TODAY, THE BRUTALS SHALL LABOR!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ WAS PLEASED THIS MORNING TO FIND OUT IT WAS “LABOR DAY” – HE COGITATED THAT THE GRAIN SLAVES WOULD BEGIN THE HARVEST OR SPRUCE UP THE VORTEX A BIT…LABORING ALL THE DAY. INSTEAD, ZARDOZ WAS LET DOWN TO FIND THAT THIS DAY IS THE OPPOSITE OF LABORING! HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE LABORED ON THE INTERNETS, SNARKING AT THE FILTH OF BRUTALS WHO SOIL THE SERIES OF TUBES. THEREFORE, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
- ZARDOZ IS A BIT SUSPICIOUS OF THE VERACITY OF THIS CLAIM…HOWEVER, THIS BRUTAL WILL BE INVITED TO TEACH THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS MARKSMANSHIP. HE WILL BE PAID IN GRAIN.
- THE VORTEX MAY SUBSCRIBE TO STARLINK, IF THE SIGNAL CAN GET THROUGH THE FORCE SHIELDING. ZARDOZ LIKES TO READ GLIBERTARIANS.COM ON HIS OFF HOURS.
- EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN?
- HAS ZARDOZ NOT TOLD YOU THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL!
NOW TO GET THE BRUTALS BACK TO LABORING!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
In one incident, Rendon, who came to America from Mexico a year ago, allegedly grabbed a woman’s privates on the street.
“The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female
party guestsfellow New Yorkers. We did.”Sounds like he pre-dates the ones Abbott shipped to NYC.
A Ukrainian pensioner shot down a Russian Su-34 jet with a rifle, sending it spiralling to the ground, a government agency has said.
Another Ghost of Kiev?
Yeah, I’m not buying it.
Especially since he’s pictured holding a shotgun.
“Pull!’
Loaded with slugs
Well shit, maybe those F-15s aren’t so necessary. We can just shoot down fighter gets with our punting guns. Suck it Biden.
or hunting guns. grrr.
Punt guns are a (big) thing, so your first typo was OK.
No, more Battlefield 4 footage that the media is trying to pass off as real. Shit, I got my first snipe in 2014!
Wishful thinking by the pensioner I suspect.
It is claimed he picked off the jet, which costs an estimated £74million, and footage circulating at the time showed it careening back down to earth, although he was not seen in the video.
FAKE.
Don’t look now…
A group of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers on Monday agreed on a small output cut from next month, surprising energy markets at a time of considerable turmoil.
OPEC and non-OPEC partners, an influential energy alliance known as OPEC+, decided to cut production targets by about 100,000 barrels per day from October.
Energy analysts had broadly expected the group to stay the course with its production policy.
Last month, OPEC+ agreed to raise oil output by just 100,000 barrels per day. The minuscule boost was widely interpreted as a rebuff to U.S. President Joe Biden after his visit to Saudi Arabia to ask the OPEC kingpin to pump more to cool prices and help the global economy.
Suck it, Brandon.
Haha! We are so screwed,
If only there was oil and gas somewhere in America!
We do, but ours is Icky!
I don’t know, sounds pretty sweet to me.
Don’t be crude.
You’re a barrel of laughs
This is one of the most infuriating things about Biden. He seems utterly unwilling, or unable, to use the tools available.
All of the fucknuts in this admin hate, hate cars and will do anything to get them off the road. This is just a logic step when you hold those priors.
Dork Brandon just reads the teleprompter, he isn’t in control of jack.
More than that, they hate Americans.
The converse:
Harold: You sure have a way with people.
Maude: Well, they’re my species!
It seems that way sometimes. At least it’s coupled with condescension and moral superiority.
He and his handlers hate everything that America is/was supposed to stand for. They’re pretty open about it now.
Run through the D.o.I. or the B.o.R. and tell me they don’t oppose almost all of it.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Yeah, they lost my consent some time back.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXlHSL_UEY
🙂
Stick a fork in the internal combustion engine
As one might expect, there are those opposed to this infringement on liberty. Some have identified the obstacles to implementation: the electric grid will be overwhelmed, there aren’t enough charging stations, EVs are too expensive, Californians will simply go to Nevada to buy their cars. The impediments are endless.
There will certainly be people who will not comply with this rule. But all of these obstacles are beside the point. There will be bumps along the way, but electric vehicles will displace today’s vehicles because they are based on a superior technology. That is why the automobile replaced the horse. You couldn’t just park a horse and walk away. They needed food, water, a clean stall, affection, and even medicine. Horses required more resources to maintain and were not as convenient or powerful as the internal combustion engine. Initially, there were more stables than gas stations, but that changed over time. We will see the same transformation with charging stations replacing gas stations. Of course, every problem with EVs will be magnified by social media and the 24-hour news cycle, a fact of modern life that Henry Ford didn’t have to deal with. (Breaking news: Model T runs out of gas! Driver wishes he hadn’t sold his horse!)
Electric vehicles are more expensive now, but eventually, they will be price competitive. Over their lifetime they are already cheaper, but soon even the retail or capital cost of the electric vehicle will be as low as the internal combustion car. To the extent that the EV is powered by renewable energy, the cost of fuel will be low and predictable. EVs require less service and have fewer moving parts.
We can’t afford not to convert. It’s all they talk about on the intertubes.
“Electric vehicles are more expensive now, but eventually, they will be price competitive. Over their lifetime they are already cheaper,”
Citing evidence that is not given.
“EVs require less service and have fewer moving parts.”
Except, you know, the 10k battery that will eventually fail and need to get replaced.
“Price competetive.”
Only because they keep raising the bar on new vehicle pricing.
“After we subsidized $25,000 of the purchase price of an EV with tax credits and mandated CAFE standards of 214 MPG while maintaining current crash test standards, electric vehicles are just as inexpensive to purchase and maintain as internal combustion*!”
*Not including the cost of battery disposal and manufacture
“*Not including the cost of battery disposal and manufacture”
Just load em on a cargo ship and have a mysterious accident at sea, what waste?
Why change? That’s what happens to your recycling now. Most of it ends up in China in a landfill with the bodies of political dissidents.
I thought China wasn’t taking our garbage any more.
That’s correct. It’s one of the reasons most recycling winds up in the dump.
Aluminum is still worth it, I hear.
So many grocery-adjacent sites have closed in the last decade.
“To the extent that the EV is powered by renewable energy, the cost of fuel will be low and predictable.”
Haha! Except, when your idiot state of CA doesn’t have the right balance of traditional energy sources that provides energy all day long. Then you kindly get told to NOT charge your EV so you don’t short out the grid.
Seriously, they’re just making shit up.
Gaia demands small sacrifices on the road to utopia.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1249302898/aztec-obsidian-dagger-obsidian-handle
Ok.
Gaia wants us to start with autistic Swedish schoolgirls, I heard.
I received an email today asking me to raise the temperature in my house, not charge an EV, and not use an oven or washing machine between 4 and 9 pm. Up until a week ago, it’s been a mild summer. If it had been bad, we would have European scale protests.
No problem, nobody eats between 4 and 9 pm.
EVs are so great that people must be compelled to buy them!
“Out of the [Ivy] League
“1. Columbia University. In a depressed area of Manhattan. Engineering is very popular, and its majors are concerned about professional future. Even English majors here are concerned about future. Political campus. Barnard women love to discuss poetry.”
Anyone recognize? Hint: © 1980 book. Two more: madras and Muffy.
Maybe they can pull it off after nuclear power plants are ubiquitous, EVs can be charged with a 5 minute or less hot shot, and a very efficient method can be invented to recharge the battery while rolling down the highway.
In fact, the auto companies are delighted that the risk they took in investing in electric vehicles now looks like a much safer bet than it did before California acted. The EVs they are marketing will include lower-priced models, but their initial offerings include trucks like the Ford Lightening 150, sports cars, SUVs, and other popular high-end models. They are not asking their customers to sacrifice features but are actively designing-in fancy new options that take advantage of the new technology.
I see this as the template for the transition to a renewable resource-based economy: use technology to mitigate the worst impact of consumer technology on the planet but continue to develop and market features that people want. The materials used in the vehicle need to eventually be recycled when the vehicle’s useful life is over. We already see that with the rare earth minerals used in batteries and with tires and aluminum. Most important is to change the image of sustainability from dreary sacrifice to exciting new products, features, and services. The auto companies seem to be doing just that.
Appeal to magic.
By the way; how does all that techno-whiz-bang-ery affect battery life?
This article angers me. Triggered by the stupid, I am.
You know how some typos you just find really irksome? More so than others? For me it’s “lightening” when the writer meant “lightning”. They don’t sound anything close to the same when pronounced, owing to the third syllable in “lightening”. Nor is the extra “e” in a place where it could easily be blamed on fat-fingering a key, like when a writer types “loose” when they meant “lose”, which also annoys the bejesus out of me. It’s also called the F-150 Lightning. The F and the dash are not superfluous even when you use the “Ford” name preceding them. Ford always markets the truck as the Ford F-150, not the Ford 150. Lightning, without the third syllable, also comes after F-150 in the model name.
All that having been said, We truly live in a miraculous time. The Ford F-150 Lightning, which shall supplant all of those noxious gasoline-burning trucks on the road, can tow an absolutely massive6,000 pound, 15 foot long Airstream trailer 54 miles on a single charge. 54 ENTIRE miles! Imagine the possibilities!
Put more batteries in the trailer. Duh.
Who doesn’t want to average 30 miles an hour on a cross country road trip? I know I do….
🙄
Maybe on olde Rte. 66, if you’re made of spare time.
Friends just bought a totally sweet trailer after they retired, which can produce enough electricity to charge an EV. It would, however, require 3 Lightnings to tow it.
The Ram 3500 with the Cummins diesel was the better choice.
And people bitch when I complain about apostrophe misuse. :-p
I debated bringing it up since my writing often falls short of perfection, and usually stuff like that doesn’t bother me that much, it’s just one of those niggling trivialities that’s more annoying to me than it should be.
It was an excellent rant.
It’s telling that our self-styled betters can’t even get the basics right.
It bugs me too, to be honest.
I’ve stated it before, but a lot of why I tend towards being a language (and especially grammar) stickler stems from my finding that having a solid foundation in one’s native language and grammar really helps when trying to learn a foreign language. Not that there are anywhere near as many non-native speakers here as on other sites, but I also do try to write reasonably standard English for their benefit, too, here and other places.
+1 eats Teds and leaves
I would accept F150 in a blog post or similar unedited forum.
I read an article today that referenced someone’s last name as “Matthews, Mathews and Matthew” all in the same pgh. From that pgh foward, it referred to the person simply as Matthew, not indicating if this was a first or last name.
Wait until these fuckers are in an EV taxi to the airport the runs out of juice in traffic. They will quickly come to understand range anxiety.
“Fucking [Republicans|greedy capitalists|racists] caused this!”
I can’t wait.
Plains don’t run on no ‘lecticity and ain’t no gaz no mor.
Airports will become junkyards for ICE motor cars.
We hear so much about EVs but only about the automobiles/small trucks. How about the big trucks, ships, railroad engines? All the distance shipping will have to be powered with ICE or not at all. Buy local but nothing to buy.
No…the fault of the traffic congestion falls on the Central Planners. They just need more _____ .
munny??
The other noteworthy feature of California’s move is the positive, technology-forcing impact of regulation. These new rules are not “job-killing” but job-creating stimulus.
Yes, yes, of course. All the best technological innovation has come at the end of a government bayonet.
This article angers me. Triggered by the stupid, I am.
Electric motors produce a lot of torque.
The better to spin you up with.
That depends on how its wound.
Tightly?
Congratulations, Rhywun.
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👍🏻
Busy watching a Hart to Hart marathon.
Holy crap—where is that aired??? I grew up on that shot.
“Ovation” channel
👍
It’s also on “GetTV” a lot.
Yeah, I loved that show as a kid. Silly fantasy television goes down good these days.
Been watching the Firefly marathon today.
Jaynestown episode is on now.
OK, now I want to know where THAT marathon is!
Comet channel
::searches umpty-bazillion cable channels. Comes up empty. Haz a sad. 😞::
https://comettv.com/watch-live/
Comet is not easy to get. I had it on Apple TV but I can’t get it on my new smart TV without the Apple TV device. I figured since there is an Apple TV app on the thing I shouldn’t need the device any more. But I haven’t put much effort into figuring it out.
Cheer up.
::digs a little deeper. Ponders talking TT into firing up digital over-the-air antenna::
My bad on that link, didn’t realize the episodes won’t load when clicked. A careful examination of certain websites tells me the series is readily available for downloading via bittorrent, if you’re one of those types.
I may need some time in my bunk.
ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE I’m a size 24 & wear thong bikinis
All yours. Not even gonna click.
I clicked.
Nope.
If her breasts were smaller, she would be Tres’ ideal woman.
I know, right?
Tres Cool is a size 24 and wears thong bikinis?
Whatever floats your boat, man?
A dive off the high board would empty the pool.
‘I’m DONE with Portland’ : Furious residents of the Dem-led city reveal to DailyMail.com why they have no choice but to sell their homes as ‘homeless drug addicts’ set up camp right outside their front doors
“…the couple put their $300K house up for sale and plan on moving to Vancouver next month. ”
That is going to be so much better.
How much house can you get for 300K in Portland OR?
This one comes with free junkies.
That is also “equipped” (if that’s the correct word) with a semi-permanent homeless druggie encampment right across the street from it?
I suspect their 300K house ain’t worth shit right now. I foresee an unpleasant surprise in their near future.
Some people just ain’t that smart.
Get. Out.
PS. Where do I sign up for “QUEER AFFINITY VILLAGE”?
I am assuming that is Vancouver Wasington, right across the river. It is better, which isn’t saying a whole lot.
Why is Portland still a one-party city? If residents can’t stand all this crap, then vote the idiots out. If the majority likes the situation as is, then let them wallow in their own pigpen.
The majority of voters belong to the FSA and actually benefit from all of this?
Just a thought.
I would have guessed that all the one-party cities would have gotten tired of this shit by now but I keep being proved wrong. I have no idea how much worse it has to get.
Nobody I know voted to retain Newsom. (Oh damn, I can think of at least three.)
Me too. It’s mind boggling.
There are going to be a a bunch of unexplained fires.
RE: Starlink. I saw that string of satellites scooting through the sky early morning a couple winters ago (?) I thought it was a military maneuver of moving helicopters or some shit. Later I learned it was Musks satellites. I am not sure how I feel about that. Other than why are our tax dollars going to NASA?
I would have guessed that all the one-party cities would have gotten tired of this shit by now but I keep being proved wrong. I have no idea how much worse it has to get.
If the Republicans would stop foiling them, their plans they could get it right.
I’m actually enjoying my living room on this rainy day. Left the sofa bed out after my visitor left – it’s way better this way and I can watch TV in lazy comfort.
Sweet! Did you get out of having to move for the 46-footer?
Yep! They made it around the corner with plenty of clearance!
Visitor ?
Nope not that kind, but fun! Too many martinis on Saturday night!
It’s 107 degrees here in Pahrump.
I’m at the golf course just to see some green. The big ol’ pond is full of ducks and coots (yes, coots are a real bird).
It’s just lovely.
I haven’t been there in a while, but Ian Deutch Memorial Park used to be nice this time of year as well. Greener than Petrack Park with a lot more usable space. Petrack Park’s kind of a dump, tbh.
“…Coots”
The mating call of the coot:
“getoutofMYyardgetoutofMYyard!”
It’s hot here today, too (95) and we’ve been outside most of the weekend.
So what did we do this afternoon? Went to see Bullet Train!
Nice and cool in the theater and enjoyed the hell out of the dumb movie!
Ponzi scheme, or circle jerk?
Some of the measures that European governments have taken to keep electricity costs down can be described as a “Ponzi scheme,” said Dan Brouillette, who served as energy secretary under the Trump administration.
“One of the easiest policy levers if you will, is that you can pass a bill, appropriate money and give money to citizens to pay their electricity bills,” Brouilette told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the Gastech conference in Milan on Monday.
Brouillette warned of the “inflationary impact” of such measures should governments employ such policies to tackle the spike in prices.
When asked about whether such measures resemble a Ponzi scheme, Brouillette replied, “You could describe it that way. There’s no question about that.”
“It alleviates the immediate pain of not being able to pay the electricity bill, but the money just moves in a circle … It just goes from the consumer to the electricity company … it’s not a long-term solution,” he added.
The EU countries’ energy ministers will meet on Friday to discuss methods to curb surging gas prices.
Europe’s gas prices jumped 30% higher on Monday after Russia announced that its main gas supply pipeline would remain shut indefinitely. Europe in recent months endured a sharp drop in gas exports from Russia, traditionally its largest energy supplier.
When the music stops, there will be a lot of people with no place to sit.
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ap-us-news/ap-california-governor-signs-landmark-law-for-fast-food-workers/
Hahahahahaha. Good luck Cali.
Throw some more gas on the fire.
22 dollars an hour?!
JFC I’m a chump.
Of course, those jobs won’t last for long.
And I wonder what they do with all the young people who can’t get a job.
They have to pay the kids so much so they can buy all those newfangled electric vehicles.
Here in the big city I haven’t seen a kid working one of those jobs in decades. They are basically unemployable these days.
Can’t even trust’ em to throw newspapers, even the free ones. (I like those little free ones.)
Kids or papers?
Where will the next generation of change sorting orphans come from?
Hurry now and get pre-approved for a Happy Meal loan!
Automated ordering/prep or closed locations? Both!
Aw heck. Many a <99-site franchise?
The Small-Business Empowerment Act!
Burger flipping robot and self-serve ordering kiosks are about to be very popular.
We won’t need steel where we’re going
ArcelorMittal (MT.LU) said on Friday it would switch off one of two furnaces at its steelworks in the German city of Bremen until further notice from September-end, citing the soaring cost of gas, weak market demand and a negative economic outlook.
The world’s second-largest steelmaker said it will also shut down the direct reduction plant at its Hamburg steel factory from the fourth quarter of this year, while keeping workers on shorter hours at both sites.
“The high costs for gas and electricity are putting a heavy strain on our competitiveness. On top of that, from October onwards, there will be the German government’s planned gas levy, which will further burden us,” Reiner Blaschek, chief executive of ArcelorMittal Germany, said in a statement.
“With a tenfold increase in gas and electricity prices, which we had to accept within a few months, we are no longer competitive in a market that is 25% supplied by imports. We see an urgent need for political action to get energy prices under control immediately,” he added.
Nothing to worry about. We have our best people on it.
Just like a light switch — on, off, on, off. Trivial problem.
Going green, the hard way.
They have a much bigger problem, and maybe Lachowsky can chime in. But when I worked for a stainless mill, in summer, Kentucky Electric would be under strain from demand. We’d do most of our melts at night off peak hours. They called it “energy curtailment”.
I’m hoping that the power company offered lower rates for off-peak use. Makes economic sense in that case.
I’m in my all-electric home cursing the Morons Who Rule Us for closing the largest power plant in the state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Generating_Station
The problem with Europe turning into Winterfell this year is that it won’t kill off the people in charge.
I thought political action is what got them there in the first place.
You guys made me check; it looks like Comet is available on the roku. I’ll have to add it later, when it’s teevee time.
Yes, it is on Roku.
Watching “A Night in Casablanca.” The soundtrack has some kind of screwy distortion on the sound effects. Love the movie, hate this freaky distortion.
“If that’s your wife, YOU should be ashamed.”
So many good lines. That one just played.
The problem with Europe turning into Winterfell this year is that it won’t kill off the people in charge.
This.
Let them eat popsicles
Californians are being asked to step up their conservation efforts in a dramatic way to stave off the possibility of rolling blackouts over the next two days.
“We have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave,” Elliot Mainzer, the head of the California Independent System Operator, or Cal ISO, said on Monday.
He said that the state’s grid will need about two to three times as much conservation from people across the state at homes and businesses as has been the case recently during flex alerts.
Just remember, you’re doing it for the team, says Newsom, as he jets off to Lake Tahoe.
So many good lines. That one just played.
That front desk scene is one of his absolute best.
Mainzer said the demand for power was forecasted at more than 48,000 megawatts on Monday, and the forecast for Tuesday is even higher at more than 51,000.
“If it materializes, it would be above the highest demand ever seen in California, which was back in July of 2006,” he explained. “So, our goal is to not see that number.”
Maybe you should have been preparing to meet that level of demand, instead of shrinking your generation capacity.
I remember seeing a quote from some (Enron, maybe) guy, back in the last California energy catastrophe; something on the order of, “It’s not my job to teach the State of California how energy markets work.”
Cruella is a surprisingly good movie.