Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
FBI Gone Wild: Internal memos chronicle years of drunk driving, lost weapons and other misconduct
NPR to Cut Workforce by 10 Percent, as Advertising Slowdown Hits Public Media
Supreme Court releases trio of rulings with liberal justices joining majority opinions
21% of electric vehicle public charging stations are unusable
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Sounds a bit much.
“According to the Perry County sheriff’s office, Middleton was found dead on May 7, 2022 with a gunshot wound to his chest and an extension cord tying his neck to a tree in Perryville, Arkansas.”
“Despite the confusing details of the case, Sheriff Scott Montgomery said Middleton had apparently shot himself in the chest with a shotgun and also somehow hung himself, reported the Arkansas Times.”
uh-huh
They said he fell down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.
He was so upset about the lousy wrestling tonight, that he went down to the garage and in a fit of depression cut off his own head.
Such an underrated performance by Eddie Izzard in Mystery Men as the leader of the Disco boys
“He was so upset about the lousy wrestling tonight, that he went down to the garage and in a fit of depression cut off his own head.”
clap clap clap
To be fair, the wrestling was pretty bad.
He shot himself, ate the gun, then hung himself. Seems obvious to any reasonable prosecutor who doesn’t want to kill himself the same way.
And nothing else will happen. Nor will it be covered in the MSM.
It was in Arkansas.
Maybe a person walking by saw a perfectly good shotgun just laying there and brought it home?
Just laying there, next to a guy hung from a tree with a big hole in his chest.
That has to be the theory on why the “suicide” weapon has disappeared. I mean, there’s probably somebody who would pick it up and take it home, but I would expect there are very, very few people who would do that.
Maybe a dude picked it up before he saw the body? Then thought, “fuck my prints are already all over this, better take it home”.
It would be helpful to know more about the area where this guy was found. If it was poor enough, I can easily see the first guy there taking the shotgun.
Hard to imagine seeing a gun on the ground before seeing the body hanging above it. And I don’t think very many people at all, no matter how poor, are going to take a weapon away from an obvious crime scene and thus make themselves suspect number one.
Not impossible, but extremely unlikely.
Stupid/crazy/on drugs/other – I’ve seen cases of people stealing murder weapons when not associated with the crime prior. People are not as rational as one would hope.
I disagree. People ask rationally, its just they have fucking insane premises.
*whistles and looks away
Well he didn’t want to get involved.
That’s still too many people employed there.
No country should have taxpayer funded media.
Seems to me to be a reliable way to tell a free country from one that isn’t.
Well, you people won’t subscribe to your local print propaganda.
I thought they bragged about how they were funded with tax dollars, listener donations, private foundations and European dignitaries like that Voohers Leeku guy.
My experience is 100% are unusable.
May have something to do with not having a car that plugs in.
My wife and I are in Miami for a Presidents Club trip for her company.
She’s getting picked up by a friend and going to Orlando. Friend has an electric car.
I got a huge kick when her friend asked our exact address so that she could plan the charge for the trip back.
Gas stations are on every corner, and only take 2-4 minutes to fill up.
Well, if she wasn’t within a 15 minute walk she shouldn’t be in your social circle anyway!
Not.made.for.roadtrips.
Great.for.daily.commute.and.errands.
Why is this hard to understand?
Because that’s not the way it’s marketed.
Great for daily commute and errands, if you can charge at home. Otherwise, you have a significant PITA factor built in to charging it at public stations. I’m guessing, don’t have one so I don’t really know.
If it’s not a Nissan Leaf it shouldn’t be an issue.
In FL weather a base Model 3 has 272 miles of EPA range which means 200 miles with no issues.
How far away is the friend?
Georgia grand jury forewoman for election case is a ‘witch’ who shares spells and magic on Pinterest page
Of course she is.
All the media are dancing around the bunny-boiler crazy eyes.
Not sure how she got to be the foreman/foreperson/fore-xer, whatever.
Magic, duh.
*nods sagely*
She wuz better at spelling.
In my experience, if you’re willing to take the position, let alone want it, you’ll get it.
I believe she gleefully volunteered for it, which is why her statements become problematic for the prosecution in a just world.
That is pretty much how I got to be foreman.
I also know how to run and efficient meeting. And my bachelor party was that night, so I wasn’t going to futz around all day.
I think we took longer on the sentencing than on the judgement.
“Guilty. Now lets start the trial.”
We found not guilty on the felony charge, guilty on the underlying misdemeanor (his lawyer told us to find guilty on that one, that was easy) and guilty on the misdemeanor assault charge.
The felony charge was for witness tampering, the underlying misdemeanor was for violating a no-contact order.
We sentenced to 1 year on the assault charge and $1000 fine on the no-contact charge.
We could have gone up to 1 year and $1k on each. We would have been done even faster if we had just listened to the guy who wanted to max charge on each. But we tried to work out what was “right” and then had to convince him.
Meh, we probably should have just gone with him and saved ourselves 10 minutes.
In NJ petit jury duty if you pull the #1 ticket on a jury that is being empaneled – congratulations – you are the foreperson.
The furthest I ever got for NJ jury duty I was initially selected as juror number 6 for a gun case, but then the prosecutor bounced me with one of their peremptory challenges.
In Essex County – crime capital of NJ – you can be assured of being called every f****** 3 years.
Passaic County, so pretty close to the same for me. Although somehow my wife has only been called once in 17 years and didn’t even have to report.
I’m on the Attach Watch list so I never get called for Jury duty.
This song just popped into my head.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0FFTd3bS_8
I was expecting this
Another option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6o38MN8yqE
Forgot that song existed, but I’ve always liked it.
On the backside, this is proof of how stupid the DemOP Media is. Who on earth approved these interviews? Aside from the ethical issues of having a grand jury member blab in public about what is supposed to be a confidential legal proceeding, if you wanted someone to delegitimize whatever the grand jury does, you could not have picked a better person. Well, other than a cross-dressing pervert who steals women’s clothes, of course.
The same network that rushed her on camera is also asking why is she on camera.
*strains abs laughing*
I think it’s on purpose – seriously.
– First of all because their gut-level modus operandi is to delegitimize EVERYTHING and still force the process and rub it in the faces of the rest of us that they can and will.
– And secondly (relatedly) because what they mostly want are to have the accusations out there in public so the low-info folks believe there’s something to it, even if never proven, and the process-as-punishment. Done. And this nut gives them their own poison-pill to handwave away any failure in the actual courts, while still having put the accusations out forever.
Emily Kohrs, who pinned several ‘spells’ on her Pinterest, is seen sporting a Harry Potter Slytherin hat
Too easy.
“Harry Potter hat”
Obviously a right wing transphobe
The word is ‘foreman’.
Most woke linguistic distortions bug me a little, but that one is really in fingernails-on-a-chalkboard territory.
I would use a Bugs Bunnyesque “Forepoisen”
Welcome to the world of the “nonessential.” (Ackshually, you were always there.)
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DC is giving the Female Furies a new body positive leader, Big Lardaa?
Dutch …”Laardaassen.”
wut
Is there some principle here, or if it’s just some contractual thing why is it in front of the Supreme Court?
Yeah not sure how that made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Looking at it though, it is ‘what is a bona-fide executive’. So it was a ruling really on Labor Act and FSLA coding it looks like.
SCOTUS determined that a daily pay rate isn’t a salary. It is similar to wage exempt.
“‘I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in,’ she said. ‘And so I thought it would be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump, of me looking at him and be like, “Do you solemnly swear,” and me getting to swear him in,’ she continued.”
She sounds a bit flakey.
I saw part of her interview. Definitely a nut.
And not the good kind of nut (like we all are). Just plain crazy.
“The former president called the ‘ridiculous’ case a ‘strictly political continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.’ ”
Well, it actually found a witch.
She turned me into a newt!!
I got better, though.
And they put her in charge.
Kind of funny how basement dwelling nerds were a dangerous flirtation with the occult, but I know of a lot of women (and from the ever so not biased samples of youtube videos making fun of their TikToks it continues) into paganism, wicca, witchcraft and other “classically occult” practices. I’m sure they’d all just claim they’re “Reclaiming their power from the patriarchy that put down the Witches [who were good and lovely and women power and love the Earth and I’ll be over here…]”, but given all of them seem to genuinely believe in crap like crystal healing, “manifestation” (aka you can change the universe by just wanting to enough!) and even the gateway astrology (sorry to whomever posts those horoscopes on the weekend, but I still don’t buy that crap) and they all get a pass these days.
Yeah, it is almost certainly the “people have to believe in something and Western Religions sure won’t give them a moral foundation anymore” factor, I know.
It seems almost all of them are women though. So in what do men believe?
Q has an answer.
I don’t think liking boobs is enough of a belief system to substitute religion.
I think a lot of men would find it ample.
They believe in regurgitating that nonsense around women who genuinely believe to increase their chances of getting laid?
I believe I’ll have another beer!
Sports and NASCAR.
Although society had sports and religion simultaneously for a long time.
There also must be some reason why astrology crystals magic woo woo appeals more to women.
Lily accepts your apology.
What I think of whenever you post Lily pics/video.
I’m not the well-dressed rat.
I’d post this instead.
I blame kids cartoons like Rainbow Brite.
That link is simply hilarious. Good way to start the day.
Thanks.
“manifestation” (aka you can change the universe by just wanting to enough!)
That is called Will To Power. It is a very old psychological idea and personal philosophy. No witches needed.
That said, Witches be crazy.
Very old indeed
Mornin’, reprobates.
“the majority court held that Helix Energy employee Michael Hewitt is entitled to overtime pay despite earning more than $200,000 annually, citing that he wasn’t a salaried employee.”
Interesting. $100/hr for a non-exempt employee? Where do I sign up?
Yeah, I’m not sure how he wasn’t just on salary.
I tried poking around for definitions of this stuff recently and it was a dumpster fire of vagueness and loopholes.
EPA’s definition of “solid waste” is “any solid, liquid or gas that is inherently waste-like.”
I’d like to see a case that defines once and for all WTF is an “exempt” worker.
Reality is far too variable for any legal/regulatory definition to be, err, definitive.
There’s a couple of overlapping. First is if you’re salaried or hourly. Second is if your eligible for overtime.
Until/unless the FLSA and others get repealed or (better) chucked as unconstitutional, good on these rulings. Salaried means you get your full pay regardless of how much OR how little you work in a week just as long as you work some. You work 30 minutes, you get full pay. Fuck HR and their PTO hours or even days. Same with hourly requirements such as be in the office from 8 to 5.
The Scotus rolling and rationale is fairly clear imo https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-984_j426.pdf
Wage exempt employees also are entitled to overtime but under different rules. I am wage exempt and limited to the number of hours per pay period. If I am asked to work more I get extra pay for the time.
I remember dealing with this back in the late aughts when I was managing a team of DBAs. Management decided that OT compensation would come in the form of time off to be awarded at the rate of 50% of extra hours worked. We were strongly “encouraged” to carefully scrutinize employee timesheets. Of course, since working late hours and weekends were a basic job requirement I did not scrutinize at what Management considered to be an appropriate level. I wound up leaving that gig over this and another incident where I was “asked” to throw one of my guys under the bus. That was August 2008, and I left for a consulting gig with Lehman. Fun times.
OMG, the lyrics are “Don’t bring me down, groos”. My whole life I swore it was “Bruce”.
#metoo
#methree
And thanks for the song today Banjos — I do enjoy that one even if I mentally associate it with 70% of a really good Doctor Who episode now.
Was that one even in it?
But yeah, that was a good ep.
Could be worse. In high school one of my buddies was telling us all about this new song that he swore was “Cock sucking night” and how he couldn’t believe that they would play that on the radio.
Turned out to be Bryan Adam’s Cuts Like a Knife.
I think your buddy was just trying to tell you something, Your Holiness.
^^ heh
Naw, the guy was dripping with gals. (Huge hockey star, would probably have gone to the NHL if he hadn’t gotten hurt in college).
And he told it to a bunch of us (guys and gals). So even if he was casting a net, I’m sure I would have been thrown back as a trash fish.
*attaches fin tag to Jimbo, pushes him in river*
“It feels so right.”
When I was in the service, a guy I work with would sing along to Milli Vanilli “Blame it on the Rain”. Only he said “Lorraine”.
A fitting b-side to Summer of 69
That’s a winner!
Oh come on, even I could tell he said six-string.
If you’re going to share a CD Single with “Cock sucking night”, it needs to be an extra-special version of the song….
Wait until you find out Manfred Mann wasn’t saying “Wrapped up like a douche.”
So, what was he saying?
“Revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night”, as deuce coupe hotrod.
Song lyrics make no sense.
Because they are by the pretentious twat Bruce Springsteen, who is so far up his own ass he’s looking out the back of his mouth.
The original Springsteen lyric was “Cut loose like a deuce.”
Little Deuce Coup was a popular enough song that the reference would have been clear, but between the slight change from “Cut loose” to “revved up” and Manfred Mann’s accent it distinctly sounds like “Wrapped up like a douche.”
Or that Joe Jackson wasn’t singing “choke choke choke choke chicken in my hand”
I’m still waiting to find out why so many of Taylor Swift’s lovers hang out at Starbucks. She claims to have a lot of them, after all.
Oh come on, next you’ll tell me that the Barenaked Ladies weren’t singing about chicken vaginas.
They…they weren’t?!
Sure the official lyrics, but listen – towards the end it is clear as day buh-ruce. Fucking hell that’s any pronunciation of a g.
On my clock radio I always thought Sting was singing “I’m a poolhall ace!”
Cooler but makes less sense than “How my poor heart aches”.
I remember when that song came out how a lot of brides wanted that as their wedding song, totally not getting the psycho-stalker meaning behind it.
Try some mumble rap.
So what is groos? I too thought it was Bruce. Another mystery to solve.
It’s the plural of Grue. They lurk in the dark and eat adventurers.
Not bad.
Grüß?
A tempting explanation, but it’s actually just a nonsense placeholder word that they kept during the recording sessions.
Thank. I had to look it up too.
Like schpadoinkle!
Another son from that musical.
And one that we could get more use out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Q9ZEdOLSE
Jimi Hendrix wants to “kiss the sky” not “Excuse me while I kiss this guy.”
There’s an entire misheard lyrics website riffing on that lyric.
They don’t have some of my favorites:
“One long pizza pie” by Journey
“Cinnamon gum” by Steve Perry
One bartender I used to know was really happy when Prince was doing an after party at the club she worked at. She even knew that there was a Prince song with her name in it: Raspberry Renee!
“Rock me apple danish” by Falco.
“Shot glass man” is my wife’s favorite.
Ken Lee.
https://youtu.be/vUAaHkGpJy8
Lemmy would sometimes sing “Eight of Spades” in concert when bored. He said no one ever caught it.
Doctor, Doctor, give me the news,
I’ve got a back ache from loving you.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Tough kid, not many around like that.
There are, you just have to know where to look 😉
Damn straight.
Awesome.
Just remember, we don’t have debtor’s prison OR guilt by association in this country. Nosiree.
Seems we’re lacking a little due process on that one.
Eh, her then-boyfriend-now-husband committed fraud while selling their house, fraud she presumably benefitted from. I don’t have a problem with her still being on the hook for paying that back.
“My boyfriend stole this money, not me” wouldn’t mean you get to keep it either.
Well, that’s the point of a bankruptcy proceeding though: to distribute the debtor’s assets to creditors to satisfy as much of the debt as possible. That was going to happen regardless. The SCOTUS ruling just means the debt can’t be discharged. Although it may leave the defrauded party at least partially screwed, consigning a non-guilty spouse to a lifetime of debt for their guilty spouse’s fraud doesn’t seem right.
Dumb drivers, Minnesoda style!
When the fish are biting, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Epstein-linked Clinton advisor allegedly hanged himself from tree after shooting himself in chest with shotgun
Dangling this out there is just going to drive wingnut conspiracy theories.
Just a shot in the dark, ya know.
+ Ozzy
So they only way that “suicide” story makes sense is if a passerby decided he needed a new shotgun. Still weird that he would tie himself to the tree. Not sure if a point-blank shotgun blast to the chest would be fatal?
In other words, your typical Clintoncide.
The CIA and Mossad say hi.
Even the Mossad quit trying to tell us that Gerald Bull offed himself.
It’s just a coincidence that you can’t run ballistics analysis on buckshot.
*Files that data away*
Yes, a shotgun blast to the chest is fatal. Probably the least survivable gunshot wound, short of a .50 BMG or some kind of African big game round.
I’m thinking African big game round would be less fatal than common hollow point rounds used to hunt deer. African big game rounds are both solid and high-velocity for deep penetration. So probably go through and through on humans, which are way smaller and thinner skinned.
Well, those wildebeast are not going to give you a follow-up shot. You’d better make sure it’s dead.
The energy transfer and shockwave are going to be massive. I think. I may have to see if I can find some ballistics tests on line.
The Kentucky Ballistics guy likes to shoot things with elephant guns.
Not gel, still cool
‘Energy transfer’ doesn’t do much.
The shockwave induced by a high-velocity projectile moving through a liquid is more a function of velocity than frontal area, although frontal area does have some impact. This is why 5.56mm 55-grain bullets leave such a nasty wound track.
Depends on whether or not you believe in hydrostatic shock.
Maybe.
What kind of shot is it? 00 buckshot would be a hole in the chest. It would be horrific. As would many other loads.
Some 410 birdshot loads barely break the top couple layers of skin. Cheney shot a motherfucker in the face a point blank range and that dude is fine.
I don’t know the range at which Cheney shot the guy. I have seen guys “peppered” with 7 or 8 shot out of a 12 gauge. Barely broke the skin, but it wasn’t point blank, either. Birdshot loses velocity rapidly. You take that from a shotgun pressed up against your chest, and yeah, I think you’re going to have a hole in your chest.
I feel a YouTube rabbit hole coming on.
I’ve been hit by birdshot before. Admittly it had reached the point where it was just falling and didn’t even hurt.
Supposedly Cheney shot his hunting buddy at a range of 30 yards, using a 28-gauge filled with (presumably) between 7 1/2 – 9 shot.
National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a “sharp decline” in sponsorship revenue.
“Our financial outlook has darkened considerably over recent weeks,” Lansing wrote in a memo to staff Wednesday. “At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a result, the ad industry has weakened and we are grappling with a sharp decline in our revenues from corporate sponsors. We had created a plan to address a $20M sponsorship revenue falloff for FY23 but we are now projecting at least a $30M shortfall. The cuts we have already made to our budget will not be enough.”
He should be on his knees every night at bedtime, praying for the Trump campaign.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Month of Meh holds strong… seriously wondering if since m-w.com brought Quordle if they’re intentionally screwing with us on word choices… talk about ones that don’t help each other at all today…
Daily Duotrigordle #358
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:33.38
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Have you tried the Daily Sequence option on duotrigordle? Tends to be either feast or famine for me.
Not yet, no… it didn’t tickle my fancy reading the description.
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#waffle398 5/5
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🔥 streak: 81
💎 #wafflediamondteam
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Meh.
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Chumptown loomed.
Georgia grand jury forewoman who said it would have been ‘awesome’ to subpoena Trump is a ‘WITCH’ who shares spells and magic on wacky Pinterest page
Hawt.
Time to don the tinfoil hats.
Five scientists on the way to do environmental tests in East Palestine dead in plane crash.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/five-environmentalists-flying-to-ohio-die-in-plane-crash-worked-for-company-testing-water-in-east-palestine-ohio/
Local news outlets reported a twin-engine Beech BE20 crashed in a densely wooded area shortly after taking off from Little Rock’s Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
Another Arkancide?
North and Midwest freeze under blizzard warning with 7,600 flights delayed and canceled, while South scorches
80s in RVA today. This winter sucked.
I’ve heard of places being called North and South, but Right Virginia? Never heard that before.
Short for “righteous.”
There is nothing righteous about Richmond.
This is why I moved out to Hanover.
Low 40s in NYC. Spot of rain yesterday. Nothin’ today.
It’s been a boring winter.
Lots of snow, but way short of the Snowmageddon that they have been breathlessly talking about for a week.
But don’t blame the weathermen!
This guy is never gonna make it to the majors. Instead of blabbing about dendrite snow, he should have said the lack of it is proof of climate change.
22 and cloudy in our corner of the Great Land at the moment. Expecting 3-5 inches of snow in the next 24 hours. Typical weather here.
We need more totes unbiased news sources like these guys I believe everything that a polling group named Data for Progress tells me!
Who knew that all it took to be carbon free was a law?
The other issues that they have listed are just as funny.
Clean electricity standards are a proven tactic to fight climate change
Someone doesn’t know what “proven” means.
Well it is a tactic. They don’t claim it’s successful in providing 100% of energy needs, just that the tactic exists.
Did they tell voters that it will quintuple their energy bills? Oh, and that it’s not actually physically possible with current technology?
Laughable.
Formerly known as “Democratic People’s Polling Bureau.”
Lansing also suggested that the necessary job cuts will result in a more refined mission for NPR as an organization, writing that “some work will need to change or stop entirely,” and that NPR’s executive committee is figuring out where it needs to continue investing, and where it should pull back.
Women, POCs hardest hit.
Haha, just kidding.
Getting fired always sucks, but it has to be worse when the entire process is done in that NPR tone of voice.
I wonder if even the drones being fired have to talk that way. I’m giggling of some take this job and shove it rant being voiced in that super soft passive voice.
“this sucks. You people are terrible”
https://babylonbee.com/news/npr-revealed-to-be-just-one-white-woman-in-new-hampshire-who-does-all-the-voices
Repeating what I wrote yesterday, how did this asshole get away with stealing luggage for four years?
Airlines don’t put a lot of effort into investigating lost luggage claims, and he does it all over instead of one airport.
It is quite a clever crime. He’d have continued it for many years if he wasn’t so conspicuous. Could the weirdo not tamper down the crazy for at least flights?
My guess is that the gal who reported her bag missing in Minnesoda was super hot and the airport cops actually tried for once.
“Well, this one is certainly not Larry Craig.”
+1 wide stance
“Here’s my business card, call me when you’re in town”
True. In relatively recent years, though, travelers can track their luggage during the flight, and will know that it showed up on the carousel and disappeared before they got it. From there, it’s a quick look at security footage, and Sam’s your uncle(?). It’s less trouble than having to put up with some pissed off person who just had their luggage stolen, not “lost”, and knows it.
An Apple tag would be helpful, you could sew it into your luggage so its not easily found.
Even after rumblings from the airlines, the FAA said that Airtags are allowed in checked luggage.
Just heard a story about someone using one of those. Nobody on the flight got their luggage, and the guy used his tag to determine it was still at the other airport and they never loaded any of the luggage on the plane.
That’s a paddlin’.
Good idea.
We don’t really have hourly employees in Romania so the salaried non salaried distinction is weird…
Today in political compass memes: this is bullshit and the lower left part does not exist
https://twitter.com/libertycappy/status/1627832348673802242
It theoretically could, but human nature being what it is, the sort of people inclined to collectivism are typically not all that inclined to voluntarism.
Charismatic (and likely sociopathic) leadership in the lower left isn’t out of the realm of the possible, just that it will institutionalize into authoritarianism because it can’t sustain itself over time without coercion.
Oh they are all aboard with volunteering you.
Tesla’s charger are significantly better. Musk has said he will open them up for “free” government money, but at the moment the charging standards are not compatible with anything other than Tesla at 99.9% of locations.
My expectation is he will slow walk this as much as possible for PR without doing anything. At the moment the reliability and number of locations is a huge advantage for Tesla. Owners are not happy about sharing them with other people and cars that may have no choice but to block additional stalls while charging because of charge port location.
Naturally in CA the owners are throwing fits as electric adoption there is the highest so we will see what happens when other brands charge there.
If I’m Musk, I don’t open them up until Tesla gets immunity from the class action suits brought by pissed off Tesla owners who bought their cars because they were promised an exclusive charging network.
yup.
It’s bad enough as it is just competing with other Teslas for a spot at a supercharger. We at least have an unspoken protocol and do graceful little dances with one another for who gets to charge next.
Put in the Honda/Toyota/Hyundai riff-raff and who knows what will happen?
I’m so excited. At least at the gas pump it’s just a few minutes. This means protracted engagements.
EVs really aren’t ready for mass use. We really are putting the cart before the horse. Can’t wait.
EVs will never be ready.
They have great value in short range commuters or delivery vehicles where they can return to home base for a charge.
I will never buy one, because I believe them to be unfit for general purposes.
I haven’t seen ant “Putin is at Death’s door!” stories lately.
Isn’t he in hospice with Jimmy and Hillary?
Musk has said he will open them up for “free” government money, but at the moment the charging standards are not compatible with anything other than Tesla at 99.9% of locations.
The stories I have seen indicate some sort of physical incompatibility which can be fixed by a plug adapter. Are you saying that’s not true?
Correct. You can make them electrically compatible with relative ease, but non-Tesla owners will need an adapter. He is also going to need to create an app of some kind to validate and bill them. Tesla owners have built in validation.
However, for FedGov funds he will need to add an industry standard adapter to the units.
The nice thing about Tesla on Tesla chargers is that it is seamless. Plug in and charge. It uses the billing information you have on file with Tesla.
“Do no harm.”
One of the most remarkable incidents involves a complaint against Dr. Daniel B. Case, who was accused of harassment by a staff member concerning the employee’s choice of not getting vaccinated, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Florida Standard.
Dr. Case, the staff member alleges, had said that unvaccinated people were “the reason why people are dying and why COVID is spreading.”
“When you guys get fired then we’ll all have a party and Darwinism will do its work,” Dr. Case allegedly also told the staff member according to the complaint, which was addressed to the hospital’s president, Lorrie Liang.
But Dr. Case did not stop there, the staff member claims.
“They should take you guys to the firing line,” Dr. Case allegedly said.
This Doc has a severe Case of douchebag.
The last few years have really brought out a lot of people’s true nature.
I said many times, “If we kick off every physician who is an asshole, we’re not going to have very many left.”
Social Security is Broke, but American Taxpayers Just Gave Ukrainian Pensioners a Double-Digit Raise
wE mUsT sUpPoRt UkRaInE nO mAtTeR wHaT!!!!
Do we? Like I said yesterday, I am not seeing any pushback that matters.
I think (hope) it’s coming. Joe promised $500 million this week and is about to ask Congress for $billions more – and nothing for the people in Ohio they dropped a WMD on.
Republicans in the House will throw a fit and try to divert it all to domestic stuff. Being our shitty government, they’ll probably compromise and send billions to Ohio AND Ukrainian.
Why does MAGA resonate with so many rubes?
Meh I am not saying US should have given Ukraine that money, but 100 bill would not make a dent in US pension liabilities. You cannot really link the two.
But if you stop wasting money on this that and the other thing, the little savings start adding up.
he little savings start adding up. – not enough for that hole… you are in big saving territory. But unlike me, I assume you do not put 25% of your monthly income towards a pension you will never get.
Oh, my waste cutting plans include phasing out of these entitlement nonsenses.
“Rounding error” etc. “Pretty soon you’re talking about real money” etc. Even if 100 billion would only fund social security benefit payments at the current rates for an extra week, it would be a better use of the money. At the very least, it would normally be politically stupid to brag about shoring up the social welfare benefits of a foreign country 80% of Americans couldn’t have picked out on a map until last year while your own government accountants are screaming from the rooftops that you’re committing economic suicide.
Maybe, but if they did not spent the 100 billion on Ukraine they would spent it on something similar.
Laundering money ain’t cheap.
Fuck Ukraine.
Officer Friendly saved the day.
On January 6th at 1:13pm: Officer Thau and the DC Metropolitan Police arrived on the Capitol’s West Plaza.
Upon arrival, Thau frantically requests Capitol Police provide him with “blast munitions” to start throwing at the mostly peaceful crowd.
Thau repeatedly requests “blast munitions” from different supervisors on the ground for the next 10 minutes.
At 1:17pm, Thau orders Capitol PD ‘snipers nest’ to continue firing indiscriminately into the crowd.
He screams “let’s go, fucking shoot them!” “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”
I’m sure this explosive evidence was thoroughly examined by the J6 committee.
Baaaahahahahahaha
Jackboots being all jackbooty.
*myshockedface*
THICC Thursday tastes like cabbage and titty sweat.
https://archive.ph/4z6Un
I was expecting Irish girls from that.
I saw OwnBest is moving to nights- welcome to our world: the purview of the demi-monde.
Now I wont be the only 1 drinking after work when the normies are just waking up.
No no..just one night. It was easier than trying to get through the day on extended OT.
Pussy.
Then again, with a family, 8-5 is likely the better option.
Milfolini strikes again.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were pictured amid a frosty discussion in Kyiv on Tuesday, as the Italian premier firmly ruled out supplying fighter jets to the war-torn country.
The Italian leader, on one of her most significant overseas trips since coming to power in October, reiterated her country’s support for Ukraine, but said it would not be backed up by the offer of Italy’s AMX bomber jets.
‘At the moment the supply of planes is not on the table,’ Ms Meloni said at a press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
But it was clear tensions were already present before the press conference as the two were photographed facing each other with rather hard-faced looks, a week after Ms Meloni’s coalition partner cast blame at Mr Zelensky for the invasion of Ukraine.
Interesting. The media spun this as Milfoni being pro-Ukraine, and her conservatism government partners being angry at her for that. This tells a completely different story.
She’s walking a very fine line on this. Berlusconi told Z-sky to piss off, and he’s been supporting Meloni’s party.
Meanwhile, Meloni is trying to negotiate with France et al on trade agreements so she’s playing the Ukraine game. She ought to just tell the EU that Italy is out and put an end to all of it.
“Give me $billions worth of free shit or I’ll be angry!”
I hope AMX planes are better than the AMX Harley motorcycles.
It’s a ground attack plane. Looks cool but a bit dated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMX_International_AMX
Using untrained pilots to fly them into the Russian air defenses should get them converted to scrap immediately.
They are out of production, so Zelensky is telling the Italians to give him a chunk of their air force they won’t be able to replace for years.
You see the strategy is supposed to be to saturate the airspace so that you can destroy the air defense positions simply by debris falling on them. The problem is when you do it on a budget…
So like AMC’s AMX?
But Dr. Case did not stop there, the staff member claims.
“They should take you guys to the firing line,” Dr. Case allegedly said.
Ritual slaughter of heretics and unbelievers is an essential part of any top notch religion.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21476762/friend-cheats-girlfriend-denies-bisexual/
Relevant:
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529
That could be one of my favorite Onion articles ever. After anything about Biden, and “Area Man Experimenting With Homosexuality For The Past 8 Years”
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-experimenting-with-homosexuality-for-past-eigh-1819565795
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With J.K. Rowling
Not only are we not funny, we have unnecessarily made this into a slideshow.
Ok that was pretty good.
she did say in a recent interview that she does not care about legacy
If I had her money, me too.
A few years ago a friend of mine, late 30s, was dating a woman, mid 30s, who dragged him along on her annual pilgrimage to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando. This woman was a professional making six figures. He ended up breaking up with her on that very trip, for unrelated reasons.
I was in Orlando last week and saw several Potter cosplayers around Universal. All were people who probably menstruate and fat.
I’m trying to imagine what possesses someone to dress up in a robe to ride rollercoasters.
NO CAPES
I swear, shit like this makes me want to go full Kaczynski and live alone in a cabin in the wilderness. Or become Amish, or something.
*nods in agreement*
10 acres minimum for us. 50 would be better. Close enough to civilization for high speed internet and decent grocery stores, but far enough away that this shit excuse for a culture can be kept at arms length.
Come on housing crash!
Impending recession? 🧐
10 yr yield falls below the 2 yr yield usually means recession coming. Buckle up.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1628557563427012608
meh no one can predict recessions. they just sort of happen, usually bad luck
Nobody can really say what a recession is, anyway, unless they are a biologist.
I know bunches of friends, friends spouses and customers that have been laid off since mid-terms. My portfolio is down +/-20% and US GDP has been down for how long now, not to mention inflation and they still claim a recession “may” be looming?
Look all of these RIF and bad times for business just kind of happen due to
TrumpCOVIDRepublican controlled congressgreedy CEO’s!It wasn’t a recession before despite meeting the definition because unemployment was low. It isn’t a recession now as unemployment creeps up because technically there was tepid nominal GDP growth one quarter.
TMITE
I have heard “the yield curve is inverted” so many times we are now in full-on boy who cried wolf territory.
By that I mean, the wolf does actually come.
Good morning, Banjos!
-9 isn’t cold. What a bunch of stupid drama. Although I cancelled a trip this week, which appears to have been a good decision.
Doesn’t matter. They will grift that shit until it’s a rotting corpse and everyone is left scratching in the dirt for roots.
People who think aliens have any interest at all in visiting us need only look at this woman and realize why they’d immediately turn around.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/model-worlds-fattest-vagina-now-29265953
Dude, seriously?
I hate NATO.
https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1628751816501637120
Hate.
Hating DC is more apropos since NATO is their baby.
So you are a Putin lover…
❝We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos.❞
I’m pretty sure we are Voldemort, the English, the Empire, etc. I.e. the baddies.
Longshanks was no villain.
That is awful and incredibly tone deaf.
Par for the course. They’re stroking their own egos like good little products of the self-esteem generation.
It’s similar to how the midwits at the FDA were all proud of how they shamed ivermectin users with some horse paste tweets.
US diplomat scorched for ‘tone-deaf’ tweet saying Afghan women need ‘movement’ similar to ‘Black Girl Magic’
Glad the adults are back after the Trump years.
There was a time when I had a modicum of respect for the ruling class because regardless of their tendencies towards evil, they were at least mildly competent.
When was that? I am 56 and cannot remember such a time. Of course, I became aware of things just as South Vietnam fell, the economy devolved into inflation, gas shortages, and…hey?!
Ten years older. I got to watch Vietnam start, race riots across the country, the assassinations of JFK, bother bobby, and MLK.
At least I got to watch the moon landing live.
“A true people’s army”
Wow.
“Forced.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784665/Boys-young-13-claim-forced-impregnate-ISIS-women-Syrian-detention-centres.html
Americans have spent more than $100 billion on aid to Ukraine. And, as the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian government is undoubtedly well aware, money is fungible.
Notoriously corrupt? Fetch me my smelling salts.
I’m waiting for the inevitable “Who wore it better” piece before I comment on the Sam Binton escapade.
Hahaha! Definitely not Sam. He just looks like a monster out of twilight zone. The only thing going for him is he’s skinny.
At least they did not have premature detonation.
While President Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed, according to a report.
US officials told CNN on Tuesday that Russia used a deconfliction line to notify the US in advance of the missile test, which reportedly did not pose a risk to the country.
According to the officials, the US did not view the test as an anomaly or an escalation.
Finally got around to cooking my breakfast steak.
Upside of working from home – the food is better.
What’s truly amazing, though, is that Joe Biden and the media are just coming right out and saying exactly that — the government is using your money to pay Ukraine’s obligations to ten million of its pensioners. American aid to Ukraine, Biden says, is “going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people.”
But according to that nice lady in the extremely expensive fur trimmed coat on my teevee, starving Ukrainian grandmothers (currently subsisting on tree bark and boiled overcoats) desperately need my help.
Happy Shrove Tuesday by Colin
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1628098571034558471
Pate on Toast by Paul
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1628333683710083072
We often had pate (in braunschweiger or leberkaese form) on toast for breakfast, but mom would get a nice bit of char on the liver side in a skillet.
I don’t care for the texture of pate, it feels pre-chewed. I prefer liver to have not been fed into a food processor.
Fry-up by Marcus
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1628721853631025152
That’s edible.
everything is edible, some things only once though
You seem to take issue with the English Breakfast, which isn’t that bad a traditional meal (though the beans still make no sense).
I don’t know where you get that I like English breakfast as long as the fried egg is runny AS THE QUEEN INTENDED
Troll.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/10/queen-elizabeth-breakfast-diet-habits-darren-mcgrady
What’s between the black pudding and the mushrooms? Surely not falafel.
cant tell initially I though maybe some sort of hash brown but now I dont think so
The American addition of hashbrowns was a significant upgrade that tradlimeys really should embrace.
White pudding. It’s like blood sausage but with milk instead of blood. Very good Irish and English breakfast staple.
Huh. There used to be an Itish pub downtown that served a Full Irish, their white pudding looked different.
It was yummy though.
The only problem was that some of their bartenders obeyed the “no beer before noon on a Sunday” law.
Heheh.
Yeah, some white pudding is smooth and then you get the ones like those pictured that are more like falafel textured. I believe it’s bread or wheat bits.
No hangover can stand against it!
Heh
Who puts black sausage on pancakes?
Colin it seems.
I hate NATO.
What the everloving fuck? That’s an actual tweet from the official NATO account?
Unreal, right?
well they are supposed to be quotes from Ukrainians.
But there is always propaganda in war. This is probably just an attempt to target that to the young generations, which are to be fair none to clever
The
ballsovaries on this guy.Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois man who shot three people and killed two during violence in Kenosha in 2020, faces a new lawsuit.
Gaige Grosskreutz, one of the men shot by Rittenhouse, filed a lawsuit earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin.
In the lawsuit obtained by CBS 58, Grosskreutz names Rittenhouse, former Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth and former Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis as defendants. Also listed as defendants are the city and county of Kenosha as well as other counties and municipalities who sent personnel to Kenosha during the violence which followed protests after Rusten Sheskey, a white Kenosha police officer, shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 for the shootings which left Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum dead, along with wounding Grosskreutz.
“[Gaige Grosskreutz] must live with the physical and emotional wounds inflicted by Defendant Rittenhouse and the Defendants who deputized and enabled him,” the lawsuit reads.
Instead of vaporizing your bicep because you were pointing a gun at his head, KR should have dropped you too,, asshole.
Just play the tape of this gem:
And his butt-buddy’s Facebook posts bragging up how he was a badass who was going to kill Rittenhouse (until he, uh, pussied out like a bitch and got his arm blown off).
Ya, I imagine the line of questioning will be “Did you have any opportunity to deescalate or retreat?” “Did you escalate the situation by your actions?”
Got it. Always employ the coup de grâce.
the Defendants who deputized
Way to set yourself up to fail!
Yep just as good as the dad of the skateboard wielding asshole saying it was a conspiracy. Seems like they are getting taken by some shitty lawyers.
I’m not sure what effect the criminal jury’s finding that the shooting was justified will have at a civil trial. Vague recollection is that your can’t introduce a jury verdict based on a lower level of proof – you can’t bring a civil verdict based on preponderance of the evidence to a criminal trial that requires beyond a reasonable doubt – but you can do the converse.
Now, I’m not sure what the evidentiary standard was in his criminal trial for his self-defense argument. Classically, I think it requires an intermediate level of proof – clear and convincing, something like that – and if so should be admissible and possibly dispositive in a civil trial.
A trillion here, a trillion there…
“[Gaige Grosskreutz] must live with the physical and emotional wounds inflicted by Defendant Rittenhouse and the Defendants who deputized and enabled him,” the lawsuit reads.
Something something consequences of your own actions.
Rittenhouse has to live with the deaths that he caused, justified or not. That dude just has to live with a busted up arm and the thought of he was lucky
English schoolgirls protest against the sexual assault of a local girl by four migrants at their school.
REMEMBER: If this was black girls protesting against ‘racism’ then this would have been in every newspaper & politicians & celebrities would be out there supporting them.
https://twitter.com/MarkACollett/status/1628660627341205504
racist schoolgirls they need less maths and more diversity in their schooling. Lay back and think of antiracism.
‘Like slaves’: Zimbabwe farmworkers lash out at work conditions
Farm labourers in Zimbabwe are decrying colonial-era working and living conditions that they say still defines their jobs.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/21/in-zimbabwe-farm-labourers-decry-working-conditions
it is insane how long lasting white supremacy is, still affecting the country today. I blame white men everywhere.
Those farms haven’t been white owned or operated for decades.
Before the ‘reforms’ Zimbabwe was a net exporter of food and quite prosperous. Then Mugabe took the farms away from the farmers and gave them to his political allies, who had no idea how to run them, and the result was famine and an economic collapse that is still legendary.
I’m unsurprised that the non-farmer new owners treat the laborers like shit.
Those farms haven’t been white owned or operated for decades.
The land remembers. They need a witch doctor to remove the taint of racism!
Despite the confusing details of the case, Sheriff Scott Montgomery said Middleton had apparently shot himself in the chest with a shotgun and also somehow hung himself, reported the Arkansas Times.
Happens all the time.
Scores of FBI employees have been caught over the last five years engaging in unethical and illegal conduct such as driving drunk, stealing property, assaulting a child, mishandling classified documents, and losing their service weapons — but they often escaped being fired, according to internal disciplinary files provided to Just The News.
It’s a day that ends in “y”.
Also from the article:
One agent left a highly lethal M4 carbine unsecured in his government car during a Starbucks run and had the weapon stolen, but even he received only a two-week suspension despite violating the bureau’s protocols for weapons storage, the records show.
I think this video is apropos.
I remember I was doing gate duty as an augmentee for Security Forces and he were on the back gate to the base. The commander and his wife came through drunk and SF just waved them through. This was the general of our base that instituted a zero tolerance policy on drunk driving and hammered airmen for it. Probably one of the first moments I realized I needed out.
“they often escaped being fired”
Not to mention prosecuted. A lot of those are felonies, and a felony conviction would make it impossible to be an FBI agent.
Being an FBI agent should be a felony in 50 states.
Make parenting easier with this one weird trick
Fixing childcare and housing costs will not solve declining fertility
https://edwest.substack.com/p/only-the-fifth-commandment-will-save
I mean for a while nothing will in developed countries…
He ain’t wrong.
If you want to reverse the falling fertility rate in developed countries, get rid of hormonal birth control and abortions, and make adoption easy and straightforward.
How about, shrink government, let people keep more of their earnings, give them freedom.
Then they will have hope for the future. The lack of hope is what kills 1st world fertility. That’s why Europe suffered the fertility decline far earlier than the US did; the first and second world wars destroyed their faith in the future.
The US was still full of hope but the past few decades are doing their best to destroy even our American dream.
““I have a Masters degree! We all have advanced degrees! What have parents got? Are we vetting the background of parents?” 🤡”
https://twitter.com/noprezzie2012/status/1626056373401423873
It takes a village to be cunte.
Your overindoctrination is proof of unfitness for duty. Report to the pit for execution.
Oh how I wish I had been there.
You’re an employee, bitch. Know your place or we’ll teach it to you.
Yeah — saw that here a while back.
Best response imho.
Fucking teachers and their master’s degrees.
How many other professions get three months off a year and are able to take a bullshit course during that and end up with a master’s degree?
It isn’t like their degree is in the subject they teach either. It is from the Education dept and is a cake walk. They only get them because it a) gives them a pay bump and b) puts them on track to quit having to actually teach and get a job in the administration building where they will never have to deal with a kid again.
Education majors are the stupidest people on campus, you cunte.
You’re an employee, bitch. Know your place or we’ll teach it to you.
Word.
Some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met have a Master’s. Not smart enough to stop pissing away honey after a Bachelor’s, not smart enough to get a PhD (I have one so I can be a prick about it).
I kinda resemble that remark.
I was dumb and got my MS. Then I wised up, cut my losses, and pursued no further education.
The MS was a waste of my time and money, though the company I worked for at the time paid for most of it.
I quit at the MS because to get a PhD I had to know absolutely everything about virtually nothing. That didn’t appeal to me.
Yeah, I resemble it to — in my case (i.e. at my state university that certain other members here might say to hell with after dressing their daughters in white and gold and all), the MSCS program was where it got into the nitty gritty. To go out and get a decent job in the system architecture / kernel development space, that’s what you wanted. Java folks were fine with the BS. But a PhD was only needed if you were going to do research or teach, so I didn’t see any reason to go there.
Some jobs require masters degrees. This does not mean it is not a scam.
So like AMC’s AMX?
I liked my AMX. It was, in its own way, just as demanding, if not more so, to drive fast as an early 911.
I had a relative that worked at AMC so as a kid I was in plenty of their cars.
So I have a soft spot for them too.
This guy is going to be railroaded.
Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, who already faces a first-degree murder charge for the shooting death of a Mexican man, now also faces two charges of aggravated assault Tuesday, just one day before his scheduled preliminary hearing.
The additional counts filed in Santa Cruz County each say Kelly “using a rifle, a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, intentionally did place [unnamed person], in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury.” But this filing like others from the government so far fails to specify how or why authorities believe Kelly is the responsible party.
Evidence is for racist, bigoted MAGAts.
Well if Buttigeg is the one railroading him, he should be just fine.
On the children front I am amazed sometimes at difference between famlies/cultures.
I saw somehow on that am I the asshole reddit a thing where a US woman was complaining that her retired mother does not want to help with her young kid. And her mother said you should not have had children if you needed my help raising them, I raised my own children I do not want to do it again. Reddit is very left and this may have a role or not, not sure, but everyone were with the mother and calling the woman an asshole for expecting her mother to help with the kid. For me this is so fucking foreign. There is little my retired mom would want more than to have grandchildren to take care of, alas I am incapable of providing. Also I was half raised by grandmothers when small and this has been the norm for humanity a long time. I can understand working grandmother, or with disability, or living far away. But at least for Romania a grandma, retired, living in the same city, any would want to help as much as possible with the grandchildren. None would tell the daughter well you should not have kids if you need my help. Anyhoo twas strange for me.
There is a lot of both here, but yeah on reddit you’re getting a one-sided view.
Most “normal” people here look forward to grandkids once the kids are raised. Preferably after marriage. My wife and I certainly do. We’d be willing to spend time regularly taking care of them. The only caveat is that we aren’t willing to follow our son around the country as he hasn’t figured out where he wants to settle.
My mother retired early so she can spend her days as my sister’s day care for her infant, so those people are just as alien to me as they are to you.
There is some give and take here.
I’m assuming this same women expects her daughter to provide zero help in her old age as well.
But I agree with rhywun – you are getting only one side here.
that is why I said families/cultures instead of just culture…
Understood. I’m in almost exactly the same position as Drake.
I’d like to see where my son settles as I have no intention of chasing him around the country, but would happily deal with grandchildren within reason.
I can understand both sides. I know people who expect their parents to provide free day care for 40 hours a week, plus nights so they can go out. That’s not ok with me.
In that case it was not 40 hours a week just a couple of work days. Then again I used to spend 3 months at a time with my grandma as a kid. But here expectations are implied.
Not that if I had kids I would leave them weeks / months with my mom mind. But in communism it was different. And I liked as a kid growing up in the country not the city.
My grandma in New York took my mom and her 4 kids from Idaho in after mom’s divorce. Later she moved to Florida so I didn’t see her much after that.
Long distances play a factor.
My grandma was about 100 miles from Bucharest, a little less than a 3 hour drive, though in communism gas was scarce and a car could only drive outside the city every other weekend. Something the eco loons try to replicate I assume.
There’s also the social component of offer versus expectation. Many people would balk at the idea of their kids expecting them to drop everything and be involved grandparents without being consulted, but aren’t offended by the actual involvement with the grandkids if they’re the ones to offer the arrangement.
I told my son – only half jokingly – to become successful, build a compound with a guest house and I will make sure his life runs like a Swiss watch.
My wife’s grandma lived in an apartment above a detached garage on her uncle’s property. Seemed like a nice setup…
But then I think about how I would not want my in-laws living that close to me, nor my dad. My mom (my parents divorced) would be the only one of the 4 I would consider with this setup.
Tres Sr. (age 83) is well retired and quite sound financially. If I found myself destitute Id rather live in a tent in a park than sleep on his couch.
Same goes for having him here. As much as I love him, he’s an asshole.
I’d say the Reddit consensus is probably the dominant position in the states, but by no means universal. My mom, if anything, was maybe too far the opposite of that. She told me more than once, and only about half kidding, “Just go make some grandkids, I’ll take care of them.” Then again my mom was very trad even for her generation, let alone now.
Yes, the multi-generation households used to be common in the US.
The post-war boomers changed that. Old people retired and moved to Florida. The boomers moved where ever work was at. This broke the basic connection between the generations.
Note that the welfare state defied that trend. Fatherless households holds of grandmothers, mothers, children living off the dole continues today.
There may be other cases I can’t think of right off the top of my head. And individuals are individual of course.
WTF?
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1628588091941216258
You didn’t put on the tinfoil!
And then drugs fell out his ass.
Whoops! Oh well, it’s good enough to share twice!
They can’t seem to Brandon-proof these ceremonies.
Oh FFS! Biden can’t even follow simple walking directions while inspecting the Guard of Honor in Warsaw, Poland. You’re supposed to stay ON the red carpet dummy!!
Grampy’s walking around like he’s got a full load in his Depends
Maybe he’s just trying to Trudeau it? You know culturally appropriating shit from the country he’s visiting.
He’s just acting like a dumb polack to fit in.
Good lord.
Heh – we could give them a couple hundred 707s and Dx-10s in desert bone yards. Wouldn’t have to train their pilots to land.
As Admiral Benson says in Hot Shots, “You know, I’ve personally flown over 180 combat missions. Shot down in every one of ’em. Come to think of it, I’ve never landed a plane in my life!”
The John McCain strategy.
How much of the PFA Panic is real? Minnesoda is thinking of passing bans on them now that the DFL controls everything
Based on a sniff test – without having enacted any labor – it seems like the danger is way overblown. If they were really bad and they never break down, it seems like we’d be seeing people keeling over a lot more.
Also, if you ban stuff you better have a decent alternative.
People have been eating off of Teflon cookware for generations. Oddly enough, there were still plenty around to kill off when Net Neutrality was repealed.
Not me, I was dead of secondhand smoke from my childhood.
They are going crazy. My brother sent me the latest gun control bullshit and pretty much criminalizes every gun owner in the state.
But I’ll bet they will leave these guys alone:
https://twitter.com/SRA_Minnesota/status/1628603104957530113
Well, since these plastics are in EVERYTHING I’d say the panic is completely artificial.
When I worked at the defense contractor in Minneapolis, I used to drive down to Nordic Ware once in a while to get oddball metal parts coated in teflon for its excellent high voltage insulation properties with minimal added thickness.
Those guys were awesome to work with and always keen to help out on defense R&D stuff.
It would be very sad to see them fold due to the EPA’s latest bugaboo.
Schmoobs is scared.
Sen. Schumer joins Rep. Jeffries in blasting Speaker McCarthy for giving internal security video to Tucker Carlson. “This disclosure poses grave security risks to members of Congress and everyone who works on Capitol Hill.”
You cuntes have spent decades creating security risks for the average American. Go fuck yourself.
Better put TSA on the job. Every Senator and Representative can go through a screening line. It will keep them totes safe.
If you’re in a wheelchair, they take 5-10 minutes to hand search you. It’s pretty invasive.
Do that.
“Bourque!”
“Cavity search?”
“Deep, and hard.”
Still not quite clear on how 2 year old video footage that’s a matter of public record and was used in multiple court proceedings poses a risk to anyone in congress today. You know, 2 years after the events captured on the video took place. Does the chamber go into lockdown every time someone watches the Zapruder film, too?
Imagine walking into a public toilet and finding JBP furiously photographing the paper towel dispenser.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1628506044044349442
First of all, why are you walking into public toilet cubicles?
Second, JBP is a giant weenie for not drawing a few dicks on the sign, then tearing the entire bog roll out and stuffing it down the shitter.
Be ungovernable.
So idiot or old or both? Chrysler 300 supports either.
Dude in the hole should go play the lottery next.
car ends up in construction zone
Question for you smart people: is the coming global war a cover for the financial meltdowns around the world? It seems a little underwear-gnomish to me.
I doubt politicians have such elaborate plans.
No, but the people running the politicians do.
Stupidity is just as emergent a property as order.
I find your deranged rantings entertaining.
“@SpeakerMcCarthy now confesses HE released the 1/6 video.
“He has thus risked the safety of every Senator and Representative, the continuity of the government, and thus the safety of every American.
“Indict him and arrest him.”
That said, you should seek help.
The GOP in Minnesoda should run on the DFL’s willingness to pass all sorts of proggie bills (carbon free by 2035, legal MJ, driver’s licenses for illegals, etc) compared to their unwillingness to even consider reforming booze laws
Yeah, the DFL and the corrupt 3 tier system won’t allow grocery stores to sell booze for another 5 years. Totes OK with average Minnesodan.
“But I like my representative”.
I don’t.
Throw the shitheads in the Hudson.
This place is a bubble, it in no way represents the broader society in this country.
When the Samurai came to America
February 22, 2023
Christopher Harding
The Tokugawa shogun’s 1860 embassy to the United States offers tantalising hints of a road not travelled in the story of Japan’s relationship with the West.
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/when-the-samurai-came-to-america/
Neat! Thanks, Pie!
The Shogunate was already on its last legs by the 19th century. It wasn’t as bad as the Qing Dynasty, but the trajectory would have been the same if not for the restoration. It was a bloody road, but Japan is better off than it would have been had the Shogun not fallen.
Question for you smart people: is the coming global war a cover for the financial meltdowns around the world? It seems a little underwear-gnomish to me.
Maybe the powers what be are planning to flag down a passing alien warship and ask them for a Marshall Plan style reconstruction loan.
“US May Release Intelligence Showing China Poised To Transfer Arms To Russia”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-may-release-intelligence-showing-china-poised-transfer-arms-russia
Who are we to criticize the selling of weapons to anyone? That there rules based order must be just another version of rules for thee and none for me.
China Poised To Transfer Arms To Russia
And?
Who are we to criticize…
This is ‘Murica dammit – we tell everyone to not do what we do and to do what we tell ’em. God said so.
The Brady assholes encouraged a couple whose daughter was killed in the James Holmes Aurora CO shooting to sue gun and ammunition dealers, then shrugs and says “Oh well” when their suit is dismissed and the couple is forced to declare bankruptcy due to court costs and legal fees.
I remember that. Assholes, indeed.
There is more to this.
I can’t believe they couldn’t find a law firm that wasn’t willing to grandstand and take this as a contingency.
That was my first thought.
Paging Tundra
Among the most expensive cities that saw prices falling are Anaheim, California, with the median price of $1,132,000, down 1.6% from a year ago; Los Angeles, with the median price of $829,100, down 1.3%; and Boulder, Colorado, with the median price of $759,500, down 2.0%.
Grab your checkbook. There has never been a better time to invest in a home!
Not even at gunpoint would I live in that shithole! It was funny – my wife and I were driving back from a hike and saw a really cool house for sale. Looked it up and it was something like $2.6 million. In doing a little more searching, the thing had sold for $800K a few years earlier. Thanks, Californians!
Prices need to fall a hell of a lot more before I play.
I always see these numbers and go “Who are the people who can afford these prices and where are they getting their money?”
They can’t afford it and banks carry bad loans for the ‘right people’ all the time.
Put in an offer on a house this week for close to a $million. Was outbid by two other offers and was absolutely not going to participate in a bidding war at that elevation.
Given the new appraisal, I doubt I would be able to buy my house on the open market.
Ha, our old place in San Diego is now over a million, per Zillow. Even our current place is slightly out of my price range, were I in the market.
I can’t believe they couldn’t find a law firm that wasn’t willing to grandstand and take this as a contingency.
As I recall, they lost in court, and were ordered to pay the other parties’ legal fees.
Interesting.
Ray of sunshine
Not even at gunpoint would I live in that shithole!
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Have you looked at the Western Slope, or are you committed to the Front Range? There are some cool places in s in the south central part of the state. Sangre de Christos (? maybe).
At this point I’m good where I am. I still travel for work, so being reasonably close to the airport is helpful. My daughter has one more year of college, so we’ll see where she ends up. My son works in Lakewood, so I doubt he’s going anywhere soon.
I would absolutely consider the WS. My tolerance for snow appears to be waning!
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/the-stochastic-terrorism-double-standard/
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1628117293266833414
How am I out of free NR articles when I haven’t read any in months?
I’ve been haXXorZing into your ISP and reading them.
pwnd
Progressives always give themselves passes. It’s part of progressive privilege!
Gaslighting 101
https://twitter.com/peruvian_bull/status/1628787249168138240
Not your run of the mill witch hunt
As an American citizen, I am gratified to hear that a Georgia special grand jury has recommended indictments against more than a dozen people for election fraud. But as a former prosecutor, I am mortified that a grand juror is talking about it publicly.
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Even more alarming were some of the things Kohrs said about her own experience. She said she swore in one witness while holding a Ninja Turtle ice pop she had received at the district attorney’s office ice cream party. A what?! Why on Earth would grand jurors be socializing with the prosecutors? A grand jury is an independent body, and prosecutors are trained to maintain a professional distance and avoid engaging in interactions that could be perceived as influencing their decisions.
Kohrs also revealed some other concerning facts. She reported that when witnesses invoked their Fifth Amendment right to refrain from answering questions on the basis that their answers might incriminate them, she could hear all of the other grand jurors writing furiously. This could indicate that jurors were improperly holding the assertion of a constitutional right against witnesses. She said another member of the grand jury brought a newspaper into the room every day and pointed out stories about their investigation, though she herself avoided news coverage to maintain an open mind.
I can only imagine the skyrocketing blood pressure of District Attorney Fani Willis, who, unlike the special grand jury, actually has the power to bring indictments and who has said her decision is “imminent.” A blabbing grand jury threatens to upend the whole enterprise. At some point, impropriety by a grand jury could be grounds for a claim of violation of the due process rights of the accused. And a successful claim could taint anything that occurred afterward, requiring dismissal of any indictments and a complete do-over, so long as the statute of limitations has not yet run.
“Upend the whole enterprise.”
That would be a tragedy.
But setting up perp walks with the press is A-OK!
As Dershowitz says, you can indict a ham sandwich. That means nothing.
She just shed light on how the young view the legal system. Invoking the 5th means you are guilty or have something to hide…swore in a witness while holding a ‘gift’ from the DA (and attended an ice cream party)…
He is mortified it was all brought to light in a candid and somewhat cringy way. This is all backroom stuff how dare you expose it!
They shouldn’t be so reliant on the grand jury system if it is going to upend the enterprise. Don’t care if it is in the constitution, we should be intrepid and consider the whole galaxy of answers, even if it means recognizing sovereign citizens.
Put in an offer on a house this week for close to a $million. Was outbid by two other offers and was absolutely not going to participate in a bidding war at that elevation.
Egad.
Yep – it did have a well, a good solar system, almost 20 acres unrestricted, and wood stove. Clicked all my boxes, but still went too high.
I think my wife and I looked at that place…though then again, its not really uncommon in that area.
Nikola said Thursday it produced 133 battery-electric trucks in the fourth quarter, but delivered just 20 to dealers.
The plumage dont enter into it
Grand jury secrecy protects the process and the people under investigation. Witnesses may testify in secret so they are not exposed to threats or intimidation. The topics of investigation are safeguarded so potential targets will not destroy evidence, tamper with witnesses or flee. Charges are not disclosed unless and until they are filed to avoid harming the reputation of people under investigation, because sometimes charges are declined.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Yeah, c’mon, we’re talking about Trump – what reputation is there to damage?
This place is a bubble, it in no way represents the broader society in this country.
Compared to us, the quiltbaggers are a mass movement.
Now if you had said mass hysteria I’d be even more inclined to agree.
Problem solved! – Biden Harris Administration
Today, in “words have no meaning”
Retired General Jack Keane said on Wednesday that if China were to provide assistance to Russia during its invasion of Ukraine, it would could help escalate the conflict to a cold war.
“If China comes to the assistance of Russia and starts to provide them military assistance, that will be significant,” Keane said on WABC and John Catsimatidis’s “Cats at Night Show.” “I don’t believe the consequences are war with China and Russia, but it would likely push us much closer to a cold war to have China actively involved in assisting Russia.”
Cold, hot, what’s the diff?
We’re the good guys, and we should always get our way.
We’re the good guys, and we should always get our way.
Leaps out of seat and salutes flag! THIS is a patriotic American!
I’m to a point where the only thing preventing me from rooting for America to gets its dick knocked in the dirt militarily by a rival superpower is the number of innocent, or at least naive and stupid, young men it would kill in the process.