Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Second mega earthquake hits Turkey, hours after record 7.8-magnitude tremor kills 1,600 people
NYC residents are just about fed up with the migrants
2022 ballot shortage in Texas county far exceeded estimate
Dell to cut 6,650 jobs amid diminishing demand for company’s computers
District Judge Finds Gun Ban for Marijuana Users Unconstitutional
Officials investigating Austin airport after planes nearly collide on runway
Thirty-year-old Portuguese dog breaks record for oldest dog ever recorded
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Rat centipede?
ew… I didn’t need that
What did he say?
“Woof”?
Kill me?
lol there it is
Bitch set me up!
“Arizona hospital on brink of collapse after spending $20 million on migrant care: ‘Nobody has a solution‘”
Which is a teensy tiny amount compared to what Arizona school districts pay for migrant education. I think I read it’s over $4B for the whole country.
But the left keeps telling me that the illegals are benefit to our country!
Not just the left. Add the Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the “rotting in the fields” farm lobby.
They pay taxes!
RC Dean retired at just the right time.
The whole “ran out of printed ballots” thing is Houston is odd. I vote in DFW, they print my ballot and then scan it in. Did they run out of reams of paper or something? What’s going on down there?
It’s Houston.
I’m gonna guess, without any facts, that the shortage of ballots was mysteriously confined to Red leaning areas, in a city currently under state election monitoring for past irregularities. Hence the governor floating the trial balloon about having new elections.
Election fraud is going on down there.
“Parents of children are up in arms that prostitutes are soliciting sex work right outside a California elementary school.”
They don’t want nun of that.
The kids might develop a habit.
The should deputize the priests running the school so they can collar the prostitutes themselves.
Father throw a “Hail Mary”
Mother May I C-U-P?
“California State Sen. Scott Wiener – a Democrat who introduced SB 357 – defends the bill.”
Imagine my surprise.
If Wiener isn’t a pedophile, I’m going to be very surprised.
Minor Attracted Person, you bigot!!
“I wouldn’t be if my age of consent lowering law would get passed!”
Deliberately pissing off Catholics is AOK.*
Deliberately pissing off those who want to abort a baby, not so much.
*Unless you’re a Northern Ireland Protestant.
*narrows gaze*
Careful, that might cause a wimple effect!
Until and unless they do something about the people they don’t remove from office, what they’re fed up with doesn’t matter.
I guess it’s great to be a sanctuary city until they actually have to provide sanctuary.
Yeah, like socialism
“I didn’t believe I would be paying for it.”
That’s just crazy talk.
Until the citizens of the USA get fed up and force the feds to enforce immigration laws–including deportation of illegals–this will keep on and get worse.
— can’t say this is all that surprising given the slowdown in tech in general.
RE: NY and AZ — yeah, we kind of did have a solution (or at least a better situation) not that long ago… maybe if the Feds would do their job and not reverse every OMB policy without thought because OMB and al….
RE: CA idiocy — yeah, I read about that a few days back. Yet another idiotic law thanks to that moron state senator in SF who wants the age of consent for kids to agree to sex to be lowered too… way to dial down the creepy LGBT predator vibe there, asshole.
Computers don’t age out every two years. Moore’s Law bumped up against the physical limitations of silicon.
For a while they did, sort of, but no longer. The only real innovations in cpu speed these days is being done on Apple Silicon.
Solis is an immigrant himself, but he and his family came into the country legally, worked toward gaining citizenship and built up a remodeling business in Manhattan. Now he is watching his neighborhood being trashed by a bunch of people he sees as freeloaders.
Change the Spanish dialect, and this is a large part of why Cubans in South Florida have such enmity for Haitians and American-born blacks (a phenomenon that’s lasted sixty years).
Haiti speaks French.
“Cubans in South Florida have such enmity for Haitians and American-born blacks”
Citation needed.
Here’s a piece from twenty-five years ago.
A few more examples going back decades.
Putting aside that was 40 years ago, that’s black enmity towards Cubans, not the other way round.
(Also, Cuba has a huge Haitian influence in both blood and culture.)
Well, yeah… kind of.
Blacks see the Cubans as Johnny-come-latelies who grabbed the economic and political power that the blacks thought was rightfully theirs.
Cubans see American-born blacks as lazy parasites (an attitude they may or may not have brought across the Straits of Florida with them).
And everybody in South Florida sees the Haitians as the short bus occupants of recent immigrants.
As Tom Wolfe once put it, “Miami is the only city in the world, as far as I can tell—in the world—whose population is more than fifty percent recent immigrants… recent immigrants, immigrants from over the past fifty years… and that’s a hell of a thing, when you think about it. So what does that give you? It gives you—I was talking to a woman about this the other day, a Haitian lady, and she says to me, ‘Dio, if you really want to understand Miami, you got to realize one thing first of all. In Miami, everybody hates everybody.’”
There’s a lot of truth to this….
Having been born and raised in Miami, I noticed that the “Hispanic vote” is a lie. Hispanics are definitely not homogenous, and there’s loads of infighting. Don’t ever call a Puerto Rican a Cuban, don’t dare mistake a Haitian for a Dominican, and don’t call any of them Mexican unless they are Mexican. Brazilians would rather not be associated with any of them.
Blacks and Cubans are definitely at odds.
If you’re white, be prepared to be called gringo multiple times a day.
“Armed robbers target Connecticut clothing store, clerk packing 2 guns sends would-be thief home in a body bag
The Heritage Foundation’s Defensive Gun Use Tracker, which catalogs occurrences of legal gun owners using firearms in self-defense, noted that the clerk used both of his guns.
“This man used BOTH guns. Unclear if he engaged in a shootout and ran out of ammo in the first gun, or if he double-fisted two handguns at the same time,” the Defensive Gun Use Tracker said of the shooting on Twitter.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/connecticut-armed-robbery-self-defense-shooting
Double-fisted two handguns at the same time?
Obligatory.
The article contradicts itself. Says he used one gun in the article, then the conclusion says he used two.
That’s an edge case if there ever was one…
Maybe they kilt his dog.
His mule didn’t like them making fun of him.
Donating to Susan Collins is bipartisan, I guess.
Suzie took in quite the haul there.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo. Next up should be math problems.
As in making change.
“If a haircut is $12.83 and your dad gives the the barber 2 ten dollar bills will there be enough for a $5 dollar beer and a tip?”
In applying Bruen, [Judge Patrick] Wyrick pointed out: “The question here is thus whether stripping someone of their right to possess a firearm solely because they use marijuana is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. If it is not, then § 922(g)(3) cannot be constitutionally applied to Harrison—no matter the reasonableness of the policy it embodies.”
We can’t have these rogue judges
sticking their thumbs in the eye ofcarefully applying and adhering to recent Supreme Court precedent. To do so is a recipe for chaos.A note on the judge: he’s a former Oklahoma Supreme Court justice and was mentioned as a possible SCOTUS nominee by OMB back in the day, which means he’s a Federalist Society guy. Whether that’s a good thing or not, I’ll leave to the lawyers here.
no matter the reasonableness of the policy it embodies
You just reasoned that it is not reasonable.
Apparently the Grammy’s were last night: Satanic ‘Unholy’ Grammy Performance Presented by… Pfizer?
Lol, the imagery is pretty great.
I’m agnostic and I find it disturbing.
In the Alice Cooper days it was all kind of a joke. These people appear to be serious.
It’s sick.
Just like this:
https://twitter.com/Alphafox78/status/1622049076232552450
These people appear to be serious
Yep. We’re at least 20 years past this being subversive. I guess theistic satanism and kid rape are the ultimate way PWN! the normies.
Some of it is reverse messaging to get attention from those who need it most. For example, Insane Clown Posse are fundamentalist Christians, Slayer had two Hispanic Catholics, etc. So you have a band with Satanic imagery, so they can tell sinners how abortion is bad.
Conspiracy theory time:
Intentional process goes like this –
1. Bogo-satanic music created
2. Fundamentalists go ballistic
3. Make fun of fundies until everyone realizes they are being silly and stop doing it
4. Release real satanic music
5. *crickets*
Not the Pfizer ad after the performance of “Unholy” 😂
The antivaxxers gonna come strong with the ‘mark of the beast’ propaganda
Noticing what’s in front of you is just, like, a conspiracy theory, man.
They’re not even pissing on your leg and telling you it’s raining, they’re shitting on your head and telling you it’s a nice warm hat.
I took one for the team and listened to the song. I can appreciate pop music, so I was expecting it to be somewhat good.
What if I told you, it is not a good song.
New licensing scheme is for the dogs
Story chockful of little rent seekers (and their professor) who all are pushing a new bill to start a licensing scheme for vet techs.
It’ll push the unlicensed vet techs to working out of their garage, like the unlicensed barbers
Well those barbers are illegally teaching kids to read. I bet their unlicensed attempt to teach kids didn’t even consider what book they gave to the kids. They might read an unapproved book with bad thinking in it!
When I lived in Houston, we had unlicensed dentists working out of garages. You didn’t need to travel to Mexico for cheap dental.
Miami is that way too. Only you see those dentists inside of vans that you might mistake for that of a kidnapper.
Old Man With Candyfloss?
Old Man With Fluoride
So… why not get rid of the licenses to cut hair?
Do you want anarchy? Because this is how you get anarchy. What next? Someone can clip your toenails just willy nilly?
“Do you want anarchy?”
Yes.
Anarchy in the BK
I want my Whopper made my way
Don’t make me have to get my AK
Just like I had did back in the heyday
Disappoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hXR_-7rLQ
That was option 2, with this being Option 3.
SECOND mega earthquake hits Turkey, hours after record 7.8-magnitude tremor kills more than 1,700 people
That’s a lot of lives to gobble up.
Good gravy, man!
Too soon.
It’s Monday. I have to shake things up.
If somebody had to die in the earthquake, why couldn’t it have been Erdogan?
*STRONGLY NARROWS GAZE*
All those people cranburied.
The city has been emptying its coffers to give these illegal aliens free meals and fancy hotel rooms that previously cost upwards of $300 per night, and the migrants responded by trashing the neighborhood and refusing to clear out once new housing was arranged. Many in the community are rightly “fuming” over this and growing fed up with the situation.
There is a remarkably simple solution to this.
I predict that the percentage of fed up community members who might actually change their voting and policy preferences will be in the single digits.
And it’ll be because Trump.
But wouldn’t that be, like, super duper racist-y?
Good morning Banjos!
Absolutely terrible news about Turkey. Some interesting stuff in this thread: https://twitter.com/mxdondevivo/status/1622555282848256001
Arizona hospital on brink of collapse after spending $20 million on migrant care: ‘Nobody has a solution‘
I have a solution.
I have multiple solutions. Some of them more… Aztecy than others.
But is your solution a final solution?
Well, when you line the border wall with skull racks, and it becomes known that any new arrivals will end up joining the racks, it tends to end the flow.
Is this what you are thinking of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVG5EmS8qTo
“You can stay in the US, but you have to drive this ugly POS Pontiac. Or it’s back to Guatemala.”
“Adios, gringo.”
A 1989 Pontiac LeMans with a big floppy dildo on the roof.
REHABILITATION
Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office
The CNN spin on this has been priceless. Yesterday before it was known that Trump was unaware the spin was this happened under Trump and we didn’t do anything about it so why are you complaining about Biden?
Classic heads I win tails you lose.
Wow. A bunch of ex officials came forward and said this absolutely dod not happen under Trump. Even Bolton came forward and said that didn’t happen on his watch, and he hates Trump. That rumor will live on though. Good going CNN.
I can just imagine the reporters basically begging anyone to just say something and they will be wrapped in anonymity. Flip side is WH PR damage control for something they mishandled with the public and told some lackey to go out and just say anything to a friendly reporter that will wrap them in anonymity.
Chinese spy balloons totally happened during the Trump presidency. And Epstein killed himself.
I guess during the Trump presidency they were using a cloaking device so they couldn’t be seen.
The implications are quite more damaging than the balloons themselves if true. In both instances. Biden supposedly said take it out nearly a week ago and was overridden (well, not overridden but basically told to sit down and shut up) by his generals and in the other, the generals kept the information from the president and all of his team.
Leading to wonder if we are under a military rule
If Thoroughly Modern Millie is running the show, that would explain a lot.
CNN said it happened but they didn’t know about it until Biden took over. Trump’s really in hot water this time!
He didn’t know what the brass withheld from him!!! Walls closing in!
It’s because the media was protecting Trump.
OK, Blackberry.
The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday.
Those things have a massive radar signature. This is impossible.
After the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.
“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.
If the above allegation is true then someone was withholding relevant information from DOD and the president.
Wouldn’t you have led with that the minute it started to become a public spectacle? I guess for thinking people it makes sense, but the WH sure does knows its audience.
Oh and its a reinforcement attempt at the whole “We are transparent and don’t hide things so see the document thing isn’t any different, but Trump hid it and his documents, so that is why.”
Would you voluntarily give any of these people your own money?
Ran across a link to the board of the Minnesoda Council of Nonprofits and haven’t been able to stop giggling at the bios. (and pics too).
Damned Yankee might be my favorite so far…
Although Feather is a close second (especially when you factor in his pic
Grifters Row
WTF is that?
A certification that she sucks as a human.
Sam Amundson – would.
lol. That is the person who brought me to that page. She is from my home town. I went there to learn more about the grifter from there.
Milpha Blamo
[snort] Come on! That has to be a made up name.
I was impressed, after a fashion, by this guy (mouse over his picture for his bio).
Pablo is the Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Minnesota Council on Foundations, a statewide philanthropic community collectively advancing prosperity and equity. He brings with him extended experience addressing diversity, equity and inclusion work and great knowledge about rural Minnesota. Most recently Pablo was the Community Engagement Officer for Southwest Initiative Foundation.
Grifting the grifters. Nice work if you can get it. And his CV is some authentic
frontier gibberishlefty argle-bargle.I was not aware there were so many opportunities for those kinds of education. Now I’m not surprised why taxes are what they are. I’m looking at all the disadvantaged Latvian-Minnesodans and thinking that someone with lived experiences could help both of those people, with an perpetual grant, of course.
Milfy Blame-o got a chuckle from me.
Seriously, the worst porn name ever.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love Mammary Monday and those who are wrong.
https://archive.ph/2XdB8
Wrong. Three types of people. Those who love it, those who are wrong, and those who are gay.
We’re not wrong, we’re not interested.
District Judge Finds Gun Ban for Marijuana Users Unconstitutional
It’s high time our rights are properly respected.
Well that was blunt.
*Spliff* Like cops are gonna recognize that
Don’t get your nose out of joint just because Tundra had a nice little play on words.
You guys are gonna get Swiss all twisted up.
Nah… he’s too busy to read Morning links. Won’t get around to looking at anything until this afternoon… around 4:20 or so.
Do you think he’ll have time to weed through it all?
He was gonna narrow his gaze, but then he got high
Aim high!
I have a feeling that some will find the judge’s legal reasoning doobieous.
A hazy decision at best.
Well, at least he’s reefering to SC precedent.
You people are all bad seeds.
And all of our laws are going up in smoke.
If National Pistol Championships in the ’20s were won by unrepentant drunkards (and they fucking well were), then we can probably handle a little dank without killing ourselves and each other…
Prostitutes solicit sex right outside Catholic elementary school in CA after loosening solicitation loitering laws – sounds libertarian to me
I was thinking the same thing. And?
BY NYC this was barely a cut-off. Turn signal and enough room to merge with only the slightest slow down by the truck driver.
Truck refuse to yield, get smashed by thugs with baseball bat
That is exactly my question anytime a local proggie starts rambling on about broadband access.
Of course, now that Elon is Public Wrongthinker #1, that option is completely off the table.
* My other question is if we shouldn’t encourage a broadband gap because it puts inner city BIPOC at an advantage over those rural white kids. But that really gets them riled up.
Uffda. That was supposed to be a reply to Athena and the starlink suggestion below.
I think I need to start a broadband company. I don’t actually need to lay any cable, just grease the right politicians. There are “gobs” of money out there!
ISP admits lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals
LOL
given government money has no limit why shouldn’t the broadband companies get some
“But the oodles of cash, mostly approved by the federal government over the last few years, is still not enough”
*staggers to fainting couch*
Cheaper to pay for every rural persons starlink I’m sure but that doesnt grease any palms.
1. Spirit Airlines
2. Philadelphia
Anybody surprised?
Bra exposed and wigs flying, mother and daughter are seen trading blows with Spirit Airlines agents in video of wild airport brawl after they were hit with extra fees at the gate for their oversized carry-on baggage
No surprise here
so you are saying fuck the Eagles?
I’m just amazed this doesn’t happen more often. So many people trying to get oversized bags on these days.
Airlines should be creating incentives to check bags, but their pricing structure is exactly the opposite, resulting in everyone dragging a steamer trunk into the plane’s cabin.
Last time I flew commercial, I watched some poor dude get hit with over a thousand bucks in excess bag fees.
Of course hitting people is wrong, but the airlines don’t exactly have a ton of moral high ground here.
If you think you suck at chess and want encouragement, or just amusement, there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGBrDWqLMyo
It is part of his “How to Lose at Chess” series.
What a bunch of hypocrites! I bet these ladies don’t insist only being treated by black docs and nurses. As much as they carry on about how important it is to see other black breast cancer patients, you would think they’d only allow themselves to be worked on by docs who are black.
Check out this gibberish:
I would really like to meet these people someday. They are like mythical libertarian women.
“weathering”
That’s it, not genetics, diet, activity levels or anything else. Cancer from feeling bad about something.
The stress from systemic racism and white supremacy just wears Black bodies down from birth (not conception, you pro-lifers!) or something.
Back in Wakanda, everything would always be perfect.
I’m seriously approaching the point of “We will pay for a one way ticket to Liberia, some amount of cash to get you started — but you can never come back and we don’t want to hear this crap ever again” sounding very, very good. I know the last part will never happen though… too profitable for the grifters.
That would be a great plan – but it isn’t reparations being sought. It’s tribute.
Women’s Diving | Saylor Hawkins | Close-Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRd8sRXOWic
Some of you may remember the old lady down the street incident from a year and a half ago.
Seems she’s come to her senses and kicked the thieves out. Now she needs help getting her possessions back.
Life is never boring and lawyers always get their cut.
You’ll be rushing to help, right?
We may help her, but only with significant legal coverage. I’m not leaving myself open to that again.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near that.
^^ This
I’m with Lack. Stay far away.
There’s a third neighbor actually dealing with the (new) lawyers as she overhauls her will (which they wrote themselves into). We’re just providing input.
Looks like they cleaned her out pretty good. Scum.
I’d step away. She’s already thrown you under a very big bus once.
Well, good for her, but damn. Be careful.
So much to unpack in the first three paragraphs in this typical Atlantic piece, (Paywalled – but avoidable without javascript)
My Printer Is Extorting Me
Gillette wishes it could brick your razor.
The combination of wokeness, the rise of other shave companies and more facial hair have put a serious dent in Gillette.
Makes me smile everytime I think about it.
My dot matrix works without a hitch, even is a bit sassy at times
I go laser printers and have for years. Higher costs up front for the cartridges, but the toner doesn’t expire and you get a lot more sheets for the cost typically.
Rag paper in a daisy wheel printer made really snazzy looking letters. Is there such a thing as a daisy wheel printer anymore, and are there drivers to make it go?
Why would you A: Sign up for a refill service, and B: connect a printer to the internet and/or run the manufacturer’s software for your computer to phone home on its behalf?
Cause not everyone is tech savvy and want to plug in a peripheral and not think about what it actually is doing behind the scenes. These companies know that and why they do this. *sets reminder to go through Windows security settings that ‘revert back’ after an update*
That’s why you don’t go with ink based printers. Lasers or nothing.
“Then I discovered an error message on my computer indicating that my HP OfficeJet Pro had been remotely disabled by the company. When I logged on to HP’s website, I learned why: The credit card I had used to sign up for HP’s Instant Ink cartridge-refill program had expired, and the company had effectively bricked my device in response.”
WTF???
HP is the worst. I had an HP printer. It used computer chips in the ink cartridges to make you buy new ones even if you didn’t use the ink.
I think the major brands all do this now.
A have a Brother. I HAD a Brother until its jets clogged irreparably or…something. I decided with my next one not to go with off-brand ink cartridges, so even if Brother can’t brick me from afar, they succeeded in bricking me with my use of off-brand cartridges.
Printers are a particularly good example of, ‘You get what you put up with.’
A 50-year-old Canberra woman has been arrested after she allegedly repeatedly sexually abused her toddler granddaughter and posted it to TikTok.
https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1622388113040617472
Always makes sense to to film your crime and post it to social media.
Wave of ‘sushi terrorism’ grips Japan’s restaurant world
Seems fishy to me.
Latest example in: “We claim to believe what might make our grift work“. Ugh.
Number of American managers in the Premier League is back to zero.
Well, it is the Premier League, not the U45 league known as MLS.
I watched the match yesterday, Leeds should’ve had a point out of it. They really outplayed Forest. Navas was a wall. Too bad Dyche already got picked up.
Me too. I will never go back to inkjet. I have a color laser printer/ scanner that is invaluable. It was one of the early wifi printers. Prints or scans without having to hook to it. About once every 6 months I spend $25 on toner for color and B&W. I think it’s up to $30 now. Peanuts. Inkjet printers are wasteful.
Similar experience here. I have a Brother B&W laser printer. It costs about $25 to purchase generic toner every year or two.
There’s a cat and mouse game on the toner though. Brother starting chipping their toner so generic wouldn’t work. The generic versions replicate the chip, but I removed and kept the original manufacturer chip as a backup option. Brother’s effort is half-hearted on the whole thing. From what I’ve read, it sounds like HP and Canon are much worse.
And of course never accept the printer updates.
I run a Brother B&W laser I’ve had for ages. Only needed to replace the toner once. A piece fell out a while back that I couldn’t identify, but it still prints, so I’m still good.
I have been debating getting a color inkjet for the sole purpose of printing custom transfer sheets for minis, but it seems kinda wasteful.
Mine is Dell, about ten years old. I use E-Z Ink compatible toner and have has zero issues like that. I am not even sure Dell still makes toner for my printer.
I need to get a laser. I bought a new printer Epson maybe 2 years ago for $120-ish. The Amazon off-brand refills are $65. I think the Epson branded set was $95. It’s fucking ridiculous that you can get an entire printer, with ink, for not much more than ink refills.
“I’m thankful for the protection my vaccines continue to provide.”
I tested positive for COVID this morning and will isolate at home per CDC protocols.
Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated and boosted. This situation is far from ideal, but I’m still in contact with staff and will continue to work and receive storm recovery briefings.
Wear the badge/ribbon/bracelet and signal to the world you are beating the odds of less than 1% of not dying.
Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated and boosted.
“Praise be to Fauci. PBUH”
No, he isn’t “fully vaccinated”. He just got took some experimental medicine that may or may not have done something.
lulz
My Rosary and my St. Michael the Archangel scapular kept me alive both times I had covid.
Hope he’s ok, what with all the people dropping dead from these new, more deadly variants getting passed around by the unvaxxed.
Not enough people are talking about the fact that the nuclear powers, India and China, are developing medieval combat weapons for fighting in the Himalayas, because they agreed not to use guns
These are People’s Liberation Army soldiers with the newly developed Wolf’s Fangs mace
https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1621639081007489028
The Chinese got their ass handed to them by Indian soldiers with branches and two by fours recently. Not a surprise.
So, we will use melee in the future?
Qa’pla!
They’re just prepping for WW4.
Crap… just realized.. they were just scoping out missile silos close to Bozeman. They’re going to try to prevent Cochrane’s first contact in a few decades, the naughty little long-planning weasels!
They won’t use guns until they do.
Or they could just keep on using axes
It’s like a 90s music video.
This incredible scan captured footage of what unborn babies do in the womb.
Wow! This is amazing.
A new law in Minnesota says you can kill these clumps of cells anytime you want.
And you’re probably paying for it, too.
I sense a real divide coming on this issue.
I was on the fence for a long time but no longer and even moreso I sure don’t want to pay for them. But it looks like blue states are going full steam ahead on free abortions for all.
Gebusi Homicide and the Cultural Influence of Violence
From one of the highest homicide rates ever recorded to none for decades
https://traditionsofconflict.substack.com/p/gebusi-homicide-and-the-cultural
“The Gebusi forager-horticulturalists of New Guinea traditionally attributed all natural deaths to sorcery.
Whenever a seemingly healthy adult or older child died, an inquest involving a spirit medium would be held to determine the culprit. After the spirit medium identified the offender, the suspect would have to undertake a public divination to prove their innocence. This usually required the suspect to cook a large package of either meat or fish, and failure to cook it properly was taken as proof of guilt.
The guilty party would sometimes be killed right there on the spot, or they might be ambushed later somewhere in the bush. The corpse was not uncommonly cooked and eaten.
And yet, in the 28 years from 1989 until 2017 when Knauft’s fieldwork ended, the Gebusi did not have a single recorded homicide. From one of the highest recorded homicide rates to no homicides at all.”
huh
The massive uptick in sorcery, however, is disconcerting.
It’s like Schroedinger’s cat. If you eat the evidence, nobody died!
Gebusi restaurant critics are based.
Sorry for all the silly spending links, but Minnesoda has a huge budget surplus and the DFL owns both houses in the legislature and the gov’s mansion so there are just so many great ideas on what to spend that money on. The latest idea is to build a new train between the Twin Cities and Duluth
We are going to allocate $99M to the project and in return we will get $300M from the Feds.
“The line would be run by Amtrak on rail lines owned by BNSF.” So no right-of-way, speeds of 15-20mph and constant stops.
so if there is a budget surplus in mean taxation works and there should be more of it. checkmate conservatives / libertarians
Yeah… they may want to double check their projections. This sounds awfully like the huge surplus CA had… until it didn’t.
When your budget surplus is the result of accounting tricks and fed largess, this is what happens.
There are 3 different companies that run shuttle buses from Duloot to MSP. The cost is about $25 one way. Busses leave about every 4 hours. The speed limit on I-35 is 65 mph.
There is no way a train can compete with that.
Yeah, but do those buses stop at the casino in Hinkley?
“Our hope.”
Fuck you and your hope.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin
LOL for multiple reasons
Not important. That the environmental consultants and lawyers get paid for the impact studies… oh so many impact studies… that’s important!
It can in opportunities for graft.
“It is like how you say, unnecessary to kill nazi gremlin.” *laughs in Russian*
A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.
Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war’s first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March.
These strange happenings are not eggsclusive to the U.S.
A fire at a chicken farm in Orini has killed 50,000 egg-laying hens.
Zeagold Nutrition chief executive John McKay confirmed there was a fire at its egg-laying farm in Waikato.
“A supervisor on-site at our farm called the fire department at 7.40am today. All 12 staff members on site are safe and unharmed,” McKay said earlier today.
“Ten emergency vehicles are currently on site to contain the spread of the fire.”
McKay said the cause of the fire had not been determined and the focus was on the welfare of their hens.
McKay confirmed about 1pm that the fire had been contained.
I don’t think these fires happening during an egg shortage are a coincidence.
Were the chickens sick? Is this an attempt to get through insurance what you can’t get at the market?
My food plant has a yearly inspection by our insurance provider to verify certain safety measures, mostly concerned with preventing fire damage. They look at things like flammables storage and sprinkler coverage. On his most recent visit I asked him about these “strange happenings,” if there was indeed an uptick in incidents or if they were just being reported that way. He said the uptick is real, that his company sent out an internal memo regarding it that advises the inspectors to step up their inspections’ intensity accordingly.
NY isn’t really on our list of where we want to move to, but two spots opened up. One in Binghampton, NY and the other is Horseheads. Both look really nice.
ChatGPT is woke, example #…well, we’ve lost count
Warty had the win if you didn’t see it.
https://twitter.com/wartyhugeman/status/1622400621398704129
lol
*stands and applauses*
I need chatgpt for grammar.
Grammar not mattering AI parsed.
Nice.
And I guess Chat won’t be quoting rap lyrics.
And to think, Geordi LaForge had to come up with an intractable math problem to defeat the Borg…
I can’t read any of the crap that comes out of that thing any more. It sounds like your worst nightmare of a woke school marm.
To be honest, that thing is garbage and not impressive at all. It’s hard to be too concerned about it.
Except everyone is crowing about how great it is and rushing to use it for everything ASAP.
Disney teaches racism.
In one of its upcoming episodes, “Juneteenth,” 14-year-old Penny and her friends decide to learn more about Juneteenth’s importance in her fictional town of Smithville, California. After digging deeper into Smithville’s history, they discover that the city’s founder was a slave owner.
The. Horror.
The Disney show smears Abraham Lincoln and tells children that he DID NOT free the slaves.
Uh…this is actually true. The EP was a military document that applied to areas not under control of the Union at the time. 13A ended slavery in America.
Passed by Republicans over the objections of a strong majority of Democrats, I wonder if they mention that little factoid?
Also, Lincoln’s efforts were critical for the amendment’s passage. If they’re trying to say he had nothing to do with it, that’s patently false.
Well that was before the giant game of Red Rover on the Capitol lawn where Republicans said “Red Rover, Red Rover, send racists on over.” SO it doesn’t count anymore.
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I had initially assumed the store-purchased feed story was full of shit, but I did ask a local friend who keeps notes detailed notes on their farm’s production. She too assumed the story was false. Her egg production did go down from around 16ish eggs/day to 4 eggs/day (if that) for a 20 chicken flock, but she uses a custom chicken feed from a local mill. So she attributed it something else. But then remembered switching to store-bought chicken feed from Tractor Supply back in October.
One anticipates a drop in egg production over winter and possibly a slight drop from using an inferior feed (although I’d say that’s more tied into the nutritional value of the eggs and not the quantity). But her records indicate this was a significant drop tied to using commercial chicken feed.
So take that one person anecdotal story for what it is. Although I doubt we’ll ever see any kind of evidence beyond anecdotal that doesn’t support the narrative on any given topic.
given our recent history these stories all seem at least somewhat credible. trust has been annihilated.
…and going into winter.
Did she mention the age of the layers?
A drop in winter is expected, but a 75% drop in production would be quite a bit. I’m not sure on the age of her layers.
For sure. I’m just being skeptical until I get more info.
I mean in general…not just your anecdote.
It’s the right course to be skeptical. I feel comfortable associating her drop off to using the commercial feed (she’s been around long enough to factor in hen laying age), but that doesn’t explain why. Just association without causation.
Yeah, I’m really not trying to be an ass, I just can’t (don’t want to) believe there is something nefarious going on with the country’s supply of chicken feed.
If there is a problem with the supply of chick feed, it may not be nefarious in origin.
Sorry, I thought that was the implication. Yeah, as I said the other day, I’m very willing to believe “shrinkflation” has caused corner cutting in feed production. I’d really like to see some people testing the ingredient lists and nutritional info on current commercial feeds.
I had not heard of this until two days ago when a friend relayed this story to me.
He lives in Arkansas and buys his eggs from a local guy who has a side business with about 300 chickens. The guy told him all his chickens stopped laying eggs after he switched feed. When he switched back, they started producing again. He said the guy even put out both types of feed for the chickens, and they immediately only ate the original feed and wouldn’t touch the stuff that caused the egg laying to stop.
So there’s another anecdotal story.
Let me guess: the bad feed is from China?
Yeah. I’m more inclined to believe just bad quality feed. Or even just the switch itself causing the chickens stress.
Very possible.
I’d be very surprised if chickens felt any stress from just a change in chicken feed brand, let alone high enough stress levels to cause that kind of drop off. It’s not like they’re purebred dogs with overly sensitive of stomachs.
My chicken free ranged and ate different sources everyday (grass, bugs, etc). Quite happy birds. Even had two cornish-roc crosses make it past the one year mark still running around.
Yours free-ranged and were used to a varied (and likely superior) diet. Are the neighbor’s the same, or do they only get feed? Maybe the feed was old?
Change in diet, likely inferior feed, heading into winter, a year older, and possibly other differences we are unaware of.
I can’t equate my chickens with hers. My chickens were hobby free-range. No records kept. And regularly eaten by predators. Until being eaten though, they were happy little dinos eating everything in sight.
Going into winter and laying age can reduce egg count. Not having an a sufficient calcium supply. I can’t believe that just switching commercial feed brands by itself would cause such a drop. Or that a commercial feed brand being “low quality” can cause such a drop (without other factors, like the feed being intentionally or accidentally altered). Even the cheapest food brand at TSC or any other farm store has ample caloric count and nutrients to keep hens laying eggs.
Yeah, I just meant meant maybe they can’t handle a diet change as easily as happy little foraging chickens do.
Like I said above, I hope there are people out there doing analyses on feed to see if it truly matches what’s printed on the bag.
Somebody is conducting a chemical analysis of Tractor Supply feed to try to find out what could be causing it, so if it’s really happening, we may find out why.
Arizona hospital on brink of collapse after spending $20 million on migrant care: ‘Nobody has a solution
What does Reason think?
You forgot the “t” in front of Reason. Libertarian traitors.
Versus the billions he would have to spend giving them “free” everything. Seems like he’s saving the taxpayers money to me.
We are only a couple of steps away from Reason just buying articles from AP News.
Norm:
https://twitter.com/still_boneless/status/1622630527390867456
Joe is the hero we don’t deserve.
I strongly condemn President Xi’s brazen incursion into American airspace, and I commend President Biden’s leadership in taking down the Chinese balloon over water to ensure safety for all Americans. Now we can collect the equipment and analyze the technology used by the CCP.
Bill Kristol is still a massive cunte.
If the balloon had anti-black history messages stenciled on it, or if it were dropping anti-trans pamphlets down to earth, or if it were broadcasting denunciations of wokeness non-stop, MAGA would be pro-balloon. They’d be welcoming the balloon. They’d be worshipping the balloon.
Take your meds, Bill. JFC that’s ridiculous.
Behold the wisdom of a Public Intellectual.
Gotta say, Bryan comes off as someone who doesn’t take himself as an actor and therefore above everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEteCPQcGc
Paul Schrader keeping it real.