Spud and I spent yesterday staffing a stand at a Farmer’s Market. Most of the time was spent ogling young females in shorts, but every once in a while, we’d sell something. One of the people who came by and wanted to chat was the Democrat candidate for congress in my district. We were absolutely friendly, expressed no opinion but made sympathetic noises, and listened to him gravely announce that he was so horrified by 1/6, he burst into tears every time he saw videos. Despite his campaign brochure’s virtue signal of “pledge to reduce the use of disposable plastics,” we managed to sell him cold brew coffee in PET bottles. We promised to visit his office after he wins. Which is as likely as Trump having the 2020 election rescinded.
Birthdays today include a guy memorialized in the best comic strip ever; another fucking lawyer; a guy who turned beer into urine without using kidneys; a weird cult figure admired for his stupid shit, not his great shit; a guy who ate a cookie and couldn’t shut up about it; what civil rights leaders used to be before they won and had to turn to grift; the white version of Laquanda T’kiana; a believer in free enterprise; Michael Strahan’s spirit animal; a guy who had only one notable quote (“The next four years will be filled with pretty words and pretty music and a lot of goddamn nonsense!”); my favorite wrestler when I was a kid; Ilhan Omar’s spirit animal; a cop, a judge, and a bolt-necked giant; a guy who is sadly remembered for the wrong reasons; a notoriously leftist folk singer who was basically on our side; my former representative, who was a half-decent guy; and a guy who doesn’t play accordion.
Let’s get to Links.
Well, at least no ass rape with a knife.
I’m still trying to figure out which Joemala character she is.
More common sense gun safety regulation needed.
“Well, she had that nice attic to stay in.”
I was out hiking yesterday morning and this song came up. I immediately thought, “Old Guy Music for sure.”
You have a farm?
We raise orphans for food.
Soylent Green is made of Pauly.
“One was identified as Edward Muallem, who works as a director of the theater.”
Totally not gay.
âKateâs departure comes about because the presidentâs approval ratings are upside down, the White House messaging machine needs new material, and sheâs burned out,â one source close to the White House said.
Tired of trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit?
Anything with mayonnaise as an ingredient is shit.
That’s so dumb. It’s a nice way to add a bit of moisture and fat to things which might otherwise lack it. I’m not a huge fan of it, but it’s nice where needed.
This is why we have butter.
^
Thatâs a weird autocorrect for olive oil.
Which one whips with egg to make …..
This guy gets it.
Two words: potato salad
Trying to make Joe Biden sound dignified and intelligent would burn anyone out.
Is she rhe one that tried to say we all didn’t hear the president say ‘end quote, repeat the line”?
Winner Winner, chicken shit dinner, eh?
“Former President Donald Trump at a ‘Save America’ campaign-style rally on Saturday called Tesla CEO Elon Musk a “bullshit artist” after he pulled out of a deal to buy Twitter.”
I think the significant thing is that he is still having rallies.
Also, this is hilarious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories_promoted_by_Donald_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
That Wikipedia stuff is really something.
I mean, they’re both bullshit artists, but Trump is definitely the bigger one.
“still having rallies”
On that front, I am in Wisconsin with the in-laws. Traditional working class union Democrats by history. Most of the newer generation (under 40 or so) have pivoted hard to the right in support of Trump. But the older generation is largely insulated by historical affinity and wrapping themselves in the propaganda blanket. They are convinced that the Jan 6 hearings are the final straw that will convince everyone that Trump is an evil dictator and we narrowly escaped becoming Nazi Germany.
The propaganda is working on a large chunk of the team. They are true believers who will not renounce their faith, no matter what happens. And this sort of “the other side is a devil worshipping hoard that drinks the blood of infants” storytelling is effective with that sort of crowd.
They are immune to the sight of large crowds cheering Trump. (And DeSantis)
whaddup doh’
My ex had an Anne Frank costume for Halloween.
Rest of the year we kept it in the attic.
As if your neighbors did not see that coming.
Morning, OMWC. Glad you enjoyed your short ogling time…
Probably the contrarian in me — but I quotes like this (from the Pot calling the Kettle… I mean Trump talking about Musk article):
just set me off… how Orwellian of Trump… but it sounded so much better in the original Russian, I suppose…
Re: The “unequal society” article… I seem to recall seeing a documentary on their theory. Very obscure… no one here has ever seen or referenced it… no sir…. đ
Re: Anne Frank — I really hope to see the pendulum swing back enough that people can comfortably respond to stuff like this with “That’s really stupid and you should be ashamed to reveal yourself such an idiot in public.”
Last day of vacation… could use a few more weeks, but oh well. Have a good Sunday, all you happy people.
Trump is full of shit. He hasn’t seen the “contract” to buy Twitter. Even if he did, he wouldn’t understand half of it.
âAs comms director, Kate was sort of caught between the two camps. On the one hand, sheâs a long-time Biden advisor who essentially crafted the winning ânational unityâ message during the 2020 campaign,â the source said. âBut winning an election is not the same as governing, and Kateâs unity theme wore thin in the face of Republican attacks on Bidenâs agenda as Democrats [want] a more robust and consistent message from the White House.â
They’re doing a splendid job on that unity stuff. “We want unity, don’t get us wrong. But those fucking Republicans, man… they’re a bunch of assholes.”
Nothing says unity like have a Pravada style show trial, conflating a protest where the only people that died were the protesters, while simultaneously ignoring your own team killing dozens of people and causing tens of billion in property damage. Unity my ass.
Now THAT I can’t argue with.
…but something (or someONE) is preventing me from posting a link to Agnes, MY spirit animal! ::eyes Old Man suspiciously::
I have an alibi.
::tries again::
HA! So there! ::sticks out tongue::
Does this link work?
Have another Agnes
One final Agnes link
Agreed. Calvin’s dad is my spirit animal.
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26
Did you put $$$ into 529 or Coverdell accounts for the eventually-necessary therapy for the klein(e)patzers?
Mornin’, GT!
Did you put $$$ into 529 or Coverdell accounts
Why, yes we did. Although they turned out to be severely underfunded since we did not anticipate the increase in cost over the last 20 years. The sprouts made up for it by earning academic scholarships (full tuition in the case of the youngest, who will have some leftover $$$ when he graduates).
I like the one where he explains why old photos were in black and white.
LOL
That Hill article about the White House communications director resigning reveals a Democrat party that is unhinged from reality.
It says her campaign message of national unity is wearing thin in the face of republican attacks on Biden’s agenda. That is batshit insane.
At what moment during his leadership has Biden done anything at all unifying, in any way? Did I miss something? He said a toss-away line during the inauguration and immediately pivoted to partisan attacks. Probably the most partisan inaugural in modern history. They then proceeded to govern in highly divisive ways.
Or did I miss something? Was there a huge push toward national unity that I didn’t notice? I could have sworn that they immediately pivoted to destroying the energy economy, encouraging illegal immigration. expanding mandates, attacking governors who were opening their states, and backing a move on the hill to create a sham investigation to continue attacks on the prior administration. That sounds like pretty much the opposite of national unity.
Or did I miss something? Was there a huge push toward national unity that I didnât notice?
Yes, the Dems have been pushing towards national unity. You are either with them or you are non-person who doesn’t deserve to have a voice at the table. See, unity achieved.
This is behind the social credit scoring systems, vaccinate mandates, and all of the coordinated pushes and nudges going on behind the scenes to demand compliance.
Mornin’. Arlo said this??
“I left the party years ago and do not identify myself with either party these days. I strongly urge my fellow Americans to stop the current trend of guilt by association, and look beyond the party names and affiliations, and work for candidates whose policies are more closely aligned with their own, whatever they may be. … I don’t pretend to be right all the time, and sometimes I’ve gone so far as to change my mind from time to time.”
Wait, I thought that anyone who disagrees with me is an evil hippie baby-killing insurrectionist racist slaver. Are you trying to say that my opponents are human beings? What kind of nonsense is this?
Didn’t Gina Carano get fired from Disney and cancelled from Hollywood for dangerously suggesting that dehumanizing your neighbors was a bad thing?
You can’t humanize fascists.
I thought the Best Comic Strip Ever was Krazy Kat.
In my mind, a push. Nothing else was close.
The Far Side?
Not a strip. And while hilarious, not at the KK/C&H tier.
Damn your technicalities.
You forgot Pogo.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie! đ
We have met the enemy, and he is us!
No I didnât.
Wizard of Id
“The peasants are revolting!”
Wizard of Id > Tumbleweeds.
Where does B.C. rank in relation to either of these?
+1 Frammin at the jm-jam, frippin in the krotz
‘Darwinâs theory expounded that organisms which can better adapt to their environment are more likely to survive and produce more offspring. However, a new study by British researchers reveals natural selection may be making society more unequal.’
This is so much derp. Obviously uneducated, lower IQ, impulsive people tend to have more children. The downside of a society as wealthy as ours is that they pay no reproductive penalties for the downsides of those traits.
Unfortunately the highly educated don’t pop out nearly enough kids, as they gave delayed their prime child bearing years. We will also see more and more people with serious health issues as we continue to help those with medical conditions survive.
The derp comes in by suggesting that this isn’t adaptive to the environment. It clearly is. Also, I am way less concerned with inequality than with decreasing productivity due to the burden such folks can put on a society. Hopefully their positive aspects overcome the negative.
The derp here is called eugenics, and these notions are not new.
Eh, I think they had some things correct. Where we differ (the most) is on what to do about it.
Eugenics as a social program was a failure because it turns out that
1. subtle manipulation is more effective and less resistance-inducing than direct control
2. government and related bureaucrats have a lot of perverse incentives
3. many of those perverse incentives are dysgenic
‘Obviously uneducated, lower IQ, impulsive people tend to have more children.’
*the exception to the rule smiles and waves*
Yeah, just two over here
/more covfefe
Hiya, Uncle Bob!
That’s why I said tend. Plenty of high IQ, good families with 5 kids, but they’re counter balanced by the many who have few or no kids. I think the best thing good people can do is have children to create a good future.
I know, man. I’m shaking off a hangover and impulsively responding to comments. I wouldn’t put too much thought into my comments. I’m sure as hell not. đ
‘I think the best thing good people can do is have children to create a good future.’
This is why I didn’t procreate. Doing my part.
“Shocking video shows elementary school kids in San Francisco getting off bus and being forced to pick their way through crowd of homeless drug addicts shooting up in broad daylight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10999157/Video-shows-San-Francisco-school-children-navigating-corridor-drug-addicts.html
We keep hearing about shit like this, but what’s the solution?
Ban public education?
I wonder if we are finally nearing the breaking point for team blue.
That bodega stabbing story seemed to reveal the beginnings of a split, with NYC leaders attacking the proggie DA.
The communist branch of the DNC is extremely emboldened, trying to exploit inflation and spiking housing prices as an impetus to a communist revolution…. As designed. But is anyone buying it? Or are they about to peel off a major block of the minority vote?
On the culture war front, Disney’s “everything must be about LGBTQ identity at some point” policy is starting to wear thin with their audience, even on the left. I don’t think many at all cheered the inclusion of a trans man giving advice about his tampon preferences on a kids cartoon, despite predictable efforts to paint anything less than adulation for so much bravery as Nazi-like transphobia.
There are signs… Even as the media proceeds to lock down the propaganda ever tighter.
For the most part, the media is part of, and a huge driver of, the Wolk brigade of the left. And the rest of the left is so fucking scared of not seeming to be “cool” and “in step” with all the bullshit that is being spued out by the Wolk. But, seeing the Latin vote peeling off, and more and more black GOP politicians, is scaring them from the other angle. The Wolk can not see this for the life of them, as they really believe that false conscience bullshit.
Bernie Goetz redux?
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already. It’s definitely coming.
Flamethrowers.
We keep hearing about shit like this, but whatâs the solution?
Don’t live in San Francisco.
Vote all the Republicans in San Francisco out of office and elect some Democrats for a change. Duh.
Opening the insane asylums back up would help although it has its own serious downsides. Iâm open to it though with appropriate rigorous safeguards. Whatever it is weâre doing now isnât working, thatâs for sure.
I would be open to actually enforcing the existing laws first.
There is still a way to commit people to mental institutions if they violate the law, right?
Shortage of beds though – some things will need upgrade/refurb.
Dr. Drew has been talking about this with Adam a lot. He was invited to be a volunteer consultant on an LA commission – but of course all the activists raised their voices and he was subsequently “disinvited”. Mainly because “treatment” is part of his guidelines.
Yes, and if they need treatment, then there must be something wrong with them. Which we absolutely cannot admit.
It really is a slippery slope though. In 1972 the DSM categorized homosexuality as a mental disorder. 50 years later and the psychiatric profession considers it abusive to not begin chemically castrating your 5 year old because he likes to play with Barbie dolls. You can go to 5 different psychologists and get 5 different diagnoses of 5 different “personality disorders”, and each of them can be justified by the DSM classification criteria. That’s not the sort of pseudo-scientific nonsense I would ever want sending someone to an institution to be held in involuntary captivity being involuntarily medicated with powerful psychotropic drugs, potentially for the rest of their life.
I gotta agree with Pat on the idea that psychology is barely separated from pseudo science. My experience in working with researchers and as a consumer has been underwhelming.
I defend them on one hand as designing scientific studies for human psychology is nearly impossible. But on the other hand, you should have more rigor in your profession, things should be reproducible, and we should be measuring outcomes and endpoints consistently.
The solution is to stop giving them free money, enforce laws about public intoxication, put the crazies (as opposed to addicts) in psych hospitals, enforce shoplifting laws, and so on.
In short, stop with the woke BS.
I know much of that is not libertarian, but I am not an anarchist and do believe their are legitimate functions of the state.
Commie!
anarchy isn’t required to just raise and educate your own kids as you see fit and ignore other people’s non-violent behaviors that have nothing to do with you even if they are **clutches pearls but doesn’t quite faint** in public
non-violent behaviors that have nothing to do with you
My politics has become: whatever this is, I’m not.
One of the rights of free people is to form communities, this is implicit in the right of free association, and by extension communities can exercise exclusion as well. Indeed, if they cannot exercise exclusion, then they will be dissolved by the forcible association with (what the original membership considers to be) undesirables.
That someone is merely engaged in “nonviolent” degeneracy does not create upon me an obligation to witness it, be tolerant of it, or worse yet, subject my (or anyone else’s) children to it. If this makes me not a libertarian anymore, then so be it. Tolerance is, like respect, of which it is arguably a milder form, something earned not owed to anyone regardless of circumstances or behavior.
All societies, functional or otherwise, are formed around some truths and some lies, and there is no ordinary man (meaning, anyone short of the Messiah) who isn’t in some measure a “hypocrite” (especially as judged by sophistic enemies). A society which tolerates drug addicted wastrels, as we see here, does not tolerate “racists” or “fascists” (the definitions of which expand daily). Since exclusion remains, as with the monopoly on force, the exclusive province of the state, and the state will never wither away, the question becomes, to what ends should this exclusion be exercised?
I’d rather keep the “racists” and “fascists” than the drug-addicted wastrels and their not-so-nonviolent accompanying elements. I recognize the right of free people to decide differently, but not the right of either of us to force the other to share a country. If there are some people who make the other choice than me, as long as they will go somewhere else to “live peacefully”, then perhaps we can strike an accord. But not under the same roof.
I was watching a Columbo from 1972 last night and there was a scene in a stuffy British men’s club where this exact issue came up. Stuffy British old guy says something like “this is why we don’t allow women here”. I almost fell out of my chair.
This is a good point that I think we’ve hit on before a couple months ago.
My neighbors and I don’t tolerate vagrants loitering on the public streets around our homes. You’ll be asked once nicely about your business and then to move along if you have none. Refusal escalates the response up to dogs and possibly several armed neighbors telling you to get on your way. There is also a small piece of land owned by the utility company that people like to squat on. We enforce moving along there the same way as we do for the streets or a privately owned field.
That may not be mighty libertarian of me and my neighbors, but, in the real world, those vagrants are only there to scope out what can be stolen from our homes to be sold for drugs. We choose to be preemptive rather than reactive to such threats.
Welp, kbo just front-ran another post Iâve been mulling. Free association and voluntary communities require mutual consent. Which can also have its ugly side, but trade-offs gonna trade off, this side of Utopia.
Not to be a twat or anything, but didn’t you “escape” Texas because you didn’t like being around religious rednecks? Is it really that much different to not want to have to navigate through piles of human feces on the public sidewalk, or to not want your children to step on some HIV+ junkie’s used needles in the park?
Yeah, we know how to fix this. We just refuse to.
The solution is criminal justice reform. Too much crime? Criminal justice reform. Not enough crime? Criminal justice reform. Just the right amount of crime? Criminal justice reform.
Everyone in front of the school is given a warning one hour before school starts to clear out. 30 minutes before school starts, a bulldozer drives down the block.
That job sucks- I’d rather see you starve
Labor unions and environmental activists are celebrating the end of a deal between Amazon and the Port Authority to build a massive cargo hub at Newark airport.
At a Friday press conference, a coalition of nonprofits chanted âshame, shame, shame, our communities are not a game,â claiming victory after a 10-month fight opposing the 250,000 square-foot cargo facility. Theyâd said it would spew pollutants and emissions in an already polluted area and could displace union jobs that better protect workers.
The airport straddles the cities of Newark and Elizabeth.
âWe have to push back on these corporations who think they can come into our community and pollute our communities,â Kim Gaddy, founder and CEO of the South Ward Environmental Alliance in Newark, said. âOne in four children in this city have asthma right now. We don’t need more trucks. Look around â theyâre everywhere.â
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The Port Authority initially approved its partnership with Amazon last August, but community groups said they didnât have an opportunity to weigh in. They criticized the deal as secretive and fast-tracked.
âWe are setting a new standard: Corporations coming into our communities must guarantee good jobs, clean air and be accountable to working-class people,â George Boada, a lifelong Elizabeth resident and member of Teamsters Local 863 and Joint Council 73, said.
The future of work: we’re all going to be vice president of Human Resources and have a corner office and write memos all day!
“One in four children in this city have asthma right now.”
?????
Probably more related to antibiotics and being overweight.
AOC led a coalition that chased … What was it, 15,000high paying Amazon jobs out of the city? It didn’t seem to diminish her support.
Activists have, well, activity on their side. It is why they always win. The people they fuck over aren’t fighting back.
At least the commies snuck the real reason into their word salad.
“A New Mexico mom, acting on instinct, was caught on camera clinging to the hood of her Hyundai Santa Fe to try to stop a carjacker who had taken off with her 11-month-old son and six-year-old autistic daughter.
Surveillance video shows Melody Maldonado, a 33-year-old librarian from Hobbs, New Mexico, clinging to the front of the car as it speeds down East Navajo Drive at about 8.30pm on Independence Day.
The fiercely protective Maldonado told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that she felt no fear as she clung to the speeding car, yelling for the accused thief, Regina Castillo, 29, to stop….
Maldonado was eventually thrown from the hood of the car, and broke her foot. However, despite her injury she still sprinted to a nearby convenience store where she called for help.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10996555/New-Mexico-mom-clings-hood-car-car-thief-took-children-inside.html
‘A New Mexico mom, acting on instinct, was caught on camera clinging to the hood of her Hyundai Santa Fe to try to stop a carjacker who had taken off with her 11-month-old son and six-year-old autistic daughter.’
My cousin once did that to stop the carjacking of her empty Chevy Impala. She failed and bruised her hip.
I wonder if the local prosecutor will charge her for violations of the motor vehicle code for jumping on the hood of a moving vehicle…
The twist is that the carjacker was female too. #strongwomen
Sometimes a woman just has to go out and get her own orphans.
Christian Rodriguez, an organizer with the Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, said residents do need jobs, but want better working conditions than what Amazon offers.
âWe know that we didnât need any more abusive employers,â Rodriguez, a former Amazon worker, said Friday. â[Those are] the jobs that take the most out of us.â
We should all work for non profits, organizing our communities in the pursuit of visionary collectivism. Seek vigilantly for the nail which sticks up. Ruthlessly hammer it down.
Nobody’s forcing people to work for Amazon.
Unpossible!
Looks like your new district includes a good deal of the Buffalo suburbs. Could be closer than you think.
Trumpâs partially right about Musk but heâs also a dumbass for publicly going after a powerful person whoâs open minded in a manner that could benefit him in the future. Maybe heâs jealous that Musk has way more money than him and that he is actually a better businessman but why shoot yourself in the foot?
but why shoot yourself in the foot?
Yeah that was poorly timed comment from Trump. Musk is on the outs with the lefties now. It would better to have him as an ally. At least don’t make him an enemy.
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Speaking of jobs
Itâs not just hard to buy a new car these days â itâs getting tough to even get one fixed.
There just arenât enough workers to do the job.
Dealers and auto repair shops are struggling to recruit and retain technicians and other service department workers. Auto dealerships, like many industries, are feeling the effects of what some have termed the Great Resignation, in which workers are quitting at steep rates.
Itâs become especially difficult for dealers to retain service advisors, who interact with customers and service managers. But even before that, there has been a stubborn decades-long shortage of auto technicians â the people who fix the cars.
Industry analysts say low pay, lack of a clearly defined career path and a generational shift away from jobs in the trades are making it tough to attract and retain people over the long term.
Meanwhile, insiders say the transition to electric vehicles makes for one of the most exciting times to consider an auto tech career since the dawn of the industry. Some hope the chance to learn cutting-edge technology will help to lure workers back to the field.
“generational shift away from jobs in the trades” due in no small part by the idiotic push to send every kid in America to college.
Once we ban private transportation we won’t need those “technicians” anyway.
I had some work done on my house fairly recently and the contractor was having issues getting workers. How theyâre managing to pay their bills is beyond me.
With the economy in the shitter, part of my hiring pitch is “we’ve got guaranteed work.”. It’s been resonating bigly.
Two anecdotes:.
My HVAC buddy says they are having trouble bidding jobs. Prices are going up by unpredictable amounts twice a month.
I talked with the local pet store owner the other day. He has 3 open jobs. Assistant manager. Store opener and sales associate. He is offering $10 per hour for a sales associate. I said, “that is why you have not had any takers… McDonald’s next door is paying over $15. He said the difference is that his job is basically no work at all so people will take lower pay to avoid work. Yet, no applicants. (Also, seems like a great way to end up with shitty employees)
2 week wait time to get a service appt at the dealership.
Related: I hired another new employee on Friday.
Its at least a weeks wait up here, and we are selling parts to auto repair shops like never before,
YMMV
Probably because nobody wants to have to buy a new car right now… Not with base models in scarce supply and new top-end models getting premiums above sticker.
They certainly are pushing hard in that direction.
The CWP bots who man the r/Miami, r/Florida, and r/FtLauderdale groups have been pushing new rail lines and banning private cars… They even have whole groups dedicated to “hateTheAutomobile”. It is really weird… They are desperate to force everyone into high rise city apartment living in “walkable cities”….. to oppose oppression of the masses?
I’m not convinced they aren’t planning on a simple block of flats.
It’s interesting that so many industries are unable to recruit due to “low pay”. I was taught that market signals would result in pay rising if a shortage occurred , resulting in more people entering the field, until a glut is produced and prices fall again. I think my teachers used words like “equilibrium” or something.
Turns out the solution is almost always retraining programs or welfare benefits, and never actually raising pay to attract more workers.
Our baseline has increased and I don’t see it receding.
It’s trending that way across the board. And don’t get me wrong, I’m actually more sympathetic with the business owners than the workers in most cases (particularly the small and medium businesses). But it’s like… OK, with “official” inflation running close to 9% per annum, as much as it sucks, yeah, you’re probably gonna need to raise wages. Even a fresh crop of illegal Guatemalans probably isn’t gonna fix it this time.
The pay is low compared to welfare. Raising it above the welfare level means you are paying more than the job is worth.
insiders say the transition to electric vehicles makes for one of the most exciting times to consider an auto tech career since the dawn of the industry
Hahhhhhh!! The tools to do your job (which mechanics often buy out of their own pocket) are getting more expensive, the specialization limits ability to move around, not to mention vehicles less fun to wrench on. And note calling them auto techs and not mechanics. Even out of trade school, you’re going to be doing oil changes and minor stuff for a while until you earn your stripes. Something that doesn’t sit with the immediate gratification and promotion generation.
I too have attributed the current overall unwillingness of younger workers to work their way up.
Iâm attributing it to kids who never had to want for anything. This is the first generation of kids whoâve largely been brought up in middle/upper middle class homes, eat out several days a week. Then they moved on to colleges that are all now competing with their facilities, rather than the education they offer. These new dorms in colleges are luxury living. The food is catered and basically on-demand.
Then they finish college, many with a degree worth less than the paper itâs printed on, and expect to maintain that high level of living without ever having to earn it. Their existence is enough to them. Forget moving your way up to better pay and better opportunities. Companies are now exploitive if they donât offer 6 figure salaries as starting pay, along with a bevy of bennies that they havenât earned. They expect these things as a condition for any employment. Anything less than the standard of living their parents provided for them is oppression.
Oh come on. The solution is common sense legislation to institute a living wage. Everybody has a right to healthcare, internet, 24 hour work weeks, their own corner office and a team of people to do their actual work. Expecting people, especially young people, to actual work hard and continue to learn, that is racist or something. You’re displaying your white privilege.
This is good,
https://compactmag.com/article/america-the-last-ideological-empire
What if people decide they can get along without our imperial fiat currency?
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard became the latest official to speak out on crypto, saying Friday that regulation is needed or the industry could become a wider danger.
âInnovation has the potential to make financial services faster, cheaper and more inclusive, and to do so in ways that are native to the digital ecosystem,â she said in a speech at a Bank of England conference in London. âIt is important that the foundations for sound regulation of the crypto financial system be established now before the crypto ecosystem becomes so large or interconnected that it might pose risks to the stability of the broader financial system.â
The lack of regulation guidelines has been a confusing and troublesome issue for the crypto industry, whose participants are keen to develop and expand businesses but are unclear on the regulatory parameters within which they can do so.
If we can’t micromanage the financial system, the whole house of cards might collapse.
The viig for the Feds and their cronies is certainly in danger.
Brainard on Friday highlighted the volatile nature of cryptocurrency prices.
It’s almost as if there is a signal there the Fed wants to jam.
Wimbledon XY final is on. The commentating is predictably awful so maybe I’ll check in every 45 minutes or so.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/guillaume-martin-out-of-tour-de-france-after-covid-19-positive/
As the Tour de France headed into the high Alps, three riders were unable to line-up for the start of stage 9 in Alige, with injury, fatigue and COVID-19 taking its toll.
A total of 165 riders rolled out of the Swiss town for the first Alpine finish in Chatel but ….Kasper Asgreen (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education-EasyPost) and Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) all head home before the roll out in Aigle and before Tour de France enjoys the second rest day in Morzine.
So far 11 riders have left the race, with a number of others likely to be hit by illness and injury before the Tour reaches Paris on July 24.
The French insist on fucking up one of the ten greatest things about France: riders are being sent home for testing positive. The teams are panicked, throngs of tourists and well-wishers crush the paddock and the podium every day, and none of this has anything to do with anything: there is very nearly ZERO serious risk to a 28 year old world class athlete from any CoVid strain, much less the just-along-for-the-ride variants that have taken over.
As I have written here and continue to insist: virus gonna virus. To ruin a team and remove a rider over the hint of a supposition of the chance that someone will get a fever for two days is ridiculous.
THE CORRECT ANSWER: don’t test or remove anyone. If someone is positive, oh well: that’s their problem. If they can’t get out of bed or underperform, that’s it. If 170 guys fall out of the race for whatever reason, so be it. And then the winner would be, get this one folks, THE FIRST GUY TO CROSS THAT LINE IN PARIS PERIOD.
I’m don’t care if they fuck up le Tour a bit. I care that their logic is in charge of the world and most people are so fucking broken that they think these rules and “management” techniques are fitting and proper.
“I care that their logic is in charge of the world and most people are so fucking broken that they think these rules and âmanagementâ techniques are fitting and proper.”
This is indeed the rub isn’t it? Even worse, anyone, including legit epidemiological and infectious disease experts, who deviate from this official line must be attacked, destroyed and defenestrated from polite society. This, of course, enabled by collusion between Deep State apparatchiks, Big Tech tyrants, corporate media and licensing agencies. Just a preview of what’s to come as our institutions get ever-more captured by neo-Soviets.
Yeah, the whole world of sports since the beginning of 2020 has been a giant asterisk of doesn’t-count.
Relax, don’t do it, when you wanna go to it.
https://archive.ph/LhZTC
Slutty Sunday.
I realize this feature is approaching the problem from a broader sense of general social isolation but hikkikomori has always been a fascinating phenomenon to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORthIsoLP0
Interesting that it’s been around for almost 20 years now (or does the video give a timeframe?). Consuming a lot of Japanese media (mostly but not all animation) – the frequent lack of parental involvement/interaction on a lot of levels does seem pretty weird. I mean here in the West we blame parents for living out their fantasies on their kids, but there, there’s also a distinct level of uninvolvement (word escapes me right now) to let the kids walk all over you and stay in their room indefinitely being provided for…
Not going to TMZ, but that Katie Herzog tweet is definitely a troll. She’s on the Blocked and Reported podcast – one of those folks trying to figure out why their side is so absolutely nuts. She’s good people, but just can’t cross the common sense line to reality because OMB, etc.
To be fair, the Office of Management and Budget is not a good place to go seeking reality or common sense.
Yeah, she’s the “rightwing” writer for The Stranger.
Think she left them over “extremism” complaints a while ago – could be wrong. The podcast/substack route is proving pretty lucrative from what I hear.
You are correct. She hasn’t been there for years.
Well shit, I guess I’m officially an old fuck now. I guess the first clue should have been that I first started listening to Warren Zevon when I was about 15, and that was 20 years ago.
Today, in vapid nonsense
âThis is a bridge for the people of L.A.,â City Councilmember Kevin de LeĂłn said.
At Fridayâs event, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti emphasized the feeling of attachment he hopes young Angelenos get from the project.
âYoung people will feel that this isnât just a city of diversity and inclusion but a city of belonging â my city,â he said.
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He said the new bridge cost about $588 million and took about six years to build.
âIt is actually pedestrian, and it is bicycle centric ⊠Itâs going to be an iconic symbol,â said de LeĂłn, who likened the new bridge to the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory.
The bridge is already iconic for another reason.
âThis had more women working in construction than any public works project in the history of the country,â according to de LeĂłn.
Still in the works are a 12-acre park beneath a portion of the bridge that will house three soccer fields, a skateboard park, slides and swings.
LA needs another hobo jungle.
*checks map*
I guess the existing very nearby multiple bridges in both directions weren’t “iconic” enough.
They didn’t offer enough of an opportunity for graft.
Memphis version: city government pays consultants to tell them what to do with the empty bones of the boondoggle other consultants told them to build. Competing boondoggles stand empty or are given to NGO or even private firms for want of any civic utility. Rotarians and Chamber of Commerce give speeches about the future Top Men are building; Republicans and Democrats agree that all sectors will benefit. City that absolutely leads the nation in eyesores decides to buy ancient dilapidated private real estate investments and repackage them while zoning board and board of adjustment reject hundreds of millions in development plans because new ideas don’t match the architectural tastes of people who were building here before San Juan Hill.
Puzzled investors go to Nashville, become billionaires. Local contractors rake in all the projects, go to country club and jerk off on each other NTTAWIT. Apartment building owner passes on tax hike to renting family of four where dad makes $20/hour hanging sheetrock all day and $12/hour throwing boxes at FedEx third-shift side hustle.
I don’t get why people put up with these city vanity projects. When I lived in Atlanta they were forever throwing money at Underground Atlanta. It would boom for a few months. Then fail… Rinse and repeat every 5 years or so to the tune of many millions.
Because the alternative is not voting for a Democrat which means women in chains and fifty kids in every classroom.
As I remember Atlanta, the answer is always “Graft and Corruption”.
And re: Tennessee — apparently the contractors who don’t get the Memphis contracts get to go tear up the interstates. Because they sure never seem to rest tearing up the damned highways to throttle traffic every time I go through (including the last time).
Also seems like Nashville and Chattanooga are going to merge around Manchester judging from the traffic patterns on I-40. Barf.
Speaking of, my household was divided growing up. Dad was an Addam’s Family man, mom was a Munster’s gal. I was really hoping she’d survive long enough to see the Rob Zombie remake of The Munster’s. I’m still gonna go see it when it releases.
Addams Family (original TV series, NOT movies. Carolyn Jones >>> Anjelica Huston) > Munsters
Nope.
Further proof.
I don’t have any particularly strong loyalties either way, although I do prefer The Munsters theme music. Also I’m not sure why I put an apostrophe in “Munster’s” twice in my original post. Or “Addam’s” for that matter.
Addams Family is definitely more creative and more solid top to bottom…. But Fred Gwynne is a national treasure.
Weird to see an entire show developed from a single panel comic strip – they kinda had to build all the personalities from whole cloth. Granted, I still haven’t really watched any of the original show – on the list at some point.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Addams Family.
Munsters was on every day after school.
Sounds as if we need to have an Addams Family viewing party! I wonder if Tubi shows the original TV series…
Just torrent it and stream it on Discord, Gaze, Kast, StreamParty or whatever other video streaming/sync software you like.
Gomez illustrates modern investing
I am not in church so I cannot make dick jokes.
Which raises the question….. Dick Sergeant or Dick York?
Pfft. Not even close – York.
This guy gets it.
(My mom was also a huge Bewitched fan. I once gave her a box set of the complete series on DVD and she threw out the Dick Sergeant seasons).
LOL I wouldn’t go that far.
But the earlier seasons were better, regardless of the Dick.
To be honest, it took me a long time to notice, but I didn’t care.
I work with a Dick Starr
Yes you can.
You have to be in church for that? I don’t understand women.
It’s my schtick.
Nothing better than a girl and her car.
I wonder what it is like to be one of these “hottest woman on the planet”? They spend most of their lifetime with a littany of super wealthy men throwing money and promises at them. It is so completely disconnected from anything in my reality..
I had an internet friend who had previously been a stripper. She said between the working out, the makeup, hair, and clothes, it was a very difficult and time-consuming job.
I’ve seen some strip joints where none of those things are job requirements.
This got a chuckle out of me during my last trip to Las Vegas
Oh Little Darlings….
That one’s about a block down the street from the crematory I used for my mom. There’s another one directly across the street from the crematory, and two more on the parallel block of Industrial (Deja Vu and I can’t remember which other one). Las Vegas, NV, it’s a hell of a town đ
Don’t women spend most of their time on makeup, hair, and clothes anyway?
I could be flippant or deriding to your comment, but I will answer seriously. The way she described it, it was way over the top and excessive. It was a full-time job.
As for women paying attention, yes, to a degree. Me, not so much, but I don’t have to and besides, makeup with glasses is kind of pointless (and now I can’t get out of wearing glasses even if I have contacts). I went mostly au naturel at my wedding, even. I keep my fingernails clipped to the quick practically, because I can’t type otherwise. Long ago, I allowed a friend who was in manicure school to practice on my hands and they hurt like a motherfucker. I had a transcription job at the time and it was hard to type. One day I just ripped them off my fingernails because they hurt so badly. Makeup makes my eyes itch and water, especially Cover Girl brand, which I forgot the last time I got makeup. When I did work out of doors, I rarely wore makeup then, either. NOW, if I get a job coding out of doors, I am going to be more careful with my appearance. I now look like a dumpy middle-aged woman and I don’t like it.
âEven an old barn looks better with a new coat of paint.â âBrigham Young
Classy and more classy.
that sets unrealistic beauty standards for both women and cars. It is hateful tbh.
Great Zevon OMWC. Pretty much every tune on Excitable Boy is a gem. Of the ones that never get played on the radio I really dig Nighttime in the Switching Yard and Accidentally, Like a Martyr.
Enjoy every sandwich.
SP’s motto, stated often.
It really is the secret to life.
Not “Enjoy every deep dish Hawaiian pizza”? đ
Cuttlefish Ink Spaghetti vs. Risotto with Tommaso Arrigoni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZA1PkG658
Omelette in a 3 Michelin Star French Restaurant with Donato Russo – Mirazur***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XiWUis2eKc
Will Joe stick to his environmentalist guns, or cave to Big Oil?
The Biden administration has taken a key step forward on a controversial proposed oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope, angering climate advocates who say the project would release tons of emissions and doom the President’s climate goals.
The US Department of Interior released a draft environmental impact statement for the ConocoPhillips oil drilling project, known as Willow, on Friday night. The statement does not represent a final decision and includes several potential scenarios for the project, including no drilling. But it was a critical step the Biden administration needed to complete for the process to move forward — setting off alarm bells among environmental groups.
If approved and built, the project would produce 629 million barrels of oil over the course of a 30-year life span and would release between 278 million and 284 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide, according to the draft environmental impact statement.
ConocoPhillips is proposing five drilling sites on federal land in Alaska’s North Slope, and the project would include a processing facility, pipelines to transport oil, gravel roads, at least one airstrip and a gravel mine site, the draft EIS report states.
Poor Joe. How is he going to thread the needle? He wants to be loved.
Sri Lanka and Netherlands should provide a decent enough road map for the old fraud.
Netherlands government started blaming Eu regs I am not sure how that will go down
It won’t. People know the score. This is WEF 2030 nonsense and it needs to die now.
the most often slogan i saw was “no farmers no food” which is ridiculous because you can get food at the supermarket
Or can you?
I saw that on my last day. My friend was upset because he was leaving for Spain early in the morning and he wanted to get a month’s supply of Oatly barista and there was none to be had.
also we had to buy frozen burgers cause there were no fresh ones.
Nethexit?
Sounds scary – that is a lot of tons! đ±
especially the atmosphere being so tiny
Every now and then I get a decent photo of local avifauna while smoking in the park
Noice!
The lake near my mom’s place has better birds than that. 6/10
Those are bats, you big silly!
When I moved to my house in Stone Mountain, GA, I enjoyed having a morning cup and looking out the bay window at the flowers, butterflies and small pond filled with large goldfish in my back yard. One morning there was a beautiful Great Blue Heron standing there.
“Wow. Nature’s beauty. How lovely.”
What a peaceful and serene moment.
Then he speared my football sized black moor.
“Auuuuugh!!!!!!”
He cleaned the pond out. Not a fish left. He even got the two frogs.
What I’m listening to
I won’t hold it against you
Where’s limey been? He appreciates good ol’ ‘Murcan country music!
Environmental groups blasted the new development, saying it would destroy Biden’s climate goals of slashing US greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and accelerate the pace of climate change.
“This project is a climate disaster in waiting,” Christy Goldfuss, senior vice president for energy and environment policy at the Center for American Progress, said in a statement. “When approved, it will define the country’s energy future for the next 30-plus years while having no impact on the pain that Americans are currently feeling at the pump.”
The groups also said the project would harm native wildlife, including polar bears, migratory birds and caribou.
“We cannot allow ConocoPhillips to destroy this pristine region — which is already warming three times faster than the rest of the world due to climate change,” Alex Taurel, conservation program director at the League of Conservation Voters, said in a statemen
Gloom, despair and agony are their stock in trade.
HUGE 200lbs Mastiff turns into a beached whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJ66d6xIxI
Slight drop in some meat prices. That was nice.
Boneless skinless chicken breast is the staple of my diet. It had been running between $1.79/lb and $1.99/lb for probably about 4 or 5 years here. The last time I bought it I paid $3.19/lb, which was actually about 30 cents less than the time before. Progress of a sort, I guess.
TW Politico
How the sausage gets made. Also interesting insight on thought process of political advisors and the lies they tell themselves to be able to look in a mirror every day.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/08/insider-regrets-andrew-cuomo-00044317
I though it is best not to know how the sausage gets made
Maybe they understand the Manhattan DA doesnât allow âciviliansâ to defend themselves in any way.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/bel-fries-shop-owner-dismayed-no-one-came-to-her-staffs-rescue/
Don’t try that shit in Dayton.
Ditched my almost-never-used Twitter account. Reader’s Digest version, plz? đ
Customer was belligerent and then started wailing on the sales associate. Sales associate broke free, got her gun and popped her.
Thanks! Didn’t hear about that. Guess that’s what I get for not watching the local news.
Same old shit. Chick assaults employee while someone films it. This time the thug got shot.
I found another site.
Thanks! Found it in local news. Sadly, location renders the incident unsurprising.
Use nitter.net. It’s an alternative, privacy-respecting front end to Twitter that also doesn’t restrict content.
(you can also self-host it or use it from a variety of different URLs, that’s just the easiest to remember)
Similarly for reddit you can use teddit.net.
The simpler explanation is that feral animals often travel in packs.