Well well well. I have had the most delightful weekend. While OMWC is doing whatever he’s doing, I came into possession of a puppy!
A friend has been raising a litter of puppies. One day OMWC and I went over for puppy therapy and fell in love with this cuuuute little guy who claimed OMWC.
As we weren’t picking him up til OMWC arrives back from fun time with Swiss, I’ve been going over for puppy bonding. Yesterday I wanted to take the pup for a car ride to get used to the car, and also on some walks with a leash. After spending a few hours together, I just couldn’t bear to part with him, so he’s chilling at my place til OMWC comes back.
We’ve met many of the staff members and customers, and everyone has fallen completely in love with him. He is the cutest and sweetest little thing. He’s going to be a great companion. He’s a very, very good boy.
You know who isn’t a good boy?
Oh, and this guy? Good musician. Probably not a good boy though.
The assholes who do this? Definitely not good boys.
This douche? Also not a good boy.
Pinker has some thoughts about ChatGPT. I enjoy some of his books, but his vibe bothers me. Gonna go ahead and vote…not a good boy.
Fitbit’s slow death as predicted by SP. Google is not a good boy.
Apparently Ryan Gosling once took steak knives to school and threw them at kids. I can totally see that. Vote? Not a good boy.
For everyone who was on the zoomies last night
A few final things that caught my eye:
Candles from Walmart are recalled. “Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled candles and contact Star Soap Star Candle Prayer Candle to receive a full refund.”
Does anyone have “Mexican President tweeting about supposed mythical creatures” on their 2023 bingo card?
I cannot wait to see how this turns out.
Speaking of Florida Man, not sure if y’all saw this.
Oh, and birthdays?
Got some interesting birthdays today including Alexander III, Buffalo Bill, John Kellogg, and Jackie Gleason. Wouldn’t have guessed Buffalo Bill or Alexander III were Pisces.
On this day in 1616 the Romans told Galileo “to abandon completely … the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the Earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.”
We all know how that went.
whaddup doh’
‘Apparently Ryan Gosling once took steak knives to school and threw them at kids.’
What a quack.
Heh, I guess geese don’t quack. Fuck it, I’m sleep deprived and stoned. Good enough for weekend work.
Don’t worry, I’ll be pissing off soon.
Are you implying that he is a honking great Hate Bird, the Bird That Hates — now armed with steak knives, good sir?
Sleep well, TH.
Awww! Don’t be honked off! 😄
I was expecting l0b0t in a puppy mask.
Ya know what? I think I could accept that. And almost expect that.
I was certainly expecting her to imply that the lot of us are not good boys. Even the mythical women.
You know who else is good?
These girls.
(The Dozer is a good boy, too)
The one in the middle looks sus
With that crew around, one wonders how you have any intact furniture.
Pinker? Not a good boy.
New puppy? Very good boy. He’s adorbs.
Skimming the article, it sounds to me like the DA and possibly the Sheriff are probably not Good Boys (though they may be Good Ole Boys) and the guy pissed them off somehow.
Felony battery for throwing a glass of water on someone?!? Really?
And yes, the pupper looks to be a very good boy. Hopefully there won’t be custody contention when OMWC returns from wandering the frozen wastes. Morning all — thanks for the links, WebDom.
Further proof america is racist you get.more time pouring water on an old white man than from murdering blak children in cold.blood like that rittenhouse fella
“ Powelson said he ate a piece of pie that his brother had been saving for later.”
There’s the real criminal.
“Skimming the article, it sounds to me like the DA and possibly the Sheriff are probably not Good Boys (though they may be Good Ole Boys) and the guy pissed them off somehow.”
Seems likely. Why not assault with a deadly weapon? He might have drowned!
Assault Water?
Nah. We’ll be fine. Between me, OM, and l0b0t we work the equivalent of five full time jobs and we do so in places where dogs can’t be. I’ll get my share of puppy time in while OM is at work.
Waterboarding is torture.
Fitbit’s slow death as predicted by SP. – the name fitbit in itself is a form of fat shaming and thus hate speech
I know that Stupid Party is Stupid, but how long is it going to take before they censure George Santos and force him to resign?
Hold a politician accountable for lying?
Dangerous precedent there, HS.
But this yokel has no value for the party, no plumb committees or well-established connections, and is an obvious crackpot. No good can come from keeping him around. Almost seems to be a democrat shill.
Or maybe he has real first on somebody or somebodies.
Team Red should be ashamed and follow the example of how Team Blue treats politicians that have actual severe brain damage.
Run them for even higher office?
Senator George Santos!
He has one utility to the party — his vote.
And getting rid of him means a likely Dem replacement.
He voted for McCarthy like he was supposed to — conformity must be rewarded.
How long? It should take as long as it takes the Smart Party to purge their liars.
I came into possession of a puppy! – that thing can’t kill a wolf which is what dogs are supposed to do
For everyone who was on the zoomies last night – way to other the time zone challanged
Stop crying. I was at work.
One of these Wednesdays Ill try to stay awake for Da Zoom.
I just want to know if the pupper was eyeing the handicapped spot or the first picture is WebDom subtly supporting Ukraine on us. 😉
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including Alexander III – new the guy complete asshole
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What kind of key is used for key lime pie?
A West one?
This pup (he HAS a name, you know!)) has three owners and three homes. It seems unfair, somehow.
Kaiser is the best boi.
Kaiser would play awesome with the Ridiculous P.E.P.
https://i.postimg.cc/tJSQyvKQ/52522953438-35518422b9-o.jpg
It was an honour to meet Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane. I told Bernie that he inspired millions and that if he had been the president of the US and Jeremy Corbyn the PM of the UK, he immediately replied, we would be living differently- Peace and social justice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LauraAlvarezJC/status/1629630066798854144
“We would be living differently”
At least that much is true
We’d be living differently all right, more like the way folks used to live behind the Iron Curtain.
The Scott Adams takedown is fascinating. Nobody has time to unpeel the issues he was talking about, whether the racist habit of categorizing people by race has led to division rather than to greater tolerance etc. All the publishers know is that they must make as hasty and as public a split from Adams as possible.
I guess he’s got his millions so now he can afford to poke bears.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11794475/Dilbert-creator-defends-bigoted-rant-invoking-Mike-Pence.html
Unpacking racial categorization? Unpossible.
The entire system is built on credentials and classifications now. They’d be destroying themselves if they undid it.
Meanwhile you can tune in to The View and hear the same argument made every morning but with the races flipped.
Actually, if you read his rant, he is suggesting just that. It’s just he had the ball to include whitey in that idea.
Did he say out loud anything that everyone knows but dares not speak?
I watched the video and an interview he did about it, and it’s pretty cringey IMO. He comes across as a guy who wanted to happily shoulder the “white man’s burden,” but then the ungrateful savages didn’t show enough admiration, so he’s done with them.
I had assumed you were insinuating that chupacabras are supposedly mythical.
I hope OMWC is enjoying his pun time with Swiss!
Foremost libertarian dog porn site on the internet.
And home raising chickens / feed analysis / egg production.
We’re so exciting in that niche one could even say we rate a “Bow Chicka Wow Wow!”
I thought that on the farm it was “brown chicken brown cow”
The Ukrainian street markings aren’t helping.
I’m kinda liking the theory that the current AI fad is just hucksters and chipmakers moving on from crypto. Turns out AI uses craploads of the same graphics cards as crypto-mining. Crypto collapsed, so there’s lots of hucksters needing to move on to the new thing. The timing is spot on. The chipmakers are the same. I wonder if the hucksters are, too.
I’d bet on it.
Online gambling is a different market segment.
Huh… so ChatGPT is really about keeping graphics cards up for Nvidia. Makes as much sense as anything else.
I don’t know. I think ChatGPT has already proven it could replace Kamala’s speech writers.
Corky could replace Kamala’s speech writers.
Chickens clucking and dogs barking could replace Kamala’s speaking.
And be a lot more pleasant to listen to.
I could replace Kamala’s speech writers.
Given a large mat with words printed on it, OMWC’s new dog could replace Kamala’s speechwriters
Tell me when AI looks like a young lexa doig
From a sidebar in the candle recall article: Paging 4(20). One more daggone thing to worry about. Don’t know whether I’d rather see Biden or Trump visiting those affected in full bee-protection gear. 🐝
I thought the proper term was “beekeeper” or “apiarist”?
Bee farmer just sounds like Jed Clampett.
I dont know much about bees, but since its still winter and they’re in NE Ohio, isnt proclaiming the colonies “dead” at this point a bit premature?
“his vibe bothers me”
Agreed. Webdom, I need to contact you about a work opportunity, how can I?
“First, it puts the lotion on its skin…”
Even if it puts the lotion on the skin it still gets the hose.
Kaiser is the best boi.
Something something best trick?
The ol’ peanut butter trick?
I’m waiting for somebody to program an AI “God” using the bible as a foundation.
Prayers answered personally, only $100, or buy a subscription.
I think the Surface Details of that plan were described in some book.
You can get that now from the 700 Club.
Ramon Llull did it.
“I really want to believe that China will not supply weapons to Russia,” he said.
I really want to believe Xi will tell that strutting panhandler to go fuck himself.
If this is true, our leaders are monstrously stupid.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/24/white-house-believed-economic-nuclear-weapon-would-end-russian-war-in-ukraine/
You cannot dissuade a nation with a strategic security interest by attacking them economically. Particularly a nation that has a long history of withstanding enormous economic privation while maintaining its cultural identity.
This says to me that DC was projecting its own greed onto Moscow and vastly misinterpreting their motivations. Rank amateurs with God complexes.
I think that is axiomatic.
El Manifiesto Comunista se publicó tal día como hoy en 1848. El economista antiausteridad
@yanisvaroufakis
miembro de la Internacional Progresista
@ProgIntl_ES
defiende el texto, no sólo por su visión profética, sino como un llamado a la lucha en tiempos preapocalípticos.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AliciaCastroAR/status/1628084366504079370
I actually understood most of that tweet. Commies sound stupid in any language.
‘Orning ‘ordles — not quite a sucky as the PPP administration, but a near run thing.
Daily Duotrigordle #361
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:43.77
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I’m stuck on TR.
OFFS. BR can die in a fire, too.
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Quordle has used “rarer” so many times, it’s a joke in my mind. “Koala” is getting there.
Quordle is assho.
Good morning! And good morning to Kaiser, who is just too cute for words!
First-world (?) problem for today – I just got the paper back for my 11.5″ AR, and I am locked in analysis paralysis as to what optic to get for it. Red dot + magnifier? LPVO + piggyback mini red dot? Trijicon ACOG? This sucks. I’m not normally this flaky about gear.
Oh, also, my water heater is out. I want to find the person who convinced me home ownership was a good idea, and stake them out over an anthill (not really; it was probably my Mom.)
This….
Perfect for a SBR.
http://swfa-ss.com//products/scopes/swfa-ss-hd/detail/SSHD16X24D
how easier does that make it to murder innocent children?
Really heavy for a 1-6, and I don’t care for front-focal-plane LPVOs. I’m never going to use the holdovers except at full magnification.
hot water is a bourgeois affectation
I’ve been looking at this: https://www.primaryarms.com/primary-arms-slx-3x-microprism-with-red-illuminated-acss-raptor-556-308-reticle-yard
Only in the 7.62 version for my new upper.
That one’s on my short list. The 7.62 BDC might even be a better fit for 77grn. SMKs out of an 11.5″ gun.
A couple of doubts:
– Chevrons are lame.
– No provision for a 12:00 piggyback micro red dot, and that PA double-offset mount is gayer than two dudes sharing a banana split.
Still, it’s cheap, super light, and is reputed to have pretty solid optical quality. I may have to give it a try.
Why is the puppy in a Ukrainian parking lot in that first pic?
Propaganda invades all.
Obviously this sign means that LGBT kids deserve to be happy, and cis het kids deserve to see LGBT people being happy too, but go ahead and pretend it’s actually some coded admission of “LGBT = ****” like you all want to, it’s not like we could stop you
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1629578274933297153
I mean… I dunno
Here’s the problem….
Their main objection in this thread is that “cis” people are conflating “joy” with sex. What they don’t realize, or refuse to acknowledge, is that “joy” in this sign is specifically codified in sexual identity. We don’t wander around with a desire for “Cis” Joy. It’s just joy.
Everything these people do during their public performances on social media and elsewhere is entirely rooted in their sexuality or sexual identity. There entire worldview is predicated on it. Everything they publicly witness and portray themselves as is through their queer lens. Their whole identities, at least in public, revolve completely around their sexuality, and it alone. It’s what they portray themselves as to the world. They’re not just people, THEY’RE QUEER! THEY’RE HERE! But what the fuck else are they? I’m certainly more than a straight male. What the fuck are they other than queers? If they’re not something more than queer, or they refuse to portray themselves as something other than queer, then why am I supposed to think that their desire for “queer joy” should not also be about their sexuality?
Exactly. According to their worldview, you are nothing more than your junk and what you like to do with it.
It’s a pathetic commentary on their humanity.
Trans says you aren’t the junk you were born with!
Leftist agitators – you can count on it. Gays who don’t call themselves “queer” and don’t participate in all this performative agitprop and just want to be left alone vastly outnumber these types.
Sound track: Ferocious barking dogs
The statement “It’s OK to be white” has been repeated on right-wing websites and in speeches. The Anti-Defamation League has denounced it as a hate chant.
NPR is on the Dilbert case. The usual suspects are outraged.
So now we must absolutely hate ourselves for being white. Anything less is is a hate crime against minorities.
These people need helicopter rides down to the last one of them.
So maybe some pushback on Hersh story on US blowing up pipeline.
https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour-hershs-pipe
I don’t think you can easily disprove a negative, and this guy either spent a lot of time or got a lot of “support”.
I fear its likely that some people thought we could get away with this and no repercussions.
For you consideration.
Is he the guy who is still betting that the Russians blew up one of their own pipelines after shutting it off?
He does seem to have access to a great deal of info and analysis. Maybe he’s just that good. Dunno. I haven’t read everything of his, but I recall him saying something like “I have a much better hypothesis, which I’m not telling” or some such.
Speaking of Pavlovian outrage- I flipped through my most recent copy of the Colorado College alumni mag, and it features a highly distraught and petulant letter about a hate crime committed by the publication previously. A couple of issues ago, in celebration of another new president of the college (they go through them like cheap sneakers), they put the likenesses of all her predecessors, including one who has been unpersoned for being a misogynist sex predator (whatever the fuck that actually entailed) in the early twentieth century as I recall. They went so far as to re-name Slocum Hall. To what, I neither know nor care.
Oh, woe! Oh, agony! Being forced to relive those heinous crimes by viewing his likeness on slick paper is more than any sensitive upstanding progressive can possibly bear. Erase history. For the children.
Crybabies everywhere you look
Today, in drug news
“SNL goes anti-vaxx: Host Woody Harrelson likens Pfizer and Moderna to DRUG CARTELS during opening monologue while slamming mandates – with Elon Musk hailing star’s diatribe”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795099/Host-Woody-Harrelson-likens-Pfizer-Moderna-DRUG-CARTELS.html
“New ‘Frankenstein’ opioid pills 40 times more potent than fentanyl that WILL kill users with one dose are already sweeping the U.S. as stashes are found from San Francisco to the mid-Atlantic”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11794373/New-Frankenstein-opioid-pills-40-times-potent-fentanyl-sweeping-U-S.html
The vax are the old narrative and the old narrative is dead. That’s all behind us now, time to move on (without ever admitting anything done was really wrong).
“What difference, at this…”
Oh, screw it.
Good. I’m still not watching SNL.
I guess the flesh-eating Zombie pills are last week’s news.
Quite the business model there.
1. Kill off all your customers
2. ???
3. Profit!
I watched the monologue, the audience applauded when he said he was marxist and either didn’t get the joke on the Covid shit or didn’t appreciate it.
“‘I’ve been correcting you, Mr Bond’: Sensitivity readers remove offensive language from James Bond books including Casino Royale and Octopussy
James Bond novels including Casino Royale and Octopussy have been edited to suit modern sensibilities with a raft of racist and sexist terms removed ahead of the 70th anniversary of 007 this year.
The publishers of the books by Bond creator Ian Fleming commissioned a review by ‘sensitivity readers’ to modernise them, according to the Sunday Telegraph. It comes as children’s books by Roald Dahl have been stripped of potentially offensive language with the Oompa Loompas – the workers at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory – being made gender neutral.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11794039/Sensitivity-readers-remove-offensive-language-James-Bond-books-including-Casino-Royale.html
This shit needs to stop.
The reissued spy novels will feature a disclaimer that says
that says I’ll be buying old used copies if I want one.
I wonder what the last line of Casion Royale is now?
From Scruffy’s sanctions link:
Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on coercive measures, said, Social or humanitarian aid “very often can’t be supplied because of sanctions, despite existing exemptions.”
She argued a country targeted by unilateral sanctions can “slide backward on the development scale.” Douhan warned that “sanctions may be a major threat preventing targeted countries from achieving the universal Sustainable Development Goals that are meant to improve the lives of everyone.”
Way to keep your eye on the ball, Alena.
Storytime: wife is extremely fearful of crocs/alligators. Like, might be her top fear. But I’m from Fla so they don’t phase me. 99.99% of cases you don’t bother them, they don’t bother you. As a kid I literally fished golf balls out of the canal behind our house to re-sell to a local pro shop for $ to fund my nerd hobbies with alligators sometimes like 10 feet away sunning themselves.
Anyway I took her to fla with me once and we were kayaking through some mangroves. She likes adventure + exercise, what could go wrong. So I was slightly in front of her (we had been kayaking for a bit) and I reached a “warning: alligators” sign (pretty much looks just like the below). They’re pretty common at points the fresh and brackish water meet in the Florida keys and south fla. Very normal stuff.
I decided this was good turnaround point, not really because of the sign, we had simply paddled far enough and it was time to turn back. But yes, also, I had a sense if she sees the sign she’s going to panic, so let’s calmly turn around and she’ll never even know.
She was just a bit behind me and instead of following me, elected to paddle up to read the sign. She took the sign and my turnaround to mean I was fleeing the scene, and that we were in present and immediate danger. Alligators must be closing in. She starts yelling at me to help and thrashing in her kayak (no gators in sight, but now this is an action that might actually attract a gator!). Anyway, a second later, a massive fish (tarpon-sized) jumps out of the water, as they do, and splashes back down with its >100 pound force (tarpon are very big fish). Water for sure reigned down on her here. She absolutely loses it at this point. Might have set a world-record for kayak speed the other direction. Still, no gator.
Anyway, to this day I still get blamed for this traumatic situation she vividly recalls. She told the story again at a dinner party last night (I am of course never allowed to tell the story from my perspective). Her version is one in which I am essentially the deserter of an existential life or death situation and did not stay and fight. I mean, again there was no gator but even if there was one, guaranteed you give it a quick boop with your paddle and it goes away. You’re in a kayak which is pretty big, they don’t want to fight!
How much fault does Twitter think I shoulder in this situation which clearly I will never live down many years later
https://twitter.com/AdamSinger/status/1629539439704694784
I remember when Twitter was designed for short, pithy observations.
It’s all about HER and HER DRAMA and how SHE HEROICALLY SAVED HERSELF FROM NEAR-CERTAIN DEATH. The husband is just a prop.
What were Meghan and Harry doing in Florida?
I cant think of a 100lb+ sized fish breeching out of a swamp….but Im no biologist.
Perspective matters, so maybe it was a 20lb carp?
Catfish can get pretty big.
Sometimes the signs are right. Was hiking along the Lehigh Gap trail and came to a “Beware Bears” sign. The wife immediately turned around and said, “We are going back.” About 5 minutes later, a biker overtook us and said “Wow, a bear just rushed out of the brush and chased me.”
One time I went bear hunting. As I was going up the road I saw a sign that said “Bear Left”. So I turned around and drove home.
Right, frog!
I had a similar incident, but with an actual snake, not a sign warning about snakes, while kayaking the Buffalo Bayou in Houston. While I was suggesting turning the kayak, the wife saw the snake and absolutely panicked, started screaming and almost tipped the kayak. The snake was one of those pythons that outgrows the owner and gets let into the wild. I can’t think of a situation where panic reactions help. The wife acknowledges her fault in the situation at least and doesn’t skewer me about it. She damn near single handedly carried the kayak back to the car running up the bank with it. She hasn’t been in the kayak since.
fuck that gator!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11793059/Kristen-Stewart-goes-braless-racy-sheer-black-buttoned-gown.html
No.
That’s unfortunate.
There are naked picture of her out there, so she does not have to wear this.
She has a dead soul look in these pics.
It often happens to those who are just considered product.
She’s channeling Bowie from his Ziggy Stardust days
I’m thnking more late Weimar Republic. That outfit would work in a production of “Cabaret”
Today Plisade and I are going to meet up with Shpip. We’ve been in contact through email and Shpip sends a picture of him and Mrs. Shpip so we can recognize them. He’s wearing a tuxedo and she’s wearing a ballgown. These people are fancy and meanwhile I look like a homeless person. See you at 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Shpip
You couldn’t at least do Remington Steele?
(Stephanie Zimbalist really take the wrinkles out of my love-sausage)
Yeah, pretty much.
The standard “just got out of the VA hospital rehab” look is sandals, sweatpants, and a button-down shirt (one button off)
Thanks for the tip!
* begins rummaging through closet *
Hope you all have a good time! Always good to see Glibs meeting up.
I think the meeting will go well.
Have fun!
New Orleans finally makes the top ten of something.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-violent-cities-world
I think also major city to have a Democrat mayor for the longest time.
Every mayor since 1872 was a Democrat.
From that NPR piece about Dilbert:
In a letter from the editor, The Oregonian’s Therese Bottomly wrote, “Some readers will no doubt deride my decision as an example of ‘overly woke’ culture or as a knee-jerk politically correct response. What about free speech, they might ask. Isn’t this censorship? No one is taking Adams’ free speech rights away. He is free to share his abhorrent comments on YouTube and Twitter so long as those companies allow them. This also isn’t censorship; it’s editing. Editors make decisions every day about what to publish, balancing the need to inform against the possibility of offending reader sensibilities.”
I can’t help wondering if this might be pertinent to the Section 230(?) debate.
“Therese Bottomly…” Huh. Huh-huh. She’s named “bottomly.”
I didn’t realise he published these comments in his cartoon. I thought this was something he said.
I love waving hello & goodbye on Zoom. Of course, I rarely give anyone the chance to wave goodbye to me…
Yes, your Irish goodbye irritates me. I want to say goodbye to you properly!
Kirsten Stewart was hot hot hot in that stupid amusement park movie.
Now…
She’s still pretty, but that dress is awful.
I came into possession of a puppy!
🙂
When I asked ChatGPT, “If Mabel was alive at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., was she alive at noon?” it responded, “It was not specified whether Mabel was alive at noon. She’s known to be alive at 9 and 5, but there’s no information provided about her being alive at noon.” So, it doesn’t grasp basic facts of the world — like people live for continuous stretches of time and once you’re dead you stay dead — because it has never come across a stretch of text that made that explicit. (To its credit, it did know that goldfish don’t wear underpants.)
Still smarter than the average politician.
Mark of Satan
Officials from Texas and Michigan say they were unaware that soil and water from the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, freight train derailment was being taken to their areas.
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Wastewater and soil from the site of the derailment was taken to hazardous waste companies in both Texas and Michigan, and some officials claim that they didn’t get any notice.
A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection agency told Fox News Digital that Norfolk Southern was in charge of the disposal of waste from the East Palestine derailment, adding that “The company supplied Ohio EPA with their list of selected and utilized disposal facilities on February 23.”
The spokesperson said that waste shipments from the East Palestine derailment site is now on pause.
“Within 24 hours of being notified, EPA instructed Norfolk Southern to immediately pause waste shipments from the East Palestine train derailment site. Waste disposal plans, including disposal location and transportation routes for contaminated waste, will be subject to EPA review and approval moving forward. EPA will ensure that all waste is disposed of in a safe and lawful manner at EPA-certified facilities to prevent further release of hazardous substances and impacts to communities,” the spokesperson added.
It will have to be blasted into the sun. No other method of disposal will free us of its malevolent effects.
The town will have to be dug up to a depth of 1000 feet and all traces of its existence, except for a tasteful $3,000,000,000,000 memorial plaque, must be eradicated.
Its Vinyl Chloride. Not the nicest thing around, but far from the worst in terms of lethality.
I cant even imagine how many lawyers are descending to form a class action against anyone they can-BNSF, DOT, the manufacturer, NTSB, TRUMP, the manufacturers of the cars, tanks, engines, braking systems, rails, ties, spikes…it wont end
Apparently Norfolk Southern is insured for all claims between $75 million and $800 million. Even with no deaths, no doubt the lawyers and local jurors will test that outer limit.
They’re just going to dump it into Flint’s water supply.
AI doesn’t know anything. It’s a Chinese Room.
So, anyway…
I actually forced myself to leave the house yesterday. I went down to old town Pocatello to a place I had heard about; it’s a nice place. I’ll go back, even though they screwed up my lunch order. When I walked up to the bar the barback looked up and says, “Dude! Your mustache is AWESOME!”
Why would you do such a thing?
Did you reply “it’s not a mustache!” for giggles?
No one seems to understand what public health actually is these days. Must be the fault of our education system.
FitBit makes me haz a sad.
1925 comercial for the most succesful textile store in romania
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Value for money is white supremacy
Today’s students increasingly question the value they are getting from their education. Completion rates remain stagnant, taxpayer dollars continue to flow to schools, even those with abysmal outcomes, colleges too often leave their students worse off than before they started — and millions of dollars of student debt remain.
To ensure all learners have access to high-quality degree pathways and are supported to graduation, issues of ever-increasing costs, widening relevancy gaps in relation to work, declining enrollment, and diverging equity must be top of mind for the Department of Education and the 118th Congress. And institutions shouldn’t wait for a federal mandate — they should be using every tool at their disposal to hold themselves accountable for providing value to students right now.
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Last year, Congress took laudable first steps to acknowledge the importance of not only getting students into college, but also getting them through, by establishing a postsecondary student success grant program to expand evidence-based initiatives for retaining and graduating more students. This year’s budget saw a ninefold increase in funding, now $45 million, for these grants. That’s a promising start — but it is still just a start. Greater government attention is needed to stem the crisis of noncompletion. Cost, credit loss, rigid delivery models and lack of support are all major factors in noncompletion that require a fundamental reexamination of policy frameworks and systems to ensure they are truly working for students.
Institutions of higher education are far from powerless in this equation. Yet, too often, institutions lose sight of how best to serve students, allocating resources towards programs and initiatives that don’t directly contribute to student success.
Colleges and universities can act to combat this crisis, too. In the absence of industry-standard or government-mandated accountability metrics, Western Governors University (WGU), for example, has developed its own key results to measure success toward its mission. These results track on-time completion, lifetime financial return for graduates, as well as equitable access and attainment — outcomes that loom large for today’s learners.
More vapid educrat-speak and phony “metrics” will solve this pesky dilemma. And, of course, more money. There’s always a pressing need for that.
What might those low-contributions be, one wonders.
on-time completion, lifetime financial return for graduates, – thse do not seem prima facie bad metrics
postsecondary student success grant program
Establish a program to teach basic literacy to graduates since that is no longer a requirement for a college degree.
Commitment to pre-defined success metrics ensures all university decision-making is student-centered. This means reviewing progress toward completion on a weekly basis, enabling leadership to reflect on underlying causes when fewer students graduate than planned and address those causes in a timely manner. Maximizing lifetime financial return for graduates ensures pricing is in line with the value a program is expected to deliver for students and promotes alignment with workforce needs. And dedication to equitable access and attainment counteracts the moral hazard of precluding access to achieve (false) success.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
thse do not seem prima facie bad metrics
They don’t, but that would require the existence of a sound and useful curriculum, and not a lot of nonsensical blather and pandering to performative “justice”.
Just an FYI – Babylon 5 (all 5 seasons) are now on tubitv.com for free. All you have to do is watch them with ads.
…unless you have ad blockers, or something, I guess.
But why
Oh, go back to watching Pǎcatele Evei.
Baffling
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday issued an ominous, but vague warning about a coming danger facing the United States.
“This is the most dangerous time in the history of our Country,” the former president wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “World War III is looming, like never before, in the very dark and murky background. ‘Leadership’ is solely responsible for this unprecedented danger to the USA, and likewise, the World. HOPELESS JOE BIDEN IS LEADING US INTO OBLIVION!!!”
As of Saturday afternoon, the post had been liked nearly 15,000 times and shared by roughly 5,000 accounts. Based on a report from last September, Truth Social boasts less than 2 million unique users.
Due to the vagueness of his Truth Social post, it is difficult to deduce which current policies from the Biden administration or other leaders Trump is taking issue with. Newsweek reached out to representatives for Trump for clarification, and to the White House for a response.
Nothing to worry about, folks; just the incoherent ravings of a madman.
“World War III is looming”
Seems pretty self-explanatory to me but then again I’m not a highly educated, brilliant and sophisticated joornalyzt so I’m obviously missing something with my Deploranazi pea-brain.
The only way to stop WW III is to escalate the situation and defeat Russia.
“Truth Social boasts less than 2 million unique users.” – so about 2 to 3 times CNNs audience.
🎶Sunday, Slutty Sunday🎶
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The Mrs. absolutely loves The Notebook and watches it several times a year.
I think they got the name of the candle company wrong, it’s missing the words “happy” and “joy”.
Hope everyone has a Glibtastic Sunday!
Good musician
What did Bobby Womack, Albert King, Eric Gales, and Elizabeth Cotton have in common?
Actually I would think it would make you feel like 250 pounds.
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Moved into my new place! 51 weeks of living with the ex, hotels, AirBnBs, parents, my bro….always somewhere where space was created for me.
Now I’m in Kokomo after my 13 year Indiana Jones global adventure, ending up back in Indiana.
So far I’ve only got my bed set up, but also with my fave chair ever (Pohang from IKEA), a coffee table and a few extra chairs. I have a desk and shelf case that still need assembling. For now, I am content. Decoration has loosely started. I need a level…
I also have to write an article today, so it’s not an off day, but I had great interviews yesterday and already typed my notes out. Shouldn’t be too hard to get ~600 words of a preview out. I already have the pictures!
Onward. Upward. Always.
So you know a little place like Kokomo?
That’s where you wanna go.
Apparently off the Florida Keys. It’s a tremendous spot. Grocery store is across the street.
Made+Shade=Ev