Last weekend of being The Answer (42). FML, but there’s always a kid in front of me. Or its time to work or sleep. I wouldn’t trade it for much. Maybe a long-term slot in one of those monasteries where everyone has a vow of silence. Am I wrong that your brain freezes at 19-22? After that you have more experience, and your physical body changes, but there’s still that same stupid sumbitch inside my head. Although, I was going to take my kids to a McDonalds about three months ago and some actual 16-19 year old kid got shitty because they wanted him to use the kiosk, and I just grabbed my two older boys and we went somewhere else. Florida (young) man shouting profanity in the McDs is something I don’t need anymore. “Fuck it, we’re going to Chik-Fil-A.”
Imagine how bad off the President must be that the treatment isn’t working. Or maybe they should try young humans instead of young mice (H/T Heroic Mulatto)
I am shocked. Shocked. That poor children learned more at in person schools than remote. Its almost like their parents have priorities (like feeding the kids and paying rent) besides making sure little Johnny gets to the Zoom class.
I don’t recall the BSA offering a Master at Arms merit badge by the time I got there in the ’90s. And I guaran-damn-tee, I’d have gone for it.
I can think of all sorts of fun things do with this tech. (Totally not teledildonics. I regret not following my instinct to get into that field 10 years ago. I’d be Elon rich)
I dunno, I’m a sucker for shit like this.
whaddup doh
Covfefe, Home slice!
“I regret not following my instinct to get into that field 10 years ago. I’d be Elon rich”
Tres Sr’s only stock tip I listened to 20+ years ago….”What the fuck is an Amazon? You’re going to invest your money in some hippie that’s selling old books from his garage? May as well take your cash and set it on fire.”
One word: Plastics.
With the Supremes about to kill abortion, latex might be the smart play.
And they make coat hangers out of plastic too, so either way your bet is covered.
I must be your Dad. Having been in the book/record business I failed to understand his concept of inventory. I was thinking warehouses plus the impossibility of inventory accumulation. I was truly behind the curve.
The fallout from that – among many other things – is only just beginning.
It’s okay. The colleges are eliminating standardized tests. Right now their is a move afoot to kill the LSAT. The Handicapper General couldn’t be prouder.
The initial move (accepting GRE in lieu of LSAT) wasn’t horrible. As with all prog infested areas, though, the rot began quickly.
Record Jet Suit Mountain Ascent
3,100ft is not a mountain.
What the fuck is an Amazon?
Seriously. He should have named it “Yangtze”.
Or Hwang Ho.
I hate that I dont mind Orinoco.
Also, as a sea shanty:
https://youtu.be/u9eSnSBP1Po
I did not know of bardcore music.
“Hildegard Von Blingin” is a broad Id drink with.
Enya is a guilty pleasure.
I feel the same way about Amy Lee.
/sobs quietly to self after climax and goes to sleep
I do have a collection of her albums, Clannad’s and her sister Moya’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnZcx9k4Yg
Aniron
Enya singing in elvish.
I’ve always thought Amazon was one of the best brand names ever. Because not only does it conjure images of mighty female warriors, but also a huge river, and its flow could be an analogy for moving products to you in a measurable flow. But best was, by adding a little curved arrow under the name, you see that they have everything from A to Z. Really brilliant, and so much better than just about every other company name created in the recent era.
Yeah, I remember seeing that he wanted something that started with an A, and evoked something very big. If you remember, they really pushed the “world’s biggest book store” angle. The fact that it ended with a Z just made it even better.
Amazon ends with Z?
The little smile/arrow under the word runs from A to Z
Yes, yes, just being a pedant.
It’s a pretty good logo.
But it’s not like the Fed Ex logo – once you see the arrow, you can’t un-see it.
Yeah, the FedEx logo is a cool design. It’s almost a little too subtle. I was one of the many that had to have it pointed out to me.
Same – didn’t see it for years, now it’s all I can see when I look at the logo.
Ugh. Well, you know what I meant.
My God.
The FDA.
Fauci.
Biden.
Pharma.
And the Canadian government.
Etc.
It never ends.
I worked all night. Don’t start your metric shit, Muppet.
Please convert into kilometres. Your comment doesn’t compute.
Any time I see your gasoline in liters, it makes my ass hurt.
The nozzle is supposed to go into the filler neck of the tank.
Good advice.
“My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead…“
I watched the Guy Ritchie Man From UNCLE movie last night. Not bad, not bad.
/investigates
“Hurricane-force winds produced by the storms picked up massive amounts of dust, creating a large wall of dust that swept over parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota, creating near-zero visibility on state highways.”
https://watchers.news/2022/05/13/destructive-derecho-slams-midwest-and-northern-plains-creating-rare-dust-storm-over-nebraska-iowa-south-dakota-and-minnesota-u-s/
With the Supremes about to kill abortion, latex might be the smart play.
Don’t be ridiculous. All forms of birth control will be banned. Childless women will be punished for their impertinence and lack of devotion to the Motherland.
Eh. They will probably send all the condoms to Ukraine, anyway.
“Two days after she made bacon for her family, ‘I looked like I had been in a massive fight. I was almost anaphylactic. My brother rushed me to the urgent care,’ Scott said.
‘The aftermath of diagnosis has been a horror show,’ Scott said.”
Joe Biden’s America, everyone.
They’re blaming ticks, but it wouldn’t surprise me that a certain popular medical treatment is the true cause of this.
https://www.westernjournal.com/10-million-americans-may-bizarre-disease-making-allergic-meat-may-not-realize/
The first cases of Alpha-gal syndrome were reported in 2002. What “popular medical treatment” came out just before those?
I did a quick search, but can’t find anything that leaps out at me as, you know, “Oh, *that* medical treatment”.
Penis enhancement ?
“You May Not Realize You Have It”
HOLY SHIT…..
Im kinda drunk but I did the maths…..say there’s 340M people in the US, and 10M have it.
Lets see…..10M/340M….add the 1 thing, carry the other.
ERMAGHERD! 2.9% of Americans. I hope Im in the other 97%.
I’ve been seeing reports that the World Health Organization is about to be given extra powers to interfere in national affairs, if a health emergency is declared.
I ain’t even worried about those commie rat fuckers.
I thought InfoWars went was silenced?
Trust is for chumps
“I do think what happened at the court is tremendously bad,” Thomas said. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them, and then I wonder when they’re gone or they are destabilized, what we’ll have as a country — and I don’t think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.”
We must sweep away the detritus of the past, and erect in its place a brave new world of enlightenment.
Plenty of time for riot-prep!
Gotta rent those uhauls, make shields, and schedule brick deliveries.
Cambodia nods and smiles.
‘Married…With Children’ Animated Series in the Works With Original Cast Returning
I expect it will be as bad as any attempt to remake Blazzing Saddles. The show was controversial in the 90s. It would spark mostly peaceful protests today.
What is the best way to start a dumpster fire? Does Antifa have a handbook?
Up yours!
Relevant
Employees at work always ask me “you OK?”
I say “Is 7 up”?
I predict it will be as good as Littlekenny
Go ahead and secede
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday pledged to use the state’s record-breaking $300 billion budget, including an unprecedented nearly $100 billion surplus, to “future proof” the state from the impacts of a volatile midterm election cycle that he fears will undermine abortion access, gun safety and privacy protections across the country.
The first-term governor of the nation’s most populous state — and a potential Democratic presidential candidate — used his budget presentation on Friday to prop up his progressive credentials while attacking his rivals in conservative states.
He trumpeted major increases in spending on health care, education, child care and the environment while also pledging to spend $125 million to make it easier for women to get abortions in California, including those from other states.
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California’s projected $97.5 billion budget surplus is unlike anything seen before at the state level and is fueled by soaring tax revenue. It is larger than the entire operating budgets of nearly every other state.
The unceasing flow of tax money prompted California Republicans — who don’t have enough numbers in the state Legislature to have much influence — to complain about high taxes reducing quality of life.
“He did not propose any permanent tax relief to deal with a worsening affordability crisis exacerbated by his policies,” said Republican Vince Fong, vice chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. “The Governor may not want to acknowledge it, but California is in crisis and his budget is unsustainable.”
Newsom said the surging revenues are “a sign of how well a number of people are doing in this economy” and a reflection of the “concentration of wealth and success in the hands of a few.”
Show the world what Paradise looks like. Redistribute all that wealth and success to the more deserving. Throw off the shackles of capitalism and reimagine society as just and perfectly equitable. You can do it.
Let’s go loot some Walgreens.
Interesting admission of what Democrat policies are designed to achieve, that.
I’d love to see a non-media-approved explanation of how exactly the government of the state with the highest emigration rates in the country managed to magically fall into this wondrous surplus.
Failed gas tax repeal?
(IDHAA)
California is heavily dependent on its wealthiest citizens for revenue. When Silicon Valley does well, particularly when lock up periods expire, there is a gusher of revenue. When SV catches a cold, the state gets pneumonia.
See also: NY and Wall Street.
I guess then the underlying explanation is the massive transfer/inflation of wealth from the bottom to the top that transpired during the “pandemic”.
Exactly. Those soaring FAANG stock prices were good for our budget. This year looks like it will be different.
I don’t think its a mystery. Its COVID relief money.
That too.
California’s projected $97.5 billion budget surplus is unlike anything seen before at the state level and is fueled by soaring tax revenue
Including tax revenue from federal taxpayers who funded stimulus spending to states and municipalities.
He should spend the money to build more continuous power plants to avoid the inevitable brownouts.
People don’t need power during warm nights.
Florida church to hold ‘pride conference’ with drag show for high schoolers
It a secular denomination, the United Church of Christ.
More like a sexular denomination.
That’s the real travesty.
You’d think they get enough of that during the school day.
Can there ever be enough? I don’t know how you stay gay without government and church support.
private charities?
Newsom’s budget presentation comes as the state is in the throes of a deepening drought and as state energy officials warn of possible power shortages during the summer when air conditioning is at its peak.
The governor has called for people to cut their water use by 15%, but consumption went up dramatically in March. Newsom wants to spend more money to encourage conservation, provide loans to struggling drinking water systems and boost water recycling. It includes $75 million for grants to farms and businesses hurt by drought.
Meanwhile, he’s calling for $5 billion to create a 5,000-megawatt “strategic reserve” of energy to help the state avoid blackouts. One megawatt can power 750 to 1,000 homes.
Newsom’s budget document included limited details on how that reserve would be built, but he has indicated he’s open to the possibility of keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility online past its planned closure in 2025, as well as some gas-fired power plants that are set to retire.
Just as long as gender affirming medical treatments are free and readily available, who cares if you have clean socks?
Meanwhile, he’s calling for $5 billion to create a 5,000-megawatt “strategic reserve” of energy to help the state avoid blackouts.
So, giant flywheels?
That’s actually an excellent question. I’m sure Newsom will follow the science.
We must do something. Throwing more money at the problem is something.
California is focused on its magic choo-choo. They can deal with lesser concerns when that is complete.
Another project that will never finish.
When did you become our governor?
The only major water effort in the last 20 years was a proposal to drain the Hetch Hetchy reservoir near Yosemite, which supplies almost all of San Francisco’s water, to restore its scenic beauty. Because California has plenty of warer, but a lack of beautiful mountain valleys? (There are countless beautiful mountain vistas in the state, with most parks barely visited as it is). Thankfully it failed, but the fact it got that far was disturbing.
As if the drained reservoir would look just like an Ansel Adams photo.
Dude from that de-sal project called into Carolla the other day (hoping for some citizen support at a Coastal Commission meeting).
25 years. $100 million spent. Still not done with the permitting.
The dude started on the project when he was in his 20’s. His two young sons were on an early brochure; one is a senior in college and the other is in his 30s now.
This last Coastal Commission permit is supposed to be the final hurdle.
*checks*
Oh, and of course they rejected it.
The sad part is that we’re going to have to take in the refugees when this BS inevitably bites them in the ass.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZiOHe3CTc
This joint needs more Sanford and son.
It’s the big one!
I’m coming, Elizabeth!
Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content after a federal appeals court sided Wednesday with the state’s law restricting how social media sites can moderate their platforms.
The 15-word ruling allowing the law, which had been blocked last year, to take effect has significant potential consequences. Most immediately, it creates new legal risks for the tech giants, and opens them up to a possible wave of litigation that legal experts say would be costly and difficult to defend.
Texas’s law makes it illegal for any social media platform with 50 million or more US monthly users to “block, ban, remove, deplatform, demonetize, de-boost, restrict, deny equal access or visibility to, or otherwise discriminate against expression.”
The law creates enormous uncertainty about how social media will actually function in Texas, according to legal experts, and raises questions about what users’ online spaces may look like and what content they may find there, if the companies are even able to run their services at all.
Oh, no.Brace yourselves for a tsunami of hate speech.
*sigh*
Of course they challenge the prog-fascist idiocy with their own form of idiocy. Stupid party doing stupid party things.
Unless and until Texas can single-handedly disband BlackRock or dissolve the NYSE, I don’t see how this qualifies as “stupid”. There might be particular tactics which would be more effective, but reminding the companies that their cozy relationship with the Federales does not necessarily translate into a cozy relationship with the state governments seems like a fair power play to me.
I’d rather them do something like banning special tax treatment for companies that censor people, akin to the Disney kerfuffle. I don’t like putting laws on the books that further beat the dead horse that is freedom of association.
Freedom of association is for individuals, not government-NGO-corporate hegemonic hybrids.
Fair point. It feels like a heads they win, tails we lose situation.
Trashy gets it.
Unfortunately, they have to work around the CDA’s immunity (as applied). There’s no question in my mind that the socials have crossed the line from platform to publisher, but the federales don’t see it that way. I would prefer a much narrower definition of platform. Once exposed to defamation suits for the content they allow/publish, they will run toward being true platforms again. But states can’t do that, so . . . .
Given that, what better option did Texas have? Maybe go after the TOS as a contract of adhesion, and allow lawsuits for interfering with people’s posts on that basis somehow?
I agree with the first part of your comment. They have become publishers. That’s where to fight the battle.
“”Texas’s law makes it illegal for any social media platform with 50 million or more US monthly users to “block, ban, remove, deplatform, demonetize, de-boost, restrict, deny equal access or visibility to, or otherwise discriminate against expression.””
Without exception?
Oops. Another tag mishap.
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several presentations on mental health issues for gay and transgender individuals
How many of those “presentations” are about just living your life on your own terms, without feeling compelled to shove it in other people’s faces and demand their enthusiastic support and affirmation?
I’ll take none for $200.
We’ve come along way from “Stay out of my bedroom!”, haven’t we?
Good morning you wonderful people.
Feh…
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Regarding the jet suit – Sherpa’s union hardest hit.
“Wisconsin mom says son, 13, was accused of SEXUAL HARASSMENT and hit with Title IX complaint for refusing to refer to non-binary classmate by ‘they/them’ pronouns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10814979/Wisconsin-school-district-files-Title-IX-complaint-against-3-middle-school-students.html
Let’s make a federal case out of eighth grade name calling.
No need to make it a federal case. A lynch mob should be able to take care of it.
Ignoring them would be the worst form of punishment for them.
Is it now grammatically correct to say “Theyvis out of their damned mind”?
Because I’m not going to use plural with these idiots.
“They is”
Grrr
Should be they are. Where is Ted’S when you need him?
I’d have to say it should be “They are” as well. After all, the Queen says “We are not amused”, not one of the the singular forms of the verb.
When the Queen speaks in the plural like that, she is speaking ex cathedra, so to speak. Not as an individual, but as the embodiment of the realm.
So is HS.
All of this is going to come to blows and blood.
The lunatics running the school systems and CPS will not stop.
“At least 17 people were shot in downtown Milwaukee Friday night, just blocks away from Fiserv Forum, where thousands of fans attended a Milwaukee Bucks’ playoff game only a few hours earlier.
Milwaukee Police say the shooting occurred on Water Street just after 11pm, and the victims of the shooting range in age from 15 to 47 years old. They are all expected to survive, according to WTMJ…
Ten people have already been taken into custody for the shooting, and nine guns have been recovered from the scene.
The names of the suspects, and a possible motive have not yet been released.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10816145/At-17-people-injured-shot-outside-Milwaukee-Bucks-game.html
Wisconsin sounds like shithole. I used to think it was mostly cows.
CPRM will tell you that’s Milwaukee, not Wisconsin.
Maybe it’s all the socialist mayors, Mr. Fournier.
“We’re not worthy!”
“Finland’s President tells Vladimir Putin that his country is going to join NATO after Russia cuts off electricity to Finns and threatens them with nuclear war”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10816071/Finlands-President-tells-Putin-country-join-NATO-Russia-cuts-electricity-supply.html
Vodka is a helluva drug.
Niinistö and Marin are just puppets installed by an American-backed coup. Why else would they support NATO membership?
Niinistö survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami by climbing a utility pole with his son. Also, on the day he won election to his first term as president, a big snow storm hit southern Finland, and the next morning, there’s the President-Elect shoveling his own driveway.
“ President Niinistö commented: ‘The conversation was direct and straight-forward and it was conducted without aggravations. Avoiding tensions was considered important’
He repeated his concern about the human cost of the war in Ukraine and stressed the importance of a peace deal.”
Too bad the US and the organization you’re joining aren’t on board with that idea.
^
Party like it’s 1939!
The escalation to nuclear holocaust continues apace.
They didn’t have a Master At Arms badge in the eighties. I wonder when they dropped it.
I would have gone for it. We had unofficial badges in hatchet throwing and explosives in our troop. It was the Rambo era of Boy Scouts.
I was kicked out of Cub Scouts in the 1970s for taking the Lord’s name in vain. A boy dropped his hot dog in the dirt, picked it up and proceeded to eat it without wiping or rinsing it off. I said “Oh my God, that’s gross” and the packmaster called my mom to take me home. My argument that “God” is NOT the Lord’s name fell upon deaf ears.
It’s also not a true violation of the third commandment. Taking the Lord’s name in vain means to make a false oath using his name, cursing his name, or claiming visions in his name.
About what I would expect from a Bible thumper though. They were the Woke of yesteryear.
In retrospect, it was so counterproductive. I was raised an atheist, but had been attending Christian schools because Dade County public schools were terrible; I was leaning agnostic and nominally receptive to the Semitic monotheism but that incident really soured me on organized religion and created a bitter anti-theist for many, many years.
Wow. I would not have lasted five minutes. I’m glad mom didn’t try to force that crap on me.
Was there a punji trap badge?
No, but snipe hunting and pyrotechnics were definitely on the list.
I’m sure scouts in my troop had experience, even if not officially recognized
1911
Read and weep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_merit_badges_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)
There’s only about 3 that weren’t really replaced – Master at Arms, Rabbit Raising, and Machinery.
Most of the others changed names or merged with other similar badges.
The origins of Texas’s law, HB 20, lie in the longstanding Republican criticism that tech platforms discriminate politically against conservative users, a charge the companies have denied and which platform moderation researchers say there is little systemic evidence to support.
The law, which seeks to address the perceived imbalance, was blocked in December by a district court judge who ruled it was unconstitutional under the First Amendment. That decision came months after a similar law, in Florida, was also blocked for the same reason.
But that all changed this week, when in oral arguments at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel confused social media platforms with internet service providers; disputed that Facebook and Twitter are websites; and expressed surprise that a service such as Twitter could “just decide” what content appears on its platform as a matter of course.
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The appeals court has not provided a written opinion explaining the decision, and it did not offer the tech advocacy groups who challenged the law time to seek an appeal.
“Apparently, they do not think this is disruptive or something,” said Harold Feld, a senior vice president and communications lawyer at the consumer group Public Knowledge.
Whatever happens next, legal experts appear convinced that the outcome will be chaos.
If you exert editorial control over the content on your “service” you become something other than an open medium of communication? That’s pretty hard to understand.
They can tell all that without a written opinion? Impressive.
Asshoe.
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Six months of focus group research…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-ultra-maga-liberal-focus-group-research
And it was performed by Anita Dunn, noted Maoist.
Biden is known his personnel decisions. See VP Harris.
That’s hilarious considering it was always going to fail and it was turned against them in 5 seconds.
Hopefully the Biden Branding Bureau continues to brand for the regimes opposition.
One option for tech platforms is to halt all algorithmic content filtering or ranking entirely. While it’s tempting to imagine all social media looking like the clean, reverse-chronological feed you can actually find on Twitter today (if you know where to look), that is merely the best-case scenario and not the likeliest one, according to Daphne Keller, a platform liability expert at Stanford University.
The reality might look more like email before the advent of spam filters. Because algorithms would be prohibited from removing or down-ranking material, social media platforms would have to host spam, porn, or hate speech indiscriminately — an “unmoderated garbage dump,” as Keller described it in a tweet.
Freedom is an ugly thing.
Moderate your own feed.
Yeah, this is not that hard.
according to Daphne Keller,
a platform liability expert at Stanford University.first person in the author’s black book that has a title and can be relied upon to say whatever stupid opinion the author wants to pushDaphne Keller, a platform liability expert at Stanford University
A very serious person with a very real job the mere existence of which totally does not indicate that the universities should be dissolved.
The reality might look more like email before the advent of spam filters.
Sounds like good old malicious compliance to me.
Wouldn’t you expect the platform liability expert to be a law professor?
I’d settle for that. Unlike the author, I was around and remember what that was like.
*adjusts onions*
I’m starting to see this everywhere,
“The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.”
Yes, join the AI moderated forums on Facebook and Twitter where your comments get evaluated against an array of social credit standards and flagged as such.
Most publications these days are vanity projects. They don’t care about engaging with an organic audience. Those of us who’ve been here since the early days experienced this first hand when we left H&R. Now, “engaging” with a curated “audience”, that’s a different story.
It also helps to treat most media outlets as though they are vanity projects. The goal is not to report on interesting stories, the goal is to create an alternate reality and enforce preference falsification.
pretend I proofread that better
The reader is supposed to take orders, not question the narrative.
At least one justice, the conservative Clarence Thomas, has previously expressed interest in hearing a case that might allow the Court to rule on the issue of platform liability. A case involving HB 20 would present a ripe opportunity. If that happens, it’s not a stretch to say that decades of First Amendment precedent may suddenly be on the line.
A fundamental question at the heart of the case is whether the state of Texas — a government entity — is forcing social media companies to host speech with HB 20.
This concept of “government-compelled speech” has long been held unconstitutional under the First Amendment. But a Supreme Court ruling upholding HB 20 may throw that longstanding precedent into doubt. Historic decisions that deal with compelled speech and protections for editorial curation might be substantially narrowed if not overruled in that scenario, said Kosseff.
Compelled speech? Is that anything like “Bake that cake, or else”?
Haha, right. That’s totally different.
And she falls right into the trap. Whose speech is being compelled by the Texas law? Not the person who authored the post. So if speech is being compelled, it can only be the platform’s speech. But if its their speech, they are liable for defamation, no? The point of platforms and service providers is that they are (supposed to be) conduits for other’s speech, nothing more. Like the phone companies can’t be sued for what people say on the phone, because its not the phone company’s speech. Newspapers, on the other hand, everything in a newspaper is the newspaper’s speech (including letters to the editor, because the newspaper makes the editorial decision which ones they will publish). Are the social media platforms exercising enough editorial discretion to be more like a newspaper than a phone company? I think the answer is pretty clearly yes.
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Silicone Saturday.
Too much of a good thing. I’ll wait for your GlibFit links.
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That’s more like it.
You get me. You really, really get me.
Spontaneous grassroots activism
High school students nationwide staged walkouts on Thursday to protest for abortion rights after a draft Supreme Court opinion was leaked, showing a potential decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Students across the country from Denver, Salt Lake City, New York City, and more, staged walkouts on Thursday in support of abortion rights in response to the leaked Supreme Court decision.
No justice no geometry.
Translation: A handful of kids walked out because they actually care about the issue, more kids walked out because they wanted an excuse to play hooky and the majority rolled their eyes and stayed in class.
Don’t forget the number one reason lefty guys engage in performative “activism”: to get laid.
It’s like modern day Disco.
Students at two Spotsylvania high schools walk out of class in support of abortion access
So about 1% skipped the last 20 minutes of a non-core class. That will show the man.
A.K.A. “extra credit”
“Kids our age care about our rights,” McCarey said. “Even at 14, up to 18, 19 years old, we don’t want to sit back and just watch this happen.”
Gotta teach them early to not have any responsibility.
“I don’t understand why men, who will never experience the pain of giving birth, the pain of period cramps, nor the pain of breastfeeding, think they can choose the outcome of the most difficult decision a woman can make,” one student said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
I don’t understand why you can’t accept the biological circumstances of your birth.
Abortion-rights protesters wave flags during a demonstration outside of the U.S. Supreme Court,
Appropriation of the Gadsden flag is a nice touch.
“I don’t understand why men, who will never experience the pain of giving birth, the pain of period cramps, nor the pain of breastfeeding, think they can choose the outcome of the most difficult decision a woman can make”
How about the rights of fathers who have zero say whatsoever if their erstwhile paramour decides to get an abortion without even telling them? They might actually want to raise a child? They might find a capricious and cheap approach to human life abhorrent? Fuck ’em. It’s just toxic masculinity anyway.
Or be indebted for the next 26 years to a choice they have no control over.
Fathers get no say, but the still have to pay.
Oh, so now men can’t get pregnant, etc.? So unwoke.
I don’t understand why women, who never have to worry about getting drafted, have any say in deciding if the country goes to war or selecting the leaders that can institute a draft.
Seamus know why the male students are protesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FC1IRiJ9x0
If teenage boys jacking off too much damaged your body you’d see a lot more gimps out in the world.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18562234/masturbate-too-much-fears/
The students held signs reading “Not Your Uterus, Not Your Opinion,” among other pro-choice slogans.
One student at iSchool said that the right to have an abortion is very important to her.
“It’s so dangerous to not have the right to have an abortion, especially in drastic circumstances,” said Castle Bloodgood. “So this is important to me.”
I wonder if those signs were produced by professional graphic artists on behalf of DNC subsidiaries.
There was a gun rights event at my university once. All opposed to carry on campus had professionally printed signs. All in favor made their own.
Castle Bloodgood
Name checks out.
JOURNALISM!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/onlyfans-star-explains-how-having-26959114?int_source=nba
Better by a mile than CNN.
the Ancient Greek’s views on penis size as they believed smaller appendages were better
Maybe it had something to do with certain Ancient Greek sexual proclivities.
Ancient Greek men didn’t travel much, because they found it difficult to leave their brothers behind.
-1 getting penetrated at the Hot Gates.
Lock her up
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday.
She will not be in parliament for the government’s emissions reduction plan on Monday and the budget on Thursday, but “travel arrangements for her trade mission to the United States are unaffected at this stage,” the statement said.
Ardern had been symptomatic since Friday evening, returning a weak positive at night and a clear positive on Saturday morning on a rapid antigen test, it said.
She has been in isolation since Sunday, when her partner Clarke Gayford tested positive, it said.
Due to the positive test, Ardern will be required to isolate until the morning of May 21, undertaking what duties she can remotely.
Poor thing.
her partner Clarke Gayford
Legit LOL
She has been in isolation since Sunday
At covid camp, presumably. Or is that just for the plebs?
“Trump had the courage to identify problems and crises afflicting everyday Americans at a time ‘when few others would.'”
https://amac.us/its-not-just-the-economy-stupid/
And here we have the most succinct summation of Trump’s enduring popularity; he was willing to stand up and say “you know how the Establishment has been telling you you’re wet because it’s raining? it’s actually piss”. Yes, he’s abrasive, and a phony, and a buffoon and a general disaster, but he did stand up and actually fight for issues people know instinctively are right. The fact of the matter is that it shouldn’t be difficult to win on cultural issues given how insane the other side has become. Arguing against 9 month abortions and anal sex training for 6 year-olds and explicit racial/ethnic quotas in hiring is not challenging, someone just has to be ok with being dragged through the mud. Fortunately, there seems to be a new generation coming up that realizes they’re going to be called bigots no matter what so you might as well do the right thing. Altering your strategy to please your enemy is retarded.
Altering your strategy to please your enemy is retarded.
It’s not just the enemy. It’s also the “mushy middle”. The average politician, and this includes some Democrats as well as most Republicans, doesn’t want to hear the tut-tutting of the mushy middle. But the reality is that victory is sexy, even ephemeral victory, and preference falsification/cascade can be exposed remarkably easily. You’re not going to win everyone over, as for some the apparently feigned preference is actually sincere, but that doesn’t matter. If you spend your time worried about what people who are easily convinced think of you, you are just ceding the job of convincing them to someone else (and that’s where the enemy comes in).
he was willing to stand up and say “you know how the Establishment has been telling you you’re wet because it’s raining? it’s actually piss
I recall his inaugural speech having repeated themes of dissolution of power from DC and the establishment. But, you know, Donald is “muh-fascisms”.
Once you cede the boundaries of the game to your opponent, you’ve already lost.
This RvW leak may be lesson. Many called the Republican party stupid for continuing to engage in abortion politics. But that’s just allowing the Democrats to dictate your strategy. In hindsight following the leak, it appears that overturning RvW and engaging on a state level may be very favorable to Republicans. A different case from something like continuing to push pot prohibition, which the populace is overwhelming against.
Harvard wants to get rid of grading, many other universities want to get rid of incoming grades and standardized tests.
At some point, you’ll have to be driving a car, or riding a train, etc, designed by uproots of unknown skill, reviewed by Social Justice boards, across bridges designed by diversity champions.
What could go wrong? After all, calculus is some racist exclusionary device, not science. Diversity is SCIENCE!!
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse
Does Harvard really want to get rid of grading? How will they punish students who don’t show up for class or do assignments?
Well, for one thing, only the whites and Asians will be punished. NAMs will not have to attend. As for how they track and punish them, they’ll probably just keep lists.
This is what equity means, it’s what translating that stupid image of the ballpark with the boxes and the kids of different heights into reality looks like.
In case you haven’t seen it, the image I’m referring to is at the top of this Medium dreck. Speaking of the latter, apparently (as early as 2018 no less), even that vision of “equity” is problematic.
What I get out of that picture and all its variations is “Go buy a fucking ticket if you want to see the game, you freeloaders.”
Never forget that they’re on the side of entropy, decay, and the end of civilization. Stolen bases (appropriate metaphor) abound.
Funny that lefty academics wholly accept survival-of-the-fittest theory (appropriately so) in nature but reject it completely regarding humans or corporations or even forms of human governance.
https://www.wnd.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/toon210427b-768×548.jpg
True, but I prefer the one where they saw the legs off the tallest guy and he’s on bloody stumps.
https://pics.me.me/equity-equity-in-theory-in-reality-31992170.png
I heard it on the radio so I can’t find the exact quotes, but yeah, they’re saying that grading has a negative impact on students. They tried to say “minorities hardest hit” without actually saying it.
During the “pandemic” they replaced A-F grading with “emergency satisfactory” and “emergency unsatisfactory” —-I shit you not. But that’s over now so they’re debating whether to back to A-F or do away with that icky ranking stuff altogether.
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/eliminating-grading-system-college-pros-cons/
The “they” I refer to above with “emergency satisfactory “ rating is literally Harvard. They really did do that.
That’s pathetic.
I’d be pretty pissed if I’d gotten into Harvard on my merits and then worked my ass off my freshman year for good grades, then Plandemic forced everyone home and slapped an “Emergency Satisfactory” grade on everyone, regardless of skill, discipline, drive, etc.
Did they mail home participation diplomas too? Would there be a summa cum laude designation for Plandemic years??
The NYC school district did something similar.
They are going to graduate more functionally illiterate students than ever. So it is only natural for colleges to drop all standards and let them in. The gravy train won’t roll itself.
designed by uproots of unknown skill, reviewed by Social Justice boards, across bridges designed by diversity champions.
Diversity
Inclusion
Equity
The grifters made a serious error when they allowed the useful idiots to be in charge of anything.
Lowering standards really is a slippery slope because the next generation is not only less competent than its predecessor but also doesn’t even understand what competence looks like or why it would matter (except resentfully).
Before DEI and EEO there were other movements, poorly remembered and somewhat unrecognizable to us today, that pushed for equalization of people and the leveling of hierarchy. Before LGBTQ, before indigenous rights, before civil rights, before women’s lib, before suffragettes, and before even the abolition of slavery, there have been those who want to tear down what works because it (rightfully) excludes their worthless asses.
Commies?
Speaking of living in the past
President Biden has leaned into his support for organized labor, ramping up his engagements with organizers as Democrats worry they could lose more blue collar workers to the GOP in the midterms.
Biden, who pledged to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history, hosted union organizers from Amazon and Starbucks at the White House recently and has been visiting with major union leadership out in the states.
Biden visited the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) conference in Chicago in May, lending the even the characteristics of a campaign rally.
Biden took shots at Republicans for not supporting the middle class and touted policies he’s implemented that the White House says will help working families.
Win the union vote, and you can’t lose?
When did “middle class” get redefined as “union members”? No wonder people talk about the shrinking middle class.
Poor Joe is mentally stuck in the past.
The part I love is that the blue collar union types look at the blue haired xe/xer types as the utter insanity that they are.
That’s why a lot of the rust belt went for the Don; they liked his message of red-blooded America and more manufacturing (even though Trump couldn’t wave a wand to make it happen, and probably never intended to. He did get rid of some EPA obstacles, I’ll grant him that.)
Biden took shots at Republicans for not supporting the middle class and touted policies he’s implemented that the White House says will help working families.
Doing everything you can to increase energy costs, food costs, and creating shortages from a supply chain disaster is just what working families need.
Hey, but Alaska is going to retain a few more acres of pristine snow, but.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-alaska-oil-gas-lease-sale-canceled/
You’re seeing a lot of big “Fuck Joe Biden” flags and signs up here right now.
I’d like to make up some “You did this, Dem voters!” stickers.
When you’ve lost Bezos…
The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection.
It’s bad enough trying to fund my own habit(s).
Pelosi is opening a liquor store in the House where Members can buy alcohol with their taxpayer-funded MRAs.
All while Americans are struggling to pay for food? Outrageous.
The important thing is that the proles from the other districts support the needs of their betters in District 1.
More messaging control from The Hive.
https://www.ft.com/content/ea08012a-f35b-4001-bd4c-c9a7529bbf6e?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
You should never have gotten used to having choices peasant. The various Ministries and Agencies will provide for you, just sit down, shut up and stop complaining.
I thought the Cold War was supposed to have settled the argument that Soviet economics works?
The parasite class telling everybody this is the new normal, get used to it. Yet another echo of the 70’s.
Remember how close the late 70s came to declaring communism the answer, thanks in large part to Carter?
We need not Reagan, but someone similar in optimistic rhetoric. Rhetoric does actually matter because society needs confidence and optimism.
Paywalled.
“BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked part of an Alabama law that makes it a felony to give gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.”
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1525337330793467905
Lots of stupid in the replies.
Putin warns Finland has ‘made a mistake’ after country’s president tells him they WILL join NATO – despite Russian threat it could wipe them and Britain out in SECONDS with nukes – as Lavrov says ‘total hybrid war’ has been declared
A hybrid war can go further than a gas war but not as far as an electric war.
It’s gonna go transwar any day now. Pronouns = killor/be killed
By the way, Happy Independence Day to Israel.
I guess they celebrated yesterday, or maybe will tomorrow—meaning tonight at sunset.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Israel)
Isaiah 66:8 (NIV)
Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
Nope. They celebrate it according to the Hebrew calendar, with the anniversary being last week.
(Since Israel Radio’s English-language program is one of the podcasts I listen to, I was wondering why you were a week late to this.)
Ah.
That reminds me: happy Chinese New Year!
Fuck you people. I hate you all.
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