wild hunt story.
Well things just got interesting.
Putin to undergo cancer surgery, transfer power to ex-FSB chief: report
Lindsey Graham’s prayer power right there.
His prayers are extra powerful because he spends so much time on his knees?
I admit I was skeptical of the Putin “health” rumors lately, but after seeing the shakey hand video and now this cancer news, I can buy that he is ill.
Maybe some enterprising Russkies will take this opportunity to remove him permanently…
If he thinks he’s dying, he will become more dangerous than he already is.
It also makes a good opportunity for somebody to take him out.
Dunno if the replacement will be “blame it on Putin and we’re all reasonable now and we’ll back out of the Ukraine problem – buy our natgas” or “crank it up to 11”.
Even if it’s true, the likelihood is that Putin would be replaced with someone more militaristic.
The Western complex has been selling the idea that Putin has gone off the deep end and doesn’t represent Russians, but it’s far from true. The reality is that Russia is quite unified on this war effort and Putin being eliminated from the equation may make it much more volatile.
A good interview on the situation with Michael Brenner of JHU SAIS.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/15/michael-brenner-american-dissent-on-ukraine-is-dying-in-darkness/
Is the implication here that Putin might have started this because of internal pressure and he was trying to get ahead of more militant elements in his government?
Its like the Russians go to central casting for all their leaders. Could the guy look any more like a Russian spy chief?
From the article on Green Energy:
Huh. It’s almost like prices are some sort of signals that spontaneously coordinate consumers and suppliers without the need for central planning.
Who knew?
(Hint: Adam Smith)
“without the need for central planning.”
Sure, if you’re OK with women and colored folk being put back into chains.
I know you’re not serious but you’re not humorous either so WTF?
That wasn’t supposed to be funny. Without central planning to protect peoples that need protecting, these capitalists will put them back into chains.
Regrets, I’ve had a few – But then again too few to mention
‘Tired’ Twitter CEO admits regrets during all-hands meeting
As far as a layoff v mass exodus, I say, let the trash take itself out.
You must be kdding, these people deserved a job because they had the correct political views. Just ask China how that works.
Struggle is real.
The old folks just don’t know how hard these millennials have it. Did you know there’s like 50 types of artisanal shellac to choose from now? You need boxes for all of that.
So you support beetle slavery?
I know obscure statements like that are common on Glibs, but I cannot even figure that one out.
Shellac comes from the lac beetle.
Shellac is made from the secretions of the lac beetle and is not vegan because it comes from this small animal. The beetles secrete the resin on tree branches in Southeast Asia as a protective shell for their larvae. The males fly away, but the females stay behind.
Why Shellac Isn’t Vegan
well, at least there won’t be a shellac shortage now because the vegans ate it all.
shellac is organic
Gut is it gluten free?
But. Geez, I thought I was now finally type-o free on this keyboard.
Nice call back by the way.
Soon enough you end up with Mt Boxmore.
Moj is a hoarder, I knew it!
No, I live with two hoarders and I don’t know where they got that. I refuse to let their hoard out of their bedrooms.
They got it from you, mom, they got it from you! /just kidding
LOL
Did y’all know that a box of mason jars, I mean just plain mason canning jars, are $40 now? And a box is now 10 jars. I seem to remember when a box, which was like 24 jars, was like 5 bucks. There’s no inflation, that is Rethuglican misinformation.
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Headline from Slate: What if We Put Therapists in Charge of Prisons?
Just what we need, millions of emo felons.
I’m imaging Mr. Mackey trying to deal with a prison riot.
“Mkay…”
Paging Dr. Chet to the white courtesy phone….
/ducking
Better today
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