279 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    I never had to make donuts.

    • SDF-7

      Just don’t ask SugarFree to glaze them.

  2. Count Potato

    “Biden inflation hits soldiers hard as U.S. Army recommends food stamps for troops”

    It’s a government job, they just can’t pay them more?

    • Rat on a train

      You don’t want enlisted feeling they are real people like officers.

      • AlexinCT

        You want them even more dependent on government so those woke officers have an easier time of doing their Zampolit role.

    • Gadfly

      IIRC, food-stamp qualification considers household size, while military pay only considers rank. So it is cheaper to do food stamps rather than hike pay, as food stamps will only cover a fraction of the soldiers while a pay raise would cover all.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If the Army/Marine Corps wanted you to have a family, they’d have issued you one.

  3. Atanarjuat

    The decision by Visa, the world’s largest payment processor, marks a victory for gun control activists, who claim that categorizing credit card purchases of firearms and ammunition separately could help detect suspicious sales and prevent potential mass shootings.

    There is no path toward this change preventing mass shootings.

    The recent revelations that the Biden regime pressured Twitter to censor Alex Berenson and others puts all “it’s a private company, bro” decisions like this under suspicion.

    • AlexinCT

      There is no path toward this change preventing mass shootings.

      That’s the line they know will make the seals just clap as ordered even though it is blatantly obvious it is bullshit.

    • juris imprudent

      Something, something within the state, something nothing against something

    • Sean

      Will Discover be the hold out? I see no mention of them.

    • Brawndo

      This won’t stop mass shootings because when the FBI gives some troubled loser a gun and ammo, they aren’t charging it to their VISA

    • Lackadaisical

      As soon as leftists started using that as a defense (BuT iTs PrivATe) you had to start being suspicious. More than usual even.

  4. AlexinCT

    Credit Card Giants to Categorize Gun-Related Sales Separately, NRA Condemns ‘Erosion of Rights’

    Remember how government isn’t supposed to censor media but then used social media to do it for them through the FBI? Well, this is government pawning off their wish of a gun owner DB to the private sector. It may take them a few years to put it together, but the private industry will finally produce that database of gun owners based on gun & ammo purchases. And have no doubt that the government plans to use that DB eventually when it needs to try to disarm people.

    • Not Adahn

      Operation Chokepoint 2: Choke Boogaloo Harder!

    • waffles

      This is so naked.

      What’s the definition of fascism?

      • juris imprudent

        Once it is a fait accompli there is no need for definitional pussyfooting.

      • SDF-7

        Purple-haired screecher: “Whatever I don’t like, DUH!”

  5. Not Adahn

    “Weekly obesity jab”

    So, every week someone comes over, and if you’re still a fattie they punch you in the stomach? That might work.

    • SDF-7

      Oh hell…. the verbal jabs of GlibFit weren’t prodding enough?

      • Lackadaisical

        I dunno, how much progress have you made?

        *Puts on boxing gloves*

  6. Grosspatzer

    Grabbed a co-worker, waved to my coffee and now I have a meeting with HR. Am I doing this wrong?

    • AlexinCT

      HR is there to protect the company from its employees. They do this by hiring a bunch of studies major idiots looking desperately to show senior management they are valuable employees. These two things combine to produce people that will make up shit to justify their existence at the expense of others…

      Beware of that.

      • AlexinCT

        And do not forget that the thing these studies majors hate the most is how much more money the geeks get paid than they do. There is not a group more hated by the useless HR people than the tech people they see as being more important and successful than they are based on compensation. I am not making that up. I have had at least 3 HR ladies tell me they felt people like me were over paid and not deserving of making the money I make (because it was more than they were paid).

      • Strange Brew

        This is currently a problem at my workplace. HR lady at our site is on the war path about paying overtime properly to the shift employees because they already make substantially more than her. She has complained out loud about the discrepancy of pay and then short changes the workers. A formal complaint has been filed and a law suit is pending. Not going to work out well for her.

      • AlexinCT

        I have been in a constant battle with HR, over pay, since a former boss of mine went against company policy and made HR match a raise I was offered from a different company when he fond out I was leaving to keep me there three years ago. Here is a lesson: HR will seek to punish both you and the manager that made them admit some employees are worth not losing. You may think you gained, but the long term effect is that you are going to have to fight them for compensation every year after that because they are trying to roll back what they were forced to correct.

      • Shpip

        “I add value to the company. You push paper. We are not the same.”

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, you say that out loud, and they will find someone to accuse you of going into a ladies room to take underskirt pics to get you fired, and even if you claim you were identifying as a woman that day, they will demand you go.

      • Rat on a train

        I am glad there are people to remind me which pride month it is and what events are scheduled for my area. What would I do without them?

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      OK I LOLed

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Not if you are aiming for that sexual harassment trainer position.

      • Lackadaisical

        Why not? He sounds like a pro at sexual harassment, I’m sure he could teach others how to do it.

  7. Grummun

    An obesity drug given in weekly jabs more than halves the risk of developing type 2 diabetes

    Around 4.5million people are living with type 2 diabetes in England, which costs the NHS more than £10billion a year.

    How long before it’s mandatory?

    • Atanarjuat

      15 jabs to flatten your curves.

      • DrOtto

        Tres hardest hit.

    • Drake

      Food shortages and pub closures should fix the problem.

  8. Shpip

    After the Bruen ruling, Bonta encouraged law enforcement officials in the state to deny firearm carry permits to individuals with a history of “hatred and racism”—whether expressed in social media posts or elsewhere, The Epoch Times reported.

    As long as we’re trampling on the second amendment, let’s give the first a few stomps, too.

    • rhywun

      New York is already there. That is exactly what they are doing now, as an end-run around the recent SCOTUS ruling.

  9. Count Potato

    “The panel didn’t provide reasons for its unanimous decision in its Sept. 7 order”

    FYTW?

    “Bonta is known for his opposition to Second Amendment rights.

    After the Bruen ruling, Bonta encouraged law enforcement officials in the state to deny firearm carry permits to individuals with a history of “hatred and racism”—whether expressed in social media posts or elsewhere, The Epoch Times reported.

    Days after the Bruen decision, Bonta’s office acknowledged that it leaked sensitive personal information, including the names and addresses of every concealed carry permit holder in the state. Some permit holders say they now fear for their lives.”

    CWAA

    • Rat on a train

      Days after the Bruen decision, Bonta’s office acknowledged that it leaked sensitive personal information, including the names and addresses of every concealed carry permit holder in the state. Some permit holders say they now fear for their lives.”
      I considered applying for a permit but don’t trust the government.

      • waffles

        I did it in PA, Northampton County recently. Took less than an hour of time and 20 bucks. Worth it for peace of mind, imo.

        I had one in Allegheny County I let expire from 2010. Never bothered in California.

        I don’t know if carrying is right for me, but I don’t want it to be illegal for me either.

  10. AlexinCT

    Republicans push to restrict mail-in voting ahead of November

    Why was this not done right after it became totally obvious this is one of the key ways the people that “fortified” the 2020 elections went about hiding the voter fraud campaign that landed Biden in the WH? I mean, shit, they KNEW this was the main strategy that allowed team blue to create tens of thousands of extra votes in the special places where team blue can cheat at will, and they are finally getting around to admitting this needs to be blocked?

    The only thing that makes sense is that some team read incumbent assholes were also using this loophole to pad their voter count. and they didn’t want to give that up. Cause people that see this level of cheating would not just sit by idly if they wanted to make the problem go away (or at least be easier to catch and punish).

    • juris imprudent

      Why should the dead be denied the vote?

      • AlexinCT

        And the woke their multiple votes?

        I got nothing…

    • SDF-7

      I have to confess that thought crossed my mind as well — but this is a case of “Bad headline”.

      First sentence of the article:

      The midterm elections are less than two months away, and Republicans have been working since the last presidential election to restrict access to mail-in voting.

      No idea if they’ve done enough, but they haven’t been sitting on their hands like that headline made it sound.

      • Lackadaisical

        Not enough imo. Here it seems like there is still unlimited mail in balloting.

      • R C Dean

        Junk mail voting is still the default in Repub-controlled Arizona. And the Soros Secretary of State who oversaw the 2020 election (which failed its audit) is now the Democrat candidate for governor.

    • straffinrun

      We are strongly against anybody using more than one dead person’s name on a ballot.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Joe Biden- friend of the working man.

    • PieInTheSky

      But which working man? There are millions out there, how do we know the one who is Joe’s friend?

      • SDF-7

        Hunter — Joe knows Hunter is always working it.

      • juris imprudent

        There is a difference between a working man and a working girl.

      • Cowboy

        Well, not factory workers in Detroit

        Also, love the “fact check”: he said it! But it was completely out of context! He was just saying that he doesnt work for you when it comes to disarming you and stripping you of your rights!

      • DrOtto

        And then in the same fact check claims his claimed gun grabbing stance is the result of further manipulated statements and that he really isn’t a gun grabber.

  12. rhywun

    Here’s how much money you need to afford rent in the 15 most expensive U.S. cities

    I can speak to #1 – the “average rent” listed is highly misleading due to the fact that only “luxury” residences are built anymore, because regulation.

    OK, they do more or less admit it –

    rental prices will likely skew higher than what most people pay, due to a small number of high-earning renters paying well above the median price

    What they really mean is that the great majority of rentals are far less than that figure.

    • Not Adahn

      If they’re using “median” correctly*, half the people should be paying less than that number.

      *I crack myself up.

    • straffinrun

      I see that all the time with the “Tokyo in top 5 expensive cities to live in the world!@
      Nope.

  13. Strange Brew

    “Obesity drug halves the risk of diabetes and can spark sufficient weight loss to treat range of issues, research suggests”
    Or you could just skip breakfast and eat in an 8 hour window. It’s not that complicated, but it does require discipline.

    • PieInTheSky

      Or you could just skip breakfast and eat in an 8 hour window – this only helps if it keeps calories low. There are over-fat OMAD people out there

      • Strange Brew

        It’s extremely difficult to eat an abundance of calories in an 8 hour window, but where’s there a will there’s a way. Self sabotage is a real phenomena.

      • PieInTheSky

        I knew someone who never ate till evening but then in a 3 hour window pizza chips beer and cake… and yes fat.

      • AlexinCT

        I like my alcohol drinking too much, and unfortunately that has calories as well…

      • DrOtto

        My spouse covers this for me. About the time my pants start getting loose, donut holes appear.

    • Not Adahn

      I’ll have to check, but I’m pretty sure self-discipline is racist.

      • AlexinCT

        Just like success is, yup…

      • Ted S.

        And punctuality.

      • AlexinCT

        Now you just acting white, homey…

      • straffinrun

        I spank myself vigorously for any racist thoughts I have.

  14. PieInTheSky

    Here’s how much money you need to afford rent in the 15 most expensive U.S. cities

    “The following rankings are the most expensive cities based on how much salary you’d need to keep rental costs at 30% of your overall income:”

    Should the % not be from after tax income? I assume there is some tax difference between Miami and NYC

    • AlexinCT

      The only way I would live in a US city was if they incarcerated me in one of them. Cities are shitholes, especially based on the people that run them usually, and the mentality of the idiots that are attracted to those shitholes…

      Fuck if I were to get a mental disorder or drug problem and end up homeless, I would still avoid a fucking city. Well, unless I completely lost my mind.

  15. Atanarjuat

    The Daily Mail link above had this on the sidebar, along with a bevy of articles about the children of celebrities: Prince Andrew is banned from wearing military uniform for ceremonial events during mourning for the Queen… but he WILL be permitted to don armed forces outfit at Westminster Hall vigil

    Harry and Meghan were also stripped of their titles after they quit royal duties and left the UK for California. The ensuing Megxit saga, which has seen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex make a series of astonishing allegations against The Firm

    They were stripped of their titles, so naturally the article continues to refer to them by their titles throughout. “Megxit” is an obnoxious term. The soldier’s costumes at the funeral are pretty cool, though.

    • PieInTheSky

      He should come with a hot 18 year old on each arm just to show he a gangster…

      • Not Adahn

        Oh please. Like Meghan lets him near any source of strange.

      • PieInTheSky

        Ehm what does Meghan have to do with it?

      • DEG

        I think Pie means Andrew.

      • AlexinCT

        LOL!

        Megan will be seen out in public with some diesel cock dudes running a train on her to show the power of womenz. That cuck will do what he is told by her and will never even dare to do some shit like what you suggest, cause that hag Megan will have his balls in her purse when she is out & about to make sure bitchass Harry knows his place..

      • PieInTheSky

        see my reply to Not Adahn

      • AlexinCT

        As I pointed out: Megan has Harry’s balls in her purse…

      • PieInTheSky

        I was not talking about Harry

      • AlexinCT

        Who were you talking about then? Megan?

      • PieInTheSky

        ” Prince Andrew is banned from wearing military uniform for ceremonial events”

        You know the guy with a taste for the pussy on the younger side

      • AlexinCT

        Why are you judging that guy, huh? He is just an early MAP adopter…

        And from what I hear, his wife has his balls in a purse too. Just like Camilla has Charles’ balls in hers…

        The only person with balls in that family is the one they have lying in the coffin.

      • Not Adahn

        I see that now. I blame the Daily Mail.

      • DEG

        I guess I should have kept reading before I commented.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        18 is a bit long in the tooth for him

    • Not Adahn

      Also, Biden will not be attending the funeral. Maybe he could send a set of his speeches on DVD to be buried with her instead.

      • Count Potato

        VHS

      • rhywun

        LaserDisc™️.

  16. PieInTheSky

    This may sound mean but visiting a medieval castle in Romania recently I encounter two US tourists that almost made me want to pull an In Bruge on them. Both women looked under 30 and ehm pushing 300 . Pink hair on one of them. Struggled walking up the less challenging stairway. Cut the tour short as the literally could not fit on the more narrow windy staircases. But it is sad really being young and not being able to do many things people should be able to do. There were some spanish and german tourists in their 70s that went everywhere

    • AlexinCT

      I bet that they broke some hostel bed that night trying to scissor playing their Daenerys vs. Daenerys “Game of Thrones” without dragon tails games…

      Not that there is anything wrong with that game or scissoring, but beds now seem to need maximum occupancy & weight limits like elevators do too…

    • rhywun

      literally could not fit on the more narrow windy staircases

      That’s… wow.

      • PieInTheSky

        to be fair in a way… very narrow… But still

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      You didn’t try deflating them by sucking their blood?

  17. Atanarjuat

    Eaglen said the answer is to increase pay and be more realistic about how inflation affects service members.

    “A better solution is to abandon rosy inflation assumptions, boost basic pay, and request a defense topline above inflation each year so forces and families have predictability and stability,” she said.

    Create trillions of dollars out of thin air at the Federal Reserve to pay for wars, leading to inflation, request an increased “defense” budget to account for said inflation, repeat.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I’ll have to check, but I’m pretty sure self-discipline is racist.

    Just like being on time and wearing clean socks.

  19. Atanarjuat

    Texas passed a law in 2021 requiring election workers to reject mail-in ballots or applications if voters use different means of ID from what they provided when registering to vote. The state’s March primary had a 12.4% rate in ballot rejections, compared to the 0.8% mail ballot rejection rate during the 2020 election, according to data from the secretary of state’s office.

    Dumb question: how do you use your ID with a mail-in ballot? Send a photocopy of it?

    • Banjos

      Unique ID number associated with it.

  20. PieInTheSky

    New Real Peer Review
    @RealPeerReview
    Wait, physical attractiveness was rated at WHAT age?

    https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1558584737974853632

    apparently 7 year old girls who are rated as not hot have a higher probability of gender dysphoria or something.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      So many questions:

      1) Did no one stop and think about that?
      2) Where did the funding come from?
      3) What’s the fucking point?

      • PieInTheSky

        1 – well apparently the students participated needed it for the credit and did not give a shit. The professors are engaged in Important Research so they went ahead.

  21. Shiny Nerfherder

    Good morning. Woke up to a password hack on one of our ancillary corporate email accounts. (support@nerfherders.com)

    We were pumping out hundreds of spam messages for Canadian pharmacies. Yay.

    The hosting service admonished me for not using strong enough passwords. I used their password auto-generation system.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am sure you had the password on a piece of paper in your pocket and you dropped it somewhere where there were hackers lurking

    • SDF-7

      “You fucked up — you trusted us.”

    • AlexinCT

      ONE SUPER SECRET WAY TO GROW YOUR C0CK YUGEEE!

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Pretty much.

        Glad I caught it before the domain got put on a blacklist.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote Judge Ryan Nelson, a Trump appointee. “Today, we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.

    “The Second Amendment protects the right of young adults to keep and bear arms, which includes the right to purchase them.”

    The Constitution is not a murder-suicide pact!

    • PieInTheSky

      The Constitution is not a murder-suicide pact! – the founders were not emo enough

  23. Atanarjuat

    In honor of yesterday:

    Chris Jericho @IAmJericho 11 Sep 2010
    Can u imagine terrorists tryin to hijack a plane that the WWE crew was on? Box cutters vs the craziest mofos on the planet? Game over jihad.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        No shit, really?

      • AlexinCT

        I had no problem with her living in a bubble and being wrong. She HATED that I would call her out and sooner than later be prove right. The issue is completely one sided,

      • Not Adahn

        I was very happy that one chick on Bumble put “I’m a huge fan of the WNBA. The work they are doing for social justice is wonderful!”

      • PieInTheSky

        but did she you know attend any games, pay for tickets, generate income for them etc

      • Atanarjuat

        Good point. “Huge fan” who doesn’t financially support them at all. Not Adahn, does your area have a WNBA team for her to be a fan of? And wouldn’t you say I’m a fan of [local team], not the league?

      • AlexinCT

        From what I have been told by the demographic most likely to attend/pay/watch WNBA games, the people that actually do that are the parents and real close family members, and others that like to watch bull daggers getting sweaty…

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, I was surprised that she was interested in guys.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m sure there is one here, I don’t know if I’m supposed to follow NYC or Boston teams. .

        I was living in Houston when the WNBA was started, and it was enlightening to see how transparently the league was trying to obtain market share. They put the “best” players on the NY and LA teams, and hyped the bejeezus out of both of them.

        Then Houston one the first x number of seasons and the completely unmentioned Cynthia Cooper kicked everyone’s asses. Oops.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Cynthia Lynne Cooper-Dyke’

        Wikipedia is a little too based, calling her a dyke.

    • Shpip

      “Incels were more likely to be not in education employment or training and live with their parents.”

      Huh. So being a young adult with no job or prospects who lives with mom and dad isn’t all that attractive to the ladies. Whoda thunk it?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    He should come with a hot 18 16 year old on each arm just to show he a gangster…

    In a shirt saying “Epstein did not kill himself.”

  25. SDF-7

    FOO-ordle roundup — better than yesterday, but blew a couple guesses stupidly in DuoTri. Ah well.

    Daily Duotrigordle #194
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 06:25.32
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 231
    5️⃣6️⃣
    7️⃣3️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 231
      4️⃣3️⃣
      6️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 231
      4️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 231
      2️⃣5️⃣
      8️⃣7️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 231
      6️⃣3️⃣
      5️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 231
      4️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 231
      5️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣

      Yuk, had to go to seed #3.

    • JG43

      Daily Quordle 231
      7️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com

  26. PieInTheSky

    Touring an Incredible 72 Acre Colorado Mountaintop Estate!
    151,298 views Sep 10, 2022 Today we are high up in the mountains outside of Vail, Colorado to tour this incredible mountaintop estate!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJfNpK7IM4A

    Property Address: 594 Winchester Trl., Edwards, CO 81632
    Specs: 5 Bedrooms, 7 Baths
    5,881 Sq ft interior space ( 546 sq m)
    72.34 Acres Lot (292,749 sq m)
    Listing Price: $7,775,000

    Now I don’t love the architecture, but I like this a lot more for 7 mill than the one in Aspen I linked a few days ago with 1.4 acres for 100 million

    • robc

      Aspen is more expensive than Vail.

      • PieInTheSky

        I mean I suppose but not really relevant to the fact that I did not much like the house in Aspen beyond the huge price

    • Tundra

      I love that.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Wake me when they get the new aircraft launch system working on the Ford.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s a Ford. It may require a few recalls before they get it working.

      • SDF-7

        ROAT wins the Internet today.

      • SDF-7

        We’ll see if PLAN can get it working on the Type-003 first I suppose.

    • PieInTheSky

      will it be ready in time to send a few to Ukraine?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        It will be ready for the post-nuclear apocalypse.

    • Not Adahn

      Could they at least put some shielding on the thermal exhaust port?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        They spent the money for that on Microsoft Windows licenses for the fire-control systems.

        “I’m sorry Captain, I can’t launch until the computer finishes updating and rebooting.”

      • rhywun

        Followed by the dreaded BSOYAATD*.

        *Blue Screen of You Are About to Die

      • Translucent Chum

        Could they at least put some shielding on the thermal exhaust port?

        We can have it done tomorrow if price is no option.

        Let’s get some quotes…

    • Atanarjuat

      Perhaps directed energy weapons are the future, if they can stop incoming missiles. If the simulations are correct, a swarm of missiles dooms most surface vessels and aircraft.

    • MikeS

      Did you see the so-far ID’s victims from the Memphis shooter?

      • MikeS

        Now you’re worried about what is clear or not?

        How about this one?

      • straffinrun

        I never said it was clear. I’d bet means to me 51% or so. And that he first shot an acquaintance that was black certainly could indicate he had a prior beef with him. Did he have a beef with the white victimsI that were total strangers? Doubt it. I admit that when I first saw the victims were black, I was regretting my “bet”. I back to 50/50 or so.

      • straffinrun

        BTW, Mike, I’d actually be happy to be wrong on this.

      • MikeS

        I know. My beef isn’t with you. You just keep jumping in when I try and get a response from Drake. 😉

      • MikeS

        It would be nice to hear from Drake on his “He’s shooting white people” claim, but I guess it is tough to defend the indefensible.

      • straffinrun

        Technically correct, but misleading. That’s true.

    • AlexinCT

      Science today is fucked up. Just ask the recent crop of idiots to define woman or tell you how many genders there are between doing their loyalty oaths to marxism at school.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        This is supposedly from an insider at the CDC, reported by Steve Kirsch.

        Everyone at the CDC is drinking the Kool-Aid. In other words, they truly believe the vaccines are safe and effective, just like my blue-pilled friends. Even the top people. How does this happen? It’s group-think. What happens to critical thinkers? They leave. I thought for sure people like Tom Shimabukuro and John Su knew what they were doing, but they are clueless. They are just like my academic doctor friends: they truly believe that vaccines are safe and I’m nuts. Wow. Just wow. I still don’t know (yet) how they can just brush off my point that they never point out the VAERS under-reporting factor during their presentations. However, it’s true they really believe there is no corruption and no need to protect whistleblowers.

        Rand looms large.

      • juris imprudent

        When only non-conformity is penalized, how can you expect any other result?

      • Count Potato

        I’ve read the opposite that people are leaving in droves.

        The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        That would seem to confirm the final result of an agency completely convinced of its own predetermined conclusions.

      • Gadfly

        Lysenkoism for the 21st century.

  27. Shpip

    They say a Dothraki Florida Man wedding without at least three deaths a father-son beatdown is considered a dull affair.

    • Ted S.

      What about a bride-bridesnaid beatdown?

      • Atanarjuat

        In that fight, my money is on the nymph presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

  28. Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

    Sheeeeeit. I used to pay $415/month in Sac.

    Of course, the house my wife and I owned is now worth 3 times what we paid.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Yet when the case returned to the same three-judge 9th Circuit panel for rehearing, the panel declined to immediately resolve the case, instead vacating its May 11 decision and remanding the case to the district court “for further proceedings consistent” with Bruen. The panel didn’t provide reasons for its unanimous decision in its Sept. 7 order (pdf).

    WTF?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I don’t see how it could have been anything other than outside pressure on the judges.

  30. db

    Biden inflation hits soldiers hard as U.S. Army recommends food stamps for troops

    That’s really going to helpnwith recruiting.

    • Shpip

      When you can make better scratch working at Chick-fil-A thirty hours a week, why bother enlisting in our woke military? All the chicken sammiches you can eat, plus you can save a little towards going to EMT school at the local juco.

      • Sean

        Free sex change?

      • db

        By VA surgeons using equipment and consumables provided by the lowest bidder on a government contract?

      • Lackadaisical

        Semi serious question.

        If a theoretical soldier had body dysmorphia for something else, could he get free penis’s enlargement surgery?

        It’s a medical procedure, after all.

    • Atanarjuat
    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Warner, that corrupt piece of shit. He only looks good in comparison Virginia’s other senator.

    • AlexinCT

      Russia Hoax 2 (or is it 3?), “The reboot of Trump-Putin!”…

    • Translucent Chum

      Jed Eckert : It is World War III down there. People are bein’ killed.

    • Grumbletarian

      And the feds got to MaL just in time, too! The nation is just lucky that nobody with evil intent would be able to sell nuclear secrets in less than twenty months.

  31. robc

    Daily Quordle 231
    3️⃣5️⃣
    6️⃣8️⃣

    • PieInTheSky

      well look who is too good to post in the quordle thread

  32. PieInTheSky

    Scientists have developed tattoos that change color in response to glucose, albumin, and pH levels. The new tech could let people with diabetes or kidney disease track and control their health without having to take frequent blood samples.

    https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1569106887295254528

    they should do one for blood alcohol: green drive, yellow drive if there are no cops around, red Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.

    • EvilSheldon

      *Standing Ovation*

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Coming soon to a bookshop near you

    A new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reportedly reveals former President Trump told aides following the 2020 presidential election that he would remain in the White House after President Biden’s inauguration.

    Haberman wrote that Trump seemed to recognize he had lost to Biden immediately following the election, but his mood later changed, according to CNN.

    “I’m just not going to leave,” Haberman writes Trump told one aide, the network reported.

    “We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?” Trump reportedly told another.

    Haberman’s book, titled “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” will be released early next month.

    Look for it in the “Fantasy” aisle.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Didn’t Haberman come out with some other bullshit claims recently?

    • Rat on a train

      My anonymous sources tell me Haberman is full of shit.

    • SDF-7

      And yet he did. And no one in a pique of frustration has said stuff like “They’ll have to carry me out” or anything.

      I mean, seriously… this is beyond weak sauce. So what if he did? What were his *actions*, dumbass donkeys? Are we 2 years into the Siege of the White House? No? Then STFU.

      • Rat on a train

        Trump could have refused to leave the White House. He could have declared himself dictator-for-life, started a nuclear war, worn white after Labor Day … The Democrats were justified in all they did to prevent what the imagined could have happened.

      • rhywun

        BUT HE HAS BAD THOUGHTS!

    • PieInTheSky

      13st is already too much for the vast majority of women. It is basically more than I want to be as a 182 cm male

      I’ve tried every diet. The weight comes off but just as quickly goes back on. – well you have not tried the right one, with the mindset that it is permanent not temporary.

      • Atanarjuat

        Yep, I’ve seen reports that the water is on and off in Kharkov as well.

      • Drake

        What the U.S. typically does on day 1 of a war – take down the enemy’s power grid. Iraq 1 and 2 we hit the power plants and dropped aluminum streamers on the transmission lines to short them out.

      • Homple

        It’s OK when we do it.

      • Drake

        It’s for their own good.

      • Not Adahn

        I didn’t want to. I felt I… owed it to them.

    • Rat on a train

      A construction worker who was cut in half after a forklift landed on him has shared devastating pictures of the moment the truck decapitated him.

      Uh, that word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

      • rhywun

        I remember the last “man cut in half” story.

        I am not clicking on another one, thx

      • Atanarjuat

        It’s the same one. He definitely picked his wife well.

    • Cowboy

      From a different article:

      He tried to jump from the falling forklift but his leg became trapped in the seat belt and he plummeted 50 feet before being pinned by the 2,200-pound vehicle.

      “I tried staying on top of the forklift as much as I could as it rolled, and then I was thrown from the forklift at the end of the hill once it finally landed,” the 19-year-old told the Sun. “My eyes were wide open and I saw the forklift come down and land on my hips and my right forearm.”

      This is why you never try to jump out and always wear your seatbelt. Hold on tight, brace yourself as you can, and ride the wave. Training and rules exist for a reason when it comes to industrial equipment.

    • Mojeaux

      *looks at XX nervously*

    • Not Adahn

      Was the forklift driver’s name Klaus?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Threats everywhere

    In the original blueprint for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security — and in the authorizing statute — was the establishment of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA). The vision was for HSARPA to perform necessary research and transform that research into necessary solutions to our homeland security challenges, based on the model of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has been critical to informing the best national security team in the world. DARPA is known for being visionary, first and foremost. It also is organized in a way that allows the team to have not only management roles, but also robust funding and flexibility in procurement to maximize their success. However, for a myriad of reasons, HSARPA has come nowhere close to emulating this model.

    Many think tanks, legislators, and former DHS employees have commented that HSARPA has lacked a particular focus. While biodefense must involve HHS and DOD components, DHS needs to be a significant part of this threat matrix team, and HSARPA should be considered a leader and a critical link.

    With its recently released “First Annual Report on Progress towards implementation of the American Pandemics Preparedness Plan,” the Biden administration cites among its priorities an increased investment in research and development dollars for biodefense. Additionally, Congress is currently considering ways to sharpen the mission of the office for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction at DHS. But — to date — there has been a lack of focus on HSARPA and the challenges within the Science and Technology Directorate.

    We really need to be doing more offshore gain of function research. For preparedness.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      WE NEED A THREAT MATRIX OVER HERE, STAT!

    • rhywun

      lacked a particular focus

      Get out!

  35. The Late P Brooks

    First and foremost, HSARPA should conduct a net mission assessment of HSARPA that evaluates the current threat landscape and provides direction, vision, and a new mission statement for HSARPA. Projects are funded but not in the context of meeting a specific strategy. Developing strategies for long-term professional management and procurement strategies, similar to DARPA, are also a key to future success. And of course, Congress will need to provide much more funding if we are to accomplish the goal that was intended by HSARPA by our DHS founders.

    Bureaucrat-speak for “Buy me a pony, Mommy. I promise I’ll take care of him.”

    Or we could… you know… disband DHS entirely and use its budget to pay down debt.

    • SDF-7

      But then who would defend the homeland? I mean, it isn’t like we have a department supposedly dedicated to our defense or anything, right? Just like whenever the IC fails it means we need to add *another* “clearinghouse to coordinate between the 17 agencies we already established weren’t doing their jobs”, We keep adding layers of administrators and wonder why nothing gets done…

      • Ownbestenemy

        We keep adding layers of administrators and wonder why nothing gets done…

        Working as intended.

  36. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Excellent song selection. Definitely moves the blood around!

  37. Atanarjuat

    A probabilistic approach to evaluate the likelihood of artificial genetic modification and its application to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

    A method to find a probability that a given bias of mutations occur naturally is proposed to test whether a newly detected virus is a product of natural evolution or artificial genetic modification. The probability is calculated based on the neutral theory of molecular evolution and binominal distribution of non-synonymous (N) and synonymous (S) mutations. Though most of the conventional analyses, including dN/dS analysis, assume that any kinds of point mutations from a nucleotide to another nucleotide occurs with the same probability, the proposed model takes into account the bias in mutations, where the equilibrium of mutations is considered to estimate the probability of each mutation. The proposed method is applied to evaluate whether the Omicron variant strain of SARS-CoV-2, whose spike protein includes 29 N mutations and only one S mutation, can emerge through natural evolution. The result of binomial test based on the proposed model shows that the bias of N/S mutations in the Omicron spike can occur with a probability of 1.6 x 10^(-3) or less. Even with the conventional model where the probabilities of any kinds of mutations are all equal, the strong N/S mutation bias in the Omicron spike can occur with a probability of 3.7 x 10^(-3), which means that the Omicron variant is highly likely a product of artificial genetic modification.

    Fauci created it

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Do they discount the possibility that both the Wuhan strain and the Omicron variant have a common ancestor that vastly predates the emergence of the official pandemic?

      • Atanarjuat

        Even then you would expect a lot more synonymous mutations than a single one, right? My understanding is the codon system is designed to absorb many synonymous mutations without much affecting the biochemical product.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        The idea of a white hat genetic hacker releasing modified strains to compete with the weaponized version may be even more frightening than the Wuhan bioweapon leak.

        This whole thing is totally out of control.

      • Tundra

        I’m getting increasingly comfortable with the idea of vaporizing every one of those sites.

      • Lackadaisical

        Only increasingly?

        The fact that it didn’t happened after about year one of the pandemic is a conviction of us all the next time they release something it might not be as limp dicked as COVID was.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I still consider DHS a new federal bureaucracy that needs to be able to adapt based on lessons learned. The concept of creating HSARPA was a good idea in 2001, but we need to do more as a country to make its goals a reality so that we can better protect the American people.

    Twenty fucking years.

    Pull the plug.

    • juris imprudent

      “If you’ll just give us one more chance”.

  39. Tundra

    Malice.

    Just perfect.

    • SDF-7

      Sorry — I don’t get it. Not plugged into the Twitter-verse enough to get the metahumor or something, I guess.

      • robc

        Same.

  40. The Other Kevin

    A few weeks ago Scott Adams decided he was going to take on ESG and destroy it with ridicule. Here’s the first one. You can see where he’s going with this. https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-09-12

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I wish him luck.

    • Not Adahn

      I thought you were supposed to destroy things with FACTS and LOGIC?

      • creech

        So did the Libertarian Party. Look how that has turned out.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    NYT:

    Credit Card Issuers Join the Fight to Limit Mass Shootings

    Magic incantations will save us, if we will only believe hard enough.

    • rhywun

      It’s a good thing criminals don’t have any other means to obtain a firearm.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Okay.

    I just had a flash vision of Prince Andrew showing up at the queen’s funeral in a palanquin propelled by ’30s Hollywood Movie style African natives in fur loincloths and feather headdresses.

    See you all in Hell.

  43. Brochettaward

    No one has pointed out the big FYTW argument made by the state of California regarding gun laws:

    The state argues the Bruen ruling was narrow and that the ban on sales of long guns to young adults was still constitutional.

    You see, Supreme Court precedent should be ignored by lower courts if the decision is decided narrowly, but only by those who can divine what is actually proper like Democrats.

  44. Count Potato

    Internal Sevice Errors are still blocking things.

    • Count Potato

      Server, whatever.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Threats everywhere

    Vice President Kamala Harris said anti-democratic forces that have emerged in the mainstream of American politics have made the nation weaker at home and undermined our legitimacy overseas, joining President Joe Biden in describing it as a major threat.

    Asked in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether the threats from within the U.S. pose a risk equal to or greater than what the nation faced 21 years ago on 9/11, Harris drew upon the oaths of office she had taken as a prosecutor, California’s attorney general, a senator and vice president to uphold the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic — and we don’t compare the two.”

    “It is very dangerous and, I think, very harmful. And it makes us weaker,” Harris said.

    Fuck you and the broom you rode in on.

    • The Other Kevin

      “anti-democratic forces”

      It’s always a narrative with these people. “Racism” and “white supremacism” didn’t seem to stick so let’s try calling everyone who disagrees with us a “threat to democracy”. I can only hope that people are starting to realize how transparent this is.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        There will always be a subset of people who buy into it hook, line, and sinker, that includes a majority of those working for the government.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Good foot soldiers, all.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I have an old acquaintance who works for the BLS. His father was an auditor for the Navy. He knows full well how corrupt the system is. For years, his father would find accounting irregularities at bases and nothing would ever happen to rectify it. Straight into the circular file it went.

        When Trump came into office, my acquaintance was terrified that they would be persecuted out of their jobs for political wrongthink, even though there was zero evidence of that actually happening. He and his wife have drunk the Kool-Aid and view the bureaucracy as waging a war against the MAGA people for its existence and that the bureaucracy has done absolutely nothing wrong and that we all need them to count the sheep in Montana every year.

      • juris imprudent

        Anti-democratic forces denied Harris a single delegate to the Democratic convention.

      • Brochettaward

        You know, it’s really a classic case of progjection. They know that they spent years trying to undermine the results of an election and basically staging a soft coup well before Trump did it. They know they fought tooth and nail to adopt laws and regulations in the last election that would be considered fraudulent if observed in a foreign election (it’s funny how Western Europe doesn’t have the same view on election laws as the Democrats). They know they conspired with private companies to silence dissenting opinions under the ridiculous guise of “disinformation.” I could go on all day here.

        Trump questioned the results of an election. We can debate the legitimacy of his complaints all day long. I think the people running elections in a lot of swing states basically said fuck the rules in a lot of regards. What happened in PA was especially egregious. They used covid as a backdrop to do a lot of it. Regardless, the Dems did it first and kept it up for 4 years.

        And there are a lot of Republicans who refused to get on board with Trump who sure are moving quickly to shut down the mass mail voting we saw in 2020…I wonder why that is…

  46. Sensei

    During a pretrial hearing last week, lawyers for Mr. Milton said they would argue their client acted in good faith and didn’t intend to defraud anyone. Mr. Milton might have used certain terms like “prototype,” “functional,” and “show car” differently than some investors understood them, defense lawyer Marc Mukasey said.

    “There is a linguistics aspect to this,” Mr. Mukasey said.

    Nikola Founder Faces Securities-Fraud Trial Over Promises About Electric Trucks

    Welcome to the new normal where words no longer have meaning.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.

    • juris imprudent

      But, but that business funding model is perfectly legitimate for internet-based business, right?

    • PieInTheSky

      that was the best laugh of the day

  47. The Late P Brooks

    But both Biden and Harris have also worked to paint a stark contrast with what they have described as fringe but maintain there are powerful forces within the GOP that threaten the nation’s very character.

    Harris defended Biden’s stark language about what he has called extremist “MAGA” Republicans, including describing them as “semi-fascist.”

    “Joe Biden has spent his entire career … working across the aisle, his whole career. Sometimes he’s been criticized for believing in bipartisanship, for believing in compromise, for believing in working across the aisle, finding common ground,” she said.

    “But there are moments in time when we have to also agree, all good people who care about our country, that there are those who right now are vividly not defending our democracy,” Harris added. “And I think we want that our commander in chief, that the president of the United States, will speak up and raise the alarm about what this means to our strength and our future, much less our integrity.

    Anybody who disagrees with us is an enemy of the state. That’s what DEMOCRACY! means.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The United States has become the trolley problem

    • creech

      Shit is working; Biden’s approval rating is starting to move up. Nov. can’t come fast enough.

  48. Ownbestenemy

    https://youtu.be/BTcpjhz8WSI?t=4634

    The Flying Penis had a premature ejectulation. Cool to watch the emergency systems work as intended though.

    • AlexinCT

      Cock rocket FTW!

    • Rat on a train

      Looks like an early Kerbal Space Program flight.

    • Lackadaisical

      That was an expensive 2 minutes. What went wrong?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Looks like failure during Max Q and main engine power down.

  49. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Regarding the gun purchases and credit card companies and whether or not they were pressured: They were.
    “Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and signed by over a dozen of their colleagues, urges the CEOs of Mastercard, American Express and Visa to back the creation of a merchant category code for gun and ammunition retailers — a measure the industry had initially resisted,”
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pressure-mounts-credit-card-companies-182200606.html

    Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the Biden Administration also weighed in behind the scenes in favor of this defacto gun registration scheme.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So how does that work for places that are generally sporting goods or outdoor goods like Bass Pro Shop? Do purchases of firearms/ammo have to be separate? Only at a certain register?

    • Rat on a train

      Buy from “Sporting Goods Stores” since it is merchant not product codes or pay cash.

  50. DEG

    The ruling also found that gun restrictions must be deeply rooted in American history if they are to survive constitutional scrutiny.

    “Deeply rooted”. A slightly narrower hole to drive a truck through.

    • juris imprudent

      3/5ths of a right.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Ax a expert

    As it turns out, royal experts believe that the real reason Princes William and Harry cannot fly together is because Buckingham Palace fears that, in a worst case scenario involving the death of both brothers, there would be a “constitutional crisis” to the line of succession. Royal author and constitutional expert Brian Hoey told The Sun that there is a “strong constitutional reason that William and Harry do not fly together — and that is to do with the line of succession.” Hoey said that while “events happened very quickly,” referring to the sudden and dramatic news of the queen’s ill health the morning of September 8, “They have had years to plan for all eventualities.” This, of course, includes the possibilities of tragic and deadly accidents.

    If William were to die, the heir apparent to the British throne would be his son, the 9-year-old Prince George. And in that scenario, the death of King Charles III, who is 73, would result in a child becoming king. According to The Washington Post, George would technically be allowed to become king, but he would not be able to carry out official duties until he became 18. As a result, Harry — the next adult in line to the throne after William — would act as regent until George’s 18th birthday. As a result, Buckingham Palace has to constantly plan ahead in order to avoid worst-case scenarios.

    By this logic, wouldn’t/shouldn’t they prohibit Chuckie and Will from flying on the same plane together?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Who would cut the ribbon at the new fish and chips place?

    • Rat on a train

      I imagine the real fear is if you lose Charles, William and Harry the next adult in line to act as regent would be Andrew.

    • creech

      So Georgie would be competent to decide to have his man bits chopped off, but not competent to carry a bunch of flower and shake hands at the new Council Supermarket opening?

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Buy from “Sporting Goods Stores” since it is merchant not product codes or pay cash.

    And when independent dedicated full service guns stores have been mostly run off, and ESG investor activists have pressured the chains to drop guns, like like Dick’s and Walmart, then what?

    We’ll be buying guns out of the trunks of cars?

    • Rat on a train

      That is the cash option. The last few times I went to a gun store for ammunition I paid cash. I didn’t want the credit card tracking even when it was categorized as general merchandise.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We’ll be buying guns out of the trunks of cars?

      We can only hope for a car trunk loophole

      • Rat on a train

        If certain people have their way we will be lucky to have a family transfer exemption. And you can forget about boating accidents.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Not reporting a lost/stolen firearm will be a felony.

  53. Rat on a train

    Virginia resident creates financial literacy programs for HBCU students

    The organization, founded in 1998, provides financial literacy training to college students at HBCUs where many students are first-generation college students.

    That should be taught in high school so students know not to go into debt for useless degrees.

    • db

      Engines chilling