Seriously, I put the littles to bed about quarter after seven last night and was probably asleep by 7:20. I did wake up to eat a snack when the baby woke up at 1:30, and the toddler had a bad dream about fivish this morning, but he’s a sleep unicorn. Pick him up out of the crib, rock him and sing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and he goes back to sleep without complaint. Anyhow, here are Sunday’s rushed morning links.
If Cannes loved this, wait until the get the film version of SugarFree’s stuff.
Florida Man, the first rule of boat safety is make sure your boat floats. Mostly posted for the picture of 3 old guys sitting on a buoy not enjoying their Saturday anymore.
Recycled gold – zero carbon. She really is dumb. I’m only going to hint at a joke about her having it made from the fillings of Holocaust victims and move on.
Made it to the end, even if I had to Rush. (Trying to link rather than embed video due to requests about it mucking up mobile.)
Florida man wakes up in the morning? It’s to score dope, right?
These kids seem to think the daystar appearing means they should be fed.
The Germans got it right with Rollladen.
My god I miss having one of those. We called it a Jalousie.
German allows triple letters?
Yes, thanks to Die neue Falschschreibung which also limited use of the ß.
“Here we are: Dipplestrabe!”
Sophisticates like me don’t use that abomination.
“Coast Guard officials were notified of the emergency by a radio channel and they want to remind all boaters of key safety tips before getting on the water such as wearing a life jacket, filing a float plan, checking the weather and water conditions and carrying all required safety gear.”
*cue rainbow*
Did they forget the whistle? Very important piece of equipment while you float and bob around the ocean, waiting for the inevitable.
Don’t forget being vaccinated. Very important for boating.
Don’t forget to bring a towel.
And a beer cooler that floats. Gun collections, unfortunately, sink right to the bottom in 200 feet of water.
I went into the article expecting a pretentious cringefest, but now I want to see the movie.
Zero emission goods are presumably taken from the factory to the retail store by carrier pigeon rather than truck.
Pigeons are not zero emissions.
Statues would nod sadly if they could.
Lol
““Recycled gold is a marketing term used to promote the gold. All gold is recycled. No gold is ever wasted,” Kahan said, adding that “new” gold makes up only a tiny share of the market.””
OK, but she’s still an idiot.
Mr AOC won’t have to date her anymore plus can get a nice government job. Important to keep separate last names to avoid the obvious.
Movin’ on up to the DC side. Cocktail parties et al
Government job? No you need private sector job that does contracting work with the government.
Anyone who criticizes either of them is just totes jelly of him!
On the plus side — does this mean he gets to criticize her freely? I mean, he’s already admitted to wanting to boff her and all…
Not if he knows on which side his gluten-free bread is
butteredtransfat-free vegan margarined.I think mashed avocado and chia seeds are involved these days.
Aren’t chia seeds best used for Chia Pets? (Spoiler of sorts: Some of these are awesome!)
Ch-ch-ch-chia
Considering that “new” gold tends to only be made by supernovas… yeah, I would take that as a given.
Oh goodie
“President Joe Biden called the outbreak of monkeypox something ‘everybody should be concerned about, and his security advisor says he has been briefed on the situation.
‘They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet but it is something that everybody should be concerned about,’ Biden said as he left South Korea en route to Japan on a trip that is focused on economic and security issues.
‘We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine if any might be available for it. It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential.’
‘That’s all they told me,’ he concluded, presumably referencing his advisors. ‘We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do,’ he added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10841969/Biden-calls-monkeypox-everybody-concerned-about.html
Monkeypox Mail-in Midterms
Monkeypox seems to have a major transmission mechanism of MSM – men having sex with men, so obviously the entire populace is at risk.
I hate diseases transmitted by the mainstream media.
That is the most dangerous kind of disease.
Like COVID-mania.
Not just monkeypox.
What color is the National Terrorism Advisory System alert today?
There are no conspiracy theories. They’re called spoilers.
No shit…was Gates involved by any chance?
Yes, but I’m not sure how directly.
A quick Brave search turned up the fact that the Nuclear Threat Initiative (who authored the linked paper) received a $250,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2018.
He’s the world’s most dangerous elderly nerd, no doubt.
Elderly? Elderly? I’ll show you Elderly.
Bill is a punk ass kid, wet behind the ears, needs some time in flyover country.
“Bizarre ‘basement’ house which is almost entirely submerged underground goes viral after its listed on Zillow – but it could be a bargain at just $35k?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10841509/Bizarre-basement-house-entirely-submerged-bargain-just-35k.html
Then you have to live in Illinois.
But, why?
You really don’t like tornadoes?
More seriously, this isn’t any more bizarre than the sod dugouts that were common on the plains states.
Only because there were no Home Depots yet.
I imagine it has excellent insulation.
Never again.
It’s probably nice and quiet inside. If you work a night shift, you don’t have to worry about unwanted light coming in while you’re sleeping.
Basement homes were not unusual in my neighborhood 60-70 years ago. Folks lived in them while gathering/saving money to build the next level. One near my present house had an occupancy by the original owners for 50 years, only recently was the upper level added on. Not bizarre, thrifty, tornado safe.
I spend a lot of my day (and night) in the basement now. Comfortable, quiet, convenient.
Makes sense. As a Florida Man (you hit water only a few feet down here) I am jealous of your house’s superpower.
Much less painting too.
Mrs. Whiz and I are thinking of moving to Florida in a year or two (now in Iowa). We really will miss having a basement.
Goal is to build an earth-covered home eventually – preferably into a hillside rather than straight down, but we’ll see what the eventual terrain of my eventual land purchase looks like.
Will you name it “Bag End”?
Probably not. I bet he doesn’t want to attract any of those Sackville-Bagginses.
*chuckles in Sindarin*
Yeah — had an Aunt and Uncle in Michigan that lived exactly that way. I think it helped with the insulation / heating in the winter as well. If you don’t care as much about the views, it made perfect sense to me. I’m sure there’s no way anyone could get a permit for it in CA — “earthquakes” would be the excuse, but in actuality, I think they really love forcing almost all the homes to look alike these days via permitting.
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Bah.
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Bwahahahaha
Local station had an interview with the leader of the Assembly (think NY speaker of the house).
She claimed, I shit you not, that throwing out the D-drawn maps was racist. Because she and the leader of the state senate were both black. She also said that ethics laws were not needed because she “believed in God.”
She sounds nice.
And adamantly opposed to the death penalty for the shooter. Instead, she wants to ban guns because “hate cannot drive out hate, only love can.”
Oh, and we need to ban body armor, because “the deer isn’t shooting at you.”
Only bears are armed.
I’m never sure if we have the DP or not – just know we don’t use it.
You know who else knows how to work a DP ?
Margaret Trudeau?
Not sure if this counts, but Jesse used to talk a lot about getting spitroasted.
James 2:19 — “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.”
That’s the least amount of gerrymandering I’ve ever seen in this state.
Yeah, the map just looks more reasonable and cohesive after the change.
It actually got changed slightly from what the Special Master did because his plan had the City of Kingston split into two US House districts.
Oh look- the power is partially back on. Even tho 1 leg coming into the house is only 85 VAC or so.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Ruh roh! We were lucky – no such outage over here, even with a couple of big trees down a couple of blocks to the east. Need to come over and borrow a cup of electricity?
Due to how the Palatial 2X-Wide™ was wired (likely in the 1950’s) only the parts of the house with the absurdly low voltage are/were “out”. Not coincidentally, the new SMART meter AES slapped on the side of it has gone wacky due to yesterdays storms. I’m thinking that may be the culprit. Being within pissing distance (I drink a lot of beer) of their substation is likely more bug than feature.
Keep a hammer inside your vehicle
disclaimer: may be a lie to discredit ElonManBad
I had a ’77 Olds Cutlass that had a bad spot on the starter. I kept a framing hammer under the seat for the annoying times it didnt want to turn over.
Tesla prototype, from the ’70’s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-DZdZIMhAk
You know if AOC gets married she will lose most of her male followers, ’cause it is just a bunch of sad sacks hoping for a date.
Even the bots want to date her!
“oh wait, you’re serious”
My slim chance is gone. There’s just no use living anymore.
I was about to ask why AOC is fucking around with that ginger then it occurred to me that neither of them have souls so it doesn’t matter.
They’re from the same social class.
What? The story of the struggling bartender is BS? I’m so disappointed.
What? AOC isn’t a coal miner’s daughter as is Biden? Did she not struggle when they had family meetings around the kitchen table when gas when up a penny? I am disillusioned.
The society pages must be abuzz!
Now do big honking gifs at the top of the page. ?
Haha. I was wondering how that was any different than embedded videos.
I tapped out just before your comment about the electro remix groups. I didn’t realize what those meant. That’s interesting. So you write/record your song, have a different group do their thing to it, and include it on your album. Seems weird to me, but I’m guessing it’s pretty common in that musical world.
It is extremely common.
SugarFree’s ancient forbearers
It’s not far from Gobekli Tepe, but even older. Throws the whole conventional archeological explanation for the advent of civilization out of whack.
Your thoughts on this term for the first decade of this cursed century?
Noughties? I got nothin’
Living rock?
Sausage fest?
I don’t think they are penises any more than the Blue Origin rocket was one. The author just seems to have dicks on his mind.
This guy is obsessed.
I hit ctrl + F “penis” and it came up with 12 results! I’ll spare you all posting the rest of them.
To be fair, it’s hard to guess what else that little guy is doing with his arms.
Checking his zipper
That’s a neigh from me, dawg.
That’s an incredibly interesting story.
Results from yesterday’s shoot are out, not entirely sure what they mean.
3rd overall. Fastest time overall, but had 10 seconds of penalties over the 5 stages. I won two of the stages. The obvious takeaway is “slow down, take more careful shots.”
But, in my division I was first overall, by an absurd amount, and the only person with fewer PD in SSP was more than TWO MINUTES slower than me. I guess the real takeaway is that everyone else in SSP was absolute garbage so I shouldn’t consider their performances in how to improve mine.
I did however, beat a dude dressed out in Atlas Gunworks gear, running some Atlas 2011 (I have no idea what the models are in guns of that price range) with Taran Tactical baseplates. Considering that he was wearing gear that costs more than my entire gun collection, such victories make me happy.
Congrats.
There are a lot of USPSA clubs down in your part of the country. You and the GF should start playing, it’s insanely fun. And good for the brain.
Single-action shooters usually end up way more invested in the accouterments than in their shooting irons.
Good morning, Brett!
Glad the kids are letting you sleep. That’s a blessing!
Did those dudes get caught in a storm, or did they leave the drain plug out? Either way, how embarrassing.
But not as embarrassing as AOC’s ring. That’s just sad. The dude she’s marrying looks like he’s being held hostage.
That is my favorite Rush song. I thought it might be Spirit of the Radio but I was wrong.
Beato has a different idea. He’s probably correct.
There is no energy needed to “recycle” gold.
“The former head of a widely criticized disinformation board faced a torrent of sexist profanities on social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats.”
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1528055376624640000
(shit that happened) (this)
When you try to put your boot on millions of people’s necks don’t be surprised if they react disfavorably. The tactic of proposing authoritarian garbage and then whining about the backlash is played the fuck out.
Racism. It’s always racism.
Daniel Maxwell, Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, said the war was adversely impacting countries already struggling to deal with the spiraling cost of wheat and maize.
“The invasion of Ukraine has had all these knock-on effects in terms of price and therefore makes all of those crises more severe because they’re all food-importing countries,” he said.
“With all the attention in the media and the sort of geopolitical priorities that Ukraine comprises, the amount of additional assistance for other parts of the world I think is going to be pretty constrained,” Maxwell said. “We should be able to think about two problems at once. But I’m not sure that there’s evidence that we’re fully doing that.”
In Yemen, a conflict has raged since a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf states launched an assault on Houthi insurgents in 2015.
The already impoverished nation has endured hunger, disease and poverty ever since.
“Many families haven’t seen fruit or vegetables in months, meat for even longer,” said Sukaina Sharafuddin, a Yemeni aid worker. “I met a mother with five children, and I asked her what she feeds them. She said some days she just boils water with spices and they drink that as there is no food for a proper meal.”
There must be another hornets’ nest we can kick, somewhere.
It’s about time to wind up the North Koreans, isn’t it?
And- A “Professor in Food Security” teaches farmers how to boost crops yields, right?
And- A “Professor in Food Security” teaches farmers how to boost crops yields, right?
We have an opening in NJ for this professor.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/05/trenton-must-do-more-to-help-njs-hungry-editorial.html
I challenge anyone to show me a starving American in America. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we have the fattest poor people in the world. I point it out constantly to my kids. The only people who starve in this country are those that are having it intentionally inflicted upon them.
Yet I’ve heard recently, from the pulpit, that “1 in 5 Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” Around here, we just stack their bodies with all those who died from net neutrality, Trump’s WWIII, the Chicomvirus, and GOP’s war on social security and Grandmas.
“Where do you want to go for lunch?”
“I don’t know. Where do YOU want to go for lunch?”
“How about, Italian?”
“No, not it the mood?”
“Mexican?”
“No, not that either.”
“Chinese?”
“We just had that.”
“I’m going to get a burger. You coming?”
“I don’t know.”
“Later.”
I saw on the news last night that 40% of the citizens of Mississippi are obese. Stupid southerners! Of course the fact that 40% of Mississippians are Black seems to escaped them. Now I doubt that all of the fat people in the state are the Black ones, but it reminds me that when Progressives put down the citizens of Mississippi for being fat, stupid rubes, they’re effective putting down a shit-ton of Black folks.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/22/ive-got-big-boobs-and-tried-not-wearing-a-bra-for-a-week/
I don’t know what to make of this. Perhaps Q can provide some expertise?
That just sounds like the bulk of the 1970s. Also, while having no personal experience to draw from, my friends who trend to the Russ Meyer end of the spectrum wear bras because if they don’t, their breasts hurt.
A United Nations fundraising conference for Yemen in March drummed up pledges of $1.3 billion in humanitarian assistance. Although this was welcomed by organizers, it amounted to less than a third of what the U.N. says is needed, making 2022 the sixth year that Yemen’s aid response has not been fully funded.
The answer is obvious. Yemen should declare war on somebody.
Obligatory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMuJDajujc
Is Gulag Barbie really short, or is her boyfriend really tall?
Would
Be concerned, vote from home, vote often. Be fortified….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10841969/Biden-calls-monkeypox-everybody-concerned-about.html
They’re so transparent it would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
“THE SIMPSONS is airing an episode this weekend about the death of Homer Simpson’s American dream, complete with a lecture in the show by Robert Reich about income equality. The writers were inspired by an NPR segment they heard a year ago. It’s in musical form.
Everybody laugh!”
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1528008573363576832
It’s still on the air?
For being a dumbass I’d say Homer did well for himself.
+1 Frank Grimes
You’re the 2nd person in a couple days to mention Frank, and I had no idea he was Homer’s nemesis.
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Not on my air.
Robert Reich and the current batch of Simpsons writers can go fuckdiddlyuck themselves.
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEvh6HSQc0
It can’t be any worse than this – https://youtu.be/ErhaWVG0o1I
OFFS but not surprising given the last fifteen or so years of that show.
They used to play both sides pretty well. It was one of the things that made it enjoyable. Same with 30 Rock.
Tangentially related, there is a fantastic show about a group of friends growing up in Londonderry during The Troubles – Derry Girls. Thanks to ChiComPox, the finale was truncated and rewritten to have a more serious plotline and they brought in guest star Chelsea Clinton. Ruined the whole damn thing for me.
Wasn’t there an episode wherein a comedian hired a writer from Harvard and hilarity failed to ensue?
This one? https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E19/371153
Yup. I wonder if there is anyone from the writer’s room back then left now.
“He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He’s Collecting Unemployment.
Behind the fall of David Sabatini, ‘one of the greatest scientists’ of his generation.”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/he-was-a-world-renowned-cancer-researcher
SPOILER: It was bogus sex nonsense.
I saw a Powerline post on that yesterday. The woman who is accusing Sabatini of “grooming” her was 29 when they started bonking. In all likelihood she is a lefty and a feminist who somehow sees no contradiction in empowering women and treating them as powerless children.
So much what-the-fuck to unpack.
Children’s temper tantrums.
The continuing anti-man-ization of science and education.
The end in sight of the U.S. being a leader in science.
Not following HR policies has consequences, even if you’re a superstar, particularly when someone wants to make an example of you
Drunken hookups are a bad idea
Getting drunk at professional conferences is a bad idea
Drunken hookups at professional conferences are a bad idea
Don’t shit where you eat
Hypocrite note: married to a one time coworker
The humanitarian community has long struggled to hold public attention on crises that drag on interminably, such as Syria’s civil war, which just entered its 11th year.
Whether it is donor fatigue or a lack of media coverage, audiences are increasingly struggling to keep their attention on multiple disasters at once, according to Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, professor of philosophy at the University of North Dakota.
She said the advent of 24-hour news and social media has left people inundated with information that may or may not be relevant to their interests, squeezing their bandwidth and effectively “training us to skip around from one issue to the next.”
Maybe those people start to think they are being played for suckers. Emotionally manipulated by a cynical culture of “non profit” aid organizations who promote learned helplessness among their clients to ensure a permanent place at the trough.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.ph/c6fMV
Morning Glibs! I’m having a very productive day. I took the dog for an extra long morning walk, filled two more yard waste bags with weeds, did two loads of laundry, and cleaned the oven. I still need to clean the upstairs bath and vacuum and wash floors.
Impressive. May I borrow a cup of energy?
Way to go, Tulip!
Dang! And is only (checks clock, adds three hours) 11? where you are at. The wife is still in bed, I am sitting in the chair of Sunday.
Excellent! I, onthe other hand, have done nothing with my day. I intend to stitch.
A snotnoggin on Twitter was arguing that socialism produces better outcomes than capitalism in several social metrics (access to health care, food production, etc.) based on a report by some outfit called the American Journal of Public Health. The report relies on data from the World Bank.
I successfully resisted the urge to delve into the report, show how the data is flawed and misinterpreted, and simply called the fellow a name and moved on.
Seriously, F. Bastiat successfully refuted socialism over a century ago.
Socialism is death. It is the death of the economy, it is the death of good government. It is the death of community, it is the death of individualism. It is the death of faith, and the death of reason. It is actual death, as people starve, are executed after show trials, and as they turn to violence to procure a share of a shrinking amount of resources.
True socialism is indeed death, but the type of socialism mostly argued for by lefties is more like a slow rot or general malaise. It’s really better described as a social welfare state and is almost the antithesis of what the US was designed to be. My family is all from Ireland, the ones that came out were mostly the ambitious ones and the ones that stayed were less so. It’s perfectly represented by two cousins of mine now in their 50’s. One has worked all his life as an engineer there and the other has never really worked. They live almost the same lives. They both have houses in the same village, one just has a slightly nicer house, slightly nicer car and takes slightly nicer vacations, but their lives are just about the same. If you just want to muddle along, Ireland (like much of Europe), is a great place to do so.
Also… it’s already been demonstrated here and there that the U.S. is every bit as much a “social welfare” country as the big Euro-states. We tax nearly as much if not as much by now. We spend much more. We get more in some aspects and less in others. There are reasons for it which are unrelated to how much we spend.
Most of these people only take the superficial aspects of Europe: the trains, “free” healthcare, retirement at 65, city living; and ignore the economic malaise, intellectual stagnation, and light to heavy despotism that are the result. They refuse to see that people will buy larger cars, move to the suburbs, and, in general, do everything they hate about Americans when given the chance.
Golden eggs. How do they work?
Michael J. Fox was so cute. That’s his own handwriting in the letter he writes to Doc.
Right? And I loved it when he poked fun at his hippy parents. He could be a little mean at times to his dopey sister, though.
That show evolved a lot. These days I have eyes for beardy Michael Gross. “There was a kangaroo… in my living room.”
Michael J. Fox was so cute.
But he has no Elvis in him
Nice. Haven’t heard that in many, many years.
Awesome!
Mojo is now a DJ on SiriusXM Outlaw Country station. Funny dude.
Everybody solo!
Garden report: picked more radishes. Planted more flowers and lettuce this am. More romaine almost pickable. Peas and beans blooming. Butternut squash, zucchini, and cantaloupe up. Squirrels got into the sunflowers so I will plant more.
“Google tells us that today is the strongman Great Gama’s 144th birthday. I wonder how much he can dead-lift.