I give you the largest whorehouse on the planet.
Okay, okay, okay. I’m writing this last night, as the hearings are going on. Guess what I have zero awareness of?
That changes nothing about the whorehouse comment. Links?
Someone needs to run on a platform of instituting Thunder Dome.
NATO is nothing but brotherly love.
Two possible responses; it’s bullshit, or I have no sympathy.
I can do without this. And the subsequent battery fire.
I mean yeah, okay. At this point, what the hell. It’s good prep for the first link.
Yeaahhh, honey. We’re already there.
Okay. That’s it. Headlines are just downright annoying these days. And I try to ignore the, “Current Thing”.
I’ve posted this a couple of times, but today seems to need it. Crank it as you slam an espresso.
“NATO is nothing but brotherly love.”
Must be competing to unseat the UN as the top crime syndicate.
“Two possible responses; it’s bullshit, or I have no sympathy.”
Please tell me it was that idiot Klaus Schwab that had his watch stolen…
If only. Who else but a weirdo elite would wear such an expensive watch around?
*sigh*
There’s a damn Reply-All storm at work. I hate people
some days.I haven’t seen one of those in a long time.
Please unsubscribe me from this chain!
A former boss of mine, back before he went into management, sent a reply-all message in response to a reply-all “Please unsubscribe me from this list!”.
His reply?
“It’s really easy to unsubscribe. Leave your badge at the door on the way out.”
Fuckin’ WINNING!!!
reply to all with a sexist joke see what happens
It’s been a while, I don’t think any of them would recognize the names.
“Say, did you know all women are bi? It’s just question of sexual or polar.”
You left off the third option -nary.
I was hoping for bionic.
Relevant-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_IOittp70
“AND” is also a very popular option.
Dude, watching that sort of shitshow play out is one of the things that makes work interesting. Other than your random HR complaint about the fact that if you hold conversations with coworkers expecting those people to have IQs over 85, you will get in trouble because they will claim to feel hurt or insulted because they now nothing. The HR lady was really mad at me for telling here after her complaint that I now surmise I work for a company that punishes intellect and knowledge demanding I dumb down conversations so people with government provided educations won’t have excuses to feel insulted…
Part of my role has been translating between technical and nontechnical. A lot of technical people don’t realize how jargon-infested their dialect has become, and misinterpret the misunderstanding of the nontechnical.
There are, of course, morons on both sides of the divide, but it’s a niche that earned me half my professional reputation.
A lot of non-technical people have tried to adopt/appropriate technical jargon and sound like idiots, too.
My experience has been that it is in the highest levels of management, unfortunately, where you find the people using the most acronyms and jargon language to make themselves sound knowledgeable while doing exactly the opposite. The managers working directly w/ the techs tend to be people that at least still have tech currency of some kind, but the higher up you go, the further removed from currency they are. And the use of jargon, practically always incorrect or meaningless in nature, grows proportionally with the degree of distance between the techs doing the work and the senior leadership.
Yes. I work with one of our executives who takes every opportunity to explain that she used to be a plant process engineer, so she understands all the technical issues. Forget that she worked in a plant primarily during an internship and a year or two as a FTE, then bolted to the sales/marketing side of things.
Her communications are a dense minefield of buzzwords and jargon.
It’s not just managers. I encounter engineers on a daily basis who simply cannot communicate their ideas without jargon and acronyms. Generally, they’re not the good engineers. They’re people with a tenuous grasp of the subject matter and a (usually stupid) idea for a patent.
To be fair, it’s the attorneys, too. I try to write to a high school reading level and to a EE/CS new hire level of technical understanding. I establish the business case along with the technical advantages of the invention in a persuasive narrative form. The attorneys I review are all over the place. When jargon and verbatim copypasta from the invention disclosure start creeping into the patent application, I know they don’t understand the technology. When I can’t understand what the heck the invention is after reading their first 2 pages, I know they don’t understand it either. When it’s written like a product manual, I know they don’t understand what their job is.
Been there, done that patent application crap w/ attorneys. The ones I was successfully part of were all ones handled by lazy attorneys that let me write the technical stuff and left it alone. Every single application that had a legit case for getting a patent where the attorney decided to do his own legal rewrite was rejected.
Every single application that had a legit case for getting a patent where the attorney decided to do his own legal rewrite was rejected.
That screams incompetence to me. A saying in the industry is “anything is allowable if you pay enough for it”. Now, allowable and worthless aren’t mutually exclusive, but if an attorney or a law firm are regularly abandoning applications as a significant proportion of the entire portfolio, they screwed up somehow. We target between 5 and 10% to be abandoned in the phase between approval for drafting and patent grant. That accounts for things like finding some knockout prior art, costs growing beyond value, the occasional dud that gets through the system, business priority changes, etc.
This is called “marketing”
A consulting firm I worked for had a (canadian) engineer that was incredibly inept at explaining processes in normal english. When trying to explain something to our technical writer to put into a report he usually went to the dry-erase board and made pictures. “Ok- so over here you have this guy, right? Now its gonna to feed (x) over here to this thing where it….”
The poor tech writer was perpetually frazzled.
In fairness, trying to explain phone system routing to some managers, I’ve included a box that said “Magic Happens”.
“You familiar with Harry Potter? Magic happens just like that!”
Let me walk you through the Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist.
I can’t open the link here at work, but I recognize that from Patriot.
Fuck Amazon for not picking that back up.
“UCS at the HR meeting”
“Yeaahhh, honey. We’re already there.”
This shit reminds me of the guy that beats his woman up and then tells her she did it to herself, gets angry at her for looking like she doesn’t believe his accusation.. Then winds up to beat her up some more..
Yellen is like the court jester in a court full of fools. A recession is 2 consecutive quarters of contraction. Q1 saw economic contraction and Q2 ends in 20 days. So sometime next month she’ll be eating her words again.
Saw her talking the other night. She sounds like a 3-year-old. I wouldn’t trust her to manage the local Smoothie King, much less our currency.
whaddup doh’
Mornin, Tres!
how YOU doin’ ?
Eh, it’s a moo point. Care for some trifle?
It’s like a cow’s opinion. It doesn’t matter.
A profound point. One cud chew on this all day.
Trashy will be there for me! ⛲️
A big Tom turkey is looking in the window at me, as I type this. He’s in full plumage but I think he missed the last train, the mamas are already out with the kiddos
“How _you_ doin’?”
‘These people should be put to death’: DFW pastor calls for LGBT people to be executed
Maybe we just bring back dueling and let the LGBs defend themselves against the T+’s.
Yeaahhh, honey. We’re already there.
What I can’t figure out is what she thinks lying about it will accomplish.
I think lying is second nature and they do it even if it has no benefit
Provide a source for all the reporters trying to obfuscate and cover?
*ding ding ding*
“This just in: Economy doing great! And here’s the proof.”
Emperor’s Wardrobe Excellence Unsurpassed, Say Sartorial Experts
It’s not gonna help anything when Treasury reports the GDP decline in a couple weeks. It would be one thing if she said this back in March, but a couple weeks before the report comes out that proves her a lying idiot? I don’t get it.
I’m seeing it as more akin to the spinning out at the end of a Ponzi scheme. You’re in this deep already, and if you can get one more big investor, you can get another couple of weeks of breathing space. Future you is going to have to deal with a much bigger mess though.
Maybe there is a plan to change the definition while issuing the report.
They will lie, even if telling the truth would better help their case.
The nature of the scorpion is to sting everything around it… The nature of these white collar college grads is to lie in the cause of progressivism.
The Fed is in the business of obfuscation and lying. It’s what they do.
Otherwise we would have had an audit of their books already.
“Is there a recession risk? Of course there’s a recession risk,” the Treasury secretary said. “But is it likely? I don’t think so.”
The nation is in the best of hands.
I sleep better knowing the adults are back in charge.
🙄
Just like the “transitory, minor inflation”.
Yup. A year or so from now – Brandon is trying to run again – she will say, “well I guess I should have seen the recession coming, but back then I was just doing the best I could”.
Yellen is more focused on fighting racism and climate change than she is in doing the job she was given… But if you wonder why she is that confused, the issue is with you, because it is impossible to miss that this administration’s priorities are using climate change and racism to help do the great reset work.
15% inflation in good old Romania… And looking at all the building I smell a new real estate bubble. Fucking fuck.
At least gas prices don;t matter in summer though I expect my electricity to cost a fuckton as I use a lot of AC
Once they move you into the WEF approved pods, feeding you food made from bugs, and piping in TeeVee propaganda while they are tracking every move you make, you will not have to worry and will finally know true happiness.
gas meaning nat gas for heating, not the kind you put in cars
I was confused.
Are we discussing cow farts?
My natural gas is part of my rent so at least I can blast away on the stove all I want which is a good thing because the other day I left a burner on low all night. Damn thing is impossible to see in the daylight but when I stumbled into the kitchen at 4am for a glass a milk in the dark, there it was, merrily burning away…
I did that a couple of weeks back. I’m just lucky one of the cats didn’t walk by and light up.
I’m trying to remember to turn the lock dial for all burners now, when I’m done with the cooktop.
I tried to train myself to verify they’re all off years ago but it never took.
That shit terrifies me. Stove top, coffee pot, etc. I’ve been halfway to work and think “I don’t remember unplugging the coffee pot.” So I turn around and see that I did, in fact, unplug it, and then I’m ten minutes late for work because of my paranoia.
I have an electric kettle. Mainly because I’ve managed to burn the previous three stovetop models into slag.
Before Michael was killed, he joked to a friend that his wife “is crazy but as long as I hide the steak knives everything will be fine,” the document states.
Missed one, to is eternal regret.
That friend told police that the couple briefly lived in separate houses, but Michael moved back into a $1 million lakefront Winter Park home with his wife about a month before the stabbing.
I would’ve sworn this was going to be south Florida. Winter Park is a tony town just north of Orlando.
Florida woman?
Winter Park is “tony?” Holy shit.
I lived right on the Winter Park/Orlando line in 1976-77 and we got bussed to a formerly black only school in order to comply with the local district judge’s integration plan (all in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board cases).
“Tony” is not a word I would have used to describe Winter Park, but glad to hear it’s come up in the world.
That is like the third such story I’ve seen in as many weeks.
The world has gone stupid so for all I know, they could even be true.
I remember a South American (not sure of the country) football player in Europe saying that if people in his country would wear watches like his teammates on the street their hands would be cut off with machetes in order for thieves to take their watch.
All the way back in college in the 90’s I had a friend from Peru who shared similar stories.
They would also never stop for red lights at night – you’d have passengers checking the side-streets for crossing traffic and just blow through the lights. This was still safer than stopping.
Inside of you there are two wolves. One of them is bisexual. The other is bipolar. Both of them have been suspended by the Washington Post.
https://twitter.com/rohn_jawls/status/1534924608960339968
Bitch, please!
Turkey’s Erdogan warns Greece to demilitarize Aegean islands
Old, historical conflicts die hard.
Asia Minor For the Greeks! Free Byzantium!
Next we will get some joke about not being able to leave their brother’s behinds…
Fun fact, most ‘Turks’ in Turkey are genetically greek.
It has nothing to do with your sodomy reference, but… *shrug*
As Conan so aptly put it when asked about the meaning of life, the answer was: “To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women”…
Nothing will make women whine & complain more than having some Malaka invader impregnate them then go out with the boys to riad some other neighbors….
Mr. O’Brien said that? ?
Mr. The Barbarian…
Ah say, that was a joke, son.
https://www.avclub.com/john-kapelos-on-john-hughes-jackie-gleason-and-his-ex-1798280855 J.K. got in trouble with his family for popularizing the word “malaka” in Weird Science.
A war will separate the men from the boys in Turkey. In Greece a crowbar is needed to separate the men from the boys.
Yeah, I am sure they will get right on that, Erdy…
Jeebus… that kid on the right looks ready to tear the rest of those squirts limb from limb.
Kids learning to beat the shit out of people at age 7. Wonderful. Where will the ones who didn’t get to be MMA stars be in 15 years?
I don’t know. Kids are in Tae Kwan Do and Golden Gloves pretty early too.
My guess is that the “cage fights” are like youth football, the youngsters are all pretty much playing pattycake and getting more violent as they get older.
You have seen all of those children’s drag shows lately?
It is sad that these kids have to have adults organize pugilistic training for them. Way too regimented.
In our day, you just went to school and got into fights at recess. We didn’t need no fancy training.
^^THIS^^
And just like with self-organized baseball games what did you learn from that? Did you learn how to properly fit in to the regimented system? No you didn’t, did you? Instead, your head got filled with crazy ideas about how to conduct the game, choose teams and resolve disputes without relying on adults. See how bad that is for you?
I was explaining to my kid the way that we came up to play baseball games with only nine players (3 teams of 3, 2 in the field 1 batting) and he asked us who taught us that. I explained to him that we just figured it out. Probably some older brother told us, but we just played and figured things out as they came up.
we just played and figured things out as they came up
You poor thing, such a warped childhood without adults constantly hovering about and guiding you every single step of the way.
Teslas with Autopilot a step closer to recall after wrecks
It should be explained (as is in the manual) that “autopilot” has its limitations.
Guess she’s used to hanging around politicians who just expense everything and don’t have to pay for things like gas and groceries or they’re so rich they don’t care about such things.
Now, jurors at Danielle Redlick’s trial have been asked to decide: Was the stabbing of Michael Redlick— a former NBA executive turned university employee—an act of murder or self defense?
Sounds like the former.
“There’s nothing to suggest that there’s a recession in the works,” she said during an interview at The New York Times’ economic forum.
Because it’s already been delivered by the current regime.
According to the headlines, the Jan6 hearings laid out a powerful case against Trump. I was not aware he was on trial.
The case was definitely effectively made if you are a moron that believes team blue is not a crime syndicate.
Case in point…
Erin is always good for a hot take, and she really put the finger on this one. 1/6 was the first time in modern history that the political class got scared.
So what is your bet? Will we
1. Never see the ratings results of the televised hearings or
2. The ratings will be released, it will rank lower than normal CNN news
I expect Fox to publicize the ratings while they laugh all the way to the bank.
It’s a proxy trial of Trump.
It’s not going to save them in November and it’s not going to save them in 2024 if they keep deliberately trying to wreck the country.
They’re welcome to try, I guess.
Soviet pravda has nothing on the modern Dems/leftists. They intend to maintain power regardless of the cost. Election night 2022 will be interesting.
Nope. The following week though…
/lives in PA
TWICE IMPEACHED!
It’s fun when you try and dive into the details of the first one.
It’s a show trial.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/09/photo-scripted-january-6-committee-hearing-uses-teleprompter/
Of course they’re using teleprompters; the lies don’t keep themselves straight.
About that homo-hating church: while I sympathize with the protesters they are just giving the church more publicity, which has the potential to gain them more followers.
Tonio, I see real wisdom in your recommendation that sometimes the best thing to do is to starve fucking stupid/evil people of the attention whoring they crave. The asshat telling people to go commit murder in God’s name, craves the attention just as much as your average teenage girls shitposting on social media.
Seems like a Westboro Baptist kind of scam. A half dozen guys saying stupid shit, then suing people for violating their 1A rights.
Dude (or Dudette) if your avatar picture hasn’t come back on its own you’ll need to reset it manually.
Annnnd he’s OK! Game onnn–!
Susan?
EAT RUDE BRAIN!
Yup. You don’t engage with people like that; it ain’t worth the effort.
Toxic work environment
The Washington Post on Thursday fired Felicia Sonmez, the reporter who has been extraordinarily critical of her colleagues and the newspaper’s leadership over the last several days, two people familiar with the matter told CNN on Thursday.
The Post’s termination notice, a copy of which was seen by CNN, said Sonmez was fired for “misconduct that includes insubordination, maligning your coworkers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.”
“We cannot allow you to continue to work as a journalist representing The Washington Post,” the letter concluded.
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Sonmez, who in 2021 sued the paper for discrimination (the suit was recently dismissed; she plans to appeal), has been outspoken over the past week about issues related to inequity in the newsroom.
In her public comments Sonmez had been highly critical of The Post’s leadership, including Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, along with many of her colleagues.
At times, some of her colleagues went on Twitter to plead with Sonmez to stop attacking The Post on social media.
Jose A. Del Real, a reporter at The Post, responded on Twitter Saturday to Sonmez’s initial tweet. Del Real said Weigel’s tweet was “terrible and unacceptable.”
“But,” he added, “rallying the internet to attack him for a mistake he made doesn’t actually solve anything. We all mess up in some way or another. There is such a thing as challenging with compassion.”
Sonmez responded, saying that “calling out sexism isn’t ‘cruelty,'” but something that is “absolutely necessary.”
She’s a dadgum Joan of Arc. Those other people are just jealous of her spiritual purity.
Imagine being such an awful person that even the fucking WP has had enough of your shit.
Man, I was just thinking that. Did Felicia take a shit on someone’s desk or something?
I think the question might be – what didn’t she shit on?
Johnny Depp’s bed?
Taylor Lorenz was caught just making things up, and even she still has a job there.
So she leaked it to CNN, then is going to sue WaPo for leaking it.
Right? CWAA.
Looked both of his accusers up. Both are gingers.
Let that be a warning.
Note that nobody is questioning the original premise. Of course what Weigel did was bad, like super-bad, and his month-long suspension is totally justified, but maybe don’t be a crazy bitch in public? (I wonder if any of them realize they’re basically asking her to stop proving the “offensive” joke right.)
A culture of sexism so thick nobody will dare defend a man who gave a nod to an off-color joke.
If you think that joke was “off-color” you must describe Dave Coulier as “edgy.”
Wokeness is predicably eating itself. The adults in the room hired these people and let them take over by heckler’s veto because they were scared to push back against their obvious false premises, flat-out lies and insincere concern trolling that was always clearly a cudgel to move anyone above them out of the way. See Cartman discovering the power of saying “my mom molestered meeeeeee.” Their work environments are now truly toxic for the exact opposite reasons they claim – it’s not the middle-aged white guy who keeps his head down and does his job that’s creating issues by occasionally cracking a joke that Jerry Seinfeld would find tame. This has nothing to do with being offended and it never has. They could have and should have told these people to pound sand from day one. Let them lie in it and enjoy the show.
Don’t try to steal: Good guy with a gun saves the day!
2019?
Good moves by the shooter. You see how he turned his body so the bad guy couldn’t see him draw, then waited until the bad guy glanced away before going for it?
Oops…
Needs to aim lower to remove the lungs.
I like happy endings.
STEVE SMITH, was this you?
My guess is a furry, a human in an animal costume such as mascots of sportzball teams wear.
…I was in Amarillo that weekend. Insulted, I am.
The last time I was in Amarillo, I stopped at the Big Texan and the Cadillac Ranch. Was only in town long enough for lunch. We made it to Roswell before we were done driving for the day.
It’s fun to go see what the biggest steak looks like at the Big Texan. I had lunch there (was good!) and watched somebody try the challenge. It was a fail. Not surprised. Who could look at that display and think “hey, I can take that down.”
But were you in Amarillo by morning?
Well they took my saddle in Houston first,
Then I broke my femur in Santa Fe
Then I ran into STEVE SMITH
And I can no longer walk straight.
I have no real objection to furries, but for fucks’ sake stay away from zoos. You *know* what everyone is going to think…
That showed up a few days ago. I still contend it’s just a furry.
*^(*^$)#()()%(*)%$ Furries…
SOW, must be hard to dance in a squirrel costume.
In Amarillo? That’s a chupacabra. Place is lousy with them.
Just hours after Buzbee issued her memo, Sonmez tweeted a screen grab showing she was still blocked on Twitter by Del Real. And she retweeted another user mocking some of her colleagues who had joined together to send tweets expressing pride about working at The Post.
Reporter Lisa Rein tweeted at Sonmez that night, writing, “Please stop.”
Sonmez replied and asked, “Do you have any idea of the torrent of abuse I’m facing right now?”
“Everybody’s paying attention to me. I feel so alive!”
Yeah, sure…
It’s pretty simple: We have a right to choose our own leaders. We can’t let anyone take that right away from us.
The people involved in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the will of America’s voters—which culminated in the attempted coup of January 6—must be held accountable.
The actual coup was in November of the prior year. Not that I would dare question the results of an election in a supposedly free country.
It’s demonstrably false on so many levels.
1) They cheat at all stages of the elections in both parties.
2) Third parties are treated like criminal organizations
3) Even if an outsider wins, the system is designed to prevent them from effecting change, thus rendering it pointless.
I usually shut down all the lefties complaining about the coup attempt against democracy on 1/6 by pointing out that we went from them contesting every single election they didn’t win, with the one in 2016 being blamed on Trump being a KGB plant and getting aid from Putin to pull that off – the evidence being a Hillary Clinton/DNC pile of fiction labeled the Steele Dossier – to censoring and punishing anyone tat dared to ask for evidence that the 2020 elections had serious problems after their Times propagandist produced an article that bragged about how the elite worked with the unaccountable/unelected permanent bureaucracy to “fortify” that election. You should see the anger when you point out that if they were so certain the election of 2020 was totes legit, they would welcome idiots questioning it, so they could then show them evidence – not just court rulings saying we didn’t look and we have no standing to do that either – and stomp them into silence with those facts.
“Attempted coups are my schtick.”
God damn she has a lot of nerve.
Listen if anyone knows about trying to dishonestly win an election – it’s Hillary. We should respect her expert opinion.
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#metoo
I even used it yesterday. Sigh…
All of those words today are actually pretty good seed words for some of the reasons that have been mentioned here.
Isn’t ‘Ur’ three letters too short? And Urdesh would be too long.
Oh, upper right.
See? You’re getting it. UR a natural. Come to the
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Tardis had a 2, so he might have.
*had a 2 in the UR
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Thanks, Pope! These are the needful!
Wonderful! What a great story!
these compass memes are getting weird
https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi/status/1534927524630863873
Jan6 prime time:
The New Kangaroo Revue
Featuring the hit song “This Republic is Bananas!!!”
I was talking with a friend at the gun range last night. He’s a retired union employee and told me that a friend of his works in oil drilling and that they went from 30+ active rigs in PA to 1 in the last year. He’s moving back to Texas, where they are still drilling.
But according to his friend, none of this is Biden’s fault–he believes that the Republicans who run the major oil companies are conspiring to keep oil prices high to discredit Biden and the Democrats and return Republicans to power.
Progjection is a hell of a drug.
Your friend’s friend is an idiot.
^^^THIS^^^
There is so much stupid to unpack in that theory I didn’t know where to start. It’s a nearly unassailable wall. The surface of it is nearly as smooth as the brain that came up with it.
You know you are dealing with idiocy when you have people that constantly complain how private sector companies always end up run by people that will do bad things in the name of chasing profits tell you the solution is to put an unaccountable government bureaucracy in charge of whatever product/service they are angry they have to pay for. When I point out that government bureaucracies are run by some of the most vindictive and inept people you could imagine – like your DMV – and that these people and the political class in charge would immediately weaponize the government against their political and personal enemies, making the private sector bad guys look like saints, I hear some of the lamest and dumbest excuses for why their envy driven beliefs still are better.
Could be you never know. wreckers never sleep.
It is a great argument. Blame right wing conspiracy / sabotage with no needed evidence whatever happens. No one can prove you wrong. It is hidden in secret
LOL. Has that person not heard an oil executive speak lately? They all sound like Bernie-bros now.
That was my first thought.
That’s crazy, it’s the gnomes of Zurich who are REALLY behind it.
QUIET, YOU!
“You ain’t black.”
looks more Asian than black tbh
You don’t like it when they offer to love you long time?
Hard to tell… there aren’t any offering in Romania. There are many sad people on escort forums over this fact.
Blasian. And she’s in Dallas. Hubba hubba …. no honey, that wasn’t me, it was the TV I swear.
Updated story here on Felicia Sonmez’s firing from @washingtonpost
, including that she was fired today over email (below)
https://twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1535039383904083968
will there be a lawsuit?
Oh… absolutely. People like that never go quietly. In fact, I guarantee that the WaPo evaluated the cost of firing her with that in mind and still decided it was cheaper to get rid of her whiny ass.
Where am I? Who are these people? I want my pudding cup… Mommy?
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1534879638039810054
I hate him, but I hate his masters more, and his sycophants even more than that. TMITE.
A story from TOS from way back in 2019 pointing out what a horrible person Felicia Sonmez has always been.
*Trigger Warning: There is enough of the woke libertarianism that we all know and hate from TOS in that story that it may be hard to slog through it.
Whycome you do this to us? You are supposed to post something to make us feel good, not want to drive nails through our ballscaks!
The Ray of Sunshine is upstairs.
A supplementary Beam of Sun Through the Clouds just for you Alex.
Where is the sign that says “You have to be this tall” before these critters get on these rides?
Someone has forgotten the Friday nut-punch.
Utter depravity on her part. She wanted to get some notoriety during the moral panic of #MeToo so she sold some poor schmuck down the river. She deserves to cleaning toilets for the rest of her career.
The Ring of Power corrupted poor Felicia Gollum! You have to feel sorry for her?
Mao persecuted the pre-revolutionary elite savagely, with millions dying in famine.
Their children were stigmatised, and were less educated and had lower income than average.
But today their grandchildren have regained much of their lead.
So it seems the Cultural Revolution didn’t manage to root out the bourgeoisie.
Something survived, and was transmitted across the generations.
“The elite’s grandchildren have even out-earned Communist Party members.”
https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1535062942127112192
In the 80s, as the CCP saw the coming collapse of the USSR (they actually got to look behind the curtain with more ease since they had their own implementation of hell on earth), not wanting to go the same way, and especially after making the deal with the globalist movement to move western manufacturing from the west to China, they kept the communist in their name but adopted a working framework that was a new kind of fascist system. That allowed the princelings of yore to make a come back.
But why did not the new princelings do it, ones favored by the revolution?
After the revolution the new princelings were the ones in charge. But as soon as the CCP went fascist, a quasi meritocratic system came into being – they rewarded success – which allowed others, and especially those amongst the old princeling class that still understood and valued a good education and smarts, to rise to the top. As long as they were beholden to the leadership, they got to make bank.
“It was carnage. It was chaos. … Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle.”
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards describes “absolute war zone” outside of the Capitol.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1535079918299660299
lol…. send their ass to Donbas
Or New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore…
Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Dallas, LA….
This list goes on and on….
Republicans should make a public statement that they will meet democrats half way on their demand for gun bans, and ban all firearms brought & used during the 1/6 attempt to overthrow our government….
The only firearms incident on 1/6 was a fed shooting an unarmed white woman…..
It really is amazing. We are being scolded everyday for being a nation of gun worshipping crazies, yet the 1/6 protests had 0 guns used?
How do you square that circle?
If we really are all packing heat 24/7, how would you explain why a crowd that you claim attempted to overthrow the government had 0 guns in it? Was it for the challenge?
“You know Billy, we could easily mow down the entire Congress with our Weapons of War, but that would be too easy. Who wants to make Trump our country’s new king that easily? I say we do it with nothing more dangerous than a pair of bison horns sewn onto a hat”
People with morals like this grandstanding and actually using or wanting to use violence – including violence with firearms – are actually putting on a show to convince low information voters that the other side is the one doing violent things.
Who and where is Ray Epps?
Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle
She should have worked in Uvalde.
This really gives away just how cushy the job of USCP officer was/is. They haven’t faced any real threats since the 1970s and so their standards are nonexistent and their average employee is soft and weak.
It is so safe you can leave your cop gun in the shitter and nothing bad happens.
I suspect her view of what a “war zone” is and mine…differ.
I once got some prolonged silence from a few cop friends when they were talking about how difficult and dangerous being “on the job” is. I was just back from month 9 (of the prior 11) in Afghanistan.
I blurted out: “Oh, no shit. Are they rocketing you guys on I-84 on the way home from work? They planting IEDs in your driveway?”
I never heard about it again.
Rumors and insinuation
But with inflation outpacing income, many people are having to dip into savings to finance that spending, or put it on the credit card. The personal savings rate dipped to a 14-year low in April, while revolving credit grew at an annual rate of nearly 20%.
Quinlan says that can keep spending afloat for a few months, but not indefinitely.
“Come Labor Day, when all these credit card bills come due, everybody will be back on a budget again. And that’s why we expect growth to slow as we head into the end of the year.”
Ultimately, Quinlan says, it will likely take a slowdown in consumer spending to bring prices back under control.
The Federal Reserve is working to accelerate that by raising interest rates and making it more expensive for people to borrow money.
The Fed’s actions may help bring down inflation, but some worry they could trigger a recession.
Nonsense. We have been assured by our leading knob-twiddlers the situation is well in hand. This kind of negativism just plays into the hands of those who want to destroy DEMOCRACY!
Mornin Banjos! I’ve heard that tune hundreds, maybe thousands of times. It still abides.
Ouch! Any port in a storm. Sorry, Friend!
Sure,
JanAdam.Schiff to @wolfblitzer: “Well, these hearings are not aimed at the midterms or at the next presidential election. These are aimed at trying to protect our democracy from anyone who poses a threat to it.”
He means they are aimed at giving the crime syndicate he represents cannon fodder for the idiots that think the crime syndicate means well?
I’m waiting for someone with more talent than me to do a meme of Pelosi and Schiff drawn like Disney’s “Kanga and Little Roo”.
These are aimed at trying to protect our democracy from anyone who poses a threat to it.
Dude is ballsy. Most people don’t lip off to Hillary that freely.
Wonder if he will end up as the victim of a DC mugging where nothing is taken.
Kinzinger’s attempt to recreate McCarthyism is as boring and feckless as he is.
i want one of the Jan6 defendants to get up on the stand and say, “Look around you. Look at what’s happening in this country right now. I was trying to prevent it. Who in this room is the true American patriot?”
I’m still waiting for the Jan 6th protestors to levitate the Pentagon.
No shit. This is by design not accident. Thank you Sen Warren.
How a D.C. Bureaucrat Amassed Power Over Businesses, Banks and Consumers
Little does he know that he’s the fall guy. Dumbass.
These people best be glad white supremacy doesn’t exist in strong force in this country, because there’s a whole lot of potential for noticing that Indian-Americans are a little too well assimilated to the worst parts of American culture and identity.
Like right at home in a license raj?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj
But according to his friend, none of this is Biden’s fault–he believes that the Republicans who run the major oil companies are conspiring to keep oil prices high to discredit Biden and the Democrats and return Republicans to power.
This reminds me of the late ’70s, when people were saying, “There’s hundreds of oil tankers in a holding pattern off shore, waiting for gas prices to go up some more before they unload their product.”
It’s Conspiracy Capitalism, all the way down.
Hominins dispersed from North-East Africa in multiple pulses during ‘green windows’ of climatic opportunity, over many hundreds of millennia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03863-y
fucking hominids first the profit from climatic opportunity then the fuckers ruin the climate.
Contrast the article above on Jan 6 with this one, based on Capitol police “testimony”.
Somebody is exaggerating/ lying. Wonder how this will play out in society’s collective memory.
https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-police-officer-recalls-100035394.html
You will feel so silly when the committee enters video and photographic evidence that backs here story up. I mean we’ve all seen the pictures of the rivers of blood running down the Capitol steps.
Seriously, has anyone seen any pics of anyone at the 1/6 protests being bloodied?
Innernet search gave me this.
The guy (a 1/6er himself) laying in the senate when buffalo hat guy walks in was apparently bleeding, but you can’t see anything.
Ashley Babbitt?
I’m sure they will release the security footage any day now that will fully corrobor… hahahaha no, I can’t say that with a straight face.
Unlike the Rittenhouse case, there’s nobody in authority above them to force them to disclose the full/unadulterated evidence.
Jan 6 police officer recalls ‘slipping on people’s blood’ during ‘chaos’ of Capitol attack
Aaaaaaaaand I’m out. Horseshit from the very headline.
So long as prices keep climbing, more people may have to make difficult choices about what they can live without.
Maybe they’ll decide they can live without Democrats. What will you say to that, NPR?
Never change CA. Never Change.
California’s Big Mac Attack
Tell me you’re trying to ban fast food without telling me you’re trying to ban fast food.
Fascism – I’m lovin’ it!
Making the shithole shittier every day.
employers in other industries would have to raise their pay to compete for labor.
Or go out of business.
No, the fast food places will reduce their number of employees, or just fold. Expect fully automated storefronts to pop up with burger-making robots, ordering kiosks, and no employees on-site.
Someone’s got to change the fry oil.
I’m pretty sure that can be automated too.
After the rodent/insect part per million goes over a certain limit?
You mean “Natural Flavors”.
I worked for a company that has automated about 70% of that already. The kid pushes a button and the old oil is replaced with new oil.
It wouldn’t be that much harder to add a few more sensors and automate it 100%. The only reason my old company wouldn’t do that is because filtering and good oil management prolongs the life of oil and my company got paid by the pounds of oil that were used.
UCS hit on what will really happen. More automation.
Drive thrus will require a mobile app to order because no one will be working the window. Just drive up and get your order. No one will work the counter. More food preparation will be automated.
Kids — KIDS — will lose out on a chance to learn the basics about having a job and working. Because they will not be hired.
As usual the Brainpower State is leading the way in our new automated food delivery world.
* Insert joke about this not being the first time that burrito will be dropped down a tube.
FTA- “The violence between them started early in the relationship, including one instance where Michael Redlick punched his wife in the face, bruising her tooth, Conlon said.”
How do you bruise a tooth?
Too much grape soda?
Unity/healing/etc.
Rep. Bennie Thompson kicked off the proceedings by playing the race card and deflecting the Democrat Party’s Ku Klux Klan legacy onto the GOP.
“I’m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. I’m reminded of that thought in history as I hear voices today try to justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021,” Thompson lamented.
“It was domestic enemies of the constitution who stormed… and occupied the Capitol,” Thompson insisted.
“[Trump] spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution to march down the capital and subvert American democracy,” he said.
You will feel so silly when the committee enters video and photographic evidence that backs here story up. I mean we’ve all seen the pictures of the rivers of blood running down the Capitol steps.
Previously unreleased footage of Jan6
Was expecting this.
Related
From the overnight thread…
Link to the ambush kitten reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmbushKittens/
They clearly sent that first one out as bait…
“The Drunk Basket.” In the 1960s, bars in Istanbul would hire someone to carry drunk people back to their homes.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeBakhos1/status/1534793674957070336
From CNN no less.
Airborne transmission of monkeypox ‘has not been reported,’ CDC says
Monkeypox is a temporary measure until they get the next avian flu operational.
Inspector Clouseau will warn all of France about the dangers of Minkeypox.
Minkey? You said ‘Minkey’.
It’s like the nightmare version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Two people rescued after falling in tank full of chocolate in Pennsylvania
I don’t even want to think about the extent of the burns you could get being immersed in a vat of molten chocolate. I can’t imagine that it’s easily survivable.
But on the bright side, they now have a nice candy shell.
Sometimes you feel like a nut.
It may not be THAT bad….
“Always melt chocolate slowly, at a low temperature. The melting point of chocolate is between 86 degrees F. (30 degrees C.) and 90 degrees F. (32 degrees C.), lower than body temperature.”
hmm. Let’s hope so!
As Tres mentioned, chocolate melts below body temperature, so it may have just been uncomfortable.
The one person transported by ground is encouraging.
“Help. Police. Murder.”
Good luck.
In the face of strong conservative opposition, the European Parliament on Wednesday (8 June) narrowly voted to back a European Commission proposal for a total ban on new CO2-emitting vehicles by 2035.
The Commission last year unveiled plans to stop the sale of vehicles using internal combustion engines by 2035 as part of a wider climate target to cut emissions by more than half over this decade.
The measure passed by 339 votes to 249 with 24 abstentions at a session in Strasbourg – in practice limiting future sales to emissions-free all-electric models.
The law is not yet final. Wednesday’s vote confirms the parliament’s position for upcoming negotiations with EU countries on the final law.
Because exporting all your emissions to China is totally going to heal the planet.
Dumbasses.
It sure as hell allows them to virtue signal hard to the moron crowd that buys this bullshit…
For your shopping pleasure.
CEOs for Gun Safety
“CEOs influencing government policy are good when they’re on our side.”
They should demand everyone of these people demanding law abiding citizens get disarmed also drop private security of any kind…
I like that!
No surprises on that list.
https://www.ceosforgunsafety.org/pages/2022
Narrator: Nothing they pass is going to accomplish anything of the sort.
Nope. Not even a little bit.
Did they learn nothing from the woke debacles this past year? Keep you business the hell out of politics!
So far, “get woke, go broke” has a worse track record than the Cleveland Browns. There are, I think, many reasons for this, but it is not actually damaging to most companies’ brands to make political statements that the mainstream left approves of.
The real cost to these companies, a lot of which are luxury brands like Patagonia, is going to come as a result of stagflation and economic distress.
Only the exceedingly wealthy are going to keep shelling $200 for a fleece pullover when they’re struggling to pay for gas and food.
But that effect will punish according to price, not politics.
It’s because their wokewashing doesn’t really affect the products and services the companies provide. Patagonia, for instance, makes excellent board shorts. Them being a bunch of watermelons behind the scenes doesn’t really matter much.
The companies who did ‘go broke’ were ones who let the wokeness contaminate their end product. Disney and Netflix are the most obvious examples.
Netflix can be explained more through business factors than wokeness, I think.
1. Their library first grew for a while but then was noticeably shrinking
2. Their in-house content dropped off in quality over time
3. They lost the Marvel TV show deal back when that was a license to print money
4. Competitors, especially HBO Max and Disney+, stole a lot of their thunder
I’d also add that they’re now priced as a premium service, which ties in with #4. The value proposition from Netflix has really weakened, and it could easily slide into just another streamer that people occasionally activate and cancel for specific content. I think they realize this now, which is why they are moving towards weekly releases and an ad supported service.
Disney and HBO Max are also performing below expectations, with the woke MCU Star Wars performing way below their predecessors. Sure Shang-Chi and the Eternals are C-Listers, but so were Guardians of the Galaxy.
That said I don’t think it’s a matter of people boycotting those properties because of politics, and more that being woke leads to bad writing.
More than .223? LOL.
Well, I arrived in Indy. Everything went well, though Cultural Shock is hitting me here and there. Detroit-flavored Culture Shock was especially strong. Hrm.
I leave for my US doctor’s appointment in about 40 or so. I’m gonna have to convince them that I need actual pain meds that work. They will likely give me a CT scan as well as a series of X-Rays. Which are going to suck, but they’ll at least be able to witness my need for these meds.
It is going to be VERY strange to be able to do all of this stuff in English today. That is going to hit me hard. I imagine in a good way.
*Shrug* We’ll see. I’m, as usual, quietly confident.
Me & GT are only a couple hours East of you.
Holler if you need something.
If I knew any foreign languages, I’d reply in one to make today less Engishy for you.
Good luck on the pain meds. That might be a culture shock too: they really don’t want to ease pain any more here.
I hope everything goes well.
Speaking of, is your mom out of surgery yet?
Whatever you do, don’t go looking for meds on the black market right now. Everything is laced with Fentanyl.
Why is this? Why would you want to kill your customers? This Fentanyl thing confuses me.
The dealers don’t care and there are always more customers?
It’s good to hear you are back in the USA.
I hope you get the meds you need.
??
Glad you’re back stateside. Best of luck on all the doctoring.
Uh huh…
The watch party, hosted by a group called Public Citizen, was part of a larger network of watch events arranged nationally in partnership with several left-leaning groups to help the hearing “break through the busy news cycle and reach the American public,” per the events’ central website.
“We cannot allow Trump Republicans to successfully cover up one of the greatest attacks ever planned against American’s freedom to decide who governs in our name!” the website adds.
LOL as if anyone else was watching that garbage.
If Biden is an example of how you exercise that “freedom”, you don’t deserve to have it.
These people become self-parody when you sit back and think, “you know, the election being fraudulent is actually a more forgiving explanation than it being legitimate”
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
Weather is not something-or-other
Torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 32 people, impacted millions of residents and caused billions of yuan in economic losses, as the country grapples with increasingly devastating flood seasons fueled by climate change.
In recent weeks, heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding and landslides in large swathes of southern China, damaging homes, crops and roads.
In Guangxi province, landslides killed seven people on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua reported. One person remains missing, the report said.
In Hunan province, 10 people have been killed this month and three remain missing, with 286,000 people evacuated and a total of 1.79 million residents affected, officials said at a news conference Wednesday.
More than 2,700 houses have collapsed or suffered severe damage, and 96,160 hectares of crops have been destroyed — heavy losses for a province that serves as a major rice-producing hub for China. Direct economic losses are estimated at more than 4 billion yuan ($600 million), according to officials.
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Summer floods are a regular occurrence in China, especially in the densely populated agricultural areas along the Yangtze River and its tributaries. But scientists have been warning for years that the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and more frequent.
Global warming has already made extreme rainfall events more intense in the eastern Asian region, which includes southern China. The intensity and frequency of extreme rain events are expected to rise the more the Earth warms, the latest science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows. The number of strong tropical cyclones have also increased.
Apocalypse porn never gets old.
Global warming has already made extreme rainfall events more intense in the eastern Asian region
It never rained in east Asia before global
coolingwarmingclimate change.It’s also fake.
“There was also some, you look back at some of the things that were said, Bennie Thompson the Chairman this was a sprawling multi-step conspiracy to overturn the election and Donald Trump was at the center of the conspiracy. Liz Cheney said, ‘Those who invaded the Capitol were motivated by what Trump told them. Trump lit the fuse for the attack.’ It was a very powerful, very well produced, if you will, two-hour presentation.”
Where is Ray Epps?
I’d bet my bottom dollar that 90+% of the “let’s storm the capitol” people are gov’t agents/informants.
I’m a nervous wreck this morning. My mom wanted me to see her before her surgery, but visiting hours haven’t started yet, and the nurse called me to tell me she in prep, and my mom asked about me. So I guess I have to wait until I get a call after the surgery.
Screw visiting hours! If you can, get over there as soon as you can, especially if there’s no other relative with her. Make them refuse to let you see her if you can get there before she goes in.
GT is right. Go now.
Yes.
LOL, woke Native American science fiction combined with a failing movie franchise. Should be fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMJs3Zsj4Lg
Pearls were clutched.
Tapper said, “An absolutely devastating film of footage, some of which, much of which we had never seen before. And in fact, some of the officers who served so valiantly that day were watching that film you just watched, that 12-minute film, from inside the committee room. It was emotional, an emotional moment for them as they watched this horrifying spectacle. Before that film, we saw a presentation from the chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. An even more powerful presentation from the vice-chair, Republican Liz Cheney, who offered firsthand testimonies with videos and texts from Trump administration officials and Trump family members, and Trump loyalists, all offering a trail of footprints leading directly from that horrific insurrection, this attack on the Capitol, this attack on democracy, footprints traced all the way back to Donald Trump.”
Co-anchor Dana Bash said, no question about it, especially the very lengthy, very powerful presentation from Liz Cheney that can be summed up in one of her quotes, where she says, ‘There’s no room for debate. Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them.’ And she said, President Trump, assembled the mob and lit the flames of this attack. That is perhaps the best summary she gave.”
This would all be very intriguing if it were remotely true. Or part of a work of fiction, which is what it is.
Jake Tapper is a liar for hire. RFK Jr’s story about how Tapper fucked him over was illuminating.
The measure passed by 339 votes to 249 with 24 abstentions at a session in Strasbourg – in practice limiting future sales to emissions-free all-electric models.
That is so spectacularly, mind-bogglingly untrue; and it gets a complete pass.
A week ago:
Now that’s funny.
The reality is the Fed does have a choice, stagflation or credit crisis. The line between the two that they’re attempting to walk is narrower than an NIST standard RCH.
Baghdad Bob was more entertaining than this guy. He’s gotten so predictable that even Winston’s Mom can’t be bothered to respond most of the time.
Tapper said, “An absolutely devastating film of footage, some of which, much of which we had never seen before. And in fact, some of the officers who served so valiantly that day were watching that film you just watched, that 12-minute film, from inside the committee room. It was emotional, an emotional moment for them as they watched this horrifying spectacle. Before that film, we saw a presentation from the chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. An even more powerful presentation from the vice-chair, Republican Liz Cheney, who offered firsthand testimonies with videos and texts from Trump administration officials and Trump family members, and Trump loyalists, all offering a trail of footprints leading directly from that horrific insurrection, this attack on the Capitol, this attack on democracy, footprints traced all the way back to Donald Trump.”
Eat your heart out, Leni Riefenstahl.
Should have just accused him of trying to fuck her.
Now that’s how you cherry pick data.
It’s next level.
“Let’s take a closer look, say county-by-county, and see if this trend still holds”
Nice fucking dodge, you fucking lying sack of shit.
God I fucking hate her.
This has always been her shtick. She’s an entirely manufactured persona, but unlike Trump, she exists to fulfill the fantasies not of the depressed white working class but of the affluent white female liberals that dominate the amplified spaces of social media.
Any cigar smokers here? After quitting them some years back I am getting back into it. I really liked the Montecristo White Series cigar I received on my birthday. But I can’t afford to be smoking $12 cigars all the time. Anybody have any suggestions for a modestly priced “daily smoker” as well as a good online store to get them from?
Yes, sign up for mail order cigars. Tall Thin Spaniard what Lurks introduced me to getting cigars at a discount. Here are sites I use to find deals:
Cigars International (occasionally has deals)
BestCigarPrices.com (always has awesome deals)
CigarBid.com (amazing deals, but you have to stay on top of it)
Part of the fun of going for mail order deals is that it is always different and expands your horizons.
Thanks, RJ! What do you think about this deal? Seems almost too good to be true.
Those deals are real. Not a fake ripoff. You might look up some random cigars to make sure it’s the kind you like (strong, smooth, peppery, or what have you). When you get them, leave them in a good humidor (or plastic box) for about two weeks before smoking to ensure proper humidity.
There is zero reason to pay full price for any cigars, unless you are at a bar with no options. You will be amazed at the money saved.
A humidor is the next thing. I think to start with I may just use jars and humi-care pillows until I can decide what I want. I’m hoping I can talk my woodworking dad into making me one.
They need to “breathe” a little bit. If you make a completely airtight container you need to open the thing up every one or two months.
Oh, I’ll be opening it every few days to reduce their count by one. ? But thanks for the heads up. If/when I get to long term storage I will remember that.
Global Resetters: BLAME TRUMP-PUTIN!
Apparently Rand has the best name-recognition when it comes to fund-raising in the Senate right now.
That’s got to piss off McConnell.
“Nobody knows the future. And this is my prediction,” said Paul. “I think we can go back to double-digit interest rates. I think that that’s in our future, but I think a recession and high unemployment is too, and that’s the way inflation gets cured.”
I’m sure I can get some of that gov’t cheddar when the gov’t crashed the housing market and costs me my job.
crashes*
He didn’t have an iron deficiency.
An Illinois man died instantly after he allegedly fell into a vat of molten iron in early June.
Half of 39-year-old Steven Dierkes’s body was found lying on the floor after he supposedly fell into a crucible containing the molten iron, which was roughly 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the New York Post. The incident took place at the Caterpillar foundry in Mapleton, the Peoria County coroner told the Peoria Journal Star.
At Caterpillar? That’s going to be a massive settlement.
When I was in high school, the father of a girl in my class was killed when he fell into molten steel in an open crucible after the catwalk he was on gave way.
Well, actually, he didn’t fall into the metal. Eyewitnesses said he vaporized before hitting the surface of the liquid metal.
Yeesh…
Still better than being crushed.
Given the temperatures and the vaporization point of human flesh… I’m going to say at least part of him made it into the steel. Given the way they add carbon and other alloy materials to the molten iron vats, if it were hot enough to vaporize all of the dude, the coke wouldn’t make it in.
The melting point of solid carbon (coke) is 4099C. Boiling point is 4527C
I work with solid carbon at high (but not that high) temperatures every day–it’s not vaporizing at the temperature of molten steel.
Coke is a foamed form of solid carbon (more amorphous) and will melt at around 3500C, still way higher than molten steel.
Neither are the bones and most of the flesh during the time it takes to tumble through the hot air into the iron. If the heat did boil some fluids, the plumes of steam would lead observers to think they saw him vaporize, but the whole situation doesn’t lead to him becoming vaporized before reaching the vat.
The reported melting point of bone is around 1200C vs steel’s at around 1400C
It’s not so much the temperature though as the rate of energy transfer. For a body falling into a mass of molten steel, the radiant heat transfer from the incandescent metal will exceed the transfer due to convection or conduction from the mass of air/gas above the surface. That would be enough to essentially instantaneously vaporize the water content of the flesh (figure around 130 -180 lb of water for an average industrial worker), or at least instantaneously enough for an observer to see the body as vaporizing, as you say.
Likely some bone would make it into the crucible along with any metals in the clothing/equipment carried by the person.
In the case of my acquaintance’s father, they recovered nothing, but ended up burying the heat of steel into which he fell. I’d imagine a chemical analyis of that would show increased calcium but not too much else.
This one of the weirder Aspergers’ “well ackshually” conversations I’ve witnessed.
I was wondering about that. Interesting.
@ Scruffy, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I wrote my reply. 🙂
Me too, Scruffy!
Body found on floor? So he managed to climb out before being fully vaporized / melted?
My thought is of landing on the crucible edge, one half burns away and the balance tips the remainder out onto the floor.
I’m picturing him falling in such a way that his waist area was on the edge of the crucible. One half melts and the other half falls to the floor.
I know which half I’d prefer be on the inside in that situation.
You want to moon management for the unsafe working environment?
That would be an appropriate side effect, yes!
Well, yeah.
.@DarrenJBeattie Joins Tucker Carlson To React To The January 6th Committee Hearing Tonight
“My view is it’s important to keep in mind what the stakes are. The stakes are the repurposing & reconfiguration of the National Security Apparatus against the American people.”
That part is already well underway. One of the functions of this “hearing” is to provide top-cover for the bureaucracy.
I disagree, it is to remind that apparatus which party is aligned with them reliably.
The party answers to the national security apparatus, not the other way around. The Democratic Party was one of the first political/governmental institutions to be skinsuited. Say what you will about LBJ, he was probably the last Democratic president to act according to his own initiative.
The humiliation of having to pretend to believe obvious Orwellian lies is always a feature.
Even if they lose re-election, Kinzinger and Cheney can find cushy landing spots in media, lobbying, contracting, etc. Publicly believing those lies is definitely of material benefit to them.
Never having to return to Wyoming will also be a feature for Liz.
Kinzinger is redistricted out, isn’t he? So yeah this is his Jen Rubin audition
The stakes are the repurposing & reconfiguration of the National Security Apparatus against the American people.
What I find especially depressing is the gleeful eagerness with which members of the public participated in the “crowdsourced” fingering of individual participants (including their own family members) in the demonstration/riot/insurrection.
Yeah. Wasn’t there a kid who turned in his dad?
Not that COVID hadn’t already made this abundantly clear, but everybody thinks they’d be sheltering Anne Frank, when the reality is they’d be gleefully handing her over to the Gestapo and then bragging about it.
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On this, Peterson has been exactly correct.
Any links for him discussing this? I’d be interested in reading/listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_wE0fdlGE
thanks
Worth reposting: https://www.boredpanda.com/student-question-abolitionism-twitter-robert-george/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
And at least some of those examples serve to illustrate a corollary, that even when you are roused to support change, you are still the sort of person who would go along to get along, and thus you are an easily manipulated herd animal. Not all change is good, and sometimes a bad status quo is better than what you’re told is a “good” outcome.
I think it helps that I hate herds.
People in large groups make me very apprehensive and suspicious.
I don’t know how much contrarian-vs-follower is innate/heritable, but I do know that a lot of cultural and social conditioning is built around shifting the former to the latter.
Not that COVID hadn’t already made this abundantly clear, but everybody thinks they’d be sheltering Anne Frank, when the reality is they’d be gleefully handing her over to the Gestapo and then bragging about it.
Exactly.
“Gooble gobble, gooble gobble. Greater good. Greater good.”
Moreover, the mere existence of the hypothetical Anne Frank serves as a subconscious reminder that you didn’t have to go along with all of this, at some level it was a choice, and that realization alone can fuel the zeal with which you condemn her.
That explains some of the absolute hate, particular south of the border, for the Canadian trucker convoy.
Whorehouses provide useful services. Don’t insult them by comparing them with the Capital Building.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it is upgrading the Tesla probe to an engineering analysis, another sign of increased scrutiny of the electric vehicle maker and automated systems that perform at least some driving tasks.
I suspect this would have happened regardless of what Musk does, but having said that, trying to buy/expose Twitter can’t help the situation.
Like other physically demanding youth sports, youth MMA is viewed as problematic by some because it exposes kids to potential brain injuries. But unlike youth football, hockey or even karate, youth MMA has been slower to gain public acceptance. Proponents of the sport maintain they are misunderstood even as they try to implement stringent safety protocols and differentiate themselves from the violent image of professional leagues such as UFC.
I remember there were youth wrestling teams in the are where I grew up. I don’t see the difference between that and youth MMA.
“There’s nothing to suggest that there’s a recession in the works,” she said during an interview at The New York Times’ economic forum.
HAHAHAHA!
Oh… music selection is good. That’s one of my favorite Sabbath songs.
Oaks, PA gun show tomorrow. Glibs meet-up?
Seems legit.
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for election officials in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots whose envelopes are missing a handwritten date, as required by state law.
The disputed ballots relate to a contested 2021 judicial election, but the broader legal fight over mailed ballot requirements could have implications for future elections in the state, including the upcoming midterms.
The court’s brief order Thursday did not provide a rationale, but the court’s three most conservative members wrote in dissent…
…The Thursday order effectively reinstated the 3rd Circuit decision, over a dissent by Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
“When a mail-in ballot is not counted because it was not filled out correctly, the voter is not denied the right to vote,” Alito wrote. “Rather, that individual’s vote is not counted because he or she did not follow the rules for casting a ballot. Casting a vote, whether by following the directions for using a voting machine or completing a paper ballot, requires compliance with certain rules.”
Even if we set aside the obvious potential for fraud, expanding the franchise to simpletons, the senile, and motivated shit-stirrers hardly seems like the rousing win for democracy it’s being portrayed as.
And… my decision to not vote in fraudulent elections remains justified.
Dating the outside envelope of the mail-in ballot was deemed “immaterial.” As long as it is postmarked before election day, it matters not at all when the voter filled it out.
These kinds of niggling requirements just give ammo to those aholes that argue “voters are being suppressed” and “they want to put you back in chains.”
Negative Test to Fly to the US No More.
I’m so lucky I had an opportunity to brazenly violate this rule when it was still in effect this week.
Now drop vaccination requirements from foreigners.
From your lips.
Excellent timing, for me!
* goes to cancel test reservation in Saint Martin *
Tucker on point.
video at that link doesn’t work for me
This works https://rumble.com/v17xc1v-tucker-carlson-calls-out-the-media-for-their-coverage-of-the-jan.-6-hearing.html
Yeah, he was on fire.
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