Yesterday at a department event, I spent a few minutes slumming it by sitting at a table with the grad students, who gave me a lot of insights into the reality of the engineering and science side of our little school. I asked about a professor at our little school whom I’ve been looking at collaborating with, who is now legend. Apparently, he started bringing his dog to class with him, with the excuse, “She’s an emotional support animal.” Now our little school always wants to be at the cutting edge of progressivism and sensitivity, so of course they would make that accommodation. So no problem for the prof and his dog.
That’s when things took… a turn. It transpires that the emotional support dog has a phobia about people she doesn’t know. A whole classroom of people she didn’t know really got her upset: barking, whining, growling, howling. The next class, the professor had TWO dogs. Yes, the second dog was the emotional support dog for the emotional support dog.
God, I love living here.
Speaking of dogs all the way down, there are a few birthdays today, including one of (((us))) whose work lives on at nearly all college campuses; a weird example of a celebrity musician being an incel; a fascinating guy who blurred scientific boundaries; another one of (((us))) whose work memorably lives on; a guy whose… diction was… famous for random… pauses; a guy who slept with Elizabeth Montgomery; a guy whom everyone thought he was good, but he was just a pretender; a Dr. Phil wannabe (at least Dr. Phil’s money) and might be one of us; and a guy who don’t play that.
As they say in India, let’s do the needful and get to Links.
So the insane waste of money and resources will drag on even longer.
I’m sure the apartheid government gave them a fair trial.
Unfortunately, he didn’t land on a My Pillow.
“Taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.”
I can’t remember if I posted this phenomenal cover of a great John Hartford tune (though that’s redundant), so if I did, too bad, here it is again. Molly Tuttle just OWNS this song.
I wake up and you’ve dropped a new set of links already? Who gets up that early?
OMWC.
“The next class, the professor had TWO dogs. Yes, the second dog was the emotional support dog for the emotional support dog.”
Now you’re just making shit up.
I completely believe it.
I wish I were. Then again, there’s so much material here to work with. I told the other story about this prof in Zoom last night, so please trust me that the dog story is only the second weirdest thing I heard yesterday.
Unless there’s a massive gulf in weirdness between the dog story and the weirdest thing you heard, things sound pretty tame.
I’m pretty sure I’m the Little Black Cat’s emotional support human. 🙄 🐱👤 Trying to figure out how to parlay that into permission to work from home…even though that would involve forwarding all the CU’s mail to my house, among other inconveniences…
PO Box. Then again you have to collect that daily,
“The latest package presented by the German government is the third since Scholz took office in late 2021 to help consumers and companies cope with rapid inflation. The total relief now stands at more than 95 billion euros and will lead to “significant additional expenditures in the federal budget,” the government said on Sunday.
The figure of 65 billion euros the government unveiled Sunday to deal with the crisis includes contributions from the federal government, states and municipalities. The federal component of the latest plan is about 40 billion euros, a person familiar with the matter said earlier.”
Worst Chancellor ever.
He just needed to tell the US State Department to fuck off. Germany would still be a fiscal time bomb, but it wouldn’t be exploding right now.
Because inflation isn’t “rapid” enough.
a guy whom everyone thought he was good, but he was just a pretender;
Freddie Mercury?
Michael T. Weiss
Duh.
The Platters
“We’re not going to launch until it’s right,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
I had totally missed that Biden nominated Nelson to lead NASA. Not someone with a science or engineering or even a management background, but a lifelong politician. Kinda fits with the theme of the rest of the links, looting the corpse of our collapsing empire.
Notice how CNN won’t shut up about this NASA launch, but barely mentions, if at all, when Space X does something?
I don’t notice a darn thing CNN does or does not do.
That tone came out wrong.
Sorry.
This segment brought to you by Boeing.
Bill Nelson, the former Insurance Commissioner for the State of Florida?!? Why?
l0b1e!!! There you are! Good morning! 😃
Howdy GT! I hope you and TT are doing well. All is well here. I spend my time working at the café or working on our house, so haven’t had time for Glibbing but I miss y’all. It sure is a great deal more fun, sipping coffe and interacting with you fine folk than ripping out cat-urine soaked carpet and linoleum only to discover urine soaked asbestos underneath.
Ugh. Yeah, I’m convinced cat urine has more “staying power” than nuclear waste.
Plus, we’re dog-sitting a 3-legged chihuahua for one of the café employees. WebDom’s cat is terrified of it. He peed all over the blankets and floor because he was afraid of running the gauntlet to his litterbox. Sigh…
including one of (((us))) whose work lives on at nearly all college campuses
I was hoping for this Zalman.
However, there are state franchise laws across the country that protect independent dealerships — and these laws have made it difficult to disrupt the dealership system and offer consumers potentially a better way of buying a vehicle.
A V8 political engine
To be fair to dealerships, they do provide important services. They offer a distribution and service network, which is vital to both manufacturers and car buyers. They offer buyers the ability to check out, test drive, and learn about cars at their facilities, which really do cost a lot when it comes to real estate, inventory, and manpower. If the manufacturer recalls something, there are thousands of local dealerships across the nation there to fix the problem. They also, of course, create tons of jobs in local communities.
Sure it screws consumers, but jobz! Believe it or not, this isn’t peak NPR. The last time I listened to NPR on purpose — and I am not making this up — it was a reading of a Manhattan woman’s poetry for her dog. *click*
If it’s so great, then they’ll survive without the regulatory mandate.
Poetry for a dog
The nice thing about a car is that it’s got so many windows for the glaziers to replace…
LOL.
As far I’ve been able to research the laws against direct sales generally bipartisan. I’ve found that a bit surprising as small business protection like this is usually a country club Republican sort of thing.
Tesla with one hand in our pockets did do some good. One of the things that it did was get the camel’s nose under the tent in breaking dealer franchise laws. It was only able to do this because none of the other manufacturers offered any electric products of any kind of ability and variety. They are still restricted and in something like a third of the states still prohibited.
For example here in NJ I think they are restricted to 5 or 8 actual facilities that can repair cars.
a Texas car dealer can be open on Saturday or Sunday, but not both
your weekly reminder that Texas is a poser of a state, not free…indeed, the very cornucopia of hopeless instruments to manage one’s neighbors for most of the the same trite, snotty reasons as any other state
And CarMax sued to try and end the practice (one our many lingering “blue laws”) and TX Supreme court ruled in the state’s favor.
So true. Don’t forget the liquor laws too. Or when they “administratively” banned dune buggies for bo good reason. We rank about the midway point on the free state list. We are most certainly not at the top, or even in the top quarter.
Freedom is both relative and subjective. Where I live we have legal weed, legal hookers, some of the loosest alcohol restrictions in the country, legal gambling, open carry, we can keep exotic pets, no emissions testing, so we can drive around in half century old piece of shit cars belching raw gas fumes, or better still, just drive our ORVs on the county roads and highways, because that’s legal too. No state income tax. Certainly no nefarious Baptists to repress us. On paper, it just doesn’t get too much more “free” than we are. But I can tell you this: Come September 2024 when we’re embroiled in another international pandemic necessitating 24 months of house arrest, mandatory gas masks outdoors, and all-mail-in balloting for 90 days preceding and following election day again, I’m hoping I find myself in an authoritarian theocratic hell hole like Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, maybe even Tennessee. Once the novelty of being free to do things you’ll probably never actually do wears off, there are practical tradeoffs that make a much larger difference in your day to day life. Not being able to purchase a car from a dealership on Sunday on account of repressive Baptists who think they might save the non-existent soul of a used car salesman will probably never be something that affects my life. Being chased through the front of a grocery store by some screeching minimum wage cunt because I temporarily had my paper mask pulled down to my chin while talking to my cancer-stricken mother on the phone to ask her a question so that I could get her weekly groceries actually happened and actually did affect my life. Everyone’s different, of course, so the liberties that actually matter to each person are going to vary.
Cars are, of course, expensive, especially with the supply chain fiasco creating shortages. But it’s more than that. Shopping for cars is not like shopping for most other products. Unlike, say, computers or refrigerators, cars are typically not sold for one standard price. Ten people could go into a dealership and each pay a wildly different amount to buy the same exact vehicle. – not in Europe here if you know to haggle you get a small discount but nothing too significant
Not all dealerships engage in this pricing strategy, but many do it aggressively, often with snake oil-style salesmanship, deceptive marketing tactics, hidden fees, and overpriced add-ons, like floor mats, alarm systems, or anti-rust undercoating. Some consumers call the outfits that employ these tactics “stealerships.” – this I suppose is why one shops around… When I buy whisky I always check the price at 3-4 stores and get the best deal
But with supply-chain problems creating shortages of new vehicles recently, many dealerships have been charging much more than MSRP. Meanwhile, the dealerships that don’t add markups to MSRP are seeing their inventory depleted quickly, and often have wait times of months or even years for coveted vehicles. – I mean this is economic 101 you put a small price you get a shortage of the goods
I enjoy new car shopping. At least pre Covid I did.
I’m planning on getting something new in the next year. If they’re not gonna cut me a good deal, I’m walking away. Someone will to make the sale.
I hate dealing with people. Haggling just pushes all my buttons.
I, too, hate haggling. It’s almost unimaginable just how infinitely stupid I was to major in business management given my temperament.
I haven’t bought a car/truck for a long time but in the before years I liked dealing, I knew they wanted to maximize price while my goals were different. I had learned a lot from my old boss and watching him buy/rent stuff.
I learned that separating the trade-in from the purchase was important, making the dealer (the salesman) become the buyer, after the negotiations for the new vehicle were done. Also the willingness to ‘walk’ before handshakes were done. If you’re looking at a new vehicle, come in with your demands rather than be persuaded to buy something from inventory that isn’t exactly what you wanted..
A new car salesman ( a woman) friend said the worst customers were Asians, they would shop and shop dealers for weeks, discussing every detail, back and forth, until the sales people were worn down and would finally deal to get rid of them.
Well, you cleared up a mystery for us yesterday. Now we know where the sign came from!
…A dessert topping and a floor wax…
Hey, one time you surprised me, too! And thanks for that.
Good car buyers, shitty car drivers?
I hear many dealerships will do internet sales. I need a person. A single point of contact.
Mornin’, Old Man. If by some miracle my progeny provide grandchildren, I will be using the tale of the emotional support dogs to explain the the concept of infinity to them.
No need, some guy named Randy described eternity.
That song was 3 minutes long but it seemed like an eternity.
Odds are this is a repost, but I found it amusing
Call me skeptical, but it seems too much like a photo-op.
Thus more directly and obviously demonstrating that it is, in fact, a coal-powered car: Coal provides the miners’ income, which provides their food, which provides their energy, which propels the car forward.
Q.E.D. Well done, GT!
I science gud! 😁
It’s a good thing none of them learned to code, or the driver would be sitting there as helplessly as Robby Soave waiting for the burly, semi-frightening, blue collar tow truck driver to come change his tire.
Wasn’t he also stranded with those teacup-size dust mops he calls dogs ?
“Any dog under 50 lbs is a cat. And cats are pointless.” -Ron Swanson
“BLM leader is accused of pilfering $10M from the organization by local chapters who say he used it like ‘personal piggy bank’ in explosive lawsuit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11176931/Black-Lives-Matter-leader-accused-pilfering-10M-organization.html
Shocking!
It’s not his fault, it’s the white guilt money what dun it.
the group had no infrastructure in place to handle the flood of cash
Because no bank would consider handling a $90MM account. Racists, they are.
LOL grifters eating their own
Cutting $995 Balenciaga socks with a sole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbR44c0dKw
spoiler alert: very poor quality. but hipster credentials.
$524 Handmade Tactical Nicks Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKom-7u3J0Y
this may also have some hipster cred
Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
On Sunday the Chilean people can vote for a new constitution, replacing the old anti-democratic one written by the dictator Pinochet with a new one guaranteeing rights to health, housing, education, and a habitable planet. I am proud to support this effort.
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1566074577511501826
A unicorn in every pot.
Watching the utopia unfold from here is going to be… interesting.
Fast forward to a boarder surge of Chileans escaping poverty for the oppressive US.
The new constitution is behind in the polls. It may fail.
Well, they had a nice 50-year run. Unfortunately, they’re in for a spell of bad luck.
Sounds vaguely familiar
“BLM leader is accused of pilfering $10M from the organization by local chapters who say he used it like ‘personal piggy bank’ in explosive lawsuit”
And he’ll never have the personal integrity (or the balls) to jump off a building to atone.
Tulip’s martinis just about killed me last night. Holy fuck.
If I had a dollar for everytime I came to morning consciousness with a scorching hangover, in a piss, stale-beer, and vomit-soaked RV…..
I want to know why I still smell puke, even after taking a shower & sitting outside.
Its likely still seared into your sinus cavities.
Stockholm’s ‘Housing for All’ Is Now Just for the Few
Soaring demand for rent-controlled housing in the Swedish capital has left many residents at the mercy of an expensive, sometimes dangerous sublet market.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-03/stockholm-s-rent-controlled-housing-guarantee-has-a-catch
“When Ida Jonsson woke up on her 18th birthday, her first act as an adult — before voting or getting a drink — was to participate in a ritual for many Stockholm natives: signing up on the city’s lengthy waiting list for public housing.
Now 25, Jonsson only moved into her apartment a year ago. And she counts herself as fortunate: Not everyone is as well informed as her on the urgency of signing up for a rent-controlled apartment as soon as legally possible.
…
Jonsson was able to tap into a somewhat unknown resource in Stockholm: The city government offers a batch of apartments reserved specifically for younger people in the city.
It was through this strategy that Jonsson, after years of subletting, finally secured what some consider a unicorn in Stockholm — a 27 square-meter (290 square-foot) rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Stockholm’s historic Old Town, where picturesque 17th century buildings are placed around cobblestoned squares. Jonsson’s monthly rent is only 3,500 kronor ($329) — a fraction of what such a one-bedroom flat would fetch on the subletting market. ”
Beyond the standard rent control don’t work thing, this seems just so sad to me if one’s main aspiration in life seems to be a 27 square meter government subsidized apartment. Also libertariqnism has no chance with these people.
You mean living off the government teat is not something to aspire to?! SMDH.
It does when they see their counterparts in a freer place enjoying a much higher standard of living.
Global warming is the existential crisis facing the world
Show your work.
and Pakistan is ground zero
Last I checked, Pakistan isn’t in danger of disappearing beneath the waves, the way Manhattan did in 2015.
– yet we have contributed less than 1% to [greenhouse gas] emissions.
Because your economy is, in a word, paleolithic. Get crackin’ on building stuff. Might I suggest infrastructure to help move water downhill?
On Sunday the Chilean people can vote for a new constitution, replacing the old anti-democratic one written by the dictator Pinochet with a new one guaranteeing rights to health, housing, education, and a habitable planet. I am proud to support this effort.
Wasn’t it modeled after ours?
So many of them have been.
I’m sure Bernie thinks ours is whatever loaded definition he uses for “anti-democratic”, too.
I mean, he wouldn’t be wrong. It’s a fairly anti-democratic document, as one might expect, considering the original form of government outlined by the US constitution was supposed to be a representative federal republic.
Yup but his definition of “democratic” probably means “free shit for everybody”.
I saw the first episode of the rings if power. It was complete shit.
Meh, seemed perfectly cromulent to me I’ll more than likely watch the next episode.
The lore was shit, the dialogue bad, the acting mediocre, the production values not good enough to make it up and the plot was weak
I’m shocked. The movies were so riveting, after all…
Beyond the standard rent control don’t work thing, this seems just so sad to me if one’s main aspiration in life seems to be a 27 square meter government subsidized apartment. Also libertariqnism has no chance with these people.
“When I grow up, I want to live in a closet.”
My cabin is 500 SF, it’s crowded with 2 people. 1 person is OK if one has few personal belongings.
The latest trend in emotional support animals.
https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/08/emotional-support-alligator-wally-gator-surprises-philly-park-goers.html
ZARDOZ approves.
I don’t see what could go wrong.
I haven’t bought a car in a long long time. And it shows. I think I bought a car from a dealer once or twice.
Now I am contemplating going to a dealer in Idaho Falls to check out a Hyundai Tiburon. It kind of looks to me like a modernized version of a CRX; you know, heavier, and with a bunch of features (like an automatic transnission) I don’t want or need. But I have a road trip coming up. The memorial service for my mom and dad, in Ohio. The Honda is in dry dock, and I don’t want to put the miles on the 914, despite the fact that it is surprisingly comfortable on long drives.
Should be interesting.
I’m sorry that’s the reason for your trip. What part of Ohio, if you don’t mind my asking?
My condolences as well.
For a one-off trip, it may be worth considering just renting a vehicle.
You’ll be passing by , if you need a spot to RON we can handle that
Great Flaming Clots of Bloody Mother Mary!
Not only did she get that surgery, but now Rebel Wilson turned homo?
I was hoping I had a chance.
Being caught stepping out with a heterosexual partner in Hollywood is like wearing white after labor day.
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I am most vexed.
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I guess Dr. Seuss picked the words today
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Boo.
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Speaking of- aren’t there a couple of Hyundai fans here, like Mojeaux? Or was that Kia?
Hyundai and Kia are basically the same powertrains. Just the styling differs. I get them confused to the point of having went to the wrong dealership for a part, but it didn’t matter, the dealership had the part I needed once I identified the engine year/size.
Kias are cooler!
Padlocked ‘vampire’ grave found in Poland with sickle over neck
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/padlocked-vampire-grave-found-in-poland-with-sickle-around-the-neck/144586?amp
Archaeologists found the burial near Bydgoszcz, a city in northern Poland. An anthropological study revealed that she had protruding front teeth, suggesting that her appearance may have led superstitious locals in the 17th century to brand her a witch or vampire. In fear of her ascension, a sickle was placed around her neck, while a padlock was tied to the toe on the left foot.
if vampire that would have totally worked
Ive had a few beers. Im not even going to try and pronounce “near Bydgoszcz”.
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That was…annoying.
Lil bit.
Up around Ashland. The Point of Origin.
Ah – roughly halfway between Neph’s and Teh Hype’s territories, I believe. However you end up traveling, I wish you a safe, trouble-free trip!
I know a place you can crash for the night. Drop in here, and Ill give you directions to GT’s house.
See my post above
Gentle on my Mind
John Hartford was, amongst many other things, a licensed river boat captain.
If I haven’t said it in a week: songwriters are the bomb. I know hundreds of great singers; I know dozens of solid musicians; but I only know a few people with anything worth saying who know how to say it.
For a one-off trip, it may be worth considering just renting a vehicle.
Maybe so, but rentals have gotten absurdly expensive. I can buy something low-volume like the Tiburon and not worry too much about selling it off in the future.
Who’s really threatening American democracy?
‘But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.’
And again, the confusion of cause and effect. Trump is merely the locus of a pre-existing dissatisfaction on the part of a a large and I believe growing segment of the population, a dissatisfaction which is intensified daily by Biden administration policies and ill advised insults and taunts such as were on display in that speech.
NPR headline:
Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to?
Doing their goddam jobs?
I crack myself up.
Quiet quitting.
Labor oppression not seen since the Gilded Age
The pandemic left workplaces reimagined and workers changed. The number of job openings right now outnumbers people looking for work by almost two-to-one.
Last year saw a record exodus of workers, and companies say they are still struggling to hire. Millions have re-evaluated what type of work they were willing to do for what type of pay or benefits and in what type of environment.
On Labor Day, here’s a snapshot of what’s happening with American workers.
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While millions quit, others have felt emboldened to fight for change.
From baristas to warehouse staff to frontline nurses, more workers are filing charges of unfair labor practices against their employers or staging walkouts and strikes. They’re demanding not just higher wages, but improvements to safety and wellbeing: longer breaks, more paid leave, more control over their schedules.
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Only about 10% of U.S. workers belonged to a union as of early 2022. At the same time, the level of public support for unions has been growing for over a decade.
This summer, 71% of Americans told Gallup they approve of unions, a level not seen since 1965. Labor experts say support is even higher with younger people, potentially growing a new generation of organizers.
Ragged and starving, the workers of America have finally had enough.
It’s easy to approve of unions when you have never experienced one.
I’m sensing a BS poll.
This is one of those areas where I’ve metamorphosed quite a bit in the time I’ve been gone. No, it’s not child labor, but Amazon warehouse wagies having to piss in a bucket to hit their efficiency quotas bringing cheap Chinese shit made by children and slaves straight to our doorsteps so that Bezos can afford to buy more influence in D.C. to prolong national arrest indefinitely or maybe build another giant clock into the side of a mountain is pretty much bullshit, and I’m not going to lose any sleep or shed any tears if the wagies successfully unionize despite Bezos’ attempts to get their mail-in ballots thrown out while he spends hundreds of millions of dollars in direct donations and in-kind contributions from his propaganda outlet to ensure that any attempt to impose the same restrictions on our national elections are defeated in court. Big Capital can’t shut the fuck up about “stakeholder capitalism”. Well, good. Choke on it.
I’d like to see evidence of that (OK, not really but you get my drift) first.
There are already break laws and such for hourly workers so I’m very skeptical.
After initially denying that any such thing ever occurs, Amazon admitted that its drivers sometimes have to pee in bottles, but only because rednecks in the sticks won’t build more public bathrooms.
Nevertheless, there’s at least multiple anecdotes about similar conditions in their warehouses. I’m certain labor activists are exaggerating how bad the conditions are, and I’m equally certain that Amazon lies continuously and has lost the benefit of the doubt from me.
Good thing the UPS unionized drivers don’t deliver to the sticks.
There’s a sentence I wouldn’t want to diagram.
Same. I actually erased it and was going to start over, but I liked the cadence that way in my head so I said to hell with it.
Next up: Pat vs. AlexinCT in a convoluted sentence showdown!
Dealerships are predatory, I would have never guessed. This certainly is a new development. What’s even better is they make the dealership out as if it’s inherently white. As a white guy, one of my last purchases was at a Hispanic owned dealership and the salesman was Hispanic and his boss was black and had neck tatoos and this was a Chevy branded lot, not a corner lot. These guys were not hep to the program to know that they should automatically give me a deal because I was white. I had to negotiate, leave and then negotiate some more over the phone and finally ask for a confirmation e-mail of final pricing before I would return. Fun fact, e-mail constitutes a written agreement. I had to spell that out on a car I flew in to purchase in AZ where the price suddenly went up $1,000 or so.
This is why you should build your own cars.
I kinda miss Mel Farr.
Superstar.
Horrific insensitivity
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said rape victims in the state can prevent pregnancies by using emergency contraception pills such as Plan B, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
In Texas, abortions are banned and do not include exceptions for rape or incest.
Late last month, a so-called “trigger law” went into effect following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade earlier this year. The trigger law makes it a felony to perform an abortion in the state with narrow exceptions when the pregnant person’s life is at risk.
“We want to support those victims, but also those victims can access health care immediately, as well as to report it,” Abbott told The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV’s “Lone Star Politics” in a segment obtained by the Morning News that will air on Sunday.
“By accessing health care immediately, they can get the Plan B pill that can prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place,” he added.
But what if you don’t know you were raped until four or five months later?
Theoretically possible. If the woman was roofied or used drugs and alcohol and passed out in the wrong place.
If it takes more than one cycle of the moon for a birthing person to realize they’re pregnant, the abortion should be compulsory.
Nailed my final interviews and accepted their job offer before the day was over. Have to thank the Lord here because I don’t deserve the gifts I’ve been given during this transition. Talk about a weight lifted. Even the crazy news hasn’t had any effect on my mood, thank goodness.
Congrats!
Funny I did a double take reading “transition” in a context other than recent demonstrations of child abuse.
How did you read “nailed”?
He said interviews and not interviewers.
Not that I’d judge…
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
Understandable these days.
Go you!
O Frabjous Day! 😃
Good to hear, M. We all need some good news from time to time. Your good news is good news.
Thanks all. It’s a complete career/industry change for me, so this is definitely going to be interesting but I’m excited to start something totally new.
Man, I know that feeling!
Nice! Give ’em hell, Pike.
Congrats!
“Washington Post doesn’t care if the person who called in a bomb threat to a children’s hospital is caught. They don’t care to investigate elective surgeries being done on kids. They are more concerned with smearing me.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1566258963867394062
“The growing worries about violence have prompted raging debate inside Twitter over whether the Libs of TikTok account should be suspended.”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1565837216445759488
“LIBS OF TIKTOK: Mainstream media isn’t mad about gender surgeries on teens, they’re mad you found out….
Well it didn’t take long for media to come after me for exposing these practices. NBC, for one, believed the hospital, and slammed me and others for having done the reporting at all. NPR and WaPo came out with articles claiming my recording was out of context and misinformation. They claimed the people I spoke with didn’t know and the hospital said they don’t do hysterectomies so it must not be true. A hospital would never ever lie, right? NPR, WaPo, trans activists, and other bluecheckers straight up asked Twitter to suspend me for this dangerous misinformation.
Two weeks ago it appeared they were against gender affirming hysterectomies on minors, this week they made their position clear. They are for it and just don’t want anyone knowing about it. Young girls are having their uteruses carved out and the media’s top concern is that people will find out. So they called for my suspension. A few short years ago, a journalist’s job was to research content, information, and leads to bring important news stories to the population. How times have changed. Now they just run cover for the Leftist agenda and silence those who dare oppose them. Thanks to their friends in Big Tech, they can call for their opposition to be censored.”
https://humanevents.com/2022/08/30/libs-of-tiktok-mainstream-media-isnt-mad-about-gender-surgeries-on-teens-theyre-mad-you-found-out/
“How LibsOfTikTok Is Helping the Kremlin Boost Anti-LGBTQ Disinformation”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvka/libsoftiktok-kremlin-boost-anti-lgbtq-disinformation
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/1564647628540940290
RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!!! RUSSIA!!!
All bad things are due to Russia, it is known.
Claim: Libs of Tik Tok amplifies Russian agents.
Twitter commentator talks about Libs of Tik Tok amplifying Russian agents.
Libs of Tik Tok reposts commentator, thus outing commentator as Russian agent.
Check. Mate.
You know what’s actually “anti-gay”? Convincing kids that stunting their growth and/or mutilating their sex organs is the preferable alternative to the gay.
MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN
Nailed my final interviews and accepted their job offer before the day was over. Have to thank the Lord here because I don’t deserve the gifts I’ve been given during this transition. Talk about a weight lifted. Even the crazy news hasn’t had any effect on my mood, thank goodness.
Sweet.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1566170794459365381
I wonder what would make a pretty blonde doctor become an absolute ghoul.
Too many consonants in that first name to be trustworthy.
Those Irish. (Pronounced Sheeve? KSue, help!)
Sheeve or Shee-(guttural sound) or maybe just Shee. A lot of that junk is silent in the modern language.
And Galla-her, probably.
When I first started listening to Beoga I checked out the album credits on Discogs, as one does, and ran across the name Niamh Dunne. Kind of a weird looking name, but nothing I’d have thought was unpronounceable. Surely it would be “Nim” or “Neem” or something like that. Months later when I was watching one of their live performances and YouTube and the bandleader introduced her as “Neeve” I felt pretty stupid.
Internet fame and social points
Money. Some of these clinics are extremely well funded by donors and pharma. The activism-social credit is a bonus, but all these ghouls are making big bucks.
I just caught a week twitter suspension for pointing out the gravy train. .
That’s okay.
I got told I’d engaged in “targeted harassment” a few days ago because I made a joke that nobody should make a drinking game out of Dark Brandon’s Thursday night speech, because they’d probably die of alcohol poisoning. In order to get out of jail I had to delete the offending Tweet, amongst other things. I told ’em to go fuck themselves.
The real reason I was suspended was because I was guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté. Twitter’s pathetic. I hope Musk wildly screws them over in open court.
It’s more than pathetic – it and its friends are an arm of the deep state and the proof is starting to come out.
One would thing someone that good-looking who is also smart enough to become a doctor would have way better options.
Yes, money is a big part of it. Pharma is pouring money into children’s gender clinics and the school-to-gender-clinic pipeline.
https://www.city-journal.org/chicago-childrens-hospital-partners-with-local-school-districts-to-promote-radical-gender-theory
Um, “think”
And all of this has become normalized in what? Five years? Less than ten. It’s mindboggling.
Massive astroturfage.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
Wow. Evil.
Remember when the tobacco companies were literally Hitler for marketing cigarettes using Joe Camel because children might be lured in by the cartoon mascot?
And Spuds McKenzie was marketing beer to kids.
Simpler times.
Took out the generously supplied by NVEnergy thermostat that the previous owner bought into. Replaced with one that has no wifi chip (took it apart to make sure). I am sure I will get a notice “Dear customer, we have been unable to ping your thermostat, we have dispatched a crew to make sure you are in compliance”
Excellent.
IoT inside private homes that are controlled by external actors are the biggest single threat to privacy right now.
Why do you hate America? Are you some kind of racist?
Why do you hate America?
Isn’t this like climbing Everest?
Are you some kind of racist?
Sure, let’s go with that.
Worse: he’s Canadian.
My grill is the only appliance I can control from my phone and really it’s for monitoring probe temps on long cooks.
It boggles my mind that people actually pay money to a company for the privilege of having a device in their home to surreptitiously collect every noise, every utterance, every word, then send that collected data over completely unsecured web protocols to a server farm to be analyzed by a massive network of computers to sell them shit they don’t need. Nielsen used to actually pay people to put a spy device in their home and monitor what TV channels they watched.
Took out the generously supplied by NVEnergy thermostat that the previous owner bought into. Replaced with one that has no wifi chip (took it apart to make sure). I am sure I will get a notice “Dear customer, we have been unable to ping your thermostat, we have dispatched a crew to make sure you are in compliance”
Pertinent
You know what’s actually “anti-gay”? Convincing kids that stunting their growth and/or mutilating their sex organs is the preferable alternative to the gay.
Honestly, I don’t even comprehend how all this idiocy works, but what could possibly constitute “gender tyranny” nore than telling a young child his/her physical attributes must conform to specific patterns of behavior?
“Be yourself.”
Not on our watch, say the gender police.
We reject society’s rules — and demand you follow ours
Modern boilerplate “apology”:
“I’m sorry. I’m not sorry I did it. I’m sorry I got caught.”
Addendum to above:
…patterns of behavior which in all likelihood are temporary.
Its time to play the game! Enjoy the day friends and fellow
Troublemakers
🕳🦎🍻
Blah blah blah The links include graphic descriptions of sadomasochism, bondage, pornography, and transgressive sex.
WTF does that mean? Choking? Hitting? Forcible rape?
Butt stuff?
PIV.