Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Elon Musk fires top Twitter execs and will restore users with lifetime bans including Trump
Soros Gave $17.6M to Lefty Group Pushing Facebook, TikTok to Censor So-Called Election Disinfo
Evan McMullin’s Faux ‘Independent’ Campaign Is Bankrolled By Democrats
Oz Calls Fetterman’s Bluff, Offers Do-Over Debate
Corporate Media Don’t Care How Much Money They Lose So Long As They Control The Narrative
Layoffs Hit Far-Left CNN as Primetime Viewership Collapses to 512K
Business Equipment Spending Plunges in an Ominous Sign for US Economy
Inflation Caused 18 Percent of Americans to Skip Meals or Not Buy Groceries
Wind Farm in Germany Is Being Taken Down for Expansion of Coal Mine
Tim Robbins and the Lost Art of Finding Common Ground
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Elon Musk fires top Twitter execs and will restore users with lifetime bans including Trump”
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Twatter is now an African-American owned business!
That is technically correct, which of course is the best kind of correct.
This is so good. I’m happy.
I’d rather eat a real bacon and egg on a hard roll, anyway.
“Elon Musk fires top Twitter execs and will restore users with lifetime bans including Trump”
SHOW US THE CODE!
When you’ve lost Tim fucking Robbins…
And his woman too…
I saw a meme she posted and wondered if they were trying to play 5D chess w/ me pointing out that democratic party had become unserious and should be abandoned by anyone with working neurons.
“Soros Gave $17.6M to Lefty Group Pushing Facebook, TikTok to Censor So-Called Election Disinfo”
At this point everyone should guess that Soros is the inspiration for Emperor Palpatine.
CNN isn’t far left. They are very much establishment.
WDATPDIM?
Remember when Hillary was given debate questions to beat Bernie Sanders? Maybe that was MSNBC. Regardless, they are both pro-government channels.
Hah, McMullin was once a libertarian candidate. An independent Democrat, uh-huh.
“I totally promise to not to vote with all of those folks who hate Republicans, honest. Oh, and I won’t vote with those icky Republicans either.”
Ummm..what? I remember being an “independent” candidate who did “well” in Utah in 2016.
I recall McMuffin running as a “Right-wing” “Independent” who was supported by Never-Trumper asshats to siphon votes away from OMB.
I researched him for 5 seconds because of that and was quickly educated.
“Layoffs Hit Far-Left CNN as Primetime Viewership Collapses to 512K”
When I see CNN finally agree that out government is a corruptocracy, that all the 3 letter agencies are weaponized with woke fucking evil leadership, and that they have been basically fucking the American people over royally, I will maybe consider them actually trying to fix the broke shit.
“The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year,” The New York Times reported. The Atlantic is losing another $10 million this year, Axios said. And The Los Angeles Times is still struggling to sustain itself, according to Politico.”
That’s some paragraph.
“It was The Atlantic, after all, that cooked up the false and damaging Aisne-Marne cemetery hoax that played such a large role in determining the outcome of the 2020 election.”
I don’t think it made any difference. Anyone who fought in WWI was already voting Democrat.
What you did there…
All of them are owned by larger entities that subsidize the skin-suited and failing businesses in order to push an agenda.
The same thing plays out all across major media. They’re not there to turn a profit, they’re there to please their masters.
Funny kind of capitalism, isn’t it?
It only ends when the currency does.
I came to that realization about a week after Trump got elected. Which is a major part of the reason I gave up on capitalism. Creative destruction will certainly bring us thousands of new market entrants any time now, right? …
There has been no capitalism in this country since the 1920s. What we have is fascism’s new incarnation. A pseudo marxist pile of idiocy in government & culture drives the people with power in government to control the private sector through regulations and executive style orders.
Fair enough, although I can’t help but recognize the similarities to the “real communism has never been tried!” cop out. I’m more willing now than I would have been even a couple of years ago to entertain the notion that oligopoly is the natural end state of any sort of capitalism that exists outside of the pristine environment of an econ textbook.
“entertain the notion that oligopoly is the natural end state of any sort of capitalism that exists outside of the pristine environment of an econ textbook.”
Oligopoly is the natural state of EVERY political/economic/ruling system that doesn’t put hard guardrails in place to avoid that. What do you think the current battle between the deep state and those of us that want nothing to do with it is about? We have an inept, evil, and corrupt cabal of people that are in the existing oligopoly trying their best to dismantle any and all remaining guardrails that our republic and system of government had in place to prevent them from becoming a hereditary one.
Give Kakistocracy a chance!
We should really start the Kakistocrat party. Our nickname would be the Kaks. I’m voting the the big kak candidate.
We’re already there but to fool the people they label themselves repubs and demos. C’mon Man, you’ve seen some of debates. It’s like Dumb and Dumber was a casting call.
Reminds me of Bloom County- “This time, why not the worst”
My dad bought me that t-shirt in ’16. I should dig it out.
My WIN button won’t stay anchored.
I thought we were already in one.
Like Peak Derp, there are plenty of people out there who are even worse the the current scoundrels in office.
Amen, your holiness.
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
And we have managed to do that without any runt with a mustache or blustering bald guy at the top.
Do hair plugs count? ’cause, you know, the thing!
Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden – doesn’t really matter, does it?
Crime bosses all of them.
I think we should give up on the term “capitalism.” It’s been so thoroughly trashed. I think the economic model libertarians should be embracing is free exchange.
“Corporate Media Don’t Care How Much Money They Lose So Long As They Control The Narrative”
A long time ago reporters & media were just people that picked up the job because of looks or writing skill, and then spent their time trying to write things to tell people what was going on. There definitely was bias, even if they claimed otherwise, but the bias was towards small time things. Then colleges decided to create a media career track, and it turned into basically communist indoctrination. when the USSR fell, this bunch of subversive fucks just kept at it. Now we see the world the highly biased, ultra untalented, dumb as fuck people that have become mouth pieces for mediocrity and evil, have created, and it is a real ugly one.
Like the death of post WWII consensus political congeniality, this isn’t a new a development but a return to form after a period of abnormality.
“Wind Farm in Germany Is Being Taken Down for Expansion of Coal Mine”
The only way to force permanently immature children that live in fantasy land to grow up, is to remove their security blanket and force them to face the harshness of life.
Uffda. The Krauts are smarter than the Minnesodans.
I wish some local troll had gotten the plant onto the Historic Register and prevented them from demolishing it.
That’s the Cortez/Columbus tactic of burning your ships when you arrive in a new world to prevent anyone from thinking they are doomed and deciding to head back. This way, when lack of energy starts killing people, some enterprising bloke can’t just fire up the old plant and show the fucking idiots suffering & dying that there was a better alternative…
Well that does it. I knew those early colonizers were bad what with spreading disease, enslaving natives and erasing their culture, but they burned their boats and added to Climate Change? I bet they didn’t even have a proper permit to burn them.
The only difference between the good ole’ colonizers and these new ones is who is gonna get it. The new world colonist brought disease and killed the natives. The marxism colonists are doing it to their own.
And Oregon. When they shut this plant down it coincided with a 10-15% jump in my power bill. https://www.opb.org/article/2022/09/15/boardman-oregon-coal-smoke-stack-portland-general-electric/?outputType=amp
Is this why team blue continuous to insist that elections not have any way of being audited or monitored, and that minorities remain on the plantation and think eveyone but team blue are evil racists?
They also do this in Hispanic communities across the southern United States (and probably northern as well).
When the harvester shows up at your door, they make certain you know which way to vote.
I see headlines like that one “Jaw-Dropping Allegations…” and wonder who exactly is surprised at this. I know I’m being overly literal (can’t help that that’s my first interpretation), but still, this is super-well-known. This thing of people (jounalismists in this case) pretending to be shocked at massive Proggie fraud is tiring.
My favorite “I’m shocked to find gambling going on here!” moment was when a Somali immigrant was challenging a long time proggie Phyllis Khan here in Minnesoda for the first time in the primaries.
Khan had been a crazy white wimmin progressive gadfly for decades in the Minnsoda House. She was thought to be invulnerable. Then the Somalis moved into her district and started running against her. The first primary that she was seriously being challenged she all of a sudden knew exactly where all the fraudulent registered voters were.
Amazing how “there is now election fraud” turned into “look over there! My opponent is cheating!!!” so quickly.
Khan lost in the next race to a young Omar Ilhan.
There’s a state constitutional amendment on the ballot here in Ohio (Issue 2), that would ban illegals from voting in any state, county, or city election in Ohio. The biggest media push against it has been that the wording of the amendment may prohibit 17 years olds (who would turn 18 before election day) from voting in party primaries.
That we actually have to codify tat illegals should not be allowed to vote shows those of us that now better how fucking far down the road of clown world we have traveled…
the amendment may prohibit 17 years olds (who would turn 18 before election day) from voting in party primaries
I fail to see the problem. Not 18 on election day, no vote.
The fact that Democrats can afford to pay 10$ per ballot is insane.
What do you think all those donkey green energy & infrastructure bills that cost trillions and deliver nothing of actual value are about, huh? The bulk of that money goes to the connected which then contribute a not too shabby amount of it back to dnc efforts to buy votes & fortify elections.
I must be doing some thing wrong.
I hope he ends up having to spend that all, and more, on lawyers, once we find out how he basically lied and robbed his stockholders.
Eh, I’d rather he keeps it then giving it to lawyers.
I am sure the people he fucked over and realize this asshat kept them from making a bigger investment profit will feel otherwise. I certainly do.
What type of lawyer do you think he would be hiring?
He has plenty of lawyers on his payroll already. They just helped him buy this shitshow company, didn’t they?
I hope they are brutal, blood thirsty lawyer hell bent on making the old twatter leadership pay for what they did.
“Evan McMullin’s Faux ‘Independent’ Campaign Is Bankrolled By Democrats”
If this was the only really crooked shit team blue was doing with money they tricked idiots to give them or collected from ultra rich evil fucks with anti-humanist agendas, I might be bothered. But these days this sort of shit is par for the course.
It may yet be that the extremist candidates they supported in the Republican primaries come back to haunt them by winning the general.
Oz Calls Fetterman’s Bluff, Offers Do-Over Debate
The bully just wants to steal Fetterman’s
lunch moneyunpaid taxes.Once again, I need to remind everyone that Fetterman was the name of the scientist who created him.
He is Fetterman’s Monster.
You must not have seen the most recent edition.
A Modern Day Promeefeeus
I don’t see how this helps prevent WWIII-Neutron Bugaboo
https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna53100
Rethuglicans are about to take away our democracy! Whycome you want the world to continue after that, huh? FASCIST RACIST!
Close enough to southern Russian missile sites to be able to get to their land-based nukes inside their launch times (maybe).
Wait, they describe the sub’s commander as “General,” not “Admiral.” WTF?
Ranger tabs on the uniform as well.
Becuase that is the CENTCOM commander, not necessarily the commander of the sub itself.
I know that guy!
Went to trade school with him.
The fact that they put THE Army Commander for the entire ME AOR on the boat was a PR campaign.
IOW, the answer is bad journalisming. Thanks, guys.
No, he’s the CENTCOM commander, not the sub’s skipper.
Also
Let’s see… one place we supposedly left and another we shouldn’t even be in.
“Why Are Virginia Students Studying Sexuality, Body Size, And Privilege In Spanish Class?”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/28/virginia-students-no-comprendo-why-spanish-class-is-spent-identifying-sexuality-body-size-and-privilege/
The same reason that woman was attacked by a bear. They need to cull the government employees. I don’t live there, so I don’t know the best time of year for federal worker season. Maybe three tags for bow or rifle hunting with strict caliber requirements so the hospitals don’t get flooded with wounded bureaucrats.
Mama me la pinga, Hijo de puta!
What’s the Spanish for “mind your own fucking business”?
Mi mama me mima…
como se dice “latinx” ?
That’s not a Spanish word. Notice how only English speakers use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REU7-64-vCM
We really need to eject NOVA and reclaim the counties now comprising WV.
Dept of We Know Best
“We haven’t necessarily said what companies are affected by it, and what businesses are affected by it. What we’re looking at is people that are employees that are working for companies that are being taken advantage of as independent contractors. We want to end that,” Walsh said.
He did mention a few of the jobs that would likely be covered, and one of those does overlap with the Uber, Lyft and DoorDash business models. “We have plenty of businesses in this country, like dishwashers and delivery drivers in areas like that, where people are working for a business that other employees in that business are employees, and they’re labeling them as independent contractors. So we’re going to look at this. We’re in the rulemaking process now. We’re taking in the comments now, and we’ll see when the comments come in what the final rule looks like.”
Walsh added that the idea an independent contractor want to retain their flexibility doesn’t wash with him. “Flexibility is not an excuse … pay somebody as an employee. You can’t use that as an excuse.”
Central planning is what made this the richest and strongest nation on earth.
Then when those jobs go unfilled or disappear entirely they’ll say it’s because Americans are lazy pieces of shit and we need another 20 million illegal immigrants to out-hustle them. The need for a permanent underclass for the Chamber of Commerce set is largely why the Democrats haven’t rammed through any of the amnesties they’ve been proposing since about a week after the last major one in ’86. The second they get legal status they lose all of their utility to their employers. For the moment at least, the donor bux are evidently more important than the dynastic political security of another 10-20 million D voters.
Hence why they’re trying to normalize the idea of illegals voting. For the win-win.
Whose prison break is the most impressive?
I’m gonna go, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna go Tim Robbins in Jacob’s Ladder
Such patience, such verve and poise
But wait a minute, shit, that’s the wrong film
Morgan Freeman would roll in his grave, if he were dead
The post election Democrat airing of grievances is beginning early.
I could simplify this by providing the script every surviving Democrat will use: “you didn’t listen to me. I won because I am so smart and in touch with my voters, and voters everywhere are just like mine”.
I think it might be narcissism.
No deep dive on the mixed bad of crazy ideologies they are dedicated to?
You know that Geico commercial with the kids and the crazed Halloween killer? The one where the blond says “why don’t we just get in the running car”?
You’re the guy that says “Are you crazy?”
Isn’t the problem always framed as ‘our messaging was too complicated for the ignorant rubes to grasp’?
The ignorant proletariat doesn’t appreciate the nuance. They don’t know what is best for them. We need a revolutionary vanguard to enforce what is needed to create the New Soviet Man.
That’s precisely why they need an information of truth ministry. So they can make sure the rubes get the messaging.
Funny part about the “you didn’t listen to me” thing: If Herself had listened to her husband back in 2016 (and subsequently), we’d be halfway through Her second term now. They’d have everything they claim to want.
What? And have herownself get mansplained too by the Great White Chief of the Patriarchy Clan?
I think not!
I could tell them in 60 seconds why they’re losing, and it will only cost them a few million. But basically anyone not in politics, entertainment, or the media could do the same. It’s not complicated.
Inflation Caused 18 Percent of Americans to Skip Meals or Not Buy Groceries: Survey
Time to work off that Covid-15.
Shit’s getting wild over on the bird app.
I hate to piss in the punch bowl, but I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed to find out that the acquisition only means Twitter goes back to being as shitty as it was in 2015. Musk has already assured his investors and advertisers that it’s not going to be “anything goes”. Still an improvement, mind, but it’s never not going to be a cesspit.
No system that implements “anything goes” will survive in the real world, and expecting that is unrealistic. The improvement is however the huge thing. if they stop the massive amount of bots and also stop doing the dirty and questionably legal work of government censoring they have been doing, this will be a massive win for everyone.
I don’t do twatter, I have no plans to ever do it. I do occasionally read posts, and I think allowing people to call out the bullshitters and make fun of them is the best recipe for turning back the evil onslaught of marxist pedagogy.
I don’t care about bots.
Not banning someone who misgenders for hate speech is an excellent first step. As is bringing back anyone who said now proven true things about covid and vaccines.
“learn to code” is still a net positive.
but yes, twitter sucks. at least I don’t smoke.
1) Allow a thousand controversies to bloom!
2) Pull more eyeballs back to the platform!
3) Prune out the deadweight.
4) PROFIT!
Musk really is a genius.
Musk understands human nature, persuasion, and the fact that the current direction social media is taking us is going t be dystopian.
He’s not buying Twitter for Twitter. He’s buying it as part of a larger scheme to develop an app that can do Twitter, YouTube, Venmo, etc. in one.
Everyone has that idea, but we will see.
More Walsh:
In the battle against inflation, Walsh said moving people up the income ladder is a better way of helping Americans make ends meet than laying them off.
“I think there’s a way to do that by creating good opportunities for people so they have opportunities to get into the middle class, and not enough people in America are working in those jobs, quite honestly. … I think there’s a lot of Americans out there right now that have gone through the last two years, a lot of concern in the pandemic, they were working in a job maybe making minimum wage, maybe they had two or three jobs. Really I think the best way to describe what is a middle class job is a job you can work, one job, get good pay, so you don’t have to work two and three jobs to support your family.”
From a policy perspective, Walsh expressed disbelief that a higher federal minimum wage remains a contentious issue on Capitol Hill.
“It shocks me that there are members in the building behind me, if you can’t see the building behind me it’s the Capitol, that think that families can raise their family on $7-plus, on the minimum wage in this country,” he said.
But Walsh conceded that legislation to increase the minimum wage, which was held up in the Senate, has an uncertain future ahead of the midterm elections.
Yes, Marty, there are literally hundreds of millions of people out there working for seven bucks an hour, desperately trying to raise a family and keep a roof over their heads. Raising the minimum wage will put more money in their pockets and bring down inflation. Why can’t we do that?
This sentence stuck out to me as an indicator of someone who has absolutely no clue how businesses operate (outside of those living on the government teat).
This explains it.
He has literally never held any employment that one might consider productive, and in general, all of his jobs have been net drains on the economy.
Right?
Instead of laying people off, pay them more. That way they have better lives.
/company goes under, all the people lose their jobs
Billionaires will just have to swim in shallower pools of gold coins.
/derp
People ignorant of the basics of economics really do not get that companies that do not take actions to make sure they are profitable or at least don’t live in the red, will not last long. Probably because these same people feel government should steal tax payer money – including money from successfully run companies – to bail out the ones that suck.
I hope someone asked him how many decades ago it was, the last time he saw a teenager working his first job at a fast-food joint or whatnot.
Hah!
I have a different take on this than you do. Most of the fucking idiots talking about families living on minimum wage know damned well they are full of shit, but admitting that they like minimum wage increases because it helps them funnel more money to unions, and especially public unions – whom always have contracts tied to minimum wage – where they can then collect even more money to lard the coffers of ONE political party’s campaigns.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That was great!
They learned more that day than if they’d opened their books. It’s something they won’t forget. Thanks, Jimbo
So this is actually a pretty good read, and I find myself wanting to agree with lots if not most of it. Ah, but the catch – this is the same Michael Lind that is so wrong about libertarianism; what assurance do I have that is head isn’t as firmly up his ass here?
Ah, there we have it – his solution:
Now to be fair, he has skewered the classical liberal plan of action pretty well just before this. So the funny thing is he is setting up the nationalist conservatives with this bit and I kinda don’t think that’s what he intended. Or maybe I’m wrong and that’s exactly where he wanted to go.
Anybody who could look at the situation and prescribe that is willfully blind to reality.
Eh, unilateral disarmament isn’t a winning move either. There isn’t a winning move once you’ve gotten yourself this badly fucked. Libertarians and classical liberals will still be navel gazing about the appropriate use of state power while they’re boarding the cattle cars. I guess there’s a quiet dignity about dying with your principles.
The regulatory powers of the government is a major part of the reason we’re here.
Dismantle the regulatory state in its entirety.
That would be the ideal, of course, but even effectuating such a plan requires some agency head to fill out the paperwork to lay off their entire staff, then navigate the 18 years worth of legal challenges, which will be heard in administrative law courts rather than normal courts. It’s part of why Trump ended up being such an ineffectual bumblefuck. He had no clue whatsoever how to actually execute on the promises he made because he wasn’t a government administrator for his entire career, and unfortunately he’s apparently a piss poor judge of character and surrounded himself with inept clowns, on the one hand, or the very swamp creatures he swore to replace, on the other. This gets back to the whole Pinochet concept that’s divided libertarians for so many decades now. A benevolent dictator is not the ideal scenario, but it may be preferable among all of the other available non-ideal scenarios.
You cannot end the regulatory state from the executive branch, only throw a spanner in the works.
Congress could end all of it tomorrow, however.
I’d argue you can only end it from the executive branch at this point. The administrative state is all ostensibly part of the executive branch, and have arrogated their authority from successive congresses willingly offloading lawmaking some place where they can’t be held accountable for it. Theoretically congress could turn off the money tap… right around the time that Christ rides into D.C. on a donkey and sets up the New Jerusalem.
Trump wasn’t even a competent businessman. He’s a fucking con-artist and shameless self-promoter, that’s all.
You’re half right. Trump was an ineffectual stumblefuck because, despite his own pretensions (and the fantasies of his supporters), he is not an executive and he never will be. Trump is a salesman. He’s reasonably competent at negotiating deals, and you can’t handle a bureaucracy that way.
Well, this is essentially the solution of big-govt conservatives*. So Lind ends up pimping for the national-conservatives. Like I said, I don’t know if that was his intent because he doesn’t seem to be a fellow traveler to that cause. With the evolution of the Republicans to a populist party, unrooted to conservative let alone libertarian principles, I think we should get much more comfortable with that terminology.
* yes I know that seems like an oxymoron, but it really isn’t, not if you look at who the first political conservatives were in Britain or France.
“‘Historically, swimming in America is very racist and usually when you look at drowning statistics it usually affects children of color because of lack of access,’ she said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11363629/Fettermans-wife-wanted-open-public-pool-teach-minority-children-swim.html
What?
She’s a stupid twat. She’ll be perfect for Senate after Fetterman gets elected and they allow him to quickly retire because of medical issues.
Do they not teach swimming in every school in America anymore?
Never was taught in my school growing up. Then again it was in a small town with many ponds and lakes around it so we kinda just figured it out on our own or were taught by a parent.
Then again maybe it wasn’t taught at school in the hopes that the five black kids in the K-12 classes would drown. It was Hicksville, racist, flyover country after all.
Our small town that was surrounded by lakes (412 within 25 miles) required swimming in order to graduate. The thinking was that everyone was going to be around the water a lot and they should know how to swim.
Most of the schools around us did not require swimming.
Like you said, it was pretty easy for almost everyone because we had all learned to swim as tiny kids.
They never taught swimming at any of the schools I went to here, nor was it a common thing that I was aware of at the public schools. Now… almost every suburb had public pools and free/cheap learn to swim classes all summer long.
We had swimming classes in JHS and before that I took free classes at the local HS – during the winter ❄️
The Catholic high school I went to had a swim team, which had to practice and train at another school as there wasn’t a pool. However, the convent up the hill from the school had a pool for the nuns. Once that got out, it did not sit well with the students and parents.
Didn’t they drown in those habits? 😉
No. My alma mater has no pool nor access to one. No swim team, no diving team.
I learned at my aunt’s pool starting at the age of 3. I nearly drowned one time as the instructor took his time taking off his watch before diving in to retrieve me.
From the ages of ~3-14, my best friend was black. We took swimming lessons at the YMCA and swam at the local public pool every summer. Neither of us drowned. Both of us were competent, if unremarkable, swimmers. I guess nobody told the Shadle pool administrators about the honkies only policy…
“Muh-racism” is the left’s answer for everything.
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So funny thing about those PA ballots. The Republican party controls both sides of the state legislature, and yet they can’t get the executive branch to abide by the law.
Learn to code?
That makes no sense. Looks like there are a lot of twitter, fb and other Big Tech firms shedding devs. Probably going to be a glut of them in the market.
What industry is out there that really, really, really can’t find anyone to fill openings in their organization? I know…..
Learn to cop
Minneapolis streets will soon be patrolled by ex-Twitter employees!
Can they work from home?
“What do you mean the precinct doesn’t have a nap room? Or a cafeteria with free food? Not even a game room?”
So you saying these tools will soon demand their employer provide them with this at home?
There was a movie where cops just stopped into the local businesses and got free rewards, like cigarettes and other non-cash benefits.
Can’t remember the name
The town I grew up in had/has a McD’s that had a policy of giving free food to cops/EMS.
As far as I know, its still in place.
See also Starbucks, although I don’t know if they still do that post-Floyd.
But then they would have to touch icky guns that shoot minorities.
Paradoxical though it may seem, however, political intervention is necessary to depoliticize the institutions that have already been diverted from their limited missions and competencies.
It’s a paradox, alright.
Narrator: there will never be a depoliticization, only swapping of agendas as parties have their turn in power.
Disappointing and funny development in the GOP gubernatorial race: Jesse Ventura endorses King Walz.
Disappointing because I thought Jesse did an OK job as gov. He was miles better than either of his opponents (Skip Mondale and Norm Coleman). The Dems and GOP were also so distracted by their mutual hatred of him that they didn’t get much of their usual shenanigans passed.
Funny because of how everyone is spinning this:
I also had a genuine Native American Tear slowly rolling down my face as I saw this:
C’mon Jesse! What happened to you man? King Walz’s response to the Rona really?
He was Jesse The Body in the wrestling ring, not Jesse The Brain.
When you dance with the devil, the devil changes you…
Didn’t he move to Mexico, saying he wasn’t coming back because of Minnesoda’s high taxes or something? At least we have the Jesse Ventura Railroad to sleep on in the winter. No masks required.
I took an oath 50 years ago as a Navy Seal to defend this country.
This country was the result of an insurrection.
I’ve noticed this among my friends on the rabid right side of the aisle. They claim to love the country so much but completely fail to understand why it’s special. They were fully on board with all manner of security state expansions, undeclared wars, and trampling of civil liberties to protect us from terrorists hiding under every bed.
A lot of people on the right think that powers given to government would be stewarded properly by conservative minded people. A serious failure in understanding both human nature, especially when it comes to power, and of a system where power can shift to the other side which you don’t trust.
🤦♂️
Yeah, working hard yet their system still allows it. I’m reminded about a scolding the 1SG gave me one time when I replied “I’ll do my best” that I was already planning to fail.
Wow. Somebody wasn’t paying attention in Database Design 101.
Customer #1: Whycome I got a sex doll with boobs and a wang?
Customer #2: WTF is this box of assorted glass dildos and barrel of lube doing here?
Elon Musk fires top Twitter execs and will restore users with lifetime bans including Trump
Muh-fascism!
The one thing that most scares the establishment is the inability to control the narrative to hide that they are fucking inept, evil, and have plans that will fuck the vast majority of us all over.
Hide? Klaus wrote and published a whole fucking book. That’s about as opaque as Mein Kampf.
But it is a “conspiracy theory” to point out their “Great Reset”…
^^^THIS^^^
They want to have it in the open to taunt those that would call them out on it while getting cover from those in charge of giving the sheeple their narrative.
Conspiracies are conducted in secrecy and denied. What part of this isn’t visible?
It’s not denied?
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/11/liz-wheeler/great-reset-not-conspiracy-force-changes-economic-/
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57532368
https://fullfact.org/online/great-reset-conspiracy-theory/
Hold on – you’re saying a Poltifact denial of reality counts? Isn’t their denial actually as clear a statement of intent as you get? The inverse barometer of truth?
The best conspiracies are the one you can run with in the open, while delegitimizing those that realize your conspiracy theory is a for real fuck you.
Then it isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a program.
“Will restore”
Yet it’s still suspended as of now. Would be pretty easy to reverse the more high profile ones last night when the previous regime was getting walked.
Sooooooo……..
I am assuming that the Senate is going to flip. Which means that the republicans would vote on the new-vice president.
I think its very likely that Biden steps down after the elections. The Democratic party cant afford for him to stay for 2 more years. Make Kamala President now, and they get to pick VP.
Delay and the repubs get to pick VP.
That’s your November surprise.
Well that would be the ultimate endorsement of Congress as a parliament as opposed to it being an independent branch of govt.
Nah, they’re too arrogant, too prideful, too worried about saving face to ever admit the Biden administration is an absolute disaster. If(and it’s a big if) the Republicans take the Senate I expect a rush of executive orders via the sock puppet so large it will take years of court battles to even begin to address the abuse of executive power, much less repeal any of the orders.
It doesn’t matter which warm bodies are in either seat for the next two years, so I don’t think they have any concerns whatsoever about giving Joe the heave-ho.
Oh, I agree a Harris administration would equate to the same thing as a Biden one, I just think the DNC is too proud to admit that their insistence that Biden is in a perfectly fine mental state over the last three years was a blatant falsehood. Never admit fault or error and all that political jazz.
Doesn’t work. Dems have 48 votes plus 2 independents. Kamala can’t break the tie to become president.
You bring up an excellent point. But I bet there a couple of RINO’s who would give in.
My guess is that the Rs want Biden in office so they can start investigations and impeachment proceedings.
So, I don’t expect any RINOs to cross the line to put Kamala in the Oval Office.
VoteRishi Sunak!Evan McMullin’s Faux ‘Independent’ Campaign Is Bankrolled By Democrats
*shocked face*
Oz Calls Fetterman’s Bluff, Offers Do-Over Debate
Just more bullying and ableism.
You know with one streak of white and some hair gel, Gisele could really pull off the perfect Bride of Fetterman look.
To be fair the original Frankenstein’s monster looks a bit more high brow
mmmmm…. biscuits ‘n mustard… I like the way you talk…
What’s the over and under that the democrat plan was to hid how bad shit was with the Dr. Fetterman monster, skate through the election with some extra fortification to make sure he is pulled across the finish line, then reveal to the rubes that would have voted differently had they known the facts that they got played and are now gonna get the monster’s bride in the senate? Now they are going to have to do a massive amount of fortifying, so much it might be blatantly obvious, to carry that monster over the finish line. I think they are hard at work doing that, though, but this time hiding the shenanigans will be a bit harder with all of us expecting it.
You’re going to be really disappointed if Oz wins, and Republicans continue to hold both sides of the PA legislature, aren’t you?
Yeah, you somehow concluded that because I am not a fan of the team blue crime syndicate, I am a fan of that douchnozzle Oz. I am not. And frankly, if the people of PA let team blue straddle them with team blue cuntes, they deserve the pain. Not thinking Oz will be a big step up, but hopefully it is a step away from more disastrous shit.
Team be ruled still wins, sure, but that isn’t really your game.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game…
Dude, it is your game that I don’t like. If you want to stand on “there’s no difference between the parties” – then who wins doesn’t matter, does it?
Spending on business equipment fell in the month of September amid an overall decline in manufacturing activity, signaling a lack in business confidence across the economy.
Hopefully my severance is good.
High inflation rates have forced almost a fifth of the U.S. population to limit their food purchases, and meal intake, according to a new survey from the Nationwide Retirement Institute.
But inflation is only up an inch. And it’s way lower than other countries. And that should satisfy me because Democrats say so. They really care.
I lost a lot of weight this year and it wasn’t intentional. That’s all I have to say about that.
How are you doing?
A shriek in the darkness
After months of legal wrangling, Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter appears to be finally going through. Musk and the right see this as a great thing because it will restore “free speech” to Twitter. Any suggestion that the sort of “free speech” they envision can have highly undesirable consequences is met with howls of “Libs hate free speech” or other accusations of fascism. Similarly, warnings that unfettered free speech results in dangerous misinformation spreading are derided with “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” and the libertarian belief that in the marketplace of ideas, the best will always win out.
These theories will be tested quickly. It is being reported that after the sale is finalized, Musk plans on laying off nearly three-quarters of Twitter’s staff and that one of the first things to go will be any corporate attempt at content moderation and user security. Musk also plans on restoring the accounts of high-profile sources of disinformation and violent messaging who were previously banned, most notably former President Trump.
The pro-Musk arguments are complete nonsense, and there are innumerable historical and modern examples of why social media platforms with nearly unlimited freedom of speech produce horrors. The Supreme Court decided free speech isn’t absolute long ago, when Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted that you can’t shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, for obvious reasons.
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The argument that the free market of ideas will win out, or that truth will inevitably conquer demonstrably false narratives, is essentially a libertarian fairy tale. It is completely ungrounded in observable reality. A quarter of all Republicans believe the bugnuts-crazy QAnon conspiracy theory that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.” Similarly, 71 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by nefarious means, despite the fact that no credible evidence exists for such a claim. The power of confirmation bias is incredibly strong, and most social media companies cash in on it and boost their popularity with algorithms showing consumers increasingly outlandish material that already fits their worldviews.
As far as the free market goes, people forget that the usual result of completely unregulated markets is monopolies. Ideas within social media are no different. “Free speech” competitors to Twitter such as Gab, Parler, Truth Social, and GETTR (which exert little to no moderation) are uniformly conservative monocultures full of the worst kinds of misinformation and hate outside of 4Chan and Kiwifarms.
I like that he admits his preferred notions have no chance of competing in a free and open marketplace.
With any luck, this guy is standing on a chair with a rope around his neck this morning.
the usual result of completely unregulated markets is monopolies
Man, that is some high derp right there. I’m almost tempted to say peak even.
“one of the first things to go will be any corporate attempt at content moderation and user security”
Just ignore Musk’s letter to advertisers saying there will still be moderation. And what’s this about gutting user security? Unless that is code for getting rid of the bots, I have no idea where that came from.
“With any luck, this guy is standing on a chair with a rope around his neck this morning”
This would’ve gotten you suspended on Twitter previously.
What you did there, even unintentionally, was seen.
Well now, can’t wait to see the details…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-assaulted-home-invasion-spokesman-says
Probably some right wing nutjob?
My bet? This is a “Gulf of Tonkin”/”J6” like operation to generate sympathy in the woke crowd and fear from those that would throw money at the Pelosis…
So many possibilities, yes. Hard to know where to even bet. Illegal immigrant, FBI plant, sure-enough rw nut-job, dumb and obvious false-flag from a proggie, estranged family member, disgruntled business associate, etc.
Nope, if the offender had even a hint of right wing on him, they’d already be trumpeting this to the high heavens.
On a side note, that is truly a desperate criminal to invade Nancy’s home like that. Anyone taking the risk that they might encounter Nancy sleeping in the nude is 100% crazy.
He just really wanted some premium ice cream.
Maybe this was Vodka Skeletor’s way of getting back at her tool of a husband for getting caught driving drunk and fucking things up instead of laying low?
Nancy sleeping in the nude
Barfman says “Barf”.
*contemplates gouging own eyes out*
Probably some guy into whose car Paul Pelosi crashed in a drunken stupor.
Never underestimate the power of random.
Harry Reid’s brother?
Wind Farm in Germany Is Being Taken Down for Expansion of Coal Mine
I did nazi that coming.
I gas that was inevitable.
Sounds like they made the reich decision.
All y’all…
*narrows gaze*
The Dems have really been hoisted by their own petards in recent years. Their insistence on electric stoves over gas stoves is a big time driver of their current woes.
With gas, you have a lot of control and can ever so slowly bring up the temp of the water on the stupid frogs in that pot of water. With electric, you don’t have the ability to gradually raise the temp. The electric stove kicked in and jolted the temp up a bit too quickly and the stupid frogs are getting restless.
Case in point: the frogs have figured out that election judges, Sec of State and other once pointless jobs administering elections really are important. Now the MSM is bewailing the fact that the dumb frogs have caught on to the importance of those positions and are either filling them with their own goons or challenging the current ones.
Similar things are happening on school boards everywhere. They spent 50 years slowly taking those over and then they blew it by pushing too hard. You could say they threw the tranny into a higher gear too soon and now the frogs are taking seats back.
I’ve learned recently that you should never underestimate the ability of the left to push things too far too fast. Seems to be their thing lately.
Why not, it works. You never get more than a fraction of what they pushed undone.
What are you talking about? I’m looking forward to the numerous bills the new GOP controlled Congress will pass to repeal ObamaCare. Sure Biden will veto them, but surely in 2024 when the GOP controls the Presidency and Congress they will easily repeal that.
Wait….
Nevermind.
Crime is under control in SF.
Meh. Not sure if I believe it.
What if I told you he was eating subway.
At 2 AM? And he was attacked by a couple of guys wearing MAGA hats and yelling MAGA COUNTRY, BEAOTCH!??
Dude with a hammer…sound like a crazy street person to me.
Someone is confident.
Cochise County plans to vote to hand count every single race on every single ballot—w/ Election Day just 18 days away & early voting already started. That’s illegal & risks the integrity & accuracy of the election. I’ve warned them: If they proceed, I’ll take legal action.
I think the words “integrity” and “accuracy” mean something different than Democrats think they mean.
Those words are like democracy. Anything that stops Democrats from winning is bad.
“Illegal” too.
Will Musk be sleeping in his office at Twatter?
He’s homeless, you know.
That day in the life video from the other day showed they have sleeping rooms.
This is a positive development.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1585864093650792448
Brutal, but oh so delicious…
Elon; in the theater; with a flamethrower
Regarding the twitterpocalypse: and to think that the spark that set it all off was the Bee calling a man a man. Ha!
It starts with a beat of Bee wings…
Naturally The View always has the best hot takes.
The View laughed about the possibility that Herschel Walker has brain damage and yesterday Behar mocked DeSantis for looking like he “had a stroke.”
But today, Behar is appalled that people have concerns about Fetterman’s clearly poor condition: “It’s so unempathetic to the guy.”
Sunny Hostin claims Oz “chose to bully a stroke victim.”
“He obviously was bullying him,” she declared. “It takes real bravery to allow people to see your weakness.”
Without evidence, she claims “Fetterman’s cognitive abilities have not been compromised.”
She calls Oz a “quack”
The doctor is just trying to make sure Fetterman gets the care he needs, which is not in the senate.
Psycho Killer is cool, but do you know about the Psycho Chicken?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBlst3T7bY
I remember this song from Dr. Demento and recently found the video.
I almost fell off the couch laughing while my wife rolled her eyes.
This is the one I remember best from the show (other than the Weird Al stuff, of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No
We should distinguish the US government form the American people.
Putin Speech: “America Has Nothing to Offer the World Except Domination”
Putin just gave another speech. I translated his last major speech because it’s time people in the West understood what’s happening – too many still think the war in Ukraine is about Ukraine.
A very interesting and illuminating speech. No one, not me at least, ever accused Putin of being a dummy and this speech is just more evidence that he’s pretty damn smart.
That’s an old playbook, he sounds exactly like every other tyrant blaming America for everything and calling for a new world order (with themsevles at the helm, naturally).
I had an interesting day yesterday, and it gave me some perspective. I was hired to work from home, but we have a quarterly meeting at our HQ, and yesterday I drove the 1.5 hours to attend. I had never been in one of our company’s buildings. It is huge, and I’m told before COVID, 700 people would work there every day. But now we are all allowed to work from home, and except for the quarterly meetings, about 40 people go to the office every day.
I wonder how long businesses can keep supporting mostly empty office buildings. Can’t be much longer.
You would think. But a lot of corporate structure is ego massaging for Top.Men. Who wants to run a F500/F200/F100 company with HQ the size of a midsize medical practice?
Obviously the solution is to consolidate locations and force people to come back to the office.
Nuts to that.
Give me a thirty percent raise and I’ll consider it.
PS. I was hired during the plague so they can’t argue that it’s “back to normal” for me.
There is also a large contingent of Top Men who want to be downtown in an office because they spend lots of time networking with other Top Men in other companies. Marketing, Sales, BizDev, etc. These guys are like The View, they get together to have coffee/drinks and talk smart and see if there is any opportunity to work together somehow.
My old partner from the startup days was like that. Constantly networking. I’d like to mock him more, but he has climbed farther up that corporate ladder than I have. Of course, I can’t even imagine the hell of what he has to do every day in Big Corp.
And yes, I do believe that the Corp HQ is an important part of dick measuring contests between people in that area. “You don’t even have a moss wall in your company’s entrance way?”
I had a meeting at the office of a major tech company last week. They are supposedly on a 50/50 hybrid schedule. On a random Tuesday, there were 2 people in the office other than the ones we were meeting with.
It was a smaller office in Nashville, not their big west coast HQ, but still, it was clearly far below 50%. Not sure they are enforcing that 50/50.
My company has worked for thirty years to move support functions away from the physical locations they support, into fewer and fewer regional locations with teams scattered across the country, then 100% work from home over the past 2-3 years. It’s laughable trying to put the cat back into the bag and “needing” to go back.
We’re supposed to be in three days a week. I haven’t gone in in over a year. *shrug*
My company had several buildings in Hartford CT where they rented space for the 15k of us that worked in that city in addition to they owned themselves. They have no canceled all their leases and can’t even fill the 3 buildings they have, because most people work from home, even as they try real hard to convince people to come in 3 times a day.
Both the company I work for, and the one I support are currently in the process of turning down offices, and cutting rental expenses.
I don’t know why this isn’t a big story. They were talking about it a little during Covid. Commercial real estate has to be in terrible shape, and the exodus from cities is is a big deal.
It’s been all over local news. There’s all sorts of fun fights going on between suburbs and cities, and the like.
The end of affirmative action
Affirmative action in higher education has endured by relying on moderate justices like Sandra Day O’Connor, only to see the court remade by Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The need for negotiation is over on an issue that sharply divides Chief Justice John Roberts from the liberal justices, particularly Sonia Sotomayor. And striking the policies down could also open up broader legal attacks on the use of affirmative action in employment.
Blum’s group, which says it represents about 20,000 students, has asked the high court to overturn its ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 landmark decision that held colleges can consider race and use holistic reviews as long as their affirmative action programs are narrowly tailored.
It’s a move education and civil rights groups fear will exacerbate inequality for years to come. They point to race-neutral college admission policies in California, Michigan and other states where the practice is banned and diversity has declined. A race-blind admissions standard, they say, fails to take into account discrimination and other barriers Black and brown students often face.
College admissions are so completely subjective I don’t know why anybody thinks this will make a meaningful difference. Are they going to fight quotas by imposing different quotas?
Ah, the old “We need more racism to combat racism” line of thought. The classics never get old.
I heard more than 80% of honkeys and Asians applying for collage now tell these colleges they identify as something other than that, and the colleges MUST not only accept that, but can’t do anything about it once they realize they were duped. Makes me kind of cheer on this affirmative action shit.
Yeah, they’ll just find other ways to discriminate against whites and yellow (Yellow?) students.
Someone told me Asians are bananas. They may be yellow outside, but they are fucking evil honkeys inside. They believe in all that getting educated, meritocracy, and hard work shit or something, which is all sorts of acting white.
The whole “acting white” business is one of the vilest, evilest lies perpetrated on not-whites.
It’s sick.
Even sad-beard can’t grok the shit. When you can’t fool someone like that, you’ve really gone deeply insane.
That’s an understatement. It is IMO evil.
Uffda. Asian Tiger Moms would think that acting white is bad because it is a step down from their natural racial superiority.
Ask me how I know.
You are secretly an asian tiger mom, trying to fool us with that whole Pope bit, right?
As I noted last night, the Elon take over of Twitter has completely dropped off the Google News front page. You have to click into the Business section to find it, and even there it’s not prominent.
I wonder if Elon can afford to take over Alphabet next.
They want to bury the fact they are losing across the board before the coming election…
Interesting contrast between what one is supposed to think about Blake Masters (R senate candidate in AZ) vs when one actually here’s him talk. Now maybe Dave didn’t push him some of his more ‘extreme’ positions, but what I heard here, sounds like a decent possibility. Come on AZ, get it done if for no other reason than to get rid of that empty human suit Mark Kelly.
“There is no workable alternative to achieving the kind of diversity we have today and that we’ve had for decades,” said Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University and lead defendant in Grutter.
Overturning Grutter will be a set back for not just higher education, he said, but for all sectors.
“It would put us into a new era in which we would fall back on society’s efforts to address issues of racial injustice that are part of our history — and tragically so — and continuing to this day,” he said.
Que?
Anybody care to translate that for me? All I hear is random bursts of static.
I think it means he doesn’t believe in his own BS – and how could he, given its obvious failure to accomplish any its stated goals – so he has to resort to issuing a stream of gibberish.
Read a bit yesterday about how Marshall’s [dissenting] opinion was that affirmative action was needed to overcome the history of discrimination against blacks. No other group was mentioned as needing such benefit. I’d love to quote that bit in an amici brief.
“I’m getting more rape threats in the DMs than normal, but can’t log off and miss the chaos!”
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1585840327817981953
Normally, no one would want to rape Taylor Lorenz.
Hint: don’t look at your DMs.
Rape threats are a legit cause of banning accounts, so naturally, she should report them.
Oh wait, you can’t report shit that isn’t happening.
Schumer says Warnock’s Senate race against Walker is ‘going downhill’ in remarks to president
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., expressed concern Thursday about Sen. Raphael Warnock’s re-election race against Republican Herschel Walker during a conversation with President Joe Biden.
The private discussion was picked up on a microphone and camera while they stood on an airport tarmac in Syracuse, N.Y., with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“The state where we’re going downhill is Georgia,” Schumer appeared to tell Biden. “It’s hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker.”
“But our vote — our early turnout in Georgia is huge. Huge!” Schumer added.
Those prefilled ballots are flying off the printer as we speak.
Makes you wonder what he was going to say after “vote” before catching himself.
Higher education groups are preparing for the end of race-conscious admissions policies.
“I would be less than honest if I were to say that I’m optimistic,” Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, said about Grutter’s odds before the Supreme Court. Her pessimism, she said, is spurred by the composition of the court and its recent decision “to ignore 50 years of precedent” in the Dobbs case.
you could always try to focus on diversity of thought…
I crack myself up.
“National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education,”
That such an organization exists tells you all you need to know about the priorities of administrators in higher ed.
You would think. But a lot of corporate structure is ego massaging for Top.Men. Who wants to run a F500/F200/F100 company with HQ the size of a midsize medical practice?
Bring back Lord Hanson. I did very well on my investment in Hanson, plc, long ago, and the principal reason I bought the stock was because (as I recall) Hanson’s corporate HQ was some rundown brick building salvaged from one of his acquisitions, and the ratio of corporate HQ overhead to revenue was positively miniscule in comparison to other “conglomerates”.
He was engaged to Audrey Hepburn in the early ’50s. She could have become a Rank actress.
Enjoy your generic crumbs, plebs.
Biden said his message to people on grocery and gas prices is that “we’re getting them down. I told you I’d bring them down. We’re bringing it down. I come from a family where if gas prices went up or if food prices went up, what happened was there was a conversation at the kitchen table. And we’re doing a whole lot of other things to — and by the way, the food prices, the main driver of food prices is not the price of beef and eggs, etc. although, they’re up. It’s packaged goods, packaged goods. You’re going to see people not buying Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, you’re going to see them buying other Raisin Bran, which is going to be a dollar cheaper.”
“Put it on a plate, son. You’ll enjoy it more.”
Thanks for the good advice, President Carter.
Not fair, Carter actually had some compassion.
Wear a sweater and enjoy your inferior food.
There is a second Aldi going up very quickly in our town. That company’s been doing great, but they’re going to start making bank really soon.
/looks at the price of beef, chicken, turkey, pork, milk, and eggs.
/comes to the shocking conclusion that Joe is full of shit
We’ve had our share of conversations around the kitchen table about you Joe.
We had some recent discussions on hiring and resumes in the past few days. I’ve finally found and hired a candidate for a role that has been open for over a year. I’ve gone thru so many resumes and interviews with garbage candidates, over, under, and not even the same animal qualifications.
I read this pretty funny periodic tech fiction, essentially Dilbert if he was a psychopath. This particular week was about hiring a new boss. I’m sure many of the IT folks know about this site and column.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/bofh_2022_episode_12/?td=keepreading
Some examples:
“The interviews continue, each applicant being asked for some practical demonstration of their fit for the role. The only standout was the ex-baker who’d come with a pie chart made out of a real pie, representing the areas he thought would be a good fit for the company.”
“Perhaps we could ask some questions that would be directly related to the role?” one of the HR blokes suggests.
“Sure, sure,” I say. “If you woke up in a shallow grave in a forestry setting with a lump on your head, would you tell anyone? Asking for a friend.”
HR is always about giving other people working at the company the shaft…
Simon is still writing? That’s a bit of good news. Maybe the world isn’t complete dogshit after all.
Holy shit! Simon Travaglia is still writing and has been all along? I haven’t thought about it in years, probably been twenty since I last read some.
🤯
Yep, and he still has stair and window based “work place accidents” quite often.
Ahh… the BOFH, I haven’t read those in a couple of years.
“National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education,”
That such an organization exists tells you all you need to know about the priorities of administrators in higher ed.
Yeah, that just screams “intellectual rigor” and “devotion to the pursuit of truth”.
Sounds like being a member would make for a sweet gig. Think they need a libertarian? You know, for intellectual diversity…
NOT THAT KIND OF DIVERSITY, YOU BIGOT!!!
We have to destroy freedom of speech to save it.
The letter argues that Random House has a duty to stop the publication of ACB’s book to save free speech. “This is not just a book that we disagree with, and we are not calling for censorship,” says the letter, titled “We Dissent.” “We cannot stand idly by while our industry misuses free speech to destroy our rights.” It quotes British leftist David Puttnam, who contends that the media has a duty to “balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.”
That’s the rub, of course: who gets to decide the contours of the “wider moral and social responsibilities” and the “misuses” of free speech? Even if we formed a consensus on those alleged duties, one of the reasons (real) liberals treat speech as a neutral principle is to protect dissent and challenge conventional wisdom. Rationalizing censorship as a means of protecting people from harmful ideas is as old as censorship itself.
We must deny you your rights to safeguard our own never ever ever ends up in a good place.
They seem willing to die on that hill. They may be obliged in that regard in the near future.
a duty to “balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.”
Uh huh. Where have I heard that before?
How about this: If someone is going to decide what can be said and what cant be said, I will do the deciding. Does that sound good?
Good morning, all! I was awakened early this morning by sharp chest pains (on the right side), especially beneath my breast, a sudden headache and jaw ache (again, mostly on the right), and shortness of breath. It’s not the first or third time this has happened, but they are increasing in frequency. Clearly they’re not heart attacks, because I would be dead. Dr. Google and I are leaning toward costochondritis, but it’s either something you go to the ER for while it’s happening, or you leave it alone because what can they do for you if they’re not watching it in real time? Also, it alleviates once I hit the recliner. It will stop long before I get to an ER. So after it happened earlier this week and then this morning, and I am not yet dead, I will rule out a heart problem.
Anyway, Tim Robbins, my word! I didn’t read the whole interview but the lead-up was interesting.
What is the thing a CEO (any CEO) SHOULD do the second he buys a company (any company)? FIRE THE LEADERS IMMEDIATELY. Everybody’s acting like it was this shocking thing when it’s what should be done first thing in any situation. Hoping to get my man straff back tweeting. Isn’t Gordilocks also in the Twitter gulag?
Meanwhile, in the Metaverse, the stock is tripping around way below their valuation last year, but I can’t tell if it’s because the company is shit and nobody but old people uses it anymore or just general stock market shrinkage during an inflationary period.
I am self-employed at home, so I haven’t had to deal with “come into the office today,” but I can well imagine people are more productive when they don’t have an open office space where anybody can yell at you at any time for anything, knocking you out of your groove. Hypervigilance is actually quite hellish. I’m hoping when I get a medical coding job, it can be from home. I won’t like being tied to my desk in ways I am not right now, but I really don’t want to have to do the whole get-up-early-and-get-ready-and-then-fight-traffic-for-an-hour and then commute home again. OTOH, maybe I need some human interaction other than my husband. Kidding, I don’t. My husband has to go into work for 2 days a week, but that is because he is dealing with paper paper and has to sit with a notary for a while to deal with the documents he produces.
Straff is still tweeting.
As of Saturday he said he was banned again. He keeps having to invent new monikers.
Ban must not have lasted long, according to his feed he’s tweeted a couple time everyday this week. The quality of his jokes has deteriorated though.
I had similar symptoms minus the headache even down to the goes away in a more upright position. Turns out it was reflux that can cause chest crushing pain that can extend into the jaw and arm just like a good old heart attack. It went away with a regimen of Zantac, Prilosec, and watching what I eat within an hour of going to bed. Maybe that’d be worth a shot.
Reflux! That sounds most likely. I am on a regular regimen of Protonix, but it does seem to coincide with a large(ish) (can’t eat that much) meal before bed, which is pretty much the only time I’m actually hungry.
Do you take probiotics? I used to have severe stomach issues periodically where I would actually get sick to my stomach. Unbelievable cramps and bloating.
Turns out, my gut flora was all messed up. The 2 gummies I chew every day now are like a miracle. I also take Nexium, but if I miss a day of that it’s not a big deal.
I’ll look into that. What do you take?
I take Olly Multi Probiotic.
You can get probiotic only as well. You can get prebiotic and probiotic but those hurt my stomach a bit (they have fiber)
I worried about the heart stuff too and, like you, just figured that wasn’t it because it would’ve killed me already which isn’t the greatest place to be mentally. Here’s hoping you find something that works and you feel better.
Yeah, eating before bed could definitely cause it. That’s probably what is is.
That said, be careful about assuming symptoms aren’t heart related. My Mom did that, and it caused a lot of misery for her when she eventually had her first serious heart attack that could have been prevented. She had two more and survived them both, so it definitely doesn’t automatically kill you.
And reflux is nothing to fuck around with either. It is your body saying something is really wrong. I know the drugs can work, but there is a definite gut issue and diet needs to be addressed.
My FIL suffered from it, took the drugs and still ended up with a perforated esophagus and esophageal cancer.
No bueno.
Good point, it’s easy to overlook the amount of damage reflux can cause, because we pass it off as “just heartburn”.
Family history of heart disease, heart attacks, the bad ticking time bomb going off early, the whole works. SOOOO I go see a cardiologist every year JUST because of my family history. Ticker is right and tight, which is why I kind of just go with the flow on these. If it were a heart attack, I’d be dead.
BUT there’s always that tickle in the back of my mind. What if…? I don’t have little kids anymore and I don’t fear death, so to me, I just want it to happen fast and relatively painlessly.
I used to get stabbing pains in the middle of my back. One day my chiropractor told me to try ant-acid tablets because reflux can cause the pain I was feeling.
Next time I had that pain, I chewed a couple of Tums and the pain went away immediately. So, I started taking over the counter Zantac (now taking Prilosec). The improvement was immediate.
Get some Tums or something. Next time it happens, take some Tums. If you get immediate relief, then you probably have acid reflux.
Note that acid reflux presents as heart attack in women. Two visits to ER in the middle of the night with crushing chest pain for my wife can confirm that.
Damn Mo, that sounds painful.
If it is costochondritis, does that explain the headache and jaw pain?
Take it easy, hope it goes away.
It does not, which was what kind of had me stumped, but Stinky’s probably right on the nose.
Dr. Google and I are leaning toward costochondritis
Idk what that is but sounds like reason for a doctor visit.
I’ve stopped going to WebMD. The answer is always something innocuous or that I’m dying.
Costochondritis is basically inflammation of the cartilage between your ribs but Stinky’s idea is probably 99.999% correct.
When I went in yesterday there were a few people I was meeting in person for the first time, and an old friend sat next to me, so there was a lot of chatting and socializing. It probably wouldn’t be that bad if I went every day, but for sure we didn’t get a lot of work done.
Diversity? On campus? Fuck that!
The University of Florida Faculty Senate approved a no-confidence resolution Thursday on the selection process to appoint US Sen. Ben Sasse as the next president, officials said.
The 67 to 15 vote comes after Sasse, a Republican senator from Nebraska, became the only person considered for the high-ranking position at one of Florida’s largest universities. His candidacy sparked controversy on campus partially due to his 2015 comments on LGBTQ+ rights after the US Supreme Court ruled to guarantee same-sex marriage at the federal level.
Not of the Body. Shun him!
They’re not going to love you Ben, you sold out for nothing.
That’s likely part of it, but most of the opposition is to the process. This year Florida legislature passed a bill taking presidential searches out of the sunshine until the last round of finalists. The UF search committee only named one finalist, and so now the faculty don’t even know who else applied. They are being presented with a take-it-or-leave-it choice of someone who has no experience in administration of a large R1 university. The conservatism is just a bonus.
This is fine: Tucker Carlson: The US is about to run out of diesel fuel
If the US only had 25 days left on 10/14, then we must be down to 11 days left now. How many days actually are remaining today? And what is the historical range?
There is likely a spike in demand right now. Buying fuel to heat your house, farmers getting winter wheat crops planted. I bought 1200 gallons last month just to have it.
Hopefully Matt has a public release of this – I’ll give you the subscriber link. It’s just fucking awesome.
The beginning…
Here’s the link for that white paper.
My uncle is a high school graduate who did a stint in the Navy and then got a job working at a Koch refinery. They gave him an IQ/aptitude test when he applied at Koch. He passed and spent 40+ years working at Koch. Made six figures for many of those years and was dog loyal to Koch (despite being a traditional union Democrat).
When the courts said that IQ/aptitude tests used by employers was racist, college degrees became a backdoor test used by companies to weed out undesirables.
If they let people go back to hiring youngsters who had the right aptitudes and training them colleges would be gutted.
Doubt it. The world has moved on. Extensive training is a cost. Especially if they’re going through leave in a couple of years. Better to put the requirements on the opening. And HR has their own schemes for screening and assessing applicants.
If they let people go back to hiring youngsters who had the right aptitudes and training them colleges would be gutted.
Yup. I am currently employed as a data engineer and have been working in various IT roles since 1983. High school graduate (OK, I earned 4 credits freshman year before getting the boot from uni). It was tough finding a gig last time I got outsourced, lack of a degree automatically disqualifies me in many places. Doesn’t matter any more, pretty sure this will be my last full-time gig.
Me too. Hoping I can retire and mow lawns or something for side money sometime soon.
Why are some links light blue and others are red?
Cursory research leads me to believe YouTube/video links are red. Correct?
I believe that’s an optional thing If you are using one of Trashy’s plug ins.
I have to tell you all that this little group has been good for me.
You are all weird and wonderful.