A good football player and a good man.
Franco Harris passed away. So did Ronnie Hillman. The Mets snagged Correa away from the Giants. Top flight club soccer returns. And Toledo rocketed by Liberty in the Boca Raton Bowl. That’s pretty much it. Now on to…the links!
Well, this ought to help them transition to a cashless society. Nobody is gonna want to be caught dead with pictures of that jug-eared goofball in their pocket.
A little south next time, ok? About 250 miles ought to be perfect.
Artist depiction of the J6 Committee
There is no longer a separation of powers. And there’s no legislative function this serves either. But these people don’t understand that the shoe will someday be on the other foot. Because they’re all retards.
What a shitshow. But at least the profitability of those companies is secure. Not that I care from their perspective. But that shit is all very highly regulated and the regulators did their usual bang-up job.
I love this petty asshole sometimes. From the way he mismanages his team, which causes their fans to lose their shit, to this kind of stuff. He’s a magnificent prick and a great source of entertainment.
I saw it, so you have to as well.
And speaking of assholes. I assume the phrase “it was one in a million, doc” was uttered during that conversation.
What a dumb little sonofabitch. But I shouldn’t blame him. It’s the people he works with that are the problem.
Business is business. And they’ll get a massive severance, so it’s not as if they were just shown the door with nothing. Also, this story reads more like propaganda than an actual article. But that’s to be expected.
Damn, they locked it. I hope everybody got a look at it beforehand. It was hilarious. I can, however, link to one of their footnotes from Carnegie-Mellon that was used to create the newspeak guide. Let me know which word is your favorite and which causes you to scratch your head.
You done good, little buddy. Go in peace.
Continuing the weekly musical theme. It’s a decent holiday song. And I guess this is also a Christmas song. At least based on the first line. Either way, enjoy them both.
And enjoy freezing your asses off on this blustery Wednesday.
Six minutes in and no comments? These must be either great links or terrible ones.
I’m at work, work sometimes requires my attention.
Sometimes.
Yeah, that was me yesterday. Woke up — checked Slack on my phone because I’m stupid… and promptly got sucked into 6 straight hours of dealing with crap instead of my normal morning routine. At least I found a couple of bugs before code review….
Happy first day of winter and the shortest daylight day of the year Glibronies!
I’ve been doing winter since the 1st. We went through this back then.
And a good morning to you too, Sloopy. 😉
I was busy screwing up Quordle and reading the news myself first – maybe the rest of us were trying to work or something….
Don’t wish the earthquakes too much south — A big enough one in SF would certainly be felt here, might actually do some damage… don’t need cracks in my walls.
Big story of the day is probably Trump’s taxes — which just astound me in how they stopped even pretending there was a purpose. Frankly, I would be perfectly fine with Trump’s lawyers, since they made this exact argument to the Court (that the House only wanted them to leak them) could get an emergency hearing to basically say “See!?! We told you… and here they are doing it… legislative purpose our oversized heinies!” But that’s that optimist in me again that there are people in our government that actually give a shit about principles. He really should know better at this point.
You didn’t mention it — but I have to say McTurtle claiming that the Republican’s top priority was funding Ukraine floored me this morning. Ok… he probably meant “Republicans that matter (to him anyway)”… but talk about misreading the room when it comes to the base….
So now you have reactions and comments… better?
JFC.
Whole country went commie, the economy is about to take a dump and eat mongering is the only thing Republicans care about. Assholes.
And to think the Bee saying that was supposed to be satirical.
That’s what the lobbyists keep telling him!
He hates the base. The MIC, the COC, and gravy train, now that he likes.
their good links, sloop. I just let you down like the cleveland browns.
need coffee
Hey now! The Browns still have a chance this year!
I was napping.
when the links came gently rapping, a tap-tap-tapping on your processor core, calling you to that content you so dearly adore?
But these people don’t understand that the shoe will someday be on the other foot.
When the uniparty is out of power, tax audits will be the least of their worries.
The problem with the authoritarian left is that deep down inside they are people that enjoy causing harm to others, and while the authoritarians are putting their enemies against the wall, will cheer it on (or at a minimum turn a blind eye to it). The communists and fascists had no problem culling the herd of enemies because their supporters enjoyed that shit. However, those supporters soon found many of themselves up against the wall, because the need to cull never goes away from the autocrats. Most of them still cried that they were true believers as they were turned into fertilizer.
Their actions have made it abundantly clear — they don’t believe that day is ever coming. Their wing of the Uniparty might need to step back for a bit — but the Uniparty itself will stay in charge.
A little south next time, ok? About 250 miles ought to be perfect.
You really know how to shake things up.
His prophecies have us quaking in our boots…. but it isn’t his fault.
It’s just a slip to the left, then a strike to the right.
LET’S DO THE LAND WARP AGAIN!!!
So they still haven’t figured out a good way to clean solar panels on Mars?
To be fair, my first couple of ideas would scratch the panels to uselessness just as quick as the dust would obscure them.
Why not use tear-off strips like auto racers use on their windshield and/or visor?
They should send some of the people that wiped Hillary Clinton’s computers there to do this…
Built in vibration. Shake it off. It’s dust, not mud.
Couple of thoughts there:
– might be holding on via electrostatic charge, and thus not shake free
– power requirements for a shaker might be prohibitive
– depending on how it’s implemented, shaking might degrade the lifespan of other components, or damage those that were safely packed and cushioned for transport but are now deployed.
Things to look at.
Yes, the electrostatic charge of the dust particles is a problem. That’s why they went with radioisotope thermal generators for the current generation of rovers (Curiosity, Perseverance). Solar-powered Spirit and Opportunity (second gen rovers) might still be working today if they’d figured out how to keep the panels clean.
Shake it off?
They should Taylor that, Swiftly.
I’ve never heard of this before. I’m assuming it is some sort of plastic with a semiadhesive backing?
Tear-offs? Yeah — from what I can tell, the visors basically have film stacks with just enough adhesion that they don’t fly off while driving, but the drivers can easily peel a single layer at a time off to get a fresh surface. And to toss the old film into the radiator ducts of the guy trying to pass them.
Not that they’d ever do such things intentionally… Oh, no….
Wouldn’t the adhesive residue make the collection of new dust on the clear film go faster?
That’s why you have a lot of films.
Yes, plus the more layers of film, the less light that gets through to the panels. And Mars is a lot further out than Earth so far less sunlight to begin with. The film layers would have to be tabbed for easy manipulation by the rover arm, and the arm would have to have a new grabber tool to deal with the films; existing rover arms don’t have a grabby hand, just a scoop, drill, camera, and x-ray instrument. And then there’s the possibility of the film getting caught on rover parts. And lastly, the litter thing. NASA really worries about that.
InSight was not a rover, of course, and her drill never worked properly. But she did produce some good pictures and seismograph readings.
And if you don’t want the robots to take over, then you don’t give them grabby arms.
Or an adaptation of the rotating film that I have to assume goes through a brief mist + two sided wipers you see with the cameras higher up on the cars? I swear someone was working on / had prototypes for more film-style (so flexible) panel tech… put that on more of a treadmill arrangement, with the cleaning tech as it comes into the underside and keep enough reserve for the motors or something.
Of course — they could just go back to RNG if we weren’t such pansies about nuclear tech these days. I haven’t looked at the numbers, but since Mars lacks a stable magnetosphere and is hit much harder by solar wind – I expect the background radiation is higher… so less concern about having RNG planetside and all…
With regards to the mist, I don’t think a wet solution will work in the martian atmosphere. It would evaporate far too quickly.
And the more I think about it, the stronger my suspicions become that the dust adhesion is electrostatic. I can’t prove it, but that’s my gut.
Spray and windshield wipe like those European cars? Of course the ahem fluid would run out.
Would be difficult to keep that from freezing. It’s cold as hell on Mars (h/t Elton John).
Just send up a couple of homeless guys from NYC to take care of them.
The committee met for several hours behind closed doors Tuesday afternoon and then returned to vote 24-16 in open session to release the information related to Trump’s tax returns from 2015-2020.
And the R’s do not have the stones to turn this magically discovered power against the D’s.
Isn’t it illegal to release people’s tax returns to the public? I mean, I understand “FYTW” but what legal fiction is there to cover this? It clearly serves no legislative purpose.
In a system where the machine enforces the laws differently, it may be illegal to release other people’s tax returns, but with differential enforcement only some people have to worry about breaking the law.
They don’t even bother trying to pretend that we are not a full-on banana republic.
Yup. That’s what gets me the most about this. Not even a fig leaf of pretense, at this point.
If we had a media that actually was not just a propaganda arm of this cabal of criminals, these revelations would make Watergate look like a joke on the scale of criminality. That’s why they took over the legacy & social media, and have such a problem with allowing anyone to not just report what they want the serfs to believe.
Our country is run by a cabal of inept and evil fucking scum that make old time banana republics look good in comparison.
“Watergate look like a joke”
The past several presidents have had worse scandals and nothing has happened. I still almost can’t believe Nixon was removed over it, but it’s just politics.
The reason these other presidents got away with such criminal abuses was that they did the will of the bureaucracy that installed them. The machine is rigged to make sure the people only get an approved choice, and now that they people have realized they are being played and have tried to get rid of this shit, the machine has gone into overdrive to tamp down the populist movement that is interfering with their agenda to create a hereditary and unaccountable credentialed technocracy because their offspring tend to be dumber than fucking bricks.
That’s banana democracy bub!
If by democracy you mean, they get to count the votes to decide who won, then yes.
Article I read is that it is legal (somewhow) to cite returns as part of a committee report, normally as part of a large enough set to obscure individuals.
They just plan on issuing a report that happens to only be about a single person’s returns…. so, golly gee shucks and all… it amounts to the same thing.
So a report of attainder.
Even if they did, the media would spin it in a different way than they are with Trump’s records. Evil Republicans breaking norms, releasing confidential records so we won’t report on it, etc etc.
That Carnegie – Mellon guide looks like Glibcrostic material.
I am a bit surprised that butthurt is not listed.
OK, I am a lot surprised considering that boobs and anus (and many others) *are* on the list.
*browses Carnegie-Mellon list of bad words*
All I can gather is that fairly soon there won’t be any acceptable words left.
“Catholic” is a bad word. “Knife,” “areola,” and “penis” are also unacceptable.
I suggest we just go back to throwing rocks at each other and grunting.
“toilet” and “syphilis”?
I truly wish bad things upon the people who came up with that bullshit list.
Know your double-good speak, serf.
So we should just call the Catholics papists and Mary worshipers?
I see you met the Southern Baptists I knew growing up… 😉
I read my share of Jack Chick tracts talking about the evil church I was raised in.
“You Catholics pray to a woman and worship bread!”
/campus quad preacher in 1984
“You’re just jealous that we have the Vatican, and all you have is a shack in Indiana!”
/reply from the crowd
That’s hilarious.
Sounds like Brother Jed Smock and his traveling show.
Our guy was “Brother Max”
If it’s the same guy we used to call Max the Potatohead, then you and I have some common history.
Bother Jed.
“A woman who will put a cigarette in her mouth will put anything in her mouth!”
One year some of the students chucked his lady (forget her name) in the pond.
Brother Jed came to my campus on a regular basis.
When I was a kid I had a neighbor who used to give those out on Halloween.
There are some great Jack Chick tract parodies out there.
How could you even tell it was a parody?
Yes?
I have a Cthulhu parody and a Norse parody. Both are bueno.
“Brother Jed” there is a name from the past. I wonder if he is still doing his schtick 40+ years later.
Apparently Brother Jed died in June.
The Wikipedia page also says he and Sister Cindy have 5 daughters.
I’m sure they grew up to be sane, well-adjusted people.
Parodies? The Chick tracts themselves were practically self-parodies. They were so over the top in their self-righteousness, they were hilarious.
My father used to buy those things by the hundreds and leave them in public bathrooms all over the local area.
The winner from that list.
propaganda
I’m going with “athletes foot.”
I think I’ve got
athlete’s footfungal foot rot.Fungal Podiatric Necrosis?
When I was young, if someone in authority gave me a list of words I wasn’t supposed to say then you better believe I was going to say them as often as I could. I think we need more of that attitude these days.
Hell, even SNL used to be “edgy”. “You could pick a lock with that penis.”
https://youtu.be/G3xc4LMTrT0
That list is a historical artifact. Notice no variant of “cuck.”
“And speaking of assholes. I assume the phrase “it was one in a million, doc” was uttered during that conversation.”
Let me guess…
You slipped and kinda fell on it when you just happened to be sauntering around buttnekked and it went all the way up your chute?
It was a prank. You know, like putting a thumbtack in someone’s chair…
First slowly, then all of a sudden.
88 and a sex stimulation? I’m calling BS on that. I’m thinking he was far more concerned with a bowel movement than anything else.
If he mistook that for a suppository, he needs to get to an optometrist quickly.
Maybe he’s a buttbardier.
He was just trying to blow up the bathroom.
That’s going on the Carnegie-Mellon list, you fascist cis-bigot.
I went to Carnegie-Mellon. What’s the Carnegie-Mellon list? Also, hyphen or no hyphen?
I have a friend here who is an alum. He always just says CMU.
No hyphen according to their website. My bad.
The list is one of the links above. Surely you read all the links before posting, no?
It was a Buttler projectile
Twitter no longer has a public relations department.
How will they survive?
How will the autocratic corruptocracy get to tell them who to censor????
SJWednesday: Reddit In A Nutshell
Don’t tell them about reprints, or about the comic speculators who bought up tons of copies of the Death of Superman.
“Cards, action figures, you name it, just look up any sub for a hobby and you’ll see people dropping your entire salary in 1 day”
All these have always been the purview of people with cash to spare.
Collecting is an essentially upper class action.
“Well, I used to collect. Then I collected collections. Now I collect collectors. It’s hard to find them in their original packaging, and most protest that I can’t keep them.”
Yep – I’m just glad I built my collection of records/LPs before the market got insane.
So those old 70’s baseball cards I have along with 5 years of full sets of Topps from the 1980’s might be worth something again? That market got murdered after the internet took all of the knowledge disparity away from the transactions between buyer and seller.
Prices went wild over the pandemic, I wouldn’t be surprised if that reversed soon.
Sell sell sell!
That and the card companies dumped tons of cards on the market in the early 90s. Too many.
People also figured out that they are collectible and started ordering box loads, unopened and storing them in temperature controlled rooms. Also, the internet happened and people could see what some of the rare cards looked like.
Economics. How does it work?
“What a dumb little sonofabitch. But I shouldn’t blame him. It’s the people he works with that are the problem.”
Quick way for the airport employees to get some sweet loot to do their secret Santa gifting….
Everyone across the country should bring a vintage fruit cake to the airports at once. Let the TSA figure out what to do with those inedible blocks.
Well, if you ate them on time, it wouldn’t be an issue.
Tell that to the toilet that would have to deal with the abuse that follows….
???
Have you ever had fruit cake and then had to deal with what happened after your colon was done with it?
I’ve had plenty of fruitcake, my digestive system has never once given me a hassle for it.
Now you sound like a fruitcake….
Just because you’re the one with the fauly plumbing, that doesn’t make me crazy.
It just gives you turds that look like fruitcakes. That’s all.
Scruffy:
Maybe don’t get the ones packed with edible glitter.
You know who would have been clever enough to evade this? That French guy in the second NYPost link.
Hundreds of social media users said their goodbyes as InSight’s farewell post went viral overnight. “Why are goodbye posts from inanimate space probes so emotionally gutting,” tweeted Rodger Sherman. “All the feels for this little beast. I love to see spacecraft fly, and hate to see them die. But one day, we will come and put you in a museum,” tweeted Eric Berger.
If only NASA had the insight to deal with the dust problem.
Maybe they should ask the dude that had the fucking functional WWI shell stuffed up his ass for help?
You think he’ll pull a bang up idea out of his butt or something?
He will go ballistic on them and solve it all..
😱
If the site is still running, what the hell were those 75% of tweepers or whatever they hell they called themselves doing?
They are doing nothing now. Back then they worked with the evil fucking assholes to control the flow of information to keep the people at each others throat and convince the idiots in the bubble to give away their freedoms for the false promise of security/safety from some mythological boogieman. That was a valuable service for the authoritarian…
Consuming expensive goods? Have you seen those videos where young chicks TikTok their workday? “First I stop and get a $16 mochasippy at the trendy coffee shop next door…then I pop in the employee wellness center and get a complimentary massage…then a meeting on branding where they serve blah-blah-blah…” It’s a non-stop series of them being pampered and contributing nothing of value. I think this is maybe most of what white chicks with laptops are doing these days. They might dress it up with terms like HR associate or Marketing Coordinator or something.
Following Gov’t regs for labor?
“Knife,” “areola,” and “penis” are also unacceptable.
“Use these three words in a sentence.”
“The activist surgeon took a knife to teens…”
“I asked her to show me her areola so she threw a knife at my penis.”?
She sounds like a keeper.
‘Orning ‘ordles: Sucked. One of those where a word (UL here) got into a “Have all the other words, have enough letters can think of X possibles which can’t eliminate each other, with Y guesses left… and Y is much less than X”. And did not get lucky. Blech.
Daily Duotrigordle #294
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 05:21.65
https://duotrigordle.com/
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I’m almost proud of myself.
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I feel less bad now.
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Worst non-chump score possible.
UR was a complete asshole – 3 tries. Got lucky on other guesses.
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Huh.
I’m running for mayor of chump town.
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Started okay, then went almost calamitously bad.
“Sean on December 21, 2022 at 4:49 am
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/reseda-man-arrested-in-sextortion-plot-that-led-to-teens-suicide/
That’s so fucked up all the way around.”
That’s a wild story, I can’t imagine having that reaction, even as a depressed 17 year old.
I saw the FFA jacket the kid was wearing and realized why we’re now in a food shortage. One less producer available.
I need to go have a talk with my almost 17 year old, don’t I.
This happened to a kid in the next high school over. Horrible. Within an hour he went from just talking to someone online to killing himself.
Whoops. Meant as a reply above. Tell them that they can tell you anything at any time. Anything at all.
This also happened to a kid we know in the next neighborhood but he went and told his parents. Everything worked out and nothing bad happened.
SJWednesday: Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology
Never heard of this guy before, but he is the quintessential social democrat retard made tenured flesh.
Lets choose personal responsibility, independance, and wisdom. None of this emotive crap.
Let’s start redistributing the existing wealth pie, constantly reshuffling who gets what, causing massive waste that will make the pie keep shrinking, until there is so little left that we are going to have to eat each other! Ignore every time that’s how this shit plays out in real life too!
It’s hilarious because he’s a tenured professor who lives off the largesse of the state with funds forcibly taken from everyone.
Marx had more cred.
People that have never had to hold a real job and have economic obligation are the only ones that can think Marx was not a fucking evil grifting scumbag that like them also lived off the wealth of his parents while complaining about the people that worked to create wealth.
BTW, I have found that the people that think Marx was on to something come in 3 flavors. The first is the vast majority of that group of unwashed dopes that never read what Marx actually wrote and had lame propaganda convince them this shit was cool. The remainder is split into people that read Marx and simply didn’t understand what he really advocates for and those that understood quite well what Marx’s idiocy was about and can’t wait to stack up the bodies and go for a record count.
Those are called Leninists.
Mao told Lenin & Stalin to hold his beer and then stacked between 50 and 75 million bodies while keeping over a billion under the yoke of evil. But my favorite playa was Pol Pot. That fucker managed to kill 1/3 of his country of six million people1 Now THAT is how you Marx right.
He also mooched off of Engels.
Chairman Richard Neal, D- Mass., said after the vote, “This is not being punitive. This is not about being malicious.”
“Vindictive” on the other hand…
At least we can be certain the Committee will make every effort to provide context and clarity.
Mitch McConnell, “Providing Financial Support for Ukraine is the #1 Priority of The United States and Republicans Right Now”…
Not the border, the economy, or anything to do with your well-being.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/21/mitch-mcconnell-providing-financial-support-for-ukraine-is-the-1-priority-of-the-united-states-and-republicans-right-now/
The grift must go on. If the reports coming out of the Donbas are even close to accurate, the Ukrainians (and Polish Mercs), are getting absolutely slaughtered in Bakhmut. A thousand casualties a day is the number getting tossed around. Worth to keep the blood money flowing.
The GOP is irredeemable.
Hey, once Afghanistan was lost, they needed to launder vast sums of money somehow.
“Reports”… your favorite Russian bloggers? Same ones who said the counteroffensives that took back 2 large chunks of the country had “failed immediately”?
Note that Zelensky was able to pop in and hand out medals, before coming here to pick up his loot. Wagner prisoner battalions were unavailable to the media…
Astronomical Ukrainian casualties in Bakhmut is out there in the mainstream, on the rare occasions they talk about it. Zelensky went there yesterday and is giving the Stalingrad-like no-retreat orders.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-bakhmut-donetsk-isw-nato-1766108
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And OMG the comments.
I can read a map – if the Russians are winning, whycome they lose 60% of what they once had? Why are they emptying jails for recruiting?
The only thing I trust is geolocated imagery. And admissions of failure (which are minimized).
Because they care more about bleeding the Ukrainians than holding territory? At least that’s their stated objective. Time will tell.
I surmise that if they were not losing, let alone winning, they I would not need the nuclear saber rattling…
Or another $45 billion.
My favorite ‘Russian’ blogger – Douglas Macgregor.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/washington-is-prolonging-ukraines-suffering/
Seconded.
Drake, they are just repeating what some in Russia are saying* seems like. I’m not saying it’s not 1000-a-day, but I don’t see any reliable source being cited. Usually the force on the offensive is losing more troops, but it’s also possible they caught the Ukrainians out with their counteroffensive.
*The ISW cited reports from Russian Telegram accounts that Ukraine’s forces had “suffered heavy losses” and that Moscow’s troops had struck forward Ukrainian positions northeast of the city
It sounds like (I know, sketchy info) the Russians are setting traps whether on the offensive or defensive. They drove to Bakhmut and forced the Ukes into a terrible defensive position. The Ukraininas keep reinforcing that bad position, so Russians are content to just keep shelling them there.
When the Russians withdrew from western Kherson, they made it into a kill box but the Ukrainians now seem to keep their distance from that one.
Ukraine’s border is more important that yours,
subjectcitizen.Here is some casualty info.
“. A thousand casualties a day is the number getting tossed around.”
Is there any real reliable data on this or other loses?
How does this compare to other wars?
I don’t know the alternative for Ukraine. Given the history between them and Russia I wouldn’t go down without a fight either.
There is no reliable data – there are only competing lies. The truth is years down the road.
Agreed, it was somewhat rhetorical.
I just don’t see the significance of casualties unless they’re not able to replace. 1000 a day, if that’s even a real number, should be able to be replaced, that’s under 1% of the populace per year.
Though, it would help if they had more babies 20 years ago. That’s kind of a mistake.
It’s just numbers after all.
Yeah, it’s a tragedy, which is why everything reasonable should be done to avoid war. But if someone mentions ‘X number casualties’ the obvious next question is ‘so what?’ we already know war is bad.
Well, if your goal is to protect the nation, leaving the next generation of Ukrainian women forced to be single or marry foreign men because of the demographics of losing all the young men, you’ve done the culture a disservice.
JI is right. Anyone talking about either side “winning” is pushing it. Russia, Ukrain, it doesn’t matter at this poin who you follow, it is propaganda all the way down.
Very little reliable info out there – Russia cannot admit to having thousands lost on their “Special Denazification and Slave Raid” and the Ukes will patriotically not mention losses very often, so as to not discourage anyone… *rolls eyes, makes jerking off motion*
Compared to the low level BS of our last couple of wars, this is more intense and way more casualaties.
Sure, but if I was a Ukrainian, I would be comparing things to the great patriotic war, not the goofball adventures of America in the desert. Ain’t no way in hell I’d let Russia take over my homeland.
I’ve watched a substantial amount of World War 1 trench style fighting, but now with the use of drone recon teams to pinpoint artillery strikes into the trenches. I’ve read in pro-Kiev slanted MSM propaganda pieces about very high causalities for Kiev from interviews with their frontline soldiers, so that seems to be consistent. Russia is having difficulty holding territory and Kiev is bleeding out their conscripts.
Kiev had alternatives. Still does. But they’re a proxy gov controlled by NATO. It makes more sense to stop thinking of this conflict as Ukraine versus Russia. Rather it’s really a civil war raging in Ukraine. Russia is backing the Donbas regions, and NATO is backing Kiev-supported regions. Russia may have ulterior motives, but the US has been orchestrating this civil war for the past 20 years.
I’ve watched a substantial amount of World War 1 trench style fighting, but now with the use of drone recon teams to pinpoint artillery strikes into the trenches.
I just kind through that out there. Meant to add so it’s a whole different battlefield type. Almost a hundred year regression with some modern tech upgrades. A lot of artillery and counter artillery battles.
I’ve seen some of that footage and it is definitely reminiscent of past wars.
A thousand casualties a day strikes me as highly improbable on a single smallish(?) sector of the front. Consider that, in intense fighting at Elsenborn Ridge during the Battle of the Bulge, the casualties for the German elit Panzer Unit are estimated at 20%, or up to 3,000 killed or wounded, over 10 days of fighting. A thousand casualties a day is literally decimating an entire division in a single day, and 10% casualties are generally considered to render a fighting unit combat ineffective. Unless the Ukrainians are throwing a hundred thousand (or more) of troops at that sector, 1,000 casualties a day is simply not credible to me.
I don’t know about the 1k number. The MSM has been doing interviews with front line soldiers who have reported 80%+ casualty rates for their companies. This is Western media interviewing Kiev conscripts, not Russian propaganda.
That doesn’t provide overall numbers, but the picture on the ground is that of a meat grinder for Kiev.
That’s shitty if true.
They should give a little ground and save some lives, entrench in a better position. /Armchair generaling
We could have built at least 25 border walls with all of the Ukrainian aid.
Stadium funding is ridiculous…but just think, like 100 stadiums could have been built too.
Stadium funding winds up in union and municipal union pockets.
Ukraine funding helps aerospace and defense companies.
BUILD THAT BOWL!!!
Why is this news? Seriously. Do the people calling this out really think that the fucking assholes cheering or turning a blind eye to government corruption and demanding Musk be tortured and killed publicly to set an example, really believe the only entity the government was using to feed the serfs propaganda was Twatter?
These scum know our government has been controlling legacy and social media to suit the needs of the corruptocracy, but they cheer it on because of team politics, never realizing that tomorrow it will be them that these evil fucks will be going after.
https://youtu.be/K1kc1X6kTpw
Interesting to see Michael Shellenberger get red pilled in real time.
They have been brought up on one of the most dangerous phases mankind has ever uttered “history bends to the left”
They cannot even imagine that they are in the wrong, or that the worm will turn.
It’s not immediately clear what significant new information might be in the committee’s possession. Prosecutors in New York have already been able to access some of the data, but some of what the committee has could be more recent.
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While Trump has claimed the subpoena is a politically motivated fishing expedition, the committee said the documents were critical for drafting “legislation on equitable tax administration, including legislation on the President’s tax compliance.”
Yes, yes, of course. Trump’s a perfect template for comparison to the vast majority of middle class taxpayers.
Y’know Trump probably doesn’t know whats in his tax returns. Heck I don’t even know what in ours since we have someone else do it. So the deductions, etc? Dunno I just sign the damn thing.
And like I said before, we’re expected to believe that the IRS hasn’t already gone over every one of his returns with a fine-toothed comb and approved them.
This is just echoing the statutory language, kind of like the memorized babble that cops drag out when they want to testify that they saw indicators of DUI.
“The driver had glassy and bloodshot eyes. He smelled of alcohol and slurred his speech.”
/Opening lines of 95% of the DUIs I ever saw in court.
How many of those then continue to describe someone naked, maybe with another dude, and involve the use of a hammer?
That’s me ’bout every morning.
Trump has claimed the subpoena is a politically motivated fishing expedition
“without evidence”…
the committee said the documents were critical for drafting “legislation on equitable tax administration, including legislation on the President’s tax compliance
Of course, that committee is drafting no such legislation, and never would. I wonder of SCOTUS is really that naive, in accepting this claim, or in on the scam.
Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term, “American.” People are instead asked to use “U.S. Citizen” because “American” typically refers to “people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas.“
It is…
because “preferred” suggests “non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.”
It is…
I will not abide by the language police. You are just changing the sounds to convey the same meaning anyway.
The USA is also the only country in the Americas that put America in it’s name. In fact, United States is the ambiguous one, as that can also reference the United States of Mexico.
Oh, and we are also the single most populous country in the Americas, so there is that too.
Also, America (or similar) is used as the country name and name for the people in several foreign languages.
>>the language police
Soon we’ll just use Emojis and give primal grunts.
So you agree with me that we will finally reach the level of civilization our alien overlords thought the Egyptians (hieroglyphs) and Sumerians (cuneiforms) so they can come back?
Orwell didn’t mention emojis but otherwise everything is going as predicted.
I’m somewhat glad my son attends a large state school with so many students so he can get a bit lost in the shuffle.
He’s had an extremely woke sports media course that he bitched about but then turned it into a fun contest to see how absurd he could sound.
I have found that there is great joy in taking the woke shit to extremes of absurdity, then react in an angry way when someone questions your commitment to the cause…
Yesterday for EF’s birthday we opened a bottle of Bollinger champagne. I wasn’t expecting much of an improvement over the (cheap) swill I normally had in the past but yeah… I stand corrected. If I was a rich man it would be a daily drink.
There is serious difference between real and good champagne, and the cheap crap pretending to be champagne.
So there’s pagne, champagne and sham-champagne?
What you did there…
I applaud you.
Champagne for my true friends!
True pain for my sham friends!
Agreed. I cheaped out one new years and you can definitely tell the difference.
Yeh, avoid knockoffs called “Champain”.
Painful.
The next morning? Yeah, been there.
If I was a rich man it would be a daily drink.
What? Not taking champagne baths with Salon? You’ll never get to the top with that attitude. How do you feel about Russian piss hookers?
Not really into urine… but hey ya never know until you give it a try… (bleh)
Just call it squirting.
I’ve never found Bollinger in my liquor stores.
I’ve decided that I do not like anything by Domaine Chandon — low, mid or Dom Perignon.
I haven’t tried the top ends by Louis Roderer or Veuve Clicquot, but I do like their mid-markets.
Happy birthday to Elspeth.
Score a win for the patriarchy! Bitchez wanting to act like dudes will now legally be in trouble, while dudes pretending to be chicks… Well, it looks like that is still cool.
Would.
A judge this month declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Virginia Tech women’s soccer player who says she was benched after she did not kneel in a pregame ceremony, building up to a legal battle that combines sports, cultural politics, and the First Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, rejected Virginia Tech’s bid to dismiss the case on Dec. 2, saying “genuine issues of material fact” existed that need to be decided by a jury, according to court records.
The lawsuit pits former player Kiersten Hening against the team’s coach Charles Adair, alleging that he became furious when she refused to kneel in support of social justice movements, primarily her objections to the Black Lives Matter organization’s mission statement.
After an Atlantic Coast Conference unity statement was recited over loudspeakers at Virginia Tech’s 2020 season opener, Hening remained standing while most of her teammates knelt on the field. Adair voiced his anger at her during halftime and then benched her until the end of the match, according to the lawsuit’s claims.
Was she also not the only straight chick on the team?
I’m not really into judges, they’re too judgmental. Not a bad looking guy though.
Love the poll at the bottom.
That this is even an issue is saying something.
I just want sportsball to be sportsball.
I suspect that is the majority opinion but I’m not gonna let them shit cookies on my machine to find out.
But yeah, this thing where you are only supposed to associate with collectives that “share your values” has been extremely destructive to this country.
I’m just here to artificially bolster the comments count.
So no work today?
Work?
I’m petty my cat.
*comment*
Good to see Castreaux hasn’t had you sent to the Poutine mines or such.
Am I ideologically blinkered? I thought “Drumpf” was clever for about 5 minutes, then overused to the point of being cringe. Castreaux, which I have never seen before, is a fine, timeless construction, OTOH.
Gun grabbers activate!
The first measure would ban the sale, manufacture and import of so-called assault weapons in Washington, but will not affect those who already own assault weapons, law enforcement and military, according to the press conference. Inslee referred to assault weapons as “weapons of war,” saying, “there are no legitimate reasons for them in our society.”
They are legitimately necessary to stave off government tyranny.
The second measure would address weapons manufacturers, allowing them to be held liable if they fail to responsibly control the manufacture, sale, distribution and marketing of firearms, according to the press conference. The legislation would also allow victims to seek justice when manufacturers fail to keep firearms away from “dangerous individuals.”
“There is nothing normal about the violence that we are accepting in our society, in our communities and in our schools. We have a responsibility to act, and we are going to continue to act this session. I am proud to be working with the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office on the liability bill that will say gun manufacturers and retailers have to accept responsibility for these dangerous products that they sell,” Democratic state Sen. Jamie Pedersen said during the press conference.
I see we are still trying to simply kill the industry with bullshit logic.
How about you fuckheads take personal responsibility for the unarmed victim zones you’ve created?
Also in Washington
https://crosscut.com/politics/2022/12/shelved-2018-wa-gun-law-may-finally-be-implemented-soon
Washington state legislature also passed a capital gains tax but claim it isn’t a tax on income (which is forbidden by the state constitution and they can’t deceive the voters into amending it). Nope, this is an excise tax. By that standard, the gun control is only half as fucked up.
because “preferred” suggests “non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.”
And…
Apparently the DWX is a real thing. I find it interesting to note who did or didn’t get a pre-release copy from Dan Wesson to review. Cheaper Than dirt? Really?
Also interesting to notice everyone who is complaining that there’s no optics cut while not paying attention to the location of the ejection port.
Not my link fail!
Le sigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lDU8HGGEM
On one hand the link doesn’t work.
On the other hand whatever you linked to is probably blocked at work.
$2k hybrid handgun made by low end (relatively speaking) custom 1911 maker. Much hype, much delayed.
Unfortunately, I think the market for the DWX has probably moved on to other stuff.
::sigh:: another day with the construction workers making noise. We had our bathroom floor leveled (so the toilet will stop leaking), a bathroom fan installed, and also new interior doors put in. Needless to say the dogs, cat, and myself are getting stressed out from the constant noise.
The new wood doors we got are nice than the cheap plastic junk that the previous owner had installed.
Drink.
So it looks like after they spent 3 decades selling us out and getting stinking rich, they have finally gotten pissed at the CCP’s criminality or something. I guess the CCP telling them they will not get to repatriate a huge chunk of that money they made selling us out, but more importantly, that they are keeping it, coupled with the CCP telling them the only new global world order they would sign on to is one where THEY are the boss, got their feathers ruffled.
They sold us out because our monetary policy made it preferable to do so.
Until the eurodollar system made possible by Bretton Woods flames out, it’s not going to change. The problems we face now are the result of 80 years of central bank policies and a federal government that is populated by mal-educated grifting morons.
The real problem is that the inevitable correction to that astounding market distortion is going to suck big, fat donkey balls… or they’re going to implement a global CBDC and fuck us really good.
That’s all assuming they don’t get us nuked beforehand while trying to avoid the inevitable.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/beijing_ramping_up_semiconductors/?td=keepreading
The attempts by the current administration to control and hobble the CCP’s semiconductor industry are really going to back fire and destabilize the region and industry. The time to do what they are doing was 20 or more years ago, when there was not a viable infrastructure available for them to innovate around the equipment and device restrictions now imposed.
Instead the US and rest of the world played ball with he CCP and gave them the knowledge, training, equipment, and economic might to eventually make all of their own equipment. The number of Taiwan and CCP nationals in key industries then gave them the ability to hire experienced tech and executive talent both in industry and universities. Some tech was outright given to the CCP and their military by Clinton, but more importantly companies like Intel and others gave them deep knowledge in exchange for market access.
Now we are restricting bleeding edge semiconductor making equipment from sale in the CCP, this will negatively affect their industry short term. The CCP will continue to throw money and people at the problem until there is a breakthrough or progression past the current state of the art. They would have just kept buying the tools from Appled Materials and ASML, but now they might have their own infrastructure and process separate from the West. IF this approach doesn’t work, then we might see a harder push for unification with Taiwan and increased pressure and conflict.
Either way our government’s short term thinking has created another conflict and is now looking to remedy it after the fact, which is creating more conflict.
The legislation would also allow victims to seek justice when manufacturers fail to keep firearms away from “dangerous individuals.”
When will they pass a law to keep lawyers away from dangerous individuals? Common sense lawyer control is what we need.
“allow victims to seek justice ”
Reason #342 to not duck jury duty. You might get chosen for a case like this and can help laugh the prosecution out of court.
If you answer their voir dire honestly as a libertarian you will be summarily dismissed anyway.
I’ve never had a problem. Around here, voir dire removes acquaintances of the defendant and the arresting cops, certain professions, and people who have been victims of specific crimes. You are asked if “you think you can hear all the evidence and make an unbiased decision?”
Voir dire in Tucson is mind-blowing. By the time they get through “Have you been charged with a crime” and “Do you work in or have relatives who work in law enforcement”, half the room is dismissed. And I really don’t think very many at all are lying.
Same for ruralish former mill-town South Georgia.
Now let’s sue car manufacturers for failing to keep their products away from “dangerous individuals” whenever there is an accident with injuries.
Because I guess now manufacturers are responsible for the deliberate misuse of their products.
Someone asked what Gretsch EF got – it is a solid body Electromatic ?? It was her pick over a Fender / Gibson / etc so I don’t know too much about it,
Spiffy!
Go for the 5-hole on Ass Wednesday!
https://archive.ph/wb1cW
I’m just not into intercrural.
Back in the days when I used to go to the strip club, there was always the gal who, while giving me lap dance, pucker her bunghole. I wasn’t quite sure why I was supposed to enjoy that.
The answer is that most of her customers are vastly more degenerate and perverted than you, and appeals to them.
I was not expecting to read that sequence of words this morning, by the way.
A lot of customers appreciate a cheeky wink.
We can all rest easy knowing that justice has finally been done.
A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman accessory to over 10,000 murders for her role as secretary to a Nazi SS commander stationed at a concentration camp in World War II.
The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Irmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp in what is now Poland, according to the Associated Press. Furcher argued she had no knowledge of the 10,505 murders that she was accused of being an accessory to. Prosecutors countered that the muster point for new arrivals to Stutthof was visible from her office window, and the crematoriums at the camp were running constantly during her time there.
Judge Dominik Gross found that it was “simply beyond all imagination” that she was not aware of the murders going on at the camp.
Seems a bit ridiculous to me.
Obviously she should have stopped working there. I’m sure she would have suffered no repercussions.
I am amenable to the idea that yes, she should have acted differently.
But I also don’t believe in ex post facto laws.
They’ve ran out of real Nazis to prosecute. Maybe they can find some preteen Hitler Youth next.
“she had no knowledge of the 10,505 murders ”
Bullshit. As to what she could have done about it, we weren’t there to walk in her shoes.
Clearly they expected the secretary to assault the armed guards, take them all out, release the prisoners, hyjack the next train, ride it back to germany and take out the high command.
Unfortunately for her, Waif-fu wasn’t invented until the 1990’s.
Al Gore won his Nobel Prize over a Polish woman who snuck out hundreds of kids from a death camp.*
She was eventually caught and wound up with them, but survived.
Admittedly, that kind of courage is rare.
*Treblinka or Auschwitz, I forget which.
Two year suspended sentence, so something just for show.
Seems legit.
💸 $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers”
💸 $1.2 million for “services for DACA recipients” (aka helping illegal aliens with taxpayer funds) at San Diego Community College.
💸 $477k for the Equity Institute in RI to indoctrinate teachers with “antiracism virtual labs.”
💸 $1 million for Zora’s House in Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color.”
💸 $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City.
💸 $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.
All are clearly absolute priority and necessary spending for the federal government that is completely bankrupt.
“gender-expansive” means “fatties,” right?
If it doesn’t it now should…
The Ugliest Omnibus Bill Ever
This is no way to govern in a democracy – lol since when?
Exactly. Governing in a democracy is little more than buying votes with other people’s money. As was predicted hundreds of years ago, and demonstrated repeatedly since.
I’m still of a mind that any piece of legislation should be read aloud in full on the floor of the chamber of congress that plans to vote on it and no member can leave until the reading is done before any vote can be eld. If it modifies or references other statutes or regulations, those also must be read in full. I mean, the legislature needs all the context in order to make its decisions. After amendments, the whole amended bill must be re-read in full before any new vote.
I’ll settle for having the Constitutional power granting the legislation cited, with anyone voting for a bill that is later deemed unconstitutional , in whole or part, immediately dismissed from Congress and held personally liable for any physical or monetary damages caused by said unconstitutional measure.
That would guarantee an immediate court-packing.
No, if such a measure punishing congressmen could be established in my fantasy land, it would mean the vast majority of voters agreed with it. Therefore, no “court packing” would be possible.
My proposal is that the main sponsor should submit a handwritten copy before it can be considered.
Without paywall. The WSJ board are idiots – they’re happy about the Ukraine graft.
There’s no point in looting the treasury after the funds become unavailable.
Righteous indignation
The last straw for Heather was Elon Musk’s vitriolic attacks on Anthony Fauci, one of the world’s most respected immunologists and outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. For Logan, it was when Musk ordered employees to stop paying Twitter’s bills to vendors for services they’d already rendered.
For Tom, Musk’s corrosive and erratic leadership of Twitter since he bought the social media site at the end of October was just too much.
And when each of them called to cancel their Tesla car preorders or to terminate their car leases over the past few months, saying Musk’s toxic behavior was the reason, each heard pretty much the same thing from the Tesla salesperson on the other end of the line: “We’re hearing a lot of that.”
Believe it or not, I couldn’t give a fuck less what Mister Honda(or Herr Porsche, for that matter) says or does in his spare time, as long as the car starts and runs.
We are drowning in idiocy.
“Respected”?
You misspelled “Reviled”.
Fauci was never an immunologist Heather, so you aren’t buying a car because you are a misinformed idiot.
Ding ding. Never forget: Fauci is a primary care doctor who hasn’t treated a patient in over 50 years.
Oh, he treated a few beagles.
I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for a thousand, Alex.
What a shitshow. But at least the profitability of those companies is secure. Not that I care from their perspective. But that shit is all very highly regulated and the regulators did their usual bang-up job.
this reminds me of yes minister, either you sell things or you don;t, if you do they will inevitably get to those with the cash to buy them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYfiRyPi3o
Re-watching after some time, that clip is great
Black Sea vantage point gives 101st Airborne troops closer view of Ukraine war
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-12-20/romania-101st-airborne-army-ukraine-8484324.html
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania — The 101st Airborne Division soldiers here are positioned close enough to Ukraine that their artillery is in easy range of the war-torn country and intelligence gatherers can monitor fighters buzzing around the Black Sea.
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, deployed on the division’s first operational mission in Europe since World War II, functions as the most forward-based American unit in proximity to the fighting in Ukraine, military leaders say.
There are now about 5,000 soldiers along NATO’s southeastern flank, the majority of whom are anchored at strategic locations near Romania’s coastline.
“You are ready if the call comes,” brigade commander Col. Ed Matthaidess said Monday.
Ordered overseas in June, the unit is part of a U.S. push to reinforce NATO terrain and be prepared to respond if the war spills over into allied territory.
In the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Romania has emerged as the centerpiece of U.S. efforts to deter Russian aggression in southern Europe, while Poland has emerged as the Army’s center of gravity in the north.
If Musk’s tenure as CEO may be drawing to an end, it comes after his work over the past couple months was punctuated by his outspoken embrace of extremist right-wing reactionaries, his attacks on former staff from marginalized communities, his spreading of homophobic lies about an attack on the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and his haphazard pronouncements of new policies at one of the world’s most influential communications platforms.
Somebody fetch me my smelling salts.
Well, this ought to help them transition to a cashless society. Nobody is gonna want to be caught dead with pictures of that jug-eared goofball in their pocket. – Il’ll take em of their hands and convert to scotch
There was some wine drinking in the office and I had a conversation with a new guy who was claiming all western wealth today is due to colonialism and exploitation… Ah 24 year olds who read one leftist book and believed everything… you should see the fire in his eyes
That colonialism thing is straight up out of the KGB book of propaganda of the 60s & 70s. That so many people are dumb enough to fall for it show you how marxisim taking over academia was a brilliant move by these evil fuckers.
One of my favorite movie commentators, Little Platoon, mentioned this colonialism focus as the left’s (or black intellectuals) concept of the “original sin.”
ie – if it wasn’t for whitey then… _fill in the blank_
better said by him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg04KswVQXI
btw, his review of the second Black Panther movie is a joy.
I only wish I had his level of thought and that perfectly cultured voice.
Caitlin Johnstone says that often. The only reason poverty exists in the world is because of Western exploitation. There is truth to the gist of their claims, the West can be wildly exploitative, but geez.
How can you be that willfully ignorant?
Poverty is the base state of humanity, and it is through effort that we overcome it.
Beach Volley World Tour PRO 2022 Madrid • Final Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZjKBMbfzLM
“Eight teen girls charged with killing homeless man in Toronto: police
Eight teenage girls who met through social media were charged with the murder of a homeless man in Toronto on Sunday, police said.
The gang of three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds and two 16-year-olds swarmed their 59-year-old victim at a plaza near the main rail station just after midnight Dec. 18, the Toronto Police Service announced…”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/eight-teen-girls-charged-with-killing-homeless-man-in-toronto/
WTF?
Did they at least say “sorey” afterwards?
Toronto is a huge city, full of immigrants from all over the world. There is a decent chance these weren’t hosers.
Huge? The entire population of Canada is about equal to Tokyo.
Well, I’ve never been to Tokyo, and am maybe not an expert on huge cities. According to a quick search I just did, it’s the 4th largest city in North America. Mainly I was basing that on a work trip to Toronto. When you fly in, you see continuous high rise buildings out the window for a shocking long time. And being there you meet immigrants from Brazil, Africa, India, etc.
Traditionally? This is a thing that is done in Toronto?
My dad had an uncle named Art who was a professional bum / alcoholic. One night someone poured lighter fluid or gasoline on the poor guy and set him on fire. This was sometime back in the 1950s IIRC.
“Eight teenage girls face Christmas behind bars as they are held in custody over the brutal murder of a homeless man: Teens aged 13-16 ‘swarmed him before stabbing him for his alcohol'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562177/8-teen-girls-face-Christmas-bars-custody-brutal-murder-homeless-man.html
That’s an oddly sympathetic headline.
If you’re murdering people at that age, I’m all for the death penalty.
I’m against the death penalty.
Regardless, this sounds like some sort of flash mob.
Some people just need killing, and it wasn’t the homeless dude.
I say sell them to a Mexican brothel and use the proceeds to buy the homeless some booze
I approve this solution.
Sounds more like a Slash Mob.
Why the hell is this considered a second degree murder? They were obviously going out looking to start something. Just because he was the first guy with booze that they saw? Or is it only that the prosecutors fear they couldn’t convict on a first degree charge?
bitches be wild
I betcha they are woke as fuck and their defense will be that the bum was an unvaccinated enemy of the state…
I love it when the “Quick Start Guide” is a dozen pages long.
But does it actually have the information needed to get started quickly?
Most of the time they seem to leave out some of the most important caveats.
Don’t know, haven’t installed the software yet.
good software is intuitive you don’t need a guide.
You’re not wrong.
*grinds teeth*
“This works like other things I’ve used” is not the same as “intuitive”.
You’re also not wrong.
“Man with WWI explosive lodged in his rectum sparks bomb scare, hospital evacuation”
Wasn’t there a similar story just a year or so ago? I’m starting to think this is a thing.
It just wrecked him. If it had gone of could have killed him.
And the man who loves to create memes and hashtags has become the subject of many, with detractors calling him out with #ElonTheSnowflake, #ElonIsDestroyingTwitter and #ElonMuskIsaGiantTurd. Last week, the Twittersphere dubbed him “Space Karen” for pulling the plug on a Twitter’s Spaces discussion after he failed to answer questions by some of the journalists who he’d banned temporarily from the site after they wrote stories about him he didn’t like.
“His personality is absolutely tanking the Tesla brand,” said Heather, a biotech executive who’s nearing the end of her lease for an extended-range Model S. “I’m looking forward to having an Elon-free existence.”
Heather and other Tesla owners have increasingly been telling family, friends and posting on social media that they no longer want to be associated with him. More than a dozen accounts have tweeted seeming cancellations for Tesla cars in response to the billionaire’s tweets, often to mocking responses from Musk defenders.
“T o be completely honest, I know absolutely nothing about anything other than social preening and signalling my devotion to the Right Things,” said Heather.
” #ElonMuskIsaGiantTurd” Ooh, good one. you’ll be the hero of the playground for that one.
I can’t wait for her to get a Volkswagen, or some General Motors engineered electric car.
“To meet emissions standards, we actually had to replace the trunk with a coal-burning steam engine. On the plus side, you can use it to recharge your batteries.”
-VW
Just one article on GM vehicle woes:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/liberals-who-ditched-tesla-and-bought-chevrolet-bolt-now-hit-recall-over-fire-risk
Henry Ford, call your
templeoffice!More than a dozen? Wow, that’s a bunch, Tesla’s done for.
The 117th Congress has been the most spendthrift in history, and this week it plans to go out with one final bipartisan back-slapping hurrah—a 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that is the worst in history. This is no way to govern in a democracy, but here we are.
Trump’s budget would have been worser.
Certainly not an impossibility.
The Al-Salem store, a longstanding bisht supplier to Qatari royalty, normally sells eight to 10 garments a day
On Monday, sales shot up to 150, including three copies of the top-of-the-range bisht made famous by Messi
DOHA: Watching Sunday’s World Cup final, Ahmed Al-Salem was more emotional than most football fans when Qatar’s emir placed a black and gold cloak over the shoulders of Argentina’s victorious captain Lionel Messi.
The garment Messi wore as he lifted the football trophy was a $2,200 ‘bisht’, a traditional gown worn by men for weddings, graduations and official events — and it was made by Salem’s family company.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2219391/lifestyle
All those new customers just wanted an excuse to say, “Bisht, please!”
Oh, come on! You were all thinking it!
No, I was trying to figure out what the daily revenue of the store actually was.
No, I was busy rolling my eyes back into my head at “made famous by Messi” and idiots who have too much money on their hands.
(Roth resigned from Twitter after Musk declared himself “chief twit,” making clear he’d be calling the shots rather than deferring to trust and safety teams focused on “principled development.”)
*outright prolonged laughter*
Odds of this person being in CA and the only question ever asked about any purchase of any size is “how much a month?”.
Going from Bronco to Model 3? Is it worth it?
The loss he takes on the Bronco = how much gas?
Probably still a small window for now to trade it in without taking a loss at all.
It’s a 2021 — he’s been making payments (if he bought it new) since late 2020, no?
Yeah, you’re right. The price of used cars is too high. He’s probably okay financially.
Electric cars are perfectly cromulent – for city driving and shorter highway trips.
Whether I would want to drive a Model 3 from Michigan to South Carolina is another matter. Considering I have a 500 mile range on my cheap VW and it only takes < 5 minutes to fill up, that means less time waiting around versus an EV. But if you don't mind 30-40 minutes of waiting per charge – provided a charger is open – and you can fit that time into your trip schedule – then go for it. Like anything else, tradeoffs.
It’s relatively easy to plan charge stops along with eating and breaks.
It most definitely DOES require planning that an ICE vehicle does not. But for serious long hauls ICE is just simpler to deal with.
Right now I’m happy I have both.
I tend to go BANAZI! charge for long distance trips; stops to fill up the gas tank, pee breaks, and use drive thrus to maximize driving time. All to get to the destination all that quicker. An EV would have to change that game plan and would, perhaps, be better for me.
Same here. I don’t believe in stopping for an extended timeframe unless we talking over 12 hours of drive time.
The new Prius looks nice. If you have any distance a hybrid is the way to go.
The Toyota hybrid drivetrain is the best in the business.
Glad he cleared that up. Never would have guessed that his commute was equidistant.
Well, if you have enough one-way streets and detours…
Yup. My brother briefly worked for Origin in Austin back when it existed. His drive to work was 10 minutes, but his drive home was 45.
Apparently one of the people behind this initiative. There seems to be a trend here – everyone buying or thinking of buying a Tesla is a moron.
Makes sure he isn’t standing in range of JI before Hayeksplovies reads that…
She sadly has questionable taste in the crowds she runs with.
Sounds like the Bronco is just driving over payments, so yes, you don’t need it but any sedan will do.
Er, pavement*
Before I left the corporate world I was planning on buying a Bronco (yellow 2-door) but realized that I never go off-roading. And something with a removable top is going to be really noisy on the highway. So yeah… I ended up canceling my reservation.
My son just got a Ridgeline.
He wanted a mid size truck, but it is going to be used 99.9% on road and for hauling light, but bulky items. No towing or heavy loads. We looked at the usual mid size trucks and you can’t beat the Honda for power and ride compared to Tacoma and Colorado.
It’s amazingly plush riding and quiet. Right tool for the right job.
/s former Jeep JK 2-door Rubicon with soft top owner.
would you people stop buying g trucks and get electric cars
I want a Ridgeline. I am also painfully cheap.
You were just waiting for the Heritage editions: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40861901/2023-ford-bronco-heritage-edition-revealed/
They certainly look better – that red one could be in an episode of Cannon (the 1970s TV show),
If we make the move to the country, I’ll need a midsized truck next year. Maybe the Honda since the offroad stuff isn’t that bad. I don’t see any hybrid options in that segment.
Maverick is a cool little truck. Maybe too little?
Maybe. I may check it out. I would want the ability to do moderate towing. It would also probably be our road trip car.
I just traded in our newer FJ Cruiser (not the modded one that Mrs. Dean refuses to part with) for a Toyota Highlander. We needed something that was better (more comfortable) for long highway road trips. Good call, Humungus.
Nice car. I think they put a lot of Lexus into it. We got the 2022 because they stopped making them with a V6 (could well be the last one sold in the country). The first question Mrs. Dean had was “Can we put a supercharger on it?”. Sofar, the answer is “Probably not without an enormous amount of trouble.” But I’m working on it.
The trade-in value of the FJ was ridiculous. I paid $36K for it in 2014, it has 114,000 miles on it (and is in really good condition), and I got $27K for it on trade-in.
Wow.
Damn.
Why don’t they teach basic math in school.
Get out a calculator and figure out the cost of the Bronco, the cost of the Tesla, and the cost of projected fuel savings?
You can expect people to learn how to perform a trade study or run a business case. Cause that’s all wicked, capitalistic, patriarchal horseshit.
“can’t” dammit
Merry Christmas!
Tacticool Girlfriend
@tacticoolgf
Happy to announce that my little one has grown up to be a legally classified rifle, according to the ATF. Navigating the NFA can be frustrating to say the least, but it’s a lot easier these days with eForms. Don’t let them stop you from getting what you want, it’s worth the wait!
https://twitter.com/tacticoolgf/status/1605342809921576960
I did not know that not a rifle can become a rifle
“By the ATF’s definition it’s a pistol if it’s under 16″ in barrel length and has a brace.” – huh
Similarly, not a shotgun
https://www.mossberg.com/590-shockwave-jic-12-gauge-50656.html
But you can form 1 it into a short barreled shotgun.
this content was blocked by IT for my protection 🙂
That reminds me, I want to get one of those, just because I can.
eForms has indeed made things a lot easier. I’m currently contemplating chopping my deer rifle down to 12″ and adding a silencer…
“Prominent NYC artist, 35, is charged with trying to have sex with a boy, 9: The ‘activist’ who identifies as ‘non-binary queer’ also shared child pornography – and now faces life in jail
The federal prosecutor said Zelony-Mindell contacted the undercover agent, who was working for the FBI, believing he was the father of the young boy. They allegedly tried to arrange to have anal intercourse with the child through his father.
On Friday, on a street corner in Manhattan, Zelony-Mindell met up with the undercover agent, Williams said, with the expectation that he would take them to meet the young boy and sexually assault him while he was partially drugged…..
Shortly before the arrest, officials said that Zelony-Mindell met with another agent in a lower Manhattan at a coffee shop between Greenwich Street and Hudson Street, before going to the apartment where agents said the child was located.
Zelony-Mindell then met with the other agent outside shortly after, at which point the art expert – who has given lectures at schools across the country and has written about art and photography for publications like the Huffington Post and Vice – was apprehended.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11560403/NYC-artist-identifies-non-binary-queer-charged-trying-sex-9-year-old.html
On the one hand I am suspicious of FBI entrapping people online. On the other, I mean if true that is one sick fuck and will not have a good time in jail I would assume
On one hand, FBI entrapment schemes are a recurring awfulness, but on the other hand, he wouldn’t have shown up if not… motivated to commit the act.
I hate everybody in this story.
UCS and Pie are the same person.
he is taller, I am prettier and with better taste in food and drink
…this is remarkably accurate.
et tu, man?
You can’t even order Eggs Benedict without issues.
Hey! At the last place I ordered them, they had no issues with cooking the eggs fully.
Just because that civilized degenerate sometimes comes to the right conclusion doesn’t call for a slander of this magnitude.
I’ve never even been to continental Europe, let alone eastern europe.
Is anyone else enjoying the UCS/PITS beef, and hoping it continues in the future?
beef – boiled with a little salt and nothing else?
Yeah.
I don’t know how else you catch these types. Maybe find a really young-looking agent and let it go “further”… squick.
Young LOOKING? Get rid of child labor laws, then the FBI can hire REAL 7 year olds!
*libertarian paradox*
I liked it better when Chris Hansen did it. Better productions values.
“has written about art and photography for publications like the Huffington Post and Vice ”
Somehow that resume doesn’t surprise me.
“now faces life in jail”
I’m pretty sure ‘they’ now face death in jail.
Kentucky senator Karen Berg slams rivals for ‘marginalizing my child and exacerbating culture wars’ after transgender son, 24, took his life: Devastated mom blames vile anti-trans hate that ‘took its toll’
It’s not the thing I totally brought up on my own.
Sorry for your loss but kindly go fuck yourself. You don’t get to play mind-reader with such smug certainty.
Oh fuck off…
The cult of blaming everyone else for your mental problems is getting old, particularly when you use it as a form of social currency.
Sounds to me like the bitch is projecting and there is a serious component of self guilt she is hiding with her outburst…
This statement has implications.
You get to go to camp to be “deradicalized”.
Define “marginalize”.
Well, it’s similar to buttering someone up to ask for a favor, but fake… oh, wait that’s margarinalize
You keep dropping the gun because it was parkay-ized?
“My mentally ill child did a mentally ill thing after I helped facilitate and encourage the mental illness instead of trying to get real help for the child’s delusions.”
You didn’t believe and now Tinkerbell is dead – IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkcRbfHWIAIxv4Z?format=jpg&name=small
Sometimes it can go in many directions
Did not see that coming…
TJ SWIM Bikini Show 4K / STEPH RAYNER debut at Miami Swim Week 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmbcK-g1qA
Hopefully this isn’t stepping on the afternoon lynx
https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/dont-masturbate-with-christmas-ornaments-doctor-warns/
Wait until someone shows up with a tree shoved up their ass…
Don’t make Santa angry, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
The federal prosecutor said Zelony-Mindell contacted the undercover agent, who was working for the FBI, believing he was the father of the young boy. They allegedly tried to arrange to have anal intercourse with the child through his father.
Who says being stupid isn’t a federal offense?
WITHOUT GOOGLING
Can you name a famous horse?
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1605362655295946754
who can name that horse?
It won’t even load, so I’m going to give the horse a name. You are now Horsey McHorseface von Oldmeme
Mr. Ed? What do I win.
Glue?
Secretariat, Sea Biscuit, American Pharoh, Justify, California Chrome, Funny Cide, War Emblem…
AAAAIIIGH! I’ve been living in a horse racing town too long!
I’ve been to Secretariat’s birthplace. It’s the site of the Virginia State Fair.
Trigger?
… of course.
I’m not a horse.
Traveller
well no one got it
Well, it still doesn’t load, so it was rigged from the word go.
the picture is the horse from neverending story drowning in the swamp
I saw that movie with my kids . . . . decades ago
When I saw that movie, I thought the title was appropriate. I was a kid, and it felt like it just never ended. I’ll be damned if I can tell you the plot.
The plot was to get your money?
You weren’t asking for suggestions?
Was it Senator Inciatus?
Looks like a scene from Witcher, but I do not remember the name of the horse.
Geralt’s horse is always called Roach, regardless of what horse it is.
thanks
wrong horse
I love how drunks always hit something and attempt to drive off. I have no idea if they are so blind drunk they don’t realize it or it’s a conscious decision.
Drunk driver at 3 pm on a Monday in Arizona
As noted in the comments. I’d actually take the totaled car to damage to the house. The car contained the damage.
Trying to do the A Team car flip without a ramp.
Seabiscuit.
What did I win?
It’s believed the pervy patient inserted the item up his anus for sexual pleasure.
No… no.. nooo! You know he slipped and fell on it.
In the International Terminal at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, ‘Oz,’ an agriculture detector dog is busy at work.
‘Oz’ is one of 10 beagles at the airport, trained by the United States Department of Agriculture to sniff all sorts of prohibited food and plant items passengers try to bring to the US in their luggage.
I’ve seen them in Boston for years… but only for flights from Amsterdam.
I was coming in from Amsterdam when one of the dogs alerted to my carry-on bag. I told the hander it was the chocolate in my bag. He gruffy said that they are trained to ignore food/candy. So, I opened my bag and showed him the 10 kilos of Dutch and Belgian chocolates in the bag. He walked away in a snit.
So, do you melt it to extract the cocaine?
edibles?
New Lil Rona vaccine documentary
Synopsis:
In March 2021, after receiving my Pfizer shot, I couldn’t feel the left side of my face for a month. Eighteen months later, electric shocks and muscle weakness continue. Unable to receive the 2nd dose, I am amongst a group of partially-vaccinated people who have been outcast from many aspects of society with no empathy. We’ve been censored and told it’s unethical to talk about our stories because we are just anecdotes.
This movie provides a glimpse into the lives of the Anecdotals–those of us whose lives have been changed drastically by taking the vaccine. It also reflects on the division and politics that prevents us from getting much needed care. Anecdotals is a personal journey that focuses on questions, not answers, and people, not politics.
Back then I was planning on getting the J&J shot – and then some news filtered out about heart issues. I delayed – plus I really don’t like needles plunged into my skin. And as more time passed I’m glad that I did. The whole thing did seem rushed and heavily politicized.
I eventually did come down with COVID (almost a year ago now) and while it was rough, I’ve been sicker from the flu.
My wife refuses to get a booster now, nor will we get one for LH Jr.
Instant replay would have overturned the immaculate reception.
I am not sure if that is an argument for or against instant replay.
Of course, the rule has changed since then, so it would have been a valid catch today.
Well off to play Project Zomboid – a game where I spend my time chopping wood to keep the fire going, kill zombies for their clothing so I can learn to sew better (so I can make armor), take antidepressants and drink to keep away the crushing depression, all while driving over the living dead…. some games are too realistic 😉
So….Southern Illinois then?
you can’t beat the Honda for power and ride compared to Tacoma and Colorado.
I don’t even know what the Ridgeline has for a drivetrain. V6?
*Waits for others to enact his labor*
Yes. And it does ride better.
The corporate V6 that is in everything.
I have learned, while searching for a supercharger for our V6 Highlander, that Toyota, at least, makes several variants of their V6. You can get a supercharger for the one in the pickups, but apparently not for the one in the Highlander. I’ll be calling Magnusson when I get a chance.
Honda should build a 3.5 liter V8. And put it in a rear wheel drive two seater.
I have spoken.
In this time of climate crisis no one should build a 3.5 liter V8.
He got the numbers reversed. It should be a 5.3 liter V8, sold as a kit to replace BMW motors that self-destruct after the warranty goes out.
I loved the s2000. 240HP out of a 2.0L engine.
My brother has moved into his new home in Elst, NL. He’s happy to report that bottles* of Orval are EUR 2.49. Less happy that Coca Cola is EUR 3.00
*Those weird bottles you get here. What are they, like 10oz?
Elst, NL – sounds dismal
H. J. Heinz Company’s sauce factory for the European market is located south of the town center. – your brother works in ketchup?
No, money laundering.
His job is such that he only has to go into the office 1 day a week, and a commute from anywhere in the country is doable, so he picked a place with a good international school for his kid that’s too old to be expected to go to a non-English speaking university. I’m assuming that his youngest will be sent off to learn Dutch.
Is youw broer a boer?
a = een
I read that as “Newfoundland and Labrador”.
/I recently had to code every state and province name and abbreviation into my project by hand – don’t ask
I am not sure if that is an argument for or against instant replay.
I would accept instant replay if all reviews were limited to 60 seconds and viewed at full speed. Not an obvious mistake? Play on.
This prolonged frame by frame scrutiny destroys the flow of the game. It’s not the goddam Zapruder film.
What did commies use before candles?
The candle boom began during the pandemic, after the government imposed lockdowns and Germans began spending a lot more time at home. The industry expected the boom to end once the nation opened back up, Thomann says. …
Germany is now on a mission to transform its energy economy and reduce its gas consumption. The nation is making real progress on that front. But our sources make clear that many Germans remain anxious about high energy prices and the possibility of shortages and power outages. Their response to this has included — apparently — buying lots of candles.
ELECTRICITY!
Is Hanukkah secularizing like Christmas?
🙄🙄
Only the beginning.
I loved the s2000. 240HP out of a 2.0L engine.
Graft a pair of B18s together at 90 degrees, shorten the stroke, and, VIOLA! A screamer.
A screamer you say?
Good to know I’m not the only one whose mind went there.
Flying glibs – do you know what the car(?) icons are in ADS-B Exchange?
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a40565
Interesting. And the FAQ does not answer that question.
Ah:
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/adsb/vehicle_transmitter_maps
In the left column under the Stuff heading, you can see that it is identified as a ground service vehicle. Probably a FOD truck or plow.
Category:C2
Surface Vehicle – Service Vehicle
Missed that, thx.
Interestingly, not all of the airports from that link I just posted show ground vehicles – e.g., LAS does but DEN does not. I wonder if DEN didn’t actually implement it; seems improbably there would be no ground vehicles out in an airport that size.
When I zoom in close for DEN there are some on the ground. Just not that many.
Ah, yes, I see one now.
Families consider class action lawsuit against embattled Md. college savings plan
It’s windy outside, and according to the weather service, it’s 39 degrees. I think there might be a front coming through.
Tomorrow’s temp will be single digits, they say.
It’s a massive cold front bomb! It probably has a name, I am sure.
“Elliott”
If you name it you give it power.
But how does Elliott preach the gospel of climate change?
It’s not Covid!
So, sort of like the opposite of the USA, where everything is Covid?
Not that I would put much faith into anything PJ Media reports anymore, war mongering cuntes.
NPR had that story.
They had no problem accepting the CCP’s numbers as absolute truth for the past few years, I wonder why they’re so skepitcal now?
Because everything is Covid, it is known! You’re not helping! Just say it’s Covid already so we can lock everything down again, the economy is not completely ruined yet!
I remember seeing memos flying around woke clients a couple of weeks ago, bemoaning the fact that China backed off their draconian zero Covid response because of the protests. When the Western progs are more authoritarian than the CCP…
World’s most clueless carjacker Zachary Bell tries to steal DEA agent’s car: cops
I’m going with drunk dude doing drunk dude stuff and cop over reaction. Obligatory:
Also obligatory in NYC.
Dude is also nicely busted up too.
“tries to steal DEA agent’s car: cops”
At least he knows where to find all the good drugs.
It’s your fault I can’t keep track of my kids.
Mother in Miami airport hurls computer at American Airlines worker after losing kids: ‘Went into a panic mode’
“Police also told FOX Business that the Florida Department of Children and Families is assisting McMillie’s children.”
Just getting them the hell away from her before it’s too late is assistance. And probably a life-saving one to the future teachers of those kids.
How to Propaganda for the Holidays – Family Edition
TW – Slate…