Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderous day and the links!
Democrats Have One More Month In The Congressional Majority. Here’s What They Have To Pass
EPA to Spend $13 Billion on ‘Environmental Justice’ and Climate
Elon Musk says he’s about to publish files of Twitter’s free speech suppression
Elon Musk says Apple is threatening to pull Twitter from App Store
Non-binary Biden nuclear official charged with stealing woman’s luggage at airport
Arizona counties’ election certification: Lawsuits, testimonies, supervisors ‘under duress’
Dutch Government To Seize And Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With EU Environmental Rules
BlockFi Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection as FTX Contagion Spreads
Americans Now Need A Six-Figure Salary To Afford A Median-Priced Home
Carnival cruise ship passenger spent 15 hours overboard in the Gulf of Mexico
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Democrats Have One More Month In The Congressional Majority. Here’s What They Have To Pass”
Joe has a pen!
Somehow I think the main thrust of their bills will be oriented towards fucking me over.
You would win that if you placed a bet…
These people really hate the productive and those that won’t bend the knee..
Yeah, it really sucks.
continuing resolutions
“EPA to Spend $13 Billion on ‘Environmental Justice’ and Climate”
FYCS
Won’t someone please think of the grifters?
It’s called “Environmental Justice” so you know it’s legit.
I shouldn’t be surprised that an administrative agency was given a metric shitload of money that they didn’t already have an allocation or defined need for, but here we are.
“You have leftover money? You’ve clearly completed your mission and your agency will be dissolved.”
“You spent all your money? Clearly you’re ineffective and your agency will be dissolved”
/keeps dreaming.
No government bureaucracy will EVER solve whatever problem they were put together to tackle, because to do so means they would be out of a job. In fact, the system encourages them to not just find more of the problem, but to go make some up to give credence to their demands for more tax payer money to piss away.
“EPA to Spend $13 Billion on ‘Environmental Justice’ and Climate”
The green movement is an evil racket. It exists to allow the crooks in government to steal money from the productive sector, especially in the US, and then through some nefarious moves and a lot of smoke and mirrors, put practically all of that money in the pockets of people connected to the movement. Especially politicians and their donors.
When it grows up it wants to be the Military Industrial Complex.
Since it requires between 6 and 7.5 billion of the 8 billion inhabitants of the planet to be turned into fertilizer to save Gaia, it already has larger aspirations that the military industrial complex.
The MIC wants to make money off killing people. The EIC wants to kill people while making money.
Oh shit, I sense a merger coming on.
The MICE?
It will be like the Shia and Sunni.
I agree. I’m tangentially involved in some of this stuff and it’s all evil. Massive misallocation of resources because they need to meet the correct skincolor and such criteria. Is day multiply that figure by 50% to figure out how much is also rated on grant writers, administrators and so forth, both within EPA and at local governments.
Define “Afford”.
So, half a month’s take home pay is ‘affordable’? That’s nonsense.
Not to the people that believe unless you can make that sort of cash, you should own nothing, eat bugs, and be happy with it all….
Authoritarian systems have two classes: those in power, and the serfs.
I don’t remember which of the Daily____ rags this one is, and I don’t care enough to figure out out just to comment on the author’s political views.
I wouldn’t commit myself to half of my monthly take home pay as a mandatory outlay for housing if I could avoid it. While I’ve spent that much at times, it was only when I had discretionary funds.
If you’re making median or higher, affordable is 1/4 monthly or less.
You would be surprised how many people not only have outlays for mortgages, but also rent, that account for far more than half their monthly income… Too many of the people that find themselves in this position tend to be entitled and feel they deserve the higher standard of living for some reason. That they are putting themselves in a position to fail, and fail miserably, never crosses their minds.
I am fully aware that people have been known to live beyond their means.
If you eat Ramen every day and forego all luxuries maybe but it wouldn’t be enjoyable. Who wants to be house poor?
One of the reasons the Spousal Unit and I moved back to Alberta from B.C.’s Lower Mainland was because we were house-rich but cash-poor in B.C. (first time in our lives that happened to us).
Moving back to Alberta allowed us to afford twice the house for half the money. (A better-designed and laid-out house, too). The excess cash went into the retirement fund which, even if there wasn’t any excess from the sale of the house in B.C., still goes much further here. We targeted financial independence based on sane costs of living, not bonkers costs.
Most people can’t even afford their monthly rent in the Lower Mainland. And yet, people still want to live there.
Damn right.
And yet, so many people do this both when it comes to their mortgage or their rent…..
I’d like to see a comparison of of what the median-priced home looks like today compared to what it did 20, 40, 60 years ago. My bet is the sq footage is way up, along with the quality of materials used in the bathrooms and kitchens. Also, bigger garages.
“Elon Musk says he’s about to publish files of Twitter’s free speech suppression”
Freedom of speech is an enemy of totalitarians. That’s why these fucking idiots can tell you, straight up, that they MUST censor speech they don’t like to protect democracy, freedom, people, or whatever. What they really are protecting is themselves from you finding out how they are programming you to believe and support evil agendas that all benefit the corruptocracies behind this global reset one world government shit. It is evil.
“”Arizona — and that is Maricopa County — is the laughingstock of the country and the world,” said Mohave County Supervisor Hildy Angius during the certification. “And they don’t even seem to care, which is even more frightening. I will vote to certify this canvass under duress for the chaos Maricopa County has forced into our election process.””
Wrong. They care. They care that a Democrat wins.
“”At my poll center, where we literally had, at 7 p.m. on Election Day, 675 people waiting in line,” Peterson said. “Of those 675 people, do you know how many people came in? A hundred and fifty. It means that you have personally disenfranchised voters. They have came, they have seen, and they have given up because they know what is going on.””
Yeah, but they were white, so who cares?
The local election official is a Republican – you still insist he wants Democrat wins? Over the alternative of typical govt incompetence?
Bill Gates who started an anti-MAGA PAC? Yes, I insist that he wanted Kari Lake to lose.
^^^THIS^^^
Just look at who McConnel allowed the GOP money to go to and this phenom should be blatantly obvious: down with MAGA was key to the scumbags that pretend to not be part of the cabal of crooks team blue runs.
He founded an anti-MAGA PAC, and the Repub governor candidate and other statewide races had Trump-supported nominees. So, yes, he wanted the Dems to win. I have seen it personally – nominal Repubs who prefer a Dem to the wrong sort of Repub. In my case it was Tea Party Repubs in TX, but the insiders were crystal clear that they wanted them to lose to Dems.
It’s called the loyal opposition for a reason.
How did things go for the OTHER Republican candidates? Everyone so fucking obsesses over Trump and his minions.
Much better than what the usual suspects want to pretend all things considered…
You mean, the ones supported by the McCainite Repub establishment in AZ, running for minor offices, who didn’t have their campaigns kneecapped?
What happened to Goldwater’s AZ?
The same thing that happened to Reagan’s California?
I didn’t know there was a conservative/middle-class diaspora from AZ.
More an influx of leftists and government dependents.
Being a border state with an uncontrolled border and a major urban area with junk mail voting and ballot harvesting has consequences?
“Bob Mueller is a Republican! He’s not engaged in a partisan witch hunt.”
Even better, William Barr.
So machine/establishment Republicans have nothing to fear. Sounds a lot like how the Democrats have treated Bernie.
Which is kind of the point. You have asked how people here can simultaneously rail against the duopoly and be mad about which part of it wins. This is how. There are establishment Republicans, who are part of the duopoly, and they hate MAGA as much as the Democrats. Yes, the Democrats have their non-establishment people as well, but since they are the outright socialists, they are not a solution to the duopoly that we would accept. The one tiny path out of this mess is if MAGA gets control of the Republican wing of the duopoly, and we end up with an actual two party system. As I see it there are four possibilities. In order of likelihood:
1. The duopoly wins, and continues the status quo until their corruption loots the system enough to break it.
2. The Socialists gain control of Team Donkey while Team R stays as it is, and things vacillate between team unleash hell and team hold your horses we can still loot this corpse a while longer.
3. Both outsider groups take over their respective parties, which quite possibly leads to civil war.
4. MAGA gains control of Team Elephant and Team Donkey stays as it is, and things vacillate between improvement and looting, allowing the only glimpse of hope I see.
The Tea Party was the old MAGA. Remember McCain calling them “wacko birds”? A bunch of them got elected to Congress. Then nothing else happened.
Great reply, thanks.
Yes, the duopoly plays the fringes on both sides, co-opting them when necessary and casting them off when convenient. Say hello to the libertarian moment, there’s a seat over there next to Sen. Sanders.
If that’s our understanding, then MAGA was just going to go the route of the Tea Party – even more easily so since Trump would be able to convince his loyal followers of what a Great Deal he made (even if we all knew it was shit). The comments here about how the Democrats were so stupid in not playing him when they could come to mind. So given that, why does anyone ever get mad about how the meaningless election turns out? Are we being sports fans at that point – the game doesn’t matter but who wins does?
How was this NOT the music link for today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUnqr1t7yI
He did this in Minneapolis right? I think that city is trying to give Cali a run for having more nutbags per capita. What the fuck goes through someone employed in the public sector’s head that would not only have them steal luggage at an airport, but then come back a few days later with that same easy to identify luggage as their own to travel in the age of video surveillance? If anything it is a clear sign of someone lacking intelligence/wisdom (and I hear this idiot attended MIT) and some seriously weird mental disorder.
hey your holiness, did this guy spend the time in Minnessoda at your place? Inquiring minds want to know…
He thought he was one of the anointed and could do as he pleased.
He wasn’t entirely wrong, just misjudged his juice.
We’d never hear about this if it was someone like Paul Pelosi.
You pointing out that he failed to realize that while his masters could get away with this sort of shit all day because of a legal system that had two different standards, he misjudged which group he belonged to?
I particularly liked the bit about how we went on leave a while back, very, very quietly.
he worked hard, needed a break
THEY, bigot!
“It.”
Perfectly cromulent English word to describe these boneheads.
I don’t know about that. When PP (heh, I said pee-pee, heh heh) got his DUI it was at least in some of the “news” and if he had the juice he thought he did, it would have been a situation of “lets call you a cab, sir”
If it hadn’t been an injury DUI, that’s what would have happened. As it is, he walked (no jail time), and the cops gave him several hours to detox and he still popped positive. That’s still a shitload of juice, considering he hurt somebody.
He/She’s have to double tithe, so this person did not stop over and spend time with Us.
You gotta admit that MSP is a swinging place. With senators toe tapping in the head and trans luggage thieves we got something for everyone (except the normies).
I think I read that the value of the suitcase was $2,400 or something outrageous like that. I can see how someone shallow enough to know/care about luggage that costs as much as most cars I have owned would be tempted to steal that.
The most damning thing is the thief didn’t check any luggage himself. So you can’t even say that he was down there waiting for his own luggage and saw a target of opportunity. Nope he made a special trip to the baggage claim to steal something.
Wonder if they cops would have nabbed the thief if they had known who he was?
we got something for everyone
You even got the Vikes winning!
Well that definitely is pissing off the Satanists. They are worried that they will have an unexpected expense at having to buy cold weather gear for their trip to Hell.
On another note, Delta just announced a special waiver for people with emotional support swine. They can bring the pigs on their flights into MSP for free.
I just assumed Banjos and Sloopy use the music links to exchange love notes like the besotted teenagers at heart that they are.
It is just adorable.
The story about the man overboard is astonishing. Amazing he kept himself afloat that long.
Man Overboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDO5KwDBgy8
Take off your pants, inflate it with air, and use it as a flotation device.
That’s just what I call Tuesday.
You’re in the tropics. Better chance than not you are wearing shorts.
*mating rituals in Connecticut are weird!
My Dad required us to learn drownproofing as kids. I require the same of mine (it was a mandatory course when he was at Tech, but not when I was). Riptides are the most common risk we talk about where we are, but a man-overboard situation could happen too.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has $13 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act to fight “climate crisis” and advance “environmental justice” and is asking the public for ideas on how to spend it, according to Fox News.
The funds give people “the unprecedented opportunity to make lasting progress to equitably protect people and the planet from air pollution and climate change,” said Joseph Goffman, principal deputy assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation.
king the public’s input, he added, “We are eager to engage with all who have a stake in the success of these efforts, and our next steps will be guided by the wisdom and experience from the conversations we have and the feedback we receive over the next several months.”
Round up the usual suspects.
Plenty of equity at the side of the ditch.
The Dutch seizing farms is just nuts. Aren’t they the only nation in Europe, excluding Russia, that has true food security? Them going through with this during a time of worldwide shortages for all kinds of goods and commodities really shows there really is a hidden agenda at play and it ain’t nitrogen runoff.
The Dutch government is insane. They are about to go from a country that is the second largest food exporter to one that makes the cost of living for their citizens more brutal. But then again, most of them will soon be eating bugs, living in pods, and loving that they own nothing….
The Dutch government is insane.
I assume the majority of people voted for it, and now they are going to get it good and hard.
I assume that their system is set up so that it doesn’t matter what people voted for.
^^^THIS^^^
And Brussels makes demands, and the Dutch people keep being told, how sorry their government is that the people don’t agree with that shit, but they must do it because… Well, Gaia!
Nobody can even figure out what the exact advantage of being in the EU is anymore, but the bureaucrats will never ever let go of their grifts no matter how bad things get for their constituents. This is the history of the world.
The advantage of the EU is that whole bunch of programmed people with ever receding standards of living get to preen about how much better their system(s) is/are because they are told they get free shit, or some such idiocy…
In 2005 and 2016, the Dutch voted no on EU-supporting referendums. You think this is a democracy or something? The EU is going to be the new Roman Empire – the plebs had best know their place.
As I recall, things didn’t end well for the empire.
I would be as doubtful of that. I think this is EU bullshit that is getting handed down.
The Dutch government is insane.
Not insane at all. The word you are looking for is evil.
The Dutch government is fully aware of what they are doing and the ensuing consequences.
Fully believing that those consequences will not reach the caste in power.
Maybe, maybe not. Eventually yes, entropy takes down everything, but the Soviet Union and CCP spanned decades and outlasted the founders. The CCP is still going.
That doesn’t mean the inner party members won’t kill each other or be taken out by others ambitious to rise to the top of such a society. But inner party members are not feeling the economic consequences that lead to millions of their countrymen starving to death. A North Korean general can be killed at moment’s notice, but he’s eating pretty good until then.
Watch The Death of Stalin to see this in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpXFnHoC-0
Best dark comedy in ages.
https://dutchreview.com/culture/innovation/second-largest-agriculture-exporter/
Thanks to decades of innovation and hard work, the Netherlands is the world’s second-largest agricultural exporter, after the U.S.
Cutting food supplies to the EU won’t have any negative consequences. Europe will have a surplus of long pig to sustain them through the coming winter.
So that’s why they’re importing migrants.
Likewise for energy, a la Nordstream.
If natural scarcity isn’t enough, then by god we’ll create artificial scarcity!
The one thing I always thought was crazy and understood in 1984 was the purposeful destruction of productive capability.
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Whenever you think you’re promise enough reality comes by to kick you in the nuts.
To avoid a government shutdown, Congress must pass a federal funding package by Dec. 16.
No need to start having a budget now.
I’ve drawn my pentagrams and done the arcane incantations and my scrying tells me that a CR will be passed with no issues.
You don’t need owl entrails to augur that future.
Yes you do. At least if you give a hoot about the accuracy of your prognostications.
Naw, he could’ve used a magic 8ball and gotten everything he needed to know in one fowl swoop.
Cocaine Mitch to the rescue!
About $30 million will come from the Inflation Reduction Act, and $20 million will come from the American Rescue Plan.
How this program, hailed by the EPA as “largest investment to combat the climate crisis in U.S. history,” will reduce inflation, is not clear.
It doesn’t reduce inflation, it just makes it more affordable for the right people.
If even.
It will funnel this money to the connected as was intended while the rest of us will then get fucked over even harder by some new insane rules.
I just hope that they are smart enough to set up permanent programs for this “justice” instead of doing one time payouts.
Sure it would be fun to hit the grifter lottery and get a huge payout. But if you set up new programs, that shit has to be budgeted in forever! More bureaucrats on the payroll, more grift every year.
“Arizona counties’ election certification: Lawsuits, testimonies, supervisors ‘under duress’”
Again we are shown that who votes doesn’t matter as much as who counts the votes….
“It comes after farmer protests erupted this summer following a government plan to reduce nitrogen emissions by 50% by 2030”
WTF are nitrogen emissions? The air is around 78% nitrogen.
Into the soil/water, is my guess.
But who knows. We are dealing with the global racket that wants to kill 90% 0f the planet’s people and make the rest live at 1800s standards, under the excuse of saving Gaia, while the elite keep the keep the higher standards to show the masses who’s really the boss.
They can detect nitrogen compounds in the water runoff, and are using it as an excuse to cause famines.
Runoff from fertilizers which produce algal blooms and whatnot. An issue, sure, but it doesn’t necessitate the measures they’re taking. The land will be confiscated, sold to developers, and developed into flats and factories and whatnot. It’s essentially a giveaway to those who don’t need handouts.
This is precisely the end results sought after. This is about confiscating other people’s land, without proper compensation, using the pretense of having a noble cause, to allow a corrupt few to profit. Land is one of the most valuable commodities in a country where more than half the land is 3 feet above sea level or as far as 14 feet below it and there is not enough of it for the government to provide collectivist pod housing to the masses. I would love to see a map of which farms are the ones being confiscated and how close they are to where the government is targeting expanding their urban areas…
You sure they’re not going to re-wild the land? You know how the lowlands there were famous for the virgin wilderness.
I have to assume they’ll rewild by breaking the levees.
Sorry, had to be done.
Yeah, fertilizer runoff is an issue here in the western part of Ohio. Lake Erie has had some algae blooms that caused them to turn off municipal water for a time. The state, EPA, and farmers groups are working together to reduce the runoff (since that is wasted fertilizer).
That’s due to potassium phosphate not ammonium nitrate.
Hush, you! No using Science(tm) in service of the anti-Gaia!!
Fertilizer runoff is waterways, leading to algae blooms is I think how they justify it.
As with all of these policies — there’s a fig leaf of an actual issue way down deep… spun into an overreach that would make Stalin blush.
And there is always a complete denial of what is required to make the economy function.
Sri Lanka, here we come?
The Dutch revolution preceded the American one.
GO ORANGE!
NOhio?
Except that’s bullshit, every kid knows that phosphorous is the limiting factor in algae blooms.
ARE YOU A MARINE BIOLOGIST?
Is that necessary for you to understand how Nitrogen impacts womenz?
The sea was angry that day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRucRyLCms
Phosphorous runoff is ostensibly what detention ponds control for regarding water quality.
WTF are nitrogen emissions? The air is around 78% nitrogen.
The nitrogen wooden be a problem if it didn’t clog up the water with algae blooms.
whaddup doh’
The government will conduct a “compulsory purchase” of large nitrogen emitters as part of a voluntary, one-time offer, announced Nitrogen Minister Christianne van der Wal, Bloomberg reported. Farmers will be offered a deal “well over” the value of the farm, according to the government plan. She asserted “there is no better offer coming” in a Friday meeting with MPs.
Stop squawking. Not only is it voluntary, it is exceedingly generous.
It is their fault for having a bad business model I suppose
“a “compulsory purchase” of large nitrogen emitters as part of a voluntary, one-time offer”
Well, is it compulsory or voluntary?* Pick a team, already!
*I think we know the answer.
“You can volunteer to be paid less that the land if worth, or be paid nothing when the mass siezures happen.”
My great grandparents told me of that one time when Germany had one-time offers.
Accepting the payment is voluntary. Setting yourself on fire as a form of protest is voluntary. Leaving the government’s land is compulsory.
It’d be terrible if you didn’t take our generous offer, things probably wouldn’t end well for you and that’d be a shame.
Will there be blood shed?
‘Orning ‘ordles — Today, as with too many days before… I suck. That is all.
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Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre built in 1985, Cheboksary, Russia via Oleg Konstantinov
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1596741608707424260
Yikes.
Brutal even for brutalism
Washington has its own collection of brutalist buildings.
We need Architectural Justice!
I support demolishing the FBI HQ.
Brutally. Very, very brutally.
That looks more like the prison of Azkaban.
Yes. That looks worse than a prison.
It was built in 1985 when the country was a prison.
Yup, crazy to see it juxtaposed against the neoclassical stuff from centuries ago. Really failing as a culture.
That is awesome …
As a dystopian/Star Wars Universe movie location.
Yeah, I kinda thought “planetary defense emplacement in a sci-fi movie.”
It’s got that “military chic” thing going for it.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has $13 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act to fight “climate crisis” and advance “environmental justice” and is asking the public for ideas on how to spend it, according to Fox News.
Don’t spend it.
I have a very simple yet effective plan.
Just give me the money and I promise I will distribute it to the most deserving.
I only ask for 10%, just like the big guy.
To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, you’ll need me to review your spending decisions. I’m sure we can work out an appropriate compensation for my time and effort.
As a grants expert, with an emphasis on diversity, inclusion and equity, I’ll help make sure your recommendations meet all relevant agency guidelines. For a nominal service charge.
That sounds fair. I am going to need to hire a number of consultants to create a process for distributing the funds remaining after overhead. $1.3 billion is a lot of money!
Refund.
/Ha, I slay myself.
Elon Musk says he’s about to publish files of Twitter’s free speech suppression
Just like a fascist, free speech absolutist would do.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic candidate who won the Arizona gubernatorial election by less than a percentage point, filed the lawsuit because Cochise County “failed to fulfill its mandatory duty to meet and approve its canvass of the results of the 2022 General Election by the statutory deadline of November 28, 2022,” according to the filing. “[T]his duty is not discretionary,” the lawsuit adds.
There would be no point to the vote if it were a mandatory “aye’.
Preventing the people from knowing the despicable nature of the power machine at any and all costs….
They really are hysterically frightened of free speech. Tells you all you need to know about them.
TWITTER 2092
https://twitter.com/beeple/status/1596367927145598977
The Dutch government is planning to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to be in compliance with EU environmental rules.
That’s not why. And Europe is fucked if the Dutch allow themselves to be subject to this nonsense.
What is wrong with people?
Use fucking head phones you God damned troglodytes.
Six-Figure Salary To Afford A Median-Priced Home – that may be changing soon.
Homebuyers canceled a record 60,000 purchase contracts last month because they’re waiting for mortgage rates and home prices to fall
I’m really not sure what exactly that indicates. Real estate market completely tanking? Or a big snap-back if they ever get inflation under control and rates fall?
Yes…
Tanking
The Fed isn’t going to back off of rate increases until they crash the economy because that is the only way for them to get inflation under control.
Rates may moderate a little in the near term, but that’s about it.
Prices were supposed to tank 6 months back also*… Maybe they will, but I’m not holding my breath. Allegedly rental prices are going down, which will eventually have an effect on housing prices, as it gives people options.
*At least I’m surprised that almost doing rates didn’t have any noticeable effect on prices, besides slowing price growth
Same. With rising rates, demand for housing should go down so the cost of homes should follow. But it may be lagging a bit.
Seeing houses on the market much longer now – last year they were selling in a week. Eventually the sellers start dropping the prices.
Mine’s down 20% from peak, and I’m in a pretty posh, in demand area where houses now take 3 weeks to sell instead of 1. But still, the price correction is coming.
More likely the sellers start pulling the listings. There will be downward pressure on prices because the financing is more expensive (which is the real price), but there is also upward pressure because supply is badly limited due to very low housing creation and the fact that most sellers have the option to stay where they are and continue paying their existing, and way under current market rate mortgage loan. That extra bedroom for the kids is a luxury item. Someone may well value it highly enough to sell a $200k house and buy a $350k house, but not when the $200k house had a 3.25% loan with a PI payment of $650/mo. and the $350k one is at 7.25% with a $2100 PI.
Yeah, I’ve heard anything up to a year for prices to follow.
Agreed that houses are taking longer, people are not yet listing at lower prices, at least locally. Price drops, sure, but taking$10k off a1700 sqft house listed for$500k isn’t a big deal.
Prices didn’t really tank after 2008 either. Some depression from the highs but mostly went flat from the already inflated prices. Other than some isolated markets, I don’t think there’s been a real house price crash in at least a generation and that’s set both buyers and sellers expectations.
Not really. Even in more stable markets, housing prices went down in 2007 (not 2008). For example, the house I bought in fall of 2007 was originally listed at $210k in 2016, went off market. Was relisted summer of 2017 at $190k, I got it for $184k.
That was nothing compared to SF or LV or other cities that tanked dramatically, but it wasn’t exactly flat. It went flat after the small 2007 dip. I sold that house in 2014 for $194k, so that was pretty flatish for a long while. Zillow now says it is worth $303k.
Wow, the horrible lot across the street looks gorgeous now. The horrible tree line removed, new garage added on. Nice paint. I got the crappy neighbor, the new ones took a rundown place and made it look spectacular.
The Fed doesn’t control the economy, they just do a great Wizard of Oz impersonation.
They don’t control it, but they can definitely wreck it.
Of course now my parents are trying to sell their house.
The housing market can’t crash soon enough for me.
/can’t afford what’s on the current market
Maybe the U.S. just isn’t in any position to judge China’s COVID response.
Beyond deaths, there’s the issue of long COVID. Estimates of prevalence vary, but Census Bureau data suggests the condition could impact 7.5% of the U.S. population.
That’s ~25 million people.
If China matched that, it would mean 105 million people suffering.
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1597124843132321792
ZERO COVID LOCKDOWN FOREVER!!!!
This guy is an idiot. This virus was engineered to wipe out the infirm and the old, and the CCP would see it as a boon to get rid of as much of that population in China as possible to help protect its social welfare healthcare system from the coming demographic imposed implosion. This lockdown shit is not about saving lives in any way or sense, but about Xi targeting those opposed to his powergrab into perpetuity.
SLD: I am not a biologist, nor particularly well-informed medically.
But I am extremely doubtful that “long covid” actually exists.
First reason: from the reports I’ve heard (and yes news reports are ALWAYS incorrect in at least some capacity) literally any and every symptom can be attributed to longcoovid. There is literally (in the sense of literally) no symptom that could be reported and Top Doctors would say “no, lonkovid doesn’t cause that symptom.”
Second reason, there seems to be a new mystery syndrome every few decades that, exactly like lonkvid, is the cause of any and every symptom/symptom cluster. Remember Multiple Chemical Sensitivity? Lonvid seems like today’s medicalized moral panic.
Third reason, which is just a variant of the first reason, is that the first indications of lvd were symptoms already commonly known to manifest in people who spent time under severe medical interventions i.e. “intensive care syndrome.” But that wouldn’t get enough play in the crisis media, would it?
Why did you decide to change how you referenced the panic ailment each time it came up?
I was inspired by Jill “The Doctor” M.D., RCMP.
More details: It calls attention to the entity being referred to in media stories, and the changing reference tracks with the ever-shifting definitions of, and symptoms caused by, the hypothetical syndrome. From there it becomes simple to draw a contrast between the amorphous disorder and the rigid, never-changing solution to the same, which is to give technocrats greater power.
Americans Now Need A Six-Figure Salary To Afford A Median-Priced Home
You will own nothing and be “happy.”
Go fuck yourself, Mike.
Pence said, “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite, and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table. And I think he should apologize for it, and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification.”
Or don’t condemn people and demand apologies based on who they eat dinner with. It’s that kind of cuckhold attitude that’s led the Republican Party to be the disaster that manages to conserve nothing that it is now.
A guy named Fuentes is a white nationalist? I’m gonna need to see some actual evidence for that one.
White supremacy ain’t what it used to be.
Requiring evidence is a sign of your white-nationalism.
See my link below.
Yesterday I saw a couple clips of him in action and all signs point to “Yes”.
Being a bigoted asshole does not make one a white supremacist. Louis Farrakan as a case in point.
He has all of the awful talking points nailed down. What is keeping him from being an official white nationalist/supremacist?
He isn’t white?
Maybe he identifies as white.
Bizarre. He is very pale and yeah, is basically saying I am white and long live the whites.
In any event, at least we agree he is a bigoted asshole and should be ignored.
You either engage in debate and intellectual discussion or you cancel and censor.
Pick a side Pence.
President Trump? You mean, the last two years have been some kind of bad dream? Or is Pence one of them election deniers.
This is why Mike Pence insists on always having at least one (((of them))) at dinner every time he meets other white people. Just like he doesn’t dine with other women alone. Everyone knows that all white people are closet h8ters so you better have some minority also there.
Pence said, “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite, and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table. And I think he should apologize for it, and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification.”
At this point I do not believe anything the hate speech vigilantes say about anyone.
How very reassuring.
Dr. Fauci: “Almost certain” we didn’t fund the Wuhan virus that became Covid-19
So he admits we could have funded it. Which means we likely did.
Of course we did. He’s just hedging to make it sound like it was an honest mistake.
No, he is saying that we shouldn’t look into actually finding any of this out for sure, so he can avoid having to admit his entire agenda was to cover up his involvement.
He’s being evasive, certainly he knows about the fungibility of money and the fact that research funded in one area by us will free up funds to be used by them. All with a wink and a nod of course.
He’s probably relying on the comically inept money laundering they did through an NGO.
And he was very certain that the virus came from a wet market.
Faster PLEASE!!!
My agency is just getting their DIE ramped up.
That’s what she said.
Also, is love that commentary to be true, but I don’t think this evil, racist ideology has come anywhere near to spending itself. It’s more entrenched now than ever and I don’t think it will go away.
“Family slams ‘white, rich boy justice’ as cannibal who murdered Florida couple and chewed man’s face while believing he was ‘half-dog, half-man’ escapes jail and is sent to mental hospital on grounds of insanity”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479853/Family-slams-white-rich-boy-justice-Florida-cannibal-killer-escapes-jail-sentence.html
I hate when that happens.
Seems like if there were ever a case of actual insanity, that would be it.
The question is whether the insanity plea itself is legitimate or should be done away with.
Cannibal boi?
Sheesh, it’s like they never heard of werewolves.
Really? You think someone in their right mind would do that? And what drugs fuel that?
Krokodil?
Bath Salts? That was the crazy maker du jour for a while.
Yeah, that’s what was blamed initially – but he didn’t have any in his system.
This is the right-wing version of the left’s insistence that evil doesn’t exist and everything is based on oppression. You know, with the proper therapy and drug regimen he can lead a normal life!
Ummm… crocodiles eat people, therefore krokodil must make you eat people too. Don’t you even SCIENCE! bro?
Damn Pokemon…
Why the fuck was this cunte running for office if he was dying of cancer? ///rhetorical
Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin passed away on Monday following a battle with colorectal cancer. He was 61 years old. …
Earlier this month, McEachin — a Richmond native and former Virginia state lawmaker — defeated Republican Leon Benjamin in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District race to win a fourth term in Congress. He was first elected to serve the state’s 4th District, in 2016.
He was in good spirits when 8News interviewed him on election night a few weeks ago.
“It’s a rewarding feeling to be called this early with this type of margin, but I don’t get the credit,” he said. “It’s about the people. Not the party.”
To keep the racists out of office?
Leon Benjamin must be one of the increasing number of black faces of white-supremacy.
Better than PA, he was at least alive to be elected.
On the bright side, all those wishing the Dems to die of as cancer have finally had some of their wishes granted. PROOF God is real.
McEachin was a no-shit wannabe gun grabber.
The Dems are down one vote which will make it even harder for them to pass anything. The seat will have to be filled via a new election (not via appointment) and Gov Youngkin could well drag his feet in declaring such an election.
“I don’t overtrain my kids! Jessie James Decker credits genetics and ‘elite’ workouts for giving her children defined abs as she addresses THAT viral holiday photo again”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11479631/Jessie-James-Decker-credits-genetics-elite-training-giving-children-defined-abs.html
Those are some weird looking kids.
The only way you have abs like that is with extremely low body fat. It’s likely not really healthy for children that young to have such a low body fat percentage.
so you are saying they are in no danger from pedos?
Yes, Cathy, that’s what I’m saying.
Seriously.
It turns out, Kayne does hate the Jews: Kanye West abruptly leaves Tim Pool podcast while discussing antisemitism charges
Anti-semitism has a longer history in Western culture than nationalism does.
I’m really not sure what exactly that indicates. Real estate market completely tanking? Or a big snap-back if they ever get inflation under control and rates fall?
I suspect a lot of the people walking away from contracts are doing it because they’re unaffordable, and the motivation to move isn’t as compelling as it was. Also, they might not want to get locked into a house likely to be worth less in 2-5 years than the current asking price.
That is why we are hesitating right now. And we are assuming the price will be lower in 5 months, not years.
Companies like Amazon and Twitter firing people in mass probably not helping either.
Nobody can even figure out what the exact advantage of being in the EU is anymore, – I can go on holiday without a visa. Also for Romanian who want to immigrate, they get there zero hassle. Also when I ordered my glasses from England, the customs office fucked with me even though there was no custom to be payed.
See, see – what have the Romans done for us lately?
A 750mL of Talisker 10 year set me back $65 yesterday.
End whisky tarriffs now!
I could get one now for 32$, black friday prices. Usually it is 40 ish.
then again the Michter’s single barrel rye is 60 which is a bit much.
I need to get a job where I can maintain my current salary and live in Romania apparently.
get your company to open an office in Bucharest and come as country manager
Muscians bitch about Brexit incessantly. It probably causes a lot more paperwork to ship their shit on and off the island. What I don’t get is why they don’t lobby Britain to negotiate a trade deal that allows some of the economic movement without going full EU.
Because the EU position was “To have a trade deal, you must apply all of our laws rules and regulations that you voted to get away from.”
Because EU typically rejects those your agreements now, at least that’s what they’ve said*- no economic integration without political integration.
*Clearly there are past examples of them doing just this.
“Mike Tyson has said he would ‘love’ to be a ‘guinea pig’ in the new trial for a psychedelic drug called DMTX.
The former heavyweight boxing champion-turned cannabis entrepreneur has said he would be interested in testing out the new ‘technology which ‘delivers DMT by drip to volunteers’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-11480835/Mike-Tyson-puts-forward-new-psychedelic-drug-trial.html
I don’t think that makes it a new drug.
But it won’t make him sick, or crash his car?
https://twitter.com/dyingscribe/status/1597496045780758528
thicc?
That’s Tress level material..
I wonder if you eat her out how those thighs feel around your head
It would make you up your game, wouldn’t want to be crushed for underperforming.
She’d crush your head like an over-ripe melon.
Ok, LOL moment. Rare for me.
But I’d be the weirdo to try it.
Better then CGI She-Hulk.
Built like a brick shithouse with a solid steel foundation.
Huh. NPR is editing their stories after they’ve been broadcast. How unsurprising.
A few times last week, they broadcast stories about a Ukraine having a “day of remembrance” of “a famine.” In one of the stories they did specify that it was “a man-made famine,” but the words “Holodomor” and “genocide” were NEVER used. On their website the purported transcripts of these broadcasts suddenly do use these terms.
I can’t believe NPR is pushing alt-right fake news. No less of an authoritative source told us that the Holodomor was a myth created by disgusting red-baiters. They even had their crack journalist go to the worker’s paradise of Potemkin Village to witness the truth firsthand!
NPR is editing their stories after they’ve been broadcast. – well yes you want the story to stay up to date
“Huh. NPR is editing their stories after they’ve been broadcast. How unsurprising.”
They are using the book 1984 as a “How To” manual it seems…
“Who Controls the Past Controls the Future”….
What felony?
BREAKING: Chair of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors Ron Gould states he’s voting to certify the 2022 general election under duress:
“I have no choice but to vote ‘Aye’ or I will be arrested and charged with a felony “
Maybe grow a pair and do what is right? Crazy.
“I have no choice but to vote ‘Aye’ or I will be arrested and charged with a felony “
Is that really true?
The youth these days… But I am optimistic I say give em time they will definitely get there in 20 years or so
https://twitter.com/al_requiem/status/1597458040101666816
Ah, getting into the spirit of the season! Just heard the first noise about the traditional year-end public pissing contest, this time between a local TV station and a cable or satellite TV provider. It’s always either that or a feud between a local hospital group and a big health insurance company (or both.)
which has better firepower? How many die in an average year?
Just heard the first noise about the traditional year-end public pissing contest, this time between a local TV station and a cable or satellite TV provider.
Relatedly, I just read the CEO of the AMC network is receiving 10 million dollars severance plus stock options after being terminated with less than 3 months on the job. 10 millions dollars for <3 months of poor performance work. TV series and movies could be a fraction of the cost if salaries were brought back down into the real world. I think traditional TV channels and sports are about to face an economic bloodbath as Smith's invisible hand reasserts itself.
Maru Jordan | Spring Summer 2021 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YcqB8kkzbA
And Italian girls
4K – “Miss Mondo Emilia-Romagna” by Paolo Zaccaria – Rubiera (Reggio E.) – 04.11.2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXgYOqJS8o
Ex-Virginia trooper dies in shootout after killing family of teen he had catfished, police say
Before he drove away with the girl, police believe, he set a fire at the home where her grandparents and mother were found slain. The teen is in protective custody.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-law-enforcement-worker-killed-shootout-deputies-murdering-fam-rcna58903?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
this would never happen in Civilized Europe
This is why only cops should have guns…oh, wait…
He obviously never had de-escalation training.
thicc?
And how!
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11480643/Ellie-Bamber-flashes-bra-orange-striped-suit-screening-Disney-series-Willow-LA.html
Then why post it?
because Demi is not on the sidebar
that outfit would work better without the bra
There are no tits… Why wear the bra?
Because it’s the only article of clothing that actually fits?
Any relation to Jamie Bamber?
I wanted to thank Pat for his excellent article yesterday.
I have one question:
“also useand recommend: Decentraleyes, an extension that stores commonly used scripts locally and directs requests to CDNs to those local resources to prevent tracking; CanvasBlocker, an extension that prevents common browser fingerprinting techniques by either blocking the requests or generating junk data so that no reliable fingerprint can be obtained; and ClearURLs, which automatically removes tracking elements from URLs (basically removes that huge unique identifier embedded in your links to, say, Amazon). ”
I’m I to understand that you use all three of these extensions?
Sorry for the late reply, but yes, I use those 3 extensions plus uBlock Origin for my Firefox loadout. I have an ungoogled-chromium installation with equivalent extensions, although they are known by different names that I can’t recall off-hand in that ecosystem (with the exception of uBO). I primarily use GNOME Web and Badwolf, which do not support many extensions as of yet, so on there it’s just an in-browser ad-blocker and my Pi-Hole.
Thanks Pat.
I switched to Brave without doing any real research cause everyone said it was super duper secure, and Firefox was getting slower and bloated, in addition to the existing problems with security.
… He types on his pixel phone.
I need to up my game.
Hey now, that Pixel phone is likely a great candidate for GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, just sayin’.
I just now double checked, and it looks like, in fact, my chromium loadout is using the Decentraleyes and Canvas Blocker extensions (although I think the Canvas Blocker extension in chromium is from a different dev team than the CanvasBlocker extension in FF). I think I may have been using a different CDN alternative in the past on chromium.
It really is a shame there aren’t more options for browsers with a novel rendering engine these days, but quite understandable once you realize how unbelievably unwieldy and all-encompassing web rendering has become. Browsers are nearly an OS unto themselves. The chromium borg has swallowed up almost everything, and Firefox has lost so much market share that if it weren’t for Google sponsoring it to fend off antitrust actions, it would probably be a chromium/webkit duopoly. Which wouldn’t be so bad if WebKit hadn’t died out on Windows. Gecko/Firefox is, indeed, not as lean as it once was, but to be honest, I don’t notice remarkable differences in any of the big 3 rendering engines.
Interesting historical tidbit, what we now know as WebKit was actually forked by Apple from the KHTML codebase. KHTML was the rendering engine created by the KDE team. WebKit itself was then forked by Google into the Blink engine/chromium base. So by lineage, ~95% of the browser market is using code derived and forked from a then-mostly-volunteer Linux DE project’s web browser ~20 years ago.
‘Hey now, that Pixel phone is likely a great candidate for GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, just sayin’.’
Yeah, but right now it’s just out of the box spy ware.
‘be honest, I don’t notice remarkable differences in any of the big 3 rendering engines.’
Maybe, but whatever Firefox was doing to their build specifically was really gumming up the works. Or my extensions became outdated, maybe a combination of all three.
Are you going to cover messaging apps in your series?
May have just been a particular point release as well – they break shit from time to time. Even if you have a favorite browser, it’s always a good idea to have at least one backup on standby for just such occasions.
Part VI: Chat/Instant Messaging/Communications
Thanks Pat. I’ll be using that info in some capacity.
RE: Arizona election debacle in Maricopa County. This is, in part, why we sold our house and left Maricopa County, AZ.
I told my wife when they said Trump lost Arizona in 2020 that it was farcical and would not get better. The housing market gave us a chance to do that.
There were a lot of other things at play, but suffice it to say that what I saw in the Valley was government invested in more government power.
We’ll keep running to places with more liberty until there’s nowhere else left to go, I guess.
an ever shrinking area
government invested in more government power
Let me know when you find a place that isn’t true.
Some great philosophers, illustrated—a 🧵.
These are in no particular order, but we really must start with Sockrates.
https://twitter.com/AdamKeiper/status/1597326370123964416
Thread. Just when you thought puns could not get any worse.
Not even looking and I can tell that is some kind of yarn.
Slavery by another name
Biden had held out for months on seeking congressional action, instead opting to give the freight rail industry and 12 of its unions more time to negotiate a contract. But as warnings mounted that a strike could begin as soon as Dec. 9, threatening to interrupt U.S. power and water supplies and devastate the broader economy, the pro-labor, pro-rail president said Monday that he saw “no path to resolve the dispute at the bargaining table.”
The development came two months after Labor Secretary Marty Walsh held an all-night bargaining session at his agency’s headquarters that produced a tentative deal, temporarily defusing the strike threat. But since then, members of three of the 12 unions voted to reject the agreement.
On Monday, Biden asked that Congress act “without any modifications or delay” to impose the September settlement.
In a statement, Biden called himself a “proud pro-labor president” and said he was reluctant to recommend Congress step in, but that the economic consequences of inaction were too great. He also included a pointed message to Democratic lawmakers who might be inclined to side with workers who oppose the agreement.
“Some in Congress want to modify the deal to either improve it for labor or for management. However well-intentioned, any changes would risk delay and a debilitating shutdown. The agreement was reached in good faith by both sides,” he said.
We’ll make it up to the unions somehow.
So the dude that shot up the Topps pled guilty yesterday. Hochul had a press conference to take credit for preventing that event ever happening again (I am not making this up.) You see, the shooter was 19, and since Hochul banned the sale of military-style-semi-auto-assault-rifles to anyone under 21, this law would have prevented that shooting!
Yes, because he never would have broken the law to obtain a gun illegally.
This is what leftists actually believe. (Not the clowns in charge, but their followers)
Can they still buy stripped AR lowers?
I don’t know, I’m not sure how that plays with the various definitions. I would think not, except that you used to be able to buy AR lowers with pistol grips, adjustable stocks, etc. so there must have been something going on where the lower itself wasn’t banned in the same way a fully-assembled rifle was.
Didn’t dude come from Pennsylvania?
Umm, excuse me? Get your own pile of bodies to stand on.
I’m in Florida, everyone already died from the coof and intravenous drug use.
hey free realestate
Titty Tuesday on a cold morning.
https://archive.ph/E8whk
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Goddnot i just shut down my work laptop and realized i did not set the ouy of office message in outlook
*goddamnit
How long are you going to be out of office?
3 work days
That’s not long enough to need an out of office message.
It’s horrendous’: Helena Bonham Carter defends JK Rowling and Johnny Depp
Speaking in an interview with the Times, Bonham Carter said she felt that Rowling had ‘been hounded’ for her opinions and the actor had been ‘completely vindicated’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/28/helena-bonham-carter-defends-jk-rowling-and-johnny-depp
How vile. Why is the police not looking into this? Give ms Carter a few weeks in jail to ponder her sins.
The law didn’t work so what we need is another law.
“And that is, just because it’s legal does not make it the right thing. I tell people all the time, the institution of slavery was legal, but it was not right. Just because they purchased these weapons legally does not mean that’s what the law ought to be.
“We need to change these laws. Unfortunately, I’m going to be here in my district on Wednesday speaking at the funeral service of one of those young football players from the University of Virginia who died at the hands of the weapon that was, from all indications, legally purchased.
“That’s not the problem. Chesapeake, Virginia, that gun was purchased legally the morning of the event. We have to visit these laws and do what’s necessary to keep these guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. And that is what we need to do in this lame-duck session, and in a bipartisan way.
“Let’s protect the American people from demented people and make sure that we put some safety and security in people’s — when they’re shopping, when they’re sitting in churches.”
I loather Rep. Grouper-face.
C’mon and say it out loud – no more guns for young black men.
I agree with this message!
/Kathy Hochul
” died at the hands of the weapon”
The weapon had hands?
Duh, HANDgun
“Non-binary Biden nuclear official charged with stealing woman’s luggage at airport”
And Xe was fucking a puppy dog when arrested.
Lights the new Orange Man Bad Signal
So, looks like Ron is now on Klaus’s radar. So that’s Disney, TOS, and Klaus now looking to take down DeSantis. New Bad Orange man on the radar.
… Let me see if I can make sense of this
When I first got moved to this office I got a parking permit for ‘B’ lot. It was a bit of a hike from the office.
‘B’ Lot got closed when they did some demolition and construction work. That lot is still closed, but a lot directly behind the office is now labelled as ‘B’ Lot.
Is my permit good for the new ‘B’ Lot?
Does the permit match the lot name?
It says “B Lot”
I’m guessing that the A Lot has waaaaaaaaaaaay more spaces than the other lots?
No, it’s A Lot further away from the office.
So there is a #1 B Lot and a #2 B Lot?
And your question is 2B or not 2B?
Use it and find out.
Is my permit good for the new ‘B’ Lot?
It is until they tow you away.
They only tow from the handicap spaces.
They barely even ticket, you get warning tickets… if they even bother to check the permits.
Because that’s whose fault this is.
With little closure and few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait on May 24 in the school hallway rather than confronting the gunman, Sandra Torres filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against police, the school district and the maker of the gun the shooter used.
“My baby never made it out of the school,” she said. “There’s no accountability or transparency. There’s nothing being done.”
The lawsuit accuses the city, the school district and several police departments of a “complete failure” to follow active shooter protocols and violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour. The city said it doesn’t comment on pending litigation and the school district and police did not immediately return messages. …
The claim is part of a new and expanding legal front in the nationwide court battle over firearms. While gunmakers are typically immune under federal law from lawsuits over crimes committed with their products, families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, secured a $73 million settlement after suing Remington, the maker of the weapon used in that shooting a decade ago.
That was illegitimate as well.
violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour
Accessories to murder charges against every law enforcement officer onsite. They deserve no less than the chair for locking the children in and forming an armed line against the parents trying to rescue their children.
Agreed.
If it was an only child, why, one might even think of taking justice into your own hands. Nothing of purpose left to do anyway in that case.
Would still love to know how that idiot had something like $8k in cash to spend on high-end weapons, ammo, and gear.
No shit. Did he open a credit card? I can’t think of any other way to get that cash.
All cash / debit card.
I’d like to see a breakdown of that $8k number. It seems high for what he had.
Two Daniel Defense rifles with decent optics gets you close to $6k before ammo.
Maybe if you buy at full MSRP and don’t shop around. If you plop a DD upper on someone else’s stripped lower and add a typical meme-tier optic, you’ll be in for less than half that.
OK, where on earth did he get $4K?
Checking the couch cushions?
“families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, secured a $73 million settlement after suing Remington, the maker of the weapon used in that shooting a decade ago.”
That was complete horseshit.
If I recall, the store that sold it was also run out of business.
Elon Musk and the hardcore cult of Diet Coke
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/11/28/elon-musk-diet-coke
A hard hitting news item there.
Clickbait
Bonita guitarrista Espanola Poala Hermison plays Rondo Alla Turca for you.
This woman is great at arranging classical pieces not traditionally meant for guitar for guitar.
Neat! I love that piece.
Well, huh. Now that it’s light enough to see, it looks like we got 4-6 inches of snow last night, and it’s still coming down.
Now that it’s light enough to see, it looks like we got 4-6 inches
1) You have to stop getting blackout drunk at the bar
2) You have to stop referring to yourself in the third person
3) 4-6 inches isn’t something to brag about is it? Or is that acceptable because it was 4-6 inches of white stuff?
Go to hell, you tyrannical garden gnome.
Biden Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci on China’s draconian lockdowns: “If the purpose is ‘let’s get all the people vaccinated, particularly the elderly,’ then okay”
Narrator: That is not the purpose.
Jay Leno is back to making audiences laugh!
The comedian returned to the stage on Sunday night at the Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California. The 72-year-old was back for his regular Sunday evening set just six days after being released from the Grossman Burn Center due to second and third-degree burns which were caused by a gasoline fire which happened at his home garage while working on a steam car.
He appeared to be in good spirits when Access Hollywood spoke to him as he arrived with his wife by his side, ahead of his performance.
He joked, “National Enquirer got the story all wrong, they said I was in the hospital because Nancy Pelosi hit me in the head with the hammer, that’s not what happened.” But his kidding around didn’t stop there, “We got two shows tonight, regular and extra crispy.” Adding, “I never thought of myself as a roast comic.”
https://www.accessonline.com/articles/jay-leno-jokes-about-accident-gets-standing-ovation-in-first-stand-up-set-after-suffering-gasoline-fire-burns-exclusive
Whaaaat’s the deal with flammable liquids, amirite?
My regard for him has increased greatly after this.
I still prefer Conan.
I liked Conan too, but I got a new found respect for Leno after seeing him at a small audience corporate event. Very nice guy, totally professional and classy.
What would need gasoline when you’re working on a steam powered car?
Steam powered cars require either gasoline, kerosene, or burning logs to generate steam. For the gas or kerosene powered cars, the fuel is pushed forward by using a pump, very similar to your garden sprayers. This pumps up and pressurizes the fuel that squirts into the ignition chamber to be burned. Or onto your face if the line is clogged and you fail to enact safe clearing practices.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
I was there. The show was lit.
There was a lot of pressure, but he didn’t blow it.
he lawsuit accuses the city, the school district and several police departments of a “complete failure” to follow active shooter protocols and violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour. The city said it doesn’t comment on pending litigation and the school district and police did not immediately return messages. …
This makes me wonder if a municipality might actually encourage a lawsuit against itself, specifically as a means of erecting a barrier to the release of information.
Why not? The EPA does it as a way of bypassing the rulemaking process.
Not just the EPA
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_v._Boise
Our Sec of State “settled” with various voting rights groups during 2020 to seriously change the absentee ballot process to make it much easier to
cheatvote. Instead of going to court to defend the laws the legislature passed, he simply caved and did everything they asked.And since the DFL controlled the state house they didn’t sue him to defend their prerogatives to set laws.
Any citizen should be allowed to challenge any settlement a government entity enters into that would change rules, regulations, and especially voting procedures, and continue to litigate in absense of the official.
I’m toying with the idea that any citizen has standing to challenge any government action. If the government is doing something that doesn’t affect a citizen, then is it something the government has the authority to do? Isn’t the government acting essentially as a private party? Something like that.
I’ve been on that train for a while now. If I have to follow the rules, then I get a say in every aspect of them.
Careful, this way leads to unanimous consent…
I doubt it, since when the subpoenas come they will have to release anything that could be FOIAed, and more. Plus, testimony.
I mean, it would be really stupid, so I wouldn’t rule it out, but it would be really stupid.
Service dogs being trained to sit still:
https://twitter.com/desdelboy/status/1595844974985216001
They’re not really trained until they can sit through a performance of Cats.
I must not be trained.
Did Elon’s “night stand” tweet get covered here? The cans of Diet Coke, and the “OMG gunz!” And George Washington Crossing the Delaware!
White supremacist totalitarian confirmed.
He may as well be wearing Hugo Boss and driving a Mercedes.
No, it was Caffiene-Free Diet Coke. The most pointless beverage ever invented.
Iran to win 4-2
We didn’t concede to England and you think Iran will hang 4 on us? Hahahahaha [crosses self, spins 3 times, spits…]
Jay Leno is back to making audiences laugh!
The comedian returned to the stage on Sunday night at the Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California.
Was his head wrapped in gauze? Was he wearing a hockey mask?
Maybe one of those cool half-face ones from Phantom?
I hope the contractor charged his clients triple for having to a horde of entitled Minneapolis bikers.
I also hope that the contractor took down all the names of the asshole bikers complaining and puts those names out on the contractor grapevine so that the assholes also have to pay through the teeth to get any contractor to work on their homes.
Eh, why should the public right of way be available for private use for free?
Dishonest or ignorant?
“It’s not right. And you know, this freedom of speech is just nonsense because you can’t go into a movie theater and yell ‘fire.’ It’s against the law. What Putin is going to do & the Russians is they’re going to use this as a vehicle to save himself in Ukraine”
Saying things I disagree with is exactly the same as yelling Fire in a theater. They are doing a full court press on this one. I wonder if “regular” people are buying it?
???
Evil and stupid. How will Twitter save the Russians in Ukraine?
All along the Ukrainians and their supporters have thought that cool (usually fake) posts and memes were the key to victory.
The normalization of kiddy diddling continues apace.
Granted, some of this may have been teen-on-teen action.
The cherry on top, so you can be sure it is only getting worse:
Hot, lesbian teen-on-teen action?
But Republicans are fascists.
Reuters’s Andrea Shalal to KJP on @ElonMusk owning Twitter: “There’s a researcher at Stanford who says…this is a critical moment…ensuring…Twitter does not become a vector for misinformation…Are you concerned about that & what tools do you have?”
KJP makes veiled threat to @ElonMusk: “This is something that we’re…keeping an eye on…It is their responsibility to make sure when it comes to misinformation, when it comes to the hate…they take action….[W]e’re all keeping a close eye on this. We’re all monitoring” him.
I’d love to see someone push back and ask exactly who, or what criteria, determine what is “misinformation”? Because we can point out hundreds or thousands of instances in which our own government has lied to us, especially in recent years. Yet they want to be in charge of everyone’s speech.
Misinformation is anything they don’t like.
1. Believing in the lab leak conspiracy theory
2. Hunter Biden’s laptop
3. Election denial (2016 not included)
4. Rights
5. Anything related to COVID, depending on the day of the week- listen to your local major corporation broadcaster for the correct wrong think of the day.
6. Denying Ukraine’s right to exist by not supporting shoveling billions into the coffers of our donors.
I don’t get people who look at a meeting schedule and go “We’ve got an hour, so by gosh, we’ll use all seventy-five minutes!”
We have a published agenda. Lets tackle non-agenda items first.
Burn it all down
And while workers argue that a school with an $18 billion endowment can afford to pay them better, the university says its salary offers are better than those at other public universities and are meant only to cover part-time work.
“We are overworked and severely underpaid. We earn poverty wages,” says Rafael Jaime, a 33-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles and the president of United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents 19,000 student workers participating in the strike. “What we’re really seeing is a crisis in academia.”
The strike is shining a spotlight on a longstanding problem within higher education: Today, tenured, full-time faculty members make up a smaller percentage of university employees than they did 50 years ago, in part due to the financial pressures facing universities amid funding cuts. The proportion of other university employees, who receive less job security and lower pay, “has grown tremendously,” says Tim Cain, an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, who studies campus activism and unionization.
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“To have this many workers on strike is really something new in higher education,” says Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers, who is also president of the union for graduate workers and faculty at her university. “The willingness of these workers to bring their campuses to a standstill is demonstrating that the current model of higher education can’t continue, and that the current system really rests on extremely underpaid labor.”
The strike has garnered support from many University of California faculty members and lawmakers, and some undergraduate students and faculty have held rallies in support of the strike. James Vernon—a history professor who chairs the faculty association at the University of California, Berkeley—has canceled his classes in support of the strike.
“The system is broken, graduate school should be affordable for everyone, and only this labor movement can fix it,” he said in a tweet, urging faculty members to cancel classes “and support our graduate students so one day they can do your job.”
The system is definitely broken, although not necessarily by the lack of union contracts.
Is there anything, anywhere, that shouldn’t be ‘affordable for everyone?’
We are truly living in Lord of the Flies.
They are calling for a minimum salary of $54,000 for all graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral researchers, with annual cost-of-living increases.
These are 20 hr/wk positions, not full time jobs. Given that, they’re asking for about $52/hr for graduate workers and $67.30/hr for post-docs.
poverty wages
That’s definitely going to make school more affordable.
*ties fresh onion to belt*
In my day, being a grad student was a lifestyle! 20 hours a week? AYFKM? 20 hours a week might have been the time you spent outside of the lab and conscious.
*shakes personally-made glassware at young whippersnappers*
Heh, I had a plum student teacher slot, that was probably like 5-10 hours a week of work, got like$15k/yr plus a full ride. I thought that was a sweet deal…
Graduate teaching assistant? You know what I mean, I ran recitation and made sure the really incompetent kids got poor grades on the exams.
I like to think I saved millions of dollars and many lives by helping to fail those who earned a failing grade.
Just like the hospital janitor, I was terribly underpaid by that metric… Ha!
waitwaitwait – they pay these people?
What, exactly, did they expect a grad student’s standard of living to be? When did it stop being 3-7 years of slave labor and squalid shithole apartments?
Gen-Z is not patient. They want that upper class lifestyle now.
And yet, my life was better in many ways back then.
graduate schooleverything should be affordable for everyone‘James Vernon—a history professor who chairs the faculty association at the University of California, Berkeley—has canceled his classes in support of the strike.’
I would be pissed if I were a student of his.
It’s never about the students.
Fire some DEI administrators and free up some cash flow.
Right?
The under funded schools sure do have a lot more money than they used to…
Yeah, I spit imaginary coffee when I saw “funding cuts”.
“president of United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents 19,000 student workers participating in the strike.”
wut
“Meanwhile, Kanye’s new campaign manager declares that Trump can’t win because he, unlike Kanye, is “putting Jewish interests first””
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1597016465718530048
LOLWTF? Did Milo lose his mind or is this all just bullshit?
Crazy people reinforce each other.
The most anti racist thing someone could do is get all the campaign cash from the racists for a political stunt that will go no where.
It’s all bullshit and Milo has always been a bullshit artist.
“Apple has released a software update limiting the use of AirDrop in China in light of recent protests.
AirDrop was being used by protesters to transmit info directly phone to phone, bypassing the Great Firewall of China.”
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1597054942069460992
So much for Think Different.
Another dead Russian billionaire.
Russian Crypto Billionaire Dies in Mysterious Chopper Crash
Has NPR asked Jesse Jackson for a comment about Kanye?
I thought black people can’t be racist?
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“knowledge”, propaganda – same difference
Social justice joins discounted cash flows on the syllabus as essential knowledge for aspiring corporate leaders.
Compound interest is a sin against god and man.
This is correct. If you don’t know those particular dance moves you’re not going to make it. I wonder if they also have a class on
shaking down local governmentspublic-private partnerships?Free speech on the internet will just lead to tragedy and disillusionment
Something has definitely changed in the mood of the Chinese nation and it does not bode well for Xi or the CCP. This is not just pent-up frustration from three years of COVID lockdowns and a moribund economy. It is the consequence of a decade of steadily worsening repression, following two decades (the 1990s and 2000s) of relative loosening.
It is also the result of a propaganda and information control system that has been all too successful, until now.
Every historical injustice at the hands of foreigners is drilled into young minds from kindergarten while libraries, schools and the internet are purged of all mention of the tens of millions who perished thanks to CCP policy.
I was once approached on a reporting trip by a slightly confused six-year-old who plucked up the courage to ask me why I had burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing — as a member of the Anglo-French occupying forces in 1860. He definitely had never heard of the Cultural Revolution or the Tiananmen massacre.
All news and information from abroad is heavily censored and all domestic information tightly controlled, with uniformed police officers stationed in the offices of large Chinese tech companies and paramilitary troops on every university campus.
This is what we should aspire to as a nation.
The shocking sight of huge maskless crowds at the World Cup in Qatar certainly contributed to widespread anger as COVID cases hit record highs and many cities went back into lockdown. In a belated attempt to fix their mistake, the authorities have apparently banned close-up shots of the Qatar crowds.
After more than a decade on the throne, Xi has consolidated more formal power than any leader since Mao Zedong. But he has created legions of enemies in the process and, for the first time in decades, people are openly calling for wholesale political change in China.
That is why his reaction will be swift and brutal, using all the tools of digital totalitarianism.
On Monday, I watched another poignant video filmed at Peking University that morning, where a student is snatched by a group of plain-clothed thugs and bundled off, but not before he yells out: “Give me liberty or give me death!”
The idealistic people who came out over the weekend do not realize what horrors await them. But at least the mask has slipped and the Chinese masses can see the true face of the regime that rules them.
Not a trace of irony.