¡Martes por la tarde, enalces mexicanos!

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Daily Links | 233 comments

This POS, to think I trusted you…

Sorry about the confusion yesterday.  I prefer to not get into details about what was said offline.

In other news I seem to have broken the push-pull valve stem to backwash my pool over the weekend.  So about half of it is in the regular flow position about 18” into the pipes.  So I am now stuck having to cut off the elbow and knock it out the top.  My pool will likely turn green in the meantime, and that’s rather impressive during the winter.

Anyways…

AMLO tries to shake down team Brandon for concessions over migrants.  WaPo thinks this will somehow backfire, so he will probably succeed.

AMLO is also seeking changes to electoral laws that incidentally appear to benefit left wing populists like himself.

Seriously NBC?  If Nick Saban isn’t recruiting women, its just virtue signaling.

Evidently, Bitcoin didn’t fix this.

A majority voted to be poor, let them have it.

If US relations with Haiti—of all countries is at the point they’re shooting at diplomats, maybe its time to tone down the world police act.

 

I’ll get some shit for this…its just Creed without the sanctimonious bastard singing.

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233 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Sorry about the confusion yesterday.”

    The tulpa battle?

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m confused. You mean this wasn’t about the moon dust?

      • Count Potato

        Is that what they call cocaine in Buffalo?

      • UnCivilServant

        I wouldn’t know, I’m not allowed in Buffalo.

      • Count Potato

        I thought you were from there.

    • SDF-7

      Lovers quarrel.

  2. UnCivilServant

    You mean that’s not an algae farm?

    • Count Potato

      Once you have algae, you can add something that eats algae and build up a whole ecosystem. Like those bio balls or whatever they’re called.

      • SDF-7

        +1 Lije Bailey.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Are you sure you’re not thinking of bottom feeder F. Lee Bailey?

      • The Other Kevin

        +1 Pauly Shore

  3. Tundra

    Holy shit. How bad do you have to fuck up to be sent to the embassy in Haiti?

    • Count Potato

      Haiti isn’t bad if you have money. Few Haitians do, but I assume an ambassador would.

      • Urthona

        If you make a middle class salary, you could probably have about 23 full time servants there.

    • Ownbestenemy

      My guess not fuck up, but rather actually adhere to your mission

    • KSuellington

      So I didn’t have a condom with me. But then I figured, hey, when’s the next time I’m gonna be in Haiti?

  4. The Late P Brooks

    It’s cold outside, boys and girls. I was just outside dong a couple of fairly minor tasks (like pulling the battery out of the 914), and now my fingertips are in serious pain.

    Honestly, it’s probably in the teens. I am not as resistant to cold as I used to be.

    • Tundra

      Yeah, it was 17 when I took the dog out yesterday. I was dressed like it was 30 below.

      I may end up on the west side or even Utah. Complete pussy.

      • Not Adahn

        It takes a while to get your winter metabolism going. I needed a jacket and it was still 40 degrees! By March, 35 will be shorts weather.

    • DEG

      NH is supposed to get snow overnight. I saw what I thought were a flurry or two as I drove home this afternoon.

      • UnCivilServant

        Our forecast says rain, snow, freezing rain, then sleet.

        I told my direct reports to use their judgement on whether to work from home.

      • Jarflax

        You told government employees to use their judgment? That is the sort of judgment a government employee would… oh wait.

      • UnCivilServant

        Would you rather I have them meddling? The question is “work” from home or “work” from the office.

      • Jarflax

        Can’t they all just browse porn? I mean all in the broadest possible sense.

    • Bobarian LMD

      outside dong?

      You don’t want to freeze that. It likes warm.

      • SDF-7

        He was trying not to cock up his minor tasks.

    • The Other Kevin

      We’ve been spoiled with weeks of 60’s, then suddenly it’s in the 20’s and that hit hard. Not enjoying it either.

    • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

      It’s 55* and sunny here, but we had the snow last week.

    • Spartacus

      Our low is forecast to dip just below 60 over Thanksgiving; highs in the 78-84 range for the next couple of weeks, probably longer.
      This is why we put up with the occasional hurricane.

  5. DEG

    Sorry about the confusion yesterday. I prefer to not get into details about what was said offline.

    OK. Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut…

    “In his first speech, Lula made it clear that the climate agenda will be central in his government,”

    Fuck.

    • UnCivilServant

      “We plan to increase the amount of slash an burn operations until we’ve brought the CO2 level in line with carboniferous period levels. We need the boost to our agricultural sector for the proles to work.”

    • Urthona

      Will his climate agenda consist of asking first world countries for money? That’s usually the case.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Give us more cash or we unleash the cow farts!”

    • KSuellington

      Essentially what Lula means is that Europe and the States can pay his selected cronies and NGOs boatloads of cash so he can make believe he is saving the Amazon, perhaps gain some international environmental awards (and the fancy receptions in a 5 star hotel in Geneva) and have less need to take part in national corruption schemes to pad his comfy retirement.

      • SDF-7

        Well, someone knows how to play Tropico, El Presidente!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      It wasn’t that bad, no ethnic slurs were thrown.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Today, on Fools and Their Money

    Sandals worn by Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple sold for $218,750 at an auction in New York City on Sunday.

    The brown suede Birkenstock Arizonas were worn by Jobs in the 1970s and 1980s during “many pivotal moments in Apple’s history,” according to the auction house.

    It’s the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals at auction, Julien’s Auctions executive director Martin Nolan told NPR, and a record for footwear at the auction house.

    Foot fetishist, or Mac fanboi?

    • Urthona

      gross

      • The Other Kevin

        Really gross. He was known for not showering or using deodorant at that time.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Sandals at least are open air.

    • R.J.

      What, is he Jesus now? Are we going to save his holy Slurpee cup from his last dinner?

      • SDF-7

        2024 campaigns are spooling up and need funding and all.

      • The Other Kevin

        You see, this crypto thing crashed and we lost our slush fund, so we need to start over.

      • Drake

        It would be refreshing if we elected an honest scumbag who would state the truth.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The money goes from taxpayers, is sent as “aid” to Ukraine, which gives a good chunk of the laundered money to FTX, which contributes to the Uniparty Swamp. This prompts the Uniparty Swamp to repeat the process, and as we’ve seen over the past several months, it’s working wonders. Corporate media barely reports on all the money getting laundered there on a weekly basis. No Democrats and very few Republican politicians bring up the issue. Nearly everyone is on the take.

      It’s just a stark, sloppy example of the corruption. Now think of all the money from Raytheon and what that funds in DC.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We should immediately stop payments to Ukraine and begin a thorough audit of the $60 billion that Joe Biden and Congress have already sent there.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 14, 2022

        There is just one man.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Rand got rations of shit from the usual suspects when he proposed the same thing on one of the bills.

      • grrizzly

        You know who wasn’t on the take? Trump. Rand Paul isn’t either. The rest of them? Not so sure.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        My favorite Rand Paul gotcha was when he didn’t disclose that stock purchase he lost money on.

      • Count Potato

        “You know who wasn’t on the take? Trump.”

        That’s one reason why he had to go.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I only like it cause he is acting as if he is one of us who had control of a billion dollar company. Fire fucking everyone.

    • UnCivilServant

      I wonder if these employees have some endgame in mind when they do this or if they’re just that reckless.

      • SDF-7

        I’m assuming reckless — if you’re fired for cause (violations of company communications policy or whatnot) you wouldn’t get severance. One would think they’d want the package even if they already had another gig lined up.

        But I’m more of the stay-in-one-spot, don’t badmouth the boss to his virtual face kind of guy, so what do I know…

      • kinnath

        I think they are that young, stupid, and inexperienced.

        They all missed the joy of working shit jobs in high school and getting shit on by bosses and occasionally getting canned for insubordination.

        So, they are learning these crucial lessons and adult professionals.

        I really think they believe there are no consequences to “speaking truth to power”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Probably closer than fiction on this one.

      • Drake

        From the last thread – Greer is a cool town we visit occasionally.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They’re very convinced of their worth to society.

      • The Other Kevin

        They’ll sock it to the man and have three seconds of fame on social media. And then they’ll go to the food pantry for Christmas dinner.

        If you hate the guy, the best thing to do is quietly take his money before you shoot off your mouth.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Is no one going to point out the irony that the world’s wokest company is going with a super homophobic t-shirt to bash him?

      • Aloysious

        “It’s different if we do it!”

    • rhywun

      Jeebus… I am glad I work with adults.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    But fuck it, let’s do it some more. Biden asks for more than $37 billion in Ukraine aid

    He is merely doing the people’s bidding.

    • Urthona

      Who have been solidly polling for 6 months that they don’t want to give Ukraine more money.

      Good job of the opposition party capitalizing on this btw.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Gotta get the spending approved before the GOP takes over the House. Not that they’ll turn off the printing presses, but McCarthy did threaten to slow them down a little.

    • Jarflax

      $12 million, same as in town.

      Inflation sucks.

  8. Ownbestenemy

    My prediciton…all the Crypto trading/wallets will default and the Feds swoop in.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Wut.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      They’ll have to pry my crypto wallet from my cold dead hands.

      • Count Potato

        “Your terms are acceptable.”

    • Tundra

      Cool. Now do Tik Tok.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Reminds me of days when FitBit was demanded to be used by all personnel only to realize that GPS data could be used to determine troop movement on a foreign land..

    • rhywun

      And all of those apps run on operating systems “that can monitor users”.

      But RuSsIa!1!!1

  9. Shpip

    A majority voted to be poor, let them have it.

    It took me a second to realize our in-house sniper was talking about Brazil and not the US.

    I’m still wrapping my head around the Democrats’ winning message: “You’ll be poorer and less safe, but at least you can kill your offspring and get your student loans forgiven.”

    • SDF-7

      Hey — at least Stacey Abram’s variant of: “You’ll be poorer unless you kill your offspring.” appears to have been too much even for the jackasses.

    • rhywun

      The excitement these “international leaders” have at the prospect of all the renewed grifting in Brazil practically leaps off the page in that story. These people are sick.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      That absolutely applies to us.

  10. Certified Public Asshat

    Defector attempts to make the case that the NYT is not liberal because it dares to question puberty blockers: How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be?

    I haven’t had a stroke since I started on hormones, even as I’ve made plenty of less-than-healthy life choices. I had an issue for a bit where I found it very difficult to wake up in the mornings, and felt more tired during the day, but it turned out that the loss of testosterone just made me an iron-deficient girlie—treatable with a drug-store supplement. In the same way that my head felt stormy after getting the COVID-19 vaccine (four times), or my vision got briefly blurry after giving blood samples, I accepted these hurdles as the cost of being human. Our bodies will never be flawless, and the quest to be as mentally and physically healthy as we want is always going to be complex, taking us down unpredictable roads no matter what issue we’re dealing with.

    Once trans people enter the picture, though, institutions like the Times are eager to reimagine the remaining limitations of modern science and the inherent chance of side effects that come with any medical treatment as invalidating flaws. I want to say I don’t know why our little dysphoric selves and our healthcare choices get singled out this way, but you don’t have to think too hard about why the Times continues to do this before the logical conclusion becomes clear: The Times believes there’s an ideal number of trans people who should be alive in the world, and we’re dangerously close to exceeding it.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be?

      Keep pushing it on kids and soon there won’t be any.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Comment: My son (AFAB) has dealt with the bone density issue since about six months after he started puberty blockers. The remedy? He ate more cheese. Seriously.

        Fuck the New York Times, fuck their hysteric both-sidesism, and fuck Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd, just because that cannot be said enough.

        The cure is apparently cheese.

      • Tonio

        Well they are right about Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        This is true.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘the quest to be as mentally and physically healthy as we want is always going to be complex, taking us down unpredictable roads no matter what issue we’re dealing with.’

      From the passages above that statement it kinda sounds like that quest is slowly killing you. Maybe take step back from the shots and hormone therapy for a while and see if you don’t feel better.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, just a shade ironic there.

    • rhywun

      Does that get to a point? I zoned out trying to find one.

    • Count Potato

      That is one ignorant idiotic article.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Read the comments, if you dare.

      • juris imprudent

        I already hate too many people.

  11. Evan from Evansville

    Hrm. Well. This deadline gone and the next in 71 hours…hrm. I made it and kinda had a lot of copy going in. I did make a few sloppy fuckups my boss had to catch. Pretty meh of a day? I never know.

    Would be semi-ree, but county commissioners are having a 7pm meeting. One bit of it actually looks interesting. Looks like I’ll be driving up. Good in that it’s probably story material for the next edition. Bad in that it’s more to do, but that’s still (mostly) good. I don’t like driving at night, though. It’s supposed to stay above freezing, and that’s the real concern. Not current precip but it’s moist. Yep.

    I gotta make it into an adventure. I wish I had a switch that’d do that. I can get close. Odd changes in mood about work/the day. I suppose this is what ‘normal’ people feel like most of the time. Fairly famously, I don’t ‘properly’ feel a few emotions. I still got ’em! But meh.

    Still thinking how necessary this journey is. It had one bit that sounds quite interesting. Or could be. I talked to the dude who was in charge of it earlier today. Yeah. I probably should.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, did you decide? Or are you asking our advice?

  12. Pope Jimbo

    Won’t you shed a tear with me for brave boys in blue?

    Since the murder of George Floyd, hundreds of Minneapolis police officers have left the force while claiming post-traumatic stress disorder to seek disability benefits.

    At least 155 officers have received worker’s compensation settlements totaling nearly $26 million, according to a FOX 9 Investigators analysis of city council minutes and police records. Many of those same officers have questionable histories of misconduct.

    The po-po and the Floyd family must surely get together every year to celebrate their wonderful lives thanks to George.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The FOX 9 Investigators analyzed hundreds of city council minutes, police and disciplinary records to identify at least 155 now-former MPD officers who have had workers’ compensation settlements approved. At least $25.9 million in settlements have been approved with an average payout of $167,000 per officer.

      Attorney Ron Meuser and his firm, which specializes in PTSD, have shepherded more than 85% of the settlement cases analyzed by the FOX 9 Investigators.

      His firm declined to participate in this story but Meuser previously spoke publicly about police officers he represents who he says encountered life-changing trauma during the civil unrest.

      “If these individuals have symptoms legitimately consistent with PTSD, it is not safe, in my opinion to have them have to be out on the street,” Meuser said weeks after the civil unrest.

      You know, I think there might be another option out there. Like you take them off the streets AND you don’t pay them for their phoney-baloney injuries.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      They must be tougher than the Capitol Police, given that all of them committed suicide after 1/6.

  13. UnCivilServant

    Well, I finally got the notice from the county that my mortgage is finished. It’s done with.

    Why does the house still not feel like home?

    • Sean

      Bake some cookies.

      • Gender Traitor

        Excellent idea! I have a recipe I can recommend! 😉

      • UnCivilServant

        I was looking at the jar of honey from Fourscore’s bees and wondering if I could replace some other sweeteners with it.

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe molasses?

    • R.J.

      Put up some pictures, maybe a few throw pillows.
      Alternatively, you can get drunk and wake up in the tub. That christens a house nicely. Just don’t pull a Keith Moon.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hang a few pictures or one of those “Live, Laugh, Love” signs.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yeah, there you go

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is wonderful that you rescued a dog, but you still shouldn’t let him sleep on the bed.

      • DEG

        I read that as “jizz up the bedroom”. I was not disappointed.

      • Lackadaisical

        The only problem with a sign like that, is you better deliver.

    • Trigger Hippie

      No wife or children?

      I never owned a home or had a mortgage but I have spent a few years living in one place several times. It’s always just been “my place” never home. Without someone to go home to it just feels like a small, empty building were I happen to sleep and keep my junk.

      • UnCivilServant

        I live alone. Have since starting at the state.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ve spent most of my adult life living alone as well. I’ve played house a few times but nothing serious or long lasting. Just saying maybe the reason it doesn’t feel like home is because there’s nobody to share it with.

        I certainly prefer to live alone too but I can’t deny it feels rather empty at times. Maybe that’s why despite now fully owing the property it doesn’t feel like home. I don’t know, man. I’m just talking out of my ass.

      • KSuellington

        I feel like there is a sitcom in this with you two moving in together. The Glib Couple.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I get the sense he likes to keep a neat and orderly place. I’m far from neat and orderly. Plus the smoking wouldn’t go over very well at all. He’d be lunging for his strangling gloves within a week.

      • KSuellington

        Playing the part of Oscar Madison we have Trigger Hippie. And introducing UnCivil Servant as Felix Ungar.

    • Mojeaux

      I have knickknacks and art that are dear to me.

      THAT SAID, no place I have ever lived after my childhood home has felt like “home” to me. It just approximates it.

      • UnCivilServant

        After a bunch of moves and a housefire, there’s not a lot of my childhood left as physical objects.

        Of the stuff I do have, the stuff I’m emotionally attached to seems to be things I’ve made with my own hands (like my miniatures).

      • Mojeaux

        I didn’t say they were childhood knickknacks or art (I have those in a box downstairs). They’re things I’ve gathered along the path of life.

        Many of them are things I have made.

      • UnCivilServant

        I didn’t say you had, I was reflecting on my possessions, and noticed.

        Objectively, most of what I own is replaceable, and my reactions would be related to the difficulty in replacing it.

        Very few things have sentimental value. I’m unsure why that saddens me in of itself.

      • Mojeaux

        Very few things have sentimental value. I’m unsure why that saddens me in of itself.

        Are you generally unsentimental? Or have you done/experienced very little over which to be sentimental about?

        I like pretty things. When something is especially pretty, I feel close to it and put it on my knickknack shelf. Or, say, souvenirs from family moments. Things my kids made for me. My old motorcycle license plate. Two shell casings from when I went shooting with a friend. Stuff like that.

      • Not Adahn

        I was without a town I considered “home” from 1993 to 2005. Then I moved in with a wonderful woman and Austin became my home. This town didn’t become “home” until I had my house built.

    • Fourscore

      When the roof is totally yours you’ll know it’s home.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s half paid off already and on track to go away by January.

    • Jarflax

      Hochul won?

    • Lackadaisical

      Because you’re still paying NY taxes?

    • Mojeaux

      *squeeeeee* You know me so well!

      Frank Lloyd Wright with some upgrades, I see. And a SWIMMING POOL!!!! Wouldn’t live in it because who wants a bed on an outside brick wall in Illinois in the winter?

      That hit the (g)spot.

      • slumbrew

        Those slate floors are phenomenal.

        I’m just disappointed the pool is so… ordinary. At least be kidney-shaped.

    • kinnath

      Gorgeous

    • UnCivilServant

      There is not a rectangular room in that house… *twitches*

      • R.J.

        I love everything about it, except the Illinois part.

      • UnCivilServant

        Too many windows – it looks like all of the rooms are outside areas.

        No square angles – drives my OCD crazy

        Indoor brick

      • R.J.

        I have very few windows to outdoors. As such I enjoy the concept pf bringing outside in.

      • UnCivilServant

        Windows make me uncomfortable. The space immediately feels public, and under observation.

        I don’t like the idea other people can see me. I can’t actually relax if I think I’m being watched.

        Call me paranoid if you like.

      • kinnath

        6 acres. The house is surrounded by woods. The attack dogs will keep snoopers away.

      • Fourscore

        I like windows, one of the requirements when I built my house was that every room had to have a window, even in the basement. No one here to see in, only me looking out.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “No square angles – drives my OCD crazy”

        So I guess the Hundertwasserhaus is out of the question.

      • Not Adahn

        Lol, there’s a joiner who goes by “Adam the Tablemaker.” One of his signature pieces is a level coffee table composed of wood cut in straight lines, with no two of them parallel.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        I would almost make the Illinois exception for that!

        Except the swimming pool. Fuck that.

      • Mojeaux

        Right?! Too modern. Needs to be converted to a big concrete kidney-shaped pool with a low diving board at the deep end.

      • slumbrew

        Hah, should have refreshed before my comment.

        Kidney-shaped FTW!

      • slumbrew

        It also needs a little mid-century pool-house, echoing the design of the main structure.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        A giant glass atrium, for the cold winters.

      • Michael Malaise

        Kidney-shaped have to be fiberglass drop-ins in Illinois due to the freeze/thaw cycle. Not sure how big they come, but not big enough for us (we had kids with friends and I wanted to do laps) Not impossible, but if you want a steel wall pool (which is what I have), you have to go pretty rectangular.

    • KSuellington

      Fantastic place. Hey I enjoyed the Lemon Jelly you recommended as well slum Good stuff.

      • slumbrew

        ‘Make Things Right’ is such a great jam. And I love how Spacewalk just builds.

        Love Thievery, btw – aside from Kruder and Dorfmeister, they’re the ones who really got me into downtempo. Oy, but their politics…

      • KSuellington

        I dig “The Staunton Lick”. Yup, Thievery is a continued fav or mine, I’m sure their politics suck as much as their music is awesome. Putting Subcomandante Marcos on an album cover for example.

      • slumbrew

        A bit of a tell, that.

      • Mojeaux

        Do you mean Thievery Corporation?

        If you DIDN’T, let me introduce you.

      • Mojeaux

        That is a very nice groove. Booty dancing in my chair.

      • slumbrew

        Their debut album, ‘Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi’ is kick-ass. Can recommend.

        Along with their second album, “The Mirror Conspiracy” – includes gems like this.

        Also en français

      • slumbrew

        That’s a great track, Mojeaux.

        “When listening to Koops music it’s somehow easy to believe that it’s played by a small orchestra, but in fact the music is based on samples. Thousands of small clips from records puzzled together into new songs. All the drums, strings, horn sections and choires are actually sampled! ”

        It’s really well done.

      • Mojeaux

        “When listening to Koops music it’s somehow easy to believe that it’s played by a small orchestra, but in fact the music is based on samples. Thousands of small clips from records puzzled together into new songs. All the drums, strings, horn sections and choires are actually sampled! ”

        Yeup. 😀 Glad you liked it!

      • KSuellington

        If you dig Thievery Mo, and you don’t already know Kruder and Dorfmeister (and their side project Tosca) you should check them out. You’ll probably like. Here’s a nice album from them.

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2JWTHJNvOzY

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, love the Sessions album. I got introduced to them through that album by a Dutch buddy when I was living in the Dam. We played a ton of it. Takes me back to the early 2000’s. Such a fun time and place.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        I am of the opinion that all the musicians I like have shit politics. Same as actors. I think it comes down to being part of what seems a lottery system; there are so many good ones that it is really just luck they make it at all. They discount all the shitty people, or people who didn’t have a feel for what is going on.

    • The Hyperbole

      I’d be happy with the barn.

    • R C Dean

      Maybe its just the wide angle lens, but holy crap those ceilings look low to me. I feel like I’d be constantly ducking my head.

      I haven’t had a house with ceilings less than 10 feet for 15 years, and I really like higher ceilings.

      • Mojeaux

        That is … not my style.

  14. Lachowsky

    So…

    Im sitting in my annual hazardous waste training class and the thought just occured to me.

    Doesn’t being required to report to the state any time you have a hazardous waste release violate your 5th amendment right against self incrimination?

    • kinnath

      Assuming the penalties for failure to report are civil damages, . . . then no (but, don’t trust the engineer for legal issues).

    • Not Adahn

      Nope. You the private citizen are not required to report. You the employee of [Company] are reporting on behalf of [Company] which has no such right.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    I do not have that “nesting gene” everyone else seems to have. I have been in my new “home” (mine- paid cash) for coming up on six months. No pictures on the walls, hardly even any furniture. A bed,a desk (sort of), a chair, and a teevee. What bothers me more than anything is I don’t have my shop set up. There are some extenuating circumstances, but mostly it’s just me.

    It’s not like I’m expecting company.

    • R C Dean

      I’ll pass that along to Mrs. Dean. When she heard about it, she immediately said “I bet he was messing with a carburetor”.

    • Tundra

      While they are increasingly rare these days, steam-powered White vehicles were the most popular cars in the United States at the turn of the 20th century.

      Increasingly?

      I would have said vanishingly. Still, I’m glad he’s ok. Besides, burns from your cars add character.

      • B.P.

        The article says there are five known White steamers in the world. I’m guessing that number is not on the move.

  16. Fourscore

    We had about 4-5 inches of fresh snow yesterday/today. I got my yard cleaned up , tomorrow the driveways. My snow blower was in the repair shop all summer, got it out last Thursday. Runs great and all the controls do what they are supposed to do.

    • R C Dean

      My snow blower was in the repair shop all summer, got it out last Thursday.

      Sucks getting old.

      Oh, that wasn’t a euphemism?

  17. Not Adahn

    I made a fantastic cold-weather toddy/Old Fashioned hybrid drink,

    2oz Bourbon
    2oz limited supply special ingredient*
    2oz boiling water
    1T maple syrup
    3 dashes orange bitters

    *a mason jar full of sour cherries and rye I have in the fridge. Not sure exactly how long it’s been there, but considering the sour cherries were from a CSA that shut down during the panicky times, about that long.

  18. juris imprudent

    Here’s a reply to CPA‘s link on trans and the NYT.

    What’s notable about Fetterman’s masculinity is how it differs from the kind cultivated by Donald Trump and the GOP. Unlike Trump’s fragile, macho belligerence, Fetterman offers a sense of stoic decency and empathy.

    Fetterman’s approach isn’t the only path for Democrats hoping to reach white working-class voters. But it’s also true that masculinity is a hugely potent force in American politics. It’s time for Democrats to stop ceding it to the far right and offer their own compelling version.

    • Not Adahn

      Fetterman is making brain damage (non-toxically) masculine again! The NFL can be watched by wokists!

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        FETTERLUMP SMASH!!!

      • slumbrew

        I did have an uncomfortable moment last week: in-laws and others were talking about how obviously unqualified Walker was due to his obvious brain damage. I noted that Fetterlump also is impaired due to brain injury – either that’s disqualifying in both cases or it’s fine in both cases.

        They quickly moved onto “that’s different!”. Because “reasons”, I guess?

    • R.J.

      That dude is about as far from blue collar as you can ger.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly – but good performance art is good performance art, even if it is political!

    • slumbrew

      I am dumber for having read even that excerpt.

      • juris imprudent

        She has an entire book – imagine the brain damage you could do with that!

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I couldn’t possibly tolerate that much patronizing condescension.

      • slumbrew

        “This is what those morons want”

    • B.P.

      “…Fetterman offers a sense of stoic decency and empathy.”

      Yes. A stoic, decent kind of empathy. Like when he wanted to “take it outside” with Nick Gillespie…

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

      I do have a great amount of sympathy for anyone who has suffered a stroke, but I’m not sure being silenced by cognitive impairment rises to “stoic.”

      • Suthenboy

        Didn’t he also assault someone with a shotgun?

    • one true athena

      ah yes all that potent empathetic masculinity of hiding the candidate in the basement for a couple months. It’s certainly not a ‘vision’ of anything other than compliant media.

    • rhywun

      Far-left platitudes fed by your parents’ cash while running a small town into the ground are the model for the New Masculinity™️.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I read most of it, God help me.

      It’s Rednecks In The Mist yet again.

      Perhaps they could just stop shitting on the middle class by taxing, regulating, inflating, and telling their kids they’re not actually what they were born.

    • Suthenboy

      “It’s time for Democrats to stop ceding it (masculinity) to the far right and offer their own compelling version.”

      They always have Beta O’rourke.

    • slumbrew

      “I am, I am cal… I am somewhat calm” 😀

    • Drake

      The dude who wanders over while eating (a burger?). Then he and the dog just wander off…

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Hey hon, if you’re done smashing in Jilly’s face, I got a Coors for ya.

    • Lackadaisical

      Ya hear me?

      The fatty is lucky that girl couldn’t do any real damage.

  19. juris imprudent

    And Taibbi is up to his usual brilliant self…

    Musk is the new bête noire of the American consensus. He is the Negative Current Thing, a role mostly played by Donald Trump since summer 2015, with occasional fill-ins (in no particular order, Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Novak Djokovic, J.K. Rowling, Jeremy Corbyn, Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, whatever they call Kanye West these days, and others have manned the slot). The coverage playbook for these heel-of-the-hour stories is rigid.

    However, here’s the real meat for me. He is quoting Miller speaking about The Crucible:

    When there was “internal decay” inside the Salem community, even though this was due to a lot of different causes, “they began seizing on the idea that this was all being stirred up by secret forces.” The problems couldn’t be the town’s fault, because its leaders were so obviously faultless and “devoted to God and righteousness.” Thus the hunt for the external threat begins, and that process only ends one way. Sound familiar?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      This new breed of intellectual imagines there can be such a thing as creativity or genius without the freedom to make mistakes.

      The only mistake is offending the powers that be. People can get very creative when it comes to sucking up.

    • Suthenboy

      Whoever gave that fucktard a keyboard needs to find a different line of work.

  20. Count Potato

    “Just when I think I’ve seen every possible iteration of “guy with Down syndrome lip syncing really poorly”, TikTok says “what if he was lip syncing hypersexual fuck jams and pointing at his own mother?””

    https://twitter.com/realonlineboy/status/1590453979355705344

    • R.J.

      That guy could have beaten Fetterman.

      • Jarflax

        Please don’t give the RNC any more candidate ideas.

      • R.J.

        Hell, that should be a post!

    • B.P.

      Huh. This is my first foray into the genre.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Rule 34

    • DEG

      I will pass on that.

  21. Not an Economist

    This seems kind of important. Maybe intentional, maybe not. Maybe the start of WWIII, maybe not.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Upon pondering this for a minute, I think the attention is meant to scuttle any talk of negotiations regardless of how or why it happened.

      Killing two innocent farmers in the hinterlands is what the US would call a very slow day in the Middle East/Central Asia/Somalia.

      • Tundra

        Let’s ask the Yemenis.

    • straffinrun

      Russia intentionally bombed a militarily useless target because nobody would believe they’d do something so stupid.

      Or

      Russia accidentally bombed Poland and will say Ukraine did it as a false flag.

      Or

      Ukraine did it to try to get the West even more deeply involved in the conflict.

      Or

      A rogue band of Ukrainian forces did it to drag the West in more deeply.

      Or

      The CIA or some other Western intelligence agency did it.

      Or

      The ghost of Kiev

      Or

      IDGAF because the lies on both sides have been so egregious and the motives of all these bastards are driving us towards WW3.

      • UnCivilServant

        I am of a mind that the explosive was not intentionally dropped on a useless target in poland. It went off course and whoever initially fired it did not intend to bomb a farm field. It doesn’t matter who’s shot missed, everyone will blame everyone else.

      • straffinrun

        The still haven’t conclusively figured out who shot down that commercial airliner over Ukraine years ago, so I can’t imagine you’re wrong.

      • R.J.

        I believe it was an intentional act to drag more actors into the war.

        “And what happened, then? Well, at Glibertarians they say – that R.J.’s tinfoil hat grew three sizes that day.”

      • Jarflax
      • Jarflax
      • straffinrun

        Or maybe it really was just a cigar.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Maybe he’s a failed artist from Austria.

      • Count Potato

        He has paint.

      • juris imprudent

        Struggles to get attention.

  22. The Hyperbole

    What is the point of this, I often defend remakes and think that the whole ‘Hollywood has ran out of ideas’ is a lame argument, but Jebus this does nothing that the original didn’t do. I understand wanting to pay tribute to your heroes but a bad karaoke performance ain’t it. Now this is a quality remake, it gives new life to a song many people never heard of and even those that did will appreciate the new take on the old song. /Rant