Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Janet Yellen blames Americans’ ‘splurging’ for record-high inflation
Job Cuts Soar 127 Percent In November Amid Wave of Tech Layoffs
GOP senators to withhold support for Defense funding until they get vote to end military vax mandate
NY Democrats want taxpayers to shell out $300M to help illegal migrants avoid deportation
Top Commodities Regulator Tells Senators He Met With Sam Bankman-Fried 10 Times
This Florida Move Is the Largest Anti-ESG Divestment in History
Try not to get murdered as your case may not be solved
Vaccinated People Make Up Majority of COVID-19 Deaths: CDC Data
Rigorous international study of N95 masks upends federal COVID narrative
San Francisco, LA top list of cities homebuyers want to leave
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Janet Yellen blames Americans’ ‘splurging’ for record-high inflation
You did build that.
Yeah, the trillions of dollars of funny money the government pumped into the economy had nothing to do with it.
Of course not. It’s like you don’t even MMT, dude.
“We kept interest rates at zero percent for 20 consecutive years, but we never expected it would encourage consumption and punish savings!”
Christ on a fucking bike. I’m sitting on a worthless business degree from a no name school and this is who’s running the world’s largest central bank.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some old dead guys had explained this in the past. Or even some still alive, like Tom Sowell . I recognized Yellen as a diversity hire years ago.
The reason you don’t hear much from economists is this is so long overdue that they don’t have a theory to account for it.
Spending money the government sent you on real products instead of putting it in zero interest bearing accounts is splurging, which makes the whole situation the fault of consumers.
Companies raising prices due to inflating costs created by a massive influx of money into the system by the government is corporate greed, and definitely makes the whole situation the fault of the companies.
In my head, he’s singing it to the tune of I Want Candy.
Heh
You’re an evil, evil earworm slinging man, Pat.
I know a fuhrer who’s soft and sweet
He’s so fine, he can’t be beat
Got everything that I desire
Sets all of the Jews on fire
I want Hitler
I want Hitler
10/10
Maybe it makes me an awful person, but that made me laugh.
The theme song for the American remake of “Heil Honey, I’m Home”.
Now I have to re-watch The Producers.
The original please.
As far as I am concerned there is only the original. Anything else is an abomination.
I’m sure all of the servicemen who lost their careers and retirement over it sure do appreciate the empty fucking gesture 3 years later, Mitch.
No Mitch in this one — the headline should have said “7 GOP Senators”: Rand, Mike Braun, Cruz, Dame Lindsey, Ron Johnson (you can call me ron… or you can call me john (son)), Mike Lee and Rick Scott.
Rand at least is doing it from principle. Cruz and Dame Graham are doubtless doing it because recruiting is down and they think that’s part (I think the overt hostility to anyone not steeped in THE MESSAGE is more… no one from the traditional recruitment pool who would believe in God, Honor and Country is likely to want to have anything to do with the Biden Brigades).
Heh, I should have known better than to think McConnell grew a spine. I suppose there’s a case to be made for reading the links before commenting…
I suppose there’s a case to be made for reading the links before commenting…
HERETIC!!
Read the what now?
The Manual.
You know, that booklet you throw out after opening the box?
Manual? You mean the single sheet of paper with a link to a pdf file?
Just finished playing through Tunic, and one of the little clever bits of the game is that you collect manual pages as you go that explain how to do things. I was 5 pages short when I beat the game. I could go back and try to find the rest, but who’s got time for that when Midnight Suns drops today?
That’s mostly warnings of how not to use the product these days.
Do not attempt to stop blades with face.
And pictograms instead of instructions. Can I please have some engrish? I cant figure out the stupid pictures.
[SAW] [HAND] [SAD PANDA]
I like to think of it as a list of ways in with the
creatively incompetent have competed
for a darwin award.
How much do you want to bet they also want to sell their current residence for the overinflated price they paid too?
I’m sure they want to — if they expect to is a different ball game.
Is it Blood Bowl? I haven’t played Blood Bowl in a while.
Blood Bowl III is supposed to be coming out at some point soon. The first two computer translations were decent translations of the written rules, never really played it online too much though.
I am aware. It’s been delayed twice so far though. (And I do own the first two.)
What he didn’t say is that the payments will be in his new shitcoin Friedcoin.
Or maybe the Dem administration will bail him out. “Too big to fail” and all that.
That’s the scary part. Put it on as a rider to the Free Student Loan Improvement bill.
So, Fed to Ukraine, Ukraine to FDX, Ukraine to FDX, FDX to Democrat politicians, Democrat politicians take Fed, Fed to FDX? I think they need to put a step or two in there to at least attempt to hide it.
What percentage of the deposits were US based?
That thieving SOB is trying to avoid prison and the media is running interference for him. He didn’t unknowingly commingle funds, he straight up built a back door to take extract funds from FTX to Alameda Research.
And that probably doesn’t even scratch the surface of the theft.
Madoff was at least paying off his higher-tier ‘investors’.
You gotta get the cheerleaders behind the game.
Seven GOP senators made the vow Wednesday at a Capitol Hill news conference, saying they would withhold the support if leaders of the Democrat-led chamber don’t allow a floor vote on their proposal, according to NBC News.
Better than three, I guess.
So, just a vote on their proposal (which are they are sure to lose), not actual inclusion in the bill?
What was that about empty fucking gestures, again?
Get the assholes on record.
I mean, he only backpedaled to that position months after he said they were useless talismans. You’re on the pension gravy train now, bud, why not just say you followed the science back to where it was for the last fucking century?
That’s surprising. All masks are uncomfortable, but N95s (and above) are even more so, which is of course the biggest reason of all why making them mandatory is laughable.
Why “surprising”? I read it as N95 wearer reported/suffered from more adverse events related to act of wearing the mask than the surgical group, which is exactly what I’d expect – except that the fractions are closer (and much lower) than I’d expect.
“reported”
“Oh, I can’t breathe, I’ve got this persistant sore throat and a facial rash, but that’s not the mask’s fault”
except that the fractions are closer (and much lower) than I’d expect.
That was the surprising part, I would have expected a bigger spread.
Yes; I guess it’s an illustration of the adaptability and resilience of humans. “Oh it’s not that bad. Doesn’t bother me! It’s for a good cause.” An admirable trait in many circumstances, and certainly evolutionarily useful. Unfortunately, also highly amenable to exploitation.
Graham says military recruitment had suffered as a result of vaccination requirements that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made mandatory last year for all service members. The requirement applies to all active duty and Ready Reserve service members including the National Guardsmen.
“The problem here is that we’re having a dilemma we haven’t had in decades – and that’s finding enough people serving,” said Graham, the news outlet also reports.
What a principled argument. “How can we have our glorious wars if we don’t have enough cannon fodder?”
“At this point it’s either robots or clones. Since we don’t make anything anymore and clones still take nigh on twenty years to grow, we’re in trouble.”
Yeah, those boots on the ground in Ukraine have to come from somewhere.
Senators flapping their gums about crypto – dumb as they ever were but determined to look like guardians of the republic.
I’m sure they don’t understand how it works or what it even is, but they are sure going to regulate the shit out of it.
“Crypto is a series of wallets.”
“Lockboxes, if you will.”
Ahhh like social security?
Now you’re cookin’ with gas.
“So how exactly do coins fit in those wallets?”
The cons get mined — with no oversight by MSHA!
Let’s make Fetterman the new Cryptocurrency Czar, he’s as qualified as most of those idiots.
Can we adapt Twain’s idea from Connecticut Yankee and just populate the entire Fed with nothing but cats? Less damage, more entertaining.
“CSPAN ratings are at historic highs.”
Sorry for the early off-topic, but today is really gnarly, and I need some info to finish up an article.
How do you get superscripts in WP? ISTR you need markup language.
You could just try copying it over from a word processor and see if it works. If not, probably wait until you’ve got everything else formatted how you like, then switch to the HTML tab and do them that way.
Now I wonder if it works in a comment or not.
There’s only one1 way to find out.
So that’s a nope.
I had tested it in my comment, then the site said I was commenting too fast when I tried to post my results.
Copying does not work, I’ll try these.
I’ve had a terrible case of footnote envy ever since Eddie’s well researched, high-effort articles.
Testing… a² + b²
If you’re on Windows you can insert superscript numbers – press Win+dot and look for them
Mac has something similar
👍²
I’ve got the same problem with an article I have in draft. I see superscript in the WYSIWYG editor, and the “text” (HTML) view shows the sup tags, but no superscript in preview mode.
You could try what rhywun suggested, or see if this works.
Thanks for that.
Short answer: Do you really need superscripts? This isn’t academic publishing.
I’d try going the paste route, or using the technique Pat found (thanks).
The WP Insert Special Character control (omega character) has superscript numerals 1, 2, and 3, but no higher (as always, WTF WP).
If you have something like a math formula just take a screenshot of that and insert it as a illo. Embiggen before taking a screenshot as it’s okay to downscale images in WP but you never want to have to upscale them. This also works for text tables; DB does those by hand in HTML because he’s that type of person, normal people just cheat by using a screenshot.
But… all the classiest posts have footnotes!
Also, I’m proud of how I changed my serial numbers, even though it won’t be legible in the featured illo. And I am deliberately including text the same color as the background .
I tried Pat’s advice, after converting to block editor. Still no luck. Strangely, it renders correctly in mobile and tablet preview, it’s just desktop preview that is wrong.
No superscript makes footnote markers weird. And, just on principle, it’d be nice if WP could correctly handle text formatting that has been part of HTML since inception. It is what it is, I’ll stop bitching now. Article is submitted.
Previous RCTs in the COVID era have found mediocre protection from face coverings at best. A Danish study of 6,000 that had trouble getting published — and eventually landed in AIM — found no statistically significant difference between surgical and no-mask wearers.
Misinformation!
Yeah, pointing that out not too long ago could get you censored and banned from various platforms.
Yet somehow Elon Musk’s free speech Twitter is the problem.
Appropriate.
Here’s the thing: Studies don’t matter and this will change precisely nothing.
no one from the traditional recruitment pool who would believe in God, Honor and Country is likely to want to have anything to do with the Biden Brigades
I have to think those kids have enough friends and family members currently serving to be getting an earful of first hand reporting on the Modern Army.
I know my experience is not a true study but since the 2020 election I have seen a large uptick of people retiring right at 20 years or good Colonels/SGM just saying “fuck it” and dropping their retirement papers. The Services are bleeding out at the top from the people you would want to stay leaving. This of course, leads to more of those you don’t want in getting promoted. The military has a huge issue right now.
Not really sure I want DeSantis to run for Pres in ’24. I have to imagine he’d bring along most of his staff, and this is by far the most competent (state) governance I’ve seen in my lifetime. Unless that changes, Ronny can stick around.
DeSantis could spend the next two years making sure his staff mentors and lines up decent successors. Probably a good idea anyway.
White House Press Secretary Christina Pushaw would bloody rock… FL should take one for the team to make that happen. 😉
Her mouth is WAY too wide. They didnt skin-suit her properly.
How would he win? What state that was rigged for Biden in 2020 wouldn’t be rigged again?
Joe Biden has two more years. And some normies might find even they can’t put up with it for another four.
It’s not racist to ask where someone is from
When Irish meet Irish there is a fairly in-depth discussion of who is from where and what connections might be drawn from that. What you do for a living – usually an early subject for us – doesn’t come up until much later.
Her late husband, Marmaduke Hussey, had perhaps the coolest name ever.
This was the crown’s chance to stand up and say “knock off the oversensitive woke shit – she’s an old lady and you know perfectly well what she meant”, and they (of course) blew it.
It would have been the perfect chance to turn the corner on stuff like this.
As others have noted, Britain is being conquered by it’s former colonies.
Didn’t the Angles, Saxons, Danes, and Normans learn from their own history what trouble it is to let foreigners settle in? Maybe they should ask the Welsh.
The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, led by former White House COVID adviser Michael Osterholm — a strong booster of N95s — published a report that tried to discredit the findings.
It emphasized the surgical group wore N95s during “aerosol-generating procedures,” infections may have occurred outside the hospital, and only 81% of the N95 group reported wearing them “all the time.”
“We just don’t need another poorly designed and conducted study on this,” Osterholm said in CIDRAP’s report, claiming that N95s’ superiority over surgical masks was already settled.
We don’t need any more studies (poorly designed or not) which contradict our preferred prefabricated conclusions.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Continuing in the earworm tradition above… I really STINK.. doo wah.. doo wah doo wah… I really STINK!
Ah well… no chump, but only by the hairs of my chinny chin chin and all.
Daily Duotrigordle #275
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 06:33.40
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 312
8️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 312
7️⃣🟥
5️⃣🟥
Trapped in the ‘got four of five letters right, screw up multiple times’ trap.
Believe it or not (from my scores), I resisted that trap this time and waited until other letters revealed the fourth in UR. My problem was both the lefts didn’t get almost anything from the rights so had to take long shots by the end.
But we’ve all been there, man… enjoy the Chumptown Coffee Shop, I understand from my last mayoral visit they got a couple new blends to try.
Daily Quordle 312
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 312
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Narrowly missed the Chumptown exit. Seriously though, LR? I had the last 4. It’s not like you can make half a dozen words with the remaining letters on the board or anything…
Yeah, I got lucky with that one — my starting seed had the first letter. By the time it became probable what the rhyming last letters were, I could just use it.
LR and UR had that same problem.
I had 4 on both with an infinity of possible results.
Chessle 293 (Expert) 4/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
Another weird one that I got.
Daily Quordle 312
7️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
quordle.com
Hit a 1/3 on LR to not crap out.
Daily Quordle 312
🟥6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
Didn’t see that coming!
Bad day.
4 9
X X
So many options for the two on the right, I didn’t even get to guessing LL.
BL – AYFKM?
Daily Quordle 312
6️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 312
6️⃣4️⃣
🟥9️⃣
quordle.com
A wasted guess on UL & LR meant I didn’t even have a shot at LL.
“In October 2018, Hallie Biden, Hunter’s sister-in-law, disposed of the gun in a dumpster behind a grocery store but later returned to find it had disappeared. An investigation followed due to the dumpster’s proximity to a school and fears it could be used in a crime. The firearm was never recovered and the Secret Service reportedly visited the gun shop and took possession of the purchase records.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/judicial-watch-accuses-secret-service-changing-stories-hunter-bidens-gun
What a great family.
What kind of loser only has one gun?
I guess maybe there is a reason to own a semi-auto after all.
No doubt and as far as Hunter’s alleged relationship with her daughter, well, don’t even look into that one.
I’m surprised the ATF jackboots haven’t fucked over the gun store for failing to maintain those records. Another fed agency taking them without court order or legal authority is hardly a defense.
ATF was probably unaware and now that this is out will be paying a visit to shut down that gun store.
I’m wildly less bothered by the fact that she threw a gun in a dumpster than that the Secret Service basically covered the incident up for her. They’re supposed to be agents of the federal government, not the president’s private henchmen. That’s what the FBI is for.
The SS have been doing that for years. Look at how they handled the Bush daughters underage clubbing/drinking. They see themselves as bodyguards not federal law enforcement agents.
Teenage drinking is way different.
Or Kennedy’s or Clinton’s numerous romantic encounters. (Again, not the same as the gun thing).
I cannot comprehend why anyone would throw a gun away.
Well, if you’ve just shot half a dozen people and there’s no paper trail connecting it to you…
I figure the only reason we haven’t heard how stupid and/or corrupt Beau was is because he died before it came to light. That whole family is trashy beyond belief.
Not when you can tip a boat over accidentally.
But you understand why they’d take the cannoli, right?
Climate of fear putting patients at risk, say doctors
When will America finally get a first world health care system like that?
Reminds me of the time the NHS transplanted cancerous lungs of a dead chain smoker into a wounded soldier, and then claimed they did nothing wrong.
That was a really great article. Thanks!
Claiming he was “shocked” at what happened with FTX, Bankman-Fried insisted at the summit that he didn’t “ever try to commit fraud on anyone” and that he made mistakes as the company’s chief executive.
“I unknowingly commingled funds,” Bankman-Fried said, while adding that he was surprised by the extent of risk that some of the company’s subsidiaries had taken with client funds. “But I wasn’t trying to commingle funds.”
How was I supposed to know prices go down, as well as up?”
What amazes me is how effing stupid some of the lenders were. They were provided liquidity to FTX and accepting FTX’s shitcoin (FTT) as collateral. If FTX has financial problems then their shitcoin is going to be worthless as well.
I wasn’t trying to be an asshole. It just came naturally.
Final update on nephew’s trial situation:
His attacker accepted a plea deal this week. I don’t know exact details, but he plead guilty to a misdemeanor and if he stays clean for 3 years, it is expunged from his record. He gets to stay in the Marines but was bumped down to private. He owes my nephew $20k in restitution, some percentage of his pay will be garnished until he pays it in entirety. The military will do it, so at least as long as he stays in, that will happen. I am guessing if he ever leaves the military and gets another job, my nephew will have to go back to court to get the garnishment to happen.
I missed the beginning of that story, but it sounds like a shitty situation. Sorry.
Short version: My nephew was jumped in a bar parking lot in March. Had to have immediate head surgery. Lots of therapy. He is back to 99% or so, probably as good as he will be, but it could have been much worse.
Yikes. That sentence sounds like a bad fucking joke under the circumstances. I’m glad your nephew recovered to that extent at least, but that’s getting off pretty light.
My nephew went along with it. He figured a conviction for felony assault meant he got no restitution.
And the guy was going to fight the felony assault charge, as that meant a dishonorable discharge from the Marines. I think he wants to be career military.
His military career is over. The days of getting busted down and recovering are long gone. He will be able to serve out the rest of his contract, but he will not be able to re-enlist.
That’s at least something.
“West shared an image (redacted above) of a Nazi swastika inside a Star of David, a religious symbol in Judaism, indicating it would the logo for his proposed 2024 presidential campaign”
Lame that it’s redacted. How is a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence??
Also, the post reads “YE24 LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH” Which sounds like the opposite of inciting violence.
If being a crazy person on Twitter is against rules, Elon is going to have to ban half the people there.
Taylor Lorenz crushed.
By a bus?
lolwut
Seek meds, Ye.
Hindus really should take the swastika back
I think if we really tried we could reclaim porch monkey and save it.
So, as Dante points out: only leftists can save or repurpose any words, including changing their meanings….
IANAL, but doesn’t inciting violence have a reasonably strict definition? Elon has said he would allow any speech that wasn’t illegal.
Still waiting on the Taliban to be kicked off twitter
How is a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence??
I’m not entirely sure what to think about it, but what do you think it symbolizes?
“Jews are as bad as Nazis”; possibly “Jews are the real Nazis”
Which isn’t an uncommon sentiment in certain Islamic circles, both the traditional and black American varieties. It’s inflammatory. Inciting violence? Iffy. Definitely iffy. If intimating that someone is a Nazi is an incitement to violence then most of the internet would need to be shut down.
It’s not inciting violence, but this isn’t a situation where people are thinking clearly.
Basically, our cultural zeitgeist is that bad things must not be looked at because they contain an almost magical power. People are losing the ability to contemplate evil judiciously while trusting in their ability to retain their goodness.
Honestly, Kanye’s mad ideas shouldn’t be treated with fear but with derision. Unfortunately people are acting like he is invoking powerful magical words and images of power, thus granting him power he does not deserve.
I honestly can’t be bothered with this. If Twitter wants to censor “hate”, go for it – most every other website out there would ban this display too.
It’s the censorship of political views and “misinformation” that’s the bigger problem. If Elon stops that, yay.
Aren’t crazy political views still political views? Just forty years ago gay marriage was lunatic fringe.
I s’pose. Just shooting off at the mouth.
Is there a line to draw somewhere? I dunno.
I don’t want to slip down the slope, but you don’t really need to squint to see what the Swastika has historically done to the Star of David.
I think Elon did the right thing, but good luck to him on writing out the perfect rules for TOS.
Agreed. There are definitely cultural pariahs that transcend the usual rules of political discourses. Putting swastikas on things (in a serious, non-jokey manner) is definitely one of them. Writing those business rules will be awful. I’d love to attend those rule writing sessions.
Not iffy. Absolutely not.
The only real targets are people who are not going to rise up and fight back. Nazis? No. Jews? No. Christians? No. Catholics? No.
Notice nobody ever says a word against Islam, about its treatment of women and gays or…just about anything else. There’s a reason for that.
Well, there was the group that put up signs saying, “Islam is right about women” around college towns. I thought that was an excellent troll of the proggy mindset.
Best part were the women being interviewed tying themselves into logical pretzels trying to defend Islam and explain why it was wrong to post the fliers.
I have to say, setting aside the ghastly inappropriate symbiology, the pattern itself has a very artistically appealing intricateness and complexity to it.
Isn’t that the Raelian sign?
An older version of the Raëlian symbol.
“Missionary carrying a cross on his shoulder during 5,000-miles walk across America is arrested for getting into a fist fight with Montana motorist who ‘threatened to shoot him'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11492609/Missionary-carrying-cross-shoulder-5-000-miles-walk-America-arrested.html
I hate when that happens.
Was he on the interstate?
Very nice.
some people have too much free time
I guess it was his cross to bear.
I wooden have expected anything less.
Fourscore nails it.
He certainly gets to the crux of the matter.
How did they get in a fight? Did the motorist say mean things about Lt. Dan?
The missionary was in a bad position.
Thank you for playing! You have won the comment of the day on Glibertarians. There is no prize, only the glory of a job well done.
In an interview with CNN’s Howard Fischer, a former lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission called Bankman-Fried’s statements at the summit a form of “litigation suicide.”
“Everything he says that turns out to be contradicted by admissible evidence will be taken as evidence of deceit … I don’t know if this is a sign of unrepentant arrogance, youthful overconfidence, or simply sheer stupidity,” he said.
I can’t believe he would even show his face in public, much less do that Dealbook thing. People of that caste are shameless.
Perhaps he thinks he untouchable because he’s paid off all the right people.
He’s probably right. But that would require finding a fall-guy – perhaps that weird chick in his harem.
The wilder thing is that journalismists are taking what he says at face value.
whaddup doh’
French baguette gets Unesco heritage status
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63800674
More accurate headline “Unesco Heritage Label diluted to meaninglessness”
It wasn’t already?
/pops a bottle of “Champagne”
I hope that sparkling vinegar had better have been produced in the Sham Pane region of Taiwan, Mister.
Archeologists Unearth Spectator snacks from the Roman Period in Colosseum
https://arkeonews.net/archeologists-unearth-spectator-snacks-from-the-roman-period-in-colosseum/
BRIAN:
Larks’ tongues. Otters’ noses. Ocelot spleens.
REG:
Got any nuts?
BRIAN:
I haven’t got any nuts. Sorry. I’ve got wrens’ livers, badgers’ spleens–
REG:
No, no, no.
BRIAN:
Otters’ noses?
REG:
I don’t want any of that Roman rubbish.
JUDITH:
Why don’t you sell proper food?
BRIAN:
Proper food?
REG:
Yeah, not those rich imperialist tit-bits.
BRIAN:
Well, don’t blame me. I didn’t ask to sell this stuff.
REG:
All right. Bag of otters’ noses, then.
FRANCIS:
Make it two.
Another front in the war
The United States and its allies are about to deliver a double blow to Russia aimed at starving its oil revenues.
First, the European Union will ban all seaborne imports of Russian oil, a move that takes effect Monday.
Also, the U.S. and other members of the Group of Seven leading economies will attempt to impose a price cap on the oil Russia continues to sell to other parts of the world.
The two moves are intended to limit Russia’s ability to fund its war in Ukraine but are designed to prevent disruptions in oil supplies that could cause higher prices.
Analysts say the price cap, spearheaded by the U.S. Treasury Department, could be difficult to enforce.
If there is a cap on the price of Russian oil, who gets to buy it and then resell it on the open market at a profit?
Because the rest of the world is going to go right along with it….
Pull the other one.
Friends of the Big Guy as long as he gets his 10%.
I notice that the Nordstream sabotage story has disappeared. The media seem oddly incurious about that.
“Mission Accomplished”
Proverbs 4:23 NWV (New Woke Version)
Above all else, guard your
heartnarrative, for everything you do flows from it.wut
They really don’t like their subjects, do they?
Bundle up harder, Europe.
We may find out how many BTUs a Brussels bureaucrat puts out.
I doubt it. The Netherlands just gave up food independence with out much of a fight. The elites in the EU are committing a no-shit genocide on their subjects.
That remains to be seen. I can definately see violence when they try to actually take the land.
The “without a fight” part.
Note: I do not regard the government to be the country in this fight.
There will be blood.
We have such quality intellectuals.
Breaking news: Venezuela announces that they have discovered a new oil field in their country that produces oil that is very similar to Russian oil, and has secretly been drilling for months, and is ready to begin sales and shipments immediately.
I am so looking forward to the ever-so-careful criticism of the new minority leader, lest he be treated too harshly for his victim status.
He’s not worried. He knows the legacy media, the “fact checkers”, and most of social media are gonna be his D-Line. Nothing to worry. KJP is gonna tell us with a straight face that this brotha never denied any elections and has also been to the border…
To be fair, minority is right there in the job title.
The U.S. was concerned that the EU ban on oil and insurance could remove at least a million barrels a day of Russian crude off the market, causing a sharp spike in the price. Russia supplies about 10% of the world’s oil production.
But the election is over, so we can go back to five dollar gasoline.
Friday Funbags: now fortified with riboflavin.
https://archive.ph/QqhXW
Not nearly as good as the squishy links you posted recently, IMO.
Oh just fuck off.
There is no immigrant community more dedicated to learning English and integrating than Asians. From the Vietnamese, the Koreans, Chinese, Indians, and any of the other South East Asia communities, they come here to be Americans and chase dreams their own country denies them. So the corruptocracy is feeling compelled in this day & age where the Asians are realizing one team really doesn’t have their back, to engage in shallow grandstanding to make it easier to brainwash their kids into being mediocrats.
Do you not AAPI bro?
Such an insulting designation to foist on such a diverse group of peoples — as if Mongolians have so much in common with Polynesians.
Only a white supremacist would deny the utility of racial classifications invented by … checks notes … white supremacists in the racial hygiene departments of state and federal governments.
LEARN TO ENGLISH
Being expected to learn the predominant language in a region you move to is racism!
For the next few hours this station will air the same FEMA PSA in every language known.
How hard is it to broadcast a loop of Japanese crowds fleeing in horror while yelling “GOJIRA!!!!!!”?
Or is that not what “culturally competent” means?
Reading the Ye article her and going back to SF’s Wednesday madness, is SF saying Milo doesn’t exist, and that he’s really Hunter?
Here, not her
It’s a balancing act between finding a price low enough to limit Russia’s profits but high enough to keep it producing oil.
They all want cake.
Good morning, Sloop!
OK, now I’m pissed at Kanye’s people. When someone close to you is in the middle of an episode you don’t fucking let them out of the house, much less go on huge platforms and wreck their career. Idiots.
I’m shocked to read that the masks are horseshit. Less shocked that stupid cocksucker Osterholm is still pushing them.
I’m not a big Metallica fan, but that’s a 10/10. Both the song and the video.
Have a great day!
I remember coming home from Marine Boot Camp in 1989. My younger was watching MTV (because that’s what you did in ’89). He called me over when that song came on. I was stunned – never seen heavy metal done that well or that fast by the end. Been listening to Metallica ever since – several of their songs are on my gym cardio playlist.
According to my model!
I would call it the B-2.1 instead.
+1 Arthur Carlson School of Aviation Science
I remember a war simulator from the 90s (part of G-2 workstation). Commanders moved units around. Combat was simulated for losses of personnel and equipment. Intel units were added with shadow templating and all so we can participate. We had to place our assets correctly to get simulated radio traffic from enemy units. We discovered the combat algorithm didn’t work for our assets since it never allowed a single hit to cause 100% damage to a unit. Our units were single vehicles. They were invulnerable. We had one driving down a road followed by a tank battalion giving us reports. Eventually an OC killed the asset.
It seems this required more playtesting.
Was that the one that ran on DEC hardware? I strongly disliked that one (probably because I got stuck as a “puckster” (clicking the mouse all day long).
I don’t know the hardware. We didn’t use the computers. We only had a telephone for simulated radio comms with our assets and and a printer for reports.
Cahill says efforts to get countries outside the G-7 on board with the plans have not been successful, in part because they’re wary of the complicated plan.
“I think there’s also some irritation with Western sanctions and the idea that, you know, the U.S. and the EU are really pushing countries to do this and they’re interfering with the global oil market,” Cahill adds. “They have a lot of skepticism. And I don’t think that India and China will sign the plan and fully endorse it.”
No shit, Shirley?
I believe the definition agreed upon by The Hague is that the entirety of the glans must be 1.6 cm past the introitus; before that it’s just the tip.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20616137/husband-cant-agree-on-what-cheating-means/
If you’ve bared your dick in person to someone not your wife, that seems like a bright line for cheating.
Even your urologist?
Sending dick pics is OK?
Well, I was unable to drive the golf ball past the women’s tees…and the guys all said it was the rule.
/last time I ever played golf
So that’s why you were banned from the course.
This guy truly lived the dream.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/cannibal-killer-turned-porn-star-28636623
Jeez, had sex with the corpse over several days presumably while he was also eating it. Talk about bringing dishonor to the family…
“Enough with the eating! Doesn’t anyone fuck anymore!”
Embracing the power of both!
“We strongly advocate for FEMA to develop multi-language resources and culturally competent services for Asian American communities, which has more than 100 languages and 50 different ethnicities, to ensure that our communities are not at a disadvantage when danger strikes,” Yang added.
What are the odds this has more to do with teaching them to abandon their foolish need for self-sufficiency and reliance on their own community, in order to make them more dependent on the government?
Just got to listen to another Steve Harvey diatribe against Herschel Walker.
Basically conservatives should be embarrassed by this cynical attempt to split the black vote.
Harvey is also appealing to the non-black voter to not fall for this blatant racism on the part of the GOP.
Then another rant about how dumb Walker is.
My brain hurts.
Steve Whovey?
I am lucky enough to listen to his morning “comedy” radio show in the office.
I used to think he was a bland comedian. I have learned that he is an ignorant racist.
Was it Tucker or somebody else who pointed out how unserious we have become about our politicians. I think he was talking about the trans thief in charge of our uranium and plutonium. PA race of brain-dead hobo versus Turkish carny is another instance. In AZ a crazy woman in charge of vote counting mysteriously won the Governor’s race. Or this mess in GA – wife-beating woke asshole versus dumb jock.
Yeah, I miss the good old days of upright serious statesman, like Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and Strom Thurmond,
The choice was never between steak and lobster.
It used to be a donut or a hotdog.
Now it’s between gas station sushi and an orange circus peanut.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Obviously not in my neighborhood.
Actually some neighbors do drop by with veggies or offers to help.
Like the Glibs.
😛
I think it’s a bit late in the season to come by and vegitate though.
Orange you at least gonna try to help Fourscore through a tough Minnesoda winter?
You guys should have some veggie raffles to help out with the meat ones…
Am I the only one that finds The Quartering to be tediously boring? He’s literally explaining the difference between having checked bags and not having checked bags when you fly. I’ve tried to get into his content because I enjoy pop culture commentary as much as the next guy, but he just puts me to sleep.
His business model relies on eight videos a day of minimum length. He needs to fill the time with something even when the subject doesn’t lend itself to that duration.
No. I also find him to be more annoying than even most video commenters.
Not the only one.
Basically conservatives should be embarrassed by this cynical attempt to split the black vote.
Them nigras belong to us! Don’t be stealing our propitty!
The left are the good kind of racists.
The patronizing kind
Commercial real estate bailouts in ….
Let them fail.
And especailly let the city have to make spending cuts.
LOL, sure…that will happen.
Given that Minneapolis and St. Paul provided the entire margin of the DFL wins in statewide races, I am sure the plan will be to go to the legislature and demand that the state government step in and give the Cities handouts to prevent their tax cattle from feeling the full effect of the city governments management.
The farmers out on the western prairie, the Rangers and the hog slaughterers in southern Minnesoda will all get to pay for Minneapolis to have the best dang most diversest Department of Bike Lane Management evah! Suck it Portland.
That’s almost as bad as the time Dacia announced that the release of the Sandero sedan would be delayed.
Jezza’s reaction often runs through my head.
It’s right next to the Drinker’s “Nah, it’ll be fine.“
Small beans compared to the looming real estate apocalypse in Manhattan.
Combined with Wall Street losses and city mismanagement (e.g. pubsec union demands), they’re already predicting budget deficits in the tens of billions of dollars in the next year or two.
Meh, there are plenty of people upstate they can fleece to keep this racket going for another decade or so….
We’re already broke.
You still have shit they can take. And after that they will make you sell your body to give them their due. Get ready to be pimped out.
That’s my world. I expect that we are gonna get destroyed over the next couple years until this shakes out. I’ve already heard of a ton of projects being delayed/canceled. Hopefully the collapse will be swift so those buildings can get into new hands.
I want the backs of the municipalities to be broken. Leave the buildings vacant.
I’ll be collateral damage, so no thank you.
Don’t worry Tundra. If there is one thing the GOP and the Dems agree on it is that us libertarians secretly have all the power. So even if everyone else gets wiped out, you’ll be taken care of.
…you’ll be taken care of.
Of that I have no doubt.
Last year a couple of higher end shopping centers defaulted and went to bank ownership locally. They’re still operating, and still have mid-high range stores. I’m curious how long they’re going to last though.
The Bee weighs in on Apple vs. Twitter:
https://babylonbee.com/news/apple-announces-they-are-prepared-to-pull-twitter-from-app-store-as-soon-as-president-xi-gives-the-order
Legit.
Profiteers
OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers could impose deeper oil output cuts on Sunday, energy analysts said, as the influential energy alliance weighs the impact of a pending ban on Russia’s crude exports and a possible price cap on Russian oil.
OPEC+, a group of 23 oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, will convene on Sunday to decide on the next phase of production policy.
The highly anticipated meeting comes ahead of potentially disruptive sanctions on Russian oil, weakening crude demand in China and mounting fears of a recession.
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OPEC+ agreed in early October to reduce production by 2 million barrels per day from November. It came despite calls from the U.S. for OPEC+ to pump more to lower fuel prices and help the global economy.
The energy alliance recently hinted it could impose deeper output cuts to spur a recovery in crude prices. This signal came despite a report from The Wall Street Journal suggesting an output increase of 500,000 barrels per day was under discussion for Sunday.
Maybe the Venezuelans will bail Joe out.
“…And Justice for All” was the last great Metallica album. The Black Album was good, and everything after was definitely subpar.
| San Francisco, LA top list of cities homebuyers want to leave
That may be so, but it doesn’t change the fact that even in this depressed real estate market and after the whole Vid debacle, a 1200 sq foot home in my (used to be blue collar hood) will go for 1.3 to 2 million plus depending on when it was last remodeled.
With SV cratering I wonder where they’re finding people who can afford that.
I have often looked at neighborhoods with expensive houses in areas where there were no jobs and went “Who is it that can afford that and what do they do?”
Old money and pro sports players are the usual answers around here.
I think there is so much pent up demand that even with the recent SV downturn there are still enough buyers for SFHs. Prices could drop another 10-15% and then we would be all the way back to mid 2020 levels here.
SV?
Silicon Valley
my guess
I haven’t really listened to anything past the black album and that only sporadically, even when it came out. But “Lux A(jam the E in there and umlat it or something)Eterna sounds pretty good. Probably not good enough for me to buy the album, but good.
That “One” video still brings a chill though… And it’s such a well crafted, building, song.
The bass on And Justice for All sucked.
Were you even able to hear it?
Bass is good, just turn it up some: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=and+justice+for+all+with+bass
Gosh, why would anyone have want ed Trump over Joey B?
Oldest son got his first lesson in government this morning. He and my wife drive an hour to the driver test place, only to be told they didn’t have a document from the driving school which wasn’t given to them and wasn’t on the list of items needed to complete the test. So they get to do it all over again Monday and he doesn’t get to drive on his birthday nor this weekend.
Libertarian moment?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blamed consumers’ excessive spending habits as a primary cause for the near 40-year-high in inflation on Wednesday.
Go fuck yourself.
Disgraced rapper Kanye West saw his Twitter account suspended by Elon Musk on Thursday night after he shared a picture of a swastika interlaced with a Star of David.
I saw a picture claiming what he tweeted was the old version of the Raëlian symbol. I understand that the Raëlians dropped that version because folks saw that version of their symbol having Nazi connotations. However, that swastika is not the Nazi swastika.
The other six are Sens. Mike Braun, of Indiana; Ted Cruz, of Texas; Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina; Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin; Mike Lee, of Utah; and Rick Scott, of Florida.
McConnel will shank them.
Proponents of the legislation are pushing for New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) to support the proposal and commit to $100 million in funding from the state’s budget. On Wednesday, the governor committed to providing $3 million to nonprofit organizations assisting immigrants with their asylum applications.
What could possibly go wrong?
In an interview with YouTube commentator Tiffany Fong, Bankman-Fried said that FTX U.S. will get “a dollar on the dollar” and that international users can expect to get “20 to 25 cents on the dollar” as recovery.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I expect users will get zero cents on the dollar.
“Using our cash, however, to fund BlackRock’s social-engineering project isn’t something Florida ever signed up for. It’s got nothing to do with maximizing returns and is the opposite of what an asset manager is paid to do. Florida’s Treasury Division is divesting from BlackRock because they have openly stated they’ve got other goals than producing returns. As Larry Fink stated to CEOs ‘’Access to capital is not a right. It is a privilege.’ As Florida’s CFO I agree wholeheartedly, so we’ll be taking Larry up on his offer. There’s no lack of companies who will invest on our behalf, so the Florida Treasury will be taking its business elsewhere,” he continued.
Good.
“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cynthia Cox, the vice-president of the Kaiser Family Foundation told the Washington Post in an article dated Nov. 23.
Who could possibly have seen that coming?
Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM) this week and led by researchers at Canada’s McMaster University, the study found no statistically significant difference in protection between the two kinds of masks in healthcare facilities in Canada, Israel, Pakistan and Egypt.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
Archive to the rescue. Yep, the old Raëlian symbol.
I wonder what happened to the Boisselier broad. She had jacked-up teeth, but prolly would.
I poked around on the Intertubes, and found she changed her name. Supposedly she is involved with ClitorAid and StemAid.
peaking of bad omens in the real estate market…
Blackstone Inc (BX.N) limited withdrawals from its $69 billion unlisted real estate income trust (REIT) on Thursday after a surge in redemption requests, an unprecedented blow to a franchise that helped it turn into an asset management behemoth.
The curbs came because redemptions hit pre-set limits, rather than Blackstone setting the limits on the day. Nonetheless, they fueled investor concerns about the future of the REIT, which makes up about 17% of Blackstone’s earnings. Blackstone shares ended trading down 7.1% on the news.
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Blackstone has reported a 9.3% year-to-date return for its REIT, net of fees, a contrast to the publicly traded Dow Jones U.S. Select REIT Total Return Index (.DWRTFT) 22.19% decline over the same period.
That outperformance has some investors questioning how Blackstone comes up with the valuation of its REIT, said Alex Snyder, a portfolio manager at CenterSquare Investment Management LLC in Philadelphia.
Get while the getting’ good.
Excellent but also bad.
I saw something yesterday which said the preferred destination for people fleeing L A and San Fran is… Las Vegas.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Makes sense. Damn, stuff was expensive last visit.
Every year my family runs a Turkey Trot 5K on T-giving morning. At the end of the race a bunch of tables are all set up where they give away various health food samples. We always grab a bunch of them because they are free. Then we spend the next few weeks laughing/groaning about how bad they are.
I just finished the last of the “protein bars” I had. One of the Altar Boys referred to it as “tastes like dry wall that has been painted with really bad tasting paint”. The only way to make them edible is to soak them in coffee.
Why do these companies do this? We’ve never seen the same company show up two years in a row.
You should have gone for the insect snacks… That’s the future of us feudal serfs according to the WEF.
Can’t. Legit allergic to silk work pupae.
I gotta keep my meat ration. That is why I’m taking notes on all of you ungovernable sons of bitches. I am gonna rat you all out so I can curry favor with the New Aristocracy.
You’ll be sorry after the battle of Vindaloo.
You mean my dreams of being a Napoleonic emperor won’t come true?
I have already sold my soul to the WEF devils and they promised me I would be a regional overlord. Prima Nocte you serf bitchez!
“You fucked up, you trusted us. Up against the wall.”
That’s always how that totalitarian shit works out… Ask that guy Hu Jintao that for a while was on top how this shit plays out…
See, that is your problem. You aimed too high.
I just asked to be Piss Boy.
I want to be Count De Money!
And why are they all chocolate-peanut monstrosities? Why not a bacon cheddar protein bar?
Cause part of the experience is to feel despair and what eating dirty ass tastes like?
Because quite a few of them are vegan/vegetarian friendly.
So tastes like eating dirty ass…
“If it tastes good, it’s bad for you.”
I’ve found a couple of road snacks that I’ve consistently liked and keep buying. Stroopwaffles are a frequent favorite, although some of the brands taste… off.
Is it still downtown? More of a steeplechase with all the homeless encampments?
Yep, they just started the downtown course again.
Altar Boy #2 and I were waiting for the others to finish and all of a sudden a ton of cops/firetrucks/ambulances converged toward the finish line. We thought some racer had keeled over. Nope. Unconscious homeless dude at the light rail station. Us suburbanites all got a good story for dinner later that day.
Even better we got to run by all the motivational messages that Minneapolis put up to cure all of its woes.
We’re so fucked.
I just finished the last of the “protein bars” I had. One of the Altar Boys referred to it as “tastes like dry wall that has been painted with really bad tasting paint”. The only way to make them edible is to soak them in coffee.
I got some a while back which were like trying to eat a urethane suspension bushing (only not as tasty).
I guess there are still people who think, “It’s so awful, it’s gotta be good for me.”
Kirkland brand are excellent. And not as many carbs as most candy – I mean protein – bars.
Yep, the old Raëlian symbol.
You can’t expect a bunch of Red Diaper journalismers to know about the Raelians. They don’t even have a Tikface channel.
“This California state senator seriously tried to fake hate mail but included his cursor and the grammar lines in his screenshot.
Unreal”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1598180670991634433
“Not even 24 hours after MAGA grifter Charlie Kirk tweeted homophobic lies about me, I received this threat repeating one of his lies.
But that was the point: Riling people up against me & other LGBTQ people.
Words have consequences & Twitter is becoming a cesspool for this crap”
https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1598089123742781442
The comments LOL.
You see the desperate attempt to claim it was a call which is why he had to type it out? if there really was a call, they would have released it (unless it came from one of his relatives). Don’t accept one if it comes later. They are currently busy trying to find someone to give them audio.
After being called out, he then claimed that he was transcribing a hate voice mail.
Instead of just recording the VM or forwarding over the VM file? Yeah…
Before I clicked I knew it was going to be Weiner or Pan. Both of those guys are raging assholes.
How tiny are these birds?
Quail are small. They are commonly available in Austin restaurants/diners, but I have never failed to be disapponted by them.
Because they are so small, they can be tossed directly on the same grill that’s being used to cook the rest of the diner food.
Quail at diners isn’t something I expected.
I’m trying to develop recipes to be included in a cookbook/fictional travelogue (with plot) that’s one of my ongoing side projects. Some of the ingredients are more elusive than others.
They’re not *that* small. The ones we buy in Publix are usually about 16 to 20 oz for a whole bird (frozen). Is this just the breast?
Are you sure those are quail?
These 4-7 oz listings are whole bird.
Very, very small.
In the early 2000’s a lot of hunters came from Virginia and the Carolinas to hunt pheasants in NoDak. It was pretty funny to see their dogs’ reactions when a giant pheasant flushed. You could see them thinking “Holy shit! It’s a goddamned roc!”
Also funny listening to said foreigners wondering how anyone could miss such a huge target and then watching them miss just like everyone else does.
Because it’s moving.
Sad Trombone…
Swiss look to ban use of electric cars over the winter to save energy
But, but….
It’s… uh… it’s not working.
I can’t help but see the proggie bitcoin guy who was all in with the Dems as a tool to go after crypto in general. It’s coming. It’s always been coming. I don’t know if they can succeed completely, but they can succeed to some extent.
That’s from a useful idiot Republican. One of them law and order types who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
I mean it had nothing to do with bitcoin whatsoever, so yeah. It’s coming.
CBDC here we come!
OMG, this is so precious:
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/12/01/swiss-look-to-ban-use-of-electric-cars-over-the-winter-to-save-energy-n514785
…and if you don’t comply voluntarily, they will strong-arm the manufacturer to shut your car off from afar.
Yay, Progress! Everything that is centrally planned is better than whatever the choices of millions of individuals comes up with naturally. Cut off that Invisible Hand before it does something reasonable that reflects the best interests of everyone involved.
It will be interesting to see if a market develops for hacked EVs.
I bet there will be.
Given Elon’s deep loathing of government grabbing data from private companies, I’d be surprised if he goes along voluntarily with govt shutting down Tesla cars remotely.
On the other hand, I fear he’s going to get assassinated now that he has pissed off the Lefties.
Also, NEED MOAR NUKE PLANTS.
I’m reminded of Germany going back to coal mining after a couple decades of eco-preening.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes!
L O fucking L.
Let the riots commence.
Some weeks ago we saw news that US State Dept said it was going to punish US citizens or green card holders that continued to work in the Chinese semiconductor industry. Anyone in that industry have any updates on that?
No changes to that as far as I know. AFAIK, my company’s support staff assigned in China is still not working.
There are several companies that are based in the US that use Chinese wafer foundry services in China. That seems like a more realistic approach than punishing people who work for a Chinese company.
Neither approach is acceptable in my opinion, but I get the intention. By the way how is this not seen as economic warfare?
“Planned Parenthood executive director claims children are born ‘sexual’ – and advocates porn literacy lessons for older students and sex education from KINDERGARTEN
The sentiment was echoed by Planned Parenthood, that said in a guide entitled the ‘Fundamentals of Teaching Sexuality’ that ‘sexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages.
‘Babies, elders, and everyone in between can experience sexuality.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11495051/Planned-Parenthoods-sexual-education-director-claims-children-born-sexual.html
Well, if anyone knows what’s good for babies.
My first reaction was “They want more pregnancies so they can sell more abortions and baby parts”
Moloch nods vigorously.
Dude looks like a pedo, sounds like a pedo, I’m gonna bet he walks like one too.
Today is my day off after 4×10 hour days (which are really 12 hour days due to the commute), but Livermore Berkeley labs has called an 8 o’clock teleconference so here I sit listening to 5 physicists attempting to edit / write a document together.
I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.
That’s my line!