In space, no one can hear you whinge about my links.
“Just because you had the cards didn’t mean you could simply go out and buy the product.”
“M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin trailer brings on a Dave Bautista apocalypse”
This one goes out to Mr. Riven. Six years already on Sunday.
The game store as babysitter has been a thing for a while. Here’s one way to deal with it.
When I was in the book biz we had similar problems but not all day. Some adult non-customers thought we were a good place to hang out and read, complained about a lack of chairs and a coffee bar. Worst was the person that came to the register, sorted through the 20 books they were carrying and pick out 2-3 to buy and leave the rest on the counter.
Fortunately most customers were respectful and courteous.
Dammit, Neph. Now I’ve spent half an hour reading the adventures of Gord. If Mrs. Animal wasn’t sending me out for chores I’d still be reading.
I leave mine in the Lego store.
In my head, I was asking, “When did Gygax’s Gord the Rogue buy a bookstore?”
Then I caught on.
Accelerating their descent into delusion and madness
A new proposal passed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) cements the state as the first to ban natural gas heaters and furnaces.
The decision, which was passed unanimously, aims to phase out sales of the space heater and water heater appliances by 2030.
The commitment is part of a broader range of environmental efforts passed by the board this week to meet the federal 70 parts per billion, 8-hour ozone standard over the next 15 years.
“While this strategy will clean the air for all Californians, it will also lead to reduced emissions in the many low-income and disadvantaged communities that experience greater levels of persistent air pollution,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph in a statement.
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The new regulations will rely on adoption of heat pump technologies, which are being sold to electrify new and existing homes.
70 parts per billion.
Which will, in turn, be forced on the rest of the US.
Fuck
Off
I’m very glad I got a new 95% natural gas furnace a couple years back. It was a nice upgrade from the one that was almost as old as the house.
I hope that, in 10 years, your Public Utilities Commission doesn’t order the shutdown of the natural gas supply feeding it.
Not likely here in Ohio. Most of the houses use natural gas for heating and stoves.
Heat pumps don’t work well in the northern states, and useresistance heat for backup, very expensive.
They don’t work well anywhere the temperature varies more than 20 degrees.
Are you telling me that there are other climates besides coastal California??
Well sure, but none that matter.
They don’t work well anywhere the temperature varies more than 20 degrees.
As an engineer uncle of mine living in the interior of British Columbia could attest to (quite ruefully, I might add). Mind you, he also chose to install the system “open-loop,” which was another bad call.
This is what Our Democracy looks like.
I wonder how those most affected minorities feel about having to buy new appliances and central heating?
And paying higher bills for cooking and heating.
Oh, thats easy, just make a new subsidy program. Then it’s “vote for me unless you want those republicans to take away your cheap appliances! They want you to starve and freeze!”
And just think of all the money it makes for your and your well connected buddies! All for doing those poor people a favor.
“Experience keeps a dear school but a fool will learn in no other”
…Ben Franklin (I read anyway)
Much as I hate to disagree with the esteemed Mr. Franklin, I’d argue that a fool won’t learn at all.
In fact, at one point he tells me that a theoretical economist is a contradiction in terms, since economists have to deal with reality.
Paul Krugman hardest hit.
Austrian economists would probably call themselves more theoretical than others.
Yes, especially Hoppe, though I couldn’t help but dig on Krugman.
BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha
I’m always interested in what the distribution of gaming hardware looks like. What GPUs and CPUs are most Steam users running.
I’ll also drop this bit of outsourcing irony here. It’s actually delaying delivery because shipping it omitted or with a crappy 3D placeholder is brand damaging. While having no inventory has no impact on brand perception…
Ford’s Latest Supply-Chain Snarl: Not Enough Blue Oval Badges
I think not having inventory is spun at the dealership into “we’re selling everything as it gets here we’re so popular.”
My feeling is Ford advertises something like a base F150 Lightning at $39k does the whole marketing dog and pony show, TV, YouTube and “Influencers”.
Joe Blow goes to the dealership finds out Ford as made exactly zero of those stripped models and Fuck Your Family Ford will reluctantly sell you the one fully loaded Lightning it has on allocation for +$25k over the $55k sticker.
He doesn’t want know about shortages, state dealer franchise laws or any of the other issues. He just thinks Ford and their dealers suck.
He isn’t wrong.
* one at this price
Today, on Adventures in Sticker Shock, we visit Home Depot, where we discover 6/2 cable (which is what I probably should use to bring 220V power to my shop for the air compressor and welder) costs about $3/foot.
Eek.
I complained when it was a buck a foot and I had to run 3 strands. I wired for 220, then never used it, but ready for the next owner, at some point.
Not yet though
Shit, I need about 100 feet of it in the next month or so.
I have to run some for my plasma table. I was going to decide tomorrow whether to go buy a roll to make one uninterrupted run, or if I’d take two short lengths I already have and use a junction box along the run. $3/foot just made up my mind.
Will you ever have need to split the circuit into two 120V supplies?
When I wired my Tesla outlet in the garage I could do either a 6-50 or 14-50 which includes the neutral. I broke down and used 6/3 and the 14-50 for the flexibility it gives.
Like the others mention, you’ll probably need 120V at some point. Run the 3-wire version.
Also, you’re going to need a ground. so either 6-3 W/G or 6-3 without and drive a ground stake.
Two words: Child. Abandonment.
Adverse possession rules apply?
Ugh.
After a wonderful time at the game last night (putting both the
IndiansGuardians and Browns at the top of their division), I’m back in the saddle to run the Zoom/Happy Hour/Challenge room tonight. It’ll be started at 20:00 Eastern.Challenge room you ask? I managed to get my hands on the One Chip Challenge box yesterday.
When are they going to rename the Browns to something less offensive?
I did that with my friend T! We had to eat it and have a stare down
Bust out and dust off your “Dow 30,000!” T-shirts and hats, people. The Dow closes at 29,590 today.
Why do I post this ranking of GDP per capita, with Denmark highlighted, you ask?
Because the Brandon administration is going under the table where Trump went out in the open. The Brandon administration is using your tax $ to set up a “foreign aid” presence in Greenland.
Also note that Greenland on its own is #16 in per capita GDP.
https://datacommons.org/ranking/Amount_EconomicActivity_GrossDomesticProduction_Nominal_PerCapita/Country/?h=country%2FDNK&unit=%24
“Foreign aid” is nothing except a grift for politicians. Where and why it goes is irrelevant.
IT’S THE WEEKEEENNNDDDD
*tears off pants, runs out door*
Plot twist, Mustang was working from home.
Why would I have pants on at home?
to set up the plot twist
Well played.
I don’t see any stories about guns today, but this still holds true.
“Six years already on Sunday.”
Congrats! Our 6-y anniversary was about 2 months ago.
Crash.
How many quarters of contraction = official depression? We are about to hit 3 in a row.
Depression? They’re still not admitting we’re in a recession. They’ll redefine depression to be 10 years of negative growth.
Or one quarter under a Republican administration.
Well yes, you see the definition of words can be fluid.
And they will stand by their nonpartisan record.
Only Republicans are partisan.
Fact Checkers confirm that it will be a depression if the GOP takes the Senate and/or the House.
New Jersey schools must teach middle schoolers about anal sex, pregnancy options or risk ‘disciplinary action’
1970’s MOST famous Game Show moment
I know what this is. Woopie!
https://youtu.be/weaiZSPXy9Y?t=602
That’s only because this happened in the 1980s.
GOP needs to run only one ad for remainder of the campaign: “Look at your 9/30 401k statement. Who you gonna vote for?”
You know those deplorables dont know what a 401(k) is or have retirement savings.
With that in mind, Christmas is coming.
Gift Idea.
Is “Super Cracker” anything like “Superstraight”?
I was hoping to find “Super Honky” but thats the best I could do.
Maybe “White Fly”?
The Socialists. They won’t leave you impoverished like those filthy capitalists are doing.
Congrats to you and the Mr, Riven!
Well done!
Congratulations! When do you plan to kill him?
What? Its always the wife.
Will you ever have need to split the circuit into two 120V supplies?
There is 110 now, but no 220. I will take the 220 from the soon-to-be-abandoned well and run it to the shop. Underground, eventually, but for now, it’s going to be a really big extension cord).
20 years later, the extension cord remains.
GET OUT OF MY GARAGE!
We only remove it when OSHA comes around
“Foreign aid” is nothing except a grift for politicians. Where and why it goes is irrelevant.
Something something money from poor people in rich countries for rich people in poor countries.
That’s not quite right. Some of it goes to rich people in rich countries too.
Like Greenland
20 years later, the extension cord remains.
I’ll take it with me when I move, if it hasn’t been buried by then.
Old buddy of mine painted some custom boards for me. This one is a Voodoo Glow Skull board…
https://pasteboard.co/AFjQFylLhgHT.jpg
Nice!
I’ll have to take a picture of some of the custom decks a local brewery has hanging up in them. The brewery has a heavy ska-punk influence and theme.
She made me a personal Hosoi board straight out of ’84. Time to go break an ankle!
’84? Rob Roskcopp deck with Tracker trucks rolling on Bones!
Yepper. That one is personalized with even rail guards
Break your ankle punk!
Perfect
Nice
I’m not a sk8tr boi, but that looks sick. Or bitchin’. Or whatever the kids say these days.
‘Based’. the kids are saying ‘Based’
Oh and ‘Slaps’ the kids are also saying that something ‘Slaps’
Dammit. I almost said “slaps”. A 30-something at work says it ironically sometimes. We were just laughing about it on Thursday.
Beast.
Or was that two years ago?
Anyone else finally get their tax refund ? Mine finally came (filed in March) and the dolts at the IRS didn’t roll over the portion I clearly wanted to carry to 2022 taxes.
Now I’ve got to send them $$ or face possible penalty next year. When my income was relatively stable and money market or certificate rates were north of .05%, I’d always make the refund as small as possible. Now, I never know what the coming year will be because my financial advisor churns gains and losing stocks all the time and it is safer to go into the next year with a cushion from the prior year. Even with an MBA in Accounting and Finance, I find it almost incomprehensible to follow the IRS instructions and tax code. I have no idea how the average public school taught taxpayer gets it done without heading to H&R Block or Liberty. Oh for a flat tax or none at all.
I too have an MBA (and a B.A. in Econ.), and tax codes flummox me. I pay a specialized accountant good money every year to Make It Go Away.
I went through the instruction booklet and Schedule C line by line with a fine-toothed comb. If I come across an unusual circumstance, I generally know which form it should go on (1040, Schedule A, or Schedule C) and start going through those instruction booklets until I find what I’m looking for. Google has helped, but I still will consult the booklet if I am at a loss.
That said, I almost missed something one year and my tax attorney friend was listening to me bitch about the tax hit I was going to take when my husband won the Prius. She pointed me to a credit for hybrid vehicles that year. I wouldn’t have thought to look for something like that, Turbo Tax wouldn’t have thought the ask me the question, and it saved me a lot of money.
Otherwise, I just use TurboTax because our finances are mostly the same every year.
I filed an extension in April. I still haven’t done them.
I use “Express1040” – they ask everything.
My life is very simple so I answer “No” to almost every question but I still can’t be bothered to try to figure out even my dead-simple taxes.
Sorry, but I got my refund at the end of March, not long after I e-filed.
I screwed up withholding, so I’ve gotten a federal refund but owed the state the past several years. Those numbers should be closer to zero this year (smaller federal refund, less owed to the state).
I have no idea how the average public school taught taxpayer gets it done without heading to H&R Block or Liberty
The average taxpayer has no understanding of the relationship between the withholding from their paycheck and their tax refund. The employer simply overwithholds per the IRS guidance and the taxpayer gets a nice surprise gift from Uncle Sam once a year.
I assume creating this disconnect for taxpayers through employer withholding was intentional. The entire federal government would collapse almost immediately if they actually had to rely on the taxpayers to understand the tax code and remit their rapacious-level taxes instead of strong-arming employers to do it.
Yup. When it comes to payroll taxes, employers are involuntary, uncompensated servants of the government. There’s a term for that….if only I could remember what that word was… 🤔
Likewise financial institutions when it comes to the Wars on Drugs & Terror, but that’s another story.
The government gets a steady stream of revenue instead of a lump sum. Taxpayers don’t feel the shock they would if they had to write a check once a year.
…and many taxpayers think it’s a great treat when they get their refund many months after they earned the money that was sent off to the government. 🙄
The government thanks you for the interest free loan.
The average taxpayer has no understanding of the relationship between the withholding from their paycheck and their tax refund.
When the IRS changed withholding rates in line with the Trump-era tax brackets, news outlets ran a lot of stores about people thinking they were getting shafted because they were getting smaller refunds. The media, of course, did nothing to disabuse people of this notion.
Looking at my past returns, I made $3K more in 2018 (first year of the new tax rates) than I did in 2017, and paid $16 less in taxes. Under the old tax rates, I would have paid a good $400 more.
I’m roughly in the same boat. I lost the SALT deduction, which is a big deal in California, but the higher standard deduction and lower marginal rates more than compensated.
I’m close to the bottom of the economic ladder, so my situation also puts pay to the lie that these were only tax cuts for the rich.
Depraved fanaticism
Climate activists are calling on President Biden to take steps to fire David Malpass, the head of the World Bank, after he publicly waffled on whether he believes that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are causing climate change, saying “I’m not a scientist.”
Malpass made the comments after former vice president and noted climate activist Al Gore called him a “climate denier” at a New York Times event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly earlier this week.
Malpass subsequently tried to clean up his comments, telling Politico on Friday that it was a “poorly chosen line.” Malpass defended the bank’s investments and said he would not resign.
That did little to silence the calls for his removal.
“We need climate leaders in the World Bank, we need climate leaders in the Federal Reserve, we need climate leaders in every high aspect of office,” said Thanu Yakupitiyage, a spokesperson for 350.org, an anti-fossil fuel climate advocacy group.
“If he’s not going to be the one who really pushes and pressures the World Bank in a new direction which really works on climate initiatives, then he has to go,” Yakupitiyage said.
I think the world could struggle along quite nicely without the World Bank, but this rabid insanity is really beginning to worry me. Why don’t they just admit they want wholesale slaughter of humans? I’m surprised they’re not rooting for Putin to make a nuclear strike.
…but it’s totes cool for an SC nominee to say she’s unable to define a woman because she’s not a biologist.
Now you get it, citizen!
But, if he admitted it, he could sing “We Are The World”!
GAAAAAAH! At least Ted’S conceals his music bombs behind links so you can avoid them if you’re wary! ::stabs knitting needles in ears, to no avail::
#metoo
These people need to be stopped, and yesterday.
The government gets a steady stream of revenue instead of a lump sum. Taxpayers don’t feel the shock they would if they had to write a check once a year.
People should have to write a check to the IRS every month, just like rent and utilities. They might take a different view.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://youtu.be/MljpuGu3yok
Malpass’ climate controversy quickly reached top White House officials, who were in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly. One senior administration official told reporters that it “obviously raises eyebrows.”
On Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre directly criticized Malpass and the bank — and would not say whether President Biden retains confidence in Malpass’ leadership.
“We disagree with the comments made by President Malpass,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “We expect the World Bank to be a global leader of climate ambition and mobilization of significantly more climate finance for developing countries,” she said, noting the Treasury Department “has and will continue to make that clear.”
We’re fucked.We won the War on Running With Scissors, and this is what it got us.
A functioning opposition could easily craft a campaign commercial showing exactly where that “climate finance for developing countries” ends up. Oh well.
The word salad never ends with these people.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is a school, not a circus.’ Students join protestors outside school where trans teacher with oversize prosthetic breasts as authorities consider introducing DRESS CODE to force her to tone down her look”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11243855/School-board-implement-dress-code-force-trans-teacher-ditch-prosthetic-breasts.html
Were things ever this retarded before?
Only right before the collapses
Was Weimar Germany really this bad? Romanov Russia?
Sheesh. How old are we?
Not sure about Russia, but Weimar was pretty out there.
Yes.
And Rome was probably worse. The last great Roman General – Stilicho – was executed because their deep state thought he was too powerful. A month later Alaric’s army was blockading Rome and had to be paid off to go away. Two years later Alaric came back and sacked Rome anyway.
I have to wonder if it isn’t some elaborate prank.
Even so, the school is nuts for defending it.
I’ve read that if the school doesn’t defend it, they’re going to get taken to Ontario’s human rights court.
Of course, the kids’ right of conscience not to be forced into repeating an obvious lie is being ignored. Or, as British blogger David Thompson titled his post on the case, You Will Practise Not Noticing. (That link goes to a particularly salient part of the comments, including links to past posts showing closely-related behavior.)
“I’ve read that if the school doesn’t defend it, they’re going to get taken to Ontario’s human rights court.”
In a sane world, they would simply throw out the case.
He should simply be fired for inappropriate conduct, along with much of the school and district administration.
Public school in itself is inappropriate conduct.
More so every day, without end it seems.
Case in point
Looks like they have themselves a little cult
Part of me feels sorry for how their elders have brainwashed them.
I wish she had been my teacher when I was in high school. Woulda been able to break out the “over the shoulder boulder holder” and snapper her bra.
Good grief.
Fire it NOW. No explanation needed.
If South Park did this ten years ago, people would have thought it was too much.
Well…they did sorta
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Diane_Choksondik
Those are just old saggy tiddies.
Mournful tits.
Congrats, Riven and Mr Riven. I avoided the seven year itch by embracing bitter resignation.
I just gobbled down some shrimp cocktail. Quite a feast.
I wonder if Robot Cantina has a new viddy up.
Enough with the euphemisms.
I’d still vote against it.
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1571629917372039168