Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
California residents flee state for 3rd year in a row: Census Bureau
Year three of the Biden border crisis will be the worst yet
The national debt is a “rapidly growing death spiral”
Holiday Sales up 7.6% in 2022 — but Outpaced by 8.5% Inflation
Walmart launches drone delivery in Texas, Florida and Arizona
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Biden admin pressured Twitter to censor medical experts who questioned CDC Covid guidance on vaccines”
Shocking!
I bet if we ask for an explanation of “pressured” we will find out there was some serious threatening going on. And I bet it was not just Twitter they did this to. That’s what these cuntes thinks is “doing science”….
For any and all fucking idiots that think government should be in charge of healthcare, is this enough proof these people would abuse it as a weapon against their own citizens without even losing sleep over it?
I can’t imagine anyone would take that bet.
So, a continuation of what was happening under the Trump admin. Would’ve been nice if he had shown half as much interest in actually running the govt as he did running his mouth.
Ah, yes. A brilliant takeaway from that – BUT TRUMP!!
Thanks for not disappointing, JI.
The article actually had that in it, if you’d bothered to read beyond the headline. I know, only Democrats and GOPe are the root of all evil; the world would be in blessed peace and prosperity if only our rightful ruler was still on the throne!
And the follow up is right in line with it.
Never change, JI. Never change.
Oh wait – you don’t. Show us on the doll where Trump touched you, JI.
For a guy who perceives the structural problem, it’s strange that you seem to be a sucker for a con.
And you very much miss the point – it isn’t Trump, it’s the people who so blindly believe in him.
This trope is not only lame, but a downright copout by the usual suspects.
I will remind people using this argument that the biggest problem Trump had was that the machine was not just rigged against him so that he could not find anyone inside the machine to do the cleanup he wanted, but that the machine effectively and actively ignored the POTUS whenever they felt like it. They kept troops in Syria against his orders and actively undermined his orders whenever it conflicted with the corruptocracy’s global reset agenda. Blaming Trump for the machine ignoring him, is the same as blaming Biden for it. Neither of them can control the corruptocracy. D.C. needs to be nuked.
I think the machine is operating Biden, not ignoring him.
You win the internets today, Homple.
Thank you for the nomination.
This is the proper understanding of our situation.
Meh. Look, I generally liked Trump, even if I voted LP the first time. But, let’s be honest here. He didn’t do much to take on the Deep State. Even when they openly defied him, he let it slide and, as in the case in Syria, let them push him into their position. Maybe he’s learned his lesson. If not, he’s an idiot. But, as far as I can tell, he didn’t even have the sense to look at them as an enemy. I mean, he gave more crap to Thomas Massie for demanding a vote on spending than he did to the MIC for ignoring his decision as commander in chief.
We are a fascist state – just with interchangeable figureheads.
+ 1 Rad Modest Proposal.
They only sell drones in three states? Or do you have to pick them up yourself in the other 47?
/deliberately obtuse
From dedthred: Glass pipes for purity issues (particularly metal-free, which is also why that glass is more prone to breakages — no sodium or calcium). Modern equipment would make use of high-purity polymers (PFA/PVDF), but that unit dated back to the before-times.
Ah. Got it.
Good morning!
I should have taken vacation today. Literally everybody else did.. except my boss and two new hires. Oh well, returning to the tech work keeps my skillz sharp.
I am still off till next week..
There is something to this not working shit, but I have bills to pay still…
What’s the precedence? How are you liable for the actions of people you bail out of jail?
Traditionally, the person who bailed/bonded the accused out of jail also agreed to act as surity for their behaviour. Though more recently, it has watered down to just surity that they show up to court. So once upon a time in common law, paying someone’s bail was also saying “Yes I will make sure they behave.”
Also in a civil trial, the argument “Victim would not have been shot but for defendant bailing the recidivist out” is cause to bring it before the jury.
Victim would not have ben shot but for the judge granting bail.
Case dismissed with prejudice.
How are you not? If you make the conscious choice to put your money up and say “This person should be roaming the streets and is therefore no danger to anyone” then yeah — maybe some accountability for that choice? Not held to the same standards as the accountability for the bailee and their actions per se — but if you unlock the jail cell of the Joker or something, yes — I’d hold you accountable for that stupidity.
Or in the words of one of my favorite-movies-don’t-know-why: I vouched for the wrong guy, now it’s on me.
If the person is dangerous bail should not be an option.
True enough – no argument that blame can’t be apportioned around, but there is still blame to be found by those vouching for what is apparently a dangerous person. That the system is stupid enough (or forced by CA laws, which wouldn’t surprise me… so the blame may be with the moron Legislature, not the judge) to offer the bail option doesn’t mean these folks had to step up to pay it.
If we actually guaranteed speedy trials then people charged with non violent crimes wouldn’t feel the need to shell out absurd amounts of money so they aren’t sitting in jail for 2 years for their court date.
Good point… too bad there’s nothing like that in the Constitution or anything. (sigh)
Exactly what I was about to bring up. The whole bail reform movement is attacking a symptom.
Also, many “non violent crimes” shouldn’t be illegal.
Like those J6 folks?
Indefinite detention without charges is reserved for the most dangerous people.
I can just imagine their fate if the jackasses didn’t want their show trials.
I’m surprised he passed the background check that keeps guns out of the hands of convicted…I almost got it out..
Heh…. nice one, good sir.
He went to Indiana first?
Nah, Indiana guns are itinerant and will just show up at your doorstep.
*checks door step*
Sorry, they’re drawn towards urban centers.
Is there a way to watch that migration happen? Asking for a friend…
That’s precisely why they have corrupted the system: they need/want the chaos & mayhem these people will inflict to scare the average serf into eventually agreeing with whatever evil they have planned for the long run. and once those citizens sell their freedom for the fasle promise/illusion of some security, it will be too late for them to go back.
Morning, Banjos — I see you found the picture of most of us voting this past November for your front page shot. Sigh.
Fleeing eh?
The second, third, and forth links are related. Nobody voted for this crap – I was living in California when they voted overwhelmingly against it. Some Federal Judge just waived it aside. We didn’t have to do this but our elites decided we deserved to be robbed and replaced.
But they’ll just say that’s a conspiracy theory. :eyeroll: (Insert current meme that conspiracy theorists are just 3 months ahead of everyone else these days…)
While sweeping audio of the Democrats crowing over exactly that under the rug.
187 and 209 are from a different era. I was surprised when the repeal of 209 failed in 2020.
How slow it has been the past couple of mornings ought to settle the old “Don’t any of you people work?!?” question…. now we see the relative proportion of hangovers or just staying warm under the covers if most of us didn’t have to drag our butts out of bed to pay the bills. 😉
Because I’m crazy and a morning person anyway — ‘Orning ‘ordles — another day, another batch of barely competent scores. Well, actually Duo did go pretty well… but took just a little too long and didn’t break the 4 minute mark. Such is life.
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Elon and Thomas Massie hinting that social media platforms were not just censored in cooperation with the government – they were literally run on government servers.
*orders moar tin foil*
You miss Elon’s revelation that practically every crazy fucking conspiracy theory people had turned out to be true? From what I gather the only ones that turned out not to be true were the ones that most people would not immediately have said was a mad mans ramblings. The craziest ones all turned out to be correct.
Wait, you mean the purpose of the Apollo missions really was to seed the moon with Nazi Zombies?
I called this one years ago.
I thought it was Amazons?! There was a documentary and everything!
How was government censorship of the elections or the Kung Flu part of that conspiracy effort UCS? You need to rephrase that to mix those elements into the story and add time travel to it since it happened 5 decades plus ago…
Needs more lizard people and Jewish weather machines…
Then it sounds like every other rant out there.
This is why you edit it down.
Can’t say that’s all that surprising. Back when the NSA was co-locating half the data centers I’d be stunned if it didn’t occur to anyone to just run in containers or VMs on the same underlying hosts and share the data as seamlessly as possible. (I’ll again rant that even though I f’ing work in this very part of the industry, I still don’t understand people trading off their personal or company data just for the convenience of not running their own servers… yes, that’s a hell of an indictment on server software stacks and IT and all… but for heaven’s sake — how the hell can you trust your IP out there to mega-mega-corps potentially in foreign countries where they *must* comply [ok, and domestic now, yeah yeah] and in one case was *built* on data scraping and meta-profiles and all…].
I think I am on the list for the “next round of layoffs” for saying the exact same thing at the (software) company I work at. The last time an officer of the company complained that we had too many devices running on azure and were getting billed and wasting money, I said “now you now how our customers feel.”
This guy…
Weird? Have you looked at our form of government lately?
You mean the uni-party corruptocracy hard at work setting us up to return to a global feudal system?
Following up to a comment you made a while back — I’m planning on using purple Loctite to mount the optic to the S2. A guy at my club said blue was too strong and would increase the likelihood of stripping something when it was time to replace the red dot.
I had to order it since it wasn’t available at the local and big box hardware stores.
I’m going to start with no Loctite per somebody’s recommendation. The torque wrench I ordered is supposed to arrive Thursday so hopefully I can do some shooting with it this weekend.
Yeah that got a chuckle out of me.
Nope. No such thing as progressive authoritarianism. Totally a made up notion.
“Trudeau’s ban on single-use plastics begins Tuesday
As of December 20, the manufacturing and importing of certain plastic items, including straws and grocery bags, is prohibited.
As of December 20, 2022, Canada’s ban on the manufacture and import of certain plastic items, including straws and grocery bags, has taken effect.
Beginning Tuesday, the list of plastic items that companies will no longer be allowed to produce or bring into the country will include checkout bags, cutlery, some foodservice ware, stir sticks, and straws…
The Federal government has also been urging Canadians since July 2022 to stop using plastic cutlery, and to bring their own containers when ordering takeout.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-ban-on-single-use-plastics-begins-tuesday
WTF, Canada?
That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ll read all day, and it’s not even 9 am.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Wait’ll Congress comes back and goes to work. They’ll show those Canadians.
When we fished Canada we took such things as paper towels and plastic garbage bags to haul our trash out. Now I guess we’d just throw that stuff in the woods, the lake or burn it up.
When one sees the areas of forest fire damage and regeneration a couple plastic straws are the least of Canada’s problems.
No more condoms?
They’ll just suicide the offspring for you.
“Pregnancies are expected to be prevented via abortion. Please note, that there is currently a fifteen month wait for all procedures, some procedures have additional delays.”
No you will just be required to sign a contract that you will use them more than once.
“Just turn them inside out and go again!”
Teen age girl says “What? No way”
Inside, outside, and as all good Scotsmen do, chewing gum…
Just have to use natural condoms, like God intended.
“I can do every stupid thing CA and NY does without the pretense because those that fled the Revolution wanted to keep an autocracy, they just prettied it up. Mwa-ha-ha! Mwa-ha-HA-ha-ha!” — just at a guess.
So progressive I can’t even!
*swoon*
Who in the world makes grocery bags single-use? Dafuq? Everybody knows they’re for cat litter.
I don’t have a cat, so I used the plastic grocery bags for trash.
The paper garbage they forced us to use now are worthless for trash since they disintegrate the moment they come close to moisture. Plus most of them have ripped by the time I get groceries into the house. I ended up buying boxes of 1000 bags to use for trash liners, and those are now really single-use.
Yeah. Pretty much anyone who’s lived in a city for any amount of time used them as garbage bags. Even in the country, I still use plastic grocery bags as trashcan liners.
I have always thought they were for me to take to the ocean and wrap around some dolphin or turtles head to kill it…
/I am making fun of the stupid of the no bags people
I use “single use” grocery bags as my trash bags. All this idiocy would do is force me to buy garbage bags I don’t need or else violate someone’s property rights and use their dumpster.
Said it before, and I’ll say it again – I’m glad I live in a state that has at least a semi-competent government (for now, anyway).
Which I see is a common sentiment. Seriously, if you don’t have yard waste, it’s pointless to get those huge bags. Same if you have a mulching mower.
Sanctions? Like what?
Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County filed for sanctions Monday against Republican Kari Lake, less than 48 hours after a judge ruled against Lake’s efforts to have herself declared the winner of Arizona’s governor race.
Hobbs and the county asked for sanctions against Lake and her legal team after an Arizona judge denied Lake’s bid to reverse the results of the November election in a two-day trial. Lake, a prominent election denier and Trump ally, was allowed to go to trial last week with two of her 10 claims, which alleged misconduct with ballot printers and problems with ballot chain of custody.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson denied Lake’s challenge after the trial in a 10-page ruling Saturday. He said the court did not find clear and convincing evidence of misconduct that would have changed the election results. Thompson also noted that the defendants had stated their intention to seek sanctions against Lake and ordered them to file a motion for sanctions by Monday morning.
Attorneys for Hobbs, who has been Arizona’s secretary of state for four years, joined the county in its filing Monday seeking $25,050 from Lake, which includes attorney fees for Hobbs and the state’s most populous county. The county took aim at Lake’s remarks before the election indicating she would not accept the results unless she won, as well as her “groundless” and “frivolous” lawsuit after the election was certified.
They should just throw her and her attorneys in the slammer for a few years. That’ll learn ’em elections are real.
I’m sensing that you could defeat Hobbs with a bucket of water over the head.
The truth is that in way too many of our states today the real problem is with the vote counters. After I heard the Maricopa county officials, under oath in court, basically admit there was no chain of custody of ballots, that were moved from where the voting supposedly happened to a central location for counting, and nobody said that basically invalidates all votes from that system, I basically concluded, for the umpteenth time, the broken system is by design.
The corruptocracy is desperately fighting the populous rebelling against their ineptitude and evil shit, and thus our voting system, now that they are having trouble controlling the choices they present to the lemmings, is being rigged even harder to make it less auditable and reliable than it already fails to be.
I was not the first to make this observation, but we should hold at least the same standards as our observers would in Burkina Faso.
How the holy f**k is it okay to “sanction” people for challenging election results? Especially when the courts saw sufficient evidence to hear the case?
Government censored medical experts who questioned CDC Covid guidance on vaccines, who all turned out to be right. I’m shocked that I still hear ads for booster shots and still meet pro-vaxxers. A big segment of the population doesn’t seem to realize how bad these things are.
The worst fears about them causing ADE appear to be correct.
Resulting in this.
I am solely going on my own gut instincts here — but I wouldn’t be at all surprise if any uptick of more “normal” respiratory viruses, especially in schools where they forced masks / tele-learning, etc. on the kids is spiking because they weakened kids’ immune systems by depriving them of things to fight over the last couple of years as well. All these people that think we’re better off as a species living in bubbles are really going to have problems if we do end up in the Hard Times to make hard men of the saying that it sure looks like we’re driving for.
And yeah — I know my news and media intake is atypical… but when I make the mistake of looking at twitter or other area comments and see the cult-like spewings even nowadays, I really wonder how they can keep believing the junk. (Or they’re bots on government servers, of course…)
Not just your gut. There is such a thing as immunological naïveté, caused by isolation from viruses, etc. Actual competent immunologists attribute the RSV spike (already receding, BTW) to it.
Yeah, there’s a sweet spot between Nietzsche’s “Whatever does not kill me…” and the helicopter mom making sure their little precious never gets exposed to any potential allergens (which makes them allergic to an assload of stuff.
Every ad for a medication has a long list of potential side effects, but I’ve never seen that for the COVID shots. Actually now that I think of it, I don’t think there were any side effects listed for some vaccine ad on Hulu. I think it was for HPV or Hep B or something, targeted at teenagers.
“Vaccines” exist in a very special legal space, under the FYTW clause.
Yep. And if you change the definition of “vaccine” to suit your needs you never have to worry about side effects.
Drake is clearly a Science Denier.
Geert Van den Bossche was all over this at the beginning of the vaccine effort and is still chasing it.
His blog is fairly technical but worthwhile as he goes into the viral escape mechanisms in detail.
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/blog/scientific-blog
The county added that the courts “should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections.”
We wouldn’t want that, would we?
This doesn’t apply to Democrats, of course, because as we all know Republicans really do steal elections.
“unfounded”
That’s the point of the courts, is to see if there’s evidence to turn a claim from unfounded to founded. But I guess it’s easier to punt on procedural grounds or lack of standing.
In this case the court didn’t punt at all – the claims were put to the test and found wanting. Why is it that people just don’t want to believe that? You’re tracking that fuckwad Bundy who insisted he could graze his cattle on public land without a fee/permit. He lost in court, repeatedly, and still claimed that BY FUCKING GOD he was justified. That is lunacy. He’d be utterly unsympathetic if it hadn’t been for govt dragging an even bigger dick into the confrontation.
the claims were put to the test and found wanting
Not an expert, but my impression is that the judge
made upimposed both an “intent” requirement and a higher standard of proof – either “beyond a reasonable doubt” or “clear and convincing” that may or may not be in the statute. In which case, the test was intentionally designed to be failed.Counselor, would you be so kind as to give us an actual legal opinion here. I’ve heard the claim that intent isn’t necessary, which is curious given that mens rea is pretty common, no? What were the specific requirements of AZ law in this case, as opposed to ignorant internet bullshitting?
If I had the time*, I might research the issue.
Generally speaking, mens rea and specific intent (not to mention proof beyond a reasonable doubt) are usually required only for criminal cases. Specific intent can also be a requirement for punitive damages in civil cases. None of that was on the table in this civil claim. Now, the statute may have something that requires these enhanced standards for election challenges, but not having researched it, I am going off commentary, so grain of salt.
*And motivation. Frankly, the courts are not the right tool for the job of challenging elections. And the current bench, largely a product of the March Through the Institutions and largely fully in the Managerial State Bubble, are not the people to stand up against election fraud that benefits the left, anyway. So it would be purely academic. Not unlike the question of “Is ____________ Constitutional”.
Our system of law should be amended to stress the presumption of innocence for individuals and to demand that government prove their innocence when it is accused of a crime.
Thanks, the claims about intent not being part of the law – never substantiated by those making the claim on the internet was what was chapping my hide.
I can quite believe that simple incompetence is a reasonable defense for govt action under the law. We don’t even need to go into sovereign or qualified immunity.
And the judge also threw out 8 of the 10 complaints without hearing any evidence before he then imposed the ridiculous “intent” requirement and higher standard of proof for the 2 he let through to trial. So it was a basically a show trial with a pre-determined outcome, all so people like JI could claim it was put to trial and found wanting and continue to ignore or dismiss evidence of shennanigans.
Would you be so kind as to quote the AZ law such that intent is not required. Or are you just talking out your ass?
Now, more than ever, we need Captain Kirk.
Funny and all — but I was honestly expecting him ranting against folks mouthing the words of the Constitution without understanding or living up to them while being dominated by Chinese Communists and all.
People tell me I’m too much of a literalist sometimes.
Also, that’s the “new” Trek, although I guess they named the kid in the movies “Kirk”, so your point stands.
I suppose if Season 3 was “New” Trek….
Yeah, but he figures it out in the end with that one.
I thought you were referring to the various JJ Abrams pieces of dreck.
Nice. As it happens I dealt with that specific bigger dick some years later.
Uh, not the one Kirk was holding, but the one that worked for BLM and tried to out-muscle Bundy and family (and friends).
Huh… do tell. Or better for the site, write it up. I can try to provide illos, if you want.
They’re just fucking with us at this point.
“Tech industry relies on cobalt mining in Congo using child labor under brutal conditions
“The cobalt that’s being mined in the Congo is in every single lithium-ion rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today, every smartphone, every tablet, every laptop, and crucially, every electric vehicle.”
Rogan then mentioned “conflict minerals,” which Kara clarified are tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold, all of which are mined in Eastern Congo and are used in microprocessors. Kara noted how those materials were heavily mined after the Rwandan genocide.
“Militias and warlords were forcing the local population at gunpoint, machete point, to dig this stuff out. And it was flowing up into the formal supply chain into mostly those first-generation cell phones,” Kara said.
“Cobalt started later. Cobalt really took off about 10-12 years ago, and it’s in another part of the country in the mining provinces in the southeast of the Congo. And cobalt took off because it was started to be used in lithium-ion batteries to maximize their charge and stability,” Kara said and noted that “Chinese mining companies took control of almost all the big mines and the local population has been displaced and is under duress and they dig in absolutely subhuman gut-wrenching conditions.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/tech-industry-relies-on-cobalt-mining-in-congo-using-child-labor-under-brutal-conditions
I don’t know what the solution to this could be.
Well, I suppose we could mine that stuff in the West, but that would be icky and make Gaia sad.
Gaia doesn’t really mind Africans suffering, it is known.
Evidence certainly seems to point that way
Shoot, I was hoping for OMG – Gaia is white supremacist (which would be appropriate since the hypothesis itself was made by an Englishman and an American).
This data release provides descriptions of more than 60 mineral regions, mines, and mineral deposits within the United States and its territories that are reported to contain enrichments of cobalt (Co).
Now add in the 300 years and $3T to lawyers and “consultants” for the environmental studies needed.
I’m as much for “don’t dump Hg in the water supply” as the next guy — but until we restrain the ludicrously out of control regs and armies of “NGO” lawyers just waiting to sue to tie things up, there’s no way we’re going to do anything but keep relying on icky other places to do the hard mining and manufacturing these days. Of course, I may just be bitter because I think nuclear power is a good idea and have watched it stay impossible (or get harder) since the mid-80s and all. Probably part of why I root for Elon — still think Humanity as a whole needs a place to get away from these types that always, always, always gravitate into power — because they so yearn to tell everyone else how to live.
The greens think displacing the mining to communists in the Congo is somehow better for Gaia. Because they are amoral morons.
NIMBY
^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^
The plan is to kill of the communists in the Congo (and everyone everywhere else) eventually as part of the population reduction efforts of their plans, WTF….
They’d better get the robots-that-build-robots figured out first, because I don’t think the modern supply chains can really handle losing 90% of the population, regardless of their fever dreams.
And if we do get there, I sincerely hope they manage to also get AI smart enough to figure out just how worthless they are and get rid of them too. They’ll damned well deserve it. My expectation is that the 90% won’t go quietly (some part of it will, yeah… but eventually a core of folks who don’t buy their crap will solidify sufficiently and ‘Quantity Has a Quality All Its Own’ combined with their over-reliance on tech and distance power projection will doom them. Hopefully before we have to mine bridges in Alaska and all.
LOL!
I see your problem…
What you miss out on is that they believe they will not need the modern supply chain at all. The plan is to reduce the population to the status of serfs. Just like the good ole days, the serfs will have to subsist on a diet of plants & insects, cause only the nobility is allowed to hunt and eat meat, and will have domiciles and restrictions on sad domiciles, imposed by their lords. Ergo, end of supply chains. After all, the few lords will be the only ones that need anything that would require a supply chain, and by then they can just repatriate those efforts because the most important cost, paying the humans, will not matter so much to them….
They’re still going to want their iPhones, their computers, their yachts, their jet liners, their power plants and their HVAC. That stuff has a lot of underlying components and manufacturing that isn’t going to be there just for the 1% lording it over the 9% remaining serfs barring a completely automated pseudo-economy. That’s what I meant by supply chains.
When less than 0.00001% of a population of around 2 billion serfs will need/be allowed to get those things, you know the government’s police agencies and the powerful will be the only ones getting any of it, cause the serfs will certainly not unless it is something the government controls and issues them, the supply chain will be unnecessary. Sure, the cost of producing these items will skyrocket, but the elite will no longer care in their economic new system.
I’m not sure who the real moron is – believing that you can destroy prosperity selectively, or believing that a return to even kingly standards of living 500 years ago is better than living as a middle-class commoner today.
And yet, they think they will still accomplish this, because they continue down the path of this debacle…….
Well that’s what you claim they think. I haven’t read Klaus’ book, have you?
I have read Klaus’ book, and he all but admits they want a new order that puts a cabal of credentialed experts hereditary class in charge of a new world order where they have done away with capitalism and government and 3/4 of the world’s population. And government, by controlling energy, transportation, and freedoms would thus create a much more noble human being. Me, like I did when I read Marx, see that what they mean is that they will create a system where the most corrupt and inept will be in charge, and will be able to kill off anyone that dares call them out on it.
all but admits
Uh huh.
As it happens I’m reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the moment, but somehow I doubt that Klaus is truly a Nietzschean, though it sounds a little like a Nietzschean argument.
This. I hope they’re proud of themselves.
Pass a law?
It’s just mind-blowing that the Greens think it’s better for this stuff to be mined by communists in the Congo rather than here in the US under reasonable safety and environmental precautions.
Offshoring pollution allows consumers to claim it is someone else’s fault. That or just buy indulgences. Either way they can consume with a clean conscience while preaching that everyone else must sacrifice.
Maybe we should ban more things that run on gasoline.
Asteroid mining?
Neither do I, but I’m willing to bet a couple of these wouldn’t hurt.
Crap. These.
re: “irrational hatred”; Poorly worded sentence. I was referring only to mine. I think yours is quite rational.
Send in the troops
President Biden has approved an emergency declaration for western New York as the state deals with a massive winter storm that has claimed more than two dozen lives.
Biden issued an emergency declaration on Monday for Erie and Genesee counties, freeing up federal resources and directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate relief efforts.
Warm up the check books.
I’m working next to my new-hire tech.
I have taken the opportunity to mess with his head.
“What’s your background again?”
“Biology”
“Ah, well then you won’t have seen this before. See how the solution is bubbling? This is called Piranha.”
*places drop on paper towel*
“Those colonies you found growing here? If they were able to survive on that environment, they must be really difficult to kill, but this should do it.”
There are days when I will fuck around while disinfecting equipment, and days like today when I will not.
I’m missing something. I may not be awake enough.
Piranha solution is super-aggressive towards carbon. The drop made the paper towel ignite.
Ah, I see.
I’m sure there are Youtube videos showing it in all its glory.
That would do it. There’s nothing quite like oxygen with a missing electron to break up carbon pairs.
Well, fluorine works too, but that comes with its own issues.
No thanks, I’ll take the ‘burn the finger off’ mix over the ‘dead’ mix.
Yeah, the peroxide generates Caro’s acid, which is the bomb.
What you did there, I see it.
“No one believes anything you’re publishing and “Twitter Files” isn’t going to catch on no matter how much you try.
Let REAL journalists see the entire unredacted records. ALL OF IT.
Otherwise, it’s propaganda with no proof.”
https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1607420801476599810
LOLOLOLOL
The Projection is strong in this one!
Rebekah Jones
@GeoRebekah
#whistleblower
@Forbes
Tech Person of the Year ’20;
@Nature
Maddox Prize Nom. ’21;
@fladems
FL01 house nom. ’22; Per
@thedailybeast
, Desantis’ ‘worst nightmare’
LOL
They really wanted all of her lies to be true.
Hey, she believes them; it’s her truth.
Yet I’ve never even heard of her.
That chick is batshit crazy. You might think she would have shut her piehole by now.
https://news.yahoo.com/rebekah-jones-signs-plea-deal-175444444.html
I suppose it’s more profitable to continue asking for money form the true believer left.
Does this mean you would?
I would run away.
That’s the point of the courts, is to see if there’s evidence to turn a claim from unfounded to founded. But I guess it’s easier to punt on procedural grounds or lack of standing.
After 2020, a bunch of people I knew were running around saying, “Trump’s claims were proven false in court” (because that’s what NPR told them).
There’s a lot of daylight between “proven false” and “refused to hear”.
And after the Kari Lake lawsuit, it looks like even providing evidence of malfeasance is not enough to make the sole entity responsible for providing redress for the cheating do its job. Basically we are at a point where you can’t address the cheating before they do it, after they do it, and if they get their way (see my link below), even when they are doing it. The system is already heavily favoring punishing the people they are cheating, and now they want to “fix it” so they can really put the screws to them….
By “voting rights”, they mean they will rig it so they can never lose or be questioned about they
cheatingfortification again, right?Did they say “rights”? They meant “voting RIGHT”, as in voting the right way, for Democrats.
They are not even hiding that they intend to make elections more fake than they already are.
Now it is Democrats, who retained all but one of the governor’s offices they hold and won control of state legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, who are ready to go on offense in 2023. They are putting forward a long list of proposals that include creating automatic voter registration systems, preregistering teenagers to vote before they turn 18, returning the franchise to felons released from prison and criminalizing election misinformation.
Square that with the first amendment.
Well, the main impact upon my work space from this weekend’s burst pipe is the roar of industrial strength fans in the hall outside my (closed) door. In other too-local news, my office is a balmy 62 degrees. 🥶
Will they let you use a heater?
Or at least a blanket?
Well, they kinda frown on space heaters for the obvious safety reasons, and I don’t have one anyway, nor a blanket. At the moment I have two cardigans on over the sweater I wore to work. I think I’ll go reheat my coffee.
So … forgive me if this is insensitive, but … why don’t you go home? You have the PTO, if I remember correctly and an understanding boss. Not even a space heater?
Got some time-sensitive things to get done ASAP, as late December and all of January are my busiest work times. It’s not intolerable yet, but if I get the gotta-do’s done and it’s not gotten any better, that would be an option.
… and I just realized there’s still leftover mac and cheese in the break room refrigerator from last Thursday’s catered birthday lunch for one of our senior managers. I can face anything now.
LOL
Burn the paperwork you have to do — two birds with one stone.
Turns out the CEO has a space heater, which he has graciously lent to me.
In exchange, don’t set the office on fire, that would just be inconsiterate.
My office is now up to 68°! 😃 And the flames seem to be under control so far.
toasty
🔥🏦🔥
I usually HATE mixing culturalidentitypolitics with, well, anythigng. but I found this instance HIE-larious.
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/first-time-eating-an-oyster
It’s like a 14-years old lesbian’s creative writing assignment, only without the hate.
I suppose if you’re into clams and all….
OFFS, it’s an oyster. Isha would have a aneurysm if she knew how the industry raped the commons over the past couple of centuries.
Have we killed off the wild oyster beds yet?
The Chesapeake Bay was pretty much wiped out. They’re attempting to rebuild them, but unless they give private property rights I doubt there will be much incentive to keep it going.
Literal LOL
I think we’re going to find out that “culture” matters as ours continues to swirl down the drain.
Oh, c’mon. You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
Call me stoneheart.
Oyster and snails scene from Ben Hur
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzY-HUvavU&t=82s
‘Despite the oyster’s cool taste, I felt warm, and then feverish because Lily was looking at me.’
Quick, hide your dog!
Wait, the oysters weren’t fried? What sort of disgusting people are these?
No idea. I don’t dig seafood outside of shrimp.
So you don’t eat pussy?
Sounds like you need to eat cleaner pussy.
That’s why they call eating pussy “cleaning it up” in some circles….
It’s a mollusc, you dumb twat.
Heh… I’m glad I bailed way before that point. But thanks for the laugh with your reaction.
And, err, people toss their heads back, not their necks.
Ha! So focused on one error I missed the other.
Xhe’s xer own target-rich environment.
Jesus Christ. Idiocy like that is why I stopped reading Bon Appetit.
Queer AF!11
“The oyster covers most of your face when you eat it, and it’s usually alive when you do.”
False. Separating the top shell kills it instantly.
First instinctual reply — “She’s really projecting her sex life onto this…”
Second instinctual reply — “Wait a minute… ‘usually alive’? Is she an intermittent necrophiliac?”
Perhaps wishing she was a black widow spider?
Now, what is the odds this problemis not shared by other brands since they all copy some basic design? I used to laugh when these came out for cars or EV cars, cause I actively filter for this problem since I always want my car in the garage for longevity, but now I might need to worry about my house going up in flames while doing laundry…
It’s the end!
I can’t wait for the first one of these to go up in flames.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/nyc-quietly-moves-to-let-giant-batteries-be-installed-on-roofs/
I’ll just keep fantasizing that this will not be throttled in the crib. Seems safer than that to me.
Reliable and cheap energy is good for humanity, therefore it will be killed.
Government Scientists Kung Flu defense in court…
Hochul has called it the “most devastating storm in Buffalo’s long, storied history” and said the state is at “war with Mother Nature.”
Caramba!
CLIMATE CHANGE!
‘…the record amount of snow to fall in one day at Buffalo is 33.9 inches (86.1 centimetres) on December 10, 1995.’
‘2022Greatest Snowfall in One Season: 175.6 inches – The greatest cumulative snow fall for Buffalo, New York. This occurred during the year that ended December 31st, 1977.’
Sure, sure.
This occurred during the year that ended December 31st, 1977.’
Not a great way to measure the seasonal snowfall
She speaks for God, you know.
I thought it was to God. Did she get a promotion?
“Yes, I know you’re vaccinated. They’re the smart ones, but you know, there are people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants. You know this. You know who they are,” Hochul said.
“I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, ‘We owe this to each other. We love each other,'” she continued. “Jesus taught us to love one another. And how do you show that love, but to care about each other enough to say, ‘Please get vaccinated because I love you. I want you to live.'”
“light does prevail over darkness. And while there has been a dark pall cast over our nation in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, let that light continue to shine right here in the State of New York.”
Pretty clear violation of the third commandment.
Thou shalt not quarter troops in thy neighbor’s house?
Ok, I laughed.
That last one, OMG. Dems really ought to stop pretending religion – it’s not a good look.
Both marxism and fascism are designed to be religious cults of government. One of socialism’s biggest requirements is that the serfs see government as the ultimate infallible authority, There is a reason these people so hate the old religions.
The leader of the Senate (Stewart-Cousins)said a new ethics board wasn’t needed because she believes in Jesus.
Kathy has a great future as a cult leader.
Where’s Pie to laugh at Buffalo’s “long” history and all?
Does anyone take these lizard-person cuntes seriously?
If Hokum is commander in chief in the war against nature, my money’s on nature.
Sucker bet, every govt war against something results in that thing being triumphant. Including our great war against fascist govt.
I’m not convinced we won the Cold War, either. Sure, we fought some proxy wars to stalemates, but the commies successfully executed their subversion campaign via the Long March Through the Institutions.
Russia lost its empire also, but was taken over by the KGB. In any event, Russia losing its empire doesn’t mean we won. And don’t get me started on the other Communist power, China.
….and then the agency getting twice the funding for their phony baloney jobs.
,a href=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-dressed-woman-arrested-allegedly-photographing-women-bathroom-brandishing-pepper-ball-gun” target=”_new”>DA MAN is violating Xer rights?
We are fucking doomed if only 63% of people thinks this is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with..
I’m surprised it’s that high.
Lucky draw on the survey respondents.
How many of that 63% want it investigated because they aren’t censoring enough?
Gosh, I wonder why.
Possibly the survey participants didn’t trust that their responses would be kept anonymous.
Mother Nature on the Western Front
Flooding and strong winds are in the forecast as a powerful atmospheric river storm makes its way through the Bay Area early this week, which could make rough road conditions for Tuesday commuters.
High-intensity rainfall and gusty winds are expected to start Monday afternoon in the North Bay and make their way south across the Bay Area through Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Sonoma and Santa Cruz coastal mountain ranges are forecast to get up to five inches of rain, and lower regions in San Jose, San Francisco, and the East Bay could see one to two inches of rain that could cause road closures and localized flooding.
Is it just my imagination, or were we better at dealing with this stuff fifty years ago than we are now? I can’t tell anymore.
Yes, because Californians seem to have two settings when it rains: “Still drive 100+ on US-101 regardless” and “Eeek! RAIN! Slow down to 30 mph as if it were the worst blizzard this side of Buffalo’s long storied history”. The two mixing is what makes for white knuckle moments back when I used to have to commute.
I also expect some mudslides — as with every drop of precipitation in this state (and frankly everything that isn’t the 10+ months of “Sunny and Clear” that bore the crap out of me, spoiled by the weather variety of the Southeast as I am), I welcome all we can get, personally.
And to your question — probably not, but journalists at the time would have been ashamed to call themselves men to report on it this way. Toxic masculinity had its uses for getting people to shut up and get on with their lives, it seems. As if human culture had tried various things over the millennium and that survived because it worked or something… wacky, wacky ideas.
Yes, because Californians seem to have two settings when it rains: “Still drive 100+ on US-101 regardless” and “Eeek! RAIN! Slow down to 30 mph as if it were the worst blizzard this side of Buffalo’s long storied history”.
Just like the DC metro.
My saying way back was you could spit on Route 60* and slow traffic down (because the road was wet).
* last California freeway built on just CalTrans money.
Speaking of rain-
current conditions: 44 degrees and raining.
I hope it rains enough to clear away snow but stops before the temperature plunges again.
Mother nature: “Hold my beer and watch THIS!”
Chinook winds. The snow will mostly clear, outside of the big piles that are from plowing.
Well, the fishing trip was a bust as the captain ghosted me until I texted him this morning suggesting I get my deposit back. He at least had the proper amount of embarrassment and contrition, so I won’t be logging into the Yelp.
Damn, where?
Daytona
Ah, shit. Sorry you had a crap time.
Help a guy out, wouldja?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was relying on India’s help to implement a “peace formula” during a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The call comes as New Delhi seeks to boost trade ties with Moscow after becoming one of the largest purchasers of Russian oil – defying Western sanctions and providing a vital financial lifeline to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin wages an unprovoked war against its neighbor.
“I announced the peace formula and now I count on India’s participation in its implementation,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter. “I also thanked for humanitarian aid and support in the UN.”
I’m sure Modi will stop buying Russian oil just because Zelensky asked.
Good luck with that.
Jesus Christ. Idiocy like that is why I stopped reading Bon Appetit.
Sometimes an oyster is just an hors d’oeurve.
I still like some stuff on the Bon Appetit yutubz
Also I recommend against eating raw oysters at a street food fair in August in Romania. sick as a dog I was
Real pearl of wisdom there.
Voluptuous vixens will tease and tantalize on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.ph/LNgFF
War in the Pacific
Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan has killed 17 and injured more than 90 people and left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials said Monday.
Powerful winter fronts have dumped heavy snow in northern regions since last week, stranding hundreds of vehicles on highways, delaying delivery services and causing 11 deaths by Saturday. More snowfall over the Christmas weekend brought the number of dead to 17 and injured to 93 by Monday morning, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Many of them had fallen while removing snow from the roofs or were buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off rooftops.
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The disaster management agency said a woman in her 70s was found dead buried underneath a thick pile of rooftop snow that suddenly fell on her in Yamagata prefecture’s Nagai City, about 180 miles north of Tokyo, where snow piled up higher than 2.6 feet Saturday.
Yikes.
I hope Straff is safe and sound.
TASTEATLAS AWARDS 2022: BEST CUISINES
Don’t hate us, we just count the ratings
https://twitter.com/TasteAtlas/status/1605656299924062210
nonsense
Agreed, that’s nonsense rankings.
I dont get the difference between tunisia and morocco when it is basically the same cuisine
also no way polish is better than thai
Nah, it is better.
Never relying on you for a restaurant recommendation.
Polish food is better for cold weather — less spicy and more calorie dense.
Congratulations on getting #22. Sorry Canuckistan, poutine doesn’t get you a high ranking.
I love clicking through to their list of “best restaurants to try this cuisine” that are all in country. Let me pop over to all those countries so I can try their cuisine.
Don’t you Conde Nast bro?
Greece? GREECE?
*throws olives*
the food in greece is quite decent all things considered
Many parts of northeastern Japan reported three times their average snowfall for the season.
It’s only weather.
The next Ice Age is coming sooner or later.
Teeeechnicallly…. we’re still in an Ice Age, it’s just an Interglacial period.
You just didn’t want the Ackshually gif, hmm?
Nah, that one’s not funny.
Not a flake round here. Foreigners are hogging all the snow.
Damn snowflakes!
In today’s Insanity Installment….
Insanity is just someone else’s reality, dude.
So they aren’t nuts… they’re just visiting from a different probability wave in the quantum foam? When did I get stuck in a writer’s strike version of a Voyager episode?
It’s the postmodern experience. Truth is wholly subjective.
This was interesting.
Don’t drink and podcast, kids.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1607477025962430465
It’s not like we didn’t already know this.
It’s refreshing to hear them admit it.
We need to pump some of our politicians full of alcohol and Sodium Pentothal before interviews. If we lose a few of them, that’s okay.
It’s because of Twatter, right?
Tesla buyers who waited months for their new car have had an unusual choice for much of the past two years: keep the new electric vehicle, or sell it at a profit to someone with less patience.
But the days of the Tesla flip are numbered – a potential threat to new car prices that are already getting cut.
Prices of used Teslas are falling faster than those of other carmakers and the clean-energy status symbols are languishing in dealer lots longer, industry data provided to Reuters showed.
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Software engineer Greg Profitt bought a new Model Y last year for $49,000 and sold it three months later for $12,000 more. He ordered a new one – but has just bought a used Tesla at a discount.
“The economy kind of scares me to buy new ” he said, adding that the new $7,500 discount would be too little to sustain demand.
Oh, come on, Bidenomics is working!
If the government subsidizes them too little there won’t be enough demand. If subsidized too much they will lose status as too many peasants will have them.
Can’t get that urban living density and sweet grants for more choo choos *cough* eco-friendly light rail otherwise!
The only Teslas that are “status symbols” are the Model S, the Model X (gull wing), and the Roadster. Those are all 6 figure price tags (which, btw, disqualifies them for discounts or tax breaks).
The model 3 and model Y are affordable for regular folk like me. They were not qualified for tax payer subsidies after the first 50,000 were sold (that happened in 2018, I believe), but Biden admin decided to renew the subsidy.
Stupid.
The y stickers for 65k. How the hell did he get one for 50?
Little Russia acting up again
Is this related in any way to the hoardes of Albanians flooding into the UK at present?
Not really
It’s not like NATO hasn’t been trying to create problems in Kosovo recently.
This just screams “legitimate election”…
Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County have filed Motions for Sanctions and Applications for Attorneys’ Fees against Kari Lake and her attorneys following Lake’s lawsuit contesting the stolen 2022 Midterm Election, according to court records.
Katie Hobbs is asking for more than half a million dollars, mostly for corrupt Hillary attorney Marc Elias’ firm.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, gutless Judge Peter Thompson dismissed Kari Lake’s election lawsuit against Democrat Katie Hobbs in the stolen 2022 midterm election on Saturday, Christmas Eve.
As Rachel Alexander for TownHall reported, “Judge Peter Thompson only gave her two days for a trial and issued his ruling immediately afterwards, even though he could have taken several days, and it was one of the biggest, most important cases in the country. Legal experts believe his decision was ghostwritten, they suspect top left-wing attorneys like Marc Elias emailed him what to say.”
The County’s Motion concludes, “Courts are established by Arizona’s Constitution and statutes to resolve actual disputes between parties. They do not exist so that candidates for political office can attempt to make political statements and fundraise. And they should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections. All of those things happened in this matter. Enough really is enough. It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials. This matter was brought without any legitimate justification, let alone a substantial one. The Maricopa County Defendants therefore ask this Court to impose sanctions against Plaintiff Kari Lake and her attorneys, Brian Blehm and Kurt Olsen.”
The defense literally did not successfully refute any evidence presented against them.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, gutless Judge Peter Thompson dismissed Kari Lake’s election lawsuit against Democrat Katie Hobbs in the stolen 2022 midterm election on Saturday, Christmas Eve.
Spotlessly objective reporting there.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Make-a-wish if it were a govt agency.
The white shirted guy at the end represents the government. The little kid is us, just trying to get by and get that TD.
Thanks, Jimbo, the truth always comes out at the end
@ji I know that you often disagree with various commenters (in this case, Ozy), but I appreciate that. This place has kind of narrowed down on its opinions, people going away, or unwilling to engage, or whatever (me, I’m just not educated enough on antopic to engage), but you stay and engage, and I like that.
I saw @brochettaward last night say he was barely approved to be not-banned, and I’m glad he wasn’t banned because he’s a valuable commenter, regardless of his firsting.
I also miss @Tulip and her pointing out the sometimes too-sausagey fest.
I appreciate many commenters, and many who have gone away and I miss them.
Don’t know why I felt the need to say that, but I did.
Moi aussi, Mo, you said it better.
Thanks Moj, sometimes I feel I need a break, but I’d miss everyone here; even (or especially) the ones I disagree with at times. Yo kbolino, come on back!
Thank you for saying this.
Someone needs more range time.
Ooops. Meant for new thread.