Much adventure this week. I drove, solo, to Montana to have Thanksgiving with Spud, Francisco d’Anconia, and his wife at the latter’s Unabomber cabin. Weather being what it is, I lost a day coming out so sadly had to postpone my visit with Mr. and Mrs. Riven, but I’ve hatched a plan to get back out there with NPR Lady. She’ll never know what hit her. Interestingly, in all my stops from Wisconsin west, I was always the only person in sight not wearing camo. I bet if I search Amazon, I can find a camo yarmulke so I’ll fit in.
Oh, here it is.
Of course, in the Thanksgiving spillover, we are thankful for birthdays today, which include an early import from Canada; a rather noisy fellow; a guy who was truly the catalyst for a technological revolution; a guy who wasn’t a Jew but it would have been perfect if he were; one of my very favorite novelists; a superb cartoonist who unfortunately found fame and fortune; an absolutely iconic sculptor; and a guy that always had the protection of Triumph.
And from this, we clumsily segue into Links.
Does anyone actually understand what the fuck is going on here?
Local news, it’s boring, but look at that hair! It’s worthy of an Eastern European dictator.
Because no-one knows the difference between a semi-automatic and a 9mm. We’re a stroke away from President Harris.
It’s important to deny choice.
Both this story and this story are, at their essence, the same.
Old Guy Music has a bit of a libertarian bent, unintentionally I’m sure. I absolutely hate the hipster visuals in the video, but it’s a cool song. I bet SugarFree could do a nice Horror Theater with this material.
“Does anyone actually understand what the fuck is going on here?”
Yes, they are pedos, and bold enough to think they can flaunt it.
This is from a while back:
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1300786789540560897
The legal arguments should be interesting. The lawyer who gets to walk into court and argue earnestly that the placement of a legal brief involving child pornography in an ad image damaged Balenciaga’s brand, but that kids and teddy bears in BDSM garb in a separate ad image did not damage Balenciaga’s brand has his work cut out for him.
Not to go full Pizzagate, but things are worse than I thought.
The National Education Association is handing out badges for teachers to wear with a QR code linking to The Trevor Project.
https://www.outkick.com/national-teacher-union-safe-space-badges-graphic-content/
https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/post/trevorspace-a-pedophile-s-paradise
It’s telling that this a hill upon which so many on the far left are willing to die. Telling for a couple of reasons. First, the obvious implication that there’s a lot of powerful, wealthy people who are really, really, really, really personally invested in, at the very minimum, having completely age-inappropriate discussions about sex with very young children. But secondly, that they are confident enough in their political and economic power to know they can get away with unapologetically and loudly taking that position publicly.
Apparently, there are so many pedos in Antifa, they are mad that pedos are finally getting booted off Twitter.
https://www.rebelnews.com/antifa_plans_arson_tesla_following_twitter_bans
Rosenbaum, one of the guys Rittenhouse killed, had molested 5 boys. Not sure why he wasn’t behind bars for life.
There have been years of articles from Salon, The Atlantic, etc. defending “minor attracted persons”.
How could you tell they were wearing camo?
It was Navy camo?
Saw disembodied bearded faces bobbing around.
“How not to be seen…”
Everyone should own some camo clothing.
I got this tunic tee from Duloot Trading a little while back. Still trying to figure out where to wear it to be cleverly disguised.
Or Carhartt’s, a tuxedo you can wear everyday
Everyone wants to wear Carhartt. Nobody wants to do Carhartt shit.
I’m down to a single pair of camo shorts nowadays, but battle fatigues were a wardrobe staple during my adolescence. Partly because I was playing a lot of woodsball (that’s paintball in the woods), but I also just liked them as practical clothing. When I started primarily playing speedball (that’s tournament paintball on flat, level playing fields with big inflatable bunkers) overpriced tournament gear supplanted a lot of my camo. It’s no wonder I had to chase the girls away with a stick…
One of my favorite PJ O’Rourke passages describing the British soldiers in Northern Ireland and how the Irish didn’t seem to see (or at least take notice of) them. He wrote it must be a testament to the effectiveness of the camo uniforms.
This came up a bit on the zoomy last night. Here is a 1976 episode of BBC Panorama discussing the “Troubles” in South Armagh where you can see that exact behavior; it’s sort of surreal. Also, I really, really, really do not want to see this level of violence and conflict spring forth from our modern political divisions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcS2LBx3nZ4
Also, I really, really, really do not want to see this level of violence and conflict spring forth from our modern political divisions.
Depends on the endgame. I’d consider this level of violence and conflict to be exponentially preferred over the “peaceful” roundups enjoyed under Soviet unity. Or Cambodian unity. Or Chinese unity. Moving us there is of course the entire point of gun control.
While it’s already been repeated ad nauseum, Solzhenitsyn puts it much better:
Likely mentioned in the Zoom but I’ll recommend “Say Nothing” again. Great book about the Troubles.
“Sweden’s parliament decided in 2017 said that by 2045, the Scandinavian country is to have zero net emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and is to have 100% renewable energy.”
Because laws are magic?
That’s why you have courts, to enforce the magic.
So they’re like wizard robes?
Impenetrable language, only practitioners approved by the guild – tell me I’m wrong.
Wood is renewable. Nothing like burning wood to warm the heart and the hearth
“Wood is renewable”
Not according to my urologist. Time to shop for a new doctor, I guess.
Yup, exactly what I was thinking. Those carbon atoms got bonded into the structure originally, so net-zero carbon.
Alternate take: So is dung. Either seems acceptable to the Great Reset.
“There has been a thirst from voters, especially swing voters, young voters, parents, to hear candidates talk about gun violence, and I think Democrats are finally sort of catching up with where the public has been.”
America yearns for dictatorial nannytarianism. It’s what made this nation great.
“America yearns for dictatorial nannytarianism”
A depressingly large percentage apparently do.
Inorite? It’s crazy how the Dems never talk about “gun violence”.
It’s like James Trafficant’s rug if it was real.
Law enforcement officials have long called for stricter gun laws, arguing that the availability of these weapons makes people less safe and makes their jobs more dangerous.
You don’t say.
https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-parking-authority-employee-critically-injured-after-he-was-shot-in-frankford
They’re shooting meter maids now.
A meter maid in trans? “He” was shot…
I can’t keep up with pronouns and/or people I’m supposed to hate…
“I bet if I search Amazon, I can find a camo yarmulke so I’ll fit in.“
I think Yarmulkes.com has a better selection.
So we caught a bit of Jeff Dunham’s new bit last night, and one of the dummies is talking about getting catfished by a guy with a van, named OMWC‘s default-world-name. Wife didn’t understand why I found that so funny.
“It wasn’t that they just wanted to be heard. They wanted to be obeyed,” he added.
That’s crazy. Don’t they understand I was elected Supreme Nanny? If anybody is going to be obeyed around here, it’s going to be me.
Great… now I’m only going to hear Trudeau as psycho Janeway.
Protection of Triumph? I was expecting Conan O’Brien, not Goulet.
I saw the 1993 revival of Camelot with my bride-to-be and her parents. Well, I saw half of it since we left at the intermission. Awful, probably would have been entertaining if I had smoked an ounce of weed beforehand.
Related to the kiddie issue: was listening to NPR in the car last night. The obligatory wall to wall stories about the incessant massacres of transies. Reporter was questioning people (sympathetically, of course) at a rally. There’s a bunch of kids yelling, “I’m trans! I’m trans!” One of them says, “I was born a boy, but I’m a girl now.” Pause. “Is this gonna be on the news?”
“was listening to NPR in the car last night”
Uh-oh.
I was expecting “playing it over the van speakers — it works better than the ice cream music these days”, myself.
+1 NPR lady in Buffalo
Only FM station I could get, and signal wasn’t good enough for my usual Amazon music stream.
I had a similar experience years ago – long before satellite radio or streaming – driving through the mountains of Pennsylvania. Only station my AMC Spirit could pull in was an NPR station playing a program with one version of Bolero after another after another, including one conducted by Lenny B. but recorded very badly (complete with a horn section that was downright honking.) This is why I believe I can say that I have an “educated distaste” for the piece.
I remember going to the dentist as a kid and getting a small toy for being a good patient while the dentist drilled my teeth. I wonder what trans kids get when they leave the “essential health care” office?
Years of therapy and prescription drug bills?
Yay!
the rapy is bad
STEVE SMITH ACCREDITED THERAPIST.
Hundreds of activists, among them Greta Thunberg, marched through the Swedish capital to a court Friday to file a lawsuit against the Swedish state for what they say is insufficient climate action.
More than 600 young people under the age of 26 signed the 87-page document that is the basis for the lawsuit which was filed in the Stockholm District Court. They want the court to determine that the country has violated its citizen’s human rights with its climate policies.
“Sweden has never treated the climate crisis like a crisis,” said Anton Foley, spokesman of the youth-led initiative Aurora, which prepared and filed the lawsuit. “Sweden is failing in its responsibility and breaking the law.”
You’d think the Swedes would appreciate a little global warming.
Well, I can see why they wouldn’t want to extend bug season.
The Best USA 🇺🇸 Grocery Store Coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfqvTCgglYA
while one should not buy grocery store coffee, James Hoffmann knows his coffee. Tis sad that it was not an American coffee that won.
Well, American coffee is grown on a small island way out in the Pacific, and is pretty hard to find away from said island, and really expensive even when buying it on said island.
folgers?
Fairly certain Folgers comes from Central & South America. Maybe a bit from Asia & Africa if they can get it cheap.
“American coffee” mean murikan company / brand
If you include the territories, we’ve got Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines in addition to Hawaii, although IIRC coffee production in Puerto Rico took a dive after the Spaniards saddled us with it.
Under EdChoice, the Ohio Department of Education pays private schools $7,500 per eligible high schooler and $5,500 per eligible elementary student per year, which covers all or part of the private school tuition. The General Assembly has broadened eligibility over the years. Public school districts say that with limited public dollars, the hundreds of millions Ohio has spent on vouchers over the years has not just decreased public school enrollment, but diminished available public funds.
I’m failing to see the problem here, unless “We have to compete with the private sector for money” is a problem.
It’s local to me, and I’m very entertained by the breakdown on the pro and anti voucher sides. From the article:
Anti-Voucher:
Pro-Voucher:
One thing the story didn’t mention is that most of the school districts (at least up in my neck of the woods) have had declining attendance over the past couple of decades… even in the private schools. The grade school I went to no longer operates as a school, just a church now.
You expect teacher unions to care about demographics?
Of course not, but the fact that the local news couldn’t even gin up a couple of parents to represent the anti-voucher side should tell even the low-information people something. It just strikes me that on one side you’ve got a bunch of unions and teacher organizations, and on the other you’ve got a group supporting religious liberty, parents, and the Institute for Justice.
Low-information voter (variant #1): unions good! full stop
There’s a lot of people who dick ride teachers as well. How anybody could attend school for 12-20 years of their life from childhood through early to mid adulthood and come away with the impression that teachers are some elevated class is fucking beyond me, but nevertheless, they do. I think for a lot of lazier parents it’s extremely important to their own ego to think of the teacher as some kind of an expert so that they can rationalize offloading the responsibility for inculcating their children with a system of ethics and values onto somebody else.
Go back 80 years or so, when many parents were not well educated. Teachers were miracle workers that had been to college and stuff. My cousin had a 2 year degree and taught in several states. I think she was grandmothered in and eventually got a 4 year degree. My parents lacked formal education and were out of their element when involved with even a high school diploma. That was the norm for a lot of people.
That is a great point Fourscore.
The Ohio Constitution says “common” not “public” schools, so I’d dismiss with extreme prejudice.
One of them says, “I was born a boy, but I’m a girl now.”
Oddly enough, I saw a story a week or two ago about the “surprising” disparity between M to F and F to M transitions. Apparently there are a lot more girls who want to be boys than there are boys who want to be girls. I guess it didn’t get much traction.
I’m just going to blame the patriarchy.
Freud’s penis envy theory vindicated?
That is a very recent phenomenon.
And strangely far more prevalent than ever before – like Alex Jones was almost right or something.
Yep. It used to be overwhelmingly M to F.
Oh, and vanishingly rare, overall.
Interesting. The only two that I’ve known and worked with were both F to M (this would have been back in the early 2010’s). They did both know each other before working at the place though. That’s also keeping a strong difference between transsexuals, transvestites, and drag queens.
“‘Kim is disgusted’: Insider reveals Kim Kardashian ‘feels violated and horrified’ that Kanye showed staff risqué photos of her – and fears ‘what will drop next’ from the disgraced rapper and anti-Semite”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11471087/Kim-Kardashian-disgusted-claims-ex-Kanye-West-showed-nude-photos-employees.html
You released a sex tape.
“Kim is worried people aren’t paying enough attention to HERRRRRRRR!”
How exactly is one disgraced as a rapper? I’d think going bougie might do it, but Kanye ain’t that.
Put out a polka album?
Still wish my son had bought into my whispering over the years that polka is the true music of teenage rebellion….
Can confirm. I had the complete Weird Al discography in my teens.
Local news, it’s boring, but look at that hair! It’s worthy of an Eastern European dictator.
This content is not available in your country/region. – ironic
Don’t cha think?
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Obviously had better seeds for UR than I did. Had to burn a guess to narrow that down.
Daily Duotrigordle #269
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 06:24.73
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Seriously, UL?
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Probably helps that I watched Wednesday on Netflix over the last couple of days.
(Summary thoughts: More than a little fomulaic, but watchable. Pretty obvious in the characters who were set up as possible suspects… but the writers obviously knew that (Ep 7 has a visual sequence where they literally say something like “I have all the puzzle pieces but have to determine how they fit” and the camera focused on each suspect in turn”). Major gripe was that the ending was a bit rushed (characters just went along and helped…. because they needed to — none of the inter-personal dynamic was truly settled, imho), and definitely had some X happens because plot demands it! [One character had a season-long issue that resolved itself just when such a resolution was required… with no backup or building as to why that moment finally worked… you can speculate a few things, but it really doesn’t fit].
Still hold to my “They really really wanted to do a Tim Burton’s Harry Potter”, but I don’t feel like I want those hours of my life back.)
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Finally found the line.
I was fully expecting to burn through three or four guesses for UL.
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Bechamel in a French Michelin Two-Star Restaurant with Giuliano Sperandio – Le Taillevent**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AAx0uIuoBQ
“Mother-of-two who had a post-divorce ‘glow-up’ when she ditched her ‘Karen’ haircut and got NINE tattoos claims people now mistake her for Megan Fox”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11471915/Mother-two-post-divorce-glow-claims-people-mistake-Megan-Fox.html
No, they don’t.
Editor’s note: The Megan Fox in question she’s mistaken for lives in Trenton, New Jersey and works at her local Love’s truck stop as an “appointment only entertainment counselor”.
“appointment only entertainment counselor”.
A lucrative side hustle for a certain ex-governor of NJ, a notable alumnus of my HS.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/mcgreevey_had_gay_truckstop_sex_while_maintaining_hetero_lie/
This may be controversial, but I don’t find Megan Fox all that attractive, and especially not with the 4 pounds of spackle and balloon lips she’s been sporting since… high school, I guess. That aside, the woman in that story looks like a mile of bad road in the before and after pics. Time isn’t doing me any favors lately either, but shit, that’s a harsh 29 years.
So ‘glow-up’ is tramp down?
I thought they were meant to grow from CHAVs into Pepper-pots, not the other way ’round.
Eww.
TIL that “glow-up” means “make yourself repellant”.
She seems to be doing the Volvo-driving soccer mom thing in reverse.
The phrase “mutton dressed as lamb” comes to mind.
Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf were ungracious assholes during the filming of thr first Transformers. On the other hand, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson paid out the local watering hole in small town Alamogordo and invited anyone from thr base to come enjoy.
Plus Fox has club thumbs or toes, can’t Remer.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH CLUB THUMBS!!!
Unless you’re bowling. Then they’re a definite handicap.
Sorry not Megan Fox but you look like a whore.
I just was at the most disappointing wine festival of the year… barely a dozen things worth tasting. Also I am stating to think australian shiraz is not my thing
Between the diarrhea, toothache, menstruation, people on true crime shows saying “cowoberate”, and 7:30am weekend work tasks…I don’t even know what I’m fixin to do.
Are they trying to say “corroborate” or “cooperate”?
Or substituting resonant cows for the usual spherical cows in physics problems?
I suppose some of the wave dynamics lab exercises could be improved in such a fashion.
Sorry you’re still miserable, KK. Was hoping things had improved with eggs and toast.
They are trying to confirm the mootive.
Some people are always trying to horn in
Then they steer things in the wrong direction.
free bleeding?
Eat bananas and stop watching true crime shows?
But if she switches to romantic comedy movies she’ll have to hear about “Wuv… twue wuv…”
I will say the Glibzooms have been epic, however
Dang. I am still on the road. I miss you all.
“Fire of Unknown Origin” last night was funny.
Damn, three days of diarrhea and now toothache too?
“I wrote this piece on Dr. Gallagher for a large publication who later decided not to run it. I know it’s hard to have this conversation, but people need to see the truth about trans surgeries on minors. I made a substack and posted the article here:”
https://twitter.com/iamGrushenka/status/1595489549878280209
“Dr. Gallagher: Using TikTok to Advertise Double Mastectomies to Minors”
https://sashawhite.substack.com/p/dr-gallagher-using-tiktok-to-advertise
25 years ago, the FTC banned Joe Camel advertisements for targeting children.
Fuck you, and the activist you rode in on
On Thursday, Axios published an article it shared on Twitter with headline, “Activists warn lives at risk over Elon Musk’s amnesty plans for suspended Twitter accounts.”
Musk declared he would reinstate banned accounts after a Wednesday poll revealed that’s what Twitter users wanted. In response to Musk’s declaration, the Axios piece reported, “Activists warn the situation would get much worse if people like former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke were welcomed back following permanent bans for hate speech.”
The Axios report noted that hate speech has already been rising on the platform since Musk’s purchase, claiming, “Online monitoring groups have reported a rise in racism, anti-Semitism and other hate speech on Twitter since free speech advocate Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company last month, though the billionaire said Thursday it has declined.”
The piece also cited activists, including Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed, who stated, “Superspreaders of hate, abuse and harassment will be the only people to benefit from this latest decision by Twitter.”
Mean tweets are more deadly than nerve gas.
“Person who gets paid for seeing racism everywhere continues to see racism everywhere. World is shocked and surprised. News at 11.”
Yep its like the parking enforcement company that our HOA hired and the HOA members wondering why there is an increase of violations all of a sudden.
Center for Countering Digital Hate
As I was saying about the immensity of our prosperity, and the parasitic class it supports.
What lives, exactly? Maybe they could use a little more risk…
Universal flu vaccine could counter future pandemic
Sounds like it’s ready for emergency use authorization and compulsory administration to 320 million Americans without exception.
For some values of “successful” (i.e. financially)
Those gold plated yachts aren’t going to buy themselves!
“successful Covid vaccines”
????
Science Denier!!!
Just Say No.
What was medieval camp life like for an archer on campaign during the Hundred Years War?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGThhiw_T7c
Without looking, I would guess “Pretty damned awful”.
especially when the lord banned camp followers
Be wary of thr fife players, I hear they are the freaky ones
Medieval campsite
Good morning Old Man!
Long-ass drive. Glad you’re back safe.
Does anyone actually understand what the fuck is going on here?
Pedos got caught doing perverted pedo things. Chaos ensued.
I’m definitely not back yet. Overnighted in Belle Fourche, SD. Next stop will be near your old stompin’ grounds.
Roads ok?
Safe travels. Cell signal should get better, at least.
Fortunately the warm weather has dried out the roads. Give’er Hell, OM, but drive easy.
“Does anyone actually understand what the fuck is going on here?”
Not completely sure but it seems to mostly boil down to the fact that many of our uber rich are into some weird fucking shit. Think Caligula enabled by modern technology.
It’s worse than you think. Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
Martyr Made also did a three-part deep dive on the Epstein story.
It isn’t just our elites, either. Some really sick fucks out there.
I hate to put it in these terms but that’s some Satanic sick shit. Our society needs to be more judgmental.
Judgmental of sexual perversity?
HOW DARE YOU!
It’s indicative of people completely untethered from any sense of morality and interested only in the basest of gratifications along with the zealous pursuit of power. Some people really do need to feel like God is looking over their shoulder and these artists and their benefactors are some of these people.
“Nick Fuentes says the details in the Axios story of his meeting with Trump are accurate. Says he told Trump that he was a hero to him, but thinks he has lost his way and that the person who he most agrees with most now saying all right ‘America First’ things is Ron Desantis.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1596497588555063300
Poorly written sentence. He never says he told Trump the person who he most agrees with most now is Desantis.
Anyway, it’s quite plausible Trump didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was. Few people do.
I had never heard of him until the pant-shitting about him reached national levels and he started showing up in 4chan memes.
I think the new face of white supremacy would be very disappointing to the old school of white supremacy.
Neither face can grow a decent mustache.
Maybe they were just looking for an excuse to stop pissing away money on advertising to bots
Asking users to pay for verification is a cornerstone of Musk’s new plan to make Twitter profitable and less financially dependent on advertising revenue. Already, half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers are no longer advertising on the website, according to a new report from the left-leaning think tank Media Matters for America.
Those 50 advertisers spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.
Experts agree. It’ll never work.
Musk’s latest Twitter thread didn’t mention whether his new plan would deviate from initial plans to charge $7.99 per month for verification.
But his announcement came in response to a Tweet from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who criticized Musk for failing to understand that “a corporations’ value lies in their workers — their knowledge, skills and ideas.”
“Interesting,” Musk responded. “Now pay $8.”
Say what you will about his ill-gotten gains, it’s good to see somebody who understands the true meaning of “Fuck you money.”
He’s got his faults but he’s still head and shoulders above the other bigwigs in the tech sphere.
I wonder how many corporations former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has run.
Pfhshaw! Booby is a sinecurist, quarter-mil a year at UC Berserkly. He’s never worked a day of his life in any kind of business.
A good new gif Mexican sharpshooter can adopt for posting.
https://twitter.com/KronoTriggered/status/1596352374175633409?t=4fP45cpBw59DDPuk_8mJLQ&s=19
That’s a video not a gif. Neither are easy to download from Twitter, last time I checked. Maybe Elon will fix that.
Welcome to the future
The spots are only accessible to residents of buildings where the apartments will set you back several million, and if you want your car to live there too you’ll need between $300,000 to $595,000 more to score some precious space in the private garage.
CNBC found two buildings in Manhattan offering spots for sale inside a so-called robo-parking garage.
The first is located at 121 East 22nd Street near NYC’s Gramercy Park where a 140-unit condo building developed by Toll Brothers
offers 24 automated parking spots.
Earlier this month, Lori Alf, a full-time resident of Florida, picked up one of the rare parking spaces for $300,000 when she purchased the building’s priciest unit: a 5-bedroom duplex spanning almost 3,800 square feet.
She told CNBC the package deal, which totaled $9.45 million, was a gift to her children who are now spending more time in New York.
Now when Alf or her kids want to park the family’s Porsche Cayenne in the condo’s garage they pull up to a kiosk where the wave of a small radio frequency ID tag unlocks access to a subterranean car lair where no humans are allowed.
Pressing a button on the kiosk sends a jolt of life into an empty metal pallet one level below. It slides across a track onto a powerful lift that sends the empty pallet up toward ground-level to meet the Alfs who can then carefully position their car on top of it.
Not as cool as the Jetsons, but we’re getting there.
Elsewhere:
While Pham wouldn’t reveal the identities of any past or present clients, she did tell CNBC the automated parking was a major draw for one famous resident, who had a security team examine the parking area prior to moving in.
The unnamed celebrity’s representatives OK’d the deal in part because the star could enter and exit the garage in total privacy, Pham said.
“They liked the idea that you didn’t have to engage with a valet or an attendant, or that anyone couldn’t come in right behind you,” she said.
And during the pandemic, the broker said, residents who wanted to minimize their exposure to Covid-19 loved that they could deposit and retrieve their vehicle without handing over their keys to a valet.
Sure. And then he can go to the Burger King drive-through on Times Square.
It takes a lot of fuck-you money to say you live in Manhattan and you don’t have to see or speak to another person while you’re there.
The retarded face of evil.
Epic POS.
This is why when you see language in a TOS that says something like “…will transmit some data to include, but not limited to…”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/facebook-under-scrutiny-receiving-tax-171743469.html
Also that only Yahoo, Fox and CNBC and a handful of tech sites picked up on the story is always interesting.
I bet Pat covers this in his web browser article…
It’s outrageous but also self inflicted. TOS have become insidious and purposefully difficult to understand. Almost like our taxcode itself.
All your money are belong to us
he Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax filers to prepare to report transactions of at least $600 that are made through so-called “third-party” facilitators such as Venmo and PayPal.
The agency on Tuesday posted an explainer warning American business owners earning $600 or more per year on payments that are received through apps such as Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal to file a tax form known as Form 1099-K.
The IRS is interested in transactions involving part-time work, side gigs, and selling goods, according to the agency
Of course they are. Stealing from the government will not be tolerated.
Since we employ said services I was reading up on what we need to do. I can do differential calculus easier than determining when I will need a 1099-K
“selling goods”
That part is bullshit. If you sell something you no longer have it, so it shouldn’t be considered income.
Normal day good will just be sold like used cars….on the tax form you document it was for a loss or less than what you actually sold for.
How many people keep receipts for everything they ever bought?
Not only that, but you already paid taxes on the money you used to buy it in the first place.
So lets say instead of buying something that I later sell for the same price (no gain or loss) I keep it in cash. How is that any different?
This is why tax preparation companies are salivating at this. It’s going to be so convoluted that audit protection will be a huge upscale on your tax preparation.
Probably. I was making more of a moral argument.
Before this year, the threshold for filing a Form 1099-K report was at least 200 transactions totaling an aggregate of at least $20,000.
When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, it included a provision that reduced the reporting threshold to a single transaction over $600.
Now those robber baron billionaires will pay their fair share!
Onlyfans models hit hardest,
……..Unabomber cabin.
Envious. I wish I had been smart enough to go that route 15 years ago.
CIA safe house just not cutting it anymore?
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Perfect
Has OMWC shared this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TjGJ9bgKQ
on the tax form you document it was for a loss or less than what you actually sold for.
Is that for each individual transaction?
I assume it depends on how (if) you are formally structured.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you buy mid century modern furniture and restore it; just a few pieces per year, as what was once a (marginally profitable) hobby. Are you now going to do the deep dive into cost accounting, to keep from having to pay taxes on money which is properly an expense, or are you going to just say fuck it? Or are you going to say, CASH ONLY, until they ban cash?
Yeah if digital transaction you can’t hide the true amount. So cash only.
If the furniture restoration is a loss, the IRS will say it’s a hobby.
If the furniture restoration is a gain, the IRS will say it’s a business.
“After the release of #DiedSuddenly, the Health Organizations have been forced to respond.
Their response?
It’s not the vaccine that caused your loved one’s death or injury- it’s the people who tried to warn you about the dangers of them.
Criminal.”
https://twitter.com/DiedSuddenly_/status/1596231410502737920
“This brief review will offer data that may demonstrate that misinformation perpetuated by the anti-vaccination movement may be causing more deaths and side effects from any vaccine. A mini review of published literature has been conducted and found that mental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels. Therefore, if subjects are panicked, concerned, stressed or scared of the vaccination, their arteries will constrict and become smaller in and around the time of receiving the vaccine. This biological mechanism (the constriction of veins, arteries and vessels under mental stress) is the most likely cause for where there has been blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, dizziness, fainting, blurred vision, loss of smell and taste that may have been experienced shortly after vaccine administration. The extreme mental stress of the patient could most likely be attributed to the fear mongering and scare tactics used by various anti-vaccination groups.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36381188/
I’m no cardiologist, but that sounds like bullshit.
Very similar to stories ran that “poor sleep in youths”, “loud noises” and other nonsensical events were being attributed to it.
Regarding the social contagion of FtM “transitioners” amongst teenage girls, this explains a great deal of it. I don’t know wherher I saw that here or on Twitter. “The Death of the Tomboy.”
There are a whole lot of people out there who can’t STAND the idea of a girl liking being a girl WHILE ALSO liking boy things. Like DIYing and fixing cars? Like playing football in the yard on Thanksgiving Day? Don’t like wearing dresses? Why, why, you MUST be a boy!
I posted it here.
There is also an “economic contagion” — there is huge money in it.
Thanks for posting that vid. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot the last year or so.
YW 🙂
Hey, everybody. Thanks for your nice comments on my story.
Straff, to answer your question as if it were asked seriously (because I can’t tell), mentioning that Gene Luke turned Marina’s head is actually a poke at romance genre conventions. Once the couple in the romance has been established, there is no turning of the heroine’s head. The hero is the only one she is interested in and doesn’t even notice other men’s attractiveness. For Marina to acknowledge that another man is handsome, even to herself, is considered a little bit taboo (or, it USED TO BE, in case I am behind the time because I don’t hang out with romance authors and readers anymore because they’re all tediously lefty).
poke at romance genre conventions
You wicked non-conformist you!
Again, serious answer: I don’t do things like that to be mean or show up other authors, nor am I a self-loathing romance author. I’m up front about what I write and fuck you if you don’t like it. But while 20-year-old me appreciated that convention and found it honorable and loyal, 30- to 54-year-old me finds it unrealistic to not notice or to not remark upon it to myself. Likewise, Trey can see Dot’s “a looker” without being interested in her.
There are a whole lot of people out there who can’t STAND the idea of a girl liking being a girl WHILE ALSO liking boy things. Like DIYing and fixing cars? Like playing football in the yard on Thanksgiving Day? Don’t like wearing dresses? Why, why, you MUST be a boy!
It’s all so confusing. There is only black. There is only white. No greys. And, for the sake of everloving Zod, NO POLKA-DOTS OR STRIPES!
Fertilizing the patriarchal and archetypal gender roles since dirt. I thought these were the same people who spouted “Girls can do anything boys can do!” just 20-30 years ago.
Where are the bra burners? Oh, wait. They’re called TERFs now and cancelled/silenced.
The TERFs never seemed to care one way or the other about FTM. Although I agree, feminists in general (most of whom neither TERF nor cancelled) are oddly quiet about this.
Oh, I can see that. They more want men out of women’s spaces.
I’m mildly surprised nobody’s mentioned the death of Irene Cara yet.
The Oscar goes to the songwriters, which is why she didn’t get one for the theme to Fame even though she sang the song memorably in the movie.
63 is much too young.
I refuse to pay attention to deaths of people younger than me.
The title track was a huge hit, but for my money the movie’s finale was one of the best from all musical movies.
Ah, the optimism of youth…
Oh I hate that song.
I was in third grade when the movie came out, and my sister was in ninth grade when the school system had them still in junior high. Their JHS choir sang that awful song in one of their concerts.
“Out Here On My Own” is probably more Oscar-bait, but they only had Cara sing it on a stage rather than have it be an expression of actually being on her own. That whole year was an extremely strong one for the Best Original Song category.
So she didn’t get her wish to live forever.
I thought these were the same people who spouted “Girls can do anything boys can do!” just 20-30 years ago.
For people who like to bray about what a bunch of intellectually unconventional free thinkers they are, they sure do like rigid classifications.
I really do think that’s it. Must. Have. Labels. “I’m ____.” Not “I like ____.”
It takes a lot of fuck-you money to say you live in Manhattan and you don’t have to see or speak to another person while you’re there.
If you’re that rich and famous, you should travel the streets of New York by palanquin, throwing shiny freshly minted nickels to the adoring throngs.
It is plainly obvious the Democrats are obsessed with destroying any sort of economic independence or innovation.
Bidenomics: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
Bidenomics: Everything for the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state.