Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
FBI Seizes Representative Scott Perry’s Personal Cellphone a Day after Trump Raid
Results of last night’s primaries.
Trump-Backed Candidates Sweep Board Day After FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago
Judge who reportedly approved Mar-a-Lago search warrant was linked to Epstein, donated to Obama
Suspect in serial Muslim killings condemned by Biden and Kamala revealed to be Muslim
Fed study: Ending pandemic unemployment aid spurred ‘substantial rise’ in employment
Biden Climate Bill Will Lead To Americans Spending More On Healthcare, Not Less, Report Finds
This story made sense to me when I found out she was from Houston
Domino’s Pizza flees Italy after failing to win over local customers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
I’m amazed they’re still open around here.
I’ve avoided paying for Domino’s since 1997.
My last run-in with them was in 2008. After that brick of burnt grease they called a pizza, I’ve not done business with the company.
I stopped ordering after they lied multiple times about why they failed to deliver an order.
2008 was close to the nadir for Dominos, they were truly terrible at that point. They started a massive turnaround effort in 2009 (starting with a blunt apology to customers admitting that their pizza sucked) and it’s worked. Of course it’s still chain pizza, but their ingredients and quality control have massively improved since then.
The closer you get to Rome, the worse the pizza gets.
Which Rome?
Dominos sells a lot of pizza. It’s that bad.
Domino’s always give me lead belly. I avoid it.
Really? It gives me Muddy Waters.
That’s better than Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Tough to beat Blind Melon Chitlin.
My first guess when I heard it was serial inter-islamic violence was “Sunni-Shia?” Too predictable.
This story will immediately be Memory-Holed, because it doesn’t fit The Narrative.
I think the proper term would be Shiite Holed.
*Applause*
Dog bites man, sun rises in east and water is wet.
Only if the man deserves it.
So many do.
Look, just because they’re looking to one-up the Germanic tribes with a Thirty Centuries War is no reason to assume sectarian conflict or anything…. (sarcasm off)
Do people make fun of Shiite Muslims in Scotland?
Only if they want to go to prison.
*gives Glaswegian Kiss*
Keep on the Sunni side
Always on the Sunni side
Keep on the Sunni side of strife
glol
This raid by the FBI seems like an act of desperation.
How so?
The Jan6 hearings didn’t seem to go anywhere. Trump-backed candidates are winning against incumbents in primaries, and speculation is that Trump is going to run again in 24.
If the GOP sweeps Congress this year—especially with Trump supporters in the ranks—then things don’t look too good for team proggie froggy.
So, they have to find something to squelch the GOP winning congress.
It also generates a news story to distract from the economy, or the shitty bill they just passed.
I think its also a show of force of the weaponized alphabet agencies- see what we can do with a former president?
You better watch your ass, GOP
Not just GOP, everyone. One of the messages this sends is that if they can do this to a former president they can do this to anyone who steps out of line.
It’s useless. You’re being watched.
No matter where you run, we will not let off those who scheme to overthrow the government.
We already have a good grasp of the patterns of all your movements!
While you lead a carefree life, the number of our collaborators increases.
All the people around you, including your neighbors, coworkers,
or even lover and family members, are keeping surveillance on you.
We, the Secret Police, are a national security force working directly for the government!
The Secret Police, lurking in the darkness, oversees and controls all the spying.
From morning to night, we will keep our watch on you…
https://vocaloidlyrics.fandom.com/wiki/%E7%A7%98%E5%AF%86%E8%AD%A6%E5%AF%9F_(Himitsu_Keisatsu)
I’m not so certain that the primary wins are going to result in a sweep. It’s no secret that these are candidates that the DNC wanted to run against in November; they’ve been shoveling cash to fund the more right wing candidate in a lot of primaries.
Even though I subscribe more to the “cornered animals lashing out” theory for their behavior, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is going according to their plan and have some fortification in mind for November.
You mean like the one on Project Veritas over the Biden diary? The one you can’t find ANY trace of results from?
I don’t remember that story. Is the FBI investigating PV?
I don’t know the current state of affairs, and not sure what JI meant originally (no trace of the FBI raiding Veritas? Or just no results from it? I mean, that it happened I thought was established… are you saying it was a tin hat theory instead?)
But as to the reports on it, let me polish my non-Libertarian bone fides and enact some labor for you: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=project+veritas+fbi+raid+biden+diary&ia=web
The search happened, things were seized, and absolutely nothing more.
Almost like there was no intent of a real investigation and it was pure intimidation.
Got it. And yeah — no argument there. “Ze shall nicht sprecht about ze Great Leader’s daughter’s writings, ja?!” all over.
It wasn’t pure intimidation, there was who knows what kind of damning information in that diary that needed to be contained and destroyed to protect Pedo Pete.
I think you mean Gropey Joe.
I think you mean Gropey Joe.
Joe Biden was in Hunter Biden’s iPhone contact list as “Pedo Peter”. According to the data from the iPhone hack.
https://yournews.com/2022/07/14/2377255/hunter-bidens-pedo-peter-contact-alias-is-natalie-bidens-daughter/
Oh. Interesting.
How I feel about the FBI can be summed up as follows:
What do you do with a rabid dog?
You put it down and burn the corpse.
Your Hydrophobia-phobia is showing!
The most amazing part of this whole thing is that there are houses in south florida with basements.
Morning, Banjos — I assume your music link was so we wouldn’t end up with this music link instead.
Re: Domino’s and Italy — I have to say, this would be an outcome that would surprise… absolutely no one. Unless they completely changed to be more actual Italian style (at which point, what’s their differentiator?), I can’t imagine them getting a strong showing in that market. American pizza is not Italian pizza from everything I’ve ever heard. And it isn’t like the Italians wouldn’t be familiar with the concept of ours at this point (cue Grumpy German band to complain about such things), so if there was an interest, I would have expected a local company to start way before now.
Really, really not looking forward to 2030 or so if all these laws mandating electric vehicles are allowed to kick in. Don’t see that they’ll be anywhere near ready or affordable. (Yes, I know.. they hate us and they want us all jammed into public transport).
Those laws will remain quietly unenforced when that time comes and it’s become unavoidably obvious that such mandates are a joke.
The start dates will keep getting pushed back. There isn’t enough capacity and won’t be for decades.
Mornin’
I keep hearing how the rank and file of the FBI and DOJ are good old-fashioned patriots and the problem is just a few bad apples at the top.
As Kurt Schlichter asked: Are There Any Good Apples at the FBI?
All of them either agree with the agenda or they are worthless cowards. The whole thing has to go.
Wonder if Trump will keep yapping about the “Thin Blue Line” after they tossed his house just for fun.
Sean Hannity likes to go on about the good guys at the FBI who are suffering.
There are no good guys at the FBI and Hannity can piss off.
Do you have a newsletter?
grumpymiddleagedman.Substack.com
I suppose getoffmyvirtuallawn.Substack.com was already taken.
It doesn’t matter even if there are good guys at the FBI, CIA, or anyplace else. The problem isn’t that there are good guys or bad guys, the problem is that the system is set up to allow bad guys to do bad things *and get away with it.*
Always appropriate.
He’s a useful idiot.
Is he useful?
To certain establishment GOP hacks.
Not even Jillian Anderson?
Uvalde should have put an end to the “thin blue line” for good. 400 counts of accessory to mass murder of children.
Everyone’s pension made it home alive…
Yes he will. He has always been a copsucker and never admits he was wrong.
Project Veritas claims to be in touch with some whistleblowers/insiders at the FBI.
If true, both parties need to tread carefully.
In any event, abolish the FBI.
“A traveling nurse from Houston, Texas, has been charged in the horrific car crash in which six people were killed just outside Los Angeles last week, and prosecutors claim that she has a long history of reckless driving.”
We need an assault Mercedes ban, no one needs a car that can go over 80 MPH.
That would explain what Hamilton and Russel were stuck with at the start of this season….
no one needs a car that can go over 80 MPH
Speed Limiters Notice of Intent
It is a starting point to eventually mandating for all vehicles.
Agreed, like all other innovations throughout the history of cars, once shown it can be done, it will follow shortly that it must be done.
Eventually they will push for dynamic governors that match local speed limits.
The EU already has.
Didn’t the US also recently pass legislation on this too?
A quick poking around only turns up what Rat on a Train posted.
Maybe you are thinking of ignition interlocks?
She should have gotten out and shouted “aloha snackbar!” This wouldn’t be in the press and she wouldn’t have gotten such heavy handed charges.
Huh.
Apparently there’s a sharepoint site regarding [Project] that I didn’t know existed but which someone made me an administrator of. I only found out about it because I got an access approval request from sharepoint for some user I’ve never heard of.
At the very least, I do recognize the project.
Grab that coffee
Naturally.
wave to that co-worker
Meh.
and enjoy another incredible day
Hopefully it storms later.
FBI Seizes Representative Scott Perry’s Personal Cellphone a Day after Trump Raid
Commence the Biden Banana Republic.
Do we have to shake hands with invisible people?
I hope you’re wearing your underwear on the outside.
Taibbi just laid into it – referring to Biden as Papa Doc and the FBI as the Tonton Macoute.
Spicy.
Do we now have to refer to the First Lady as DR. Mama Doc?
Build Back Banana
Candidates endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump had another immaculate night in statewide and federal races Tuesday, just a day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Mar-a-Lago. His endorsement record now stands at 192-11.
Just more proof that the Republican party and its voters are domestic terrorists.
Bom dia,
Biden Climate Bill Will Lead To Americans Spending More On Healthcare, Not Less, Report Finds
One day I’m going to be surprised to wake up to a headline that says a bill will actually save us money that they didn’t expect. One day, maybe, well….probably not.
In other news, learning java, and its kind of fun. I do industrial controls, which is its own proprietary thing. I’m not very far in my codecademy course but so far everything seems to make sense. Considering a career change, so im hoping I pick it up easily.
Writing bad code is easy.
Writing good code requires effort.
Writing bug-free code has been rendered impossible by the tools that make writing bad code that works easy.
Success is not simply getting your code to compile and run.
“I finally got the program to compile.”
“But it doesn’t do anything.”
“It was necessary to comment out the logic in order to get it to compile.”
Success is code that works for two months before hitting an edge case which crashes a process at 3AM.
Crash? It’s supposed to do a full database truncate on error, and then shred the backups. Why did it just crash?
Truncation is too obvious. It is supposed to result in incremental data corruption without crashing or logging an error. Eventually you discover the corruption, but don’t have a crash report or logging error to help you track down the bug.
It’s supposed to be obvious and spectacular. It’s right there in the requirements.
The solution to that is to reboot the device or process and delete the logs.
This is why we don’t let the developers have access to the production environment.
What? You don’t develop in your production environment?
Hell no.
I get yelled at and harassed if prod is down for even a minute.
The devs can work in those expensive development environments we created for them.
Im excited to find out how my code will turn out, honestly. Because when you code PLCs, or DCS, its a lot of ladder logic, SFC, structured text, and reverse polish notation boolean logic. It’s very stripped down and logical.
Im curious how well my experience there will translate to useable easy to understand code. Im sure it will be like anything else, a jumble of code that looks like a child wrote it until I become proficient and learn the elegant little tips and tricks.
You know you’ve become a true coder when you don’t document anything, and at least once in your career curse your younger self for some idiotic decisions you made without documenting why you made them.
*sniffles* *looks at comment-riddled code*
I’ll never be a true coder!
(I developed the habit while picking apart stuff other people had written to try to fix problems with it. There are some truely funky things in some of those that I’d never be able to figure out what they do if I hadn’t put an explaination in…)
Actual comment from a former colleague:
“Coding is hard to write. It should be hard to read.”
That’s just short-sighted, ignorant, and self-defeating. What is there to be achieved by punishing yourself and whoever comes along to try to update your work?
I’ve come across the output of people who appear to have held a similar philosophy towards code. Usually it ends with me chucking their work in th trash and starting from scratch with clean code.
Not a fan of code golf or overoptimization?
I’m a fan of ease of troubleshooting – because that’s why I end up looking at code most of the time.
Heard something similar in my office, “statistical genetics code is hard to write, it should be hard to use.”
Which, frankly, is more than a little true. It’s way to easy to use some analysis software in the wrong way, and end up with reasonable looking output that is complete garbage.
“What do you mean, ‘that method is only appropriate for independent samples?'”
Agreed, upvote, etc.
The proliferation of e.g. simple to use mcmc codes and Bayesian statistics packages make it easy to generate a bunch of numbers and fancy plots that are… meaningless.
It’s a double edges sword – the ease of implementing complex tools is in many ways a boon; frees up time and effort to focus on other things. But that pre-supposes that you’ve been taught the basics thoroughly and have a deeper understanding to the technique and its applicability to your particular problem prior to unleashing the tool. I’m not sure how true that is in many cases and I suspect it will get worse as time goes on.
I’m sure that’s the premise of a bunch of old sci-fi – a society of dullards that has fantastically advanced technology that no one knows a lick about. But at least Kirk gets the hot dumb blonde. Or Greenie.
How dare you blaspheme against the Omnissiah’s servants! Once we have completed the rituals of activation, you will be atomized!
a society of dullards that has fantastically advanced technology that no one knows a lick about.
The Kzin in Man-Kzin Wars.
Ladder logic for the win!
(studied some controls in school)
Unless you have a particular Java-based task/role in mind, that’s not the first language I’d recommend.
I (and others) will push for Python.
We’re apparently still hiring COBOL programmers.
They’ve even started offering in-house training. Wonder how much of the state still runs on COBOL code.
COBOL? Do you work for the Holy Roman Empire?
Well, it is the Empire State.
Old computer languages never die, they just have new layers grafted on top of them.
Oh, you’ve seen the inner workings of PeopleSoft then.
What’s one more wrapper?
“Wait, you mean this entire product was built as a series of wrappers around a ‘Hello World’ program for the ENIAC?”
Years ago when working on a data pipeline, I asked a government provider for their format, structure and business rules. They sent a VSAM file and COBOL source.
“Wonder how much of the state still runs on COBOL code.”
40%
The other 60% runs on RPG.
Ive done some dabbling in Python, but wasnt super into it. I was recommended Java to get used to OOPS and to transition to REACT by my dev friends.
What it comes down to it, I keep getting passed over for promotion because I dont have an engineering degree. So im going back to school for software engineering, and want to have the option of getting out of my controls job and into software development.
Are you sure they said Java and not Javascript? They are completely different languages. I’m wondering since React is a Javascript framework for UI (UX, whatever) state management.
Of course, if they’re just pulling your leg they would have mentioned pure functional using Scala with Cats ( see https://index.scala-lang.org/typelevel/cats )
Definitely Java. I’ll transition to C# and javascript/react after i get a good ubderstanding of this. These guys im getting advice from are full stack devs with that uave been doing it for 15 years or so. Self taught.
I also need to lesrn some sql stuff. Ive got my work cut out for me for surw, but this is fun at least
Java is far beyond Python for enterprise/big system use.
Python is getting better, but it is still behind.
My point is that Python’s a much better learning choice.
COBOL’s still big for enterprise use too. Doesn’t mean you should start with it.
Python is not a good learning choice for many of the same reasons it is far behind Java for enterprise/big system use.
Suspect in serial Muslim killings condemned by Biden and Kamala revealed to be Muslim
Inconvenient. But Muslims spend a lot of time and effort killing each other.
Re Domino’s.
Let’s be real. Seeing up shop in Milan was a long shot if not ridiculous and perhaps arrogant. It never had a chance.
Wonder what made them decide to try that.
An MBA
Figures only an academic would do that.
Some consultant or executive who arleady got their big idea bonus and bailed.
Yeah… my first thought was: “An Executive VP who really wanted to live in Europe for a few years to ‘set it up'”.
“We tried. But check my digs on Lake Como!”
I was going to guess it was a marketing ploy. Also would have guessed that they weren’t serving their usual terrible pizza but probably wrong on that one.
I imagine they’d have to adjust for local tastes. McDonald’s in Italy isn’t all that bad and does well from what I can tell.
Speaking of marketing, I think what *could* work in Italy is more of a ‘New York style’ pizza. I know Domino’s is American but ‘New York style’ could attract their attention.
I would love to see if Deep dish would work there.
I thought New York style was Neapolitan style?
No.
No.
It’s based on Neapolitan style, but it’s not the same.
So, is it chocolate, strawberry, and mozzarella?
I’m guessing it was probably cheaper than the usual fare.
Well, it’s Italy, so Domino’s might have promised delivery in the same week as it was ordered.
Was the advertising slogan “we won’t let a Dago by before delivery?”
Isn’t “pizza” as we know it an invention of the west? Seem to recall hearing that the closest ancient Italians came to pizza was olive oil on flatbread.
Considering that tomatoes are a new world food, it’s a pretty safe bet.
Pizza as we know it was invented in New York City by Italian immigrants trying to make money selling food to their non-italian neighbors and needed something quick to make that appealed across cultural boundaries.
It was introduced to Italy by GIs in WWII and the penninsular Italians have been trying to steal credit ever since.
States that ended pandemic unemployment aid saw “a substantial rise” in employment, according to a recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Recurring theme regarding unemployment bennies is recurring.
Biden Climate Bill Will Lead To Americans Spending More On Healthcare, Not Less, Report Finds
The intent is to grind down the middle class.
What in the hell is going on in North America?!
Everything is garbage and corrupt. EVERYTHING.
https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/selick-chief-justice-wagners-bias-needs-to-be-exposed/article_8592abca-1761-11ed-abc0-8f094bbcdc2c.html
It is getting alarming.
The Chief Justice said the government wasn’t HARD enough on the truckers. It’s been revealed in the hearings that the people who took the decision to invoke the Act as well as these clown judges in Santa Claus suits got their information from the CBC!
These are unserious ideologues in power and places of influence.
It’s indeed all alarming.
For any WNY Glibs who might be interested in seeing what the game is like, the matchbook for the NYS USPSA Championship has been released.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NYS-Championship-Matchbook-2022.pdf
I’ll be the guy in the Glibs jersey.
Impressions of the stages (as presented):
S1 – A ramp! insecure footing has not been a thing I’ve encountered, and it looks like it’s easily bypassed, so I guess it’s just there for style points.
S5 – I’m guessing the three targets in the back slide to the left? I supposed I should plan on some way of finishing the stage on the left side to be able to get makeup shots.
S6- This looks like a particularly silly cinematic-inspired stage. For those of you not looking at the book, You begin the stage without a gun. But you do have a magazine full of ammo, so you’ve got that going for you. In front of you is a closed door. On the other side of the door are eight bad guys (one wearing armor) and two hostages. Oh, and there is also an unloaded gun they’ve left on a table there too. On the beep, open the door, charge in the room, grab the gun, load it, and euthanize the bad guys with a single shot (One shot only, Vasily) each.
S7 – A teeter-totter! Also looks completely bypassable.
S8 – Dafuq is that thing? A lean-to? A roof? If a roof, what’s under it?
S9. I have a high level of confidence that there will be zero footprints inside the closest shooting box at the end of the match.
This is gonna be fun!
Are you shooting it? Which day?
Saturday. Squad 207, if I remember right…
Alas, no more room in 207, or I’d switch. My squad is going to be moved/combined/broken up I’d bet.
Nevermind, I’m in 205, and there are only four lonely shooters in that one…
What’s the difference between orange and red outlines?
A little bit of yellow
Different lots of plastic used.
A traveling nurse from Houston, Texas, has been charged in the horrific car crash in which six people were killed just outside Los Angeles last week, and prosecutors claim that she has a long history of reckless driving.
This is why women shouldn’t drive.
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Barely didn’t completely suck. LL just couldn’t dodge the old “3 letters known, lots of words fit! Sucker!” problem, almost chumped on it.
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Been a long while since I crapped out.
I missed a 1/3 on turn 7 on bottom left and decided not to go for it and get top left first, hoping to hit it in 1 and then guess right. But missed on top left too.
Sigh.
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Hit a 50/50 on turn 3, but took three tries to get a 1/3 on LL at the end. Better that than the other way around.
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“Heritage Foundation Says New IRS Agents Will Target Small Businesses & Middle Class
“Those audit costs can be $20,000 easily, and that’s true even if you’ve actually been paying your taxes”
Out governments are turning on us. This is no exaggeration.
Are turning? Rufus, they turned on us a while ago.
Sure looks like it.
It hit us like a brick here with the Emergencies Act.
So Omar won her primary by less than 3000 votes. She got 57k or so – out of a safe Dem district of some 750k people. Yay democracy.
“Vote the bastards out.”
Her district knows what is right.
I am totes disappointed. Don Samuels (her opponent) has a lot of loony ideas too, but he’s an honest loon. He believes what he says and walks the walk. I have no problem with people who argue their points of view honestly.
As far as I’m concerned it ain’t democracy unless you win 50%+1 of the votes available, not just those cast.
Eh, so many people who don’t vote are really saying “whatever, it’s cool.” No, it is only about those cast votes. Otherwise, you give credence to the mandatory voting BS like Australia has.
No, not mandatory – just the election is voided. If you can’t draw people to vote, then the candidacy lacks legitimacy.
The fast food giant closed the last of its 29 stores on the Italian Peninsula after struggling to gain a foothold in the country, Bloomberg reports, with locals proving to be difficult to win over for the American chain.
I can’t imagine why.
Totally normal, nothing to see here.
https://twitter.com/aNdr0iz/status/1557136518229139456
A true Agata Christie mystery. A real head-scratcher. Not even Magnum, Rockford and Beretta combined could figure this case out. Ooo nelly. What can it be?
ZOMG! MBS Killed another journolist!
He told the outlet that his phone “contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends,” adding, “none of this is the government’s business.”
Suddenly the shoe is on the other neck.
We will write legislation exempting ALL politicians from FBI scrutiny! /Repubs in power
I wish that was only a joke.
FBI panty raid.
FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.
One FBI agent was caught sniffing her panties.
Well… duh.
Only one?
They’re nothing more than the enforcement arm of the regime mafia at this point. All of the Epstein evidence that magically disappeared and the evidence that will certainly magically appear from this bullshit search are just part and parcel of their modus operandi now.
It is safe to assume they planted bugs during the search. Even without the extra hostile actions.
And the Secret Service probably won’t sweep and remove those bugs.
I believe Trump also has his own private security team, however.
He’d be a world class idiot if he’s not fronting his own security detail, so…
Official: We’ve concluded we don’t know why all-cause mortality is on the rise. We just know it’s not the Winkccine. DON’T SAY IT!” /points around room menacingly with Swiss narrowing gaze.
Don’t mention the vaccine. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it..
It could also be due people not physically going to the doctor’s office during lockdown.
Nope. Not going to the doctor’s office would merely produce a delay in existing problems – a pull-forward or push-back of existing trends – depending upon how you want to look at it.
But that’s not what the data shows – it’s entirely new kinds of cancers and in age groups that have never had these kinds of problems. So it isn’t simply from existing sick people “not going to the doctor” – that’s a CDC talking point while they have removed a bunch of data during their “system upgrade.” They know they’re killing people and are intentionally hiding it.
“it’s entirely new kinds of cancers and in age groups that have never had these kinds of problems”
I haven’t seen that evidence. If that’s true, then it has too be both, as there is no way a delay of diagnostics wouldn’t increase mortality. The leading causes of death are heart disease and cancer, both have significantly better outcomes the earlier they are detected.
Ooo nelly. What can it be?
Putin dunnit.
Bwahahahahahahahaha
On the other hand, I won’t be voting for Senator from PA, so maybe they can win just collecting the votes of assholes.
Can’t justify voting for either candidate in GA, either.
Guess there is an LP candidate for US Senate. I’ll have to check that out.
There is an LP candidate in PA who won’t be getting my vote either.
Dominos: The official pizza of bowel discomfort
Ford: HAHAHHAHAHAHHAA! Didn’t read the whole article, but did they mention it goes less than 100 miles when towing? Ford bet the company on electric cars. They will lose.
Ford bet the company on kowtowing to the government.
Let’s juxtapose in Canabanana:
Crazy Chinese cat lady posing as public health touch-expert sez:
https://twitter.com/CPHO_Canada/status/1555294722301771777?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Hoo-kay.
https://twitter.com/LionAdvocacy/status/1556142711769546752?s=20&t=qBIb1urEj2xj63lRrRn1-w
/dead pans into camera.
Now this is how you torture statistics and data models.
Is that crazy or what?
Prevented 34 million cases? WE’RE 38 MILLION people. And we’re all gonna catch it anyway. What a stupid claim. Beyond belief.
“Plus or minus one hundred million cases.”
(I am reminded of the time in physics where my group tried to measure the value of pi and came up with 6 ± 3)
It’s all complete horseshit – every word of it.
The people might not be revolting exactly… but they are wise to it.
The people are revolting, yuck! /Our benevolent rulers
Double vaxxed and double boosted Gropey got it 2 or 3 times.
He seems to get it each time it’s getting too hot in Parliament. Which he has managed to suspend until 2023!
Canadians are so oblivious, that they don’t realize they’re living in a soft authoritarian world. Hopefully, an election will be called this fall. This time I think he’ll fall if the conservatives play their cards properly.
Won’t make a difference. The conservative party is controlled opposition. My understanding is that the conservative party’s core staff work with the same PR and policy firms as the Liberal party.
Canada has a more extreme version of what’s happening in the U.S. The government’s elected officials are not calling the shots. Rather the professional policy wonks are, and those guys are answering to people outside the government and who largely eschew being in the public eye.
I honestly had more respect for his Dad. At least Pierre went all in, good and hard.
Pierre?
It’s true both about his biological and adoptive dads. Fidel went all in too.
Robert L. Park is spinning in his grave.
I’m sure there is a rational explanation here.
Another explosion at oil tanker in #Cuba at Matanzas facility where a fire and tanker explosions started on Friday.
“There is no fire, the workers are merely celebrating their joy at living in the Socialist paradise of Cuba.”
This morning I got to sit through an hour’s worth of web based harassment training.
I would never work for any Fortune 1000 size company ever again if I had it to do over.
From Juris’ link:
“When they’re victorious, it will have such a huge impact for so many reasons,” said Maurice Mitchell, national director of the progressive Working Families Party. “Every week it becomes more and more plausible that the Democrats maintain governing majorities in both houses, and might even expand the governing majority in the Senate. That will mean that we get another bite at the apple of governing. It means that we will no longer be subject to the Sinema or the Manchin veto.”
DEMOCRACY! means imposing your will on your political enemies.
And the sad thing is, he could be right. There are a lot of stupid people out there willing to vote for the promise of utopian fascism.
Not in 2022 and probably not 2024. But yes, eventually they will “get another bite at the apple” and fuck us six ways to Sunday just out of spite.
So you’re saying the fix is in.
They can’t even win a majority in their own fucking party, but progressives claim to be the majority of the whole country. They are about as reality-based as chem-trailers.
It becomes more possible week by week only because they so despised by people now.
Right, because a 49-51 vote is a “Manchin veto”.
Good article on why I hate Rousseau.
The arrow of history! The right side of history! What inane blather from pseudo-thinkers.
I immediately thought of Fukuyama before I even got to the last sentence.
They’re all utopian assholes that are willing to sacrifice the multitudes in order to achieve their desired societies.
I do like the author’s dig at alleged insight.
Arrogance is never in short supply among “philosophers.”
This morning I got to sit through an hour’s worth of web based harassment training.
I would never work for any Fortune 1000 size company ever again if I had it to do over.
Harassment training? Are they trying to make you better at it? Nathan Bedford Forrest was notorious for his harassment techniques. Let him be your model.
Don’t forget that at the end of his life NBF got religion and went from KKK founder to friend of the NAACP
The amazing part isn’t that someone converted from racism, but that people forgave him and accepted him afterward.
That was a good article.
Seconded. Thanks, Holiness!
The key is to position yourself to be leading those meetings.
Ken Shimura was your office mentor?
Senpai touch my hairpai.
Such a loss.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
When kids are close in age the hi-jinx ensue. Younger kids quickly learn to emulate their older siblings. Thanks, Jimbo, for the memories
Literally running rings around them. Very cute.
*sigh*
Everything’s falling apart.
Wassamatter, TH?? 😟
So, so, so many things.
Sorry 🙁
Yes. We are not doing well over here in Casa Mojeaux, either.
60 days. Speechless. She’s a pedo.
https://twitter.com/FHousebunny/status/1556667421938819076
for a 13 year old she looks doable.
Is the boy the father?
This is a weird era of history.
How do you get 50 canadians out of a swimming pool?
Say “get out of the pool, please”
The team red media out there:
“Ooh, you just wait and see what we’re gonna do to you in 2024!”
The arrow of history!
More like Claymore Mine of history.
Might still be a little too directional. Maybe the Bouncing Betty of history?
Not usually one to post twitter links — but this one did make me chuckle.
JUST IN: Nearly three dozen people in China have been sickened by a newly identified virus – named “Langya” – that is carried by shrews
https://twitter.com/business/status/1557223834834583554
Count Potato beat you to it in the afternoon links yesterday — so not really breaking. But not to the point of drugs and derriere just yet.
These are the afternoon links, the go from 15 to 19
Then there is a post at 19 every day, and then there is another post I find in the morning. There are no other links
You can’t swing a dead cat in China without dropping a couple dozen Chinamen.
Carried by shrews? Can’t someone just tame them?
booo
ex- Ms. Tres was/is an english teacher
what is her take on banging students?
Since she works at a Catholic school now (cute story), Id say they’re more on the look-out for the priests.
Nope — these are The Killer Shrews!
Lockdown unpleasant nagging women!
“BREAKING NEWS: Trump leaves Trump Tower to be grilled under oath: Ex-President set to give testimony in business probe after calling Attorney General Letitia James a ‘racist’ whose leading a ‘witch hunt'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099049/Trump-leaves-Trump-Tower-grilled-oath-New-York-Attorney-General-Letitia-James.html
“Trump suggests FBI could have PLANTED evidence during 10-hour long ‘power flex’ raid at Mar-a-Largo because his team were blocked from watching – and DOJ ‘wanted security cameras turned OFF’: Melania wardrobe was ‘ransacked'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11098825/Trump-says-Mar-Lago-staff-lawyers-blocked-watching-raid-agents.html
James isn’t a racist. She’s a sociopathic grifting megalomaniac.
Melania wardrobe was ‘ransacked’”
So it is was a panty raid.
You really think she wears underwear ?
You saying she’s commando in chief?
*Former
Yes. Sexy underwear.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that President Biden was not made aware that the FBI planned to search Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago before the action was carried out on Monday.
“What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden. “Nobody at the White House was. Nobody was given a heads-up, and we did not know about what happened yesterday.”
What complete and utter bullshit.
Susan Rice knew, I can guarantee that.
Like not a single person in FedGov in DC told the Big Guy- “hey! Guess what we’re about to do?”
He left that memo in his suit coat pocket. He’ll get to it eventually.
They could’ve told Joe and he wouldn’t necessarily be aware.
I actually believe that.
The Deep State knows that Biden is a joke and doesn’t feel obligated to even pretend to listen to the pols anymore. What is Susan Rice (or whoever has the Joe Remote Control) going to do? They can’t publicly come out and accuse the FBI of going rouge: “I never approved this!”
The entire problem with the Biden Administration is all sorts of bureaucrats are going all in on their pet projects without having to answer to anyone.
Yup.. to once again quote my ever-quotable favorite movie: “There are two possibilities. They are unable to respond — they are unwilling to respond.”
Here there are two possibilities: “They are completely incompetent and their underlings are wildly out of control. They are lying through their corrupt teeth.”
At this point, I think it is a toss up — the public face of this White House (i.e. those actions we see) are wildly incompetent, sure. But they’re also very much corrupt weasels who lie like rugs soaked in the blood of a thousand prevaricators. So could be either.
They’re extremely capable behind the scenes. Whoever is really in control is getting much of what they want.
What if it isn’t a malevolent force at work – what if it is just chaos?
If you say. They seem to be openly saying and getting what they want. They bring Democrats. I don’t know why there needs to be a shadowy canal or ‘chaos’ to explain all the crap legislation and executive orders which consistently do exactly what Democrats want… They are the party with complete control of the federal government after all.
I dispute the conceit that ANYONE is in control. That is just another Top.Men fallacy, dressed up in head to toe black.
Alternatively, there isn’t a single person in control, and its not chaos (because chaos would produce much more random results). It is the emergent order of groupthink that permeates the government, and cannot be eradicated without massive changes in personnel.
Thanks RC, that’s kind of what I was angling at. Emergent order from the multitude of desires of the body politick.
Chaos theory does allow for strange attractors – so random and unpredictable but not a normal distribution.
But yeah, the groupthink is a far more powerful explanation.
Emergent order from the multitude of desires of the body politick.
The body politick doesn’t matter any more. The administrative state and their decorative appendages in Congress, the executive branch, and the judiciary are largely immune to what the body politick wants.
@RC just cause citizens vote doesn’t mean they’re the influential part of the body politick, particularly after the elections are done.
Apparent chaos because multiple malevolent factions are competing for control, more likely.
At this point, I think it is a toss up
I’d say a mixed bag – some of one, some of the other.
On raiding Trump’s house, I think there is no way they didn’t CYA by getting approval from the White House. Probably not from Biden personally, but somebody.
I would bet that it was “run” past Pudin’ Head Biden during whatever passes for meetings between justice and the WH. That doesn’t mean anyone there on a day to day would have any idea about it.
Eh, with this Whitey house, I’m betting they really don’t know anything.
Maybe you should concern yourself with your city.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) this week said he is “deeply contemplating” busing New Yorkers to Texas to knock on doors in retaliation for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sending busloads of illegal immigrants to the blue sanctuary city.
“I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote,” he said during a Tuesday press conference.
“And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of new Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking, because we have to for the good of America,” Adams said. “We have to get him out of office.”
That would achieve precisely the opposite of what he wants to achieve.
Let the New Yorkers off, send the bus back filled with illegals.
Meh, from what I hear about Austin now it may work there. And likely parts of Houston.
Id need Sloopy or Banjoes to confirm the latter tho’.
and what if the Texans talk back to explain their side of the story?
Or answer the door armed?
#HomeCarry
Someone should tell him that it would be far cheaper to just hire a bunch of the illegals who have poured into Texas to do the door knocking.
It is amazing that these yahoos have the gall to bitch and bitch about a few thousand illegals being sent to their states/cities when the border states are dealing with millions of them.
Publicly and loudly proclaimed SANCTUARY cities.
Uffda. Hadn’t even considered that aspect of their hypocrisy.
I already called all of my friends in Texas
Both of them.
You’ll cover my relocation expenses to a free state and give me a chance to
sabotagework a campaign?Everything in this universe is either an anime girl, or not an anime girl
and it’s my job to make the first group larger
https://twitter.com/kukuruyo/status/1557081969535684608
it’s my job to make the first group larger
That anime girl he drew still looks weirdly thin. Tres would totes down vote it.
Following link to author’s website leads to this, which may be of more interest to Tres.
Ive had CoVID already so I aint scared.
For an asian, she better have an ass. And a vagina split horizontal like her eyes.
Good morning, Banjos!
Ford raises price of electric F-150 Lightning by up to $8,500 due to ‘significant’ battery cost increases
I almost get electric cars for commuting, but this one makes no sense. I saw a recent video where they towed a small travel trailer with the Lightning and only made it 90 miles.
Trump’s record in the primaries is good – what’s interesting to me is how many incumbents are being kicked to the curb. A positive for sure.
Love me some old GnR. They looked like little kids, lol.
I wonder when the first person driving an electric car dies in a blizzard because they didn’t realize that their 90 mile range would be only 50 in the cold. They got halfway to their destination and then froze because even their heater wouldn’t work.
That would be a death due to climate change, duh.
EV does just fine in a blizzard.
If you are stuck in blizzard induced traffic jam, a typical gas replacement EV will maintain 70F for over a day, and 60F for considerably longer.
Even the 90 mile compliance cars (these are not gas replacement EVs) do just fine as well, though they are more likely to need a supplemental charge to make it home.
Personally I find prevention is a better option regardless of what powers my vehicle.
Locally, apart from an actual somebody is dying emergency, there is nothing I want or need so bad I have to leave in-town roads during heavy snow.
If I’m on a road trip, parking at a truck stop is gonna be 10x more comfortable than sitting in a traffic jam.
I saw a recent video where they towed a small travel trailer with the Lightning and only made it 90 miles.
How many pickups ever tow anything?
I dunno, but they need to stay out of the fucking left hand lanes. Assholes.
Tow? How many even use the bed for anything more than hauling consumer goods home from the store?
This. For hauling fat Americans to the mall and back home, the Lightning is quite capable.
I depend on it for my business.
Electric trucks meet my needs in no way at all.
Tundra’s Minnesoda ride
If I can get a Biden subsidy, I could get a free one righ?
It comes with an Obama phone!
And a trailer to haul groceries home. Just don’t stop at a red light in certain parts of the city
WTF. Congrats, dude. You have made the most useless EV on the planet.
Just buy an e-bike already.
An enclosed golf cart?
My golf cart can seat up to 8.
Base model electric truck for a tradesperson / contractor makes some good sense.
Key is less than 200 mile travelled each day and recharge at home.
Also provides electric at the site.
They are useless for any kind of long distance towing.
For already makes a hybrid F-150 that does all that AND tows heavy. There were dudes in TX powering their houses during the Great Outage.
If you need – heck yes.
If you don’t need to maintain an ICE and the it’s 50 mandated separately computer controlled emissions systems I’d go EV.
Mornin’
Its all a matter of battery capacity.
Right now the F150 is at most a 300 mile (90 mile tow) truck with its 131 kWh battery packs.
Its a truck-only road tripper, and a local travel with trailer vehicle.
For a contractor who tows a cargo trailer and who operates in a 75 mile radius it would really shine as the truck replaces a generator.
Based on my last road trip, and my personal experience with EVs, I’ve done the math on what it would take to make Electric trucks legitimate.
When they start producing trucks with 200-250 kWh battery packs, and have networks of 250-350kW fast chargers then EV trucks will permit real-world road tripping that more or less equals how the typical road trip is done.
I currently tow our TT with a V8 gas truck. No stranger to towing 700-800 miles in a day.
When that truck dies I will absolutely and without hesitation buy an EV with 200-250kWh battery pack to use on my road trips.
This is an American “Gynaeplaque model” from the 1930s. It is a replica vulva and vagina, carried inside a black leather carry case. It was used to teach medical professionals how to insert a cervical cap.
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1556997868317188096
Inflation was *only* 8.5% in July, says every team blue fanatic.
So about 15% in reality.
Derek Chauvin is the Grift that keeps on giving
Never mind that Chauvin was jailed in large part because his ability to do his job was questioned based on the color of his skin.
San Francisco resident David Watson contracted #monkeypox through the casual contact of hugging a friend. He went to the ER three times with extreme pain that “opioids could barely touch.” It took 12 days to get #Tpoxx. His husband AND two dogs were also infected.
https://twitter.com/khwangreports/status/1557118384839331840
I totally believe him.
Hugging in SF is different than it is in most places.
I hear they use their mouth.
A good hug requires taking your shirt off.
Either he cheated on his husband or monkeypox is really that contagious. Who knows?
A little strange it just happens to be getting so many gay men, if that were the case, you’d think it would quickly lose the status of being confined to primarily one group.
It wasn’t very long before kung flu was getting everybody, not just Chinese.
There’s clearly a gap between what we hear from the public health authorities about the transmission of monkeypox and the facts on the ground. The official line is there’s no safe sex whatsoever but a significant part of those who caught monkeypox also HIV+. I’d argue that sexual behavior of HIV+ gay men might differ from HIV- gay men: the former group no longer has to worry about getting the gay plague. Clearly, some modes of transmission are more likely than others. And, yes, it’s puzzling how it stays almost exclusively among men having sex with men. Some of them certainly have sex with women too.
Part of it may be related to the HIV status through an additional mechanism. Doesn’t having HIV make any infection more likely?
Other people may be getting exposed but fighting it off? /Complete speculation
Another thought, it is primarily spread sexually, but the velocity of that spread is different in different groups for various behavioral/mechanical reasons.
The replies are pretty good.
Trump POUNCES
Donald Trump’s presidency at times threatened to tear America apart, and the country’s democracy, institutions and equilibrium staggered away from his four-year term barely intact.
A day after the FBI search of his Florida resort, it was as if Trump had never been away, as he reapplied his grip on the national psyche by orchestrating a fierce backlash against the bureau, the Justice Department and the Biden White House, which has said it had no advance warning of the FBI activity.
Trump’s fury on his Truth Social platform, warnings of retaliation by congressional Republicans and threats of violence in pro-Trump posts on social media were enabled by a vacuum of concrete details about the FBI operation.
The former President’s supporters, whose distrust of government institutions he’s cultivated for years, were free to conjure a damning narrative of political persecution, seeking to discredit the probe, while the facts and the nature of any Trump offenses remained hidden in line with the FBI’s investigative protocols.
That bastard. Using a completely legitimate and above board FBI smash-and-grab operation to rile up his robot army against the government.
He’s a domestic terrorist, and should be black-bagged to Gitmo immediately.
“Facebook turned over chats between a Nebraska mom and her 17-year-old daughter discussing preparations for the teen’s at-home abortion.
Meta, the social media giant’s parent company, turned over the direct messages as part of an investigation into the teen’s illegal abortion, court documents show.
The investigation was launched in April, before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, after police received reports that Jessica Burgess obtained and administered abortion pills to her daughter, Celeste Burgess.
Celeste was 23 weeks when she terminated her pregnancy, a violation of state law. The mother-daughter duo then allegedly burned the fetus and buried it.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11097405/Facebook-handed-chats-Nebraska-mom-17-year-old-daughter-discussing-abortion.html
Mmmm. BBQ fetus. It IS a SF day after all.
Now would it be better to use a Memphis molasses-sweet sauce with that? Or a tangy mustard-based Carolina sauce?
Well, since we’re being grossly inappropriate – white meat or dark?
“I will finally be able to wear jeans…”
The important stuff
This is why “delete facebook” was trending yesterday, because a viable baby was
abortedmurdered and burned in the backyard.Although I suppose if you do value privacy, deleting the app is still a good idea.
I FUCKING hate workplace safety trainings.
every 6 fucking months I need to go through this shit
Don’t bring magazines that hold more than 10 rounds?
goddamnit
While the furious reaction from Trump world builds, his defenders are ignoring one key fact: The FBI didn’t just turn up at his Palm Beach residence on a whim. They had to obtain a warrant from an independent judge who had to be convinced there was probable cause that a criminal offense had taken place and that there was evidence on site to prove that was the case. Such procedures are how it’s supposed to work in the justice system, which rests on the principle that no one — not even former presidents — are above the law.
And there it is. Presumption of guilt.
Is this a great country, or what?
They had to obtain a warrant from an independent judge
Just like Carter Page.
Hahaha, independent judge, convinced. A fucking rubber stamp.
You mean a judge that has very public messages on his thoughts of Trump would take the chance to stick it to him? Impossible, these are the noblest of noble vanguards of Democracy!
He was the lucky one when the warrant came up for approval, don’t read more into it. Any other magistrate would’ve done the same.
I know that, see my post just below.
Judges sign warrants I would guess without even reading the affidavits that are attached. Law enforcement knows which judges to go to get what they want to be signed without question.
That would be 90+% of judges, so it isn’t like they’ve got to be choosy.
They had to obtain a warrant from an independent judge who had to be convinced there was probable cause that a criminal offense had taken place and that there was evidence on site to prove that was the case.
*snort*
no one — not even former presidents — are above the law
Regime connected people, particularly those with a ‘D’ next to their name are, however.
Well, the aristocrats aren’t like you and I.
I like the dead deer picture.
PSA:
Honey Harvest is coming soon!
I have the List, so if you want to be one of the elite, shoot me an email at minnetundra AT the gee mail fucks and I will make sure you get the updates.
I will be spamming threads until you comply.
Seriously, if you can, you should.
Dates?
Oh, yeah. September 18.
Gorgeous time of year in Northern MN!
Thanks. Not on our list of where to live, but…we need to get away!
On a Sunday? We’re all skipping church?
Get here on Sat, lots of churches to chose from, come Sunday morn.
What is ‘the list’? and why are you threatening people about it?
Oh, you’re on the list alright
I would love to come Tundra, but I was up that way a few months ago and really can’t afford to stress-test my marriage that much twice in a year.
Flying for work once again. This up on the reading list: Foundations of Leninism by ya boy J. V. Stalin, followed by Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by the one and only V. I. Lenin.
https://twitter.com/RoanokeMarxist/status/1557057665548820480
Poor bastard can’t even collect a following of hecklers let alone devotees.
“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.”
https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1557224539267817472
So he was willing to look like a blithering idiot in order to prevent a economic and ecological disaster?
I can respect that.
I have a question for the commentariat.
I need to get a new android phone. What manufacturers or models would you all recommend I consider or avoid?
I love my Galaxy S10. Haven’t heard anything about the S20’s.
I don’t know about the S-series Galaxies, but my Galaxy A21 has a battery life measured in weeks.
Since battery life was my leading criteria, I’m happy with it.
Just get a Pixel 6a
Lame.
What am I missing with wireless charging?
Wires.
A wireless charger still has wires.
Next you’ll tell me that electricity doesn’t come from the wall.
It’s nice not fiddling with the plug.
That said – since I put a thin case on all my phones to make safer to keep hold of – it was easy enough to add a wireless coil on my 5a.
Given the propensity of my desk to get cluttered, I’m pretty sure the charging platform would be rendered unusable. It’s easier to just plug in the cable and find a clear spot for the phone to sit than to manage yet another device competing for everyday space instead of once a week space.
*or rather, once every couple of weeks space…
I love my Pixel 5a. Basic phone no skins or BS. Great battery life.
I think I have the same, no problems here.
And if you want to, the Pixel phones are the easiest to install a new operating system on.
I mostly like my pixel 5a
I have the S21+ and wife has S22, both business account phones. Seem okay. Battery life lasts, my wife is all about cameras for taking pictures of dogs. So no complaints there.
I have a Samsung S21+. It’s good.
OnePlus.
I’m on my third one. 8 Pro. Great battery, decent camera, fast, etc. Comes very stripped down.
The Samsung A02 I have (yes, I am cheap) is a piece of shit. The battery goes too quick, the camera doesn’t work with apps, it won’t tell me if there is a voice mail, etc. Will not again.
I need to get a new
androidphone inextricably loaded with data harvesting software.Because years ago Google gave up even pretending not to be evil.
^^^ THIS. Next phone will either be dumb or Linux (or for the smartass about to chime in – both).
After not being able to find a decent dumb flip phone last year, ended up with motog7+ – largely because it’s simple to delete google and install a Custom ROM. So it’s completely de-googled, open source android. Sometimes there are issues with software that requires a google id – sometimes you can spoof it through various means, but it not, it’s probably not worth it and it doesn’t get installed. Coupled with a Faraday bag for when I want it to disappear from the cell network for some period of time, I think it’s as close to private as I can get without a lot more effort. Should investigate some of these
phone wipe apps too, just for case.
So it’s completely de-googled, open source android.
Is any Android completely degoogled?
Whatever its flaws, Apple is still fundamentally a hardware company, and not one whose core business model is data harvesting. Unlike Google. I don’t have a single Google app on my phone. I won’t use Google maps, I won’t use gmail, I disable scripts on websites unless necessary to make them work (which is an unpleasantly high percentage of them). Fuck. Google.
“Is any Android completely degoogled?”
For some value of completely. The Android OS was bought by google in … 2005? 2007? But the core OS remains open source. The Android you get with a standard phone has a lot of proprietary closed source code from Google – that’s the core spyware stuff including your google ID and all the convenience (at a yuge price) it entails. But there are versions of Android OS that have all the Google proprietary stuff stripped out. Of course much of the base android development is done at Google, so any variant of the OS is going to have “Google fingerprints” in the sense that some of the code is written by people employed by Google. But it’s all open source and doesn’t contain the highly objectionable Google bits. eFoundation, /e/OS, Lineage OS, good sources to look at.
Shorter: Lots of Android development is still done by Google employees (a lot is not too!), but you can get the base OS, open source so auditable and checkable, without Google.
I have a Galaxy S22, which I traded up from a Galaxy S7 (which I LOVED), which I like because it is small and fits my small hand, but what I DON’T like is there is no phone jack. I LOATHE this trend. I want my fucking phone jack back.
Fixin to go to the SC DMV in an hour to hopefully officially become a South Carolinian.
Next step – where can I get w3333333d?
The best place to find out about weed is the public library. There should be someone selling it right on the front steps.
A friend of mine is a librarian in Landrum SC…maybe I should ask what the situation is at her branch? LOL
I got some connects in Charleston if you’re near the coast.
Make friends with a crooked cop?
Top income inequality and tax policy
Isaac Delestre, Marcel Prokopczuk, Helen Miller, Kate Smith 03 August 2022
The share of pre-tax income flowing to the top of the UK income distribution is significantly higher than it was in the early 1980s. This column explains the nature of top incomes in the UK and how they are taxed. Overall, the authors argue, UK income taxes are progressive, with average tax rates rising with income. But incomes from business ownership and investment are taxed at lower rates than employment income. With a reformed tax base, there would be a strong case to align tax rates across different sources of income.
https://voxeu.org/article/top-income-inequality-and-tax-policy
“Policymakers who wish to raise more revenue could do so by increasing rates of tax on business and capital incomes. However, the effect of taxes, including the way people respond, depends not just on tax rates but also, crucially, on the broader design of the tax system, including the tax base (Slemrod and Kopczuk 2002, Kopczuk 2005). Raising tax rates on capital incomes, given the current design of the tax base, would discourage some savings and investment. This is a key reason that policymakers have tended to favour reduced rates on capital incomes. However, Mirrlees et al. (2011) argue that this trade-off could be largely avoided if the tax base were reformed so that, as far as possible, higher rates did not discourage investment. With a reformed tax base, there would be a strong case to align tax rates across different sources of income.”
“Income inequality is clearly an important and salient form of inequality, with income taxes serving as the main way that governments raise large sums of revenue from those with higher incomes. There is significant scope to reform the taxation of UK incomes and thereby raise more revenue from the top, if desired”
taxing investments like labor is fucking stupid
this trade-off could be largely avoided if the tax base were reformed so that, as far as possible, higher rates did not discourage investment
If people didn’t change their behavior based on stimuli we could do whatever we want.
with income taxes serving as the main way that governments raise large sums of revenue from those with higher incomes
Banks are robbed because they have lots of money too.
Taxing labor or investment is fucking evil.
Taxing capital reduces investment. Taxing labor reduces work. Taxing consumption reduces spending. Does anyone see a pattern?
So what you’re saying is we should tax taxes?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT JUDO GENE
https://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Combat-Sports-Pioneer-Judo-Gene-Lebell-Dead-at-89-Years-Old-187656
Aw man. Gene Lebell was a true legend.
eh 89 is a good run. But with MMA increasing popularity, grappling is a major thing
I bet that even from the grave he could still make steven seagal shit his puffy pants
Because as a both a person trained in medicine and having access to many kinds of drugs the best way to kill or make your husband ill is with Drano.
California doctor says he caught wife dumping Drano in his lemonade after he rigged kitchen with cameras
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-doctor-says-caught-wife-dumping-drano-lemonade-rigged-kitchen-cameras
I wonder how much the acid in the lemonaide reacted with the base in the draino. I know the caustic qualities of the drain cleaner would far outweigh the citric acid, but it is the first thing that came to mind.
It would also result in hot foamy “lemonade”.
Citric acid is pretty weak (comparatively) and I think drain cleaners employ both sodium and potassium hydroxides in serious concentrations.
If I took the time to get specifics I could work a redox, but Im sure our talent pool has bigger brains than mine.
“Citric acid is pretty weak”
Not according to Charles Fourier. Putting citric acid in the ocean would convert it to lemonade. Not only would it make it drinkable, it would kill all of the sea monsters, allowing them to be replaced by new species of friendly sea creatures, including amphibious whales who would get rid of all the Jews in Europe by carrying them to the Middle East.
Charlie Black: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century… and it failed. Wasn’t Brook Farm Fourierist? It failed.
Tom Townsend: That’s debatable.
Charlie Black: Whether Brook Farm failed?
Tom Townsend: That it ceased to exist, I’ll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said.
Charlie Black: Well, for me, ceasing to exist is — is failure. I mean, that’s pretty definitive.
Tom Townsend: Well, everyone ceases to exist. Doesn’t mean everyone’s a failure.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Metropolitan_(1990_film)
You mean the ever elusive “deepwater Jew” ?
Is HM around ?
(((jaws)))?
Keep in mind you will no longer “own” vehicles.
If you don’t want to pay for in-car subscriptions every month, no problem: Just pay it all upfront. That’s the line from General Motors today after news spread that it’s making a three-year, $1,500 OnStar connected services subscription a mandatory “option” for new Buick, GMC, and Cadillac Escalade models. The subscription, which enables things like using your phone as a key fob, data-enabled navigation, audio streaming, and Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, is still optional on other GM vehicles, with the Premium package running $49.99 a month. But don’t be surprised if this new setup spreads across the automaker’s full portfolio.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-makes-1500-onstar-subscription-mandatory-on-gmc-buick-cadillac-models
I swore off of GM products back in the late 90s.
“The subscription, which enables things like using your phone as a key fob, data-enabled navigation, audio streaming, and Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant…”
Id be happy to use the key to unlock the door on my POS Envoy w/o it setting the alarm off neurotically.
Right now it is in most ways easier than it has ever been to steal modern vehicles that use RFID signals to open and start them. You just need a code interceptor/fabricator and you can easily sit in a parking lot and wait for the new vehicle of your choice to show up. Person gets out and presses their fob to lock the vehicle and you stole the code in that time sitting 20-30 feet away. Go in the car and drive it off, you can even make your own fob once you get an uncoded one for that particular car. If it’s a newer car that unlocks when you touch the car you don’t even need to have the person use the fob, just walk within a couple feet of them in the store and steal the signal. I imagine that the phone embedded RFID will also be super easy to steal.
Yeah, I’ve read about that on lots of brands.
That’s why I carry a hot pocket everywhere I go.
Wait, that’s not right… A Faraday Pocket? For my phone? And a Faraday wallet. And tinfoil. Lots and lots of tinfoil.
Switch it to airplane mode before slipping it into the faraday pocket, that way it doesn’t waste the battery trying to find a signal.
Yeah like airplane mode does that…
I didn’t say it wouldn’t be transmitting, just that the energy-expensive reconnect attempts get put on hold.
Yup, a faraday cage can be helpful for that. I also have AirTags on our vehicles. Yes, I know they are a tracking device of everywhere I go, but then again I almost always carry a tracking device in my pocket anyway. Never a hot pocket.
AbyssbyAbby Full 4k Show / Miami Swim Week 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXYNqyh1Q3k
Lookit all them asses go
1. Can the seeds of so-called wokeness be traced back to the academic literature from the 1970/1980s? New paper about the increasing emphasis on prejudice and social justice in scholarly publications
https://twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1557304278024617986
The seeds? The seeds go back to Rosseau and Plato, since wokeness is just a variation of communism.
Yes but each new form of The Destructor is summoned by someone
“In 1828, the English–Italian phrasebook put at the top of its list of useful phrases: ‘He has hurt’; ‘He bleeds’; ‘Do not weep, it will soon be cured, it is but a scratch’; also ‘I am ruined’, ‘I shall be scolded’, & ‘I have not done my duty’.”
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1556318951277207553
What is the translation for “I’ve had worse”?
The Norman-Gothic interior of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, in Shrewsbury, England, built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
https://twitter.com/NoTrueScotist/status/1557306754802733057
Wow. That’s spectacular!
Nah, they were all rubes back then. Gaze upon our wonderful modern architecture and wonder at our progress.
I’ve been a quite a number of these type churches. And always wondered where in the Bible God said to ignore the poor and suffering and take their money to build magnificent structures to worship me?
Not at all what you think. Little brother dance bombing his older sister trying to make a dance video…queued it up to best parts including the older sibling ass beating you hear.
I keep waiting for the chick in the McDonald’s commercial to coldcock the delivery guy.
I love the way she keeps setting up in a different location that nobody else in the house knows about, and then is annoyed when they walk in on her because they don’t know she changed locations. And winds up in front of a public street, and is annoyed that other people are using it.
That says a lot about the TikTok mentality.
I must be missing something…
The only reason I’ve seen it is because I’m too lazy to pick up the remote and fast forward.
I’ve been so successful at cutting ads out of my life that I don’t even have to do that much to avoid it.
Ad referenced: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/b1jh/coca-cola-social-media
My bad – it’s for Coke, not McD’s.
Ah okay, was just confused on what I posted. Thanks! 🙂
Harder foods for an easier diet
A new study by Teo et al provides some simple and practical guidance regarding the influence of food texture on energy intake.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-hard-food/
What it means
Based on these findings (in combination with previous literature), we can identify several practical strategies to support higher satiety levels when dieting.
Incorporating some harder food textures into our diet may passively encourage slower eating rates.
And: We can probably maximize this effect by eating more mindfully, avoiding distractions while eating, and taking time to savor the aromas and flavors of our meal.
Other practical strategies include:
Structuring meals with high protein, fiber, and water content, low energy density, and plenty of unprocessed or minimally processed foods.
Avoiding hyperpalatable foods.
Advice from a now-departed friend re: how to follow a healthy diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
After a few bouts of food poisoning from rancidity, you’ll really start to lose weight!
The Karen Carpenter diet without the ipecac! 😃
Mob rule is what we need
Most Americans support using the popular vote and not the electoral college vote to select a president, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
About 63% of Americans support using the popular vote, compared to 35% who would rather keep the electoral college system.
Approval for the popular vote is up from January 2021, when 55% of Americans said they back the change; 43% supported keeping the electoral college at that time.
Opinions on the systems varied sharply according to political party affiliation. 80% of Democrats approve of moving to a popular vote system, while 42% of Republicans support the move. Though, many more Republicans support using the popular vote system now than after the 2016 election, when support was at 27%.
There is also an age divide: 7 out of 10 Americans from ages 18 to 29 support using the popular vote, compared to 56% in Americans over 65 years old.
Thank a teacher!
End this foolish pretense of bipartisan consensus. Subjugation of the unbelievers is what is required to bring us together. Ironfisted executive diktat will heal the nation and save the planet.
7 out of 10 Americans from ages 18 to 29 support using the popular vote
Because they do not understand American government.
Because they do not understand
American governmenthistory, human nature, organizational dynamics, or much of anything, really.The EC isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And soon enough the Dems will be the minority party and decrying the “mob rule” democracy of the Repubs.
They already are – too many states have Republican majorities.
Dems are just looking at it myopically that 2016 would’ve gone to Hilldog and 2000 to Gore. They expect the trend of the winning the popular vote will continue. I don’t think it will be a factor in the next couple elections even with the fortifications that they have planned. They have set themselves up well to be the minority party for the next decade. This next election will hand full control of the Dem party over to the proggies as Team Elephant cleans up and many “centrists” get pushed out.
Sit down, shut up and take it.
“We would ask Americans to remain peaceful in this time,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during the daily briefing when asked about angry Trump supporters.
Establishment media reports have raised fears about enraged Trump supporters declaring “war” on the “deep state” after the raid on the former president’s home, raising the alarm that they are preparing for political violence or even a second civil war.
But the White House made it clear President Joe Biden sternly opposed any violence.
“There is no place for political violence in this country,” Jean-Pierre said. “People have the right to raise their voices peacefully, but we would strongly condemn, as we have many times from here, the president has condemned, any efforts to plan violent behavior of any kind.”
How are those Antifa arrests coming along?
Now now, there’s no need to stir up ugly things from the past.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/52a145be-b483-4d16-9f1e-065e6b1b7bc5
President couldn’t be bothered to make that statement? lol what a fucking clown show.
Would you like be transported back in politics about 30 years?
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida replaced the female minister in charge of tackling the country’s falling birthrate and installed a man who sought to deepen his understanding of the issue by trying out a “pregnancy belly.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-10/japan-s-new-male-minister-for-birthrate-tried-pregnancy-belly
Something tells me it would be better than now.