368 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “FBI Warned Twitter of Hunter Biden ‘Hack-and-Leak Operation’ Before 2020 Election”

    “warned”

    • waffles

      it was a mere suggestion, no consequences or anything. just a little tip from the friendly good guys at the FBI

      • juris imprudent

        Nice social media company ya got here, be a shame if something was to happen to it.

  2. Count Potato

    “Michael Avenatti sentenced to 14 years”

    Remember when the media was drooling over his dick like he was going to be the next President?

    • db

      Guy was totally Presidential. He had almost everything it takes except the ability to not get caught doing horrible illegal things.

      • Tres Cool

        He wasn’t established enough to have the Right People backing him.
        That guy is such a self-involved douche, Im sure he had wet dreams of actually being president someday.

      • Fourscore

        Just needs more community service, helping people and stuff

    • Ted S.

      Don’t give SugarFree ideas.

      • SDF-7

        I’ve always assumed SF is tapped into some dark netherscape underlying the fabric of reality… that font is inexhaustible and what little comments we make pale in comparison.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      At least we know Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth.

  3. Count Potato

    “Georgia Breaks Record On Last Day Of Early Voting”

    Elections have become too important.

    • AlexinCT

      Especially when you can ballot harvest…

      • Fourscore

        Hmmm, I see a new career opening

    • Brawndo

      Yes. As Dave Smith points out, we’re fighting over who gets to wield the most powerful government in the history of the world over their enemies.

  4. Rat on a train

    From CNN to Gannett, Media Industry Laying Off Workers Amid Recession Fears
    Never fear, an unrelated attachment to DOD funding is near.

  5. Not Adahn

    Her estate should sue the Church of Scientology for incorrectly removing her thetans.

    • Count Potato

      Is that where everyone knows your name?

      • SDF-7

        Nobody’s perfect, Saavik.

    • The Last American Hero

      What estate – doesn’t everything go into the church coffers when their soul gets beamed up into the Mothership?

  6. Count Potato

    “European Country Considers Banning Electric Vehicle Travel Amid Energy Crisis”

    You know, one of those nameless countries in Europe somewhere.

    • Rat on a train

      Is it really a country?

  7. WTF

    Department of Homeland Security delays REAL ID another 2 years

    Well, I’ve been informed that requiring ID is racist anyway.

  8. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • SDF-7

      Homer after watching Marge dancing like that on the front page?

  9. Rat on a train

    Loudon County Grand Jury report reveals educators looked out ‘for their own interests’ over student safety
    SOP

    • Not Adahn

      It’s not a coincidence that the only person to raise an alarm was a teacher’s assistant. I wonder how quickly the TA was fired for that.

    • Brawndo

      Eh. The cops do it all the time. Why shouldn’t our fearless educators have the same privilege?

  10. Rebel Scum

    enjoy another beautiful day

    It’s cloudy with scattered showers. I do prefer the overcast to sun even with rain.

    • R.J.

      Mid – 70s and raining the next three days. Addams family is pleased.

      • SDF-7

        Wednesday would gladly thank you Tuesday for a rain shower today?

  11. Count Potato

    “Phillips was once again sued after he refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. A court ruled against Phillips in June 2021, prompting Phillips to appeal. The Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments in Scardina v. Masterpiece Cakeshop on October but has not yet announced a decision.”

    If I lived in Colorado, and had the money, and nothing better to do, I would demand woke bakeries make the most unwoke cakes possible.

    • SDF-7

      You’re assuming any logic would come into play. Some loophole about how you aren’t “a protected class” would come in. Bend the knee, serf!

    • UnCivilServant

      You’d get refused and the government would go “Sorry, bigot isn’t a protected class”

      • Rat on a train

        Some people are more equal than others.

      • R.J.

        Sadly this is correct. Otherwise everyday would be my chance to raise the bar on offensiveness. The question was even raised if you could force a gay athiest baker to make a cake celebrating Jesus. Apparently no.

      • Not Adahn

        Can you force a kosher deli to make you a corned beef and swiss on pumpernickel?

        Could a kosher deli kick you out for bringing your own bacon into the place to put on your turkey club?

      • Count Potato

        They would still have to go to court.

      • UnCivilServant

        And you would end up paying them and their lawyers.

      • Count Potato

        I doubt that.

      • Brawndo

        Basically. When I used to work in the deli, if customers wanted writing on their cake after the bakery was closed, we’d have to do it. There were a number of times we had to turn away a request because they wanted us to write vulgar language on the cake.

    • Grumbletarian

      What would be the most unwoke cake? Mussolini’s birthday? Trump’s birthday? How about a cake saying the 2020 election was stolen?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        A January 6th cake.

      • Brawndo

        With a noose shaped as the letter 6

      • Brawndo

        *number 6. JFC

  12. Rebel Scum

    Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 168 months in prison for four counts of wire fraud.

    So you are saying he is the perfect Democrat candidate for president. ///Busta!

  13. The Late P Brooks

    It gets better. They’re working on a system to recapture energy from electric vehicles and feed it back into the grid if demand is high.

    • SDF-7

      Working on? I thought that’s been one of their selling points for a while now… overflow from panels during peak time stored in the car, then flushed to the grid overnight or somesuch…. Mobile powerwalls, as it were.

      • Fourscore

        Assault the battery on the car?

      • juris imprudent

        Resistance is futile.

      • SDF-7

        Capacitance is shocking.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Ohm my.

      • Sensei

        Only a few brands and models are bidirectional.

        For example, no Tesla model will output electricity to the grid.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Georgia Breaks Record On Last Day Of Early Voting

    You should see the records they’ll set with mail-in voting after election day.

    • SDF-7

      Especially the nursing and funeral homes.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Gorsuch Grills Lawyer Over Whether Colorado Baker Had To Go Through ‘Reeducation Program’

    Someone is apparently not familiar with THE MESSAGE.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Lifetime appointment. I don’t need your approval.”

    • Tres Cool

      Im tired. I worked last night (Im usually off on Mondays) after a hellish Sunday night that required 2.5 hours of OT.

      I totally read the headline as “Gorsuch Gorillas”.

      May make a nice DC-area band name.

    • Count Potato

      “It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.”
      — Clarence Thomas

      • Brawndo

        *golf clap*

    • rhywun

      “Some might be excused for calling that a reeducation program,” Gorsuch quipped.

      Nice. Don’t let the weasels get away with this totalitarian bullshit.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Switzerland is considering banning electric vehicles for non-essential travel this winter as the continent deals with an energy crisis sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

    This is just a bit ironic. It is also predictable, lest we forget the programming for “non-essential” we got with convid…

    • rhywun

      “Essential travel” to include virtue-signaling pols and NGO hacks.

      • AlexinCT

        As well as rioters, erm peaceful protesters… Don’t forget those..

    • SDF-7

      “Why a million years of evolution to quickly evaluate whether Nog from the other tribe is about to try to bash your head with a rock isn’t just going to go away no matter what we’d like.”

      • PieInTheSky

        Nog just want a better life for his family.

      • Tres Cool

        “Nog was a good boy. He was turning his life around, working to get his GED, and had plans to attend business school.”

      • SDF-7

        “Nog kept talking about taking his big idea ‘The Wheel’ public — but Nog’s father Ugg just wanted to keep him out of rock and roll.”

    • Rat on a train

      author is ugly?

      • AlexinCT

        I bet even if she isn’t she always has that look that says “crazy bitch warning!”.

    • Fourscore

      I admit to pre-judging Fetterman on his looks.

      • PieInTheSky

        honest blue collar fella ?

      • SDF-7

        I judge him based on his position on academic free speech advocacy groups…. you know:

        FIRE BAD!

    • Not Adahn

      Millenial discovers physiognomy.

      • Tres Cool

        Rocky Dennis hardest hit.

      • Michael Malaise

        Rocky probably could take a punch to that melon. Should’ve tried to be a boxer.

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

      So, Resting Cunt Face isn’t a thing?

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” Roth stated in the declaration.

    “I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,” Roth added.

    Did they happen to mention whether this “hacked” information was false?

    • SDF-7

      Shhh…. Iustus fruar vester panis et circuibus, civis!

      • AlexinCT

        Q.E.D.

  18. Count Potato

    ““I want to do video depictions of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ and knowing that movie very well, I want to be authentic, and so only white children and families can be customers for that particular product. Everybody else… I will sell them anything they want, just not the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ depictions,” Brown Jackson said to attorney Kristen Waggoner, CEO, President, and General Counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom. “I‘m expressing something, right? … I can say anti-discrimination laws can’t make me sell ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ packages to non-white individuals.””

    What if I want to sell law degrees and only sell them to people who aren’t retarded?

    • Count Potato

      “Can you give me your thoughts on a photography business in a shopping mall during this holiday season that offers a product called scenes with Santa?” Jackson asked Waggoner. “This business wants to express its own view of nostalgia about Christmases past by reproducing classic 1940’s and 1950’s Santa scenes they do it in sepia tone and they are customizing each one, it’s not off the rack, they are bringing people and having them interact with Santa as children because they are trying to capture the feelings of a certain era. But precisely because they are trying to capture the feelings of a certain era, their policy is that only white children can be photographed in this way because that’s how they view the scenes with Santa that they are trying to depict.”

      She sounds awfully confused.

      • R.J.

        I am hoping she was trying to force the point that it is ridiculous to say because only white people are in an ad, you can only sell to white people. To point out the stupidity of the law. I don’t have timw to read all of this anymore.

      • Brawndo

        Yea this is a really bad comparison. I remember about ten years ago, there was some conservative commenting on, I think, women having to buy their own birth control or tampons or something. He said it’s like any other product you buy, like a sandwich, if you want it, you buy it. Within 24 hours, the media was running headlines about how he was comparing women to sandwiches.

      • AlexinCT

        Shit sammiches?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In her defense, it sounded more intelligent in her head.

      • juris imprudent

        Kamala Harris nods vigorously.

      • Brawndo

        The only intelligent thing in Harris’ head was the CA governor’s cock.

      • slumbrew

        *SF mayor

      • Brawndo

        Thank you, I couldn’t remember. But let’s not entirely rule out the CA governor either. You never know.

      • The Last American Hero

        Rule him out. The governor is a cuck for Weinstein.

    • WTF

      That doesn’t even make sense, but anyway, nobody has a right to force someone else to labor on their behalf.

      • AlexinCT

        It sure feels a whole bunch of people think that’s the future of the world. You know, they get free shit others have to work to make or make happen.

    • Rebel Scum

      I can say anti-discrimination laws can’t make me sell ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ packages to non-white individuals.

      Wtf is she talking about? Does she even know?

      • R C Dean

        You can say anything. That doesn’t mean it isn’t garbled nonsense, though.

    • PieInTheSky

      ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ I remember was named the least libertarian movie by reason years ago

      • Count Potato

        They just liked the sleazy nightlife of future Pottersville.

      • Brawndo

        Makes sense to me. It’s my least favorite Christmas movie, and I am the most libertarian libertarian.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I always hated it growing up because I’d only seen the corny ending. Then one day as an adult I caught it on TV from the beginning, and wow. That’s some dark shit. I loved it.

      • Michael Malaise

        I guess, but it doesn’t really involve government that much. I would say it’s more a journey of personal discovery.

    • Michael Malaise

      Was there a straw man in the courtroom?

  19. Rebel Scum

    From CNN to Gannett, Media Industry Laying Off Workers Amid Recession Fears

    Fake news. The Biden economy is the best evar.

    • AlexinCT

      I got a letter from the CT Dept of Labor yesterday regarding my filing for unemployment. I contacted my employer (I am on vacation till next year) and they told me they certainly had not done it and I was still employed. So I reached out to the DoL but they can’t talk to me till Thursday. My guess is some crafty individual is looking to score some unemployment pay ff people and the state’s system is crap at detecting fraud.

    • Brawndo

      Nah, each person gets about 3.50. The lawyers get the rest.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I never understood why Hertz did this. It just didn’t make sense. What did they think they were going to achieve?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m going to speculate.

        The official policy for reporting a car stolen was probably if it was held after the end of the rental period.

        I suspect there is a local office incentive for amount of rentals made.

        Someone figured out they could get the incentive by getting cars back early by reporting them stolen early, and when they got away with it, other local offices followed suit.

        Corporate did nothing. Problem escalated.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    In the interview, Roth was asked whether he thinks safety on Twitter had improved after Elon Musk’s takeover, to which he replied, “no.”

    Define “safety”.

    • Rat on a train

      “I won’t see opposing views.”

    • SDF-7

      “Safe to define the media narrative”

    • Michael Malaise

      The concept of safety on a purely voluntary social media platform is insane to me.

  21. Sean

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    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 316
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    • Grummun

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    • Tundra

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      UL had too many options. Almost took the exit for Chumpville.

      • robc

        See my comment below. But I beat you, hah!

    • Cowboy

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    • robc

      Chessle 297 (Expert) X/6

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      Nope!

      • robc

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        Took 2 tries on a 3-possible on UL. Got lucky.

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  22. Rebel Scum

    Actress Kirstie Alley died on Monday at the age of 71.

    The “Cheers” actresses’ children announced her death on Alley’s Twitter account, saying she “passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered.”

    Some would say she lost the battle. But I’d say it’s a draw.

    Alley became a Scientologist in 1979 and was a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump.

    I assume her cancer was Trump’s fault.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Alley became a Scientologist in 1979 and was a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump.’

      Always gotta shoehorn a celebrity’s political affiliation into the story if it deviates from the Hollywood norm, don’t they? Why now, exactly? To dehumanize the woman in some eyes? I don’t get it. For example, nobody bothered to tell me what Betty White’s political leanings were when she died so why are we bringing up Alley’s?

      • AlexinCT

        They are telling you she got cancer because she supported that evil orange guy..

    • robc

      “Some would say she lost the battle. But I’d say it’s a draw.”

      That was Norm’s joke, right?

  23. PieInTheSky

    Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation keeps spamming me

    • SDF-7

      Be glad it isn’t Hormel?

    • Tres Cool

      Do they have a newsletter or pamphlet I may subscribe to ?

    • AlexinCT

      Are they asking you for your DNA or telling you they want to give you someone else’s DNA?

  24. SDF-7

    Speaking of bashing my head with a rock… the ‘orning ‘ordles! AKA, Frack you, UL and your “could be one of many words and the odds you eliminated enough letters to get it are low! bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!” (Ok, if I’d been better prior I would have had more than 3 guesses to work on it since none of the other words or the seeds helped much… but still, frack off! ;P )

    Daily Duotrigordle #279
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 06:43.37
    https://duotrigordle.com/

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    • PieInTheSky

      did you guys not get bored of this yet?

      • SDF-7

        Self evidently not. Have any more patently obvious question we could answer, good sir? 😉

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

        Dead, or Canadian?

  25. PieInTheSky

    The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous
    Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground

    https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-rise-of-archaeologists-anonymous/

    In the absence of genetic data, it was once possible to argue that changes in the material record (objects and artefacts such as pottery, stone and metal tools, craft objects, clothing and so on) reflected some kind of passive or diffuse spread of technologies and fashions, but this is no longer the case. For instance, for many years students and the public were told that “pots are not people” — that new styles of pottery suddenly appearing in the record does not mean that new people had arrived with them — and the appearance of the so-called “Bell Beaker” pottery in the British Bronze Age showed how imitation and trade allowed new styles of ceramics to spread from the continent.

    But in 2018, a bombshell paper proved this was fundamentally incorrect. In fact, nearly 90% of the population of Britain was replaced in a short period, corresponding to the movement of the Bell Beaker people into Britain and the subsequent disappearance of the previous Neolithic inhabitants. We know this because careful genetic work, building from paper to paper, shows clearly that the new arrivals were different people, with different maternal and paternal DNA. Papers like this appear almost weekly now.

    This narrative, fairly well-supported in the genetics literature, is for Hakenbeck deeply unpleasant and wrong:

    “We see a return to notions of bounded ethnic groups equivalent to archaeological cultures and of a shared Indo-European social organisation based on common linguistic fragments. Both angles are essentialist and carry a deeply problematic ideological baggage. We are being offered an appealingly simple narrative of a past shaped by virile young men going out to conquer a continent, given apparent legitimacy by the scientific method.”

    • Trigger Hippie

      Evolutionary biology and the human nature it spawned is icky, got it.

      • Tres Cool

        At work I generally listen to talk radio all night, mostly Coast to Coast AM. This morning, George Noory had on a brit that was a sociologist, but had dissenting views on what archeologists have maintained for certain cultures from pre-history. He said he was the victim of professional attacks, social media , and even his family. He was physically blocked from access to pyramids in Egypt, and even here in Ohio at Serpent Mound.

        I dont not believe the guy.

      • waffles

        I love coast to coast, listened to it quite a bit as a kid. probably explains some of how and why I ended up in the ideological noncamp I’m in.

      • Grummun

        Who is blocking anyone from going to Serpent Mound? It’s a public park. Just walk in.

      • UnCivilServant

        He probably didn’t want to pay the $8 admission, or tried to visit after hours.

      • slumbrew

        TFB, I wager they’re not OK with anyone just starting an archeological dig.

    • Count Potato

      “Stone Age Herbalist is an anonymous archaeologist and writer. He is the author of Berserkers, Cannibals & Shamans: Essays in Dissident Anthropology and has a Substack.”

      A substack? Obviously a secret nazi.

    • waffles

      so the modern day problematics are interfering with research. huh, it seems dna really puts the strain on ideology. but I don’t think ideology should necessarily come from dna.

    • DEG

      For instance, for many years students and the public were told that “pots are not people” — that new styles of pottery suddenly appearing in the record does not mean that new people had arrived with them — and the appearance of the so-called “Bell Beaker” pottery in the British Bronze Age showed how imitation and trade allowed new styles of ceramics to spread from the continent.

      But in 2018, a bombshell paper proved this was fundamentally incorrect.

      The change in pottery or other stuff still doesn’t mean a new people showed up. It shows something changed. You need to do more digging in order to find out why.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections,” Musk said in a post on Twitter.

    It’s not interference when the right people win.

    • PieInTheSky

      If the right people don;t win you know what happens? The wrong people win.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Annoying weather these days… Haven’t seen the sun in more than a week. Not very cold but wet, as in not raining but somehow the atmosphere is wet… You don;t feel rain – maybe on occasion a barely noticeable drizzle, but it is foggy and water forms and drips from the trees… Dunno how to call this the air is very wet but it is not exactly raining.

  28. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: At Least They’re Being Honest About It Now

    Pam Keith, Esq.
    @PamKeithFL
    If you think there is NOTHING the FBI can preemptively do to curb the threat posed by white supremacist terrorists,

    I invite you to study what the FBI did to the Black Panthers.

    • Michael Malaise

      Maybe what they did to the Black Panthers was wrong, too?

  29. Rat on a train

    Fairfax homeowners, keep your wallets ready

    Next year being an election year, you’d think members of the Board of Supervisors would be even less inclined to raise taxes on the populace. But the day where most supervisors fear the electorate in November is long gone; virtually all the county is now so comfortably Democratic that the only elections that matter are primary races, where special-interest groups – called “gimme-groups” by one wag in a neighboring county – hold sway. So there will be incentive for supervisors, at least those facing primary challenges, to keep the spending flowing rather than emphasize fiscal restraint.
    The result: Taxpayers will feel another pinch in order to pay for ample pay raises for county staff and, no matter how it is spun to the public, an increase in the breadth of local government. Cutting back – real, actual cuts – is just not something that can be found in the government’s toolbox.
    Homeowners will pay more, except for those on the very lowest end of the economic scale (who can get tax relief if they take the time to learn how to play the system). And of course the wealthy really aren’t going to be impacted by another $1,000 or $2,000 on their tax bills.
    The problem is in the wide swath of the middle class, which already is seeing itself taxed out of Arlington and Alexandria – two jurisdictions whose leaders even more than Fairfax see taxpayers as an unlimited ATM.

    They will still vote D.

    • Rebel Scum

      Taxpayers will feel another pinch in order to pay for ample pay raises for county staff

      It’s torches and pitchforks time then.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Oh, great.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Taxes have nowhere to go but up. Everywhere.

      And when the equity bubble blows up as the Fed raises rates, all of these municipalities will suddenly find their unfunded liabilities getting much larger.

      A quick search shows that even with 22% returns on investments in 2021 (thanks to massive money printing), Fairfax still had an unfunded liability of $1B, or roughly one year of their payroll.

    • DEG

      They will still vote D.

      Aren’t they all government employees there?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Only a few brands and models are bidirectional.

    For example, no Tesla model will output electricity to the grid.

    That was the impression I got from the articles I read. They’re working on “encouraging” the manufacturers to incorporate the software for “demand smoothing” or whatever clever name they come up with.

    • R C Dean

      So, you plug your car in, and instead of getting it charged up, it gets drained? That’ll go over well.

      • WTF

        Nobody “needs” a fully charged battery, citizen!

      • dbleagle

        They needed your electricity more than you did. Comply Comrade and be happy for the party.

  31. Rebel Scum

    Indeed.

    Morrissey:

    “Now they talk all about we must have diversity, diversity ,diversity. It’s just another word for conformity. Diversity? You don’t see anything diverse anyway. It’s all conformity.”

    Diversity.
    Inclusion.
    Equity.

    • rhywun

      Morrissey has been flirting with cancel culture his entire career, why stop now.

      • Tres Cool

        + Queen Is Dead

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

        But not that queen.

    • Rat on a train

      Belonging has sometimes been added. Waiting for OLD.

      • Michael Malaise

        We have a DIE+B initiative at work. I suspect it will amount to a bunch of meetings and nothing much else.

    • EvilSheldon

      Jeez, when you’ve lost Morrissey…

    • PieInTheSky

      Look we cannot doubt science and medicine because where will that lead? Once a vaccine is in it must be in for ever and ever otherwise the bad people win.

    • Drake

      A bug? Or the reason they did it in the first place?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Who knows? We’re staring down the imminent collapse of multiple central banks. It sure seems like creating chaos is a way to distract from that problem.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Does this all add up to “don’t get the COVID jab?” Not exactly. It all depends upon the relative risks for the people involved. COVID has its own risks, of course, and the vaccines we are told reduce the medical risks from COVID, although they clearly don’t prevent infection.

      Yeah, fuck off with that qualifier.

      Here’s definitive evidence of direct harm caused by the shots. A specific type of harm that has greatly increased in the general population since the deployment of those shots and these idiots are still afraid to pass judgement.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Does this all add up to “don’t get the COVID jab?” Not exactly. It all depends upon the relative risks for the people involved.

        That crazy Joe Rogan said this back when the initial rollout happened.

      • Rat on a train

        It only works if everyone get the jab.

      • robc

        I said it too. I figured about age 50ish was the breakeven point. Now, I would push it higher.

        And I came up with the clever phrase, “Over 40 or overweight.”

  32. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: Coming To Grips With The Loss Of A Hero

    If we only look at this in isolation, it may seem the punishment is just.

    However, look at what rapists and murderers get (or don’t get) per our “justice” system.
    The 14 years starts AFTER the 5 years he’s now serving. Seems excessive to me.
    Look at the folks who have spent years in prison for a pot conviction.
    We can’t even seem to convict a former president who stole secret documents – whereas, if
    it were any other person, they’d be cooling their heels in Leavenworth before the ink dried on their
    arrest warrant. Accordingly, I take no pleasure from this. Stealing is bad – yes – but what’s worse – stealing millions
    or attempting to overthrow the government? Roger Stone, John Eastman, and Giuliani among
    others are still free men. How about every police officer who abuses citizens under color of law?

    • SDF-7

      Andy really shouldn’t have let him have bullets again.

      • Michael Malaise

        +1 Old people pop culture.

    • PieInTheSky

      I didn’t shoot the sheriff, but the deputy shot the deputy?

    • Sensei

      I’m sure no alcohol was involved.

    • Tres Cool

      ” Lawson pulled the trigger of what he thought was an empty gun, according to investigators.”
      “Though nothing happened that first time, when Lawson pulled the trigger again, a bullet was released..”

      I think I see the problem.

      Couple of bros had some beef.

      • Tres Cool

        Wait….I may see another problem:
        “He was also a member of the agency’s explorer program, an initiative that teaches young people about law enforcement.”

        “Ivey described Walsh and Lawson as “the best of friends.”

        totally ghey

  33. PieInTheSky

    Traffic filters will divide city into six “15 minute” neighbourhoods, agrees highways councillor

    https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23073992.traffic-filters-will-divide-city-six-15-minute-neighbourhoods-agrees-highways-councillor/

    ROAD blocks stopping most motorists from driving through Oxford city centre will divide the city into six “15 minute” neighbourhoods, a county council travel chief has said.

    And he insisted the controversial plan would go ahead whether people liked it or not.

    Duncan Enright, Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet member for travel and development strategy, explained the authority’s traffic filter proposals in an interview in The Sunday Times.

    He said the filters would turn Oxford into “a 15-minute city” with local services within a small walking radius.

    People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week.

    • UnCivilServant

      The appropriate repsonse would be for residents to tear down the barricades and stack them in front of Duncan’s door.

      • PieInTheSky

        the brits are thoroughly cucked, they won;t do something like that

      • Not Adahn

        I mean, serfs are SUPPOSED to be bound to their master’s land after all.

      • slumbrew

        It’ll be standard anarcho-tyranny: the “youths” will ignore all this and go as they please, with no consequences. Normies will be heavily fined and/or imprisoned if they do so or interfere with the barriers.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pile them up and burn them.

        Then throw effigies of the councilors on the pyre.

      • UnCivilServant

        I assumed they were concrete jersey barriers.

    • Not Adahn

      Oi mate! You got a loicence for that travel?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      At this rate they’re going to need to rejoin the E.U. to preserve their liberties.

    • Rat on a train

      Do it. Go further and ban cars in the city. I call on DC to follow suit and ban all private transportation in the city.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      This is a natural consequence of Covid lockdowns. Politicians saw citizens in supposedly democratic countries everywhere would accept restrictions on their freedom of movement.

      Does anyone really think that Americans living in cities wouldn’t similarly accept restrictions like this? What could they possibly do about it besides loudly complain about their rights and stage a completely ineffective peaceful protest.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think that they’ll find, at least in the US, that restricting movement under the guise of fighting global warming is a totally different beast than restrictions to fight a novel virus which people are terrified of.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I just don’t see any real resistance in the cities. The populaces there are underarmed and a high proportion are all already aboard the global warming train. Antifa and similar pseudo gov enforcement groups will be unleashed against businesses and citizens who object too strongly. Those living in cities with redlines against something like this will just leave rather than fight.

        The countryside would a be very different story.

      • Tres Cool

        In the cities, cut out the ‘electric buses’ too.
        Wait, arent subways run on electricity? Limit their usage to a couple of hours a day.

      • DEG

        Most cities in the US will not only not resist, but applaud such restrictions.

    • robc

      This is yet another example of progressives being good at spotting problems yet being horrible at solutions.

      “15 min cities” is a good concept, but that isn’t how you do it. You eliminate zoning and they will naturally form. Or not, in which case it isn’t a good concept.

    • Michael Malaise

      “apply for a permit”

      Wonder how many quid this cunty thing costs.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    “I’m having a birthday party for a friend. This is what I want on the cake. He’s a Raelian.”

    • Tres Cool

      Ye has a sad

    • The Last American Hero

      Ana wins.

  35. Rebel Scum

    L O fucking L.

    Fmr. Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton is considering a 2024 presidential run if it would prevent fmr. President Trump from taking office again.

    Sure. Wrap yourself in the constitution and give it a go, you warmongering cunte.

    • SDF-7

      “Hillary Clinton most unlikable candidate ever? HOLD MY ZINFANDEL!”

      • Hyperion

        These war mongering cuntes gotta stick together. One of the new Axis of Evul, Tulsi, is nigh.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He needs to switch products, whatever he’s using to wax the stache must be killing his brain.

    • Rat on a train

      He can team up with Chaney.

      • Michael Malaise

        Lon Chaney isn’t enough of a monster for him.

    • Michael Malaise

      The Mustache and The Mouth, a SugarFree Happy Funtime Comic!

  36. The Late P Brooks

    People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week.

    Genius! They need moats, with alligators.

    • Tres Cool

      “Sharks with frickin’ laser beams” -Dr. Evil

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That is pretty good.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Peterson’s OK but overrated.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Since it relates to a linked story, Peterson said that Kavanaugh should have withdrawn his nomination after the Senate used Avenatti created smears to destroy his life. I still don’t understand why he took that position.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because he’s a liberal at heart.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He has had some bad takes, on balance a net positive but the bloom has long been off the rose as far as I’m concerned.

    • PieInTheSky

      bacon and eggs. – I thought he only ate beef salt and water

  37. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Michael Avenatti”
    Has it been confirmed he’s not an unfrozen Cro Magnon? That pronounced brow ridge is something else.

    • Drake

      They had bigger brains than us devolved modern humans – so you can confirm that idiot isn’t one of them.

  38. Rebel Scum

    Based.

    just got word that a crew broke into one of our properties

    They are lucky to be alive

    After nearly being struck by a 9mm they panicked and dropped their belongings and fled the property

    Please stay the fuck away from my buildings

    This is WV and you will get hurt
    i mean just holy shit you have to be insane to break into a WV house

    not only do we have guns we have like really big ones

    could you image breaking into a house and theres some right wing nut job with a Barrett M81A pointed at you yelling yeehaw?
    no one got hurt, police are on scene now

    • Not Adahn

      Beanie Man lives in WV now?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Dementia, or long covid.

      • Hyperion

        Dementia, or long covid, or helping fund an intentionally modified and leaked virus that killed millions and don’t want to go to the jail?

      • Tres Cool

        No, just solid legal counsel.

        I cant count how many times Ive told ex-spouse or some girlfriend after a drunken night, “I did what? How can you be pissed off at me for doing something I dont even remember?”

      • UnCivilServant

        Because you still did it.

  39. Hyperion

    “Georgia Breaks Record On Last Day Of Early Voting”

    And the dems didn’t even need that 51st vote, they have their old bud, Turtlehead, to come to the rescue to let them have whatever they want.

    • Not Adahn

      Have they called the race for Warnock yet?

      • Hyperion

        Doesn’t matter. They will just keep counting until he wins, even if it takes until 2030, or longer! And that pussy Kemp won’t do anything.

    • PieInTheSky

      TIT-IST !!!!!

    • Hyperion

      You can no longer harm me with your evil Titty posts, Q, I just founded a new religion and we gots holy underwear!

      Even at my advanced age, you can learnt stuff and act on it.

  40. Q Continuum

    “From CNN to Gannett, Media Industry Laying Off Workers Amid Recession Fears”

    Thanks for a warm fuzzy on a cold morning.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re going to be just fine due to a Republican capitulation:
      https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=402187

      Not sure if it’s as big of a deal as this guy thinks but still not good.

      • Hyperion

        Where were you last night? *reported for dereliction of Glib duty*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Burn it all down.

      • Q Continuum

        Well… fuck.

      • Tundra

        So now we only need to ignore a single company. Sounds ok to me.

  41. AlexinCT

    Marge shaking that blue hair makes me soooo orney!

  42. Rebel Scum

    Gotta stop the MAGA terror menace.

    The FBI is conducting three times as many domestic terrorism investigations than it was five years ago, with 70 percent of its open cases focused on “civil unrest” and anti-government activity, according to FBI documents and government specialists. The Bureau has also quietly changed the general classification of white supremacy, antisemitism, abortion-, and anti-LGBTQI+-related extremism to “hate crimes” rather than “terrorism.” Since terrorism remains the top national security priority, this has lowered the visibility and resources dedicated to those issues.

    The FBI considers all violent acts (and threats of violence) with a political motive to be terrorism, a senior government official explains to Newsweek. But not all acts of extremism are considered terrorism. “If an act is focused on the government, it’s terrorism,” the source says. “But if extremism is focused on private individuals or institutions, it’s considered just a crime or classified as a hate crime.” The source was granted anonymity to speak about classified matters. …

    According to internal FBI numbers obtained by Newsweek, “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism” was considered the prime threat (and dominated investigations) before January 6. Since then, anti-government, “anti-authority” and civil unrest cases have taken over as the number one threat, making up almost 90 percent of all investigations.

    Because skepticism of government/authority is found nowhere in the American history or philosophy. Oh, wait…

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Somewhat relatedly, I think it’s interesting that the gunfire taking out two substations in North Carolina last Saturday was immediately described as vandalism, with the gov spokesperson closing discussion on it possibly being terrorism.

      I’m not saying it was terrorism, but it seems strange to so quickly rule it out when they have presented no suspects or motives. It seems possible to have been a group probing weaknesses in the electric grid and evaluating the government response. Possibly more so than the theory of some drunken hillbilly shooting out one substation and the moving on to the next one 10 miles away.

    • Tres Cool

      “..with 70 percent of its open cases focused on “civil unrest” and anti-government activity, according to FBI documents and government specialists.”

      That was about all I needed to read.

      Lord, how they miss the days of J. Edna Hoover.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “If an act is focused on the government, it’s terrorism,” the source says. “But if extremism is focused on private individuals or institutions, it’s considered just a crime or classified as a hate crime.”

      Thanks to George Bush and the 2001 Congress for providing the government with all the tools necessary to suppress dissent.

    • rhywun

      The FBI considers all violent acts (and threats of violence) with a political motive to be terrorism

      LOL. Only after they filter out any “violent acts (and threats of violence)” that are carried out in support of the current administration.

    • Michael Malaise

      “anti-government activity,”

      This is the feature, not the bug.

    • Tundra

      It’s a gorgeous place, but the fucking wind and cold are too much for me.

  43. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Such lovely news about the Cathedral. Die, loathsome freaks!

    Also, I’ll bet Switzerland makes exceptions for the beautiful people.

  44. Sensei

    So motorcyclist here is far from a saint. Crap like that is why people dislike motorcyclists.

    OTH, the cager deserves what he or she gets. And the person who recorded this and stopped wins the internet today.

    Car swerves into motorcycle intentionally

    • Tres Cool

      Im going to pre-judge and say the douche on the bike was on a BMW due to the saddle bags. Thats kinda the behavior Id expect.
      The cunt behind the wheel needs to sit-down for a couple years in a women’s fist-me-daily prison, even tho I dont think she planned on catching the guy with her back quarter panel.

      Props to the rider for dressing appropriately even though that helmet screams “Colossal Douche”.

    • LJW

      Dunno I think the woman driving the car with the dashcam deserves some sort of punishment for whatever the hell she was listening to on the radio.

  45. PieInTheSky

    Extinction Rebellion activist weeps as she is warned she faces jail alongside six other women for causing £100,000 of damage by smashing Barclays HQ windows

    Carol Wood, 53, cried as she was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court today
    Wood and six others face up to 18 months in prison for causing criminal damage
    The seven women used chisels and hammers to break glass panels at bank HQ
    Caused £100,000 worth of damage to the building in Canary Wharf last April

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11504755/Extinction-Rebellion-activist-weeps-faces-jail-causing-100k-damage-Barclays-HQ.html

    I don’t get how people think you can live in a society where you can vandalize things without any repercussions

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      During the trial, they argued that Barclays staff would have consented to the damage if they were fully informed about the climate crisis.

      Now that’s a true believer.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Middle-aged women in “designer vintage” clothing. It always seems to indicate mental issues.

    • Hyperion

      Activists truly are the worst people on the planet.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        How many marketing campaigns have had “Change the World” in them over the past four decades?

        We’re steeped in calls to activism while we have ignored personal responsibility and ethics. Now we’re reaping what we’ve sown.

      • slumbrew

        All of them?

        Longer than that, really.

        “I’d like to buy the world a Coke…”

    • AlexinCT

      Yup…

    • Tres Cool

      The writer never explained if the kitchen got finished.
      I mean, yeah you caught the guy boning your wife. But is he a decent contractor?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, if the guy does good work and as long as he doesn’t knock her up you’re still coming out ahead.

      • PieInTheSky

        good contractors are hard to find these days

    • PieInTheSky

      We used to see him and his wife as a foursome but she cheated on him and they are getting divorced. – define foursome

      • The Last American Hero

        3 to fuck and 1 to hold the camera.

    • PieInTheSky

      “Deidre says: It’s going to take a while but you owe it to your children to try.” – no. fuck that. ditch the wife get an escort. Also be part of your children’s lives.

  46. PieInTheSky

    Æthelstan for the win
    @AtticumFloreat
    I am so bored of the Harry and Meghan shenanigans. In happier times Harry would have raised an army against the King, with William meeting him somewhere in Leicestershire where Harry would have died in battle, his body never found, and Meghan would have ended up in a convent.

    https://twitter.com/AtticumFloreat/status/1599871466258182144

    • AlexinCT

      That’s a movie I would watch.. But before Megan ends up in the convent, she should be used & abused by both armies.

      • Tres Cool

        “This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!”
        ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

      • PieInTheSky

        I read that book like 10 years ago

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It is interesting to watch the actual demise of the old European colonial system in real time. It’s playing out in so many different ways.

    • AlexinCT

      Bitch has an AOC vibe…

    • Tres Cool

      “Officials confirmed that she has been charged with six counts of battery on a police officer, three counts of disturbing the peace, one of resisting arrest by force and one of remaining after being forbidden”

      I want to party with her. Its like Lard Lad is trying to gin-up his own Hunter Biden.

    • Drake

      Shannon Epstein?

      Any other relations she could name-drop?

    • Tres Cool

      Not my jam either, even the alcoholic versions.

    • EvilSheldon

      That’s only because you’ve never had mine…

      • PieInTheSky

        ewww gross

      • EvilSheldon

        I promise that wasn’t a euphemism.

    • R.J.

      Don’t use vegan eggs

      • PieInTheSky

        look I was just looking for an excuse to post the pic in the twit

    • Hyperion

      And he done ate your Uber Eats driver.

  47. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just raise your damn prices already.

    Effective January 11, 2023, the monthly Economic Adjustment Charge for smartphones and data devices will increase from $2.20 to $2.98 per month/line. The charge for basic phone and tablet devices will remain $0.98.

    • Sensei

      Some of that may be regulatory. They can’t raise X charge, but why Y charge can be raised x%.

      Part of the whole regulatory capture issue.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I suppose the cell business has been around long enough now that pricing schedules are regulated like they are for POTS.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They aren’t. Maybe some disclosure rules, but as long as the state and feds get their vig for universal service slush funds, they’re fine with mostly unregulated pricing. My view is the fees are an attempt to either push customers into certain plans or direction and to avoid hitting the top line price for advertising against competitors.

        POTS depends on the state, but I think at this point the pricing is pretty loose across the board. Maybe some caps or ranges but nothing like the tariff schedules used to be. Some are close to or may even be fully deregulated at this point. And alternative providers largely do not fall under regulatory purview, neither does modern data services.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    According to internal FBI numbers obtained by Newsweek, “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism” was considered the prime threat (and dominated investigations) before January 6. Since then, anti-government, “anti-authority” and civil unrest cases have taken over as the number one threat, making up almost 90 percent of all investigations.

    Has anyone asked why all this sedition has suddenly spontaneously sprung up out of the ground?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s just the criminalization of the non-criminal, aka weaponized FBI.

    • Michael Malaise

      ““Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism””

      REMOVE?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A writer, how surprising…

    • slumbrew

      Bless her heart.

    • R.J.

      +2 Thieving Tiny Tim

  49. PieInTheSky

    Clouds may be less climate-sensitive than assumed

    To date, many climate models have simulated a major reduction in trade-wind clouds, which would mean much of their cooling function would be lost and the atmosphere would consequently warm even more. The new observational data shows that this isn’t likely to occur.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t get how people think you can live in a society where you can vandalize things without any repercussions

    They are heroically saving the world. They deserve our gratitude, and a reward.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    I mean, yeah you caught the guy boning your wife. But is he a decent contractor?

    Did he at least take a little something off the bill?

    • R C Dean

      I would have charged extra for providing the additional service.

    • WTF

      Just the tip.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    The new observational data shows that this isn’t likely to occur.

    Observational data? Bah! According to my model, my model is correct.

    • PieInTheSky

      is it tax deductible?

      • R C Dean

        In fact, it is.

    • EvilSheldon

      I call this the South American model. Armed security for the businesses and rich neighborhoods, payoffs to the gangs for the favelas.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        payoffs to the gangs for the favelas

        I was watching an amateurish documentary that followed around a gang leader in, I think, Detroit. He went into a liquor/convenience store and grabbed a bottle. Clerk told him it was on the house and to enjoy his day. I’m sure protection money was being paid off camera and up the food chain, but clearly this gang ruled the area and the store wanted good relations.

        Interesting to watch and not something you’d see on any MSM-sanctioned show. But really not all that different from convenience stores giving free food and drinks to cops.

    • Grumbletarian

      Since hiring the guards, Patel claims his business has been free of loitering and other crime.

      Unpossible. I have been told by the President himself that there’s no valid reason for anyone to have guns except for the police, the military, and Honest Joe’s bodyguards.

      • robc

        Patel

        A gas station, not a hotel?

        20 or so years ago, stopped at a hotel with some friends, they ran inside to verify rooms were available, I saw an Indian guy working the desk. When they came out, I asked them How Patel was doing. Freaked them out that I knew his name.

      • Mojeaux

        Long ago, I needed to stop in some college town in Wyoming for the night, but they were all out of room because of a basketball tournament. So I had to settle for this 70s no-tell motel 100 more miles away. There were no phones in the room, so I had to use the one phone in the office to call my mom collect to tell her where I was. The owners didn’t speak English. I don’t remember what nationality they were, but I think Indian. I was on the phone, and damned if the woman didn’t pick up the extension to listen. I was like “The fuck are you doing?!?!? Put it down!” She got flustered and put the phone down. I was unable to even.

      • robc

        “some college town in Wyoming”

        Laramie, I assume. I don’t know if there is even a second college in Wyoming.

      • Mojeaux

        Sounds right. I’ve been through Wyoming so many times I should know this by now. Yeah, I vaguely remember having to stay in Cheyenne, but that was almost 21 years ago.

    • DEG

      North Philly. That’s why the Philly cops aren’t bringing the hammer down on him.

      I also wonder whom he voted for.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    From Sean’s link:

    A Philadelphia gas station owner fed up with incessant crime threatening his employees and customers hired heavily armed security guards to watch over his business.

    Oh, noes, teh vigilantismz!

  54. PieInTheSky

    The meaning of memorisation

    Minds, like libraries, should be well-stocked

    https://thecritic.co.uk/the-meaning-of-memorisation/

    “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree”. During the last week I have heard the first few lines of WB Yeats’ Lake Isle Of Innisfree repeatedly, as my seven-year-old son is attempting to learn it. He is almost word-perfect on the first two quatrains now. I have a fanciful, sentimental hope that it sticks with him for his entire life. When I am long gone its persistence in his memory will be a little trigger to remember his old dad.

    Memorisation is one of those perennial discussion points in educational theory, where passions are high and battle lines are drawn. For the trads, you can’t beat detailed knowledge. Teachers must impart to their charges as much as possible of our great inheritance of science, literature and history. For the progressives, rote-learning smacks of the bad old days: mindless chanting, dull and uncreative classrooms, unquestioned adult authority. 

    The best case for memorisation is not pedagogical. Rather, it is about what it means to be fully human, and how we can make ourselves members of a continuing civilisation rather than a load of individual units who happen to briefly be in the same place at the same time. 

    I am myself a little dubious on memorization for no apparent reason, though some things off course you need to memorize

    • PieInTheSky

      It was once taken for granted that an educated person would have a well-stocked mental storehouse of quotations, passages, poems and so on. Nowadays we might be tempted to regard this as mere useless status-signalling, or even a covert way to shore up an arbitrary and exclusive canon. This would be a mistake. At the risk of falling into Arnoldian or Scrutonian cliché, the point is that culture is above all a conversation, spanning time and space, and that to be human is to have some familiarity with that conversation. – sounds dubious

      • Count Potato

        I know a bunch of Arnoldian quotations.

      • Mojeaux

        I can recite half the lines in Real Genius.

      • slumbrew

        “Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?”

      • Mojeaux

        “Can you hammer a six-inch spike into a board with your penis?”

      • slumbrew

        Ah, Deborah Foreman. *sigh*

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Memorization helps to keep the brain exercised and healthy although rote memorization past a certain point is a waste of time. It’s a necessary function that doesn’t respond too well to outsourcing.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve noticed my memory slipping (reaching for words and such) and it’s concerning.

        My grandmother used to memorize long passages of scriptures just to keep her mind sharp. She would recite them in the car to me as she drove. I’m not sure how much it helped, or should I say, how LONG it helped, because she eventually slid into dementia anyway, although it was very, very late. I mean, she could probably recite the scriptures and she knew who everybody was, but she got paranoid and meaner than she was to begin with.

        I do the Wordle and Quordle at midnight when I’m tired to try to challenge my mind.

        One side effect of this medical coding course is to make me discipline my mind, or rather, brow-beat it into submission to the way the normal world reasons things out.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’ve noticed my memory slipping (reaching for words and such) and it’s concerning.

        It sucks. I’ve noticed my memory isn’t quite the same since coming out of the coma/off the vent. I have specifically have trouble remembering people’s names, ones that I definitely shouldn’t have a problem remembering, like the spouse names of team members who I’ve worked with for years, and any type of acronym.

      • Sensei

        Part of my reason for studying a second language.

      • slumbrew

        Mine as well. I have no particular need of French, but learning it is good for my brain.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    t’ll work, because we say it’ll work

    A price cap on Russian seaborne oil will work, EU ministers told CNBC, despite attempts from the Kremlin to escape sanctions and a broad market skepticism over the measure.

    The EU, alongside the G-7 and Australia, agreed on Friday to limit the purchases of Russian oil to $60 a barrel as part of a concerted effort to curtail Moscow’s ability to fund its war in Ukraine.

    ——-

    However, Russia has already said it will not sell oil to nations complying with the cap and that it is ready to cut production to maintain its revenues from the commodity.

    In addition, reports suggested that it has been putting together a fleet of about 100 vessels to avoid oil sanctions. Having its own so-called “shadow fleet” would allow the Kremlin to sell its oil without needing insurance from the G-7 or other nations.

    When asked if the oil cap can work in reducing Russia’s oil revenues, Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said, “Yes, it can.”

    God is on our side.

    • Hyperion

      “EU ministers”

      Ah, experts. Well of course it will work. Just not the way they think.

  56. Sensei

    Popcorn time. Let’s not forget the MSM subsidy that Facebook is against.

    Progressives are threatening to vote against the annual defense bill if it includes permitting reform language.

    Several progressives took to Twitter to express their opposition to Democratic leaders looking to include permitting language in the must-pass defense bill. Democrats previously negotiated a deal with Sen. Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia centrist, to grant him a vote on a permitting bill if he voted for the party’s climate, tax and health care legislation, which became the Inflation Reduction Act.

    • Hyperion

      the powerful West Virginia centrist opportunist

      FIFY

      Actually..

      the powerful West Virginia centrist cunte

      OK, that’s better

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The powerful legal extortionist.

      • Michael Malaise

        But is he better than McConnell?

  57. The Late P Brooks

    One of the big open questions is the role of India and China in the implementation of this price cap.

    Both nations have stepped up their purchases of Russian oil in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, and they are reluctant to agree to the cap. India’s petroleum minister reportedly said Monday that he “does not fear” the cap and he expects the policy to have limited impact.

    However, France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told CNBC on Monday: “I think it’s worth trying.”

    “Then we will assess the consequences of the implementation of this oil cap,” he added.

    Just as long as the right people get their beaks wet.

  58. PieInTheSky

    Teleworking will reshape labour markets and cities.

    https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/teleworking-will-reshape-labour-markets-and-cities

    Conclusion

    The consequences of teleworking go way beyond productivity gains or losses for firms and workers. Teleworking affects unskilled workers who do not work from home, the social structure of cities, and the cost of housing. The permanent increase in teleworking will require strategies to ensure that the renewal of urban centres observed in many big cities is not reversed. These changes are likely to exacerbate urban inequalities, and have a disproportionately negative effect on workers providing local services.

    Inter-city commuting is likely to have an impact on cities’ finances. Fewer commuters – or workers who commute less often – could significantly decrease the demand for office space (Henricot at al. 2022, Mittal at al. 2022) and translate into a shrinking local revenue base (Agawal and Stark 2022).

    • R.J.

      My hope is that it will dilute the concentrated power of the marxists who have a death grip on large cities.

      • Sensei

        Or send the Marxists into the suburbs and turn them blue. Which is what seems more likely

      • R.J.

        There won’t be enough of them. They will scatter and their power will be lost. A fair amount are just followers who will do what those around them do, so they will become red.

      • Sensei

        That’s not been my experience in the People’s Republic of NJ.

    • Hyperion

      Sometimes there really are unintended consequences. People are not going back to big blue cities any time soon. Even if the assholes running them could rethink their stupid policies which started the exodus in the first place, but they are completely incapable of doing so.

    • SDF-7

      The permanent increase in teleworking will require strategies to ensure that the renewal of urban centres observed in many big cities is not reversed.

      Why? Just because the author likes cities? If not enough people value them to support them, let them die.

      • R.J.

        I’d rather nature reclaim them. Or just wall them up like Escape from New York.

      • Hyperion

        NYC will soon become the next wonder of the world, named ‘The Big Blue Shithole’.

        Balmer will become the first satellite wonder ‘The Little Blue Shithole’. Philly is the middle shithole.

    • Rat on a train

      New York has a solution.

    • UnCivilServant

      And the first production units.

    • R.J.

      Reddit probably has it.

  59. DEG

    Concentus Musicus Wien? I saw them in concert once in the Musikverein. They like to use period instruments, or as close as they can get.

    The number of early voters exceeded the total from the recent November midterms in Georgia, when about 1.5 million voters cast their ballot before Election Day.

    Fake news. We know Georgia supresses the vote.

    “Some might be excused for calling that a reeducation program,” Gorsuch quipped.

    Gorsuch is right.

    The report from the nine-person special grand jury stated “we believe that throughout this ordeal LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.”

    That’s like saying the Sun rises in the East.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    Governot ix-it

    Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday unveiled an outline of his plan to place a cap on oil refinery profits in California, a proposal he’s asking lawmakers to approve in hopes of reducing future spikes on gasoline prices.
    After convening a special legislative session, the governor publicly shared a first look at his plan more than two months after he said he would ask the Legislature to penalize what he called excessive profits by the oil industry, accusing companies of price gouging by intentionally elevating the cost of gas for California drivers.

    “For me this is about never seeing those spikes again,” Newsom said at the state Capitol. “You guys are all being screwed and taken advantage of.”

    ——-

    According to Newsom’s plan, the governor is asking the Legislature to enact a yet-to-be-determined “maximum gross gasoline refining margin” — or profit cap — based on a monthly calculation of the average profit per barrel that an oil refiner earns for wholesale gasoline.

    The proposal would allow the California Energy Commission to impose an administrative civil penalty for violations of the profit cap, which would vary based on the percentage by which profit margins earned by a refiner exceeds the limit. Any penalties would go into a new “Price Gouging Penalty Fund,” which lawmakers could return to residents as a refund through the state budget.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    • Rat on a train

      The combined cost + profit of refining is less than retail taxes.

    • R.J.

      “You guys are all being screwed and taken advantage of.”

      Everyone knows about you, Newsome. Fucketh off.

      https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=7ZQhjr16WyE

      Testing a link from Invidious to a YouTube video.

      • Sensei

        FYi – not surprised that the company firewall says “no”.

  61. Mojeaux

    Mr. Mojeaux and I saw Violent Night last night. It was adorable. Die Harder and Home Alone had a baby and raised it on The Santa Clause. Yes, it was very gory but also Hallmark sappy. Also, the hostage family got involved and assisted in their own safety, so that was a new switch.

    • R.J.

      Nice! I wanted to see that.

  62. The Late P Brooks

    The governor’s proposal also calls for new regulatory review and oversight, giving the Energy Commission expanded authority to investigate supply and price issues.

    Newsom said he hoped the policy would deter companies from price gouging so that penalties don’t need to be levied against oil refiners.

    “I hope it never goes into effect because these guys will change the way they’ve been doing business,” Newsom said.

    I read that as “We will establish a cartel directed by the state, and that will eliminate price gouging.”

    It’s worth a shot.

    • LJW

      Can’t wait until all the gas stations close up shop and California gets to deal with that completely avoidable crisis.

      • R.J.

        They will be all electric by then. No worries.

  63. The Late P Brooks

    Never heard of it


    As you read this, look around. Are you still in bed? Are there piles of clothes and takeout food boxes strewn across the floor? Do you have chip crumbs on your sheets? Have you broken your self-care routine more times than you can count? Do you not even care? If so, you might already be in “goblin mode” – chosen by the public as the 2022 Oxford word of the year.

    According to Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, the slang term refers to a type of behavior which is “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” – traits that may have become familiar to many during lockdown.

    Social media can portray idealized versions of self-improvement, from waking at 5 a.m. and drinking a green smoothie, to keeping a journal, exercising and planning your weekly meal prep.

    ——-

    The term was first used in 2009 but went viral on social media earlier this year, OUP said. It shot to prominence after a fake headline claimed that the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and Julia Fox broke up after she “went goblin mode.”

    “The term then rose in popularity over the months following as Covid lockdown restrictions eased in many countries and people ventured out of their homes more regularly,” according to the OUP.

    “Seemingly, it captured the prevailing mood of individuals who rejected the idea of returning to ‘normal life’, or rebelled against the increasingly unattainable aesthetic standards and unsustainable lifestyles exhibited on social media.”

    Embrace your inner slob?

    • slumbrew

      Kamala was ahead of the curve – she was in goblin mode years ago.

      • Hyperion

        What exactly do you mean by ‘goblin’, mister? What are you trying to say?