Or not.
I mean, seriously, I miss one fill in links assignment(this month) and everyone gets all bitchy Karen on my ass. If they keep this shit up, I’m taking over Zoom duties, and I’ll kill it dead out of spite.
Whatever. Here’s some links.
Because he’s the Maga King, motherfuckers.
He was just re-enacting the times.
With your second cup of coffee.
I think there are deeper issues at play here?
Point blank and minor injuries? LARPer.
This has been coming for years. It will certainly end well.
Okay, I’ve paid my dues. Sloopy asked me to post this, so that you wouldn’t forget him.
“Because he’s the Maga King, motherfuckers.:Because he’s the Maga King, motherfuckers.”
As long as MAGA means fucking destroy the D.C. corruptocracy, I am that…
Well, thanks for getting up so early.
“I think there are deeper issues at play here?
Point blank and minor injuries? LARPer.”
Same link.
It’s a trick to see who admits to reading the links.
It fooled me.
I chalked it up to Spud living in the neighborhood with You Know Who, Mr Partimann
L0b0t?
STEVE SMITH IS ALL PARTY, MAN!
RUN POTATO, RUN!
“He was just re-enacting the times.”
Anti-Semitism is alive and well, especially in Europe, where it is very chique to hate the Jews for some reason or another.
It is also fashionable in the US. I read that Trump is the biggest antisemite in the country.
It is fundamental to Progressive ideology. Israel is stronger than the Palestinian Arabs therefore it is white power colonialist apartheid evil. That is seriously the rationalization they use.
Jimmy Carter led the way on this. That this disgusting creature is still alive is proof that evil rules the world.
That MUST be why he has relatives that follow that faith. You want to keep your enemy close or something….
Note no details were given about the salute-giver in the linked article – this one does:
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/security-guard-gave-nazi-salute-to-delegation-1548488.html
They didn’t send Germany their best.
Pish tosh, irrelevancies.
Maybe he was just giving a Roman or Bellamy salute?
The Sieg Heiling was a dead giveaway.
Young Jewish ladies – on the other hand – sigh. They’ve broken my heart a few times.
http://cigarmonkeys.com/2019/06/24/israel-army-women-smoke-idf-gils/
That’s what you call “serving your country”, I guess…
Your “Point blank” link talks about a parachuteless pilot
He’s likely still passed out drooling on the keyboard.
TELL SPUDALICIOUS THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT LINKS AND THEN YOU CAN EAT.
Re: pic in chinese real estate article, I’m pretty sure my contractors used some of those 2x4s in my house. Fuckers.
Also, “Point Blank”” link is a dup of jumpy pilot link.
“With your second cup of coffee.”
Euphemism?
“I mean, seriously, I miss one fill in links assignment(this month) and everyone gets all bitchy Karen on my ass.”
The mob is fickle.. Bread & circuses or it is your ass thrown to the lions…
Is it Bread & Circuses time?
I PUSH BREAD DOWN THEIR THROATS
Do you have stairs in your house?
Relax, I’m a goon too…
Rhywun used to dance to that in the clubs.
I’ll dance to anything. But not that.
Was wondering if it would be Toad the Wet Sprocket, but alas that was the album name.
Will pizza and streaming video do?
Not with the woke shit they stream these days.
“Dozens of developers have defaulted on their debts, and many of them have stopped work on unfinished housing, which has sparked mass outrage and even protests as more than 80% of Chinese homebuyers take out mortgages and begin paying them down before their prospective home is completed.”
A contractor not finishing a job? Do they think they are in New York City?
It does seem that this could be a long term threat to Chinese govt.
This is one of the many threats caused by the compounding system of economic lies that have been peddled by the CCP – for close to 3 decades now – on the global investment class. China has gotten away with never having to subject itself to any kind of independent audits. If that had happened, the investment elite machine that has made trillions destroying the western world’s manufacturing based economies, and the blue collar American middle class in particular, would not have been able to make trillions in profits funneling an order of magnitude of the trillions of dollars in their own economies to the Chinese racket.
China’s banking industry is close to collapse. It’s a racket that would give the Enron accountants the vapors. They are constantly telling people they will not be allowed to withdraw their money out of fear it would collapse the whole thing. One serious audit, and the banking system becomes unviable. Their ledgers are a joke. And people, especially foreign investors, are catching on. Their main source of income still remains US tax dollars sent to them by easy to blackmail & coopt politicians in the US, but the money is drying up.
Their manufacturing economy is also under attack, as people finally realized they not only got a raw deal moving manufacturing to China to take advantage of the super low labor cost of government supported serfdom, only to have their IP stolen and the CCP helping create knock-off competition of ultra low quality, and are looking for alternatives in South Asia. And the thing the CCP wanted the most, China not just entering but dominating the 3 mm and lower integrated circuit market (the ultra expensive and modern chip used in space and military tech), has not happened. It is the main reason China is desperate to take Taiwan (so they can then just take that over, because local knock-off attempts simply are not working despite close to a quarter of a trillion dollars trying to make this happen).
But the thing that will kill the CCP is demographics. There simply are not enough young Chinese to keep their economy afloat curtesy of the one-child policy. That timebomb is going to cripple China in the next decade and nothing the CCP does will avoid that. And we all need to worry that desperate people will do crazy shit (see Argentina junta in 1982).
China to Argentina is the same as to Falkland Islands and (fill in the blank)
One thing I never hear people talk about is that back in the day the word was that there where two countries that had parallel nuclear programs and might even have worked with apartheid South Africa to help start or grow their own programs. One was Israel, which needed a partner to get Uranium as everyone was blocking them from that back when. The other was Taiwan. Everyone knows Israel & South Africa have the bomb. Taiwan however has kept very quiet. Many people speculate that like Japan, Taiwan doesn’t have an active nuclear program, but that they could produce several nuclear weapons in the span of days.
Whatever the case, I feel compelled however point out is that the Taiwanese military just recently told to the CCP that they have cruise missiles that would reach Beijing, and they would use them. A lot of military people came out to write about how that was a waste of weapons as Taiwan should focus on using their missiles to degrade China’s military footprint right across from Taiwan (because they simply didn’t have enough missiles to do enough damage to Beijing or China in general).
I pointed out to one of my buddies in that group of mil speculators that the Taiwanese knew what they were saying if you looked at if from the perspective that reminding the CCP that you were confident your missiles could reach Beijing had a lot more impact if the missiles were carrying nukes.
That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard of the Taiwanese cruise missile threat.
I thought South Africa gave up their nukes, famously being the only country to do so.
Ukraine disarmed as well.
But Ukraine didn’t really build their nukes. Weren’t they soviet nukes that happened to be in Ukraine?
Yeah, that’s my understanding. I wonder if that meant they have no ability to rebuild them.
China’s demographic bomb is real. And I’m convinced they have been inflating their actual population numbers for quite a while now. They will get old, fast in the next couple decades.
The getting old has already started, and will destroy the country in the next decade. In fact, the ratio of people under 15 to people over 60 is disputed to be 1 to between 3 and 5, from what I hear. That ratio is just impossible to recover from (stable societies need that ratio to be below 1 to 1). That’s why there is an active group of people that believe the Wuhan Kung flu was a deliberate act by the CCP, intended to kill of as many old people as possible, and why China has been so lacking in their reporting of what the demographic impact was to their population. Even if that were to be true, and even if you think the CCP let it go global in the hope it would damage their competition, the Kung flu didn’t kill enough people to even make a dent in tat timebomb.
China is fucked.
It’s weird how just in 2008 it seemed like China was the place to be. It was rapidly becoming richer, freer. Shenzhen was blossoming overnight. Kind of tragic how all that has been rolled back in the span of barely more than a decade.
Xi changed all of it. That is not an exaggeration.
Yep, although there was a lot of papered over rot without him.
Xi HAD to change that. Once he saw how fucking rotten the whole thing was under that veneer of legitimacy, and that it was a question of when, not if, the whole house of cards would come crashing down, he had no choice. He had to make changes to delay that inevitable collapse.
The problem is that the changes will make the inevitable collapse, while delayed, magnitudes worse for the people. Not that I think Xi fucking cares about the people unless it is to make sure they don’t have the desire/ability to lynch his ass…
They literally have an overabundance of young males that have ever decreasing prospects of economic success. Thats definitely a powder keg. It will blow up at some point, but what explosion looks like up is up for debate.
That’s another problem caused by the one child policy. Out of every 10 males, 3 will not be able to find a bride. When you extrapolate it to that demographic group being around some 350-400 million people, that is a staggering high number of angry dudes all pissed they are not getting trim (incels are not popular over there). Wars start because of that shit…
Damn. That’s a bigger sausage party than Glibs!
To be fair, I am single handedly skewing the size of the Glib’s sausage metrics…
If it doesn’t take two hands, it doesn’t count.
You keep bringing up the Oscar Meyer stock you bought.
Smaller sausages, much greater in number.
The only thing that makes me doubt they will have any kind of uprising energized by young men is their culture of face and fealty to bureaucratic systems. I don’t think a society like China’s will have any qualms about ratcheting down on any threat to “social harmony”.
Looking at the history of China, they have a fuckton of rebellions and uprisings. I can easily see another when the peasantry finds the situation untenable again.
@ waffles, Thats why Im not sure how the powder keg exploding will look. In a western nation, it would most likely result in domestic civil unrest, rioting, etc. Not sure how it will translate to the Chinese. I think its just as likely that “the powder keg” gets pointed outward, resulting in military adventurism and such.
It’s not like they killed 65 million of their own people in pursuit of the utopian Leninist ideal or anything…
That 65 million is the low end… some people point out that if you count direct and indirect loss of life, it is close to 150 million. That’s just fucking nuts.
Staggering. And yet it’s still perfectly acceptable in polite company to support Marxism-Leninism while “Nazi” is literally synonymous with evil. Which isn’t to say Nazism wasn’t evil, only that the double standard is sickening. Hitler was a fucking piker compared to Mao, Lenin and Stalin.
The copout from these monsters is always “That wasn’t real marxism”. The fact that their mental fantasy about something never works out the way they wanted and instead always ends with a mountain of bodies and billions sharing equal misery (the only equality marxism and any collectivist system can deliver) until they get a respite and revert to less murderous systems.
I live in a world where too many people don’t know or ignore the fact that man’s history has been misery, serfdom & slavery, except for a very few. The very system that allowed a larger swath of people to clime above that norm is now under attack because – they claim – that system isn’t perfect. So then they peddle systems that will return us to the old ways, and the “they” peddling these systems always expect they will assume the roles of the powerful throughout history…
I had a Chinese professor who was part of the Democracy movement back in ’88. He would tell you “one bowl of rice”, meaning that as long as a Chinese person got at least 1 bowl of rice a day there wouldn’t be a revolution.
It would be interesting to find out what his thoughts were based on sex. “One lay per year”?
If so they have something in common with my ex-wife.
Based on my experience dating Chinese women, their policy was more akin to that of rabbits. then again, I was dating. Everyone knows that if you feed a woman wedding cake, especially that of her own wedding, her sex drive completely goes away in a few years.
Right. That’s why they made Viag— Oh wait.
Mojeuax 10 – AlexinCT -10!
That’s gonna leave a mark
“China’s aggressive “zero-covid” lockdowns continue to disrupt day-to-day life for millions of its citizens and have created widespread despair and uncertainty.”
Still?
Yep, still.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62547503
It might be related to Xi’s term and him wanting to keep his stranglehold on power. This filters down through all layers of the state with each fiefdom showing their loyalty by being absolutely ruthless when it comes to covid policy.
They’re using the lockdowns to control bank runs and to put the kibosh on uppity local officials.
The Chinese banks are in serious trouble, by which I mean that Chinese depositors are getting robbed.
It’s unsurprising. But at least the CCP still has the mandate of heaven, right?
I am pretty sure Mao also claimed he had the same…
“The world economy is already in a fairly precarious state: supply chains for vital resources such as gas, oil, and grain have been disrupted by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, food shortages and famine are expected in much of the developing world, and by all reasonable definitions, the U.S. is in a recession.”
All mostly due to the lockdowns.
Orange Man Bad! What don’t you understand? He had to go.
Things are certainly getting more “interesting”. Yay.
He was just re-enacting the times.
No name given, unless I missed it. So there’s a highly non-zero chance that it’s got Mohammed in it somewhere.
“The 19-year-old security guard, who according to police is an Arab resident of the German capital of Berlin, faces a fine and up to three years in prison”
Since no one is going to point out that the co-pilot story got posted twice, I guess I will.
It said his body was found in a garden. I imagine that was a horrifying moment for the homeowner. Maybe you’d even want to move away afterward.
Since no one is going to point out that the co-pilot story got posted twice, I guess I will.
Can someone confirm?
Hell no, that’s a fantastic bar story.
Does that qualify as night soil?
I’d plant a small garden with white flowers as a chalk outline and red inside.
“Trump as a candidate and fundraiser has always had an impressively dedicated set of constituents who are particularly mobilized by anger,” said Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, a professor at Fordham University who researches how political campaigns use digital communications. “A threat, a negative, a time when you lose, can actually be lucrative.”
Not like President Unity-and-Healing.
Yep, the opposition won’t campaign or fundraise off of the Roe v Wade loss. They’re above it.
Or still-warm dead bodies at a mass shooting.
Yup. Democrats / Progressives are always upbeat and never demonize their opponents.
Same for CIA directors and Twitter bluechecks.
Hayden may be worse than Brennan.
Brennan’s a weasel, Hayden appears to be a true believer that would joyfully gas the wrongthinkers.
“Interference from Beijing has put further stress on the Chinese economy — crackdowns on private industry to combat “income inequality” and curb “unscrupulous business practices” have reportedly damaged the tech sector and private tutoring companies.”
Haha, silly woke Chinese. Good thing we are not doing that here in the US of A.
It’s different when we do it.
“Daily Wire host Matt Walsh suggested that Boston Children’s Hospital “stop hurting kids” if it wants angry emails and phone calls to go away after the children’s medical center posted a video promoting hysterectomies for girls who want to transition out of a female body.
In the video, Pediatric Gynecologist Frances Grimstad, MD, MS — who specializes in transgender reproductive health at Boston Children’s Hospital — explained what a “gender-affirming hysterectomy” entailed. The video quickly spread on Twitter as many people were outraged that a children’s hospital would promote irreversible procedures that render the patient unable to bear children.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-has-a-real-easy-solution-for-childrens-hospital-worried-about-angry-messages-over-transgender-treatment
Putting aside the horror that they are doing this to children, “gender-affirming hysterectomy” doesn’t even make sense. No one can see a person’s uterus.
“No one can see a person’s uterus.”
STEVE SMITH BEG TO DIFFER. AND BY DIFFER MEAN…
Wait, you’re saying you can’t see uteri?
Marge, it’s “uter*us*”,not “uter*you*”.
Transgender reproductive health seems like an oxymoron.
China’s aggressive “zero-covid” lockdowns continue to disrupt day-to-day life for millions of its citizens and have created widespread despair and uncertainty.
*Rochelle Walensky surreptitiously faps*
https://www.wcax.com/video/2022/08/17/will-globalfoundries-become-its-own-utility-chipmaker-tries-again/
A mix of “muahaha” and “facepalm.”
care to elaborate?
The company being big enough to fuck over the VT power suppliers/citizens and the government saying “no you aren’t allowed to buy power outside our monopoly, and the company paying off said monopoly and the fact that it takes so little money to do so.
So, the government screwed itself over.
Doubtful. I think they’re just that petty and cheap.
Think big
As the Colorado River system spirals toward its demise, some Western water officials, lawmakers and experts had expected federal officials on Tuesday to announce an ambitious plan to cut usage and save the river basin after stakeholders failed to meet a Monday deadline to do it themselves.
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What experts say is needed now is a big plan for a big crisis, which is what US Bureau of Reclamation chief Camille Touton demanded in June when she told Colorado River states and stakeholders to form a plan by August 15 to cut up to 25% of their usage — 2 to 4 million acre-feet per year — to stabilize the river.
Touton said at the time that if the river’s stakeholders failed to come up with a plan, the federal government would step in to protect the basin. But after her Monday deadline failed to produce a deal, Touton said Tuesday the bureau will announce steps in the future — but didn’t say what exactly those steps would be. The mandatory cuts associated with the Tier 2 shortage will lead to a reduction of 721,000 acre-feet of river water usage — far from Touton’s desire to cut up to 4 million acre-feet.
Touton said Tuesday her agency is just “starting the process,” and did not specify any new deadlines that might be set for additional drastic cuts.
The lack of a public deadline or plan of action from the Reclamation Bureau came as a surprise to stakeholders and experts who feel it’s time for the feds to drop the hammer.
Central planning will save us. The Ministry of Plenty will set the water ration equitably, and all will be well.
At some point they’ll suck so much water out of the river that the Sea of Cortez will flow up the dried out channel.
If California wants to go green, they can stop taking other states’ water and electricity.
The other states in the Colorado River Compact agree.
^Dis is de way.
I’d like to compliment Spudalicious on his excellent use of a stock photograph.
I see what you did there….
Indeed, it’s the kind of pun the rest of us would get pilloried for.
Give yourself a golf clap.
*lobs rotten tomato*
Well-developed pun, Tonio. This is how you do it.
So I can’t find the article I read the other day where some credentialed idiot was making the ludicrous claim that you could tell your children would be struggling with their identity based on the toys they chose to play with starting as early as 2 years old, but I want to point out that when I was 9, I used to play with my younger nieces Barbie dolls.
My G.I. Joe’s would drive their tank up to Barbie’s place. Beat the fuck out of Ken and lock his stupid ass in the trunk of Barbie’s car, then take Barbie for a ride in her car where they would proceed to pull a train on her while Ken cried in the trunk like a bitch, before driving back home where they would then take their tank back out so they could go blow up shit.
No wonder I grew up t be a lesbian trapped in a man’s body….
“you could tell your children would be struggling with their identity based on the toys they chose to play with starting as early as 2 years old”
*Checks avatar*. Huh. I always wondered why I identified as a can of soup.
Chicken Noodle, or Bean with Bacon?
Tomato. He dreamed of meeting a nice grilled cheese.
I remember, oh, 20, maybe 25 years or so ago when the orthodoxy was that it’s perfectly OK for boys to wear makeup and play with Barbie dolls, and it’s perfectly OK for girls to wear overalls and play with Tonka trucks, and any suggestion that it made them gay, or weird, or in any way less than a boy or less than a girl was a damnable heresy. We got from there to “If your genderless bepenised toddler so much as looks at a pink crayon xir must immediately be deposited at the nearest gender-affirming clinic to begin xeir physical transition, and the failure to deposit xim rapidly enough shall constitute child abuse.” in record time.
It’s almost like all of this stupidity is the result of a 4chan BS session – do you really think we could get everyone to believe THAT?
“Free to be You and Me” was the program / slogan or whatever.
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QKK5IDSXE
Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy
Bullshit… They want the young to drink more so they finally get to fucking an making children instead of just watching tentacle porn..
Shinzo Abe was assassinated for suggesting to the youth of Japan that they should be making families instead of watching anime. They hated him for his message.
I assume Japan has sin taxes in addition to regular taxes for alcohol.
Sake is not rice wine!
It has a two step process, the first of which converts starches to sugar. It’s much closer to a brewing technique then a wine making technique.
Sake is Sake, not Beer or Wine.
It is also not mead.
So, rice wine.
Wine is simple, take fruit, mash fruit, add yeast (if you want, otherwise you’ll have enough natural yeast already), let sit. Sake uses a fungus that breaks down the starches of rice into sugars, beer does it through malted grain and enzymes in the mash.
Neph is correct.
For Wine/Cider, the sugar is already there in the fruit.
For Beer/Ale, the starch in the malted grain needs to be converted to sugar by enzymes that are already present in the grain.
For Sake, the starch needs to be converted to sugar by mold. Then Sake yeast is used to produce alcohol. So, different yeast that for making wine or beer.
Allow me to present what I had as a discussion in my Japanese class last night.
Suntory Holdings Limited Japan’s first * 1 free beer “Beer Ball” made with carbonated water is born
https://re-how.net/all/2003851/#start-content
Poor, but serviceable translation. It looks like Suntory is trying to take US style malt liquor upscale. I’ll stick with regular beer or sake thank you.
https://www.suntory.co.jp/beer/beerball/
Too late.
This stuff is 16% alcohol!
So… weak?
And not in a taxidermied animal.
“‘Unbelievable’! Border patrol agents OPEN the gates at a crossing point letting in illegal migrants at the southern border moments after Greg Abbott’s Texas National Guard had locked them: More than two million have crossed in 2022 – a 22-year high”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11122561/Unbelievable-Border-Patrol-agents-OPEN-gates-let-illegal-migrants-southern-border.html
Pretty sure states have no say over international borders though.
Watching the cretins in D.C. and New York shit their pants about the, what, 10,000 migrants Abbot has shipped out, has been absolutely delicious.
Anti-Managerial Aesthetics
Premium Mediocre status signaling is inherent in this model of 20-80 societies because it misunderstands elitism. There is no natural division between humans that falls along the 20-80 line. The truly exceptional are a much smaller minority, perhaps closer to 2% rather than 20% (real elite capabilities begin at two standard deviations above the mean). Any attempt to divide people into status groups along a 20-80 line will require some level of fake status inflation for the 18% who are elite by status but entirely pedestrian in terms of the human excellences, and this accounts for the rise of Premium Mediocre status objects. The Premium Mediocre object or person is higher status only for the purposes of drawing a line against the ordinary or average.
…
Scalability of the aesthetics of excellence permits a broader foundation for a social and cultural movement that is explicitly anti-Managerial and anti-technocratic, and is not reliant on major institutions of power typified by centralized command and control. You can be excellent with your buddies in your neighborhood or online, building identity and solidarity with the movement in the absence of national political parties or institutions of financial and political capital. When new institutions are ready to challenge the old Managerial powers, there is already a body primed to rise up in support, in the way that blue-collar American culture primed large numbers of people to join the Trump Movement when he was merely a low-polling also-ran in the Republican Primary.
Hey, that’s sorta like us!
No, he’s not like us or describing us.
And he sure as shit isn’t talking to the 50th percentile. He’s sniffing his own farts just as much as Yarvin does.
Climate study predicts Missouri will see days of 125 degrees by 2053 as part of ‘heat belt’
Add this to the bucket of predictions that won’t happen. I’d bet on it assuming I’m still alive.
Show Me
When this shit doesn’t come to pass – and I see at least now they are pushing predictions way past their original 10 year bullshit – will anyone say, “Mea maxima culpa” and back off the marxist shit?
*looks at open windows in mid-August*
Oh. Huh.
“A federal judge in Cleveland has ordered CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart to pay two Ohio counties damages over their opioid distribution, a week after a judge in San Francisco ruled Walgreens CAN be held responsible for the city’s crisis.
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster awarded $650 million in damages on Wednesday over the way the national pharmacy chains distributed opioids to their communities.
Judge Polster said in his ruling that the money will be used to fight the opioid crisis in Lake and Trumbull counties outside Cleveland. Attorneys for the counties put the total price tag at $3.3 billion for the damage done.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11123097/Opioid-crisis-Judge-orders-CVS-Walgreens-Walmart-pay-Ohio-counties-650million.html
Next they’ll be lawsuits against car dealerships over climate change.
the way the national pharmacy chains distributed opioids to their communities
By prescription?
Next they’ll be lawsuits against car dealerships over climate change.
What about collisions, drive by shootings, and other negative outcomes?
Yes, by prescription.
Cool, now let’s see Facebook, Google, etc., pay for disseminating misinformation.
Oh wait…
Look they followed the rules so they must be punished.
The county governments are far more addicted to tax money than anyone has been to opioids.
Just wait for the health care deserts in a couple of years.
Already happened in Dayton a few years ago, and even Kucinich got in on the act: https://www.whio.com/news/local/gubernatorial-candidate-kucinich-joins-rally-protest-good-sam-closure/id3ZPocOlsUohFjTxmXnxJ/
Well thankfully dental patients don’t need opioids anymore, so that should cut down a bit…
After having four wisdom teeth pulled in one day, I was fine with ibuprofen during the day, but needed opioids at night. Same after I had knee surgery.
I’ll be having 3 teeth yanked on Saturday. Same dentist did my son’s wisdom teeth last month, and prescribed opioids. A definite plus.
Utterly absurd.
Activist judges finding the deepest pockets to loot FTW.
“Elon Musk shoots down his ex-girlfriend Grimes’ desire to get elf ear modifications… as she also expresses interest in getting vampire fangs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11122751/Elon-Musk-shoots-ex-girlfriend-Grimes-desire-elf-ear-modifications.html
OK?
Another day, another meh….
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So it was a whole new world for you?
Certainly a new, fantastic point of view.
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I had a really lucky first two guesses that got me 90% of the way there or else I’d have never got that one either.
To try not to give any more spoilers than I have… that one was helped by me remembering that they do like to throw those in and I had actually tried a different word of that type a couple of guesses prior. That gave me the last two letters (and a partial match on the third), so between that and already thinking in that zone, I could figure it out.
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That was brutal.
I hit 3/5 on try #1 on upper left. I chased it instead of using 2nd seed word and it almost cost me.
No chumping today!
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Better than I expected after y’all’s scary comments.
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The best I’ve ever done and its already a deadthread, of course.
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Because he’s the Maga King, motherfuckers.
UltraNuclear MAGA.I am absolutely no kind of Anglophile, but this is an example of where it would be really hard to express a thought concisely without the use of a British idiom.
What are you quoting from? I’m having trouble finding the source.
Sorry; it was an article I saw somewhere else on “Joan of Arc was Trans.”
More proof that the transactivists want to erase women.
Joan D’Arc never pretended to be a man. She wore armor on the battlefield because otherwise she’d be dead right quick.
Yeah, I have a feeling she’d disembowel anyone suggesting she was a dude.
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A pattern is emerging. I struggle with the 3rd black move of openings I dont play or see.
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Back when I was a young Patzer the Pirc was still an experimental oddity, it has become fairly standard now.
I thought is was played in a different order. Like move 3 first.
If you’re interested, I highly recommend John Watson’s Mastering the Chess Openings
It’s a four-volume series, Volume 4 covers all of the move-order variations in the above. Watson is one of the few chess authors who can actually write, and I would also suggest Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy; I find that Watson’s take on the demise of a rigid rule-based approach to the royal game is applicable to areas outside of chess.
I am reading Mayhem in the Morra right now.
I find it helps me in non-Morra situations, as I rarely get those anyway.
At my level, anyway, trading pawns (or pieces even) for positional advantage and attacking works well. Plus I like that aggressive style of play.
I am exclusively an e4 player as white, attempt to play the Danish vs e5 and the Smith-Morra vs c5.
Right Said Fred are on Twitter (deliberate use of British verb). They’re pretty awesome.
What do they look like now?
Too sexy.
A very local Daily Ray of Sunshine
Very discriminatory against the other students that are looking forward to a career as the window attendant at a drive thru.
Nice!
That was my daughter’s class. I recognize some of those kids!
Vecellio is a good guy. I remember chatting with him when they did the first trade fair, in addition to the college fair. It was cool how many kids participated.
An essay from Will Schryver about the rise, and he argues obsolescence, of the aircraft carrier, with an interesting simulation of a battle with the Chinese navy.
What does he argue had replaced them as kings of the sea?
I can tell you what replaced them. Subs.
Control what happens beneath the water and you control the surface of the water.
If your subs are not ultra quiet and patrolling choke points, the limitations on torpedoes (speed & range) kind of reduce effectiveness, especially against modern military vessels (and double so those that carry an ASW helo). And cruise missiles are not going to solve the issue because subs are even more limited in carrying capacity (the Navy is retiring the 4 Ohio class ballistic subs that were converted to Tomahawk (154 missiles each) launch platforms as they roll out the new Virginia flight V subs (52 missiles each). Maybe if they come up with a hypersonic missile, this threat would get to be bigger, but for now, having to get in close to score a kill against a capable modern navy means you lose the sub too.
Doesn’t get into it, but subs presumably. Also a carrier is still useful against a non-peer opponent.
He doesn’t, though the inference is that it would be subs. His premise is that any surface force would be overwhelmed by massed precision anti-ship missiles. He’s probably right, though CBGs defend themselves as best they can (Phalanx, the anti-missiles of the missile frigates / destroyers adjacent, etc.). But in a scenario like going up against China (barring the economic collapse mentioned above), yeah — they’d likely run out of ammo before the other side across the straits did.
What he leaves out is the utility of the CBG for just about everything else naval these days barring a full on World War 3 scenario. If we get to the point of a major power with enough missiles targeting one or more CBGs, we’re almost certainly talking nukes in play from the boomers and the ICBMs, and I don’t think the fate of the CBGs will matter all that much at that point. For anything lower than that, the carriers are good power projectors. You can’t really do much with a boomer outside of a nuclear war scenario, after all.
Feature, not bug, as far as I’m concerned.
Our capability to involve ourselves in low-intensity conflicts has not been a boon for us or the rest of the world.
I would think that subs carrying a shit ton of armed drones would also be a good thing.
Not only is the carrier going to be obsolete, so will manned fighter jets. The pilot is the week point in the system.
The US Navy is hard at work creating the concept of air, surface, and sub surface drones in the battle space. Small drone ships, subs, and aircraft, especially if swarmed, can overcome most defenses. And since loss of life is not an issue, it will help the warmonger do more warring.
What’s a boomer?
A nuclear missile submarine.
ballistic missile submarine
A person born between 1946 and 1964.
Thank you. I was waiting for that.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/e4/a6/dbe4a671bf3c9d750813707a05a65d9d.jpg
For anything lower than that, the carriers are good power projectors.
Millenium Challenge says hello!
People have been talking about the obsolescence of aircraft carriers since the 1980s when the claim was that the USSR’s Navy’s fleet of hypersonic AS-6 equipped supersonic Backfire bombers would swarm the defenses and sink the carriers. Our response was the Ticonderoga class AEGIS equipped cruiser escort class, upgraded E-2 AWACS systems, and upgrades to the Tomcat air defense interceptors. Today the claim is the Chinese A2/AD using ballistic anti ship missiles would do the same as the USSR’s bombers were expected to back when to the carriers. The counter move is based on denying China the ability to locate the targets (kill their satellites, recon planes, and submarines, because without accurate targeting you get no kills), adding next gen DDX which will use lasers to create the ability to intercept without running out of ammunition (Burkes are limited to 96 missiles across all spectrums), and creating longer range standoff weapons (JASSM-XR) to allow attacks far out of the enemy’s comfort zone to their A2/AD and detection ranges.
The reality of war is that no system will ever be perfect, and calling any combat system obsolete, especially when you need a very specific scenario to neutralize the system, is not realistic when their is serious value to the system otherwise (95% of the world’s assets are coastal, making carrier based planes absolute king in that space).
You have a far better case saying that based on the conflict in Ukraine, that the armored vehicle – the tank – has become obsolete because of loitering munitions (and the US Army is working hard to deal with that threat, and the US Army is the top contender in the loitering munitions space as well).
“Fix Bayonets!” – British on the Falklands
“Sod that, I’ll make their eyes water”
Yeah… if it was the 1970’s Navy I’d believe they might get some of that stuff in the water and working (barring Macnamara). Given their track record with the Ford class, the DD1000 or whatever it was called program, the cluster fark that is LCS and variants, the DDG(X) having been around in one form or another for over 20 years and that even if they got the equipment, that they can’t seem to avoid ramming things or burning up their ships *before* forcing people out with mandates and implementing the Transgender Appreciation Squad… let’s just say I will believe it when I see it.
Who needs navigational training when there are pronoun preferences to master!
^^^THIS^^^
The real issue isn’t the technical difficulties of fielding new tech in any of the military services, but the fact that the people manning the systems and platforms have all been turned into useless fucks. The people you would actually want are now turned away and downright punished for joining.
You can fix technical issues. You can’t fix destructive culture. Lots of young people will die because of this shit. The assholes that decided to use the military as the playground for their evil campaign will not be held accountable, however.
Just like every officer that lied about Afghanistan have not, and never will be, held accountable.
I do not recall any military system I ever had to learn about not having a horrible track record until it didn’t. Case in point. Read up on the B-29 bomber and how the program, during war time, mind you (so none, or very little, of the usual bureaucratic bullshit that creates massive inefficiency and problems), was almost canceled because of all the problems it had. Look at the F/A-18, F-16, F-15, Perry, Burke, and so on class of military systems, and every single one had a downright rocky and terrible starts. With the even more complex systems we are fielding now, in an era where everything gets exaggerated, it is a given that no military platform will be fielded without a horrible start.
The Bradley – so bad it had a book and movie – Pentagon Wars.
Good reminder, yes… and ask Dukakis how that ride worked out for his dumb ass.
Also the SH-60 Blackhawk or the Ah-64 Apache platforms… Those were both a disaster at first as well.
Or the V-22 Osprey…
New cutting edge shit will come with problems.. The trick is how fast they get fixed..
There is no such thing as the Deep State
“Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state,” one former Trump official tells Newsweek. “I think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know.” The official says Trump may have been planning to use them as part of a 2024 run for the presidency.
We can’t have that, can we? People might think the FBI is not trustworthy.
But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.
I guess the DOJ can get a search warrant based on “this might be useful politically” rather than evidence of a crime.
The Washington Post reported that those documents dealt with nuclear weapons, adding on Tuesday, “People familiar with the investigation did not offer additional details, such as whether the documents being sought involved weapons belonging to the United States or another nation.”
I betcha there is in reality no document that contains both Russiagate evidence and nuclear secrets on the same page.
It’s worth listening to the latest Michael Malice interview with Robert Barnes.
It’s sounding more and more like Trump set the FBI up. His beautiful safe was empty, he had a second set of cameras that weren’t turned off, etc…
China’s collapsing real estate market could throw the world’s second largest economy into chaos and worsen a global economic slowdown.
Luckily we passed the inflation creation act.
Too bad I hate the climate there.
“Florida is where woke goes to die.”
Political turmoil in Serbia ended well the last time.
Serbian farmers’ protest continue unabated in Novi Sad and beyond. It will be a very hot autumn in Europe.
Farmers complaining about the government?
That is an AgSerb accusation!
That looks remarkably similar to the Netherlands. I’ll say it again: if Extinction Rebellion are assholes for blocking roads, so are people I agree with. Go barricade a government building or pile manure on the WEF.
Absolutely. You are going to get arrested anyway. Make it worth your while.
The 1940’s were a different time.
“So, every now and then the state gets horny, you dig? And it needs to get its rocks off.”
200 words later…
https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1950-walter-thesexualcycleofhumanwarfare.pdf
200 pages later.
So Zardoz was right?
ALWAYS, CHOSEN ONE, ALWAYS.
RAF diversity: Senior female recruitment officer resigns over targets
So it will be easier to cross this time.
Water levels on the River Rhine in Germany continue to sink, forcing companies to seek alternatives for the freight they send up and down the enormous waterway.
At one notorious shallow point at Kaub, between Mainz and Koblenz, the water level had dipped to 32 centimeters (12.5 inches) by late morning; 5 centimeters lower than the same time the previous day. The water level doesn’t indicate the literal depth, but rather how far above an extremely shallow benchmark it is at any given time.
The low water levels on the key shipping artery for Germany’s main industrial areas have already affected freight, even though it is ultimately up to shipping companies to decide which vessels, under what loads, can still navigate the waters.
Bust some dams. Preferably the ones producing power.
With global warming and melting ice caps, shouldn’t water levels be rising in most places?
Drought is magical – water completely disappears!
Winners and losers
The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law Tuesday by President Biden includes more than $360 billion to address climate change. That’s the largest single investment ever made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — something the White House and major environmental groups are touting as a huge win for humanity.
But not everyone will feel the benefits of the new bill equally, analysts and advocates warn. People living in neighborhoods that are already dealing with a lot of pollution fear they will face more harm and climate risk, not less. And that could deepen existing environmental inequalities and lock in decades of unnecessary illness and suffering for people who are already marginalized.
“There are some parts [of the law] that are good, and there are some parts that are really bad,” says Mijin Cha, a professor at Occidental College who studies how to make the transition to a low-carbon economy fairer for workers and communities. “And the parts [of the law] that are really bad are pretty significant.”
Never enough. No equity no peace.
The bill is completely speculative (and filled with cronyism) and the objections from environmentalists are completely speculative.
They all think they can manage us into a glorious low-carbon future when none of them have any experience running a successful business, let alone an economy.
They all think they can manage us
If only there was so sort of track record of what the actual outcomes are when that happens…
The bright spot is those bright boys usually end up face down in a ditch. The problem is the rest of us end up there or worse as well.
It’s going to be a cold winter.
This standard removes nearly every prominent figure of the founding of our country, which I suppose is the point to these Marxists.
Minneapolis high school dumps Patrick Henry namesake because “he owned slaves.”
“Give me liberty and a few slaves, or give me death” is a little long winded.
I think it’s ok to discuss impactful people who existed, whether we like them or not.
Send the deplorable bastards to camp.
“People that believe that the election was stolen and have a right to storm the Capitol, which is a substantial number of people in the Republican Party, are evil. Our people are kind of silly. Their people are actually evil. Racism is evil. Alright. Misogyny is evil. I’m sorry. A pronoun is, to me is, ok, fine. I mean, it’s kind of like, you know, if you want to be a vegan, I don’t care. Eat what you want to eat. All right? But but that’s not. That’s not the same thing. It is not, yet the media is addicted to both-sidesism.”
“The problem the Republican Party has is they got really stupid people that vote in their primaries. And when you have that, you’re going to get in – really stupid people demand to have really stupid leaders. And that’s where the Republican Party is now. It’s not, you know, not all of it. There’s obviously some very high quality, you know, smart, patriotic Republicans. But they’re not in the majority. And they will tell you that themselves.”
It’s like he wants to see the country burn.
That J6 racket didn’t work. And people are realizing that these corruptocrats and their bureaucratic machine members are not the least adverse to staging false flag events to keep their claim that not agreeing with them, their agenda, and their fickle desires, makes you a terrorist. With the eyes on them, they need some real events. Piss off some nuts to get them to do something so you can then blame your opposition for it is a real goal of these people, as they know they are too inept to pull of the false flag shit.
That gargoyle’s still alive?
Death has standards you know.
Once again, progjection.
That, and it’s quite clear that Carville has serious sociopathic tendencies.
The analogy doesn’t work. Vegans won’t go batshit crazy and try to get you fired if you bring them a menu with items containing meat in it. Pronoun Crazies will go nuts and try to get you fired for not going along with their demands.
It is amazing that Carville is still respected by the media. How is he any different than Lee Atwater or Karl Rove. All these assholes are sociopaths who are really good at exploiting others and getting the sociopaths on their team elected.
https://youtu.be/SFCAcQxmYDI
Carville is probably the single, biggest piece of shit in the country.
And we all know who else is in this country, as the fuckers cannot quit twitter.
Send the deplorable bastards to camp. – should ev been done a year ago tbh
Racism is evil.
Democrats aren’t called the evil party for nothing.
/looks at the Democrats
/waits for Guam to tip over
“…if you want to be a vegan, I don’t care. Eat what you want to eat.”
Interesting example. Vegans are notorious for trying to force restaurants to accommodate them.
Also, there is big overlap between the people at anti-meat protests and vegans. When was the last time you saw an omnivore protesting outside a vegan place, or forcing them to serve meat? And I am aware of the backlash against Cracker Barrel for putting fake sausage on their menu; a small number of people boycotted them, which is a very different thing than a protest.
They all think they can manage us into a glorious low-carbon future when none of them have any experience running a successful business, let alone an economy.
You just reach into the magic hat, and PRESTO! your every need is fulfilled.
They all think they can manage us – just make Greta empress and all is well
“The problem the Republican Party has is they got really stupid people that vote in their primaries. And when you have that, you’re going to get in – really stupid people demand to have really stupid leaders. And that’s where the Republican Party is now. It’s not, you know, not all of it. There’s obviously some very high quality, you know, smart, patriotic Republicans. But they’re not in the majority. And they will tell you that themselves.”
Party of
unity and healinghate and fear.What could possibly go wrong?
The problem the Democratic Party has is they got really evil people …
Sfilata in Bikini – Miss Venice Beach 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu4vBHKMNqk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGIoTQ5DTA
The new educational crisis is Summer Melt.
Won’t anyone think of the
kidscollege administrators?!If those dumb kids refuse to take out big loans so they can pay their tuition at a college, how can all those administrators (DEI admins will be hit hardest) survive?
What will the nation do without all those Wonym’s Studies degrees?
Hollywood vs the people
I have concluded that the people that went after Hollywood back when and got called McCarthyites and forced to back off were correct in their assertion Hollywood was a cancer on society and would eventually destroy the country.
Hollywood is driven by greed more than anything. Milk every franchise to the last penny – or over-reach attempting to do so (as the case in Batgirl, which correctly concluded there was no audience willing to give up some money to watch the thing).
To quote Blowfly: “Show business and fuck business, spells a lot of success, but for the rest, who are full of shit and won’t admit, they are told to fuck-off and return, when they have learned to fuck & suck, to share their fucks, I am a guy who knows… Believe me show business is nothing but fuck business…”
And you’re a Blowfly fan! Are you my brother or something?
From anotha mother perhaps..
Was it you that had a real life brother with a birthday on 8/15? Someone here had that. it is also my youngest brother’s birthday.
Errr, are we calling a 3500 foot free fall death out of an air plane “point blank” and “minor injuries” now?
*gonna look real foolish when the link is fixed*
To make your day a little more surreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wwxYrMOvE
The last couple of days TOS has had a couple of articles up about an interview with Michael Shermer. He says he left Scientific American because it went woke a couple of years ago. He now styles himself S a defender of freedom, free speech and unfettered scientific discourse.
This prompted several of us to post about our former love of the publication and cancelation of subscriptions decades ago due to the rampant political correctness and infusion of partisan politics that I attributed to Shermer.
That prompted me to visit Scientific American on the web. Example #1 of what they have become:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cultural-bias-distorts-the-search-for-alien-life/
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“Decolonizing” the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) could boost its chances of success, says science historian Rebecca Charbonneau
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Yeah. That is really an article.
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And SETI in particular carries a lot of intellectual, colonial baggage as well, especially in its use of abstract concepts like “civilization” and “intelligence,” concepts that have been used to enact real, physical harm on Earth.
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But wait…… there’s more!! Check out this question the interviewer asks
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For instance, you’ve repeatedly mentioned the cultural implications of terms such as “intelligence” and “civilization,” but how about the word “alien,” too? All of these terms have very different connotations—even destructive ones—as historically applied to Indigenous peoples or, for that matter, as applied to all the other sentient beings that live on Earth. Even now some people don’t consider nonhuman animals to be sentient, let alone possessing any real intelligence.
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They actually discuss the problematic word “intelligence” and whether it is racist and colonialist to use that word to describe the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
“The last couple of days TOS has had a couple of articles up about an interview with Michael Shermer. He says he left Scientific American because it went woke a couple of years ago. ”
I call bullshit. Scientific American went stupid back in the mid to late 1990s. I quit reading that shit when it became all globalist baloney on par with the idiocy the scientific community under marxism was supposed to portend to believe in. GLOBAL COOLING! GLOBAL WARMING! WE NEED TOTALITRAIAN GLOBAL GOVERNMENT! SURRENDER YOUR FREEDOMS!
It went even further around the bend since 2010. There were still occasionally legible articles in the 90s. It’s full on all propaganda all the time now. I understand your frustration though.
If you’re near a big library that maintains magazine back issues for a long time, compare a 1964 issue of Scientific American to the current one.
Here’s a look at March 1964.
Here, anyway.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/1964/03-01/
You should submit that to the current editors with the simple note – this is a magazine about science.
I have some from the 90s and they are hilarious now. Such bad predictions.
Considering Shermer went full SJW around the time of Rebecca Watson and Elevatorgate, I’mma guessing he’s decided anti-wokeness is his new grift.
They usually just double down, so that’s progress of a sort I guess.
Yeah, my thought as well.
The conversation at TOS was basically me calling him out as having brought the political agenda 25 years ago…. and then several other old nerds piling on.
Shermer thought they would revere him and look to him for guidance.
Shermer can go fuck himself. I guarantee he’s still a utilitarian asshole who believes in rule by Top Men.
Take this article for example where he draws an equivalence between the law and science: https://michaelshermer.com/articles/science-makes-america-great/#more-5254
My old neighbor was into SETI. He’s black. Or Black. I guess he wasn’t a real black.
For a while I liked to watch the visualizations from the SETI@Home App. Then they changed it (and later did away with the program entirely)
https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/designer-vagina-surgery-doubles-in-2022-thanks-to-tight-leggings/
Further commentary is superfluous.
Wear
A
Larger (i.e. CORRECT)
Size
Legging.
Or, allow me to be the fuddy-duddy here, put something on over your underwear.
Why do you want to deny us gazing males the camel toe?
It is my firm belief that leggings should:
1. Be the correct size to prevent uncomfortable constriction of any part of the anatomy,
B. Be worn only with a tunic or dress that is long enough to cover the entire buttocks, and
III. Be a solid color or, at most, subtle vertical pinstripes. ::glares at LuLaRoe::
You are too classy..
/joking
Why, yes. Yes I am. 😌
Word, young lady… Word.
Meh, doubled from 50 to maybe 100.
/puts on cycling shorts
Huh?
Vaporware in the sky
American Airlines Group Inc. just agreed to purchase 20 supersonic jets from Boom Supersonic that are designed to carry as many as 80 passengers. So, when will you be able to buy a ticket to fly at 1.7 times the speed of sound from New York to London and cut your travel time in half? Well, probably never.
Though the idea of commercial supersonic flight is alluring, the financial and technological hurdles to replace the legendary Concorde, which stopped flying in 2003, will be incredibly steep. There are reasons no aircraft manufacturer has built a replacement for that iconic plane despite the advances in engineering. The Concorde, which made its first scheduled passenger flights in 1976, was more a cult hit than a commercial success. That’s why airliners still chug along well below the sound barrier, which is about 680 miles an hour at 30,000 feet.
People would certainly like to fly faster and save time. But are they willing to pay a super-premium price for that? The answer for the Concorde was no. The economics didn’t work. The plane was also plagued by noisy engines and a sonic boom that could set off car alarms and rattle objects off shelves. And then there was the crash in the summer of 2000 that killed 113 people and spelled the aircraft’s doom.
Boom has lined up some impressive partners, and a couple of airlines have agreed to make purchases. This doesn’t mean the plane will ever be built. The partners, including the defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp., are on board for now, but they have no obligation to stick around. There’s no real skin in the game.
A few people will get rich hornswoggling the investors, and isn’t that what really matters?
Who needs supersonic flights anyway when Biden assures us that choo choos are just as fast?
Because they always set the land speed record with supersonic trains.
The elite. This isn’t for the serfs.
Serfs will be made to live in pods, not allowed to travel, forced to work, eat bugs, and maintain a social credit score, or they will be turned into food for the cattle the elite will be eating.
A few people will get rich hornswoggling the investors, and isn’t that what really matters?
Speaking of which Adam Neumann (late of WeWork) is back with a new grift.
I wish them luck, but I don’t see an economic need for it given the huge additional cost of fuel.
Only extremely wealthy people’s time is worth that expense, and even they need downtime, meals, sleep, etc.
So you call for the G800 or Global Express, bring your management team aboard. Have a working dinner served by a personal chef. Sleep 8 hours on the way to wherever, have breakfast and deplane.
Having been asked about what I’d do with monies no longer needed for paying debts, I gave it some thought. I think I’d invest in my forging. Probably take a toolmaking class next, while I try to save enough to set up a forge of my own.
That, and retirement planning are excellent ideas. Don’t be me. Have a plan for getting old.
I have two retirement plans in motion already, but if I don’t fix my fitness problem, I won’t live long enough to get old. So, more hobbies that require me to get off my fat ass is a retirement plan.
Powerball and Mega Millions? Cause my 401K is constantly taking it up the rear from government crap…
👍👍
My goal is to forge one particular piece of steel I own into a sword.
Oooh!! DOOO EEET!!! 😃 🗡️
I plan to, but I need to get everything in place to do it right.
Still hope to see your earlier handiwork in the flesh.
Well, not LITERALLY in someone’s flesh. That would hurt. I mean see it in person.
Well, not LITERALLY in a person. That would…
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!
See it with your own eyes.
::points at comment, points at nose::
For Swiss
https://mobile.twitter.com/GeniusChad/status/1560264994863714305
I have heard of choking the chicken.. What is it called when you are yanking on turkey or goose neck?
Fowl play?
Touche!…
Now d bopping the baloney or spanking the onkey..
Hauling the honker.
Bless the NYP for not making me need ot explain their headlines.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/jameela-jamil-injured-her-butthole-during-she-hulk-stunts/
She is lying… that injury came from the casting couch interview!…
STEVE SMITH INJURE BUTTHOLE!
BY..
Oh, you know the rest.
Forest lawyer AND casting director!
There are days you see someone who is probably a lovely person, but their appearance is so strikingly not lovely that the only think you can say is, “Well, that’s unfortunate.”
BAZINGA!
It was a little girl, too. She was all dolled up and … Well. It was unfortunate.
Was it Honey Booboo? Eh, probably not so young a girl anymore.
No, some rando on TV demonstrating Irish step dancing.
Those wiglets and other accessories can get silly.
::considers making self-effacing crack about “in my mirror every morning,” thinks better of it::
7 years’ bad luck
MP Margaret Ferrier pleads guilty to exposing public to Covid
She should be shamed like Cirsei Lanister made The Mountain shame the annoying sycophantic nun in Game of Thrones…
It’s crazy they are still litigating this today.
The vast right wing conspiracy is at it again
Right-wing media figures are fueling outrage against ESG, an acronym for corporate standards and practices related to environment, social, and governance issues that Republican lawmakers and the fossil fuel industry are seeking to turn into a new bogeyman. Conveniently vague, ESG is being misleadingly cast as a tool for “elites” to force a tyrannical agenda on unsuspecting Americans, specifically investors, as part of the far-right “Great Reset” conspiracy theory.
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ESG is attracting more and more attention from right-wing media influencers like Elon Musk, Glenn Beck, and James Lindsay. They are part of a growing number of conservative media figures seizing the opportunity to turn ESG into the next battleground in the culture wars, in part by fitting it into the broader “Great Reset” conspiracy theory on social media. As it relates to climate change denial, the Great Reset posits that global elites are using the climate crisis as a pretext to impose economic control on the masses.
On May 18, Musk took to Twitter, writing, “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Tesla had just been kicked off of the S&P 500’s ESG index, potentially spelling trouble for the company’s stock value, and Musk was mad. It wasn’t the first time he had touched on the topic, but the media frenzy that followed had everyone asking one question: What is ESG?
It’s a dirty smear campaign to keep us from saving the world from capitalist oppression.
Winter is coming. It should be instructive for a lot of people.
I hear Youcunte banned Crowder….
https://rumble.com/v1gft1f-banned-youtubes-official-election-interference-on-full-display-guest-kari-l.html
Musk is correct. However, when Tesla was an ESG darling he kept his mouth shut.
When you are getting poon, do you tell the crazy girl she is crazy?
Of course! His goal is to make money. If a policy does not interfere with that, fine. Remember how he sued Top Gear for the bad review of his roadster?
Well, in fairness they did fake bunch of stuff to make it look bad.
True.
Media Matters?
They must be trying to keep the faithful in the flock.
I love how they call “The Great Reset” a conspiracy theory, when it’s an actual initiative started by the WEF.
ESG stands for “environmental, social, and governance” criteria that companies can meet by developing initiatives and disclosures to appear responsive to environmental concerns, workers’ rights, and other pressing social issues. Independent rating agencies evaluate how well they are managing risks and growth opportunities in these different areas and how that could have material impacts on their performance. For example, a company that provides detailed reporting on its greenhouse gas emissions from direct operations and across its supply chain and has a robust plan to achieve net-zero emissions may be more likely to receive a high ‘E’ score.
Investors who want to prioritize financial returns but are seeking some level of corporate accountability are increasingly relying on ESG scores to make decisions. ESG investments are on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025. The big three asset management firms – BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, which have sometimes used their shareholder power to support ESG resolutions – are the main villains in the right’s anti-ESG narrative. For example, at Exxon’s annual meeting in 2021, the three firms used their voting power to help activist investors install three directors on the company’s board, with the goal of building out a more aggressive strategy to transition away from fossil fuels.
Who could object to that? When you’re saving humanity from itself, peaceful coexistence is not an option.
There is a bunch of criminal minded evil fucks that thinks giving horrible things nice names works to keep it from the idiot low information rubes, and they are right…
ESG is a tactic to control public corporations by equity firms through the restriction of access to capital. It’s all enabled by the Fed, of course, and guaranteed to fail in the long run, but also create some very unpleasant results in the short run.
I hear several state entities that are getting their retirement obligation investments hammered by the low return high ESG bullshit that so many investment funds are coerced into following are now suing the shit out of the ESG cuntes at Blackrock. That’s how you fucking stop them: make it hurt them financially and forcing the behavior to come with the risk of some quality jail time…
They only way they can win this battle is to control everyone. Thus the pressure to make all companies conform. It’s Trotskyist thinking dressed up in “capitalist” form. It’s more appropriately called fascism.
Non-ESG companies that perform well cannot be allowed to exist as counter-examples.
Comply or be terminated…
These people are not pursuing a noble cause the wrong way, no. They are evil. Real fucking evil.
https://rumble.com/v1gft1f-banned-youtubes-official-election-interference-on-full-display-guest-kari-l.html
Crowder commenting on being banned from YouTube again.
By bringing back the interview that got him banned.
Bonus…. remember how influencing elections is bad?
They banned him for interviewing…..
Kari Lake, republican candidate for governor in Arizona.
That’s what they banned him for?
JFC
She has thoughts on the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
She doubts that Biden was able to win 81 million votes. I mean, dude couldn’t get 1,200 people to come to a rally. (Meanwhile, Trump was pulling 22k in the midst of covid.)
“Japan Wants People To Drink More Alcohol As Generational Trend Cuts Tax Haul”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/japan-wants-people-drink-more-alcohol-generational-trend-cuts-tax-haul
Now I’m a roundeye and all but give me citizenship and I’ll be happy to move there and do my part to raise their per capita alcohol consumption.
are you kidding? have you seen the prices on Japanese whisky
I don’t have a yen for that.
I am guessing they have high import tariffs too.
It always to support the mother-effing government.
Not because booze is awesome.
it looks like the spam emails from 3rd world countries that have been saturating my junk email account have gone from a ton of chicks wanting to share time together playing with each other on camera (so they can record you then blackmail you, so never do this shit) that are set to go straight to my junk folder, now also have a couple of phishing emails from guys now offering the same….
How long before they send me animal offers?
That’s thinking outside the box right there….
you need to wait until catgirls are finally developed
I hear there are several variants of the animal girl fetishes… Horses, cheetas, and gorilla (my roommate during the one year I was in Ann Arbor doing work on EE/AE master degree bfore going all EE elsewhere) all come to mind…
Don’t rule 34 that.
Non-ESG companies that perform well cannot be allowed to exist as counter-examples.
To be sure, they “make money” but only at the expense of destroying the planet by exploiting natural resources and poisoning brown bodies. Is that what you want as your legacy?
I can tell you what I don’t want: to go back to being either a serf or a slave in the new world order our globalist masters have planned for us. And the best way to do that is to have enough cash to not have them force me to go live in a fucking pod, eat bugs, and shut the fuck up or pretend I am happy now that my masters have given me this free shit.
About that Mar-a-Lago raid the other day: It is the same FBI group behind both the Russia Collusion hoax (Crossfire Hurricane) and that is under criminal investigation by Duhram
“Although the former head of Crossfire Hurricane, Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his vitriolic anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, the sources say, even though they are under active investigation by both Durham and the bureau’s disciplinary arm, the Office of Professional Responsibility. The FBI declined to respond to questions about any role they may be taking in the Mar-a-Lago case.
In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team – Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten – has continued to be involved in politically sensitive investigations, including the ongoing federal probe of potentially incriminating content found on the abandoned laptop of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to recent correspondence between the Senate Judiciary Committee and FBI Director Christopher Wray. FBI whistleblowers have alleged that Auten tried to falsely discredit derogatory evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 campaign by labeling it Russian “disinformation,” an assessment that caused investigative activity to cease.”
You don’t say!
If D.C. is nuked I will mourn the loss of innocent life, and celebrate the fucking death of the corruptocracy.
Oh my…
Internet pans Papa John’s new all-toppings, crustless pizza
https://nypost.com/2022/08/18/internet-pans-papa-johns-new-all-toppings-crustless-pizza/
It looks awful.
On lazy days I will throw concoctions like that in a bowl and cook it. Those are days even lazier than ordering a pizza…
That’s Pizza Da Hut!
Marco’s already does that. It’s aight.
I might give one a go.
Would have been a definite, but the PJ’s in town got closed down.
.What the serfs will have for their one meal a day!
Curating the narrative
In plans shared first with POLITICO, a trio of Democratic groups — Climate Power, the League of Conservation Voters and Future Forward USA Action, a nonprofit backed by several major Democratic donors — is dropping $10 million on a national TV ad campaign to define the legislation in the minds of voters. It’s the largest paid ad effort to bolster the legislation so far, as an array of Democratic groups and candidates kick off a 90-day sprint to promote the package and defy a brutal electoral environment for the party.
Trust us. This is what you really need and want. We only want what’s best for you. Vote for us.
The “Buy a rich person a EV” bill?