Shit happens
What a glorious weekend. Spent much of it driving as fast as I could around COTA until my brake pads were shot and I had to miss half of the Sunday sessions. But I did improve on my best lap time there by a good margin. Time for some new pads before I go to Eagles Canyon in four weeks. I did note that Liverpool played to a listless draw and didn’t help their top four cause. And Newcastle is losing oil as well. Oh well, on to the news.
Popcorn. Get your popcorn here! We need to start holding people accountable RIGHT FUCKING NOW. And yes, I believe that involved courtrooms and piles of lumber and other items being delivered to the National Mall. In that order.
Well, it should be an easy question to answer. The harm is to the citizens whose tax dollars will be used to illegally pay off loans they didn’t take out. But still, I think this professor is wrong. The real injury is to the rule of law and the inability for the government to selectively void contracts and make people whole on an arbitrary basis.
Ay Caramba!
What a moron. That’s completely misidentified. It’s just a baby ESTEBAN SMITH.
What a moron, part 2. Seriously, this lady is a fucking idiot.
Sometimes it’s just not your day. I hope he didn’t go buy a bunch of lottery tickets after finally reaching his destination.
Damn, dude. Sometimes it’s best to keep your opinions to yourself. I know a lot of people won’t have an issue with what he said, but I think it’s wrong to paint with this broad of a brush. Especially when your words are absolutely going to be twisted by whoever is reporting on them.
::SMDH::
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. This will only get funnier if they hire Rebekah Jones as her second in command.
“You fucked up. You trusted us.” Not that they should be involved anyway, but it makes me laugh a bit that they made all these promises to get elected and it was all just bullshit.
This is one of the few bands of the 21st century whose stuff I really like. They just had a great sound. And here’s another gem. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday as we leave winter and go full on into spring (in some parts of the country).
Popcorn. Get your popcorn here! We need to start holding people accountable RIGHT FUCKING NOW. And yes, I believe that involved courtrooms and piles of lumber and other items being delivered to the National Mall. In that order.
One year from now, who will have been held accountable?
The taxpayers
And the people that knew this was what happened and then went on to tell lies and censor others – to protect themselves and their masters in Beijing – and to use the manufactured crisis to move along the global reset (which requires the destruction of the US middle class and for its people to be disarmed and turned into serfs) and get rid of that orange guy that had been wrecking 2 decades worth of groundwork convincing people government services could only be bad & slow), will keep being hailed as heroes.
These fuckers should hang for what was done to people.
Certainly they’ll keep getting their cushy gigs on MSNBC and CNN.
The cabal protects it’s own…
Not enough lamp posts and cranes; not enough woodchippers.
Wait, there are 21st century bands?
I remember one of them making a big deal about being a 21st century boy not long back.
Must be a secret song.
Le sigh.
Doesn’t bode well when I fubar a link. Let’s just put it straight in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAX_RHxncMo
Guessing this.
There was one yesterday.
Yes, here is one of the greats of the century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhvgenAXBM
Here is another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfB8MqP1jU
The 23rd century dies
King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man
Mornin’, Sensei.
OldGreat minds think alike.You no like-a da Strokes?
21st century fox…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxeyVi4Nngc
whaddup doh’
Damn, dude. Sometimes it’s best to keep your opinions to yourself. I know a lot of people won’t have an issue with what he said, but I think it’s wrong to paint with this broad of a brush. Especially when your words are absolutely going to be twisted by whoever is reporting on them.
Adams talking about the Rasmussen poll was fine, but then he took it to another level by basically declaring “I’m somewhat of a racist myself.”
Had the exact same sentiment come from Ilhan Omar the controversy would be that some people disagree.
Omar and Adams can both be racist. I don’t want to have a preferred racist, both of them can go away.
Enjoy the endless Scott Adams memes that will be out there this week.
Heh.
Falling Down was a misunderstood and underrated movie
I actually heard what he said in the podcast, and this is a clear mischaracterization – by design – to cancel the guy. His point was that nobody would/should want to be around any group that admitted to disliking them unless they were masochists, And he pointed out that every human would make discriminating choices which at times could/would be racist. Including himself.
From what he says I believe this was done on purpose. He knew they would come for him. But he has both fuck you money and the ability to turn this against the propagandist leftist machine. Let’s see.
When a poll shows that nearly half of a group thinks it’s not okay to be someone with your skin color, that might be a good indication that you might want to avoid members of that group.
What about the other half?
Plus there’s the fact that the phrase they used has been claimed to be a slogan of white supremacism by the ADL and others. It doesn’t matter if that’s actually true or not, it’s been reported that way in the media and people have heard that. It’s like bringing up “black lives matter”, the phrase has taken on a meaning beyond the words.
There’s are real problems behind all of this, but his whole “white savior giving up on the savages” act is stupid.
What about the other half?
50/50 odds are not good. And the reason so many believe it’s not okay to white is irrelevant to the potential effect on your person. And did he actually say that “white saviors should be giving up on savages”, or is that just your or someone else’s “interpretation” of what he actually did say?
That’s my characterization. He said that he’s giving up on helping black people, which he claims to have been doing for decades, because this poll shows it’s hopeless.
Hmm, sounds about like the “good people on both sides” bullshit. It’s like there is a pattern or something.
You got it…
Before he did this thing he had been talking about how the media was the main cause of most peoples beliefs America was racist, and that someone had to do something to expose that for a while now.
The guy thrives on controversy and has enough fuck you money to weather the cancelation efforts, but he is hell bent on giving the people fomenting the racist strife a black eye.
Note that the WaPo purposefully skipped how Adams set up his commentary and simply started from the arbitrary point that would allow them to turn Adam’s claim that Americans are real racists but that everyone can have situational racism issues into “RACIALISM!” accusation of the pro orange guy that had been such a PITA.
Adams is a hard core social leftist and conservative on systems (he wants them to work). Never been a fan of MAGA as he felt that detracted from issues and solving them through tribalism. This made him super dangerous to the narrative setters that want us divided an conquered, and it was just a question of time before they went after him.
Adams said some time ago that he was trying to find what would get him cancelled, so I think you’re right that he did this intentionally.
So much nuance to be had.
I certainly didn’t think there was any nuance involved.
Sorry, threading fail.
Threading fails are my hobby.
Adams is a douchebag of a twat who often engages in stupid hyperbole and he has an inflated sense of himself but there was nothing wrong with his statements as a thought exercise. If someone can be canceled as racist for calling out racism, he was criticizing the thinking that led to a poll result, then we’re done. I don’t care for the guy but people are getting worked up for nothing.
He was in the lefts crosshairs since he said anything positive about Trump. Asshole or not, they were going to find an excuse to cancel him.
If that is your standard we’ve been done a long time. Like since I was a kid.
He didn’t just criticize the thinking behind the poll, he actively advocated for segregation.
He did, he just forgot (or intentionally chose not) to use the ‘safe spaces’ euphemism.
Adams did a YouTube with Hotep Jesus, a black nationalist (?) who seems like a pretty good guy. They had a great conversation. He said being able to have that conversation was the point of saying what he said.
Will she say Normandy unfortunately happened and set a record for human evil?
Given:
I’d more expect “Some people did some things” about Pearl Harbor and more rantings about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, frankly. Sounds like her dad, her dad’s mosque and her upbringing were more than full of “This is the country of Satan and infidels and must be destroyed”.
Great job, whomever elected her (if it wasn’t gerrymandered to that congregation, of course… wouldn’t put it past Dems in VA after the last few years…)
It’s NoVA. There are enough assholes that they don’t need gerrymandering to elect one of their own.
They deserve to get what they voted for, good and hard.
I heard that while the media has not reported this yet, the WH insiders pointed out the reason team Obama term three with child molesting headsniffer as titular lead didn’t give a rats ass about that Ohio derailment was that those people were immediately identified as the smellies, so they didn’t think there even was a chance for a photo op. That evil orange guy fucked things up for them and resulted in all sorts of bad press they had been trying to avoid anyway.
MSNBC big brain:
We had to spread a false narrative to protect the truth!
The ends justify the means..
Better millions should suffer and thousands die than people knowing a truth that is inconvenient to the master class.
I don’t think the definition of conspiracy has ever been stretched quite so hard.
The old ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ trick.
narrative > truth
How dare people assume that a new virus strain leaking out of a Chinese lab would have been made in a bio weapon facility? That’s just crazy talk.
Everybody is carefully avoiding the fact that the DOD put more money into Wuhan than the NIH/CDC.
Like they’re avoiding the Ukraine lab funding probably. And people wonder why I’ve gotten more and more isolationist (as the only foreign policy I can imagine that would work with the drastic reining in of the military / industrial / intelligence hydra [intentional] we have now).
Why would the DOD do that?
Bioweapons research
And because the DOD has a bigger blank check than anybody else on the planet.
*whispers conspiracy theory*
Bioweapons research in an enemy country?
They seem to be willing to fund it in any country beyond the scrutiny of the American taxpayer/voter.
Given our political class, is that actually hard to believe?
Insert “I want to believe” gif here
We maintained secret prisons so we could torture, but this is a stretch for you
“We maintained secret prisons so we could torture”
That could at least be argued as being in national interest.
How’re your ratings doing, MSNBC?
That won’t be a problem. The government already has an agenda & plan in place to use tax payer money to bail them out. Fuck actually producing content that someone might find credible and want to watch.
Bwahahahaha.
How do you fight such a propaganda machine?
maly sabotaz
Agree.
21st century meets 20th.
I did not know about this collaboration. Thank you. I’ll listen to some more of it today.
Given that the Constitution should be properly viewed as a contract between the States to form the Federal government, I think standing for a State government to sue the Federal government should be allowed for a believed Breach of Contract — i.e. anything a state government can argue is unconstitutional on its face (such as the Executive seizing the power of the purse here) should be fast tracked to the Supremes.
And if they don’t like that, tough — do your jobs, Nazgul.
Unless we’re talking about Diana Ross, the Supremes can piss off.
The states should be able to nullify unconstitutional laws. A division of the federal government shouldn’t be in charge of deciding what powers the federal government has.
I’d have no problem with that, frankly wish it had been explicitly written in in the first place (instead of implicit from the 10th). If the state govs weren’t so beholden to the federal trough, that would actually be a good amendment they could do via state conventions (I think that’s the way to bypass Congress entirely… been a while and no, I’m too lazy to go look it up).
Of course, one could argue that the Senate was part of what was meant to prevent such laws back when Senators were there explicitly as representatives of their state governments, not the state’s people… thanks again, Progressive jerks. (Not that they didn’t know exactly what they were doing…)
When the dollar collapses, there will be an opportunity to undo it.
John Calhoun is that you?
I hope Scott Adams has f-u Dilbert money saved up as he’s probably making way less on his podcasts.
Anthony Cumia has talked about this with other hosts on numerous occasions. When you have 3 or 4 hours a day you have to fill with conversation, sooner or later you’ll get yourself in trouble. Either talking about personal stuff because you’re out of material or saying things off the rails just to fill the time. Shock-jockery is a lost art.
“It’s just a baby ESTEBAN SMITH.
TEBO HERRERA
Its just a Menehune
The Energy Department talking about the origins of covid – that most people assumed 3 years ago – puts me into a Kremlinology mindset. What are they distracting us from?
Things going even more sideways in the Ukraine? The first Leopard tank supposedly got blown in half already. Shouldn’t be a surprise, the Turks lost a bunch of them in Syria to similar weapons.
General warmongering against the Chinese? The Chinese telling our ‘diplomats’ off and selling weapons to Russia?
Wy is the Energy Dept. investigating a virus, again?
That was my first thought. But then again, the DOE is probably funding this type of research too, because why not?
They have an intelligence division, and you might question why they have that.
That was, in fact, my very first question.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is one of 18 government agencies that make up the intelligence community, which are under the umbrella of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Maybe you could convince me it was needed if they focused on something the other 17 agencies didn’t – something related to nuclear weapons, perhaps – but the virus has fuck-all to do with the DoE.
Because they handle nuclear weapons and waste (they guy stealing dresses’ old job)?
They are apparently the operators of the various National Labs.
Nuclear, not bio-labs.
The national labs also do biological stuff. We have a friend at the nearby lab who does vaccine research. His wife is over the top with her anti-“anti vaxxer” stuff.
Look at the byline on the WSJ COVID article.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
It’s Michael Gordon. He was famous for Iraq WMD claims and other assorted US government propaganda during his stint at the NYT.
Given that, you can probably assume that this is an early attempt to build up some anti-China sentiment. Got to create the public sentiment before you start taking military action.
Good application of the Two Questions.
Who wants me to believe this?
Why do they want me to believe this?
Looking at that link, I’m not sure what that’s supposed to be. Not saying it isn’t part of a Leopard, I just can’t identify it.
Although the track lying to the side definitely does look like a Leopard 1 track.
Nvm found it, it’s the engine deck of a Leopard 2. My mistake, I was trying to cross-reference on a Leopard 1.
So the basic gist of these programs, is that meritocracies only work for honkeys and honkey-adjacent people, so we should dismantle them?
Fuck, this seems far more racist to me tan anything the fucks peddling these changes accuse others of being. Think about it. The premise is that minorities simply can rise up to a challenge, so you remove challenges from their path in the name of equity. Fuck me, that’s beyond insulting.
From each race according to their abilities, to each race according to their needs.
Promote the incompetent just doesn’t work as well as a rallying cry?
Yep. Our master class, college credentialed like never before, is also inept and ineffective like never before. I can see why any sort of system with accountability would seriously scare them and make them worry about them inbred kids of theirs, which are on a path to make their parents look like fucking geniuses and agents of success with their level of stupidity and ineptitude, and their future as our masters.
It’s pretty basic human nature to avoid accountability. The masses follow leaders so that as individuals they don’t have to be accountable for when things go wrong – they were just following [orders]. Leaders don’t want accountability either, they just want acclaim. Humans are really a pretty shitty species.
The corporate media is not controlled by the government…
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1628452045303996416
Bro, did you hear the sirens? The sirens!
Yeah, I saw that clip, and my first thought was that shit was staged. That or the Secret Service has become so inept that when an air raid siren goes off they just ignore it and let old man wander around hoping he gets droned out of exitance
It’s easy to be brave when you think you are in Philadelphia.
He must have been in Wilmington again yesterday; his street was blocked off when I went by it. Can’t the frigging guy stay in the White House, the most prestigious address in the world? Maybe with Dr. Jill off peddling condoms in Africa, it is just easier for the Secret Service to corral him in his smaller Wilmington residence.
Hey, Creech, I can’t find you by my random incomprehensible system. Are your initials DW? If not, email me at lavia2112@ the yahoo.
latvia
Yes, DW
Because when he’s in DE, there are no records of who he meets with.
Phillie probably has a whole bunch more day to day violence than Kiev.
After giving the Russians a heads up on his visit, Biden was as safe as in his basement running for President.
Morning yall. I tried hard to catch up with the weekend lynx, and kept getting pulled away, so there was a huge paws in my reading. Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Yeah, there was also a Great Dane at the dog park.
(in some parts of the country).
*looks out window*
Not yet.
The whole Scott Adams thing seems calculated. To what end, I have no idea. Maybe he just an inarticulate fool.
It is calculated. He has already said it is so he can draw attention that it is the media that is fomenting racism in the US by lying about it to make people believe Americans are all evil racist fucks if they are not a minority or cock sucking lefty assholes.
Looked like it was apart of his appearance with Hotep Jesus and “its okay to be white” discussion.
No clue. He reversed path on COVID shots, and did so in a very odd manner. He could be losing his marbles. Or maybe he’s a level 10 troll.
Porque no los dos?
Spent much of it driving as fast as I could
I took my car to a race track twice in 2014, man that was a lot of fun. I can imagine it’s tough on the car, but it’s so good. It’s almost as good as skiing.
Another guy who just cannot shut up: ‘Breaking Bad’ star Bryan Cranston says Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan is RACIST
Breaking Woke.
“when was it ever great in America for the African American”
Was it Muhammed Ali who said “Thank God they put my father on that boat.” or similar?
I know Richard Pryor said something along those lines.
Oh, fucking hell. I really didn’t need to know that Cranston is a proggie idiot.
Didn’t he do a vanity project biopic about some commie Hollywood asshole recently?
Trumbo?
Seems he is at least trying to make a level headed point and not foaming at the mouth about…. But it’s opposite of what I think so “hang em high boys! Another one of them Hollywoods think they can speak their minds”
Trump is racist is an interesting point that I had never heard before or considered.
Begging the question is a level-headed point to you?
Level headed may be wrong word. My reaction is more to the point of people basically spouting shut up librard!
You’re not wrong, but a cheap rejoinder to the cheap attack of “rethuglikkkans are raceist!” doesn’t jostle my inappropriate-o-meter too much.
Agreed. Now let’s go club some seal!
Let’s.
A little harsh. It’s not his fault Schumaker is terrible.
When I say it, it’s just blowing off steam. It’s too early for reasoned response to that crap.
Fuck off, racist.
Eh, he’s been a wokist for as long as I can remember. He did a movie about a commie screen writer, Dalton Trumbo, that was basically one big blowjob for the left.
That, and Breaking Sad was, well, sad.
To me MAGA is more anti-globalism than anything.
That’s how I see it too.
Given what globalism currently is – WEFfers pushing for everything to be a thin gray smear of multi-culti crap where nobody owns anything except the unaccountable overlord class – I can’t say I’m a big fan.
And that is why the left hates it so much.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Well done, young dude.
That is wonderful.
Very nice.
Stone cold stud.
Also, don’t drive near bridges.
Thanks, Holiness! That’s a good one.
Also, don’t drive near bridges.
Even a city-boy like me knows the ice is not safe near bridges.
a law critics called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
OMG how onerous and extreme. This places an unbearable burden on somebody or other.
I think the real scandal is they allow it beginning in the 4th grade. Apparently, its totes OK to indoctrinate 10 year olds into the quilt bag cult.
Yeah seems that was the compromise and we know how shitty the government does with compromise.
Today, in woke prosecutors
“‘Won’t somebody think of the fentanyl dealers?’ San Francisco’s woke public defender is slammed for condemning plans to deport opioid pushers ravaging city
San Francisco Public Defender Peter Calloway who favors a system in which illegal fentanyl dealers are not reported to ICE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11796171/San-Franciscos-woke-public-defender-slammed-condemning-plans-deport-opioid-pushers.html
“Woke British prosecutor is slammed for dropping cases against FIFTEEN gun suspects arrested during New Orleans Mardi Gras – after city became US murder capital”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11774185/Woke-prosecutor-slammed-dropping-cases-against-15-gun-suspects-arrested-New-Orleans-Mardi-Gras.html
I thought libertarians were all about drugs and guns.
And ass seks. Don’t forget that…
And Meehicans
Mantequilla, is that you?
British? Did someone miss the 1815 memo? (Skimmed the article… and damned if I can find anything like “the DA is an English ex-pat but we’ll still claim them”… of course, with all the extra ads, stupid pictures and ‘break up the article so you can barely read it’ crap the Daily Fail does….
This is breaking my brain–how do British prosecutors have anything to do with New Orleans?
I was told that moment happened in 2008.
when was it ever great in America for the African American – which one? I remember Ali thought it was compared to Africa
Chris Rock had some thoughts.
*Likely NSFW
Frame of reference matters. People that have never seen those that constantly deal with and live with real ugly shit, think their first world problems make them victims. Americans – all of them, even the lowest of the low – are spoiled brats.
Shit like this is why some people will tell you without a hint of self-awareness tat words are violence. They have never experienced real violence, or they would never spout that sort of stupid shit.
Watch any of those DooWop/Oldies revival shows on PBS. At least half the groups making serious cash in the 1950s and 1960s were black groups. Yeah, the parents were concerned about “negro music” but the boomer kids loved it.
‘Orning ‘ordles — what, you expected I’d do better? Hah! I can’t even embed a link right this morning… and I did ‘ordles before that!
Daily Duotrigordle #362
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Buggering bollocks.
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Britain’s blasphemy laws
https://thecritic.co.uk/britains-blasphemy-laws/
“In 2021, a teacher was suspended from a school in Batley, Yorkshire for showing pupils a caricature of Muhammad during a religious studies lesson. Protests from aggrieved Muslims were fierce. The teacher went into hiding, and has never emerged again — doubtless remembering the fate of Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was killed for a similar “crime”.
Wakefield is seven miles from Batley. In Kettlethorpe High School, in the city, four boys have been suspended. Their sin? Causing slight cosmetic damage to a copy of the Quran — with, as their headteacher states, “no malicious intent by those involved”.
Slightly damaging a book — and a book, no less, that the students had purchased themselves — is grounds for suspension now? It sure is, but not because the authorities at Kettlethorpe High School are iron disciplinarians but because they are trying to appease a mob of activists.
Somehow, rumours spread. Activists came to believe that the Quran had been kicked or spat on, which inflamed a “huge uproar” in the Muslim community. Some even suggested that the Quran had been torn up in front of Muslim students.”
Even if it was so fucking what. England is a fucking shithole
There’s a reason why much of the Bill of Rights was a reaction against the British Crown.
Our revolution wasn’t against just the Crown – that was mostly PR. We were pissed with Parliament.
Correct, I never said the revolution was just against the crown.
The Declaration blamed George for a number of acts of Parliament. It was a clever lie by Jefferson.
👆👆👆 Parliament was far more aggressive than George.
There is no set of brakes on Parliament. And this is literally why we ended up having the bill of rights and the amendments.
Dirty art
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1629846671302565888
Damn, that some talent… Maybe they can come do that to my house windows so I can sell at a high price because of the art?
That is cool, although I thought at first that the nose was going to be an alien head.
Well, no need for a roll call this morning. The only thing on the police blotter was definitely not a Glib crime
At least I hope that we all agree that Arby’s sucks and even orphans deserve better than Boones Farm.
But…Arby’s has the meats!
“Even orphans deserve better than…”
“Hush yo’ mouth!”
Mad Dog 20-20, Ripple!
When I was in Pohang, Korea in ’88, there was a liquor store that had some American booze on the top shelf. Mad Dog 20/20 had a place of honor. The owner couldn’t understand why every Marine who came in would burst into laughter when they saw that.
I’ll just leave this here…
Pabst Blue Ribbon Is Classy and Expensive in China
Same as Fosters beer in the US…
Cheaper than PBR per ounce here locally
Boones Farm, heh. I bought a LOT of that for slightly younger girls when I turned 21. Bottled pantie dropper.
Recent events caused me to look up Thomas Bowdler’s changes to Shakespeare when he published a “family” version of his plays in 1818, and I have to say it’s very funny and familiar
https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1630157419736186881
When everyone in government views their little world as the most important thing.
Electric Vehicles Need AM Radio, Former Emergency Officials Argue
Young people don’t listen to any radio. I’m old and actually do listen to news radio on AM while getting ready to go to work, but in 20 some odd years have never listened to AM in the car.
I’ll listen to AM on my early morning commute when I go to the office, mostly just to hear news and traffic to see if there is a need for an alternate route.
For you in me in NJ – 1010 WINS News Radio is available on 92.3FM.
Which is rather humorous given that 92.3 was K-Rock and where Howard Stern exploded.
FM is now mostly dead too thanks to streaming.
Huh, I didn’t know 1010 WINS was also on FM. I’ll listen to it there now, thanks!
I haven’t listened to radio in decades. I guess I could stream something but otherwise I don’t have one.
I will listen to radio when driving sometimes, but rarely now as the only things even remotely worth listening too are butt rock or commercial “alternative”, and fuck that!
Waze is probably more responsive to your traffic needs.
OFFS
If Rush were still on every day on AM stations, they wouldn’t be pushing for this.
^^^THIS^^^
I think they are still on one of the Canadian stations every morning.
Rush – The Spirit Of Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QtO0Rhp0w
Fake teletype audio producers hit hardest.
Want AM radio? It’s a simple fucking device and antenna. Or just stream it in your all electronics vehicle.
Well if your vehicle is effectively a jammer, you may have some problems with reception.
Then I would question much more than the AM issue if the EM from the whole vehicle has that large of a field.
It’s been described as buzzing and interference.
So they aren’t rolling jammers, but they aren’t a good environment for reception either.
I actually agree with putting a radio in cars, as it is the most basic of communication, doesn’t rely on Satellites, very little external components are necessary, and so on.
Shit really does hit the fan, this is all that will be left.
Can we just do away with the touchscreen and bring buttons and knobs back?!?!? They’re out here screaming DON’T TEXT AND DRIVE! and putting touchscreens in cars. Da fuq.
Amen.
This. Thank $deity my steering wheel has multimedia controls. Visual distractions are not OK.
“I know a lot of people won’t have an issue with what he said, but I think it’s wrong to paint with this broad of a brush. ”
He’s almost right. But he gets it won’t by painting everyone in a group with the same brush, just as you said. There seems like there is a real racism problem amongst some blacks. The key thing is it’s not everyone, and not even a majority, but I do think it often gets overlooked.
“Florida Democrats selected former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as their new party chair on Saturday, hoping to move past a disastrous midterm performance”
So, they picked someone who also got spanked in the midterms? That’s funny.
Couldn’t even win her own party nomination for governor – yeah, great choice!
Similar to the Nevada Dem party going full socialist and now it’s falling apart. It’s continually chipping away until they fully invade the party central. Like a virus.
A strange bit of #LondonHistory:
Old Tom the gander of Leadenhall Market.
Hatched in Belgium, Tom later followed a goose he fancied to London. Miraculously escaping slaughter despite 34,000 geese not being so lucky, Tom freely roamed the market until his death in 1835 aged 38.
https://twitter.com/pompei79/status/1629964915531304962
Mr. Gobbles wandered around Kendall Square for a number of years.
He didn’t wander far, but circumstances led to Mike having his own festival: https://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/mike/page/history
News you can use
When we are all forced to eat bugs, you can save yourself some money with this technique.
Russian Women Flock to Argentina to Give Birth
Plus the feel right at home with close proximity of state socialists exiled from Europe.
History should be a black comedy, not a morality tale
Give us the banter, not a lecture
https://edwest.substack.com/p/history-should-be-a-black-comedy
“Ex-husband and in-laws of Hong Kong model and influencer appear in court after she was killed and dismembered, with her legs found in a fridge and her skull in a cooking pot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11797525/Abby-Choi-Ex-husband-laws-dismembered-Hong-Kong-model-charged-murder.html
Another head in a pot?
It’s the new and improved Herbert Hoover promise.
I heard she was a bit of a pot head. Just couldn’t stop smokin’,
That’s no way to get ahead.
“Wednesday star Jenna Ortega embodies gothic glam before showing off her chilling chemistry with Aubrey Plaza while presenting at the SAG Awards 2023”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11796827/SAG-Awards-2023-Jenna-Ortega-embodies-gothic-glam-black-gown.html
Awwwww
Goth glam / 80s kids weep, 90s kids le sigh
Modern goth is pretty tame.
Modern Goth is cutting your tits off.
Goth is a spectrum ranging from The Matrix to The Crow.
I thought it was a specrtum from Visi to Ostro
+ 1 Gothic Lolita
Aubrey needs a handler to talk her away from that outfit. Yikes.
It’s hideous but think it’s a play on breast binders.
Yes, but Jenna is totes adorbs.
Was she gothy before Wednesday or just leaning into it because of the show? Regardless, she is indeed adorbs.
Porky NoDoz? She was in a couple of horror movies before Wednesday.
Goths don’t wear earth tones.
Technically, coal and oil are from the earth.
This is my current COVID theory. It 100% escaped from a lab. At first they weren’t concerned because it was just another coronavirus from China, no big deal.(This was when it was racist to stop flights from China). As more information came in, they found out it came from Wuhan. There had to be an “oh shit” moment where they were panicked about which of their bioengineered strains got out. This was “two weeks to flatten the curve”. As time went on, it turned out be deadly to only some people. But by then people had politicized it, and the grifters had gotten into the act, and some people found they really liked their power trip.
Hopefully some sober minds somewhere are studying this as a case study in mass hysteria.
The Cathedral looks at every situation as an exercise in how they can leverage it to expand power and escape accountability. The concept of coming clean is completely foreign to them.
I suspect, nay, I am quite sure, that the panic & chaos was not a case of mass hysteria as much as people with a political and globalist agenda using a crisis to their advantage..
It was a great way to get rid of OMB.
At the time, zerohedge had video of Chinese nationals collapsing in the street.
I think we were played from the beginning.
Yup.
Good grief, there are so many running simultaneously right now – take your pick!
We live in a really fucked up time.
My theory is the same as it was three years ago. We know China’s record on human rights – this was no accidental leak. This was a CCP creep deciding to purposely inject a few people in the deplorable class with the virus to see what happens – probably circa 2018. Then the thing mutated a couple times, as coronaviruses are wont to do, and then it became more infectious.
And I don’t think this totally surprised NIH/DoD – they know exactly what China’s record on human rights is, too. NIH/DoD would have run the same “experiments” on a few deplorable Americans if they knew they could get away with it – but having China do it gives them enough plausible deniability. NIH/DoD didn’t even have to tell the Chinese to inject a few people – they expected it to happen anyway.
Bureaucrats are saying “We didn’t know” so often that I don’t believe them. “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
I think this is 100% correct. With the qualifier that they still have no idea how bad the social contagion that they released was.
The government should seek assurances that auto makers will maintain AM radio in cars
The immortality of government programs.
I was thinking about the concept of the “emergency broadcast system” recently, in relation to the train derailment.
Every now and then I will turn on the local news to see what the weather is supposed to do, but other than that I am completely ignorant of local current events and catastrophes. I haven’t listened to the car radio in years. Every now and then something makes it past the barrier I set on my phone, but I am out of the loop. I don’t think I’m that unusual.
If I go anyplace, I almost always listen to our (local) AM talk….700wlw. But like everything ClearChannel (iHeartMedia!) touches that turns to shit, they left a smear on my beloved WLW.
So much this.
Ticket for Coffee Shop Frustration: Ordering Black Coffee
My solution for this is to either brew at home or (crappy) work coffee. But when I do pay for a cup of coffee I pick it up and one the neighborhood bodegas/delis and not some place that charges the same $6 for a coffee that is either black or has milk, sugar and every pump under the sun.
Which is racist, ordering black coffee or adding impurities diluting its blackness?
I have become to accustomed to single origin hipster roasted coffee and I do not like other kinds anymore.
My go-to back in the before times was any of several pour-your-own gourmet brew joints. I like a small amount of milk and sugar and I don’t trust anyone else to get it right.
That makes perfect sense as well.
Local deli around the corner from the office let’s you add your own sweetener and choice of dairy product.
YES! They all add way too much cream.
20+ years ago I had a Starbucks travel mug they would fill for $1, then I could add a drop of honey and a bit of cream and be on my way in about a minute. Every day there were different coffee brews to chose from. Last time I tried it, they people in front of me were ordering fancy milkshakes, and the baristas were also fulfilling online orders. Now Starbucks doesn’t rotate their coffee brews because nobody buys coffee.
Had a local place in NJ were I could pour my own, fix it up as I wanted and get a discount for buying their mug. https://www.greenesbeans.com/ Haven’t found a place like that here yet.
That looks pretty good, next time I need coffee I might order from them. Nice collection of teas, too.
Getting black coffee at Starbucks is psychotic behavior.
Getting
blackcoffee at Starbucks is psychotic behavior.Fixed that for ya.
Aren’t we supposed to capitalize “Black?”
In the before-times, when I’d go to the office once a week, the Starbucks baristas told me they always pretty happy with my iced americano* order – 4 shots of espresso over ice with water is about the easier thing for them after just black coffee.
*in a sign of my going native, I drink iced coffee/tea year round, like a true New Englander
I order my coffee Boston woman style – tepid, white, and bitter.
I take mine strong and black, like my women.
It’s a joke my father used to actually say to a black waitress. He was such a slut
I like McDonald’s coffee for drinking on the road. Was a better deal when all sizes were a buck.
Used to get coffee from Pilot/Flying J but they went to those stupid brew on demand. Horrible taste, reminds me of coffee shops that serve Americanos as black coffee.
Starbucks is usually the best option when on the road, but at home I take espresso grind and brew my coffee with that. And any additives are as RONG as it gets. Black, just like my lungs.
I don’t drink coffee very much but the local Italian market carries Illy espresso/cappuccino/etc and it is divine.
Certamente. 🇮🇹 ☕️ 👍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYmcVgfDNA
I always order “Large Black Coffee” at any coffee joint. Never had any problem from a server.
The only time I usually buy coffee now is when I go to the local Caribou. Not that their coffee is that great, but sometimes I just gotta get out of the house for a while (remote work can turn you into a hermit if you aren’t careful).
*Do not believe a word Tundra says about my motivations. He is a crazy conspiracy theory guy who thinks I like to hang out at the local Caribou because it is right next door to a yoga studio. I cannot laugh hard enough at that theory.
That’s just crazy-talk. Surely that wouldn’t be the sort of thing any man would do.
I miss stoking that particular conspiracy.
Traffic was brought to a halt on a road in Podlasie, Poland while a herd of almost 100 bison crossed.
https://twitter.com/danieltilles1/status/1630176710464290828
I always thought that the “home where the buffalo roam” was a bit to the west of there.
What are American Bison doing in Poland?
There are European Bison.
Fucking bison. Choose a side of the road and stick with it!
Either go hang out with the homoson on one side of the road or the cison on the other side.
So, they bi-sected the road?
Six-Pack Abs and Curvy Hips Core Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cIgahhD758
Feature not a bug.
S.O.S for the U.S. Electric Grid
I went to a Blackhawks game last week, and it might turn out to be Patrick Kane’s last home game. Seems to be an imminent trade to the Rangers. That will at least give me a team to follow in the playoffs this year.
What are these “playoffs” you speak of?
Yeah, Flyer fans want to know too.
It’s this thing that other teams do while our teams are out golfing.
Something that should be starting in a week or two?
And is barely over by 4th of July.
It’s this thing the Bruins do where you don’t get enough sleep for a few weeks and then they lose.
I have been watching some of this guy’s stuff recently. Scanner Danner. He specializes in automotive electrical systems.
Youtube has served him up a few times, but the other night there was one which looked particularly interesting, so I watched it. In addition to quite possibly being directly applicable to the problem I was having with the Honda last summer, I like his style and delivery. He sets about diagnosing a problem in an orderly, logical manner, based on fundamental concepts.
And he doesn’t sound like a second grade teacher, which I decided is what annoys me so much about Car Wizard.
I have watched a few more videos since then. Bad grounds are a recurring theme. Last summer, when the Honda started acting up, I had too much other shit going on, so I parked it under a tree. It’s still there, covered with snow. As soon as the snow goes away, I’ll get it inside and do some basic fault diagnosis. Maybe it doesn’t actually need a new ECU. That doesn’t mean I don’t want a Microsquirt or speeduino to play with, but I’d really like to be able to drive it again.
He’s the more upscale Euro guy.
I also recommend the middle of PA – how can we get this beater to run again Pine Hollow Auto Diagnositcs.
He does modest repairs out of his garage, but his bread and butter is just diagnostics and going to tough cases at other shops.
I’ve been enjoying* Ford tech makeuloco/BSG Automotive. He has both simple walk through and shop stumpers.
*it’s like watching true crime drama for guys. Sucks you in but later start feeling anxiety over every little noise in real life.
Plus he specializes in Fords, but has no problem calling them out when they are crap or have stupid engineering.
Can confirm.
PJM Interconnection sounds the latest alarm that fossil-fuel plants are shutting down without adequate replacement power. The political class yawns.
Electricity comes from the wall.
“Unexpected Gains: Being Overweight Buffers Asian Americans From Prejudice Against Foreigners”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28746011/
SCIENCE!!!!!
Truth. Would YOU be a jerk to a rishiki?
I’m sure there’s a rule 34 there. Will not enact your labor.
IIRC, female sumo was a porn genre from the very beginning.
the ideal democratic state was the Vermont Republic (1777-1791)
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1630051678840913922
if only there was a way to learn about this Vermont
We just need to switch back to cows as currency.
Like everything else about Vermont, they keep the good stuff for themselves and export the shit (while bragging about how great it is).
Good morning, Sloop!
The track work sounds fun. Solo or with an instructor?
US Magazine @jacobin
has published an amazingly poorly researched, atrocity-denying article about the Baltic states.
It was written by Adam J Sacks who, it is painfully obvious, has never had a conversation with anyone from here.
Let’s dive into some phenomenal westplaining.
https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1629917334658859009
https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1629339479457792000
Seriously, WTF??
https://i.redd.it/qndi41jfwdn11.png
Virtue signaling your prog stupidity. That’s wny.
Then they all took showers with the coaches.
I can’t believe they would carry the flag backwards.
Maybe my kids are too young still, but I have not yet noticed any gender confused kids on their sports teams.
Alphabet Jugend
Ooooooh, I might get a chance to format an ebook in Korean! I’ve already done one in Chinese, and it was a fun little exercise. No idea what it says, but the client was pleased. (Currently finishing up a choose-your-own-adventure puzzle book.)
“And we know from research that girls outperform boys in school, but also perform worse on SATs thanks to gendered test design:”
https://twitter.com/espiers/status/1629215922677288962
CWAC
yes I am sure the class grades are more objective than standardized tests. But how are the SATs gendered?
what a stupid article.
Lol.
Insert Pete Davidson Chad “Okay” GIF here.
So, why don’t you go do that?
If she is correct, she is talking about doing ground breaking work for the world…but only if someone else invests first.
I love the implication that business owners could save a lot of money and have superior employees just by hiring black women but they choose not to do so because they’re so committed to being misogynists and racists that they’d rather pay extra.
Also, they’re bloodthirsty capitalists who only care about a buck.
In school math is only one class of several. On the SAT it is half the score. I bet boys outperform girls on the math section and girls outperform the boys on the language section. Also, only college bound kids take the SAT, which means you’re weeding out the left side of the distribution. Given the higher variability among boys the increase on their average score is greater than it is for the girls.
Tim Cook is asshoe.
(Oh shit. I forgot he’s gay. This sounds like a slur)
Reply fails everywhere.
But why are boys underperforming in the school not indicative of gendered curriculum and performance evaluation?
‘gendered curriculum and performance evaluation?’
The crazy thing is this has actually been proven to exist* unlike assuming the SAT is sexist because it isn’t getting equal results.
* I read about a study where they submitted the same paper under boys and girls names and the one with the girl’s name got a significantly better score.
And the boy’s name one got 0 for plagarising the girl’s?
WTF is “gendered test design”… oh fuck, I don’t care.
The same way the SAT is racist because it asks you about math instead of your favorite r&b singer.
They really need to take the BITCH test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Intelligence_Test_of_Cultural_Homogeneity
“If you noticed your iPhone is charging a little slower recently it may be due to a new setting Apple added in iOS 16.1 — Clean Energy Charging
With it turned on, iOS will only recharge the iPhone’s battery when the electrical grid uses cleaner energy sources like solar or wind
You can disable it under Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging”
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1629668080170287105
How soon before it can’t be turned off? And they start putting this crap on other things?
My wife discovered this yesterday after an upgrade. One wonders what happens if you live somewhere that doesn’t have approved energy sources.
Horrible. The need for an affordable Librephone grows daily.
You’ve got to be kidding…
Meanwhile Apple has no problem with incredibly inefficient wireless charging because that’s convenient, trendy and everybody wants it.
Guilty. I like the convenience of being able to set down and grab my phones at work without fumbling with the connectors.
Yeah. It overheats your phone and reduces battery life. Also what if I charge off a battery? How would it know what I was charging from?
I figure it makes a data call to an Apple server to check to see of the charging bit is set to yes.
Fuck Apple and iPhones.
OFFS!
https://www.debugpoint.com/best-linux-phones/
I turned off the green route option or whatever that is in Google maps the other day (after figuring that out). It still recommended the longer route but said it was due to traffic conditions.
So what happens when you are recharging it in the car? Can it tell what kind of car you are driving, and only allow charging in EVs (or hybrids when they are using battery power)?
Also, what happens if you keep it in airplane mode and/or in a faraday cage when not in use?
WTF?
Really?
JUST IN – US sends $444 million in aid to Yemen: Blinken
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1630232454656139265
We’re helping the Saudis kill them by the hundreds of thousands, but here’s a check that will get siphoned off by the politically connected and help no one on the ground.
Our foreign policy is schizophrenic at best, satanic at worst.
So, we’re giving aid to the people we are helping the Saudi’s bomb?
Could we just stop helping the Saudi’s?
That’s crazy talk!
How would that grow the debt and help the politically connected though?
what a stupid article.
Repeat as necessary.
| From an African American experience, when was it ever great in America for the African American? When was it great?’ Cranston asked.
Compared to where?
Paradise, of course.
Like most leftists there is no need to compare reality to the possible, only the angelic will do.
Give that tar baby another whack
Elon Musk defended “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams after hundreds of newspapers stopped printing the comic strip because of Adams’ recent racist comments.
Last week, Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested that White people should “get the hell away” from them. Adams effectively encouraged segregation in a shocking rant on his YouTube channel. His comments came in response to a poll from the conservative firm Rasmussen Reports that said 53% of Black Americans agreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be White.”
In response to a tweet about the controversy, Twitter owner Musk said Sunday that the “media is racist.” He didn’t criticize Adams’ comments, and Musk said without evidence that for a “very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians.”
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Musk later agreed with a tweet saying Adams’ comments “weren’t good” but had an “element of truth” to them. He also accused the media of giving Black victims of police violence disproportionate coverage over White victims of police violence. Black people are more likely to die from police use of force than White people, according to multiple studies.
The Twitter CEO’s comments come amid an influx of hate speech on his platform. The Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League both said in recent reports that the volume of hate speech on Twitter has grown dramatically under Musk’s stewardship.
Specifically, the Center for Countering Digital Hate said that daily use of the n-word under Musk is triple the 2022 average and the use of slurs against gay men and trans persons are up 58% and 62%, respectively. The Anti-Defamation League said in a separate report that its data shows “both an increase in antisemitic content on the platform and a decrease in the moderation of antisemitic posts.”
Adams fell into the collectivist trap.
All he had to do was to say, “There are a lot of people who have made an extremely profitable career out of inciting racialist sentiments in the black community.”
“daily use of the n-word under Musk is triple the 2022 average”.
Based on my unscientific observation it’s gone from zero to zero. I’m guessing most of the usage is from blacks themselves.
Most of that increase is due to people tweeting about how much more see the N word on twitter.
N-word? Narsisist? Negative? Norteno?
What? What word are you talking about?
Naggers.
Do they really want to dig into the sources of most of that, or of the “increase in antisemitic content”?
Be quiet CNN, adults are in the room.
Most of any of the “hate” content is probably from people with like, 29 followers. And it doesn’t get amplified.
I am with Jaime, the source of it is rarely whitey.
“Last week, [the Democrats] called white Americans a “hate group” and suggested that black people should “get the hell away” from them.”
it looks, to me anyway, that he isn’t saying anything different than the media has been repeating ad nauseum the last few years.
Literally the opposite of the truth.
I think it depends on how you look at the data. In absolute numbers, more whites are killed, but then there are a lot more whites in the population. Per capita more blacks are killed. If the denominator is number of contacts with the police, more whites are killed.
Adams has since said on Twitter that he was only “advising people to avoid hate” and suggested that the cancellation of his cartoon signals that free speech in America is under assault.
The newspapers that have cut the comic strip have been clear with readers.
“Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week … and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” wrote Chris Quinn, editor of the paper. “This is not a difficult decision.”
“We are not a home for those who espouse racism,” Quinn added. “We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.”
That guy from the Plain Dealer sure made a dive for his fifteen minutes of fame.
Question: Is there any explicit racist content in the cartoon strip itself? I didn’t think so.
Now let’s talk about all the writers and actors on the Hollywood Black List, and how they were unfairly deprived of their livelihoods and the pursuit of happiness.
Except of course for the anti-white kind.
Cleveland looms large…
(The Plain Dealer is one of the local rags here).
Mammary Monday rejects dualistic metaphysics.
https://archive.is/XZ4LX
We’re helping the Saudis kill them by the hundreds of thousands, but here’s a check that will get siphoned off by the politically connected and help no one on the ground.
Our foreign policy is schizophrenic at best, satanic at worst.
Look at all those broken windows. Somebody’s going to have to replace them now.
We know you did your very best to pin it on Trump, Glenn.
That “So far” is doing a lot of work.
I scrolled down for some reason and now I think I have a tumor.
It’s not a tumah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pBVXmYM_U