Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another tremendous day and the links!
Feds adapting AI used to silence ISIS to combat American dissent on vaccines, elections
Paul Pelosi Attack Footage To Be Released After Court Order
Pelosi Sold $3 Million of Google Stock Weeks Before DOJ Launched Antitrust Probe
Donald Trump to be reinstated on Facebook, Instagram
Tesla Announces $3.6 Billion Investment in Nevada for Factories, Promises 3,000 New Jobs
Californians put fast-food law on 2024 ballot
Florida Supreme Court Refuses to Stay Abortion Law
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Uh-oh… we now have Super Server Squirrels!
Morning, Banjos!
They are being developed by Pfizer to invent new squirrel traps.
Ah, the privacy defense. “You can’t prosecute me because I committed the crime in private.”
Right? It makes no sense.
I look forward to the court declaring FDA requirements are unconstitutional because privacy.
Morning
I like these nice routine software adaptations I have to do. No one in the office except my air traffic counterpart. We get to shoot the shit about how the FAA is going downhill, how we are dying to get out of Las Vegas and away from LA Center (ZLA).
Fired Tech Employees Porn – they just need to get a cushy government job
You don’t get anywhere close to those perks until you get up in the SES level.
They’re going to be pretty disappointed with their pay at the IRS.
#Learntoweld
/Mike Rowe
They could become journalists?
And every single one of those involved in directing and approving the grants to redirect the “military grade AI” or deploy it against US citizens peacefully expressing their opinions will be tried for violations of the First Amendment, violations of their oaths of office (if any), criminal conspiracy to deprive citizens of their rights, etc… and lose all pensions or benefits accrued and incur jail time.
And then I get my Sovereign class starship with command codes to recognize me as commander and can go off and explore the nearby galaxy…. Equally likely… sigh.
First Amendment? That old thing? We need to move on, progress !!!
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Well, if any part of the bill of rights is really “a suicide pact”, then it should be pretty easy to get enough support to pass an amendment to repeal it, right?
Canadian healthcare is.
Nothing short of a firing squad would be sufficient to deter future pubsecs from warring against American citizens.
👆👆 They’ve crossed the Rubicon.
Agreed. And yet they just go around in public talking about it like it’s no big deal, SOP, always been that way.
It is SOP, it just wasn’t always so blatant or overt, but this is fruit of seeds planted long ago.
Pfizer Executive Caught By Project Veritas: We’re Exploring Mutating COVID So We Can “Preemptively” Develop New Vaccines
Myself, I Trust Science and this is Science so it is good
If that headline was presented to me 3 or 4 years ago, I probably would have said “Well yeah… you’d want to get ahead of these things and try to predict the mutations. They’ll be careful and make sure nothing leaks out, so should be all good.”
Now? Yeah… don’t trust them as far as I can pick up and throw the state of California as a landmass.
I think project veritas got played.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/developing-did-project-veritas-get
Gain of function research to be “accidentally ” released into the wild, fortunately they had already developed a vaccine that all will be required to have.
Nothing at all sinister about this.
I’m not a big fan of prior restraint, but I would probably make an exception for this kind of stuff. There is just no way to ensure everyone’s safety.
If the government has any rationale for existing, it is to prevent the endangerment of the people from existential threats. It’s why they were given the monopoly on the initiation of force.
If this is true it should be enough to wreck governments.
And yet it won’t.
I am a software developer. I work with software developers.
There’s no way I’d want to see that (frankly, I wake up every day amazed and thankful my wife finds me attractive… glad she’s crazy that way!)
How many of those being fired actually do any software development?
I stopped reading the article at “the creative was doing blah blah blah”.
That just tells me the person wasn’t doing anything useful at Google.
But they “exceeded expectations”!!!
Fuck expectations. How much did they bill last quarter?
I guess that’s why I drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, and you drove an $80,000 BMW
“What exactly would you say you do here”?
Great minds and all
Yeah, just got into the guts of the article. Sounded like they found the teams which weren’t producing anything of value in the first place and got rid of them. The number of the layoffs that just happened to be people tiktoking during work seems to confirm.
When you are really ‘productive’ at producing nothing it is a good thing for the economy when you get laid off. I hope they find something more useful to do.
‘It just felt like a really bad game of Russian roulette and there was no consistency around who was let go and it was also not performance based so it was really random.’ Welcome to Life.
Those are the words of someone who believes they’re far more valuable than they are.
I guarantee that management targeted those who were pimping their lifestyles on social media. The optics of continuing to have them around in the age of shrinking budgets would have been “not good.”
All I can think of.
Precisely.
He was right though.
/recoveringengineer
They know to keep me away from the customers.
Except now it is “I’m a creative person – I have creative skills”.
“Look at my TikToks!”
I thought it was “I’m in a protected class! I have victim skills!”
“The law creates a council that would set minimum wages and standards for working conditions at fast-food restaurants”
Lol…and the people will rejoice
There’s already a mechanism to do all that, it’s called “the market”.
But the market keeps selecting the wrong winners and losers.
I expect some dumbass to utter “The market is becoming somewhat of a suicide pact” sometime over the next week.
Really? Who’s dying?
The poor minimum wage worker’s family of four that he can’t support sufficiently on his minimum wage earnings!
Oh so we’re talking imaginary people.
Wait, you thought it was a well thought out comment?
I don’t doubt that you’re right and some dumbass will say that, or close to it. I was just predicting my retort.
Will the employees pay dues to the
unioncouncil?No, you will. Yay!
When will the robots pay dues to the union?
Will the employees pay dues to the
unioncouncilsoviet?FIFY
совет = council
Sure, but ‘soviet’ captures the spirit better.
‘Fired Tech Employees Porn’
OnlyGoogleFans?
I doubt there are that many hotties in silicone valley
But their tears are delicious.
I am sure the VCs have the hotties.
Not into Indians?
they can be pretty young but unlike other Asians mostly do not age well
pretty when young … and by young I mean 20 not lower
OMWC hardest hit.
Suuuure, whatever you say.
A huh, a huh. *makes notes*
I do have to admit, many age like some Mexican women. Totally stunning, then hit ~40-50 and suddenly become dumpy grandmas.
Hoping my wife is an exception >.>;
Um… why do you think it’s called silicone valley?
Silicone Valley has a lot of hotties,
Silicon Valley does not.
Nice of them to let us know where they’re distributing the most lies.
Too bad for them the scam seems to be falling apart.
But I guess there’s still enough room to make a tidy profit.
Wake me when they’re forced to stop.
“those skeptical of recent U.S. election results” *editors note: This only applies to 2020 and part of 2022 as no other times are consider ‘recent’
If there’s one thing agencies protect above all else, it’s their budgets.
We’re ruled by thieves and con-men.
““Because they’re the only ones challenging budgets for [defense agencies].””
That’s the main reason Trump had to go.
If I was an anti-war leftist I would be gravely insulted.
They’ve managed to achieve total irrelevance.
Well, until the wrong people are back in office.
Nah, BLM took their jobs and kicked them to the curb.
That movement achieved the coveted total self-own when they went radio silent at the stroke of midnight on Obama’s inauguration.
Kinetic military actions and secret kill lists are fine.
The underlying message was that if a brown person was killing brown people its a-okay
They do have a talent for ignoring the source and victims of most violent crime in the US, so it all checks out.
I guess every culture is valid, even if in involves illegal violence.
You know, you don’t hear much from The Squad about how we spend too much on defense, do you?
Not now that the Evil Orange Man is out of office anyway…
Give credit to her constituents, though — they do seem to still be pissed about it.
Skepticism of 2016 isn’t the same since that election was stolen.
And 2000 was a selection, not an election.
Well it depends on the great fortification event. ante fortification elections can be, of course, questioned
Indian court: Cow dung protects homes from radiation
https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/01/24/news/world/indian-court-cow-dung-protects-homes-from-radiation/1875664
Cows are venerated as sacred creatures in much of India and authorities have cracked down hard on cattle slaughter in recent years in concert with Hindu nationalist groups.
The court in western Gujarat state was ruling on the case of a Muslim man accused of smuggling a herd to kill them, which has been illegal under state laws.
Presiding judge Samir Vinodchandra Vyas said the 22-year-old’s actions were “very disappointing” and sentenced him to life in prison after concluding that cow slaughter was the source of countless global problems.
“Every problem in the world will be solved on the day not a single drop of cow’s blood falls on the ground,” said a copy of his ruling, made in late November, but only published late last week.
“It has been proved by science that even atomic radiation cannot affect houses made out of cow dung. Drinking cow urine can cure many incurable diseases,” it added.
But how does one get steak
‘Presiding judge Samir Vinodchandra Vyas said the 22-year-old’s actions were “very disappointing” and sentenced him to life in prison after concluding that cow slaughter was the source of countless global problems.’
That seems fair.
“It has been proved by science that even atomic radiation cannot affect houses made out of cow dung. Drinking cow urine can cure many incurable diseases,”
I always thought the cow urine thing was just a jibe. Fact is stranger than fiction as usual
I say instead of tanks send some cows to Ukraine
Nah… just send lots and lots of cow dung for their fortifications. There are a few dairies and stockyards I can think of around here that should have plenty to contribute.
Preferably all straight to the office of their grifting asshole of a president.
This cow?
I love that movie. Wish they’d done more in that vein, sequel or just something similar or whatnot.
This cow?
That’s just good science.
“Drinking cow urine can cure many incurable diseases,”
So can death
The dead still get COVID.
The WEF will have a whitepaper out on this by the end of the week.
‘Orning ‘Ordles… with 5 times more suck, but at least free of cow dung and cow urine!
Daily Duotrigordle #330
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:35.09
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 367
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Meh
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Three wasted guesses on TL because I didn’t notice a yellow hit in my first seed word – so stupid
quordle is now apparently owned my Marriam Webster, which for some reason makes it seem tainted.
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“One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses,” Walker said to the Project Veritas reporter.
You guys already did that for convid-19.
No – that was a govt lab supported by a foreign govt (us). These guys want to cut out the govt end.
Viruses will now spread more efficiently.
Free market viruses!
One big push the technical side of the FAA is attempting to do is move the workforce into *take a deep breath, its government acronym time* CAMPS.
Centralized Airspace Maintenance Planning and Scheduling. Their goal is to align us with other like industries to a centralized dispatch system in which all the techs will be placed into a pool of available technicians to respond to outage. While I would love to see this job go private, I marvel at government trying to implement a private sector way of doing things that are 99.99% based on profit to us, which has no profit motive whatsoever.
Yeah… if they’re like private industry they’ll go too far with that and start considering everyone Interchangable Engineering Units with no regard for actual skills or interest. (Yeah, lets make all our kernel engineers have to write web interfaces! That makes perfect fucking sense, because it isn’t like you can’t just make the Web guys go figure out the bowels of the translation table or task switcher, right?)
Agile means any programmer will do.
One of the many reasons I despise it, yeah.
Heh, +1 generalist?
The federal government, working hand-in-hand with universities, private companies and Big Tech, is funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund an AI censorship program to be used on American citizens.
The US government is illegitimate.
You should never have signed that social contract
Miss Województwa Pomorskiego 8KUHD Półfinalistki | Polska Miss | polishgirl 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFulvXFW-Y
The forced smiles are bad. I think it was girl #3 had a hunched over “don’t want to be here” walk.
Some good birthing hips in the group.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and her multimillionaire husband sold up to $3 million in shares of Google in recent weeks—just before the Biden Justice Department launched an antitrust probe of the tech giant.
How convenient.
Everyone is just jealous of their advanced stock-market acumen.
I was 22 years old when I made the definitive guide on whiteness in Europe which got me death threats in 20 different languages
Based on the thousands of replies, QTs and said death threats I got, I made a revised version!
https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1618340379371405313
I don’t think the Brits and Germans would appreciate being lumped together.
House of Saxe-Coburg hardest hit.
they are oppressors with shit food,
It’s the small differences that create the biggest divides.
::whispers:: Don’t mention the war!
I… can barely tell that this may be satire, or not?
Seems accurate for a certain worldview.
This is why they won’t hire me at the school
https://twitter.com/EntMillennials/status/1618298213391556608
They’re somebody important from South Carolina, but I just can’t remember who it is.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/25/lockheed-says-its-ready-with-f-16s-if-us-and-allies-choose-to-send-them-to-ukraine/
They are heroically and patriotically willing to step up to make gobs and gobs of money.
It’s the only way to save democracy.
Berlin officials said they would send 14 of their own tanks – and will allow others to send their own German-made tanks – in an about-face from its previous position. U.S. President Joe Biden followed suit shortly thereafter, announcing plans to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
Just enough armor to get destroyed and not change the inevitable outcome of the war.
It sure looks that way. Our foreign policy appears to consist of testing how close to the line we can get.
that is how comedy also works
Idiocracy was funny when it was just a movie and didn’t risk nuclear annihilation.
Same with Portlandia, except without the mushroom clouds.
This conflict won’t escalate itself!
Hop on the escalation escalator!
https://youtu.be/fsu9BS-qwg4
I like the conspiracy theories that say the Poles are just going to keep them all instead of shipping them on to the Ukraine. Maybe incorporate them into the army they’ll use to occupy the formerly Polish parts of western Ukraine. Something entertaining to watch over the next few months.
Poles and Russians carving up Ukraine so they share a border.
What could possibly go wrong?
Kielbasa and vodka for everyone!
KonigsburgKaliningrad says hi.To be fair, the Lithuanians and Russians started it.
Yes, but “something was done” and money was spent.
🙄
Amazing that our leaders can’t understand how the Russian public will react to the idea of German tanks attacking Russia through the Ukraine. Other places in the world haven’t forgotten their own history.
We’re good with just about anything as long as it doesn’t involve German mercenaries in New Jersey…
A G36 would look good over my fireplace (that already has Hessian Andirons).
Debbie in the Bowery loft c 1975-76
https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1618327034614411264
Didn’t know toys like that existed in the 70s.
It wasn’t all lawn darts and bags of broken glass…
I remember GI Joe and Stretch Armstrong, but not Transformers that early.
Those look more like something out of Mazinger Z or somesuch to me than Transformers.
The tall guy? I believe that’s a Shogun warrior.
Correct. An object of desire when I was a lad.
That… was not the figure in that image that was an object of desire when *I* was a lad.
Of course the “Communist Party USA” sign on the wall puts a damper on that.
PM: Stein says they found it (“it” presumably referring to the sign).
As a piece, the sign would be fantastic to have.
I will compartmentalize the sign as a piece of ironic art and keep my youthful memories…. “pure”.
That… was not the figure in that image that was an object of desire when *I* was a lad.
There were a couple years during which my desires certainly shifted from one to the other.
It was. I had one, I was probably 6 or 7. Those were great.
Isn’t that a Great Mazinga?
I don’t think so – but he was a Shogun Warrior as well. That looks to be a Raydeen.
The Precautionary Principle and “synthetic meat”
Johnathan Pearce (London) · Environment · Science & Technology
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/01/the-precautionary-principle-and-synthetic-meat/
Along those lines, eating bugs has it’s own issues.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2007/04/102335/one-lifes-most-common-compounds-causes-allergic-inflammation
So… you’re saying our antihistamine product lines will get guaranteed cash flow too? EXCELLENT! (says Big Pharma)
California’s current minimum wage for all workers is $15.50 an hour.
Clearly you need to price more unskilled people out of the market.
Don’t be silly, they’re just trying to encourage the hiring of illegals paid in cash.
encourage the hiring of
illegals paid in cashrobots, dude, robots.The council will demand companies hire one person to supervise each robot for safety. Duh.
was wondering why a hamburger there is so expensive.
had an idea for a basic diagram to show newbies while i was in the shower, what do yall think?
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https://twitter.com/nanuser/status/1618426079877922822
I think that commies can neither meme nor create diagrams
Yeah — when you lead off with “Completely ignore human nature and history”, I don’t care about the rest of your “diagram”.
That’s just part of the catechism.
Free loaders only exist in capitalism.
If we destroy the incentives to produce, people will go out of their way to produce.
Genius!!
Underproduction. The needs of those who produce are prioritized over those who don’t.
“Work or starve” would be shorter.
“work AND starve”, comrade.
“People go out of their way to produce”
It’s satire, right?
Look in the mirror child.
Commies don’t shower.
Commies are fucking retarded, this is just more proof, as if we needed any.
The Ukrainians can just go down to Tankvana and get some tanks from the vending machine.
Use the trillion dollar coin.
Tankvana sounds like the name of one of Pie’s “dates”.
“These agencies know they’re not supposed to be doing this. They’re not normally this sloppy.”
No need to be careful when you know you’ll never face any accountability.
Apropos
THICC Thursday bringing you BTRA.
https://archive.ph/O8oXD
I hate it how if you start something in a unix terminal in one workspace and you then switch workspaces the shit starts in your current workspace not the one you started it from
Re: California fast foot council
1. Californians are, in aggregate, dumb enough to vote for this
2. Big chains will move to automation, small family-owned places will be wiped out
3. The left will shriek about the concentration and homogenization of food choices, “food deserts” and the loss of diversity and “authentically ethnic” options.
A market failure that requires intervention.
4. With the extremely low material costs (because what the hell *is that* that they serve), Taco Bell wins the franchise wars and all restaurants are now Taco Bell.
5. 3 sea shells are introduced….
A hose would work better for 5, but with the water shortages, I guess the shells will have to do.
what the hell *is that* that they serve
JobsFoodAmericansMexicans won’tdoeatToday, in schools are doing great
“How do you do, fellow kids! Woman, 29, is charged with posing as a high school student and attending classes for FOUR DAYS before getting busted”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11677437/Woman-29-charged-posing-high-school-student-attending-classes.html
“Defiant California teacher boasts about helping students change their gender identity without their parents’ knowledge and claims ‘my job, which is a public service, is to protect kids'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11677513/Teacher-admits-helping-students-change-gender-identity-without-parents-knowledge.html
“Zwerner’s attorney, Diana Toscano, announced on Wednesday that Zwerner was suing, and said that three school employees had warned the administration that the child had a gun in the hours before the incident.
Another teacher had also warned that the six-year-old had left a boy sobbing after showing him the gun – and threatening to shoot him if he told anyone…
A third teacher informed the administration that she had searched the boy’s backpack and told them she believed the child had concealed the gun in his pocket.
An administrator is alleged to have dismissed the concerns, responding: ‘Well, he has little pockets’.
A fourth teacher asked if he could search the child’s backpack but he was denied, Toscano told the press conference.
Zwerner also went to school authorities earlier that day to report the six-year-old had threatened to beat up another student.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11677301/Assistant-principal-Virginia-school-6-year-old-shot.html
Sounds like a nice kid. Probably a sociopath. 🙁
What I don’t get is that this was a kid with a real gun and they did nothing, but if a kid chews a pop tart they call in the national guard.
Are the Board Chairman and Vice-Principal married? None of the articles mention the fact that they have the same last name
Nothing says protecting kids like feeding delusions and neural anxieties, after all.
If defiant California teacher ends up face down in a ditch will anyone miss her?
Well sure — no ones going to swerve into the ditch just to… oh… you didn’t mean…
‘my job, which is a public service, is to protect kids’
It’s not a public service and you are harming the kids.
To be fair, the parents are more likely to kill the teacher now than to kill their kid.
“Cops are investigating the possibility that the midwife who has been charged with strangling her two young children to death and attempting to kill her seven-month-old baby before trying to take her own life was suffering from postpartum anxiety.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, allegedly strangled her daughter Cora, five, and son Dawson, three, to death and tried to suffocate her baby son inside the family home before plunging from the second-floor window of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Her horrified husband, Patrick, 34, discovered Clancy lying unconscious outside their home when he returned from work at around 6pm on Tuesday and called 911.
Clancy and her seven-month-old son survived the apparent murder-suicide attempt and they are both being treated in hospitals in Boston. The mother-of-three, who is under police custody, will be arraigned on homicide charges after she is released.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11678675/Midwife-charged-strangling-children-death-struggled-post-partum-anxiety.html
Damn.
Tragic. Not sure why the cops need to investigate if she had post partum depression. She willfully murdered her own children, the reasons why should be irrelevant.
Yeah, there are some things you just don’t do no matter how sad you are. Fuck any possible insanity plea, don’t care, you are culpable.
She wanted to die, so I would have no problem offering her MAID service.
You see, when men murder it’s because of toxic masculinity, when women murder it’s because they “need help”.
Gobbledygook
What separates the older mass shooters from those in their 20s and 30s is that the younger shooters typically study previous mass shooters for inspiration and validation. Younger shooters also tend to communicate intent to do harm in advance. This leaking of details of the attack is often seen as a final cry for help. Younger shooters also tend to leave behind manifestos to communicate their anger and grievances to the world, the data show. Analysis of their expressed motives suggest they are seeking fame and notoriety for their actions.
None of the shooters aged 60 and above in our database did that. Instead, they tend to have experienced a recent stressor, such as a family conflict or debt. They are more likely to be motivated by legal, financial and interpersonal conflicts, rather than fame-seeking.
But all perpetrators of mass shootings, young and old, have some things in common. Their mass shooting is intended to be their final act, whether they die by suicide, are killed on scene, or sit and wait to be arrested like the Half Moon Bay suspect did. And, of course, they all have access to the firearms they need to commit these devastating acts.
Also, research shows the overwhelming majority of people who died in plane crashes were flying in airplanes at the time.
If we just try hard enough, we can impose some sort of rational explanation on these irrational acts, and prevent them.
In other news, people who stab other people have access to knives.
I’m betting the number of gun ban advocates who would actually volunteer to go door to door and confiscate firearms is about zero.
I believe every mass shooting is a copycat crime. Maybe if we stopped giving them all this breathless press, they’d stop trying to outdo each other.
“Younger shooters also tend to leave behind manifestos to communicate their anger and grievances to the world,…”
Ted Kaczynski may like a word.
3. The left will shriek about the concentration and homogenization of food choices, “food deserts” and the loss of diversity and “authentically ethnic” options.
“There used to be this terrific little little hole-in-the-wall taco place just down the street from me, but the owner retired and moved to Texas. What a shame.”
This should be fun.
Given the handwringing on why they don’t want to release it, yeah. Something tells me that the initial reporting was more correct than all the narrative edits.
About the handwringing: David DePape’s lawyers were holding it up, not Pelosi’s. The fear was he could not get a fair trial if the footage was released.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/paul-pelosi-attack-video-footage/index.html
CNN at least mentions this in passing. I read a better article on it elsewhere but cannot locate.
I’ve seen that pushed, but it’s just not true. It’s the DA that has refused to release it until ordered to by the court.
That was what I read and hinged it on some reading that they are exempted from releasing it cause of ‘multiple law enforcement agencies’ involved or somesuch.
I never would have pegged JI as one of those filthy non-link reading deplorables.
Wait, there are links to stories? I just thought they all still went to Rick Astley
You better believe you’re not pegging me – unless you’re sporting a Q-worthy rack, then maybe.
Can one peg when equipped with (mostly) fully functional equipment?
Unless one is a universe destroying space cyborg of course.
Oh for fuck’s sake Did that one work?
In that case, you’re rack would be the bolt-on variety. And no.
Please be a video of him being hit with a giant dildo.
“Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was asleep at the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28 when someone broke in and beat him with a hammer.”
Reported as fact, when I see at least two things that may or may not be true.
What are you going to believe, video or my gilded words?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Women in Fishing – do we really want women handling dynamite ?
Don’t you have to work your way ‘down’ to carp fishing, not up?
Don’t be throwing shade at the Queen of the River. Carp are great. Not to eat, but to catch.
…and of course, you got to get your loisense for fishing.
Okay, sorry. Thanks for the sunshine. Some nice fish in the video.
I’d like to buy a fish license, please.
A whot?
A license for my pet fish, Eric.
In local news they are trying to pass a law to make all restaurants have calorie counts on menus. This is both pointless and a huge chore for a chef.
They did this in the US several years ago. Which is why we no longer have a problem with fat people in this country.
Cheesecake Factory plumb went out of business.
Daily Mail pulled their story…could it be?
That was my initial reaction, too good to be true.
What a perfectly laid out story that hits all the right notes pegged your ‘get the fuck out of here’ meter?
Or, is “Did Pfizer Sting Project Veritas?” just the talking point intended to muddy the waters and cover up the truth? Given recent history it’s hard to know.
Hopefully Veritas wouldn’t be that stupid, and they claim they have more video…
But with all of the negative news swirling around the vaccines, this would give Pfizer a way to divert attention.
Well, not being listed as a member of Pfizer’s executive leadership is meaningless. Director is a middle management title, between manager and VP, not an executive you would put on your website.
So, I’ll await developments. That name showing up as teaching assistant is certainly interesting, though. As is the internal Pfizer document which (if not also a hoax) shows him to be who Veritas said he was. It does confirm my priors, which is always a reason to be cautious (which I wasn’t). Let’s see if the guy on the video posts a triumphant “I’m a prankster and I punked Veritas” video.
Sad news, my older brother Bryan passed away from metastatic renal cell carcinoma, he just turned 60. He lived and interesting life; went to the big house for armed robbery, smoked pot with Willy Nelson, friends with Governor Ann Richards, likely convinced George W. Bush to run for president, traveled the world working on cruise ships, kissed Dr. Ruth Westheimer, wrote a couple books, and became an ex-pat living in Poland. He lived and worked in Austin most of his life, working in video production for the likes of Austin Music Network, Riverbend Church, the Texas Education Agency and many, many freelance projects.
Back in September last year he started to publish on Facebook a 30 part series, “Brief and to the Point: a Memoir.” He knew he was dying, we all did but pretended he wasn’t, and when he made the trip from Poland to Texas last November I knew I was saying goodbye, even though I said, “I hope to see you again.” The Memoir provided a lot of closure, at least for me, I knew him as a kid, but we drifted apart as adults, staying in contact sure, but living entirely different lives and with the memoir I got a view into his life I would have never know otherwise. Sure I heard most of the stories during the holidays we would spend together but to see them laid out as “his life revealed” put many pieces together for the first time, I got to know him even better. I wish I was half the writer he was, I would do the same for those I will someday leave behind.
Lost my younger brother Shawn in 2021 from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the ripe old age of 53, so now I am out of brothers.
Peace, 99
Sorry to hear that. Your brother sounds like he was an inspiration for several King of the Hill episodes.
LOL, he would appreciate that.
So sorry to hear Necron. Sounds like he went out with his boots on.
My condolences, Necron.
Sounds like he knew how to have fun! (except for armed robbery, of course)
One of those “soft on crime” judges gave him 100 days in the Ferguson Unit, AKA Gladiator School, and 10 years probation. He pretty much stayed out of trouble after that. It was a stupid thing for a dumb kid to do, he was lucky he wasn’t shot.
I’m so sorry, Necron!
My condolences
Condolences. Sounds like a life well-lived if too short.
Damn, sorry to hear, Necron.
As others have said, a well-lived if too short life.
I’m so sorry.
May he rest in peace. Like others here, it seems he went out with his boots on. Glad he left you something catch you up on his life.
I hope you stay around a good long time.
Sorry to hear this. I would love to live that kind of storied life, but I guess you’re either that kind of person or you’re not.
Sorry for your loss. Glad to hear he gave you and the rest of his loved ones a better glimpse into what sounds like a very full life.
‘Lost my younger brother Shawn in 2021 from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the ripe old age of 53, so now I am out of brothers.’
Sorry for your loses. Sounds like Bryan lived a very interesting life.
Make sure you get yourself checked out, sounds like cancer runs in the family. Best wishes.
In 2006 I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. During treatment for that all my scans came back with a note, “spot on right kidney, may be a cyst.” In 2010 it changed, and after a biopsy was discovered to be renal cell carcinoma, stage 1. Had my kidney removed and I was cured. It is a notoriously difficult to find cancer, and by dumb luck I caught it early. Bryan caught his when he pissed blood, and all I can think is if it wasn’t for my dumb luck…
Mom died of a stoke at age 69, Dad of lymphoma at age 68, brothers at 53 and 60, sister had breast cancer at age 56 but is a survivor so far at age 61. I was given a 50/50 chance to make it age 50 when I was diagnosed with NHL at age 40. I am now 57 and living on borrowed time, thankful for every day.
Sorry for your loss. It sounds like he packed a hell of a lot of living into his time on earth.
Sorry for your loss 🙁
Sorry for your losses. I’m the youngest and I expect to go through that; though who knows, fate may decide to mess with us.
Truly sad to hear, I can understand your feelings.
Sorry 99. He lives on with a memory like that.
Ill pour out some of my Tall Cans™ in his memory.
Sorry for your loss.
I’m sure he would rather you drink it. He always made sure to have a “fuck you beer” on Sunday morning, since you couldn’t purchase until after 12:00 in Texas.
In his honor, I accept!
Sorry for your loss. He sounds pretty awesome.
Interstate mudslinging
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is going to battle with the national College Board over what he calls “political grandstanding” by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Chicago Democrat is warning the nonprofit that oversees the Advanced Placement program that Illinois will reject a revised African American Studies course if it doesn’t include “a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans.”
Pritzker sent a sharply worded letter to the board over its decision to revise the Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after the Florida governor — and likely GOP presidential candidate — blocked Florida high schools from offering the course because it included segments on “queer theory” and “abolishing prisons,” among other topics.
It’s unclear how the course will be changed or if the revisions stem from Florida’s rejection, but the College Board said the new framework would be released on Feb. 1.
Pritzker objected to any change “in order to fit Florida’s racist and homophobic laws.”
In Illinois, we reject any curriculum modifications designed to appease extremists like the Florida Governor and his allies,” Pritzker wrote in the letter obtained by the Sun-Times.
“President Pritzker” has a nice ring to it. I bet he stands in front of the mirror practicing his haughty disdain.
I’ve been listening to a lot of black gaze recently. Not to be confused with black gays.
I look forward to the new biopics of Harriet Tubman where she shows everyone her penis.
People back then weren’t enlightened like we are now, which is why xer had to keep everything ‘underground’ to run a train like that.
“run a train like that.”
Phrasing?
Like that fat fuck gave two shits about “queer theory” before the day before yesterday.
I think it’s pretty obvious even to low-info voters why the Dems keep jumping on the buzzword bandwagon. Not that it matters but it should give one or two of them pause at some point.
I pretty much only see anyone aged 40-60 as people who never gave a fuck who people were fucking.
I guess citizenship doesn’t really mean anything.
Noncitizen residents may continue to vote in municipal elections in Vermont’s capital city of Montpelier, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, stating that such voting in local elections doesn’t violate the state constitution.
In its decision on an appeal the higher court upheld a lower court ruling, dismissing the claim.
“The statute allowing noncitizens to vote in local Montpelier elections does not violate Chapter II, § 42 because that constitutional provision does not apply to local elections,” the Supreme Court wrote.
I am okay with cities and towns dictating their own voting rules and laws. State and above is a much different story for me.
I’m not. You’re either a voter or you’re not. Having a class of registered voters who are ineligible to vote in state and federal elections just creates the kind of clusterhump that is an open invitation to fraud.
An open invitation to fraud is kind of the whole point.
Elections where non-citizens can vote should be on separate ballots and dates from elections where they can’t.
At least their scheme is limited to legal residents. For now.
Pelosi video released.
Almost made it…gotta use a link that obscures the con
Shoulda used tinyurl
I don’t click tinyurl links either. Too suspicious.
“We cannot stand idly by as Republican governors wage incessant attacks on the LGBTQ+ community,” Pritzker said in a tweet after the bill became law. “Everyone deserves a state where you can be your authentic self. As long as I’m governor, the state of Illinois will see you, support you, and welcome you with open arms.”
We need leaders who know how to prioritize.
“Everyone deserves a state where you can be your authentic self. As long as I’m governor, the state of Illinois will see you, support you, and welcome you with open arms.”
..Unless you’re a dirty wet-back. Keep your ass in Red border states where you belong.
And of course we will insist on disarming you before we welcome you.
Male Privilege: Single Women Are More Likely To Own Homes Than Single Men In Nearly All States
Ah I see, the wage gap is still there.
A lot of younger men just deciding to check out might have something to do with it as well.
Men will live in a box if it serves its purposes *news at 11
Does it adjust for divorce?
THIS.
Hey Banjos. Thanks for the music link.
Once again Ilhan Omar is in a win-win situation
If he manages to Toss Omar, she will get to play the poor put upon martyr that she is so good at playing. She’ll talk about how evil white men hate her just for being a brown woman. If they can’t block her, she gets to flex. She can tell everyone that she is too politically strong to be kept down. She’s invincible.
My bet: She does not get ejected, then talks about how the Jews are evil for trying to hold her down, etc… and her language is so strong she gets ejected after that.
I would laugh at that.
Why is McCarthy putting it to a vote of the full House? As far as I know, that’s not necessary when making appointments at the beginning of a Congressional session. Swalwell and Schiff weren’t (re)appointed, and they didn’t go to a full House vote. So why do it with Omar?
So he can satisfy the hardliners and insulate himself from the squishes that defect to the Democrats on the vote?
To get a signal of where they all stand? Sounds like he is made it a Israel issue
The article said that the Intelligence committee was a select committee so it was easier to block. But the Foreign Affairs committee is a general one and I guess the rules say everyone gets to vote.
including the role played by black queer Americans
Where would we be without Ru Paul?
Pretty much any black person in history the wasn’t married for a while will be labeled as queer, which will have a lot if people turning in their graves. Who they fucked is not important, and is usually wrong. The contribution is important. I am surprised that some ancestors of famous historical figures haven’t tried to sue yet for defamation against this cult.
We’d be without some of the best trash talk ever aired on television.
“Overdue”: McConnell Welcomes Overdue Announcements on New Ukraine Aid
Go fuck yourself. You cuntes are traitors as far as I am concerned. There is no benefit to US citizens to continue funding one side of two sides comprised of assholes in this conflict. I can only imagine what you cuntes are hiding in Ukraine.
It’d be a better use of the money if they were simply burning it.
They should give it to me. It’ll stop me from invading the Ukraine.
I think you are on to something….I’ll make the same promise for a pile of boodle!
That is exactly my take on it. No good guys, and a lot of potential trouble for the US.
Avoid foreign entanglements.
lEaDeR oF tHe frEEEEE wOrLd!1!
It’s like watching the neighborhood bully get beaten up by a bigger bully.
You don’t really care who wins. You just want both to be hurt badly.
‘cept the Ukraine didn’t attack any of its neighbors, that I am aware of. Russia…well…
Neither deserve my paycheck to be raided for them.
Are we just ignoring the coup we sponsored there?
Perhaps Ukraine was not attacking it’s neighbors, but Kiev has been gleefully butchering civilians, including children, in the Donbas region for the past 9 years.
There isn’t a higher moral ground here for Ukraine. It’s like complaining about someone who punches a dad in the act of beating his own children.
Kiev has been fighting a Russian sponsored/supported insurgency (pretty much a civil war, given the level of armaments the breakaway “activists” have). It’s not like Kiev just woke up one morning and said “We’re bored. Let’s start killing people in our industrial heartland.”
The Russian invasion was basically, IMO, an escalation of their insurgency into Ukraine. That insurgency always had the goal of “unifying” with Russia to some degree. Which the Russians have now formally done, declaring Donbas to be sovereign Russian turf. The fussing over NATO gave them the pretext they needed, but I honestly don’t think it was much more than a pretext.
Civil wars are always ugly, and always have a nasty civilian body count. I don’t know that the one in Ukraine has been unusually bad. The Ukrainian government is a steaming pile of organized crime, and not deserving of our support, but I don’t like “We shouldn’t be arming Ukraine” to be based on “Eh, the Russians aren’t so bad. Certainly no worse than the Ukrainians”. The Russians are worse, what with their insurgencies, invasions, annexations, and whatnot.
https://twitter.com/DrAnitaBEtin/status/1618056920199200768
I love that name – decent troll.
I missed that. Nice.
That’s a good roller derby name.
🙂
She’s a doctor and she has a PhD!
And she’s fat, super fat.
I like the shitty photoshopping in her profile pic though.
Heh, Thats a pretty good troll account. Unless it isn’t and she is a really broken person. No one can tell these days.
Clicking on that link I’m amazed at how many people did not immediately get the joke.
Poe’s Law.
I disagree with the fact check on the name’s play on words. I believe it’s “I need to be eating.”
Same old song and dance
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer outlined an agenda Wednesday that will prioritize enacting stricter gun laws, repealing outdated laws that restrict abortion and who one can marry and providing pre-K education for all 4-year-olds in the state.
Whitmer, in her fifth State of the State speech, also pledged to help with rising costs through “immediate” tax relief, which she outlined in a three-tier plan that includes an increased earned income tax credit and repeal of the retirement tax.
The 51-year-old Democrat, who won reelection by nearly 11 percentage points last November, could see the majority of her agenda become a reality with Democrats taking full control of the state government for the first time in decades.
Addressing the full Legislature in the House chamber, Whitmer also called for gun control legislation that includes universal background checks, safe storage laws and “extreme risk protection orders” that are also known as “red flag” laws.
She won by 11 points? Who was her opponent, Jojo the dogfaced boy?
who won reelection by nearly 11 percentage points last November
But did she?
Whitmer also called for gun control legislation that includes universal background checks, safe storage laws and “extreme risk protection orders” that are also known as “red flag” laws.
Keep pushing, cunte.
Why not after winning handily?
Exactly. Apparently this is what a sizable majority of MI voters want. It’s a shame the rest are also going to get it, good and hard, but that is the way even fully functional democracies work.
I don’t know, I thought our bubble here was representative of 90+% of the American people, so anytime something doesn’t go our way – it must be the result of a devious terrible conspiracy.
But that’s not how fully functional representative democracies are supposed to work. Of course, once the ideas of the limited scope of government power are relegated to words on the page (cue ST:TOS Yangs reading Constitution) with little or no popular understanding or support, it matters little. Representative democracy becomes fully functional democracy, aka mob rule. I like my pills like my coffee, bitter and black. Well, with heavy cream on the weekends as a treat.
This will finally turn Detroit around!
I chose to see at least a bit of light in all that…
“repeal of the retirement tax”
Whitmer made clear that she was “not talking about law-abiding citizens.” But she said that “despite pleas” from the families of a 2021 school shooting at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan, “these issues never even got a hearing in the Legislature.”
If we just change law law to turn those those law abiding citizens into criminals, we can crush them under the heel of the state.
I loathe these dishonest cuntes.
A bill to fight white supremacy has been introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and has been met by outrage from the far-right. “White supremacy is the largest part of domestic terrorism, and domestic terrorism is larger than our fears of years back of Al-Qaeda,” Lee tells Joy Reid. “I only wanted to make sure that we had a bill that addressed that.”
None of that is true. She claims the bill is not a speech control bill and then elaborates on how it punishes speech (and thought). Go fuck yourself and die, cunte.
Now that it has no chance of passing because the GOP has the house, the grandstanding on this type of crap will be constant.
Everyone wins! Maybe McCarthy can pass another Obama care repeal after his IRS rollback.
*snortlaugh*
Also the grandstanding of the GOP is in full force because they have no chance of passing any of their shit either.
It’s an amusing time.
Say you have this bill knowing you have media who will dutifully report you have the bill only to know the bill will never make it to a committee to which you can run to the media and claim donothingism Republican congress.
Other side is risking putting the bill to the floor and the dumbasses in Congress actually passing it while you were thinking it would go down in flames.
Lee tells Joy Reid
They didn’t meet face to face did they; I’d think that would be a critical mass of stupidity.
How do we feel about moms (it’s never the dad) selling girl scout cookies and garbage pizza kits at work to their coworkers?
Huh..its a dad who sells here. He just drops it in the break room though, no office to office nonsense or email.
This I’m on board with. Some people just like the cookies and will ask to buy them if they’re out.
Pretty sure drugs work the same way, Despite all my warning as a youth, I learned there isnt a drug “pusher”.
They pretty much sell themselves.
true dat
Dads definitely do it too I’m afraid.
Well this is a shocking development. I guess in the past I have been hit up for some boy scout popcorn.
“Peddle yer diabeetus elsewhere.”
Girl scouts need to get ahead of the curve on the insect cookies.
Don’t they already sell grasshoppers?
omg
Back when I worked in an office, some of us would do that for our kids, but we just left the order form in a certain spot on the break room counter. It wasn’t in your face and it was easy to ignore for those so inclined.
I guess I am fine with that method, but I oppose Cynthia walking around with an order form.
Stop dissing Cynthia. She’s a damned princess and this company needs her.
“I thought your kid was supposed to do this, to learn, etc?”
Are people allowed to sell other things?
OK, I made sure this link wasn’t anywhere above so as not to step on my own dick. The Senate acting like an institution and not the usual team hackery. It’s nice for a change, but I don’t imagine we’ll get used to it.
Did they pull out the “How to Senate for Dummies” book?
“… citing ongoing special counsel investigations…”
I saw someone mention it this week. There is no law about this, it’s just a “tradition”. And traditions of corrupt organizations should not be respected.
As noted in the article too, they had no problems sharing information during the ‘special counsel’ of the russiagate nonsense to the committee.
“Trust us, we know what we’re doing. You’ll see it after we lock up OMB and after Joe retires to a beach somewhere.”
Jurisdictional dispute?
The Treasury Department has delayed a House Republican request for information on Biden family financial transactions that may have been marked as suspicious, saying that it must first determine whether the disclosure of the records is consistent with “longstanding Executive Branch interests.”
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, requested suspicious activity reports related to the Biden family earlier this month in a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Suspicious activity reports are generated by financial institutions when flagging suspicious financial moves and are submitted to the federal government.
But the Treasury at least temporarily rebuked Comer’s request, saying it needed to further communicate with the committee to figure out why it wants the information and what it plans on doing with it.
“It is important that a requesting committee specify in writing its purpose in seeking to obtain the requested information and the use it intends to make of it so that the Department can make a determination as to whether the disclosure is appropriate and consistent with longstanding Executive Branch interests, including the protection of ongoing law enforcement investigations,” the department said in the letter to Comer on Wednesday.
We take bank privacy very seriously when it suits our purposes.
I look forward to members of Congress declining to respond to DOJ subpoenas unless it is consistent with “long-standing Legislative Branch interests”.
Once again, the fact that Congressional oversight of the agencies and the Executive has long been a bad joke is made insultingly clear. “We’ll give you what we want, when we want, and you’ll take it and like it”.
I’m sure if it involved selling $601 worth of crafts on Etsy they’d be all over it.
Or accidentally entering the wrong amount at the ATM for what you need and doing a second withdrawal immediately.
My business brings in about $9,500 in cash per day.
DRUG DEALER! TERRORIST!
Or providing Trump’s tax records.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His voting pattern won’t be any different than Feinstein. So to me, no biggie. I knew we wouldn’t ever be rid of him.
It’s like the worst politicians CA has on offer are all jumping into this race.
How could he possibly win – he is neither BIPOC nor a Womyn.
He’ll win the moderate Dem vote?
Pencil necked geeks are a protected class.
Behold the hatred heaped upon them by oppressors:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McLw5Tg5GOc
There aren’t even half-ass decent ones left. They all left the state. It’s going to be One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest from now on out.
Every time I try to pretend things can’t get any dumber…
In the face of sky-high rents, President Joe Biden is rolling out a new set of principles the White House is calling a “Renters Bill of Rights” in an effort to improve rent affordability and protections for tenants.
The president is directing the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to examine limits on rent increases for future investments and actions promoting renter protections. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been tapped to root out practices that unfairly prevent applicants and tenants from accessing or staying in housing.
This rollout comes as progressive Democrats have asked Biden to direct different agencies, including the FTC, to limit rent increases. While rent control is common in some cities, there has never been federal residential rent control.
Nearly 50 progressive lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), sent a letter to Biden earlier this month urging the president to take executive action to protect tenants from rising rents.
Federalized rent control. That oughtta put a dent in homelessness.
WHEEEEEE!
Well that solidifies my desire to sell and not rent out the house.
Yeah, don’t do it, it’s incredibly risky these days. If it’s in an area that can support short term rental (airbnb), that might be worth considering.
What could possibly go wrong?
They should make it harder for people to get evicted. That hasn’t been tried yet.
Blacks in San Fran should get to live rent free for 250 years.
The FYTW clause strikes again.
And fedgov is given the authority to do this in which article of the constitution?
Sorry, the what?
You know, the thing
You know, that dusty old thing written by white men like 100 years ago and it’s hard to read.
Some owned slaves!
“In the absence of robust investments in fair and affordable housing, it is clear that additional timely executive action is needed to address the urgent issue of historically high rental costs and housing instability,” the lawmakers wrote. “…We urge your Administration to pursue all possible strategies to end corporate price gouging in the real estate sector.”
Price gougers. Why did it have to be price gougers?
It seems to me that limiting rent below market value is a taking under the constitution.
Hahahahahahaha, oh, that’s a good one.
Despite Wednesday’s action, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Sen. Warren think the actions fall short.
“We believe that the administration can go significantly further to help tenants struggling to pay rent as soon as next week,” Bowman said. “We need actions that will urgently address skyrocketing housing costs, keep people housed, and rein in corporate profiteering…I look forward to continuing to work with the Biden Administration on this issue.”
Suspend all rent payments until further notice. It worked for student loans.
We are in an emergency.
It’s like the worst politicians CA has on offer are all jumping into this race.
Electability, FTW!
The worst one usually does get elected.
You know, that dusty old thing written by white men like 100 years ago and it’s hard to read.
Maybe people could understand it better if it had been published in Comic sans.
Comic book.